In the heat of battle you make a lot of hard decisions. You decide on either stopping your fight to pull someone from the field or watch them die. Today was no exception of this, paladins tend to make hard choices, pidge cutting her hair and working towards finding her family, lance leaving everyone behind, hunk leaving his own family, Shiro losing an arm and dealing with PTSD, then there's Keith the boy who dropped everything to save Shiro and take over being a leader.
The paladins hold their ground against lotor and his small army, pidge and hunk becoming exhausted from being thrown around. Shiro continuing to take out galara and keep everyone protected. Keith slashed through as many as possible, eyes catching a small glimpse of lotor running off in another direction. Keith immediately chases after him, running past lance. "KEITH WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Keith turned slightly to yell back at Lance. "Lotor's getting away!" Lance growled and watched Keith run away. "SHIRO IM GOING AFTER KEITH HELP PIDGE AND HUNK!" Shiro gives a nod and continued to fight. Lance shooting a few more guys before running after Keith.
Keith chased lotor into a blocked off room, he runs up the stairs and finds a room with a hole in the floor that leads to lotor. He jumped down, swinging his sword at lotor trying to hit him across the chest. Lotor backed up, kicking Keith as hard as possible in the chest, sending him straight into the wall. He hissed in pain, standing back up, determined to kill lotor. He'd swing and lotor would dodge, hitting Keith three times harder each time. Finally drawing his own sword to bring to the fight. Their blade hit together, clashing and clanking until lotor finally gets the upper hand.
Lance runs into the hall and sees the blocked off room. He watched Keith go flying into the bars, blood dripping from his side onto the tiled floor. "KEITH! HANG ON!" Lance yelled and looked around trying to find a way in. He runs up the stairs breathless and could hear Keith's screams of agony and pain echoing the halls. Lance jumped down the hole and lands on the floor, aiming his gun at lotor. "You keep your weapon on me. Leave Keith alone." Lance and lotor walk counter clockwise, switching spots so lance is standing in front of Keith, gun pointed at lotors chest.
"Lance, you've got a few options here.." Lance keeps his eyes narrowed on on lotor trying to not pull the trigger to early. "What are they?" He asked in kind of a taunting tone. Lotor holds up Keith's Bayard and smiled. "Well for one, your friend there is bleeding out." Lance glanced down at the puddle of blood he was standing in, and looked back up at lotor. "You can either stop the bleeding and let me run free. Or... Shoot me and let him die as well." Lance keeps his gun on lotor. "You okay Keith??" Keith nods and rolled over onto his back. "I'm fine...you can take this guy." Lance nods, pulling the trigger, lotor moved out of the way and slashed at lance, kicking him in the side so he hits the blocked door. "You should've let me walk kid!" He pulled lances gun away, throwing it to the floor. He then gripped lances neck, holding him off the ground. "I've got big plans for you." Lance choked and tears began to fall, the worst part still yet to come to him. Lotor throws lances smashed lances body into the wall few times, head jerking back and fourth, hitting the wall harder and harder. His helmet falls off a small stain off blood on the inside.
Blood falls from the back of lances head and lotor throws him over his shoulder. "You're coming back with me." Lotor begins walking, kicking the blue Bayard further away. Lance whines and cried out for help. "KEITH DONT LET HIM TAKE ME!" Keith whined, rolling over onto his stomach, he crawled over to a helmet and cried out into it. "SHIRO IM DOWN, ITS BAD, HES GOT LANCE!"
Shiro looked around, leaving pidge and hunk in the room to fight the other guys. He drops down into the room to find Keith falling in and out of consciousnesses. "Keith...hey...hey where did he take lance..." Keith points to the third corridor Shiro running off in that direction. He gets to the end blocked by a giant metal fence, lance sitting next to a ship tied up. He cried out to Shiro in a muffled voice before he is taken on board and flown off into space with lotor.
Shiro swears under his breath running back to Keith. "Hey its okay. Let's get you out of here..." He carried lance back to the lions, hunk holding lances bloody helmet and Bayard. "Shiro...is lance going to be okay..." Shiro sighed and looked at Keith who was bleeding oh in his arms. "I'm not sure hunk...let's just focus on going back to allura." Once they get back to the castle allura and clean help get Keith into a healing pod. They all sit down and try to come up with the next part of the plan.
Lance wakes up hours later chained in a cell room. He groaned, touching the back of his head to feel the dried blood. He rubbed his eyes and glanced over at the bar, making his way over to them. "Hello? Is anyone there?" He asked, voice echoing in the murky area. A guard hears lance and decided to alert lotor like he had promised to. Lance kicked around a rocking in his cell, looking up at the cement walls. He hears the door creak open and footsteps approach his cell. "I see you're awake." Lotor said and opened the cage, heading over to lance. "You have the special pleasure of being by my side all day every day to serve me. Isn't that just wonderful." Lance spits in lotors face and lotor blinked a few times, wiping it dpfrom his cheek. "OK..." He grabbed lance by the hair and yanked him up so they could see eye to eye. "You will not disobey me again." He dropped lance to his knees, giving a swift kick into the stomach. "When I say water you ask sparkling or carbonated." He kicked lance again. "When I say pillow you ask soft of fluffed." He kicked lance harder. "When I say obey you say yes sir. Understand me?!" Lance shakes slightly and nods, blood falling from his bottom lip. "Yes...sir..."