The Quest for the Legends

So chapter 59's been stuck on the first page for a while now, but now suddenly it's on page three. I've written a certain fun revelation (it's not that interesting, but it amuses me because it's this little thing that nobody's seen coming or had any real reason to see coming even though it was very vaguely hinted a long, long time ago) and hopefully the rest of what I'm planning to put in the chapter is enough material to not make this chapter too ludicrously short to be worth it after the wait.

Then it's chapter sixty, which I've been rather looking forward to for a while even though my ideas of what will actually happen in it are still pretty vague. I have reasonably good reason to expect it'll be one of those chapters that write themselves. You'll see why.

Color me excited. Checking this page every day for a month finally pays off X3 I can't wait for the new developments!

SilverLatios, I hear you! Everyday after homework I check this site, and everyday I end up disappointed. But the wait is definitely worthwhile. Carry on the great work!

It's kind of ironic that the second sentence of the preview says, "That was quick." Can't wait to read it!

On which page is this hint???

Huh? What do you mean, on which page? The hinting was early-fic, as in way, way, way early where nobody could really be expected to pick up on it. (And, well, it was hinted again more recently, but again too vaguely for anyone to pick up on it.)

I suspect that Charizard is a clone. Unless I'm absolutely crazy and it has been specified otherwise, it seems plausible and is something annoying that has been bothering me for a long time.

@Karpi he can't be a clone. i dont remember the exact chapter, but i think the chapter they meet Ash you find out charizard is not a clone.

The characters at least seem pretty confident that Charizard was a Charmander bred by Ash and given to Taylor as his starter Pokémon, which Taylor wanted to get rid of exactly because he wasn't a clone. But in theory it could turn out all that was a lie or a conspiracy or a misunderstanding.

wouldn't he have been saying charitwo the whole time if he was a clone?

That would be a SUPERclone made by Rick. And Charizard has not displayed absurd amounts of power for his level and species, neither does he have any different patternings the Super Clones Catertwo, Pikatwo(Raitwo) and the rest of them had.

I'd say its safe to say that Charizard is not a super clone. A normal clone, sure, why not? But why that would be significant, I couldn't think of.

good point… maybe they find out that if you clone the legendaries, the clones don't have their power zapped? so then they could just *morbid warning* kill off all the rest of the legendaries?

If clones of the legends weren't getting zapped, than the regular clones Rick uses for the Gym battles would show that. Hm. They ARE a young level so maybe you're onto sometihing…

If clones of the legends weren't getting zapped, than the regular clones Rick uses for the Gym battles would show that. Hm. They ARE a young level so maybe you're onto sometihing…

haha i was just messing around when i said that, but you never know… it would make sense.. and the clones were made at a time when a lot of power had already been zapped, so they would be a clone with that power, but nothing more…

I feel obligated to point out that it has already been established, both in Ask the Author/Characters and at least implied in the fic itself, that Rick's clones do count for the purposes of the War, i.e. they get their power drained (though only by minute amounts, since they're so low-leveled aside from Mewtwo^2) and if they're not inside Pokéballs when the Destroyer releases the legendaries' power they will go mad and destroy everything.

Haha dang
Well, can't wait to read the chapter :)

Well, if they count, then wouldn't that be a really effective way to prevent the war? Mass produce millions of legendaries, so that, when the power is released all at once, the power will be split between a huge number of individuals, enough to prevent any particular individual from becoming too powerful and going crazy.

Unless, of course, they count for the draining, but don't receive the boost, which, then, mass producing them would make it worse…

has anybody heard anything about the chapter lately?

I heard it's almost done but the author's too busy playing Heroes VI and writing this random one-shot that refuses to come out right to finish it.