Hello Readers! I have had so many of you asking me to continue. I was surprised to see the feedback on this FanFic. I was meaning for it to be a ONE-SHOT but quite a few of you asked for more lol. You guys and your comments always get me inspired and pumped to write. Thank you for all your patience and waiting so long for the next Chap. So here is the next Chap :) I do hope you like it!
-WhiteTigerLily
Hunk sat back in his seat and taps a few bottoms to operate the system on the screen next to him he pops some carrots in his mouth and observes what's on the screen. Deep in thought he almost didn't hear the automatic doors open to the control pit.
"Oh hey Rover." Hunk waved and the little robot beeped in reply and headed straight to the control panel. Hunk rose a brow of curiosity and peered over at what Rover was doing. "Where's Pidge? Your always with her right?" Hunk asked. Rover swayed and pointed his pinchers to the window. Hunk turned his head and saw that Pidge was putting gloves on. With a few clicks and switches Hunk heard a voice on the speaker.
"Novice traditional will begin in approximately 10 seconds." Pidge readied her stance and Hunk leaned back in his chair excited.
"Yeah all right Pidge!" He knew she couldn't hear him but it was still fun to say regardless. Hunk winced and cringed at all her combat moves and how she tore off the robots head. Hunk was loving every minute. He felt a sense of pride seeing that she has learned so much in only a few months. "Good job Keith." It was thanks to him. Just as Hunk said that, here came in Keith. Stopping the simulation.
"Awww! C'mon Keith! It was getting good!" Hunk whined but he wasn't disappointed for too long because now Keith and Pidge were facing each other. "Oh this should be good." And it was amazing to see, they were fighting like it was second nature. For a few nail biting moments it was getting intense until Keith pinned Pidge down. Hunk sighed, feeling bad for Pidge.
"You almost had him," Hunk said sadly and looked down for split second and then back up again to see that Pigde was kissing Keith. Hunk squealed in surprise and fell backward in his chair. He rubbed his lower back and he crawled back up still shocked at the situation and laughed at how she kicked him the nuts to win the fight. Hunk frowned. They began to argue...alot. What was wrong? If only he could hear what they were saying. But before he knew it Pidge started crying, yelled at Keith and ran down the Corridor. Hunk tensed irritated. He stood up with Rover hovering over his shoulder. He opened the door and looked down at Keith.
"What did you do?!"
"Hunk?!" Keith tensed as Hunk jogged down the stairs to Keith. "W-What are you doing here?" Keith asked. Before Hunk could say anything Rover hit into Keith's head. Keith winced and rubbed it annoyed. Rover vibrated while giving off an orange light, Keith assumed it was angry mode and Rover flew off after Pidge. Hunk chuckled
"I guess better him then me."
"What?! Dude what did I do?!"
"Yeah what did you do?"
"Nothing!"
Hunk looked at him in disbelief. "Then why is Pidge crying?" He folded his arms and Keith pressed his lips together.
"Hunk I-"
"I thought you liked Pidge?"
"I do-I Just." Keith faltered and Hunk sighed rubbing his brow.
"Just fix it. Okay. I'm your friend so i won't ask anymore."
"Thanks Hunk I-"
"But don't think I won't stick up for her. I am an honorary big brother and it takes alot for Pidge to cry. So I expect an apology from you to her."
"Yeah." Keith agreed sadly. Hunk's frown turned into a smile.
"C'mere lover boy." Hunk put Keith into a head lock and rubbed his knuckles into his skull.
"Ow Hunk! Stop!"
"Heh no."
In the living room, Allura hummed comfortably on one the couches as she wrote her speech she would give on the Planet of Eldorden. She had to speak with politeness and strength. Eldorians were known for their harshness and wisdom so she wanted to speak in the same manner as they did in hoping to earn their respect. Just as Allura went to write done the last bit of her speech, in came Pidge stomping to a couch. She plopped herself down, grabbed her tablet from the inn-table and began tapping the screen aggressively. Allura rose her brows and pressed her lips together. Moments later Rover entered the room and the small robot beeped and landed next to Pidge, just like a dog would lay next to it's master.
"Pidg-"
"What?" Pidge snapped with her eyes still glued to her screen.
Allura frowned "Oh boy." She whispered to herself and slowly put her speech on the coffee table in front of her.
"Is everything alright?"
"Peachy."
"So what happ-"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Oh." Allura answered with a shrug. "Okay. You don't want to talk about it." She lifted the speech back and acted like she was going to write again. Pidge blinked to her then back at her tablet screen and huffed a loud groan.
"Its Keith! He's such a Jackass!"
Allura smiled, it worked. She placed her speech in her lap and listened to what Pidge had to say.
"We were training like we have for the past few months and we decided to spar...and I won this time and I..." She paused and red powdered her cheeks.
"And? What?" Allura repeated.
"I might have kissed him." Pidge finally allowed the words to slip from her lips and waited for Allura to say somthing.
Allura blinked surprised. "Oh?" Allura said amused and leaned forward intrigued. Pidge noticed and glared annoyed.
"Stop it."
"Stop what? I'm not doing anything." She laughed Allura rose a brow and stopped when she heard Pidge sniffle a cry. "Pidge?" Allura stood up and walked over to Pidge sitting beside her.
"He made me feel like a piece of crap."
"Really? What did he do, I thought he liked you?" Allura asked surprised.
"Yeah." Pidge rubbed her tears with her hand. "That's what I thought but i'm pretty sure he doesn't now."
For the next few minutes Pidge told her about what happened and with every second Allura kept getting more and more irritated. She stopped Pidge and stood up.
"I'll be back."
"Where are you going?" Pidge asked.
"To tell Keith to go to his Lion. And order Red to spit out into space."
"Uh-oh Keith really ticked off her Majesty." Shiro asked while leaning against a wall.
"You heard?" Pidge asked embarrassed. Shiro nodded.
"He should have never treated her that way. You need to talk to him." Allura demanded. Shiro chuckled patting Allura's shoulder. She gave Shiro a look and he sat next to Pidge.
"Look. Keith has good intentions. He does want to protect you and guys in love tend to act like...well idiots. Keith in this case would be the idiot."
"Love?" Pidge repeated and a blush crossed her face as she folded her arms.
"Yeah. He doesn't know but its obvious to everyone about how he feels about you. Even you." He placed a hand on her head and she grinned. "He's stubborn, he's been that way since he was younger. Now I don't think what he said was right, but you should just talk to him. Ask him why he said those things."
"I did! I-" Shiro stopped her politely and poked her nose.
"You know what I mean Katie." Pidge bit the inside of her cheek and nodded. Shiro smiled and gave her hair a shake.
"That's my girl." Just as the words left his lips the castle blared its sirens. Shiro and Pidge jumped up.
Coran's face projected infront of them revealing Lance in the background, ducking behind a control panel as green, red fire shot over their heads. Allura ran in-front of the image.
"Coran what's going on?!"
"Well princess It seems that Zarkon has teamed up with the Reptilians." The screen went static and with every fire of the enemy, muffled his words.
"Reptilians?" Shiro asked and Lance shoved Coran's face away to talk.
"Big frigg'en Lizards; Shiro! With sharp teeth and bad tempers, Okay! We Need help no-" The screen went black and the image disappeared.
"We have to go, inform Keith and Hunk. Pidge and I will suit up and meet them there."
"Be careful, Reptilians are notorious and blood thirsty."
With one last nod to each other, Pidge and Shiro ran down the hall.
"So are you going to tell her?" Keith smirked at Hunks question.
"I'll admit it i'm a wimp. I don't even think there is a remote chance she likes me now. " He remembered how he treated her and rubbed his shoulder. "So I really don't know."
"I'm surprised she hasn't told you yet." Hunk mumbled. Keith eyes widened as he whipped his head in Hunk's face.
"Wait- Uh-Heh-Ah-um...W-What?" Keith stumbled on his words as he grabbed Hunk's shoulders and cleared his throat. Hunk's eyes lowered annoyed.
"Wow...Love is Blind...Keith she has dropped so..so many hints. Poor girl."
Keith huffed out a breath. A warmth built inside him. It wasn't just a silly crush, maybe it could be something legit. He wanted to smile from ear to ear but remembered what he did earlier. Did he screw up any chance he had with her.
"Hunk," Keith pushed off him and rubbed his hands in his hair. "I really messed up."
"Yeah, its pathetic really."
"What do I do?" Keith asked
"You tell me Casanova."
"No really! That's just it, i'm not a Casanova i'm...Boring." His arms fell to his sides. "I was never good at making relationships. Or talking about feelings...I'm pathetic."
"Yup..You're pathetic." Hunk chuckled. Keith gave a face until he heard siren's blare. Moment's later Allura's voice echoed through the castle.
"The castle is under attack! Hunk, Keith hurry and suit up!"
With in minutes Hunk and Keith were suited up and ran down the hall.
"Alurra where are we headed?" Keith asked into his helmet com.
"To the west control bay! Pidge and Shiro are on their way there now."
"Got it Princess."
"Hurry Paladins!"
"It's down here c'mon!" Hunk yelled ahead of Keith. Before they reached them the doors flung open as an alligator-like creature was thrown through the air.
"Holy crap." Hunk coughed.
The monster shook its head and rose back up on its hind legs and started running toward Keith. Keith went to grab his Galra Knife but before he could; Pidge jumped in front of him and round housed the beast in the jaw, knocking it unconscious.
"Way to go Pidge!" Hunk complimented and flicked her helmet, Pidge smiled.
"Yeah good job." Keith said as well. Pidge's smiled faded into a grim expression. Keith frowned and looked away. When she saw his face change she mumbled irritably and ran back into the room. After she left Kieth and Hunk soon followed.
Keith looked over his shoulder noticing the gator on the floor had red on its claws but the thought left as he entered the room. He watched Pidge run to Shiro's side against the wall as Lance and Coran took shelter on the other side of the room. There were more Reptilians creeping up closer with swords and lasers guns of their own.
"It's about time you guys got here!" Lance gasped as he shrunk lower to the floor.
"Why not use your gun! I thought you were the sharp shooter?" Keith asked and Lance clapped.
"Well Yoda, If I had a gun I'd use it!"
"Enough, This is not the time to argue!" Shiro yelled and activated his arm. It began to glow and he jumped toward the snarling reptiles.
They kept snapping their jaws hearing their teeth click loudly as they fought, hoping to take a bite out of one of the Paladins It was a long fight as the reptilians slashed theirs talons at them managing to cut Shiro and Keith. Shiro jammed his arm into one's belly and it flew across the room. Keith jumped and was slaying them one by one. Hunk covered them as they fought on. All was silent as the last one fell to the floor. Keith took a breath and looked around.
"Is that it?" He asked.
"I think so." Hunk answered tiredly. Shiro looked up and saw that more were running toward them from the open door across the room.
"Go, go, go!" Shiro ordered and they all started to exit the room. Keith stopped.
"Where's Pidge?!" Keith looked around frantically. "Pidge!"
"H-Here! Im...Coming!" Keith found her crouched over walking toward him.
"Pidg-" Kieth began but stopped when he noticed the blood seeping through the material of her suit on her stomach. "No-Pidge!" He caught her in his arms before she hit the floor.
"Keith!" Above Keith's head Shiro blocked a sword with his arm and shoved the alien back. It hissed and Shiro grabbed Keith and Pidge's arms, throwing them out into the hall. Shiro ran out quickly shutting the door behind him. "Alurra lock the doors!"
"On it!" A blue light scanned the doors and clicked shut.
"Theirs too many of them."
"Don't worry reinforcements are on the way!"
"Who?" Shiro asked confused.
"They will be here soon, hang tight."
Kieth rubbed his head and looked up. "Pidge." He crawled to her and lifted her in his arms. She moaned painfully and huddled closer to him.
"We will get her out of here." Shiro said and placed a reassuring hand on Kieth's shoulder. Kieth nodded and hoisted himself up with Pidge still in his arms. The group jumped at a loud explosion from the Room they were just in. "Hunk get up here, everyone else stand behind us." Shiro demanded and Hunk and him readied their stance at the door.
As they heard rumbles and crashed the door opened revealing armored apes exit the room. They blinked confused at the animals. And Alurra appeared behind the apes.
"Don't shoot!" She walked to the front and smiled "These are the Eldorians. They were the reinforcements I mentioned on the coms."
"Their...monkeys." Lance thought aloud.
"We prefer Apes." One said defensively.
"We apologize, we...Oh my god Pidge!" Alurra ran over to Keith and placed her hand on Pidge's head. "Let's get her to a healing pod, quickly!"
Keith and the rest of the paladins waited in the living room along with the Eldorians. Lance nudged Keith's arms and whispered in his ear nervously.
"The big one keeps staring at me." Lance gulped when the ape cracked his knuckles at him. "D-Do you think it's because I called him a monkey?" Keith didn't answer, he was too concerned with Pidge's condition. When they reached the infirmary her wound turned purple and became quickly infected. Everyone was worried. Keith rested his elbows on his knees.
"Coran and Allura haven't come back." Keith said to himself. A few moments later, the doors slid open and Coran walked out along with Allura. Everyone stood up and Shiro was to first to ask about Pidge.
"How is she?"
Allura and Coran glanced at the ground with knitted eyebrows. Keith noticed their expressions and clenched his fists.
"She won't wake up...I'm afraid she was poisoned?" Coran confirmed sadly.
"Can you treat it?" Shiro asked in a worried tone. Almost like a father worried about his child. Allura stepped forward.
"We do not have the resources to cure her."
"That doesn't make any sense!" They all looked to Keith. "Shiro and I were both cut by the reptilians. Why are we not infected?" Keith asked. An Eldorian walked forward and spoke in a deep tone and answered his question.
"Reptilian warriors are formed in different factions. Agility, camouflage and some are poison. They all have their own purpose in battle."
"So Pidge did get poisoned?" Keith asked again. When no one answered he closed his eyes frustrated. "It's my fault she got hurt."
The the ape watched Keith tense and saw the pain in his expression. The Eldorian looked to his comrade and they nodded to each other.
"Princess Allura," One of them directed and Allura perked her ears and looked to the gorilla. "We will help your Paladin."
"What?" Allura said surprised.
"We have plants and herbs that can heal your wounded friend. With the right treatment our people can heal your young warrior." Their was a long silence until-
"Can we trust them?" Keith said aloud and Allura's eyes widened. She ran up to Keith and yanked his arm.
"He's kidding!" Allura assured with a laugh that sounded more nervous than playful. "May I talk to you Keith, please." Allura pulled Keith with her to the hall. She looked over her shoulder and pushed him forward.
"Hey! What?!" Keith yelled in a whisper.
"Shh!" Allura hushed and took a moment to gain composure and looked back to him. "Keith. The Eldorians can be trusted."
"How? How do you know?"
"Well one, they came to help and saved you, two they never allow anyone to their planet. You know how long it took me to gain their trust?!" She folded her arms annoyed. "Yet you managed to gain their trust just by standing there. I honestly do not understand why, I have been talking to them for the past few months...they only had just met you and already in their good graces." Allura explained with a hurt tone. Keith leaned against the wall with a sigh.
"Do you really think they can help Pidge?" He asked honestly. Allura blinked and looked to the floor.
"I don't know Keith... but I know if we don't do something she-" She paused and Keith stood up right. A fearful thought coming to his mind.
"She'll what?"
"If we don't take this chance she could die." Keith's eyes widened. Die? "It's not good Keith...Pidge is not good."
Aloha! I hope you all like my story! I just wanted to let you guys know, I write stories rather quickly sometimes and for fun! Yes I am an amateur writer. Writing is a hobby " So if there are a few grammatical mistakes I apologize :/ I'll try to find time to edit my stories when I can ;) Again thank you so much for reading!
-WhiteTigerLily
