At the sight of Platinum's (family's) winter vacation house, Crystal began to give instructions to Xatee to stop in front of the large house. As soon as the brunette returned the green Mystic Pokémon to her Poké Ball, she was quickly greeted by Platinum, who wore her usual outfit despite the freezing temperature.

"Right on time, Senior Crystal," Platina said politely with a smile.

"Great! Oh, and you don't have to call me Senior; you can just call me Crystal." Crystal responded.

"Okay, S-... Crystal," she said, smiling, before she nodded to Crystal and turned around to walk into the house, signaling for Crystal to follow.

"Is there anyone else here?" Crystal asked as they walked through a long hallway after Platinum had taken Crystal's coat and hung it in the closet.

"Just Senior Green," Platina answered as they walked into a large room, which Crystal presumed to be the family room. "You can wait here while we wait for the others. Feel free to watch some television, read some books, or get some snacks from the kitchen in the next room. Excuse me, please. I have to go finish some preparations for this vacation."

After Platina left the room, Crystal took a look around, taking notice of Green sitting on a couch, reading a book. Not feeling up to watching TV, or annoying Green by doing that, Crystal quietly walked over to a bookcase in search of something to pass the time with. After finding a book that seemed interesting enough to keep her occupied, Crystal sat on the same couch that Green was sitting on. She opened the book and started to read, but soon became incapable of paying attention to what the book was talking about. She just couldn't concentrate. She figured it was because she was alone with Green, who she didn't really interact with. It made her feel uncomfortable. Then Crystal thought that maybe if she tried talking to Green, then maybe the awkwardness in the room would disappear, or at least decrease to some decent amount.

She looked towards Green, who was sitting on the opposite side of the couch from her. She wanted to say something to him; however, she couldn't find the courage to do so or even think of what to say to him. She simply stared at the young man who silently read a random book. A few moments later, she felt uncomfortable. She felt like Green knew that she was staring at him so she looked down at the book on her lap. Still feeling that same strange feeling in her stomach that she felt moments ago, Crystal placed the book on the middle cushion of the couch between Green and herself before getting up and walking to the kitchen in the next room.

As the swinging door closed, Crystal sighed, feeling like a huge weight had been lifted off of her shoulders; however... she still felt strange... The strangeness seemed to linger in her chest silently, yet Crystal felt as though it was screaming at her. The only problem was that she didn't know what all that "screaming" was about. She walked over to the island in the middle of the kitchen and sat down at one of the bar stools. She rested her head on the granite countertop, trying to concentrate on anything but the "screaming." After a few moments, the "screaming" seemed to get louder rather than quieter, and Crystal, unable to take it anymore, got up off of the bar stool as quickly as she could, which in reality wasn't very quickly. She stumbled past the island. She was only a few paces away from the swinging door that led to the family room where Green was, but...

She couldn't make it. Crystal felt like her body just... shut down. She couldn't tell if she was just fainting... or dying. The last thing she thought of before she became unconscious was the gleam of hope that somebody (Green, Platina, anybody!), would save her from the "screaming."


"Are you okay?"

'Who is that?' Crystal thought to herself.

"Hey! Are you okay?" the mysterious voice said louder.

Crystal drearily opened her eyes and saw Green staring down at her.

"Ughh... I guess so, Green..." Crystal muttered, rubbing the back of her head as her eyes focused on her senior.

"Huh? How do you know my name?" he asked curiously, his face showing confusion.

"What do you mean-" Crystal started to ask before she realized that the 18-year-old Green she knew was, at that very moment, a very young child. "GREEN!"

"Will you stop shouting! You're gonna wake up everyone else," he said, annoyed.

"Everyone else?" Crystal questioned, sitting up to look around her surroundings. She was both surprised and relieved to see that she was in the same kitchen where she had fainted... but she was more surprised to see that all her fellow Dex Holders looked like young children.

"Yeah, I didn't feel like waking them up; they might make a lot of noise, but then again, you made a lot of noise..." the young Green said before chuckling a little, which made a surprised Crystal giggle at how cute Green was as a child. "Hey! Why are you laughing?"

"Oh," she muttered, stopping her giggles. "Sorry, that was just really cute."

"Whatever!" he said quickly, turning away from her as a slight blush appeared on his face. "So who are you anyway? And how do you know me?"

"You don' remember?" she asked, bewildered.

"No, am I supposed to?"

"Well..." she mumbled. She wasn't exactly sure how to explain to the young Green that he was really a 18-year-old Dex Holder; although he probably wouldn't know what a Dex Holder even was.

"Well?" he said, wanting her to continue. She finally decided on what to tell him.

"My name is Crystal... And you're Green Oak."

"I think I know my own name, Crystal," he said, crossing his arms as he narrowed his eyes at the girl.

"Ughh..." she sighed. "Sorry, I was just checking."

"Checking what? I barely even know you," he stated, raising an eyebrow in confusion.

She stared at him for a few moments as he glared back at her.

"How old are you, Green?"

"Eight... Why do you wanna know?" he questioned her, confused.

"Ten years..." she mumbled under her breath as she looked down at her lap.

"What about ten years?" he asked, growing impatient.

"Green... I know," she said, looking him in the eyes, "that you think that you eight, but..."

"But what?" he exclaimed, getting impatient.

"You're supposed to be older than me! You're-!"

"Older than you? Unless you're younger than eight, which I highly doubt, I don't think so!"

"But it's true! You're 18-years-old! Well, at least you're supposed to be... And I'm only 15-years-old!"

"Wha-What's wrong with you?" he questioned loudly.

"Please, just calm down. We can fix this!" Crystal exclaimed quickly, grabbing his shoulders as she kneeled on the ground in front of the boy.

"How can I trust you?" he questioned, wanting to back away from the girl, but finding that he couldn't move his feet away from the spot.

"You just have to," she stated confidently.

"Hey, could you guys keep it down? I'm trying to sleep over here!"

Green and Crystal turned their heads to the right to see a young Gold leisurely lying on the ground, and in their opinion looking like he owns the place.

"Do you know that kid?" Green questioned as he narrowed his eyes at the younger boy in annoyance.

"Sadly, yes... That's Gold..." she stated sadly, also narrowing her eyes at Gold.

"The one and only, Hot Stuff!" Gold exclaimed, picking his head up off of the floor that he layed on.

"Huhh," Crystal sighed angrily, balling her hands into fists at her sides.

"Want me to beat him up for you?" Green asked casually, hoping that Crystal would let him.

"No, it's fine," she sighed in return, standing up as she looked over the other Dex Holders' sleeping forms. "Is anyone else up?"

"Doesn't look like it," Green stated.

"Hey, what's for breakfast? I'm starving!" Gold said with a grin as he stood up.

"Breakfast?" Crystal questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah! Don't tell me you're just a trophy wife, Hot Stuff?"

"What!" she exclaimed, her anger boiling over.

"Can What's His Face over there whip something up?" Gold asked, referring to Green.

Green narrowed his eyes at the younger boy before looking up to Crystal. "Now can I beat him up?"

"Ughh... He means well, Green," she replied, sighing before turning her attention back to Gold. "Now, Gold, how old are you?"

"Hey," he said, grabbing both of her hands, "age shouldn't matter."

"That's not what she means, you idiot," Green stated, crossing his arms, clearly annoyed by Gold's antics.

"Oh, someone's jealous!" Gold screeched, raising an eyebrow at the other boy as he put his hands on his hips.

"Gold, stop arguing with Green and answer me! How old are you?" Crystal said strictly.

"Four, but I don't think it really matters, Hot Stuff," he stated, shrugging.

"It's Crystal," she said, narrowing her eyes.

"Oh, can you two be any more serious?" Gold said, readjusting his hat.

"Gold-!" Crystal started to say before she was interrupted by a ringing noise coming from the next room. She quickly walked towards where the sound was coming from in the next room and found that it belonged to the video phone. She hesitantly walked over to it and looked at the screen. Seeing that it said Professor Samuel Oak, she sat down at the chair in front of the machine and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" she asked. She wasn't entirely sure that it was Professor Oak. There were many people that worked at Oak's many labs and anybody who had access to the video phone could be calling.

"Hello, Crystal!" said Oak as he appeared on the screen. "I'm sorry for bothering you while you're on vacation, but I just wanted to check up on everyone. How is everything?"

"Well, we have a problem, Professor!" Crystal said urgently, not noticing that Green had followed her into the room.

"What wrong?" Oak asked, concerned.

"Well, its juat... The other Dex Holders... are children!"

"What are you talking about, Crystal!" Oak said, raising an eyebrow.

"I'm not sure how, but somehow they all turned into children!"

"Calm down, Crystal! Start over. Tell me everything that happened."

"Okay," she said, exhaling deeply. "Well, when I got to Platinum's vacation house, I started to feel really strange. I tried to calm myself down, but it just got worse. I couldn't take it anymore! I got up to get help, but I guess, I fainted. I woke up a couple minutes ago to see Green, but he... was eightyears old! And it seems that the others are also younger now too! Gold is only five! They have all become about ten years younger!"

"Just calm down! We have to figure out how this happened."

"And why I didn't get younger like the others," she added, calming down.

"Yes. Now, do the others remember anything?"

"Well, most of them are sleeping except for Gold and-"

"I don't remember anything," Green said walking over to the video phone.

"Is that Green?" Professor Oak asked in surprise as Crystal gave the phone to Green.

"Yes. Do you know how this happened to us?" Green asked, gulping.

"Well, I think I have an idea of how this happened, but-... its-...possibly-" he said as the sound went in and out and the screen started to go fuzzy.

"Professor!" Crystal exclaimed as the screen went completely fuzzy and the phone went dead. Green silently put the phone down as Crystal stared at the screen of the video phone.

"Hey, Crystal?" Green started, hiding his face.

"Yeah?" Crystal said quietly, but just loud enough for Green to hear.

"What was I like when I was older? Before this happened?..."

"Well, you... were about three years older than me. Eighteen. We didn't really talk to each other. A couple times at the lab, but not really a big conversation. You're a very good trainer by the way," she stated before smiling. Green opened his mouth to respond but before he could do so, he was interrupted by loud arguing coming from the kitchen. They steadily walked into the next room to see Gold and Silver arguing as Blue tried to pull Silver away and Red tried to pull Gold away. They also took notice of Ruby and Sapphire staring at each other, Dia and Pearl laughing, and Platina, Yellow and Emerald, who looked like they had no idea what was going on.

"Hey, you two, cut it out!" Crystal exclaimed, grabbing Gold and Silver by their collars.

"Oh, there you are, Hot Stuff!" Gold greeted with a wink.

"Would you stop calling me that? My name is Crystal," she replied as she let go of the boys' collars.

"Oh, stop being so serious, Hot Stuff," he said slyly with a grin.

"You have no idea how annoying you are," Green stated, crossing his arms as he stood next to Crystal.

"Oh, hey, Mister Super Serious! How's it going?" Gold added, chuckling at his own words.

"Just ignore him," Crystal muttered to Green, who nodded in return.

"Now, we have to figure something out... Hey, what time is it?" Crystal said.

"Around Seven thirty," Green stated, looking at the clock.

"Already? It was only around noon when I got here!" Crystal exclaimed in surprise.

"Hey, can you tell me what I'm doing here?" Red asked as he pulled on Crystal's pants, trying to get her attention.

"Red," she said, getting down on one knee in front of the young boy to make eye contact with him. "How old are you?"

"Eight," Red stated.

"Okay, I'm just going to tell you all this, right now... You may all think that you're just young children, but..." she paused, taking a glance at Green to see him nodding. "... You are all much older than you think you are..."

"What are you talking about, lady?" Pearl questioned, raising an eyebrow at Crystal.

"You're not really this young. Okay, Pearl, how old are you?"

"Umm... Two, I guess..." Pearl answered sounding not entirely sure with what he had said.

"Well, this is going to sound strange but... you're really twelve... and so is Dia and Platina."

"What?" Dia muttered as Platina narrowed her eyes at Crystal suspiciously.

"And Red is really around eightteen. Blue is too... Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald... you're really thirteen... Yellow, Gold, Silver, you're around my age-" Crystal began again.

"How old are you, Hot Stuff?" Gold interrupted curiously.

"...Fifteen," she stated, before taking a deep breath. "You have to believe me."

"No offense, but are you nuts?" Blue asked, feeling skeptical.

"She's not nuts! It's true!" Green exclaimed.

"How do we know you're telling the truth?" Emerald added.

Crystal and Green looked at each other, wondering how they could convince the others.