Walker was the first one to stir after the explosion. He picked himself up off the floor and looked around. All of the other StarKids were spread about over the whole room, every single one of them appeared to be knocked out. But something puzzled Joe. He didn't remember each of the StarKids being in the same places in the room at the time of the explosion. Furthermore, his eye-line appeared to be distinctly shorter than he was use to. He glanced around the room, his head still aching from the blast. The room looked completely unharmed; everything was perfectly in it's place, as if nothing had happened. Then he glanced down.

He could not believe his eyes. He was in a white vest top, a pair of high-waist blue shorts, and ballerina pumps. He also appeared to have breasts.

"What…. the…"
But he stopped as soon as he opened his mouth. His voice was incredibly high-pitched. He gasped a little at the sound he just made, and he fumbled around his body with his hands. Nope. Defiantly not his.

He ran to the nearest mirror and stopped dead in his tracks. That wasn't his own reflection he saw. It was Lauren's.

"Arghh, what the hell was that…"

Walker pivoted on the spot; one of the other StarKids in the room had stirred, but he recognised the voice instantly. He tip-toed over to where the voice had come from and looked down; someone was pulling themselves up from the floor, but he swore that he'd seen that outfit somewhere before. The figure turned round and looked down at Joe, mouth wide open

"Wait... what… but, that's me! Why are you me! And who am I?"

The other Joe glanced down at himself. He paused for a few seconds, then let out a small shriek, fumbling around, putting his hands on his face and muttering "Oh my God!"

"Hold on a second…. is that…. is that you Lauren?"
"Yeah! Well, I thought I was, but now I appear to be someone else. Who are you?"
"It's me. It's Walker. And you are me…. God I'm confused."
"Wait, what did you say?"

Joe led Lauren cautiously over to the mirror, whilst she muttered random stuff in bemusement. She looked back at her new reflection in the mirror and slammed her hands immediately to her face.

"What! But, how can this happen! What the hell even happened!"

By this time, other StarKids had begun to wake up. Denise, who had been swapped with Brian, was screaming and yelling at the top of her voice, whereas Brian was too busy checking out his new chest. Meredith had woken Joey up by accidently kicking him in the face when she realised that she was now him. Dylan was too busy trying to confront a frantic Julia, whose face had turned a fluorescent red whilst gazing back at her own reflection. But two of the StarKids were nowhere to be found.

"Hey guys" muttered Brian in Denise's voice "has anyone noticed where Jaime and Darren are?"
"Oh my god, I wonder if they've swapped too."
Joey pondered whilst playing with his new silky locks of brown hair. He was stopped in his tracks with a little hand slap courtesy of Meredith, with her crooked jaw firmly locked into a frown.

The gang began to frantically search about for their missing friends. They looked everywhere across HQ whilst all still completely confused as to what was going on.

"Guys! Quickly, come here! I've found… well…. I think I've found Darren." Shouted Julia in Dylan's voice.

A StarKid stampede ensued across to the kitchen, where they discovered an unconscious Darren on the floor. He was slumped up against the sink, and had clearly been knocked back some distance because of the blast.

"Darren, Darren" called the Lauren-fied Joe "Come on buddy, wake up."

Darren began to stir, and shook his head violently from side to side. He opened his eyes wide, and peered at all the StarKids that were clambering around to look at him.
"Guys…. Is everything ok?" said Darren, his concerned eyes glancing around from person to person.
"Darren, it's ok, you're gonna freak out, but it's gonna be ok." Said Joe reassuringly "That necklace you're wearing, we think it's…."
"I'm not Darren, Lauren. It's me, Jaime."

Everyone stared blankly back at Jaime, their mouths wide open. Jaime noticed their shocked faces and stood up slowly.
"Ok, guys, you're seriously freaking me out, what is going on here?"
"Jaime,"
said Denise through Brian's lips "have you listened to your voice?"
Jaime paused for a second, then realised what Denise had just said. She slowly tilted her head downwards. Her chest had completely flattened, and she felt really short for some reason. She slowly lifted her hands up towards her face. Facial hair. That was new. And her eyebrows, since when did they turn triangular? All of her hair had disappeared, and she was left with a mound of short curly locks.
"What the hell has ha….."

But she was cut short. A scream had erupted from across the other side of the room, and every StarKid spun around to look for the source. Their eyes met the sight of the real Darren peering into the mirror and witnessing the vision of Jaime looking back at him. Jaime pushed through the crowd to get back to her real body, as Darren turned around to face himself. Their eyes met. They shrieked. They both fainted.

What the hell had just happened?