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A Very Confused Pokémon Adventure
🕑 Added 2025-04-07 10:42:31 +0000 UTCWhew! An early morning release...mostly because I just finished editing it and figured why not? At least for you guys, gals, and others. I'll probably hold off on the new public chapters until I've slept ;-). It takes like an hour+ to get them up on the various sites. Ugh.
Anyway, a couple of things about this set of chapters!
1) It's the first time I've actually written a Pokémon battle. I kept the only one that has much detail to it short and sweet for a reason. Mostly, because I have zero clues if I did alright with it. Feedback on the Battle Courts battle from Chapter 14 would be appreciated! Love it, hate it, think it's just 'meh?' Drop a comment and let me know.
2) Something I think I've mentioned before, but bears repeating, is that I'm mixing and matching events/locations/lore in this version of Pokémon a lot. Including adding some extensions on existing lore that seem logical, but aren't strictly canon to any version of Pokémon. It's very much an AU, and you should remember that before going 'It doesn't work like THAT!' to anything :-p.
3) Originally, I couldn't find a profile for the artist. But thanks to Shin Hawk, I can now point you to Velvet_Nymph's Pxiv. Thanks Shin!
Aside from those points, I'll just mention that I'm pretty happy with how this developed. I actually struggled a lot to get it properly going this month. This fic is the most happy-go-lucky of all of my current works and I wasn't in the best state of mind for that when I started writing it. To the point that I actually detoured and knocked out 5k words of a completely different idea I had just to get it out of my system a bit.
I may or may not publish that other project, it's...honestly more of a self-indulgent story than I usually write. With something close to an SI protagonist. Which is something I don't do normally. (No, Luffy is not an SI in Halfway Broken, despite people persistently not paying attention to me saying that on an irritatingly frequent basis. 'Alex' was intentionally generic and has almost zero similarity to me).
Anyway, back to this story. This set of chapters are just shy of 14,500 words. Technically slightly short of the typical goal. But the place it stopped was a good place to do so and there wouldn't have been another such for at least another couple of thousand words so...yeah. 15k is always a rough estimate and it goes long just as often as short.
As usual, the new chapters are attached here in various formats, and the new Master Files, containing the entire story, will be up in the Pinned Post shortly. I'll also be doing some Author's Notes for the chapters after I get that done. You'll be able to find them in the comments, as usual, though it might take an hour or so.
Comments
Christian E. Y.
I keep expecting 2B to walk out in a cutesy french maid outfit, carrying a silver plate with her pokemon when she goes out to stage during her first contest. I -think- I remember she got a maid ostume? https://i.redd.it/5xfvzx66jrze1.jpeg https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/71/39/__2b_nier_and_1_more_drawn_by_kinakomochi_user_vedc2333__sample-713944b6e7d97712313ca2395757b3dd.jpg
The Foreign Traveler
Damn 2B! You caused poor Zoey.exe to malfunction! A Very Confused Pokemon Adventure Chapter 13 Page 1: ...two hours normal walking speed "between" the Reception Gate at the... Edit: ...two hours normal walking speed "to reach" the Reception Gate at the... Teddiursa, in particular, had been Zoey's own focus for the day "morning". Edit: Teddiursa, in particular, had been Zoey's own focus for the day. Chapter 14 Page 13: Though usually "there" they were much weaker... Edit: Though usually they were much weaker... Zoey "stiffen" Edit: Zoey "stiffened"... Chapter 15 Page 18: "There are a few other bugs that less common." Edit: "There are a few other bugs that "are" less common." Chapter 17 Page 31: 2B just hoped they wouldn't be too late, and "they" they'd be able to help... Edit: 2B just hoped they wouldn't be too late, and "that" they'd be able to help... A half dozen trainers had Pokémon out and were fighting to "shield still" other Trainers. Edit: A half dozen trainers had Pokémon out and were fighting to "shield" other Trainers. "That totally explains a few things I've heard from some of the "othe" Rangers..." Edit: "That totally explains a few things I've heard from some of the "other" Rangers..." AAAnnnddd finished! ...I'll be sure to give your new story "Why Was There No Truck?" a good read and edit...but that's for tomorrow. Have a good night Novus!
Novus Peregrine
Eh, probably not the Machop, but the Lucario is certainly a solid chance because of the Aura thing. Or possibly a Medicham eventually, given the mix of it being mention in pokedex entries as having aura sight and 2B's pokemon leaning toward 'cute.'
Camille Favre
Thanks for the chapter! 2B getting a Machop she can eventually spar with hand to hand would be awesome! Or a Lucario would maybe work even better so they can both fight with aura constructs 😎
Érica C. Assunção
I love it!! And I totally love and think it is now canon that the League is aware of the 'Ash' type of people and call them 'one of those'! xD
Novus Peregrine
Thanks! Replaced point 3) with a link. I don't have a pixiv login, so that must not be visible to me due to content filters. But I'll take your word for it :-).
Shin Hawk
Velvet_Nymph can be found @ https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/113039248 The 2b image is 1/4 images on their profile
Novus Peregrine
lol. I could see it with a few of them, at least :-p.
Mr Fox
Now that you've brought up the lab trainers being watched i like to imagine that all of ashes companions were league plants of one sort or another. I mean if you think about it an oddly high number of his companions are related to gym leaders.
