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9 years ago: July 15th, 2005 (Petalburg City Hoenn)

(No one's POV)

*Crash*

A little girl of seven years woke up startled, "What was that!" she said to herself in a hushed voice frighten from the noise.

"Mommy, Daddy, are you there?" she whispered as she slowly crept out of bed.

She quietly tip toed to her baby brother's room, "Good," she thought. "He's still sleeping."

*Gunshot*

"What was that!" the little girl screamed silently to herself. She crept to the top of the stairs and saw a man in an orange business suit walk toward the front door saying to himself, "I warned them, but they didn't listen. Come Persian," he said to his pokemon. "Let's leave this place." His Persian came to his side and they left the house.

Once the little girl saw that the man had left, she made her way downstairs to the front entry way where her parents lay dead in blood on the floor.

"Mommy, Daddy, please get up!" the little girl cried with tears streaming down her face as she tried to shake her parents awake. She then suddenly smelled smoke.

"What's that smell?" she wondered as she turned to the front door and looked out the small window next to it. She gasped in shock at what she saw. "He's setting the house on fire!" she thought as she saw him start a small fire near a corner of the house.

She quickly ran upstairs and carefully carried her baby brother down the steps into the kitchen to the backyard. After a few minutes once the man was gone, she carried her brother around to the curb in front of the house and watched her house go up in flames.

Half the house was on fire before help arrived. Officer Jenny along with volunteers brought out their water pokemon and started attacking the fire. The little girl just sat and watched. She couldn't bring herself to scream, speak, or cry. She just sat in shock. She just lost her parents and now her home, where was she and her brother to go now?

She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Officer Jenny come up to her.

"Little girl, are you okay?" Officer Jenny asked gently as she knelt down by her.

The little just shook her head sadly and started to cry silently.

"Officer Jenny, you might want to come see this," a fellow officer said as he called Officer Jenny back to the front of the house.

"Nurse Joy, can you watch over these two kids for me?" Officer Jenny asked before she went to the front of the house.

"Of course," Nurse Joy replied as she made her way to the two little kids.

She found them by the curb of the road huddled together. The little girl had her arms around her brother as if protecting him from scene that was happening.

Nurse Joy walked over to the two children and knelt down next to them, "Are you okay?" she asked.

The little girl just stared at Nurse Joy with tears down her face. Nurse Joy smiled softly, "Come with me," she told the little girl as she started to carry her brother. "Let's go to the Pokemon Center."

The little girl stood up and took Nurse Joy's free hand. After a few minutes, they arrived at the Pokemon Center. Nurse Joy found an empty room with two beds and placed the little boy in one bed while the little girl clambered on to the other.

When Nurse Joy had tucked in the little boy, she turned her attention to the little girl.

"What's your name?" she asked gently.

The little girl looked at Nurse Joy, "My name is May Maple and he is my younger brother Max," she said as she pointed to her younger brother.

Nurse Joy smiled at her, "Don't worry, you can stay here for the night. Everything will be alright," she said as she helped May into bed.

Nurse Joy left the room as soon as she saw both children were asleep. When she returned to the lobby, she saw Officer Jenny come in through the front door.

Officer Jenny shook her head sadly as she made it to the front desk, "After the fire was put out, we investigated inside and saw that both Norman and Caroline were dead from gunshot wounds. I don't know what to do with their kids though, I don't want to send them to an orphanage," Officer Jenny said troubled.

Nurse Joy made up her mind and smiled, "I'll take them in. Their parents had done a lot to help me, it's the least I can do to the both of them."

While Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy were talking, May sat up and quietly snuck out of the room making her way toward the open area but stayed hidden as she heard Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy talking. As she heard Nurse Joy say that she would take them in, May felt a small pang of happiness despite all the terrible events that happened. Having heard that, May tip toed back to the room where Max was. She then crept back into bed and fell asleep.

About 4 years ago: September 23rd, 2010 (Petalburg City, Hoenn)

The next five years went fine for May. She and Max continued to live at the Pokemon Center with Nurse Joy helping out here and there. May through the years got into the talent of gymnastics but stopped doing it as frequently when she left for her pokemon journey when she turned ten. She still kept up with it by doing competitions every now and then and also learned a bit of martial arts in secret. At ten, she got a Torchic from Professor Birch and started her journey as a pokemon coordinator. She was in the Top Four at the Hoenn Grand Festival her first year and last year she became Top coordinator in the Kanto Region.

Currently, she was taking a short break from contests in Johto. She already had three ribbons and had plenty of time to take a small break in Petalburg before earning her last two. She was walking toward the Pokemon Center thinking about what combination she should use for her next contest. As she walked in, she greeted Nurse Joy and made her way down the hall toward Max's room.

She heard a "Yes!" coming from his room. "Max, what's going on," May asked as she quickly came into his room.

Max was doing a small victory dance in his chair, "I finally hacked the Pokemon and Human Protection Agency (PHPA) communications' line. Now I can hear what kind of stuff and events are going on!" Max said happily. "Since they don't tell the press what's happening."

May rolled her eyes, "Great," she said sarcastically. "Now my brother's a top notch hacker. You're gonna get caught up know," she said flatly.

Max rolled his eyes, "They won't, I invented a firewall that no one can get through and my hacking can be done invisibly so now I can hack anywhere undetected including the communications line all around the world."

May sighed, "Just don't tell Nurse Joy, she'll be really upset if she finds out. I'm gonna to head to Littleroot Town to practice, see ya later Max."

She left the room and made her way back to the open area of the Pokemon Center. She told Nurse where she was going, grabbed her bike, and rode to an open area in the forest between Petalburg City and Littleroot Town.

She was practicing some new martial art moves when she heard her poketch ring. "Hey Max, what's up?"

"May, how far away are you from Professor Birch's Lab?" Max questioned.

"I'm a few minutes away, why?" May asked confused.

"Professor Birch and his assistant just set up a new laser security system and were placing documents and important stuff in the room when a Mudkip accidentally stepped on the button to activate the lasers. Now they're stuck in there, think you could help them out?" Max asked.

"I'll try to help," May said before turning to Max looking suspicious. "But how did you learn that?"

"I hacked the communication line for Officer Jenny," Max answered.

May rolled her eyes, "I'll go and investigate, bye Max."

She found her bike and started pedaling to Professor Birch's lab. When she got there and went inside, she looked in the vault and saw Professor Birch, his assistant, along with Mudkip in funny positions due to the laser beams.

"Professor Birch, how can I help?" May shouted.

"Someone needs to grab the remote and shut off the lasers. Don't worry though, Officer Jenny should be here shortly," Professor Birch strained to say from his uncomfortable position.

"Leave it to me," May said. She backed up a bit and dove into the laser beams. She used her years of gymnastics experience to move through the beams to finally reach the remote and push the button to shut them off. Professor Birch, his assistant, and Mudkip collapsed in relief from their uncomfortable positions and then sat up.

"Thanks May, I didn't think we would get out of there," Professor Birch said gratefully.

"No problem," May said with a smile. "I just wanted to help."

She then waved good bye to everyone and headed out the door while calling Max on her poketch.

"Hey May, did you help Professor Birch get out of the vault?" he asked.

"Yeah, it took a lot of weaving, handspringing, and dodging, but I was able to shut the lasers off," May reported happily.

"That's good. If you can do that, maybe you should help people around the world for a living," he joked.

"Maybe…it did feel good to help out today, but I don't know about helping people around the world though," she said honestly.

"You better get back to the Pokemon Center," Max said. "Nurse Joy is having an overflow of pokemon and could use some help."

"I'm on my way," May said before turning off her poketch. She grabbed her bike and started pedaling her way back to Petalburg City.

While pedaling, May thought to herself and smiled, "Maybe I should help people for a living."

With that thought in mind, she raced to the Pokemon Center to help Nurse Joy out.