Good gosh it's been forever since I last wrote a fan fiction I feel so old now. anyways I figured I have some free time and what better way to spend it then to take up an old hobby and get some more writing practice.
This is going to be a Shiro/OC story. I'm not really sure where this is going to go, so let's enjoy this bumpy ride together. Anyways on to the story!
song suggestion: Wild things by Alessia Cara
Disclaimer: All rights to their proper owner.
"I'm Home" Called a young woman as she moved to brush her brown bangs of hair out of her face. She let out a tired sigh as the door slammed shut from her leaning against the hard wooden surface. Without another second of delay, the soft clanking of thin metal dog tags could be heard as a fair sized Shiba Inu rushed to the door. "Hi Disney" the woman cooed as she pet the dog showering it with its desired attention and affection that had been missing as she was away at work all day. Intent on being as close as possible to their owner Disney pressed and leaned into the woman's thin legs causing her to laugh. "No stop you silly pup, you're getting your fur all over my work clothes. Give me a minute" She stated through her smiling chuckles as she gently nudged the large dog away so she could go to the bedroom of her single bedroom apartment and change into more casual day clothes.
"Query play messages" She stated as she changed, to which the interactive household system to repled.
'You have 1, new message' beeeeep.
"Hey, Latia!" announced the voice of a rather energetic female "Don't forget the gangs getting together for movies and drinks. You said you'd bring the chips" The recording reminded with a chuckle. "oh and make sure you park in the lot down the road there's some construction or something going on a few blocks down that make it impossible to get to the complex." They explained sounding rather irritated about the large road block. "Anyways, see you in a few hours, I'll tell you all about it."
'end of message. You have no more new messages.' Beeeeep.
Latia shook her head at the reminder but it was appreciated, she'd been really spacey lately and forgetting even the simplest of tasks. Once her black work dress was replaced with a red t-shirt, a pair of blue jean shorts over a pair of black ankle length leggings she threw on her olive drab green hoodie and went to find her sneakers. "Disney, do you want to go on a walk, hmm? Do you want to go on a walk before I have to leave for a bit?" She asked in her usual babying tone that she'd use with the dog when she was on her own. Naturally, the dog started running laps through the apartment as she went to get his leash. "Of course you do how silly of me" she replied as if they'd spoken though she noticed the leash she'd planned to use had a small tear starting to form in the fabric near the clasp. "Dang it…." She muttered under her breath before looking to the excited pup, feeling a bit guilty that she'd gotten them riled up when the leash was in less than ideal condition. "It should last for one more walk. I'll pick up a new leash when I go buy chips afterward." She thought, making the mistake of attaching the faulty leash to the dog's collar. Latia put on her headphones and started up her walking the dog playlist of music before leading Disney outside for their walk to begin.
The walk went well for the more part but as they drew closer to outer boundaries of the busy suburban town Disney became more and more restless. Latia struggled to hold back the pulling dog which only caused him to pull on the leash harder and harder before it inevitably snapped allowing him to run free. "Disney no! Get back here!" She cried out as she chased after the sprinting canine. Before long the chase led her into a forested area that was near her friend's development. "D-Disney!" She called feeling rather useless as she searched for any sign of the pup. "Disney!" she called again as she walked only to find police tape in her path causing her fear to skyrocket. But sure enough, she could hear her dog barking from somewhere on the other side of the tape. "okay Latia. You can do this. If you run into the police you can just explain what happened. Right." She coached herself as she ducked under the tape and began running once more in the direction of the barking.
Strangely enough, as she searched she didn't find a single other human being. Not one. No police cars, no tire tracks. "How did the police even get out here?" She wondered realizing the tape was clearly new but there were no other signs of activity. Her thoughts were cut short as she looked down of a cliff to see a large white machine that seemed to be in the shape of some sort of cat maybe? "Oooooh, I should not be here…" She whispered fearing that she'd stumbled onto some sort of new military tech that the police were hiding. Yet lo and behold there was Disney standing in front of the darn thing and barking at it with his tail waving happily behind him.
"Disney" she hissed quietly trying to get the dog's attention as she looked for a way to get down to them. Rather than looking for some sort of slope down she instead climbed her way down the 50-foot cliff, clinging as tightly to the cliff face as possible. Once her feet were safely on the ground she hurried over to the dog. She quickly grabbed onto his collar and worked on attaching the remains of the leash to his collar by sliding the broken end under the collar then through the handle allowing the handle to work as a sort of slipknot as she pulled the tattered end. "Well that's the last time I trust a frayed leash" she stated with a sigh as she pet the very content dog that got a walk a run and to be pet. Once she was content and her nerves calmed she looked up at the machine only to jump back upon finding that it seemed to have moved to be looking at her while she wasn't paying attention. "Okay well, that's freaky." She squeaked out as her nerves rocketed back up and she moved to stand between Disney and the behemoth machine.
Before Latia could do anything else the machine sprang to life before her eyes picking up her and her dog in its mouth and tossing them into the cockpit. "Oh my gosh. Okay, don't panic. Don't panic. How do I turn this thing off and get out? What the heck." She said under her breath as she looked around to try and find a power button or a key, anything to get the situation back under control. Instead, it only spiraled more and more out of control as the beast sprang into the air and flew into the sky and rather quickly into space. "no, no, no, no. STOP!" Latia called out as the machine seemed to have a mind of its own.
She quickly grabbed onto one of the two levers in front of her and pulled back on it, causing the lion-like mech to spin before slowing to a stop as the windows showed the distant planet earth. "That worked?" She stated shocked as she stared at the small blue and green planet. She'd figured out how to work the thing? Kinda? "Ha, it worked!" she cheered as she looked to Disney to find that he was content waiting in the back as his owner sorted all of this crazy stuff out.
While she was distracted it seemed the Lion again had its own plans causing the leaver Latia was holding to fly forward pulling her into the console which caused her to push several buttons, one of which opened a large wormhole in front of them. Latia ran her hand through her short inverted bob cut hair as she silently admitted it was time to panic.
On the other end of the wormhole rested a peaceful planet where a large futuristic castle's defense system proved its worth.
'Wormhole detected' it's screen warned as it flashed the message repeatedly to two people with pointed ears and bright pastel colored marks under their eyes.
"Princess, a wormhole has been picked up by our scanners" stated a rather tall slender man with orange hair.
"What? Could it be the Galra? Quick Coran, assemble the paladins!" the princess in question called as she hurried to check the skies and see the portal for herself. Doing as he was told Coran quickly set of the castle alarms to and announced through the intercom
"Zarkon is coming! They'll likely target the castle! Everyone, gather quickly in the control room we must be prepared for launch!" the mustachioed man cried into the mic for all to hear.
Deep within the castle, a short haired brunette looked up at the loudspeaker. "Man, is this another drill again? Cause I just got out of that Cryo-pod. Drilling is not on my to-do list right now." Despite the grumbling, the young man gave an audible groan and begrudgingly shuffled off to make his way to the control room.
Sure enough, as everyone began to gather the lion appeared through the portal and showed up on the scanner. The screen zoomed in to show the beastly machine to all that had gathered and subsequently confused the lot of them.
"A lion?" Alura stated quietly as she looked at the quickly approaching ship. there it was. A white lion "That's… that's not possible." She replied as she looked to Coran with confusion. There were only 5 Voltron lions.
"Are we sure it's not some sort of fake made to confuse us into lowering our defenses?" Keith asked as he made his way over to look at the screen as well, with Pidge and Hunk not far behind.
"What's this about a new lion?" Lance asked curiously as he picked up his pace. This was much more interesting than a drill. "Whoa, you never told us there was a 6th lion Alura. Is that one yours?"
"I was only ever told of 5 lions. And Voltron is able to form perfectly fine." She replied as she continued to stare at the screen perplexed. "I must speak with my father about this. Paladins, be prepared to defend the castle!" she ordered before walking off to go and talk to her father about this strange new turn of events.
"Whatever it is it's coming in fast" Shiro noted as he looked out the window to see the mech very quickly approaching the bridges.
"Pull up dang it!" Latia shouted at the beastly ship while pulling on the levers again. While they hadn't worked when she tried to keep it from going through the wormhole and towards the planet, This time the beast listened slowing down enough to land on the bridge in front of the castle. Once the lion had safely landed, the beast let out a roar jostling the cockpit. "Ugh… Well, that could have been left out… but it seems we made it" Latia said with a sigh of relief though she was rather visibly shaking from the adrenaline rush as she looked back to her canine companion. "Disney, are you doing ok back their buddy?" She asked only for the dog to hurry over to her side and press into her legs like the giant fluffy scaredy cat that it was. "We'll figure this out bud" she added as she ran her fingers through the dog's fur while staring at the large intimidating building in front of her. What lived there, where they friendly? Was the air outside safe to breathe?
These questions plagued Latia for a while and those inside were beginning to notice. "It's just standing there" Pidge stated confused as she watched with a raised eyebrow.
"Coran, can you get the particle barrier online?" Shiro asked, receiving a quick nod in reply as he set up the large blue barrier around the castle.
"That ought to do it," Coran replied as the shield was set in place.
"Alright team let's go, Hunk you and Keith get you your lions." The black paladin stated as he put on his helmet. "Pidge, lance and I will go out and see if it's empty. If it's hostile you guys need to be ready to cover us so we can get back into the barrier and join you. Coran listen for our signal with that barrier" Shiro listed after as he motioned for pidge and Lance to follow.
As the particle barrier dropped Latia went 5 shades paler. Whatever was in there didn't seem to want her to get any closer, not that she planned to try and move the lion any closer anyways. Time felt like it was passing at the pace of a snail before she noticed three figures emerge from the building. They looked, human. "What on earth." She said under her breath as the 3 exited the barrier and stopped in front of the lion. Part of her was curious and wanted to investigate, but the other sane part of her was much more worried about the chance of suffocation by going into an atmosphere that might be toxic to her.
Again the lion seemed to have different plans as it pulled back her seat and forcibly dumped Latia out leaving her to tumble to the ground. Acting quickly when she realized she was going to be pushed out, Latia pinched her nose and held her breath no matter how badly the tumble stung.
"It's a person" Pidge stated shocked as they stared at the terrified young woman that was still holding her breath.
"It's ok you don't need to hold your breath it's safe to breathe here," Shiro stated as he realized the same thing. The person was harmless and frightened.
She couldn't hold her breath forever she knew that, so figuring she might as well try trusting them she loosened the vice grip on her nose that left the skin a bright red before taking as short breath to test the air. With that out of the way, Latia went back to breathing normally as she very quickly got up and backed away.
"Who are you? Where am I?" Latia asked as she looked between the three while Shiro walked off to talk with the others through his communication system, letting them know the coast was clear and the barrier could be turned off for now.
"The name's Lance, Voltron paladin, defender of the universe at your service" He gloated openly as he conveniently left out introducing the others "What's a beautiful woman like yourself doing out in a place like this?" He asked laying it on rather thick since it had been a while since he'd been around someone he could flirt with.
It was at least one question, sort of answered. "I was hoping you'd be able to answer that too. I was just trying to walk my dog when we ended up finding this thing and it ate us and somehow I ended up in space and now I'm here." She explained feeling 10 times crazier now that she had to actually say all of that out loud.
"I believe I might be able to answer your questions" Stated Alura as she walked over to join the others. "We have much to discuss. Come with me inside and I'll do my best to explain everything." She added with a gentle smile as she noticed the young lady before her was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
"Right. Um. One second." She replied before looking up to the area where she'd fallen from. "Disney, come on boy come on down." She called up though she honestly wasn't sure how to get the poor thing down. Before Disney could simply jump down the lion lowered its head making a much more manageable to exit ramp for the canine as Latia walked very cautiously passed it not realizing that Disney had picked up an extra bit from the lion on his way out as the group of 5 walked back into the castle.
"My name is Princess Alura, and this is my castle," Alura stated as they walked into the large spacious building. "Shiro, Lance, and Pidge are each paladins of Voltron. They use lions similar to the one you arrived in to create Voltron the defender of the universe." She explained as they made their way into the main room of the castle. "The white lion is in fact, legitimate. It was made and hidden when Zarkon began his attacks, to act as and additional hidden paladin should the time come that we need an upper hand. To make Voltron even stronger." She explained and in some ways repeated her father verbatim.
"That's really interesting and all. And I'm er, glad that you got your lion back Princess. But I'm still really confused by all of this and why I'm in outer space on a different planet." She replied while still trying to piece everything together while keeping what last shreds of sanity she had left.
"The lion chooses its paladin, I believe you're meant to pilot the white lion," Alura replied as she turned to face Latia causing the brunette to drop her dog's leash from surprise.
"Me? Whoa no I mean" Latia stumbled over her words as she tried to find the right thing to say. There was still so much she didn't understand. Heck, just an hour ago she didn't even think Alien life was real. "I'm not exactly a garrison pilot. The only license I have is for a car." Latia replied as she scratched at the back of her head. "Besides, I got the sense whatever that thing is, it wasn't too thrilled when I tried turning it around." She added after though her words trailed off as she finally realized that her dog had brought something with him from the lion.
"Disney no come back here with that, that's not yours," Latia stated as she followed after her fluffy companion to take the strange device only for it to shift to take the form of a shield which threw her off balance. It only grew further and as she regained her balance the shield dropped and pierced into the floor in front of her. Seeing the damage she'd caused made Latia's expression to drop "I. I'll find a way to repay for the damage I'm so sorry." She stated as she got a sinking feeling that she wouldn't be getting out of this situation anytime soon.
Shiro winced feeling some form of sympathy for the floor that was pierced by the large shields laser-like pointed end. While this newcomer didn't seem overly confident or sure about the situation the princesses confidence was enough for the leader to agree to the new member. "You'll just need some training. We're all pretty new to this too." He offered as he looked to Alura who seemed pleased by the fact that the bayard reacted to this new recruit.
"Ah good, you've already found your bayard. That's handy. There should be a suit for you in your lion as well. Once you're properly suited up I believe Shiro is Right. Some extra training is in order" the princess stated to Latia before giving a Nod to Shiro to try and signal for him to call the other to get prepped for training.
Latia looked between each of the new faces once more while piecing together the last of the information in her mind. so there was some massive alien invasion going on. And somehow she was supposed to start training to help stop it. Every ounce of common sense in her was screaming for her to run away. And yet here she was still standing there staring at this 'bayard' because strangely this was all starting to make sense. She stared at the shield a moment longer before giving a sigh of defeat.
"I'm not a soldier… but if you think there's something I can do to help then I'll do my best" She replied before lightly shaking her head. This is going to be one heck of a story when she gets home.
And so it begins. This chapter didn't have too much between Latia and Shiro but that should pick up now that everything in introduced and in place. up next is training time!
blegh, I got to get back into writing good ending notes but for now, hopefully, this was enough to catch your interest and get you ready/willing to read another chapter u see you all next time!