You ever wake up in your car with a hangover head ache from hell? , feeling like you just got your butt kicked up and down the place the day before after getting into a fist fight while heavily drunk?.
What?, just me?.
Well that's how Lance felt waking up with a weak groan of pain as he clutched his throbbing head in his gloved hand.
He didn't even question why he was in his lion's cock-pit instead of his warm bed as he stumbled to his feet and opened the blue lion's release hatch open to get some fresh air.
An hopefully not vomit on his lion.
That was Hunk's gimmick, not his.
As soon as the hatch opened he was greated with very much needed fresh air but very low light.
His eyes squinted in confusion as he noticed he wasn't at the lion's docking bay area in the flying alien castle he was just starting to call home far away from home, but instead in some sort of cave, he wasn't sure if it was under ground or not but by the sparks of light he could spot further out in the cave his best guess was that he was on the surface or at least close enough to maneuver to with his paladin suit's thrusters.
Still groggy he still managed to notice that the area he was now was vaugly familiar, as if he had been here before but then his mind shrugged it off as unimportant.
It was probably just his memories of defending that giants rock organism that Hunk's alien (not)girlfriend and her people lived. There where plenty of tunnels and caves there, chances are his brain was just confusing the two.
But he still had a lingering feeling of Déjà vu.
Climbing out of tyr cock-pit and landing on the moist ground bellow, lance was surprised to see how silent his lion was as the usually most friendly and playful of the voltron lions was now quiet and still.
As if it had powered down?.
Which made no sense to him, sure he was no engineer or child genius like Hunk or Pidge but he definitely knew one thing about was for sure.
The lion's never shut down .
Oh sure in a rough battle or two they would get drained and need a moments rest on land to store up more energy for bigger attacks or regeneration for when they surfers serious damange and need time for self repair.
but never once had his lion shut down entirely like this.
And now that he had a better look at it he could see that his lion definitely was in a worst shape than how he remembered the night before.
Its once waxed spotless blue armor had cracks running all over in a lighting bolt pattern on both sides of it.
Its left ear was chips slightly along with a large scare like mark on the chest of the robatic cat, there was more signs of damage scattered all over the blue lion, too many in fact for Lance to list much less knew how to tackle in repair.
All Lance could think while looking up at his companion aside from shock at its bad condition was that it was a small wonder why his lion had shut off.
Blue must of been conserving all the energy it possibly could to heal itself which meant that it had to put itself under a form of stasis to make repairs.
Lance didn't know how but for some reason or another he truly felt that this theory of his was true, maybe it was just his hope that his lion would use its magic to fix itself messing with him but he could of sworn a tiny sparkle spared in the lion's eyes when he suddenly came to the idea of it healing itself.
As if the lion had used the very last bits of energy it had spare to send a message to his brain telling him that it would be fine with some much needed time to gather some strength.
He could only nod his head to the cat as he turned to make his way out of the cave. His helmet wasn't working for some reason as all he got from using the built in communicater was static so he figured that if he could get out of the cave he would get a better signal or at the very least find a safer place to be on the surface for when the rest of the team come to find him.
Grunting a bit he internally prayed it wouldn't be Keith that came to his rescue.
He wouldn't be able to live it down if he did.
Sighing in relief when he finally made it to the caves exit lance was suddenly struck with an even bigger wave of Déjà vu.
He was in a canyon out in the dessert covered in rocks forming pilers and arches.
He had been here before.
This time he knew for a fact he wasn't mistaken. Especially with huge and very familiar city just a few miles away in the distance.
He was back on earth..
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Far far away, at the edge of the Milky way solar system a relatively small sized Galra ship drifted in space hovering around the outer outer planet.
"Ma'am, i've detected a small jump in our scanner's' said a humanoid female said behind her face mask as she along with her masked bench men turned to the ship captain who turned from her set at the held to glad down at the grunt.
Gulping under her face mask the grunt motioned her captain's attention to the small dot on her glowing purple monitor that she had marked before the signal faded. "I think I've found something ma'am, its weak but an anomaly has made a brief appearance somewhere around this sector" the grunt said tapping at the screen showing a miniature model of earth on a chart of the solar system they were stationed in.
"And this would interest me why, navigator? " the Galra caption said looking at her subordinate with scrutiny.
Thanking the star's above for her face mask hiding her fear the grunt continued "I feel its a sign of mission being near completion ma'am "
Their crew were what the empire called the watch dogs.
A watch dogs duty was basically just to keep tabs on galaxy's that could have the potential to spon life and eventually be colonized once its inhabitants reach a certain level of competence with technology to the point of being able to create a form of space travel capable of reaching hyper drive.
It sounded far more exciting than it really was, most watch dogs didn't even live long enough to see any planet the empire has interest to fully develop and become rip for concurring, and even if they did they never permitted to take any role in combat and were just assigned else where.
This current crew actually marked the fourth generation of of Galra watch dogs to be assigned to the milky way galaxy and for last four years on duty it had become painfully easy to tell that this sector was a dead end going no where fast.
The closest thing to a "sentient " race that this solar system had was a buntch of hairler apes who spent more times waging war on one another than expanding their reach on the vast outer universe.
At this rate lt would be a miracle if they managed the get past Pluto's moon's within the Galra crew's life span.
"Again with this navigator, didn't I explicatly instruct you not to bother me with you nonsense when I'm thinking? , I could of been on the crisp of figuring a way to get promoted out of guarding this waste of space sector of the universe " the burly caption of ship spoke with a rough tone as she glared down at her subordinate.
"B-but caption zux, i really believe I found something this time, the signal was faint but it had signs of-"
"Oh give it a rest already navigator, we all know you're just making this up again like last time" said a bored Galra male across the room from her seemingly reading a magazine.
"The last time you made us call in a false flag we lost our vacations day's that year, an you know how desperatly a hard working male like myself needs that".
All the while he said this he had his feet up at his work station completely ignoring the any updates and massages on his screen.
The masked Galra couldn't help but growl lowly at her lazy shipmate, the man was easily the bane of her existence on this ship, always dumping all the blame and responsibility on her or some other poor sap on the crew.
Oh not to mention that he was a complete slut!, She wasn't usually the type to listen to rumors or gossip(that was a male's hobby) but word in the crew was that he had slept his way into getting the cusy position he was in, it was hardly a job considering how little they actually had to report anything back to the empire.
The communications officer.
What nonsense!.
Her growl was cut off by the irritated grunt of their captain who's glare had only grown colder with every passing second,"If you two are done bickering like newborns then I suggest getting back to work instead of telling tall tales, and that goes double for you navigator ".
It was no secret that their captain had grown tired of the grunt's passed blunders causing the crew to loose what little respect they had within the empire.
Honestly the only reason she was still a part of the crew was dew to being a relative of the captain's superior officer.
Otherwise she knew she would of been relieved of duty from day one when she confused a stray astroid drifting close to their location for a earth ship coming out of a wormhole and immediately signaled for a Galra warship to concure the planet.
Oh the look of disappointment from her aunt, the lieutenant of that warship, gave her that day was ingraved in her mind.
It always made her blush under her mask in complete embarrassment when she remembered how much she had to beg her to pull some strings to allow her to keep her position as the ships navigator.
But she knew she wasn't mistake this time, she knew for a fact that some sort of hyper drive jump or time spacial rift simular to a worm hole had accrued on the planet earth.
And she was going to prove it.
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It took a while but Lance finally managed to walk his way through the desert and made his way to the city.
Just to play things safe he took off his paladin suit, switching to his spare pair of civilian cloths he tended to keep stored in the blue lion and left it in the cave, but he had forgoted how hot it could get on earth and was sweating up a storm by the end of his walk without his temperature regulative suit.
He still couldn't believe he was back on earth but it was hard to miss all the plain as day average humans walking around without a care in the word.
To be honest it felt kind of weird to sarounded by only humans again, he had just gotten so use to seeing and talking different shapes and forms of alien life that regular humans with normal skin and rounded ears seemed kinda boring in comparison.
Not that he wasn't glad to be back, sure being a hero is fun and all but he missing the earth badly everyday in space and always complained about being too far away from it.
Lance frowned.
But just exactly how did he get back?, and why was the blue all messed up?.
The very last thing he could remember was him and the rest of team voltron escaping through a warm hole after rescuing Allura from the Galra.
Then something weird happened and all the lions got separated in the worm hole. He remembered trying to catch hunks lion to keep them together but all that did was knock both of them on opposite directions with Hunk hurdling out of the side of the worm hole and him and blue rocketing towards the black void at the end of the worm hole.
Lance couldn't fully remember what happened but he had a faded memory of blue doing something, a new weapon like a sound canon or something and blasting it directly infront of the void just before they were gonna hit.
And that was it, that's all he could remember, everything else was just a fuzzy blur and he just woke up with the blue lion back on earth.
He had half thought he would suddenly wake up from a deep sleep but dashed that though aside at seeing how too detailed everything around him was.
It was hard to believe he had only been gone off world for just a could week's to fight evil as a member of a universal super hero team.
Snort.
Sounded like a plot for a cheesy cartoon now that he fully thought about it.
Would probably win a couple awards by its third season tho.
As he crossed the street over to a familiar pizza shop he couldn't help but drool over the scent of the melted cheese and sauce.
Okay deep emotional thinking after a slice of heavenly pizza, lord knows he missed earth food!.
Entering the shop Lance reached into his pocket and pulled out the only bits of earth money he still carried around with him in his jacket pocket. At best it would buy one slice.
But after months of pushing downing green space mush and alien veggies, the greasy fast food would be like a feast of the god's to his belly!.
"Pepperoni please! "
"Pepperoni please! "
Two people ordered at the exact same time, making the old pizza chef at the counter blink twice "well that's funny, I didn't know you had a twin Lorryn? "
Lance raised a confused brow. What was this old geezer talking about?.
"Yeah yeah well I didn't feel like bragging about him much, poor Lorence is such a shy little twerp he'd probably die of embarrassment if he knew his big sis was always talking about him" joke a feminine voice of the person who ordered at the same time as him.
He could feel her resting her arm on his shoulder putting him in a playful one-armed hug, which was very odd considering he had no clue who this stranger was.
He turned around to see who was hugging him only to stare stumped at what he saw.
Was that... Himself?
His very feminine doppelganger with long hair just raised a brow at her gob smacked male counter part, "what's the matter lorence?, you act like you've never seen you big sis before, it hasn't been that long since I left for the Garrison you big baby" the female double joked with a smirk that looked like it came straight from Lance himself .
At the same time our real Lance was gaping and half wondering if his 'it's all a dream theory ' was still out.
"Orders up! "
No, the smell of fresh pizza was too authentic.
This was real.