towerofanimus | The Melody of The Sea is now Silent

Characters: Jasmine and you!
Setting: Dorm floors, cafeteria, and floor twenty-five.
Format: Staring with prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: Jasmine wakes up in the Tower and tries to deal with the fact that everyone she knows and loves is dead.
Warnings: None that I can think of!

When Jasmine woke up and found herself in an unfamiliar room and in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar nightgown, she was more than a little worried. Who had kidnapped her? Team Rocket? And why? Looking around, she saw a couple of letters on her nightstand, and while they were a bit informative, Jasmine had a very hard time swallowing it. Joto destroyed? Amphy dead? Olivine no more? All her friends and family dead? Jasmine sighed and bit her lip. In such times, she had to be strong. She hadn't gotten to be a Gym Leader by weeping at every cricis that happened along. She had to figure out what exactly was going on here.

So, she got out of bed and opened up her trunk, hoping to find something useful..and did. She quickly changed into her clothes and did up her hair before gathering up the Pokeballs that were in the trunk. So, her friends hadn't died at all. At least..some of them hadn't. Quickly, she opened up one ball and pulled out her Magnemite, which called out to her. Smiling, she patted it on the head. "Don't worry..we'll figure this one out."

With that, she ran out into the hallway, looking for anyone that she could find, her Magnemite trailing behind her. As she ran, she held onto her other Pokeballs. She wanted to pull them out, but Steelix was rather large, and she didn't want to tire Skarmory, even though she was rather strong.

While the bowl of oatmeal the man had handed her was rather unappetizing, Jasmine was trying to make the best of it and eat it as quickly as possible. While she ate, her Magnemite flitted about, and her other two Pokeballs sat on the table. Even though they weren't out, Jasmine wouldn't leave her friends out of a meal.

After going down the stairs for awhile, Jasmine had finally found a floor large enough for Steelix. Smiling, she released the large Pokemon, and it called out rather loudly as it was let out. "Sorry..this place is a bit smaller than home." In response, it lowered it's head and Jasmine, smiling, patted the large Pokemon on the head. They were made out of Steel and tough, but that didn't mean she had to be tough when she didn't have to be. After all, they were her friends.

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"I don't know, but at least one of them seems to see all of us as personal test subjects." Morty chooses not to comment on how 'nice of them' it was, or indeed the fact that the person who wants to experiment on them is a raging psychopath, assuming Jasmine can figure those out for herself.

Sadly, Jasmine had no idea whether the person who did see them as test subjects was a psychopath, but she didn't think that the person who viewed them like that was a good person. While she thought, Magnemite settled down by her feet, wanting to keep close.

"But..why?"

Not wanting to repeat himself, Morty just shook his head.

"I'm sorry."

Joto was destroyed. Olivine City was gone, and Amphy was dead..and while some people had been rescued, their rescuers weren't kind at all. Quite the opposite. Not one to cry easily-at least, not in front of others-Jasmine bit her lip and gripped her skirt even harder.

"I...see. How long have..you been here, Morty?"

Well isn't that just a loaded question. Until now Morty had been giving nondescript answers to anyone who asked, because it didn't do him any good to go parading around how long he had been sitting here in this cursed place. What was he trying to do, make himself better than everyone else for how long he'd been here? No. Morty didn't do that. But could he do something like that to Jasmine, who not only wanted to know how long he'd endured this place but also how long it had been since either of them had seen their homeland? Slowly, Morty's hands went into his pockets, and his gaze slipped beyond Jasmine and the entire meadow floor. It wasn't a vision, fortunately, but it might as well have been. ~~Come to think of it, he hasn't been getting any visions at all...~~

...No.

That's not the point here.

He's not going to lie to Jasmine.

"I've been here," Morty said, taking a breath in between to calm himself, "three months."

Three months. For him, Joto had been destroyed three months. How could that be? If Joto was destroyed three months ago, she would have noticed! She would have died..and there was no way she could be here if she was dead. After all..they weren't ghosts or anything, right? Gripping her dress tighter, Jasmine sighed, trying to remain calm.

"Morty..how can that be?! I..remember being..in Joto three months ago. We're..not ghosts, so..how can that be? And..have you found..any way to..stop these people?"

Time shenanigans, my dear Watson. (And besides, if they were actually ghosts Morty would know, and also be in a considerably better mood. Because Johto's gone? Ok, well, that's not so cool, BUT LOOK HE'S A GHOST!!!)

"Jasmine, calm down. ... They don't work linearly, as far as I can tell." He sighs and settles in for a difficult explanation of what he's gathered about how the universe works, assisted by various hand gestures. "Imagine the universe's life as a timeline. A singular line with points on it for every occurrence. What would happen with an, ahem, normal apocalypse is that there would be a point on the timeline marked 'End of the World', and everything past that would be destroyed. Therefore, no one past that point in the timeline can be taken to this Tower. However, what I think happened is that the entire timeline was destroyed at once, meaning that they had to pull different people from whatever point in time they could before the entire structure had fallen apart."

This has been Universal Science with the most religious man in Johto.

Sadly, while Jasmine understood how technology worked, it, along with some sciences, weren't up to par with what the Tower held. However, she wasn't stupid, and she did understand Morty's explanation. She silently nodded, and it took her a few minutes to stop fidgeting while she processed it, but she did understand it.

"So..we're from..different points in the timeline. I wonder how far apart we are, time-wise?"

"What was the last thing that happened to you before you came here, Jasmine?" If it was major enough, they could easily determine their respective places in the timeline. Morty himself had just had his butt soundly whooped by Hibiki in the Pokémon World Tournament...

Sadly, Jasmine's point on the timeline was well before that. "Um..the boy who got medicine for Amphy beat me and received my Gym Badge."

He... remembers that, vaguely. Yeah. That was... yeah. "So you had just met Hibiki? Then that means..."

oh.

"It would seem I'm a few years ahead of you, Jasmine.]

"Oh..I see. What has happened in your timeline then?"

"The boy you met went on to become Johto League Champion. I continued to run the Gym, and then left for Unova for a short while, to compete in a tournament upon invitation from the tournament organizer." He only had half of his team in the Tower from that match. "Afterwards, before I even returned home, I woke up here."

Well..Jasmine hadn't expected any of that, but it was still pretty amazing. However, she did have one question to ask.

"I see..that's rather amazing..but what's Unova? A new region?"

"Yes. Johto-Kanto established contact with Unova shortly after Hibiki became Champion."

"Oh..that would make sense. What..was the region like?"

Morty sighed, remembering. It was all so... weird. "The region was very modern... the average city there was closer to the level of Goldenrod than anything else."

It was hard to imagine a region completely like Goldenrod..but it must have been nice, even if Jasmine did prefer Olivine City.

"I see..that must have been a rather nice place..to visit."

"To visit, yes. But I never could have stayed there." He would miss Ecruteak and the rest of Johto too much, of course.

And Jasmine actually managed a smile at that.

"Of course..you would have missed Joto and Ecruteak. And..the people there..would have missed you."

"They did. We were all very grateful when I returned, though I enjoyed the trip very much."

But this time, of course... there is no return trip. Ha?

"I see..I'm glad that everyone..was doing well there then."

There wouldn't be any return trip here though. After all, what could one return to when their world was destroyed?

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