Omake 2
X heaved a mighty sigh as he tried to stop the tears in his yes from forming. "So, when Naruto and I talked...he called me Jacob. It hurt. I know why he called me that, wanting me to make the right decision, and asked me why I fight. But....no decision I can make is the correct one."
Rizen moved his hoof and put it atop X's hand, the hoof resting on it as Rizen looked up at the unsure human/Pokemon "You can mend this situation with Naruto. I am sure of it."
"How?" a laugh came from X's mouth, seemingly not believing what Rizen said. "I'm a coward. I'm too afraid to send my team into a fight that I'm not sure they can win. I've done it before so why not now? Why can't I be that brave now?"
"Maybe it's your identity crisis?"
“I dunno…”
“Because you are thinking only for yourself,” came a voice, and suddenly a flash of light descended, revealing what looked like a man in futuristic blue armor with several red crystals on it.
“I know how it feels to not want to fight, and many times in the past I wanted for the fighting to stop,” the man said, before his eyes hardened. “However, if I had run away, then others would have paid the price.”
“.....uh….”
“You know that too, but the reason why you refuse to fight is because as you are now, you are only thinking of yourself. Until you realize and move past that, you won’t be able to do what you need to do,” the man stated.
X’s eyes widened as he realized who he saw standing before him. “oh….my….god….you’re Megaman X!!!!”
Everyone around him sweat dropped at the reaction, even Megaman X. “Are you even listening…?” he deadpanned with a sweat drop.
“Course I’m listening. But honestly, I’m having a hard time paying attention cause you’re Megaman X!” X almost shouted.
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Later, back in the Year 21XX
Megaman X sighed as Zero walked up to him. “So...how did it go? The dimension portal work?”
“The portal worked perfectly.” Megaman X sighed. “The pep talk….not so much. It quickly devolved into how ‘awesome’ my video games are.”
“You have video games?” Zero sweat dropped
“Apparently I do over there.”
I am so emotionally torn by this story. On the one hand, it's a typical self-insert. The hero has a goofy edge-tastic name and few personal flaws despite his fairly humble start. On the other hand, it's surprisingly well-written, and so few self-inserts are. I want to hate it because of how Gary Stu X is (no one would willingly ask to be called that, by the way) but I'm not going to because you're actually a competent writer.
So... keep up the good work, I guess?
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Oh my God.....
I got called competent!
In all honesty I wouldn't have gotten this far without the help of my amazing editor TDNpony. He describes a big hand as well.
On his name, is kind of an in joke. I like to make my Pokemon player character in Pokemon games after the game name. So, Pokemon X was my gen 6 game of choice.
that megaman X part
What the **** did I just read?
5531477 Pure genius.
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Wait, you DO have an editor? And it's TNDpony? Author of "A New Stage," one of the newest and best new side-stories to receive canon "ANW ANW" status and one that I have yet to notice even a single grammatical error that I can recall?
Well, either they've suddenly started slacking on the job to focus their energy on their own work, or you haven't been giving them the chance to do they're job properly BEFORE you've posted the last three chapters; because I distinctly remember there being more than a few errors present in chapters 9, 10, 11, and ESPECIALLY 12 while I was reading them.
Either way, I'm still willing to offer you my services as a secondary grammatical editor to cover things TNDpony may have missed if you're willing to PM me the GoogleDocs links to your chapters. If my potential experience is the deciding factor here, I've already been doing the same thing for V-Oblivion's "A New Game" and Rectik Shade's "And a Better Way" for the last few months.
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Persistent aren't you? Well, I'll let TDN know. I say he's my editor, but he helps me with a lot more than just grammar so to me we're sort of like a duo (I guess).
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Yes I am. To me, such mistakes in a GOOD story are a damn near criminal shame. And FYI, I didn't mean to imply anything negative about you or TDNpony by my earlier comment. In fact, there was actually a similar situation to the whole "missing out on mistakes due to having their energy focused mainly on their own work" thing back when V-Oblivion only had Evowizard (the guy behind "A New World, A New Conflict") doing the proofreading on "A New Game." Things like that happen sometimes when another author checks your work. I however have no stories of my own an an inordinate amount of free time to spare.
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Oh right that reminds me i should make a Shout Out page on the TV tropes page
“oh….my….god….you’re Megaman X!!!!”
at that moment, I had to put my phone down, lay back, and process it a bit so I don't start to laugh.
5531477 Roughly my reaction as well
Though with a lot more of this
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I was about to say that. Just replace the the asterisks with the words bloody hell and put the word fucking between just and read.