*Taking place after Keith's "death" (he didn't die, by the way), and Lance ran off in an escape pod because of it and things happen

Keith just flew into a barrier to break it, and explosion happened and nothing came in through the mics on the other sides. "Keith..? Keith!?" Lance said, worriedly as the other paladins were with him, Allura and Coran, along as Pidge's older brother, Matthew. Matthew stepped up and moved Lance away from the seat, Shiro taking his place in the seat. "Keith, are you out there? Answer us, we're worrying here!" Shiro tried, but no answer. He then turned to Matthew, who was holding Lance back from punching something. " Matt, get Lance away from the room. He can't be here with the way he feels." With that said, Shiro turned back around and tried to reach Keith, as did the others.

Matthew, now with Lance in a separate room like Shiro said, is holding Lance down from doing anything stupid.

"Lance, buddy, pull yourself together. Don't think negative, think positive. Keith is still alive!" Matthew tried to reassure him, his arms around the blue Paladin. Lance stopped struggling, unlike a few minutes ago.

"Matt, you don't know if he's alive or not, you know we love him, I love him, he said he'd come back, but he's gone now…"

Lance was bawling his eyes out onto Matthew's shirt.

"It will be okay, Lance.." Matthew reassured him once again.

The next morning, Matthew wa still with Lance in his room. Lance was sleeping against Matt's chest. 'I should be careful not to wake him..' Matthew thought, as he carefully moved Lance off of him, standing to his feet and quietly walking out of the room.

When Matt exited the room, Shiro, Pidge, Hunk, Allura and Coran we're all standing outside, all happy faces. Matthew looked confused. "What's going on-" Matthew started, but was cut off by Hunk. "Keith is alive, we just got through to him around 1:00 this morning, he's on his way here. He's coming back!"

"What? That's amazing, I have to let Lance know!" That said, Matthew ran back into Lance's room, but when he went to the bed, Lance was gone. "Lance, Great news!- Wait..Lance..? Lance where are you?!"

Matthew ran out of the room, going to the lounge to where everyone else went. "Lance is gone..!" Everyone looked towards him, Shiro and Pidge Walking up to him. Shiro started. "Matt, are you sure he wasn't anywhere else in the room?" Matthew nodded his head, shaking slightly. "Lance isn't there..someone check the escape pods.." Shiro gestured to Allura and Coran, as well as Pidge to help them, to check on the escape pods. They did so and Shiro lead Matthew to the couch and seated him down as he sat beside him.

"Okay, now Matt, calm down..we'll find him before he gets himself hurt..and for Keith so he isn't worried about what happened to him when he gets here." Shiro stated, calming Matthew down, Matthew nodding his head in response.

Allura, Coran and Pidge looked back to the other three. "One of the escape pods are gone, and we check the cameras down the hall to the pods, Lance was there." Allura said, trying to sound calm. "What time was it?" Shiro asked, Matthew curled up on the couch, holding his knees to his chest. Allura looked at the time the cameras saw him."It was 1:15 am when he left, the same time we got in contact with Keith..seeing that he left when we got contact, Lance didn't hear us getting in contact with him.."

Everyone went silent, the Pidge spoke. "Well, what are we going to do? Lance doesn't know that Keith is alive, so where could he have gone?"

"The escape pods have tracker in them, we can see where he's at and get him back before Keith-" Right before Shiro could finish his sentence, Keith came running in through the doors.

"I'm here! I know you all were worried, but does Lance know I'm okay? You said over the comms that he had to be taken to a different room with Matthew..where is he?" Keith asked, looking at everyone, out of breath. Everyone was trying to keep calm, but their faces wouldn't change from worried to happy.

Shiro spoke after a while. "Keith..we told Matt you were alive first, since Lance was sleeping, but when he went into the room to tell Lance..he wasn't there..one of the escape pods are missing, we're trying to find him-"

Before Shiro could finish, Matthew cut him off and sat up to look at Kaith. "Listen, Keith. I know you don't know me very well, but trust me, we will find him..if you want, me and you can go out searching for him..it's my fault, I was suppose to be with him.." Shiro stopped Matt, calming him down.

"We can only assume that he used a decoy of himself last night and snuck out that way. We were all standing at the door this morning, telling Matthew the good news about you, so he couldn't have gone out during that time." Allura stated, looking at Keith when she finished.

Keith clinched his fists. "He's gone right when I get here..? I especially came back to see him, of course all of you too, but him most of all.." Keith walked to the couch, grabbing Shiro and Matthew. "C'mon, we'll take red and find him. Fast, before he hurts himself, or worse.." That said, keith went to his room, changing into his Paladin uniform, grabbing some clothes from his drawer as well, in case Lance needed them.

When Keith came out, Shiro was already ready, Matthew beside him. "Let's do this quick." Shiro said to the two, then looked back behind him to the other. "We'll be in contact on the way, you guys track the pod down and give us coordinates to where he's at."

After everything was taken care of, Keith, Shiro and Matthew all went into the red lion, searching for Lance. 'Hopefully he is safe..'

*CHAPTER ONE, BRO! WOOOHOOO!

*Sorry, got excited. I hope you readers like this fanfic I am writing. Chapter 2 will be out shortly, just be patient. Now, time for milk and cookies with my stuffed animals. Don't worry, that's perfectly normal for a sixteen-year-old to be doing that. Fair warning beforehand, there will be some Klance moments as well as Latance moments in here.

*Enjoy reading!

~Sara/Onodera Ritsu