"Well there goes my chance of fame" lance said, and i looked at the 13 year old as we walked on the stone bridge of the town that we were visiting . the sky was dark with the moon shining bright down at us"get an A+ on all our finals, flying around in space for a few years, throw the whole world into lance fever! go to Europe after, get into a nice steady relationship with a stone cold fox chick, i had the whole thing mapped out you know...losing wasn't a part of any of it"
"yeah, we did kind of stink today. The shuttle was a complete disaster when we left" i say, munching on an egg sandwich"but then again, we can turn this set back into a comeback. It's a better story to tell that way"
"If so, i think you got us all beat." lance said smiling and i raised a brow
"Why do you say that?"
"Don't think i didn't see your report card, you've failed half your classes and might be getting summer school. What's been with you lately, you've been distant...and opal kyoshi failing? The tied smartest girl in school next to that katie girl.? Sounds mythical" lance said and i frowned
"I just haven't been feeling good these past few weeks, i think i'm coming down with something" i said, finishing the sandwich.
"Well whatever the reason is" lance sighs "i'm handing the 'legend in the making' baton to you op"
I smiled slightly "what if i'm not the legend making type?"
"That's okay, we all got strengths, mine is flying, hunk's cooking, and yours is creativity. " lance said "maybe you're creativity can help me finally ace one of my tests, anymore F's and i'm screwed"
"Isn't this your fourt-" my eyes widen as i saw something small but bright flash a few meters from me i smiled widely as i ran to the end of the bridge and hopped over it easily and landed in the grass below it, making sure to keep my balance because the ground was sloped. One slip and i could be washed away by the water nearby. I carefully knelt by plate of grass and the flashing started again...
I felt lance lance beside me and he check me over
"What was that?! Are you okay?!" lance exaggerated and i just stared at the bug..
"They're so pretty" i say breathless. Thousands, many every millions of fireflies are surrounding us. Some in the air, some on the ground...i smiled...beautiful, just like australia. One flew next to me and i quickly grabbed it
"What's wrong with you! Did you kill it?!" lance yelled but i pulled it close to my face
"It's so small and tiny, but it can shine to bright!..."i say as i slowly lifted it to lance "isn't it beautiful?"
"Yeah..i guess"
I smiled and lifted my hand in the air as the firefly flew off and high in the sky.i looked at lance before i held out my hand as if it was a microphone.
"Testing testing, 1 2 3. So lance mcclain, best pilot in the 7th grade and soon possibly the world, how are you feeling? may we get an insider on your thoughts?" i say and lance laughed
"I guess i can say it was exciting..."he said and he wrapped an arm around my shoulders, hugging me and squishing me against his chest. "Especially since i got my best co-pilot with me on deck. It's like getting the best sugar rush in your life! You, me and hunk, even if hunk almost puked, With the three of us together, we can be the best.!"
I laughed and pulled away from the hug and ruffled lance's hair, which was nearly impossible but i did it!
"We'll be the best in world, maybe in history!" lance cheered and he hopped up and down. Sadly he lost his balance and he fell into the water. His head popped out again and he started laughing. I carefully slid down there and held out a hand for him to get up, he took it and shook my shoulders tightly
"We'll make history! Opal kyoshi and lance mcclain! Greatest pilots ever made!" he yelled in excitement and he ran off and headed above the bridge and down the street "you coming?"
'You know, i'm not always gonna be there to help you...' i think to myself as i walked over there and grabbed his hand.
There was the sound of hisses as something opened in front of me and i fell forward, just as i was, two arms wrapped around me and helped me stand.
"Opal! Are you okay?!say something?!" yelled hunk as he shook me slightly.
"Ugh...something.." i said, smiling weakly
"SHE'S OKAY!" he yelled and he hugged me again and i hugged him back. I looked over his shoulders to see everyone smiling at me but..where's lance? What happened? Did we win? When he pulled away, i was tackled by a blur of orange and green to the ground
"Oh thank the heavens!" pidge yelled and i hugged him back
"It's awesome to see ya too!"
"I saw you get shocked down and shiro. Appa helped you guys a little after yo-"
"APPA! WHERE'S MY BABY!?" i yelled and everyone's face fell...what?
Keith helped me up and lead me to another pod. I looked down at my outfit to see i was wearing a white body suit. Allura better have changed stopped at a pod and i looked closely...my eyes widen when i saw a brown arrow on a curled up fuzz..
"After you got knocked out, from what pidge told us, he came down and used bashing and dodging to get those soldiers away from you but since he's size was wider than us, he was shot a lot before he fell out of the air and didn't get up..allura said it's surprising he even came down..usually sky bison stay away from violence.." keith said and i covered my mouth.
No, not my baby! Not my appa...
I felt a hand on my shoulder and i turned to see uncle's metal hand on my shoulder and he hugged me. I hugged back tightly.
"You did great back there opal, you fought like a pro...i want you to know that" uncle whispered
"I can't tell if he looks healthy or not" hunk said, and i looked over uncle's shoulders to see him, pidge, keith and allura standing near another pod. I looked closely inside and saw a familiar tall figure. Lance.
"I think he's breathing weird" pidge stated
"OH come on" said keith as he was about to push the pod but allura smacked his hand away
"Not yet! Just a few more ticks!" allura said firmly. Ticks? Like the bug?
"Why would he be better in a few ticks?" asked keith, crossing his arms
"And what is a tick anyways?" pidge asked
"you know, a time slice" allura explained
"You mean like a second?" asked uncle as we pulled away from the hug
"What is a second?" asked allura and pidge got out a timer.
"Like this" pidge said as she started the timer
"I'm not sure, i think ticks are bigger" allura said and she turned to coran, who was silent this whole time. "coran , do you have a ticker on you?"
"Oh why yes of course princess" coran said and he got out a ticker and started it.
"I think ticks are a little slower" hunk said
"I can't tell, we need to start them at the same time" pidge said
"Okay, ready go!" well i guess this is important..more than our friend lance who's in a coma!
"Yes i think we're winning" hunk cheered
"Winning what? The intergalactic space time competition?" keith said sarcastic
"Yeah!"
"Why going on, you guys having a clock party or something?" asked a familiar groggy voice
"Uyh! Lance you just ruined it!" hunk said before he gaped "wha- LANCE!"
Hunk hugged lance like he did with me but i swore i heard a squeaky toy sound
"What happened?" lance asked
"We can discuss it later, but for right now you must eat, you must be famished" allura said, glancing at me as she put a hand on lance's shoulder "are you able to walk?"
"Talking? Eating? Are you asking me out on a date?" asked lance.
"Yep there he is" pidge said
"He's okay" uncle smiled
"Classic" keith grumbled
"Nice to know you're the same" i say and his eyes widen at me.
"OPAL!" he yelled, and despite his state, he tackled me in a hug.
"What's with people hugging me!" i say!
"..you three would have been sendak's prisoners if it weren't for pidge" allura conclude as she finished telling what has happened.
"You and opal won't have survived if hunk and coran haven't gotten a new crystal." pidge told as one of the mice ate off lance's spoon and the other came to me and climbs onto my head and play with my hair..wait...where's my hat?!
I felt my head to find nothing and i was glancing around as they talked. Where is my hat! I need my hat? Did it fall off? Where is it?!
"I punched sendak!" keith yelled
"Yeah, apparently after i emerged from a coma and shot his arm off" lance said flatly
"We had a bonding moment! I cradled you in my arms!" keith said..wow..i actually feel sorry for the guy
"Nope! Never happened, it's fake" lance said quickly "so what happened to sendak?"
"He's frozen in a cryo pod" allura started "we're keeping him in the castle"
"You sure that's a good idea?" asked me and lance in unison
"He's too dangerous to be set free. Besides we might be able to get some information on zarkon from him" allura explained.
"So what's the plan now?"
"We need to get back to the blame to save shay and her people" okay, hunk got a thing for this shay girl...i wanna met her...
"Wow! You are really hung up on this lady" lance said as the fat mouse consumed his food goo.
"No it's not like that, not at all, watch, when you see what zarkon's done to shay and her people's planet. They've been under zarkon's control for so long they don't know what it's like to be free. It's up to us to set things right. This is what it means to be a to man up and free those poor people" hunk said and i smiled...yeah, he's into her...i ship it.. "It's time to man up"
I caught a glimpse at pidge's face as it scrunched up from prideful to a bit sadden..the mice looked at him before squeaking slightly at him and he sighed as he seemed to be molding over his thoughts.
"Then let's get moving. Time to defend the universe" uncle said as he started to walk out along with everyone else and me and lance stood up.
"Wait!" pidge suddenly said and we all looked at him "i have something to say to you all, i need to come clean and i'm afraid this may change the way you all think of me but here it goes; i can't man up because i'm a girl. I mean i can man up because it's just a figure of speech so i don't actually need to be a man to man up so.." if i had a camera, i would be filming lance's face. It was priceless!
" YOUR A GIRL?!" lance yelled "HOW?!" lance...please don't make me explain the birds and the bees please..it's embarrassing as it is..
"I've know for some time pidge" allura said simply "i'm glad you shared with everyone"
"I figured" hunk said smiling
"Oh yeah me too" keith replied
"Wait we weren't supposed to know you're a girl?" asked coran and i giggled
"I've figured it out after you yelled at the prisoners a while back" i say
"Pidge, owning who you are will only make you a better paladin" uncle said and i frowned slightly before pidge sighed contently
"It's good to get that off my chest. Now let's launch this castle ship!" pidge cheered
"Wait! Pidge is a girl and the castle's a ship?! How long have i've been out?" lance said but we didn't answer as the others went to the cockpit as i went to the chamber room and sat in front of appa's pod...
I stayed there just watching him praying to the spirits that he'll be fine. he'll be fine..but what if he's not fine? Keith said he took more shots, but how many? My studies show that it's unknown how much it takes to kill a sky bison since they are A) rarely seen so no one knows them much and you're even lucky enough to find a baby bison and B) one of those shots may have hit his bad pressure point, where one touch there and with enough pressure, he could have been gone..
My poor baby...ugh! How could i be so stupid?! I pulled my knees close to myself and wrapped my arms around them. I looked down in my arms and cringed. There were a few burn marks on them.
At one point, coran came in and handed me my bag and a few books to keep me from being bored.
"I know you're worried for him" coran said and i nodded "i would be too if he was my bison"
"Why would he do that? He would have followed his instincts" i say "he shouldn't have helped me...he's supposed to stray away from danger, not barge into it"
"You needed help. And from my grandfather, those magnificent mammals help those who's close to them, no matter what" coran said, smiling a little at the mention of his grandfather
"You two were close huh?" i asked and coran looked at me "you speak highly of him, more then anyone as far as i know"
"Oh yes, he was a great mind. Always following his brain and heart wherever it is needed" coran said and i smiled
"I would have loved to meet him but then again" i laughed a little " my own family line weren't alive back then"
"Yeah..." coran said and there was a pause "but i do miss him, he would have loved to speak to you, you two would have much in common"
"You think so?"
"Oh yes, he loved learning about things and other cultures" coran said "he enjoyed building inventions and other amazing gadgets"
"He sounded like an amazing person"
"He was. How about you? What about you're family back at earth?"
I froze before looking down, my hand going to my scarf as the other went to my bag and gripped the fabric known as my hat..I was hoping he wouldn't ask that.
"I had a normal family, a mother, and father, and an uncle." i said "but now i only have an uncle..."
"Oh" coran looked down as he realized he brushed on a topic that shouldn't be touched "you're uncle..how is he?what is he like?"
"In my eyes, he's fire"
"Fire? You mean he's dangerous"
"No, he has a fire soul." i say as coran looked confused " the spiritual person with fire have desire and will. And the energy and drive to achieve what they want. They hold a burning passion for what they love and like fire, can produce the warmth that is needed when the environment around them turn cold. My uncle has that, he has the passion in his heart for anything he desires. When things are down and things seem not to be able to get back up, he'll make sure they will..he never gave up nor ever will" i smiled "my uncle is awesome"
"Well, if you live and after we beat voltron, we can all meet our families" coran said and i smiled
"Yeah, that'll be fun"
'Opal?"
"What?" i asked, not opening my eyes. This better be important if it needed me to be woken up.
"Do you have a...whatever this is?" hunk asked and i opened my eyes to see hunk standing in front of me, in his hand was a long strip of paper and a cart behind him. I grabbed the paper and read it over.
"Down in my shop, takes three steps forward and look to your left, when you do there should be a cabinet drawers there, color blue. The third one should have at least some of these" i tell him handing him the paper back. "You okay? You look tense"
"Theses guys we're helping. There's something off about them" hunk said "i can't explain it but i don't trust them."
"I get it, gut feeling telling you something while everyone else something else" i said, sitting up and blowing my bangs out of my eyes.
"See! You get it!"
"But who knows? They could be sketchy about us too. After all we are strangers to them too" i say "give them time. And if they still seem bad, wait until they strike then" i smacked my palms together as if i'm slapping someone "strike like a cobra!"
Hunk blinked at it before narrowing his eyes
"I find that you saying that very strange."
"I'm a strange person"
I typed in different codes from the screen i had up in front of me, coran said i should help him fixing the castle since that glara power sent some things on the fritz. Glara tech is much more strange then altean tech, i can't even get my head around it, and i got altean writing down under a day! Maybe after we beat this war, i'll ask a someone from the glara to help me out...
I moved to the control room since coran needed to run a test on appa to see if the chamber was doing anything to him.
The doors opened and hunk, pidge, keith, and shiro came in running. Hunk complained about how he knew they shouldn't have trusted those three freedom fighters. But where's lance?
"opal!" pidge yelled as she can running towards me as the others went to there lion's "can you track down lance's suit and go get him?"
"why do i need to do that? What's going on?" why do i need to track down lance?
"He got blind sighted by this chick and now he's stuck to a tree and they have the blue lion" keith said as his doors closed
"What?!"
"yeah, you need to go get him while we go get the blue lion" pidge said quickly while running to her pod that'll transport her to her lion "you can do that right? Thanks!" and with that she was gone and out.
With a sigh, i closed the tabs i was working on and started to triangulate where lance was. Dummy, he got sidetracked by a girl again? Why do you have to make things complicated lance?i was able to get his coordinates easily but he's on the other side of the moon. Great, just great...hint that was sarcasm.
I took a hoverboard that allura had set out for me, she had a ton of these so i got to keep one, yay me! So getting there wasn't a problem, the problem was facing lance. The idiot who got himself stuck to a tree, how did he manage that any ways? Was no one watching him? I mean come on, he's lance! One chat with a girl and he'll go to texas for her, no matter what!
I stopped a few feet from the tree where lance was tied by his hands to the tree. He was trying to hard to get free.i watched him, he looks so lost. Like he has no idea what was happening. Even his fingers were a mess since they keep twitching. I leaned against the tree and waited until he realized i was there.
Three...
He was biting the chain on his wrist but i think he broke his front tooth.
Two...
He's trying to lift it off like he was pulling a heavy weight
And one.
He glanced at me "oh hey opal"
He went back to what he was doing before he paused at looked at me again "OPAL! Thank goodness that you're here, mind helping me?"
"Why do i always end up getting you out of trouble?"
"Because i always need you too..." lance answered with a sheepish smile and i smiled lightly
"that ...i can't agrue with" i laughed and he frowned
"Don't laugh!"
"for someone who's months older than me, i feel like i'm taking care of a little brother" i giggled and lance blushed
"yeah well next time, i'll be the one helping you. you can qoute me!" lance retorted
"i'll right it down little bro" even here, in outer space, in the middle of a war, me worrying about my sky bison, lance still somehow makes me laugh.
i'm sorry this is late, something went wrong with the updating so when i post a chapter it doesn't show the public unless they check so..watch out for that...i'm trying my best to stabilize this!