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Enjoy Chapter 7
Mertz
Robots are running around the launch bay trying to get to their ships as the speaker overhead calls out, "EVERYONE TO THEIR STATIONS…LIONS APPROACHING!"
An explosion rocks the landing bay area and the robots scatter trying to get away from the claws of the Black lion that had flown into the opening the explosion had created in the side of the ship. Soon the robots are yelling and trying to run away from the Red lion that had flown in after the Black and the river of fire that flies out of the lion's mouth to melt away the robots in front of it.
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Lance laughs sadistically as he watches the robots melt in front of him, "That should take care of those things…"
"Knock it off Lance!" Keith yells at him, "We need to get out of these lions and find Allura."
Lance stops laughing and finishes taking out the robots in the landing bay as Keith lands Black lion near one of the hallways.
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Allura moans softly as she feels her body being laid down on a soft surface. The feeling of lips upon hers has her opening her eyes to the image of Lotor's yellow eyes within an inch of hers. She opens her mouth to scream, but no sound issues forth though as Lotor pushes his tongue into her mouth, kissing her savagely.
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Keith jumps down from Black lion and opens fire on the two remaining robots coming at him. As they fall, he watches Lance land Red lion next to Black. Jumping down from his lion, he asks, "How are we going to find her? This ship is huge!"
Closing his eyes, Keith doesn't answer Lance for a moment as he focuses on Allura. He senses she is awake as her sudden fear reaches him. Turning toward the hall in front of him, Keith pauses a moment before turning toward the right, Lance following behind him.
Running down the hallway, the sound of Allura's scream reverberates through Keith's mind. He stumbles and only keeps from falling as Lance grabs him, "What the hell Keith?"
Keith doesn't respond, instead he pulls away from Lance and continues to run as Allura calls out to him, 'Keith! Help me! Please help me!'
Her fear and pain fills him and he tries to project a sense of calm to her as he replies, 'I'm on my way Allura, hold on!'
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Keith's last words echo through Allura's mind as she continues to try to fight off Lotor. She manages a lucky blow and hits him in the jaw. Yellow eyes glare at her as Lotor pauses for a moment to wipe the blood from his lips before a feral smile crosses them, "Go ahead and fight Allura, scream if you wish…it only heightens my pleasure…"
Panic fills her eyes as Lotor grabs her hands within one of his, then the front of her uniform with the other hand and rips it down her body. Allura cries out and calls to Keith once more, 'KEITH! HE'S GOING TO RAPE ME! OH GOD, HELP ME!'
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Keith pauses in his step once more as Allura's scream goes through his head along with her panic. Keith regains his footing as Lance catches up with him and Keith calls out to Allura, 'Shut down Allura. Go within your mind and hide yourself. Lotor is not there, he can't hurt you. Stay there until I come for you Allura. I will come for you.'
He continues his run down the hallway, Lance fast on his heels.
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A final tear escapes Allura's eye before she relaxes her body and pulls in on herself. Her eyes go blank and stare up at the ceiling above her as she hides within her mind. Lotor pauses in his assault when he notices Allura's lack of response.
"Allura…" Lotor releases her hands and pauses, expecting her to use the opportunity to fight him again. When she doesn't move and only blinks, Lotor becomes enraged, screaming, "ALLURA!" and slaps her hard across the face.
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Turning down another hallway, Keith keeps running for several feet, passing door after door. Lance follows closely thinking, I don't know how the hell Keith knows where he is going…but I sure hope to God he is right.
When Keith stops suddenly and turns around to look at a door he had just passed, Lance asks, "What? Did you hear something?"
Keith holds up his hand to quiet Lance and concentrates on the feeling he just had. Concentrating as hard as he can as Keith nears the door in front of him; he feels a vibration within himself. He hits the button to open the door and curses, "This is it, it's locked from the inside!"
Lance steps in front of Keith, "Excuse me…I always keep a bit of this on me…" He places a bit of putty type substance on the door then takes a device from his belt to attach to it. He looks over at Keith as he steps to the side away from the door, "I would back up if I were you…"
Keith jumps to the side of the door frame as Lance pushes a button on his belt.
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As the blood trickles down her chin, Allura's continued lack of response further enrages Lotor. He screams her name again, "ALLURA!" then yanks her up out of the bed hard by her shoulders and shakes her as he yells, "YOU WILL NOT RUIN THIS FOR ME! THIS IS MY DAY, MY VICTORY AND I WILL HAVE MY VICTORY!"
Lotor glares down at her as her head lolls back and throws her down in the bed in disgust just as the door to the room blows open. Lotor flies back into the nearby wall as the remains of the door fall out of the air around him.
As he stands back up, Lotor glares at the figures that enter the room through the blown out door. Quickly grabbing onto the sword attached to his belt, Lotor steps toward the figures, ready to fight.
Keith quickly glances at the bed, noticing Allura's prone figure before his eyes glaze over with anger and he pulls his own sword off his belt. He speaks to Lance without turning, "Get Allura out of here." and then walks toward Lotor.
As he gets near Lotor, a scream of rage and fury escapes Keith as he rushes and brings the sword down hard trying to cut Lotor in half. Lotor quickly raises his sword to parry the blow and tries to strike his own blow to Keith.
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As the sounds of the battle fill his ears, Lance quickly runs to the bed and grimaces, grabbing something to wrap Allura in as he notices her ripped uniform and resulting nudity. Cursing out Lotor, Lance gently wipes the blood off of Allura's chin then lightly slaps her cheek, "Wake up Allura…we need to get out of here!"
Swearing when she doesn't respond, Lance fully looks into her face and for the first time, notices the vacant expression in her eyes. Feeling slightly panicky, Lance raises his voice, "ALLURA!"
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Keith parries Lotor's continuing thrusts of the sword and brings his up to try to slice Lotor's arm, but is blocked once again. Swearing mentally, Keith kicks out, trying to knock Lotor off his feet. Lotor jumps to avoid the kick and tries his own kick while thrusting the sword.
Managing to block the sword thrust, Keith lets out a cry of pain when Lotor's heel makes contact with his chest, knocking him backward into the wall. Lance's yell has Keith turning his head and the mistake costs him.
Keith screams in pain as Lotor's sword goes through his right shoulder, forcing him to drop his own sword. Lotor starts laughing as he pulls a blade from his boot and brings it close to Keith's throat as he triumphantly says, "At last…I will be rid of you and Voltron!"
Before Lotor can push the blade into Keith's throat, he ends up screaming as Lance yells, "I don't think so!" and fires his blaster, hitting Lotor in the shoulder.
Lotor holds his shoulder as he turns to glare at Lance. Lance smiles evilly as he raises his gun, "Goodbye asshole…" Before he can fire, Lotor turns and runs toward the wall next to Keith and slams his hand on a button.
As the wall turns with Lotor on it, Lance fires. But the laser blasts only hit the newly blank wall where Lotor once stood. As Lance curses, Keith pulls the sword out of his shoulder, screaming in pain as he does so.
Lance pulls Allura up over his shoulder and turns to find Keith holding his bloody shoulder, "Are you going to make it Keith?"
Taking several deep breaths, Keith utters, "Yes…but we need to get out of here."
Nodding, Lance asks, "Can you hold a blaster?"
Keith nods as Lance hands him a blaster then turns to run out of the room. Keith stumbles a bit then follows, his blood flowing down his back and chest from his shoulder wound.
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As they reach the lions, Lance pauses to turn back to Keith. Grimacing at the paleness of Keith's face, Lance swears, "Are you going to make it back to Arus?"
Keith nods, "I don't have a choice. Get into the lions…you take Allura."
Lance grimaces again as Keith turns away to get into Black, He's going to have a hard time making it the way he is losing blood…he wouldn't let me take Allura otherwise.
Deciding not to waste any more time Lance turns and starts for Red lion's cockpit.
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Keith reaches for the first aid kit as he enters Black lion and grabs out the Medi-Tape. Groaning as he reaches up and rips his uniform away from his shoulder, Keith applies the tape to the wound on both sides, hoping it will slow the blood loss until he can get to MedTech.
Grasping the controls with his left hand, Keith gets the lion to its feet and then follows Lance out of the hole they made earlier in the landing bay.
He listens to Lance swear over the comm. unit before saying, "Doom ships heading at us Keith, can you handle it?"
Keith takes a deep breath as his vision blurs for a moment. He shakes his head to clear it before answering furiously, "Would you stop asking me that! Let's just get through them as fast as we can."
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Lance glances back at Allura. Strapped into the side seat, her head lolls forward as she continues not to respond. Taking a deep breath, Lance turns back to face the monitors and yells, "Ion knife!"
As the blade forms between Red lion's teeth, Lance calls out on the comm., "Hunk, Pidge! Where the hell are you? We could use some help up here!"
Pidge's voice sounds like heaven to him as he responds, "We just finished taking out the rest of the ships and are heading to you now!"
Lance swears as he goes through a ship, "Hurry the hell up! Keith is flying injured and we are seriously outnumbered up here!"
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Keith grimaces from the pain in his shoulder as he calls out, "Proton missiles!" and proceeds to fire on the ships in front of him. He cries out as the lion is hit by a missile and feels the lion jerk. The movement of the lion reverberates through his injured shoulder and Keith grits his teeth as he begins to feel dizzy.
The ships in front of him multiply as his vision blurs, Keith calls out, "I'm going to need help Lance…I don't think I'm going to make it."
He hears Lance swear across his comm. unit, "Hold on Keith, Hunk and Pidge are on their way!"
Keith draws in a deep breath and feels like he can't get in enough air. He continues to fire at the ships in front of him, praying he will hit them as he sees dark spots in front of his eyes, "I'm going to black out Lance…"
Barely able to keep his eyes open, Keith hears Hunk's voice, "We are here Cap…I will fly you in!"
A smile flits across Keith's face before his head drops and he loses consciousness.
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Hunk swears as he watches Black lion begin to drop. Positioning Yellow lion underneath, Hunk lets Black lion land on the back of his lion before hearing Lance's voice, "Great work Hunk, turn around and get him back to Arus! Pidge and I will cover you!"
Turning the lion toward nearby Arus, Hunk says a little prayer to himself, "Be alright Cap…please…"
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Lance watches as Yellow lion turns toward Arus with Black on top of it then turns back to the fighters around them, "Let's clean them up Pidge!"
A smile crosses his face as Pidge answers, "You got it!"
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Lotor swears as he wavers while walking into the main flight deck. A robot follows him while trying to place medical tape on his shoulder, "Please…highness! Let me get this tended to!"
Shoving the robot away from him, Lotor calls out, "Status!"
A robot turns away from the controls, "The lions are taking out our attack ships at an expedited rate."
Lotor looks up at the monitors watching as the two lions continue to destroy his ships, "Call a retreat!" As the robot approaches Lotor again to work on his injured arm, Lotor pulls his sword out of his belt and slices the robot in two.
He looks down at the remains of the robot as sparks arc out of it before calling out, "Get me another Medibot, I'll be in my quarters."
Walking out of the flight deck, Lotor snarls, "They will pay for this...as will Allura, for ruining my victory."
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Hunk flies as fast as he can with the added weight of Black lion toward the castle. He hits the button on his comm. and Coran appears before him on screen, "Coran, I'll be landing in two minutes. Need the medical team ready for Keith, he's out cold."
Coran's face pales slightly before him, "Alerting them now." and the screen goes black.
Taking a deep breath, Hunk pushes Yellow lion as fast as he can, "Almost there Cap…almost there."
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Lance watches as the last of the fighters turn to fly away, following the command ship. Green lion flies past him and he calls out, "Let them go Pidge. We need to get back to the castle."
Pidge appears before him on the video screen, "Roger that…how's Princess?"
Lance glances back behind him again to find Allura hasn't moved, her head is still lolling forward gently with the movement of the lion before he turns back to the screen, "Not good…I don't know what Lotor did to her, but she isn't responding."
Turning Red towards Arus, Lance kicks in the afterburners, "Let's get back quick and get her to MedTech. I'm sure Dr. Gorma will be able to heal her in no time."
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Lance lands Red close to Yellow and Black lions in time to see a gurney surrounded by medical personnel disappearing into the castle. He gets out of the pilot seat and unbuckles the straps holding Allura in place, catching her as she falls forward.
Pulling her into his arms, Lance carries Allura out of the lion to find Coran and Nanny in front of him. Nanny rushes him to grab at Allura, "Oh my baby…my precious, precious baby!" A moment later she cries out, "Please Allura, answer me!"
Lance lifts his eyes to Coran, "She is nonresponsive…she seems to be fine physically, but she won't respond Coran."
Coran looks Allura up and down as Hunk and Pidge join them, "Let's get her into the castle. I'm sure Dr. Gorma will be able to figure out what is wrong with her."
Lance nods then follows Coran into the castle, holding Allura close to him as he walks. Hunk and Pidge follow them, carrying a crying Nanny between them.
