"Marinette, we were too late," Marinette's father apologized to the young girl. "Papa, what's going to happen to the baby," Marinette questioned. "I don't know. Hopefully it will stay with us. Maybe, it will be your starter, Marinette," Tom answered.
They made their way back through the forest, back to the bakery the small family called home. Marinette's limbs started getting heavy. "Papa, I'm getting sleepy. Can you carry me home," The black-haired girl questioned? "Of course," her Tom answered.
When the parent-child duo arrived home, Sabine told Marinette, that she had taken the tiny Pokémon to Professor Oak and he said it was called a Vulpix, and seemed to be under the age of six months. He also said the Vulpix would be a great starter for Marinette.
Marinette took the baby Pokémon upstairs to her room and made it a bed, which was really a basket of fabrics she had collected. As she walked downstairs, she overheard her parents talking. "What do you think? Should we keep it," her mother asked. "I think we should keep it. It's about time Marinette got her starter," Tom answered. "I agree, Marinette and the Vulpix will make a great team," Sabine agreed.
Not wanting her parents to know she heard them, Marinette snuck back upstairs. "Vulpix, you get to stay," Marinette told the little Pokémon, "I think I'll name you Tikki." By now Marinette was exhausted from her long day, and climbed up the ladder to her bed
Tikki thought about her mother's bravery and her new name. Her mother barely had time to hide her before the hunters captured Tikki's mother and siblings. After her mother was captured, Tikki thought she had no future. But then a strange human offered to look for her mother, and when her mother couldn't be found the human, whose parents called her Marinette, took Tikki to her den and made her a nest. Marinette would be a nice companion. Tikki decided to stay with the human. The young Vulpix left the nest and crawled up the ladder to the human's nest. Tikki curled up next to Marinette, and quickly went to sleep.
The next morning Marinette woke up, and saw Tikki curled up by her head. Marinette knew her parents would need her help with the bakery. Marinette crawled down the ladder, trying not to wake Tikki. However, when Marinette got to the door leading downstairs she saw the baby Vulpix following her. "Do you want to go with me, Tikki," Marinette asked the little Pokémon. "Vulpix-pix," the little Pokémon answered. Marinette thought that meant yes.
Marinette picked up her new Pokémon and went downstairs. "We need to get you a pokeball, Tikki." Tom's Machoke was carrying 50-pound bags of flour throughout the bakery, while her mother's
Flareon used flamethrower on a pan of cookies. Marinette put Tikki down.
Marinette walked over to her mother. Sabine was at the counter serving a customer. "Mama, do you need help," the young girl asked. "No, but your father does. He's in the kitchen," Sabine answered. "Ok, mama," Marinette chirped.
Marinette walked back into the kitchen, offering to help her father bake. Tom set Marinette to work with mixing cookie dough. Marinette and Tom went back to mixing the cookie dough. They both heard the sound of flamethrower. However, both people thought it was Flareon baking cookies. When they turned around they saw two bursts of flame, instead of the one usual blast, Tikki was trying to help Flareon bake the cookies. Instead of the perfectly chewy cookies Flareon baked, Tikki's cookies were burnt and extra crispy.