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Aw, the Togepi had stopped playing? Well, it had been fun and it was good that the Igglybuff was playing now; Lasi was pleased to have met them both.
He offered a smile to Merenor, wondering if perhaps the egg-pokemon was tired out and then the Golbat went on to continue to pull funny faces and play peekaboo with Linnor; he reacted like he was stunned when the Igglybuff played peekaboo back.
He'd likely continue to play until the little pokemon tired of the game.

"What doesn't he like to do? 'S a fairly common problem, I think... Have you tried a reward system with him? It doesn't always work like ya'd hope and it takes a bit of time, but I think it's a pretty good method of training. Eventually you can get to a point where the pokemon doesn't really even need the reward anymore." Tambrey mused thoughtfully. She'd yet to own a fire type, and Tepig was an Unova pokemon too; fascinating but a little bit alien to her so far.
She hoped she was giving helpful advice, but a lack of experience with either the type or the region was daunting.

"Huh. Then... I guess I'll readvocate the reward system idea in preference to scolding." Tambrey said, considering the problem once she'd heard it. "The way you describe it... It does sound like a patience problem- like he wants to be the best as soon as he tries? Reinforcing 's confidence and y'know, rewarding his repetition and progress... I suspect 't might be helpful. Again, though, I doubt 's any quick fix... Aside from that, I don't know the pokemon enough t' comment. I'm a lot better with normal types, to be honest and I've got experience with a few others, but no fire really. Hopefully what I'm saying isn't completely unhelpful though."

The grunt smiled as she heard the borborygmus emanate from the Togepi.
"Sounds like it's feeding time... Y' headed canteen-wards or elsewhere?" She was aware of a few vending machines and once or twice had come across a stash of biscuits/cookies in a rec' room, so found it conceivable that Val might want to head somewhere other than the cafeteria to eat.

Lasi found the Igglybuff adorable and a lot of fun; he even pretended to fall over backwards at one of the 'scarier' faces made by the little pokemon.
His attention did waver slightly, however, as he caught mention of the most important time ever invented; feeding time!
His tongue still hanging out at the little normal type, the bat's eyes moved to give his trainer a sideways look as his wings flapped- Feeding time please!

Tambrey nodded, then smirked as Val teased her pokemon.
While Tam was amused, though, Lasi was horrified; deny the little pokemon food?! What a horrible, terrible fate!
Nothing was bad enough to warrant such a punishment- being shut in the pokeball for a while maybe or something like that; those were good punishments.
He, too, was giving Valentine a horrified look until she mentioned taking them when they behaved.
"Guh! Guh buh... Guuuh,..." The pink bat grunted at his new friends, urging them to try to behave because humans could /very easily/ overlook just how necessary 8 meals a day, at least, really were! In fact, he was scraping by on something like only 4 in his estimation... He could -easily- believe that Val might not take them to the cafeteria.

"Ah, I see." Tambrey grinned at the pair's reactions. "Looks like y've got a little stubborn one there." She commented on Merenor then smirked at Lasi. "I... think he's trying to help, but just in case we might want t' prepare f'r some sort of prank..." She smirked and earned herself a roll of his eyes; he wasn't /always/ causing mischief, fun as it was.

Lasi -wished- Tambrey understood that he could, and therefore obviously probably should, eat 8 meals a day.
Strictly speaking it was through his own wit and guile that he'd upped his food intake to what he estimated to be about 4 meals a day (because the 2 meals plus small lunch that Tambrey provided- and lunch didn't even always happen!- just wasn't anywhere near enough for him), via theft, begging with 'puppy-dog-eyes' and general sneakiness and not being picky (the bin sometimes had perfectly good food!).
"Guh buh. Guh buh buh" The Golbat explained his reasoning that humans wouldn't hesitate to deny food as a punishment, thus to be successful with a human, a pokemon had to be sneaky and at least give the illusion of behaviour. "Guh buh". He agreed with the Igglybuff- demanding food was a good way to not get food; sneakier was better.

"Oh, he'll be fine if he's around the food. Might try t' dive in it, but he'd not leave the cafeteria unless there was something more delicious outside it I'd bet. I think he'll behave." She smirked at the Golbat, as a memory popped up "Still, he did threaten t' eat m' hat once when he was sulking, so we'll see... Little big f'r my lap now."

The Golbat went on to explain that not only were humans able to be bribed or fooled with the 'correct' behaviour, but that once you had food, if you did it long enough before the next meal time, you could misbehave for a while and then, if you switched back to good behaviour with enough time, you could even be rewarded for that good behaviour! Perhaps with some special treat.
He'd paused while Valentine spoke to her two pokemon, looking a little bit smug as he turned to look at Tambrey.

Tam smirked "Good idea," then looked at her bat "and I have that same question for you, y'know. No flying off if y' smell cookies."
Lasi grinned (it never did look sincere to her, even when he was trying to be) and dipped his whole body forward in a nod.
Satisfied, she turned her attention back to Valentine and caught Linnor tugging at the other girl's boot.
"Looks like someone wants t' lead the way."

Lasi watched the little pokemon with amusement while they figured out which way to go.
He waddled along after them, a little ahead of the trainers, but also unhurried; just wanting to keep an eye on his new friends.
He caught Val's shout and let out a little "Guh!" in reply; he'd help make sure they didn't.

Tambrey smiled at the little pair as they waddled along, hand-in-hand, followed by the pink bat; it was a scene that made her half-wish the base permitted cameras.