And a very, very, long walk it was... Luke and Travis were dragging the professor's unconscious (or dead) body to the nearest hospital from the snow tower. Actually, what I mean to say is "former snow tower"... Luke and Travis did not notice it, but the weather that the tower is named and renowned for had suddenly become warm. In fact, any evidence that there was ever any snowfall to begin with had melted and...

Luke interrupted me, "Wait a moment... WHAT?!" He turned his head towards the snow tower and noticed that it indeed had stopped snowing there.

I said that any evidence that there was ever any snowfall to begin with had melted and the ground and tower were completely dry. Anyways, as I was saying, Luke and Travis continued to drag the professor to the hospital with the snow tower behind them...

Luke interrupted me again, "Please, give me a moment. The snow tower isn't snowing anymore?! I didn't even notice earlier! Why did it stop snowing all of a sudden?"

We will get to that later, but for now, Luke and Travis continued to...

Luke interrupted me for a third time now, "No, I need the answer now!" The professor wanted to know... That's why we even came here, to solve this mystery. Please, if there's anything that I've missed, could you type it for us?"

No.

Luke got an angry tone in his voice, "Why not?"

If I typed the answer now, the ending would be completely spoiled and anticlimactic, that's why...

Luke's even more frustrated, "The Professah might be dying, and Travis had his eye plucked out! What more do we have to go through for the ending?! And please... stop narrating the way I'm talking..."

For Luke's question, I answer 'no'. You have not gone through enough, because as the author of this fanfic, only I can determine how long I want you people to suffer. Also, I will never stop narrating you!

"You're such a sadist!"

You're so whiny!

"The word 'whiny' doesn't even exist!"

You don't even exist!

Luke begins to point at the sky directly at me, "How dare you! I do exist, because I'm yelling at you right now! I'm the professah's apprentice!"

No, really... Everything you have experienced, endured, and remembered is created by a video game company and sold to consumers like me for money. You, Professor Layton, Travis, and everyone else you know exist solely for the entertainment of myself and anyone else who plays the games and reads this fanfic.

Luke's jaw dropped and tears started to form around his eyes... Travis, on the other hand, grew impatient with Luke, and lightly punched him in the shoulder, "Are you kidding me?"

Luke's attention turned to Travis, while Travis had an annoyed scowl on his face, minus an eye, "Kid, could you do me a favor? Quit making me carry 'top hat' by myself, and quit bitching at the narrator!"

Luke now began to argue with Travis, "Did you even hear what the narrator said about us?"

Travis nodded, "Why do you even care what the narrator thinks? He's probably some dumbass high school dropout living in his parent's basement and getting high with your equally dumbass duuuhuudes!"

W..what..? Now wait a second! I'm in college! I graduated high school in 2009! You... You're just a character! What makes you think you're better than me: the writer, narrator, and most importantly, the person that even written you in existence?

Travis countered my comment, "The fact that I have better things to do with my life than create a fanfiction based off of a video game series about a bunch of characters that, in your words, don't even exist..."

Uh...

Travis continued to make me look very stupid, "And to add to your un-matched wis-dahm, you created me to be a character that refuses to take any of your crap. That's your fault, not mine!"

Um...

Travis still continued to make me look stupid, "Aw, am I making you sad? Here's a way to make yourself feel better: make another "character", and force them to shove a stick up their ass, like the way you do in your life!"

But I-I don't... (runs away from the keyboard and starts sobbing)

Travis just rolled his eyes at me, and then signaled Luke to grab the professor's arm, "Are you ready now?"

Luke did grab the professor's arm again, but still was not fond of Travis's profanity, "Yes, but Travis? Would you mind not swearing so much? A true gentleman would never use such vulg..."

Travis interrupted him, "I do mind."

Luke just shook his head in disgust and continued to drag the professor's body to the hospital. During the long walk, the duo observed the surprisingly empty surroundings in the city. It was still afternoon, but there were no cars or citizens in sight. It was like everyone in existence just vanished! The duo dragged the professor around the corner of a building, and immediately realized just why there was nobody in sight... It was impossible to notice earlier, since there was a large set of buildings in the way, but just around it were a bunch of other buildings that had already collapsed! There were large potholes in the roads and the ground was cracked to the point that it was visible even from about fifty feet away! Worst of all, there were people in the wreckage! There were at least a couple dozen bodies and totaled automobiles littered along the ground among the wrecked buildings!

Luke's very posture shivered in fear, "W-what happened?"

Travis had lost some of his pride from earlier immediately, "The place looks like a warzone..."

Travis pointed to the ruined part of town, "The hospital... It's not over there, right?"

Luke silently nodded with a frown on his face.

The duo continued to drag the professor to the hospital, but at a much quicker pace than before. During the time it took them to get to the hospital, more buildings had started to collapse right around them! It was as if the buildings were trying to crush the group to death. The duo started running, while dragging the professor's body, despite being slowed down by the weight.

Luke was breathing heavily while running, "Why (huff) is this (huff) happening to us?"

Travis was also breathing heavily, "You (huff) already said it. (huff) The author's (huff) a sadist..."

This ridiculous chase between the group and falling buildings lasted for about a half hour! Normally, the hospital would have been about four hours away, but the lack of people in the streets meant no traffic. Obviously, that doesn't mean much when walking on foot, but since the streets were practically empty, aside from various pieces of wreckage and dead bodies, there was no waiting for streetlights or having to cross white dotted lines on the road.

At the end of this chase was... what was left of the hospital. The hospital, like most of the other buildings in the area, was destroyed by... well, we don't know what yet.

Luke practically screamed at the top of his lungs, "FLORA!"

That was the same hospital that Flora was left in after the injuries on her face... This panic had actually given Luke strength, since was dragged the professor so quickly, and with such fervor, that he was actually dragging Travis along the ground too!

Travis was literally bouncing on the pavement while hanging on the professor's limbs in a comical fashion, "Ow, this really hur... Ow, slow dow... Ow..."

Luke ignored Travis's pitiful attempts to slow down, and dashed as fast as possible toward the wrecked hospital. Upon getting closer, Luke could see what looked like several medical staff members and ambulances followed by about a hundred injured people lying on sleeping mats.

One of the medical staff had immediately called out to everyone else, "Look! We've got a couple more survivors!"

Luke was finally able to stop dashing for a moment and fell to the ground, where the medical staff would pick him, the professor, and Travis off of the ground.

The medical staff had immediately fitted the trio in what rudimentary supplies they had left, which was basically a sleeping bag and some medicine. As you should already know, Luke was mostly uninjured, but was exhausted from all of the running. The professor was still out cold, and his body was very stiff. Travis had the worst injuries, mostly because of his missing eye.

Since the medical team consisted of mostly human doctors, they did not immediately know what to do about a panda...

After a moment of confusion between them, Travis just blatantly spoke up, "Just tranq me, OK? You can figure out the surgical crap later..."

The doctors had never seen a talking panda before, "It can talk?"

Travis just responded in disgust, mostly because of the very long ordeal that he endured, "Oh... Shut up..."

For the record, I really do go to college, and I'm not a high school dropout... Also, I didn't really sob... I get the feeling that I put too much humor in this otherwise serious chapter, but in a situation like this, most people would just wonder why this was happening to them to the point that they would be hallucinating some kind of deity figure... In this case, I just made this a fourth-wall breaking chapter. No permits are necessary this time! This is a perfect read for April Fool's, but this really is part of the fic. As always, feel free to review!