[Open] No, I'm serious, this really isn't Paris you guys.

[tearfulpartings]

Who: Elizabeth and Yooouuuu.
What: Falling out of the sky. Getting culture shocked. That sort of thing.
When: Sure why not the 21st. Can easily extend into the next few days, too :>
Where: School all over.
Warnings: N….o…

Earlier in the day, if you were paying attention you might have seen something drop out of the low cruising clouds. Did you? Maybe. Probably not. Was that a scream in the distance? No? Yeah, no.

(Except the answers were actually yes. Oops.)

Later though, one might notice a young lady that was not previously on campus before. If she was lost she was certainly not showing any signs of being bothered by it, running around and marvelling at…

… Everything. She was marvelling at everything. Even that leaf. Even that tree branch. Look at that lake. Look at that building. Look at that sky.

Look at you. Definitely you.

"Hello!"

[Should you like to action tag instead, please feel free! ♥]

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EARLY IN THE DAY FOR ONE SUNSHINE MORTIMER

[tearfulpartings]

Nononono this wasn't supposed to be happening! This wasn't supposed to be happening at all! Falling through the empty sky was shocking enough with the first Tear. Discovering that there was still only wind and sky whipping around her as she toppled through her second was just a bit of a let down. She couldn't help the slightly hysterical scream that bubbled up in her throat.

What surprised her was when she yelled for Booker, forgetting that the man wasn't there.

What surprised her almost as much was realizing that she was falling backwards this time. Flipping herself over to see the ground rush up to meet her probably wasn't the best of ideas, but maybe doing so would give her a chance for another plan.

Maybe there would just be something terribly convenient about where she was falling.

[punchtheflute]

Terribly convenient? Never. Terribly comfortable? Absolutely.

That same pristine blue sky that was causing Elizabeth no small amount of discontent currently had been all the indication in the world that Sonny Moe needed that it was now time to take a nap in the sunshine.

He'd been there about two hours already, his breath drawing in and out loudly as the world moved on around him. First years, unfamiliar with the slumbering Snorlax took detours on the way to classes to take a look. People who knew him but hadn't seen him in a while may have noticed the familiar roundness spread out on the grass in behind the classroom buildings. Birds landed on him, squirrels used him for shade in-between runs to and from their favorite trees.

He lay there immobile throughout - it takes a lot to wake a slumbering Snorlax, after all.

[tearfulpartings]

Oh my. What a terribly comfortable looking creature. She longed to pet it.

Except no she didn't what was thaaaaaaat. "WhooaaaAAA--!!"

The nice thing about this second tear was that it had not set her terribly high into the sky. High enough to be seen from a bit aways, and high enough that a collision with the ground would have hurt quite badly. In the world of potential wish fulfilment, big, soft bellies were much more ideal. Maybe.

Elizabeth landed tummy down on the soft pokemon, and all of his tiny woodland creature friends scattered. She had approximately .3 seconds to reflect on how warm and surprisingly-what was the word for it? Elastic?- it was before she bounced back up into the air. "A-AH... No no...!"

The second bounce launched her face first into the grass next to the Snorlax.

[punchtheflute]

Not terribly high was fairly lucky - She'd been quite high enough that her bodily impact was enough to wake even a slumbering Snorlax. (A woman falling from the sky and landing on you was definitely more of an impact than a ten year old running into you on a bike.)

Sonny gave a loud snort, his eyes opening as he registered the Thump-Bwoing of her not only landing on him, but bouncing off. He turned his head to see who it was.

"Laaaaax?"

Someone he didn't know at all. He really didn't mind people using his belly as a trampoline though he was sure that the proper etiquette required one ask first.

[tearfulpartings]

It took her a moment to realize that even though her most of her kind of hurt, she was still alive. Elizabeth groaned against the yard, trying to reclaim her bearings through the throb. The grass smelled like nothing she had ever encountered so close up before, and it tickled her nose. There wasn't enough time to appreciate it though, what with the deep and thunderous noise coming from nearby.

Elizabeth rolled over on to her side to push herself up, but froze as soon as she saw the creature that was looking at her. It was much, much bigger now that she was properly on the ground, and its teeth were quite large and she was staring at them because she hadn't noticed those before. Was... this... a... funny bear? Or a... Goodness what if it was a troll?

With her long hair in an awful mess all around her face and her eyes growing wide as dinner plates, she looked positively spooked. Throwing something at him probably wasn't a good idea? Should she run for it? She was afraid to take her eyes off of him for even a second.

[punchtheflute]

Sonny pushed himself up into a sitting position, stretching his arms up and outward and yawning very loudly. He knew he hadn't been asleep for more than a few hours, judging by the position of the sun. Back in his wild days, he would have been pretty angry at this unscheduled interruption to his precious nap time. However, that was a long time ago. Now, he was more curious than anything. He rubbed his eyes with his paws and blinked in her direction.

Boy. She sure looked scared. He had to wonder why - hadn't she meant to jump on him? Didn't she expect he was going to wake up?

He leaned forward, smiling widely and giving a little wave.

"Sno. Lax. Snorlaaaax."

Don't be scared, lady. I'm not going to hurt you!

[tearfulpartings]

Goodness, and what big teeth you have!

All the better to eat you with, my dear!

Such large teeth in such an impossibly large mouth in a toweringly huge... something. Elizabeth slowly started to draw herself backwards away from the Snorlax, not realizing that he was bearing her a friendly smile and not a demonstration of the might of his maw.

"I... I really don't think I would be very tasty," she attempted to reason, holding up a hand to wave in front of her discouragingly.

1/2

[punchtheflute]

Sonny had pretty much thought that went without saying. He didn't eat people, of course!

Well, his attempt at reassuring her seemed to be doing quite the opposite. This week had not been a good week for trying to politely reassure people. But she wasn't punching his nose or lobbing a chair at his head, and she didn't look like the sort who would necessarily do either one.

Chances were high this would go more smoothly if they were speaking the same language. He gave one last yawn and stretch...

2/2

[punchthedoritos]

...and then there was a POP noise.

He was still sitting in the grass, but he was now a Human boy. He looked to be approximately in his late teens or early twenties. He still had big teeth, but they were mostly hidden inside his big jaw now, and his messy hair and casual clothes were pretty standard for this day and age.

"Hi! Please don't be scared. My name is Sonny Moe and I promise, I wasn't going to eat you or hurt you or do anything bad. Even if you did wake me up by jumping on my stomach - I don't mind? But you should of asked first."

Re: 2/2

[tearfulpartings]

Had there been a chair, she might have considered pummeling him with it. It wasn't a stack of books, but it would have been suitable. Perhaps if he had looked more like a man, which he certainly did now.

Elizabeth stared. If her eyes could get any bigger they would have, but she was left with simply staring. Her mouth worked in a slight stammer, a stream of tiny surprise noises coming out of it. He was a shapeshifter?! This was too much. She stayed where she was, clutching her hand with its very small, thimble-wearing pinky to her chest as she processed what it was that had just happened.

Maybe she was not quite as alive or as awake as she thought she was.

"I... You.. A-are you real?"

[punchthedoritos]

"Hmm?"

That was a pretty weird question - he was here, wasn't he? He really couldn't give her much more concrete proof of realness than that, to his knowledge.

"I am, yes." he replied, looking at her quizzically. "I'm real, and so are you. I know I'm not dreaming because there's no pie."

...he generally dreamed in terms of whatever meal he intended to have after waking up.

[tearfulpartings]

"... No pie," she repeated dubiously.

That was different, and just about Out There enough to get Elizabeth to shake off some of her stupefaction. Slowly gaining a bit more confidence, she began to ease forward instead of back, closer to where the young man sat.

There wasn't anyone in Columbia who looked quite like he did. Then again, no one in Columbia used to be a large fuzzy thing.

Tentatively, she reached out to poke him on the knee.

[punchthedoritos]

"....that's my knee." Sonny replied to her touch, being as helpful as possible.

"...sooooo. My name is Sonny Moe. I'm a Snorlax. What's your name, Miss? Do you normally go to school here? Because I don't remember seeing you before but that might just be because I was away for a year."

[tearfulpartings]

That was his knee. It was as tangible and real as his large belly had been when she bounced off of it. And she had definitely bounced off it onto the very solid and real feeling ground. The earth? Was this the surface? She'd been so wrapped up in staring at Sonny that she hadn't taken a good look around yet, but the air felt different. The breeze was intermittent instead of the slight constant a moving sky city provided.

"It's Elizabeth," she answered, registering the conversation he was trying to have with her. Sonny Moe. That was his name, he had said it twice. She settled back on her knees, finally taking a brief look around them as she twiddle with the thimble on her finger.

There were very, very tall trees beyond them. The carpet of grass seemed never ending and it was somewhat overwhelming to look at- there was so much green! There were some buildings off in the distance, which must have been the...

"...There's a school here? I'm at a school?" Her attention was back on Sonny, and she was suddenly much more animated than she had been a few moments ago.

[punchthedoritos]

Sonny, of course, took all this stuff for granted on a daily basis. Why wouldn't there be trees and grass and wind and things? But the way she was looking around made him pretty aware that she looked... well. Kind of lost. And her question proved it.

"It's nice to meet you, Elizabeth! And yes, this is a school! It's called Smash Academy."

Sonny gave a grunt and shoved himself to his feet, dusting grass from his shorts and extending a hand to help her up.

"Would you like to look around? I can show you if you want?"

I request one (1) action tag please

[will_be_god]

Cyrus had the frequent habit of wandering around the grounds. Of course, he was always observing, learning more and more about the world, but it seemed aimless to those around him.

So to come across someone also taking everything in was quite a sight.

[tempus_fixit]

"Uh, Hi."

Look at that tree. Look at that girl with the BIG GLASSES, reading an equally BIG BOOK under said tree. Look at how she's staring at you, blinking.

"Haven't seen you around before. Are you a new student?"

[tearfulpartings]

Smash Academy. She had to wonder what kind of a place had a sort of name like that. It was just a small thought in the sea of her excitement however. It was a school. Elizabeth had learned so much from her books already, but she knew there was a wealth of knowledge that she was still missing, and so many experiences that came from learning amongst others that she never thought she would experience. The academies and universities mentioned in her texts were things to be envied.

Despite the fact that she still wasn't sure exactly who or what Sonny Moe was (what was a Snorlax???), Elizabeth only hesitated for a moment before she placed her hand in his offered one.

"Oh, yes, please! That would be fantastic."

She winced a bit as she got to her feet with his help. Undoubtedly she had probably gotten herself a few bruises. Nothing felt very broken at least, as far as she was able to tell.

[punchthedoritos]

"OK! You seem excited!" he said as he helped her to her feet. He did notice the wince, but thought better of asking about it - he'd wait and see if she had trouble walking.

"It's a pretty great place. There's plenty of food and great places to sleep. The classes are all really fun and there's so many nice people here to spend time with! You should enroll!"

He started walking, slowly, back towards the buildings at the heart of the school. He wasn't sure what to show her first, but, let's be honest with ourselves. It was probably the cafeteria.

[roses_are_blue]

Garry was feeling...well he didn't know. However at some point in time, Garry would've tried to start his art again.

How odd.

Under one of the trees, a Garry would be trying to snipe draw some Minccino that were resting after happily playing and trying to clean each other with their tails. It was unspeakably adorable. Thankfully he was catching them well onto his book.

Now what were you doing, Elizabeth?

[tearfulpartings]

Anything and everything, even the things she thought she knew.

Elizabeth knew what a vending machine was, and their function of providing convenient products to passerby. However, they were also pretty obnoxious and had animatronic sales vendors dancing on top spouting things about Valuuuueee!, so she was not entirely sure what this strange, glowing box with buttons was supposed to actually be. She was looking at it intently from the front, tapping a finger against her chin before she moved a few steps to peer at it from the side.

[tearfulpartings]

It was such a nice tree. And such big glasses! And what a big book!

Greetings out of the way, Elizabeth nosily crouched down to perhaps catch a glimpse of what the other girl was reading. Answers first, Elizabeth.

"Oh, no. At least I'm not yet, I'm still wondering if I can even enroll... Do you attend the lectures here?"

[will_be_god]

It was often that some newcomer would be confused with modern technology, coming from eras or worlds without such things. Cyrus's scientific side took over. "That device dispenses goods upon the insertion of money. I may explain the mechanical functions if you wish."

[tearfulpartings]

"You have no idea," she replied with a slight laugh.

There was a slight wobble to her step as she began to follow his lead. While it could have been somewhat attributed to her aches, mostly it was due to how soft the ground actually was! Solid, yes, and not nearly as delicate as the sandy beach had been, but it was surprisingly different from pavement. It was almost like a carpet.

It seemed a bit odd to highlight the places where one could sleep well, but she had just woken him up, hadn't she? Did he do a lot of sleeping...? S...nor...ing... Snorlax????

Yeah they were probably going straight to the cafeteria. Anything would have tickled her fancy though, judging by the excited way she was looking around at everything as they walked.

"I'd love to take a class but... oh, Mr. Moe, do you really think I'd be able to enroll? Are people allowed to just do that?"

[tempus_fixit]

"I sure do." She sets the book down, and Elizabeth can easily see the title now: Temporal Recursions in Single-continuum Dynamics: A Primer."

"Science and engineering, mostly. I'm an inventor and roboticist, and this place offers a treasure-trove of robotics technology that no other place can match!"