Jake wakes up alone, with voices coming from the cave. How could they go alone? Jake staggers back into the Cave of Origin, with Sneasel out of its ball helping to support him. Everything looks blurry, and he can hear everyone's voices, plus one unfamiliar, but he can't understand them, as they seem to echo in his head. In the deepest normal room in the cave, he sees everyone, but they are blurred and he can't understand them. All that is in his mind is to go to the new cavern. When he enters the passage, his mind is suddenly in sharp focus again, like jumping in cold water after a dip in a hot tup. He looks around and sees many, many more cave entrances, and a deep fissure in the middle spouting the bizarre mist. He sees Tommy also in the room, and instantly wonders what everyone was saying earlier, and realizes he can't hear them anymore, as though this room was soundproof! Sneasel even looked nervous, not cocky and confident as it usually did. It was also warily observing its surroundings, and it didn't like it at all. Jake calls out, his voice returning. "T-tommy? Is... that you? Tommy?"