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Voltron New Beginnings

Chapter one

By Cindra

Edited by: Christina Bryan

The planet Arus, a beautiful jewel of a planet until the war with Planet Doom, can now finally rest after the defeat of the evil King Zarcon and his son, Prince Lotor. The heroic Voltron force managed to end this long terrible war and kicked Lotor and Hagar out of the far galaxy. Unfortunately when our young Hero's returned, to their home they found that their planet was in ruins. Almost every town, village, and city was nearly destroyed during an attack while they were away fighting the battle on Planet Doom.

~~~

(Weeks later)

(We find that the entire planet is once again at peace and that everyone has begun rebuilding their fallen cities and villages. Our hero's have returned home to the Castle of Lions after a long day of rebuilding the city...)

"Boy, am I beat after all of that work that we did today!" Hunk groaned as he collapsed into a nearby chair. "It really stinks! Only Zarcon would pull a rotten trick by attacking while we were away on Planet Doom. Those monsters destroyed nearly every city and half of the planet!"

"Tell me about it Hunk, but we all knew the risk of leaving the planet unguarded and we explained the situation to the people before we left. So if they want to blame us then it's as much their fault as it is ours." Lance grumbled from where he was sprawled out on the couch in the sunroom.

Pidge stood up and glared at his extremely grouchy friends. "One thing is for sure though, all of the people should be proud that they defeated Zarcon with out our help."

"I wonder where Keith and the princess disappeared to?" Hunk frowned. "I haven't seen them all day."

Lance got up and went to look out of the window at the castle lawn. "You know that he hasn't let the princess out of his sight since that old hag kidnapped her. I wonder if there is something going on that we don't know about?"

Hunk walked over and stood next to his friend as the two in question came into view. "Well…Well…" He grinned slyly,

"There they are and are my eyes deceiving me or are they holding hands!" Pidge grinned.

"Next thing you know, he'll be kissing her in public." Hunk teased as all three of them watched the couple as they strolled along the lakeside.

"Well, it had to happen sooner or later, we all saw it coming, I wonder what Nanny and Koran think about our two lovebirds?" Lance smirked, his voice oozing of sarcasm, as he looked at his two friends still gawking at the window.

"Oh cut it out Lance. You're just jealous, because she chose Keith and not you." Pidge joked and nudged him on the arm.

"I am NOT jealous!" Lance snarled as he glared murderously at his two friends.

"Oh come on, Lance, you know that he's just joking with you. Besides we both know that you have a thing for Lady Farla or was that Nanny that you have a crush on?" Hunk's grin widened as Lance's face turned a bright shade of red.

"Guys, will you just drop the subject before I'm forced to kill the both of you." Lance barked before stalking out of the room.

"What did we say?" Pidge and Hunk looked at each other before breaking out into laughter.

~~~

The two young lovers sat cuddled in each other's arms, as they watched the sun set over the lake. Neither of them have any idea that they were missed that day in the city, as well as the castle. The two had decided to play hooky and ditched their duties for the day. They both needed a rest with no interruptions and time to spend alone with each other. After all the sun had been shining, spring was in the air and love was in bloom as the two admitted their true feelings for one another.

"This has been the most heavenly day of my life," Allura sighed as she leaned back in Keith's arms.

Keith rested his chin on the top of her silky blonde head and sighed, "I couldn't agree with you more, Allura having you in my arms is the closest thing that a guy could get to heaven." He tightened his arms around her waist and held her even closer to him.

Allura turned in his arms and smiled up at his face, "I can't be live that it took us almost to die, to admit our feelings for each other. I mean I can tell you that I've loved you since the very day that you knelt down on one knee, kissed my hand, and then vowed to me that you would save my people with or without Voltron."

"I knew that you were the one for me when you appeared on the staircase in the old Castle of Lions, but it didn't hit me until you joined the team and I had to watch you get hurt in battle after battle. When I almost lost you it almost killed me inside!" Keith proclaimed as he kissed her soundly.

"I'm the happiest princess in the three universes!" she sighed as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back.

"Princess...I mean Allura...what I'm trying to say is um...will you marry me?" Keith mumbled nervously after they had broken their extremely long kiss.

"Oh Keith!" she cried, as tears streamed down her face, "I would LOVE to marry you, it would be my fondest wish for me to become your wife!"

"I love you Princess Allura of Arus and I will love you for all eternity!" he vowed and sealed their love with another long kiss.

~~~

Later that night in the Castle a storm seemed to be brewing and it was about to explode, as the newly engaged couple broke their joyous news to their friends.

"Koran, Nanny, Guys; Allura and I have something that we want to tell you." Keith said as he grinned at Allura from across the dining room table.

"Yes we do," Allura exclaimed happily, "Keith and I are getting married!" Silence came over the entire room as all eyes stared at the happy couple.

"Your what!" Koran roared as he glared at the happy couple.

"Now Koran, I'm a grown woman and can marry whomever I choose and I have chosen Keith to be my husband!" Allura shouted back.

"Have you forgotten about your duty and the fact that Keith is not a prince!" Nanny shouted at her charge, clearly distressed about the entire situation.

"So what if he isn't a prince!" Allura cried as Keith went over to take her in his arms. "I don't care! I am going to marry him with or without your blessing!"

"Who says that he's not a prince, he never knew who his really family was, so for all we know he could very well be a prince!" Pidge defended his friend.

"That is not the point Pidge, she is the crowned princess of Arus and she must marry a prince." Koran glared at all of them, "That is the law." Koran stated before he stalked out of the dining hall.

"Don't worry Allura, we'll think of something, but I'll be damned if anyone stops me from making you my wife!" Keith vowed and kissed her in front of everyone.

"If I have to give up the throne in order to marry you I will, because I don't want to live with out you." Allura sobbed as Keith held her in his arms.

"You won't have to love... you won't have to." Keith muttered softly as he led her out of the room.

~~~

(Some where in hiding on Planet Arus)

Lotor had been plotting his revenge for many, many weeks and was finally ready to put his plan into action. He had found a nice place to lay low on Arus, while he plotted his evil scheme. "So Allura thinks that she can marry that fool space explorer does she?" Lotor speak savagely, "Not as long as I'm alive she won't! She is going to my queen or marry no one at all!"

"Leave it to me your highness and I will make her become your queen." Hagar cackled as she worked on the downfall of the Voltron Force. "Just look at those fools! Here we are plotting their destruction, while they try to rebuild this pitiful excuse for a planet!"

"I wish that you would leave old witch!" Lotor was not at all pleased that she was still hanging around him, "I don't ever want to rely on any of your pathetic magic again!" And with a shoved Lotor push her aside.

"I may not be as powerful as I was on Planet Doom, but can still get you the princess!" Hagar backed away from Lotor as he lunged at her with his sword.

"Because of you my father and my planet no longer exist!" Lotor roared down at her, "If I need anymore help from you, it would be for you to cast a spell to make you Disappear!"

"That was as much your fault as it was mine, you pathetic minded fool!" Hagar screeched back at him in defense.

"Fool! Don't forget that it was I who allowed you to live!" Lotor roared at his constant shadow, "I'm leaving old witch be gone when I return!"

~~~

(A few nights later at the Castle of Lions)

Princess Allura gave up trying to get any sleep and decided to go wander the halls for a while. She pulled on her robe and slipped past the snoozing guard outside her doorway. I wonder if Keith is still up? She thought to herself as she headed for his quarters.

Keith was pacing his quarters trying to find some way to make Koran see reason. In fact the Captain was so distracted by his thoughts that he doesn't even notice that his fiancé was standing inside the doorway of his room.

"Keith?" Allura whispered softly.

"Allura?" Keith said startled "Is something wrong? Why are you up so late?" Keith couldn't help but notice what she was wearing, a silk robe and nightgown.

"I couldn't sleep." She whispered softly and looked up at him, her beautiful sapphire eyes filled with emotion. "Or maybe I was just lonely." She took in the sight of him in nothing but a pair of pajama bottoms.

"Don't worry love, I can promise you that you'll never be lonely again." he smiled down at her and she flew into his arms. "Sweetheart maybe I should escort you back to your quarters, before Koran or Nanny find you in here."

"I want to be here with you." Allura whispered into his ear as she placed kisses all over his face. "I could care less how Koran or Nanny feel about us, I love you and you love me, we are all that matters."

Keith tried to keep things from getting out of hand, but the princess seemed to have other ideas. "Yes well maybe we should..."his protest was cut off as Allura proceeded to let her robe and nightgown fall to the floor in a pool of silk. "Allura this really isn't a good idea...." He Rasped. "The hell with reason!" he sighed against her mouth and the two of them tumbled onto his bed.

~~~

Later on that morning Nanny was humming to herself as she made her way down the corridor and to the princess's chamber, with Allura's morning breakfast tray. "Good morning gentlemen did anything happen last night?" she asked the two guards posted outside the princess's door.

"No, ma'me everything was quite." they answered in unison and let Nanny into the princess's room.

"Good Morning Princess." she called out brightly as she usually did each morning, however this time the princess was not their to return Nanny's greeting. In fact the only ones that were sleeping in Allura's bed were the Space mice!! Nanny, now startled out of her mind with thoughts of her precious baby being kidnapped, ran out of the room screaming " Koran!!! Koran!!! Someone has taken the princess!!!!!"

Koran who had also been on his way to check on Allura frowned down at the historical female in front of him. "Are you sure Nanny?"

"She is not in her room!!! Something terrible has happened, Koran I just know it!!!" Nanny cried.

"Calm down Nanny she probably couldn't sleep and went for a walk." Koran tried to calm her down.

"In that case I demand that you send one of the boys to go look for her!! It is not proper for a royal princess to be running around in her nightgown and robe"

"I'll go awaken Keith and see if he can go find her." Koran felt a major headache beginning to form behind his eyes, but aspirin would have to wait until he woke up Keith and the princess had been found.

~~~

Meanwhile, the Space Mice have all gone to warn Keith and Allura that Koran is on his way and they are pulling frantically on Allura's arm.

"Go away." Keith muttered as he pushed away the annoying pest trying to wake him up.

"Hmm." Princess yawned as she snuggled deeper into Keith's arms.

"It's nothing, just your furry friends the mice paying us a visit." Keith opened up one eye to glare at the frantic little mice.

"That's nice Keith..." Allura yawned sleepily, but came awake instantly when she realized that the mice were trying to warn them. "Did you say that Cheezy and Chedder are in here?" she hissed into Keith's ear.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that we have to panic. Those little mice go everywhere in the castle." Keith now fully awake had decided to attack his princess with kisses.

"Don't panic darling, but this means that Koran knows that I didn't sleep in my bed and is coming to wake you up to go find me." Allura tried to sit up but Keith had his arms around her waist.

"Nice try love" he muttered against her lips and continued to attack her.

"Keith I am not kidding!! Koran is going to be here any second now!" she was definitely losing this battle and was on the verge of surrendering. "We have to get up," she cried softly.

Keith finally got control and let what Allura was telling him sink in. " Your serious?" he frowned down at her.

"Completely serious" she grinned as Keith jumped out of bed and hastily grabbed some of his clothes.

"Don't just lay there get dressed!" Keith snapped down at her as he picked up her robe and nightgown off the floor and then proceeded to throw it at her.

"Now look whose panicking." she giggled at him as she pulled her nightgown over her head.

"I am not panicking Allura! I just don't want Koran to..." His growl was cut off by Koran's knock on his door.

"Keith?" Koran called through the door.

"Told ya so!" Princess stuck her tongue out at him.

"Very funny!" Keith glared down at her as she began to giggle.

"Keith? Is there someone in there with you?" Koran did not sound at all pleased.

"In here with me?" Keith answered innocently, "What makes you think that I have anyone in here with me?" Sweat was now creasing Keith brow and Allura was enjoying every second of it.

"Keith I'm not in the mood for games this morning now open this door at once! Koran all but roared at him through the door.

"Alright Koran." Keith sighed in defeat, "Don't have a coronary you can come in." He opened the door after making sure that the picture was perfect.

"Hi Koran!" Allura waved at him from where she was standing behind Keith.

"Princess! What are you doing in here?" Koran all but roared down at her.

"Now Koran don't overreact, I was just out wandering the castle grounds last night and Keith..." She never got to finish her cover story, because Koran was all but dragging her out of Keith's room.

"Come along princess!" Koran ordered sharply.

"Let go of me Koran!" she ordered furiously.

"Not until you come to your senses." Koran snarled back noticing that her nightgown was inside out.

Keith who had not liked the way that Koran had been treating her took matters into his own hands, "Let her go Koran. She isn't a child, she is a grown woman!" Keith ordered the older man and was surprised when Koran did as he had asked.

"Young man do you have any idea what you are saying!" He was clearly not at all pleased with the way that this morning was starting out.

"Yes I do Koran and its about time that all of you realized that Allura and I are going to get married!" Keith shouted back at him.

"Yes" Allura all but jumped for joy and ran over to give Keith a big kiss.

"Fine Captain, but I expect the two of you to behave yourselves until the wedding takes place. Do I make myself clear?" he glared at the two in question.

"Crystal clear Koran and by the way if and when we don't behave ourselves, try and remember when you were young and in love" Allura and Keith left him to ponder those words as they went in search of some breakfast.

~~~

Lotor was already starting to carry out his revenge, by kidnapping a young girl that happens to be related to the Captain of the Voltron Force. He has finally found a way to bring Keith to his knees. "This girl will be the perfect bait for my trap." Lotor grinned evilly.

"Just think Lotor, all of this time she was right under all of our noses and we never even knew it." Hagar cackled.

Lotor was so gleefully happy that he didn't even try and snarl at the old witch. "Who would ever have guessed that Keith was related to one of the most powerful ruling houses in the three universes! No matter he won't live to see any of his family again."

~~~

Keith sat on watch staring at several different images on several different screens in the castle's main control room. "Everything is quite Koran." He reported yawning sleepily as he stretched out his stiff muscles. *Man! I didn't know that Koran could be this devious haven't had time to sleep, let alone spend even five minutes with Allura!! Thank god that this is my last turn on graveyard.* Keith thought to himself.

"Keith I brought you some coffee." Pidge yawned and held out the mug to his friend.

"No coffee......need sleep." Keith mumbled sleepily as he stumbled out the door and walked past Allura.

"Keith how was watch last night?" She asked as she followed him down the corridor.

"Hmm.." Keith was all but walking in his sleep and all he could think of was getting into his bed and sleeping for eight straight hours.

"Keith? What has Koran done to you!" She exclaimed.

"Nothing major, love, he has just had me on graveyard for the past seven days." Keith yawned sleepily.

"Oh, my poor darling! Don't worry I'll take care of you!" She led him in to his quarters and guided him towards his bed.

"Ssss....nice I'd like that." Keith smiled in his sleep as he sat down on his bed.

*When I get my hands on Koran I am going to strangle him! * Allura fumed inwardly when she saw the dark circles under her loves eyes.

"Ah!" Keith sighed happily as kicked off his boots, before sprawling out on his bed.

"Now, you get some sleep and I will leave orders for you not to be disturbed until further notice." Allura promised him as she bent to cover him up with a blanket.

"Yes, sleep.... Wonderful sleep..." He smiled and drifted off to dreamland.

"Sleep well my love." Allura whispered as she kissed him.

"Love you to Allura." Keith mumbled in his sleepy unconsciously pulled her down into his arms, kissing her back three fold before drifted off in a deep dreamless sleep.

"Keith?" she whispered against his chest and tried to gently pull herself out of his embrace, only to find that Keith had no intention of letting her go. "Oh well, I can't think of a better way to enjoy my morning." She sighed contentedly and decided to take a nap with him.

~~~

Koran smiled to himself as he watched the screen in his office. "If he can still pay attention to Allura even while dead on his feet, then the two of them have my blessing." Koran thought as he reached over to call Nanny on the Tele-viewer.

"Yes Koran?" Nanny smiled at him from the screen.

"The princess and Keith are not to be disturbed while they both get a much needed rest and Nanny I want you to start on planning the wedding immediately." He ordered the startled-faced woman.

"But Koran?" Nanny sputtered in protest.

"At once Nanny and no arguments!" Koran ordered.

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Lotor eyed his beautiful captive as she paced the cell on her cage. She was a breathtakingly beautiful little thing with a mane of raven black hair, dark chocolate brown eyes fringed with heavy black lashes, with beautiful classical features and flawless ivory skin. He also couldn't help but notice that she had curves in all of the right places, she was also very furious.

"You're a pretty little thing aren't you." Lotor taunted his guest.

"How dare you kidnap me! You fiend!" Cassandra glared at her captor.

"I'm Prince Lotor, princess and I can do whatever I feel like!" Lotor laughed at her.

"Well! Prince or no prince you are one dead man when my father gets his hands on you!" She hissed angrily at him.

"On the contrary my dear, the only one who will be dead is your brother." Lotor gave her his patented evil grin.

"I don't have a brother you idiot! He died when I was just a baby!" She screamed at him in frustration.

"Well my dear princess have I got a news flash for you. He is indeed alive and in fact is the Captain of the Voltron force and soon to be the husband of Princess Allura." Lotor snarled.

"He's alive! My big brother is alive!" She cried happily.

"Yes my dear, but not for long."

"I'll never let you hurt him you monster!" She screamed

"Oh but you already have princess, you are the bait for my fatal little trap."

"No!" She wailed and fell to her knees in helpless to do anything but curl up in a corner and bawl her eyes out.

~~~

Keith relived the nightmare that had plagued him for as long as he could remember. He is a boy of about ten years old very excited about something. He can see the city far bellow him from the window of his seat on some sort of shuttle...then this huge explosion rocks the ship and they begin to fall in a fiery ball of flames towards the space port. He's lifted up by someone and hurriedly placed into an escape pod, but it's almost too late and his pod crashes near the wreckage of the shuttle. He had hit his head, when he had crashed and the last thing that he remembered seeing was the face of a young officer.... Before blacking completely out..."Why can't I remember anything." Keith muttered in his sleep.

Allura had been trying to wake him up ever since the nightmare had begun and was all but ready to throw water in his face in order to wake him from his terror. She had never seen him vulnerable like this and in so much agony. "Keith wake up!" She shook him as hard as she could.

Keith shot straight up in bed; he was completely drenched with sweat. "Not that dream again it's been so long! Why haunt me with it again?" he snapped in frustration as he ran his shaking fingers through his raven sleep tossed hair.

"Do you want to tell me about your dream?" Allura asked softly from where she sat curled up in a corner of his bed.

Keith eyed the princess in surprise. "Allura? What are you doing in here?"

"I bent to kiss you goodnight and you pulled me in here with you, now tell me why that dream has terrified you so?" Allura pleaded with him with her beautiful sky blue eyes.

Keith took a deep calming breath and pulled her back into his arms. "I'm a little boy again and the shuttle that I'm in crashes. I'm the only one who makes it out alive, but I don't have any memory of who I am or why I was in the shuttle. The General is the officer that finds me in the wreckage of my escape pod and I black out, only to wake up with no memory and no past."

"This really happened to you didn't it?" Allura whispered softly as she looked into his tormented chocolate eyes. "The General is the officer in your dream. The man who ended up adopting you and raising you to be who you are today."

"It was an unscheduled flight and there was no record of who was suppose to have been on it. So they couldn't tell me who I was, because they had nothing to go on except for a gold bracelet that I had around my wrist that had the name Keith inscribed on it." Keith felt old wounds of not knowing whom he was beginning to open up again.

The castle alarms began to go off before she could say anything to comfort him and he immediately got out of bed pulled on his boots and went to see what was wrong. "This isn't over you know." Allura informed him as they ran down the corridor. "We are going to talk more about this later."

"Look Allura, it was a very long time ago and maybe it's better that I forget about that stupid dream and focus on my life with you. I don't even know why the dream came back again." Keith stopped her before they entered the control room.

"It isn't stupid if it effects you the way it did a few minutes ago!" she snapped at him, "It took me a very long time to wake you up! In fact I was ready to go get Koran!"

"I'm fine!" Keith snarled down at her clearly not at all pleased that she wasn't going to leave well enough alone. "Now, lets go find out why Koran set off the alarm!" with that said he stalked into the control room leaving her fuming outside the room.

"Why the hell did someone set off the Castle alarms!" Keith all but roared at the rest of the gang as he entered the control room.

"Man, Keith what side of the bed did you wake up on?" Lance frowned at his friend.

"Yeah, Keith you look like you are ready to kill someone." After seeing the mood that their leader was in Pidge hid behind Hunk.

Keith glared at the screen and at his father's face. "Well? What do you want Dad?" he all but snarled at the General.

"Keith!" Koran frowned at him in disapproval.

"Hello Allura." The general smiled at his soon to be daughter-in-law.

"Don't let my son's actions change your mind about marrying him. He usually is a very well mannered boy." he glared at his son.

"I won't General Edwards, because I know what caused his rotten mood and we are going to discuss it later aren't we Keith." Allura smiled at the general before marching over and glaring up at her husband to be.

"Yes..." Keith muttered under his breath.

"What was that darling?" Allura asked sweetly.

"I said yes, Allura we will talk about this later!" Keith glowered down at her smiling face.

"That is more like it." She stood up on tiptoe and gave him a kiss, before turning to address Keith's father. "Now what can we do for you General Edwards?"

"Princess Cassandra of the planet Zaire has been kidnapped by a man that fits Lotor's description. He was last seen heading for your planet and I would like you to find Lotor and rescues the Princess. If it isn't to much of a problem for my son." Michael explained to all of them.

"Alright Dad, I get your point." Keith glared at his father, "I just had a really bad dream a little while ago and it didn't help my mood any okay?"

"Are you having the dream again?" Michael eyed him with a worried frown.

"That isn't important finding Princess Cassandra is." Keith had willed himself to go into what Lance called his fearless Leader mode. "Do they know why he would want to kidnap the princess?"

"King Oran remained neutral during the entire war so it can't be because of revenge. No Lotor must have some sort of evil plan in store for someone." Michael informed him.

"Cassie wouldn't hurt anyone!" Allura cried out with concern for her friend.

"You know her?" Keith frowned down at his princess.

"Yes, we went to school together, before the war broke out with Planet Doom. She is the kindest gentlest person I know."

"The only thing that makes since is that Lotor is using her as some sort of pawn in order to get something he wants from someone in her family or someone on this planet." Lance frowned.

"That isn't possible Lance she only has a little sister and as far as I know isn't related to anyone on this planet." Allura was pulled into Keith arms.

"Don't worry princess we will get her back safely." Keith vowed against her hair.

"Does she have an older brother that could have angered Lotor." Pidge was also trying to figure out what Lotor's motive for taking the princess could be.

"No, her only brother died when his shuttle crashed on Earth, when she was very young. I think that she was two or three at the time and her brother was..." She stopped in mid sentence. "Ten years old."

"Don't go jumping to any conclusions Allura." Keith frowned at his fiancé.

"What are we standing around here for people?" Lance was in the mood to kick Lotor's sorry butt out of the galaxy again. "We have a princess to rescue!" He punched a button on the main console and to activate the tram system to their lions.

"Where exactly do you plan on searching Lance?" Keith snapped at his friend. "We have no idea what we are getting into or where to begin looking for Princess Cassandra. Hell this could be some kind of trap."

"Keith's right Lance we need to do a complete scan of the planet before any of us go anywhere." Pidge sat down at the console and began to use the computer to scan the planet for Lotor's location.

It didn't take very long before the computer had verified Lotor's current location. "It looks like Lotor is hiding out in the old mountain catacombs." Koran frowned at the readout on the computer screen.

"We have a location, so what are we still standing around here for?" Lance was once again raring to go kick some butt.

Keith paced the control room floor as he tried to figure out what his old enemy was up to. "What else does the computer say about his location Koran?"

"We are picking up two life forms and a lot of robot activity."

Keith stopped pacing and turned to eye the rest of his team, "Let's go but remember to stay alert this could very well be a trap."

Lance rolled his eyes at his fearless leader, "If anyone needs to stay alert fearless leader then it is you, after all you haven't had more than eight hours of sleep for the last seven days."

"Lance that was a really cheap shot!" Hunk snapped.

"Yes, Lance that was absolutely uncalled for!" Allura snapped.

"No, Lance is right Allura." Keith said, who was just to try to argue with Lance and gave in without a fight. "If anyone wants me I will be in the Ready Room. Oh, and if the three of you get captured don't say that I didn't warn you."

"Three!" Allura glowered at Keith, who retreated back a couple steps very quickly.

"Sorry love, I guess that I do need to get some more sleep." Keith turned around and walked over to kiss her good luck. "Do me a favor and make sure that they stay out of trouble." Keith then remembered that his father was still on one of the screens and went to end their conversation, "Don't worry Dad we'll get her back safe and sound."

"Are you sure that sending them off alone is such a good idea?" Michael frowned at his son, not completely convinced that Keith had made the right decision.

"Well if I'm not then old hot head there will have learned a valuable lesson." Keith nodded toward Lance, "I will talk to you later when this is all over." he ended the call. "Have fun you guys and remember if something happens to Allura I am going to take it out of your hides." with that said he stalked from the room.

"It looks like Keith has decided to let us handle this one so lets try not to disappoint him." Hunk grinned.

"We'll be fine." Pidge activated his tram.

"No problem, this will be a easy." Lance winked at Allura.

"Grow up Lance, nothing is ever simple where Lotor is concerned and in my opinion we need Keith!" she hissed at him as she activated the tram to her lion.

"Good luck team." Koran had a very bad feeling about all of this.

"Koran wake me up in four hours, if they don't return." Keith's image appeared on the screen.

"Do you think that they are flying into a trap?"

"Oh it's a trap alright, I just hope that they don't get themselves killed. I meant what I said to all of the guys, if Allura gets hurt they are dead meat."

"They'll be fine Keith." Koran assured the young man on the screen, "now you should try and get some more rest."

"Let us hope that I'm wrong Koran," was Keith's final remark before going back to sleep. *Please keep my love and my friends safe* Keith prayed as he drifted off to sleep.

~~~

The four lions headed for the Allurian Mountains and straight into Lotor's trap. But instead of the usual robeasts they encountered a very powerful magnetic field, that was so strong that they didn't even have time to radio back to the castle before crashing, all four of the lions went down. The Red, Green, and Yellow lions all smashed into the mountainside, while Blue lion managed to crash land in a nearby field.

"Lance! Pidge! Hunk! Do any of you guys read me?" Allura shouted into her Com, but received no answer.

"Are you guys hurt?" She tried once more to reach her friends. "Please answer me!"

"Oh well, next time I'll stay home with Keith safe and sound in bed!" she muttered to herself as she tried to see how badly she was injured. "AH!" She all but screamed in agony when she tried to move her right shoulder or her left ankle. "This is Princess Allura calling Koran. Are you there Koran?" There was no response but the constant sound of static from her lions Com unit.

"Great now what am I going to do!" she wailed as she began to panic, "Keith I need you!" She sobbed miserably. *Please Keith come find me* she prayed with all of her might.

~~~ On to Chapter Two~~~

I in no way own any of the original characters of Voltron in this story and Voltron is the property of World Events Productions,Inc., Toei Animation, and Trenmasters. (So nobody sue me okay ^^;;) However, the new characters are mine and are not to be used by anyone for any reason.

This is the first chapter in what will turn out to be a very long yet enjoyable adventure. This is also the first time that I have ever had the nerve to put my story on the net. Any comments, ideas or heaven forbid flames would be greatly appreciated.

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