(Closed) The Digimon Babysitters Club

[travelpants]

Who: Lena, Hikari, Lunamon, and Tailmon
What: Doing the Digimon Daycare Quest + Lena getting a job in Kangarumon’s nursery
When: Mid-early April
WHERE: Kangarumon’s nursery at Access City
WARNINGS: N/A for now, will update this if something comes up


It turns out that Sunflowmon’s recommendation to go to the Digimon nursery is actually a great idea for Lena to find a job in Access City. While she may have very little experience in teaching besides teaching arts and crafts at a summer camp, she does have the talent and more than enough art knowledge to earn an art teacher slot in the nursery.

What she and Lunamon didn’t expect upon arriving at the nursery is that there are way too many Baby I and Baby II Digimon who are beginning to hatch out of their eggs that the staff running it are hoping to find for any help they can get. Kangarumon has given the two of them a brief rundown so far and gives them the task to help her and her staff in feeding and taking care of the newly little Digimon; she says that she can hire Lena for the arts program teaching position in a little bit. One little baby Digimon decides to tug on her shoe’s shoelaces as if it was a teething toy, thankfully not going for the Pants so far.

“Okay, I didn’t expect these little ones to be this energetic today,” Lena observes the teething Digimon while she is currently rocking a crying Gummymon to sleep (which is not going well for her at the moment) as Lunamon tries to bottle feed a pair of Poyomon.

“Oh my, Lena-san! These Poyomon are very hungry and I haven’t gotten to the other milk bottles for the other baby Digimon just yet. I do hope that someone can help us in looking after these Digimon while Kangarumon is attending to a group of Pokomon at the moment,” Lunamon chimes in as she looks at the diminishing milk inside the bottles.

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[travelpants]

“Oh yes, I have a couple of them. Like how much of a danger Alias does pose to worlds outside of this?” Lena admits to Hikari while gently rocking the Gummymon a little more, which is getting the little one to slowly inching closer to sleep.

Lunamon is still pretty busy feeding the Petitmon at the moment, the little dragon-like baby Digimon are happily taking in the milk from the bottles. Despite the chaos that has happened a while ago, Lunamon is taking great joy in looking after the little baby Digimon very much. Was it because of her personality or maybe it was due to her not giving up that easily?

[thechosenslight]

Wow Lena going for one of the hard questions right away weren't you? "Honestly, I'm not really sure," Hikari says while still paying some attention to the Punimon in her arms. "If it really is linked to the distortions that are happening, then yeah, it's really bad for all of our worlds even if Alias itself can only affect Digimon. If the balance of the Digital World gets changed enough, it'll start affecting every other world out there."

And considering how close her own Digital World came to being in such a state multiple times, it wasn't something that she was going to let happen if she could help it.

Tailmon finally finishes feeding that last baby, and puts it down before going to clean up all the empty bottles. Or at least that was her plan. The various Botamon she had been feeding didn't seem to like that idea, and jumped on top of her instead. "Hey, stop it! I need to clean all this up first!"

[travelpants]

Oh dear, this might be a lot worse than she could’ve imagined. Lena could feel her heart wanting to drop from her chest as she cradles the Gummymon who is now on the verge of falling asleep in her arms. Nothing could disturb the little one that easily now even while the Botamon decide to gather around Tailmon.

Lunamon could also see that happening that she hops in to help Tailmon out with the crowd control once the Petitmon is finally full, “Oh my, please behave yourselves, Botamon! There is no need to rush things so quickly. The bottles don’t refill themselves fast enough.”

[thechosenslight]

Hikari notices that change in Lena's expression, moving the Punimon in her arms for a few moments before she spoke again. "Don't worry. There's a lot of us who've been brought here, and we'll be able to handle it. We always managed to."

At Lunamon's comment, Tailmon can't help but frown. "Oh, are they still hungry? I thought they decided it was time to play now." One of the Botamon let out some sort of gurgling sound before jumping right at Lunamon, which didn't actually give an answer on if the horde of babies want to play or wanted more food. Either way, the bottles still needed to be cleaned.

[travelpants]

“Oh my! This is getting out of hand. We need to clean up the bottles first before we can play with you, oof!” Lunamon barely got to inform the Botamon that she needs to clean up the bottles when the Botamon lands on her and begins to snuggle up to her as if she is a teddy bear.

“Oh, Lunamon? Are you going to be okay over there?” Lena checks in with her Digimon partner upon hearing the Botamon that is wanting to play with her.

“It’s a tad bit chaotic in here, I’m afraid. This one is a very eager little one,” Lunamon responds back while trying to get the Botamon to behave themselves.

[thechosenslight]

Yeah, sorry Lunamon. But tiny babies aren't really good at the whole 'listening on why you can't play' thing. Hikari's attention turns over to Lunamon though, and she giggles before putting the Punimon down on the floor. The Punimon let out a bit of a sad trilling noise, but it was only for a moment before it moved and bounced onto Tailmon. Which another couple of Botamon took as a cue to also jump on her.

"Hey, wait a second!"

Nope, more bouncing babies on top of her. It was a bit of a funny sight, actually. "Don't worry Tailmon. I'll take care of the bottles."

"But that's the easier-" Tailmon didn't get to finish that sentence because, well, more babies wanting attention. Hopefully Hikari would be able to get the bottles cleaned before the babies turned their attention back to her.

[travelpants]

“Well, these little one are full of energy, aren’t they?” Lena takes note as she gently puts the sleeping Gummymon onto its crib before attending to Lunamon and Tailmon who are getting surrounded by energetic little babies wanting to play with them.

The energy these little ones give off has reminded her a lot of Bridget in her best days. Even though the blond soccer player had lost her mom a while back, she doesn’t seem to let it get to her for the most part. Lunamon meanwhile just barely got her bearings back after she got play tackled by the Botamon moments ago.

[thechosenslight]

"Unfortunately, this is pretty typical," Tailmon muttered out now that she had someone to help her with the babies since her partner wasn't going to. "And Hikari wants to teach kindergarten, which means that by the time she finishes this'll be our life all the time."

Hikari giggles as she starts to clean one of the bottles. "It'll be fine."

"By the time you're done with school and we're teaching all the kid's back home are going to have digimon partners. And they'll probably be babies!"

Hikari turns her attention to Lena while she scrubs the bottle. "Well, anyway, she's right about this is a pretty typical level of energy for baby digimon."

[travelpants]

“That does explain a lot for sure,” Lunamon nods as she sees her partner coming to help her and Tailmon with wrangling the baby Digimon.

“So you have been learning to be a kindergarten teacher back home?” Lena asks Hikari while she is scooping up some of the babies with her arms and trying to cradle them to sleep or at least try to.

“It must be fascinating for the human youth to have partners of their own. Though I do wish that they will need to be careful in looking after them,” Lunamon adds as she turns her attention to the Botamon who was snuggling her and attempts to bring them back to the crib.

[thechosenslight]

"Well, that's the plan, anyway. I still haven't started most of the classes I need for it," Hikari admits while she's washing those bottles. "And yeah, I get why you're worried too. Young kids aren't really able to take care of baby digimon. But most people who have digimon partners where I'm from met them when they were kids. Just, not as young as kindergarten age."

"But more and more people are becoming partnered with Digimon," Tailmon said. "So it'll probably only be a matter of time before everyone has-"

Tailmon didn't have time to finish that sentence before another Botamon jumped up on her and tried to go for her ear.

[travelpants]

“Oh my, are you going to be alright, Tailmon?” Lunamon asks her while she tries to get the Botamon to calm down.

“Oh, so there are kids who are old enough to have Digimon partners and know what they are doing,” Lena curiously asks as she scoops up some of the Botamon and tries to rock them gently as she brings them to the cribs, sounds almost a lot like Takato and Guilmon to her.

[thechosenslight]

Tailmon frowned at what was happening, but well, it's not like the baby digimon were going to be able to actually hurt her. "I'm fine. Just... being a chew toy." At the very least, Lunamon's attempts and calming down the Botamon do seem to be doing something to help. At least with keeping more of them from jumping at her.

"Yeah. I mean, I met Tailmon when I was eight," Hikari said. "Though I was one of the younger ones at the time. And Tailmon was already Tailmon, so it's not like I had to figure out how to take care of a baby digimon at the time." Which was good, since they were a little preoccupied with the evil digimon trying to destroy the world and kill them.

[travelpants]

Thank goodness that the Botamon are starting to become less rowdy once Lunamon and Lena stepped in: the former keeping their energy in check and the latter putting them back to the cribs once they show signs of getting very sleepy. At least things are starting to slow down at the nursery on their end.

Lena quietly nods as she quietly tucks some of the sleepy Botamon back in the cribs and gently pat them on the heads. Meanwhile Lunamon’s efforts to curb the more hyper of the baby Digimon’s energy are starting to work well as many of them are starting to pay attention to her voice calming them down.