The Pickle Jar - Jaronart's Extended Plots/Stories

[attr="class","jarcainetitle"]The thorns of time

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[attr="class","jarcainetag2"]Caine Ingram

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Caine meets Roseanne by surprise. He is confused as she is supposed to be confined to the hospital. However, she explains that she is Roseanne from a different time, where Caine has fulfilled his goal of becoming the leader of Team Galactic and capturing the legendary pokemon Palkia and Dialga.[break][break]
Caine listens as she tells him that in the future, if he continues along this path to keep her alive, that the world will fall into chaos and create multiple timelines, which was never supposed to happen. In fact, this has already occurred, but she has travelled back in time to convince him to stop, therefore minimizing future damage. She does not tell Caine that her continued existence is at the cost of his own life.[break][break]
Caine does not know what to do. He wants Roseanne to remain alive, but if he stops, then it will mean certain death for her - or so he believes. In his naivete, he does not believe there is another outcome besides Roseanne dying or Roseanne living and thus bringing the world into chaos and disorder. But he cannot imagine a life without Roseanne, and so he ignores her warnings and decides to continue on his path, despite her pleas.[break][break]
During this time, Roseanne has blended herself into this timeline, melding into society as a Ranger.[break][break]
Roseanne confronts Caine constantly, trying to impress the consequences of his decision upon him, but he refuses to listen. It escalates to the point that Roseanne begins to have full-on pokemon battles to try to get him to change his mind. But both still love each other, and in their battles, they always tie.They cannot bear to defeat the other.[break][break]
Eventually, Roseanne takes the next step, and after intense work and constant, brutal training, she decides to defeat Caine. But when she does, all she says is, "Caine. If you continue and decide to keep me alive, the price you pay is your own life."[break][break]
Caine is shocked, by both his defeat and Roseanne's admission. After troubled thinking and soul-searching, he decides that his life is not worth Roseanne's - and that Roseanne should live. And after all of Roseanne's work, nothing has changed.[break][break][break]