A/N On Pinterest there was an image of an Age-Swapped Pidge and Shiro, just recently I found the au on Tumblr with a bit more to go off of. I liked the idea so I thought I'd give it a go including the ideas on Tumblr. Love to hear feedback. If anyone reading this has a Tumblr and follows Sabertoothwalrus, link them to the story please.

I will try to be doing titles based on birds or concepts that work of that chapter, when it's Keith I may try feline titles, who knows.

So without further ado, Let the chaos ensue.

Finch

It was the last home cooked meal of the Holt family, with the two children making fun of their father's acquired taste in dried space food.

"Enjoy your last home cooked meal Katie, after we launch tomorrow, the two of us will be eating nothing but freeze-dried peas for the next two months." Samuel Holt points out to his daughter, who had recently had her 24th birthday.

Katie laughs, "Are you sure you should be including yourself in that assessment dad? After all, we all know how much you enjoy that Garrison crap." The twenty-four year old digs back into the homecooked meal, as the two men continue talking about the trip. It was in preparation for the trip that Katie cut her hair, where it once reached mid back, now only brushes her shoulders.

"I can't wait until tomorrow, but mom, are you sure you'll be fine on your own with only Matt?" She inquires, turning towards Colleen Holt.

"Yes Katie, I'll be fine, I have Gunther here, and your brother is not that bad. And you should be excited for this bonding moment between you and your father. Going off into space, looking for signs of life, all so exciting."

"Alright fine, but I'll try to keep in contact with you as much as I can."

"Fair enough, now don't stay up too late, both of you. It's a busy day tomorrow, and I don't want you missing it because you didn't get enough sleep." Mrs. Holt says as she takes her dishes to the kitchen to clean. Matt's the next to leave. "And for that reason, I'm taking your laptop." He says as he calmly walks out the doorway.

It takes a moment for the words to process, but when they do, Katie launches out of her chair and storms after her junior of 6 years. "Matt! You so much go in my room, and I'll make you regret it the rest of the year!"

Samuel sits back, and enjoys the silence for but a moment before grabbing the rest of the dishes, and meets his wife in the kitchen. "Are you sure you'll be alright without us?" He asks as he helps clean them. "Oh course, it's you I'm more worried about." she says as they hear banging from upstairs and a shouted "MATT!"

"We'll make it work, you'll see."

It turns out they didn't make it work. Colleen and Matt sit in front of the TV and watch the late-night news report about the failed Kerberos mission, and the missing crew. The explanation given is technology failure leading the ship to crash. The images of her family and their colleague are displayed on the screen, and Holt's cry at the sight of their smiling, ecstatic faces.

The family's Bull Terrier Gunther leans against her leg trying it's best to comfort the woman in the only way it knows how. Matt meanwhile runs up to his room, logging in to his laptop to go over the last email he received from his sister from the ships computer.

to Matt-Hatter

'Promise to bring back a souvenir.'

-Pidgeon

Katie comes to with her arms help tightly behind her back. After a slight moment of panic of realizing her helmet is off, she looks to the right to see her classmate Keith and father held in much the same position with guns pointed at their heads.

She tries to remember what happened before this moment, but all that comes up is a sensation of floating.

In front of them stands a male with purple skin and pointed ears dressed in dark armor. The being holds a conversation with another on the large screen overhead. Only the silhouette shows through the transmission along with piercing purple eyes.

"We discovered these primitive scientists in the area we were scouting, it is believed that they don't know anything." The one in the immediate area states, and at primitive scientist, she can't help but look around. The tech visible is by far more advanced than at home, but before she can think on it more, the being on the screen replies. "Take them back to the main fleet for interrogation. The druids will find out what they know."

At the word interrogation, she finds her voice, "You can't keep us here! What about our families back home waiting for us! We need to go back!" Just as the last words leave her mouth, she feels a blow delivered to the back of the head, catching her name before all goes black.

When she come to, she's being dragged through a hall way, the one in the spacesuit can only be her Keith, based on the size, and he is pushed along after her, limping, letting her know his temper came to play. Gleaming eyes view them from slits in doors. Words filter into her mind fuzzily, she can make at that their all saying the same thing. 'They brought in another one.'

Another what? she hasn't the foggiest clue, but seeing what lays beyond the large windows is enough to make her head spin and a sense of foreboding to settling into her bones.

A/N I chose the title Finch for this chapter, after a small bird many will keep as pets. If you think about Pidge or Katie in this case, she is the smallest, and is now caged.

For those of you who have read the story before I rewrote it. I would like to here your opinion on what you like better as of right now.

The one where the paladins are still the same, and the only thing to switch are the ages of Pidge and Shiro

Or the rewritten version with Pidge and Shiro switching ages, and Matt and Keith switching ages.

Again please leave your choice in the comments below

Tell me what you all think about the story, Until next time, Blue out.