"What the quiznak is that?" Pidge exclaimed as something appeared on her scanner. She pulled up the camera feed.
"It's like, a man… cat… thing…" Lance observed. Keith rolled his eyes.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious,"
"Did you guys hear that? I'm the captain now! You all can call me Captain Lance," Lance smirked. Keith face-palmed and muttered to himself.
"Guys, do you see his ears? Not the cat ones, but the other ones. They look… human!" Hunk suggested.
"Ah, I know what this is! It's a rare Alkwatomi! An evil alien species who can read your thoughts! I was lucky enough to escape one in my youth…" Coran said proudly.
"Paladins, focus! Whatever he is, he's unconscious! Pidge, can you send out a drone to retrieve him?" Shiro asked. Pidge nodded and began furiously tapping on a keyboard. A small droid grabbed the mysterious person by the shoulder and brought him inside the Castle. Allura opened a pod, and Hunk lifted up the man and put him in. He's surprisingly light, and smells of… Camembert cheese? Huh. A cheese connoisseur? Hunk wondered to himself.
"Guys, look at this! He's healing at an unnatural rate? And his DNA… He's not fully human… It almost looks like he's part cat.. part human… part… I don't even know what this is!" Pidge looked more confused than when she first saw the lions working.
The pod opened. The creature fell out onto his knees, and looked up at the people in front of him.
Kid. KID! You gotta wake up! Ladybug needs you! Hellooooo? Adrien I'm hungry. Gimme cheese. I want camembert. Now. Adrien Flipping Agreste wake up right now!
"Argh!" Chat Noir sat up. In front of him was a small group of people. They all seemed as equally shocked as him.
"Where am I? Where's Ladybug?" Chat asked, looking around. The tiniest person in front of him had brown hair and glasses. She was writing a bunch of stuff down on her tablet. A woman from the back stepped forward. She had white hair and pink markings under her eyes.
"I... am Princess Allura of Altea. We are the Voltron Coalition. This is Hunk, Lance, Keith, Shiro, Pidge, and Coran. Who are you?"
"They call me Chat Noir. Do any of you meow where Ladybug is? If I could get back home as soon as possible, that would be purrfect," Chat Noir paused, then rolled his eyes. "Oh, and if you have any camembert, that would be great."
"Camembert? As in, the smelly cheese?" Keith asked. Why anyone would ask for that was beyond him.
"I might have some brie in the kitchen…" Hunk mused. He ran off to get it.
"Yeah, um thanks!" Chat Noir said. Pidge couldn't take it anymore.
"Are you from Earth? Are you part cat? How did you get this far into space without a ship? Who was this Ladybug you talked about? What's with the cat puns? Why-"
"That's enough Pidge. Let the guy breathe," Shiro warned.
Chat smiled, "I am furrom Earth. As far as I meow, I'm still human, just like you."
Just then, Pidge's machine went off. "I'm picking up another creature in this area. She seems to be wearing red, with… black spots?"
"Ladybug!" Chat grinned. If anyone could make sense of this situation, it was his lovely lady.
"Who… Wha? Where am I? Chat Noir?" Ladybug yawned.
"Yes, tis I, milady. You are looking purrfect as usual. We are on… some sort of spaceship?" Chat turned to the blue armored boy beside him.
"Yep! This is the Castle of Lions. I'm Lance. And who are you, beautiful?" Lance flirted at her. Chat growled. No one was allowed to be that close to his lady, except, well, himself. Ladybug, used to Chat flirting, automatically pushed him out of her face. Lance frowned, but got over it fast.
"Chat, how did we get here? What's going on?" Ladybug asked, concerned. Allura stepped up.
"If you're from Earth, you've come a long way. We're deep in space, far from your planet." Ladybug's earrings beeped.
"Oh no. Is there anywhere I can change? I can even use a closet… Oh! And if you have cookies or some sort of food, that would be great as well."
Hunk returned to save the day. "So, yeah. I find some brie in the back, as well as these crackers that expired seven years ago, but I ate one and it seemed fine."
The superheroes grabbed the food for their kwamis. Ladybug ran into a supply closet nearby, after instructing the Paladins that they were, under no circumstances, come in there. Chat excused himself to go to the bathroom.
Coran looked confused. "Why on Altea would they just run off like that?" A pink flash was seen come out of the closet.
"Whew! Here you go Tikki. Do you know how we got out here?" Ladybug was heard to say. Lance put his ear to the door, but stepped away after Shiro gave him a look. Pidge smirked.
"Last thing I remember… There was an akuma! Earth needs us ASAP!" A tiny voice was heard to exclaim.
"But Tikki, how are we going to get home? How did we even survive space?"
"I powered up with the purple magicaroon. I have to talk to Plagg, Chat's kwami. Together, we can think of something."
"We can't go out there like this! And I can't know Chat's identity!"
"Hmm… I'll phase through the door and find Plagg. You can use… This!" Tikki summoned a mask for Marinette (A/N: Since Plagg has destructive powers without an owner, I figure that Tikki is able to summon things as well.)
Marinette placed the Ladybug mask on her face. Perfect. She stepped out of the closet, and Tikki flew out to find Plagg. Ladybug glanced at the Paladins. They looked more confused than a dog looking for an unthrown fetch stick. Ladybug sighed. This was going to be hard to explain.
"Kid, we got a problem this time," Plagg remarked. Adrien nodded.
"How the heck did we get this far into space?"
"No, not that. I mean, these poor people are living without camembert! All they have is brie. The short guy looked like he'd appreciate a nice cheese, and what cheese is better than my beautiful camembert?"
"Actually, I'm pretty sure the short kid was a girl… Anyway, how are we going to get back to Earth? We can't defeat Hawkmoth out here! But Ladybug was already out of this world…" Adrien mused.
A tiny red kwami with black spots phased through the door.
"Hey Sugarcube!" Plagg flew over to this new kwami.
"Hello Plagg. Hi Adrien. So nice to finally meet you! My name is Tikki,"
"Are you Ladybug's kwami?"
"I am. And no, before you ask, I'm not telling you who she really is,"
Adrien visibly slumped down. Plagg snickered.
"Not today, loverboy."
"This boat is beautiful…" Plagg muttered.
" Boat?" Adrien asked.
"Er, yeah. And what is a boat, Adrien?"
"It's a ship, a vessel on water."
"Exactly, kid. A boat is a ship."
"Then why on Earth-"
"Plagg, stop messing with your Chosen! I came in here to talk to you about our current situation. There was an akuma that launched us into space! Paris, no the WORLD needs us!" Tikki's blue eyes were wide.
"An akuma? How are we even going to get back to Earth? Sweet roquefort, this is bad," Plagg exclaimed.
"Should I transform and talk to Ladybug? Maybe we can use the lucky charm and see if that helps us! It hasn't failed us yet," Adrien suggested.
"That's what I originally thought too, but I realized that during your fight with the akuma, Plagg and I powered up to our space forms, Planetikki and Plaggalaxy. Since we used up the potion to power us up, we can't just float home like we did to get here. Meaning, we'd have to ask these folks for a ride," Tikki explained.
"I've got a bad feeling about them. I can't explain it, but they just seem… off." Adrien remarked. "Plagg, claws out!" Chat Noir stepped out of the bathroom and onto the bridge of the ship.
