[video]

[for_truth]

[A video post pops up on the network with a cellphone-y aspect ratio. The girl in charge of the camera has it way too close to her face before she pulls it back and starts talking at about a mile a minute.]

Heyyyy, it works! Good, I'm totally starving. Uh... I guess my info's still good cuz I got wi-fi, no problemo, but s'that really the date? I coulda sworn it was last year, like, 5 minutes ago. I was on a plane to Kalos and I walked outta the bathroom and now I'm here? Howzzat work, anyway? I mean, like, I'm stoked to be back and stuff but I tried FOREVER to get back last year'n I couldn't! It was the pits, and...

And I'm stuck. In a... I think it's a closet? Lotsa brooms. I dunno how I even got here but the door won't open and man, I was like 10 minutes away from my in-flight meal. I could eat, like... Somethin' that eats a lot. I hope I don't gotta sleep in here. I tried bustin' the door open but I don't wanna trash it cuz that's gotta be a detention or somethin'. Someone's gotta have a key. Right? ...Right?

Uh, thanks! If you see this and you can help a girl out! Umm... P.S., what's on the menu? If the cafeteria is still in the same place I'm there. Peace out!

Comments

[video]

[jonny_talbain]

[Ohhhhhhhh yeah. Jon remembered this girl. From that one time where he thought she was making a cake in the shape of a.... thing. That thing. Yeah. Forever ago she probably didn't remember. He did remember she was a trainer, though.]

Give me a few minutes to come and find you. Do me a favor and rap your knuckles consistently on the door. I'll be able to hear it and know which closet you're in that way.

[video]

[for_truth]

You got it, guy!

[When Hilda shuffles back over to the door her camera wobbles and flips to the side before she rights it again. Oh, the joys of wearing your phone on your wrist... She's already knocking on the door when she starts talking again.]

Hey, you sound kinda familiar... Have I met'cha before, maybe?

[video]

[jonny_talbain]

Aye. We've crossed paths before. Some time ago when you were baking in the student kitchens.

[And Jon is just going to unplug his laptop and take it with him as he wanders from Teacher Dorm Land to The Land of Convenient Broom Closets.]

So, you've fallen victim to a space-time anomaly, it sounds like?

[video]

[for_truth]

Baking... Uh... Wuzzat... OH!! You're the Pokemon trainer guy! Joe? John?

I guess it was a space-time whatchamacallit, 'cuz when I got here the clock on my C-Gear jumped forward, like, a year! Wasn't even supposed to be gone in the first place, y'know? I went out on my bike one time and then I got lost and then I was in Unova for a couple'a weeks. Why're you askin', does it happen a lot? I don't really remember hearin' about it last time.

[atmyage]

You're stuck in a closet with no food!? We have to get you out before you starve!

[Don't you think that's a little dramatic, Ema?]

[for_truth]

I've only been stuck in here for a couple'a minutes! I got time. I think.

Uh... How long's it take for someone to starve...?

[atmyage]

I don't know. A day or two?

I think you'll be fine if it's only been a few minutes!

[for_truth]

Yeah, no sweat! It ain't gonna take that long for someone to unlock the door. Probably.

Oh, hey! You a student here?

[cowardlyjustice]

[Well hello there cutie.]

The exact intricate details are rather complicated and long for yours truly to quickly explain in a beat, unfortunately. [AKA He doesn't have the exact clue.] However I will say that it kind of happens, sorry about that.

[BUT WAIT.] Did'ya say you're in a closet?

[for_truth]

Oh... Uh... D'ya think you could explain it to me sometime maybe then when you got time? 'Cuz it's kinda a drag findin' out I been gone for so long.

And yeah? I didn't know it was a closet, I thought I was still on a plane!

[cowardlyjustice]

Like I said-- shit like that tends to happen, but more importantly, you need some help there? Like any idea which close y'might have landed?

[for_truth]

Uh, I dunno? I think I'll be outta here soon enough -- I ain't sure where I am but this stuff looks important for, like... Cleaning.

Hey, you been here for long? You know if the cafeteria's moved or anything?

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[mohawk_tomahawk]

[What was going on and who was this? In a closet, she said? That's...heavily concerning.]

You are trapped in a closet?

we all video

[for_truth]

I think the door's locked? I've only been stuck for a little while but I ain't gettin' it open from in here...

all of us

[mohawk_tomahawk]

And what did you say you saw? Brooms? Anything else?

[Connor had been locking up the janitor's closets ever since SOMEONE came in and turned one of them into a all day spa okay. If she was really magically stuck inside, that would be scary. Could anyone not lock their own rooms then anymore?]

[for_truth]

Least one mop, a lotta buckets... I saw, like, a TON of spray bottles on the shelf and a bunch of paper towels? Maybe it's toilet paper, I dunno, it looks like a lotta cleaning stuff.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Hey, I remember you! Hilda, right? Welcome back!

[for_truth]

Thanks! I'm thinkin' I missed a lot. Uh... Daisy, yeah? S'good to see ya!

[givemeyouranswerdo]

You too! We've got a lot to catch up on, I think!

[lightyearsaway]

You were in Kalos?

[for_truth]

I wanted to be! I was on a plane and everything but now I'm here and I still dunno how that happened!

[lightyearsaway]

Oh, so...you didn't get to go. That's a shame, I hear the shopping is really great.

[deathboss]

Wait, you're sayin' I'm not the only one who showed up a year later?

Do you still need help with that closet?

[for_truth]

No? ...Yes...? I dunno? Didja magically teleport here when you were tryin'a get somewhere else too?

I think I got the closet thing covered, but thanks!

[deathboss]

Nah, I went to the city to shop for melons, and when I came back it was a year later! Have the people I knew were gone or graduated...

Good. Figured someone would have gotten to you by now.