Chapter 18 of Sparking Chaos posted!

Hello everyone.

Yesterday, I posted the 18th chapter of my story, which is coming to a close soon... maybe... Well, actually, it may not. I'm faced with three possibilities. I could

a) Have a mid-lenghish sequel with a new character, though the story may not get finished. Sparking Chaos would end at chapter 19.
b) Have a much shorter version of the sequel as the ending of Sparking Chaos, though it means Rick may partially fade into the background to give some place to this new character.
c) Have the shorter version of the sequel as a separate short story starring my new character more prominently than it would in Sparking Chaos.

I'm not sure which to choose and I could use some input. Please people, vote on the poll. This one is serious. And, as usual, here your review responses.

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Review Response Corner

AltoGuardian: Yeah... Rick did have a sucky childhood. I think I mentioned that early in the story... or it might have been in an RP somewhere, I lose track of those things sometime. Those pokemon appeared in his dream because they were part of the team, even if I didn't like them enough to showcase them. You're not supposed to tell people Jen is CENSURED, though. I'm sure some people didn't read Fractured Bond.

Oh well... as for your thing about number, no chu ever actually said a number, it was part of the narration. If one did, well... sorry, it was my mistake. I can't be perfect. As for Rick's knowledge, he wouldn't still be able to write his name on a keyboard. What is lost is lost. What we all thought he lost later was Pwywave's doing, but the things he said were lost at the very beginning when he was thinking like a human, they are kind of gone forever.

So... yup... Shocky is one cute pichu, huh? He can almost get away with everything, but stealing food. (point at subtitle of my blog) Stealing food is bad. Finally, Strongclaw didn't fight Sparktail for the reasons you saw in chapter 18.

Yeah... I don't think Sparktail do so much from now on, but at least he can gloat about having had one productive day. Good for him and his people. Hail Sparktail!

Foxyjosh: As you saw, the elder didn't have much of a choice as to what he would do next. Keep reading!

ShadowBlueShane: I don't know how Strongclaw will take it, but the Elder sure took it bad. Didn't know Sparky could fight, huh? I didn't either. We all learned something.

HelKat: Yeah, Sparktail loves to gives himself trouble by accepting more and more task. Makes me think about some people I know (whistle innocently)

Kirby: Taking Hostages? Sparktail just freed those people from the evil Elder and his corruption with mindless ideas and no scientific advancement! Die! You don't have to feel bad for Jen and Rick, though. Jen was fine with what happened to her and Rick... well... we will see soon enough with him. At least, he was nice enough to dream about her... the pervchu.

No one said pokemon battles were all about glory and happiness and fainting. There are blood and injuries and bad stuff happening and I hope people start to feel bad for the poor pokemon forced to battle! Oh wait, this is about wild pokemon... nevermind. Wild is always violent and bloody. I sure wouldn't want to be either of them neither. Only a weirdo would want to be a pokemon or a pet pokemon... or a pokemon's pet. (smirk)

That off topic statement about Psywave and Es' blocking him was cute, but I doubt it would be completely true... but I'm not sure, so I wouldn't say anything. By the way, I would have Sparktail say that she's beautiful, but I didn't want to make you jealous. I swear, that's what I thought about when I wrote that part. The human Jen (or morph) is your turf. Sparky should only have feelings for the pikachu Jen... which he won't anymore. (sad) I didn't like that bit about scene changes, though. It only proved further how much lazy you can be. Bad Kirb! (hit you with a stick of elemental iron)

He is the only one with a pokemon as a son? (point at Brownie and Kagai) They tell me otherwise. (stick my tongue out at you) Yeah, Sparky can be awkward... especially when he tries to do things... which is what Sparktail does. He does things. (K.A.-ish)

Damn, that response is getting long and lunch time is almost over. Thanks you, fast typing speed today! So... what's Kira doing here? She hugging MY pokemon! Let him go! (try to split them up) He's not your pet! Bad! Kids those days...

Shocky could talk, but you have to admit that nodding and using numbers can help people in many situations where complex sentences wouldn't be as efficient. Symbols are also cool because they can have meaning not everyone understand. Never heard of secrecy? Pikachu sure didn't yet. It's a miracle the pachirisu aren't stealing from their food reserve (Magic passes by with an apple) Too late.

You may or may not have come up with Sparkytail. I know you did come up with Sparky, though. Sparky didn't like to be called like that at first, but he got used to it, I guess. Huh, Sparky?

Sparky: (biting an apple) Huh?

Forget I said anything, so... next... yup, pikachu are paranoid. I wouldn't expect any less from creatures who think their God could kill them anytime without warning if they do bad. I would be nervous too, if I was them. That, and if I was 16 inches tall and a tasty treat to almost anything else in the forest. I wouldn't complain too much about being food though, but that's just me.

Sparky is laughing like Pikachu. Didn't I tell you Sparky's behavior is derived from Pikachu, my character who was Pikachu from the anime? No? Oh well... I had unoriginal characters, back then. (point at Pika and Squirt)

(so long) So... yeah, Sparky called pikachu "people", so what? He is trying to make them more human, he has to start by treating as such. Some diplomacy never hurt. Sure, Pikachu probably don't know the meaning of the word people, but it doesn't stop Sparky from trying. Sparky is cool like that.

I already said somewhere else that "warming" was meant to be "warning". Next.

I know, it's sad that he didn't get to show all three weak spots, but he has to keep some secrets to himself if he wants to stay at the top. But if you need to know, the week spots are the snout, the belly and between the legs. Of course, pulling the tail could count, but it's not as easily accesible and practical.

(I see the end! Woo!) If the battle was anti-climatic, at least he won. It would have been even more anti-climatic if the Elder had slashed Sparky's throat with his impossible claws from the past and killed our hero on the spot. It would have been even more the sudden than the death of you-know-who...

Kagai: Someone died?

No, Kagai, nobody died.

Kagai: Phew...

So... yeah, it's nice to know that you liked my chapter and I hope to get a review as long as this one next time. It's a pain to reply too, though, but that's my problem because I am the one who chose to reply to every review. Bye!

P.S.: Phew... eevee sucks! (Kagai slashes me) They are great! I swear I never thought otherwise! (Kagai grins)
P.P.S.: What? I thought I told you to stop hugging that poor pichu to death already! (poke Kira with a stick) Come on! Go away! Go back home! Kids...

markrock18: It's nice to see you like my story. I hope you continue to read it!

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Yay! Reviews responses are done! Don't forget to vote on the poll! Last time, people said Sparky was as much evil as Dr. Evil. Giovanni got only one vote. Morale: People have no idea what evil is.

That's all for now! Ciao!