AN- Wow! I am floored by the response this fic has gotten! Thank you so much for all of the likes, and kind reviews they really encouraged me to write this next chapter. So, once again, thank you! I hope you enjoy this chapter as well!

Disclaimer- I do not own, or claim to own, any of these characters; they all belong to their respected owners, I simply create fanfiction with them. Any similarities to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

Shiro's progress was slow, but it was progress; thankfully the area was flat allowing him to half-limp half-fly his way to Pidge's beacon. Please let her be okay! He prayed to anyone who would listen, She has to be okay! Shiro grunted after a particularly hard landing jarred his new injuries; to be fair, he had hastily looked himself over, and just as fast, wrapped a roll of bandages around his bleeding torso and over what appeared to be a burn on his right leg, before he ran out of his lion to get Pidge. Slightly passing the half-way point to the Green Lion was when he heard it-

"Lance stay with me!"

Keith's voice froze Shiro to his core while fear clawed its way into him, Keith's voice had started off clear before growing distant, Shiro guessed that Keith had removed his helmet at that point, but he had to try anyways.

"Keith what's going on? What happened to Lance? Keith!" Shiro growled out of frustration as he forced his body onwards again, he knew that Keith wouldn't bother answering him, too engrossed on the situation at hand, even if he had heard him. His progress speed had drastically increased as anger fueled his movements, he needed to get to Pidge, if she could find a way to contact the Castle they could all meet up, and Lance could get into a healing pod…again. As he reached the three-quarters point, he tried his coms again,

"Pidge can you hear me? Hello? Pidge?" the static on the other end did nothing to improve his mood, but he refused to fear too much for her though, he knew his coms had to be damaged as Keith had heard something from Lance before reaching him while Shiro had heard nothing. The impact zone around the Green Lion didn't look that bad to be honest, but he knew looks could be deceiving, he was proven correct as the stomach door creaked open slowly from its awkward position having landed on top of its front right leg forcing the corner of the shield to be wedged into the ground. After what felt like hours the door finally open enough for him to get inside only to be stopped by another door, the protective door had a large dent in it and there was no way it would open on its own, Great. Shiro thought as his hand started to glow he jammed it into one side and, grunting from the effort and strain on his body, forced the final door open.

"Pidge!" he called as he raced inside, "Are you okay?" he asked gently removing her helmet. She had a small cut above her eyebrow, but other than what was most likely a bad case of bruises underneath her armor, she appeared to be fine-and unconscious.

"Pidge I need you to wake up." He said as he shook her gently, "I will pour water on you if I have to." His warning worked as a "Don't you freakin dare." was slurred out from the small person in his arms.

"Are you okay? Can you move?" humor immediately replaced with concern as golden eyes slowly started to open.

"That was totally Lance's fault." She mumbled as she started to sit up, rubbing her shoulder as she went. Shiro had to bite back a laugh, helping her stand up which turned out to be a mistake as a strangled "ouch!" was pulled from her lips as she plopped back into her chair holding her left leg. Shiro carefully shifted her armor to look at her leg, finding a relatively small, but deep cut- almost as if glass had pierced her, but upon looking around he found none, and there didn't appear to be any inside of the wound. Can no one escape leg injuries? Shiro thought as he grabbed bandages to tightly wrap the wound, Well, at least hers isn't currently bleeding.

"How are the others?" she asked after he finished, attempting to stand again, more carefully this time.

"Keith is hurt, but okay. My coms only allow me to talk to him, he's with Lance, but I don't know how he is; I can't hear anything, and Keith won't answer me."

"Here let me try." she said calmly before taking a deep breath and full on yelling, "Lance, Keith! Stop making heart eyes at each other and answer the coms! We got a problem here!"

That was the first time that day that Shiro was glad his coms didn't work properly as standing next to Pidge practically made him jump he didn't even want to imagine what that must sound like through the coms.


"Okay, uh, try it now." Coran called as he hung upside down in the main turbine trying to restore the power to the engines, Allura walked back over to Coran's recently repaired station and attempted the startup sequence, only to hear Coran yelp through the coms.

"Nope not that. Definitely not that."

"Have you tried adjusting the vlexagane?"

"Yes, but it meant we didn't get enough power to the somoflange."

"What about the poklones on the agroclams?"

"It's worth a shot. Just a tick!"

"Just a tick." Allura sighed, they had been there for nearly a varga and were still without power; she was running out of ideas. They had gotten the navigation system back online, and they could get their communications working, but it meant that the engines wouldn't have power, and now trying to fix the engines the long-range coms, that they would need to hear the paladins, were shorting out. Father what should we do? We must help the paladins, but we can't get the ship to work. The mice seemed to sense her distress and snuggled close at her feet trying to provide some form of comfort.

"I don't suppose you know what we should do?" she asked, leaning down to look at them; they shook their small heads, but still put on a little show to try to make her feel better.

"Okay Princess let's try it again." Coran called through the coms as Allura carefully stepped around the mice to get back to his control panel to begin the startup sequence again. A loud sputtering sound was heard, but after what felt like a deca-phoeb, they thrummed to life and held strong.

"Yes, Coran you did it!" Allura cheered, a smile once again gracing her features.

"Ha, ha! I did! I'm going to try to restore the long-range coms again, I have a feeling we're going to need them."

"Sounds good Coran. I'll set a course for the planet. We're still pretty far out."


"Lance?" Keith called, gently cupping his face, he felt a pulse, but it did little to reassure him, Lance was going in and out of consciousness so much that it was difficult to get a read on his injuries. The obvious ones were the dried blood from his nose and mouth, and some form of a stab wound on the right side of his chest, but for the life of him Keith couldn't find what had hit him.

"Lance, buddy, I need you to wake up and stay awake for me." He said worried as he carefully removed Lance's chest plate, he was fairly certain he heard Shiro yell something through the coms, but at this point he honestly couldn't care less. Lance, now freed of his damaged chest plate, let out a groan as Keith gently inspected the wound before suddenly stopping when Lance weakly gripped his hand after he hit a more sensitive area.

"Lance?" Keith practically whispered, as Lance's eyelids started to drop again, "Lance, I need you to stay awake. Can you do that for me?" Lance slurred out a response, but his eyes stayed open, slowly releasing Keith's hand to allow him to continue. Okay good, you're going to love me after this. Keith thought sarcastically as he grabbed bandages and a disinfectant bottle, and sure enough, Keith was right as Lance's eyes flew fully open and his body twitched violently as Keith poured some of the bottles contents onto the wound.

"I know, buddy, I know. Hang on I'm almost done." he tried to soothe Lance as he slowly came down from the shock of the sudden burn on his open wound as it was wrapped by Keith.

"Hey at least you're staying awake now, right?" Lance managed a halfhearted glare at him and thought about smacking him before Pidge's voice, clear as day, despite neither of them wearing their helmets rang through.

"Lance, Keith! Stop making heart eyes at each other and answer the coms! We got a problem here!"

Keith suddenly remembered that he was supposed to tell Shiro what he saw but had instead ripped his helmet off. With his newly retrieved helmet on his head he and Lance both answer through his,

"Sorry what's going on- "

"We aren't making heart eyes!"

Keith rolled his eyes and tried again.

"Pidge what's up?"

"Oh, you know, we're just stranded on an alien planet, most of us are injured, and I'm pretty sure you gave Shiro a heart attack by not answering him."

"I was a little busy."

"Never mind that now. Keith how's Lance?" Shiro's voice cut in before they could start arguing.

Keith walked a little further away from Lance before answering in a low voice,

"He's not good Shiro. Some kind of stab wound to his chest, I can't find what caused it. I don't think he'll be able to walk even though he'll probably say he can. I don't know if I can move him by myself or if I even should."

Shiro looked back to Pidge then speaking directly to her, "Pidge see if you can find Hunk." before turning around and addressing Keith. "Alright just stay there we'll find Hunk and come to you. Oh, and Keith? Check Lance's legs for injuries."

Keith was confused by that but did as he was told anyways, thinking that Shiro was worried he had missed something since he had gotten distracted by Lance's chest, and sure enough he was right, Lance had a long cut on his left thigh, but it didn't appear too deep as he wrapped that as well.

"You were right Shiro, he had a cut on his left leg."

"I knew it." Shiro muttered, Why could no one avoid leg injuries? He thought again before Pidge interrupted his thoughts.

"I found Hunk, he seems to be about half-way between our current positions, but I don't think his coms are working. I can't get anything through to him and I don't even hear static on his end."

"Alright, Keith, Lance, stay where you are, Pidge and I will get Hunk and then we'll meet up with you."

"And maybe I can get a signal out from the Yellow Lion, Green's too damaged to get a strong enough one out without a boost."

"Okay let's go Pidge."

"We're coming for you buddy. Just hang on." She said as they exited the Green Lion to get the remaining paladin.

AN- Hope you liked that! Again, please leave a like; or comment what you thought so I can improve. Chapter 3 is on its way! See you next time!

~Kiera540