While Nicky and his friend Liam napped in the Nursery after their fun playdate, both Marsha and Angelina went to have a late lunch at a fast food restaurant called Rock Tunez Cafe. It was a place that served burgers, hotdogs, milkshakes, and other classic fast food meals. It was located in Striaton City next to a shopping mart called Pearl Mart, owned by a Grumpig. She lived in this city, with her school being Striaton Middle School. Her home was located in a suburban neighborhood that was twenty miles outside of city limits, but close enough for her to easily walk to the city and back home when she needed to.
At this moment, both interns were enjoying some burgers with cream soda milkshakes that they bought with their saved up pokédollars from doing chores before their internship. Both of them wanted money to spend in case they wanted to buy food, or spend some time at the mall shopping.
“I really love the milkshakes here… the best quality of all time!” said the snivy as she sipped on her milkshake.
“This fast-food place is in the top ten of popular fast food places in Unova!” said the female pikachu as she had a bite of her burger, watching as the juices flowed out with each chomp.
While they were enjoying their meal, the two overheard a loud conversation from over the phone. There was a female Lucario in a black tank top and blue jeans speaking with someone. During the conversation, the female pokémon mentioned something that was very important. Something about a pokémon Egg and Blisswood Orphanage.
“What about the egg? Oh… you want to know where I left it? It’s quite simple really… Blisswood Orphanage, it’s right outside the city. It’s out of our hands, now we don’t have to deal with raising a brat.” said the lucario. After hearing this part of the conversation, both interns were shocked. It was clear as day that this was the pokémon that left that yellow egg behind a few days ago, a sleazy deadbeat mother who wouldn’t commit to raising their own child.
Once they awoke from their state of shock, these two angrily marched over to the individual and stared at her angrily, saying in unison “Excuse me!” as the lady finished her phone call and put it back into her jean pocket. She looked at the two angry kids and said rudely “Whaddya kids want? I just got off the phone with my boyfriend, make it quick!”
“You idiot! You left a child behind before he was even born! He didn’t get to see who his true mother was! If you didn’t want to raise a child, then why did you even bother having one?!” shouted Angelina. Tears were coming from her eyes while she was angry.
“Imagine how he’ll feel once he hears the truth!” said Marsha.
“I don’t care, it was my kid and I do what I want. You snot-nosed kids should stay out of my business!” said the lucario as she huffed in anger. Both kids were in disbelief over the heartlessness of this adult pokémon. Marsha was thinking of hitting her with a lightning bolt, but that’d get her in trouble. Both interns heard footsteps coming from behind them as a female voice called out. “I’ll take care of things from here, head on home.”
The snivy and pikachu looked behind and nodded as they left the restaurant swiftly. It was a police officer, a well-known one by the name Jenny. She heard the whole conversation while she was having an off-duty lunch, and went over to investigate. The officer had been tracking the rise of abandoned children in the Unova region for quite some time. Lucario stared at the officer as she let out an annoyed groan.
“So… is it true you abandoned a child?” asked Officer Jenny.
“Yes, it was my right and my decision to do so. Why do you bother me with asking?” asked the female pokémon as she watched the police officer breath an angry sigh as she quickly grabbed some cuffs from her right pocket and immediately strapped them onto her paws. She was horiffied by what she witnessed.
“You’re under arrest for Child Abandonment and failing to properly put your child in an orphanage, according to section 13-B of the Unova Child Safety Act. You will serve five years in prison, and won’t be able to adopt any children for ten years due after the sentencing is done. In addition, you’ll be charged a fine of 5,000 pokèdollars. That should teach you to be a better parent next time!” said Officer Jenny.
The lucario didn’t mind the jail sentence, but when she heard about the enormous fine she had to pay… she immediately regretted her actions and became depressed. Believing it was all too much to handle for one person. While it was a lot to take on, she had done this to herself.
The Unova Child Safety Act was created on January 1st, 1991 due to the slow and dangerous rise of children being abandoned by their parents. With this act in place, any parents who abandoned their children without properly putting them into an orphanage or handing them over to the government for family reassignment would face severe consequences. Hoping that it’d decrease the rate of child abandonment. Even with this law, the issue continued over the next couple of years. But it wasn’t as bad.
The female pokémon pleaded to the Officer, “Please officer! I beg of you…! Don’t do this to me, don’t you know how I feel about all this?!” Officer Jenny shook her head in response. She had enough of this woman and shouted back at her angrily “How about the child you abandoned!? Do you think he’ll be happy when he hears the truth?!” as she took a deep breath in to calm herself down.
“No… he won’t be,” said the lucario. She was feeling the intense guilt from her actions, and regretted everything she had done. She could do nothing but accept the fate she is given.
“Exactly!” the officer exclaimed. “Now… you’ll be coming with me to fill out some paperwork and then you’ll be imprisoned shortly after.” as she grabbed the pokémon by the left shoulder and escorted her to the police car in the parking lot. The rest of the customers in the restaurant watched as the arrested individual was brought outside and then put into the back seats of the police vehicle. Watching it drive away shortly after.
“What orphanage did you drop him at?” Jenny asked the suspect.
“Blisswood Orphanage…” they replied.
“Thank you…” said the female officer as she called up the police station on her walkie talkie. “Officer Jenny here, calling Striaton City Police Station… I’ve got one suspect in tow: Female Lucario. Admitted to the crime of child abandonment. Please send an officer to Blisswood Orphanage to check on the latest orphan, over!” She’d wait ten seconds as she got a reply back from a male officer on the other side of the line.
“10-4 Officer Jenny, we’ll send someone over and also assign an escort to your latest prisoner,” said the male officer.
“Thank you, see you in ten minutes…” said Officer Jenny as she ended the call and put the walkie talkie back in her front pocket. She was saddened by what she heard today. She couldn’t imagine abandoning her own children and felt sympathetic towards all those poor children who didn’t have any guardians to raise them.
Back at Blisswood Orphanage, Nicholas and Liam were having fun doing finger painting in the Activities Room. It was a simple activity to do for the young pump. He was put into a booster seat so he could see the table. They were being watched by Miss Mabel and one other person, Synthia Pamel: She is the seamstress that makes all the clothing for the children that lived in the orphanage, and her fashion skills were second-to-none! The lady doesn’t mind working hard all day to craft articles of clothing, because she knows the kids appreciate what she does for them. She is currently thirty-four years old and has long black hair with green eyes. She also wore a light-pink business suit with a skirt.
“You’ve done a wonderful job crafting that onesie, it’s very adorable. Maybe you should make the pup a cloth diaper with his name on it. It’ll make him easier to find in case he gets lost.” said Miss Mabel as she chuckled to herself.
“Thank you, and actually… I’ve done that already. I have a rack of cloth diapers in the sewing room that have different girl and boy names sewn onto them. One of them has the name of ‘Nicholas’, and I am sure the colors will be fitting. I always make cloth diapers ahead of time” said Synthia. “That pup is certainly quite the infant for someone his age, a bit energetic perhaps?.”
“Yes, very much so. I’m sure you already heard about what happened outside near the playground today?” She asked Synthia.
“Indeed, it’s a good thing that Angelina and Marsha nabbed him in time before he ran off. He didn’t get injured, but he needed a diaper change.” She replied as she giggled.
Nicky was using his left paw to paint a circle, which was supposed to be the beach ball in the Activities Room. But he couldn’t quite get the colors down, but the pup was having fun regardless. The young squirtle looked at his painting and said “Not bad… that’s pretty close to my favorite beach ball. I am painting a house.” as they continued to do finger painting.
Inside the Staff Bedroom, Marsha and Angelina were talking to Miss Marin about what they discovered. The Staff Manager was very much saddened by the news.
“Poor dear… he’ll be very upset when he learns about how he was abandoned by his actual mother. He doesn’t know it yet. He thinks of you as his mother.” the audino said to Angelina.
“Shouldn’t we tell him the truth? I am not sure if he’d understand it at first…” asked the snivy in a concerned tone.
“He’ll have to know eventually… but it may take a bit to comprehend it.” said Marsha.
“I’ll tell him… I think I have an idea of doing this.” said Miss Marin.
The three began making their way over to the Activities Room when they stopped for a moment, they saw Lady Drevelle speaking with a police officer who was asking about their latest orphan, and talking about what he heard from Officer Jenny. They were curious about why a police officer was here at the orphanage.
“These three will show you to our latest orphan,” said Lady Drevelle as she headed back to her office upstairs. The male officer was a twenty-four year old man with green eyes. He’d say to the three “Good afternoon, can you show me where your latest orphan child is? I’ve been asked by Officer Jenny to check on his condition.”
“Sure, we’ll bring you to him. Nicholas is his name, but you can call him Nicky. He’s in the Activities Room with his friend.” said Miss Marin.
“Thank you so much.” said the officer as he followed them to the Activities Room. The group entered the room all at once, just as Liam was about to show Miss Mabel and Synthia what they painted. Both Nick and the young turtle were happy to see Angelina, Miss Marin, and Marsha. But were confused about the man that was with them. Both Synthia and Miss Mabel were rather concerned.
“What’s going on? Did something happen?” asked Synthia.
“I was asked to come check up on the latest orphan. Is that him over there?” asked the male officer as he gently pointed to Nicholas. The pup was confused when he was referred to as an orphan, because he didn’t know what it meant. But he was about to know soon enough.
“Yes, that’s him. He’s our newest addition to the orphanage,” said Miss Mabel as the man went over to examine him. The young pup titled his head to the left as he was looked over. After five minutes, the male police officer took a step back and said “He looks well cared for. Thank you for taking care of him. We have his deadbeat mother imprisoned.” Hearing all this made the infant even more confused, because he believed his mother was Angelina. Miss Marin went over to him and said in a sad tone, “We’ll explain this in the best way that we can.”
The audino went to grab some toys from the closet in the Activities Room, and placed them in front of Nick. There were six in total: a young girl doll, a lucario figurine, a small plastic house, a snivy figurine, a pikachu figurine, and then a small plastic pokémon egg toy. “This is what happened, the day we found you as an egg: your true mother left you by the entrance of the orphanage and then ran off.” as she controlled the lucario doll and made it drop off the egg by the plastic house that represented the orphanage, making it run away afterwards as she took the doll and put it on the floor. It was out of the scene. The pup made sure to pay attention since he was curious. While he was confused at first, he was slowly starting to get it. Angelina and Marsha joined in to help.
“Afterwards, me and Marsha gently picked you up and brought you to the Nursery. We wanted to make sure the egg wasn’t damaged.” said the snivy as the two interns took control of both the pikachu and snivy doll, and made them carry the egg away. “So you see Nickster… you’re an orphan. Your actual mother didn’t want to care for you, and she was imprisoned as a consequence.”
Once he heard the truth, it all eventually came to him within five minutes. The harsh reality of it all. That his actual mother left him behind. He slowly began to tear up as he whimpered, and that whimpering turned into a loud bawling as tears streamed down his cheeks. The grass snake picked him up and did her best to comfort him by gently rocking the pup in her arms.
“Shh….shhh… It’s going to be okay, little one. I’ll be your caretaker until you get adopted by someone. I’ll be a big sister of sorts. You can just call me Angie.” said Angelina.
“I am sorry little one… you deserve better in this world.” the male officer said to the pup as he slowly calmed down. Liam, who was watching everything, was stricken with sadness when he heard the whole story. It reminded him that his mother also abandoned him before he could hatch from his own egg.
Before the police officer left the building, he’d say to everyone in the room, “Please stay safe everyone, and keep all the children well cared for. While every child deserves a parent, not all parents are capable of raising a child. Unless they can truly love and care for them.” He then left the room and made his way to the police car he arrived in. Driving away ten minutes after. Marsha gently put the pup’s pacifier in his mouth, and watched as he fell asleep suckling on his pacifier.
After this was all over, Miss Marin went with Lady Drevelle to talk about all that had happened. The gothitelle would be at her computer, managing all the finances for the facility itself while the audino at the front of her desk.
“So… when will Nicholas be put on the Ready for Adoption List? I think it’ll be crucial to have him adopted as soon as possible.” She asked the owner.
“Haven’t had the time since I've been managing the finances. Besides, I doubt he’s ready for adoption. I’ve heard about the little adventure he got himself into from other staff. I told you he was a brat…just like the rest of the children. But if someone wants to adopt him, that’ll be great. One less kid to deal with.” said Lady Drevelle.
“He was just curious, that’s all. No harm came to anyone at all…” said Miss Marin. “I’d like to ask you to stop calling all the children here brats, it’s definitely undeserved!”
“They are brats, and they always will be. Asking for longer hours of play time, not liking the time table I have established, they are too needy to me.” said the gothitelle. The audino had enough of her negative attitude towards the children and got very angry. Her gentleness had faded away for this moment. Enough was enough.
“You should be fired for your unfriendliness towards the children, and your lack of care for Nick being abandoned by his own mother! All you care about is being paid by the government to house all these kids, you won’t even interact with them in the slightest. You just sit around in your office for the most part, managing all the financial work! You don’t deserve this position!” shouted the audino as she slammed her hands down on the desk, scattering papers everywhere. One of the items was an advertisement for a two-hundred fifty pokedollar vacation house in Undella Town. She’d pick up the photo and look at it, then put it back on the desk, along with the rest of the paperwork that was on the floor.
“How dare you…! Like I’ve said before… Being friendly is not a requirement for the position. My desire for orderliness got me this job, and I am not about to be mouthed off by a mid-wage Staff Manager that only manages the Staff Members that keep this place running. Be glad I don’t fire you… otherwise I’d have no one to manage the staff. You’re fortunate to have this job…” said Lady Drevelle as she watched the audino walk out of the room.
When the young pup was calm enough, he was brought back to the Nursery to be laid down to rest. It was quite a day for him, and he could really use the sleep. Angelina wiped any left-over tears with a small tissue. She quietly said to him, “I hope you get adopted in the following days. I’m sorry for what your previous mother did to you. You didn’t deserve that. I hope you’ll be set up on the adoption list soon enough, I don’t want you spending the rest of your life without parents. Goodnight Nickster…” as she turned off the light and left the room as she closed the door behind her. The night-light slowly switched on after it went dark as the young pup slept.
