Two days later…
Daniel had forgotten about the stalker encounter, but not the pilots. Perhaps it was because Daniel was young, and he was still learning about the world. But the pilots knew about the evil in the world, and that Daniel just had a taste of it. They didn't even like that he had that small dose at just five, but that was life they supposed. They decided to stay away from cities so that Wade and HYDRA would have a harder time to find them. Now, they were traveling through a wood, Daniel sitting passively on Hunk's huge shoulder. He seemed to be thinking, with his eyebrows furrowed and absent minded tracings of his palms.
"What's on your mind?" Hunk asked.
"Something that man had told Wade a long time ago. He said something like, "You can use him as a weapon against the Voltron force, but he belongs to HYDRA." I'm not sure if that's exactly what he said, but I'm pretty sure he said something along those lines." Daniel said.
Everyone froze and looked at each other, then to Daniel.
"They want me to destroy Voltron. Why?" Daniel asked.
"Sky Marshal Wade is a snart that hates Voltron. If given the chance, he'd obliterate them." Keith said.
"You mean you?" Daniel asked, once again stopping everyone.
"What gives you that idea?" Lance asked nervously.
"Your names and uniforms. And the voltcoms. I figured that you're from the future because the Keith, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, and Allura in this time are just now becoming pilots. And Allura isn't even a cadet yet. Sven's still Blue Lion pilot." Daniel explained.
"Told you the kid was smart." Lance grumbled.
"So do you know how we got here?" Keith asked.
"It could've been anything honestly. Portals open at least twenty-seven hundred times a day. We just never notice them because they go as fast as they come." Daniel admitted.
"How do you know this stuff?" Lance asked.
"Ya hear stuff when ya travel. And I've seen it myself." Daniel shrugged.
"So how do we get back?" Keith asked.
"Your portal- the one that leads to the future- will realize it transported you here eventually. But I can't give you an amount of time it'll take. It depends how far you are. When it does though, it'll find you and take you back to your time." Daniel answered.
"You seem to know an awful lot about portal boundaries and laws of time." Pidge said suspiciously.
"It's because I travel through portals when I'm bored. Which is a lot." Daniel said.
"So you don't exactly know what it's made of or where it'll take you, but you still go through it." Lance deadpanned.
"Yeah, so?" Daniel said nonchalantly.
Suddenly, Daniel was knocked off of Hunk's shoulder. A herd of men attacked the force while two others grabbed Daniel and ran.
"We've got the boy! Move out!" the leader ordered.
They released the pilots and disappeared.
"What just happened?" Lance groaned.
"HYDRA took Daniel." Keith spat.
A huge shield embedded itself into a tree next to Keith's head.
Lo and behold, Captain America and the Avengers were there. The pilots activated their voltcoms as a warning.
"Where did HYDRA go?" Captain America demanded.
"How the hell should we know? They just took our past cadet!" Lance snarled.
"Lance!" Keith barked.
"Past cadet?" Captain America inquired.
"We're from the future. A portal took us by surprise and we've been trapped here for some time. We've been helping a boy we presume to be our cadet, Daniel, nine years in the past find safety." Allura said diplomatically.
"And then HYDRA came out of the blue and took him." Lance added.
"HYDRA has taken our own member as well. Bruce Banner, or, the Hulk as you've heard. I'm Captain America, and we're the Avengers." Captain America said.
"Yeah, we know who you guys are. We've actually worked together before, Steve." Lance stated.
"Then I suppose we'll work together again to save our comrades." Cap said, extending his hand.
"I suppose so." Keith agreed, and he took it.