Disclaimer: Voltron Legendary Defender is the property of Dreamworks and Netflix. And so are Queen.
Author's Note: This story takes place after Hole in the Sky and during the events of the Season 3 episode The Journey. What inspired me to write this is because my all time favorite ship Kallura has been constantly attacked, bashed and bullied by the Klance and Shallura shippers who's been obsessed with the LGBT representation and the Fandom over the ships are getting out of control and causes a lot of problems for everyone who watches Voltron Legendary Defender. I got nothing against the LGBT community because I strongly shipped Korrasami on The Legend Of Korra at the start of season 3 all the way to season 4 until they became canon and I sometimes ship female couples as my way of supporting them but let's not bash the characters and couples we don't like and quickly call their sexual orientation without letting them develop their characters and their roles first let alone shoving them down our throats because this is ridiculous and downright immature. No hard feelings for the LGBT community. I'm just saying those things so we can all get along.
And I also saw the video blog of Keith. I can feel the poor guy's pain.
PM me for suggestions on that story.
Late at night at the Training Deck inside the Castle of Lions, a shirtless Keith with his Bayard Sword had a sparring match with the Training Gladiator and gone back and forth until Keith defeated it and called for the next Level before another Training Gladiator appeared and gone at it with Keith.
A very tired, frustrated and annoyed Princess Allura who appeared in her nightgown and bed robe after being disturbed by Keith's late night sparring match stormed her way inside the Training Deck.
After Keith put away another Training Gladiator, he commanded the Training sequence to stop "That's enough for tonight. Now to call it a night."
"Keith, what are you still doing in the training deck? Why are you doing this in the middle of the night? You've been in here for 3 and a half Vargas!" Allura scolded Keith over him training at a night this late, which alerted the new leader of Voltron.
"Princess Allura, what the hell are you doing here?!" Keith demanded as he put away his Bayard.
"I've been trying to get some sleep until you heard you were having a sparring simulation with the Training Gladiator. You should be getting some sleep right about now!"
"I know but with Lotor roaming around in Zarkon's place as the Heir to the Throne and Shiro still missing, I had to keep training to be a better leader after our last two encounters with Lotor. Especially after he stole the comet that has the material to create Voltron to begin with 10,000 years ago." Keith replied while drinking a bottle of water.
"Yes, I know but you should not push yourself too hard right now." Allura sternly advised him. "Especially when you're a hotheaded half Galra who thinks he's invincible."
"I'm not invincible okay?!" Keith who took offense to that remark argued fiercely before he calm down and took a deep sigh. "Allura, if you were me, what would you do after you're being chosen by the Black Lion to lead Voltron? Being a leader doesn't come overnight especially after we lost Shiro who is either alive or dead."
"I truly understand that. Being a leader is never easy. Shiro always knew that the moment all of you were chosen to become the Paladins of Voltron and fight against the Galra Empire." Allura said and then she felt ashamed.
"And also atone for my father's failure to stop Zarkon despite the sacrifices he made to keep Voltron from falling into the wrong hands." Allura said as she started to shed tears from her eyes.
Keith cupped her face and apologized "I'm sorry that Zarkon killed your family and you're entire race. I could be wrong but they were avenged the moment we defeated Zarkon." Keith reassured her as he wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Perhaps but still we must remain vigilant." Allura insisted that they should keep their guard up. "Now finish up and get some sleep. We have a duties tomorrow."
Keith understood before he responded "Okay, Allura. Goodnight."
"Goodnight, Keith." Allura replied as she kissed him on the cheek to his much as she left the Training Deck.
After he finished training, Keith resided to a hot shower and got lost in his thoughts.
"I know you're out there Shiro. I hope that you're still alive because there's no way I'm leading the team like you do." Keith thought as he let the hot water soak his face.
"I know we had our differences between us in the past but I still care about her. Especially after I dragged her and the others into tracking down Lotor and nearly got all of them killed. I just wish that she would see things from my point of view."
In her bedroom, Allura retreated back to her bed. After she put the covers on herself, she went to her thoughts as well as she was staring at the ceiling.
"I'm worried about Keith. He took Shiro's disappearance real hard and it's effecting him in the worst way. If he was me, he would understand that there's more to anything than what he desires. Although I apologized to him for treating him badly when he was revealed to be half human, half Galra, I feel like we should still try to heal old wounds and improve our relationship some more."
"Wait a Tick. Did I just say "our relationship?"" Allura was baffled by the thought of her and Keith being together and then she shrugged it off "Oh, well, guess I might as well get some sleep. We have bigger things to worry about." as she went to sleep.
The next morning, at the Bridge of the Castle of Lions, Lance, Hunk and Pidge are dancing and singing a song called the Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen at the part 3:03 which happens to be Lance's favorite part of the song.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o.
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.
And then Lance, Hunk and Pidge started to do the air guitar. Even the Allura's mice joined in.
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.
They were air guitaring until Coran arrived, went to the Control Panel and turned off the music.
"Aw man! You killed the music, Coran!" Lance complained.
"Yeah, seriously! That was a great part of this song!" Pidge added and the mice followed, squeaking at Coran.
"What in the Quiznacking heck is the deal here, Coran?" Hunk asked.
"Sorry Paladins but you were very loud." Coran apologized before he commented "Although I enjoy the Opera part of that which I find amusing, entertaining and enjoyable."
"Besides I've haven't music like that since 10,000 years ago." Coran chuckled.
"Yeah, that's what they say." Lance said sarcastically and then Keith and Allura appeared.
"All right, enough playing around guys!" Keith barked orders at his fellow Paladins. "We need to keep traveling around in space and anticipate what the Galra are to."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever Keith." Lance shrugged off Keith's leadership antics. "Don't get Allura's panties in the bunch."
"I can hear you!" Allura causing Lance, Hunk and Pidge to scream in fear.
"Now Paladins, let's do our patrol across the universe in case there are incidents involving the Galra Empire despite that Zarkon's out of commission."
"Not to mention that Lotor is out there scheming and plotting to outdo himself after taking the comet from us." Keith added. "It's also very important that we have to stop him too."
"We will Keith. You just have to be patient." Allura assured him, putting her hand on his shoulder.
"You know it's not my strong suit." Keith disagreed.
"As a leader of the Voltron Force, you have to." Allura insistedly reminded of his role as she steps onto her pilot station where she usually activates the Teledov that creates wormholes. "Shiro would want you to do that."
"Yeah, I know." Keith went to his Black Paladin control station.
"So did anyone had some breakfast this morning?" Hunk asked. "If not, I can cook up some space pancakes, bacon, sausages, eggs, grits, ham and some toast with either milk, orange juice, coffee or hot cocoa."
The mice squeaked at Hunk in excitement before Hunk replied "Yeah, I'll add some cheese on them if you guys like."
"Maybe I could use some right now." Pidge said, feeling her stomach grumbling.
"Now I'm hungry for breakfast!" Lance complained.
"You guys go right ahead. I'll eat some later." Keith said.
"Uh, you sure you don't wanna eat some grub Keith?" Hunk asked.
"I'm positive Hunk. Now go on ahead." Keith insisted. "We'll alarm you guys if the Galra show up but be on alert."
The alarm starting ringing.
"Breakfast will have to wait Paladins!" Allura informed the others and then the entire Bridge raddled, meaning that they're under attack. "It seems that we have Galra activity coming our way!"
"Lotor?" Keith wondered.
"No, just a couple of Galra battleships!" Allura corrected.
"Shit!" Keith pounded on the panel of the Black Paladin control station. "If Lotor's not here, then that coward is hiding somewhere, waiting for the opportunity to attack us from behind when we least expected!"
"Keith, your obsession with Lotor has made you paranoid, delusional and totally insane!" Lance stated.
"Lance is right! We got bigger fish to fry than Lotor!" Pidge agreed.
"Uh, guys, can we talk about food after we take care of some risky Galra business?" Hunk suggested that the Paladins should go out in space and fight the Glara fighters.
"Hunk is correct!" Allura agreed with Hunk. "We have bigger concerns than Keith's behavior as well as his animosity towards Lotor all because of Keith is half human and half Galra!" Allura gasped and quickly covered her mouth.
"What?!" Keith yelled, feeling offended by what Allura said about him. "I thought we were over this issue between us Allura?"
"I'm sorry Keith." Allura apologized "It must've slipped out."
"I'll tell you what Princess, try walking a mile in my shoes and know what it's like to be a goddamn half Galra!"
"Language, Keith!" Allura scolded him. "I would strongly advise you to watch your quiznacking tone!"
"Yeah, Keith!" Lance added.
"Lance, do shut up." Allura sternly told Lance and Lance became dumbfounded.
"We'll discuss this later, Allura! Everyone into your lions!" Keith ordered as everyone went to their hangers that leads them to the lions.
"Coran, give us the support that we need to fight off the Galra Fighters!" Allura instructed her advisor.
"Understood, Princess!" Coran responded as he readied the castle's defenses.
Elsewhere in the part of the galaxy where Zarkon's Ship is still surrounded by the parts of the destroyed Zarkon's Ro-Beast armor, Haggar viewed the upcoming battle as she prepare to launch the new Ro-Beast.
"It's bad enough that Lotor is not taking his duties as the leader seriously when his father is out of commission so I'm going to take matters into my own hands and deal with the Paladins myself." Haggar hissed before she turned to the Galra Druids and ordered "Launch the Ro-Beast!" as they fired the coffin at the battlefield through the wormhole.
"Let's see if the Paladins will overcome what the Ro-Beast has in store for them. Either way, this will be an out of body experience that they'll never forget." Haggar said and she laugh wickedly.
Back at the Castle of Lions, Keith, Allura, Lance, Hunk and Pidge got inside the Lions and took off to due battle with the Galra Fighters and Galra Battleships.
"All right team, Lance and Allura, you take the left. Hunk and Pidge, you take the right. The rest is mine!" Keith instructed as the Lions flew into battle.
"Roger that, team leader!" Lance responded, firing laser beams at the first two Galra Fighters.
"My turn, Lance!" Allura said as she used the Freeze Ray from the Blue Lion to freeze 5 Galra Fighters at the same time and finished them off with the Sonic Cannon.
"Hey, save some for me!" Lance complained.
"My apologizes Lance!" Allura apologized to Lance.
"Jeez, you're just like Keith! Hogging all the bad guys for yourself!" Lance kept complaining.
"What? Are you comparing me to Keith?" Allura was offended by what Lance said.
"Oh, uh, of course not! I was just kidding!" Lance reassured, trying to be innocent.
"Good. Now stand aside!" Allura flew past the Red Lions to take out more Galra Fighters.
"Let's see if the Armor Claws will ram through a Galra battleship!" Hunk brought out the Armored Booster Rocket and Enhanced Claws and spiraled through the Galra Battleship, causing it to explode.
"Yes, it worked!" Hunk cheered, only to be fired at by the Galra Fighters causing the Yellow Paladin to freak out.
"Holy crap! I completely forgot about them! Now to give these guys the response!" Hunk retaliated by firing the Tail lasers at three Galra Fighters and five more with the Mouth Cannon.
"Hey, Pidge, how's your side?" Hunk asked Pidge of her status.
"Doing fine, Hunk!" Pidge replied as she zapping seven Galra Fighters with the Vine Cannon, completely covered with vines and then she took them out with the Mouth Cannon.
"Besides I feel a lot better after Coran turned off the song from Queen that we were listening to earlier."
While the rest of Paladins disposed of the Galra Fighters, Keith inside the Black Lion flew toward the Galra Battleships, trying to come up with a way to take them all out.
"Okay, if I were Shiro or Zarkon to say the least, what would I do to take em all on?" Keith thought and then all of a sudden, the Black Lion roared and showed Keith the visual of it's ability to phase through solid objects.
"All right! C'mon, Black. Let's do it!" Keith exclaimed as he enveloped the Black Lion in purple energy, increasing the speed boost and phased through the Galra Battleships, causing them to explode.
"Hell Yeah! We did it Black!" Keith cheered. "Now to do the same to the rest of them!"
Coran fired laser beams at a dozen of Galra Fighters with the defense barrier up.
"Paladins, how are you holding up?" Coran asked.
"We're doin' just fine kicking some Galra butt over space Coran." Hunk replied when he drilled through two more Galra battleships. "It's no cakewalk but after that, we should be back at the castle, eat breakfast, resume space travel and it's smooth sailing from here. Y'know, smooth sailing?"
"Way smoother than Lance and his annoying infatuation with social media." Pidge said, poking fun at Lance.
"Hey, I resent that, Pidge!" Lance defended himself. "First off, I'm a ladies' man and a smooch operator. Second, of course I'm using social media to trend Voltron to planet earth, putting up pics of my adventures and..."
"Being a narcissist pain in the ass who has yet to keep his damn mouth shut during the battle with the Galra?" Keith shot at Lance.
"That's right, Ke... hey!" Lance shot back, taking offense to the remarks made by Keith. "Keith, I also strongly resent that as well, you hotheaded idiot!"
"Wrong Lance! You're the real idiot of the team because you run your mouth like a cheetah dashing in the Serengeti of Africa!" Keith countered but Allura would have none of two Paladins bickering at each other as usual.
"Enough, you two!" Allura shouted, losing her temper over the petty rivalry between Keith and Lance. "Stop bickering this instant!"
"Wow! Sorry Princess!" Lance apologized.
"You know what? I'll deal with you later, Lance!" Keith yelled at Lance before he turned his attention to Allura and sternly told her "And Allura, stay out of my way!"
"Keith, I'm warning you! If you do not control that quiznaking temper of yours, I swear I'll..." Allura hissed before Hunk interrupted the bickering between Keith and Allura.
"Ah, guys? Incoming giant space coffin!" Hunk warned everyone after he saw a huge coffin with the Galra symbol on it.
"Uh oh! It looks like Zarkon's witch must've launch a Ro-Beast to take us all down!" Pidge stated, realizing Haggar was behind the appearance of the Ro-Beast.
"Yeah but which kind?" Lance demanded as the coffin open up, revealing to be a gladiator with a lion head, red eyes with a patch on and bat wings. It also as a spiked club for a weapon.
"A White Lion Gladiator?!" Lance exclaimed with fear. "Are you freakin' kidding me?!"
Pidge shook her head and said "Nope. Not all Lance. We can take him, ah, it, er, whatever on."
"Oh, I get it now. We neutralize it, form Voltron, slice it in half with a sword and call it a day?" Hunk said, remembering what Voltron usually does in the battle against the Ro-Beast.
"Exactly, Hunk. And we're doing right it now." Keith responded.
"That we can agree on." Allura said dryly with a determined look on her face. "Coran, keep the Galra Fighters busy, we'll deal with that monstrosity!"
"At your command, Princess!" Coran responded.
"Everyone, combat maneuvers!" Keith ordered as the Lions charged toward the Ro-Beast.
The Ro-Beast responded by attacking the Lions one by one and countered their every attack with it's own with brutal force.
"Dammit! Mouth Cannon!" Keith commanded as they fired the Mouth Cannons at the Ro-Beast but to no avail.
"Okay, Keith! Got any more bright ideas?" Lance asked.
"We'll have to resort to using the special weapons from our Lions before we form Voltron!" Keith instructed. "We gotta total that lousy excuse of a lion or we're all dead meat!"
"Right!" Allura, Lance, Hunk and Pidge responded as they stood in front of the Ro-Beast.
"Lance, are you ready?" Allura asked.
"Ready when you are Princess!" Lance replied.
"All right." Keith signaled for them "FIRE!"
Allura blasted the Sonic Cannon and Lance fired the Back Rail Gun at the Ro-Beast but the White Lion Gladiator dodged the blasts and zapped the laser beams from the spiked club at the Blue and Red Lions.
"My turn!" Pidge fired the Vine Cannon at the White Lion Gladiator but the Ro-Beast turned it's breastplate armor into a mirror reflecting the beam back to the Green Lion, covering it with vines.
"AH! I'm trapped in my own vine!" Pidge cried. "I need help!"
"I'm on my way Pidge!" Hunk said, trying to assist Pidge but he was caught by the Ro-Beast.
"Aw man! That thing caught me!" Hunk whined as the White Lion Gladiator hoisted the Yellow Lion over it's head.
"Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!"
The Ro-Beast threw the Yellow Lion toward the Red and the vine covered Green Lions.
"Lance, Pidge, look out!" Hunk warned his fellow Paladins.
"Damn, that was brutal...whoa!" Lance screamed.
"Oh, no!" Pidge gasped.
The three Lions collided, floating over space.
Keith sighed in disappointment. "Looks like it's all up to me now. If we can't form Voltron, then I'll have to take the damn thing down a peg." Keith sneered as he flew the Black Lion toward the Ro-Beast.
The White Lion Gladiator lifted it's eye patch over it's right eye, revealing to be a diamond.
"What the hell is that?" Keith wondered when he saw the diamond on the right eye of the Ro-Beast as it's starting to glow.
Allura in her Blue Lion recovered and then she saw the Ro-Beast attempting to blast at the Black Lion.
"Oh, no, Keith." Allura gasped as she flew the Blue Lion toward the Black Lion.
"Keith, look out! That creature is going to zap you!" Allura alerted Keith as she increased the speed boost of her lion.
"What? Allura, no!" Keith turned the Black Lion around and flew to the Blue Lion while he got into his thoughts "That thing is gonna kill Allura if I don't hurry! I gotta save her!"
When he saw the Ro-Beast aiming at the Black and Blue Lions, Coran gasped "Oh my goodness!" before he contacted Keith and Allura and warned them "Keith, Allura, get out of here now! That Ro-Beast is about to fire!" but he was too late. The White Lion Gladiator fired the beam from his right eye at the two lions who flew to one another.
"Lance, Pidge, are you okay?" Hunk asked.
"We would've been if you haven't crashed onto us you big fat dummy!" Lance insulted Hunk.
"Hey, you're the dumb one who's been obsessed with being better than Keith, got easily seduced by hot and sexy women, putting beauty cream on his face and ass, which is disgusting by the way, wet himself during his wet dreams, running his mouth off like an engine with horse power and gives a damn about the fame and glory all because he's been losing his brain cells to social media!" Hunk countered with insults of his own.
"Hunk...that was mean." Lance was at a loss for words.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry buddy." Hunk apologized.
"Nevermind that! Look!" Pidge directed to the light that was the blast from the right eye of the Ro-Beast. "It's heading toward Keith and Allura!"
"What?!" Lance and Hunk yelled.
As the Black and Blue Lions flew toward each other, Keith and Allura were unaware that the beam from the Ro-Beast has targeted them.
"Hold on, Keith! I'm coming!"
"Allura, stop!"
As soon as the Black and Blue Lions got to one another, they were zapped by the Ro-Beast's blast, which electrocuted them and caused Keith and Allura to scream in agony.
"Keith! Allura!" Pidge cried.
During the torment of the Ro-Beast's blast, Keith and Allura felt their soul coming out of their bodies and went into each other's until they lost consciousness.
After that, the White Lion Gladiator flew away from the scene.
"Keith! Princess! Are you two alright?" Coran tried to contact them over the com before he turned to the rest of the Paladins when he realized that Keith and Allura didn't respond.
"Paladins, bring Keith and Allura back to the castle! We have to see if they're hurt!" Coran ordered Lance, Hunk and Pidge retrieve Keith and Allura.
"But what about the Ro-Beast?" Lance reminded him about the White Lion Gladiator that got away. "That monster is getting away!"
"We'll deal with it later! Right now we have to help Keith and Allura!" Pidge said.
"Yeah, I agree. The start of the day has been a disaster." Hunk added, stating that things didn't go they intended.
The Red and Green Lions carried the Black Lion back inside the castle and the Yellow Lion dues the same with the Blue Lion.
Elsewhere in the galaxy, Lotor and his generals where watching the monitor of the battle Paladins had with the Ro-Beast.
"Hmm, this is quite interesting. It seems that the old witch decided to take matters into her own hands and launch the Ro-Beast to attack the Paladins without my consent." Lotor commented with a smirk on his face.
"The Ro-Beast that zapped the Black and Blue Lions of Voltron with the diamond in it's right eye?" Acxa wondered. "This doesn't make any sense."
"So what does that diamond do to it's victims?" Exor asked.
"Giving them an identity crisis of course." Lotor answered.
"Oh I get it. It makes them switch bodies."
"Precisely, Exor."
"Fuck that! We need to find Voltron and hunt them all down like the dogs that they are!" Zethrid growled like a bloodthirsty maniac wanting some action but Lotor rejected that idea.
"One when it serves my purpose Zethrid. Right now we have more pressing matters to attend to." Lotor said before he turned to his most trusted General "Acxa, set a course for our destination."
"At once your highness." Acxa replied as she entered the coordinates of next destination.
"Crap!" Zethrid grunted under her breath, folding her massive arms in disappointment.
Exor got on her shoulder and attempted to cheer up the Amazonian Half Galra "Don't worry big girl, we'll get them when the time is right. But in the meantime, grab something to eat and enjoy the show."
"Fine." Zethrid growled once again. "In other words, this had better be entertaining or else somebody's gonna die either way."
Back inside the castle, Coran, Lance, Hunk and Pidge with the mice ran toward the Black and Blue Lions to check on Keith and Allura.
"I hope we're not too late!" Pidge said.
"I hope not either!" Hunk followed. "If anything happens to Keith and Allura, we'll..."
"Wait. Guys look!" Lance pointed his finger at Keith and Allura who stepped out of their lions, cradling their heads.
"Keith! Allura, you're alright! Oh thank the ancients!" Coran was relieved that they're still alive.
"Yeah, you two really had us worried for a minute." Hunk followed.
"I'll say!" Lance added.
"How are you feeling?" Pidge asked.
"I feel so lightheaded thanks to that blast from the Ro-Beast." Allura's voice came of Keith's mouth and everyone became dumbfounded.
"Um, why are you all staring at me? Is there something wrong with me?"
"Ah, Keith, what's wrong with your voice?" Hunk asked in concern. "Did it sound like Princess Allura or something? Because you sound just like her."
"What are you talking about Hunk? There's nothing wrong with my voice!" Keith's voice came out of Allura's mouth.
Lance screamed before he exclaimed "Allura has Keith's voice! I think I'm losing my mind!"
"What did the Ro-Beast did to you two?" Coran demanded, trying to put two and two together.
"I don't know Coran. All I know is that we've been zapped by a beam of light and next thing I know was that I ended up inside the Black Lion." Allura recalled.
Keith added "So am I. Except that I ended up inside the Blue Lion and...and..."
"And what? And what?" Lance anxiously demanded.
Keith looked down on his chest and discovered that he was breasts. After he touched them, he yelled "Whoa! I got boobs?! What the hell just happened to me?!"
Allura immediately slapped Keith's hands off of those breasts and said "Keith, do not touch them a...gain?" before she and Keith look at each other and realized that they were switched into each other's bodies, which caused them to scream at the top of their lungs.
"Okay, what's going on with you two?" Hunk asked.
"Yeah, what happened?" Lance added.
"WE'VE SWITCHED BODIES!" Keith and Allura said in unison.
"WHAT?!" Lance, Hunk and Pidge yelled in the state of shock.
"Calm down, Paladins. No need to panic." Coran attempted to be the voice of reason but to no avail when he realized that everyone is in the state of shock. "On second thought, START PANICKING!"
Keith, Allura, Lance, Hunk, Pidge and Coran let out a very loud scream that has echoed around the universe with the realization that Keith and Allura are now trapped in each other's bodies.