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"WHAT GOING ON!" Pidge yelled, confusion and fear in her voice. "Why didn't my scanners pick up a reality rift? They were scanning for space anomalies the whole time!"
"Maybe this is a spontaneous rift? Like, it opened too quick for the scanners to pick it up and give us a warning?" Lance suggested.
"Well, whatever it is, we're about to come to the end of it." Coran pointed out helpfully.
Lance looked out and gasped at what he saw. It was the castle, except it wasn't. This version had the same build of the castle he was used too, but it was black and the lights were a green color instead of the white and blue he had grown accustomed too. The castle also had security drones circling it and they were bigger than he was remembered.
"Sooo" Hunk began. "We are in an alternate reality, but are WE the evil ones here. Because I don't want to meet an evil version of me. Is it just me that doesn't want to do that?"
"No Hunk, we shouldn't meet them if they are evil" Coran said, "But I don't think that is the case"
"What do you mean?" Shiro asked.
"As I have said, my grandfather built the castle of lions. He made two different designs for the royal family to choose from. In our reality, King Alanery, Allura's great-grandfather, chose the white and blue design we know. So it would appear that in this reality, he chose to make the castle look like this."
"So it's not evil, good to know. I think we should go ask them for help." Pidge said "We need to get back to our reality as soon as possible. The multiplarians still need our help!"
"I agree with Pidge, we don't know how they were doing in the first place." Keith "helpfully" added.
Lance rolled his eyes "Wow Keith, thanks for telling us that." Sarcasm evident in his voice.
"What!? I was just saying that we really didn't know the state the multiplarians were in when we were on our way there, but they could be dead now for all we know."
Lance clenched Blues controls so tight that she started whining at him.
"Sorry girl" He said to her, loosening his grip.
"They will be fine paladin Lance, you must focus on returning home." Blue said through their mental link.
"I know that Blue" Lance responded silently. "I just wish Keith didn't have to say it like that, like they are going to die. We might get back in time to save them."
"We will return in time to save them, I sense that they are not moving at all, it is as if time has stopped in our reality."
"What? How do you know that?"
"I can sense Princess Allura's life force from anywhere. It is currently stopped, but still present. As if it is frozen somehow."
"How would that happen? Is she ok? Does she need a pod? What-"
"Paladin Lance! She is fine, time has simply stopped, so she and the rest of the galaxy are fine. When we return, it will be as if we never left."
"Ok... thanks Blue." Lance said out loud.
"What did Blue do?" Pidge asked
"Oh, she just said that in our reality, time has stopped, so we don't need to hurry because of the Multiplarians."
"What? How does she know that?" Shiro asked.
"She's connected to Allura. And Allura's quintessence has… stopped for some reason, I don't really understand. But Blue said that time has stopped in our reality… for some reason." Lance answered.
"Well… that's good." Keith said.
As they were talking, they had flown closer to the alternate reality castle ship. Lance could see that this castle ship was more dented and scratched than the one he knew.
When they were 100 feet away, Lance received a hail.
"Did you guys get hailed or is it just me?" Hunk tentatively asked.
"I think we all were hailed Hunk," Shiro said. "I'll answer it and see who they are."
When Shiro answered the hail, the Paladins were met with a picture of Shiro in,not white,but black Paladin armor on their monitors.
"I-I am Shiro, black Paladin of Voltron." The alternate reality Shiro (ar Shiro?) announced. "State your business and explain why you have our lions and look like us."
Coran, to everyone's surprise, was the one who answered.
"We will explain everything. Please allow us to land our lions and we can talk face to face. As you have scanned, we aren't in fake lions. We are from an alternate reality and require assistance in order to return home."
After a moment of hesitation, Ar Shiro answered.
"You may board. Please go to the bay your lion belong to. Then make your way to the lounge. If you make any move to attack, you will be apprehended"
When the video cut off the paladins sat in silence for an awkward minute. Lance was the one to talk first.
"Weeellllll… that went well. Did you guys see his armor? It was black. Like, black on black. It looks cooler than ours, can we change our armor? Maybe black armor is better camouflage...or it could make the Galra flee in terror. Or-"
"LANCE!" Keith snapped, ending Lances rambling "Would you be quite!"
"Keith, calm down." Shiro scolded."let's just go to the bays and talk to them. Maybe they can help us fight the Galra. Or, we could help them."
As the team flew to their familiar docking bays, Lance added his insight once again.
"Well, it should be fun to meet ourselves. I bet I'm an awesome pilot in this reality...just like in our reality." He said with finger guns.
"Maybe you don't use face masks in this reality." Keith suggested, grinning when lance began to stutter and protest.
A/N: Ok, so this chapter was kind of slow, but next time things will get interesting. The Paladins are going to meet themselves.
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Ok, so I never really said when this story takes place. It's sometime in season 1, but the Paladins know about alternate realities.
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