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Here is the next installment to Voltron New Beginnings......

I in no way own any of the original characters in this story and Voltron is the property of World Events Productions, ltd. (So nobody sue me okay ^^;;) The new characters on the other hand are mine and under no circumstances are they to be used without my permission.

Voltron New Beginnings

Chapter 2

By Cindra

Edited by Christina Bryan

Lotor laughed evilly as Lance, Hunk and Pidge were brought before him. Lance had been carried in on a stretcher and was out cold, Hunk seemed to be favoring his right leg, and Pidge was barely able to stand. "Strap them down onto those tables." He ordered his robot troops, "We're going to give them an electrifying experience!"

Cassie was now free of her cage and did not like what Lotor was about to do to our three brave Space explorers. "What are you going to do to them!" She all but screams in terror as the big menacing machine by the tables started to hum.

"Why give them a shock to their system, my dear." Lotor gave her an evil grin, "Haven't you ever heard of the phrase Shock Treatment."

"Monster!" She screamed at him, "I hope that my big brother kills you!" She turned towards the tables when she heard Lance cry out in sheer agony.

"Keith won't know what's hit him." Lotor sneered down at her, "When I'm through with him he'll be begging me to kill him."

"No!" Cassie cried and fell to her knees as tears began to stream down her face.

~~~

Koran and Keith eyed the screens in the Control Center, the team had not checked in for the last five hours. "Princess answer me!" Keith felt like he was going to go slowly insane, he had been trying to contact them for the last three hours and had yet to receive an answer from any of them. "Lance, Pidge, Hunk! Anyone? Answer me!"

Koran had been desperately trying to search out the Lions and was relived to finally find out the location of Blue Lion. "I've found Allura, Keith, she is just north of the Mountains." Koran sighed with relief.

"Activate the tram Koran. I'm going after her, maybe she wasn't captured." Keith snapped.

"Good Luck Keith."

Keith turned to look back at Koran, "Thanks, I'm going to need all of the luck that I can get. Don't worry Koran I'll bring them all back safe and sound."

~~~

Allura had finally managed to fix the Com in her lion and was desperately trying to get anyone to answer her. "Keith! Please answer me." She shouted into her Com.

"Allura?" Keith answered her in seconds.

"Keith!" She cried in relief finally letting go of her emotions.

"I'm here baby, where are the others?" Keith had landed his lion next to the crippled blue lion.

"They crashed somewhere in the mountains! It was a trap and I think that Lotor has them now." Allura was hurt, exhausted and on the verge of tears.

Keith entered her lion and was relived to find that she wasn't seriously injured. "Are you hurt, Allura?" He asked.

Allura tried to stand up and throw herself into his arms, but her hurt shoulder and ankle stopped her in mid-leap. "My shoulder is hurt and I think that I may have broken my ankle." She cried softly to him, as she tried keep up a brave front.

Keith set down his first aid kit and then knelt next to the princess. "It's okay love I'm here and I am going to take care of you." He placed a kiss on her forehead. "Now lets see what we can do for that sore shoulder of yours."

"Ouch! That hurt Keith!" She all but screamed in agony when Keith put her shoulder back into place.

"Sorry about that love, but doesn't your shoulder feel better than it did?" Keith eyed Allura worriedly.

"Yes," She whimpered shakily, "It's still a little sore, but I can move it now."

Keith smiled up at her in relief and impulsively kissed her on the nose. "Good, now let's see about that ankle."

"Do I get another kiss?" Allura teased as she tried to hide the pain that her hurt ankle was causing her.

"Sure, Sweetheart, if you still feel that way, after I fix up your ankle." Keith said as he began to check how badly she had injured her ankle.

"Well?" She winced in pain.

"It's just a sprain." He smiled up at her, before wrapping her injured ankle in an elastic bandage.

"Thank goodness." Allura sighed in relief, "I really thought that I had broken it."

"Try and see if you can walk on it." Keith helped her to her feet. Allura gritted her teeth as pain shot up her leg the instant that she put any weight on her injured ankle. "I'll be okay." She looked up at him and gave him her bravest smile.

"This will help ease any pain." Keith produced a lethal looking little syringe and a vial of painkiller from the first-aid kit. Allura would have leapt from the lion if her ankle had let her; instead she was reduced to limping as far away from that needle as possible. "Get that away from me!" She cried in terror, "I hate needles!"

"Come on, Allura, it won't hurt. " He soothed as he pursued his reluctant patient. "No, Keith, I mean it! Get that thing away from my arm!" she screamed as she backed into a corner of the lion.

"Look sweetheart, I am only doing this because you happen to be in a lot of pain. Now, stand still and let me help you." Keith ordered her softly.

"Okay," She said and squeezed her eyes shut as he gave her the painkiller.

"See nothing to it love, you can open your eyes now." He whispered into her ear. Allura shot into his arms and kissed him. "I love you so much."

"Later sweetheart, we have to go rescue the rest of the team." He muttered against her lips as she continued to attack him with kisses.

Allura blushed crimson and reluctantly pulled out of his arms; "Lotor set up some sort of magnetic field and that was why we all crashed."

"Then I guess we'll have to use the old mountain caves to get to where Lotor is holding the team hostage." Keith frowned, "Koran, this is Keith I need the plans to the mountain caves transferred to blue lion's computer."

Koran's image appeared of the small monitor in Allura's lion as soon as he heard Keith's request. "Why?"

"Because, Lance, Pidge, and Hunk were all captured by Lotor and I would rather go in unnoticed." Keith explained his plan.

"Understood, Keith, I am transmitting the plans to your computer as we speak. You do know that the mountain caves are said to be loaded with ancient traps don't you?"

"Don't worry Koran we'll be careful." Allura smiled at him.

"Are you alright child?" Koran asked her worriedly.

"I'm fine Koran."

"Keith?" Koran didn't believe the princess and needed to know if she was really okay from Keith.

"She's fine Koran, a little banged up, but otherwise Allura is fine." Keith appeased the man's worries.

"My plan is complete, if he tries to go into any of the passageways he will find that a fatal treat awaits him." Lotor was clearly enjoying the situation.

"You'll never succeed Lotor, Keith isn't that stupid." Hunk snarled at his captor and was given a shock for mouthing off to Lotor.

"He's right you monster!" Cassie glared at him as he continued to torture his prisoners. "My brother took you down once and he can take you down again."

Lotor stalked over to the princess and grabbed hold of a fist full over her long raven black hair, "If you don't shut up Cassandra, I will give you a taste of what those three are feeling. Do I make myself clear you highness!" Lotor snarled at her.

Cassie bit down on her lip so that she would not cry out in pain as he continued to pull on her hair. "Yes..." She whimpered. "Please don't pull on my hair anymore."

"That is more like it!" Lotor snarled down at her, "Now go over in that corner and stay away from those three space explorers."

~~~

Keith and Allura studied the map of the caves and began plan the rescue of their friends. "There that is the way that we'll go into the mountain caves." Keith stated as he pointed to a spot on the map.

"That hasn't been used for over a hundred years! Keith!" Allura moaned as she thought about all of the different creep crawly things that could be crawling all over those caverns.

"It's the only way, Allura. Look I am not that crazy about this situation either, but at least we have this map and we both know that Lotor is out for blood this time." Keith could feel his blood starting to boil, as he thought of what Lotor might be doing to his friends.

"What if he's killed them Keith..." Allura whimpered as she realized just how bad this situation actually was.

Keith turned around and stared down into Allura's eyes, "Then he dies." Keith snarled and they both entered the caves.

~~~

Lance slowly woke up and looked at his surroundings. His eyes were glued to the beautiful creature that was standing near him. "If I'm in heaven please don't wake me up." He whispered hoarsely.

"Shh....he'll hear you and hurt you with that awful machine again." Cassie whispered and walked over to push his hair from his face, revealing a very bruised but handsome face.

"Was I hearing things when Lotor called you Keith's sister?" Lance moaned in pain as he tried to move his body.

"Yes! Now lay still!" She hissed down at him when Lotor moved into view.

"Your beautiful." Lance moaned out loud what he was thinking to himself, now that his eyes were able to fully focus on Cassie. He figured that she had to be at least 5'10, her waist length raven black mane of hair had him itching to touch it. She had chocolate brown eyes (Keith's eyes) that showed pure intelligence, her facial features were flawless, as was her creamy ivory skin, and he couldn't help but notice that her figure was curved in all of the right places. *Yes* Lance thought to himself, she and Keith were defiantly siblings and like her brother she was up to something and was only waiting until the time was right.

"Your not so bad yourself." She winked down at him, but was back to acting like a scared princess as soon as Lotor approached her.

"I told you to stay away from him Cassandra!" Lotor snarled and yanked her away from Lance's torture table.

"Let go of me you fiend!" She cried out in fear on the verge of bursting into tears. "Patience my little pet or I will have to punish you." Lotor warned her and pulled her up against him.

"Let me go you monster!" She ordered and was thrown to the ground.

"Yes, for now princess." Lotor snarled and stalked out of the room.

"What are you trying to do! Get yourself killed!" Lance snarled wincing in pain as he tried to break free from his binds.

"Trust me I know what I'm doing, besides did you really think that I was a damsel in distress." Cassie smiled down at him.

"You and Keith really are related." Lance groaned and was rewarded with a soft kiss on his cheek.

~~~

"Keith?" Allura asked shakily, as she tripped on something.

"Yes," He answered her back.

"I think that I just tripped on something." She said.

"What!" He yelled and grabbing her arm, as he ran through the tunnels just as the wall closed in on their abandoned spot.

"I'm sorry!" She said shakily as he kept dragging her alone with him down the tunnel.

"That's okay, just try to be more careful!" He told softly.

"Keith!" She shouted.

"What!" He shouted back.

"Duck!" She screamed in terror as they hit the ground and crawled out of that part of the cave.

"Whew! That was close!" He sighed in relief and hugged her to him. "Now be careful." He snapped at her before they continued down the cavern.

"I am being careful!" She snapped back as shoved him out of her way.

"Allura! Stop!" Keith shouted at her.

"No! I will not stop, Keith. We are almost there." She snapped at him and turned to glare at him over her shoulder.

"But you don't understand!" Keith exclaimed and tackled her to the ground.

"YOU Beast!" Allura snarled at him in furry.

"Beast huh, Look at the wall brat." He snarled down at her and rolled so that she could see the far wall of the cavern where spears were embedded in the wall.

"Brat, Am I!" She snarled as she glared up at him.

"Shh....be quiet!" He hissed down at her. "We're here." He got them both up to their feet and the headed into the last part of the caves.

"Finally," She sighed in relief.

"I love you Allura." He whispered and then gave her a quick kiss.

"I love you too Keith." She smiled and kissed him back.

"Now, that we've made up. Let's go get back our team." He grinned at her and they began to place charges on the door to Lotor's hidden base.

~~~

Cassie was standing by the closed door and could hear the two of them directly behind it. "Finally," She sighed in relief, "Now to distract Lotor." She ran at him and began to scream at the top of her lungs, "I hate you Lotor!!!!!" She also reached for her hidden knife.

"Now, Now, mustn't hurt your host." Lotor scolded grabbing her arm in a bone crushing grip and the knife dropped to the ground. He laughed as she started to fight to get free and then bent to kiss her brutally on the mouth, just as the door blew open with a force so powerful that it rocked the entire base.

"Take that you creep!!" She punched him hard caroused his face and he fell to the ground clutching his jaw.

"Lance! Hunk! Pidge! Are you guys in here?" Keith shouted and got three weak responses.

"I'm just peachy." Pidge moaned.

"Never felt better." Hunk groaned.

"It's about time!!!" Lance snapped hoarsely then added, "But she got to Lotor first." He grinned at his friends.

"Who? What girl?" Keith and Allura both asked at the same time.

"Princess Cassandra!!" The three men snapped in unison.

"Cassie!!" Allura cried in relief and ran over to her friend. Not noticing that Lotor was no longer sprawled out on the ground.

"Allura!" Cassie gave her friend a big hug. "Who's the Hunk?" she teased her friend as she eyed Keith.

"Back off Cassie he's mine." She warned her friend.

"So that's Keith!" Cassie winked at her friend, "Good choice girl!"

Keith had been searching the room for Lotor and had finally spotted him, "Move out of the way!" He shouted and ignited his laser sword.

"Why? Lotor is out cold." Cassie glared at her brother.

"This is why you little fool." Lotor snarled into her ear as he grabbed both of them by the neck and began to move towards the torture machine.

"No!!! Keith!!" Pidge shouted at Keith, "He's going to kill us!!"

"Blow up the machine now Keith!!!" Lance ordered as Lotor finally reached the machine.

"Back off Lotor!!" Keith roared as he threw three grenades at the dreaded torture machine, just as Lotor hit the switch.

"No!!!!" The three cried out in agony as they felt the electric shocks beginning to go into them, fortunately for them the grenades destroyed the machine only seconds after the switch had been hit.

"Thanks a lot Keith!!" Lance moaned in pain as the binds on his table deactivated.

"Well, it was either that or having you three fry!!" Keith snarled back at Lance as he went to confront Lotor.

"You fool you've lost. I've got both girls and if you make one move I will break each of their pretty little necks." Lotor sneered at him.

"It's me that you want, so let them go." Keith snarled at his most hated enemy.

"Ouch!" Allura screamed as Lotor began to squeeze her neck.

"Princess!! Do the lance maneuver on three!" Hunk shouted earning a grin from Keith.

"One," Lance snapped.

"Two," Pidge echoed.

"Three!!" Hunk shouted.

"Now!!! Allura!!" Keith commanded and Lotor went flying over her shoulder landing at Keith's feet.

"How?!?" Lotor snarled as a sword was put against his neck.

"Allura knows how to fight." Keith snarled and pinned Lotor to the ground, with his sword dangerously close to Lotor's neck. Keith no longer had any control over his furry all he could see was a red haze.

"You can't kill me!!" Lotor taunted him, "Your too weak!!"

"Watch me!!" Keith snapped and raised his sword towards Lotor's neck.

"No!! Keith!! You can't kill him." Lance stumbled over to try and reason with his friend, but Keith ignored him and continued the path of his sword.

"Lotor, I am sick of you, your threats, Hagar, robeasts, and your obsession with my lover, this planet and your existence in general!!" Keith was clearly out of control.

"YOUR WHAT?!!!!!!" Lotor roared in furry and tried to break free.

"My lover!! She's mine Lotor in every way possible and she is going to marry me!!" Keith snarled.

"What?!? I'll kill you for this!! She is my destiny not yours, even if you are King Oron's son!!!" He spat in Keith's face.

"Your lying Lotor!!" Keith roared discarding the sword as he began to smash his fists against Lotor's face. "My family is dead and their is none alive that is related to me!!"

"Keith stop, your scaring me!" Allura screamed and tried to pull him off Lotor. "She's right Keith, he's not worth it!" Cassie cried while she and Allura pulled him off Lotor, who had just rolled over on Cassie's knife as he rolled away from Keith.

Koran and the Calvary arrived and Koran ordered them to seize Lotor.

"He's alive sir, but barely." One of the soldiers answered as they carried Lotor out of the room.

"Sir, we found a weapon on the floor and it looks like its some sort of knife." Another soldier reported and showed Koran the weapon." There also seems to be blood on it, did any of you get hurt?" The soldier turned to eye Keith and the others. "Did you say blood?" Cassie screamed and grabbed hold of Keith's arm.

"It's just a scratch Cassie, its not like I'm going to die." Keith glared at the hysterical female.

"Our father gave me that knife! It's got a special type of poison on the blade and our father is the only one with the antidote!" Cassie shouted at him.

"Our father...?" Keith moaned as he collapsed in Allura's arms.

"No, Keith!" Allura screamed in terror when he wouldn't wake up.

"Oh well here we go again." The three friends groaned and raced Keith back to the place.

~~~TO BE CONTIUED IN CHAPTER 3~~~

Well????????

How did ya like that chapter? Don't ya just love how I always seem to leave my chapters in some sort of cliff hanger....^^

Tell me what you think of this chapter and if you must flame me try and be gentle.^^::

I really want to hear what you think about my story and any ideas are definitely welcome!!

Will Lance fall for Princess Cassandra? Will Keith get the antidote in time....?

Find out this and more in chapter three!!

See ya

Cindra