Welcome everyone. I was introduced to the Voltron franchise when I was six years old and the show was "The Third Dimension." When "Legendary Defender" came to my attention I was most intrigued, even more when I found it that it is a spiritual successor to the 2011 ThunderCats series. Thus I have decided to adapt my ThunderCats OR (Original Race) the Evabon for a different show entirely: Legendary Defender. These Evabon won't be a carbon copy of their ThunderCats counterparts in fact they will be very heavily influenced by the Asgardians of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to give them a more even footing against the Galra. The planned length for this story is nineteen chapters I do not intend to have this be any longer or any shorter. At the end of each chapter shall by a voice cast, as I tend to mentally voice cast actors for my characters. Enjoy and review.

Enemies of Altea

For Earth there had been the Viking Age. In the eighth and ninth century, the Vikings were dedicated to a pagan god of war called Odin. Cramped by the confines of their barren ice-bound northlands, they exploited their skill as shipbuilders to spread a reign of terror then unequaled in violence and brutality in all the records of history. The greatest wish of every Viking was to die sword in hand and enter Valhalla, where a hero's welcome awaited them from the god Odin. The compass was unknown and they could steer only by the sun and the stars. Once fog closed in, they were left helpless and blind. After all the world was flat, sail too fair off course and the black wind would blow them across the poison sea that laid to the west and over the edge of the world into limbo. Their abiding aim was to conquer England, then a series of petty kingdoms. Each the jealous rival of the next. Thus when the Vikings set forth to rob and plunder England, they never sailed out of sight of land. They confined their attacks to swift overnight raids. It was no accident that the English book of prayer contained this sentence: "Protect us, O Lord, from the wrath of the Northmen."

For the universe at large, there had been the Evabon Age. The Evabon were allocated to a heathen spirit denominated Voton. Having long since been unified by a powerful Chieftain, the Evabon sought someone new to fight and thus turned to their neighbors and ushered in a rule of alarm that would be incomparable in bloodshed and brutality until the reign of Zarkon. The greatest aim of every Evabon was to expire weapon in fist and access the Hall of the Slain, where a champion's greeting awaited them from the spirit Voton. Their constant ambition was to annex Altea, having since fully annexed three other planets and part of another. Thus when Altea was destroyed the Evabon turned an eye to the Galra Empire seeing it as a better acquisition than Altea.

So it was that two enemies of Altea came to be enemies of each other. Both wanted to conquer the other but both sides were so equal in victories that things were not really going anywhere.

Then news of Voltron's return came to the Evabon. The very thing that had prevented them from ever conquering Altea was back.

"This war with the Galra is going nowhere!" A gray skinned, black haired, heavily scarred Evabon that was past his prime spoke in his hall on the eighth of the planet that been conquered and uncreatively named "Evabonz." His name was Gard the Deportee and was the equivalent of a sixty-nine year old human in age, an Evabon's lifespan being five thousand and fifty years. His attire consisted simply of a silver loincloth, black boots and golden gauntlets. He was muscular, blind in his right eye, longhaired and the crown of his head was completely bald. Upon his chest had been burned a lightning bolt. He had put it there himself. "Thus I have devised another method."

"And what pray tell would that be?" asked a younger Evabon known as Llud. He was a descendant of Gard, the equivalent of an eighteen-year old human in age and was the ghost of Gard as a young man. He was dressed similarly save for not wearing gauntlets and preferring the color brown to gold, silver or black. Also he wore sandals instead of boots.

"We capture the Defenders of the Universe!" exclaimed Gard, bringing a fist down upon a table. "Then we bring them back to Evabonia."

"What then?" asked Llud. "Once we have brought them back to the place you were exiled from so long ago what do we do?"

"The paladins are a bargaining chip." Stated Gard. "By bringing them back to Evabonia our family regains its place there instead of spending our existence in exile on this semi-annexed planet! Once there we bargain with Zarkon. We give the paladins to him in exchange for Evabon being his personal bodyguards."

"You are planning for Zarkon's own bodyguards to assassinate him?" asked Llud.

"Indeed I am!" Replied Gard.

"But if we should fail…"

"We fail? Screw your courage to the sticking place, my boy, and we shall not fail!"

Llud went silent looking to four fingered hands and thought for a moment. Zarkon had been conquering the known universe since the time of Gard's grandfather's infancy and that was very long ago. He could not understand the importance of annexing the Galra Empire on the grounds that the Galra had destroyed Altea.

Gard merely placed a hand on the back of his neck. He would not admit it but he too had his doubts. He heard rumor of Zarkon having a son meaning Zarkon's death would not be the end of it all if the rumor had any basis.

Voice Cast

Gard the Deportee – William Smith

Llud – Alexander Ludwig