A/N: So. Many. Cookies! -munches cookies- Oh! You know how I was kidding about having a tiny Matt a few chapters ago... well, I do actually have a tiny Matt now! My sister made one out of clay! So, until I get a cover drawn, mini-Matt will be featured.

The next two chapters are the make or break chapters. They'll make you either love or hate this story, and if you make it through both, you will probably make it through the whole story. But, they say to write what you love, and I've been looking for a story like this since I got into this site.

Some more references in this one. If you've seen Treasure Planet, see if you can figure it out before the end of the chapter. ;)

Something poked Matt's foot. Matt kicked at it, wondering if a spring in his worn out bed had burst out again, but then the "spring" spoke.

"Matthew."

Right. Galra ship. Under a console with a death trap beside him just waiting for him to do something like fall asleep when he was supposed to be-

"Matthew!"

"I'm up!" Matt yelped, sitting up quickly.

Clunk!

He fell back just as fast, remembering the part about being under a console.

"Ow, what does the universe have against my head!" Matt cried, clutching his throbbing nose.

"Try going in fist first next time," Zethrid said. A large hand grabbed Matt's ankle and pulled him into the open. "Works better that way."

"I'll keeb thad id mid," Matt said nasally. He gently rubbed his nose and sat up. Besides Zethrid and himself, Ezor was the only one in the room. "Where's Acxa and Narti?"

"They left a varga ago. You two fixed the cloaking, but you fell asleep during the test run."

Matt blinked at Ezor. "Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Didn't know you were sleeping until you started talking nonsense," Ezor said.

"What did you think I was doing?"

"Feeling." At Matt's blank stare, Ezor went on, "You know, like Olkari do."

"Oh. No, humans can't do that." Matt yawned. "What time is it?"

"Two vargas into the night cycle," Ezor said.

"No wonder I'm tired. Will anyone mind if I go to bed?"

"We were headed there ourselves," Ezor said with a grin. She held out a hand and Matt let himself be pulled to his feet. "We just have to grab your gear from the hold first."

"No need. It's already in the dorm you left me in," Matt said.

"Did you get it already?"

Matt stretched. "No, it was that other Ga-" Matt's eyes widened and he hurriedly said, "A-actually, I don't know."

Ezor cocked her head. "Was it Bravvis?"

"I have no idea who you are talking about," Matt lied obviously.

Ezor crossed her arms. "What did Acxa threaten to do to you if you talked about him?"

"She didn't have to. I have a very active imagination," Matt said plainly. "And I think she's looking for an excuse to eject me into space, so could we just pretend I never started to mention what could be implied to mean that someone who definitely isn't on this ship, might actually be?" Matt took a deep breath, having blurted the whole spiel in one breath. "Now, what were we talking about?"

"You're funny when you're tired, Matthew," Ezor said, pointing toward the door. "We were just headed to bed."

"Of course, silly me," Matt said. "Zethrid, what about you?"

"I think the quantum abyss has messed with both your heads," Zethrid said.

Matt and Ezor snickered as the three went their separate ways.

"Let me see!"

"Hold on there, Pidge," Matt said, gently holding his little sister back. "I have to adjust the lens first."

"Don't call me that!"

"Okay, Katie. Just wait a minute."

Eight-year-old Katie sighed impatiently and turned her eyes to the night sky. Matt made the final adjustments, then stepped back.

"Alright, hop up here."

Katie eagerly climbed onto the stool so that she was nearly Matt's height. She peered through the telescope, exclaiming in amazement.

"Matt, Matt, I think I see him!"

Matt smiled and didn't argue. While their telescope was powerful enough to see the dome of the moon colony, it wasn't quite enough to see individuals inside the dome. But, since Katie insisted, Matt wasn't going to burst her bubble.

"What's Dad doing now?" Matt asked instead.

"He's outside the dome, gathering samples. Oh, and he's waving to us!"

Matt raised an eyebrow as Katie waved at the sky.

"Come on, Matt, wave back!" Katie said, having lifted her eye from the telescope to see Matt standing still. "Dad's waving!"

Amused at his sister's insistence, Matt raised a hand to wave at the moon. It didn't matter whether or not their dad was actually waving. Even though he couldn't see them, their dad would convince Katie that had known that they were waving.

Maybe he did.

Matt waved harder, hoping that his dad really know in some way that they were thinking of him.

Matt woke to wet eyes, a numb arm, and a massive muzzle in his face.

"Gah!"

Matt flung out his numb arm, smacking the muzzle and causing it to back up. Matt sat up and shoved himself backward, good hand coming up defensively in a fist. He got a good look at the creature as it sat back.

Shape-wise, it would be closest to a wolf. Except the size of a Clydesdale. It had gleaming, short black fur, and a glowing blue mane of longer fur around its neck and extending down its back to a completely glowing tail. It regarded Matt with dark, intelligent eyes.

"Get out of here!" Matt said loudly. He eyed the intercom across the room, wondering if there was a way to verbally activate it. "Go on, get!"

The wolf twitched and lowered its head. It started whimpering.

Matt gaped at the huge animal. "What do you want?"

The wolf whimpered again.

Against his better judgement -he was doing that an awful lot these days- Matt slid out of bed and approached the wolf. Even sitting, its head towered over Matt, but it lowered its head as Matt got closer. Then, once Matt was close, it did something unexpected.

The wolf opened its toothy mouth and gave Matt a sloppy lick across the face.

"Gross!" Matt spat upon realizing there was wolf saliva on his lips. He wiped his face on his sleeve and looked up at the wolf. "What was that for?"

The wolf whined again and stood. Matt started to back away, then the wolf reached out a paw and caught him around the middle to roughly pull him forward. His leg gave out, causing him to stumble and fall against its chest. Matt stiffened, but the wolf gave a content rumble. It flopped to the floor, tugging Matt along with it, and curled its body around him.

Matt hardly dared to breathe. His legs were stuck under the wolf's legs, so he couldn't get away even if he wanted.

Eventually, Matt noticed that the wolf had fallen asleep! He laid carefully back against its side, and it didn't wake up. Matt sighed and stared tiredly at the ceiling.

"I'll figure this out in the morning."

Turning as far as he could onto his side, Matt nuzzled into the soft fur and fell asleep.

A brief vision with teen-Ezor somersaulting over Zethrid -who was also a teen- woke Matt up. He blinked sleepily as his hands kneaded the soft surface under him. Weird, his old mattress wasn't-

Some day, Matt hoped he would start remembering where he was when he woke up in less than ten seconds.

Matt sat up quickly, making the wolf whine. Which made Matt feel like a horrible person.

"Just give me a second, okay?" Matt said, twisting to look the wolf in the face. "I'm still getting used to this place."

The wolf responded by licking his face and standing. Matt sputtered and wiped his face, noticing at the same time that he could feel his hand again. It was also covered in wolf drool.

"Thanks… I think." Matt wiped his hand on his shirt. "Are you another secret? Is Acxa going to kill me if I mention you in front of her?"

The wolf growled softly and plodded back to Matt. She -Matt knew it was a female now- sniffed him over and huffed. Matt stared up at her, then glanced at the door.

"Hold on. How did you get in the door?" Matt shook his head. "Why do I even bother asking anymore? Ever since the Galra captured me, it's been one surprise after another."

The wolf blinked at him, then a bright blue light flashed around it. Matt automatically closed his eyes against the light and when he opened them, the wolf was gone!

"I rest my case," Matt told the empty room.

Matt put his armor on and found his way back to the bridge. All four of the generals were there. Ezor was contentedly petting the wolf, Acxa and Zethrid worked at holo-screens, and Narti was sitting on the stairs.

"Morning. I think," Matt said by way of greeting.

"Still morning," Ezor said. She cocked her head at him. "But you slept for a long time. We've been up for two vargas."

"It's been an interesting couple of days," Matt dead-panned.

Matt sat beside Narti. She inclined her head toward Matt in acknowledgement, then held out a packet of food goo. Matt ate the food in silence, watching Acxa and Zethrid work.

"Anything happen?" Matt asked after a bit.

"Nova came!" Ezor said, scratching the wolf's ears.

"She has a name?"

"Lotor met her a long time ago. What else would he call her? Just 'star pelusa?'"

Matt stared. "That's a good name."

"It's what she is," Ezor protested.

"Oh."

Nova stalked across the bridge to stand beside Acxa. Matt smiled when the general dropped a hand to pet Nova.

"Has she been here the whole time?" Matt asked, wondering how many secrets Lotor's ship held.

"No, she lives in the quantum abyss," Ezor said. "Sometimes she comes to visit when we pass through."

"Does she normally… vanish in a flash of light?"

"Star pelusas can teleport. It's how she gets around."

Matt nodded. Nova left Acxa and paced around the bridge, sniffing under the console and under chairs. She whined and pawed the ground.

"What's she doing?"

"Looking for her pup," Ezor said, tone saddening. "She lost Blinky before I met her."

Matt blinked. "I have so many questions."

"The name?" Ezor's expression quickly switched to a knowing grin. "That was Acxa."

Matt looked at Acxa's back. He raised an eyebrow and jutted a thumb at her in a silent question.

"He blinked in and out of sight. It made sense," Acxa muttered.

"How old were you?" Matt tried to not laugh.

"It was a long time ago," Acxa muttered. Her shoulders hunched.

Matt coughed and decided he'd better change topics. "How did… Blinky get lost?"

"There are tons of time streams in the quantum abyss," Ezor said. "Star pelusas know how to navigate them, but they need their parents to show them how. Blinky must have fallen into another time stream, and Nova's been looking for him since."

"Do you think she'll find him?" Matt asked, watching Nova drop into a dejected heap at Ezor's feet.

"I hope so, but he could be anywhere or anytime. She could search for a hundred more deca-pheobs and when she finds him, he could still be a pup. Searching for anything lost in the quantum abyss is like…" Ezor trailed off.

"Trying to find a needle in a haystack the size of Texas," Matt supplied.

"I don't know how big a Texas is, but yes," Ezor said.

The ship rumbled. Ahead, the light around the dark star pulsed.

"Here comes another one," Acxa warned.

"Didn't we just have one?" Matt grumbled.

The dark star flashed with blinding light, the black turning white as a literal wave of light spread from the dark star. Everything glowed gold as the wave passed over it.

"It's only been short ones. Maybe this one will be a big one," Ezor said with a grin.

Matt groaned and closed his eyes when the magilla reached the ship's nose.

Matt knew something was different as soon as he opened his eyes. Black nothingness was black nothingness, but there was something… off. He jumped as a voice echoed through the darkness.

"This, is the Castle of Lions." A male voice, accented like Lotor's, said. The voice echoed eerily over and over.

"What, where?" Matt turned in a circle, but couldn't find the source of the voice or what it could mean. A second later, more voices started to join in.

"You're coming back, right?" This was a younger male voice with the same accent.

"Narti, you fool!" Lotor's voice cried.

"I'm gonna be sick." Zethrid's grumble.

"No one is coming to get you, bud." Matt blinked as he heard his own voice join into the echoes. "Voltron has abandoned the Blade of Marmora."

It was getting hard to distinguish the voices, but there was a sound that followed that sounded a lot like a cat sneezing.

"Allura, stop, you're hurting me!" Matt heard his voice scream, bringing the echoes to a deafening volume.

"You did what?" Lotor's voice, cool and dangerous, cut through the noise.

"Don't be mad. I had to." The young male from before, sounding breathless and weak.

"Keith and I have a plan." A calm, calculating female voice.

"Tail is at half capacity and we are down a leg. We cannot do this for long." Acxa's strained voice.

"Is anyone there?!" Matt's voice yelled. "I've lost visual on Sincline and Voltron!"

The voices echoed endlessly back, rising in volume with each addition until Matt couldn't make out any individual voices. He clapped a hand to his ears, but it did nothing to mute the cacophony.

"Stop it!" Matt yelled, clenching his eyes shut.

Silence.

Matt was panting, but he couldn't hear even that. The sound of his heart pounding became audible, but… it wasn't right. It was too distinct, like the pre-action background sound in movies. His eyes shot open.

He found himself staring across a smoky and rocky landscape through the visor of his helmet. Confused as to when he had put on the helmet, Matt tried to raise his hands to check. Nothing moved.

"I'm sorry!" a voice yelled, ending the roar in his ears and bringing Matt's attention to what else was in the vision.

The blue paladin stood in front of him, hands raised in a calming gesture and gun on the ground. He was either shaking his head or looking around him.

Matt's body moved on its own, head tipping down as his legs ran him toward a second figure crumpled on the ground. His body crouched and his arms wrapped around the figure before Matt comprehended what he was seeing.

It was one of the generals, a dark-visored helmet hiding her face. Matt couldn't see anything wrong, but she was silent and her body lolled limply as Matt held her to his chest.

"It wasn't supposed to be like this!" the blue paladin went on.

Matt heard his own voice yell back, "You've killed her!"

"I didn't-"

Matt's voice cut him off as his arm slashed out in a cutting motion. "That's it, I'm sick of this!"

The vision twisted and blurred, then Matt found himself sitting without the general. The stone was gone, replaced by an engine room. He sat beside a console, and the green paladin was kneeling beside him with a wrench in her hands.

Again, Matt's attempts to move away from the paladin -she was holding a wrench!- were futile. His head turned on its own when he heard clattering footsteps.

The black paladin rushed into the room, clutching a limp blue paladin in his arms.

"He's not breathing!" the black paladin cried.

The vision froze, and Matt fell onto his back as he suddenly regained control of his body. He scrambled to stand, then his vision twisted. Disoriented, he fell on his hands and knees, then he was blinking his eyes open to the bridge. Matt rubbed his eyes and looked around.

The generals were all sitting on the ground, seeming as dazed as Matt. Even Acxa was blinking rapidly.

After a long moment, Zethrid blew out a hard sigh. "And here I thought you stayed away from the paladins." Her voice lacked its usual gruffness, almost subdued.

"I am! That never happened!" Matt protested, shoving himself to stand unsteadily.

"Not yet. That was the future," Acxa said. She stood, not a trace of shaking in her voice or body. "You are going to witness the blue paladin's death, as well, it would appear."

Matt jerked off his helmet and took a deep breath. "No, I'm not! Besides, the paladins can't die; they're spirits!"

"They're as alive as you and me," Zethrid supplied in a distracted tone.

"Oh, uh…" Matt shook himself, still off from the vision. "Well, just because someone isn't breathing, doesn't make them dead… yet. But what about the first part?"

"The voices?" Acxa asked.

"No," Matt made a mental note to write down all that the voices had said. "When I said… said someone was dead. Th-that wasn't one of you four… was it?"

Ezor, who had yet to move, finally turned her head toward Zethrid. The two stared, then looked at Narti for a long moment. Matt felt a chill run through him as the three generals looked at Acxa.

Turning toward the front of the ship, Acxa said, "It was me."

A/N: Dun-dun-DUN! This chapter would have been out sooner, but I needed to figure out what quotes I was going to use for the vision. I was trying to keep from having large gaps between the events of the quotes, but there are a few sections of this story that I haven't fully worked out. Also, any feedback in what is/was going through your head during the future vision will be incredibly helpful for when I write Matt and the generals puzzling through it later.

TFG will be referencing most of my other stories at some point. I won't normally mention them, but I'll make an exception this time. While you're waiting for the next chapter, I'd suggest going and reading my other story Koala Keith, or you will be very confused in the next chapter.

So, in Treasure Planet, the star named Pelusa went supernova.

This would actually be a good time to mention. If this story can get a hundred likes or favorites... it will be a trilogy! If this happens, then the trilogy will go all the way to the end of the show. It would involve (among other things) the three missing years, the missing clone Shiros, the Olkari, and seasons seven and eight would get a major redo.

Guest review responses! (Wow, this list is getting long! 0w0):

Random Fan's Sis: Well, here's some Holt sibling flashbacks! (And a brief flash-forward.) It's so hard to choose what scenes to use! Thanks for the cookies!

Random Fan: I loved writing it! Well, I did get some Matt in the visions! I'm still working out what scenes I'll have when, but hope this will suffice for now! Good, I wouldn't want to kill off my readers! XD

Guest: I'm working on it. Since the visions can only be something that Matt and the generals have witnessed (in this story, at least. If I did anything for anyone, then chances are that the visions would be a ton of strangers. XD) any visions of Pidge would have to be future. Matt will be learning about the paladins in a word-of-mouth method at a later time.

KatieGunderson: She was also tons of fun to write! (We're actually going to have a lot of little Acxa in later visions.) I have handed out the cookies, but I think mini-Matt took tiny Acxa's.

Reviewer: Glad you've had a chance to check this story out! I hope you're liking it so far, and like the little generals!

Pidge02: Thanks! And, well, I like drama, so future visions will be really dramatic. XD Unbelievable, how few people know about Treasure Planet! And thanks for the cookies!