Brendan Birch:

It's been a while since I last came back to Hoenn, to Littleroot Town. I've left a few years ago to help my father in studying pokemon by travelling and collecting any necessary data about them. So now, my work is done.

As I came, I saw my father being chased by a herd of Ponyta. He must've done something wrong to make them angry. "Go, Swampert!" I called out for my trusty partner. "Use Earthquake and make a border between the Ponyta and my dad!"

A loud stamp coming from my Swampert was powerful enough to make the ground shake and for the soil to rise up. After a while, the herd left. My dad is a pokemon professor here in the Hoenn Region.

"Thanks there, Brendan." My father, Professor Birch said to me. "No problem. You ALWAYS get into trouble." I joked to him, but it was true. Whenever he's out to do research, the next thing you'll know is that he is being chased by a mob of pokemon. But that was beside my point.

A few minutes later, a boy with black hair and a Pikachu came running in. "Hey there, professor! How's it going?" The boy greeted my dad. "Why, Ash! It's so great to see you again!" Ash huh, I thought to myself, that's sort of a cool yet weird name in a manner. Then did I realize he was looking at me.

"Hi! I'm Ash Ketchum!" He introduced himself to me and put out his hand. "It's nice to meet you, Ash. My name's Brendan. Brendan Birch." I shook his hand. He looks sort of naive yet mature for a trainer. But one thing I was sure. He has been here because he knows my dad. "What brings you here, Ash?" My dad asked him. "I'm just here to visit. It brings back good memories." Ash noticed something in the lab. He went close to it on inspection. It was the first time I saw it. It was a burnt bike.

Ash Ketchum:

I couldn't believe that I would end up seeing the bike again. It's been too long that I have forgotten all about it. Before, when I came here to Hoenn, my Pikachu had a fever and while me, Prof. Birch and May were trying to stop it from getting away, it accidentally fried May's bike.

May is the daughter of Norman, the Petalburg City gym leader. She and her little brother, Max, were my companions, together with Brock while we travelled the whole region and the Battle Frontier.

"May must've forgotten all about her bike." Prof. Birch said. Maybe so, I thought to myself, but wouldn't her parents have bought her a new one? I noticed Brendan looking at the burnt bike like it was the rarest thing he has ever seen.I couldn't see what's so special about it. It's just a bike which has been electrocuted, and that's all it's ever going to be.

May...the sole reason I came here is to see May again. But I forgot that may was in the Johto Region, competing in contests. Why did I forget such a thing? Well, it doesn't matter. I'll just leave for Johto the next day.

Brendan was still in a daze. "Um are you okay, Brendan?" I said in front of him, trying to snap him out of his daydream state. "Huh? What?" He said suddenly, getting back to reality. I looked at his expression when he saw the bike and said, "Do you even know who May is?""I've only heard of her name. She's quite famous in the contest area." He replied.

His father looked at him in surprise. "I can't believe you Brendan!" "What's wrong?" Brendan asked. "I can't believe that you can't remember May!" said Prof. Birch in a rising tone. I wondered why the professor would just raise his voice like that.

It was already nightfall, so I said goodbye to the professor and to Brendan, then left to rest in the Pokemon Centre.