Pokemon Daycare!
Team Rocket vs. Team Candy!
By: Cutegirlmayra (Oh, I do oh so love doing these lovely get togethers like this! Let's all enjoy yet another wonderful story time visit, shall we?)
Candy, having a day off for once in a blue moon, was walking around with the baby-carrier strapped onto herself. Within it, it held one of the original four eggs that had come to the daycare. Having realized the two eggs that haven't hatched yet had been seriously neglected by the kids, mostly cause the eggs didn't really do anything and the kids liked the moving pokemon instead of the ones that hadn't really come out yet, Candy took it upon herself to 'walk' each one individually, hoping to speed up the process that way.
As she did some mundane chores like grocery shopping, she would stick flyers around the place too, hoping to stir up some more parents into letting their kids attend the wonderful daycare service they provided.
However, with all the strange things happening at the daycare, it's reputation became more on the lines of 'unsafe' than 'adventurous', as Candy would have rather it been advertised…
Still, nothing her daunt her hopes, and she happily skipped down the streets, humming a musical tune!
Two grunts kicked a can on the opposite side of the street, looking down and scowling, having on coats to hide their true identity, as a gust of wind blew a bit of the coat down on one of the man's shoulders.
The team rocket red 'R' showed for just a moment, as he shifted his eyes and pulled his coat back up, the chill of the city's air showing that fall was coming to an end, and winter soon around the corner.
"I hate this place." One of the men stated, as he looked to the other grunt. "People here are tight with their pokeballs… and even tighter with their money." He spat on the ground, and 'tsk'd to the side of his mouth.
"They're to untrusting. We've gotta make it a big public spectacle in order to get anything back to HQ."
Suddenly, one of Candy's flyers that she had just recently stabled onto some wood, flew off its boards and skimmed over the graveled payment of the road.
Cars helped it soar under themselves with their rushing wind velocity, until finally it hit the side of one of the grunts legs.
"Eh? What's this?" the grunt leaned down, and pulled the paper out.
"Heeeey… maybe we don't have to be in plain sight! Lookie 'ere!"
Spreading the paper out, he showed his friend, holding it back from the gusty air of the streets, keeping it spread out wide and tight so he could read it.
"A daycare club?"
"Nah, man. It's a pokemon palooza! Think about it!" He jabbed his friend, leaning down, trying to get him riled up. "Daycares have eggs! We get them eggs, we get free pokemon! No need to beat the tameness of their former trainers out of 'em! These come with wide-eyed wonder, thinking you their master already! It's easy… we just walk in, take what we want after hours is all, and be out first thing in the morning! Bring a big bag!"
"Are you sure about this? It says that kids are involved… I don't think it's a normal daycare like you're thinkin' it is."
"Eh, you worry too much! 'Kids' is another word for baby pokemon. I'm sure of it! Let's get going! What's some old lady gonna do to stop us, eh? Easy pickings. Trust me."
The reluctant grunt shrugged, as the other one put an arm around him, jostling him up a bit, and looking back at the paper, holding it up in the wind and kissing it, "Eureka!"
With most the kids about to be picked up, Pearl was closing down for the night, yawning, and patting Jigglypuff on the head as she held her old fashion lamp out in front of her. "Another busy day for learning. Hmhm." She seemed to laugh slightly, very pleased with the days events, and the lessons learned.
"Now, we shall await the children's parents and-"
Suddenly, a large crash was heard from the east window.
"My word! The children!"
"Totodile!"
"Fear me! Use Night shade!"
"Who-" "Are-" The twins voices then spoke together, "YOU!?"
"Whha! I thought you said 'kids' was just for pokemon!"
"Just grab any eggs you can find and let's get out of 'ere! This guy's chompers are driving into me leg!"
"My eyes! This.. eerie feelin'… this is a pokemon move!"
"You scoundrels!"
"Ah! Ow! Ouch! Lady! Quit it with the cane and lamp-AH!"
"I got's one! Let's book it!"
"Turn the page already, I'm being tortured here!"
The sound of scurrying out the door and kids toys being flung at them was easily heard a mile away, as the Team Rocket Grunts ran for the high hills.
"You said easy! EASY!"
"I could have missed read the stupid paper, alright!? But we got some loot! Let's use it to our advantage!"
-ring ring-
"Ehem, hello?"
"IT'S DREADFUL! That poor pokemon!"
"W-woah, Miss Pearl? What's going on?"
"I've called the police, we've got insurance on the window, but the poor children are trembling! And the egg!"
Candy held the egg in her baby-carrier around her chest delicately…
"…What about an egg..?"
Candy ran like summer lightning to the daycare center, panting as she swung the door open, and saw Jigglypuff holding the young ones, still afraid.
"Officer?" she looked to Officer Jenny, who had just recently taken the last few notes of Pearl's report, she holding Totodile with some fabric from the grunt's black pants.
"Hmm.. it's not enough evidence… but it sounds an awful lot like Team Rocket."
The news sent a signal of fury and fear straight through Candy.
The last time she encountered them… they were much more organized in their crimes than attacking just a puny daycare center.
But she wouldn't put it passed them to hurt children, seeing as they did attack the aquarium where many, many families were that day…
Candy was determined to help the police find some clue on the culprit, and quickly stepped in. "Officer, I'd like to help with the investigation." She stood bravely, confident, before Officer Jenny gave her one look, and shook her head.
"I'm sorry, kid. But this is a grown-ups job. I know you want to help, but you have these kids and little pokemon to take care of." She placed a hand encouragingly on Candy's shoulder. "We're counting on you." She smiled.
The soft look shifted as she swiftly turned her attention to the door, where other policemen were gathering information on the crime.
"I want this perimeter double checked and secured for further investigation. I want every nook and cranny documented and every footfall of pressed grass recorded. We're gonna find these crooks before they find us!" she stomped out of the daycare, with dignity and piscine.
The twins watched Officer Jenny, admiring her from a far. They held onto one another, before just their hands and leaning to look out the door.
When the door closed by Miss Pearl with a gentle and quiet thank you, Candy turned around and grabbed the broom, angrily sweeping, but keeping her frustrations in.
She muttered, "The one day I have off… not even five minutes after my chores were done for the day.. that egg…"
She still had the egg strapped to her, as Miss Pearl put a hand to her shoulder.
"There, there, now child… we'll only pray for the best with that young egg… I'm sure the police will find the culprits soon."
"But it's Team Rocket!" Candy spun around, before realizing how harsh she sounded, and apologetically turned to her broom, gripping it with both hands now, and her shoulders bouncing as her head lowered, and tears began to form. "They… they're ruthless, Miss Pearl… they'll make the pokemon bad… bad trainers make bad pokemon… you told me it's because a trainer's heart is so closely knit the pokemon's right..? Well, didn't you?"
"Candy…"
The kids all looked sympathetically to her, even Miss Pearl, whose two pokemon were still very much in their pokeballs, having decided to give them a day off too…
The room was quiet with silent sobs… until…
The twins looked to each other, and nodded.
They looked to Candy and Miss Pearl, very certain of their next move.
"We know where they are."
"W-what?"
"Children…"
Candy and Miss Pearl turned around, as Tia and Mia stood bravely, and Tia smiled.
"We've foreseen through Totodile's fabric, still having traces of their life energy, where they are."
"If you head to the park, the egg's life energy is mixed loosely with their own…"
They continued to hold hands, before placing their hands on their heads, closing their eyes, and trying to get a good reading on what they were seeing.
"Circles… lots of tear-drop circles…" Tia stated.
"That's all we can make out." Mia finished, and they opened their eyes and lowered their hands from their heads.
"Hopefully," Tia began, before the two perked up, and smiled up to their beloved adults. "That helps!" they chimed as one.
"The park..?" Pearl blinked her eyes, as Candy looked determined to set out, holding a fist up and away from her, directly in front.
"Then that's where I'm going!"
"Candy! You simply can't go! How will you fight them once you get there? We should alert the police of this new finding." Pearl held up her hands, slightly, as if not fully stopping her either…
"Do you want to tell Officer Jenny that two 9 year olds just foresaw through their physic link where the egg-thief's are?" Candy gave her a knowing expression.
Tia and Mia looked at each other, their faces growing sorrowful, as they looked down.
"…I suppose you're right." Pearl looked down, disheartened, before fire burned in her eyes, and she tapped Candy with her cane. "Get going then! Don't forget what I, and the children, have taught you. Trust your pokemon, and get our egg back!"
"Will do! Right-o!" Candy took off, as Tia and Mia nodded, running to the side of Pearl.
"We foresee a great battle." Mia stated, and they both turned to Pearl, who gave them her full attention, turning it away from Candy's departure.
"Oh?"
"She will do great!" Tia beamed, and Pearl nodded.
"I dare hope so… after all!" she then looked up, showing pride in her weary eyes. "She is my apprentice…"
Candy bolted down the streets, and as she made it through the dirt roads of the forest, back at the daycare, Jigglypuff stood between the sisters, cutting their hand-link off to instead, hold their hands, as the girls were having trouble locating and finding Candy's energies.
Jigglypuff closed her eyes, "Jiigggg…" Physic power was evident in a pink aura around her, doubling their power, as suddenly the twins opened their mouths, amazed at what their mind's eye was picking up.
"IgglyWiggly, you're amazing!" reverting back to their loving nickname of ages past, Jigglypuff beamed with bright blush marks, overjoyed to hear her beloved friends use her darling nickname again.
"Jigglypuff! Jiggly!" she almost sang in her joy.
Candy bolted through the crossroads and intersections of the city, darting past bikers and sports runners with their pokemon, almost gliding over a car…
Wait a minute.
"Candy!" Will slammed on his breaks, as he saw her ninja it like a jumper's spread over the hood of his mail car, completely focused on the mission at hand…
And still having a baby-carrier holding the other egg in it.
She landed on the side of the car and blinked, before looking back over at him, still squatting down from her last endeavor. "Oh! Hi, Will! Long time no see! I'd love to chat, but I've got an egg to save!" she raced away, as Will had a faint blush line over his cheeks.
"She's something else… always something happening around her." He blinked in surprise, before pulling his Mail van to the side, and driving after her, trying to find out where she was headed.
"Hang on, Seamour! Gail!" he referred to his Pelipper and Kirlia.
"Pelipper!" Spreading his arms out wide, as if on a rollercoaster, the Pelipper allowed it's body to be moved with the turn like the car game 'jello' as Kirlia held on tightly to the dash board, being surprised by the sudden shift movement.
"Kirrrrllll!" she closed her eyes and used her physic power to make sure the packages in the back of the van didn't topple over and get damaged. In the back, packages with pink aura around them stood in mid-topple motion, being held their before the car straightened out from the immense left turn, before Gail, the Kirlia, sighed and relaxed back in her chair, the packages falling back into place.
"Candy! Hey! Wait for mmmeee!" he raced right there after her, parking his car and looking out the side of his doorless van to see the park. "Huh? What's she doing here..?"
Candy looked around, everyone's eyes were on the sky.
"…W-wh…Weeee-WOAH!"
Straight above her, spooking her a bit, were big air balloons, with pokemon waving below to their trainers.
One sign said, POKEMON AIR TRIPS! ONLY POKEMON MAY RACE!
She walked along the path, searching for her missing egg, when Will came up to her.
"What's going on? Why are we here?" he asked, looking around and hearing some trainers cheering with their hands cupped around their mouths to their pokemon, asking them about the view or if they're having fun.
"Remember folks! The lucky winner gets to win the mysterious Poke'Egg!" The announcer gestured to the egg, sitting on a fancy pillow. "For just a bit of your pocket change, you can have your pokemon soaring high in the sky! No wings required." He winked, "and race all around till arriving on the opposite end of the city! You'll have so much fun in the anticipation to see yours return first!"
"I've waited 25 minutes with this thing… the balloons go so fast… you'd think I'd have won by now." Someone stated, as Will looked confused by that statement.
"My Egg!" Candy peered closer at it, before pointing dramatically to it.
"Ah! A-are you sure? H-how can you tell?" Will was just a little skeptical, before Candy pulled out the egg in her baby-carrier.
"Because each egg has a different look to them! Look! Don't you remember the eggs you sent us?"
As she looked to him, he felt guilty a moment.
He scratched his head, having his mailman's hat move slightly, and look down at the ground in front of him, away from her gaze.
He had been so busy lately… he hadn't been able to stop by and hang out with Candy or Miss Pearl… especially the kids since the Christmas packages and letters started to fly in. He felt bad, and sighed.
"I'm afraid I can't recall much from those times…" he couldn't believe he was saying that… but he was going on a few hours of sleep a day, he felt somewhat justified in that.
"Well, it doesn't matter now, I suppose." Candy strapped the little egg back into its spot, and made sure it wasn't loose enough to fall out, doing some stretches to make sure.
"Right!" she moved both her arms out, ready to do this! "Let's get our egg back!"
"U-uh, how are you going to do that? And by the way, was it stolen or..?"
"Charge!" Candy sped through the crowds of people loosely dispersed in the area.
"H-hey! Wait for me! Can you at least clue me in on some of these things!?" he raced after her, panting as he did so, as he stopped to gesture for his pokemon to hurry up, and then ran after her again.
Seamour was carrying Gail on his back, as she sighed, seeing him take off again without them.
She puffed up her cheek, "Kirrrl..", worried about him, and lightly kicked with her heels on Seamour's side, like you would a horse, as he straightened out and flew faster and higher. "Pelipper!"
"Come one! Come all and-!"
"HEEEEYYY!"
"Hmm?" The announcer looked down, his shades glistening as his eyes moved away from the sunlight's direction.
"You stole my daycare egg!" Candy shouted out, and jumped onto the stage, "And I'm ready to get it back!"
"Grk… how do you..? Ehem, I'm sorry, little girl. I have no idea what you're-"
"Zip it, you Team Rocket Lackey! I want my baby egg back! And you're giving me this guy's brother right now!" She was referring to the egg in her baby-carrier, and pointed dramatically to the announcer.
"Shoot, our covers blown!" He muttered under his lips, as a mic went off under his disguise.
"BBZZTTT-Roger that! Distract! And I'll make sure the balloons get to HQ-! ACK!"
The grunt that was talking behind the stage was suddenly pulled out by his ear, as Kirlia walked him out into the open, and tossed his ear to the side so he'd fall to his knees, while she folded her arms.
"PEEEEEEELIPPER!" Seamour flew down next to them, having let Gail down, before raising his wings and peak dramatically…
Then slamming it down for a hard peck on his head, knocking him out momentarily.
"Ah! What on earth!? Another one!" Will spun around, seeing his pokemon. "Wow,… good work, guys." He was pleasantly surprised his pokemon had ratted him out.
Gail curtseyed with a cheeky wink, flipping her hair, as Pelipper continued his goofy cawing of his name.
"What's going on?"
"Where's are pokemon going then..?"
"I want Flabebe back!"
"Give me my Squirtle!"
"Sylveon!"
The crowd started an uproar, as the trainers raised their angry fists, demanding their pokemon back.
The knocked out grunt regained his consciousness, and after holding his head for a minute, saw the two pokemon distracted and leaped onto the stage.
When you ask where your pokemon are going…
We laugh and say it's none of your concern now~
Team Rocket is procuring the natural power of this world!
Surrender to us, or prepare to be knocked down in its course!
We. Are. Rocket!
Doing an odd, seemingly rehearsed, performance, the rocket grunts threw off their disguises and did some strange poses and trying to introduce themselves with a flare.
Candy just rolled her eyes, and took out a pokeball. "Will, call Officer Jenny! Tell them where we are, and about the balloons! Then call Miss Pearl, tell her everything's going to be alright!"
"Ohh… a feisty one."
"She ain't all that."
"Come on then, kiddo. Try and stop us!"
The grunts stood back to back, one clicking a button that was behind him in his other hand, and the balloons suddenly lost their colorful designs and looks to be replaced with black and the signature red 'R' symbol.
The crowd gasped, and frantically ran after the balloons, calling for their pokemon, who were trapped by cages that sprung up from the basket of the hot air balloons.
They all immediately cried out to their trainers, moving their hands through the cages and trying to reach for them, though, so awfully far away.
"Let's do this then!" The first grunt called out, smiling to the other, as they saw the blinking red light on the balloons antennas, showing the route to their HQ was already underway.
"Go! Ekans!"
"It's your time, Houndour!"
The two pokemon came out, a menacing look on their faces.
Candy looked so torn… these poor pokemon… were they once owned to loving trainers..? Were they turned evil by there no good, unloving, thieving new trainers?
"Candy! I'll fight too!" Will ran up, nodding to her, as Gail took a stand, looking positively repulsed by their wicked actions, and ready to deliver some justice!
Taking her arms, she crossed them, opening them up like a ballerina, before swiping them down into a powerful fighters stance.
"Alright… since this is a stage… I wonder…" Candy looked down at her new pokeball… "…Let's do this… Jokes…" Taking a deep breath, she knew she hadn't really formed a bond with this pokemon…
But seeing the Ekans and the Houndour… she wanted their hearts to connect, so that Jokes could be an amazing pokemon!
"Go! Jokes! I choose you! Let's connect our hearts with an unbreakable link!" It was cheesy, but cheesy was Candy's middle name!
"Zor!... Zor?" Jokes looked around, having taken the form of Munchlax, and tilted her big head. "Zor..?"
"We're taking out some egg thieves!" Candy excitedly put her hands up to her face, in fists, and her eyes sparkling, hoping to bond with her new pokemon!
"…Zor." As if 'pfft'ing her sentimental gibberish to the side, Jokes sat down and licked her Munchlax paw.
"Ah! J-…Jokes!"
"Haha! Too easy! Houndour! Use Ember!" The man called out, as the pokemon rushed forward and did so.
"Houndour!" The flame burst out as the Zorua looked up startled, and was blasted backwards, having her paw on fire now, and wiggling it around in burn.
"Ah! Burn on the first go!?" Candy exclaimed, holding her two long pieces of hair on the side of her faces down, biting her lip.
"Gail! Use Disarming voice!"
"KIRRRRLLLIIIAAA!" A sharp, vibrating noise pierced the other side of the stage, and caused the Ekans to shift its slithering neck back and forth, its eyes squinting close.
"Poison Jab!"
"Ah! Gail look out!"
Luckily, as the Ekans came forward, Gail jumped up, dodging the dangerous attack, and sweating just slightly, but her frown showed her bared teeth, and how she didn't want to be knocked out on the first go.
"Kirl!"
"Right! Use Confusion!"
Ekans shook it off, and tried for another poison jab. "Don't let it get you! Confusion!"
Kirlia pushed the Ekans away from getting close enough to land the attack by repelling it away with another confusion attack.
This time, it made Ekans confused, as it bashed it's head on the stage floor.
"NOO!" the grunt called out, putting his hands on his head. "In all my zubat training! I never thought I would have to have a pokemon confused!"
"Houndour! Use bite!"
The houndour reared it's head up, before charging and landing a good bite on the opposite arm that wasn't burning.
Zorua's disguise had already dropped, and so his bite was now directly around her back, as she flailed with both burn and this lasting bite, trying to get away.
"Zor! Zor!"
"Hang in there…" Candy was frozen, her fear took advantage of her, and she didn't know what her next move was…
Her hand trembled by her face, as her pointer finger went near her mouth, and her eyes shook and shrank in uncertainty…
She wanted to protect the egg… but right now, she needed to somehow protect Jokes!
'What do I do? I don't have a burn heal or potions… I'm… I'm doomed! Pokemon grow unfriendly when they faint because of you! I… I won't be able to stop her from this fate!'
In her self-doubt, she suddenly heard Will call out-
"Kirlia! Heal Pulse!"
Hey! She knew that move! She had heard it before!
Kirlia opened her arms out and wide over her head, as she raised her body upward, but didn't leave the ground.
The pink pulse flew with sparkling results, healing instantly, as Zorua let herself calm down in the jaws of the Houndour, whose eyes widened at seeing the healing.
She was still burned, but with renewed energy, she burst out of it's hold, kicking and using fury swipes.
"…I… I still have a shot." Candy rubbed her eyes, trying to stay calm and refocus herself as well. "Right, thanks! Will!" she shot him a thumbs up, and he smiled, glad he could help, as he went back to his own battle at hand.
"Jokes! Use-"
"Feint attack!"
"Hey… my turn! Dodge it!"
Zorua didn't dodge in time, but the dark move only pushed her back, and the damage wasn't so bad.
She twitched with the burn damage, but stood her ground.
"Dance around him! Use Foul Play!"
With a sinister grin, and not really caring what Candy is spitting out, Zorua did her quick steps and swift movements, dodging his Pursuits that were later called out, before taking him down with her speed and agile dancing.
"Now, finish him with a-"
"Go for another ember! Roast that thing alive!"
"Grr… I'M TALKING! Use Fury Swipes!"
"Ember!"
"Fury Swipes!"
"Ember!"
"I FREAKIN' AM TALKING HERE!"
As the trainers bickered, Houndour looked behind to his master, sweat-dropping, as he couldn't hear the commands over Candy's loud shouting.
Zorua, snickering at her opportunity, and only giving Candy half a mind anyway, leapt forward and fury swiped quite a few times, leaving him in the red.
"Just hit the darn thing!" the grunt finally called out, before he looked over and saw that Ekans had been throw down, and Kirlia's dainty foot lifted and landed on it's fainted body, before looking towards him, and giving off one heck of a death glare.
"Candy..?"
"I'm fine! Did you make the call!?"
"Oh!" Will took out his phone, quickly ringing as she had before instructed him too.
"Give it up, girly! It's only an egg!"
"And an entire flying squadron of stolen pokemon!"
"Oh yeah, I guess you're right. Almost forgot about them." He leaned back, smirking, as he placed his hands on his hips. "Come on, do you really care about all them? Tell ya what, if your friend stops the call, I'll give you the egg back, and then we can let this whole thing slide, don't ya think? Am I right?"
"If you think I'm that selfish, you're dead wrong!"
"Oh come on! You already got an egg!"
"One pokemon is not the same as the next! I won't trade up any soul over anothers!"
Zorua's heart sank, thinking of her trainer willingly trading her to some stranger… and not understanding why.
She lowered her head, now finicky as her thoughts turned from one thing to another.
Was she a failure to him? Was she not good enough? Was he annoyed with her?
The reason, and not knowing it, plagued her so much that she wondered if she would have still felt this way even if he did tell her why.
The Houndour took the opportunity to bite down again on Jokes, and wiggle her around a bit, before throwing her off to the side.
"Jokes!" Candy stepped out on the battlefield stage, before realizing that that would penalized her in a real pokemon battle.
"G..Grr… Jokes! Listen to me! You gotta keep going! You can do this! I know we don't know each other very well, but I know you're not a quitter! You want to have fun, right? I've seen you tease WAY BETTER than this at the daycare! Come on! Don't let him show you up!"
Don't let him show you up!
Jokes's eyes shot open from the ground.
It was as if Candy was saying to not let her former trainer's actions get the best of her.
She stood up, shakily, as she had took a lot of damage.
The burn inflicted her, and her hurt paw bent down, making her slightly kneel in her rage.
"Jokes!"
She lifted her head.
"ZOOORRRR!"
"That's the spirit."
Candy smiled, then nodded her head, getting back into the passion of battle!
"Finish it off with a Foul Play!"
With a final run, Jokes jumped up and slammed each paw into the Houndour's face, every which way, and then spun to kick both her paws out, continuing the on slaughter till the Houndour's face was down with swirls in his eyes, then… Jokes steps back, huffing and puffing in her exhaustion, before the burn took its toll and she fainted as well.
"Jokes!" Running out to her, the gunts began to move back.
"Yo, we need to fall back!" The grunts were about to take off, before Officer Jenny blocked their escape on the other side of the stage.
"And where do you think YOU TWO are going?"
The two grunts sweated in nervous fright, and looked to each other, before closing their eyes and giving goofy smiles to her. "…J-Jail?"
"Bingo. The only RIGHT thing you've got." She flicked her pointer finger up, and winked.
"Good work you two… even you, kid." Jenny nodded to Candy, and then looked to Will. "Hey… aren't you the mail guy?"
He blushed and scratched his head, lowering it slightly in a nod. "Y-…Yes ma'am."
"Huh…" she looked over the two. "A daycare attendant and a mail man… I guess heroes come from anywhere." She smiled more earnestly, before glaring back at the culprits being put in handcuffs. "Take them away, boys!"
Mia and Tia were relating the whole battle to the kids back at the daycare, as Miss Pearl danced with Jigglypuff, raising her legs up in her jolly jig as the kids cheered, hearing Candy had won!
Walking back to Will's car, Will sighed. "It's a shame they couldn't locate the signal of where those balloons were going.." He looked to Candy, who was now holding the other egg in her arm…
"….Wait… yes we do." Candy's head raised up, a smile forming across her lips.
"W-Wa-Wa-Wait, you do!?"
"Come with me!" Candy turned Will around, "Officer Jenny! You're not gonna believe this!"
Back at the daycare, Officer Jenny's arms were folded, seeing the Jigglypuff and the two kids holding each other's hands, and 'hmmm'ing in their concentration.
"You're right. I don't believe this." Officer Jenny admitted, before Candy gave her a 'please try' look and gestured to the kids.
"They're the reason I was able to find the Rocket Goons, miss… please, just-"
"Found them! All of them!" Tia spoke up, her sister following after her. "They've arrived in the junkyard, there's a man sweeping the ground and whistling, and the balloons! When they float overhead, he hits a button with his broom, hidden and out of sight, and they get lowered into a slate that opens up! They're secret hideout!"
"What?!" Officer Jenny flinched back. "We've been trying to find their hideout for months! You're telling me two 10 year old kids just did that!"
"9." Candy corrected.
"…No."
Miss Pearl stepped up, looking apologetically to Candy.
"…10."
"W-what..?"
Candy stepped back, and looked to Tia and Mia, who opened their eyes, also looking sad in their eyes, but smiling sheepishly.
"You mean… they…"
"Are at the age of departure… yes."
Pearl explained.
"B-..But.."
"They've already asked if they could keep Jigglypuff as their partner pokemon. I've given them my consent."
Candy's eyes started to tear up.
"Not you two too…"
They both were also tearing up.
"It's true." Mia began, before Tia continued, "We wanted to tell you sooner… but…"
"This is phenomenal! My men just reported back to me that they did in fact find a signal! And they've decrypted it to the junkyard! H-how!?"
She then knelt down to the kids, and removed her hat. "We'll of course ask your parents, but will you two come with me and tell me more about what you see?"
They each opened their mouths in shock, and then nodded happily.
"Absolutely!"
A few days later, the twins showed up back at the daycare. Catching Jigglypuff the right way, and then hugging Candy and the kids, saying goodbye.
"S-so… are you going on your journey's then?" Candy couldn't stop wiping the persistent tears away from her eyes.
"Actually… we've decided to join the police force." Mia held her head high, putting a hand to her hips, and then closing her eyes in a haughty way. "We're gonna be gorgeous! Just like Miss Jenny!"
"Momma works with daddy on finding out about supernatural things, so they said that being a Police Physic would just be using our powers in another good way. So instead of research and ghost stories, we're doing investigation and crime solving!" Tia excited exclaimed.
"Oh, but we can't actually go out in the field, we're too young for that, heh." Mia put a hand behind her head, showing she knew it wasn't all glamorous.
"Wow… looks like you two will be doing a lot of good in the world." Miss Pearl leaned down, as Nevermore, her murkrow, now out and about again, cawed his approval and nodded.
"I'm… so proud … and gonna… miss you two… so much… I'm sorry! I can't stop crying!" Candy burst out in tears, falling to her knees as Brandon and Cleo moved out of her way, Cleo giggling at her cute behavior and sign of love for the two, while Brandon simply asked if she was afraid she'll never see the other kids again.
"Hey, it's alright." Began Tia, reaching a hand out to her right shoulder.
"Yeah, if you didn't cry as much as you did with Jake, Lucario, and Combusken leaving… we'd be worried." Mia giggled, and put her hand on Candy's left shoulder.
"We want to say… we love you! Candy!" The twins stated in unison, as Jigglypuff popped out of her pokeball, jumping in the air and tackling Candy to the ground.
"JIGGLY!"
Everyone laughed, all but a quiet Cuddles, crying within his pokeball from Jigglypuff's departure. (He had a secret crush on her, lol!)
(Thank you! And please look forward to the next chapter/episode!)