A.N. – So this story is actually a culmination of months of ideas randomly popping around in my head. My previous stories mainly dealt with Red as he started out his journey and so on, but after reading a bunch of stories I realized that what I enjoy the most is when he is coming down from Mt. Silver after many years and the resulting situations. So I decided to try my hand at one of those, and here we have it. The start is probably very similar to many out there already, but the rest will be different, I promise. It's Red, but put into the B2W2 game. I already have the first twenty five odd chapters mapped out, but nothing is set in stone. Looking forward to your reviews and suggestions!

Prologue

It was evening time in Viridian City. The young man stood outside the building he had called his workplace for over half a decade and thought about the letter he had received that morning. He ran his hand through his spiky brown hair and pulled out the document in question. It was on the finest quality paper, with a familiar letterhead and seal. He read through it again.

Dear Blue Oak,

The Pokemon League, in collaboration with the Driftveil Gym, is pleased to invite you to the first edition of the Pokemon World Tournament to be held in Driftveil City, Unova beginning October 1st and lasting for a month.

Based on your status as a past or current Champion and as a past or current Gym Leader, you are eligible for the following competitions –

· Driftveil Tournament

· Kanto Leaders Tournament

· World Leaders Tournament

· Champions Tournament

You may participate in however many you would like to. Each competition will be held separately and on different dates, allowing you ample time for the rest and recovery of your pokemon.

We request that you RSVP regarding your attendance and the competitions you will be participating in. All competitors are expected to report in at Driftveil City on the 29th of September where they will be briefed and their pokemon will be registered.

Looking forward to your participation,

Yours truly,

The Pokemon League President

There was more, but that was just outlining each of the competitions Blue was eligible for. He had received the letter in the morning, just when he was entering the Gym. It had been wedged into the doorway, and had fluttered down when he opened the door. It was not a standard protocol for official League communication, but the seal, the letterhead and the signature were genuine. He supposed that with the scale of the tournament, there were too many Trainers to reach out to and following the standard format would be a waste of time and resources. After his initial perusal, the very idea seemed incredulous. A World Tournament?! Everybody leaving their Gyms and homes to go to a far off region for a month? What would be the scale of such a tournament? The sheer number of Trainers would make logistics a nightmare! The regional League competition itself was a horror and this would be that times six!

But then his brain caught up and he realized that this was needed on various levels. Each region claimed to have the strongest Trainers but none could prove it. His researcher's brain kicked in. Each region would know where they stood in world with regards to Trainer strength, combined Gym strength, individual Gym strength. The regional Leagues could balance out their Gyms better, or even the Elite Four.

Blue could feel his blood heating up. He would attend. He would participate. He would be involved in the research and analysis. He had been contemplating proposing just this sort of study within Kanto for some time now. He hurried home to draft his reply. Many questions of his would be answered later this year. And of course, the biggest argument of them all – which Trainer was the strongest in the world. His reflex thought was of eight years ago, when he gained his Champion status, and lost it, and of the Trainer who he lost it to.

A.N. – What do you guys think? It's not going to be just the PWT. In fact it's going to be less of PWT and more of travelling Unova. Sorry the prologue is so short, but I had originally planned to jump straight into chapter 1, but this idea struck me while I was writing so I added a prologue.