Lance was rudely awoken by the annoying sound of castle alarms.
"Paladins! This is not a drill, come to the bridge immediately!" Princess Allura exclaimed.
Lance groaned as he took off his sleep mask and sat up in his bed. It was only Wednesday and this was the 3rd emergency this week and he had barely gotten any sleep. He looked over at his alarm clock and read 5:00 a.m. Lance groaned again and blearily crawled out of his bed, took off his and started putting on his armor. They had been so busy with missions this week that Lance hadn't had the chance to do his normal beauty routine and his armor had taken residence in his room instead of its normal case in the armor room.
As Lance sluggishly put on his armor, Allura's voice came over the intercom a 2nd time.
"Paladins! Please hurry! Planet Multiplar doesn't have much time left!"Allura yelled, fear evident in her tone.
When Lance heard this, he quickly pulled on the rest of his armor, grabbed his Bayard, and sprinted to the bridge as fast as he could. When he arrived, Shiro, Keith, and Pidge were there already. They all looked just as tired as Lance felt.
"So what's the emergency princess?" Lance asked.
"I will explain as soon as Hunk comes" Allura answered.
Hunk came bursting through the doors right as Allura said this. He was panting heavily and had his hands on his knees and had his armor on crooked.
"I'm so sorry I'm late" he said in between breaths. "I had trouble finding my bayard." Hunk stood up and popped his back. "So, what's up?"
"Planet Multiplar has been attacked by blatwings, creatures that are enemies of all living things, including the Galra. I am sending you down so you can clear the planet of them. I will provide cover from the castle." Allura informed them.
"Princess, do these creatures have any weaknesses we should know of. I want to defeat them quickly so we can talk the people on the planet. They may want to join the coalition and help us defeat the Galra." Shiro said.
Lance rolled his eyes. Of course Shiro would be thinking about the coalition instead of the people on the planet that were being attacked.
"Certainly Shiro, blatwings thrive on quintessence, but they have a very unusual way of harvesting it from living things"Allura began.
"Instead of using a spell like druids use, blatwings capture their prey and use their venom to drain quintessence. This venom that they inject allows the victims bodies to produce so much quintessence that they will die if they are not drained often. So I am sending Coran with you so that he may treat people that have been bitten by blatwings. He is an expert, he has studied blatwings extensively and he can administer the anti-venom."
"Why doesn't he stay here while we fight and then come down after we defeat the blatwings?" Keith asked, looking confused.
"The anti-venom must be administered immediately so that the Multiplarians that have been bitten have a better recovery" Allura informed them.
"So Keith, you will pilot Coran down to the planet before you begin to fight the blatwings with the rest of the team."
"Why can't Coran go with-" Pidge was cut off by very agitated Allura.
"Paladins! We don't have time to explain anymore! You must hurry, the Multiplarians don't have much time! I will explain everything while you are fighting them. Now go!"
With that, everyone disbanded and headed towards their lions. When Lance was in his lion, he could here that Coran and Keith were arguing. Lance smirked, thinking of how different the two of them were and now they had to fly together for a while made him feel happy. When the last pilot was in their lion (Podge, surprisingly, she had said she wanted to study the blatwings to try and find a way to replenish a planet's quintessence. So she had grabbed some nerd stuff to take notes with) Shiro gave the command to take off and now they were flying to planet Multiplar.
"Sooo… Allura, what do these blatwings look like?" Lance asked
"I want to know what we're facing before we get there."
"Yeah, I wanna know too" Pidge added. "It would be nice to have known Before we were flying off to fight them."
Instead of Allura, Coran answered them.
"Well, they certainly are ugly creatures, they have huge, gnarly teeth that come out of their mouths in huge ugly curls. They are small in stature, but don't let that fool you, they are stronger than a boofalaner, and smarter than a Tramen floof. They have…"
As Coran was about to continue explaining, a reality rift opened in front of them. Before the paladins were able to turn around, they were sucked into the rift, alarms beeping in their ears.
"Well..." Lance said, "This should be fun."