Chapter One
... Sometime In The Future...
It's missions like these that made Laith wonder just how bad the universe could be. Several times a month he has to go out and stop some alien race from causing some sort of havoc on some planet in some point of space.
"Laith." He hears, and he looks at the face that popped up on the bottom of his dash, "Are you even listening?" Kenneth asks, and Laith smirks, "Nope."
Kenneth sighs, his purple eyes falling shut as he shakes his head, "Did you hear a word Kallura said?"
"Nope." Laith answers, and Kenneth sighs again, "Are you kidding me?" He asks, looking at him, his purple ears moving backwards in a meaning of exasperation.
"Nope. What did she say?" He asks, and Kenneth rubs his nose with a clawed hand, "Dear god. We're screwed if our tank can't even pay attention."
"Laith, I said we need to stop the Dexterra's before they time hop." He hears Kallura say, and Laith smiles. "Ah, right."
Kenneth groans, "I don't even know how we're twins, Laith. You act so much like dad."
Aeryn chimes in with, "Technically, you're faternal twins. Kenneth looks like a Galra, and Laith looks human."
Kenneth rolls his eyes, "No, I so didn't know this about ourselves, Aeryn. Thank you for telling me, because now I have to go change my race from human to half human." He says, and Laith laughs.
"It's hard to believe you are half human, Kenny, what with the size of your feet." He says, laughing, and his brothers angry expression pops up on his dash.
"Laith, I will shove my foot up your-" Kallura interrupts him by saying, "Focus, team. We need to keep our focus on the mission, and not on feet." Kallura says, sounding rather exasperated.
Laith smiles at her voice, smirking as he trails behind her in his lion, "You've got all my attention, Princess." He says playfully, and Kenneth gives an aggravated groan, "Seriously, can you not flirt with our cousin for once in your life."
"Negative, Kenny-boy. She's not even our real cousin, if you're speaking biologically." Laith responds, and Kenneth groans, "You're a creep. Like dad..., and don't call me Kenny-boy!" He yells at the end, glaring at his brothers image on his dash, his teeth bared.
"Ey, you have to admit Dad is pretty slick. I mean, he got Pa, didn't he? And what's the matter, Kenny-boy? Don't like the pet name? Should I call you Kitty?" He says, teasing his brother, and Kenneth gives a growl.
"Call me that and they won't find your body, Laith." Kenneth says, and Aeryn groans. "You might as well give up, Kenneth. Laith still calls me Mirco-Shortie."
Kallura sighs, and she rubs the bridge of her nose, "Stop it, all of you. We need to stay focused, especially if you want to be home by dinner."
Teuila laughs happily, "Yea! Dad is making pasta!" She says, and Laith smiles at his friend.
"You're just like your dad, Te, always thinking with your stomach." He says, and Kenneth sighs.
"And you're like our dad, Laith, always thinking with you-" He's cut off by Kallura calling his name, before she adds, "Knock it off. We've arrived." She says, and Laith looks up from his console.
An oblong, black and grey ship slowly moves through space a little ways away, and Laith raises a brow. "We... Are those... Dexterras? Didn't they have more high tech equipment than that?"
"Yeah... They came into a new government form that took all the tecnology and used it to make a time traveler. We're to stop them before they do any true damage with time traveling." She says, and Aeryn chimes in.
"From what I gathered from their data base, they hope to time travel back to when our parents were in the original lions. Back to the time of the Galra rule to help erradicate Voltron." She says, and Laith blinks.
"Uh... Yeah... That's..." He starts, and his twin finishes with, "Pretty bad. Especially if they kill our parents."
Teuila nods, "Yeah, then none of us would ever be born... Well, maybe Laith and Kenneth, but they'd be orphans again."
"Shut up, Teuila." Kenneth interjects, and Laith seconds that notion. "Yeah, shut it." He says, before looking towards Kallura's image on his dash.
"What do we do?" He asks, and she hums in thought, "Okay, Indigo and Violet, I want you two go from behind. Pink, you from underneath, and Orange, I want you with me in the front. We'll be the distaction." She says, and everyone collectively nods.
Kenneth and Laith go in behind, Aeryn goes from beneath, and Teuila with Kallura to the front. "On my mark, L and K, I want you both to blast the engines. They can't time hop if they don't have any means of moving. A, I want you to blast the underbelly to damage the hull. Think you guys can do that?" She asks, and again, everyone nods.
A silent second later, Teuila interjects with, "I'm nodding. Is everyone else nodding?" She asks, and everyone collectively groans.
"Yes." They say all in time, which Laith instantly follows with, "Jinx! You guys all owe me food goo!"
"Ugh, Laith." Kenneth says, and the human-appearing twin clamps his mouth shut.
Kallura and Teuila slowly move to the front, flying closer. A screen pops up on Kallura's monitor with an octopus looking alien, speaking in a garbled language.
"We, the Second Generation of Voltron, are surrending our lions to you, sir, so you may spare the universe." Kallura says, and more garbled words come out. "Ah... I'm sorry, Ma'am..." Kallura says, sounding flustered, "I didn't mean to offend you." She says.
More garbled noises sound out, and Laith watches Kallura's expression from his dash, her expression turning panicked for a split second, then calm the next, "We... Ah... The others are coming soon, I assure you."
More garbled nonsense, and Kallura smiles politely, "I am Princess Kallura Shirogane of the Altean kingdom, and... Now, KL!" She says, alerting Kenneth and Laith, who both fire their mouth cannons at the engines.
The ship jostles, and Kallura, followed by Teuila fly out of the view of the ship as it tries to fire a shot at them. Laith whistles and grins, as Kallura calls to Aeryn to blast the ship from under.
It's mere seconds before the blast hit the ship, does the ship open up a warp hole just above them. When the blast hits the ship, it sends the ship sprilling upward and towards the warp hole.
It seems to happen in a blur to him, as one second Laith and his brother are flying towards Kallura and Teuila, then, the next, Laith's lion is hit by the spiralling ship, sent flying towards the warp hole in a ridiculous speed.
"Laith!" Kenneth screams, quickly turning his lion around to try and go after his brother, and he can distinctly hear his younger twin screaming back his name, as he vanishes through the warp hole... With the ship. And the Indigo Lion.
