vnbch12

VOLTRON NEW BEGINNINGS

CHAPTER 12

BY: CINDRA

Edited by: T-bryd

A beautiful golden hared woman was sitting in the triplet's playroom and she was very good with magic because she happened to be the good side of one of Arus's oldest of foes the old witch Hagar. While Hagar remained wretched looking, Aurora remained enchantingly beautiful. She was kind and gentle and had often stopped to visit with Allura to enchant the little princess's by showing them a little bit of her magic. She was what Andy liked to refer to her as their fairy godmother, but they all referred to her affectionately as their Nana.

Aurora had just created a beautiful rainbow color butterfly with the palm of her hand, which had the three little girls watching her completely entranced. "Now little ones, what do you want me to conjure up next?" She smiled raising both of her hands in the air filling the room with roses and a big colorful rainbow.

"More!" The three seven year-olds squealed in delight.

"That is enough all of you, now be nice little princess's and tell your godmother thank you." Allura ordered her children.

"Thank you Nana." They chimed in unison.

"You are quite welcome my angels." She smiled at them and with a snap of her fingers conjured up a lollipop for each little girl.

"Nana! Please show us more magic!" Andy pleaded with her.

"Now Andromeda you and your sisters have homework to do." Allura frowned at her child.

"But Mommy! I can do that later!" Andy wailed in protest.

"That is quite enough out of you young lady and this time you will do all of your studies and that means on your own." Allura was losing her patience with her youngest daughter.

"You heard your mother, now go on or there will be no more surprises for you while I'm visiting." Aurora winked at Andy.

~~~

"Lance, calm down it's not like Cassie has gone into labor yet! She has two weeks until the baby is due and is perfectly fine!" Keith grinned as Lance stopped pacing the sunroom.

"You should be glad that Cass is only having one child. Keith ended up with three." Pidge chuckled as Keith glared over at him.

"It's taking all of my energy just trying to keep a certain little shadow of mine out of Black Lion." Keith groaned.

"Do you still think that Andy is going to try and steal your lion?" Hunk grinned.

"He's right Keith, you've been acting really crazy, ever since you had that crazy dream of yours." Lance arched a brow at him.

"That is because, it was not an ordinary dream! You had two kids named Matthew and Christina and had another on the way." Keith began to describe the dream for what seemed to them like the hundredth time.

"Sure, Keith, like I would ever name my son Matthew!" Lance smirked.

"Hunk and Sheena were the parents of two little boys."

"I can see that." Hunk grinned.

"Pidge and Myria were married and had twin little girls." Keith continued.

"And how about you big shot? How many kids are you going to be stuck with ten years from now?" Lance countered.

"I have six children, the triplets, twin sons, and a two year-old daughter named Lilly." Keith stated smugly.

"It was just a coincidence Keith!" Lance shot back.

"That isn't even the best part, Merla and Hazar had a son named Christophe." Keith tried to continue to explain his dream, but Lance cut him off in mid sentence.

"So what does that have to do with anything!"

"Who turns out to be Lotor's son. Then best part is the kid can't stand Lotor either." Keith grinned at him.

"Haz and Merla are married..." Hunk frowned.

"That's right and they also have a six year-old son named Christophe." Pidge was beginning to think that Keith might have actually had some kind of vision of some sort.

"See that clinches it Lance! It was a lot more than just a weird dream!" Keith stated and left the room.

"Either that or he's losing his mind." Lance grinned.

~~~

"Come on Myr, let's go flying." Cassie whispered into her sisters' ear.

"I can't Cass, I'm studying for my finals and besides that you happen to be nine months pregnant!" Myria looked at her as if she was starting to lose it.

"So, I feel like going flying! The walls are starting to close in on me!" Cassie began to wail in utter misery.

"Cass, please try and understand that you can't go flying until after the baby id born. Those are the Doc's orders." Myria reminded her sister.

"I look like and feel like a big beachball that is going to pop at any second!" My emotions are going crazy and if I don't get out of here for a few hours, my baby is going to be born with a nervous breakdown!" Cassie was now screaming at poor Myria.

Myria winced as her sister's voice just kept getting louder by the second. "You are not a big beachball that is going to pop at any second and it is completely natural for you to be highly emotional right now! Now I want you to try and calm down, because it isn't good for you or for the baby!" Myria tried to reason with her, only to have Cassie run out of her room in tears.

"Cass! Wait! I didn't mean to make you mad!" Myria chased after her sister, but found that she was no where to be found. "Awe! Man! This is not good!" She muttered under her breath and used her wrist Com to contact her brother. "Keith! It's Myria! Damn it answer me!" She screamed into the com.

"Lower the decibels will ya!" Keith answered her back. " Now can you calmly tell me what's wrong or are you just going to continue to scream at me?"

"Well...um...Cassie was here and wanted to go flying and..." Keith cut her off in mid sentence.

"You did tell her no, didn't you?" Keith raised his voice a little.

"Yes! Of course I did, but then she went psycho on me and kept screaming about how the walls were caving in on her and then...."

Keith interrupted her again, "You didn't give her a lecture did you?" He groaned.

"Yes! I told her to calm down that it wasn't good for her or the baby!" Myria was now in tears.

"Bad move, baby sister. Let me guess she then screamed at you and ran from the room in tears." Keith groaned yet again. *What am I going to do with Cassie?*

"That's exactly right and I feel so terrible because, all that I could think of were my finals tomorrow!" She sniffled.

"Calm down Myria, I will find Cassie. Now I want you to go back to your studies. You wouldn't want to disappoint the General when he personally comes to over see your academy finals." Keith ordered her to go back to her studying.

"Yes master." She saluted the Com on her wrist and then went back to cramming for her finals.

~~~

Devon's ship lay cloaked just inside Planet Arus's protective dome (Arus was now protected by an energy dome that surrounded the entire planet), waiting for it's catch to enter it's trap.

"If I know Cass, she will be going stir crazy in the castle and thus will easily fall into our little trap." Devon grinned evilly.

"Sire, we are picking up movement, a female is leaving the castle via air car and she matches the princess's description." One of his men reported to him.

"Is she alone?"

"Yes and she appears to be in a hurry to get somewhere."

"Excellent! She is just as predictable as ever!" Devon was very pleased that at least that hadn't changed about her.

"Sire, won't her husband and brother come after us?" Some idiot asked a very stupid question.

"Yes! You moron she is the bait for Rand's trap!" Devon barked at him.

"Uh...Sire? Rand is on the viewing screen and is demanding that you speak with him." The communication's officer reported to him.

"Now what does that idiot want!" Devon turned to look at his viewing screen, only to gulp in terror when he realized that Rand had heard every word that he had just said.

"I hope that you know that you are digging your own grave, but please continue to say what you were saying!" Rand snarled at him. "In case you hadn't figured it out yet you brainless moron! I am the brain of this operation and you are my sidekick! I expect you to bring me Cassie, so that I can have a rematch with her brother! Do I make myself clear!" Rand roared at him.

"I was just about to collect Cassie when you called." Devon snarled back.

"Well! What the hell are you waiting for?! Bring Cassie to me and no screw ups!" Rand roared at him before signing off.

"Who does that fools think he is!"

"He is the fool who will cut out your heart if you fail him." One of his men snickered.

"Will you just shut up and beam Cassie up to the ship!" Devon ordered.

~~~

"I just need a little time alone where no one will treat me like I'm some helpless person all the time!" She smiled to herself as she drove away from the castle.

"Cassandra answer me! Damn it you are nine months pregnant and are not supposed to be driving that car!" Lance's voice snarled at her from the Com-link on her wrist.

"I need space! All of you are driving me crazy!" She screamed back in frustration.

"Okay sweetie you win. I promise that I won't treat you like glass, now please turn around and come back home." Lance pleaded with his wife.

"I just want to be alone with my baby!"

"YOUR BABY!" Lance snarled, "Listen sweetheart, that baby is ours! Now turn that air car around and come back home where you belong!"

"This may be our baby, but you are not the one who has been carrying him around for the past nine months!" She hissed back.

"And I had to listen to every gripe and groan, so I guess that makes us even!"

"Why you big heartless..." Cass's snarl was cut off when the transmission from her com went dead.

"Cassie what's wrong!" Lance tried to get her to answer him.

"Cassie please speak to me!" He was getting desperate when he still received no answer from her.

"Computer show me a visual of my wife's car!" The monitor reveled that she was no longer in her car.

"I want a planetary scan now! Close the shield! No one is going to leave this planet with my wife!"

"Scanner indicate a large cloaked ship leaving the atmospheric shield." The computer reported.

"Identify ship!"

"Searching all Galaxy Alliance data banks.... Data indicates that it is the same type of ship that Prince Devon has been seen in."

"Damn it! I knew that things had been too quiet lately!" Lance slammed his fist down onto the consul. "Keith get in here!" Lance roared into the castle intercom.

Keith was there in moments, "What's wrong?" He frowned at his friend.

"Devon just took Cassie! So much for our new protective dome!" Lance roared at him.

"What!" Keith roared in fury.

~~~

"How dare you creeps interrupt me when I am arguing with my husband!" She hissed at her captors as she was taken to the bridge.

"Hello Cassandra, I see that you've gained a little weight since we parted." Devon chuckled.

"I happen to be nine months pregnant and I demand that you take me back home at once!" She screamed at him.

"Now we mustn't get upset, we wouldn't want to harm the baby now would we." Devon took a few steps towards her.

"That does it! I will take that from my family, but I refuse to hear it from my ex-fiancé!" She screeched at him.

"This must be what they refer to as a mood swing." He was highly amused by her actions.

"Why you big goon! I'll show the mother of all mood swings if you don't take me back home!" She tried to attack him, but was easily held back by the guards.

"I think that our momma to be need to take a nap." Devon motioned for the med.-tech to give her a sedative.

"NO! I don't want to take a nap!" She whimpered as the med.-tech gave her the shot. "I just want to go home..." She mumbled as she went limp in the Devon's arms.

"I'm going to take her to my quarters. Inform Rand that we have the princess and are on their way to the base." He ordered his men.

"At once sire." The man activated the main viewing screen.

"Wait until I am off the bridge up idiot!" He bellowed at the communications officer. "It's so hard to find good help these days!" He muttered to himself as he left the bridge with Cassie snoozing in his arms.

~~~

Lance had only one thing running through his mind and that was to go rescue his wife, so he activated the tram for the lion, only to watch it lower back down into the floor. "What the hell do you think your doing?!" Lance lunged at Keith in frustration only to land face first onto the floor.

"We have to think this through! We have more than Cassie at stake here!" Keith had Lance pinned to the floor.

"Get off me Keith! I want my wife and unborn son back!" Lance snarled at him as he struggled to break free of the hold that Keith had on him.

"If Devon has Cassie, then it is a sure bet that Rand is in on this to. If we were to go in there with guns blazing Cassie and the baby could be hurt or worse yet she could end up losing the baby! Is that what you want to happen?!" Keith roared at Lance before he helped him up to his feet.

"No!" Lance snarled he had tears of rage and frustration burning in his eyes.

"Then we have to formulate a full proof plan, but to do that we have to work together as a team." He finally let Lance go causing him to fall to the floor just as Allura walked into the control room.

"What in the name of Arus is going on in here!?" She glowered at Keith and Lance.

"Nothing love, I was just trying to calm down Lance." Keith eyed her warily not trusting the look in her eyes.

"And why may I ask does he need calming down?" She frowned at them.

"Cassie has been taken by Devon and Rand." Keith howled in agony when Allura stalked over and ground the heel of her shoe into his foot. "Ow! Ally what the hell did you do that for? We'll get her back! We just need a plan! I was going to tell you honest I was!" Keith glared at her as he hopped up and down on one foot.

"Oh sweetie! I'm sorry did I hurt you!" Allura's face was beat red with embarrassment.

"Oh, I'm fine angel. I think that you just broke my foot, but I still love you anyway." Keith answered her through teeth gritted in pain and then slowly made his way out of the control room and towards the med.-wing.

~~~

Three hours later Keith, who was now sporting a cast on his left foot, Allura, Aurora, Lance, Myria, Hunk, Pidge, Koran, and Sheena were all seated in the war room trying to determine how they were going to rescue Cassie and her unborn son.

"Aurora has determined that they are heading for a planet in the Dora planetary system. Our info on this system informs us that the only planet capable of supporting life is the Planet Endora. This planet is covered by a dense forest, which makes it nearly impossible for us to scan for specific life forms. So we will be going in blind and are going to have to rely on all our skills in order for this plan to work." Keith started to lay out the battle plan to his team. "Jeff and Mark have both offered to help us find Cassie, so we will have the help of both Voltron one and two for this mission. Dad is not at all happy that my baby sister is missing and has sent his fleet to help in the search."

"Gee Keith, do you really think that's enough ships, crew, and weapons? My god man! We are talking about two men not an invasion force!" Pidge eyed Keith as if he were nuts.

"We don't have time to waste, since my sister could be going into labor any day now! I will be damned if my nephew is going to be born anywhere near either Rand or Devon!" Keith slammed his fist through the glass conference table shattering it into tiny pieces. "God Damn it! This is just perfect! Any questions!" Keith snarled at them, but received no response. So, he got up out of his chair and headed back to the med.-wing.

"Well Ally, if Keith hurts himself again we will be the laughing stalk of this entire mission." Lance grinned at Allura, but then winced when she gave him a right hook to the jaw.

"You will follow my husbands plan to the letter! Do I make myself clear!?" She snarled at him.

"Crystal clear Allura." Lance rubbed his sore jaw.

"Allura is there something that you want to tell us?" Sheena frowned at her friend.

"No why do you ask?" Allura snapped.

"Because you have been having violent mood swings all day." Sheena informed her.

"She's right Ally, look at what you did to big brothers foot." Myria frowned at her.

"Excuse me I have to go check on Keith." Allura headed for the med. wing."* Are they right? Am I having mood swings? Could I be? * Allura thought to herself as she entered the med.-wing of the castle.

~~~

"So how is our little mother to be?" Rand growled at Devon the second that he exited his ship.

"Sleeping like a bay." Devon motioned to his men and they carried her out on a stretcher.

"I still want her guarded at all times." Rand barked at two of his men.

"She's nine months pregnant! What can she do besides scream at us!" Devon eyes Rand as if her were paranoid.

"Knowing Cassie anything is possible." Rand glared at him.

"Your paranoid." Devon snarled back and Rand grabbed him by the neck.

"If I want your opinion I will ask for it!" Rand was seriously thinking about breaking Devon's neck.

"I can't breathe...." Devon gasped for air.

"Are you going to do as I say?"

Devon nodded

"Next time I will break your neck." Rand took Cassie away and left Devon gasping for air.

"I'll kill him!" Devon snarled hoarsely.

~~~

Allura had just finished her check-up and had a funny grin on her face, when she went back to their quarters to see how Keith was doing. *A baby! I'm going to have another baby! *

Keith glared at her the second that she entered their bedroom. "What are you so happy about?" He growled.

Allura continued to smile serenely at him. "Being a grouch won't make any of your injuries go away, so try and make the best of the situation." She tried to soothe him, but then trying to soothe Keith was like trying to soothe an injured lion.

"Gee Allura that is such a nice way of looking at things." Keith snarled sarcastically. "I will tell you why I can't do that! My sister is gone! You broke my foot and then I broke my hand when I took out my anger on the war room's glass table! So, no trying to make the best of this situation is not going to work with me!"

"Lance is going to lead the mission and that is all there is to it." Allura was getting tired of his grouchy attitude.

"Lance is to emotionally involved to lead this rescue mission!" Keith barked at her.

"Oh really, and you aren't Keith?" Allura pinned him with a glare; "Cassie is your sister, so if you can lead this mission then no can Lance, besides he still has all of his bones intact." Allura snickered as she gave him her defy me on this and your toast glare.

"Where are you going to be while I'm stuck here in the castle?" Keith only liked Allura on missions that he was in charge of.

"I thought that I would stay here so that I can look after you, our girls, and our new addition to our family." Allura began to crawl towards him on their bed.

"Our what? New addition to our family…Are you saying that your...I mean that your going to have a.... We're going to have a baby!?" Keith stammered as the news hit him and then shouted the last few words into their empty bedroom.

Allura laughed as Keith pulled her to him for a long kiss. "Yes! Silly we are going to have a baby, in I would say about six or seven months."

He slowly pulled her away from him so that he could look into her sky blue eyes. "So that's why you broke my foot! You were having a mood swing!" He finally understood why he was sporting the cast on his left foot.

"Do you forgive me?" She purred into his ear.

He pulled her back into his arms and proceeded to show her just how much he forgave her.

~~~

"Where am I and who hit me over the head?" Cassie moaned hoarsely as she slowly regained consciousness.

"So, sleeping beauty finally awakens." Rand growled softly from where he was sitting.

"Who's there? Where am I?" Cass was still barely awake.

"So full of questions aren't we." Rand got up out of his chair and walked towards the bed.

"My head hurts! What did you do to my head?" She sat up and held her head with her hands.

"You needed to be sedated Cassandra, but don't worry the drug should wear off soon."

"Did you say drugs! You drugged me?! What kind of idiots are you people! Can't you see that I happen to be very pregnant!" She screamed at him fearing for her child's life.

"Relax princess, your baby is perfectly fine. The sedative was not harmful for you or your baby. I have no desire of hurting an unborn innocent. My only grudge is with your brother and the rest of your friends." Rand snarled at her.

"My brother is no the only one on your hit list. I am on that list as well, but what I don't understand is why you are doing all of this now? What could possibly make you want to kidnap me and my unborn baby?" She was almost completely awake mow and fully aware of her surroundings.

"You are merely bait for my trap, so relax and enjoy your stay." Rand gave her an evil grin.

"I don't believe you! You want revenge on me! You want to take my baby away from me!" She screamed holding her middle in terror.

"Listen brat! I do not want the little rugrat that you are carrying inside of you, but what I do want is a rematch with Keith! I give you my solemn vow as a ninja that no harm will come to you or your child and I will not break that vow by dishonoring my clan!" He actually bowed to her and then left the room.

"Why am I not convinced." She asked her unborn child and received kick for an answer. "Oh! You're okay my little darling! I'm so happy and don't you worry because Mommy is going to protect you." She tried to reassure her child.

~~~

Eric and Nate watched from their fishing boat, as Andy, Alex, and Ariel headed for their father's lion. "What is the little brat up to now?" Eric growled.

"It looks like she's gonna try and steal her old man's lion." Nate grinned.

"No way is she that good! That lion id under major security." Eric eyed Nate as if he were nuts.

"She's just like her father Eric. So, that means that no one should ever try and underestimate her." Nate never could figure out why Eric constantly teased Andy every chance that he got.

"She's gonna get herself into major trouble." Eric frowned when he saw the girls access and then enter the lift to the lion.

"Don't sweat it Eric, she'll never get it up off the pedestal. Ariel will stop her." Nate watched in horror as the Lion lifted off the pedestal.

"You were saying." Eric eyed his friends pale face," Nate? Arus to Nathan are you there?"

"They are going to get themselves killed! They are only seven and a half! They don't know how to fly that lion!" Nate shouted.

"She's seven going on twenty and she can do anything that she sets her mind to." Eric had a very bad feeling about all of this.

~~~

Lance paced the control room floor. "But it was there ten minutes ago!" He shouted at Pidge.

"He's not there now and the key is missing." Pidge chuckled.

"This is not funny!" Lance roared.

"I know that Lance, but I can't seem to help myself." Pidge smirked. "She actually did it! That little munchkin of ours stole Keith's lion!"

"We don't know that for sure! He might have just wanted to go flying. He has had an attitude ever since he almost got totaled all those years ago." Lance was grasping at straws, desperate for a way out of this mess.

"No, he is very over protective of the castle and won't leave unless Keith is flying him." Hunk grinned at Lance.

"Look Lance, I can see only one solution to your problem." Sheena frowned at Lance.

"And what would that be?"

"You just have to tell Keith what happened and then he can find out who's in his lion." Sheena winced when Lance lost it completely.

"Are you out of your mind! He'll go mental and then rip me in half! This is his baby! No one is allowed in him, but Keith!" Lance roared. "I myself want to live to see the birth of my first born!"

"Lance we need that lion and you know it!" Pidge glared at him. "You are the leader of this mission, so you have to be the one to tell Keith."

"Fine! But if he kills me, I am going to haunt all of you forever!" Lance stalked from the room.

~~~

Keith and Allura were in the private wing of the castle looking for their girls. "That's funny I thought that I told them to finish their studies." Allura stood in the empty library and found their data pads, but there were no little girls hard at work doing their lessons on them.

Keith hobbled over to the table and picked up one of the data pads. "Dromi finished her lessons. Maybe they went outside to play." Keith eyed the open window." Or maybe they decided to go AWOL." He looked at the rope ladder that was attached to the window. "Where's Rora? She was looking after them a little while ago."

Allura went to check on Rora, only to find her sound asleep in her room. "What's this?" She picked up a little silver ball off of the plush carpeting.

Keith started swearing fluently under his breath, "That is a sleep ball! Andromeda sleep bombed her godmother!"

"Why would she do that? She adores her godmother." Allura was totally at a loss, as to what her angels were up to. "I thought that you kept all of this stuff under lock and key?"

"I do keep all of it locked up Allura, but it's not my fault that our child is a little thief!" Keith snarled in frustration.

"She's not a thief Keith, she is just really sneaky." Allura tried to calm her husband.

"She sleep bombed Rora, then snuck out of the castle, but why is she being so sneaky." Keith muttered darkly as he tried to figure out what his shadow was up to.

"Keith! We have a slight delay in our rescue plans." Lance found them in Rora's room. " What's with Rora?"

"Andy sleep bombed her." Keith snarled, "Now what's the problem?"

"I think that I already know the answer." Lance frowned. "She really is a chip off the old block, huh buddy."

"Black lion is gone isn't he." Keith's jaw was clinched in pure fury, as he snarled out those six words.

"She didn't!" Allura cried out in horror.

Keith grabbed his crutches and headed for the war room. *Grounded for life with no parole* he thought to himself as he stalked over to the main computer and barked out some commands. "Visual of Black Lion now!"

The screen showed Andy trying to keep the lion in the air. "Andromeda Marie Edwards GET BACK HERE WITH MY LION!" Keith roared at his daughter's image on the screen.

~~~

"Now you are really going to get it Dromi! I told you that we were going to get caught!" Ariel wailed at her sister who glared down at her.

"Shut up Ari or we're gonna end up in the lake!" She hissed down at Ari, who was working the pedals down bellow her feet.

"You shut up Dromi! After all you've got the easy part! I have to operate the pedals down here!" She hissed back causing Andy to lose her concentration sending the lion diving towards the lake.

"Now look at what you made me do!" She wailed as the lion began to sink to the bottom of the lake. "Blacky this is not funny and you hate getting wet! So bring us back up to the surface!" Andy shouted at Black lion's consul.

"The lion can't hear you baby sister! This is all your fault and Daddy is going to kill us!" Ari hissed as the lion continued to sink.

"Well, I know one thing that is going to happen to us, because of Dromi's little plan and that is that we are going to be grounded for life!" Alex glared at her siblings from her seat in back of the lion.

They were still arguing when Blue Lion stopped their decent. "Mommy!" Andy shouted in relief.

"Just what do you think that the three of you are doing in that lion! He is not your property and you have no business being in that lion!" Allura roared at her children from the viewing screen.

"Mom, I only wanted to see if I could fly him." Andy pouted.

"Andromeda Marie Edwards! What have I told you about being near or in any of the lions?!" She couldn't see her father, but his voice roared at them over the lion's intercom.

"That all the lions are off limits and that none of us could be in any of them without an adults supervision." Alex quoted her father word for word, as Andy turned to glare murderously at her, so she stuck her tongue out at her sister in response to her baby sister's glare. Who then reached over and yanked on one of Alex's braids, causing Alex to kick her in the shin and then all hell broke loose inside the lion.

"That is enough girls!" Allura ordered her children, but they ignored her.

"That does it, as soon as we surface I am so out of here!" Ari got up and stomped to the back of the lion.

"You are so going to pay for that Alex! No one kicks me and lives!" Andy pulled even harder on her sister's hair.

"Owy! Stop it Dromi! This is all you fault! It was your plan and we are not going to go down with you!" She wailed when Andy put her in a headlock.

"You two went along with my plan, so don't blame this all on me!" Andy snarled down at her.

"Dromi! You are really hurting me!" Alex wailed.

"That is enough Andromeda Marie! You're in enough trouble already and killing your sister is only going to make me angrier than I already am!" Keith glared at her from the viewing screen.

"Daddy, I know that you are really, really mad at me, but I just wanted to feel like I could help for once!" Andy told him softly tears shined in her amber eyes. "And this was all my fault, so leave Alex and Ari out of any punishment. All I really wanted to do was prove that I could help." She sniffled.

"Did you even once stop and think that maybe you are a little too young to be fighting the bad guys?" Keith tried to stay angry with his child.

"No Daddy." She whimpered.

"Andy, your only job is to be a normal little girl. You are supposed to play with dolls! Not fight the bad guys!" Keith tried to reason with his little shadow.

"Yuck!" and wrinkled her little nose in distaste at the very thought of playing with a doll. "I hate dolls daddy."

"Well, then there's also having tea parties with your sisters." Allura tried to help.

"No way Mommy! I'd rather play ball, climb a tree, or do my karate before ever playing dolls or having tea parties with my sisters!" Andy snapped, "besides that's boring stuff."

"That is not the point young lady, from now on you will play with your dolls, have tea parties with your sisters, and there will be no more unlady like activities for an entire month! Do I make myself clear!" Keith pronounced punishment on his child.

"A whole month, but I'll die of boredom!" She wailed in protest.

"That means straight A's in all of your classes and no more playing hooky with your uncles." Allura added on to her punishment.

"Jeez Daddy! Why didn't you just ground me!" She snarled in frustration.

"Because a grounding is to easy on you." Keith snarled back.

"What about Alex and Ari!"

"This is just their first offense, after all you did say that this was all your idea remember. "Keith glared at her.

"Me and my big mouth!" She groaned.

"Yes well, everyone out the lion is now at the surface." Allura ordered her children.

*And face my dad's wrath? No way I'd rather swim home.* Andy climbed out of the lion and looked down at their rescue craft and the at the faces of her beyond furious father, her uncles, Aunt Sheena, Koran, Nanny and her Aunt Myria who was the only one smiling; and she was actually giving her a thumbs up sign. She also spotted two boys in a fishing boat. *Not Eric! Not today! He's the last person on Arus that I want around me right now* Andy glared at the twelve-year-old boy who was staring at her with an amused grin on his face. *That does it I am going to swim home* she decided and then did a perfect dive into the cool water. (Much to everyone's disbelief and Eric's amusement)

"Andromeda get in this boat now!" Keith bellowed as his child attempted to swim the half a mile to the shore.

"Funny Keith, but she reminds me of you." Lance grinned.

"Don't remind me!" Keith snarled.

"I'll get her Daddy!" Ari dove off the boat before Allura could stop her.

"Ariel get back here!" Keith shouted.

"Don't worry your highness. We will go rescue your daughters." Nate and Eric shouted in unison.

"Who are they?" Keith knew in his heart who the two boys were, but needed to hear someone else say it first.

"That is Nathan Scott Exavier and Eric Anthony Lawson, the are two of the young men who scored high on the academy entrance exams and are also friends of our children." Allura frowned at him.

"Well I'll be damned." Lance muttered.

"Unreal" Hunk growled.

"Not possible." Pidge frowned.

"I told you guys that it wasn't a dream." Keith grinned at them.

~~~

"Dromi stop you know that you can't swim that far!" Ariel had no clue that the boys were only a few feet behind her.

"I can too Ari, so go away!"

"I'm the only one of us that can swim that far and you know it!" Ariel shouted at her.

"Say's who Ariel!" Andy was trying to ignore the cramp in her leg.

Ariel winced as she felt a slight cramp in her leg; "You win Dromi! Now stop this before you hurt yourself!" Ariel pleaded with her sister, who she knew was beginning to get a cramp in her leg.

"I've got you Ariel." Nate scooped her up out of the water and into the boat.

"Hey! Let me go you...oh hi Nathan." She eyes him adoringly.

"Don't worry Ari, Eric will rescue your sister." Nathan grinned down at her.

Eric dove off the boat and swam towards Andy. "Dromi this is really stupid first you steal your father's lion, then you deep six it in the lake, and then follow that up by trying to swim yourself to death." Eric scolded her. "That's not only dumb its down right childish."

"Who asked you Eric! Just leave me alone!" She kicked her legs even harder causing a huge cramp in her leg. "Owy!" She cried out in pain as she sank under the water.

"I'm coming Andy!" Eric shouted as he watched her sink under water. He dove under and caught her in his arms keeping her against him as he swam up to the surface and then towards his boat.

"I'm really going to get it!" She sobbed as the pain rocked her little body.

"Sweetie from the look on your parent's faces I would say that you are way past major trouble." He chuckled as she glared up at him.

"Shut up Eric!" She tried to wriggle free of him as he helped her into the boat.

"Is how you say thank you for saving your life?" He grinned down at her.

"Thank you Eric! Now let me go!" She hissed at him not noticing that Eric had been helped onto the bigger boat and that they were now in front of her father.

"Young man I understand that you and your friend are going to be attending the academy." Keith was very proud of the boy for saving his child's life.

"Yes sir, we want to train and someday be part of the next Voltron force." Eric told him proudly ignoring the squirming girl in his arms.

"Well for saving my daughters lives you both have earned a spot on that team and I would like for you train to be the next leader of the Voltron Force and to fly Black lion." Keith gave Eric his reward for saving his child.

"YOU WHAT!?" Andy wailed as she tried to get free of Eric.

"I would be honored sir." Eric accepted Keith's reward and then handed Andy over to Lance. "Now if you'll excuse us, we have to get home. Our shuttle leaves for Earth tomorrow and we have a lot to do before we leave." Eric jumped back onto his boat.

"Bye Ariel." Nate waved.

"Bye Nathan." Ariel waved back.

"Bye Andy! Try and stay out of trouble." Eric shouted at her.

"Drop Dead Eric!" She muttered to herself causing Lance to chuckle in amusement.

"Andromeda!" Her father snarled at her.

"Bye Eric! Thank you for rescuing me!" She shouted at him.

"See ya later brat!" Eric grinned at her and then headed his boat towards the shore.

"Well brat now can we go rescue your Aunt Cassie?" Lance grinned at his niece.

"Don't ask me Uncle Lance, I'm just an innocent little girl." She told him sweetly and yawned tiredly against his shoulder, not noticing everyone's laughter.

~~~ on to chapter 13~~~~

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.