Bonnie wants her journey to start in Kanto and this is also where Max is going for his third region, they meet up then battle and somehow someway go through the region together, meanwhile, a new girl Lea (Leaf) starts her journey late and becomes a...
(Hi I'm Turbo I'm an old man who somewhat recently got back into Pokemon thanks to everything that has been happening in the world)
(So I had a 100% original idea where Bonnie and Max are now old enough to go on their journey)
(I'm not an aspiring novelist or anything like that but just wanted to share idea's I have)
(For background knowledge I've played all Gens except Gen 1, 2, and 7) (Sapphire was my first, played the first Mystery dungeon, Pokémon Go is still on my phone list goes on)
(I watched the Anime from Kanto to Unova (First was Hoenn/AG) about 90% of Kalos/XY (accidentally skipped a few episodes), 10% of Alola/Sun & Moon (life got busy and was initially turned off by the school setting but did see stuff like Ash winning the league) and caught up on Journeys in sub) (And seen some of the side stuff like Chronicles, Origins, Twilight Wings, Generations etc...)
(I'll probably use pictures to help identify characters especially OC's so sorry if you don't like pictures and such in the story I'll try not to use them often)
(Since they never got a confirmed age I just assumed Max and Bonnie were about 6-7 years old when they traveled with Ash)
(And I don't know whether Bonnie or Max would be older since the time in Pokémon is so weird so I just made Max older since he appeared first)
(So year four year time skip more or less depending on how you want to view time as I wouldn't be surprised if in Journeys Ash is 11 or 12 and not 10 anymore)
Max Image by Miyuki-Tsukiyono on Deviant Art
Leaf image by dadadanodadada on pixiv
Ash image by SkyDrew on DeviantArt
Bonnie image I can't trace the original edit but I saw it on pinterest