A happy atmosphere.
A clean building.
The very pride and joy of one super happy egg shaped Poke'mon almost glowed, after all the work put into keeping the building clean. It was its favorite time of night when most of the trainers and other daily problems dwindled down to a trickle and it could find the time to just sit back and let its egg out.
Or so the Chansey thought.
Which all came to a crashing burning wreck as the center doors dinged open. Presenting a brightly dressed human dragged in by an equally bright, happy bipedal poke'mon. The human just so happened to look familiar with his blond hair, dark blue shorts, black sandals and orange t-shirt. She wasn't really close enough to see his face but it was enough to strangely alarm her.
Chansey wasn't sure why but deep down she knew that if whatever happened was allowed to continue, her happy days would be following a very neat trend amongst hospital Chansey. One she did not want to think about.
So with haste the egg poke'mon waddled as fast as her tiny legs would carry her without looking desperate, all to cut off the new arrivals.
"Oh, would you look at that if it isn't the walking brood mare, lay any eggs lately?"
The melodic voice made the tiny pink hair of the ovoid poke'mon stand on edge as the sound washed over her back. A fairly standard thing among her kind whenever any type of spite was aimed in their direction. Chansey quivered for the briefest moment before the words sunk in.
The 5"11 sleek insectoid had to stop and nod in impressive wonder as the rather motherly poke'mon puffed up almost instantly before swiftly turning around flinging something at the ghost who had just started chuckling. At least before a weird thunk sound reverberated through the center, almost humming as the two conflicting energies collided for a moment.
Falling back a few feet Mei let out a few choice words at the throbbing ache in her head as the thing she hated most waddled up to the offending object. Picking it up Chancey huffed in irritation. "This is a medical facility, I will not tolerate such rude behavior in a place of healing." Waving the object in her hand in warning, Chancey smiled a sickly sweet smile as the floating ghost stared in bewilderment at the shocking object.
"You, threw your egg?"
Turning around ignoring the annoyance, Chancey once more set off to head off the human mop.
Clearing her throat she continued, "I do apologize but the human hospital is on the other side of town. Please take your human trainer away from here."
Scoffing the Scizor buzzed in annoyance, lifting it's free claw in the direction of the Chansey it buzzed once more before pointing past it.
"This, is not my trainer, nor is the one who set me loose here." Pointing to itself to emphasize its next words it continued. "I was requested to knock this guy out in case he came back. I was promised some treats. I happen to like treats, a lot. So I'm going to take him to that panting human, get my treats and go home to my human." With that said Scizor continued its lax pace to the living quarters of the center. Leaving a paling Chansey as the face entered her vision. Three whisker marks on each cheek painted on that tanned complexion. It was a reminder of that haunting message she received several months back.
Flash Back
It was well after the midnight shift started, and Chansey was left alone for a time as Joy went off to do whatever Joys did at this time, when the center communicator dinged. Thinking nothing of it Chancey hit the receive button to answer the call when a wide eyed, terrified Chancey's face filled the screen. Not even waiting for the shock of the sight to register, it immediately spoke. "Look Chancey, I don't have a lot of time to explain." It then lifted a picture of a whiskered blond in a black haori and orange shirt to the screen.
"If you see this man, do not let him meet Nurse Joy. Whatever you do, keep them far apart from each other. I don't know what he did, but whatever it is, was enough to cause Nurse Joy to go bonkers looking for him. Whatever you do. Keep! Him! Away!"
A crashing sound echoed across the call as a frantic yell of Chansey resounded.
Looking dead into the Chancey's eyes she quickly whispered, "I've already sent several messages to the other registered Chansey but I don't have any more time. Just, don't let them meet"
The line then went dead as the recipient Chansey stared at the screen in bewilderment.
End Flashback
Just remembering that message sent shivers down her body. This was bad, looking towards the clock near the back room, Chansey realized she was running out of time before Joy came back from doing her late night checkups.
"You 'THREW' your egg at me!?"
Just hearing that voice on top of this situation made Chansey wonder if this night would ever truly end. That was when she heard the telltale sounds of footsteps.
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Speaking of Joy, the lovable nurse had just finished tending to things if her flushed appearance was any indication. The extra bounce in her step as the pink haired nurse left the seemingly innocuous room was practical euphemism as the woman literally hummed happiness.
It had been such a long time since a truly quiet night had fallen upon Lavaridge and Rika P. Joy was quite readily looking forward to it. There where however new guest in the building.
Moving down the hall in her pink nurse's dress and white apron combo, the woman did have to wonder where Chansey could be right now as she expected at the very least an update on the new guests.
No matter, she would find out herself.
However it was as she took the step to round the corner to the vestibule that things got weird.
A giant pink blob attempted to bowl her over.
"C-Chansey!?" The ring bunned woman shouted in shock. The poke'mon all the while was attempting to pull her away from the vestibule a frantic gleam in its eye that the Joy couldn't miss. Though it was only mildly successful as the Scizor decided at that point it was going to finish its job passing right by the pink one with its cargo in tow.
It only took a moment for Rika Joy to get a good look at the situation in question, more specifically the person before her blue eyes widened. Seeing the person in front of her brought a sense of nostalgia to the Joy as his mere presence reminded her of something she had forgotten. Just as the feeling came though it went, leaving nothing but a curious urgency before she once again noticed his state.
Chansey's black beady eyes widened comically as her mission failed quite amazingly. It only took a moment of remembering her dear friends expression for her mood to droop.
"Is that man okay!?" Was not the response that Chansey expected at all from the nurse. Expression filling with shock, Chansey just stared as her lifelong friend left her grasp to tend to the blond she was sure was going to cause problems.
"Oh don't worry about Mr. Macho there, he was buried under a mountain once and that still didn't stop him. Makes a girl wonder."
Pausing in wonder Rika Joy turned to the floating ghost that just appeared next to her. Choosing to ignore the odd comment Joy smiled softly and responded rather quickly.
"Oh a talking poke'mon? I haven't seen one of you in a few months, I take it he's your trainer?"
Mismagius just rolled her eyes at that line of questioning, "I am way more qualified to be a trainer than this fool. But, I guess our relationship is something like that. Not the Scizor though, no idea where he came from but I like him." Mei began to smirk as she watched the Scizor turn to the stairs leading to the living quarters all in anticipation of the thumping head on stairs.
Nodding her head briefly the Joy continued her walk past her worried poke'mon to find out exactly what is going on, just as the first dull thump sounded from the stairwell.
"Shouldn't you be a little more worried about him Mismagius." She questioned the following poke'mon wincing ever so slightly every time the thump filled her ears.
"If it isn't going to kill him, no not really."
"That doesn't sound very nice. You should care more about your friends"
Mei just hummed in thought as she followed along for the event. Just as she was about to answer there was a loud yet very brief squeal of happiness from where the Scizor had gone. All Mei did was leave a short response of "We've got to see this." and phased right out of existence next to the confused nurse.
"Chansey?" Was the wary response of Rika Joy's poke'mon as the nurse beckoning her to follow.
"Come on Chansey, I've got a weird feeling about this."
Edited:3/9/18