CHAPTER THREE
Kite walked around the castle, giving herself a little tour. She walked in the mechanical room where Pidge and Hunk were.
"Hey!" Kite greeted the two. The close friends looked at her and smiled.
"Hey Kite." Hunk replied.
"Enjoying the place so far?" Pidge asked. Kite nodded, "What are you doing?"
"Trying to figure out what these symbols mean." Pidge replied.
"Symbols?"
Pidge nodded. Kite looked at the screen and saw the symbols on the spray painted building.
"This isn't normal graffiti as I come to know," Kite said, "It looks like it's a Drule symbol on those buildings."
"I should've guessed," Pidge replied, "How did you know this?"
"I've been studying all planets and symbols and all that jazz while I was in the Den." Kite revealed, "Manset taught me a lot of things."
"Man, that's interesting." Hunk replied. Kite glanced at the yellow lion pilot, "And so are you."
"What do you mean?" Hunk asked, confused.
"You have to know it by now," Kite answered smiling, "You're actually kinda cute."
"What?" Hunk exclaimed in surprise, "You think I'm kinda…wow…"
Pidge chuckled before speaking through his Voltcom, "Keith, get the others here at the castle control room stat. I think you're cousin made an unsettling discovery."
At the control room, everyone found it a surprise to learn about the symbols on the buildings provided by the possible Drule Agents.
"Those are Drule symbols on the buildings?" Keith asked.
"And the punks are possibly Drule Agents?" Lance added.
"That's the possibility," Kite answered, "I've been studying symbols of various planets while at the Den Resistance."
"Far interesting," Daniel muttered, "She's smarter than she appeared."
"Thank you!" Kite exclaimed, hearing the cadet's comment, "Hey!"
"So what'll we do about Kite's theory?" Larmina asked.
"I'll check this out and investigate this graffiti and the punks." Keith announced.
"By yourself? Keith are you crazy?" Lance objected.
"No," Keith replied solemnly, "Don't you two have cadets to teach right now?"
"Well we can take them with me for a little field trip!"
"I think it'd be best if I go myself for this one."
Keith turned and he walked away.
"Allura, please say something!" Lance begged Allura.
"I think Keith needs a little investigation of his own." Allura replied.
"What?" Lance exclaimed annoyed.
"On second thought," Keith looked at the others, "I'll have someone to come with me. Kite, you can come with me and show me the symbols that the punks are making."
"Okay." Kite smiled as she left the control room with her cousin. Lance sighed roughly.
At the streets of Arus, Keith and Kite walked down the streets where the punks were doing their dirty work at and they looked at the graffiti that was at the buildings.
"You're right Kite!" Keith declared, "These markings are Drule Symbols."
"Yep. They sure are. Do you think they could be Drule Agents?"
"Who?"
"The punks that attacked you guys. Who else?"
"Oh yes. It's a huge possibility." Keith and Kite heard a voice reply from nearby. They looked to see the five punks come their direction. Keith looked at Kite and said, "Grab a blunt object!"
"On it!" Kite grabbed a nearby broken pipe. The lead thug and two other thugs fought Keith as he got out his dual swords. The female thug and another thug fought Kite.
Keith managed to knock out two of the thugs he was fighting and Kite managed to fight the two thugs she was fighting and then she knocked them both out with the pipe she was using against them.
The lead thug hurried as he hid into a nearby alleyway. Keith noticed this and went to follow the head thug. The lead thug got out his communicator, "King Lotor! Get the backup stat! We have one of the Voltron Force!"
Keith managed to knock out the thug before he could say more. The commander ran and met up with Kite.
"You might wanna prepare yourself Kite. That punk just called for backup."
"Alright." Kite nodded.
They looked as a small Drule ship arrived at the area and ten Drule troopers came out of the ship.
"Only ten?" Keith questioned.
"Something tells me we need to get the others." Kite said.
"There's only ten of them. We'll take them on ourselves."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I've handled creeps like these before."
"You heard Lotor's orders!" Cossack, the head trooper ordered, "We bring the Voltron Force to Lotor's trap!"
"Trap?" Keith questioned.
"What trap?" Kite asked. Keith and Kite tried fighting the troopers but that effort didn't go as they hoped and one of the soldiers grabbed Keith by the throat and lifted him up in the air from the ground.
"Keith!" Kite gasped. She kicked down that soldier and another one as they were both grabbing Keith. Both soldiers were knocked to the ground as Keith fell to his knees. He looked up at his cousin, "Thanks Kite."
"I didn't mention I learned Kung Fu while at the Den as well." Kite said smirking. Cossack looked at the soldiers as they launched another attack for the duo.
"This isn't good!" Kite exclaimed.
"No kidding." Keith replied. The Drule Soldiers launched for the duo. One soldier knocked down Keith and rendered him to the state of unconsciousness.
"Keith!" Kite exclaimed. Then another trooper knocked down Kite to the ground. The soldiers looked down at the unconscious duo as Cossack signaled the orders. Two soldiers grabbed Keith by the arms and dragged the unconscious commander to the ship.
"Keith…" Kite muttered while unconscious. Cossack looked down at the blue haired woman, "So what do we do with her?"
"Just leave her with us!" a voice replied. The Drule commander looked as he saw the bruised thugs in front of him.
"We got a score to settle with her for interfering on our last attempt." said the female thug. Cossack nodded before entering his ship and the ship took off.
The five thugs surrounded Kite and prepared to attack her with their weapons.
"It's payback time!" the lead thug exclaimed.
