Dato Onn Tower

The tower overlooking the city in the time of humans

The Dato Onn Tower, otherwise known locally as Menara Dato Onn (in Malay), is a 40-storey office building located adjacent to the nearby Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. The building serves as the headquarters of the United Malay National Organization (UMNO) and Barisan Nasional (BN), and was completed in 1985. The design of the tower resembles a rectangular shape, with some islamic desings incorparated into the exterior as well. The roof of the tower contains 4 massive red letters that spell out "UMNO" sticking out on the side of the building. Although most Malaysians know this structure as one of the earliest skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, can it withstand the elements from a new judge, Mother Nature?

1 day after people: The tower stands tall and proud along with other skyscrapers across the city of Kuala Lumpur, but as night progresses and the tower lights illuminate the surrounding area, the Kuala Lumpur Grid powers down for good, and the tower slowly loses power floor by floor, until there is none left.

1 month after people: As the tower and the rest of the city are left to face the wrath of Mother Nature, the animals make their first move in making the concrete jungle that is Kuala Lumpur their new home. Rodents and local wildlife seek shelter and search for food scraps left by humans, while birds conquer the rooftop of the building and building nests like in other buildings across the city, inadvertently bringing in seeds that hitched a ride as well. They will soon begin to grow and will slowly be the death of the tower.

5 months after people: A sudden downpour strikes Kuala Lumpur, and rapidly fills up the rivers of the city, eventually bursting their banks and flooding the city. Since the tower is located right next to Sungai Batu (Batu River in Malay), it eventually gets it base flooded with raging floodwaters, which seep in and wash away deteriorating cars and other loose items like boxes and carts down in the building's underground parking lot. As the floodwaters evaporate, the darkness of the underground car park allows water to remain for a long time, weakening the foundations and supports gradually. The seeds, left with plenty of water from the storm, begin to grow at an astonishing rate.

5 years after people: The tower's peach-colored exterior is now getting a makeover by Mother Nature. Paint slowly begins to peel off and both the "UMNO" graving and the words on the rooftop are corroding and losing its red look. Inside, birds have managed to get into several floors and also bring in more seeds with them, while the rooftop gets heavier as the plants turn into trees and vines crawl down the buildings exterior.

10 years after people: The hinges holding up window panels are beginning to fail, and windows begin to topple out onto the streets below. The top 10 floors of the tower have been colored in a layer of green in just a decade, while the UMNO graving and rooftop words have turned from the red iconic color to a rusting corroded steel skeleton. Plantlife brought in by birds also trigger more plant growth on the middle floors of the building, adding more load onto the building's floors, as well as bringing moisture in to destroy the interiors of the building's offices.

40 years after people: The tower is no longer recognisable as it turns into a gray concrete shell being destroyed by a layer of plants. The "UMNO" word graving on the side of the tower begins to loosen and one by one, fall 40 floors down to their ultimate demise. As for the words on the tower, they also meet their end during heavy winds brought on by a rainstorm. Word by word, they topple over the side and smash into rubble when they hit the ground at nearly 100 km (62 miles) an hour.

85 years after people: During another downpour that inundates the city, a lightning strikes the ground floor of the Dato Onn Tower's lobby, eventually spreading downwards into the underground car park after the marble flooring of the lobby caves in onto the car park, which set alight the plantlife adjacent to the inferno. The fire severely weakens a set of pillars, causing the tower to slowly lean to its ultimate demise.

200 years after people: The Dato Onn Tower has leaned by about 10 degress to the southeast for nearly 115 years, as plantlife have destroyed all the windows and interiors and has become a sanctuary for native animals that prowl the jungle of Kuala Lumpur. However, more than a century of constant leaning prooves too much for the underground car park supports. The supports then get crushed by the sheer weight of the tower, and the base of the tower hits the car park with a massive bang, scaring away birds as the tower leans further and further southwest with no supports to help stabilize the structure, eventually caving through the roof of the Putra World Trade Center. The prideful headquarters of some of the most influential political parties of Malaysia is now a pile of rubble, that eventually gets covered in a layer of plants and soil, creating a tiny hill in the jungle that once used to be the commercial hub and the capital city of Malaysia.