Return to the World of Man - After returning home from the Sinnoh league Ash was contemplating what to do and after spending 2 months of time with his mother and his Pokémon at Professor Oaks laboratory helping out, he asked Oak a question. "Is it possible to carry more than 6 Pokémon?". The answer to which pleased Ash, as what he had to do to achieve his goal became clear. After a week of preparation and discussion with and his mother, Ash left for . Our hero spent 18 months living there in total. He spent 12 months there, 3 months in the Orange Islands, and then another 3 months on . After all this, Ash returns home intent on conquering the up and coming Indigo Plateau Tournament, which will be watched over by Gym Leaders of all Regions, the Frontier Brains, and each regions Elite Four and Champions to make sure things go smoothly.

That isn't for 4-5 months however, and soon there is to be a Grand Festival, held in the exact same Location. Who will be attending you ask? Well only the top coordinators from all regions. Dawn and Zoey; as ecstatic coordinators have met up with May and her travelling companions giving a list of; May, Dawn, Zoey, Harley, Drew and Soledad. Max tagged along too learning all he could. You see, when he and May left Ash, he had travelled for 2 years leaving him just short of 10 years old and by the time The team of coordinators left, Max had turned 10 and chosen this first Pokémon meaning this provided him opportunity to travel with the coordinators and collect the Kanto Badges following in the footsteps of his idol. This band of 7 travelled all around Kanto dominating ever contest each achieving the necessary requirement of 5 ribbons to qualify, and are making a brief stop by the home of Caroline and Normal Maple.

This is simply a way of me setting the scene as this story is still in its idea format, but I was looking for feed back while I work on it as to wether people believe it is a viable story, and something that someone may get enjoyment from reading.

Notes: I dont know if there is a Cynthia x Ash x Soledad ship, please inform me if not. Otherwise I claim it as ChampionSandwichShipping.

I know the shipping seems farfetched, its a fanfic after all. Rated M purely for the potential of adult language, situations, and possibly sex scenes. This is my first fic but I intend to pull out all the stops.

I am in no way against constructive criticism but I'd appreciate if you refrained from framing/trolling. "AMAWGAWD DIS SUCKS" in no way will help me improve my writing to you're standards or tastes.

Chapters in future will be extremely long in comparison to this which sets the scene, theres a lot to cover but obviously, if I told you all of that, the story would be ruined wouldnt it ;D