The first thing Lance feels when he comes to is pain. He can barely breathe with the sheer force of it all. He blinks a few times to clear his blurry vision to realize he's in the cockpit of Blue. How did I get here? He can't quite remember what happened but he turns his head to the right and knows he is laying on the floor right behind the pilots' chair. He turns his head to the left and sees his helmet laying about a foot away from his head. Now that he's looking at the helmet he can hear muffled voices coming from inside. As he moves his arm to get the helmet his side explodes in pain. He has to close his eyes as a wave of nausea hits him hard. Wha... his thoughts are cut off as he lifts his head and sees a ragged piece of metal from god knows where sticking out of his side, accompanied by what only he would categorize as a 'shit ton of blood' pooling underneath him. Oh.. well I guess I found out where all the pain is coming from.. he thinks grimly. He feels Blue's presence in his mind, the worry rolling off her in waves. I'm okay girl he communicates through the bond.

Slowly he lifts his arm and reaches for his helmet once more, careful as to not aggravate his side any more than necessary. As he makes the reach he can see how much his hand is shaking. Finally reaching far enough to get his helmet he puts it on his head and is overwhelmed by five voices all at once.

"Can you hear us Lance?

"Lance Lance Lance!"

"LANCE! LANCE DO YOU COPY"

"Lance come on buddy please be okay please answer"

"Shit shit shit fuck come on Lance!"

He closes his eyes and talks into the comms, "Hey guys.." it comes out more of a raspy whisper than his normal voice but it does the trick just fine. Now everyone is louder than ever all talking over each other in a panic to find out more information. He hears Shiro over the rest of the voices telling everyone to quiet down.

"Lance, it's Shiro. Can you hear me? Are you okay? We're headed towards you right now." he can clearly hear the worry in the Black Paladin's voice. Lance wonders how long he's been lying there. Then it hits him, they were on a mission to fight a small fleet of Galra ships.

There were only a handful of enemy ships so they decided to fight without forming Voltron. Everything was going according to plan until Keith jumped out of formation to chase after a stray ship and left his side wide open for an attack he didn't see coming. Lance pushed on his controls hard without so much as a thought and managed to push the Red Lion out of the way and took a hit from one of the Galra's high tech laser guns. It shut Blue's system down immediately, Lance went spiraling out of control, headed right for planet they were trying to protect.

"It hurts…" was all he could manage to moan in response. Lance could feel his vision start to go blurry as shivers racked his injured body. He knows he should probably stay awake but its becoming increasingly more difficult as the shivering gets slightly rougher. He feels Blue in his head once again this time sending him feelings of calm desperate to help any way a giant sentient space lion can. Thanks Blue, I'm just gonna close my eyes for a bit… he thinks as he hears the commotion of landing ships all around Blue's prone form.