Steven walked to his home that night. His home at Evergrande wasn't as bright as his home in Mosdeep, but it did. What was important was that it looked impressive. He turned the knob as the gilded knocker seemed to warp to the noble face of Lance. "What?" Steven questioned. "I must have worked too hard today, I'll just have a light dinner and get to sleep."

Steven dined on a light snack of Macaroni and Cheese as he heard what sounded like the rattle of metal. "Let's see… I left my Pokemon with Joy again, so what on Earth's making that sound?" He opened the door into the main hall and nearly jumped out of his skin- Lance was standing right there!

True- he was standing there, but he was not the strong form Steven remembered. His complexion was as pale as a Clefairy's fur and he had chains tying him up, each one ending with a draconic lock. "Steven Stone… I have come here to warn you." He called out in that cool ghostly vibrato.

"Lance? Is that you?" Steven blinked thinking it was an illusion. "It is you! What has happened to you?"

"You know how when I was alive, we used our power to crush all who opposed us?"

"Yeah! Those were great times!"

"Listen Steven… Because of that, I am doomed to walk the Earth adorned in these hellish chains. If you are to go on like this, you shall bear longer and more twisted chains that I do!"

"Foolishness!" Steven shouted. "How do I know you're not a hallucination? Only God knows what's in that cheese powder!"

Lance smiled and gave him a swift kick to the chest. "Think I'm a hallucination now!?" He spat. "Listen buddy, you're going to be visited by fi… three ghosts tonight in hopes that you shall change. The decision will be yours afterwards, good luck." He disappeared in what seemed to be a dragon breath attack.

"Lance!" Steven called in vain. "What am I doing? I really need sleep…" Steven crept to his bed and fell asleep.

The clock on the wall struck one, and that actually meant that it was one. May had used that promotional disk, so that bug was fixed. Back on topic, Steven was awakened by a small finger poking him in the face. "What do you want?!" He called.

He looked to see Liza, one of the leaders of his home town, standing there. "I'm the ghost of Christmases long past."

"Couldn't go to sleep, so you decided to bother me?" Steven groggily slurred.

"Nope! Santa said that I would get a Mew plushie if I did this!" Liza smiled. "Anyways, I need to take you on the grand tour of your childhood!"

"Call me in the morning." Steven rolled over.

Liza walked over to the window and opened it. She looked down the cliff and onto the rocks below. She grabbed his PDA and hung it over the cliff, causing Steven to jump out of bed. "I see we're going to agree now. Take my hand."

"I'm going to get you for blackmail after this…"

Liza had a huge grin on her face. "Is that before or after you tell everyone that I just appeared in your room? Everyone knows that my Pokemon don't know teleport."

"Let's just get going…" They jumped out, but LIza's telekinetic powers allowed them to float. "First, we are going to go to a party!"

"Isn't it a bit past your bedtime?" Steven laughed.

"Aww… You're no fun. Daddy didn't let me be at the party either…" Steven's eyes widened. "Yep! We're going to that party!" Within seconds, the scenery bled to the Mosdeep Gym. "Don't worry, they can't see us. That means Daddy can't yell at me to go to bed!"

Steven looked over to see a man in a red and green Chinese shirt checking on various things, then stopping at a youth wearing a red sweater and bearing grey hair. "Well, there's your father…"

"So, having fun Stone?" The man asked.

"Sure!" The youth replied.

"You know, Winona just got here." He said as both Stevens ran to the door.

"Winona! How's your training going?" The younger Steven asked as the flying trainer pointed upwards.

"Mistletoe." Winona smiled and gave him a peck on the cheek (apparently it was highly effective). Steven blushed on the spot.

"She was the only girl I ever loved." Steven sighed.

"Eww! She kissed you?" Liza gagged. "Who would kiss you?"

Steven was starting to lose his temper. "I prefer to consider myself attractive…"

"Well, we have to move again, it's a bit of a trip." The vision dissipated quickly.

"So," Steven sought to make a conversation. "What ever did happen to your father?"

"Well, he got permission to go to that Cerulean Cave and search for rare Pokemon."

"Really, there's some dangerous Pokemon there, or so I heard."

"But Daddy had Alakazam and Gardevior to protect him! I'm sure that he's just staying there for some training." They found themselves in Steven's office. "But we're here."

"Steven! When are you going to keep your promise to marry me?" Winona whined.

"It's just that I want to be more dignified before I do anything serious." Steven's shadow stated calmly.

"But Steven!"

"I'm sorry, my mind is made up." Winona ran crying from the room as Steven dropped to the floor.

"Please…" Steven begged. "For the love of all that is holy, please… No more."

"Okay, okay… crybaby." Liza teased. "I'm done anyways, I'm actually a bit tired." With a yawn, they returned to Steven's bedroom.

"What was that?" Steven questioned as he looked down and saw the little psychic sleeping. "You're still here…" He called a Skarmory to bring her to her home. "Good night, psy-girl…"