Hyper

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*The one where Keith gets super hyper when sleep deprived*

Nobody was prepared for the black and red blur tackling Lance to the ground. Least of all Lance, if the sudden spanish cursing was anything to go by. The red blur dragged Lance to his feet but refused to let go of him. It took a second for Hunk and Pidge to identify said blur as Keith. You never knew with aliens.

"Hiya guys!" Keith exclaimed happily. That alone was enough to send the garrison trio into stunned silence. "Have you been sleeping well?" Keith asked without missing a beat. "Cause I sure haven't! I haven't had the slightest wink of sleep in five days!" Keith was practically vibrating in place as he enthusiastically told them this. He still hasn't let go of Lance. "Have you guys seen Shiro!?" Keith practically yelled at them.

"Kitchen," Hunk answered, still stunned. Keith beamed at him happily.

"Thanks! I gotta ask him something!" Keith yelled. He squeezed Lance tightly before letting him go and running off...in the opposite direction of the kitchen.

"Do you think we have another clone?" Pidge asked helping Lance to his feet. The poor guy was trying to regain his breathing from Keith's death hug.

"I have no idea. We should probably tell Shiro though," Lance suggested after regaining his breathing. The garrison trio turned around and made their way back into the kitchen, much to the bemusement of Shiro, Allura, and Coran.

"You guys just left. Did you forget something?" Shiro asked in "Space Dad" mode.

"We're not sure," Hunk started, "Keith just kinda tackle hugged Lance and was acting super hyper," he explained. Shiro's expression morphed into one of pure fear, something that scared everyone else more than Zarkon.

"Oh god. Please tell me that is just a prank," Shiro begged. Before the other paladins could tell him it wasn't, the subject of their topic bounced into the room. And I mean literally bounced.

"HIYA SHIRO! Guess what!? I found like seven new rooms in the castle! Super cool right! One of them looks like a medieval torture chamber and it's awesome! There's even a mace in there! I didn't know aliens had maces. I used to have a mace, remember? But then Adam saw it and flipped out because kids shouldn't have access to dangerous weapons. I was thirteen. Not a kid. Adam just wanted my mace for himself. Oh yeah! We need to get you back to Earth! Otherwise you are gonna miss your wedding! I would feel really bad for Adam if you missed the wedding. He would have to get married to your picture or something" Keith rambled to Shiro excitedly. Luckily for Shiro, everyone was too concerned about the hyper Keith to comment about all the wedding talk...for now.

"What is wrong with Number 4?" Coran asked cautiously, inching away from Keith slowly.

"Nothing's wrong with me! Why? Does it look like something is wrong? Did I get stabbed again?" Keith's rapid fire questions were halted as he started trying to find a stab wound.

"His...condition is acting up," Shiro started explaining slowly. "When Keith doesn't get enough sleep, he gets insanely hyper. The less sleep, the more energy."
"So how do we calm him down?" Pidge asked. By this point, Keith had given up looking for the stab wound and was now running his fingers through a frozen (from fear) Allura's hair. Mostly just fear from having Keith so close while he's like this.

"There's only two things that work," Shiro answered keeping a close eye on Keith while he explained. "The first is to catch him and knock him out somehow. That's the harder option because if he feels threatened he will go berserk in trying to escape. It'll be practically impossible to catch him. The second way is to just let him crash on his own. But the problem with that is you never know how long it'll take for him to run out of energy," Shiro explained. During this short explanation, Keith had styled Allura's hair into something you'd see on a cartoon princess from earth. Now he was hugging Lance again. Allura and Coran took this moment to escape. They'd let the earthlings deal with this problem on their own...Bonding and all that. Wouldn't want to intrude. Plus Allura wanted to see what Keith did to her hair.

"H-hey Keith? Buddy. Can you ease your grip a bit?" Lance asked, trying to breath through the crushing hug. Thankfully for him, Keith listened and was more loosely draped on Lance instead of death hugging him.

"Hey guys! What's up?...oh. Nevermind. Sleep deprivation?" Matt had walked into the room at that moment, saw what was going on between the red and blue paladins, and immediately figured out the situation. His was more from personal experience. The last time this happened it was Matt that Keith attached too.

"Sleep deprivation," Shiro confirmed.

"Wait! How'd you know?" Pidge asked her brother in confusion. Matt chuckled awkwardly and rubbed the back of his head.

"Remember that day I came home from Shiro's and I refused to tell you why I was so disheveled? That was the last time Keith was hyper. He was twelve," Matt shuddered at the traumatic memories from that day. Pidged looked horrified now.

"Shit."
"Sums it up pretty well actually," Shiro and Matt said without any hesitation.

"What can we do to catch him?" Hunk asked nervously, his voice dropping to a whisper so as to not tip Keith off. The four of them huddled together, oblivious to Lance trying to get their attention.

"Guys?" Lance whisper shouted, trying to get their attention.

They continued to whisper amongst themselves.

"Hunk!"

"Wait a minute Lance."

"Pidge!"

"Busy Lance. Trying to plan."

"Matt!"

"Lance, hang on a sec. We are almost finished with Plan G."

"Shiro!"

"Lance please, let us plan in peace," Shiro begged, finally looking up at Lance.

"There's no point. He's asleep," Lance said smugly. Sure enough, Keith was only being held up by Lance keeping him there.

"Oh," four voices chimed together awkwardly.

"Yeah oh. Can someone help me with him?" Lance shifted to adjust Keith a bit. Hunk, the sweetheart he is, went to help Lance maneuver Keith into a better position to hold/carry him. AKA, the piggy back.

"Wait! Before you go there's one more thing," Shiro quickly stopped them before they could take Keith too far. "Keith won't remember anything that's happened," Shiro told them.

"Soo...Kinda like when you get so drunk you black out and don't remember what you've done at all?" Pidge asked.

"I wish I thought of that comparison. It makes so much more sense than our old one. But yeah, that's basically it," Matt confirmed. With that last warning now in their head, the garrison trio left to put Keith into a proper bed. It was halfway to Keith's room that Lance remembered something specific said during the hyper rants.

"Did either of you know Shiro was engaged?"

Finally! The first chapter of the Voltron oneshots is completed! Hope you guys like it! Feel free to send in requests. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter done soon. I want to finish the one for The Librarians that I'm almost finished with before I start anything new though.

Please review! Oh, and Happy Halloween!