Just a quick update but next year I'm going to give this fic a soft reboot/remaster. I'm just incredibly busy this holiday season and most my free time has been spent planning out the Electric Blossom saga and finishing it's Kanto story, and updating Eternal Diamond along with playing videogames to help destress from work.

But onto the point at hand, I struggled putting teams together for the Sinnoh Battle Frontier heads as they don't really have them. Weren't even in Masters, or at least not at the time, and wanted to avoid making them have similar Pokemon to other characters Ash was fighting but just having a hard time that eventually I just got bored and lost interest. Then when I was just browsing the other day I saw a depressing lack of Ash/Marnie content... like there's not much with just him and her! And it got me thinking, why don't I just go back and fix some things? Make some battles but not all longer than they were, remove the whole romance with Lillie and Mallow and keep all the plot centric themes in tact?

For my sanity all the Frontier Brains part from Palmer will remain three on three, obviously this won't apply to the older ones I heavily implied Ash will be encountering a certain one when he meets the new Regi. The group's Pokemon will relatively remain the same to avoid possible continuity errors like somebody evolving twice cause I goof or have to completely restructure a battle cause somebody evolved earlier than previously but I may sneak in some additional ones if it fits.

So yeah, this will be a Ash/Marnie fic. Not Ash/Marnie/Lillie anymore, sorry! And just because I haven't updated in awhile doesn't mean it's dead, I'm just honestly having fun with the two I'm currently writing and that's the important thing! I'll have more time once the holiday rush is over and my laziness wears off. I hope you all enjoyed it, I still love Ash/Lillie but I just think Ash/Marnie deserves some love and a chance to shine. If the change bothers you, I don't know what to tell you! Merry Christmas to you all and I hope you all enjoy Legends when it comes out, I know I will! Tomorrow will be an actual update for another fic, just putting on finishing touches.