Author's Note: This idea just kinda leapt into my brain and wouldn't leave me alone. I've been sitting on this one for a while but like most its nowhere near done. I used male pronouns for Pidge cause from what I've seen that seems to be the ones they prefer, at least for the first few episodes. Why! I own nothing.

Voltron Lives

1 Resistance

The four Paladins stared at each other as the transmission was cut off abruptly. One of the Galra officers had been shouting something about sabotage before Sendek could finish his threats. Lance turned to Pidge.

"Pidge can you get us an idea of what's going on, on that ship? You're the hacker after all." Pidge shrugged.

"A hacker I might be but I don't know anything about the tech!" Coran raced over to a nearby panel and soon there was an image on the screen again. Two large figures were dragging a smaller purple figure into the bridge of the battleship. She, for the figure was clearly female, was handcuffed and wearing a different suit than the other Galra she was surrounded by. Shiro gasped, he recognized her.

Bright gold eyes smiled gently as she passed a large ration of food through the bars wrapped in a few extra blankets. Shiro took them carefully. She was the only one there right now but you couldn't be too careful. She laid a clawed hand on his false one gently.

"I'm sorry I can't do more. We're working on getting you all out. It will take some time." He remembered her kindness and her interference against Zarkon. He still didn't remember how he'd escaped, made it back to Earth to be rescued by Hunk, Lance, and Pidge the former of whom had led them to the cave where they had found the blue lion. He winced as Sendek struck her across the face drawing blood from her nose and lip.

"So, this is the traitorous spawn responsible for our multiple issues." The female Galra spat blood onto the floor at Sendek's feet.

"Nearly two months on your ship and you never noticed." Sendek growled and kicked her in the ribs sending her sprawling, her hands were still trapped behind her as she coughed and curled in on herself in an attempt to protect her ribs. The guards dragged her back to her knees. She spat blood again but this time into Sendek's good eye. As he scrambled to scrub the blob of spit and blood from his eye she made her move.

She leapt curling in on herself and pulling her hands under her feet, in her hand was a knife none of them had noticed. As they watched it morphed into a sword which she used to cut down the guards and slice into Sendek's chest. She slipped between Sendek's legs taking a swipe at one of them as she went before disappearing into a loose ventilation grate. Sendek roared in anger and pain and Coran cut off the feed. Allura stared. Shiro spoke.

"We need to get the red lion now. I have a feeling that ship won't be in the air much longer if she has anything to say about it." Allura turned to Shiro.

"You know her?" Shiro nodded.

"She works for the resistance. She and a few others took out the carrier I had been on, I only heard about it second hand but if the rumors are accurate then that ship won't be in the sky much longer." Allura nodded her hands folded.

"Then we need to hurry and retrieve the red lion." Lance piped up voicing their collective concerns.

"How are we getting the red lion out? We don't have anyone to pilot it." Coran nodded at the blue paladin and spoke.

"We had a saying on Altea, 'The universe knows what she's doing.'" Allura nodded. Shiro turned to the others.

"Alright, Hunk, Lance you play decoy. They know we have the yellow and blue lions they don't know we have the green one too." They nodded and ran off.

Kathy 'Kat' Kogane's day was not going to plan. Everything had been going great until their course change had been announced. That threw everything off. The plan had been to place charges over the voyage to the station and go AWOL at the station, blowing the ship as it left. She only had half the charges set, Kolivan was gonna be pissed. The other charges were hidden but they wouldn't do the damage she needed them to do from where they were. She already had the prisoners on her side, that was the first thing she always did, it was easier to get them to cooperate if they trusted her. She slashed through another small contingent of guards. She slid to a stop in front of doors to the cells, expertly popping them open. The prisoners started slightly but relaxed at the sight of her.

"Change in plans. We're moving now! You remember the way to the escape pods?" The elected leader nodded.

"Good. I have charges set in the ion cannon and some in engineering but not enough to permanently cripple the ship. When you get clear head for the palace on the planet, they should protect you." Kathy whirled at the sound of hurried footsteps. Her hands were still cuffed together which was definitely a disadvantage in a fight. But the figures that came around the corner were not the ones she'd expected, instead of guards two humans came barreling into the hall both dressed in unfamiliar armor, one white with black accents the other white with green. Kathy lowered her sword slightly, she recognized the one in black.

"Thought we got you out of this mess." Shiro smiled and faltered as the leader of the prisoners whispered, called him the champion.

"I'm never one to stay out of trouble." She dove between them slashing down the three guards, who had just rounded the corner, without mercy.

"I'd be grateful if you got them to the pods. They know the way but none of them are armed. I need to drop a few more charges." The one in green shook his head.

"You can't! We need to find something one this ship!" Yellow gold eyes focused on Pidge and he could swear that he could make out a slightly different colored iris and pupil, all in shades of gold. A shiver ran up his spine.

"Is it more important than taking down one of Zarkon's commanders?" Before Pidge could answer laser blasts came from the end of the hallway. The still handcuffed female Galra shoved them out of the way and cried out in pain as she was struck in the side by one of the blasts. The prisoners hesitated and she snarled, long canine teeth glinting in the low light of the hallway. She lunged into the fray cutting down guard after guard until there were none left. There was a slash across her cheek and she was panting and there was a wild gleam in her eyes. Then the doors slid open between them setting loose a new platoon.

"Get the prisoners to safety Shiro!" The female Galra shouted diving back into the fray. Shiro nodded grabbing Pidge's hand and racing off after the retreating prisoners. Pidge protested slightly but the female Galra had already managed to close the doors behind them, and even though he could just have Rover reopen them he didn't really know how to fight these aliens.

Kathy panted. She'd escaped the platoon and retrieved her small bag of personal items, but the charges were still hidden at her workstation on engineering and she was in an area of the ship she'd never been too before. It had always been too heavily guarded, but that didn't matter anymore, her cover was already blown. She swore as she reached a hanger. A dead end. It looked disused which didn't make sense. Then a red glow caught her eye. She turned and froze. A giant red mechanical lion stared down at her from the corner of the room surrounded by a red particle barrier. It almost seemed to be calling out to her in her mind. She took a step forwards and went flying into the wall as another shot caught her in her side. She coughed up blood again as she dove behind a console and slipped her knife back into her sheath with some difficulty. She wasn't going to last much longer, several of her ribs were already cracked from the combination of Sendek's blow and the hits she'd taken. Her armor could only absorb so much. She had kept ahold of her bag though and slipped the primary detonator out of the side pocket. Praying that the prisoners had gotten out safely she pressed the button. The ship shook and tilted. She let the now useless detonator slip from between her hands which were still cuffed together. As the guards in the room slipped and slid as the ship tilted Kathy got an idea, it was a very bad, very dangerous idea, especially with her hands still cuffed but it was that or dying and she didn't plan on dying today. Of course, nothing else had gone to plan so why not take risks. Not like if she failed Kolivan could yell at her. She pulled the secondary detonator out of her pack and strapped the pack around her waist. She tapped the small button on the side of the neck of her armor, her black and purple helmet sprang into place. Her suit could keep her alive in the vacuum of space for a few minutes, but only a few minutes, especially with the damage it had already sustained.

She leapt over the console and slammed her hands into the button that opened the hanger doors. The platoon made no sound as they were sucked out into the void. She held onto the control panel with one hand and pressed the button on the secondary detonator. The ship shook again and lights flickered and went out. The ship tilted down dramatically, unfortunately this dislodged a piece of debris from the celling that came crashing into Kathy's arm. She felt the bone snap as she was forced to let go. She hurtled out into the void with a scream.

Kathy panted trying not to scream as she spun in the void. She only had a few seconds of air left, at least she could watch Sendek's ship go down. Her suit began to beep as her air levels grew dangerously low. She could hear nothing in the void of space, not the lasers the blue and yellow lions where shooting at the damaged ship, not the explosions still rocking Sendek's ship. Not the ion cannon breaking off into the void though she took pleasure in watching it crumble. No, the only thing she heard was her own scared panting breaths that were becoming shorter and shorter as she hung in space. She felt something at the back of her mind as her vision started to blur. A presence so familiar and yet so foreign. She turned, it was remarkable how much dying from lack of oxygen in space felt like drowning. She screamed as the giant red lion from earlier lunged its mouth open to swallow her whole.