Shiro was having the best sleep in years. Sure, there were dreams, but they were pleasant. Filled with memories of his parents, Matt, and Katie. Katie, Matt, and himself were about to do something when he was abruptly pulled out of his dream.
"Pidge! Pidge come on. You slept all day yesterday and we can't find Shiro. He disappeared yesterday." Lance, whined.
Shiro started to get up, but arms were wrapped around his waist.
Pidge was sleeping, her snoring sounding somewhat like a lawn mower. Shiro smiled and gently removed her arms, somewhat reluctantly. Pidge was cute when she slept, even if she was as loud as an aircraft.
Shiro got out of bed, shocked at how cold he felt without Katie's body heat. He navigated his way over to the door and opened it, just as Lance was about to yell something else.
Shiro instantly realized that that was a really bad idea as Lance's jaw dropped. Shiro blushed, suddenly realizing that him walking out of Pidge's room, disheveled and tired with Pidge on her bed with a Shiro sized dent in the mattress looked like to Lance.
"It's not-, "Shiro started, but Lance suddenly shook his head.
"Nope, never mind. This is the last time I try to get Pidge up; Keith or Hunk can do it." Lance turned around but shot one last look at Shiro. A lewd smile and a wink, which caused Shiro's already inflamed face to blush three shades darker.
"I, no- Pidge and I, we didn't- I wouldn't-," Shiro blubbered, going after Lance, but he was already gone.
Shiro sighed and went back to Pidge's bed sitting down. He shook his head.
"I have to clear this up."
"Clear what up?" Pidge yawned, startling Shiro, nearly giving him a heart attack. Shiro put his hand to his heart and whirled around to see Pidge's unconcerned, tired face staring back at him.
"Pidge, you're awake! How are you feeling?" Shiro gasped trying to hide his still reddened face and surprised face.
"I'm fine, I was just tired. I wasn't sick or anything. Thanks for bringing me back here and staying. You didn't have to. Did you get some sleep, though? Because I would feel bad if you spent all day watching over me and you never slept. Are you tired? You should go back to your-," Pidge babbled, but Shiro cut her off.
"Katie, I slept here. I'm fine." Katie smiled and nodded, standing up.
"Okay, that's good." She straightened her clothes and pulled Shiro up. "Let's go eat, I'm starving. How long were we out for anyway?"
Shiro shrugged and let Pidge lead him out of her room and towards the kitchen.
They arrived several minutes later, still holding hands, but neither noticing. Pidge immediately led Shiro to the food goo machine and pulled out two bowls to hold the goo in.
Pidge filled the bowls up and they sat down together talking and laughing until Hunk, Keith, Allura, and Lance came in. All of them with confused and shocked expressions on their faces. Keith was the first one to speak.
"So, you two are together now?" Shiro spluttered and almost spit out her food and Pidge was sent into a coughing fit.
"What?" She gasped as she started to calm down. "Where did you hear that?"
"No, we are not." Shiro said, gritting his teeth looking towards Lance with a glare. Lance, however, looked shocked.
"But earlier you were in her room after you both disappeared for all of yesterday. Plus, she was sleeping, and you answered her door, looking dazed and ruffed up."
Pidge looked towards Shiro, both getting looks from the others. Shiro's eyes widened.
"That doesn't mean anything!" Shiro protested but was only met with pursed lips and pointed looks.
Pidge shook her head, smiling innocently, shoving another mouthful of goo into her mouth before speaking.
"Shiro slept with me yesterday, that's why he was there." She said before realizing what she said. "No! Not like that. He was tired because we're usually up at night and sometimes we get together."
Pidge was met with scandalized looks. She spluttered and shook her head, not finding the right words, so Shiro stepped in.
"Bad dreams keep us up and since we both get up around the same time from them it usually ends with us talking. Or Pidge is awake trying to find information about her brother and I just happen to be awake, so we talk." Shiro stated, his blush dying down only to return tenfold at Hunk's next statement.
"But that doesn't excuse why you were in her room all day yesterday."
Shiro was met with nods and words of agreement. Pidge stood up and grabbed Shiro's hand, stacking both her and Shiro's bowls.
"I was tired, and he doesn't get much sleep. I didn't want anymore dreams about Matt, so I asked Shiro to stay for a little bit and I guess we both fell asleep." Pidge explained, lying a little bit about what actually happened. "Anyway, we need to make up on our missed training, so we will see you later."
They were about to walk out, or at least Pidge was going to walk and Shiro was going to get dragged behind, when the ship's alarms went off and Coran rushed in.
"Paladins, we are under attack. The Galra have found us."
Shiro's eyes widened and he looks at everyone, suddenly serious, all traces of blushing gone.
"Get to your Lions, Keith, stay with Coran make sure you do what he says. If anyone gets in, fight like hell."
Shiro and the other Paladins raced off to their lions, but before Shiro left he and Pidge shared a look, that made both smile despite their current situation.
In three dobosh all were fighting off the Galra fighter ships weaving and dodging.
It was an easy fight at first, then Zarkon's ship geared up and shot an ion blast at the Castle of Lions.
The ship's shield flickered a bit but came back online after a few ticks.
"Coran?" Shiro asked.
"The ship is fine. That blast was more powerful than I thought." He replied.
Shiro nodded to himself and focused on defending the castle.
"Pidge, Allura, and Lance, I need you on offense. Hunk, defense." Shiro ordered.
"Got it."
It was a tough fight. Zarkon blasted the castle several times before their shield came down. More fighters came from Zarkon's ship forcing them all on defense.
Shiro was fighting off seven of the fighters with Hunk as he caught sight of Pidge's lion forced towards Zarkon's ship.
"Guys, I need some back up. There's too many for me to fight off alone."
"Can't Pidge. Allura's barely holding off on her own and I'm under attack as well." Lance answered.
"Pidge, I'll try to get over to you, but I have no idea how quickly. Hunk and I are trapped as well. We'll come over as soon as you can." Shiro commented as well.
"Shoot! Guys, they have the-," Pidge started, but then she screamed, and her voice cut out.
"Pidge?" Shiro asked but was only met with silence. He quickly maneuvered the Galra ships and made his way to Pidge, but she was getting sucked into the ship by the pink ray.
Shiro cursed silently and made his way back to Hunk activating his lion's jaw blade and cutting the remaining ships down.
"Hunk knock Pidge's lion out of the ray before she gets sucked into the ship." Shiro ordered, keeping his voice void of any emotion.
"Got it." Hunk replied and soared toward Pidge but was cut off by more battle ships. Lance and Allura watched Pidge get closer and closer to the ship as they were still occupied and couldn't do anything.
"Shiro, watch out!" Hunk hollered. Shiro, luckily got a good enough warning and quickly moved out of the way. Zarkon's ship geared up and shot an extremely powerful shot, at least twice the power of the first shot, at the Castle.
The Castle's lights flicked before they went out.
"Coran, Keith. Are you okay?" Allura whimpered. There was no reply. They all waited, worried and afraid that they lost two more members of Voltron. Then static was heard, and Coran's voice rang through.
"Yes, we are fine, Paladins. The ship, however, lost power and the cryo-pods are offline. The gravity is off, but we are trying to get it back online. Number Five we will need your help."
All the remaining Paladins eyes widened as they realized that the Green Lion was not there. They looked back at Zarkon's ship and saw the pink ray was gone and so was Pidge.
When they were occupied worrying about their ship, Zarkon got ahold of her and all of his battle ships retreated.
"No." Shiro gasped as Zarkon's ship hit hyper speed and they soon lost sight of the monster that kidnapped their friend and colleague.
"We will get you back Katie, I promise." Shiro rasped, more to himself than to the others.
