"Well" Almond said as he let his legs fold up underneath him.  "That was a close one. I came this close to a heart attack.  Which may or may not have worked.  Hopefully it would've confused the growlith enough to make it run away.  Luckily though you caught him and I didn't have to play the hero."  He shuddered at the thought.  "Oh god I'm not build for heroics.  I'm built for lounging and mass aborbtion, period."  He turned his attention to Walnut, smiling, gave the green pokemon a friendly pat.  "You did go Walnut.  You did good.  I'm glad one of us is ready to save the universe."  Again, that strange vacant look, but at least the bulbasaur's mouth was turned up at a slight smile.  

"Tsunami is a good name.  It reminds me of this harem anime I used to watch.  I think the character was a goddess or some future version of a child, something along those lines.  What're you going to name your growlith?"  Almond got to his feet and stretched.  HIs back popped.  "Ouch."  He made a face like someone who just licked lemmon juice mixed with mustard and enough salt to kill a snail army.  "Oh god ouch."  He shook his head and looked around.  "Hey, do you see that over there, or it just me?"

He pointed in the distance where what looked like the entrance to a forest waited.