"Squirtle. (What are you doing here?)"
Squirtle guessed that all the nearly expired food Meownei had just cleared out had probably gone to this...
This little cat that might be a Pokémon.
Squirtle wasn't familiar with the Pokémon from Alola, and with so much of Litten's fur missing, he couldn't recognize it at all.
Seeing so many Pokémon in the backyard, with the two Umbreon showing faint traces of hostility, Litten felt a little scared and gave no response to Squirtle's question.
"Squirtle. (Never mind. Let me give you a bath first, or we can't really let you inside.)"
Squirtle lowered his head and sucked up a huge mouthful of hot water from the hot spring, then unleashed a Water Gun with practically zero power on Litten.
Water-type Pokémon had all sorts of sources for the water they used in their moves.
Besides water stored in their bodies beforehand, Water-type Pokémon could convert their internal energy into water, use that energy to gather water molecules from the air to create more water, or simply control water in their surroundings.
In an environment with plenty of water, Water-type Pokémon expended far less energy than they would somewhere dry.
If he sprayed water directly, it would be ice-cold, so Squirtle had deliberately switched to warm water. Yet to the weakened Litten, it was still an immensely powerful "Water-type attack."
"Meooow?!"
Litten got a thorough washing from the "Water Gun." It was certainly clean now, but it also lost the ability to battle on the spot and collapsed at the backyard gate.
Water had a considerable effect on Fire-type Pokémon, especially when they were physically weak. The Charmander family, for instance, did take baths, but they always had to keep the flames on their tails out of the water.
If they encountered rain