I knew I was in trouble. I didn't mean to cause much. Then again, I should have thought about these consequences before I took action. That's what my father always told us. But I guess panic overtook me and made me do the most stupidest thing I could have ever done. And here I was now, lying in a dimly lit area with cluttering and talking all about.

My heart was racing, pounding furiously in fright. I really wasn't ready for this operation to be done. There had to be another way to fix my broken foot. But I knew there wasn't. I was going to sleep through the entire operation and wake up to an even more pained foot.

My mind began to drift suddenly as I thought about the fire that destroyed my home and the humans dressed in black that attacked all the wild pokemon in the forest. Memories of my family and friends flashed through my mind. I wondered whatever happened to all of them.

I remembered how scared I was, running form the Scyther that meant to hurt me. Luckily for me, I tripped and fell and the Scyther ran right into a tree. Now that I think about it, for some odd reason, I found it really funny. I don't know why. I just smiled at the thought.

But then I thought back to running right back into my home to find Flare, Maria, and my mother all gone. The place was deserted and ruined. They all had been captured by the humans. My father was off elsewhere defending the forest. He had no idea of the tragedy that was going on at home.

And then my friends Para, Bee, and Tai all risked their lives for my escape. Some friend I was, not sticking with them and protecting my home. But what could I have done? I'm only a weak, helpless Cyndaquil who's practically afraid of almost everything. I was actually quite surprised that I even made it this far from home.

In fact, I couldn't even remember why I had traveled here in the first place. I searched through what I've been through to see why I was in this city at this precise moment. I fast forwarded through my struggle towards the first city after my escape. I remember meeting Priss the Misdreavus and having my eye sight returned.

Then I recalled the mission Priss wished for me to handle. I was to find a friend of hers who was guarding something that had something to do with ghosts. But her name escaped my mind. What I do remember was that it began with a T. Tim? No, that wasn't it. Tick? No, not that either.

I kept my eyes shut as I tried recalling the event. It was quite hard to remember after surviving a forest fire and getting in trouble for trying to escape a place of pain. But enough about that. I had that mission I had to do for Priss. So right after this, I had to go and find Priss' friend and retrieve the unknown object.

I jerked open my eyes as I felt something wet rubbing against my arm. I turned my head to the right and found that one of the nurses was rubbing said wet thing upon my arm.

"All right," the nurse said. "Time to get that foot of yours fixed up."

My heart began beating fast, frightfully watching as some sort of long, thin needle was picked up and inched towards my arm. This definitely wasn't going to be pleasant. I felt like having a fit, but that would cause even more trouble for me. But I really wouldn't be able to help it. I was quite scared.

Just as the needle made contact with my arm, however, someone suddenly yelled, "Hey everyone! I'm back!"

Cue the whole room going silent as everyone looked up towards the direction the voice came from.

"What?" the voice asked.

"Oh nothing," I heard one of the nurses say. "It's just that we were just about to begin a procedure with this Cyndaquil when you came busting in and yelling your fool hardy head off."

"Well, um, excuse me," the newcomer said. "Forgive me if, um, I wanted to, um, say hi to everyone. After all, I have been gone for an entire, um, month."

"And we're so happy to have you back," the same nurse said.

"Nurse Ark!" yelled Nurse Chansey. "Where are your manners?"

"Right outside," Nurse Ark replied. "I'm very serious when it comes to operating on a patient."

"Speaking of patients, um, who would this be?" I heard the newcomer asked.

"None of your concern, Um," Nurse Ark said rudely.

"I'm part of this hospital as much as you are, Ekans," I heard the newcomer, Um, say.

"It's Ark to you," Nurse Ark hissed.

"Could you two do this later?" I heard another nurse say, though a bit softly. "We really need to help this patient here and standing around talking isn't what we're really supposed to be doing."

"Nurse El is right," Nurse Chansey said. "We should be working upon this Cyndaquil."

"Could I take a look?" Um asked. "I mean could I, um, help. I'd like to get a chance to operate on a patient, being that I'm, um, back and all."

A frustrated sigh was heard, followed by several moments of silence before an answer was made.

"Oh all right," said Nurse Ark. "I suppose we could."

"Thank you!" Um said.

I remained lying in my position, daring not to move. Suddenly, by my feet, at first I saw nothing, but then I saw a pair of red eyes gleaming at me. My heart began to pound again, thinking that this was some sort of demon coming to do more damage than healing it.

I stared wide-eyed at the red eyed pokemon, wondering what was going to happen when he suddenly turned away. It was then I saw yellow rings glowing upon a black creature, one I've never seen before.

I watched him with curiosity now, wondering what kind of pokemon this was. I haven't seen many pokemon within my home. So this was sort of a new experience to me. The pokemon stood in one spot and began reading out loud.

"Swollen throat, puffed eyes, burnt mouth, fractured right foot, smoke in lungs, and some other injuries," he said. "Mostly cuts and bruises and some burnt flesh." He then turned his attention to the other nurses. "I see you did the job of getting the smoke out."

"We just sucked it all up to clean the lungs and give it fresh air," Nurse El said. "And we were about to operate upon his foot."

"I see," Um said. "Let me feel."

I watched as Um walked over to me and stood on his hind legs. His paws touched my foot, yet no pain came. It felt like the cast was still on, but it really wasn't. In fact, I couldn't even feel his paws.

"Easy to fix," Um said. "You might want to give him something to bite down with. It's going to be quite painful and the last thing we want is to go deaf."

"And we were so hoping to avoid this kind of procedure," Nurse Ark said.

"It's easy," Um said. "I put the bone back into place and then I just use my healing abilities and, um, mend the fractured bone back together. It'll be like he never had a, um, fractured foot to begin with."

"And what of his other injuries?" Nurse Chansey asked.

"All the cuts, burns, and bruises will automatically, um, heal," Um replied. "His eyes will, um take a few days to settle back to normal and, um, if I'm lucky enough, his burnt mouth should, um, cool, I think. But I'll have to see what happens."

"All right," another nurse said, this one I recognized as the small gray pup I countered in the air box earlier. "You heard Um. Let's get this operation over and done with quickly."

All the nurses began walking around and gathering things up. Nurse Chansey walked up to me and pushed me back down gently upon the bed.

"Save your energy," she said. "And don't panic. Everything will be done like that. You may feel a little pain, but rest assure we'll work as fast as possible."

As she said this, I felt something being placed into my mouth. My arms were suddenly tied down to what I was lying on. I really wasn't liking what was going on. It made panic slowly start crawling out again.

I looked down at my feet to see Um standing there, his front paws on my fractured foot. He looked up at me and noticed my expression.

"There's nothing to, um, worry about," he said. "Your foot should be better in, um, three seconds. One, two-"

Suddenly, with a loud, sickening crack, I felt the bone move right back into place. The pain immediately shot through me. I screamed loudly at the top of my lungs, though I felt it muffled by the thing in my mouth. I thrashed about, unable to move due to me being stuck, tied down.

The pain was too much for me to handle. I would have rather faced the forest fire rather than deal with the pain. But suddenly, as soon as the pain came, it faded. It was like the pain never existed. Not only that, but I felt all my aching muscles and the injuries and burns heal up.

My swollen throat also seemed to be recovering as well. My mouth was starting to lose most of the burn from the Tomato Berry I ate. I felt like I was a new Cyndaquil again. A warm tingling feeling washed over me and I breathed in deep, laughing as I let all the air out.

"I can talk again!" I said, smiling. "I never felt my voice so clear."

All around me, clapping was heard and nice things were said about Um. I felt my arms were able to move again and I used them to sit up. I looked around at all the nurses who were smiling as well that I was healed. It felt great.

I hopped off whatever I was lying on and landed on my feet. I expected pain to shoot through me again and cause me to redo the whole thing, but it felt as good as new. Almost like it was never fractured in the first place.

"How do you feel?" asked Nurse Chansey.

"I feel wonderful!" I replied, smiling widely. "Thank you."

"Don't thank us," Nurse Chansey said. "Thank Nurse Um for doing it all. He used Wish to heal you immediately."

I turned to Um and bowed, saying, "Thank you, Nurse Um."

"You're quite, um, welcome," Um said. "And the nurse part isn't necessary."

"I guess I owe you for helping me now," I said.

"Nonsense," Um said. "It's what we nurses do. We expect nothing in return. Now come. I think you've had enough time being inside here. Let's get out to where it's much lighter."

"O.K.," I said, following him.

I thanked all the nurses once again as I walked behind Um and soon was back out in bright light and warm weather.