The Joy of Motherhood: Part 3 of 3

Joy could hear her replacement reprimanding a trainer from outside the building. Finally, Jenny pulled up on her motorcycle surrounded by an army of angry trainers.

"I take it this is what you meant by 'if not before that.' If what these trainers say is accurate, then you were right to wait for me. There's no telling how she'd react when we got inside. I've already called for back-up, and they should arrive shortly."

They approach the door, and it opens automatically.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" Joy shouted.

The attendant quickly put on her Nurse Joy wig and tried to hide her scotch and cigarettes under the counter…but it was too late, especially since she had no place to extinguish the cigarette already in her mouth.

"Hello," she said in the world's least convincing Nurse Joy voice. "And welcome to the Pokemon Center-"

"CAN IT, BITCH! I've already seen how you treat pokemon," she said motioning to the Lombre with the cigarette burn. "I GUARANTEE you this is NOT what they taught you in nursing school, and it sure as hell not going to fly here either!"

"And I can guarantee the JUDGE won't be too impressed either – especially when we show him that the DNA from this cigarette is a match for THIS one," Jenny said swiping the cigarette from the attendant's mouth and putting it in a plastic bag.

Meanwhile in the dorms, Ash finally enters the room where Dawn and Brock are staying.

"Your shoulder looks wet," Dawn said.

"It'll dry," he shrugged.

"Pika-chu," it said jumping onto Ash's other shoulder.

"Glad to see you too, buddy."

"Hey, what's all that commotion downstairs?" Brock asked.

"Jenny and Joy are downstairs," Lotad's trainer said excitedly (he was popping into every room to share the news). "And they're arresting that mean lady at the counter."

"That sounds exciting doesn't it, Brock? Brock?"

"He was gone the second he heard the phrase 'Jenny and Joy,'" Ash said.

"Figures," Dawn sighed.

The two get to the bottom of the steps in time to see Croagunk drag its unconscious trainer away from Paul's "casually" outstretched foot.

They also found Paul leaning nonchalantly against the doorway; he quickly looks over at his rival, trying not to be noticed doing so by anyone else, but Ash failed to notice in amidst all the excitement of the moment.

"YOU CAN'T ARREST ME! I'M UNION!"

"You have the right to remain silent," Jenny said. "And I strongly suggest you do so."

As Joy sets out to help the trainers and their sick pokemon, Jenny's officers throw the attendant into the back of their patrol wagon. Jenny is about to shut the door when Paul stopped her.

"Not only are you the worst 'Nurse Joy' ever, but Reggie was five times the parent to me then you ever were. You are nothing more than a pathetic drunk, and I want you out of my life – forever! Shut the door," he said turning to walk away. "I'm sick of seeing her."

"Wow, that was harsh," Dawn said.

"Maybe," Ash said. "But sometimes you have to cut your losses, and move on."

"It won't be easy," Brock added. "But in time, he'll heal, and I wish him all the luck in doing so."

"He's come waaay too far to go back to where he was before."

"…And with any luck," Brock said almost wistfully. "He never will again..."