It wasn't supposed to end like this.

He wasn't meant to die

I'm the one who was meant for that hit.

I'm the one who's supposed to be dead…..

It was just another mission; a nearby planet had sent out a distress signal. It was fair enough, another day without a Galra attack then we would have become suspicious. The past few earth days have been full of training and team exercises so we were all really refreshed. The alarm went off and we all rushed to our lions, teasing and laughing on the way: we were ready for this.

We were down at this planet, pidge had landed aiming for the galra base to help the rebels hack into the Galra data base, Shiro went down with her to give her some cover. Hunk acted as a distraction (" Guuuuys come on! Why cant keith go?He's really fast and can dodge much better than I can.. Come on keith pleeeeeease ?"

"Sorry Hunk, no can do." keith smirked, with his adorable smirk, really sweet, playful smirk….)

Anyways, Hunk, Keith and I were all shooting at the galra mini ships as I like to call them. And they started to lead us out of the planet's atmosphere, we thought we were gaining on them so we speed up, cheering. We weren't gaining on them. We rushed towards the planets moons, there was three of them. As we raced around the second moon we saw them.

There were at least a thousand of them; it was a Galra fleet full of huge battle ships with laser guns and cannons. "Holy Quiznak!" i screamed.

"Retreat ! Retreat !" Keith shouted. But it was too late, they opened full fire on our lions and swarmed us. "AGH! Help ! Help! Mayday! Mayday!" Hunk yelled. "Hunk!" i cried out. He was spiralling out of control his lion heading towards the third grey moon. I tried to go after him but was cut off by another blast from the laser cannon of the Galra ship which was closing in from behind me. Soon there was a large wall of ships cutting keith and i off from the planet and Hunk. "Shit" muttered keith.

There was some more really close calls before the fatal shot. It came out of the corner of my eye. It was a beam of a laser heading straight towards me. "LANCE!"

Keith's lion crashed into me just before the beam hit me.

"AGHHGAHHHHNNNHHHAGHH"

"KEITH !"

I tried to steer my lion top try and help him but the cannon hit had over run my controls and we were spiralling out of control out into the nearby asteroid field.

"CRASH!"

Our Lions, tangled together had crashed onto a Large asteroid and the heads were wedged into this sort of cave. Blue's lights and controls were off, i tried to move some of the switches to see if there was any difference. There wasn't. Qiznak. Okay, Okay i took a deep breath, what do I do now? Think Lance, what do we do in training? Call for help, get all survivors together, find a way out. Easy…. Quiznak. Keith. I scrambled out of my lion, forcing open red's mouth; He was also not responding. I rushed to the cockpit and had to brace myself at the scene I saw. Keith was slumped, collapsed on the controls multiple gashes all over his body from the shattered screens. The smell of heated electricity still in the air. I rushed towards him, avoiding the wires bursting from Red's panels. I turn him over, begging, pleading for some sign of life.

He was breathing. Thank God. I looked around, it was obviously dangerous, a spark could cause a fire at any moment. I carefully cradled Keith in my arms and brought him into the kind-of cave. There was barely way out except a small gap just big enough for me to fit through, if I tried hard enough i was sure that i would be able to get us through.

"Shiro?" i call through the comms. There's a large crash and the light that is coming through small opening of the cave dims. Judging by the lack of concern coming from the approaching person it was safe to assume that wasnt a Paladin. I quickly grabbed Keith and brought him as far away from entrance as possible. "SHIRO!"

"Lan-...anc….? ….Are ….you..?"

"Shiro we need help! Keiths hurt and i don't know what to do! Shiro we need a healing pod stat!"

"..ance… bac..ship….op….ing.. po..tal...Wher…..you..?

"NO! Please!"

I Glance down at Keith. His eyes are half closed and glazed over. Fuck. no. please. "Keith! Keith come on Buddy! Please!"

"Lance?" it was a whisper, barely even a

gasp.

"Keith!" i sobbed "Hold on, just hold on please"

"Lance, it's okay"

"NO! It's not Okay! I can't just let you die!"

His face was raked in pain, blood was seeping through his injuries, slowly drenching his uniform. He gave a small sad smile, " I don't think you have a choice…"

There was tears pouring down my face, i couldn't control them, "I'm going to try." I promised. His eyes were closed his breathing heavy and laboured, barely there at all. "Keith! I promise do you hear me ?! I promised !"

There was silence.

No. Nononononononononoo. He was breathing just a few seconds ago. No. NO! please ….

" Shiro" I called, desperate.

" Help. Please…."

Before I could try again a voice was magnified through the cave, parts of the ceiling crumbled as it boomed out.

" BLUE PALADIN! YOU ARE ALONE. THE OTHER PALADINS HAVE FLED WITH THE ALTEAN SHIP." It echoed around the walls

"THE ONLY PALADIN YOU ARE LEFT WITH IS WOUNDED. ON THE TERMS OF YOUR SURRENDER AND COMPLETE COOPERATION WE SWEAR TO HELP THE RED PALADIN. YOU HAVE 1 OF YOUR EARTH MINUTES."