Back in the day... say.. AOL 2.5 I think it was... Ohh... those were days! It was before all those "dot-coms", before everyone and their spawn had broad-band, unlimited chats while on a 14.4.. or.. *gasp* dare I say? A 56 kbs modem! Back when being on a computer was still geeky, and not as wide-spread as it was. A group of us on AOL's semi-clustered chatters gathered together and formed an RPG thanks to Cartoon Network's newest premier... VOLTRON: DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE!

Well.. I had no scanner and no web-site skills, so I wrote crappy fics! This is my first voltron fic, based on our role-playing! Yes.. this is the cursed fic that spawned so many spoofs with the "next-generation" cast.

Dusty, Charlie, Zero, Sonya and Skye were based on actual RPG'ers... and like Heck if I know what's happened to them now. They belong to their owners, that's all I can say about it.. now enjoy.


VOLTRON

INTRODUCTION:

Long in the future, there existed a planet called, Earth. This planet contained the necessary essentials it's occupants needed to survive: Water, Air and Food. But it soon came to be that the land-space was diminishing, and the living beings that resided there were expanding rapidly. Something needed to be done. Thus the Humans, (the bipedual carbon-based organic beings that supposably ruled the planet) begun to explore several of the other planets in it's solar system. All they found were frozen gasses that resembled thier water, but these toxins deemed hazardous or even Fatal to the humans. Thus, it was believed that they would have to perish silently with it's planet. Just as it seemed that there was no hope of survival, the Planet Earth got a few visitors from a far off galaxy. As it turns out, Earth is one of the thousands of other civilizations in the known universe. As time grew, Earth allied itself to several of the "Good planets" and thus formed an acadamy called "Galaxy Garrison".

As there are Good Planets, it is only logical that there are "Bad Planets." For there is no Yin, without a Yang. One of the foulest of planets, was the planet Doom. Zarkon, it's king, had set a mission to conquer the entire galaxy. Doom was a very powerful planet, and it seemed that nothing can prevent it from compleating it's mission, nothing except a legend.

Legend has it that there was a Robot, built by one of the most sophisticated of planets, Arus. Arus had the top physicians, the top scientists, the top artists, the top everything, yet it was obvious that it differed from other planets. It's people decided to live "the simple life", meaning that they would not have anyhting that might destroy thier planet, or themselves. They lived without any vehicles, except those that were animal-drawn, and the only weapons they knew to handle were sticks and stones. But this did not mean they were totally defenseless. In order to maintain peace, they built themselves a powerful robot. The robot was called, Voltron. Voltron was an original creation. No other robot could even come close to how well built it was. Voltron defeated Doom countless times. One time after the other, and it was speculated that Doom would give up in no time at all. But Zarkon had other plans. He called for his assistant, Haggar, a witch of the blackest magic to trick Voltron and destroy it. Haggar almost successed. She desguiesed herself as a beautiful angel, luring Voltron out in the open, with it's defenses down. There she revealed herself, and before Voltron could even think of attacking, Haggar placed a spell to destroy the robot. But the spell was somehow not compleated. Voltron, instead, broke into five pieces: the Head and body were one, both arms, and both legs. These pieces, mixed with the spell, transformed into robot Lions, and crashed down into Arus, hidden from existence, until years later.

Doom, meantime, had thought that Voltron was no more, and thus resumed conquering planets without fail.

Galaxy Garrison decided that in order to save the Universe, Voltron was needed once more. So the Alliance sent out a group of five young, Space Explorers, one for each piece that was, in legend, existed. These Explorers were top graduates of the academy. First and foremost was Keith, who graduated first with honors, and who is the Comander of the force. He went on the pilot the the Black Lion which was the main part of Voltron, even though Voltron could not exist without the other, and thus, it formed the head and Torso of the compleated Robot. Black Lion's specialty was known to be the Valor and Pride of all Arus. Next was Lance, who graduated in the top ten in his class. He would have had a higher class rank, but he was known to cause mischief around the campus, and was known to get into trouble with the Instructors frequently. Lance went on to pilot the Red Lion, which makes up the Right Arm of Voltron. Red Lion's Speciality was extremity of Fire. Then there is Pidge, youngest of the group, very educated (graduated with honors), and very agile. Pidge went on to pilot the Green Lion, which formed the Left arm of Voltron. Green Lion's specialty was the spirit of the Forest. Next comes Hunk. Hunk, a mechanics expert, and also in the top ten rank, went on to pilot Yellow Lion which formed the Left Leg of Voltron. Yellow Lion's Specialty is the intensity of the Desert. The fifth Lion was the Right Leg of Voltron, which was a Blue robot Lion. The blue lion's specialty was the Power of Water. It's original pilot was one of the Space Explorers. His name was Sven. He graduated second, under Kieth with high honors. He came up with all the good ideas, and was very calm under stressfull situations. But unfortunatly he suffered severe casualties while battling Haggar, who had trapped Lance in a magic net. Sven helped Lance out, and Lance rushed to get others to go help Sven, but upon returning, he found it was too late. Sven had suffered deep lazerations, and was then hospitalized. Knowing that Voltron would be usless without a leg, Allura, princess of Arus, and close friend of the force, volunteered, with countless objections both from the force and from her "people", to pilot the Blue lion. But, she was determined to help, and thus she did. Voltron was complete once more, and went on defeating Zarkon and his people as it did in the past.

This is where our story starts...

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HELP FROM HOME:

General Grahmm, the head honcho of Galaxy Garrison, walked around a young space cadet countless times, he looks her over, thinks to himself, and shakes his head. He then walks towards his chair, behind a big oak desk, and interlocks his fingers, a thing he did when he was uneasy about something.

"You know your mission, right Skye?"

"Yes sir," said the thirteen year old cadet standing rigidly in her place and who was complaing to herself when she could be "at ease". "My task is to station at Arus to navigate mission controls for the Voltron Force."

"Yes. **sighs** I just don't know. Are you sure you are ready for such a task?"

"Sir, may I... ?" Skye glances down at the chair beside her, and then looks pleading to Grahmm, who just sighs again and nods.

"Yes, yes. At ease, cadet."

"Thank you." Skye sits down on the uncomfortable wooden chair Grahmm had in his office. Though it was beautiful to look at, it wasn't exactly sitting material. "General Grahmm, sir, I've read the files on my assignment, and the individuals involved, and it states that Pidge, one of the members of the V-force, was younger than I when he got sent to Arus! I also researched and found that Chip, his brother, is in the New Vehicle Voltron force as well, and he's the same age as I. Why do you have doubts that I cannot handle the job?"

"It's not that I don't think you can't handle it, I know you can. That was why you were one of the chosen few to be selected to go. It's just that the war between these two planets is brutal, and you don't have much military training."

"Neither did the princess!"

Grahmm, hating to loose a fight, looks up at the smiling Skye. Then an idea hits him on how both can get thier way, him more than her.

"Very well, You have permision to go.. BUT!! On one condition!"

"Huh? Yes?"

"You may go, but provided that I also send four others to supervise, and help fight against Doom! Understood?"

Skye looks at Grahmm with a surprised look on her face. She then clenches her fist, and grumbles to herself silently, "Supervisor? Why don't you just say a Babysitter?" But knowing that it was either this or nothing, she looks down at the ground and mumbles.

"Yes sir, understood."

"Very well, You are dismissed."

She looks up at him and salutes. He salutes back. She turns and stomps out of the room. Grahmm looks at the door that was slamed and smiles.

"Kids! Oy!" He begins laughing.

***

"ATTENTION!! Okay people! This is Lt. Commander Charlie Forrester. She will be supervising you "cadets" on your mission to Arus. Lieutenant, these are the soldiers for your squadron. Each one of them will be flying thier own space-craft to Arus and I DON'T want any scratches on those vehicles, Understood?! Good. *Ahem* They are: Commander Dustyn Black, Private Will "Zero" Blazer, Private Skye Sheinin, and Sonja. Any questions, Lieutenant?"

"Huh? oh.. no.. that is all Private, you are dismissed! ::whispers:: switch to decaf.. geeze! **Ahem** Okay group, saddle up! To your stations. Place tray tables and seats in an up-right posistion, buckle your saftey belts and off we go! Huh? oh.. and those who have to "go", Go NOW!!"

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"WHAT?!?! NO! Na.. No, It Cant be! Whaddya.. Buh.. But, That's not fair!"

"Sorry Lance, I got the most money, and you're bankrupt! I won!"

"Damn! I knew I shouldn't have bought Boardwalk! Okay then, I challenge you to a rematch, Pidge!"

"AW common! I'm starving! Anyways, and this was already our fourth rematch. Give it a rest."

Hunk passes the study, after going for a "Between Snacks, Snack", and see's Lance, fumming and grumbling something unprintable, and Pidge counting his multi-colored Money.

"Hey Guys..!"

"DON'T Ask!"

"Oh.. hehe.. Sorry Lance, maybe next time?"

"I can't believe I was beat by a leperchaun!"

"Just call me 'Lucky'!"

Suddenly the Alarms go off. Hunk and the guys scramble towards the Castle Controls to see Koran holding onto the controls.

"Aw, Koran, is Lotor attacking again? What's with this guy? Dang, Lotor must be compleatly nutz to ...."

"Hush Pidge. Um.. Koran.. you okay?"

Just as if on que, Koran colapses over the controls. Allura, Nanny and Keith arive just in time to see it!

"KORAN!"

Nanny hollars for the medics to arive, and she didn't even need to use the COM-link.

Allura and Hunk sit Koran up, meantime.

**Groan** "I'm getting to old for this job." He clenches his chest.

"Don't be silly Koran, Your not old.. your just.. uh.. um.. Your not old!"

They all look at Pidge, who then laughs nervously and slinks back.

Just then the medics arive along with a stretcher. They carry Koran off to the infirmary, with Nanny and Allura following them in haste.

Those that remained in the control room just stand there silently, still in shock. They look at each other, not knowing what to do now. Keith was about to say something but he was interupted by the loud static comming from the Com-link, announcing an incomming message.

"You answer it, Pidge."

"Right Kieth. **ahem** This is Castle Control in Arus, over."

"Uh Pidge?"

"What, Lance?"

"Thats the button for the Pods."

"Oh.. hehe.. I knew that!" Pidge presses the Com-link button and repeats his message. "COM1 This is Castle Control in Arus, Over."

"COM2 *Static stops* Hello Peoples! This is Lt. Com. Charlie Forrester from Galaxy Garrison, requesting permision to enter atmosphere, do you copy?"

"Galaxy Garrison? What the hell are they doing here?" Exclaims Hunk furiously because he couldn't help Koran in any way.

"COM2... Hey! Don't give me that kind of language Young man! We were asked to come here by some guy named.. Uh.. Cory.. Krin.. um "

"COM3 It's Koran, Lt."

"COM2 I knew that! Thanks Dusty! Yes, we were sent here by order of Koran."

Just then Allura solemly enters the Room. Everyone rushes to see if she had brought good news with her.

"The doctors said he just had a stroke, so Koran's going to stay in the infirmary tonight for observation. He's okay, but I'm so worried about him."

"Don't Worry Allie, Koran's a tuff guy! He'll be up and at em before you know it!"

"Thanks Hunk." Suddenly she hears some voices over by the control boards. "Um.. Is it just me, or does anyone else hear arguing over there?" She points at the Com. They suddenly remember they had left the Lt. on hold.

"COM1 Uh.. Sorry about that Lt. We were discussing it with the Princess."

"Discussing what?" Allie looks quizicly towards Keith.

"They claim to be from Galaxy Garrison, and they said that Koran requested them to come."

"Wait.. Koran was telling me, while we rushing towards the infirmary, that he had called for some backup. But they can't be here now, can they?"

"Seems So Princess."

"Well, by all means then."

"COM2 Hellooo?"

"COM1 Commander Forrester, this is Castle Controls in Arus, you have permision to land. Over."

"COM2 Thank you, Arus, and we all looking forward to meeting you guys! Over and Out."

Allura ordered to her guards to begin preparing for Forrester and her squad's arival. Everyone waited over in the landing docks, and squinted thier eyes towards the air above. Pidge stayed in the controls, in case if any more messages came through. Suddenly they saw a flash of light 120ยบ from the Western horizon. They began to make out five ships. But, just as the first ship was about to land, one of the group's ship broke format and intercepted the first ship. It then began to fire missiles at it, causing the lead ship to explode into pieces. This caused the V-force and the castle guards to run for cover. Suddenly five other ships entered the atmosphere. The ships then grouped into pairs, except the first ship, which was simply hovering above the landing base. The eight pairs began to fight with its paired off partner. The Force, meanwhile, just stared, dumbfounded, at what was happening. After some basic manuvering, and even some that weren't even in the book, the Battle was over. Five of the ten ships were left, each of them hovering next to the lead ship. The guards quickly recovered from the shock, and went inside for weapons. The remaining ships then put out their landing gear, and docked themselves onto the Landing bay. The force stood on thier guard, waiting to see if they were the enemy, and if they were going to attack.

In sequence, the ships opened their latches, one then the other. But instead of hearing gun shots, they hear cheering.

"Did you see that? I was swerving to the left almost missing a rocket, then I did a 360, and shot it's tail! Sending that sucker crashing down!"

"Yeah! And Sonja, Whoa! Just as that Ship was about to land, Boom!! She exterminated that Doom-Bug before it had time to blink!"

"Hehe.. Guys, don't make me blush! Anyway, if it weren't for Zero, we'd BE debri by now!"

"Yeah.. so you all better worship me like the god I am! Okay? EEP.. Just kidding you guys.. Guys? OW!"

As the group chattered on how good they were, using one hand to protray thier ship and the other hand as the Doom-ship, Allura approaches cautiously towards The only one that wasn't gloating on her victory.

"Um.. Which one of you is Lt. Forrester?"

Skye looks at the lady in pink and raises a brow at her outfit, she smiles and points towards Charlie, who was giving Zero Suuuuch a pinch.

"Worship you? I don't think so! You were whining on how you couldn't get that Bogy off your arse! And anyway..." Charlie turns around to see the Princess, raising a brow at her. "Oh hehe.. Hello, excuse me for a sec. ATTENTION!!"

The Newcomers suddenly becomes quiet, and fall in format. They all face Princess Allura, who still didn't understand what was going on.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Lt. Com. Charlie Forrester, and this is my squadron. Reporting for duty, your majesty."