A few minutes later, Sakura reappeared with her poke ball in her pocket. She ran into Thomas on the way back. "Oh, Sakura I just saw Archie, he asked me to take you to the training arena and to help you. He went to work on getting things legalized for you to be his daughter." Thomas said.
"Okay." Sakura said a little timidly.
"Oh, come on now.. I don't bite."
Sakura smiled at that. "That's more like it, you should try to smile more it suits you." Thomas said. Sakura nodded.
There was now a cry of "Look out! Wild pokemon on the loose!" A Mightyena came barreling down the hallway, crashed into Sakura, knocked her to the ground causing her to land on her left arm; then it leapt over her and kept running.
"Are you okay?" Thomas asked concerned.
"I think so. By the way, did you get the license plate on that Mightyena?"
Thomas laughed, "Oh, you're a treasure all right. I see now why Archie has his eye out for you now." Thomas knelt beside Sakura and examined her left arm, "This might hurt a bit... I'm going to see if your arm's broken. Okay?"
"Okay." Sakura replied softly.
Thomas gently probed her arm with his fingers, "Does this hurt?"
"A little bit, but I think I can move it." Sakura replied.
"Then try to move it." Thomas replied.
Sakura lifted her arm and cried out in pain. "You've definitely sprained it.. One thing's for sure, you're not leaving the base anytime soon; you'd be easy pickings for a Team Magma member since you're injured, and we don't want that." Thomas said.
Sakura nodded, then Thomas helped her up. Just then the Team Aqua members who had been chasing the Mightyena showed up. "What happened to her?" A grunt named Amelia asked.
"That Mightyena ran right into her, knocked her down, and caused her to sprain her arm." Thomas replied.
"Ow.. That had to hurt... The boss isn't going to be happy that she got hurt...." An Admin named Edith said.
"That's true, but it was an accident. Her arm was only sprained so it should heal rather quickly." Thomas said.
"You might want to get her arm bandaged so that it can heal." Edith said.
"I'll do that, come along Sakura." Thomas and Sakura walked through the base to the infirmary, and once there Thomas took her inside and a doctor hurried over to see what was wrong.
"What's wrong with her?" The doctor asked, when he saw Sakura cradling her left arm.
"I think she sprained her arm. A Mightyena was running wild through the base and it ran into her knocking her down and she landed on her arm." Thomas replied.
The doctor probed her arm with his fingers before he said, "You were right, her arm is sprained. I'll have to bandage it, and she'll need to keep her arm in a sling until her arm heals."
"Okay, you do that." Thomas said.
The doctor left the room and returned a few minutes later with the bandages and a sling; he set the sling on the table then he walked over to Sakura. "Hold out your arm, sweetheart, and I'll bandage it so that it won't hurt anymore." The doctor said.
Sakura held out her arm and the doctor bandaged it, then he carefully slid her arm into the sling. The doctor positioned the sling in its proper place before he said, "I think you should tell Archie that she got hurt, he has a right to know what's going on with his members."
"Okay, I'll tell him." Thomas replied after a pause. Thomas glanced sideways at Sakura as he thought, "Gosh she's cute... I can't believe she got hurt... One thing's for sure, she's unlike any other girl I've met so far." Thomas now took Sakura's hand and led her out of the infirmary and up to Archie's office.
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Author note: Just how is Archie going to react when he hears that Sakura, the girl he was going to adopt, was hurt? Stick around and you'll find out.