ARARARARARAAA! This. Is: AUTHOR'S NOTE!
So yeah, for no reason whatsoever I decided to have this extra chapter. This is nothing important or related to the story, so you don't have to continue reading.
So I don't know if anyone else does this, but I actually thought of this entire story before typing up chapter 1. Or at least the gist what would happen. Throughout, I've gone through several changes and revisions that ended up drastically changing the story.
Basically, I'm going through each chapter and explaining how it changed from what my original idea for the chapter was. It may be useless, but I sure thought it was interesting. And I'm probably the only one. DX And you may be saying: Well that's all cool and dandy, Stella, but WHY are you doing this? Don't you have a life? And the answer, of course, is:
Because I can! And I don't!
So here we go! XD
Title
The absolute hardest part of creating this fanfic was deciding on a title! I literally came up with the name of the story when I had to post it. I had no idea what to call this thing and have it be interesting and eye-catching. PokeSpe High School? They all have that name! DX And since this school has no name because I could never think of one, that was out of the question.
So I decided to be redundant as heck and name it: PokeSpecial Adventures. Yeah, that sounds pretty good *sarcasm*. And then I decided that since they are at SCHOOL in this VERSION, I should be "witty" and take the English games' subtitle.
PokeSpecial Adventures: School Verison. Because this is the school version. Thus, this was born.
It's not that bad, right?
Chapter 1
The only thing that changed in here was that this chapter was going to be from Red's POV, but in doing that, it was kinda awkward and inconsistent anyway, so I changed it. No biggie, everything else was the same as planned.
Chapter 2
Well, one of the differences in this chapter was that: the dexholders have, apparently, been attending the school for only a week. Originally, I thought that may have been too short and that maybe they should have attended for a month. However, I thought that, in this situation, they all would have known who generally hangs out with whom. Therefore, conflicts like DiamondXSapphire would probably have been overlooked. So I shortened it to a week.
Next, this chapter was shortened. The first scene in the next chapter was supposed to be at the end of this chapter. But, it was getting too long. So I changed it.
Chapter 3
So as I said, the "library scene" was supposed to be at the end of the last chapter, but because of length, it is the awkward beginning of this chapter.
And I guess the only other change is the same thing: this chapter was shortened.
Chapter 4
So the beginning scene is the scene with Ruby at the nurse's office that was planned for the end of the last chapter, but was moved to the start of this chapter because it was too long. And don't worry; this is that last time this happens.
This chapter was too long, blah, blah, blah, slumber party was moved to the next chapter AND concluded there. So for now, everything is back on track. End of boring info.
Chapter 5
So now it's FINALLY interesting. So assuming the last chapter was the entire slumber party, this chapter was possibly going to be a sleepover like things for the boys. Green was going to make Silver host one of these events, too, so she could figure out who the guys liked. How this conversation would have gotten started, I have no idea. I guess Gold would have initiated it being that he's Gold or whatever. But anyway, I decided against it for reasons I will express later. Plus, eventually, something like this happened later anyway, so I guess it all worked well.
As for the chapter as it is, it's the first time everything went as I'd thought of it, so YAY!
Chapter 6
Aside from the part at the beginning in which the girls confront Green, this chapter also went exactly as planned.
Chapter 7
The opening conversation between Crystal and Soul and Gold showing up wasn't planned originally and neither was the following event of Green speaking to Crystal in the hallway, but the latter only happened because the former did, so…yeah…
This is one moment when I actually thought a chapter was too short and added a scene. Purely for shipping reasons, I added some DualRival. But I think this worked out well, since it shows
The battle section and subsequent date went as planned. Though, the date sucked.
I also thought I should mention that, near the end of the chapter, Green says: One pair down, a bunch to go!" And you may be saying: Well Stella surely is an IDIOT because CLEARLY Black and White are A PAIR and DOWN, so she should have said "TWO!" down. However…Green did not see that moment with Black and White, so she couldn't have known. Even if she does have omniscience.
Okay…moving on.
Chapter 8
Once again, the Unova dexholders and mere background characters as the entire beginning with them was not originally planned. In fact, I think I added it because they were being left out and otherwise, this chapter would have not had much happen except lunch, so, that went well, ne?
The event with Soul and Silver was originally going to be in the chapter before this and was gonna take place outside. I think I changed it because I thought too many people were eating outside…? I really don't know.
Sapphire and Diamond were planned to spend lunch together in this chapter, but the reason was different since, because the part with Ruby and Wally was originally going to happen in a later chapter, there would be no reason for Ruby to be with those two anyway since he only went by them because he was mad. And, yes, I realize that I wrote Emerald out of existence in the previous sentence.
SO ANYWAY, originally they were just going to be discussing the dance, Ruby, Platinum, all that good stuff. But I changed it to Sapphire and Ruby having a fight, then Diamond's appearance because Pearl and Platinum were studying for a test, and the reason for Ruby hanging with the green kids because of that fight. Now stuff makes sense; hooray~
Chapter 9
Okay, so just some more background info: the way I figured out what would happen for some of these chapters was to mention that a certain shipping occurred in a certain chapter so as not to favor some or forget some. So I had Commoner as one of the ones in here.
So the ENTIRE half of the story with cooking class was implemented just because of that! Chili, Cilan, and Cress weren't originally even going to be in this story!
Oh, but first things first. Neither was the beginning with the girls riding to school on thier Pokémon. THIS IS A POKéMON STORY; I HAD TO INCLUDE THEM SOMEWHERE!
OH SNAP! And then looking for Blue was TOTALLY unplanned. I only included it because in my…I don't know, brain sketches, I had Joey appear, and…this is the best that I could come up with. Yeah…
Later at lunch Red and Vee look for Pokémon food for more Pokémon appearing in a Pokémon fanfic. So yeah, that and him going outside by the Johto kids was unplanned, too. Yay! I'm so organized.
The kitchen duty detention was planned, but it was supposed to go differently. Unfortunately, I honestly don't remember much of it, other than I think it was going to be at the beginning of a chapter…and not at lunch…I don't know. Sapphire figuring out Green wanting to go to the dance with Red wasn't planned either, but it became useful later in Chapter 12.
And, obviously, because Ruby and Sapphire's fight in the last chapter wasn't planned, neither was the ending scene.
…This whole chapter was just nonsense looking back at it.
Chapter 10
This chapter was not planned, in a sense, though it was the boys' version of the slumber party that I mentioned earlier.
Okay, the entire concept of Lady having to choose a date was literally implemented in DOING THIS CHAPTER!It was never supposed to happen! In fact, it's so useless, you don't even pay attention to it. The ONLY reason it was included was because if it wasn't, one of two problems would have occurred.
Sono ichi: When Gold asked Diamond and Pearl about who they wanted to go to the dance with, Diamond would have said Lady and then Ruby would realize that Diamond and Sapphire weren't going to the dance together, thus ending that conflict, making later events not happen, be useless and therefore BORING!
Sono ni: The same situation occurs, yet it is questioned if Diamond or Pearl wants to go to the dance with her, this switching to a Dia VS Pearl conflict and causing more problems!
…and Ruby would have realized that Diamond and Sapphire weren't going to the dance together, thus ending that conflict, making later events not happen, be useless and therefore BORING!
Though it actually helped me out a bit in the next chapter.
Chapter 11
OK. This chapter is based on something I thought of that was originally just going to be a useless scene. It was just going to exploit Green being a thief.
Then the concept of her hiding it and letting Diamond and Pearl search for it was thought up. But it was just gonna be Green's idea of setting people up like the other events in this story. This plan originally had nothing to do with Ruby. However, it makes much more sense with Ruby.
Numero uno: There's now more of a reason for it to happen. The preview chapter states that Platinum has to pick a date. And being that the person who finds the ring will make Platinum want to CHOOSE them, it makes more sense than if she didn't have to choose a date.
Numero dos: Without, Ruby's involvement, the DiaXSapphire conflict would probably have been shattered here, since, originally, Pearl was actually going to be in favor of Diamond finding the ring to impress Platinum. (But as I mentioned in the actual chapter, that would have been biased, and ruined the HaughtyShippery . But was there really any anyways? *shot*). And since this would have happened earlier, Ruby would have found out eventually. Thuuuss…
…Ruby would have realized that Diamond and Sapphire weren't going to the dance together, thus ending that conflict, making later events not happen, be useless and therefore BORING!
Numero tres: Ruby has more of a reason to want this to occur, thus implementing more of the previous conflicts as opposed to Green who was just being nosy.
But anyway, just know that nothing else in there was originally planned until later.
Also, any and all MangaQuest was not planned and only included because…I love MangaQuest. Sugoi, ne?
Chapter 12
The only aspect of this story that was planned was Red and Green's battle and even that was originally going to happen way earlier than here. But it being here worked out pretty well. This scene serves as Green FINALLY telling Red to ask Yellow to the dance.
Once again, another "Sapphire and Pilo and Diamond showing up" scene that wasn't originally planned. BUT this one became useful. It serves as the reason why Diamond didn't go to the dance with Platinum which was originally going to happen differently. But I'll explain that when I get there.
Chapter 13
So here we are, the actual dance; the only other thing I originally thought of when I created this story besides the first chapter!
Obviously, Chikorita85's outfits weren't in the original plans; in fact, they were just going to wear their regular clothes. But, this way is much better.
Thus, concept of Sapphire's dress wasn't in here originally, but it worked out PERFECTLY because her leaving the gym WAS thought of. But I didn't have a reason for it. Now it plays through just right. Oh yeah!
I won't get too into this, but just keep in mind that Lady giving Green her ring wasn't originally going to happen.
The part with Crys and Gold wasn't planned originally, but someone had to kiss, so who else would it have been? Plus, it works out because Crystal's embarrassment-stiffness-syndrome made reason to have Yellow leave. Awesome again!
Other various forms of entertainment (TV, games) at the dance weren't part of the original chapter, but, again, it works out well, allowing for more events to happen. Though, you probably wouldn't outright notice this...which is great, actually.
The dance was originally one chapter and was going to end here, but I'll explain that better for the next chapter.
Chapter 14
Ok, so this chapter was originally going to be another part of the dance. And you may be thinking: WHADDYA MEAN, Stella? If the dance ended last chapter, how was THIS chapter gonna be the dance? Well, it was because, believe it or not, this story was actually going to have: RED END UP WITH YELLOW! WHAT?! That's right. And if you've read my profile (which you probably haven't because who would?) you may ask: Well, Stellallellallelab, it says on your profile that you don't really like Special, so why have it end up that way? And the answer, in addition to, "Because I CAN!" is simple:
Well, I actually wanted people to read this and being that, WE ALL LOVE SPECIALSHIPPING because it's AWESOME, I was gonna have it end up that way; majority rules. But then, I realized during the writing of this story that:
Dì yī: I am just REALLY BAD at writing SpecialShipping! DX I just can't do it. So ending like that would probably have been worse than the ending we have now.
Qícì: My first reviewer was actually in favor of Lucky. Well, damn! I guess that's settled; I'll just end it like that. However, this won't be good for people who clicked on this because Special was mentioned and alluded to by Green a few times in the story.
So what I was gonna do was have a normal ending and an alternate ending. In the normal ending, it (the dance) was going to end as it did, with Red and Green. Of course, here, she never would have left because she never would have returned because she didn't have Lady's ring. I have no idea how I thought of this originally or how this would have worked (because I surely don't see it now), but whatever.
In the alternate ending, Red would have danced with Yellow and a few more romancy things would have happened. Green would have merely left the dance and the story would have concluded with her floating away and Blue watching. Sound familiar? Well, yeah, I did put "THE END" at the end of chapter 12, (though that was for the lulz XD In fact, I actually just noticed that) but that actually was the plan of the alternate ending. But, as you can see, it STILL would have been a troll ending because I would not have ended it with Oldrival (again, for the lulz. Imma jerk, but this is my own fault for not including it as much, otherwise it may have made sense) and Green would NOT have come back. The dance would've been okay, but what the heck happened to Green? So I doubt people would have liked that ending anyway.
So, I eventually decided against this alternate ending as you can probably see. But this was because, well being that I only have a few reviews anyway, no one was (or at least seemed to be) rather torn up at the ending. So I didn't feel the need to include the alternate ending.
But looking back at it, having Red end up with Yellow wouldn't have been the best idea since not much really happened between them in the story (this is probably, again, my own fault for not putting in as much between the two as I could have). Though it's not like him ending up with Green made sense, either.
So back to the ACTUAL STORY, in this chapter: much of the events surrounding Red and Green weren't planned at all and only were added because of the ring. And even after I thought of that, the whole thing with Musha was added AS I DID THIS.
Blue was gonna tell Red that Green wanted to go with him, but it was originally going to be much shorter, with no flashback.
One of the first things that I thought of when I created this story FINALLY happens: Diamond and Sapphire are talking and Ruby confronts Diamond. The misunderstanding is cleared up and made more romancy due to the addition of Sapphire's dress.
Another thing that happened, but was going to happen differently: Pearl made Diamond be Lady's date. This happened because Pearl was tired of being pushed around and didn't want to deal with it. Originally (you must be getting tired of seeing this word), Pearl was going to tell Diamond to ask Platinum to dance or something. This is because, I don't remember why (probably because Platinum originally didn't have to choose a date) but, Platinum ended up going to the dance without Dia or Pearl. But then came the concept of Lady having to choose a date. WTH is wrong with me?!
Later, which is closer to what became the final product, the idea was: while Diamond was still outside with Sapphire, Pearl was going be Platinum's date. But he was going to tell her that Diamond was the one who really wanted to go to the dance with her and she should ask him to be her date.
…Brilliantly changed to Pearl basically saying that Diamond was better at being pushed around than him. Beautiful.
And being that I took out any and all statements like this to avoid making Haughty obsolete, this couldn't have happened.
And of course, Yellow returned and the chapter ended with her in confusion.
Chapter 15
The reason this chapter is not as it was originally intended is because…IT EXISTS! WHAT?! That's right; I never intended to have this chapter at all! In fact, as mentioned prior, in every scenario, the story was supposed to end at the dance. Because I broke the dance up into three parts, I had the dance end, everyone walk home together (which you guys hated…which I suppose is good since I'm a troll) and conclude at school the next day. This way the chapter isn't too short and we get a nice little aftermath of the dance.
But let's start with the minor changes.
Another minor change was that Red and Green were going to apologize to Yellow after the dance when they all went outside because she was originally gonna stay out there on the balcony with Blue. Thus, that regular ending with Green and Red and blah. But that was changed to her going back to the dance and the subsequent apology inside the building.
Also, of course, Red ended his date with Yellow. I felt that that was pretty realistic since Red's not that much of a douche. And there was an Oldrival scene! Yay!
And then they go outside and walk home together. And ironically, them going home by carriage was my original plan. WAHAHA!
So then they go to school the next day.
And… there's more MangaQuest! And Frantic. Though the Frantic wasn't originally planned, it made the end of the story flow right on through.
And this marks the end of this author's note.
This just goes to show you how many changes a story goes through when your only concept is the first chapter and the last. But having the rest planned out in between, makes the job MUCH easier and updated relatively quickly. XD
I hope you enjoyed this little segment and I thank you all, once again, for reading, PokeSpecial Adventures: School Version. :D