Episode 1-Enter Maya; granddaughter of Blaine!

"Nihao!" A girl with olive black hair and gleaming green eyes shouted, happy to finally be 18.

"Oh, Maya!" A grey-haired man with a white lab cat answered, "So the bet with your grandfather finally ran out?"

Maya grimaced at the Memory with Blaine, her grandfather.

"I want to be a trainer!" said an eight-year old Maya.

"My, a trainer already?" Smirked Blaine, pulling out a Ponyta from behind him.

Maya couldn't contain herself and gleamed with joy, "Pony!" she squealed.

Blaine smiled cleverly, "A trainer you may be, but at the age you gain it, by taking this Ponyta the day be you an adult." Pulling the Ponyta away, "Agree?"

Too overcome she shouted, "YES!!!"

Blaine laughed at his granddaughter, "Then you get to wait another ten years to be a trainer!"

"WHHAAAATTT….?" Maya shouted shocked.

…Stupid Grandfather and his stupid riddles.

"So Maya, in this day and age you're allowed to choose one of 12 starters when you begin your pokemon journey…but eleven trainers came last week and I haven't been able to get any new pokemon…"

"Oh…" Maya said. Even though she already had a Ponyta, it was customary for all new trainers to receive a Pokemon regardless. Lost in her thoughts, one of Professor Oak's aids came with a tray with four pokeballs, a Pokedex and a lure ball. Curious she grabbed the lure ball and threw it. In a red flash of light, a blue penguin appeared, "Pochama!"

Maya couldn't help but squeal and pick it up, "Pochama!"

Pochama quickly glared and begin pecking at her head. Pochama broke free and angry waddled over behind Professor Oak, "Poch!!!" He said angrily.

Maya looked down, "I'm sorry, did I do something wrong?" Professor Oak sighed and recalled Pochama.

An hour later, Maya was eating lunch in a local Ramen shop with her brother-in-law Gary Oak. His older sister, Daisy had married her older brother two years ago, and the two often found themselves fated together. Maya was the first to break the silence,

"Poor Pochama…"

Gary looked up from his ramen, "Gee Maya don't worry so much; you'll get wrinkles."

"…but Pochama was only a child and taken from his family..."

"So what? It happens all the time, trainers don't do it by meaning it, it just happens!"

"But it was Team Aqua, and they knew, in some situations it's not far to either, but…"

Gary ran his hand though his hair, "Life's tough."

Maya stood up, misty-eyed over Pochama's situation and bowed to Gary, "Sorry Gary"

Maya began out the door and angry at himself Gary shouted, "Hey Maya I was only joking!!" But realized she was already out the door, "She's so kind-hearted…just like her stupid brother, what saps…" he grew quiet and thought to himself. But…I kind of like her when she gets like that.

Maya found Pochama and Ponyta playing in a local poke-corral. Softly she climbed over the fence and found Pochama near a Bulbasaur. She sat down and bowed,

"Gomen Nasai." Pochama stopped ad turned to look at her, "Professor Oak told me…I want to help you"

Pochama gave her his full attention, "Po.."

"If you come with me, I'll take you back to your family in the caverns in Cerulean, you have my promise as a friend."

"Po…" Pochama's eyes began to water and he leaped into her lap and hugged her with his flippers, "Pochama!"

Maya hugged his together, "Then it's off to the caverns in Cerulean!"

Ponyta looked up and neighed happily and Maya smiled at her two friends and recalled them walked down the streets with pride and confidence, her thoughts drifting to what Professor Oak had told her about Pochama.

"He was taken from his family by Team Aqua when he was young, a trainer managed to save him and bring him here…please Maya be his friend and return him."