Eye of the Tiger

"Hey Girl, long time no see, huh?" Pidge asked entering the cockpit. Her hands grazed the familiar metal. This was the most at home Pidge had felt in years. Green's purrs proved the Lions happiness to have their Paladin back.

She plopped down into the chair taking a deep breath as she clasped the controls.

"Let's give this all we got." She flew Green out of the hanger, screaming and shouting, this was the most fun she'd had in years. She started with the guard ships. Taking their guns out one by one. Laughing as she shot the canon. She could hear the other Paladins cheering on the coms. She felt alive.

Meanwhile Lotor was elated and distraught. He got his wife back, but she was wild and rebelling. Were they not allowed to be a happy family?

"Seal the children in cryopods!" Lotor ordered. "Aim all guns at the Green Lion! We want to stun the lion! I want the Green Paladin back her with minimal injury!" A few guards ran off to follow the first set of orders while everyone else began to run to their stations.

The Paladins ran to their Lions, hooping and hollering the entire way. They flew out to meet the Green Lion.

"Been so long since we've had a Pilot for Green." Allura wiped tears from her eyes.

"She has always been very, very, picky." Pidge joked.

"Wouldn't have been the same without you." Lance gave a thumbs up.

"I hope to fuck it wouldn't be!"

"Pidge would you do the honors?" Shiro asked.

"Of course, I'd love to! FORM VOLTRON!"

The Lions roared one after another. All the Paladins laughing as loud and happily as they could, tears falling from all their eyes.

Pidge felt alive. She felt ready. She felt so surrounded by love and support. Like for the first time in forever she was free and she was happy.

Not even the hits from the ship's guns phased their happiness.

Lotor ordered Haggar to the command room.

"Get that Komar operational! I'm going to destroy those lions and kill the Paladins! They've tried to take my wife for the last time!" He sounded livid, but Haggar nodded with understanding.

There was no turning back now. The Lotor of the past was gone, once and for all. It gave Haggar a sense of Dejavu.

An emperor who lived his wife so much he was willing to risk everything, even the close bonds he shared with Paladins.

Lotor had become what he hated most, his father. But it wasn't her place to lecture him. She could only pity the object of his obsessions.

Meanwhile the Madman watched Voltron soar through the sky, waiting for the moment Komar would activate and he'd be able to get his wife back once and for all.

He paced as he waited for the signal.

He got annoyed and walked over to the speaker coms.

"WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG?" Lotor asked.

"It is taking a moment to warm up. It hasn't been used since your father battled Voltron." Haggar tried reasoning.

"Well warm it up FASTER!" He paced more until he was given notice the Komar was ready. It took only minutes, but it felt like hours. The longer Lotor had to wait to be with his wife the more irritable he became.

He needed her more than he needed air. He loved her. She was his wife, he sweet Pidge. Katie, the mother of his children and the love of his wife.

Pidge's punishment would be the death of her friends. But he wouldn't be the one to deal the blow. Then he came up with a great idea.

He ordered someone special on the ship to be summoned.

The Paladin's laughed and smiled. Lance and Hunk kept joking on the monitors as they took down parts of the Galra ship.

"We have to be careful." Pidge warned. "I don't know where Lotor's keeping the kids."

Next to her Ron purred and batted at her display. As if pointing. Pidge glanced down.

"Wait! I think I know how to find them! We need scync Ron up to the Lions."

"Ron?" Shiro asked.

"Yeah Ron Volt, he's a robot cat I made! He follows Lotor around the ship he should know where the kids are!"

"Ron Volt… Volt Ron… Voltron… HOW DID YOU NOT REMEMBER BEFORE?" Hunk shouted.

"Because I was poisoned with quintessence? It's a hell of a drug!" Pidge defended. Allura sighed.

"Alright, hook him… Them…? It up to the best of your ability." Allura ordered. Pidge hopped off her chair and grabbed some of the random cords she had left in Green when she originally left with Lotor.

"Try not to freak out girl." Pidge earned herself a reassuring purr from the lion. It took a few minutes, and Green shaking from hits didn't help but eventually she got the two hooked up and began going through Ron's video feed. Unfortunately, he didn't have a map, so Pidge had to rely on her memory and hope the interior of the ship hadn't changes

"Find them yet?"

"No, Lotor seems to always shake Ron before the most Eastern hall, so we can safely assume that's where their located. But that's still a big area. Attacking any area around there could risk Kitora, Marmora, or even." Pidge placed a hand on her stomach. It felt weird with the knowledge she had only been a few months pregnant when she was sick. She prayed Lotor saved the baby at that time. She didn't even know her third child's name.

"We'll save them, Pidge, we promise." Hunk's voice rang out.

"Yeah I know." She smiled and hoped they could sense it. "You came back for me after all."