Pidge and ophelia turned as well to see hunk and lance walking in. Pain expression was on their face but soon that expression was gone and replaced on lances face when he saw her. "Hello~" Before he could finished, ophelia held a hand up.

"Don't even start, playboy." Ophelia warned, narrowing her eyes.

A whine escaped lance, his shoulders dropped as he walked beside shiro who looked at him with a hidden smirked. Her eyes rolled, still curious.

"You made it." Allura said in relief, her hands cuffed against her chests.

"Yeah, just barely." Lance huffed, rubbing his right shoulder. "That was a nightmare." The sound of popping was released from lance's shoulder. "I almost puked out there. I felt like hunk!" Lance stated.

"Think how i felt." Hunk raised his eyebrows. " I am hunk." Hunk pointed out.

Pidge held an amusing smile, looking toward hunk. Even shiro had the soft, tiny smile on his face. Ophelia rolled her eyes, shaking her head in amusement. "Yeah. We had a tough time, too." Pidge said innocently, Raising an eyebrow.

Shiro looked at pidge confusedly before understand what the younger holt was saying because both of them were sharing an amused, innocent smile toward each other.

Okay, i have to know what happen. Ophelia said, smirking lightly at the two. But soon everything turned serious when shiro furrow his brows a little.

"Did we find the red lion yet?" Shiro asked, looked at them with a serious look on his face.

"Allura just located it. There's a bit of good news and bad news." Coran stated, walking up to them before pulling on his mustache. "The good news is, the red lion's nearby." He crossed his arms. " The bad news is it's on board the galra ship now orbiting arus." Soon his face lit up. " But wait, good news again. We're arus!" He said happily.

"They're here already?" Ophelia and shiro both stepped up, asking them in shock before they looked at each other, turning their heads quickly to hide a hidden blush.

"Yes, guess my calculations were a bit off." Coran said softly, holding his fingers up ." Finger counting.. It's more of an art than a science.." Coran hummed, watching the screen turn on with a video feed link on.

A strange creature formed with a yellow optic on his left eye. Dark and light purple fur covered his face and large ears while he wore some sort of red suit. His dull yellow eye stared at them. Why does he seem familiar to her?

::Princess allura, This is commander sendak of the galra empire.:: Shock ran through everyone except for ophelia who walked up beside allura. ::I came on behalf of emperor zarkon, lord of the known universe. I am here to confiscate the lions. Turn them over to me or i will destroy your planet.::

The video feed cut off, ophelia narrowed her eyes in anger as she turned toward shiro and them. " All right, let's not panic." Shiro said calmly, his fist clenching tightly.

"Not panic? The scary purple alien thing is driving his battleship toward us." Ophelia raised an eyebrow, pointing to herself as hunk noticed her motion. "W-well you're more like sunburn white instead of purple." Hunk said, trying to save his skin.

"We only have five lions." Ophelia said calmly, crossing her arms.

Pidge looked at her. " Technically, only have four working lions." Pidge reminded, crossing her arms.

"That's right, thank you, pidge." Hunk said, patting pidges shoulder before walking. " Four working lions and a castle that, like, ten thousand years old." Hunk stated, gesturing toward the castle age.

" Actually, it's ten thousand, six hundred years old. You see, it was built by my grandfather…" Coran stopped talking when hunk finger pressed against his lips.

"Thanks, coran. Thank you for that. See? Now is the perfect time to panic." Hunk pointed out

"Wait! This castle has a particle barrier we can activate." Allura reminded herself, her eyes widen.

"Girl.." Lance smug smile formed, a raising eyebrow. " You've already activated my par-" Ophelia and shiro eyes widen before turning toward.

"Lance!" They warned together, their eyes narrowing at the boy who widen his eyes almost innocently.

Playboy gonna be the death of me. She thought to herself, sighing softly as she rubbed her eyes. Why was she and shiro always on the same page when it comes to lance being an idiot but when it comes to everything else, she felt like doubting.

The image of sendak's ship, with a red weapon on it. Being pulled up for a view of it. Her eyes widen in shock. "The particle barrier won't hold sendak's ion cannon forever. "Coran crossed his arms before gripping his chin lightly. "The galra technology must have advanced since we fought them last." Coran stated.

"Panic now?" Hunk quickly asked, looking for permission.

"No." Shiro denied that permission. " We've just got to figure out our plan of action, and figure it out quickly." Shiro said calmly, his arms crossed.

"I say we pop through a wormhole and live to fight another day." Lance said, smiling innocently.

"I second that. Yes. We tried to find all the lions, right?" Hunk agreed, questioning with his shoulders shrugged. "We gave it the old college try. Couldn't do it." He held up two fingers each. " We only have four. We can't form voltron. I guess we could form a snake. Or a worm. To go through that hole, lance, that you were talking about." Hunk said, making a hand movement

"Then, it's settled." Lance walks to aluura and smirked. " Allura, you ride with me. One of you take the old guy." Lance stated, earning a heated glare by coran.

"We can't just abandon arus." Pidge stated, glaring coldly.

"And besides, Shiro is commanding officer of voltron and you are not, lance." Ophelia stated coldly, narrowing her eyes.

" She right and the galra will keep destroying planets and capturing prisoners until we stop them." Pidge pointed out, glaring toward hunk.

"Okay, if we run, then maybe sendak will follow us and leave this planet alone, like when we left earth." Hunk spoke quickly. "We form the snake-worm thingamajig and we.." Hunk made a soft hiss, snake movement with his arms. "Out of here." Hunk stated.

"Hunk.." Hunk looked at ophelia." We aren't talking about just arus and earth alone. But all the planets in the solar system. This system, Mikey way system, every universe solar system out there. More so, unexplored systems all destroyed if we run." Ophelia pointed out a bit less calm but she kept a calm look on her face.

Keith nodded in agreement. " Sendak could destroy the planet then come after us anyway. Staying is our only option." Keith started, finally speaking up after being quiet for so long.

"Here's an option: Shut you're quiznak." Lance said harshly, with an odd look on his face.

"I don't think you using that word correctly." Keith said calmly, glaring at lance.

"What do you know, mullet?" Lance leaned toward keith.

"We're staying." Keith leaned forward.

"Leaving!" Lance shouted.

"Staying!" Pidge argued with lance, taking keith side.

"Snake!" Hunk randomly shouted.

"Guys, Stop!" Shiro shouted, causing everyone to pull away. Two on each side of shiro's. However ophelia stood with allura and coran, frowning a little of how the cadets are acting little less than children, more like toddlers.

And toddlers were not fun to be around. " Princess allura." Ophelia spoken up, earning shiro gaze. " These are you're lions. You've dealt with the galra empire before." Ophelia stated calmly.

Each cadet raised an eyebrow, staring at the altean princess. Their arms were crossed against their chest, each not looking at each other.

"You know what we're facing better than any of us. What do you think is the best course of action?" Shiro said, finishing ophelia sentence.

This was a tough decision for allura, one she had just woken up to. Her blue eyes widen before softening, almost like she was in tears. "I...I don't know." She said, lowering her head in sorrow.

Coran let out a quiet sigh, closing his eyes before he turned to her. " Perhaps you're father can help." Coran said.

Allura turned to him, her eyes widen. "My father?" She questioned in confusion.

She watched the two alteans leave the command room before turning her head toward the group. Seeing how the cadets didn't bother to look at each other only stuck a nerve and it annoyed her to no end.

She was a medic, a special ops scout. This shouldn't annoy her but it does and it bothered her, no worse, bugged her to not end. She bit down on lip, a soft sound of annoyance escaped her lips. " Toddlers." She stated coldly.

Earning a look from the cadets and shiro. Pidge was actually the first to look down shamefully. Ophelia didn't want to see that look of pidge but she knew the younger holt shouldn't of acted the way he did.

But more importantly, she sent two heated glares at lance and hunk, watching the shrunk down from her glares. She knew it wouldn't bother keith since she had literally no right to scold him for his temper and understood this is what he wanted.

"I know both of you do not want this." She started, stepping toward the two. "But to think how you two would panic and act like toddlers is unexpected. I literally was expecting more from you hunk." She pointed out, watching his shoulders sag a little.

"You're right.." Hunk lowered his head. "I should've thought more clearly about this and that other lives were at stake." Hunk muttered. "Sorry." He said calmly.

Ophelia nodded her head, looking at lance to see he had actually lost the battle of leaving, his shoulder slouched before sighing softly. "Yeah, i'm sorry too." He said softly, almost pulling a pitiful attempt of pouting.

Ophelia rolled her eyes and walked to pidge, setting her hand on his shoulder lightly. " Pidge, you heart is in the right place as always. But arguing is never an answer. No matter how hard the other person gets on your nerves or show disappointment, just follow you heart." She said softly, earning a soft smile from pidge.

"You right, sorry. "Pidge said softly, pulling a soft smile on his face, fixing his glasses lightly.

"Same goes with you keith. But loosen up on the temper." Ophelia pointed out. "I don't want to be the one to bandage and stitch wounds that happened on purpose, understand?" Ophelia warned lightly, her eyes narrowing.

"Understood." Keith nodded his head and pulled the softest but tiniest smile on his lips.

She felt a pair of eyes watching her as she turned around to see shiro staring at her with a small but soft smile. His eyes were filled with amazement and proudness. Like he was proud of her for something she did.

Since when did i become a space mom? She thought to herself, realizing dawned on her. It was the moment she joined them in the blue lion.

Her cheeks heated up a little, her hands found the edges of her suit and tugs lightly on her suit sleeves, accidently activating her cloaking systems as she hide without realizing it. Shiro eyes widen slightly before looking around like he did something wrong.

Pidge held a wide, innocently but smug smile on his face, snickering lightly before poking the spot where she was hidden until her cloaking systems shut off, earning a shocked expression from shiro before that expression turned to a soft smile.

"Ophelia.." Shiro spoken up, the sound of feet were walking away from her side, leaving a small bit of the room to her and shiro. " Would you like….- The sound of the doors opened, causing shiro to stop talking as they saw allura walk in.

"You six paladins were brought here for a reason." Everyone soon lined up slightly. "The voltron lions are meant to be piloted by you and you alone. We must fight and keep fighting until we defeat zarkon. It is our destiny. Voltron is the universe's only hope. We are the universe's only hope." Allura explained during her speech.

"We're with you princess." Shiro said calmly, nodding his head.

"So am i." Ophelia stepped up beside shiro, acting as if she was co-command of the group. Maybe that was what shiro was gonna asked her. The thought of working alongside shiro.

Six pods stood there before the lit up one by one. From left to right was the blue, red, brown, black, green and yellow paladin suits. Each took two spots from left, middle and right. Each of them stood side by side.

"You're suits of armor." Allura pointed out.

Each of them walked up the stairs, standing in front of the color coded suits. Ophelia looked at the suit, her hand raised up and placed against the container. The Suit was white with a black tight suit underneath . Brown shoulder pads, wrist guards, knee pads and ankle guards. On the middle was a Brown V shape.

Soft blue bio-lights illuminated off the shoulder pads, thighs and helmet edges. Her eyes haven't been removed from the suit at all before she smirked lightly. " Boys!" She called out, earning looks until the straighten up. "It's time to suit up." She said, a smirk formed on her lips.

It's about time i got out of this. She thought to herself, looking at the black suit that held purple bio-lights on it. The container hissed opened as she gathered up her voltron suit and moved behind the pod rather quickly.

She slipped out of her suit and into her voltron tight suit first. She knew someone was trying to peek behind the pod but a yelp was heard and a grumble. She had smiled softly, she was glad one person was reasonable.

She heard a familiar snicker, pidge, was laughing and she could only guess it was lance that was trying to get a sneak peak because of the way he was grumbling. She looked out from behind the container pod, she saw shiro glaring toward lance.

His back turned from her container, protecting one side of it while she looked toward the other side to see keith doing the side. Lance was huffing, not to happy that fact they cut him off from her. She was literally grateful of those two.

She turned her attention to the white armor, slipping the rest of the armor onto her small figure. Fixing the gloves lightly where it was comfortable on her hands. She lightly tapped the ground with the tip of her toe, adjusting the shoes of the suit.

It felt good on her, she was a paladin and she was comfortable with the suit on. She fixes her hair lightly, the thin ponytail was straighten and tighten against her head before she slips the helmet onto her head.

It felt a little different but she couldn't blame herself, she wore a mask and a hood over her hair before. Shrugging her shoulders, she walk toward the group who looked at her with eyes widen. For some reason, she was now literally nervous of how they were staring at her.

"Wow, Ophie." Pidge said quietly, a smile formed on his lips.

"That suit looks really good on you." Lance said, sliding over to her side, looking at her from up and down.

"I maybe a medic, but i'm also a special ops cadet. I can still knock you onto your bum if you don't move away." She warned, watching lance smiling nervously before sliding back toward his spot.

She saw allura touch another container, one that had five items in it until it opened up revealing four color codes weapons. "The bayard is the traditional weapon of the paladins of voltron." The bayard lifted up one it's own floating toward their owners.

Hunk was the first to grab his, watching it turn into a huge cannon that made him struggle slightly to hold it. " It takes a distinct shape of each paladin." Allura said calmly.

Keith was the next to grabbed his, hearing him gasp a little when his turned into a sword before he raised his right arm, allowing a blue shield to form.

Lance held his, watching his turn into some sort of rifle mix. She could tell it was for quick shooting but also for long distance firing. Lance look a little nervous before he smirked and held it in his hands proudly.

Pidge was next, grabbing hers as it shifted into a arrow like knuckle brace. Watching her swing it around with grace before holding it out.

however ophelia blocked out the conversation between the younger holt and lance as she grabbed her brown bayard, watching it shine brightly into a pair of batons with blades that curved around her arms to her elbow.

"Bladed Tonfas." Ophelia mumbles as she took a step forward. She swung her left tonfa toward her right before she twisted her waist to a left spin kick, lifting off the ground within the spin as she swung her right around through the air, causing a thin edge line to appear before her.

Landing on the ground carefully, she pressed a button that allowed the blades to slip into the sheathed of the baton as she jabbed the ball end of her batons in the air before she raised her knee up, pulling her elbows back where the back end of the batons swung into someone gut without realizing it.

She blinked a few times, seeing lance falling onto his knees, holding his gut as he fell over. "Uh…" She had no words to describe how much this was an embarrassment to her. She didn't mean to hurt lance like that but she knew a bruise will now be there for a while.

Allura and shiro were looking at them before turning toward each other. "Shiro, i'm afraid your bayard was lost with it's paladin." Allura informed, looking sad about that.

"I guess, i'll just have to made do." Shiro said calmly, smiling softly.

Ophelia smiled, walking toward shiro before touching his shoulder lightly. She earn a soft smile in return from shiro. "If there is one thing i know, that i always come prepared." Ophelia handed over one of her short swords to shiro and smiled softly.

"I can't take that." Shiro said softly, his eyes widen in shock. "This is yours, Like i said, i can make do." He pushed the short sword away, shaking his head.

She huffed a little, but nodded her head. She was never one to part from them. She couldn't understand it but those swords had been with her for as long as she remembers and that was just saying something. No memories of how she gotten them.

Something just told her to keep hold of them. She walks to the containment pod and set her suit up in it with her swords before she followed the other paladins out to the command center.