This is not really a chapter, but my musings on the story as a whole. I would like to start by thanking any of you who were patient enough to make it all the way through. It was an interesting experience, to say the least.

Of course, I also need to thank the people who gave me characters to work with. Sometimes it can be tough to put someone else's characters into a story, but these folks did a great job; it wasn't tough to use these characters at all.

sunshine5991; Emily

watt63; Anfernee

Happy2BMe; Lady Sunday and Fell

Jack Krieg and James Crusade; Shawn

Imagination Domination; Jess

First is the obvious: This was far from a typical Pokémon story. I can see why people don't try to explain things as thoroughly as I did. The science may have been a bit too much for most of the readers. I found it all important at the time for establishing a sound base for the kinds of experiments Zamia was doing, but there are probably lower-grade ways for me to explain it (i.e., on an eighth-grade level is usually ideal). Of course, I may still have to learn the line between adequate explanation and "nobody cares," which was likely the case with some of the more difficult concepts such as vivisection.

Like I stated in the beginning, I tried to do this story from the first-person-present voice in order to establish a sort of noir feel. I learned through this process that noir is impossible without pictures. If I stated only what Jin was thinking at any given time and never went into descriptions of the area, you would all have been completely lost and would think me an idiot (or James Joyce). This voice was an interesting experience and, while one I will likely never repeat, was worth trying out just to see how it works. It didn't work, but it was fun to try.

I think overall in the story, especially from the readers' viewpoint, this story had a problem with the Blazing Saddles effect; that is, toward the end, all the rules suddenly seemed to change and the story went in a whole other direction. In my defense, I was building to the genetic tests from early on. It still felt like everything came out of the blue, though.

The story has ended now and most of the loose ends have been tied up, even if only vaguely. If you are interested in knowing a few more, minor details, keep an eye out for a short collection of spin-off chapters I will probably write in the future. I might do a few chapters on everyone's battles with the dialga and palkia (both the human and Pokémon versions), but my primary focus will be to describe what happened to Mayhan.