Ray grinned as the blonde guy took his hand, and gave him his name.  Elliot.  A cool name.  Already in the past five minute, he had met two people with names he had never heard of before.

"Oh my starter is Totodile." he barely managed to get out before another voice spoke up.  

"Cut the chit chat."  

[i]Well, ok.  Dude....[/i]

He turned back to see what he had thought was the professor, then nodded to himself, as the dude went on saying -grab dex's and pokemon or some such.

He watched as Sterling up first grabbed his first pokemon.  Ray shifted his feet impatiently.  Then after Sterling finished as he thought it was first come first serve he took his own pokemon and dex.  

Then all of a sudden it dawned on him. "Uh, sir or professor, we haven't got your name yet."

At one point while all of this was happening Ray thought he heard someone enter the Lab, but when he looked towards the door, he didn't notice anybody.  Weird.