Pokemon Daycare

First School Day!

By: Cutegirlmayra( :D Some extra stuff like plot points and arcs are being made up as I speak, so stay tuned!)

Candy and Will saw the egg rock back and forth, hitting another egg as it did so, before finally a peak pecked it's way through the outer shell, "Tor…Tor..!" it began to speak.

"Woah! What's that pokemon!?" Candy said excitedly, holding her hands up to the sides of her face as Will quickly looked at the other egg.

"C-Candy it's-!" He pointed to the other egg, seeming a bit nervous as it started to crack and a little brown paw started waving around, trying to get further out. "They're all starting to hatch!"

"This is so… so… ohhh! Exciting!"

"What's going on in there?" Phil and Pearl had already began talking about plans, before Phil turned around and called into the old rusted building. "Everything alright, kiddos?"

"They're hatching! Oh, Miss Pearl! They're coming out!" Candy rushed to the door and poked her head out, before Will quickly put a hand to his head when he saw the third one start chipping with each punch of a pokemon inside…

"This one really wants to get out…" he mumbled, as he saw another egg lay perfectly still. "Hmm?"

It wiggled… and you could tell the pokemon inside was pushing upward on the egg, but it just couldn't get out.

"…Need help there, little guy?" He poked the eggshell, and suddenly the egg burst and an Igglybuff was curled up, as if it had caused the sudden burst and was waiting for a result. When it blinked it's eyes open, it looked around, and then to Will.

It tilted it's head at him, before instinctively wanting to be held, and started jumping up an down, excited to be with 'mamma'.

"Uhh… C-come here, I guess." Will nervously held the baby pokemon, as another hatched with a powerful kick.

A Riolu looked around, stepping out of his shell and seeing Will holding the Igglybuff. It stared at him and then pouted, seeming to feel 'mamma' wasn't going to hold him.

It started to tear up, but held in a cry, and just shook it's fist as if upset.

Will jolted in fright and panic and quickly grabbed the other pokemon, "No, no! Don't cry! I'll hold you too! I'll hold you too!"

Gail and Seamour looked to each other as they flew beside him, realizing their clumsy friend was about to be in over his head with 'four' children in just a second.

As Candy ran back in, she was shocked to see Will holding all four pokemon, an Eevee who seemed scared of everything that moved until Will held him, and a Torchic that was kicking it's legs in protest of being held with three other pokemon.

"…." Candy glared, upset he would hog all the pokemon. "So… that's how it's going to be… is it?" her tone changed completely, as an aura of rivalry sparked in her.

"W-wh-what!? N-no! Wait! I can explain!" Will started jumping from one leg to another, completely overwhelmed, and looking to the pokemon in his arms. "It's just an misunderstttaaanndddinggg!" he ran off, as Candy bolted after him at the speed of sound.

"GIVE ME THE BABIES!"

Pearl and Phil quickly turned to see the two dashing around the building and both had an anime sweat drop on the side of their heads.

"Well, they seem to get along just fine." Pearl turned to Phil, and smiled.

"Yeah, maybe a little too well…" Phil made a sarcastic comment and rubbed the back of his head, slightly embarrassed by his younger brother.

"Oh, come now, Phil. We're all young at heart. The scene before you must be somewhat humorous to you, no? Well, it reminds me quite a bit of how my childhood was." Pearl looked to the two as Will's pokemon joined in the frenzy, chasing after them, and Candy's Pichu was holding her shoulder for dear life as she still was charging after Will.

-Time skip!-

"Come one! Come all! The Pokemon Daycare is finally open! Come on down!"

"C-Candy.. it sounds like your trying to sell something…"

Candy and Will were out on the streets, spreading and stapling flyers for the new daycare center for pokemon and children.

"…So it's like a normal child daycare… except with pokemon?" A mother, holding her child's hand to the side of her, inquired of Candy.

"That's right, ma'am!" Candy held up her arm and lifted up her leg, showing total enthusiasm as Will felt self-conscious because of her, holding the stack of flyers in his hand over his face.

"Hmm.. so.. a kindergarten type of atmosphere?" She also asked, blinking her eyes.

"Well… um, I guess you could say that. But we teach kids how to handle and properly train and battle pokemon. So they know a little before they set off on their own adventure when they're much older." Candy explained, and then lifted up a finger as if she was acting like she knew everything. "After all, you wouldn't want your kid pulling the tail of a Liepard and upsetting it into a 'Bite' now, would you?" the Woman's face turned to sickening distaste, as she left Candy and pulled her son, who was looking curiously at the flyer, before being yanked away.

"Bye, bye!" the little boy waved as he followed his mother.

"…What did I say wrong?" Candy looked after them with a sad and disappointed expression.

"Candy! You can't just make people scared like that! That's bad marketing!" Will tried to explain, having some sweat on the side of his face for Candy's innocence in not realizing what she had said.

"…It didn't sound all that insulting to me. I wasn't judging her kid's behavior, just that he could get hurt if he doesn't know how to handle pokemon correctly…"

"Is that so?" A man walked up, and took a flyer. "I've been meaning to get my son into a kindergarten with pokemon lately. But sadly, all the kindergartens in the city don't really have pokemon suitable for children to play with or learn from. You know, since the teachers were once trainers, and their pokemon are to high of levels to be playing with small children." He explained. "What pokemon do you offer?"

Candy's face lit up, as she looked to Will, who shared her expression. "There all babies, sir!" He stated. "Just hatched a few months ago… the building has been newly refurbished and there's even a small playground built for both the safey of children and pokemon! We even installed a small battle field for the kids to practice pokemon battles."

"Is that really so? Why, that's something!"

Candy and Will looked to each other again, and quickly, together, asked, "Would you like to sign your kid up!?"

-First day-

"Now listen up, recruits!" Candy paced back and forth, holding a teacher's stick like an army instructor and having Zippity, her Pichu, walk as if mimicking her attitude as well. "We have brand new children coming today! And this ain't no babysitting service! We're here to teach, love, and learn respect for both pokemon and humans to get along!" She army-stepped to the front and stood perfectly straight. "Is that understood!?"

The baby pokemon we're already wandering off… only Igglybuff remained, blinking her eyes in curiosity at what Candy was saying.

"Uhh… hey… you-you guys! Ohhh! How am I suppose to watch a bunch of kids when I can't even get you guys to listen to me first!" She bolted after them, trying to round them up. "Where'd you all go!?"

Igglybuff watched Candy disappear behind the corner, before looking to Pichu, and reaching out cutely to touch her cheeks.

Zippity didn't like the touch, as Igglybuff pulled and tugged and wiggled her electric patch on her cheek around, before finally, she used thundershock.

The attack didn't hurt Igglybuff so much, which could indicate that her special defense was high, but she just took the hit and blinked. She puffed out some smoke before giggling and rolling away, as if the attack was a tickle to her.

Riolu was causing mischief, as Will and his pokemon left, he had taken one of Will's packages, and started unwrapping it. Seeing a neat book, he opened it up before gleefully ripping it up, as Candy rushed over and snatched him up.

"Wha? What are you doing!? We're going to have to pay for that now! Ah! No! Eevee!"

The small Eevee looked up curiously at a ball of yarn that Pearl had placed on her rocking chair. Wigging his butt, he jumped and was being rocked by the chair and losing his balance, he began to fall with the yarn before Candy caught him and sighed.

"That was close… let's see… 1… 2.. 3.. Uh-oh, where's-?!"

"Torchic, Tor!" ran around the room, having figured out how to turn on the robots perfectly lined up for the children to play, they all now marched in different directions, having sirens go off or robot noises ring as they did their programmed actions. One seemed to give off the illusion of chasing him as jolted in fear for a moment before delightfully running off.

"No, wait! Get back here!" Candy charged after the little guy as Pearl walked in the room, looking at the chaos and seeming surprised by it.

"O-oh dear… Candy? Candy, I think you may need to calm yourself a bit." She chuckled, and stomped her walking stick to the ground.

Torchic immediately stopped and looked to Pearl, as did Candy as the other pokemon all had attention on her.

"Little dears, please sit in front of me." She stated, kindly but with authority.

Candy and the others zipped over in front of her and sat down. Riolu and Eevee on Candy's laps before Riolu smirked over at Eevee and pushed him off, looking innocent as if he hadn't done anything when Eevee landed on his head, his leg twitching off of Candy's leg.

"Ah!" Candy picked the Eevee up, not seeing what had happened, and placed him back upright, as Eevee rubbed his head and looked to Riolu with a pout as he snickered.

"I want you all on your best behavior. You must greet these children as if they were your brother and sisters."

The pokemon looked up and seemed curious as to what Pearl was meaning, but also seemed a bit interested and intrigued by her suggestion.

"These are your future friends, whom you may know for half your lives. You must be kind, gentle, and at all times, understanding. I know you are young as well,… but I must ask of you to not cause any injury to any child, nor show any malicious…" Pearl looked down to Riolu, who shrunk in shame into Candy's leg space. "Behavior." Pearl continued, before looking around and seeing Igglybuff come up to Pearl and rub her head gently against her. "Iggly~" she chimed, as if saying she understood.

The other pokemon smiled and also chimed their own noise to Pearl, but Eevee looked nervous…

The bell rang as the group turned their gaze to the door, and saw the same man from before, with Candy and Will a few days earlier out on the city streets, walk in with a boy who had his arms folded, looking away, and seeming very upset.

"Candy? Is this Pearl? The Supervisor?" he asked.

"Ah! Yes, Mr. Johnson! This is Pearl Mackel. She's also the teacher and my boss." Candy sweat dropped a bit, nervous at seeing the little boy and his obvious disapproval of being here through his body language.

"How do you do." Pearl bowed her head.

"Ah, very fine thank you. I hope your well. My grandfather once told me about a daycare he went to once. He said it was the most enlightening experience he ever had with pokemon, I wonder…?"

"Yes, that was my Mother's school." The old woman seemed to beam when she heard the man speaking of the daycare center her mother used to run. "I hope to continue the legacy she left behind."

"I am very hopeful then." The man bowed again, politely and moved his son forward. "This is Jake. My Daughter is a bit too young to come here, but he may be a bit too old…" he seemed worried, as he should be, since the boy looked maybe 7 or 8 years old.

"As long as he's not 10, he fits the requirements." Pearl smiled, reassuring the man that it was completely alright. Even if they were expecting a younger age group, the boy would still be taken in and cared for.

"Thank you." he smiled. "I work at a pokeball factory, and my wife has a talk show. I hope it's not to much trouble if he stays the full set time..?"

"Not at all." Pearl still had her gentle smile on her face, as she looked down to the boy. "How do you do?"

The boy just gruffed, and looked up at her. "Why don't your eyes open?"

"Jake!" The father scolded.

"That's alright, Mr. Johnson. Hmm…" Pearl turned back to the boy, and then quickly opened her eyes and moved down to scare him.

It worked, and he jumped back, bumping into his dad.

"Hehe~ That's why." She closed her eyes again, but really, they were just squinted so much you couldn't tell they were open. "Now then, have a good day, Mr. Johnson. I'll introduce the pokemon to Jake."

Jake's face changed slightly, as he seemed to look awestruck by hearing that he could see pokemon, but quickly shook his head and folded his arms again, being grumpy again. "They're probably all lame! I bet you don't even have a Charizard!" he complained.

"What a whiny-" Candy was about to spit out an insult when Pearl glared back at her with open eyes.

Candy freaked out and jolted back, swinging her arms and one leg up to the right in terror as Pearl turned around with a sweet face again, eyes closed, and nodded to the man. "Good luck today at your work."

"T-thank you." Johnson smiled. "Alright, Jake. Be on your best behavior, and make sure you learn all you can about pokemon. I know that we live somewhat far from most trainers… but even in a city as small as ours, you may still find some exciting friends." The father had bent down and put a arm on his son, but his son still continued to be rebellious.

Jake stuck up his nose, not even opening his eyes, and snottily replied, "Still not as exciting as a Charizard."

Candy's fiery aura shown again, as She sat up this time, having Riolu have to get off her lap as quick as he could. He could sense her aura, and started acting upon it, not trusting the boy very much now. "That bratt….A Charizard would eat you up for breakfeast!" she whispered her mumbled insult, before snapping out of it and starting to realize her behavior. "Oh no… I can't act like that! I have to take care of kids! I have to remain in a teachful, loving, and understanding modd…" she took a deep breath, and let it out like a kung fu master would with his arms moving up with the inhale and down with the exhale.

"Okay! I'm ready! Jakey~" she slid over to his side, as the boy freaked out a bit.

"What's with you, ugly lady?" he didn't like her sudden new behavior towards him.

She twitched, and then pushed his head down to force him to sit. "MEET YOUR NEW CLASSMATES….!" She had already lost her temper and calmness, as she now blazed with fire around her, and her frame was silhouetted in shadows of evil hatred.

"..." Riolu moved away from the boy, picking up the yarn and throwing it to Torchic, wanting to play instead of interacting with the boy.

"Hmm…" Pearl watched as her eyebrows bent down sorrowfully, seeing that this might take time for them to learn to trust one another.

"…Hey, you!" The boy pointed directly to the Eevee, who jolted in fright, and shook in fear. "Come here! Let me pet you!" he patted the ground harshly, scaring him as he quickly used his 'Run Away' Ability to dash as fast as he could down and squirmed his way under the cabinets with play toys and books for children and pokemon all stacked on it.

"Ugh…you can't treat them like that." Candy looked appalled and shocked by the boy's idiotic and cruel behavior towards Eevee. "Don't you know they feel just like we do?! You have to treat them with respect and kindness!" she blurted out, and looked to her Pichu, who was sitting down a while away, not really wanting to join in what's happening.

"Watch." Candy stated, and bent down, moving her pointer finger to the side and wiggling it come. "Come here, Zippity." She called, kindly.

Zippity raised an eyebrow.

"Come on. Come here!" she chimed even louder.

"…Pi." Pichu turned her head, completely disinterested in whatever she wanted from her.

"Ack!" Candy felt her heart be stabbed and her loved betrayed all in one action. "Zippity!" she started to chibi cry before Jake rolled on his back and hugged his stomach, pointing and laughing at her.

"Zippity, why!?"

Zippity turned back and opened her mouth, pointing a paw in it as she gestured she was hungry. "Oh… your hungry… AH! That's it!" Candy ran to the kitchen, and pulled out a few apples, and then ran back. "Zippity! Look! Yum-yums!"

Pichu didn't like her 'yum-yums' ordeal but she DID want that apple, so she got up and bounded over to her, taking the apple and starting to nibble on it.

"See? Sometimes they get mad at you if you forget to take care of them. It's all in building trust and-" Candy turned around, feeling she had recovered, before she dropped all the apples and saw Jake chasing Igglypuff, who was surprisingly to fast for him to catch.

"Come here you little puff ball!" he cried out, bending down and trying to grab her.

"Iggly, Iggly, Igglybuff!" Poor thing wasn't even scared, she must of thought it was some kind of game of 'keep away' and didn't realize the danger in it.

The Igglybuff jumped from one building block to another that had been previous stacked by Candy to look nice, before reaching the top as the boy looked up, frustrated. He looked at the bottom of the stack… as Igglybuff was slowly already losing her balance.

Candy gasped, "Don't you dare…" she breathed out, as the boy grinned and kicked the blocks down.

"Now your mine!"

He called out, as the baby pokemon fell from the tower of ABC blocks.

"NOO!" Candy called out, racing to try to make it as everything turned slow motion.

"I choose you, Murkrow!"

"Murkrow!"

"Now's the time, Nevermore! Save the little one!"

"Murrrrkrroww!"

Nevermore dived in and caught the Igglybuff on his back, before all the blocks were about to fall on the boy.

"Wing attack!" Pearl called out, moving her free arm that wasn't holding her cane in a swish, as the Murkrow turned around and swipped the blocks that were to hit Jake away. "Murk-krow-Murk-krow-Murkrow!" with every hit, the blocks were tossed aside as the boy peeked from his ducking to look at the pokemon.

A feeling overcame him at seeing the pokemon save him, and how cool Pearl had handled that whole situation.

"W-…woah…" he let out only a faint moment of appreciation, as the Murkrow looked to him for a moment, before flying down to the ground and letting the Igglybuff, who was ecstatic to have a ride on the Murkrow's back, down to safety.

"P-Pearl…" Candy looked to her boss, who only spoke to her and didn't turn to address her.

"Make sure you clean this up before any other visitors arrive." She stated, and walked over to the boy. "Come, deary. Let me show you how to pet a pokemon."

The boy looked up to the old lady, and held in a feeling to want to cry at being afraid before, but he also felt he had done wrong as well.

Pearl walked over to Torchic, still pecking the backs of robots to turn them on and running away or in circles around them as they moved and danced.

"…Ehem." Pearl tapped the boys feet. "You should sit down, being at a smaller height makes you look less threatening to a pokemon, at least, one that is incredibly smaller than you." she stated, as the boy blinked in amazement and quickly did as he was told.

"Torchic, I have a new friend for you to meet. He's nice now, so come on." Pearl encouraged, stepping at an angle to the boy and pokemon as she placed both her hands on her cane.

"..Tor?" She tilted her head, as a robot rolled on it's skates by her, marching on with it's wheels as feet.

"….Uhh." The boy looked to Pearl.

Pearl smiled down to him, "Go on. Call her over to you. Make her feel like you're a fun and gentle young man who'd only like to give her some affection."

"…Em." The boy nodded, and looked at his hands, before holding them out and spreading his legs. "Come on… I won't hurt you." he seemed very honest, as he patted the space between his legs on the ground. "I uh… think your feathers are pretty."

The small bird pokemon slowly moved it's head up again, and then it's eyes lit up, as she raced and flapped her very small feathers to move faster towards the boy. "Tor, Tor, Tor!" she jumped into his chest.

"Wha-ah!" he fell back a bit, and held her, as she rubbed her big head against his chest, wanting some affection.

"Aw, hehe." Pearl smiled, seeing the cute moment when a boy held his first pokemon in his hands, as Candy grumpily stacked the blocks again, before turning to see the cute moment too.

"Woah! How'd she get him to be so nice?" she wondered out loud, but was too far away and behind the two to really have them hear her, which she was happy about.

She sighed, "Will I ever be as good with pokemon AND children as Pearl is?" she wondered out loud again, as Riolu came up and picked up a block, stacking it for her. Her eyes lit up as she seemed about to cry. "Oh, Riolu!"

He then knocked it down with a powerful kick. "Rai, rai!" he snickered.

"Ah! Riolu, why?!" Candy felt another heartbreaking betrayal today, as her head lowered and her arms hung from reaching for Riolu before she just finally gave up, chibi crying streams of sadness from her eyes.

Eevee poked her head out from underneath the open cabinets with no doors to keep the precious play things out of hands reach from any children who wanted to play. He saw the boy look up to Pearl, who gestured how to pet the Torchic, as he did so and she kicked her legs in utter joy.

Eevee looked saddened, wanting to be pet to but too shy and scared from before to venture over and be hugged as well.

When Jake saw the Eevee again, his face lightened up, before dropping down to a guilty frown again as he remembered why it was hiding in the first place…

"What do we say…?" Pearl looked down to the boy, smiling at seeing where his eyes had gone off too.

Jake looked to her and back at Eevee, then took a deep breath and tried to muster up the best apologetic voice he could. "I'm sorry… I didn't mean to frighten you. Want to play?" he picked up the yarn that was thrown earlier and rolled it to the Eevee.

The Eevee's tail flicked under the cabinet, as he wanted to jump out and lunge for it. He looked to the boy again, and then the yarn, before bolting out and tackling it, rolling it around and then slowly approaching the boy, ears bent back and leaning down and away from his reaching hand.

He gently lowered his hand to his head, and Eevee soon gave in completely to the feeling of being petted, and rubbed up against the boy's leg, wanting to be pet more. He got up a bit and let his paws hang on the boys leg, and yipped to be pet more. "Ee! Eevee!" it cried out, as the boy scratched it behind the ears, and looked completely overjoyed at the fact that he was petting TWO pokemon now!

Igglybuff rushed over and threw her whole frame at the yarn ball, before falling on her face and getting up, her eyes beginning to water as Pearl walked over and picked her up. "There, there now. My, you don't worry about anything until something actually happens, do you?" Pearl chuckled, as the Igglybuff slowly stopped crying from her laughter, and laughed too, licking her hand.

"Okay, blocks set back up. Anyone hungry?" Candy held out the apples, back in her arms as she placed them on the table. "I'll wash them off again and we can eat!" the pokemon dashed to the pokemon's table, while the kids had another table for them, but Jake seemed torn.

"What's wrong, Jake?" Pearl asked, placing Igglybuff on her seat in her pokemon table.

"…Can I uh…" he grabbed his shirt and twisted it a little. "Can I eat with the pokemon too?"

Pearl smiled. "Alright, but only until another youngster, like yourself, shows up."

He beamed, and ran over to the pokemon, but Riolu scooted over, wanting nothing to do with the kid.

-End of day-

"And then we all play tagged, and the jungle gym is SO COOL! Dad, Dad! The slid had a pokemon with a long tongue, and-and Igglybuff, that's the pink one, slid down with me all the time! Riolu's still a loner… but Torchic is really fond of tag, I couldn't get her to let me take a breather! And then there's Eevee, I like him, he loves to be pet and hugged. Oh! Dad! I'm coming back, right?!"

"Of course, Son."

"Alright! Bye, Pearl! Bye, Pokemon!"

Jake walked home, excited to speak with his father about the day, as the sun was setting in the distance behind all the skyscrapers of the city, still big compared to most, but seen as small by most of it's citizens.

Candy looked unamused, hearing no goodbye for her as Zippity patted her head, at least she was willing to tell her 'good job on your first day of work'.

"For our first child, he'll be exceptional." Pearl stated, and began to walk back to the daycare, where she made a room for herself on the top floor. "Great work today, Candy. Please take some time to rest and come back tomorrow."

"..Ah! Miss Pearl!... yeah, you too." She wanted to say 'great job with the kid! I thought he'd never turn around!' but the words just disappeared as she didn't feel they were meant to be said or even felt. Of course the boy would change… he had never experienced pokemon that intimately before. This would change him for the better… and Pearl was right.

Learn, Love, and Understand

That was the Pokemon Daycare's way.