[His fingers grip a little too tight in the Growlithe's fur, waking him up. After a confused yelp, he notices that Feliks seems upset, and immediately starts growling at the bad man on the Warp Band who's upsetting his cinnamon roll trainer.]

Ugh, gods, what is your problem? Now you're gonna get all "oh I'm so above arguing with a child!" when you've been on my case for no reason this whole time?

[...Even Feliks is aware that's not an entirely accurate way of reading the situation, but he feels picked on, and basically doesn't even know how to back down when he feels picked on.]