so I'm doing a repost--so sue me! the old one is deleted, and this has most of the same content (with a LOT of added content).
My Pokefiction resume
Name: Ash_Junior
Age: 18, STILL never been kissed, and VERY proud of it!
Strong Areas: I'm pretty good at writing long fics. I'm mediocrely strong in the areas of plot, and people have told me that I have good characters. I feel that I can draw people into my fics more than most, simply because of the amount of countries and their original cultures, sheer numbers of Pokemon I have made, and enormous backstory for all of it. Another of my strong areas is my ability to churn out work (when I'm in the mood). Recently I made a fic that was nine pages long in Open office (available for download at openoffice.org) in, are you ready for this, an hour and a half. that's probably about my average speed of writing, but I have a lot of RL distractions, so I don't write as much as I could.
However, I definitely consider my strongest area the fact that I can write faster than most people can read. I write a lot and I write often.
Weak Areas: If I had to pick one major weakness in my writing, it's that I generally can't stick to what I planned for the fic. Just ask Elemental Charizam about the Hell Hath no Fury plans that I sent him. Partway through, I switched tacks completely.
Type Of Writing: Oddly, even though I generally dislike romance in my own personal life, I've found myself drawn to it when I write more often than not. I consider myself a pretty good romance author, as well as a good action/adventure author, with, of course, a little bit of subtle humor as well. But I don't limit myself to any one particular type. I can do anything, I'm sure, I just choose not to do certain stuff.
Type Of Characters: that's easy. The gung-ho take-no-prisoners, we-will destroy you girls; relatively silent, yet admirable male heroes; antagonists; and Ash and Misty. For the most part....I've made some memorable stupid characters (ask Saffire Persian about my original Retribution. Just....try not to look puzzled when she jumps up and down and yells about sticks and stones).
Complete Stories:
Romance
What If...
On an otherwise uneventful night, Ash becomes poisoned by Beedrill. Things that have been hidden are brought to light, feelings are brought forward, all while everyone is desperately trying to save his life. Will they succeed?
Read What If...and find out.
What If... said:
The Clone of Ketchum (aka Ash_Junior) Presents:
Now available to read on a forum near you....
an Ash_Junior production...
Narrator: Ash Ketchum and Misty Waterflower were the best of friends...
Scenes of their life fly by.
Written by Ash_Junior
Narrator: He wrecked her bike...
A picture of a mangled bike flashes across the screen
Directed by Ash_Junior
Narrator: She wrecked his life on his Pokemon Journey...
Scenes of Misty arguing with Ash and hitting him with her mallet flash by
Anything and Everything done by Ash_Junior
James is sitting at a table, and glances at someone out of camera view. "I don't like it." he says.
"What don't you like?" Jessie demands.
"He only put one card down!" James complained.
Narrator: but they would never be more than that, until-
A scene of Ash sleeping, when suddenly he is jolted awake by Misty's scream
A flash-by scene of Misty cornered by two Beedrills
A flash-by scene of Ash throwing a rock at one of the beedrills
flash-by scene of Ash lying on the ground, blood pouring out of his chest
A scene of Misty crying near a campfire, "I never got to tell him," she sobs, "And now he'll die thinking that I hated him all this time!"
A scene of Brock and Gary in the woods, next to Ash, with two unconscious beedrill in the background, "I'm going to lay it on the line," Brock says, "Unless he gets medical attention in the next two hours, he WILL die four hours after that."
Narrator: Ash Ketchum is injured to nearly the point of death...and secrets that have waited for years will have to surface...
a scene of an EMT, shouting to a helicopter pilot, "Red line it to the max or we'll lose him, now go as fast as this bucket of bolts can possibly go!"
Ash looked up at Misty and asked, "Misty, do you really love me?"
Misty looked up from where she had been crying, "Yes, Ash, I do. You know that better than anyone else."
"Then get rid of that stupid mallet!" Ash said, grinning
Narrator: Now a small band of Ash's friends must band together to find the people behind this attack, and find an antidote...before time runs out...
Butch, smirking defiantly, "Shut your mouth, Before a Beedrill flies into it."
Narrator: Brock Slate...
Misty looks at Brock, "YOU got a date? I mean, I heard you, but YOU got a date???"
Narrator: Gary Oak
Ash grins at Gary, "So...you were beaten by a girl...I wonder what happened to all your claims of being able to defeat anyone?"
Narrator: and introducing...Mandie Kepling
Mandie grins at Gary, "I can take on any guy I want, except maybe Bruno of the Elite Four...anytime, any place, and come out victorious..."
"Mandie," Brock said, "Wanna go out on a date with me?"
"you left the town for several years, but now, suddenly, you want a date with the infamous Mandie Kepling...YOU WANT TO GO ON A DATE WITH ME???" Mandie demands.
Brock swallowed, wondering what was going on, and squeaked out, "Yes?"
Mandie grinned from ear to ear, "Okay."
Narrator: But will they be in time?
"Ash? ASH? ASH WAKE UP!" Misty said, shaking him.
Narrator: Will this bring them closer together?
"Misty, I never thought that I would ask anyone this, but will you marry me?" Ash asked.
Narrator: or will it drive them further apart?
Misty glared down at him, "Oh sure! Always thinking about your Pokemon, aren't you! You never think about anyone else."
Narrator: And will their efforts be enough to save his life? Find out...on Serebii Fan-Fiction Forums!
"Uh...Acme Window Washers! We sell ski masks on the side!" James says, dangling from a rope during a storm, and wearing a ski mask.
*black screen*
"You idiots!" Meowth complained, "You strapped me ta you's back, and now I can't see!"
What If...
by Ash_Junior
”Some Things Never Change"
A rather odd AAMRN (Ash And Misty Romance Novel, for those who don't know. It's not a novel, but that's what I always call AAMR) that was written towards the beginning of my Pokefiction career. It's still somewhat good, if a bit Dependant on capital letters (I was terrible back then, remember). If you're looking for a few cheap laughs, take a look.
A Pokemon Christmas
It's been several years since Ash Ketchum retired from training Pokemon and took a professorship at Pokemon Tch. Now there's only one more thing that he needs to make his life complete....A sweet AAMRN centered around Christmas, this is definitely better than Some Things Never Change
The Choice
My original May/Misty jealousy parody, I was reading a lot about how people were annoyed with the cliched May/Misty finding out Ash was seeing the other, and swore to break them up/make Ash like her/get rid of the other, and eating the brains of anyone who got in their path (okay, so I made that last part up). This was my solution, and eventually led into The Battle of the “M”s
The Battle of the “M”s.
A parody of the many May and Misty jealousy fan-fics, this is just the first chapter. I've got the rest lying around somewhere, but none are as good as this one. I suppose it could work as a one-shot, but it was meant to be done as a chaptered fic.
Fishing Opener
Ash and Misty are participating in the Blackthorne City Fishing Contest on the Lake of Rage, when they come in for the day. A storm during the night forces them to remain in Misty's personal Johto retreat. What in the world do they have to talk about?
Action/Adventure
All's Well that Ends Well:
A trainer comes to Oak's lab to recieve the starter Pokemon that has been dreamed of for years. However, there has been a break-in, and the Pokemon have all been stolen! Will our intrepid hero apprehend the bandit? And, more importantly, will the hero ever get his starter?
An askance look at what has become a badly cliched beginning for journey fics...the theft of a Pokemon, a la GSC.
WARNING: this fic contains extremely good plot twists and is written in the 2nd Person.
PorygonX
What would happen if a Porygon were to regain consciousness without being controlled in laboratory conditions? What conclusions would it reach? This chilling one-shot provides one clue to these questions.
Engaran Wars Trilogy and Related Fiction
Blaine: The Search for Moltres
Blaine has been searching for the legendary Moltres his entire life, and now he thinks he knows where to look. Will he find what he was looking for, or has he spent his fortune in vain?
One-shot that I was inspired to write while I was writing the Battle of Cinnabar Island in Operation: Celebi.
Prologue to the Engaran Wars Trilogy; Hell Hath no Fury: An Ice Queen's Saga
Six years before a young man named Ash Ketchum wakes up late on a very fateful day, future Indigo League Elite Lorelei Belle Winters runs away from home to begin her journey...only to be swept up into a conflict far greater than anything she had ever imagined possible. In the icy wastelands of Nuschantz, among a deadly civil war, she has a mission to complete, and won't let anything stand in her way.
Spin-offs of HHNF (Hell Hath no Fury: An Ice Queen's Saga
Bugsy: The Johto Reconquista
Currently hosted on my geocities site (but not connected to the library), Bugsy: The Johto Reconquista tells of what happens when Bugsy leaves HHNF mid-fic and returns to Johto to fight against all the different teams that had taken it over.
Someday, probably after Time of The Titans (see below), I may come back to this. Once I get a working title page and stuff up for it, I'll post a link to it.
Johto: A New Beginning
Sarah Gilchrist, a former Loyalist Blizzard, is recruited by Gym Leader Steven of Blackthorne City to be one of his Gym Trainers. Two years later, however, after a short trip to Azalea Town with Lorelei Bell Winters, Sarah is inspired to embark on the Johto League challenge. Every one of her five foot six inches an anti-hero, Sarah often makes choices radically different than one would expect from an average Johto trainer. When Team Rocket steals one of her Pokemon, this is self-evident. Has Team Rocket met its match in this woman and her crusade to bring it down?
Like the Bugsy fic, this is also on hiatus. I definitely want to get back to this one, but I've got to continue with my momentum and finish work on the Engaran Trilogy before coming back to this. By the way, this is the only trainer fic of mine that has survived (I accidentally deleted my other one, which had a talking Meowth, a pair of Rockets, and a Pichu kicking their collective derrières. Be glad that it is no more).
Book 1 of the Engaran Wars Trilogy; Operation: Celebi
(Links to the chapters won't be there until ~3 PM 2/3/06
use this one until then:
eight years after the events in Hell Hath no Fury: An Ice Queen's Saga, Lorelei Belle Winters is back, this time as part of the Kanto Elite Four, along with Karen, Bruno, Agatha, and the Champion, Lance. Giovanni is captured during a crack-down on Team Rocket in both Kanto and Johto. That capture sets in motion a series of events that is impossible to stop. Before long, the unbelievable has happened--Kanto has been invaded.
Operation: Celebi said:
for proper mood, turn on the Imperial March (Star Wars, John Williams) or the Evil Saroman/Mordor music from LOTR....
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Ash_Junior Laboratories Inc. presents…
An anchorwoman sits behind a desk. You recognize it as JNN, or the Johto News Network. This announcement interrupted your favorite program, but it said it was breaking news, so it should be good. The anchorwoman looks up, a jubilant grin on her face, “We are pleased to announce that Giovanni, former head of Team Rocket before the Global Police’s recent crackdown on crime, was caught yesterday afternoon by Tintian Border authorities as he attempted to flee the country.”
Imagine a world where you thought evil was destroyed forever in one shining moment. Pokemon forever free to live their lives, with the occasional trainer coming along and trying to capture one or two….without Rockets to harass them.
A man in a simple black uniform sits behind a simple wooden desk, and looks at a girl with dark red hair, “I want this to be clear, Peters. We can have no mistakes.”
The woman nods, “I understand. There will be none. Giovanni will be dead within seventy-two hours.”
Imagine a world, full of peace, and warm feelings. A peace where evil has no foothold.
Indigo League’s Champion, Lance, stands before a group of reporters in a press conference. His face looks haggard, his hair rumpled, his suit untidy, as if he had been in a fight and hadn’t gotten any sleep the night before. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an announcement to make. I regret to inform you that Giovanni will not stand trial.” He holds a hand up before the press can shout, “I assure you, were he still alive, he would indeed stand trial, but I regret that he died in his sleep last night.”
If you still have that image in your head, bash it to pieces, and imagine a world of exactly the opposite.
A press conference where a man of distinctly Asian nationality stands next to a woman who looks like she came from a tropical climate. The woman speaks, “We, The leaders of Team Magma, Jiang Fernandez,” she motions to the man beside her, “And myself, Joan Paula Jones, leader of Team Aqua, both hereby accuse Champion Lance of murdering Giovanni in his sleep, with his own form of cowboy justice. We give him twelve hours to produce information to prove his innocence.”
What if all your worst nightmares about the world….
The two leaders of Magma and Aqua look into the camera once again. “The twelve hours have passed, and proof of Lance’s innocence has not been brought forward. Therefore, we are announcing that Team Aqua and Magma will be merging into one team, Team Maqua, to remove the blight of the Indigo League from the face of the earth, and avenge Giovanni’s death.”
Came true….
Cassidy, at a video phone, speaking to the man in the black suit behind the desk, “Engaran Central command? This is Cassidy. Things are on schedule, and are going smoothly. Operation: Celebi, should be pulled off without a hitch.”
In one month?
The man in the Black suit is speaking to the girl with the red hair again, “The invasion of Kanto must take place in exactly one month, or all our plans will be for naught.”
The girl looks him in the eye, “Everything will be ready by then, sir. I stake my life on it.”
The man in the black suit smiles faintly, “Oh, you are, Peters, make no mistake of that. You most certainly are.”
Operation: Celebi
The camera is focused on Butch and Cassidy, standing together on a naval vessel. The camera zooms out to reveal an aircraft carrier, then zooms out further to reveal an entire armada of a HUGE number of ships, two thirds of which are separating from the main group, and heading off in another direction. If you had timeto count them, they would number 2,250 ships total, consisting of aircraft carriers, submarines, destoryers, cruisers, frigates, and troop ships. The sky is nearly black, and at first you can’t see why, but then as the camera zooms out further still, you begin to see thousands of planes, flying Pokemon, and dragons flying in patrol patterns above the massive fleet.
Coming soon to Serebii.net.
A jet roars towards the camera, and just at the point of impact, the screen goes black.
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Operation: Celebi...
Current Stories: Book 2 of the Engaran Wars Trilogy; Retribution
Kanto is in ruins, a shadow of its former self. Engara has total control of the country, and has handed the reins over to what is left of Team Rocket. But there are some that still resist, in the face of overwhelming opposition and death if they are caught. They are the brave men and women of Rocket-Bane. And they will not rest until Kanto is once again free.
Retribution was another of my earliest pieces that survived an accidental mass delete. Basically, I started the story with the idea of an underground bunker and a bunch of Kanto starters defending it. Throw in some safari zone stuff (ask Saffire about the sticks and stones), and you've got a crappy start to a crappy fic. As I went on, I explained to myself that TR had control of the surface, and the people of Rocket-Bane wanted to free Kanto. This link is to the old version, and is more of a teaser to the upcoming version than anything else. It gives a basic lay-out of Rocket-Bane and its inhabitants and their customs. Don't worry—the real thing will be WAY better.
Future Stories:
Engaran Wars Trilogy Book 3; Time of the Titans
I don't want to give much away, but here's a teaser trailer for you all...
[leaves blow across the other-wise black screen, and a voice that sounds like it belongs to an old person speaks]
Long ago, When The Titans ruled the Earth, there was man, and there were Pokemon.
[the screen fades in to an ancient, ruined tower, partially buried under black volcanic rock]
The Humans were content to let the Pokemon have their space, and had petty squabbles among themselves.
[sounds of swords clashing, heavy things smashing into each other, and screams begin to be heard]
Before the Colleon of that time, the ultimate of any of the Pokemon Titans, who ruled far above even the legendaries, changed everything.
[screen flashes a brilliant silver, when it fades, it is of a giant battle around the tower, that shines a bright silver, and humans and Pokemon are fighting against each other. Sounds of many different attacks, beating of wings, beating of hooves, and other sounds of war can now be heard]
Colleon knew his time was fading, but he knew that in the heart of the Tower of the Titans, there was a jewel that would extend his life...indefinitely.
[suddenly, the scene is inside the tower, and a silvery being with eight tails approaches a jewel that is laid in the center of a table. The screen flashes silver, when it fades back in, it is of a map of the Pokemon world, and it moves towards an island chain northwest of Kanto]
The humans were defeated, and most were driven off to an island chain that would be known in later millenia as the Engaran archipelago. Colleon was free to take the jewel, but he held off, unsure of the consequences of his act.
[Colleon looks at the jewel, and paces back and forth in front of it, then leaves the room]
Then, as his two thousand years as a Titan were almost up, he took the one chance he had to remain alive.
[Colleon hobbling forward and taking the jewel out of its place, screen turns black, then, suddenly, human screams can be heard, but the screen remains black]
The jewel extended his life, and gave him even greater powers, but it also turned him into a creature of Darkness. Into a thing of ultimate evil. Into Lokrye.
[ the sound of thunder, but no more screams, and the screen flashes silver, and the black outline of a dog-like creature with two tails can be seen. Its head seems to turn towards the light, and the screen turns completely dark]
He ravaged the country-side in his search for humans, not resting until he found every one.
[picture of humans fleeing with whatever they had]
But there were some that joined with Pokemon, legendary, Titan, and the rest, to put this being down...forever. They were led by a man known only as Gerahid.
[picture of the back of a human shouting at Pokemon and a few humans, then the screen goes black]
They took the battle to Lokrye's very tower he had stolen from the human Titans, and there, they imprisoned him, unable to actually kill him, where they thought he would be safe for all time.
[picture of the silver tower, and the dead bodies of many humans and Pokemon]
After this, Gerahid dissapeared, never to return to history's light. Time passed, and Gerahid became a name that parents named their children. More time passed, and Gerahid became a man of legend. More time passed, and history saw another Gerahid rise up and lead his people to victory before he was struck down, and Lokrye briefly escaped before being imprisoned once again in his dark tower. Time passed...and Lokrye drew strength in the passage of time, biding his time...he vowed the nexttime he was released, he would either die, or be victorious...no more going half-way.
[silver screen, outline of the dark figure from before, but lying down, resting.]
And he won't stop until everything and everyone that ever opposed him is dead and gone. He will not stop, until the entire human race is completely, and utterly destroyed, and the few remaining Titans along with them.
[Thunder again, black screen]
Time of the Titans
This is the fic that I'm working up towards. The ultimate battle. absolutely powerful Pokemon pitted against each other, with mankind, caught in the middle, taking sides as well. It will be like a version of World War III, about thirty years from now. With Pokemon. And Legendaries. And super-powerful Pokemon even more powerful than that (the afore-mentioned Titans. And no, they aren't captured. They don't even come to our dimension that often. Only in times of great emergency).
Possibly a RL (Timeline?)/Pokemon CO, replete with standard sci-fi alternate reality stuff...featuring Seymour the Scientist (ya remember the MT. Moon guy?) as a prominent character.
Maybe a fic with the Samurai that Ash met in Viridian Forest way back when he first started. About how he catches up with Ash, and battles him again...
Maybe a sequel to What If...as I have had several demands to do so. At one point I was going to, but then I got interest back in finishing HHNF/O:C
*grins*
have I piqued your interest?
I hope so.
As you can see, I have a lot of experience writing. All in all, I've probably written around three hundred pages MS Word. I'm proud of that achievement. And that's all in the last four or five years (not sure on the exact date I started writing). Some people are lucky to get to fifty pages MS word. For me, that's only five chapters.
I'm in the process (have been for over a year) of getting a personal website up and running. If you're interested in taking a look around, click on the banner below:
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Writing Tips:
1. Listen to people with more experience than you do.
2. ignore flames that say to give up. writing is a skill. The more you practice, the better you'll be.
3. try creating a Pokemon or two. If you're having trouble starting, try blending two established Pokemon into your own, or try *shudders* an Eeveelution. Whatever you make, put it into your fic, and make it better because of it.
3b.for an example of a Pokemon I made when I was starting out, I have a Poke named Vulithe. nope, not an Eevee. it's a Vulpix/Growlithe cross, made when Ninetails breed with Arcanine. The evolved form of Vulithe (who evolves with a Fire Stone) is Arnine. I was gonna do Nine something, but since both Pokes have "nine" in their names, I couldn't really do it.
Disclaimer: I have only done the Johto: A New Beginning Banner. The other banners were done by Scrap (HHNF), Saffire Persian (Retribution), and Tezza/Topaz of WoC fame (Operation: Celebi/Ash_Junior Laboratories).
