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Picarats 004 [ACCIDENTAL VIDEO/ACTION IN ROUTE 30]

[Somewhere on Route 30, there are sudden and loud sounds of twigs snapping and stones hitting one another. Panting could be heard and also loud, thunderous steps of someone in a panic. For those who decide to inspect the source of all this noise, they will happen to come across...the Professor?

The man ran around in circles in his area, frantically looking up and down, left and right. Sweat dripped down from his brow, but was it only from all that running?

For someone watching from the network, everything is from a ground view, but it isn't that hard to tell what's going on. Could the Professor's Pokegear been dropped to the floor and accidentally turned on? But what is going on? And what is with all that fog?]

CLAIRE! CLAIRE! ANSWER ME!!

[He suddenly dropped and got on his knees on the cold hard ground. No sooner, he was literally tearing everything away from his sight on the floor. He tossed aside every little piece of stone and twig in his area. This was the place he had his campfire last night, but now it was reduced to nothing but a bare dirt pile with ashes.

Gone was his proper attire and usual calm demeanor. His alternative outfit was wrinkled, dirtied, and was starting to tear from the way he dropped on his knees and ripped through anything that got in the way; glass, pop cans, scrap metal, and just everything. It was a miracle that his hat was still on, though barely. It hung low at an angle. The man looked almost nothing like the proper person he did the previous day.

Gone was his kind smiles and the faces he would make while thinking. What replaced it was fear. Fear as if he never felt before. It shook his whole body and he was on the verge of crying. Tears was pooling up and began to sting his eyes.

Whatever this nightmare he was experiencing, it was one hell of a bad one for him to be shaken up this badly. To make him act so unusual. And...who is this Claire?

The Professor got back up and ran ahead a few steps. He once again frantically looked around.]

CLAIRE! WHERE ARE YOU?

[He pushed aside a large log in his way and began to tear apart another pile of dead twigs that someone or something once used as a campfire. He threw them all away and began to dig into the hard soil of the Earth, his once smooth fingers becoming rough and filled with cuts.

He didn't care. They could take his hands away if they wanted to. He needed to find her. He needed to find Claire. She was calling out his name and she--! She was--!

The Professor stopped digging after a minute. He got up and ran to another area a few steps away only to repeat the process; kept digging until he he couldn't go deeper, then move on.

By his fifth spot, he stayed there on his knees and dug deeper than ever. This was the longest he stayed in one location. This had to be it! This had to be where she was! He'll get her out of all these beams, tiles, lamps, just all this rubble that seemed to come out of nowhere, and they'll go back to their normal days of going out to dinner and exchanging gifts. They'll go back to their normals days of speaking of their future plans and small talk. They'll go back to their normal days of where they'll discuss the new puzzles he heard about and how his mentor, Andrew, was doing. They'll go back to all of that...

So he just keeps on digging...

...and digging...

...and digging... ]

(( OOC: It might be hard to figure out what's going on right now. To put it shortly, everything the Professor is seeing right now is destroyed buildings everywhere. A person named Claire is in these destroyed buildings...yeah...Not really spoilers other than who this Claire person may be. Not that big anyhow. ))

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[is dealing with her own nightmares, but those yells on the video are hard to ignore.]

Professor!

[The Professor is completely surprised when his gear suddenly gives off that loud "ping!" sound of a message. He frantically rushes over to pick it up, nearly tripping on the way.]

Miss Mouse! A-Are you alright?! There's rubble everywhere and everyone is screaming and--

[The Professor places a hand to his forehead as to calm himself down, but it's not working. Everything around him was tearing apart and even he couldn't keep up with all this.]

Rubble?

[but in her 'world', there is darkness, the castle being taken over... No, no, that was an illusion, she's in a forest! They have to keep it together!]

It's... it's not real, Professor! None of this is real!

"Not real"? But how is that possible? The smell, all this rubble here, the screaming--!

I... I know...

[She's hearing screams as well, and they're becoming impossible to ignore. She sniffles, wiping her eyes.]

B-But it's not real! We're stuck in nightmares!

[The Professor digs his hand further into his forehead. Everything isn't making sense right now! He tries taking a few deep breaths, but it doesn't help much.]

None of this is making any sense. Every puzzle has an answer...We just need to find it, but...What is going on here?

I... I don't know... All I know is that it's the fog... people are seeing things, hearing things, that aren't real!

[A choked sob at that, almost collapsing onto her knees]

I keep running away from it, but it won't stop...

We...We need to calm down. That is the first step to all this...

[He takes a few deep breaths and he actually has his once quickened and panicked breathing down to a more practical one. He's still panting like a mad man though, but not as much as before.]

Alright...when did this first happen? What happened to you first, Miss Mouse? When did all of this...madness start? Begin?

The other night, I... I had a nightmare, and when I woke up, there was fog everywhere... A-And then, this night... I tried to sleep, but the nightmare came back... But now I'm awake, and the nightmare still goes on! It won't leave me! It keeps going on and on!

[she's almost yelling, hysteric - how many times does she have to see her husband 'die' before this force is satisfied?]

[Everyone here is feeling just a bit hysterical. It takes a few minutes before the Professor replies. He moved back the spot he once was before he ran over to pick up his Pokegear.]

Miss Mouse! None of this is real. Just like you said. We...We need to calm down. Ignore everything that is happening, we need to take deep breaths, we need to calm down, we need to ignore everything, we need to calm down, we need to...

[The Professor grips tightly onto the grass around him. She was right. None of this is real...then why does he can he still hear her screaming out his name and that he can almost feel like this rubble he sees in front of him moving, shifting, having someone he knows under there?]

[she nods hard, tears dripping down off of her cheek. He's right - she has to listen, breathe calm, ignore. No matter how hard it is. Strong, strong, BE STRONG]

I-I'm sorry... I'm trying... We have to stick together! We all need to help each other! Or else... we'll just fall into darkness... I can't have this happen forever...

We need to contact the others as soon as possible...Get word out about this madness, before everyone takes on a much worse turn.

[Though there are no certain guarantees that the Professor is in any condition to do so. He's still panic-stricken and just might fall back into hysterically digging, but for now, he needs to get to as many people as possible! Though his fingers can't stop twitching, itching to go back to finding Claire.]

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[Luke hasn't his own nightmare adventures yet, but he does know fog is creepy and he shouldn't stray to far from the Professor.

Except he wasn't expecting the Professor to flip out like this.]

Professor! Professor!! Professor!!

[Trying to get your attention but he doesn't know what to do to help. =<]

[All that the Professor sees far and wide in his area is destruction. Just rubble as far as the eye can see, and this Claire person is in one of them. He just can't calm down. This is the worst ever felt like. All these other people screaming around him and--

When a familiar face he knows comes around, the man gets up and runs on over. He seems so disorganized, so panic-filled.]

Luke?! Luke, are you alright?! Have you seen Flora? Head on over to Andrew's. I need to find Claire before--

[Those nightmares are really getting to his head. He can't even think properly right now. Everything is chaos around him.]

[Luke's pretty scared, but not because of what's going on in Layton's nightmare. It's because something's really upsetting the Professor and he doesn't know what to do.]

P-Professor, what's the matter?! Flora's back at home-

[Oh man, he's not sure what to do even. Try to reason? Run and get help? But leaving the Professor seems like an even worse idea-]

P-please try to calm down, we're still in-

[A brief pause as his eyes focus on Layton's hat. Did he see...

Nah, just his imagination.]

[The Professor is still frantically looking around, and he almost seems twitchy as in he wanted to run off and continue digging. Claire had to be in one of those piles.

He places one of his dirt-covered hands over his eyes, almost on the verge of just wanting to scream. Of all times, of all places, and of all people he had to be breaking down in front of. Wasn't he supposed to be the role model and the one that always kept his emotions in check? The one that kept calm even in the most panicked situations? The gentleman? Then why couldn't he do that now? Why? Why why why?]

Luke, just listen to me. This area isn't safe. I don't know how much more of these buildings are going to collapse. S-She's already in one of them, so hurry off!

B-but we're in a forest! There's no buildings around, Professor, honest!!

[And he swears he sees something weird going on with Layton's hat - a flash of teeth? It had to be the fog playing tricks on them...]

[Forest? What forest? There was nothing of the sort around him, but what was once London lying beneath his feet. It'll be hard to snap the Professor out of it after going through his nightmare once the night before and now living it out.]

There are no forests in London, Luke...There's none in London...There's nothing in London anymore!

London...isn't here anymore. She's not here anymore, Andrew's not here, Flora's not here, Remi's not here...!

[With his hands still pressed against his eyes, he doesn't take notice of Luke's own nightmare starting to unfold. Even if he did, he wouldn't notice it with his thoughts being a giant mess.]

Professor...

[A hand on his back. He's really not sure what to do to help. Did that weird fog do something to them? He's going to try to reason with him again. It's got to be better than just standing around and staring.]

We're not in London, Professor. Everyone's back home and safe, I promise!

[Of course, Luke hasn't quite notice his own nightmare starting to form.]

[The Professor swallows around that large lump in his throat, and then takes in some deep breaths. It clears his head just a bit. And Luke keeps on insisting on that they weren't in London, but a forest. Honestly, what does that all add up to?]

Re...Refresh my memory...If this isn't London...Where are we, my boy?

U-uh...

We're...we're in Johto. We were on our way to Violet City before getting caught up in that fog, remember?

[He hopes he remembers, at least he took some small comfort that the Professor had stopped yelling.]

[Johto Johto Johto...That sounded familiar...Wait, that was what this place was called, right? Even though he could see nothing, but a destroyed city, he was in Johto, right?]

Yes, we were heading towards Violet City...Then this fog rolled in and...

[That's when he started acting like this, experiencing that nightmare he had last night in the flesh, and still experiencing now. It was still hard to make out what was there and what wasn't, but at least his mind was still clearer.]

I...apologize for my previous behavior, Luke. I'm afraid that wasn't very gentleman-like of me...But you don't see all of this destruction? Nothing at all?

[Nod nod, Luke calms down...for now.]

It's all right, I'm just glad you're all right now. And all I see are a bunch of trees and weird fog and-

[And he just

freezes

completely.

Eyes locked onto Layton's hat.]

[The Professor looks around him, still struck with fear and panic, but not as much as before. Fear from both not knowing what's going on and that Claire was still buried somewhere under all that rubble, even if this was all a nightmare. Panic as to not understanding why he's the only one to see all this mass destruction and people screaming and running around in chaos and-- Hey...What's wrong with Luke?]

Is something wrong, Luke?