As we start our story, we find Ash and company walking down a road. Of course, that's an incredibly unoriginal start to a story, and, of course, roads are often over-rated, AND as I'm in a somewhat grouchy mood today, let's tweak the first sentence and have the following: Ash and company were stumbling their way through a vast and uncharted forest, miles away from civilization, and light-years away from any hope of getting home alive. Fatigue and starvation had reduced the three young travelers to skeletal husks of what they had once been, empty of spirit, happiness, and confidence. They had been forced to eat Pikachu several days ago. Heh heh heh... Oh, heck, I'll stay with the road. So, Ash and those other guys were walking down yet another road, and looking at them, it would be hard to determine just what fanfic this opening sentence is from, considering its total lack of ingenuity. But oh well, roll with the punches, as my mother would say, but my mother's not writing this fic, now is she? Of course, my mother wouldn't be writing this fic, as she has absolutely no interest in Pokémon, except she loves to torment me by saying 'That Pikachu is awfully cute!' and 'I like Team Rocket, because they're the bad guys.' Not that I'm saying Team Rocket isn't the best of the best, the creme de la creme, the supery-dupery best characters out there... because they, of course, are. Now where was I? Oh yeah... Now since when was this exactly a fanfic, anyway? I mean, I haven't even started the dialogue yet, let alone a storyline... you poor fic readers, you came here expecting to have a few minutes of good reading and you're forced to sift through this meaningless drivel, desperately seeking just a few evidences of plot and theme... well, tough! I'm the writer, I can do whatever I want! I'd better cut straight to the reading material... So Ash and company... hold on... how come it always has to be ASH and company... or ASH-tachi... why can't Brock ever be the head of the company, or Misty, or even Pikachu? Or what about Pidgeotto? Yeah... Pidgeotto is part of their group, isn't it? Why can't it ever be mentioned? So Pidgeotto-tachi were walking down an incredibly bland and uninteresting road. Hey, you know, why even bother going on? There are countless Pokémon fics out there, and we've all read them. They're all the same! Hey, maybe I could make Ash catch another Pokémon, or, dare I even make him catch a ridiculously rare one, like, oh, Mewtwo, for example? Or maybe Ash and Misty could fall in love, the end, that would be a GREAT little original idea. Or hey, maybe they could get attacked by Team Rocket, and Ash-tachi, I mean, Pidgeotto-tachi would WIN, how's that for creative? Geez, now I'm getting depressed... I think I'm going to go wrap up in my covers and curl up in a corner and cry... Oh well... you came for a fanfiction... I guess you're gonna get one. Ash-tachi were walking down a road. Misty was angry with Brock, because he had gotten them lost once again. Ash was, as he always was, on the lookout for new Pokémon. Pikachu was busy with being cute. There was a brief interlude in the boredom when Team Rocket tried yet again to relieve the three friends of their Pokémon, but of course, a Thundershock from Pikachu removed the nuisance and restored the perpetual dullness. We will take leave of the small group now, before we lose too many brain cells from the unoriginality and total lack of creativity of one of a countless number of fanfics out there... Now excuse me... I seem to have lost all hope for my future as a writer, and I do believe there's a corner and a big downy cover with my name on it.
