This chapter starts off seriously but it turns into a giant meme, this is why I should never write Pidge after midnight. Enjoy?

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Life was supposed to be simple. You were born and you go through life living a certain way until you grow old with the one you love before croaking. It was supposed to have its up and downs but overall, life was supposed to be a straightforward type of deal you were forced into.

Not to Katie it wasn't. To her, life was something that confused the hell out of her and made her feel odd, unwanted, and even disconnected from others. How was she supposed to introduce herself to other people? She didn't even know who she was in reality. Sure she told people to call her Katie but that name never felt right.

It always felt foreign to her like her body. She didn't understand anything that happened to her and she was always embarrassed when her time of the month came, it didn't feel natural and she felt like people would make fun of her if they found out that she even had it. Why was this so?

"Katie!" Katie sat up in her bed, her hair a frizzy mess and the side of her face red from being fast asleep all morning.

She looked around her room for a moment as she tried to remember that she was in fact not on a space castle ship thing out in space fighting an entire empire with the support group like how her dream told her. 'Whoa...' She pressed her palm against her forehead as her head swam; the blurriness in her eyes gave her a headache. 'I got up a little too fast there...' She thought to herself as she struggled to find her glasses on the white brown nightstand next to her that had her favorite laptop opened on it showing her what Allura had been looking up on her computer.

Yeah, Katie was a little snake. She installed a program on Allura's computer that would allow her to see everything she did and alert her when she might get a possible virus on the computer; it wasn't used for stalking, just for monitoring the health of Allura's computer so Katie didn't have to constantly fix it.

"Katie!" That voice shouted from down the hall again causing her to jump slightly in her bed as she put her glasses on over her face in order to see her room clearly.

Katie scowled as she managed to hope out of bed and stretch her arms above her head. Her room was full of posters of NASA stuff ranging from the first space shuttle to the most recent pictures of Pluto and the Milky Way. On her desk were all of the tools she used to fix electronics and a bunch of papers stained with Mountain Dew side. She was far from a neat person, her clothes were strewn across the floor and her closet was wide opened to show that she didn't even bother to hand her clothing up. Her own bedtime outfit looked like she was from a trailer park at best; she wore a pair of flannel PJ pants and an oversized T-shirt that read 'Congratulations on another successful 365 days of moving oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases to and/or from the blood.'

The mysterious person shouting her name was none other than her older brother who was visiting from college in his old room probably going bananas over his old video games and space shuttle models he wasn't able to take to university. "What Matt?" Katie groaned as she trudged out of her room, shoulders sagging and face full of annoyance.

It was before noon meaning that Matt was violating the unspoken rule of never disturbing Katie before twelve in the afternoon. "I'm dying, come here!" Matt's voice sounded almost like a desperate call for help causing Katie's skin to crawl as she stumbled down the carpeted hall, past the cringe worthy family portraits, and over to the door that had a giant poster of the periodic table of elements on it and those glowy stars covering the wooden door.

She nearly broke down Matt's door out of fear that he could have possibly been having a heart attack or something else that required medical attention but as she stuck her head into his room she was met with a wondrous sight. Matt had his old Darth Vader helmet stuck on his head as he quietly sulked on his bed that had racecar sheets on it. He never had a girlfriend in high school for obvious reasons being that he was a total nerd that probably didn't even know what to do if he saw boobs.

Katie's face brightened up as she tried to hold back her laughter at the sight of her elder brother looking at her with the mask over his head. "What happened to you when you were off at uni? Fall in lava and became evil?" Katie teased her brother as she tapped the top of the plastic helmet earning a grumble of protest for her big brother who gently swatted her hand away.

"No," he slouched on his bed and lifted his head to stare at Katie through the little areas he could see out of, "I found my old Halloween costume from when we were younger and decided to try on my Darth Vader helmet and hopefully get you to wear the cinnamon roll hair clips again to recreate the costume disaster from six years ago."

Katie shivered at the memory of when she was in third grade. For Halloween, matt had the brilliant idea of dressing up as Darth Vader while Katie was Princess Leah the only problem was that they couldn't find the costume for Katie so their mother sewed her one and for her hair they bought cinnamon roll hair clips and pinned them to her head. Needless to say her brother looked freaking amazing but she looked like a walking Cinnabon advertisement. When she said cinnamon roll hair clips, she meant cinnamon roll hair clips that looked like the food attached to her head. Her mother and brother thought it was the funniest thing to see a very angry third grader Katie with two cinnamon rolls attached to her head so they took a photo of her and Matt together holding their space guns. Katie would never wear such a disgraceful thing again in her life even if she had a gun put to her head and had to choose between cinnamon roll hair clips or death.

She pushed Matt away from her causing the man to fall with his back flat on the racecar sheets of his, "Never," She hissed with a blackened expression on her face.

Matt, though Katie couldn't see his face, probably had a disappointed look to his face as he slowly managed to sit back up. "Fine but at least help get this thing off my head; I want to meet your support group buddy without talking about the empire."

Katie rolled her eyes and placed her hands on either side on Matt's helmet and braced herself for a brutal game of tug-of-war between her and her brother's large head. "Fine, prepare yourself for I, Katie Holt of the Holt household, shall free this damsel in distress!" With all her strength Katie pulled as hard as she could on the helmet and fell backwards while Matt yelped as Darth Vader finally retired.

Katie stumbled into the blue beanbag chair that sat in front of Matt's television and blinked wildly as she tried to regain her composure. She sat with the Vader helmet in her lap and her glasses hanging onto the tip of her nose. Matt was sitting on his bed, his short hair messy from being in the helmet and his glasses nowhere to be seen. He was wearing a button up shirt with a little green fuzzy vest over it and a pair of khaki's. He looked like total chick repellent in his outfit but at least college was working on his face the best it could because now he had no signs of acne and his face was clearer than the sky outside.

"Where are your glasses?" Katie threw the helmet across the room and into her brother's chest.

Matt smiled as he caught Vader's helmet and placed it beside him, "I decided to switch to contacts because girls totally dig the Matt master without his Harry Potter glasses," Matt laughed out loud before he held his arms out for his little sister, "Are you not going to give your big brother a hug? I haven't seen you in months Katie; I want to hold one of the people I love the most in this world!"

Katie couldn't help but smile as she pushed herself to her feet and practically threw herself into her brother's arms. "Shut up you big goof," she laughed. "Also," she pulled away and placed her hands on hips, "How is your meme knowledge? It hasn't fallen since you've been forced to be around other adults right?"

Matt smirked as he slowly stood up and walked over to his TV to lift up a game case he had on the table, "What up space rangers," he began in a playful tone as he spun around on his heels to reveal a new video game in his hands. "It's-a me, ya boi."

Katie gasped as she snatched the game away from her brother's hands, "No way Matt, you have Space Rangers 4: Revenge of the Fifth? This is like a living meme!" Katie yelled as she looked at her brother in excitement, "Did you put it in your Xbox?"

"Oh you bet your little ass I did!"

"Let's fight the aliens and form bro bonds for the sake of the universe!" Katie shrieked as she and Matt rushed to grab controllers and practically sat on top of each other in the beanbag chair as the Xbox whirred to life to show them the kickass screen of the video game.

To sum up the Space Ranger's franchise; take every jrpg social link based game ever to exist, mix it together with overly shaded characters and backgrounds to create this super unrealistic feel to it, become the next Michael Bay of video games and throw in explosions where explosions shouldn't be, have muscular guys and gals, and add the word bro after every piece of dialogue and you had yourself a Space Rangers game. It was a meme that could never die bro.

The game followed a group of five men and a woman as they became heroes the galaxy never thought it needed until aliens begin to attack planets within their galaxy. The group flies up into space in a larger ship where they train religiously and become best bros with each other, perhaps even falling in love with fellow bros if you decide to make a bro-link involving romance. The group's leader was the most hardass man in the universe and had the only Space Ranger muscle chic falling head over heels with him but you played as the not so very elegant Space Ranger named Leith Lurra. Katie couldn't help but notice how Leith reminded her of Lance a little with how weird he was and also his face nearly matched with the game characters. They were also both Cuban.

By the end of the first game Leith is led to believe that he and his Space Ranger partners saved the universe only to be faced with a new threat in the second game where they lose their leader. By the third game Leith's best bro, Reid Brogane steps up and becomes the lead bro and ends up having many bromance moments with Leith as they try to cope with losing the lead bro. They kick major space ass as the bromance begins to escalate to the point where you would be wasting your time on their bro-link. Stitch Thunderson, the Space Ranger's most intelligent member embarks on his quest to find his long lost brother that had been captured by the aliens terrorizing their galaxy while Chunk McChunk cooks up some mad space cookies. The lead bros girl, Leah Esor finds her tragic anime back story and tries to cope with the fact that the new lead bro is taking over her brofriend's position as lead bro.

At the end of the third game the Space Ranger team manages to fight against the alien king and takes him down but that's where the fourth game picked up at. Katie knew the overview of the game already; the old lead bro, Jynx Orb returns and it creates a major conflict for the Space Ranger team as they try to take on the king's son. She had been itching to get her hands on the game, despite its overly shaded look and extremely unrealistic characters the game was extremely hard to get your hands on because it was in such high demand. Katie was practically squealing as the title menu popped up on the screen to show the Space Ranger crew in front of an explosion, Leith was holding Reid in his arms and for the first time Katie noticed how Reid looked like Keith. It was scary how the characters were all similar to the people at the support group; even Stitch Thunderson the buff dwarf man with brows that only belonged in anime resembled her a bit.

In the background played the iconic Space Ranger theme song that involved people shouting 'Space Rangers' like the power rangers theme and the 'bro' bass drop really helped this game stand out with its futuristic techno dubstep music.

"Oh dear god I have been waiting to play this game with my bro ever since I bought it," Matt whispered with this starry eyed look in his eyes.

Katie looked at her brother and held her hand up for him to take in his as they stared at each other, "Are you ready for the final chapter, bro?"

Matt slowly nodded his head, "Let's get going, bro."

Then the doorbell rang downstairs and completely ruined their moment causing the siblings to get a bilious expression on their faces. "Who dares disturb our bonding moment?" Matt shouted in an English accent as he and Katie rushed down the stairs to answer the little white door.

As Matt swung it open the front door and revealed a very awkward looking Shiro he let out the most inhuman screech Katie had ever heard leave her brother's mouth as he laid his brown eyes on the taller boy. "Takashi!" He shrieked.

Katie took a step back with wide eyes, she had her right arm held up in front of her in order to brace herself from what was about to happen and she held a horrified look to her face that no words could ever describe. Shiro looked at Matt for a moment before the reserved senior took in a deep breath and let out a shriek much like Matt's.

"Matt!" He shouted and then the two of them gave each other a hug in excitement.

Katie looked between her friend and brother as she tried to process what was going on. "Uh, how do you two know each other?" She asked even though she was frightened of the response she would get.

Matt pointed to Shiro with this gleeful look to his eyes as he began to go off on a tangent about the two of them, "I met him in my junior year of high school at the academy Katie, he was a little freshman and was so lost so took him under my wing and we became amazing friends. Speaking of which," he smiled devilishly at Shiro as he placed his hand on the senior's back, "Have you gotten Allura yet? You've been head over heels for that girl since freshman year; surely you've started dating each other."

Katie found herself slowly smiling in amusement as she relaxed and stared at Shiro. "Oh? You've liked her since freshman year but you've only started talking to her this year? My my young one, you have much to tell my brother," she teased her friend who was now turning bright red in embarrassment.

Matt slapped Shiro's back in disbelief and closed the door, "What!" He exclaimed with an overdramatic gasp, "After two years of me pestering you to talk to her you only started now? Shiro, what the hell is wrong with you? You could have started dating your freshman year if you listened to me!" Matt sounded like a whiney teen boy as he shook his younger friend's shoulders and threw his head back.

Shiro pried his friend off of his body and glared at Matt, "Yeah, I would totally take girl advice from the guy that would dance to Every Time We Touch wearing only his Doctor Who boxers in the locker room."

Matt rolled his eyes, "Oh come on Shiro; what happens in the locker room stays in the locker room that's the locker room rule number one!" He mumbled before slouching, "At least you don't have the video still."

"I do though."

Katie laughed and placed her hand over her mouth as she coyly smiled, "Oh please," she chuckled before a dark expression took over her face, "Show me the video."

Matt turned whiter than the Pillsbury doughboy as he looked at his little sister with an anxious look, "N-Never, I will never show you something like that ever. Why don't we go play Space Rangers already?" He began to rush everyone up the stairs as he tried to change the subject.

"I'll send it to you, don't worry," Shiro winked at Katie as they went into Matt's room and fell into Space Ranger hell where they remained there for at least six hours screaming 'bro' every time the dialogue said it and even dabbing when someone got a gory headshot on an alien.

The fourth game was the most fulfilling out of all of them. Its music was amazing and the graphics were just as unrealistic as ever but the plot really created what Katie would know as the greatest Space Rangers game in all of Space Rangers history. You play as Leith of course as you and your team go out and crush alien skulls for the sake of the universe but Stitch found his brother who happened to be the rebellion's leader and was actually super cool with his space gun that shot lasers. Mick's catchphrase was 'not today, bro'. When Jynx returns he's actually on the enemy's side and tries to convince the team that the empire was only doing what was best for their universe and manages to turn Leah against the team leaving only four Space Rangers and a rebellion to fight back against them. The king's son, Rotol, ends up being this enemy that was even harder than the king to beat but by the end when half of the Space Rangers have been killed and when Leah kills Jynx, Reid and Leith are left on the enemy's home planet. Reid had been severely injured to the point where Leith held him in his arms and told him all about the good they've done to save their universe before he gives him a kiss and the planet blows up.

Katie and Shiro were left speechless as the kiss scene because to them it looked like Lance and Keith on steroids smooching on screen. They watched as the two bros shed a final tear before the planet blew up and they slowly looked at each other with their jaws practically touching the floor. It was awesome.

"We shouldn't tell them about the game Katie," Shiro whispered as Matt screamed 'bro' with the bass drops of the theme song a few feet away.

Katie bit her lip and fell into a deep thought about what she could do with the information. She could either embarrass the hell out of the two who were obviously either gay or still in the closet or she could save them the embarrassment and keep this secret between her and the two boys in this room. She knew what she had to do.

"Nope!" She shouted as she made a dive for her phone and began to text a picture of the kiss scene to the group chat, "I'm going to show their gayness to the group!" Katie laughed manically as Shiro went to go swipe her phone away only fro Matt to pull him onto the beanbag chair with a serious look in his eyes.

"Don't mess with my little sister," he warned, "bro."

Katie pressed send and jumped up to her feet as she showed the text to a very horrified Shiro. "I have exposed them!" She proclaimed with triumph.

"Katie," Shiro began using his dad voice and he crossed his arms, "That wasn't very mature of you to do."

Matt looked between his sister and Shiro in confusion, "What? Did I miss something really important?" He asked.

Katie showed her phone to him and after a moment of reading it he gasped out loud and began to laugh in hysterics. "Oh my god, I would've sent that too! Also, Leah looked exactly like Allura and Jynx was totally you Shiro, you should watch out of your girl may stab you in your back."

Shiro rolled his eyes and ruffled his hair, "It's just a game Matt, anything that happens in there is fictional so it won't happen in real life."

"Oh but," Katie smirked as she sat down across from Matt and Shiro. "Lance and Keith have already kissed; Hunk told me Keith gave Lance a hickey."

Matt leaned forward and began to press for more details, "Oh my god Katie, where?"

"Riiiiight here," Katie pointed to her collarbone and smirked as Shiro stared at her with a blank expression.

Matt placed his hands on his cheeks and let out a gasp, "Oh god, that means they were making out y'all, do you know what making out leads to? It leads to teen sex and then teen pregnancy!"

Shiro looked at matt with a confused expression before he patted the man's head sympathetically, "They're boys Matt, they won't get pregnant and anyways," Shiro raised one of his thick eyebrows at Katie and leaned forward. "We shouldn't be talking behind our friend's backs Katie."

Katie blew raspberries in Shiro's face as she began mocking him, "We shouldn't talk behind our friend's backs Katie."

"This is kind of off topic guys but I just wanted to ask my little sister this," Matt looked at Katie with warmth in his eyes as a gentle smile painted his face. "Have you decided on the name you wanted to use yet? Mom has been calling me and telling me about how guilty she felt for using Katie instead of a name you felt comfortable with."

Katie sat in front of the boys in silence. She hadn't really been focusing on finding a name she truly liked being called yet. She had been focusing on trying to be like all the other girls at school and trying to be comfortable with the body she was born into without luck; maybe it was time to move on and become the person she really wanted to be? Only one name could become her new identity and she knew exactly what it was but she was afraid of what her friends and family would think if she took this step in her life and began to change her identity as a girl to a boy.

She fidgeted with her shirt quietly; she wasn't sure how to tell her brother what she wanted just yet so she kept her head low and eyes on the floor. She didn't want to make her brother feel upset about losing his little sister he spent his whole life protecting from bullies at school.

Shiro leaned forward and placed a hand on Katie's head gently before he began to ruffle her hair causing her to spas out and swat his hands away. "We won't judge you Katie, you'll still be matt's younger sibling and you'll still be the group's friend. It doesn't matter what you identify as because your personality will remain the same."

Katie felt her cheeks heat up in embarrassment as she looked up at the two boys and finally decided to take the leap she needed to move on in her life. "Pidge. I want to be called Pidge."

Matt was the first one to react as he tackled Pidge to the floor and began to ruffle his hair, "I have a little brother now!" Matt shouted as Pidge began to laugh.

Maybe change wasn't a bad thing after all.

If you guys want to see what Matt's dancing looked like then check out the link on my message board. My friend is a living meme in our group after she danced to Every Time We Touch so I wanted to make a joke about it since she reads this on AO3 to make fun of me about;;; this one is for my girl who shall remain anonymous but you'll see her horrid dancing skills XD

On a side note, I learned yesterday that literally no one has heard of Through the Fire and the Flames by DragonForce like how have you not? That is an instant classic and the guitar charts are out of this fucking world god damn don't talk to me until you've heard that song.

So I did a writing challenge thing I saw on instagram and so here it is^^

Anyone can do it I'm too lazy to tag and sorry you cannot read my handwriting comment which number(s) is hard to read and I'll translate for ya.

Have a good day
-Anri