Voltron New Beginnings
Chapter 15 Part one
"Girl Power!"
By: Cindra
Edited by: T-bryd
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Keith and Allura suddenly find that two tiny intruders have invaded their room. Who have come searching for their parents.
"Huh?" Keith groaned rolling over onto his stomach, his arm hung over the side of the bed, as a little body brushed by his hand.
"Dada!" Tony squealed pulling on Keith's dangling fingers.
"Who ever that is I want you to go away or face dire consequences." Keith growled at the intruder not bothering to open up his eyes.
"Da!" Tony answered his father's threat by pulling even harder on his hand.
"I said go away!" Keith snarled in his sleep.
"Mama." Tony babbled over at his brother who was pulling on a lock of Allura's long hair that like Keith's hand was also dangling off the side of the bed.
"Ow!" She mumbled in her sleep and jabbed Keith in the arm, "Stop pulling on my hair!"
"What?" Keith yawned and rubbed his swore arm, "I wasn't pulling on your hair.
"Then who was?" Allura asked and tried to sit up in bed, unfortunately someone had a death grip on her hair. "Ouch! Let go!" She winced in pain.
"Mama." Came a cheerful greeting from Drew and she glanced down to see her nine-month-old son smiling his one tooth grin at her.
"How did you get in here?" Allura smiled down at him and scooped him up in her arms. "You will teeth on anything won't you little guy." Drew was happily munching on her hair.
"Da!" Drew reached out towards Keith's sleeping form.
"Here you go, angel, now wake up Daddy." She set him down onto Keith's back.
"Hey! What's the big idea?" Keith growled reaching behind him to see who was attacking him and found that Drew was the attacker. "Well hello there little guy, where is you brother?" Keith yawned sleepily.
"Dada!" Tony wailed in frustration when Keith's arm had not reappeared by the bed.
"What's wrong Tony?" Keith asked his very angry son and scooped him up into his arms.
"Darling I think that these two need to be changed." Allura yawned sleepily and then fell back to sleep.
"Okay Ally, you get Drew and I will get Tony." Keith glanced down at his sleeping wife. "Allura?" He asked softly.
"Hmm?" She answered sleepily.
"Never mind." Keith sighed and got up out of bed to go change his son's diapers. "Well guys it looks like it's just you and me." Keith slept walked towards the nursery.
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(Elsewhere in the castle)
Lance and Cassie are enjoying a rare quiet moment alone together in their room.
"Lance?" Cassie purred in his ear, as he trailed kisses down her throat.
"Hmm?" He growled against her throat.
"Isn't it nice just to be alone like this." She sighed happily.
"Very." He growled.
"Do you regret having little Matthew?"
"Cassie, I love you and our son and have never been happier in my entire life." Lance frowned up at her. "Why did you even ask me something like that?"
"Oh I was just curious." Cassie answered her eyes giving her away.
"Cassie? What aren't you telling me?" Lance eyed her suspiciously his eyes never leaving her own.
"Nothing Lance, I just wanted to know." She smiled up at him. "Now where were we?" She pulled him down to her for a long kiss.
"This isn't going to work Cassie. I will find out what's going on eventually." Lance growled breaking off their kiss. "Now tell me why you asked me that question."
"It was silly, Lance, so just forget about it." She ran her nails down his back.
"Cassandra behave and talk to me or I will be forced to take drastic measures." He was really worried that something was wrong.
"Lance, nothing is wrong now shut up and make love to me." She purred and ran her toe up and down his bare thigh.
"Alright Cassie, but I warned you." He growled and then attacked her in a tickling frenzy.
"Lance! Stop it!" She was laughing so hard that she could hardly breath, but he continued his attack.
"Not until you tell me what you're hiding from me." He growled down at her.
"Nothing!" She gasped.
"Liar!" He accused finding another very ticklish spot.
"Please!" She begged for mercy.
"Spill it Cass! What are you hiding?" He growled.
"I'm pregnant!" She shouted and the tickling ceased.
"Say that again." Lance growled hoarsely staring at her in total surprise.
"I'm pregnant Lance." She answered softly.
"Another baby?" Lance whispered in awe at the thought of holding a miniature version of Cassie in his arms.
"Yes, darling are you happy about this?" She asked quietly.
"How far along are you?" He asked his voice hoarse with emotion.
"Just a few weeks." She frowned at him, "Are you happy about this?"
"Cassie." Lance was dead serious now and so was the look that he was giving her.
"Yes Lance." She whimpered.
"I love you and couldn't be happier that you are going to have another baby." He smiled at her, " Now what do ya say we celebrate." He pulled her into his arms.
"I'm so happy Lance." She wrapped her arms around him and kissed him.
"So am I sweetheart, now less talk and more action." He grinned down at her and then attacked.
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"I don't care what Mommy and Daddy say! I am not going to spend my whole summer at Grandma and Grandpa's!" She muttered to herself as she sat brooding on the castle lawn glaring up at the early morning sky.
"Why the very thought of seeing that creep Eric again makes me want to throw up!"
Bandit barked at his mistress and rolled around on the soft grass.
"Why me Bandit? Why not just send Alex and Ariel!" She groaned falling back against the lawn that was missed with morning dew.
Bandit merely wagged his tail in support.
"Oh Bandit! I am doomed to spend the summer with my sisters! I'll die of boredom!" She wailed and began pounding her fists against the grass. "All I want to do is practice-flying Blacky this summer! I don't want to humor my Grandparents!"
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"There you go Drew nice and dry, just like your brother." Keith yawned and looked out the nursery window. "Now you two stay put in your cribs." He ordered the now sleeping babies and quietly left the room to go find out why his nine-year-old daughter was throwing a temper tantrum outside on the castle lawn.
"Allura I will be right back." Called softly to his sleeping wife.
"What's wrong now Keith?" Allura moaned half asleep.
"Nothing darling, go back to sleep." He groaned looking longingly at the bed.
"Come back to bed as soon as you can." She called sleepily.
"I will. I promise." He answered softly then went to go throttle Andromeda.
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"Alex wake up!" Ariel hissed into her sister's ear.
"Go away!" Alex snarled angrily in her sleep.
"No! Alex wake up!" Ariel gave her sister's body a good shake.
"Ariel leave me alone!" She warned sleepily and opened on eye to glare at her.
"Dromi isn't in her room!" Ariel hissed.
"So! What so you want me to do about it!" She snapped and then rolled onto her stomach in an attempt to go back to sleep.
"What if she ran away!" Ariel hissed worried about her baby sister.
"Ariel she probably went somewhere to scream. You know how she feels about this trip to Grandma and Grandpa's!" She snarled at her.
"She took Bandit with her!"
"Bandit is her shadow, Ariel. Now go back to bed." She begged.
"Fine! But think that I'm going to take the blame for this if Mom and Dad find her missing. " She went to leave her sisters room.
"One of these days Andy! You will find that Ari and I won't be there to get you out of these stupid messes!" Alex got out of bed pulled on her robe and slept walked out of her room.
"Alex! I knew that you couldn't let Andy get into trouble!" Ariel grinned at Alex as they went in search of their baby sister.
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Keith stalked over to his nine and a half-year-old child who had no idea that her father was near by.
Bandit barked excitedly at Keith thumping his heavy tail against the wet grass.
"Bandit! Will you be quiet! You are going to wake up the whole castle!" Andy hissed her command at her dog.
"It's a little to late for that, princess." Keith growled softly scaring her out of her skin.
"Daddy!" She squeaked, "What brings you out here this early in the morning?" She frowned up at him. *Man does he look steamed at me!*
"Oh nothing Andromeda Marie, I love getting up at the crack of dawn. Now would you mind telling me why you are out here throwing a temper tantrum and not inside in bed in your room where you belong!" He barked tiredly at his daughter.
"I'm not going Daddy! And that's final!" She glared up at him.
"Don't you start with me Andy!" He snapped clearly not in the mood to start this argument with her again.
"I'm not starting anything! I am not going!" She yelled at him.
"Look Andromeda! We have been through this a hundred times! You and your sisters are going to be spending the entire summer with you grandparents!" He snarled down at her.
"That is what you think!" She muttered under her breath.
"You really are pushing it young lady! Now you are going and that is final!" Keith roared down at his child daring her to disagree with him.
"This is not fair Daddy! I'll be bored to death!" She screamed at him in frustration tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Fine Andy! You win! You are not going to visit my parents this summer!" He had an even better form of punishment in mind for his little shadow.
"I'm not?" She whimpered.
"No you are not. You will be spending the entire summer with your Grandfather Edwards on Earth." Keith face went from a scowl to a smile at the look of horror that his child was giving him.
"NO!" She cried in sheer panic. "Anything but that! Eric is staying with grandfather!" She wailed in protest.
"Is he really? Well then you won't be bored now will you." Keith smiled down at her.
"Why Grandpa's? What am I going to do there?" She frowned at him.
"You will be spending some time with the General." He frowned down at her, "Now lets go Andy. Back to bed."
"Why are you doing this to me, Daddy?" She sobbed as her father pulled her to her feet.
"You, little shadow, seem to have acquired a chip on your shoulder and if anyone can mold you into a better person then it's the General." Keith tried to be patient with her.
"I don't have a chip on my shoulder! I just know that I'm good." She sassed
"Let me explain something to you young lady, you have no control over you actions, you can't control your temper, you don't listen to anything anyone tells you to do, and you don't seem to care about anything except what you want to do. That is going to end up getting you killed one of these days and I am not going to allow that to happen." He picked her up in his arms so that she was looking at him while he was talking to her.
"So you are shipping me off to Grandpa's to learn to control my actions, temper, and to learn to follow orders?" She screeched at him in fury.
"Andromeda Marie Edwards! If you ever want to fly any of the lions, you will stop this and do exactly as I say! Do I make myself clear!" He roared down at her.
"Put me down!" She screamed at him and tried to wriggle free of her father's hold on her.
"Shut up Andy! Or so help me I will give you your first spanking!" He snarled down at her. *Don't push me little one or you won't be able to sit down for a week*
"I've never been spanked!" She glared at him.
"There is a first time for everything." He warned her.
"I'll tell Mommy if you spank me!" She snapped back.
"I don't care Andy and when your mother hears how you have been acting then she will yell at you and spank you to!"
"I don't think that you could spank me Dad." She challenged him with her eyes.
"That does it Andy! This is for your own good." He carried her into the sunroom, sat down and then positioned her over his knee.
"No! Daddy, please!" She wailed in protest.
"Sorry, Andy, but you really asked for this and I did warn you." He gave her her first spanking.
"Owy!" She cried in pain, "I hate you Daddy!" She wailed at him as he carried her back to her room.
"I know you think that you hate me angel, but you were asking for it." He cuddled her in his arms.
"I'm not going Daddy. I'll find a way out of this." She muttered to herself.
"I heard that young lady. Now you are grounded until you and I leave for your grandfather's." He entered the private wing of the castle and ran into her sisters. "Any why are you two awake?" He glared at them.
"We were worried about Andy, Daddy." Alex blinked innocently up at him.
"Why are you carrying Andy? Did she get hurt? Is that why she's crying?" Ariel frowned at her father.
"No Ariel, I just gave your sister her first spanking and you will also get the same treatment if the two of you don't go back to your rooms now!" He growled down at them with silent fury.
"Jeez! Daddy! We were only worried about Andy and the fact that she is doing everything in her power not to spend the summer with grandma and grandpa." Alex frowned at her father.
"Well, she is fine and she is not going to go with you and Ariel to Ziare." Keith felt a major head ache beginning to build in his head.
"She isn't going!" Alex and Ariel cried out in unison looking at each other and then at their father as if he had lost his mind.
"No, instead she will be spending the summer with your Grandfather Edwards." Keith frowned at them.
"But why did you change your mind? Does mother know?" Alex asked softly.
"Because, unlike the two of you, Andy has been spending every waking hour of her free time working towards one goal and she needs to be with her grandfather who can keep her going towards the right path." Keith yawned tiredly.
"What exactly do you think that Alex and I have been doing!" Ariel snapped at her father.
"This is different, Ariel. The two of you have to know how to defend yourselves in any situation. While Andy is gifted with my abilities, this is why she needs this special training." He hastily explained to his fuming daughters.
"So she is the gifted one and we are her what? Side kicks?" Ariel fumed at her father.
"No, that is not what I meant, Ariel." Keith groaned in frustration, "You, Ariel, are gifted with patience and understanding. While Alexandra is gentle, kind and a natural leader just like her mother."
"And what may I ask is Andy?" Alex hissed at him.
"Andy is a mixture of both your mother and myself. That means that she has a harder time adjusting to everything around her." Keith tried to explain.
"Well, Daddy, the person in question is sound asleep." Ariel pointed to her sleeping sister.
"Well I'll be damned." Keith shook his head in disbelief.
"Daddy must you swear." Alex scolded him.
"Sorry, angel, but your Daddy is in desperate need of some sleep." Keith yawned.
"It's okay, Daddy, we will sleep in Andy's room so that we can keep an eye on her. Now set her down on her bed and go get some sleep." Ariel ordered her father.
"Thank you sweetie, I'll do that now all of you try and get some sleep." He tucked them in.
"We love you daddy." The two girls called softly.
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(Planet Earth a few hours later)
Michael ended his call with Keith and went to wake up Eric and Nate. "Nathan! Eric! Rise and shine you have class at 0800! Now move your tails!" he barked into the house intercom.
"Five more minutes please." Eric groaned into his intercom.
"I'm up already!" Nathan snarled into his intercom.
"There has been a change in plans and my Granddaughter is spending the summer with me and I expect you guys to be a good influence on her." The General informed the two teens.
"Yeah, yeah Dromi is coming." Eric muttered sleepily and then sat straight up in bed. "What do you mean by the entire summer! She was only suppose to be here for another five weeks!" Eric was not pleased.
"Change of plans Eric, it looks like she is staying with me all summer." The General chuckled when Eric howled in protest.
"Hey Eric, don't panic you haven't seen her in four years, she could have changed by now." Nathan stumbled into the hallway and headed towards the bathroom and the shower.
"Not true. I have spies back home and all of them say that she's just like her Dad." Eric groaned.
"What's wrong buddy? Are you scared of an almost ten year old girl?" Nathan shouted at his taunt from the bathroom.
"Well at least I don't write to a ten year old every single day. Like some kind of love sick idiot!" Eric shouted back.
"At least Ariel is a normal nine and a half year old girl and not a loaded weapon waiting to go off!" Nathan snarled.
"Listen to me Nathan Scott! I have no feelings for Andy! I am not afraid of her nor do I like her! So I suggest that you drop this subject before I have to hurt you!" Eric roared at the bathroom door.
"I'm glad that you feel that way son, because she will be your shadow for the entire summer." The General was standing directly behind him.
"No! Way! There is no way that she is going to be my shadow!" Eric bellowed angrily turning to glare at the General.
"This is not up for discussion young man. You are at the top of your class at the academy and she is not your ordinary nine year old girl." Michael glared at him.
"No kidding considering who her parents are." Eric muttered under his breath.
"Yes, well Andy is now nine and by the time she reached ten will have reached her fathers level of skill when he was first brought here after the crash." He continued to explain to the teen.
"Are you saying that she's a lethal weapon at nine and a half years old?" Eric groaned in disbelief.
"Yes, I guess that she could be called that and Keith is sending her here to learn some discipline, so that she can control herself in case she ever gets herself into trouble." The General explained.
"Who would want to kidnap Andy?" Eric looked at him as if he were nuts.
"Yeah, who would even want to try and kidnap the little pain." Nathan said sarcastically.
"Let's just say that if any of her father's enemies find catch the news that any of the girls are going to be off planet that they would be after them in a second." He frowned at the two boys.
"Don't worry sir, I will keep Andy safe." Eric promised him.
"Why do you think that I want her to be your shadow for the summer." Michael smiled at him.
"Eric? I thought that you didn't care about Andromeda." Nathan teased.
"Nathan if you don't shut up! I am going to deck you!" Eric growled clenching both of his hands in fists.
"What's the matter Eric? Did I hit a nerve?" Nate continued to taunt his angry friend.
"I'm warning you Nathan! Shut up!" Eric snarled.
"And if I don't?" He challenged his friend.
"Then you will have matching black eyes!" Eric connected his fist to Nate's face.
"Ouch! That's it Lawson you are so dead!" Nate launched himself at Eric.
"Boys! Stop this at once!" The General roared and separated them. "Now this kind of fighting will not be tolerated! Now! Drop and give me 100 push ups!"
"Awe man!" The two teenagers groaned in unison and proceeded to do as he ordered.
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"Keith! Andromeda is not spending the summer with your father at the Galaxy Alliance Academy and that is final!" Allura glared at her husband as she dressed for the day.
"This is not up for debate Allura! You have got to accept that Andy has been gifted with my abilities and needs to be handled differently than her sisters!" Keith was not in the mood to argue with his wife.
"She is nine and a half years old Keith! Why can't this wait until she reaches her teens!" Allura wailed in frustration.
"Because, she refuses to wait until she reaches her teens! She needs the influence of another kind and my Dad can provide that influence." Keith downed two pain pills for her headache.
"You promised me that we would let Andy decide for herself whether she wants to follow in your foot steps or not! That she would have a normal childhood with no pressure from any of us!" She was furious that he had made this decision with out consulting her first.
"Allura, our little shadow is not your normal nine year old and ever since she could crawl has had one goal in mind. That is to fill her Daddy's shoes!" Keith needed for her to trust him on this one decision. "She's good, Allura, in fact she is better than I was at her age and needs some new kind of influence over her. She gets away with everything here and she needs to learn that she can't always have her way and needs to learn to follow orders. Now do you understand why I need you to back me up on this one?"
"She is still a little girl and even though she doesn't show it, the most sensitive and vulnerable one out of our three girls. I just don't think that she is ready to play with the big boys yet." Allura whimpered in defeat.
"Sweetheart, Andy could seriously injure most of the big boys." Keith pulled her to him for a hug. "Look I know what you are trying to say, but she feels like she is a match for me and if we don't act quickly on this situation she will be impossible to control."
"How did you manage to live through this when you were her age?" She whimpered against his chest.
"I was a really cocky little kid, until the General got a hold of me and taught me some discipline and self control." Keith grinned down at her.
"I bet that you were adorable." Allura teased him.
"Are you kidding? I was a little monster." Keith chuckled in remembrance.
"So this is kind of like looking in the mirror for you isn't it?" Allura grinned at him.
"Yes and it scares the hell of me." Keith groaned.
"She really is wild isn't she?" Allura sighed.
"What she has is an attitude problem."
"And you think that this attitude might get her killed someday."
"Yes I do, Ally." He frowned.
"Then it is settled. Andy will visit the General for the summer and then spend a few weeks with your parents in the fall." She smiled up at him, "And her sisters will join her on earth in a months time."
"Why a month Ally? I was just going to have them stay with my parents the entire summer." Keith arched a brow in inquiry at his wife.
"Because, they are triplets and believe it or not they will start to miss each other. After all, they haven't been separated ever and this will be a major change for them." Allura explained.
"Do you think that Alex and Ariel will be jealous that their baby sister is getting all of this special attention?" Keith frowned.
"Trust me darling I know what I am doing." She kissed him and then breezed out of their room in search of her daughters.
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"Andrew! Get out of my toy box!" Andy picked him up in her arms. "Now be a nice little brother and give your big sister back her toy lion."
"Mine!" He chimed hugging the robot to him.
"Oh no, little Bro, that." She explained and pointed at the huge robot lion in the distance. "Is most certainly mine."
"No! Mine!" He squealed in protest.
"Okay little Bro lets compromise. You can have the toy lion and I will take the real one sitting out there." She frowned down at him.
"Mine!" He grinned with his only tooth grin at her.
"Yes the toy is yours." She laughed at him and lifted him higher in the air.
"Wee!" He squealed happily.
"Your cute little bro." She laughed and blew kisses on his belly. "I'll miss you while I'm away."
The little boy happily gave her a slobber kiss on the cheek.
"Andy! Will you please get Tony off of my leg!" Alex wailed shaking her leg and glared down at her baby brother.
"He likes you Alex. That is his way of showing how he feels." Ariel grinned.
"Well I wish that he didn't like me! This is so embarrassing!"
"Just pry him off Alex and then let him crawl away." Andy tried not to laugh.
Do you think that I haven't tried that! He just crawls back and clings to my leg again!" She glared at her sister who was now rolling around on her bed with laughter.
"Calm down Alex. I'll get him off of you." Ariel reached into Andy's toy box and pulled out another one of Andy's black lion toys.
"Mine!" Tony released his hold on Alex's leg and made a dash for the toy.
"Thank you Ariel!" Alex hugged her sister.
"Thanks a lot Ariel! Now both of them want Black Lion!" Andy groaned and set Drew down next to his twin. The two boys immediately compared toys and began to babble at each other.
"Face it Andy. When these two get older they are going to want to fly Daddy's lion." Ariel grinned.
"By that time Daddy's lion will already be mine." She smiled at them.
"No, Andy, Eric will be flying Black Lion and you will be flying Mom's." Alex grabbed Ariel and ran from the room before Andy could comment on what she had just said.
"Not if I can help it." She stared out her window and gazed longingly at the lion.
"What did you mean by that angel?" Allura walked into her daughter's room.
"Nothing mom." Andy answered innocently.
"Now you can tell me anything, sweetie, is that what you were referring to?" She asked pointing at the lion from the window in Andy's room.
"I just want to fly it so badly Mom and no one seems to care how I feel." She looked up at her mother with her big emotional amber brown eyes.
"I know how hard it is for you baby, but it isn't easy filling your fathers shoes and no one seems here expects you to. Do you understand what I am trying to tell you Andy?" She asked and began to brush her daughter's hair.
"I want to fill Daddy's shoes Mommy, by its kind of hard to be taken seriously when you are my age." She pouted.
"We do take you seriously honey. It's just that it is really hard for me to accept that you will someday fill your fathers shoes." Allura began braiding Andy's hair.
"Mom, I think that it's a little late for someday. I am already almost at his level of martial arts and the rest just comes natural to me." She frowned at her Mom when Allura looked like she was on the verge of panicking. "I think that Daddy is right, that I need to hone my skills and learn to make them work for me in situations, instead of work against me." She added in her best adult tone of voice.
"Well, your father and I agree that you need to spend some time with your Grandfather Edwards." She hugged her child fiercely
"Does that mean that I have to be nice to Eric?" She pouted up at her mother.
"Yes it does Andromeda, I expect you to be on your very best behavior." She ordered lifting Andy's chin so that she was looking up at her.
"Yes, mother, I promise." She smiled innocently up at her, but crossed her fingers behind her back.
"Andromeda." Her mother warned sternly. "I mean it. You are to be nice to him and that is final."
"I promise that I will be a very well behaved girl and listen to everything that Grandpa tells me." She blinked up at her.
~~~
"What is my favorite enemy up to these days?" Rand growled and read his informants report from his high security cell.
"So his daughters will be spending their summer here on Ziare and without the company of their parents." Rand grinned and looked at the guard that was guarding his cell.
"How old are the little brats?" He growled.
"They are almost ten." The guard grinned at him and then handed a holo photo of the girls.
"What's this? The dark hared one seems to have inherited her old mans abilities!" He crushed the photo in his fist.
"So it seems." The guard growled and handed him some more holo-photo's.
"The other's are being trained as well? No matter we shall see just how good his children really are." Rand laughed evilly.
"Do you really want to make Keith any angrier than he already is? Or do you actually like having your knees replaced with artificial ones?" The guard smirked.
"One more word like this and you will find yourself dead." Rand growled.
~~~
"Dad are you sure that Rand and his goons are still locked up at that high security prison? Keith was not about to let his children go stay with their grandparents unless they were going to be safe.
"Relax, son everything is fine. Nothing is going to happen and they will be perfectly fine. Besides Andy can more than protect her sisters from anyone that tries to harm them." Oran tried to convince his son that he was worrying over nothing.
"Uh Dad? Andy isn't coming with here sisters." Keith winced when his father glared at him.
"And why may I ask is that?" Oran was not pleased that his Andy wasn't coming for a visit.
"She needs to visit the General for a while." Keith growled.
"So she's getting that good huh son?" Oran grinned enjoying the fact that his son was now getting a taste of what he had put him through when he was her age.
"Was I really that much of a pain?" Keith gave his father a guilty look.
"Yes son you were." He nodded in remembrance.
"I'm sorry Dad."
"It's alright son, now that you actually understand what you put us through."
"She really did want to come with her sisters. It's just that if she doesn't get the General's influence soon even I won't be able to control her." Keith raked his fingers through his hair in frustration.
"I understand Keith. God only knows what might have happened if you hadn't had the General's guidance." Oran didn't even want to think of what might have happened.
"Yeah, I bet that I would have made Lotor and Rand look like a couple of sissy's.' Keith grinned.
"Don't even say things like that!" Oran groaned.
"The girls will be arriving in a few hours. Lance is bringing them. I think that I will let Andy fly Black lion on the way to Earth." Keith laughed at his fathers horrified expression. "Don't worry, Dad, I will be with her as her co-pilot."
"She'll be fine son and so will your other two angels." Oran reassured him one more time before ending the call.
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(Earth a few hours later)
"Are you feeling a little nervous Eric?" Nathan grinned at his friend as Black lion landed perfectly on the landing pad.
"Me nervous? Why would I be nervous? She is just your normal nine year old, crowned princess ninja." He muttered under his breath, as a figure appeared out if the head of the lion. "Would you look at that." Eric gaped in shock as Andy made her entrance by doing a triple flip from the top of the lion landing perfectly in front of him.
"How is that for a perfect three point landing." Andy toke her helmet off and shook her main if raven black curls free, completely unaware that she was actually a very beautiful young girl.
"Hi Nate!" She gave him a big hug.
"Hey there brat! That was some landing that you just made." Nate playfully ruffled her hair.
"Oh it's you Eric." She didn't so much as even give him a second look, before turning to meet her father who was talking to the General.
"Hello, Dromi, it's good to see you. Did your Daddy let you fly him or did you have to get down on your needs and beg?" He kept a tight smile on his face and tried not to grind his teeth.
"At least I got to fly him and that is something that you have yet to do." She snapped at him now in her ice princess mode.
"Andy, be nice." Keith hissed at her and then threw the key to his lion at Eric. "Go show me how good you can fly that lion." He ordered the teen and tried not to laugh when Eric jumped into the air.
"Yes!" He shouted with glee.
"NO!" Andy wailed in protest. "Daddy! How could you do this to me! He's the Compton!" She screamed at her father.
"Andromeda Marie! That is enough! Eric has every right to fly that lion, after all he is training to be the next Captain of the Lion force Voltron team." Keith grabbed her before she could pull her usual vanishing act.
"That's not fair, Daddy! This is my birthright that you are talking about! Blacky should be mine and not his!" She screamed at her father in frustration.
"Andromeda? Do you ever want to be a member of the next generation of the Voltron Force?" Keith roared down at her.
"Yes, Daddy!" She sniffled looking up at her father's furious face.
"Then stop this at once! You are not acting like my daughter! You are acting like a spoiled brat! Now calm down and show these people how nice and calm you can be." Keith knelt down next to his child and tried to reason with her.
"You mean that you don't trust me to lead Voltron?" She whimpered her big amber brown eyes instantly pooled with unshed tears.
"No, Andromeda, I don't and if you don't learn how to control your temper then I don't want you to ever fly any of the lions." Keith's face remained emotionless, but deep down his heart was breaking into a million pieces.
"I hate you, father." Andy hissed her voice laced with ice. "And I would like for you to go back home now." She then pulled her vanishing act in front of everyone.
"She hates me, Dad. I know that I did the right thing, but it feels like someone just ripped my heart out." He now had tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Man, Keith, I'm sorry." Jeff placed a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Yeah, buddy, she's just angry right now." Mark growled.
"You had to do it son, she gave you no other choice." The General frowned at his son.
*Awe man! She looked so heart broken! Why does she have to make this so difficult?*
"I didn't want it to end up like this. I have to have a talk with her." Eric jumped down from the lion and handed the key back to her father."I gave you a direct order Cadet! Now go fly that lion!" Keith barked at him.
"But sir! Andy is more important than flying that lion!" Eric glared at Keith. *Jeez, what is his problem!*
"She is not yours to be concerned about! Now move it Cadet Lawson!" Keith dared the kid to disobey him.
"Yes sir!" Eric stood at attention and then saluted him, "Permission to speak frankly sir." Eric snarled at him.
"What is it Cadet." Keith snarled.
"I don't know what the hell is going on between you and Dromi, but you aren't even giving her a chance to prove herself and one more thing about my not concerning myself with your daughter. Need I remind you that I was the one that saved that little pains life and that gives me every right to care about what happens to her. She is my friend and you had just better get used to the idea! " Eric then jumped back into the lion and took off.
"I need a drink." Keith groaned as he looked up watching Eric fly his pride and joy.
"Now Keith, lets not take this to far. You haven't gotten wasted since that time when Kari almost got all of us killed. " Mark growled.
"Besides that Allura would kill you." Jeff reminded him.
"I don't really give a damn! And never say that name to me again!" Keith roared at his friends. "Look, Dad, if he survives the summer with my daughter then he has my okay to lead the next team." He took one more look at Eric flying his lion and then vanished in front of their eyes.
"See you later Uncle Michael, we have to chaperon our friend." Jeff headed for his air car.
"Why do these things always happen to Keith." Mark took off after Jeff.
~~~
"So the little one doesn't like her Daddy." Rand grinned evilly.
"No in fact she said that she hated him in front of everyone." The guard informed him.
"She's perfect, a child after my own heart." He laughed evilly. "Have my little brother escape and then tell the others that it is time to break out of our maximum security cage."
The guard left him and went to prepare for his bosses escape.
"Soon Keith your precious daughters will be all mine and there is nothing that you will be able to do about it." Rand threw a star at a blown up picture of Keith hitting him right between the eyes.
~~~
"Andromeda Marie Edwards open this door please." Keith growled softly when he appeared at the General's residence instead of the bat that his body was screaming for so that he could drown away his problems.
"Go away, father, haven't you humiliated me enough for one day?" She shouted back.
"Don't make me open this door myself young lady!" Keith roared he was barely holding his temper in check.
*Leave me alone Daddy!*
"There!" She shouted opening her door glaring at her father her face was stained with angry tears. "Happy now!" She sassed."No young lady I am far from being happy! Now go over there and sit down while you and I have a talk." He pointed to the window seat and ordered her to go sit down.
"I think that you and I have said enough for one day!" She glared at him.
"Move it, Andromeda, or you will receive your second spanking!" Keith barked at her.
"As you wish your Royal Highness sir!" She stalked over to the window seat and sat down.
Keith took several deep-calming breaths before he walked over to where his daughter was sitting. "Now I want you to explain to me the reason why you are so jealous of Eric Lawson." He sat down next to her and set her in his lap. \
"You already know why I hate Eric, Daddy." She snapped at her father.
"No I don't Andromeda, so why don't you answer the question. Why are you so jealous of Eric?" He frowned down at her, "Is he better than you?"
"Eric? Better than me, only in his dreams and then I'd still beat him." She looked at her father as if he had finally lost it. *Eric? Better than me, not in this lifetime!*
"Then what are you so afraid of little shadow?" Keith continued his line of questioning.
"I am not afraid of anything Daddy." She snapped.
"Not true angel, in fact I think that you are afraid that there is this slim chance that Eric might actually be your equal."
*Now he's saying that Eric could be my equal!*
Andy fumed to herself. * How can he be saying this to me!*"Do you want to know what I think Andromeda?" He continued to taunt his child.
"Not really Daddy, but I know that you are going to tell me any way." She glared up at him knowing in her heart what he was about to tell her.
"I truthfully believe that Cadet Eric Lawson is your equal and that the very idea scares you out of your skin." He grinned down at her horrified face.
*He's wrong! He has to be wrong! He can't be my equal! He just can't be!*
You are so wrong Daddy." She whimpered her denial."Am I?" He asked.
"Yes you are. I mean how can you say something like that to me, when you haven't even seen him fight yet!" She screeched at him and became even more furious when her father started to laugh at her.
"Yes I have Andromeda. If you fought fairly in a match with him, the outcome would end up being a stale mate." He informed her.
"Well, he hasn't completed shadow warrior training, so there is no way that he could possibly be my equal."
"True, but he is a fourth degree black belt and with out your other abilities so are you." He shot back.
"What's your point Daddy." She sighed she was tired of this conversation. "If he is my equal then what makes him the future leader of Voltron and not me?" She asked softly.
"Eric has control over his emotions and sweetheart that is the key to being the leader of any group. You see, angel, you can't win any battles unless you have control over your actions." He was surprised when she gave him a big hug.
"I try Daddy, but I don't have any control over my temper and that scares me sometimes." She burst into tears sobbing against his chest.
"I know you do baby, that's why you are here to learn how to control your emotions and when you do learn some kind of control we will talk about you maybe even co-leading Voltron." He rocked her in his arms.
"I'll miss you Daddy." She sniffled.
"I'll miss you to baby. Now promise me that you'll try and get a long with Eric." He kissed the top of her head.
"I'll try Daddy. I promise."
"Believe it or not little one, but that young man can teach you a lot if you take the time to listen and get to know him. " He cradled her in his arms.
"Yeah Andromeda, give me a chance. I only want you to be my friend. Just think of me as a big brother." He was standing in the open doorway.
"How long have you been standing there?" Andy frowned at him.
"Oh, long enough to know that you happen to be jealous of me." He grinned when she denied that she was jealous of him. "Look let's make a deal. I'll try and teach you some self control, if you teach me how you vanish like you did a little while ago." He took a step towards her, but Andy didn't budge from her place on her father's lap.
"But if I teach you how to vanish then you'll be my..." She refused to say the word.
"Equal Andy. Come on you can say it. Equal." He grinned at her red-faced expression.
"You'll be my equal." She muttered darkly daring him to day anything.
"Well if you feel that way about me, then I won't give you my peace offering." He chuckled when she gave him a wary look.
"Peace offering?" She frowned.
"Yes Dromi, a very large and furry peace offering." He grinned when a huge snow-white feline padded into the room and sat down beside Eric her loud purr sounded like a small motor.
"Sasha." He growled softly to the cat, which was giving the two new comers a cool look.
"Wow! Eric she's so beautiful! Where did you ever find her?" She ran over to greet the large cat.
"Well actually she found me. How was I suppose to know that this unusually large kitten with big feet would turn into a panther." He scratched Sash behind her ears.
"Is she really yours?" She hugged the cat and Sash began to purr even louder.
"Yep but she favors the General more than she does me, but you'll never hear him admit that."
"So what do you say? Friends?" He smiled at her.
"Friends." Andy agreed.
~~~
(on Ziare)
"Do whatever you have to, but find Rand and his goons before my son finds out about his escape!" Oran was all but strangling the warden of the prison.
"This is Rand and won't be captured easily. Why the hell didn't you check out the backgrounds of your men before you hired them!" General Norman snarled at the man. " I have all of your forces on the hunt for him, but he planned this break out."
"The Girls! He knows that the girls are going to be here all summer! They have to be his target!" Oran ran for the nearest Tel-monitor. "Have the princess's arrived yet?" He barked at his aid.
"Lance just checked in and will be her in a few minutes. Is there something wrong sire?" He frowned at him.
"Wrong!? Rand has escaped you idiot!" He roared at him. "Patch me through to Lance at once!"
"What! But the Prince will have your hide if he gets his hands on them!" His aid growled back.
"I know that you idiot! Now patch me through to Lance!" He roared.
"I would sire, but I can't seem to get him to answer any of my hales!"
"My grandbabies!" Oran raced for his air Limo.
~~~
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" Rand appeared on top of Lance's Red lion. "Hello Lance, long time no see. How's that beautiful wife and child of yours?" Rand grinned at Lance's furious face.
"Get off of my lion, Rand, or learn to fly the hard way!" Lance roared at him using the lion's intercom.
"I just wanted to say hello to those two lovely little girls with you." He smirked at him knocking on the glass cockpit of the lion.
"Uncle Lance! Who is that man!?" Alex whimpered.
"Don't worry Alex, nothing is going to happen to you." Lance growled.
"Now Lance, don't go making promises that you can't possibly keep." Rand taunted him.
"That does it Rand! I hope that you know how to fly!" Lance snarled and his lion shot up in a nightly degree angle.
"Good I was hoping that you would try something stupid like that!" Rand was now inside the lion and standing directly behind Alex. "Say goodnight hero." Rand slammed the heel of his hand against the back of Lance's neck instantly rendering him unconscious.
"Uncle Lance!" Alex and Ariel screamed as they were transported out of the lion and onto Rand's ship.
"Let us go you creep!" Ariel screamed at Rand.
"Be quiet you two, don't give me any trouble and neither of you will be harmed." He growled softly at the two frightened little girls.
"Why didn't we pay more attention to Sheena and Daddy!" Alex whimpered.
"You surprise me girls. I at least expected you to put up some kind of a fight." He shook his head in disappointment at them.
"Wait till our Daddy gets a hold of you!" Alex shouted at him.
"I can't wait." He sneered down at them.
"Where is Andy? Or don't you have her yet?" Ariel snapped at him.
"Andy will be joining you within a few hours." He growled.
"That's what you think." Alex grinned.
"I seriously doubt that your sister is capable of causing any of us bodily harm." Rand was very amused by Alex's threat.
"I would be very afraid if I were you." Alex taunted him.
Yes be afraid Rand, be very afraid." Ariel echoed her sisters warning.
"Be quiet both of you!" Rand roared down at them.
"Aren't you even going to tie us up or something?" Ariel blinked innocently up at him.
"Not unless I have to, so I would suggest that the two of you behave yourselves." He warned them.
"We will be good." Alex blinked at him.
"That's better." He turned to bark some orders two of his men, "Don't let them out of your sight." He ordered the two men and left the room locking them inside.
"You brats behave and we won't hurt you." one of the men walked over to Alex.
"Try and make me behave." Alex stuck her tongue at him.
"That's better." He turned to bark some orders two of his Men, "Don't let them out of your sight." He ordered the two men and left the room locking them inside.
"You brats behave and we won't hurt you." one of the men walked over to Alex.
"Try and make me behave." Alex stuck her tongue at him.
Ariel gave the other guy the same exact treatment.
"Yes!" She shouted giving each other high five's.
"Alright we actually did it!" Alex grinned at her sister. "Hey what is going on?" She coughed when gas began to fill the room.
"Can't breathe." Ariel gasped.
"What's hap...." Alex moaned before collapsing next to her twin.
"Sleep well, little ones you have a long day ahead of you." Rand waited until the room was aired out before opening the door.
"What about them?" Spike growled.
"Kill them." Rand snarled and left the room with the girls in his arms.
~~~ on to Part Two of Chapter15~~~
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.
