Prompt: Writing Prompt Wednesday

AN: Yeah, multiple of us went meta on this one.


The hangout was getting busy as everyone started to gather near the stage… if you could call a set of boxes holding up a pair of table surfaces for a stage. Then again, it was more for dramatic announcements than anything, so I guess it did its job.

"MY CANON!" came a yell as Cubone entered the room, followed by a flustered Latias.

"Stop making fun of that!" She told him. "I am plenty good at doing that myself." She was in high spirits today it seemed.

I moved up to the edge of the stage and plumped myself right next to Jolteon. "Hey Jolt, anything you want to win?"

"A few, you?" I was asked back.

"I can come up with something for most of them." I took a glance towards the list of nominations. "Though it will essentially all be relegated to the Nexus story."

"Anything wrong with that?" I jumped as I turned my head to see Gliscor.

"Well…" I glanced to the side. "I kinda wanna continue on my Fox and Snake storyline, but most of these just won't do."

"Then try and have everything in chronological order." Jolteon glared at me. My body-swap prompt from last week must really have thrown a few plans out the window… That or they were still not quite sure on how to undo the swapping organically.

"That's your self imposed challenge." I replied drily. "I have none of those shackles, and yet I still struggle to not have it be in the 'anything goes' verse."

"One-shots!" Flareon had joined us at the stage.

"That is your solution to everything." Jolteon replied.

"Yes, so join me. Join me! Joooooiiiiiin meeeeeee!" Aaand Flareon is trying to haunt us.

"I will say… Instrument wins." Totodile had joined our little crowd as Cubone and Latias arrived as well, with Archen right behind them.

"Whether or not mine wins, it's going to retire." Latias said as we all noticed Chatot leaving the back room.

"Perhaps I could take it over then, if it doesn't win." I suggested. "I had nothing for this week, and I have an idea for that one."

"So some progress for your fox and snake, Decidueye?" Jolteon asked me.

"Nope, follow-up from last week." I replied. I ended the thing with them preparing for an impromptu party so Latias' Day Off prompt would fit the bill really well.

"Hush, Chatot will announce the winner." We got quiet at Archen's command as Chatot hopped up on the stage.

"Attention everyone!" The bird pokemon looked at the gathered crowd. "The votes have been counted and this week's Writing Prompt is: Writing Prompt Wednesday?"

There was a cheer from the group.

"Aw yeah!" I celebrated as Chatot looked at us confused.

"Are we going to meta the crap out of it?" Archen asked us.

"That would be fun." replied Latias.

"Nope, I think I will skip." came from Espeon who had just poked their head from the other room before turning around and heading for the door. "Maybe next week."

"Well, I will be writing about some humans who use their tech to talk to each other across their world, with them talking about their own version of these writing prompts." I said as I was splitting off from the group and headed for a table. The responses to this week's prompt will be weird, and I cannot wait to read them all.


AN: This one... And the others that came from that prompt... Like a snapshot of the writing channel on the Mystery Dungeon discord back then. The life and the silliness. We have found homes on other servers since then, regarding stuff like this, but I still miss the chaotic energy every tuesday and saturday as the votes opened up and the prompts were announced.

When this one won, we talked about going meta with this one, talking about how each of us would react and stuff and this is my interpretation of the event.

Shoutout to everyone who participated in these, and a welcome to all who want to try them out. Heck, perhaps one of my responses here will have you give it a go yourself. No matter what, this is for fun, and I think this one embodies it.

Even you Periah. You may have posted several (understatement) things that should never have seen the light of day anywhere, but even you managed to bring out a golden nugget once or twice.

Then again, what do I know? According to u/Miner7365 I'm a narcoleptic decidueye. Not my fault these things get revealed late at night in my timezone, so I'm tired AF!

Oh, and yes, the idea that the pokemon me came up with was indeed the above mentioned discord discussions. As I said, we went meta on this thing.