I have decided. The Lions will be referred to as females, because of their lack of mains, except for the Black Lion. Each pride has a male lion, who's basically the leader, so it's Black. Also, in the early designs, he had a main.

Stuff made like /this/ means the lion is speaking.

Keith jumped, a roar sounding in the back of his mind, pushed as far back as he could make it go. But, despite being so quiet, it was still a sound he hadn't heard for over a decade.

"Oh, what is it, Black?" He demanded, standing abruptly as he scowled at the air.

/Blue was awakened!/ Black responded, his voice distressed.

"What?"

Keith ran from the room, to his porch as he gazed out over the desert. Sure enough, he could see a shape moving, getting closer…closer…and closer still. Suddenly it swept over his head, Keith clearly recognizing the Blue Lion's underside, and he hissed, rushing for the house.

Arriving in the bathroom, he pulled the shower to the side, revealing a trapdoor that led to the basement.

Keith opened it, jumping down and landing easily on his feet.

Something he had never told anyone, not even his wife when she was alive, and not his mother, and certainly not his son or daughter, but the basement entry way was actually the opening into the Black Lion at the top of the head, between the ears. It also made it an excellent bomb shelter. As soon as he hopped into it, he called out his lion's name, and the consoles around him flickered to life. Keith sat down in the chair, allowing it to scoot him forward so that he could be at the front of the cockpit.

"Open communications with the Blue Lion." He ordered, sitting as straight as he could.

/Done, my Paladin./

"Hailing Blue Lion, please stand down." He spoke into the coms, fists clenching.

Silence greeted his keen ears.

"Blue Lion, stand down."

More silence.

Keith decided to get personal. "Allura, stand down. Are you forsaking our agreement?"

There was a rustling in the background of the coms, but nobody responded.

"Allura, unless if you stand down, I will use force." Keith snarled, slamming one fist onto the armrest. "Allura, last warning."

/Blue has not backed down!/ Black wailed, her misery leaking into Keith's mind. /Blue is letting her pilot make the decisions, and the pilot has decided not to stop! The pilot is not Blue's Paladin!/

"What?" Keith activated the Black Lion fully, making his lion roll to the side, out from underneath his house, before asking her to break from the dirt and rock that encompassed her. "Black, use force on the lion. Take her down!"

/Understood, my Paladin/

The Black Lion took to the skies, chasing the Blue Lion as it narrowly avoided a stone arch, managing to 'thread the needle'. Keith expertly gained speed, furious that the Blue Lion managed to stay a few steps ahead of him as he flew over a rock pillar.

Suddenly, Blue tilted up, the hind thrusters flaring, and she headed into space.

Keith growled, tilting up the Black Lion in response. He was rusty, he admitted in a small corner of his mind, but that wouldn't stop him from catching up to them.

Urging his lion on, he broke the atmosphere just a few second after the Blue Lion did.

"Alright, Black, turn on the live communications."

/Yes, my Paladin./ There was a pause for a few ticks, then the Lion spoke again. /My Paladin…?/

"What?"

/If I do this, the intruders will be able to hear you, too./

"I. Don't. Care." Keith huffed, crossing his arms. Then, realizing his mistake, uncrossed them and placed them back on the controls. "Just do it."

"-y glasses! Someone catch my glasses!" Was that…Hasher?

"I think I'm gonna barf!" A girl wailed.

"I wanna go hoooooome!" A boy voice cried. "I don't want to fly this Lion anymore!"

"Why is the Black Lion still chasing us?" A slightly older, male voice pondered. "Did we do something wrong?"

"I just wanna go home!" The youngest male of all three he had heard sobbed.

"Oh, quit whining, you three." A female voice, filled with authority, snapped.

"Yeah, Laura? I'd like to see you handle suddenly having it thrown in your faces that Voltron is real, being shoved into a Blue Lion, shipped off the planet, and then have a Black Lion chases us!" The oldest male screamed.

"That IS what happened to me!"

Silence.

"Oh, yeah."

"Hailing Blue Lion." Keith began, and, instantly, all voices cut short. "I know you can hear me. I am about to use extreme force to being you down. If you wish to restrain such behavior, I would advise standing down."

"Like Quiznak we are!" The first male voice he had heard, that wasn't Hasher, screamed, and the Blue Lion's engines turned on again, and she blasted further into space.

Keith swore loudly, knowing full well that they could still hear him. They might as well know what kind of guy he was.

"Dude!" The older female screamed, her voice raising. "Language!"

Keith hissed, ignoring the fact that his son might be on the Lion as he shoved on the mega thrusters, turning off the live communication.

Hi! Hasher here again. By this point you probably realize that we're caught up to the point where my story began. You know…us all crammed into a Blue Lion's cockpit and me scrambling to get my glasses?

Rest assured, I got my glasses.

But, I know I just told you to rest, but please don't. The glasses were the least of my problems.

The Black Lion is gaining. That's another problem.

My main problem is that I'm pretty sure my Dad is the one chasing us. I am SO grounded.

The ground rumbled beneath our feet as the Blue Lion narrowly missed an asteroid. Ah, quiznakin' ruggle. We were gonna die if Finn's piloting skills didn't approve instantly.

"Finnnnnnnnnnn!" Vince wailed, clinging to his older brother's neck. "You're gonna kill us!"

It was true.

"Finn, I swear, if you don't pull up right away, I'm going to-!" Laura screeched.

"Calm down! We're going to be fine!" Finn protested, offering her a positive grin, despite all of us could clearly see the tears of fear streaking down his face. "I'll get us out of here!" He winked.

Was he hitting on Laura? I was gonna kill him, if my Dad didn't first kill me! Or if Dad first killed Finn. Or both.

"Finn!" Kitty groaned, clutching the chair as her face turned a lime-green. "Can you make this thing go any steadier?"

"Relax, Kitty." Finn teased. "It's not like I did-"

Laura covered his mouth, eyes flashing. "Don't. You. Dare."

"Um…guys?" I inquired, watching the monitors on the dash. "Mainly, Finn. Did you parents leave the planet before we left?"

"Hmm? Oh, naw. They were gonna leave with Hunk tomorrow; they were just prepin' their lions."

"So they were near they lions?"

"Yep." Finn confirmed my suspicions. "Why?"

I pointed to the screen, biting the inside of my lip. "It looks like all the other lions are chasing us…and the green and red ones are gaining."

"Oh, great." Laura grumbled. "This is just perfect."

"We're gonna die!" Vince wailed.

Kitty barfed.

"I'm grounded." I deadpanned.

"We're gonna die!" Vince wailed.

"I'm sorry!" Finn cried as the Red Lion, which was practically on top of us, dug it's claws into the Blue Lion's armor, pulling us to a stand still as the other lions surrounded us. "I don't want to get in trouble!"

"I just wanted to have fun!" Shon cried.

Seriously, they're all, like, teenagers or tweens and they're wailing like babies. What's wrong with them?

Suddenly, four screens appeared on the dashboard.

The first was my father, wearing his casual clothes, but his face was like stone, eyebrows narrowed.

The second was of the movie star Lance McClain, arms crossed. Allura McClain, his wife, stood to the side, but she was still in the camera shot, both glaring.

Hunk Garret, owner of the most popular bakery in town. I'd been going for several years, ever since Dad gave me his hover bike. He looked stern, an expression that did not belong on his face.

Finally, Katlyn Shirogane's face appeared, bearing the look of a furious, overburdened mother. As if I'd know what that looked like. Takashi Shirogane was also in the frame, eyebrows drawn together in a snarl.

Our parents.

We were so dead.