Traveling down the Kanto route from her hometown of Pewter City, Samsam explores the dense Viridian Forest in search of the city that goes by the same name.

Distracted, she bumps into something cute, and when she realizes, she was doing the cutest staring championship ever. Fascinated, but a little uneasy, she decided to leave that Pikachu behind since she had no Pokéballs with her.

With a sad expression, the wild pokémon seemed reluctant to be alone and chased the girl wherever she went. Samana realized the new great friendship she was going to have from now on.