*shot focused on the studio, with an annoyed Pikatwig thunking his head against his desk, with various notes and stuff having labels reading stuff like 'can't be used', 'rewrites needed', etc.*

KKD: *sighs as he walks in with stacks of papers for rewrites* Man… not easy rewriting an entire concept like Periwinkle and Violet when our idea of a Sun/Moon focused story with a location based off Hawaii was used as an official product.

Pikatwig: *bangs head once* I'm happy my birthplace is in a Pokemon game, but I'm annoyed at all of the re-writes we gotta do. *thunk again* And not only that, but with the concepts being used, we need heavy revisions… *looks to a picture of the three starters* ...but we're keeping them. No matter what, they stay.

KKD: K. *sits down and looks at a picture of Rowlet, Litten and Poppilo* Who you gonna pick?

Pikatwig: Heck if I know. I seriously don't know… *taps cheek lightly in thought* I think I'm gonna wait and see…

KKD: Fair enough. As of now, I'm going with Litten, but I'm waiting for more news to be released.

Pikatwig: K. ...honestly, a Grass/Flying type is cool sounding, but if Poppilo becomes part ice type, it's game over for Rowlet. Then again, there's a fatal flaw with the… region-to-be-renamed Grass/Ice type starter we came up with.

KKD: What's that?

Pikatwig: ...really? What are both types weak against?

KKD: *Thinks a bit*…*facepalms in realization* Fire. Duh! What am I thinking?

Pikatwig: That was the one thing I forgot about when making the trio, but whatever. *sees a look from Camera Guy* ...you don't know who we're talking about, do you? *no response nod* Ok… guess we'll bring them out. *wheels over and grabs three Pokeballs* Budori, Pyrocub and Dolgic, come on out! *out popped a grass type with grapes on its side and a snowflake on its head, a lion cub that was red and orange with a red fire on its tail, and lastly a dolphin with a yellow underbelly, and what appeared to be a wizard's cap for a fin*

KKD: Cute little guys. These are our OC starters for Periwinkle and Violet, and I think we did an ok job with them.

Pikatwig: I did get some minor criticism for the lion cub since we already have another lion Pokemon, but I can't remember when we began the concept, so it could've been before Litleo was confirmed as a thing. Again, I can't remember.

KKD: Might've been after, from what I know, but we had other ideas for evolutions, but that would be spoiler turf.

Pikatwig: Not to mention all of the re-writes we need to do… but whatever. *recalls the three and sets the Pokeballs aside*

KKD: Yea… so… uh… oh, right, 20th anniversary.

Pikatwig: This month's Pokemon is Manaphy, a personal favorite of mine. I really enjoyed "Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea". And… I do have two kinda embarrassing stories regarding that movie. Well… one is embarrassing, the other highlights how much of a jerk my brother is. So… first story, I was watching the movie as we were preparing to move from Illinois to where I currently live, and this was around the time my brother couldn't stand Pokemon and hated that I liked it. So… there's this very touching scene near the climax of that movie, and my brother was openly mocking it.

KKD: …

Pikatwig: I told Sean that story and he said my brother is a… uh… I can't repeat what he said. But anyway… the other story from that same time frame, at a hotel we were staying at, I spent about a good seven minutes looking for Buizel in a Pokemon handbook I had. ...for the record, the book only covered up to the third generation.

KKD: Right...

Pikatwig: I am an idiot sometimes. Oh, and quick comment about Temple of the Sea, you'll never believe who voiced the bad guy of that movie in the original Japanese version.

KKD: Who?

Pikatwig: Hiroshi Fujioka, AKA, Takeshi Hongo, AKA, Kamen Rider Ichigou.

KKD: 0-0

Pikatwig: Yea… anyhow… let's try and start this…

KKD: RIght. Disclaimers?

DISCLAIMERS: Neither Pikatwig nor KKD Silver own anything in this story except for original concepts. All properties belong to their respective owners including Nintendo, Game Freak, the Pokemon Company, etc.

"There has to be almost a thousand trainers in there," Meowth commented in a whisper to Jessie and James as he followed them in, "And hopefully, we won't be easily recognized,"

"What are some Team Rocket grunts doing all the way out here in Kalos?" an Officer Jenny noted aloud, rolling her eyes at the three.

"Smooth move, Meowth," Jessie growled as they hurried off.

A girl with orange hair walked in, being accompanied by a girl with magenta hair. In the orange haired girl's arms was an Azurill and walking next to the magenta haired girl was an Espeon.

"This is going to be interesting, a global tournament inviting several trainers," the orange haired girl commented.

"I'll say," the magenta haired girl added, "Hey Misty, thanks for traveling with me all the way out here."

"No problem Sakura," the orange haired girl, Misty, responded with a smile.

Azurill waved to Espeon with its tail, and Espeon simply smiled at it. The two trainers sat down and allowed their Pokemon to play for a bit.

"So… mind my asking where you got Azurill?" Sakura couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, well Azurill was a gift from a friend as an egg. You remember my Togepi, right?"

"Yea. Where'd it go anyway?"

"It's a long story, but I let it go and I was given Azurill to replace Togepi,"

"...makes sense," Sakura nodded.

A short while later, we find a dark-skinned man with spiky brown hair, squinted eyes, a green t-shirt, a brown and orange vest, grey pants and blue shoes. He was soon followed by a woman with auburn hair, green eyes, a pink shirt, dark rose shorts, black stockings, and red high heels.

"Certainly been a while, huh?" she smiled.

"Good to see you again, Holly," he smiled back.

Next to the male a Croagunk, begrudgingly, followed.

"Something wrong with your Croagunk?" Holly asked.

"Not sure," he shrugged in uncertainty, "You alright?"

"Croa… croa… croa…" Croagunk simply responded, its cheeks puffing and then returning to normal size as it did so.

"You're not worried, Borck?" Holly asked.

"I am, but Croagunk is sort of like this normally," the male, Brock, informed.

The two trainers continued in, with Croagunk slowly following.

As Ash, Serena and Clemont were getting registered for the tournament, an annoyed Bonnie sat with Pikachu, Dedenne and Squishy in waiting.

"...dumb rules," she grumbled in annoyance, before a trainer with a Munchlax and a Ralts walked by them. The Munchlax then came to a stop upon seeing Pikachu and greeted it, "Huh?"

"Pika?" Pikachu blinked, before it recognized the Munchlax, "Pika pika!"

"Munchlax!" it cheered, hugging Pikachu.

"Munchlax, are you taking somebody's food again?" it's trainer groaned as he turned around, finding a younger man with glasses, black hair, and wearing a green shirt, brown shorts, and black and green sneakers, "Sorry about that."

"Pikachu, pika!" Pikachu waved, getting the trainer's attention.

"...Pikachu? Then that means…" he realized as Ash walked on over.

"Max, it's been a long time," Ash greeted.

"It certainly has!" Max smiled as he ran over and hugged Ash, "It's good to see you again!"

"Another old friend?" Clemont guessed.

"Yep," Ash nodded, "This is Max. He traveled alongside me and some friends in Hoenn,"

"No way! You're traveling with Lumiose City's Gym Leader?" Max gawked, "So cool!"

"You've heard of me?"

"Your work is pretty famous in Hoenn. There's one city that attempted to mimic Lumiose's style."

"Wow…" Clemont gawked.

Serena took out her Pokedex and had it scan Munchlax.

-Munchlax, the Big Eater Pokemon. It gobbles up its own body weight in food each day, and it swallows its food without almost any chewing.-

"So, is that May's Munchlax?" Ash asked.

"Yep," Max nodded, "She gave me him after I started so I'd have two Pokemon with me,"

"Nice," Ash smiled.

"Hey Ash, you remember your promise to me, right? We'll battle at some point,"

"Right. Who knows, maybe it'll be in the tournament,"

Max smiled and dashed off to register, his two Pokemon following him.

"...he's hardly taller than me and he gets to register," Bonnie mumbled.

Meanwhile, over with another group, a Piplup walked in in through the doors and held it open for his trainer.

"Thanks Piplup," she thanked as she and her traveling group headed in.

"You really trained that Piplup well, Dane," a girl complimented.

"It's Dawn," a blunette corrected with an annoyed sigh as she held the door open for her group, "Why do you call me that?"

The girl in question walked on in, wearing a white and pink beanie, a black, pink, and white dress, black socks, and pink boots.

"You've said it's not the worst nickname you've gotten," she giggled, this girl being a bit shorter with brown hair and brown eyes while wearing a white hat with a red bow, a black shirt under a red and white top with blue short overalls, long white stockings and red shoes.

"Touche Lyra, touche," Dawn sighed.

Another girl followed them in with long brown hair, brown eyes, a red-orange top and bandana, a black under-top of sorts, a yellow satchel of sorts, white shorts with black undershorts, and lengthy yellow shoes.

"Stop messing with her, Lyra," the other brunette commented.

"Sorry Mai," Lyra responded with a joking giggle.

"May, I've told you this before, it's May" she sighed.

Finally, a young male walked in, his short black hair framing his face with black eyes behind his round glasses, a green vest on top of a pale yellow shirt, blue jeans, and brown shoes, "Nobody holds the door,"

"Sorry Khoury," Lyra apologized with a shrug.

A trio of trainers walked in from another entrance, they all appeared to be dressed like waiters, one of them having green hair that resembled a leaf, the next having red hair that was as explosive as fire, and the last had hair as blue as the calm of the water.

"This is the place," the grenette noted as the others looked a bit around the area, "Sorry that I brought you two along, but we're not Gym Leaders anymore, so why not try and enjoy a tournament?"

"Well, I suppose the restaurant could do fine without us for a few days," the blunette shrugged.

"Yea! This is gonna be so cool!" the redhead cheered.

"Hey, Cilan!" a girl's voice called out, making the green haired one turn to see a dark-skinned girl with long black hair, brown eyes, wearing a yellow and pink top, white pants, and orange and white shoes, "How are you?"

"Iris. It's certainly been a while," Cilan smiled.

"Oh yea… the girl who traveled with you and Ash, right?" the male with blue hair asked.

"That kid traveled with us," Iris commented, earning a small eyeroll from her Axew.

"You haven't changed much, have you?" Cilan commented.

"I did get a new Pokemon," she smiled, as a Gible popped out from her hair.

"Oh wow! A Gible? That's certainly surprising,"

"I'd like to see that kid obtain a powerful Dragon type," Iris muttered.

"We'll have to check with him on that, won't we?" Cilan noted.

At that moment the trainer with a Charizard looked at the tournament building. He took a glance down at the tablet as it buzzed and he answered it.

-Alain, where are you presently?-

"...just traveling," the trainer, Alain, lied.

-You shouldn't be near that tournament. You know very well that there are funds that can be traced to the villainous activity in the Orre region.-

"...Orre?" Alain blinked in confusion, resulting in an annoyed sigh and groan from the person on the other end.

-...just don't be anywhere near that tournament.-

"I won't. I've got a lead to follow, gotta go," Alain responded as he hung up and turned to his Charizard, "What do you say, buddy? We can possibly investigate that mysterious Greninja and gather more Mega Evolution energy at the same time,"

His Charizard gave a nod as they headed on in.

A helicopter landed just outside the area for the tournament, being a trainer with grayish brown hair, blue eyes, dressed dominantly in white (with a coat, shirt, shorts, and shoes), gold trimming on her wrists and waist, and a gold and green charm around her neck.

"Tournament sponsored by something from the most troubled region in the world… and I get invited," she muttered, looking at the invite for a moment, "This is worth looking into."

She walked forward and noticed a blonde person standing by an ice cream stand, this girl having her hair cover one of her silver eyes, two black hair-clips of sorts, and wearing a cyan sleeveless top, a silver gray pendant, black pants, and black toeless high heels.

"Well… ain't this a familiar site?" the woman in white jokingly commented.

"I'm thinking here…" the blonde woman commented.

"Miss, please, you're making a line. Please pick something," the vendor sighed.

"Okay, okay…" she shrugged, "How about… the Alola Sea-Salt?"

The vendor smiled and handed her the ice cream, making the blonde turn to face the woman in white.

"Diantha?"

"Glad to see you haven't changed, Cynthia," Diantha commented.

Cynthia giggled a bit as she walked off and Diantha followed.

"So how have you been?" Diantha inquired.

"Been good. I met up with some friends a few months ago."

"I actually meet that kid who you said took in that Chimchar."

"Really? Ash is in Kalos?"

"Yep. Wouldn't be surprised if he was in this tournament himself," Diantha commented, before turning to Cynthia, "...why do you like that ice cream from Alola?"

"It's good,"

Later, the tournament was getting ready to be underway, as several trainers had arrived and were registering. As Ash and Pikachu were waiting around, they noticed somebody walking by. He was the purple haired male that Team Rocket had seen earlier, wearing a teal shirt with a blue and black jacket, gray pants and blue shoes.

"Oh, Paul, it's been a while," Ash commented, making him turn to face Ash.

"Indeed it has," Paul nodded simply, "You've been here in Kalos?"

"Yep,"

"Certainly has some interesting Pokemon," Paul commented as he took out a Pokeball and sent out a Pyroar.

Ash gawked as he took out his Pokedex to scan it.

-Pyroar, the Royal Pokemon. Pyroar's mane, which is made of fire, becomes larger when it gets excited.-

Paul recalled the Pokemon and was about to walk away, when somebody else saw him and ran over, "Oh no…"

A girl that appeared slightly younger than Paul and Ash arrived, the girl having purple hair in pigtails, red eyes, wearing an over-sized yellow baseball shirt with vertical stripes, a light blue t-shirt underneath, white short shorts, brown sneakers, and a white and black baseball cap with a yellow lightning bolt on the forehead.

"Oh, hey Casey," Ash smiled.

"Hi Ash, it's certainly been a while," she smiled, "How have you been doing?"

"You two met?" Paul asked hesitantly.

"We met back in Johto," Casey informed, "Oh! Ash, you know my older brother?"

"Wait… Paul's your older brother?" Ash gawked. He and Pikachu both stared at the contrast between them, before both tried to stifle their laughter.

"What did I say to you about telling people in public that?" Paul growled.

"...to not to?" Casey blinked after thinking it over for a moment.

"Yes," Paul nodded as he walked off, leaving Ash and Pikachu to try not to laugh at this.

"Yep. He's my older brother," Casey told Ash, "I know it's hard to believe, but he is,"

Ash and Pikachu then both began to laugh at this, Casey looking with an innocent smile as she chased after her brother. The duo finally relaxed as they saw a trainer with a Typhlosion walk up to register. Ash walked over to him after he finished doing so.

"Hey, what's up?" the trainer smiled, the kid having black hair under a backwards black and gold cap, a black shirt under a red and white hoodie, black shorts, and red shoes.

"Certainly been a long time Jimmy," Ash smiled.

"Indeed it has," Jimmy nodded, with Typhlosion and Pikachu thumbs uping each-other, "So, you're in the tournament too?"

"Yep,"

"Good luck in there," Jimmy smiled as he walked off.

The people in charge of the tournament smiled at the turn out, a person in the shadows smirking as he indeed saw Ash's name on the roster…

Pikatwig: ...it's August now. *groans* We need to sit down and work on this more often.

KKD: Yea… sorry about my schedule getting in the way of this one's progress.

Pikatwig: And school's almost back for me… gonna be a senior.

KKD: Congrats on that, aibou.

Pikatwig: Thanks. Anyway, as of today, this is the month of Arceus and today 'Arceus and the Jewel of Life' was on and I had it recorded on the box thing. *gets looks* You can record things with some boxes and stuff. Arceus and the Jewel of Life is the only one of the Sinnoh trilogy I don't own… I say 'Sinnoh trilogy' as in the Darkrai, Shaymin and Arceus movies. The 13th movie was kinda meh… and it marked one of two times Ash turned his hat backwards in the DPPt seasons. Speaking of that movie, that's where Ash met Jimmy. They were seen battling in the intro like Brandon battled Lucas and a character from Destiny Deoxys. There is some debate about that being Jimmy or just somebody who looks like him… and I fall into the former category. ...part of that is dominantly nostalgia, as when I got my first TV in my room, the first thing I ever watched on it was The Legend of Thunder.

KKD: Makes sense. Plus, both versions are essentially the anime version of gold.

Pikatwig: Is that a joke to Pokemon Gold version or…?

KKD: Sorta, yea. I mean, Jimmy's original appearance looks like Gold's concept art similar to how Ash looks similar to Red's.

Pikatwig: Oh, I get what you're getting at. Just make sure to specify what you mean by 'gold', it can be confusing.

KKD: K.

Pikatwig: Anyhow... along with Unbeatable, that was one of my favorite openings… even if it wasn't really an opening. "We'll just have to do our best, right Typhlosion?" "I've been on the sidelines long enough, go Alakazam!"

KKD: Ok?

Pikatwig: The Chronicles opening, at least the one I watched, didn't have any lyrics to the song. They just spliced together clips, those lines were just ones that stuck out in my head. As of the writing of this, Pokemon Chronicles is the last time we've actually seen Ritchie… I hope they change that because he was cool. That's why he's even in this story…

KKD: Mmk…

Pikatwig: Now for the Donphan in the room. Max being old enough to be a trainer. This part will be dominantly speculative, but we know for fact that Ash's isn't 10. He's at least, in universe, 11 based on the Pikachu and Pichu short for the third Pokemon movie. Another thing is that it was mentioned Ash had been traveling in Hoenn for around a year, so there's 12, and Max would be eight. Another year would've passed somewhere in Sinnoh, and then one around the end of the Delecora Islands part of Best Wishes and the XY seasons. Boom. Explained!

KKD: So you're saying in this story, Ash is, at best, 14?

Pikatwig: Pretty much. Oh, and for those about to ask, yes we will be finding room for both Marina and Vincent.

KKD: I'll just take your word for that.

Pikatwig: Marina has gotten far with her dreams of being a Pokemon Idol, if the DPPt seasons are anything to go by.

KKD: …*tilts head*

Pikatwig: *sighs* Marina appeared in a magazine ad for the Poketch, won a Grand Festival, and is famous enough to have a t-shirt made of her.

KKD: ...Oh.

Pikatwig: ...anyhow… favorite part?

KKD: Hmm… not sure what to label as a favorite since we're still in the introduction phases… though I think I like that touch with Cynthia and Diantha being friends. Plus, Sea-Salt Ice Cream? Total Kingdom Hearts reference.

Pikatwig: Couldn't help myself. As for those who never watched the DPPt seasons, you should by the way, that is how we're introduced to her and how she's reintroduced in the Best Wishes seasons. Being indecisive about ice cream.

KKD: I'll take your word for that, too.

Pikatwig: Mine was the reintroductions to some old characters, which was in order, Misty, Sakura, Holly, Brock, Max, Dawn, Lyra, May, Khoury, Cilan, Cress, Chili, Iris, Paul, Casey and Jimmy. Out of the bunch, Dawn, Lyra, May and Khoury was my personal favorite moment as the Heart Gold/Soul Silver advertisment episodes were nice… plus it gave Dawn a Cyndaquil. As for why they're all traveling together, May is presently in Johto, Dawn said she was heading there when she left Unova, and Lyra held a desire to meet up with Ash and Dawn again. Natural fit.

KKD: I see.

Pikatwig: You won't believe how hyped I was when I saw Dawn and Piplup at the end of an episode of the BW seasons. The day that episode aired in North America, I slept well and I RECORDED the scene where Ash and Dawn reunited. *gets looks* Don't judge me.

KKD: I'm not.

Pikatwig: Good. Regardless… sorry this took a while… I promise we'll start to speed things along a little bit with the next chapter, get our last reunites done and get the tournament under way. Speaking of tournaments, you did hear Ash is in the Kalos League finals, right?

KKD: Yes I did.

Pikatwig: His highest placing prior to that was Top 4 in the Sinnoh League.

KKD: What about the Unova League?

Pikatwig: Ash was in the Top 8, same place as the Hoenn League. He lost to… and this is paraphrasing some stuff from my friends, *takes out paper and reading glasses* 'an idiot who thought the Unova League was in Johto, thought you needed seven badges to be in a league, almost didn't register, and thought Full Battles were 5-v-5.' *puts both items away* ...yea.

KKD: ...huh. ...That is idiotic… I don't know how Ash could've lost to someone like him.

Pikatwig: I don't remember, being honest. Heck, only reason Ash didn't win the Sinnoh League was because they made a character that was IMPOSSIBLE to beat no matter how hard Ash's Pokemon fought.

KKD: Define impossi-

Pikatwig: ...the guy had a Darkrai and a Latios.

KKD: Ok, that's just stupid.

Pikatwig: Ash's Sceptile managing to beat his Darkrai is something that NOBODY had done prior to that point according to the trainer himself.

KKD: Wow…

Pikatwig: Anyway, while we do know Team Flare is gonna make their move, we have no idea who's winning the Kalos League. The scans revealing the next few episode titles and synopsis didn't say anything about the winner… this outta be good...

KKD: Ok...

Pikatwig: And for those who didn't see the Sinnoh seasons-

KKD: …

Pikatwig: Besides you… I know almost everything in that season, so you'll know a lot of it. Casey isn't related to Paul… at least that we know, it's just they do have some minor physical similarities, and I thought the contrast would be funny. Heck, Zoey noted that the difference between Paul and his actual brother makes them pretty much total opposites. And we need to thank our favorite seventh Frontier Head for giving Paul that mindset, if indirectly. Basically, Reggie had gotten every badge up to that point, and six of the seven symbols. He lost… once… to Brandon and he gave up. Paul's views on strength stem from there, and I haven't even seen the two episodes Brandon is IN the Sinnoh Region, I would like to thank Bulbapedia for forever being awesome and giving this info.

KKD: You're just persistent on me seeing the Sinnoh seasons, huh?

Pikatwig: ...eh, kind of… but I am explaining this for those who honestly didn't watch it. If there's anything in the Sinnoh Seasons you should watch, the movies are great, and there's one really epic battle between Ash and Paul… it goes very badly for Ash. Like… very badly.

KKD: Define badly.

Pikatwig: Despite Chimchar evolving into Monferno, Ash's Pokemon were only able to knock out TWO of Paul's Pokemon. I will recommend some episodes, but topic for another day. Let's wrap this up already. Just Live More.

KKD: Jaa ne.