Hey, all. Judging by the title, it should be obvious what this note is about. I'm writing this all in one go, so if there are any redundancies and various other whatnots, there's the reason. With that being said, here it goes.

The frequency with which I update has slowed down dramatically, and I'm sure at least one of you has made note of that. I know I have, and it's not for a lack of effort on my part. The real world has gotten in my way, and of course I couldn't keep up a ridiculous schedule, but I digress. Every time I try writing a new chapter for this story, a combination of self-reflecting and regret intervenes and I'm left staring at a shell of what could've been, so I'll list what goes through my mind.

1. The characters - My expectations for this story were absurdly high, and - maybe - that's my fault. After the disastrous handling of Purity, I wanted to make something better, something that really left a mark. Flare... Flare's terrible. I looked over the story, and the beginning was pretty promising, but it's just gone to utter shit. Lysandre was hyped beginning in Johto, and he's fallen flat on his face, and Alain's even worse. I've completely destroyed his character.
Then there are N and Noah. They're both useless, really. Noah's role was set up to fail from the start, as he was a terrible adaptation of Serena in the anime. N's whole thing about getting Gray to help him fight Plasma was so flawed, I cringe reading over this story. Then there's the fact that both Bianca and Cheren are, quite obviously, jokes compared to Hugh. Neither of them are even competitive with Gray, and Bianca only won through plot armor.

2. The Pacing - This story is a cluster-fuck of battles. There's very little development outside of it, and I wouldn't have noticed that if someone didn't point this out (in a much nicer manner, obviously).

3. Bellator and Potens - They have single-handedly destroyed this story, and I hate myself for allowing that to happen. In all honesty, how the hell would Gray not win the Unova League with Synchro, which wouldn't be a huge deal if Bellator wasn't invincible, and a GOD? The latter is attributed to the cancelled Kalos story with Rei, where I planned on having a Type-Beast Arc, but that didn't pan out, and I was left with Potens being stronger than literally every other Pokemon in the universe. One term can describe what I transformed Gray into as a result of these two: A sue.

So I'm done with this story. As much as it pains me to say - and it really does, considering it's the longest one I've written, and it's not even close - I have to put this thing out of its misery. It won't be deleted, no, not a chance, because I'd like to look at where I went wrong and keep it as a memento of sorts.

Thank you all for sticking around and reading this story, and for those that would like to know how things were supposed to end, feel free to PM me and I'll tell you. As for what I plan on doing now that this is dead, I'll be working on Hoenn, which I'm confident will be far less flawed than this story.