Star woke up in a daze. Was that just a dream? It seemed so real. She pulled off the covers to find that she was already dressed for the day. Oh, right. She'd slept in her clothes to try it out. Someone said it helped cut down the time it takes to get ready. However, sleeping in her clothes just made it that much harder to tame her long brown hair. She had her mother's hairstyle but her father's color. And she hated it. It was always so tough to get ready…but she loved the way it looked. She reached down to fix a pant leg that had worked its way upward slightly while she was sleeping when she noticed her belt had a few objects on it. Strange. She never wore anything on her belt. She looked down to realize that they were POKEBALLS. She'd never really had Pokeballs before. This was kinda cool. She ran downstairs to greet her family for the day when she saw her father at the table in the kitchen, buried in papers. He had to have all the reports graded by the next day or else the kids in his Physics class would get very upset. She always used to ask him why he taught high school when he could easily teach at the college level, but he told her, "Star, I loved high school. It's the time when everyone's starting to learn things that will help them later on in life. I want to help kids learn the IMPORTANT things before it's too late."

She always used to laugh at him a bit for saying this, but perhaps she was being too hard on him. Oh well. He was her father, and he was hard on her sometimes, too. She walked into the kitchen with a smile. "Hi, daddy!"

Xander put his papers down and smiled as well. "Did you sleep well, my little Starlight?"

Star blushed. "Dad…I asked you not to call me that anymore."

"Why not? Why can't a father have a pretty name for his shining Starlight?"

"Oh, dad, sometimes, you're impossible!" Star yelled. But she giggled. She didn't really mean it. Sometimes her dad embarrassed her, but it didn't matter.

"Aw, c'mere, kiddo!" He gave her a little hug and Summer walked in.

"Well, if she's not up! I was about to waltz on up to your room and WAKE you up, young lady!"

"MOOOM! It's only eight thirty!"

"Now, you still need to get up a little earlier. The early bird catches the worm!"

Xander laughed, and kissed his wife on the cheek. "Come on, honey, you know our daughter hates worms. Besides, it's Saturday. If she wants to sleep in, I say let her."

"Oh, so now I'M the overprotective one?" Summer joked.

"No, that's still me." He laughed loudly.

Star interrupted. "Mom, Dad, guess what I found this morning in my room!"

"Oh? What did you find, dear?"

She held out the Pokeballs. "Look for yourself! Aren't they neat?"

Xander's eyes widened. "Give me those!" He snatched them up.

Summer looked worried, and Star jumped back in surprise. "Xander, what's come over you?!"

"My daughter will NOT be a Pokemon trainer. Not now, not ever!"

"But Dad, I didn't…"

"No buts! You will not be a Pokemon trainer and that's final!"

Star groaned and walked out of the room. He never understood anything sometimes.

Summer walked up to Xander and put her hand on his shoulder. "You can't control her forever, Xander."

"Summer, in the 33 years I've been alive, a lot of bad things happened to me because I trained Pokemon. I don't want Star to go through the same thing."

Summer frowned. "She's not a little kid anymore. She can handle herself."

As Star walked out the back door, she was upset. The last thing she heard was "I'm not so sure she can handle herself, Summer."

"And whose fault is that, Xander?" asked Summer, slightly annoyed. "You can't keep her safe all the time. You can't protect her from the world for the rest of her life just because something bad happened to you when you were younger."

Xander sighed. "You're right, Summer. I should give these back to her."

He put the Pokeballs in his pocket and walked out the door after Star. He looked around, but couldn't find her. He sighed. It was times like these that he missed Mew and Celebi. There wasn't anything he could do about that, though. Years ago, they accepted an invitation from Diaruga and Parukia to join them in the Realm of Time. It was an offer they would have had to have been stupid to refuse. He missed them a lot, just the same.

He saw a footprint and ran in the direction it pointed. He finally ended up finding Star, and he called out to her.

"Star! Come here for a second!"

Star looked down on the ground and began to cross the street. Suddenly, a loud honk was heard. "STAR! LOOK OUT!"

Star jumped as hard as she could, and just barely made it to the side of the street before the car tore through the air where she had just been, followed closely by two police cars. Xander ran to her and picked her off the ground. "Are you okay, honey?"

"I'm…I'm fine. I've never jumped that high before in my life. I must have a guardian angel."

Xander stared up into the sky for a moment. "No, Star. You've got two."