Ch 4

Cleaning toilets… not fun…. At least, not to Dani.

Though, she supposed, hanging out with Vince was pretty fun. He was a pretty nice guy, which kind of made her guilty she was lying to him about being a boy when she wasn't.

Now, they were walking down the hallway on their way to turn in their cleaning gear. She blinked as she noticed the simulator room on their left. It was strangely quiet. Every other time she walked past, some class or an older student was inside practicing. Dani had never seen it empty. Probably because she never came this way this time of day.

"Whoa," Dani said, "check it out. It's completely empty."

She and Vince peered through the glass. Inside, she could make out the cockpits in stainless steel, just waiting to be boarded. Dani grinned. It eerily reminded Vince of the predators on his favorite holoscreen channel's annual ''monster week."

"Come on, " said Dani as she opened the doors and slunk forward, the mission impossible theme song playing in her head.

Vince followed as he tried to imitate her smooth and graceful movements. "I thought you said that you didn't like the simulators."

"I don't, not when they tell us what to do. But now, its different. Now, we're rebels in a secret, clandestine mission to save the planet- no, the galaxy!"

Dani grinned again as she climbed into the cockpit, she could already feel her heart leap at the thought of fighting for the defense of her home!

They had been in the simulation for about five minutes, best five minutes of Dani's life, when a new ship appeared. Dani balked when she realized that it wasn't a CPU like the rest. This one had an actual person in it.

Apparently, Vince noticed, too. 'Cause he swerved and almost hit Dani in surprise. Dani dove down out of the way with a muffled growl. Leave it to a boy...

The other fighter pilot zipped in front of the two cadets before soaring ahead. Dani and Vince let out twin gasps of surprise. If that pilot was a teacher meaning to punish them, wouldn't he-she stop the simulator, instead?

"What's wrong, cadets? Can't keep up?"

Dani and Vince gasped in unison. The other pilot was none other than Lance, their evil teacher from before. Lance swerved in front of them both excellently as he laughed. "You're really trying to be expelled, aren't you, cadet?"

Dani growled in the back of her throat, how dare he? Disgusting, yellow bellied, traitor! Dani's eyes narrowed to slits, revealing only a sliver of lilac between dark, thick lashes. She bared her teeth in a snarl as she revved her craft's engines and nose-ramming the side of Lance's fighter.

Dani then zipped away as Lance was still recovering. She was good at flying, but he had over a decade of experience on her.

Lance's laughter filled the speakers again. "So, this is a game of tag, is it, cadet?"

Vince zipped away before he could get ''tagged". That looked painful, and he didn't like flying anyways.

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Across the galaxy, a navy haired pilot spoke to a spacemouse. And solved a hint, all in the same conversation.

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"Wooohoooo!"

"Huwahhhhhhh!"

"Hahaha! Hope you're buckled in, cadets!"

If someone were to be standing in a secret passageway, or listening to certain air vents, this is what they would hear. By any account, the sounds were certainly very varied from one another.

They belonged to Dani, Vince, and Lance, respectively. Each one of them had very different views and emotions on being in a moving simulator as it races through derelict passages, before parachuting into a hidden chamber.

Dani's thoughts: Let's do that again!

Vince's thoughts: I am never, ever doing this again.

Lance's thoughts: If Vince pees his pants, I'll win my bet with Hunk.

...Dani pov...

"This, my young cadets, is-"

Lance was interrupted by a brown haired toothpick of a man sitting in a high-backed office chair.

"The Den," Pidge, the green lion pilot, as Dani recalled, finished.

Beside her, Vince gasped as he recognised Pidge. "You're the green lion pilot, Pidge! I've read all your research. That dissertation of the outer planets was brilliant!"

Dani sweatdropped. From boy to squealing fangirl in five seconds or less, ladies and gentlemen.

All of a sudden, there was a loud noise from behind her along with flickering light. Dani turned her head so fast she almost got whiplash. She hated it when people sneaked up on her, made her hair stand up and it was just plain rude.

To her surprise and delight, the sneak was none other than Hunk, the yellow lion pilot. He turned off the flamethrower and lifted his protective goggles off his face. Grinning, he waved and said, "I'm Hunk, nice to meet you, cadets."

Despite the scare, Dani found herself smiling back. Hunk just seemed to be one of those people who were always in a good mood. Back at the desk, Pidge asked, "Why did you use the welder? You're not even welding anything."

Hunk grinned and put the fiery tool up on a shelf. Was he humming a rock song? Dani swore she could hear it.

Hunk said, "I know, I just wanted to make a cool entrance for the cadets."

Pidge facepalmed and Dani was tempted to do the same. Of course, 'cause that just made perfect sense.

"So," said Dani, "where is Keith?"

Lance rolled his eyes. "Always with the Keith."

Pidge grinned and asked, "Voltron fan?"

Dani flushed to her ears. Was it that obvious? "Ummmmmm, a bit."

Behind her, Lance snorted. "More than a bit. Look at this, guys."

Out of his pocket he pulled a piece of paper. Dani cringed as she realized it was her Voltron photograph that she had since she was four years old. Red marker doodles and all.

The minute the other adults saw it, they started cracking up. "You-" Pidge gasped out- "you drew glasses on my glasses! Why?"

Dani's already impressive blush turned a shade pinker. "Uhhhhh, six eyes?"

"And Lance's devil horns?"

Dani just shrugged. She didn't know, she had been four. Four year olds didn't think up the answer to the questions of the universe. They just did stuff.

"And, why do Keith and Allura have a trail of hearts connecting them?"

Danny blushed. When she was a child, she had thought that Keith and Allura had been together. It was a simple mistake really. Keith always protected Allura and Allura always seemed to gravitate towards Keith. They acted like the coupes in the parks had. How was Dani to know they were, in fact, not an item?

"Well," said Hunk as he straightened his posture, "I would love to hang around, but I'm on duty in a few minutes. It was great to meet you, I look forward to working with you clowns in the future."

Both cadets looked up to Lance's form in confusion. "Huh?"

Lance smiled as he explained, "We act like perfect soldiers on the outside to keep Wade off our tails. We really use our position to find info on Voltron and the rest of the universe. Pidge is even connected to Wade's personal computer for extra info. "

"Wow..." breathed Dani, this day gets better and better! First she met Vince, then she met Lance, thought he was a jerk but he turned out awesome, and now she met three more of her heros. This Was Awesome!

AN: Whoa, did anybody catch what happened the first time i posted this chapter? really weird O.O it was like the site uploaded the actual code script along with the story. while it is cool to look at and decipher what code has to do to make words appear on a page. i'm sure everybody likes this update better. :) if this works. it may still look like code

well, srry for being a little late, i had multiple finals and two art competitions which kept me crazy busy, tho i did come home with first place and second:) plus i aced my finals which is always a good thing. otherwise, DC's mom, the most amazing mom in the world, thinks too much fanfiction is a bad thing and takes away DC's P.C...

if any one is willing to beta, that would be great. i write this on my phone, it's not a perfect piece of literature. if you are interested or know a friend who is interested, let me know:)

special thanks to digilover23 and everybody else that reviewed or PMed, i just read theirs first, they let me know the chappie didn't upload correctly in the first place, otherwise it would have taken me days to notice and fix

another cheer for the anonymous reviewer who says more more all the time. without those reviews i would have been doing more studying instead of writing:) tho i probly should have actually done more studying anyways...

and blaid23, your review made me laugh. i'm honestly not smart enough to write code script like what got uploaded, or, at least, not intentionally:)

well, i have to go, love you all! see you next time!

hope this uploads right... this time...