A Story of Shattered Innocence

by Painkiller Zombie

A nine-year-old girl is kidnapped by Team Rocket due to her mother's involvement with Giovanni's case to obtain the Viridian City gym. Team Rocket's plan is to sell the girl on the human-trafficking trade for easy cash; she would rather join up and tear them down from the inside out. She doesn't realise they're good at breaking the cutie. OC main character. M for dark/adult themes.

21. Intermission (to be deleted later)

Hey, my good readers. I got a lot of alerts and shit while I was gone.

The truth is, is I almost abandoned this piece for good. I almost abandoned it all for good. I got disenchanted. I lost my way and I began to contemplate replacing characters, redoing the thing from the ground up. I am still considering it. People don't like original characters, especially not when they hook up with canon characters. I get that. And I wanted to make those people happy. But here we are, and many of the key points later require the characters I've got, the characters I've built. Some people love Aquila. Some people see 'OC main character' and scroll past. Personally? I need to build the character I've got up if I'm going to stick to her. For a long, long time I was insecure about her. "What does Aquila bring that Proton doesn't?" Eventually, I realised the ending of this story, the crucial scenes in this story, they cannot happen with Proton. That said, I'm not sure the feelings that I got when I reread this story so many months later is the feeling I expected people to get. In fact, I know it's not. So that has to change. And I want people to feel a certain way when reading Aquila's saga.

That said, those beginning chapters, I reread them just for you and they're pretty fucking awful. They're very speedy, very fast. So much crucial shit got skipped.
Maybe one day, I'll redo this shit again. Maybe one day, I'll rebuild from the ground up. Truthfully, one day I will definitely redo this and show you the results and it'll most likely be far better.

But whatever. I don't have time for that shit right now. I have an editor now, sort of, but I'm also in university, and shit is getting real. I study all day, I breathe and eat computer technology right now. I love it, but man, do I want to get back to this shit. Hardcore. And maybe that will include rebuilding this thing back up to satisfy myself, and all of you.

That said, expect another chapter soon. My mind is a-racing. Maybe tomorrow, even. I'm about to get my ass to writing, but I wanted to give you guys a reason why I left for so long. My life got real all of a sudden. A lot has happened since, what, April? So things will be slower, and I'm going to be reworking this in any sliver of free time I have left.

And I hope seeing an update has at least made you guys excited, even if it takes a week for me to get to actually updating this thing.
I hope if I rework it and lengthen it out, you will all support that every step of the way.

Thanks for reading,
~Zombie who eats painkillers