Attention all Readers! No, this is not a notice of cancelation!

I, AlmineGoneWilde, have an important announcement regarding the continuation of my fanfiction, "Straw Hat Pokemon Master". While I am not going to be halting my story or handing it off to someone else, I wish to inform you that I will be changing it up. That's right, I am planning to stop where I am and reboot it.

Don't worry, the story is still the same as before. Ash gets sucked into the world piece, he joins Luffy's crew trying find his way home and find Pikachu, yada, yada, yada. However, when I originally started posting chapters for the story, I read a comment from someone who commented on the story, pointing out that they didn't necessarily like it. Now, while I know I can't please everyone and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, the way it was written compelled me go back to read the story over as I was quite puzzled by some of this person's wording.

When I did reread the story, I realized that I had gone and done the same thing I am prone to do whenever I get overexcited in writing a fanfiction. First, I come up with a good idea, spin it about my head a bit and then I begin to write. However, I am sometimes too hasty and get ahead of myself and therefore I post things too quickly. Therefore, sometimes, when I go back, my story isn't as great as I thought it was when I first wrote it.

For this particular story, rereading the first few chapters, I felt things were moving too fast and that it was turning out to be a cartoon more for little kids than what I really wanted. First, Ash met the Straw Hats too fast and then they proceeded to get closer to one another as friends too fast with some convenient explanation thrown in to make it sound authentic. And furthermore, I was trying to follow too closely to the actual anime storyline of One Piece, sometimes forgetting that I had added characters so the whole thing just seems awkward. Well, this time is going to be different.

In my reboot of "Straw Hat Pokemon Master", I want to go more in depth with the plot and the characters and how they interact with one another. I want to make things fit into place more smoothly without overdoing it on either side of the equation. And So, while a lot of the main plot still remains in tact, many things will also be changed and other things will be added. So, for the time being, I will leave you all with what I have written so far in case you want to reread it for any reason. But, as soon as the new chapters are ready to be posted, the existing chapters will be replaced and updates will occur in arc form. In other words, I plan to write out entire story arcs first and then post the chapters contained in that arc simultaneously. That way, it will give people more reading material to work with before being forced to wait for the next arc.

So, as a reminder. The story, "Straw Hat Pokemon Master" is not being taken off of this site, it is only being reworked then rebooted and the current story online will remain until it is time to be replaced. All I ask for is your patience and understanding at this time. Apologies for any inconvenience and I hope you will find the rebooted version just as if not more enjoyable than the first one.

Sincerely,

AlmineGoneWilde