Alice sighed as she wiped her brow, her hands aching lightly but still steady. She smiled warmly at the small little creature that she had aided, its long snout twitching as it sniffed her and licked her hand. The nearby Turian looked at the small creature with caution, his eyes never leaving it as I helped it outside the building. I couldn't blame him, the reputation for mischief these little ones seemed to have gained reminded her greatly of the Aipoms of her home region. Her heart panged at the reminder of her home, she didn't think she would miss Sinnoh so quickly, but perhaps Tuchanka was simply too different.
Instead of Snow capped mountains, beautiful blue oceans and lakes, and the crisp feeling of cold mountain air; she woke every morning to smoldering heat, the smell of acrid desert and dry sand, and what vegetation did exist were as menacing as a Victreebel and just as dangerous. She could almost laugh at her situation, she didn't have the drive to be a trainer, she didn't have the mindset for the grind and travel, so she joined Medical School to become a Pokemon Center nurse. Despite all of that she somehow found herself not just out of Sinnoh, but on a whole other planet entirely.
I was drawn from my musings when a young man, wearing the symbol of Team Skull, came bounding down the hall. "Nurse Joy, Nurse Joy, do you have any more of those snacks for Dark types, my Mightyena really liked them." I smiled at his enthusiasm and reached into the customary pink apron of the Pokemon Center nurses and pulled out a small bottle. He smiled and took it, before running off waving behind him.
My Turian guard looked at me in confusion before clearing his throat, "Sorry if this is personal Ms, but I thought your name was Alice West, but I've heard you and your colleagues be referred to as 'Nurse Joy'." I smiled at him and beckoned him to follow me as I did my rounds in the makeshift hospital.
"It's a title with an important history to it, our people had a really big war going on that brought nearly all the regions into it." I said as I began l applying a potion spray to an injured Vaporeon, "A woman native to Sinnoh went to the frontlines of the war, she wasn't a battler truly, but she was an extremely talented healer." I smiled and offered the Vaporeon a treat that it took gleefully and turned to the Turian.
"She healed everyone she came across, in her makeshift hospital everyone was welcome, it was there where the overtures of peace truly began, when the soldiers of Kanto and Unova talked not as enemies but as people." I smiled with a sense of pride, "After the war she returned to Sinnoh, but the soldiers she helped never forgot her and in time she gained medals of service from all the regions and the healers that followed in her footsteps adopted her name as a title: Nurse Joys."
I smiled as I remembered receiving my Nursing License, and my partner Chansey. "It's in part a way to honor her, and a way to remember the creed she embodied, that all the Nurse Joys embody: We see no battlelines, there are no enemies among the wounded and dying, we are the symbols of hope and mercy to the lame, destitute, and sickly." She smirked at the Turian, "We take this seriously, Galarian Nurses had a mini rebellion against the Macro Cosmos Corporation when they tried to monetize Pokemon Centers." She laughed at the situation, Galarian was the laughing stock of the regions for a good while after that blunder
The Turian looked at me in a sense of awe, "She sounds like she would have made a great Turian, that sense of duty to her people would have seen her climb high in the ranks, I hope your order can find a home amongst my people one day." I smiled at him kindly, considering the fact that the Turians would at some point integrate with Pokemon it was very likely that some of them would be trained as Nurses Joys.
I frowned when I saw a Chansey running to me, its face distressed. I activated my rotom-phone as the Chansey spoke quickly, the robotic voice soon translating: "Trouble at the gates Ms, requires a Joy, please hurry!". I nodded and ran to the front entrance, followed closely by a couple other nurses and Turians. The sight that graced me was Humans and A few Salarians having a standoff while a Krogan stood behind the humans in distress.
"What is this madness, this is a hospital!" I yelled in anger at the soldiers, the Humans had the decency to look abashed but the Salarians still seemed rather up in arms. I turned to the highest ranked trainer, "Report soldier."
He stood at attention, his eyes fixed on me but his hand never leaving the pokeball at his waist, "Nurse Joy, a Krogan woman came to the compound distressed asking for help, her child is dying ma'am." my blood grew cold and I looked at the woman who seemed to grow more distressed by the second.
"Kevin, prepare a room for the mother and her child, Liza you gather a number of potions." I barked to my fellow nurses who went to their assigned task, I turned to the Salarians who looked at me affronted, "You will stand down."
One Salarians bristled at the order, "We are not-" the Salarians was met by the challenging growl of a Houndoom and he stuttered, "Th-the Union won't stand for this!" I brushed past them, walking to the Krogan mother and child.
"Come, you will find sanctuary here, the Joys will care for you now."