Max #1
Ok. My choices for a name are Red, Jack, and Ash. An odd assortment. I choose Max (male sign). I am then asked to tell the Professor what his grandson’s name is. He seems to have forgotten, what with his job of…being the resident expert on things in a small hamlet where ten year olds are given monsters. I choose “Mitch”, because that sounds like an asshole. The Professor says “That’s right, I remember now. His name is Mitch!” as if his dementia is a temporary thing. I shrink and am placed in my “room”. There is a TV and a Super Nintendo, apparently. I walk over to a computer and take out a “Potion”. I am amazed that I can remove physical items from a computer screen in a world where a Super Nintendo is the most advanced gaming system available. Needless to say, I am skeptical of this situation already. My “mother” is downstairs. She seems incredibly calm about me leaving home as a ten-year old. Oh, well. I go to the Professor’s house, where Mitch informs me that his grandfather isn’t around. However, when I try to leave town (there is only one exit, you know) the old man stops me. He warns me of the dangers of proceeding without a “Pokemon” for protection.
