1jesus: You're welcome, and hope you had a happy birthday.
Guest: Don't worry, I'm not stopping any time soon.
J: Thanks, man. Hope you enjoy "Gem of War" too.
ShadowUzumaki55: How would RC even merge with Voltron? Well, not that I think about it, RC could ride on the back of one of the Lions. Or one of the Lions could be a giant arm cannon for RC.
LoamyCoffee: Good to see you too, and thanks.
M: Oh, trust me, I'm not.
Serpentdragon: I'm happy to hear you think that about Marcus.
Dressyone22: Thank you.
Dusk: He'll become more than what he is in the future.
the incredible superhulk: Soon, maybe. I'll have them have a bit of a sweet moment in this chapter, but as for a hug, I'll have it maybe in the next chapter.
Dusk: Uh…Okay?
Guest: Thanks, man.
TheNightstalker250: He might. Not going to ruin anything.
Anon: True.
Guest4549: Right here!
Bobby Jenkins: It's because Gurren Lagann is so powerful that I picked Titanfall. For starters, I never actually watched Gurren Lagann, so I didn't want to start a crossover with one side of it a show I have no knowledge of. Plus, if the robot is so powerful, then what the real need for progression. Plus, I LOVE Titanfall 2. The whole story and lore of Titanfall is interesting to me, and it leaves a lot open for me to mix up both Voltron and the game. Plus, both Marcus and RC will be able to gain experience and grow as characters and partners to become even more powerful, and to take on the Galra.
As for the Devil May Cry/Senran Kagura idea, it's a no. Never played/seen both series, and I just don't think people would want to read about Dante's son, when they could just have Dante himself. That's just me, but I could be wrong.
The Dungeon Crawler: I'll take a look. May not review it, but I'll look into it.
Moore's Logbook:
A few hours ago, we were attacked by an enemy monster robot that was sent by the Galra. Turned out that it was not only a formidable and dangerous opponent, but it was also from Shiro's past. A gladiator that he defeated.
The good news is that when Shiro attack Katie's brother, Matt, he did it to protect him. Pidge forgave him, and the two made up. And this also meant that Matt was still alive and out there somewhere.
Allura spent a moment with me as I said my final goodbyes to Captain Quinton. But now I'm just wondering, if Zarkon knows we're here, what's to keep him from spending another attack?
"Divided We Fall"
Night on the planet Arus. Hours after defeating the Gladiator, Princess Allura decided to throw a party in the Castle to bid the Arusians good bye. Outside, as some of the small aliens walked in and out of the entrance, RC stood guard. Turning her head to the left, and then to the right. Monitoring any and all activity outside.
Meanwhile, happiness clouded the atmosphere of the Castle's vestibule. The Paladins and Marcus watched the Arusian King, as he stood at the top of the stairs and presented the team with a reenactment of their battle against the Robeast. They did this by having three groups of Arusians.
The group playing as the Gladiator were made up of two aliens, standing on top of each other. Standing across from them were the two groups playing as Voltron and Marcus and RC. Voltron was made up of five Arusians stacked on top of each other, holding both a makeshift shield and a sword. RC and Marcus were just a mother with her child strapped to her chest.
"The monster fell from the sky!" The Arusian King narrated, standing at the top of the stairs. "It was an epic battle, but Voltron and the Titan were victorious!"
The Arusians pretending to be the Robeast knock down the Voltron Arusians by throwing a tin can at them. Causing them to fall apart. The mother playing as RC pretended to faint and softly fell on her back.
"... No. I said, Voltron and the Titan were victorious!"
The battle ended correctly with the Robeast duo falling over, and the Voltron and RC Arusian shooting right back up. The Arusians crowd cheered.
Allura walked over to the King from the side. "Thank you, Your Majesty, for that... wonderful production," she said with a big, nervous, grin. The last thing the princess wanted was to insult the guests and ruin any chances of an alliance. And so, she then spoke with sincerity. "It saddens me that we must leave tomorrow, but we must continue our battle with Zarkon and spread peace throughout the universe."
She then reached into a pocket of her royal dress, and pulled out a small object. Allura kneed down and placed in the hands of the Aruisan King an Altean communicator.
"Your Highness... please accept this gift." Allura gently closed the small fingers of the alien around it. "This will allow you to contact us anytime you need help. Arus will be the first planet in the Voltron Alliance."
The Aruisan King opened his hands and looked at the device for a moment in wonder. He smiled and held up the communicator to show to his people. "Hoorah!" The King cheered, and the other Arusians cheered as well.
Marcus watched it all from where he was standing with Keith and Lance. "We ought to get something like that," said Hunk as he approached his fellow Paladins and Titan Pilot.
"What do you mean," asked Marcus.
"You know, like a cheer," Hunk clarified. "Like, a team cheer that we do."
"Like G.I. Joe?"
"Mm-hmm." Lance took a moment to think. "Yeah, okay. How about, uh... I say 'Vol' and you say 'Tron.' Vol—!"
"No!" Marcus was quick to shut him down. The last think he was shouting on the battlefield was some stupid cheer like how Lance wanted to do it.
Lance shrugged and tried out his drink. However, the moment he got a mouthful of the drink, the Blue Paladin's eyes snapped wide open and his body reacted to it with a sharp shiver down his spine. The drink tasted terrible, and the others around him could see that by watching Lance trying and struggling to swallow.
After getting the drink down his throat, Lance quickly moved over to where Coran was standing and glared at him. "Coran, what is this," he demanded, before putting a hand over his mouth to prevent himself from throwing up.
Coran was peacefully drinking the same thing before answering. "Oh, this is Nunvill, the nectar of the gods."
"It tastes like hot dog water and feet."
"Yeah, makes a wonderful hair tonic as well," Coran told him, dipping his fingers into the Nunvill and sprinkling it on his mustache, making it grow luxuriantly. He walked away as Lance didn't take the information too well and retched.
Marcus, Keith, and Hunk stare at their friend, wondering if he was really okay. Looking all over his standing body. Keith then prodded him, causing him to comically fall over.
Seeing that he was knocked out, Marcus looked for something else to do. Parties weren't really his thing, and he almost felt out of place. However, apparently, he wasn't the only one. Standing at the entrance of the vestibule was Shiro, leaning against the wall while having his head turned to watch the entrance of the Castle.
"Not feeling well," asked Marcus as he approached him. "Or you're not much of a party person?"
"I'm not sure we should be letting everyone wander in and out of the Castle like this," Shiro said in a serious way, looking back at the entrance. Watching the Arusians come and go. "It doesn't seem safe."
"Normally I would agree with you," Marcus said, "but the Arusians won't hurt us, or…anyone." He stopped for a moment when he heard the sound of a hover platter behind him. Marcus looked and saw the platter passing by with two of their alien guesses playfully hanging onto it. "…Much."
He then cringed as they crashed.
"Besides, RC's outside, keeping watch. If anything happens, she'll let us know."
"It still feels like we're sitting ducks, though," Shiro insisted. "Who knows when Zarkon will attack again."
Marcus let out a little sigh of annoyance. "Look, if it makes you feel any better, I'll go out and also do a perimeter check," he told his friend, before placing on his helmet.
While it would have made Shiro feel better to have done it himself, he was fully confident in Marcus' skills as a Pilot. He's really surprised by the young man's progression and quick learning. Then again, as he's learned on the battlefields of the Frontier, you have to be a fast learner. Shiro nodded in acceptance at Marcus.
Giving him a nod, back, Marcus walked down the hall to the exit. Giving him an over the shoulder wave. "Tell the others where I'm at."
However, outside on Arus, and more than a mile away from the Castle, Shiro's fears turned out to be true. Sendak and his second in command, Haxus secretly observed the Castle of Lions from a low cliff. The Galran commander smiled at what he saw with his protidic eye, which he used to zoom in for a closer look.
"Commander Sendak, the Sentries are in position around the Arusian village," Haxus notified him while looking at the holographic screen of his scanner.
"Luck is on our side," Sendak proudly said with a smirk. "Look, the Castle defenses are down. The door is wide open. With all these Arusians coming in and out, it should be nothing for you to infiltrate." He then spotted RC and spied on her. Zooming in and giving her a red highlight with notes in Galran. "And best of all, we'll have a new Destroyer."
"I may not have to, and nor would we need the Destroyer." Haxus then redirected Sendak's eye onto Pidge, who was walking around the Castle, and a highlighted Rover. Rover was a small Galra Drone that Pidge was able to reprogram to be her helper. "Look. The small one has a Galra drone they've repurposed. If I can just get close enough to clone its signature code, I can send our bomb drone in undetected."
"I knew you would not disappoint me, Haxus," Sendak complimented him. Promoting Haxus to turn and start making his way towards the Castle.
If all goes acquiring to plan, the Paladins would be helpless to stop them.
Meanwhile, in the Castle vestibule, Allura was standing on the catwalk with the Altean Mice. Watching the Paladins interactions with the Arusian. "Look at them, the new Paladins of Voltron," the princess said with a proud smile. "The fate of the universe is on their shoulders."
Down on the first floor, Keith drank a cup of Nunvill, only for his eyes to widen and go blank white when he found out how foul it really was. He spat it out on Hunk, causing him to cover his eyes and turn away. "Ow, my eyes!" Hunk exclaimed, and turned around to reveal some Arusian food on a stick stuck to his eyes. Hunk, Shiro, the village, and surprisingly Keith laughed at the big man.
Allura however, looked unimpressed by their joking around. "... I must portray strength, so no one can tell how concerned I am about the fate of our mission," she reaffirmed. The mouse that was on her shoulder—the blue mouse with red eyes—squeaked something to her. Allura looked and smiled at it. "Let's... keep that a secret."
The mouse squeaked again.
"Who else has secrets?"
The blue mouse jumped off her shoulder. He then used the big mice as a demonstration, pushing his cheeks up.
"Hunk tried to eat what," she asked, before giggle and leaned her arms on the railing. "That is rather amusing. What other secrets?"
The blue mouse with blue eyes jumped on the one with red eyes, and pretended to be Lance. Messing up the fur on its head to make it look like the Blue Paladin's hair. It then used its tail to pretend its shooting things and posing like a cowboy.
Allura deadpanned. "That seems like Lance." She looked at the mice again, wondering if there was something about Marcus. Because the Pilot was outside, Allura wasn't able to mingle with him and ask him about his life and other questions she was hoping to know.
The same blue mouse then pretended to look adorable. With big eyes, blushing cheeks, and leaning its body to one side.
Understanding perfectly what the mice were saying, Allura was taken back. "Pidge is a what!?" The alien princess quickly turned down at the first floor and looked at Pidge. Squinting her eyes, Allura watched the female Paladin closely.
Pidge stopped for a moment with a backpack on. She grabbed a hovering platter that was about to move past her and secretly poured the alien food in the backpack. Pidge then pushed the platter away and placed the pack on her back. As an Arusian walked by, Katie picked out the stick from the alien food, and used it to pick her ear. She sniffed the end of it retched in disgust.
These actions made Allura question the mice. "Hmm... Are you sure," she inquired, with the mouse nodding in response. "I'm getting to the bottom of this."
Meanwhile, Lance was staring down at his reflection in the Nunvill in his cup. "I guess we should get used to this space juice," he said with a distressed look. "Who knows when we'll get back home again?"
Hunk wasn't looking so happy too. Moving the Nunvill in his cups around. "Yeah, if ever."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, if this Zarkon guy has been ruling for 10,000 years, how long do you think it will take for us to fix it," he asked, before grabbing a bowl of new alien food from a hovering platter. "You know, if we live."
Lance sighed. "Right. That."
Hunk looked at the alien food he just grabbed. "Hey, what do you think the chances are of us landing on a nacho planet?"
Lance smiled fondly. "Well, there's only one planet with Red Beach," he said, remembering his home on Victor, a planet that was one of the key battlefields, Pre-Demeter. It has recovered from the battle, and is thriving again. "Pizza shacks, looking over the water, away from the oil stations, and the garlic knots and... my mom's hugs..."
Tears started to well up in his eyes.
"I'm sorry," he said, trying to keep himself from sobbing. "I think this Nunvill is getting to me. I gotta go." He quickly started to walk away, leaving Hunk confused.
As he walked up the stairs, he passed Coran, who witnessed him with a concerned look. Allura walked down the stairs, but didn't notice Lance in his depressed state. The princess of planet Altea approached Pidge, who was followed by Rover. "So, Pidge, we haven't had a chance to really... talk. Tell me about yourself."
"Hmm..." Pidge looked at her with a raised eyebrow. Wondering why Allura was wanting to know about her. "Well, I like peanut butter, and I like peanut butter cookies, but I hate peanuts," she told her. "They're so dry. Also, I sweat a lot. I-I mean, in general, unrelated to the peanuts."
Okay, that wasn't what Allura wanted to know. Pidge then tried to walk past her, but the princess intervened by stepping in front of her. "I-I suppose I was thinking of something a little more personal?" Allura gave Pidge a wink. "We have a lot in common."
Pidge was unimpressed, but was willing to give Allura the benefit of the doubt. "Like what," she asked.
Allura's eye comically widened at first, taken back by the question. "Oh, well... Both of us had our fathers taken away by Zarkon," she told Pidge.
"Yeah, but I'm going to get mine back." Pidge stated harshly, but quickly regretted it by the gasp and pained look Allura had. "Augh... I'm sorry. I-I really didn't mean to—"
"No, I understand," Allura insisted, trying to hide away her pain. "I just want you to know that you can confide in me. If there's anything you ever want to talk about..." She leaned closer to Pidge, hoping to hear what she wanted to hear. But the Green Paladin remained silent. "... Anything."
"Huh?" Pidge looked lightly taken back, but then a somber expression replaced it. "... Okay. I do have something to tell you."
This very much overjoyed Allura. She was finally going to hear the truth about what the mice told her. "I had a feeling~! What is it?"
Pidge looked down and turned her head away. "I'm leaving Team Voltron."
Allura inhaled and opened her mouth to speak, expecting something entirely different. But when she heard Pidge, Allura stopped and paused for a moment to process what she was told. "Wait, what?!"
"I decrypted the information from the Galra ship about where my family might be, or at least where they were," Pidge informed her, as Allura was flabbergasted. She wasn't planning on telling anyone about this and was going to leave without them noticing, so that they wouldn't stop her. But it looked like it wasn't going to be like that. "I've made up my mind. I'm leaving tonight."
"Pidge, you can't. You're one of five Paladins," Allura protested quickly. Placing her hands-on Pidge's shoulders. "You have a sacred trust to defend the universe."
Quick to tempter, Pidge defensively back away of her grasp. "My first priority is to find my family!" She snapped at Allura. "I thought you of all people would understand. If you had a chance to get your father back, wouldn't you?"
Allura was once again pained by Pidge's words. But unlike the first time, she wasn't able to respond. Only frowning.
"I'm sorry," Pidge said again in regret, but remained firm in her decision. "I should go tell everyone else." Pidge turned and walked away from the princess, ignoring the others and their guesses. Turned out that her outburst caught some attention, but she didn't care.
Followed by Rover, Pidge walked down the exit of the Castle and approached RC and Marcus.
The Pilot was equipped with the Spitfire that Hunk brought with him when they came to Arus. With the Paladins having their Bayard, they all handed their weapons over to Marcus. Luckily for him, the LMG was one of his favorite weapons to use.
Looking around while standing on top of RC's chaise, Marcus and his Titan scanned the area for anything suspicious. But as the minutes went by, he wondered if he did it to keep the Castle safe, or if it was to get away from the party. Mostly it was because he wanted some time to think to himself.
"Marcus?" Hearing his name being called, Marcus turned his body and looked down. He saw Pidge a few meters from him and RC, staring at him. "I need to talk to you." Marcus jumped off RC and she stopped in front of him.
Unbeknownst to them was that Haxus was hiding among the rocks nearby. Pecking over the top the of the rocks, he saw that Pidge and Hover were right where he wanted them to be. Haxus aimed his scanner at them.
The red screen popped up and zoomed in on Marcus, Pidge, and Rover. He highlighted the drone and scanned for its signature code. "Signature code cloned," he said to himself.
However, Marcus caught something out of the corner of his eyes, and turned to where Haxus was.
Before being caught, the Galran quickly ducked back behind the rocks.
Marcus stared in that direction for a moment, before shrugging his shoulders and following behind Pidge and Rover, as they led them back into the Castle. RC follows close behind.
Haxus quickly got to work on his hologram screen and shot his drone with a small bolt of green lightening. This reconfigured of the drone changed its red light to the same green lights Rover had. "Bomb activated," he said, and the bomb drone left him. Haxus then took the opportunity to flee.
As Pidge led Marcus and RC back inside the Castle, the three of them remained oblivious to the reconfigured bomb drone entering the open doorway a few meters behind them.
Meanwhile, Lance sat forlornly in the Bridge of the Castle. After leaving the party tearfully, the Cuban teen from Victor wanted some place to be alone and think.
"Mind if I join you?" Lance looked to his left and saw that the person asking the question was Coran, who hopped down from where the Blue Paladin was sitting to stand next to him.
Lance didn't mind the company, and asked, "How far away from the Frontier do you think we are, Coran?"
"Let's take a look." Coran offered and stepped over to his station. Placing his hand on the module, he brought up a holographic map of the universe to show Lance. He pointed at the very space region in question. "The Frontier is over here," he said, before starting to move the map. "And we're aaaaaaall..."
The long it took for Coran drag the map to where Arus was, the more joyless it made Lance feel.
"…the waaaaay... oveeeeer..." He still hadn't reached Arus.
"You ever notice how far the planets are from each other, Coran?"
"Yes." Coran answered without stopping. "Haven't you been paying attention?"
Lance got up and approached the map. Standing next to Coran and prompting the Altean to stop moving the map. "Yeah, but I mean, like, they're really, really far away. Like, say, my home planet Victor? It's so far, I can't even see it. The... The blue oceans, the white clouds, green grass... I c—-I-I... I can't see any of it."
"You miss the Frontier," Coran stated with a great amount of understanding, and placed a comforting hand on Lance. "I understand. I miss Altea."
"I know we're supposed to be brave Paladins and Defenders of the Universe or whatever, but, honestly? I just want to go home." Lance looked down.
"If I could go home, I would."
Lance and Coran looked up the Frontier's location. "I don't miss the war with the IMC, but I do miss rain, and splashing in puddles."
"Rain?"
"Yeah. It's water that falls from the sky?"
"Oh, we had that on Altea. Only, it wasn't water, more like rocks. Razor-sharp and boiling-hot. Oh, they could knock a hole right in your head."
"Sounds…fun."
"Yeah."
As for the Galra bomb drone, it was able to slip past the party without detection. It was now moving deeper through the Castle.
Marcus paced back and forth, shaking his head. After bringing him and the others together, Pidge told them all what her plan was. "So that's it," Marcus asked, stopping to look at Pidge. "You're leaving us?"
Shiro said, "Pidge, no...!"
"The download from the Galra ship was enough to at least get me in the right direction to start my search," Pidge informed them all, still firmly sticking to her personal mission. "I have a pod already to go."
"Cadet Pidge," RC said, stepping closer to the girl, making her take a step back from the Titan. "Understand that this is a clear act of derision. A crime in the Militia that is equal to treason, which is punishable by death."
"We're not going to kill him, RC," Marcus said, quickly stepping between the two, hiding the fact that Katie was a girl. He then turned to Pidge. "But she's right. You can't leave."
"And you, nor RC can tell me what to do!" Pidge snapped.
"But he's right," Keith angerily said. "If you leave, we can't form Voltron. And that means we can't defend the universe against Zarkon. You're not the only one with a family. All these Arusians have families. Everyone in the universe has families."
"Yeah, I have a family," Hunk said, cutting in as Keith glared at Pidge, and she glared at the floor. "They live on the Frontier. I want to be with them. Is that—Is that, like, a thing that can happen?"
Allura towards him in disbelief. She was hoping that the others would have been able to convict her to stay, but now Hunk was talking about leaving. "You want to leave, too?"
"Of course, I do," Hunk admitted. "Look, Voltron is super-cool, don't get me wrong, but I never signed up for a lifetime in space fighting aliens. I wanted to fight in the war going on in my home, not one that was all over the universe."
"Pidge will stay," Marcus stated, bringing all their attention to him, "and I'll track down Command Holt and Matt."
"What!? No!" Pidge shouted in immediate protest. "This is my rescue mission!"
"It's best for all of us if I do it," Marcus stated, before turning his back to her and started walking towards the vestibule. "Take my advice, Pidge, stay here and help the others. It's what your father would have wanted."
Enraged and reaching her absolute breaking point, Pidge wasn't able to stop her out next selfish outburst. "And what would you know about my father!? YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A FAMILY ANYMORE!"
Marcus immediately stopped.
Shiro, Hunk, Keith, and Allura were greatly shocked at Pidge's outburst. For the humans, they were shocked that Pidge would have actually used his dead family as an insult against him. They all knew full well about the Moore family's death during the Battle of Harmony, and knew that it wasn't something that Marcus liked to talk about. Princess Allura was shocked because this was the first time that she's ever heard about this, and she didn't know that his family was dead.
After calming down and taking a few deep breaths, Pidge's face turned from enraged to shock and horror. "Marcus…I didn't…" struck with guilt, she wasn't able to find any words to justify her outburst.
That's when Marcus turned around and stared at her. He then approached her and took off his helmet. Holding back the amount of fury and sadness he was feeling, Marcus strained himself to have a stern face. "All right, Katie Holt," he said, using her real name. "You wanna go there. Let's go there. I was just like you, in a similar situation. 10 years old. The Battle of Harmony. After the battle, I searched for days, trying to find my parents. And I wasn't going to stop until I found them. I did find them…what was left of them. So yeah. They're dead, and I'm here. Alone."
Pidge's eyes were widened as she listened, not daring to look away from his iron gaze. The others just watched them, as Marcus' eyes were locked on the young girl.
"And now here you are. About to sell out on everything we've built up to this point. Putting the lives of two people over the lives of everyone else in the universe."
"Marcus, I…" Shiro was about to stop him, but Marcus wasn't allowing it.
"You go, find them, and return. I assume that's your plan. But what if they're already dead? What if they've been dead for a long time and you come back. And what if they're alive and you come back, only to find out we're all dead. The universe would be Zarkon's."
Almost close to tears, Pidge continued to listen.
"But I'm not going to stop you." Katie, and the rest were surprised by this. Marcus looked at them. "Hunk's right, we never asked to be here or become this team. We were forced to for the safety of the Frontier. If you want to leave, we won't try to stop you," he told Pidge. All I ask is that you think about what you're doing Katie, and the possibilities of doing it."
Finally breaking away from the Pilot's stare, Pidge looked at Shiro, who nodded at her. Silently telling her that he won't stop her. Katie looked down with a conflicted and guilty expression. However, she remained steadfast in her decision. "I'm sorry," she said, closing her eyes. "You're going to have to find someone else to pilot the Green Lion."
She started to leave with Rover following. Pidge walked past Marcus, not being able to look him in the eyes right now.
Marcus turned and watched her go, as did the others. He knew his words to her were harsh, but he just wanted for Pidge to truly think about what she was doing. He just wanted for her to know that keeping her hopes up would only cause her more pain. Marcus learned that the hard way when looking for his parents.
"Moore," asked RC, looking at her Pilot. "Are you alright?"
Inhaling before he sighed, Marcus said, "not really. I think I just single-handily forced Pidge away and now we're never going to form Voltron."
"Pidge was out of line," Keith told him. "All you were trying to do was the right thing."
Allura walked over to Marcus and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. She had tears forming in her eyes, but quickly wiped them away when he looked at her. "I'm so sorry, Marcus. And I don't blame you either," she insisted with a warm smile. Allura then looked towards the direction Pidge went off in. "I just can't believe it. After all our bonding, the team is falling apart. How will we ever form Voltron?"
"More importantly, how are going to save the universe," Marcus asked.
The doors for the Bridge opened, and the Galra bomb drone entered. At the same time, Lance and Coran were starting to leave.
"Hey, Rover," Lance greeted the drone, initially mistakes the drone for the same repurposed drone. But it ignored him and headed right for the giant Power Crystal hanging from the ceiling.
When it stopped, a beeping sound started coming from it. Lance stopped suddenly. "Wait... Where's Pidge," he asked it, as a gut feeling told him that something was very wrong.
The green lights turned red, and the beeping became louder. Lance stared at the drone and gasped as the realization became clear. That wasn't Rover, and it was a bomb!
"Coran, look out!"
KA-BOOM!
The explosion shook the Castle, as the blast was felt throughout the Castle of Lions. The Paladins, Pilot, Titan, and Allura were shocked and startled at what had just happened. As she was about to board her pod, Pidge stopped when the explosion hit. In the vestibule, all the Arusians were fleeing out of the Castle, as the humans and princess raced towards the Bridge.
"RC, be on stand-by!" Marcus ordered his Titan, as he ran up the stair. Just before another noise was heard. This one was of the Castle powering down, and all the lights in and outside went off.
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In the Bridge, Coran groaned as he laid on the floor. All he remembered was Lance yelling at him before being pushed to the ground. Shaken, but mostly unharmed, Coran started to sit up when the sounds of metal clattering.
Smoke filled the Bridge, as the rest of the team, including Pidge, marched into the room. Coughing and covered their mouths with their arms. When they saw Coran sitting on the floor, the group gathered around him. "What happened?!" asked Shiro while he and Hunk helped him sit up better.
"Ugh... I'm not sure." Without really knowing what happened, Coran couldn't really get them an answer.
As the smoke cleared, Allura and the others looked up. Most of the Bridge was in ruin. But the thing that stood out was the destroyed Power Crystal. She gasped in horror. "The Crystal!"
But that's when Marcus looked down and saw Lance. Laying motionlessly on the floor.
"Lance!" he yelled and rushed over to his unconscious friend, with Shiro following. Kneeling down on each side of him, they both grabbed Lance and turned him on his back. He didn't look good at all. Multiple brushes and burns all over his body, and he was groaning softly. "Lance...? Lance!"
"He doesn't look good," Shiro said. If he could, he would be preforming combat first aid in a heartbeat. But with the injuries he had and with little light, there was nothing he could do for Lance.
Pidge was standing next to Hunk, who was aiding Coran with standing up. "We have to get Lance to the infirmary!" She exclaimed urgently
"Without the Crystal, the Castle has no power," Allura told them.
Just then, the Arusian King entered the Bridge. "Lion warriors, our village is under attack!" he exclaimed, sweating with fright. "We need help!"
"Let's get to the Lions!" Keith said.
"You can't," Allura told him. "They're sealed in their hangars. There's no way to get them out. We're defenseless."
"Will you not help us," asked the King.
"We'll help you." Marcus stood up with a determined look. "We just—" He stopped when Lance groaned in pain again. Marcus sighed. This was really bad. Rendered defenseless and with the Lions locked up, all they had was RC. They really were crippled. "Coran, what do we have to do to get the power up again?"
"We have to get a new Crystal to get the Castle working again," Coran explained, taking his arm off of Hunk and attempting to stand on his own. "But, to get a new Crystal, we need a ship."
"The pod I was loading, we can use that!" Pidge informed them. "I left the bay door open."
"I can use the scanner in the pod to see if there's a Balmera nearby." Coran turned to the Yellow Paladin. "Hunk, you come with me. I'll need someone big to help me carry the Crystal."
"A Balmera," Hunk asked.
Marcus turned his head to Shiro. "Right, then Keith and I will take RC to go see what's happening at the Arusian village," he told the Black Paladin.
"I'll go with you, Marcus," Allura said to the Pilot. "I brought this on the poor Arusians."
"Then I'll stay here, tend to Lance, and guard the Castle," Shiro said. "We all have our tasks, people, so let's get to work!" The other humans and two Alteans nodded, before they ran out of the Bridge. Leaving Shiro with the injured Lance in his arms.
{End song here}
After showing them which one of the pods she was going to use to leave, Pidge stood next to the vehicle while Hunk and Coran sat in the open cockpit. All they were waiting for was Coran to locate where a Balmera was located. Turned out that the crystal that was needed to power up the Castle came from…whatever a Balmera is.
"It's our first bit of luck," Coran said in the left side seat, looking at a holo-map that showed where a Balmera was. Hunk sat in the right-hand seat and put on his helmet, which was a bit of a struggle. "There's a source not too far. We won't need a Wormhole to get there, thankfully."
The holo-map made a pink line that showed the route they needed to go.
"I made some modifications to the shuttle," Pidge told the two. She then pointed to one of the hologram buttons. "The first change is a cloaking device that I reverse-engineered from the invisible walls on the Training Deck." Katie then moved her finger to the second button. "The second is a tank of booster fuel that I mounted on the fuel line."
"Using that during flight would turn the whole pod into a bomb!" Coran exclaimed, causing Hunk to panic and look back at Pidge in terror.
"Okay. Maybe you shouldn't use that modification after all," Pidge said sheepishly, adjusting her glasses.
The two men glared at her for a split second, before Hunk turned his head to Coran. "We ready to hit it?"
"Right. Let's go." Coran grabbed the controls and started the pod. The thrusters of the pod ignited, and the cockpit's windshield formed to shield Hunk and the Altean.
With it ready to take off, Coran piloted the craft off the landing pad.
Down below, Pidge watched. Deciding to remain behind with Rover to assist Shiro with Lance. She then smiled and gave Hunk a thumbs-up. "Good luck."
Hunk looked over his should at her and returned the gesture.
The flight pod bolted out of the hanger and flew away from the Castle. Going up towards the atmosphere, before leaving the planet.
Knowing that he wasn't going to be able to help Lance in total darkness, Shiro carried the unconscious Blue Paladin on his shoulder towards the open Castle doors. Shiro figured that with the moonlight, he could better see him and work to make him get better. While also guarding the Castle.
"Hang on, buddy. Help is on the way," Shiro told Lance, hoping that he heard him as he walked down the hallway. However, the former Titan-Pilot stopped when he spotted multiple objects in front of the Castle. The one in the middle was glowing purple, and all of them were coming right for the entrance.
It was Sendak. Approaching the castle with a small platoon of Sentries.
"Sendak!" Shiro exclaimed with a glare, back up a few steps. Knowing he had no choice but to fight, the Black Paladin turned and placed Lance on his back behind one of the covers. He didn't want to leave him, but he had to keep Sendak out of the Castle at all cost.
Afterwards, Shiro ran out of the Castle and approached Sendak. Stopping only a few feet from the exit. Sendak continued to approach, but his army stopped. Then Sendak stopped. Shiro saw that the general's arm was also a prosthetic. A large, powerful, and terrifying clawed gauntlet attached to his shoulder by a violet energy chain.
"Stand aside," ordered the Galran.
"No!" The former Titan Pilot bravely stood his ground and defiantly activated his prosthetic arm and getting into a fighting stance. "You're not getting in."
"Yes, I am."
Sendak then took Shiro by surprise by launching his large prosthetic arm from his body at Shiro, while it remained attached by the violet energy chain.
The arm flew towards Shiro and grabbed him, but his right arm. Sendak then pulled Shiro off his feet and dragged him back towards himself, causing Shiro to grunt in pain.
After he was let go, Shiro groaned in pain and looked up.
Sendak raised the arm and was prepared to smash him with it.
When the arm came down, Shiro jumped back before being crushed. Rolling on his back before stabilizing himself on one foot and knee. He activated his right arm again, and rushed towards Sendak. Furiously slashing at the commander. However, his hand wasn't able to cut through the metal of Sendak's arm. Shiro then jumped at the Galran's head and swiped at it, only for the alien to swiftly side step and dodge the attack.
Sendak then tried to punch him, but Shiro quickly fell back on his training and his agility saved him. Dodging the first attack by jumping over the arm and landing away from the Galran. He did a second dodge by backflipping away from another punch.
The two opponents then yelled and threw their prosthetic fists forward. However, both punches ended up locking at the knuckle. Sending a weak, violet shockwave.
"I see you spent some time with the Druids." Sendak acknowledged with a smirk. Not looking like he's broken a sweat. Shiro on the other hand was starting to pant while sweating. Feeling exhausted. "They do love to experiment. Too bad you didn't get the latest model."
The gauntlet powered up and Shiro was unable to avoid it, before the gauntlet was launched forward at such a level of power. Sendak's arm pushed the Black Paladin off his feet and back into the Castle, before it stopped abruptly, causing Shiro to fly back.
When he hit the ground, Shiro rolled and bounced painfully on and off the metal floor before coming to a halt, directly beside Lance.
Shiro grunted in frustration, pushing past the pain to get up. He looked up and saw the gauntlet coming at him again. When the gauntlet came down, Shiro scrambled away from it, before the prosthetic slammed on the ground. As he ran away, Sendak used his arm and the energy chain to pull himself into the air to come down and strike Shiro.
However, Shiro stopped and turned to face him. And when Sendak came to strike him with his normal arm, the Paladin used his own weight and propulsion against him. Grabbing the commander and tossing him across the Castle's vestibule.
After bouncing off the ground and stopping, Sendak scrambled to recover and attack, while Shiro rushed to attack with.
But just as they were about to kill each other at the same time, the two warriors froze. Both on one knee and having each of their glowing hands poised dangerously against the other's throats. Glaring daggers into each other's eyes.
"Let him go or your friend won't make it!" Shiro heard another Galran say and looked behind.
Haxus dropped Lance's body like a rag doll at his feet. On each side of the second-in-command stood Sentries, all their aimed at either Shiro or at Lance.
With Shiro distracted, Sendak had the opportunity to strike. Before Shiro could react, the commander punched him. Sending him flying a few feet back before landing and sliding unconscious across the floor. His body stopped when it was next to Lance's.
With the Paladin down, Sendak stood up triumphantly. "Voltron is ours."
Meanwhile, on the catwalk, Pidge was still in the Castle and watched Sendak beginning his march towards the Bridge. Shiro and Lance's bodies were dragged by two Sentries, while Haxus order some other Sentries to drag a large, violet crystal with them.
"Oh, no," Pidge whispered, hugging Rover tightly to her chest. Knowing that she wasn't going to be able to attack any of the Galra and make it out alive, Pidge began sneaking away from the vestibule. Hoping to get someplace safe.
Marcus had RC ran as fast as the she could towards the village. Allura, Keith, and the Arusian King rode on the Titan's back without any real struggle. In the beginning they flew towards the village, before landing when they were halfway near it. This was so that they weren't spotted by the enemy and they could have the element of surprise.
Marcus had RC ran as fast as the she could towards the village. Allura, Keith, and the Arusian King rode on the Titan's back without any real struggle. In the beginning they flew towards the village, before landing when they were halfway near it. This was so that they weren't spotted by the enemy and they could have the element of surprise.
Upon arriving to where the Arusians were gathered, Allura and Keith jumped off RC—while Allura carried the King down—and walked to the edge of the cliff to see the Arusian village. Most if not all the houses were ransacked and on fire. Some massive explosions went off, destroying more homes.
"What's happening down there, RC?" Marcus ordered, wanting to know who was responsible. All the destruction and devastation where bringing back unpleasant memories of the Battle of Harmony.
"Unknown. I'm unable to detect the cause of the fire or those responsible."
"Look! Attackers!" The Arusian King exclaimed and pointed towards somewhere in the village. There they spotted Galran Sentries standing among the flames. Another explosion detonated, obscuring the Pilot's view of the robots.
"The flames and explosion are interfering with my scanners," RC said, and Marcus popped open the hatch and jumped on. His Spitfire armed and ready. And in his other hand was the G3A1.
"I'll go in for a closer look," he said the others and RC. He then threw the battle rifle at Keith, who caught it with ease. "Keith, you proved look out and call out any more attackers. RC, guard the princess and the villagers." He ended things by jumping off the edge. Diving right into the fray.
"Engaging Guard Mode."
"Marcus!" Allura worriedly protested, but wasn't able to stop him.
Marcus slid fast down the steep hill slope, and just when he was about to reach a drop off and fall, the Pilot used his feet and launched off the slope. The armor inner augments powered his jump, and Marcus flew far across the air and over the fires.
And then he started falling near to where the Sentries are. Landing on one of the burning houses, Marcus jumped off before the roof caved in.
Flipping the safety off, Marcus turned his body to the left wail midair, and aimed the LMG right at the robot. Time seemed to slow down for the young Pilot, as he waited for the red dot to be just a millimeter from being dead-center of his target's head.
That's when he pulled the trigger, and the gun spat out rounds of 7.62mm rounds. The rounds hit the Sentries' head, destroying the head. Marcus' momentum also allowed him to cut through two more robots.
The jump came to an end when Marcus bounced off the wall of a burning house and land on his feet. Now on the ground, he aimed at the remaining robots.
But, they didn't react to him. Actually, the Sentries didn't react at all.
Then a large water tower fell over and hit the ground, causing it the shake a little. And it was surprisingly enough to make two of the Sentries.
"What the hell?" Behind his helmet, Marcus face expressed his confusion. He didn't lower his gun and cautiously walked over to them. However, he stopped when he saw why the Sentries were actioning strange.
It's because they were already broken. They weren't even working, and were just tied to wooden poles to make them stand.
Marcus' eyes widened in horror. "Oh, no." He quickly communicated RC. "RC, get ready to take off!"
On the cliff, Allura and Keith also heard the transmission. "Marcus, what's going on," Keith asked tensely.
"They tricked us!" In the village, Marcus ran as fast as he could to the cliff, before jumping from roof top to roof top. "It was just a diversion to separate us and thin the Castle defenses!"
Allura gasped and looked in shock towards the Castle. For a moment, it was still powered off.
But when Marcus climbed back onto the cliff, things went from bad to worse when the Castle of Lions started to power up in the standard Galra violet as opposed to the natural Altean blue.
Marcus quickly got into RC and the hatch closed, controls passing over to him. "Get on!"
"There's no time! We'll slow you down!" Allura shouted, turning to the Titan. Marcus could see how terrified she was. "Go! GO NOW!"
Marcus activated the thrusters in a heartbeat and jumped off the ground. Allura and Keith watched as RC then bolted for the Castle. The Red Paladin turned to Allura with a serious scowl. "Come on!" He exclaimed, before they both activated their jet packs and followed after the faster Titan.
Marcus pushed RC's thrusters to the limit as the two speeded to the Castle at high speed. But as they neared the Castle, the Pilot gasped when he saw the particle barrier taking form. Just like the lights, it was now made up of violet, transparent panels.
Know that he wasn't going to make it, Marcus landed RC a few meters away from the Castle and the drove the Titan running forward.
"Pilot, with our current speed and the speed of the particle barrier, we're not going to make it through," RC said.
"We don't need to! I just need the speed," Marcus told her, glaring with determination as he approached where the barrier was going to close.
He wasn't going to get RC in, but he could still make it.
Right went he a meter away from the closing barrier, Marcus simultaneously stopped and popped the hatch up. Jumping out with the aid speed from his Jump Kit. Upon landing, Marcus slid across the ground towards the Castle, as the barrier was nearly done closing.
Remarkably, he made it, and just before the barrier was complete.
Panting, Marcus eyes were wide behind his visors. He was not only relieved, but shocked that he was able to even make it before the barrier closed. Quickly clearing his head and getting up on one knee, Marcus scanned the perimeter while having his Spitfire at the ready to fire at any Sentries or Galran he saw.
But there was no one. The courtyard was abandoned. "RC, scan the area for any enemies."
"Scanning. No hostiles in the festivity. But there are two Galran and Sentries. As well as three humans. Two near the enemy."
"Marcus!" The Pilot looked behind and saw Allura and Keith flying towards him with their jetpacks. Upon landing, the two ran over to the barrier. "Are you alright," she asked with concern.
"For all intents and purposes, alive and not cut in half." Marcus cracked the joke to lighten the mood.
"Pilot, be advised: I'm intercepting a long range video transmission coming from the Bridge. Patching through." After she said that, Marcus' HUD displayed two small screens. Keith's visor also displayed the transmission, while Allura watched the Red Paladin's visor and listened through her earrings—which were also communication devices.
The one of the left showed Sendak, and the right was a menacing looking Galran. But Marcus had a good hunch he knew who that was.
When Allura saw who it was on Keith's visor, her anxious faced turned into a look of fury. "Zarkon." She hissed.
Zarkon: "Sendak."
Sendak: "My mission is complete. I've captured the Altean castle, along with all of the Voltron Lions. I am currently preparing for launch and will be delivering them all to you shortly."
Zarkon: "This news is most pleasing. You have done your duty. Vrepit Sa!"
Sendak: "Vrepit Sa!"
The transmission ended.
"That's not good." Marcus shook his head.
"Can we break through the barrier," Keith asked, summoning his Bayard.
"Not when they have control of the Castle," Allura told him, serious but also very anxious. She then turned to Marcus and walked over to the particle wall. Marcus went closer to her as well and listened to her. "And whoever has taken the Castle has a Crystal, which means they'll be able to fly the ship. You have to stop them before they take Voltron!"
"How am I going to do that," Marcus inquired.
Pidge: "Keith? Marcus? Can any of you hear me?"
Marcus was almost a little surprised to hear Pidge's voice. "Pidge, is that you?" Keith asked over the comms. "Where are you?"
Pidge: "I'm inside the Castle. Sendak has taken over and he's preparing for launch. He's got Lance and Shiro."
"Pidge, listen." Allura talked to Pidge over the channel. "Marcus was able to get past the barrier, but Keith, RC, and myself are locked out. If they've started the launch sequence, then we don't have much time before liftoff to stop it."
"Me and Pidge will stop them," Marcus told Allura. "What do we have to do?"
"The two you will have to get down to the main engine control panel and disconnect the primary turbine from the Central Energy Chamber." As Allura instructed him, Marcus' HUD pulled up a mini map of the Castle. When he found the Central Energy Chamber, he marked it with a Checkpoint. "If you can do that, Sendak will have to reset the whole system. That might give us enough time to find a way to stop them."
"Pilot, Pidge, to increase your chances of survival and success, I recommend regrouping at this elevator shaft that right above the Central Energy Chamber." RC said before changing the Checkpoint to be where the elevator shaft was. It was deep inside the Castle, and Marcus knew he was going to have to be careful navigating through it.
Pidge: "Right, I got the location. I'll see you there, Marcus."
"You too. Stay safe," Marcus said, before ending the transmission.
"Marcus." Allura stopped him for a moment, while at the same time getting his attention. She was hesitant for a moment, before placing a hand on the particle barrier. "Please, be careful."
Marcus stared at her for about three seconds. Luckily the helmet didn't show his flushing cheeks. Was she really that worried about him? Standing before him, behind a wall of particle energy was a beautiful alien princess caring deeply for his own safety.
Right now, Marcus could have really called himself a sucker for the princess, as he took one step closer to the wall and did what could have been the sappiest thing he's ever done. He placed his right hand on the barrier where her hand was and nod. "You too."
Allura stared at him with wide eyes and blushing red cheeks as Marcus pulled away from the barrier and started running towards the inside of the Castle. Now there was a weird feeling in her stomach and the princess just stood there as frozen as a statue.
"Princess Allura?" RC spoke to get Allura's attention. That was enough to get her to snap out of it and she quickly turned to the Titan and Keith. The Paladin gave her a raised eyebrow, while RC leaned closer. "Are you feeling well? Your vitals—"
"I'm fine!" Allura exclaimed with a squeak in her voice, still blushing.
Meanwhile, far away from Arus, Hunk and Coran had finally reached the nearby Balmera in the modified flight pod. The planet was covered in a, rocky landscape, and some protruding rock formations.
"Is this the Balmera planet with the crystals," Hunk asked the royal advisor.
"It's not a planet. Balmera are ancient animals. Petrified, but still alive," Coran informed him as they entered the atmosphere. "Their bodies naturally create the crystals that help power many Altean ships."
He then pulled up a blue screen that showed the creature's thermals. It then zoomed in on one location, before it displayed a sparkling, beautiful landscape of the Balmera. "I often accompanied my grandfather to visit these majestic creatures when he was building the Castle of Lions. I'll never forget the first time I saw the sparkling surface of a Balmera. You're in for quite a treat."
However, as the screen went off and they were clear of the clouds, they were greeted with a completely different sight all together. The surface wasn't beautiful at all. It's a barren, brown surface wasteland riddled with holes. And worse was that there were Galra structures around most of the holes.
"Oh, no... This is horrifying," Coran gasped, looked around the living planet in appall and anger. "The Galra have turned this into a mining colony! Oh, they're completely destroying it! They have no regard for the poor creature!"
However, a large shadow moved in above and from behind the pod. The vehicle's sensors picked it up and blared its alarm. Hunk looked down at the device alerting them and saw the red blip on it. "Uh-oh. We've been spotted."
Clearing the clouds and flying closer to the heroes was a massive Galra fighter jet. "Hailing unidentified craft. State your ship ID, entry code, and landing destination."
"Oh, no. What do we do?" Hunk turned to Coran with a worried look, while starting to panic.
"Just stay calm," Coran told him, before radioing the Galra fighter in an attempt to alleviate the problem. "We don't really need to land. Uh, we're just looking around, if that's okay."
"Unidentified craft, land immediately and prepare to be boarded," said the pilot of the fighter, as it flew beside the pods.
"Okay. Uh, thank you. See you down below." Coran however, meant it in a different way. He threw the flight pod in reverse in an instant, and the pod responded in a snap. Its main thrusters turned off, before it's forward-facing thrusters blasted the craft back.
Hunk started screaming as the royal adviser started pulling off some crazy piloting skills. Spinning into proper position and then taking off to escape the fighter.
However, the Galra fighter was instantly on the pod and started firing its lasers at it.
"Not done yet. Hang on!" Coran sent the flight pod into a nosedive and dived down into a dark mining hole at full speed.
Hunk continued screaming at the royal advisor's crazy piloting, as they continued flying down the hole. He would stop for a moment to collect more breath, then start screaming his head off again. "Coran! Coran!" He yelled, before the royal advisor turned on the ship's headlights. The further down they went, they saw Galra structures along the walls.
After a long while, Hunk finally stopped screaming. Calming down as the lack of anything occurring for several moments sapped his motivation to continue. He looked around a second in confusion. "... ... How deep is this thing," Hunk asked Coran in a much calmer voice.
But the calm did not last, as right in front of them were several Galra pipes and structures that stretched from one side of the hole to the other.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no—!" Hunk yelled. The flight pod was speeding too fast to avoid the structures before colliding with one of them. Now Coran joined the larger human in screaming earnestly, as the small ship started spinning out of control as it fell.
Pod continued falling, but luckily Coran was able to bring them into a safe crash landing at the bottom of the hole. But it wasn't smooth either. Once the ship touched the ground, it skidded across the dirk before stopping when the nose hits the wall of the cave.
Both human and Altean groaned in pain as the windshield of their flight pod dissipated. The eerily silence of the mine prompted Hunk to look around after taking off his helmet. There was really nothing down there. Only the walls and floor.
He then turned his head towards an open cave. Hunk stared at it for a moment.
From the darkness of the cave, two pairs of glowing eyes appeared and stared right at them.
This made Hunk ask apprehensively, "Coran, what lives at the bottom of these mines?"
Back on Arus, Marcus and Pidge were able to meet up at the closed door of the elevator shaft after making their way through the Castle of Lions.
Marcus grabbed the closed doors and grunted as he forcefully pulled them apart. He looked back at Pidge and motioned with his head for her to go through. Pidge fitted herself under his arm and stepped onto the edge of the shaft. "Hey, Rover," she called for her robot, and Rover followed her inside the shaft and hovered in place.
Afterwards, Pidge started down the shaft by gradually jumping from wall to wall.
Marcus then jumped out of the elevator doorway and fell down the shaft. Falling right past Pidge, who gasped in horror, believing that he was going to die.
However, Marcus' Jump Kit burst out one strong thrust that stopped him in the air for a moment. Only a few feet from the ground. Before falling the rest of the way down to the bottom. He knew that his Pilot suit was able to take the landing if he didn't use the Jump Kit, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Pidge landed at the bottom and gave him a look. "Show off."
"I do aim to please."
But they better hurry, because in the Bridge, Sendak may have been oblivious to their infiltration and believed that the remaining free Paladins are trapped outside the Castle, he was getting ready to launch the ship.
"Run main cluster activation sequence," he ordered Haxus.
"Activation sequence initiated," Haxus informed him. "Powering up for launch."
The door to the Central Energy Chamber opened, and Marcus and Pidge stepped inside. Marcus with his pointed into the chamber and Pidge with her Bayard summoned.
The Central Energy Chamber was a large, circular-shaped room with a long catwalk that stretched out to the center with no supporting structures. At the other end, the catwalk turned into a large ring that encircled a loosely formed, blue sphere of energy.
"Okay, Allura, we're near the turbine," Marcus said into his helmet, as the three raced towards the other side. But as they got closer, the sphere was becoming larger. "And now the giant ball of energy is growing."
Allura: "Then you'll have to hurry. Cross the catwalk to the main column in the center."
Marcus, Pidge, Rover quickly made their way to the center and reached the engine turbine's control column. The Pilot lets the young girl do it, knowing that she would be better for handling this stuff.
"Okay," Pidge said.
Allura: "Now, open the hatch."
Pidge kneeled down and pulled up the hatch to the column and looked inside.
Allura: Find the central computer control hub and enter the following sequence..."
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Pidge paused the princess, panicking a little. "Which one is it? All the labels are in Altean!" Marcus looked in the opening and saw that the turbines were indeed labels in Altean. But for some reason, it didn't bother him.
To put it in a better choice of words. He couldn't read them, but it was more like he could understand what they meant.
Suddenly the massive energy started to swell in the chamber, and shoot off streams against the walls. Marcus snapped out of it and looked at the energy in shock. "Allura, which one of these damn symbols, is it?!" He exclaimed into the comms. However, all he got was static. "Allura? Allura?!"
"Marcus!? Marcus, come in!" Allura yelled for the Pilot, but she wasn't picking up a signal at all. "I've lost connection with them!"
"Princess," RC said, looking up at the Castle with Keith, getting Allura to see what they were seeing. All around them dirt was being kicked up and thrown back by intense winds. All they could do is watch helplessly, as the ship was starting to launch.
"Oh, no! It's taking off!"
Panicking to find a solution, Pidge looked back into the control's opening and looked at the energy turbines. She tried thinking of anything to stop the ship from going. But there was really only one way she knew how to get it to stop.
She summoned her Bayard and looked back at Marcus.
Marcus looked at her, then the mass of energy. They were out of opinions and out of time. Hopefully Allura can fix this. "Do it!"
Pidge then turned her head to face the energy turbines and slammed the Green Bayard into them as hard as she could.
The two screamed in pain as a violent reaction from the turbines threw Pidge into Marcus. With a strong amount of force, they were sent across the Chamber, before they landed separately beside each other on the floor of the catwalk. Groaning, Marcus sat up before Pidge did, Rover joined them, and the three watched as a disburse of energy came from the giant blue ball, before it shrank down to a much, much smaller form than what they saw.
The Pilot looked at the Green Paladin and Rover looked at both of them. Then smiles appeared on their faces and let out a sigh of relief.
They did it. They successfully interrupted the launch.
"The main engine just shorted out!" Haxus informed Sendak, baffled by this unexpected development.
Sendak marched over to where the second in command was and Haxus brings up a video footage of the Central Energy Chamber. Trying to figure out what just happened.
In the video, they spied Marcus and Pidge fleeing from the Chamber. Zooming in, the Galrans saw the Pilot and Paladin work together to open the elevator doors, letting Rover go first, before moving inside. The doors closing behind them.
Sendak glared at the video footage. "We have saboteurs. Find them and take them out."
After a long wait, here it is. Chapter 4.
I'll get to work on the fifth chapter right after this to close up the Arus Arc.
And just so you know, after this, Marcus will NOT leave to find Matt and Commander Holt. It's not going to happen. I just put it in because I was asked if Marcus could leave Team Voltron to go find them, but I'm not having him leave the team. He only wanted to go to keep Pidge from having to leave.
Also, there was some Marcus x Allura fluff for you guys.
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