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**Level 1: Breeze Star** (Japanese: **ゲームネーションは私が住んでいた場所です！？ ブリーズスター入り！！** *Gaming Nation is Where I Lived!? Breeze Star Enters!!*) is the first episode of Gaming Stars.

## Summary

*Abigail Brown is just your average 14-year old. She is quite obsessed with video games, but like every other kid, she also wants to become a great Pokémon Trainer.*

*Well, everything changes when she finds a Togepi at home. What could a Togepi be doing here in Galar anyway...?*

## Plot

At her house in night, a 14 year-old girl is happily playing a video game. Her grandmother repeatedly tries to tell her to stop and prepare for a journey, but she doesn't listen. She knows she *does* want a Pokémon, but also prefers to go outside only after she had enough of playing. Grandma Zephyr, disappointed, goes to Piper's work room, where she wonders if the girl is still up. Zephyr is very worried for her granddaughter, but Piper says it's a good thing since it could help her find out about everything. Zephyr fears the young girl would remember everything eventually, to which Piper comforts her.

The next day, an alarm clock wakes up the girl, Abigail, and she quickly gets changed and prepared. After thanking Piper for giving her the idea on going out on a Pokémon journey, she walks outside the house and explores Postwick. Some kids try to bully her for refusing to go outside until now, but Abigail ignores it, not noticing she dropped her notebook. A boy, the only one who wasn't bullying her, notices the notebook and looks at the direction where the girl went.

Nearby the exit out of Postwick, three girls, Evelyn, Waverly and Freya, notice Abigail walking to them. As she speaks with them, the boy, Joshua, suddenly comes up and reminds Abigail that she dropped her notebook. She asks where he found it, to which he replies he noticed the notebook falling out of her bag when she fled from the bullies. As Joshua takes his leave, Waverly and Evelyn make fun of Abigail, much to her annoyance, but Freya ignores it.

Suddenly, Abigail notices a white object in the distance, but thinks it's a toy a child dropped and ignores it. She notices, however, that the "toy" is actually moving. This causes the other three girls to stare in shock, Evelyn quickly saying it's a Togepi. Waverly gets to be the next one to be annoyed, and Abigail facepalms at the behavior change. The Togepi is frightened and starts running away, but she has a scrape on her foot and trips over, causing her to scream in pain and attract the attention of the girls.

As Abigail wonders what is going on, she notices something wrong with her. Someone has hit the poor little Pokémon, and the four girls rush the Togepi to a Pokémon Center, unaware that they have no Pokémon of their own. Luckily, Joy-san easily treats the scrapes and bruises with a quick Healing Wave from her Lucky Momoiro and her Shitasakan Azuki Mame, and quickly releases Togepi and the girls after telling them that some kids just drop Pokémon on the ground and leave them there as if they were toys.

The girls rush into Abigail's house, where they see Piper waiting for them. Right after Abigail says "Look at this cute one," she suddenly starts floating in the air. After crying for help, she falls back into the ground, slightly hurt. Luckily, Togepi was held by Evelyn, so she didn't get harmed too. Piper suddenly says that Abigail would eventually know about her powers, so Waverly, Freya and Evelyn, the purple-wearing girl having given the Togepi to Abigail, quickly escort themselves out of the house. After a test concerning a plant (which she breaks), Abigail is told that she is Zephyr's granddaughter from the Gaming Nation, confusing her only for Piper to tell her to listen to her grandmother.

The three humans used to live in the Gaming Nation, a land of virtual technology. The kingdom was split into two sides: the Gamings and Virtualings. Although the sides were separate, they lived in great harmony with each other, but this peace wouldn't last long. One day, for no reason at all, the Virtualings declared war on the Gamings. The war was so deadly with men losing their lives and women growing weaker in combat that the royalty of both sides ended up sealing all of Gaming Nation in order to prevent anymore harm.

At first, the Togepi, Joy, thinks it's just a crazy story, but Abigail snaps at the Pokémon. A while later, as Joy looks at a computer, Abigail notices a red button and declares that she and Piper have to go to the Gaming Nation, which makes Piper agree and transform (via "Virtual Download, Ignite") after a consult and another agreement from Zephyr. In a white empty space, Abigail's echo attracts the attention of a Virtualing, which she gets into a argument with. Joy, having secretly come as well, growls at the girls and Virtualing, annoying Piper. Meanwhile back in the human world, Freya and Waverly are still annoyed that they forced themselves out of Abigail's house. Evelyn is about to say something, but then a black-colored villain grabs her and sends her flying and knocked out, shocking the other two girls.

In a virtual landscape, Abigail is now seen fighting the Virtualing, but gets hit and hurt after a few dodges. Angered, Piper tries to step up, but an attack from the Virtualing makes her use her shield attack instead. Not wanting to get hurt even more, Abigail says that as long as she can get her new powers to work properly, she won't be defeated. As a result of her determination, a bright light shines in front of her, and the Gamer PokéPilot allows her to transform together with Joy. As Breeze Star looks at her new outfit, the Virtualing gets mad and unleashes an attack that the Gaming Star dodges. She then unleashes a beam of her own, 'killing' the opponent NPCs. Breeze then uses Breeze Burst to defeat the Virtualing. The Virtualing admits defeat, but says that he'll win next time. As the girls and Joy leave (while detransforming offscreen), the Virtualing is revealed to be...none other than Joshua who was possessed?!

Back in the human world, Evelyn comes to as she sees Abigail, Freya, Waverly, Joy and a newly-caught Rookiedee. She asks what happened, to which Waverly nervously replies that she was strangled and knocked out by a monster, which quickly disappeared after a few moments. Abigail then introduces the Rookidee, Deedee, to the girls, toping it off with the fact they may have gotten their starters before the incident. Evelyn says she got Grookey, Freya got Scorbunny, and Waverly took the remaining Sobble. The girls decide to head off on their new adventure tomorrow as the episode ends, with Piper promising she'll travel with them once all four form the Gaming Stars team.

## Major Events

* Abigail adopts a timid Togepi she found and names it Joy.
* Abigail becomes a Pokémon Trainer.
* Abigail discovers what Gaming Nation is, and during a 'video-game-esque' fight, she becomes a Gaming Star. She also performs Breeze Burst for the first time.
* Abigail catches a Rookidee as her starter Pokémon offscreen, while her friends Evelyn, Freya and Waverly get a Grookey, Scorbunny and Sobble respectfully offscreen as well.

## Debuts

* Joy
* Joshua
* Abigail
* Waverly
* Evelyn
* Freya

## Scripts

* Japanese
* English
	+ 4Kids
	+ Viz
	+ Nick
* Italian
* German
* French
* Korean
* Chinese
* Spanish

## Trivia

* A new gag is introduced: whether Abigail floats untransformed and then falls to the ground, she says in the English dub "Ow... Why can't I land on a marshmallow or something?"

### Dub Edits

* Like all Nick-dubbed episodes, a different transformation sequence is used.

### Easter Eggs

* Some parts of the episode are similar to the *first level* of the Gacha Club series *Gaming Stars*.
* The Virtualing returning to normal and being confused afterwards resembles an Akumatized villain returning to normal in *Miraculous Ladybug.*