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AC Coda X
November 19th, 2006, 09:27 PM
Yo, yo, reader!

It is me,
ACC,
come to make you smile
Read this fic,
(ain't this rhyme scheme slick?)
and stop to review it a while.

Seriously folks, based on popular demand I have collected twenty more random phrases and placed them in a story- but this time, I'm going to go a little farther. What you see here is the beggining of the story of my (fanfic style) life at hom, complete with crazy Pokemon, angry trainers, ninja lawyers, and various references to my other fanfics. This first part is a prologue of sorts, introducing three of our recurring characters, starting with Char, who is based off of my first Pokemon gameboy style. And this time, I didn't make any Dannichu references, although she did once write a humor series about her Pokemon house-sitting for her... but that has nothing to do with this one, actually, other then making me go so crazy with laughter that I was able to write this thing through to the end.

Enjoy, and review!

Note: Allergic to Insanity? Don't read this.


The Mad Phrases:

1. They’re bulletproof!
2. I ought to tell you- I was married once before.
3. This isn’t an episode of DBZ, is it?
4. Quick- what’s your name and social security number?
5. Hey kid- I can do kung fu.
6. Dang! Why won’t this game load?
7. If I say tomato...
8. If a Diglett bit me, would you save my life?
9. Good morning, Eddie.
10. What? ____ is evolving! Dun, dun; dun, dun....
11. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!
12. ACC had better not screw up this fanfic.
13. I’ve got a jar of di-irt, I’ve got a jar of di-irt...
14. The piggy is oinking!
15. Where, oh where has my little dog gone....
16. This fanfiction will self-destruct the minute I say ____. How do you like me now?
17. You can’t say that! It’s unconstitutional!
18. I demand a refund!
19. When it rains, ninjas do not get wet. The rain gets ninja’d.
20. I know you’re out there. I can sense your energy level.


The Charizard continued his flight through the air. How he loved the rush of it- air flowing over his dragon-like wings, across his reptilian head and body, and fanning the gleaming flame at the end of his tail. It was so relaxing, just soaring through the air, knowing that today; he wouldn’t have to film another episode of that idiotic show...

“Verdammt! I’m so going to murder the director for this!” the giant dragon growled angrily as he stared at the message that had just appeared on the screen of his tiny cell phone, which looked understandably out of place in his enormous claw. “dr chrzrd: get 2 set now. hry.” With a roar of pure anger, he swooped downward, changing direction swiftly and aiming himself for the set of the TV show he wished he had never agreed to perform in. He had been just a Charmander at the time, and completely ignorant of what being a character in that series meant. Now, however, he was much older and wiser, and knew what he was getting into every time he walked onto that set. A world of fershluginer suffering, agony, and poor writing and directing, that’s what. And worse, he couldn’t even curse about it, as it was a children’s asterisk, pound sign, percent sign, and exclamation point show. If he attempted to curse even off the job, he would generate even worse publicity- but then again, bad publicity might get the show canceled, and that director would be out of work. Or better yet, he could get fired. Of course, he would be out of work, but he was sure he had enough money from royalties to live off of- then again, he might not. At this point it was better to play it safe until he got the chance to sue that freak and then-

Oh, joy.

A grin spread across his foreboding features, and in spite of all the troubles he had gone through under this contract, he couldn’t help laughing at the mental image of him torching that verdammt director once and for all. The flaming dragon landed inside of the small city where he made his keep, and began to walk on all fours toward the set. There, in the director’s chair, sat the one Pokemon in the world that could make his blood, which usually remained the same temperature at all times, raise itself six degrees or more. He often wondered why he didn’t boil alive from the inside, in fact. Those cute little pointed yellow-and-black ears, that lightning bolt tail- they made him sick to his stomach. One day, he knew, he was going to break free of the “non-aggression clause” of his contract, and then-

Oh, bliss.

He continued moving towards the outdoor set, breathing out small puffs of flame in his ecstasy at the thought of his revenge. He didn’t care- he never paid attention to those “Don’t smoke on the set” signs. He was fairly sure that Surrel or one of the other water Pokemon from the cast had put them up anyway. As he continued to move towards the small stage, he thought about all of the idiotic things he had to put up with in this line of work- long hours, extremely limited dialogue, and ,of course, the evil director. Oh, the day would come when he would break free of this show, but for now, he had to deal with them. Still, nothing in his contract said he had to be a nice guy about it. Stalking up to the disgustingly cute little mouse, he snarled “Good morning, Eddie. You wanted to see me?”

“Yes, actually, I did Char old boy. I have a question for you that could make a huge difference on this show.” Edward the Pikachu responded in that annoying oxford accent. Char hated the English accent. It made that idiotic rodent sound smarter then he really was.

“And that would be?” Char growled in a low, deep voice. Mentally, he was already counting to ten thousand, the logic being that if he needed to count ten to calm himself down in front of his friends, on hundred for his acquaintances and coworkers, and a thousand for people he downright hated, ten thousand would definitely be needed for a freak like Eddie.

“Where, oh where has my little dog gone....” sang Eddie, as he removed a palm pilot from the opened briefcase beside him and started typing in random words.

Char couldn’t believe it. Eddie was dumb, and a jerk, and a horrible director, but he wasn’t THAT incredibly idiotic! He really couldn’t have just called him on his day off to an emergency meeting on the set just to ask a totally unintelligible question with absolutely no point. “Come again?” he asked, in a malevolent tone of voice that called to mind images of complete and utter destruction.

“Oh nothing, it’s just that I completely forgot what I was going to ask you, m’lad.” The Pikachu replied, as he began mashing buttons on the palm pilot. “Dang, why won't this game load?" he muttered.

“Sir, that’s a palm pilot, not your gameboy. If you don’t know what you wanted to ask me, can I go?” Char hurriedly asked, hoping to escape the set without doing anything that he might regret when he got into court.

“Oh heavens no! My question is much too important to leave until tomorrow. Just wait around the set with the other cast members until I remember what it was in the first place, old friend. But thank you about reminding me about my gameboy. Where is that cursed thing?” exclaimed the rodent, still using his annoying “oxford professor” voice as he scrambled through the contents of his briefcase in a frantic search for his game.

Resisting the urge to scream and commence destruction of the electric rat in front of him, Char pointed one of his claws at the small, purple object sitting beside the Pikachu before moving as quickly as possible towards the nearby cast trailers, praying that he wouldn’t snap completely before the day was out. Being forced to hang out on the set on his day off was cruelty! He would sooner fly into a black hole then voluntarily spend a minute more hanging out on the set then was required for his job. With a low, rumbling growl he wrenched open the door of the dining trailer, which was packed with cast and crew members, and began to search for a vacant table. As long as he was forced to stay here, he might as well grab some breakfast.

“Yo, Char! Over here!” I called, waving.

The large dragon stopped, and then directed his gaze at me. “Who the (expletive) are you?” he asked, “and how did I just curse?”

“You, my dear Char, are a character in my latest fanfiction. I am ACC, the almighty, eccentric, skull-wearing author who brought you into being. I am currently in a slump as far as ideas go, so I just sort of wrote you into a situation that could turn out funny. I wanted you to know, however, that I intend to give you a happy ending, so you won’t attempt to kill me like my last humor fic character did.” I explained, passing him the sheet of paper containing my last insane fanfic.

He stared. The giant dragon couldn’t believe it. A puny human author wearing a Cubone skull had written him into being and was now bargaining for his won safety? “Prove that you wrote me.” He finally said, returning the paper.

“I don’t have to. Everyone else already knows. Look at those two Bulbasaur over there.” I responded, pointing to the two bulb-like Pokemon sitting directly behind me.

“Boy, I sure hope this story turns out better then that pitiful attempt at humor ACC made in ‘The Chronicles of Ryou: Erratic’.” The first one, obviously a male, said, before taking a big bite out of his breakfast pizza.

“Yeah, really, ACC had better not screw up this fanfic,” agreed his companion, a smaller female Bulbasaur. “Hey, I just said a random phrase! Alright!” she giggled, before making a clumsy attempt to kiss her older friend, who immediately blocked her lips with one of his vines.

“We’re only romantically interested during the plot of a TV show. Remember?” the older Bulbasaur asked, staring angrily at the younger female in front of him.

“Sorry- guess I got carried away.” The younger Bulbasaur responded, hanging her head.

“Hey, don’t cry. If you want, I can say something really random and end this fanfiction faster so we can get to work.” The older Bulbasaur responded, looking at the younger one with a gaze of compassion.

“Which one?” she asked, staring at him with wonder in her eyes.

The older Bulbasaur squared his back, stood up, and yelled at the top of his lungs, “THEY’RE BULLETPROOF!”

“Oh, Bubba...” the smaller Bulbasaur asked, staring at him, “why can’t we fall in love for real?”

“Well, there’s kind of a reason for that...” said Bubba, nervously twiddling his toes.

“And it would be?”

“I ought to tell you- I was married once before.”

“WHAT!?!?”

“Yeah. To that Chikorita from the other fanfic’s mother. She was really good looking...” Bubba said dreamily.

I quickly drew a curtain over the entire scene by writing in a soundproof room, which the female Bulbasaur promptly dragged Bubba into. I decided to leave it at that, as I felt that the less character death I was involved in, the better chance I had of surviving my own fanfic. “Now do you believe me?” I asked Char, staring into his eyes- or rather, his eye. He was looking at me sideways. I hate it when people look at me sideways. It always means that they're about to murder me.

Char considered this turn of events. It was all just too unbelievable. Two of his coworkers just talking about random phrases and fanfiction? It wasn’t possible. “No. I still don’t believe you. Tell me who you really are.” He demanded, hoping that this slightly demented looking human would say something that would restore his belief that this was all real.

“But I thought I proved that this was all a fanfiction?” I asked, staring in disbelief at my own character.

“You-you could’ve paid them to say that. Bubba is always short on cash. Tell me who you are, before I bite your head off!” roared Char, as fire dripped from his jaws. He brought his head as close as possible to my body before launching a flamethrower directly over my head, nearly singeing my Cubone skull headdress.

I backed away, removing my list of mad phrases. I hated having to bring about the end of the fanfic so soon, but it wasn’t a good idea for me to allow this fanfiction to continue if I was going to get killed. I immediately yelled at the top of my lungs “Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!”

Immediately, a group of lawyers wearing ninja weaponry jumped out from behind various areas of the dining trailer, including one who simply leaped out from behind Char, pulled out a briefcase, then leapt three feet into the air and landed behind me. “Hey kid, I can do kung fu.” He said, before shoving a copyright sheet in front of me. I stared at it- from what I could make out, it apparently said that “Kage Bunshin no Jutsu” was trademarked to Masashi Kishimoto and could not be used in any works of fanfiction except those that pertained to his series, and if I didn’t do something right away I was going to get lawyer-ninja’d. I thought quickly, then removed my handy-dandy back story sheet and wrote in the one thing I could think of that could save me now.

As Char stared at the ninja-lawyers, a great rage began coursing throughout his body. Before he had time to identify its cause, he had already thrown several lawyers through the windows of the trailer, and torched the one who was currently threatening me. By the time he remembered that he had an irrational hatred of lawyers, which is what I had written in, most of them were already out cold, and the one remaining lawyer was being squeezed against the wall by Len’s bonemerang, which I had borrowed after the end of “The Insane Fanfic of Dooom”. I love bonemerangs. They make me feel like some sort of gung-ho Marowak.

I continued to squeeze the evil nin-lawyer against the wall. “What happens to a ninja when it rains?” I asked, applying more pressure to the giant bone that was currently pushing the lawyer's ribcage into the wall.

No response from nin-lawyer man.

I pushed harder. “Come on, I know you’re out there. I can sense your energy level.” I muttered.

“This isn’t an episode of DBZ, is it?” he gasped.

I leaned against the bone until I heard the man’s ribcage begin to pop. “Just answer the fershluginer question! What happens to a ninja when it rains?” I admonished.

Finally, my pasty-faced foe cracked. “When it rains, ninjas do not get wet. The rain gets ninja’d.” he wheezed, before I released the pressure, letting him fall to the ground.

Char continued staring at me in awe. “ACC, how is it that you can do all of this?” he finally asked. “I mean, logically, if you are a character in your own fanfiction, isn’t doing all of this effectively turning yourself into a Gary-Stu character?”

I met his gaze. Admittedly, I hadn’t expected a question like that. “I really don’t know, Char. I suppose that since I’m the author and I’m also paranoid, I’m not perfect... and technically, this is a humor fic, so that doesn’t matter as much. But still- dangit, why did you have to ask me something like that! I’m going to go nuts-nuts-nuts! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!” I shouted, before succumbing to the burst of insanity within my brain.

I should have warned Char- if there is anything I hate, it is a question I cannot effectively answer. My crazier side released itself, then reached for the papers containing the fic, and began to write.

“Hey, ACC? I was just asking if-,” Char managed to say before a giant pickle crashed into the ceiling of the building. “What the heck?” he yelled, before the nin-lawyes leapt to their feet, pulled off their masks, and revealed themselves to be the Insane Society of Fanfic Authors, who began dancing a jog throughout the entire fanfic. Since they were insane, they could obviously do anything and get away with it, even dance a jog, which isn’t a dance at all but a leisurely run.

I didn’t care. Char’s comment had pushed my sanity off of the edge, and I was writing randomosity like crazy. Cows flew through the sky. Gary Larsen began drawing The Far Side again. Simon Morgenstern beat William Goldman over the head for cutting out parts of his books. Stephen King began to sing “Oh Christmas Tree”. Large waterfowl turned into harpies and began eating James Bond, who yelled “I’m a radish, I’m a radish! I’ve got a jar of di-irt, I’ve got a jar of di-irt....”

“Englishman In New York” began to play, as a message appeared below the screen of the fanfic: “What? ACC is evolving! Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun..... Congrats! ACC evolved into a better author!” I smiled and kissed it, and it ran off to go play checkers with Eddie, who was still playing his gameboy and oblivious to the whole thing. “The piggy is oinking!” I shouted, before running around and around the giant insane mess I had created.

Char stared at the ground. It was his fault- he had knocked me off the brink of insanity, and now there was going to be the devil to pay for it. No one could possibly save this hopeless muddle of a story now-unless... his eyes traveled to his foot, where the list of mad phrases had conveniently become stuck. He peeled it off, before shouting out the first two that became apparent to him, “You can’t say that! It’s unconstitutional! I demand a refund!”

Immediately, my partial sanity returned, and I erased all mention of overly random things in the story. Immediately, all out of place objects and characters vanished. “Keep saying those phrases before I have a relapse!” I yelled, “And whatever you do, don’t say ______”

“If you say what?” he called back.

“______! If you say ______!” I replied.

“But how can you say ______? ______ isn’t even a word!”

"I don't know, but you're saying it!"

"Oh, sure. This fanfiction will self-destruct the minute I say ____. How do you like me now?"

“No! You Fool! Too late- you said it! We’re all doomed!” I yelled, as the fanfic exploded around us, and the papers containing it turned to ash in my hands..

We landed in my room back in the real world. “Well, now you’ve done it.” I said to my character, who had landed on my bed.

“What? What did I do?”

“You said ______ and blew the fanfic up! Now I can’t end it! I guess if we say some random phrases, like 'If I say tomato', I can stop writing, but how am I going to explain you to my parents? ‘Oh hi Mom, this is Char, a random character from my latest humor fic!’ What do you think she’ll do?” I yelled, beating the wall.

“How do you explain wearing a Cubone skull and running around with a brown cloak to her?” Char asked, rolling off of the bed.

“Don’t ask.... I'll just go insane again. You know, I suppose I could just say you were from my older fics....”

“Older fics?”

I opened my bedroom door, revealing a large amount of Pokemon cleaning. “Older fics.” I said, pointing at them. “They all just didn’t work out, so I ended the fic and then they came here. Mom wishes I’d stop doing that. She says we have enough problems in this crazy house without insane Pokemon.”

Char’s jaw dropped. “So, what do I have to do to stay here?” he managed to ask, attempting to get over his shock.

“Quick-What’s your name and social security number?” asked Alakazam, as he appeared behind me. I waved him off with a “not now” signal, before addressing Char’s question. “Nothing- just help around the house and try not to barbecue the neighbors.”

Char nodded, and started to walk out the door, before turning back to me. “Hey, ACC?”

“What?”

“What was that question Eddie was going to ask me?”

I grabbed the charred remains of the fanfic, before reading off “If a Diglett bit me, would you save my life?”

Char’s eyes narrowed. “That was it?”

I nodded.

“AUGH! IF HE WAS HERE, I’D KILL HIM!” Char roared, sending a stream of flames directly towards my midriff. I nimbly dodged aside, before leaping up and whispering something into his ear. His eyes widened, and then contracted. “Where is he?” he breathed. Mutely, I pointed towards the swivel chair in the center of my room, where Eddie continued to play his gameboy, oblivious to what was going on around him.

“You know, I think your contract blew up with the rest of the fanfic...” I said, my voice trailing off as Char strode toward Eddie, a demonic grin stretching across his features. I prudently decided to end the scene by simply walking out of my room and closing the door, pausing only to hang up a sign reading:

THE END (for now....)

How do you like me now? I wish I did live in a house with my Pokemon- in the next 'chapter', look for the appearance of:

My parents
My evil living sicence project
A few old fanfic characters
Really crazy mad phrases

Now remember children, if you want ACC to improve his writing, review, review, and review some more!

Excelsior!

-ACC

AC Coda X
November 22nd, 2006, 10:51 PM
Hmm... not one reviewer. Even people who hate me won't criticize me, it seems... come on, read the story already! Ignoring an author is the ultimate form of punishment, and I take my writing VERY seriously.

Oh, and in the second paragraph- that censored word is "get". I don't know why it got censored, but...

FullmetalxFangirl
November 23rd, 2006, 03:53 AM
... Lawl. That was ... entertaining. Or maybe I'm just in a odd mood today. Just note that:

"When you're writing speech and are going to use a verb at the end, such as 'said' or 'hollered', finish your speech sentence with a comma, like this," I advised.

Oh, and a warning: Never use multiple exclamation marks like that again. Never. Or I will find out wherever the hell you live and have carnivorous spiders (Conscience: Aren't they carnivorous anyway? x_X) devour you from the inside out. And then I'll kill you.

Toodles~ <3

AC Coda X
November 23rd, 2006, 04:20 AM
Ooh... I will be murdered. Scary. 0_o

Yeah, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for reviewing.

Ichaste Pekoni
November 23rd, 2006, 04:11 PM
...Complete randomness with a bit of shenanigans...me likey. Gives a real insight into the human (or whatever-you-are) mind...

AC Coda X
November 23rd, 2006, 05:03 PM
Human- I just wear a skull and a brown cloak, 'cause that's how insane I am. 0_o

AC Coda X
December 10th, 2006, 12:10 AM
Listen- I'm back, with chapter two, part one. This is an intentional cliffhanger, so expect some things that are not explained here, such as the conundrum of ACC's mother, to be explained in part two. By the way- this time, instead of putting my mad phrases at the beggining, I'm posting the list at the end of part two. Heh. So you get to guess what they are until then.

Happy Reading!

I woke up at about seven this morning, and what do you know, everything had gone nuts. More then usual I mean.

My usually disorganized bedroom, strewn with various beakers, bottles, and parchments that made the place look like some kind of mad scientist’s lab, was tidy. I don’t just mean tidy, I mean sparkling, shimmering; spotless! The place looked like a Martha-Stewart-like hurricane had just swept through, picked up all my loose equipment, and deposited both it and the usual dust I’d picked up in the proper receptacles. This was not good- a clean room for me always meant one thing. Hastily, I leaped from my bed, which I noticed was perfectly made despite my tossing and turning the night before, and bolted to my closet. Flinging the doors open, I saw the one thing that always heralded their approach- my brown cloaks were hung up side-by-side, and my Cubone skull was lying just below them, perfectly and spotlessly cleaned and bleached. Even the usual cracks on its surface were shining. Yanking a cloak off of the hangers, I pulled it over my body hastily and jammed my skull onto my head so quickly that I put it on backwards the first time, and had to reverse it. With a speed born of desperation, I yanked the door open and charged upstairs, where I found the breakfast table neatly set, and covered with a checkered tablecloth and napkins folded into swan shapes. SWAN SHAPES, I TELL YOU!

Oh, wait, was I acting slightly insane there? Yes?

Oh... I’m sorry.
Well, it was just about at that point that I noticed something else missing- my Pokemon, or rather, my fanfiction characters, most of which were Pokemon. This was bad. Very, very bad. So bad that... well, I'm going to stop now at the risk of getting beaten with a large weapon of mass destruction. A large...

Yeah, I'm stopping now.

I practically flew back down to the basement of my quaint, two-story home. For those of you who do not know it, "quaint" is just another way of saying "really, really boring looking". If Char or the others had been abducted... well, for one thing I'd probably get beaten over the head when they got back for oversleeping, but that would be beside the point. I bet you all are wondering "Hey, why is 7:00 oversleeping?". Well, if you live with a cranky dragon who wakes up at five every morning, and you're constantly on a sort of sugar high, it is. I'm really getting off topic here, so let's get back to the action. Rushing towards the basement door, I felt my foot make contact with the bottom of my cloak. Making a mental note to shorten the hemline, I went over my mental list for what to do in case of something like this happening: I had to keep my balance (I began wobbling), I had to break my fall (my arms flailed wildly but grasped nothing), and I had to at least say something intelligent...

“BUBBLEGUM!” I yelled as my nose contacted the floor.

Well, that was a complete and total success, said the voice in my mind.

Aw, shut up Brain, I thought in reply, you can never look on the bright side of things, can you?

Is there a bright side?

I was about to answer with an ordinary statement, when I remembered the slight competition between myself and my brain. Whenever one of us asked a question, the other had to answer with a question, and the first one to answer straight up lost. I quickly rephrased my reply, and thought this in return: Why shouldn’t there be?

Well, what is there a bright side to?

This rhyme: Mirror, mirror on the wall; who’s the dumbest one of all?

Is that a question?

Have you ever heard of a man named “Jim Duncan”?

Are you changing the subject?

Why should I not?

Well, is there anything you really know?

Is there anything that I do not?

Are you laughing?

What’s funny?

You’re not really going to keep this up, are you?

What am I keeping up?

ACC, look out!

I laughed and shouted “Ah-ha! I am victorious!” just before the gigantic salamander-like Pokemon slammed through the back door and into my stomach. I attempted, once again, to remain cool, calm, and rational.

“Kitty cat!” I shouted as I plowed into the wall.

Great job staying on top, ACC.

Oh, shut up Brain. You’re nothing but a lump of cellular matter with no morals.

Thank you for the compliment, ACC! I didn’t think you cared!

Shut up, you overgrown noodleloaf.

“ACC? Can you hear me? Speak to me!” yelled the overgrown blue salamander that stood leaning over me. I glared at him- Nu the Swampert was one of my more annoying creations, to say the least. In fact, he was downright maddening at times. Jeesh, the guy just made me want to pummel him and-

(Here the manuscript breaks off, and is resumed in a slightly shakier hand.)

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THE VALKRYIES ARE COMING! MAN YOUR BATTLESTATIONS!” I screeched.

“What?” Nu asked, still bending over me as I clutched my stomach.

“Oh, nothing- just an insanity moment created by my psyche to deal with the pain of getting hit with a ten foot tall lizard. Watch, I’ll do another- I LOVE THIS SHAVER! There, are you satisfied?” I snapped as I pulled myself to my feet. Peering around the room, I noticed that while I had lain on the ground recovering, most of my fanfiction characters that currently lived with me were crowded around- Eddie, Char, Audrey the Chikorita, Edward the Typhlosion, Seymour the Venusaur, even Kaz the demented Alakazam. Grabbing the nearby stair rail in order to gain some support, I managed to summon enough energy to ask “So, where are they?”

The reaction I received was mixed- everyone but Eddie and Char began to say where they had last seen the people I was asking about. Char and Eddie, however, simply stared and asked “Who?”

“You explain it to them, Audrey- I’m a bit tired at the moment.” I replied, slipping into my computer chair, which was conveniently located in the room right beside the stairwell.

“You see, Char, you and Eddie are new,” Audrey began, “And you have no way of knowing about- them...” She shuddered, before continuing her narrative, in a voice that she usually reserved for ghost stories and describing Audrey II, her hero. (For those who don't know, it was the man-eating plant in "Little Shop of Horrors". I was obsessed at the time that I wrote her, you see.) “You see, over a year ago ACC decided that he would begin writing Pokemon fanfiction, and he decided that his first tale would be one of a boy who loved Pokemon instead of humans. The story never panned out; however, as he quickly realized that it had no depth, no drama, no nothing. Later, however, he decided to take another shot at writing-“

“What happened?” Eddie interrupted, staring at the tough-as-nails vegetable Pokemon in front of him with a slightly vapid expression on his scarred face.

“Once again, it didn’t pan out. He began writing- it was a humorous Poke-Academy fic, and a fairly good one in concept, but he was forced to stop because he couldn’t keep a steady plot running.” Audrey replied.

“This is interesting- the great writer, ACC, unable to finish his story? I want to hear more,” Char chuckled, before all of the senior characters fixed him with a sobering glare- for them, this tale was no laughing matter. Or me, for that matter. Come to think of it, it isn't really that funny, and most of the stuff I wanted to put here is funny, so maybe I should cut this...

What, you want to hear it anyway? Okay- but it's really freaky, I warn you.

“Anyway, after his latest failure, ACC left home on a journey in order to become an author- that’s where the traveling cloak fashion statement comes from, he picked one up while searching and just decided that it looked so good on him that he began wearing it all the time. The Cubone skull came later. Now listen, because this is the important part...” Slowly, quietly, Audrey began to tell the story of the day I had become an author in truth, and not just name. As she spoke, my mind whisked me back, back, back, to that fateful day...”

The sun beat down on my sandal-clad feet. As its golden rays baked my footwear and me as well, I noticed a slight shimmer of light in the desert ahead of me- I shook my head. It was just another mirage, I told myself, just another trick of the mind created by the heat in this blasted place...

It was, melodramatically enough, at this point that the stranger tapped me on the back. I whirled around, fists upheld, only to be whacked on the head with a large bone. “Urk,” I groaned, before collapsing on the ground like a rag doll without strings.

“So, you are the idiot boy who thinks he can become an author by hitchhiking his way into the middle of the Death Valley, USA,” the black-robed figure chuckled, still holding his bone scepter, “And here I thought you would be taller.”

I groaned- I still wasn’t ready for words yet.

“Well, my boy, I’d like to introduce you to my special friends- the bones of inspiration.” He chuckled, before grabbing my ankles and hauling me bodily across the sand. As my feet skimmed the desert, I felt a sharp pain in my leg. I raised my head, just enough to see a scorpion vanish into the desert sand. It was a big sucker- about the size of my foot. My leg was already beginning to swell, and it had a lump on it about the same shade of purple as a deep bruise. My head began to swim, and all I could hear was the laughter of the man dragging me...

When I awoke, I was beside a cactus. Nothing surprising, really- there were a whole lot of cacti in the desert. But this one had a skull hanging over it- a Cubone skull. I rolled over, and tentatively attempted to pull myself to my feet. I immediately stopped as a sharp pain shot through my leg, causing me to collapse next to the cactus again. With a groan, I began to pull myself along the ground, each successive pull sending a small jolt of pain along my leg. I had no clue where I was going, the pain was getting unbearable, and I was beginning to feel a strange happy feeling coursing throughout my body- probably the first sign of sunstroke, or my brain’s way of dealing with whatever the scorpion poison was doing to my internal systems. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure that at that particular point, the poison had worked its way throughout my body, and that my stomach looked like a scene from “Body Hell Two: On the Inside”. I’m not even sure that movie’s been written yet, come to think of it. I mean, if it isn’t, I could write it, but I’m not that good at screenplay and whatnot, but maybe I could at least attempt... I could get some of my friends to act, maybe enlist Eddie for help as director... hey that would be a great movie! I’d love it! I mean, that would be so-

Oh, wait, I’m getting off topic again. Sorry.

Anyway, back to the desert. There I was, scorpion poison playing games with my brain, Cubone skull topped Saguaro behind me, and crazy black-robed old guy sitting beside me...

Wait- Old guy?

I turned to face the old black-robed freaky guy who had dragged me here in the first place. Before I could say a word, however, he held a finger to his lips, then leaped to his feet, rushed to the cactus, yanked the skull down from it, and rushed back, and then jammed the bone onto my head. It hurt somewhat, but I didn’t really notice as the scorpion poison was still wreaking havoc with my nerves. “Listen to me, my boy,” He whispered with a voice that sounded as soft as a cloud, “This skull is going to be your new partner. When you wear it, you will be able to see a little- shall we say, deeper, into your stories, to see the different twists and turns they can take. And better yet, I have something even more interesting to give you.” Quick as a wink, he was behind the cactus, and returned holding a few sheaves of paper, as well as a pen, which he pressed into my hands. “Write anything on that,” he murmured, “and if it is a story, it will take place in a world of its own, and you will witness it. You must wear the Cubone skull and write only using that pen to make the charm work When you write the words ‘The End’, you will return to your room. If you write a ‘mad phrase’ story, you will return to your room when the list is completed. At least, I think that’s how it works.”

I managed to gasp “You THINK?”

“I’m new! I don’t have much experience! Creating people like you is a fairly new field, you know!” Black-robe shouted, all traces of silver lining gone from his cloudy voice.

Slowly, I moved my pen-hand towards the paper. If writing the words “The End” really did bring me back...

There was a flash of light, and suddenly I was in my own bed again.

“And that’s how ACC got the ability to bring fanfics to life. After he got back, he wrote a quick story about getting sent to a hospital where the scorpion poison in his leg was extracted. However, he was a bit late- the venom had driven him insane. His parents pressured him to see a therapist, but he just brushed them off, and began writing whenever they attempted to get him to see a doctor. He would disappear into the fanfic, and wouldn't return until after his parents gave up. One day, however, his father figured out how he was managing to escape, and made the mistake of ripping a fanfic in two in an attempt to pull ACC out. The result was that the in-fic universe vanished, and the main character, me, appeared in this world. When ACC discovered he could bring his fic characters here, he began writing stories for the exact purpose of bringing the characters into the real world. His parents were furious, but there was really nothing they could do about it. Eventually, they just left the house, saying that they might as well give it to ACC since he was self-sufficient now, but that they would be coming back to check up on him every few weeks. He later discovered the whole thing was just a trick, to pressure him into getting therapy, but it didn't matter because the next day, they were hit by a cadillac. The driver said he was sorry. ACC managed to convince the public officials that he was eighteen through an incredibly complicated scheme, so he wasn’t committed to foster care, and the house was left to him in the will; so everything turned out fine. However, one nagging problem remains- once every year the ghosts of ACC’s parents return from the grave in order to check up on him.” Audrey finished.

“Wait- if ACC’s parents are only checking up on him, why is everyone worried? Even if they aren’t exactly alive, they aren’t trying to kill him-are they?” Char asked, staring in amazement at the small green plant in front of him.

“They aren’t out to kill me- but they do drive me nuts. During this one day, they take over the house again, and my powers of writing stop working for a while. When Mom and Dad leave I can use them again, but for this one day I’m effectively unable to care for myself- I have no job, I get money and food by simply writing them into existence. That's not the real problem though- with Mom and Dad here, I’m completely unable to defend myself from the things that lurk in this house.” I replied, staring at my draconic associate.

“What things?” Char asked, just as a guttural roar rang out from the mudroom, and a large, slimy, green blob of jelly with multiple eyes and a mouth filled with sharp teeth burst from the computer screen. I instinctively rolled off of the chair, narrowly evading the jelly blob’s body as it crushed the computer chair in front of me. Leaping to my feet, I made a headlong dash for my characters. Diving to the ground, I felt the hair on the back of my neck go rigid as Eddie fired an electrical bolt at the monster, vaporizing it.

“Those things,” I replied, just as an equally threatening looking monster burst from the room, a great, shaggy, boar-like beast with long, yellow fur and tusks the size of bananas. “I think I’ll be going now,” I muttered, before leaping upstairs, throwing to door open, and racing to the front door; followed closely by my Pokemon companions. If we could make it out of the house, I could spend the day at Scott’s and get away from all of these crazy monsters... well, technically, the monsters were sane but they were born from my own insanity. I really hated it that they could just roam around when I couldn't write them out of existence, but that was beside the point. I was being chased by them, and it was pretty danged freaky. I reached the door, moving like a blur of brown lightning (I'm amazed that I didn't trip again), and reached for the knob-

Just as my hand touched the doorknob, a great burst of blue light shone from behind the doorway. As I pulled my hand away, the door swung open, revealing a pair of glowing, blue figures. Great- just the two people I didn’t need to see.

“Hello son,” they said in unison.

To be continued...

Saffire Persian
December 17th, 2006, 01:42 AM
I like Charizards. ^^'

An interesting foray into the Genre I like to call spectacular insanity - 'tis a branch under humor. Or Horror, whichever you may prefer. It was funny - the two chapters, though frankly I'm not used to pure, random insaneness.

XD I Did feel like shouting 'The Valkyries are coming! The Valkyries are coming!" over and over though... because it just sounds fun.

Nice job. ^_^

AC Coda X
January 14th, 2007, 10:30 PM
Oops... somehow this thing double posted. Oh well, at least I can say "Hi!" And thanks for the review, Persian. Look forward to a nutty second part... and I lied about resolving the problems. Yeah.

AC Coda X
January 14th, 2007, 10:44 PM
I like Charizards. ^^'

An interesting foray into the Genre I like to call spectacular insanity - 'tis a branch under humor. Or Horror, whichever you may prefer. It was funny - the two chapters, though frankly I'm not used to pure, random insaneness.

XD I Did feel like shouting 'The Valkyries are coming! The Valkyries are coming!" over and over though... because it just sounds fun.

Nice job. ^_^

Oh, trust me, it is. Well, I got good news and bad news. The good news is that I'm preparing to give you the next "chapter"- really a direct continuation of this one. Anyway, it's not going to completely resolve ACC's current problems, but it is at least a little funny. Prepare yourself- this one isn't as random as the others, but it still owns 'cause I wrote it. Anyway, prepare for some more ACC goodness with the latest chapter! (Complete with a random O-Make type thing 'cause I was bored and decided to do one. XD

Lesson Three: Never leave minors unattended in a booby-trapped yard.

“NO! I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO YOUR AUTHORITY! AHAH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Whap.

“Sorry- I’m normal again.”

It had been five minutes since I had encountered the spectral forms of my parents, and already I was in trouble. For starters, I was locked in my room with Char and co. Not good. As anyone knows, locking an insane author in his room along with characters of his own creation is never a good idea. He might create a new character, and then use it to escape, after all. Evil, evil, evil. Oh yeah, and more evil. To top it all off, they had stolen my giant bone, taken my pen, and set the monsters outside my door. This is what they call “grounding” me.

“ACC? You Ok, mate?” Eddie asked, cocking his head to one side.

“Fine- just trying to figure out an escape route is all.” I muttered, tapping the walls.

“Why do we need one? I thought you said that you got your writing powers back tomorrow?” he asked.

“I do- but only if I have my pen. If I don’t, then Mom and Dad get to stay. Believe me, you don’t want them to stay.” I replied, gritting my teeth. Why had I never thought to make a secret exit leading away from my room.

At that moment, Eddie launched another curveball. “Say, where did the others go?”

“Oh crap.” I stared- the only beings in the room were myself, Char, and Eddie. “They must have done something...” I muttered, before wheeling to face my partners. “Char, can you knock down the door?”

With a grunt, the dragon-like Pokemon nodded, then proceeded to do so with great aplomb by simply swinging his tail into the door and breaking it down.

“Good. Now, Let’s-“ my sentence was cut short as the monster from earlier leaped into the room, followed by a few nearly identical friends. “RUN LIKE HELL!” I finished, before grabbing a desk lamp and hurling it at the beasts, who parted just long enough for me to race through their midst and up the stairs in a mad panic.

“Um...” Char began.

The beasts moved closer.

“WE’RE COMING WITH YOU!” He and his smaller friend responded in sync, racing up the stairs after me.

Ten minutes later...

“Well, we got away from the monsters and ghosts...” I said, smiling shakily.

“But we’re still trapped. Only, this time we’re in a tree house. If we ever get out of here, I’ll strangle you, ACC.” Char growled.

“You’d die if you did.” I pointed out, “Since you blew up your universe, I’m the only thing keeping you alive. If I were to die without writing about you again...”

“I know, I know. Alright, what do you propose we do?”

I looked around as I considered my pseudo-dragon companion’s question. We were currently trapped in a small tree house in my backyard, which my spectral parents thankfully had not removed my booby-traps from. Every few feet, another one stuck out- I had them all, from detonators to falling log-piles to giant balls that fell and rolled around the yard, along with the occasional GX-24 model pest exterminator (illegal in every state except Virginia and Texas, and in the former only legalized due to its recent arrival.) Our tree house was fairly well protected, unless the monsters learned to fly, or the tree fell. If it fell, we would most likely die. Finally, I came up with the answer I was searching for. “We do nothing- Mom and Dad will vanish tomorrow, and after that I can get rid of the monsters.”

“You never explained what those monsters were, ACC. Did you create them?” Char asked, suspiciously.

I stared at him- there was a flaming intensity in his eyes. If I didn’t tell him the truth, chances were that I wouldn’t be around to tell anything afterwards. I swallowed, and did my best to remain calm as I choked out “Yes...”

“I knew it! I’M GONNA FRY YOU, YOU #*#*@*@*****@*@(@(@(!)@*#&$(#(#(#@@@*$#*$#*#*#!” Char roared.

“Hold it- what did that mean?” Eddie piped up from between Char’s legs, where he sat playing his gameboy.

“What did what mean?” Char growled, momentarily distracted.

“You know- that whole #*#*@*@*****@*@(@(@(!)@*#&$(#(#(#@@@*$#*$#*#*# thing?”

“I think mine was slightly different. And I’m not quite sure Eddie.” Char replied, scratching the back of his head with his claws. I must admit, there is nothing so amusing as a Charizard attempting to think deeply. I couldn’t help it- I laughed out loud.

“IS SOMETHING FUNNY?” HE roared, launching his tail at me. I ducked, causing the massive sideswipe to decimate the wall besides me, and not my face. I then proceeded to respond using the only words in the English language that might leave me alive:

“No, nothing at all. By the way, did you guys remember to hit the lever?”

“What lever?” Char asked, his eyes narrowing.

I gulped as I answered “You know, the secret lever on the tree house roof that activates the machine that arms all of the booby traps?”

“I didn’t, did you?” Eddie asked, his usually calm Oxford accent tinged with fear.

“I thought ACC had done it...” Char replied, the color draining from his face.

“Well, I’m fairly sure that I did it- I think? Let’s check.” With that, I flipped open the tree house window, and clambered onto the roof in question. Crawling across the rooftop, I found what I was looking for- a small box resembling a computer terminal. Gingerly pulling myself toward it, I flicked the small, silver lever on the side. “Don’t worry guys- we’re safe!” I called down.

With a sigh of relief, Char leaned against the wall of the tree house. This proved to be our undoing. Let me explain something- the tree house was never nailed into the actual tree, but was held in place by the three large branches that split off from the trunk. Char weighed just enough that when he leaned back, one branch bent about a quarter inch for about a fraction of a second. This was just enough to cause us to fall, tree house and all, directly onto the ground. The good news: We lived. The bad news: we were now surrounded by multiple traps.

In the instant that we landed, several rocket launchers popped up from the ground.

“ACC?” Char growled, pulling himself from the house remains with a fearful Eddie clinging to his tail, looking for the entire world like a small, stripy yellow rock.

“Yeah?” I responded, as we mutually backed away from the guns.

“If I’m not dead in five minutes, I am going to beat you over the head with your own skull.”

“Fair enough.” I replied as the missiles were launched.

Okay, that was a bit short- but now, the Omake! (Yes, this is a bit odd.) I was thinking, if Char, Eddie, and I starred in an anime, what would the opening animation sequence look like? This is the best one I could come up with.

The scene is an unlighted stage. Suddenly, three spotlights appear, and converge to form a single bright light shining on ACC, Char, and Eddie, who are standing with their heads bowed. Suddenly, the opening music begins and all three raise their heads and jump off the stage into the darkness below. As they fall, the blackness slowly changes to a blue sky with clouds, and they land on a grassy hillside. They split up and run off, Char flying into the air while ACC and Eddie run down the right and left sides of the hill.The animation changes, showing ACC staring at a picture of Latias, while the real Latias sneaks up behind him. He turns, and attempts to leap and kiss her, only to be thrown through the wall by Latias' psychic powers. He raises his arm, one finger extended, shakes it for a moment and collapses; then lies still as Char and Eddie chuckle in the background. After a second scene change, a Butterfree and Persian are shown playing cards against each other, when out of nowhere a starry-eyed ACC pops out up between them, staring at one then the other. The Persian knocks him over and tehy both run off. ACC gets up with his skull on backwards, totters for a moment, and falls again. A third scene change shows Char stomping on a city, until the camera pulls back and reveals that it's only a scale model and the destruction is being filmed by Eddie, who peeks out from behind the camera and grins, giving Char a thumbs-up. The scene zooms into the camera lens, where ACC is seen slowly backing away from a group of monsters. Quickly, he whips out a fountain pen and piece of paper and starts to write. The ink leaps off the page and transforms into Char and Eddie, who make short work of the monsters, after which ACC smiles and flashes the victory sign. The scene changes once more, as Char, ACC, and Eddie are shown running across the same grassy hill that they landed on earlier, this time towards each other. ACC and Eddie meet and begin running side by side down the hill as Char swoops down and lifts them onto his back. As they rise into the air, the scene freezes and the song ends.

Well, I hope you all liked this one as much as the last. R&R please!

-Excelsior!

ACC