Greetings people from across the Verse and on request by johnnyescamilla5, welcome to the first chapter of Voltron: Dragon Force.
I hope your all going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it and as always I only own the OC's in this story, except Kai Vakarian which belongs to johnnyescamilla5.
In the star filled void called space, an ship was cruising passed an unnamed planet. The captain of the vessel with sitting with his co-pilot on the bridge.
The co-pilot of the ship, a seventeen year old tanned young man named Kai Valkarian. His dark brown hair which was unkempt at the front, the tip of his right bang was colored pink while covering his right pale gold eye. He was dressed in a blue jacket over a white shirt, baggy grey cargo pants and black boots.
"Approaching our target in five tics.", Kai said, looking from his screen to his captain, "Something wrong, Ren?"
Ren, the captain of their little crew, was a young man with very spiky black hair and amber colored eyes. His clothes consisted of a red V-neck shirt, a black leather coat, tight black pants, faded brown strap boots and a pair of similar colored fingerless gloves.
"It's nothing, Kai.", Ren said, leaning back in his chair, arms behind his head.
"I bet he was hoping for more action on this run.", a third voice spoke over the intercom.
"Don't you have a toaster to tinker with!?", Ren protested, just as the scanner picked something up.
Looking at the screen, it showed multiple hostile warship's blocking the way to the planet. "It's a Galra fleet... Commanded by Sendak.", Kai told his captain, "What are we going to do, Ren? One wrong move, and we're done for."
"Then we make the right move.", Ren said, a smirk on his face as he stood up from his chair.
"He has that shit eating smirk on his face, hasn't he?", the voice asked.
"Yes, he has Jorra.", Kai said, putting the ship on auto-pilot before following his captain, "See you at the hanger."
The trio just got into their separate fighter ships, as Ren's made contact with the command ship of the blockade. A screen popped up and it showed one of the generals of the Galra Empire.
"This is Captain Picard.", Ren said, taking the black dagger from his belt and putting it into the control slid, gripping the handle, assuming control, "I have an urgent communique for commander Sendak."
"This is commander Sendak of the Galra Empire. You are trespassing on Galra owned space.", Sendak said, a massive purple alien, "State your business or be annihilated."
"Uh hello? I'm holding for Comander Sendak.", Ren said unsure, "Okay, I'll hold."
He waited for a moment, allowing the awkward tension to be build up until Sendak said, "Hello?"
"Hello?", Ren said, "Ayup, I'm still here."
"Can you...", Sendak said unsure, before turning to someone out of Ren's screen view, "Can he hear me?
"He can.", a voice said off-screen.
Sendak becomes increasingly annoyed as he turned back to face the screen, "I can hear you. Can you hear me?", he demanded.
"Look, I can't hold forever.", Ren said, "If you reach him, tell him that this is a trap."
Thrusting out of the main ship, three beams of the colors black, white and blue, bursting straight through the surrounding ships, they where revealed to be some sort of dragon shaped fighter ships, each having the color of their beam.
Soon Galra fighter's where send after the trio, each deftly evading their attempts at shooting them down.
"Your having too much fun, aren't you?", Jorra's voice said over the communicator.
"Of course!", Ren said, spinning his ship around while blasting a set of fighter's to space dust, "I get to kick Galra ass and I am going to get paid for it! What more does a guy want?"
Suddenly his dragon ship turned into a massive bipedal humanoid dragon, slashing it's double edged spear through a Galra warship. Spreading it's wings as the ship went down in a blaze of fire.
"Shall we finish this?", Kai asked.
"Yes, let's!", Ren shouted.
As the trio shouted at the same time, "Form Pandraco!", a massive flash of light blinded the Galra warships.
After the battle, the main ship of the trio was now peacefully drifting into space, the cargo a little lighter, but much more money on board.
"Oh that was great.", Kai said slouching down in the co-pilot chair after dinner.
"Yeah, Ren can cook as well as he bullshits.", Jorra said over the intercom.
"I aim to please." Ren said, standing up and heading to the lift.
"Where are you going?" Kai asked, looking over his chair.
"I need to unload after that fight." the captain of the ship said.
"Didn't you had sex with one of the locals?", Jorra asked, "Should be enough unloading."
"H-How do you know!?", Ren shouted surprised, "Any way, I am going out for a little ride."
"Don't go out to far, or Kai takes over as captain.", the voice over the intercom warned.
Ren shakes his head, his black spiky hair bouncing before the lift door closes behind him.
The young captain was flying through space, speeding through an asteroid field, he turned down the speed, allowing his ship to just float there. Letting go off the control stick, the captain looked into the endless ocean of stars.
"Somewhere among the stars, they are out there.", Ren thought, slouching in his chair, "One day... I will find them."
But something strange happened that took Ren out of his thoughts. A light blue wormhole opened and a blue lion ship came flying out of it.
"Uh, Kai? Jorra? Are you seeing this?", Ren said, pitching the video feed through to the main ship.
"...Well, that's not something you see everyday.", Kai's voice said.
"Wait... Could that blue lion be?...", Jorra's voice mumbled.
"I am going after it.", Ren said, engaging his thrusters. Flying after the blue lion, "Jorra, try to see if you can pitch me into their communications grid. Just in case its a new Galra weapon."
"Galra having warp technology?", Kai said as the third crew member began to work, "That's not a very comfortable thought."
A few seconds later, Jorra didn't managed to get a video feed but she managed to hack it so they had a sound feedback.
"...If you noticed, but we're in an alien warship!", a male voice said.
"Oh, are you scared?", a second male voice said.
"With you at the helm? Terrified.", the first said.
"All right, knock it off.", a third male voice said, sounding older than the other two, "No one's happy to be in this situation, but we're here now. If we want to get through this, we've got to do it together."
The Lion entered orbit of a nearby blue planet, the black dragon silently following it.
"I don't know who that is, but he sounds handsome.", Jorra chipped in, Ren raising an eyebrow at this remark, "Don't look at me like that!"
"So, what do we do?", a fourth voice said, sounding younger than the others.
"First, we find out where we're headed. Lance?", the third voice told them. Seemingly this was the leader.
"I.. don't know.", the second voice said, who seemingly was named Lance, "I'm sorry. The lion's not talking to me anymore! Wait it's saying something... "
"Uh guys.", a heavier fifth voice said, "Maybe its trying to tell us there is a massive robot black dragon flying after us."
"A dragon!?", they shouted, just as a castle came into view.
"Guys, come to my location." Ren told his crew.
"Your pretty far, Ren." Kai told him, "Might take us some time to get to that planet."
"Just hurry! I don't know if they are friendly." he told them as he saw a castle up ahead.
Ren saw the blue lion land, its mouth opening to let the five people out who rushed to get into the castle.
"I hope Jorra fixed my jetpack." Ren mumbled, taking the dagger from the console, and getting out of his dragon.
The dragon continued its flight, as Ren activated his face concealing red helmet with black glass.
Using his jetpack to slow his descend, he spin around, making sure he landed between them and the castle in a crouching position, feet wide apart and supporting his weight with his left fist on the floor while the other hand is outstretched away, pointed diagonally upwards.
"Whoo! Nailed it!", Ren said standing back up, rubbing his knee, "...While cool, landing like that is totally impractical. Really hard on the knees."
Looking up from his knee, Ren waved at the five. Going from their appearance he guessed most of them were being between fifteen and eighteen years old. Except for the the tall muscular one with the scar over his nose, which might be older.
What surprised him more was how much they looked like him, from a racial point of view.
"Hello there." Ren said waved at them.
"General Kenobi!", a tall thin young man who had been called Lance earlier.
"You guys speak basic!?" Ren said surprised.
"You speak English?" the younger one with the glasses said.
"Well that makes things easier." he continued, looking up at the castle, "I am Captain Ren Solo, by the way."
They introduced themselves as Shiro, Keith, Lance, Hunk and Pidge before they entered the castle.
"He seems nice." Hunk said.
"Keep your guard up." Shiro whispered to his friends, "My crew was captured by aliens once. I'm not going to let it happen again."
Ren took out his side arms from it's holster and threw it over his shoulder for Shiro to catch, "There. Now you have a blaster and I don't. While I do have a dagger, your not getting that."
"Why not?" Keith said suspicious, "Do you need it to get home?"
"Yes." Ren said plainly, as they stepped into the massive darken hallway of the castle, "I finally can take this thing off.", he pushed the side of his helmet, making it shrink down to a black headphone.
"Your human!?" the five said surprised.
"Is that what your race is call?" he asked, making his headphone rest around his neck, letting his spiky hair free.
Just then a voice spoke up, "Hold for identity scan.", before the lights in the darkened hallway lit up, guiding them down a hallway.
"I guess we're going that way." Pidge said.
A short walk later, the doors slid open to reveal a round room with one console panel in the middle. Once they stepped in, two pods rose from the circles in the floor, clearly containing someone.
"Are these guys... dead?" Hunk asked, standing near one of the pods.
"I don't think so." Ren said, placing a hand on the glass, just as the pods lid up and the glass disappear.
"Father!" the person inside gasped, before falling over right into Ren's arms.
She was a girl with dark skin, white hair, blue eyes, pink markings on her cheeks and pointy ear tips.
"I'll be your daddy." Ren thought.
"Who are you?" the girl asked, sounding confused, "Where am I?"
"I am Captain Ren Solo." he introduced himself, "And your in some sort of castle."
"Your ears..." the girl said, sounding intrigued, "They're hideous. What's wrong with them?"
"My ears? That's what you focus on?" Ren said, letting her go, "Not my beautiful amber eyes or insanely awesome but impractical gravity defying hair?"
"Who are you? Where is King Alfor? What are you doing in my castle?" the girl continued to ask.
"Well as I said, I am Captain Ren Solo." Ren said annoyed, gesturing to the people behind him, "These are Shiro, Keith, Lance, Hunk and Pidge. They are not part of my crew. They got here in a blue lion."
"It brought us here!" Lance corrected, "That's all we know!"
"How do you have the Blue Lion?" the girl said, suddenly turning to the rest, "What happened to its paladin? What are you all doing here? Unless... How long has it been?"
"We don't know what you're talking about." Shiro said, "Why don't you tell us who you are? Maybe we can help."
"I don't know if I want to help her..." Ren mumbled, crossing his arm, "She insulted my ears."
"I am Princess Allura of Planet Altea." the princess introduced himself, "I've got to find out where we are and how long we've been asleep."
"Altea isn't real." Ren remarked, his eyes rolling.
"What do you mean?" Allure demanded to know.
"Or at least not anymore, I don't know." Ren shrugged, "I heard it was one of the planets the Galra blew up in one of their earliest campaigns."
"How do you know that?" Shiro asked.
"Because I have been fighting Galra forces since I was Pidge's height." the spiky guy explained as a distressed Allure rushed to the console, placing her hands on it, making it lit up.
Another pod lid up, and the glass disappear, releasing a male with slicked back orange hair, pointy ear, blue face markers and a impressive mustache. The man gasped taking a sort of weird fighting stance, "Enemy combatants!" before jumping from the pod and attempting a dive kick, but landed a mile from his intended target. "Quiznak! You're lucky I have a case of the old 'sleep chamber knees'. Otherwise, I'd grab your head like this, wrap you up like so - and one, two, three..."
"Right..." Ren said, watching the male Altean demonstrate his moves.
"You seem familiar spiky one." the orange haired man said, stroking his chin, "You don't happen to know... What was his name again? Skyblaster? Moonwalker? Moonlover?"
"Never heard of them." he said, "I am Captain Ren Solo." he proudly puffed out his chest.
"Never heard of you." he said as they heard a computer beeping.
"It can't be." Allura's voice followed, "We've been asleep for 10,000 years."
Ren looked at Allura, eyeing her up and down. His eyes resting on her lower behind, perhaps a bit to long as he felt a set of eyes burning holes in the back of his head. Turning around he saw Lance glaring at him, but Ren shrugging his shoulder before turning back to oogle, thinking "No way she is 10,000 years old."
"Planet Altea and all of the planets in our solar system have been destroyed." Allura mumbled, looking at the male Altean, "Coran, Father is gone. Our entire civilization... Zarkon."
"Zarkon?" Shiro gasped.
"You know him?" Ren asked, finally looking away from Allura's rear to look at the muscular young man next to him.
"I-I was his prisoner." Shiro said.
"You escaped Emperor Zarkon? That's awesome, respect bro." the spiky young man said, tapping his chest before holding up a his index and middle finger before looking down at his right arm, "Would explain where you got that Galra tech arm."
"He's still alive? Impossible!" Allura said, "He was the King of the Galra. A vile creature and enemy to all free people."
"Make that Emperor, and I am not sure if it's the same one. Maybe Zarkon is just a title passed on to each successor." Ren said, "One of my crew members once boarded a flagship, and Zarkon has been searching for a super weapon. Another giant robot named Voltron."
"Another giant robot?" Keith asked.
"What did you think that giant black dragon I was flying was a part of?" Ren stated in a matter of fact tone.
"I thought it was just a massive space dragon going to eat us." Hunk admitted embarrassed.
"Eh, still not the weirdest thing I heard." the captain said, "You should have seen what those mutant horny squirrels from Ebon V did. Or the inhibitions of Pleg, they worshiped it as some sort of dragon god."
"Horny squirrels?" Pidge said with a raised eyebrow.
"You don't want to know." Ren admitted.
"Wait, your the rider of the Black Dragon? The main body of Pandraco?" Allura asked looking horrified when Ren nodded, "She really downgraded from her original rider."
"Oh, kiss my ass, princess." Ren told her crossing her arms, turning away.
"We need to find the rest of Voltron." Allura said to the others, "Together with Pandraco, we can put a stop to the Galra."
"So what do you think guys think about all this?" Ren asked, standing outside in the shadow of the Lion Castle, leaning against a pillar with his headphone on.
"If it wasn't for our own mecha's, I would chalk Voltron up as a fairy tale Chewie told me back home." Kai said through the earpiece.
"Fairy tale or not, we can't let it fall into Galra hands." Jorra spoke, "If they do, they have a weapon equal in power to our Dragons."
"As fun a challenge that sounds, that would be bad for business." Ren mumbled, "So Jorra, you can do something with these maps I gave you?"
"Actually yes, based on the trajectory lines, I have pit pointed the planets the Lions should be on. Downloading them to your Omnipad now... Oh no." she said, "You should hear this Ren."
Ren heard the channel switch, it had to be something concerning the Galra Empire for Jorra to sound so worried.
And indeed, it was a heavy voice that spoke, one Ren recongized well. It was the voice of the emperor himself, Zarkon.
"Commander Sendak, the Princess of Altea is alive and hiding in your sector. We believe she alone holds the whereabouts of the remaining Lions. Your battle fleet is the closest to her location. Retrieve her and the Lions. With them all, the Galra Empire will crush the dragon and be unstoppable. Consider this a way to atone for your recent failure."
"I fight for the empire. I conquer in the name of Galra. No foe has ever stood in my way and none ever will. Vrepit sa! Set a course for Arus."
"Oh, that's balls." Ren mumbled as the channel switched back to his friends, while he rushed back inside to warn the others.
"That's balls? Is that your catchphrase of the day?" Kai asked.
"Oh shut it!" Ren protest.
Inside the bridge of the Castle, where the princess, Coran, and the five humans around a console.
"Princess, you must eat." Coran implored, "It's been 10,000 years." but the princess claimed she wasn't very hungry.
"Man, 10,000 years?" Lance said, "That's like one thousand plus ten."
"That's.. times ten." Keith corrected him.
"Dinner has to wait!" Ren said as he came running inside, "A Galra battleship is on its way to capture the princess and take the Lions."
"How did they find us?" Allure asked.
"I bet it's Keith's fault." Lance said quickly.
"Say whatever you've got to say to make yourself feel better." Keith scoffed at him, "After getting us stuck on the other side of a wormhole!"
"I'll stick you in a wormhole!" Lance shot back.
"Stow it, cadets!" Shiro ordered, and the two went quite, "This is no time to place blame. It's time to work as a team."
"Shiro's right." Ren said, his wrist lit up in a red keypad. He typed away at it displayed the traction of the Galra ship, "If the coordinates are correct, we have at most a day to collect your Lions. My main ship might not arrive in time, but my crew should have no trouble arriving on time in their Dragons."
"Good. Let them come!" Allura said fiercely, "By the time they get here, you five will have reformed Voltron, Pandraco will be here and together, we will destroy Zarkon's empire!"
Ren smirked at her sudden change in attitude, something the others noticed.
"But there are five of these Lions." Shiro said, "How are we going to find the rest?"
"Well my ship tech, Jorra, made a map where the Lions should be." Ren explained, showing a different screen, "I scaned the energy signature of the Blue Lion, send it forward to the M.A.S. and with a quick scan, we found four similar signatures. For more info on how that works, ask Jorra."
"The Black Lion looks like it's in the same location as the Blue Lion." Pidge noted from the screen.
"Look at your primitive synapses firing away in their little brain cage." Coran said, "That's because the Black Lion is in the castle. To keep the Black Lion out of Zarkon's hands, King Alfor locked it in the castle. It can only be freed if the other four lions are present."
"As you have found, the lions choose their pilots." Allura said, "It is a mystical bond and cannot be forced. The quintessence of the pilot is mirrored in his Lion. Together, they form something greater than science can explain."
"All smoke and mirrors, there is no such thing as magic." Ren scoffed at the notion.
"Its not smoke and mirrors. Magic is as real as your Dragon is." Allura said, glaring at the captain.
"Right, and I am actually the long lost prince of an empire." Ren laughed, ignoring the look the princess was giving him, "I have been all over the galaxy and have never seen anything indicating that magic exists."
"Wait. Okay, we're going to be in there and flying lions. Got that part." Hunk interrupted, "How do lions turn into legs? Also, is this going to be a long trip? Because I have to pee. Do you people pee?"
"So anyway, I was thinking, Shiro and Pidge go after the Green Lion, Kai will join you there. Lance, you take Hunk and get the yellow one, Jorra will back you up." Ren said, "Keith and I will stay here, because the Red Lion is coming to us."
"What do you mean?" Keith asked.
"Well Red's signature is moving towards us... Its on the Galra ship heading towards us." he pointed out, slapping Keith on his back, "Don't worry, me and Blake got your back, it's going to be fun."
"Who's Blake?" the soon to be Red Paladin asked.
"My Dragon." Ren said, getting a surprised look from the others, "Don't look at me, I didn't name her."
On the planet where the Yellow Lion would be located, Lance was doing his best to evade the incoming attacks on the Blue Lion by attack ships from the Galra. The planet had become a mining world for the Galra Empire.
"I thought Coran said these planets were peaceful!" Hunk yelled as the Blue Lion's alarm are blaring.
"Maybe 'peaceful' means something else in Altean!" Lance grunted.
"According to the coordinates Jorra made, we're right on top of the Yellow Lion." Hunk said, looking at a screen displaying the coordinates, "It's below there, where they're mining for the ore. They don't even know the lion is there. Or maybe they just got here and they're digging for the lion? What do you think, Lance?"
But Lance barley evaded a laser, scrapping too close to a rock formation. "Who cares? Just go get it!" he shouted, "I'm dropping you down there."
"Me? Down there?" Hunk asked, looking down through the window, "No. No, no, no. What if the Yellow Lion doesn't work? What... What if I can't get in the mine? What if I start crying? It's too late, I'm already crying!"
A group of Galra fighters came close to a collision against the Blue Lion, but a quick burst of white energy destroyed them before they could.
Looking out of the window, the two young men saw a massive white mechanical dragon fly overhead, spinning overhead, taking out more fighters and with a barrel roll, flew next to the Blue Lion.
"I don't care for what if's. Just get down there to get that over grown torracat!" a voice said, before a screen appeared on next to Lance, revealing a similar helmet Ren had worn, but with white accents instead of red.
"Who are you?" Lance asked.
"Jorra Ziegler, the one who put that map together." the on screen Jorra said, "I meet you on the ground, my Dragon will give you back-up Lance." before the screen cut.
"Well, you heard him." Lance said, flying close to the ground to drop Hunk off.
As the large young man landed on the ground, he looked up just in time to see the Blue Lion rejoin the White Dragon in battle.
"Oh yeah, sure, just drop me off in an alien planet. That's cool, man." Hunk mumbled to himself, jumping back in fear when a person in power armor landed next to him, using a jetpack to slow the descent.
Jorra is shorter and of lighter build than even Keith, but still taller than Pidge. Instead of five fingers like a human, Jorra has three thick fingers on both hands which include a thumb, an index finger, and a long finger, similar to the middle fingers for humans, as well as three toes on each foot. The lower legs are bowed backwards significantly.
The power armor is clad from head to toe in armor, mostly in shades of white, purple and black. Dull black lines decorate the armor as well. A high-tech sniper rifle is folded in its resting mode on the back, a small and blaster on the hip and another rifle in hand.
"Don't whine so much, Hunk." Jorra told him, walking over to him, "This planet is only occupied by Galra that want to kill us. Just ignore them and go connect with a big, yellow, terrocat. Easy."
"Yeah, easy..." Hunk said as he followed into the cave.
Touching a similar keypad Ren had, two small triangle fly out of the back of the armor. A small blue light glowed in the center, the two flew deeper into the cave ahead of the two.
"What are those?" Hunk asked, as a Jorra activated the flashlight function on the weapon.
"My drones, they will scout ahead for any threats." Jorra said, beginning to walk the path the inside of the helmet showed, "I call them Chatika and Lotor...", suddenly becoming silent, as if having given out to much information.
"You gave your drones nicknames?" Hunk said surprised, "I-I mean, nothing wrong with that. I won't tell anyone!"
"Good. Because if you do." Jorra turned around, pressing close to Hunk's face, "I will have to kill you.", before turning away from Hunk, who laughed nervously before continuing to follow.
"What if I am not meant for the Green Lion? I'm not a pilot, even though I've always wanted to be a pilot. I mean I read all the fighter manuals, but I never got to fly the simulator." Pidge said as he and Shiro stepped out of the pod near a overgrown temple of sorts. "But hey, I can't be that worse than Lance. He crashed all the time. But what if I get in there and it doesn't respond? What if I get in there and it's too big and my feet don't touch the pedals? What if there aren't even pedals!?"
"Do all you human's ramble that much?" a voice said close behind Pidge and Shiro.
Turning around, they spotted a figure, cloaked in such a way as if the air itself is quivering.
Dropping his cloaking, a man wearing power armor like Jorra, but with the colors blue, grey and black. A folded sword on his back. "Ola, you must be Shiro and Pidge." Kai said, removing his helmet in the same way Ren had done, but instead of a headset, it became a singe eye-scouter.
"Kai Vakarian, at your service."
Pidge was stunned fr a moment, a light hint of pink on his cheeks upon seeing how Kai looks as the newcomer shook hands with Shiro.
"You alright there, Pidge?" Shiro asked, snapping the younger one out of it.
"Uhm... Yeah. So I am Pidge." the younger one said.
"Nice to meet you Pidge." Kai said, turning to the temple, holding out his side arm, "Stay on guard. I took a peek inside and there doesn't seem to be any dangerous lifeforms, but you can never be sure."
"Good idea." Shiro said, holding the blaster Ren had given him earlier.
"Is that Ren's?" Kai said simply, as they walked up the stairs, "It won't do you any good."
"Why? What's wrong with it?" Shiro said, studying the sleek weapon, it looked very well taken care of.
"Because it's lacking a Thermo Clip, you couldn't fire it." he answered, taking a spare clip from his armor and throwing it at Shiro to catch.
"So Kai..." Pidge asked, walking up next to him, "Is there a reason you and Ren look so human?"
"I don't know, you two look like you could come from Prexis yourself." the man in blue said, keeping an eye out for any danger as they headed deeper underground.
"Pidge, I know your worried, but if you get too worried about what could go wrong, you might miss a chance to do something great." Shiro said to his teammate, noticing his nervousness.
"That's some wise advice." Kai said over his shoulder, "Who told you that?"
"I got it from my commander on the Kerberos Mission, he is the smartest man I ever met." Shiro said.
"But smart and wise aren't the same thing." Pidge said, her eyes widening when they saw an elevated platform, massive thick vines forming a dom on top of it.
"Go. Be great." Shiro said encouragingly.
He nodded, talking across the room and began climbing the vines before disappearing from view.
The Galra battleship was orbiting Arus as the Black Dragon was flying towards it, Ren and Keith on board.
As they flew across the ocean of stars, a screen popped up to reveal a familiar Galra Commander contacting the Lion Castle.
"Princess Allura, this is Commander Sendak of the Galra Empire." Sendak spoke, giving Ren a wicked grin, "I come on behalf of Emperor Zarkon, Lord of the Known Universe. I am here to confiscate the Lions. Turn them over to me, or I will destroy your planet."
"Hello Commander Sendak." Ren said, smirking at the reaction he got.
"Oh no! It's Picard." Sendak shouted, "I want every single weapon we have to fire on that Dragon!"
"Hold on, Keith! This is where the fun begins!" Ren said as he began to pilot his Dragon to evade the incoming fighters and laser blasts from the main ship, "Okay, I am going to drop you off and keep them distracted... You might need to make an improvised landing. Look into the compartment right above you and give one of them to me, then take what is in the compartment next to it."
Keith nodded to find a box full of what appeared to be some sort of candy on sticks.
"A lollipop?" Keith said watching as Ren put it in his mouth, "I am about to infiltrate an alien spaceship and the guy having my back is Willy Wonka."
"Who's Willy Wonka?" Ren asked curiously, as Keith took his second blaster from its compartment, "I will be flying through the hanger in ten tics, I will do an awesome U-turn with a pause to allow you to get out."
Flying off after dropping Keith off in the Galra battleship, he headed for his next target, the ion cannon.
Tapping into the communications of the Galra, Ren flew his Dragon through the Galra Fighters making them explode in orange fire. Before transforming his Dragon into its humanoid form, flying past the cannon at high speed, slashing it in two.
"Sir! The ion cannon has been badly damaged!"
"Then send the drones to fix it!" Sendak said, "Focus all fighters on that Dragon!"
"Oh, Sendak, you shouldn't have." Ren said with a smirk, taking a steep dive, keeping close enough to the battleship to hamper its main guns to get a good aim at him.
"Is everything going okay Keith?" he asked over their communicators fifteen minutes later into the battle, evading a blast from the Galra's ion cannon, "I am getting a bit lonely here."
As if to answer him, an explosion rocked the battleship and the Red Lion came flying out.
"Now that's an entrance!" Ren laughed as Keith joined the battle.
"Wait, your Dragon can transform into a humanoid form?" Keith said through the communicator, taking out Galra Fighters, but leaving his side open.
But the Black Dragon flew between them, raising its left arm and creating a barrier shield from its arm. "Maybe its because my Dragon is the base for Pandraco, I don't know. I call it Battle Mode." Ren said, but in his distraction took a full on hit from the ion cannon, sending the Black Dragon and the Red Lion into orbit.
Recovering from the attack, the two looked up to see that the Galra Battleship had followed them into orbit.
"We need to stall that thing as long as possible until the rest can arrive." Ren said, "I don't know how long the barrier around the castle would last against it."
"You don't have to wait any longer!" the voice of Kai said, seconds before the Blue Dragon, which had a more serpent like body, came flying in with the Green Lion through one of the portals.
"Now we just need Lance, Hunk and Jorra." Keith said.
"No need! The cavalry is here!" the voice of Lance said.
The Blue Lion, the Yellow Lion and the White Dragon came flying in, ready for battle.
"Let's show these kids how it's done, gang." Ren said, the other two of the Dragon riders chanted in, "Form Padraco!"
The three Dragons flew in sync, an aura of their respective color forming around them before they started to combine. The Blue Dragon became the upper arm armor for the Black Dragon in its Battle Mode, as the White Dragon became leg guards.
Double edged spear in hand, Pandraco closed the distance between them and the Galra Ship, who fired their ion cannon, which the Dragon Mech countered with a energy blast from its wrist beginning a vicious power-struggle, the classing energies causing sparks to take out the remaining Galra fighters.
At the same time, the four Lions fire their own energy beams as Pandraco's energy blast began to win the struggle, destroying the ion cannon and sending it plummeting down the planet.
A while later, landing the Lion and the Dragons in the courtyard, the team came walking into the command room triumphant.
"Good work, Paladins and... What do we call you?" Allura said.
"Team Awesome." Ren said, puffing out his chest, "And we always do good work."
"Right... Well we won the battle, but the war has only just begun. I'm afraid Zarkon will not stop until he gets these Lions and Dragons." Allura said, "But with Voltron and Pandraco working together, we can win."
"Whoa, whoa, I never said we would be staying for this war." Ren intercepted, "And our help doesn't come free or cheap."
"You place a price on the freedom of the universe?" Shiro asked.
"We are mercenaries, we need credits to make repairs to our equipment, buy food and other necessities." Jorra said, "And believe me, it takes a lot of credits to keep that piece of junk named the M.A.S. together."
"She is not that bad." Ren mumbled, sounding a little hurt.
"The what?" Pidge asked.
"Many Aged Swan, or M.A.S. for short, its the name of our ship. Don't look at me, I didn't name it." Kai explained, before turning to Allura, "Look princess, we can stick around until we can agree on a price for our service."
"I guess that's fine." Allura said.
"Well your worship, it seems you managed to keep me around for a little while longer." Ren said, straightening himself up, "You must be pleased."
"I need your Dragon." the princess said, glaring in his direction, "I would never want YOU of all people to stay longer."
"I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight." Ren said, with a cocky smirk.
"I don't want to know where you get your delusions, laser brain." she shot back.
This comment made Kai laugh, earning him a glare from his captain, "I like her." he admitted.
"Sure laugh it up, Vakarian!", Ren said, turning to Shiro, "You go wake up your Lion, we are going to need Voltron once the fleet will come."
"There's more of them!?" Lance said, "With that cannon?"
"Wait until you have to fight a whole fleet of them." Jorra said, "This was easy compare to what we already faced."
"Well I am just happy to have such a strong, capable guy on our side." Hunk complimented, slapping Jorra on the back, "I mean. You should have seen how he took down those Galra soldiers in the mines."
"Or how he completely trashed those fighters with his mad flying skills." Lance added, "Why are you two laughing?"
Ren and Kai could barley contain their laughter, both knowing the look Jorra was having under the helmet.
Putting a button on her pad, her helmet disappeared in the same light Ren's helmet had done, revealing the face underneath it.
Jorra wasn't a guy at all, she was in fact a young woman with very dark purple hair tied in a ponytail. Her skin was purple, her eyes were glowy white. She lacks eyebrows but had two facial marks go up her forehead. While she was definitely not human, her facial structure makes her similar to humans in physical appearance.
"Your a girl!" Lance said wide eyed, before trying his best flirting smirk, "A very pretty girl."
"Whatever, I'll be back at my spot on the Swan." Jorra said coldly, simply walking out of the room, leaving an embarrassed Lance and Hunk behind.
"Hey, don't worry about her. She is like that to everyone." Ren said, placing an arm around the two, "I would still take a bullet for her though. But then again, I would do that for anyone on my crew... So I guess that count's for you all too."
"You can stop a bullet?" Shiro said.
"Only once..." Ren mumbled.
Well there ya go, the first chapter, hope you enjoyed. Many thanks to everyone who reads this story, you beautiful bastards!
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