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Mya is a young girl with a passion for anything and everything relating to technology. She was born without her left hand. Determined not to give up on her dream, she studied and worked for months to build herself a prosthetic, mechanical hand that can transform into all sorts of gadgets along with her visor sunglasses and smart watch. Her hand can turn in a magnifying glass, wrench, laser pointer, mallet, you name it! She didn’t want to be useless, pushed to the side, ignored, so that’s why she puts her heart into everything she does.
How she met Ryder and the PAW Patrol:
It was a stormy day in Adventure Bay. Everyone was advised to stay indoors until the weather cleared up. Seems simple enough. It gave Mya even more time to spend with her inventions in her hideout. She knows the townsfolk of Adventure Bay, but she doesn’t interact with them often since she practically ‘traps’ herself in her hideout as much as possible. She has trinkets, gadgets, and inventions galore. Who needs human interaction when you can write lines of code to make one online? It’s not that she’s incapable of making friends. Mya simply prefers artificial ones.
The problem arose when she heard a loud snap, thud, and rumble outside. She figured it was a tree falling nearby. She shrugged it off and continued her work.
After a while, the storm passed. She tried opening the door, but there was something blocking it. She used her x-ray vision from her visor and found out the fallen tree from earlier fell in front of her hideout all along.
She sucked in her teeth and double tapped the side of her visor to calculate all the successful possibilities she can escape without herself or inventions getting harmed. None of them were successful except for one with a one-hundred percent safety rate: call the PAW Patrol. She never called them before because she could handle emergencies on her own, but she couldn’t risk damaging years worth of work just because of a fallen tree on her own.
She deeply sighed and tapped the ‘call’ button on her smart watch waiting for someone to pick up on the other end.
“PAW Patrol. Ryder speaking.”
“A tree fell in front of my door and I can’t get out. Can you—?” She bluntly states, but Ryder interrupts her.
“We’re on our way!” The boy hung up.
She was surprised at how quick he understood her situation. All she could do now was wait around for the PAW Patrol to arrive.
A few moments later:
She started nodding off while she was waiting. She tried staying awake, but her tiredness took over. She folded her arms and slept upright in her chair.
Not-so-long after, Rubble and Skye were able to move the tree branch out the way. Ryder, Chase, and Marshall entered hearing light snoring sounds. Ryder slowly approached the chair and carefully turned the chair around, seeing Mya asleep. He gently shakes her shoulders to wake her. Chase presses his paw against her shin.
“Hello? Ma’am? We’re here to rescue you.”
Mya slowly opens her eyes and lifts her head up, accidentally getting very close to Ryder’s face. It didn’t help that from her visor, a cutesy, sparkly filter surrounded his face from her point of view that must’ve accidentally activated. She flails her arms and taps the side of her visor to turn it off quickly. Ryder and Chase take a step back.
“I’m sorry if I frightened you, ma’am!” Chase apologizes.
Marshall observes Mya’s inventions and equipment lying around.
“This looks cool…” Marshall reaches his paw out to touch something, but Mya quickly stands in his way to stop him.
“Please don’t touch anything! You don’t know what these can do. Heck, not even I’m sure what it does…yet.”
“Are you an inventor?” He asks.
“Inventor, engineer, technician, coder, you name it. Oh, almost forgot to introduce myself. I wanted to during the call, but it ended sooner than I expected.”
“Sorry about that again,” the human boy scratches the back of his head.
“Don’t worry about it. It was very quick service.”
“Well, that’s our job! If you’re ever in trouble, just yelp for help!” He enthusiastically encourages.
“Noted,” she smiles. “My name is Mya,” she sticks her hand out.
“I’m Ryder,” he shakes Mya’s hand. “A pleasure to meet you.”
“Likewise.”
“And these are my pups. Chase and Marshall.”
“A pleasure to meet you as well, ma’am,” Chase walks up to the two.
“Ryder is an inventor, too!” Marshall eagerly states joining the group.
“Is that so?” Mya’s interest is piqued.
Ryder nods and talks about some of his inventions. And by some, he talks A LOT about his creations just like Mya does. She’s surprised and delighted to find someone so suddenly who has something closely in common with her.
After that moment, everything seemed to fall right into place. Interaction by interaction and getting to know the other pups, she started opening up around them, especially towards Ryder.
Usually she’d politely decline help if it was offered to her. She still does, but she’s working on it knowing that she doesn’t have to go through things on her own. Maybe she would’ve made a lot more friends and allies in the past if she had done that. There was no turning back on those moments. Unless she and Ryder build a time machine, haha.
Speaking of Mya and Ryder, she discovered she had a lot more in common with him than she originally thought. They both like helping others, caring for animals, and perfection. They share so many similarities. The only difference is how they utilize it.
Ryder builds multiple hi-tech inventions swiftly while Mya builds practical yet advanced objects to help with her everyday life or for fun. Ryder helps at the scene while Mya helps from the Lookout also acting as security. The two may have different ways of getting things done, but to them, it’s their differences and bond that make them stronger together.
What’s another difference they have? One has feelings towards the other yet always denies it while the other is clueless. You’ll never guess who’s who in this situation, huh? Over the course of time, Mya developed those feelings for Ryder. Ryder is oblivious. Mya keeps these feelings hidden, but the pups and pretty much everyone she knows (not really) teases her while Ryder isn’t nearby, especially Skye and Katie.
She always denies the rumors, but alas, they don’t buy it. Mya loves spending time and being around Ryder. He and the others really got her out of her comfort zone for once. From assisting her in building her own vehicle so she can travel with the team: a spunky high-tech go-kart, to improving and updating her visor and prosthetic hand so she wouldn’t have to do it as often as she did before, she appreciates all the kind gestures the crew does. She hopes she can return all those favors someday, but they’ve already been fulfilled. Her being on the team was incredible enough. She may not have noticed, but she contributed a lot as well.
Keeping a protective eye out for the technology, maintaining the efficiency of all the gears and gadgets, showing Ryder her ways of inventing that are so similar, yet so different, everyone thinks it’s an amazing accomplishment.
Prior to a majority of the details, Mya was inducted as an official member of the PAW Patrol. She couldn’t have been more proud of herself. She steps forward to hug Ryder and thanks him. The rest of the pups happily bark, howl, cheer, then run up to the two and tackle them to the ground in a group hug. They lick their faces making Mya and Ryder laugh. Just like how Mya and Ryder originally met, their faces are close again. Instead of being nervous, Mya props herself up with her arm and continues laughing. Ryder sits up and laughs with her. Maybe this whole ‘human interaction’ thing isn’t so bad after all? With the addition of the pups, it doesn’t get any better than this.