Beretta: [Despite the earlier more failed attempts at running this time the bulbasaur... although still powering through with mostly hops summoned up more speed than before. The last thing it wanted was for that irritating Mareep to catch her first.... if need be she had another plan in mind]

Yeah, well.. I couldn't just keep calling her "it".
[Although he'd already given it away with that pronoun he answered]
Beretta is a female.