Splash!

It was indeed a Magikarp! A raccoon one this time that made Killian yell in surprise when he fished it out of the water (he was still, for some reason, still expecting for Magikarp to be orange, and this one wasn't orange). It flopped and wiggled in the air, but Killian was not able to pull it to the ground, so it landed back in the pond, using its home turf to its advantage to tug on the line hard. Even if it was just a Magikarp, that didn't mean that they were weak in all fronts. He had to make sure to dig his heels on the ground again so that he wouldn't slip like last time, and once they got to some sort of stalemate, he figured it was time to call in back up.

❝Pond!❞ the Mantyke responded to her name by appearing out of her namesake, ❝Slap that Magikarp!❞

She did a vague gesture of a salute with one of her flippers before diving back into the water and used (what Killian assumed to be) Wing Attack. Well, he couldn't actually tell in the water; he could only tell that the Magikarp's strength from earlier had decreased, so winning this tug of war seemed to be more likely.