What If Beginnings
Book 3
Chapter 29
By Cindra
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Notes: I put colons between conversations denoting silent thought between two characters.
' Is what I call the Heartlink or private communication between a two characters usually a couple. Or in rare cases parent to sibling. (This is usually the way that soul mates talk to each other when they don't want anyone to know what they are saying.)
( )Twin link can't be heard by anyone but the other twin…or only if someone is extremely strong in his or her mental abilities.
or italics That represents thoughts of the characters
This is my latest brainstorm I skipped 7 years and MK and Sammy are now 15 years old…years of peace has left our hero's complacent that is about to change…How? Well that is for me to know and you to read about.
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(Arus seven years later)
Commander Samantha Lynn Lawson was late for patrol, but that didn't seem to bother her one bit. Flying Jetta just wasn't fun anymore. She was to put it bluntly bored out of her mind. :Jetta I just don't know what's wrong with me.: Sam drummed her gloved fingers on the console.
:You just miss Dream, sweetie…seven years is a long time to be away from your heart mate.: Jetta purred soothingly.
:It's been six months since his last visit, but that isn't why I'm bored. I want a challenge again.: Sam pondered whether she wanted to finally put her helmet on or just ditch patrol altogether.
:You and your brother are the youngest officers in the history of the GA. You graduated from school at nine and the academy at thirteen. Most of your goals have already been met. I can understand why you aren't happy flying me…Unless it's for fun.: Jetta was used to their little chats.
:Jetta I adore you and always will. I thought that I wanted to be on the new team…I just don't know what I want anymore.: Sam decided that MK was going to be wondering where she was and then start badgering her about what's bothering her again. Therefore, she strapped herself in, put on her helmet, inserted her key, and flew Jetta up to the surface of the lake.
Daniel Rohan McCloud sat on the castle lawn waiting to see if Sam would ever decide to go on patrol. He was twenty now and the mirror image of his father. Eric had sent him to find Sam as soon as his shuttled had landed at the base. He was the one who had pulled him from the Voltron one team and back home where he belonged, as the new pilot of Neo otherwise known as Green Leopard. 'Hey sweets took you long enough.'
Sam put Jetta in hover just off shore. 'Fangs! Your back!'
Daniel waved at Jetta and Sam. 'Well are you just gonna hover there all day or are you gonna tell me hello?'
Sam set Jetta down on the lawn. 'I missed you!' She jumped out of the panther did a triple summersault and landed in his arms.
"Hi Dream you're just the medicine she needs." Jetta purred down at him.
"Hi Jetta! Is Sam in a mood again?" Daniel smiled up at the panther. 'I'm the new pilot of Neo, so it looks like you're stuck with me this time.' He kissed her on the nose.
Jetta nodded.
"Really!?" That bit of information made her want to jump for joy. Daniel had been gone for seven long years. She only saw him on holidays or in the summer. She was so happy that she kissed his cheek.
"Yes sweets really." He winked at her. Sam had grown a lot since he had last seen her at Christmas. She was five eleven, the image of her mother, and was in the process of blossoming into a beautiful young woman. 'So you wanna talk about why you aren't on patrol with MK and Hunter?'
'It's nothing major…I'm just having an off day.' She shrugged her shoulders as if this kind of thing didn't happen a lot. "MK is happy flying Blacky, so he never has an off day."
Blacky and Cora landed next to Jetta.
"What's up with the shadow this time?" Blacky growled.
"She's unhappy again, but Dream showed up, and now she seems to be actually smiling." Jetta purred.
"Daniel can fly you while Sam goes and talks to Dromi." Blacky came up with a logical solution to the problem.
MK and Hunter got out of their robot cats to greet Daniel.
"Welcome back Danny ya just visiting or are you staying this time?" Hunter greeted his friend.
"So this is the reason why my sis is ditching patrol." MK reached over and plucked Sam out of Daniels arms. (Daniel is gonna fly Jetta leaving you free to talk to mom.) He could sense that she was in one of her moods again.
(But Danny just got back!) Sam pouted.
(Samantha Lynn, you are absolutely miserable and need to go talk to mom. You can see Daniel later after all he's home to stay.) MK wasn't gonna take no for an answer.
'Hey Sweets this is the perfect time for you to have that talk with Aunt Dromi. I'll take Jetta and join the guys on patrol.' Daniel knew that it was time for her to discuss what was troubling her with her mother. "I'm here officially as Neo's pilot…My long agonizing stint on Voltron One is over. Thanks to Hunter… Johnny is a bear to be around these days."
"Thea's happy here on Arus. She needed to attend one of the academies, so of course she chose this one." Hunter really didn't think that dating Jeff's granddaughter was a big deal.
"Athena Raye just happens to be Jeff's first grandchild, John's only child; therefore John and Uncle Jeff miss her very much." Daniel rolled his eyes at Hunter. "Becca seems to think that this is a learning experience for her daughter, but John just wants to keep her where he can see her at all times."
Eric's voice interrupted their chat. "Is there a problem?" He growled from their wrist coms.
"Chill Dad… we'll go back on patrol in a sec. Daniel just arrived and we needed to check on Sam." MK growled back into his com.
"Sammy?" Eric sensed that his daughter was unhappy again. "You are going to go on patrol aren't you?"
"Sam really needs to talk to Aunt Dromi, so I'm gonna take Jetta on patrol." Daniel spoke up for his princess.
:Samantha are you ready to tell us what's troubling you?: Eric was cautious as to how he worded his question. Sam tended to get moody when cornered.
'Thanks a lot Fangs! Now he's in worried father mode major!' Sam wasn't at all pleased at what Daniel had done. :I guess so.: She sighed in defeat.
:Oh for gods sake! She needs to talk to mom and get what's troubling her off her chest. Otherwise she'll never be centered enough to concentrate on the team!: MK hated beating around the bush about anything.
(Geez Big Brother you make me sound mentally unbalanced!) Sammy flushed crimson. "I AM HAVING AN OFF DAY!!!" Sam shouted in frustration and the force of her emotions shook the windows of the castle and the cats.
Daniel snatched her back out of MK's arms. 'Easy there baby doll you almost cracked Blacky's cockpit windows again.' He hadn't seen her this frustrated since she was ten and was up against MK at the finals of the Intergalactic Martial Arts Tournament.
:Sammy Lynn what on Arus is with you today?!: Andy sent to her frustrated daughter. 'Lion if we don't get her centered she's gonna end up hurting someone.'
'That's why I sent for Daniel, but she still seems to be holding something inside that's making her miserable.' Eric sighed in frustration. :Sam go find your mother, as for the rest of you get back on patrol!:
Sam chose to ignore her mother.
(Talk to mom Sam or the next outburst might hurt an innocent.) MK ordered his twin. "You heard the Major General back on patrol guys." He jumped back into Blacky and Hunter got into Cora.
"Talk to her angel…" Daniel set her down on her feet, hugged her, and then kissed her once again this time on her forehead. "We'll go riding later okay." He got into Jetta and the three cats took off.
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Sam sat on the grass and watched, as the cats disappeared over the horizon. Why can't I just be happy flying Jetta? Why do I have the feeling that something is missing and I desperately need to find out what that something is!
Andy sat down next to her oldest daughter. "You and I need to have a talk about what's bothering you so much that you keep having lapses in control." She put her arm around her daughter's shoulders. "Talk to me baby tell me what's bothering you so."
Sam curled up against her and out came the tears.
Andy decided that the castle lawn was not the place to have this private mother daughter talk, so she ported the two of them home. They appeared on the bed in Andy and Eric's master bedroom. 'Lion? We're home if you wish to be in on this conversation.'
'Be right there lioness.' Eric sent back.
"I don't know what's wrong with me! I just get miserable whenever I fly any of the cats! I should be happy! I achieved my goal, but nothing about being on the team makes me happy anymore." Tears streamed down her cheeks, as she poured her heart out to her mother.
Isis, Sam's ever present guarding cat jumped in her lap. "You've been feeling this way ever since Renny left to train in the past." Isis sighed.
Eric walked in and sat down next to his girls. 'Isn't Renny a Senshi now?' Eric was getting an idea, as to why his baby was so miserable.
'She's Neo Sailor Moon now. Sam went to Crystal Tokyo to see her off, but then you already know that. 'Andy arched a brow at her husband. "Angel maybe what you need is time away from the team. You could focus on something besides the force. You have so many different talents like your art or maybe even ballet." Andy suggested.
Sam became even more upset. :I can't paint! That just makes me even more miserable and depressed! I can't dance because I'm miserable! I miss talking to Renny, but talking to her wouldn't help me either!:
"Sweetheart you used to love to paint. What happened to change that?" Eric asked softly.
"Sam paints things that she doesn't yet understand." Isis gave them some insight as to what the problem could be.
"Isis you swore that you wouldn't tell anyone!" Sam glared at her in annoyance.
"Samantha have you been painting your future with Daniel?" Eric forced himself to remain calm although he had the urge to send Daniel back to Earth.
Sam gave her father a mortified look. "No!! Daddy he and I haven't even been out on an official date yet! I happen to be painting a person that resembles mom's alter ego."
Andy's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Is she like Renny or are you painting Nightshade?"
"She's like Renny. Dad would skin me alive if I ever tried to become Nightshade." Sam rolled her eyes at her mother.
'She wants to be a Senshi…Eric I have no control over that!' Andy worried her lower lip with her front teeth.
'That's what I've been trying to hint at since she started talking. This is just one problem that the two of us can't fix.' Eric tried to think of a solution, but was coming up blank. "Sam may your mother and I see the paintings?"
"They aren't great, but I don't see how it's gonna help."
"Just indulge me ok." Eric growled.
She got up to go get her art.
'Well?' MK used his ability to break into his parent's heart link to get an update on Sam.
'MK this is not the time.' Eric growled in frustration.
'She's finally opening up to us and we aren't gonna risk it by filling you in.' Andy informed her son.
'Please tell me that this isn't about her wanting to become the next Sailor Arus again. That's all that she thinks about lately…She just can't take it that Renny can do something that she can't.' MK groaned.
Sammy returned with the paintings and could sense that MK was talking to them. "Is MK bugging you about me again?" She rolled her eyes in exasperation.
"He's just worried about you angel." Eric motioned for her to rejoin them on the bed.
(MK I'm talking to them just as you requested so back off!) She snarled. "These really aren't that great." She set the paintings down on the bed one beside the other.
'She paints just like Momma.' Andy looked down at the pieces of time that Sam had managed to capture on canvas. "Honey these are works of art. You have your grandma's gift of painting what might happen in the future."
Eric picked up one painting at a time. The first was of Andy and Sam, as Senshi, training on the palace lawn. The second was of Sam in Senshi attire sparing with Daniel, who was dressed in knight armor not unlike his own. Lastly, the third painting was of her and Renny, both dressed as Senshi and they were smiling. "Wow baby these are amazing. I can see why you're so frustrated about this."
Sammy carefully stacked up the paintings and set them down on Andy's desk. "What's the use it's never gonna happen?!" Sam burst into tears and was instantly pulled into her mothers arms. "You have this and its one of a kind." She touched her mother's locket.
"Oh baby I wish that I could just make this happen for you, but it really isn't anything that I have a say in." Andy rocked her in her arms.
There was a bright light glowing around Sam and the next thing they knew she was Sailor Neo Arus.
"Well that answers that…" Eric covered her with a blanket. "Change of plans Daniel is going back to earth."
"Daddy!" Sam rolled her eyes at her father. "My broach has just Blacky on it! This is so awesome!" Sam was tickled pink about her new look. 'Hey Fangs! I just got my wish! I'm a Senshi like Momma!'
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Daniel dove Jetta back into the lake and landed her on the platform. 'That's great Sweets…I'll be right over!' He ported to his air car. This I have to see!
"Daniel get back on patrol!" MK snarled.
"Not a chance in hell MK! Sam got her wish! She's a Senshi now and there's no way in hell that I'm missing this!" Daniel was already headed for the waterfall.
"WHAT!?!" MK headed Blacky towards home.
:Don't worry MK. I'm sure that Sam will still let you fly me.: Blacky chuckled.
"Hunter patrol is officially over. Go find Thea or something." MK gave Hunter the good news.
"MK just keep in mind that if you hurt Daniel, she can, and will kick your ass." Hunter chuckled.
:Mom! Dad! Sam told Daniel about her new look!: MK informed his parents.
:MK it isn't that big of a deal. Daniel is gonna see her dressed as a Senshi eventually after all she painted him in knight armor.: Andy sprang that little bit of news on her son.
:This is a major deal mother! Daniel hasn't seen Sam except for short visits for a little over seven years! He's gonna see her in a short skirted Senshi uniform! The guy is on major Sam withdrawal as it is! Seeing her in that will make him forget his name!: MK had landed Blacky in the meadow and was making a beeline for the house.
"Daniel ditched patrol in order to get to you and your brother isn't very happy with him." Andy told Sam.
(MK you leave him alone or I'll hurt you!) She snarled at her twin. "I think he missed me." Sam sighed happily.
"He's not going to see you in that!" Eric growled. "Now concentrate on detransforming into your clothes."
Sam pouted up at her father. Her huge golden amber eyes pleaded with him to let her stay in the Senshi outfit. "Please Daddy I'm happy." She cuddled Isis in her lap.
"Samantha he just doesn't want Dream to forget about himself when he sees you in that." Isis purred.
"Daniel forget himself? Not possible he still sees me as a sort of little sister." Sam pouted.
"DANIEL ROHAN MCCLOUD!! YOU ARE NOT GOING NEAR HER!" MK's roar echoed through the house.
"Daniel!" Sam shot out of Andy's arms and out the doors.
"Samantha Lynn Lawson you get your tush back here! Daniel is not going to see you in that!" Eric chased after his child.
"Lion you're overreacting!" Andy joined the chase. "Too late they found each other." Andy smirked.
Daniel and Sam were sharing their first kiss.
"The hell with it I'm gonna go find Ali!" MK went off to sulk.
"GET YOUR HANDS AND LIPS OFF OF MY DAUGHTER!" Eric roared.
"That's enough of a hello you two…now break it up." Andy walked over and calmly separated the two.
Sam now on cloud nine basically floated to her room. 'See you later fangs.' She sighed dreamily.
'Love you sweets.' Daniel vanished before Eric could get his hands on him.
Sailor Pluto did her usual and appeared in the hallway. "I had to record this for the records, but the rest was too good to pass up. I take it that you're going to want copies."
"Are you kidding I want as many as possible this is gonna break Lori and Kyle's record hands down." Andy winked at Sel.
"Andromeda!" Eric glared at her.
"That was her first kiss and we captured it on holo-disk!" Andy rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue at him.
Eric kissed her senseless.
"I'm going to look in on Sam…you two have fun making up." Sel grinned.
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Sam stood in front of her wall mirror and took in her new look. Her hair was up in two ponytails with jeweled black lion hair ornaments. The tiara was similar to her mothers except hers had a tiny-jeweled black lion face with the royal crest clasp between his teeth. The earrings matched the tiara. The broach on the shimmery rainbow colored bow was identical only a lot more detailed. The choker around her throat also had a matching little Blacky face on it. The bodysuit of her uniform was silver like her mothers. The gloves however were black with the same colors as her bow. The skirt was done in layers, each a shimmery color of one of the lions. It was short, but at least it covered her derriere. The last detail that completed her look was silver spiked heeled ankle boots. The Senshi outfit fit her like a glove and showed off her emerging curves to perfection. "Wow I look great and Danny kissed me!" She fell back against the feather soft mattress of her bed. "Life is good."
Sel stood in the open doorway of her bedroom. "I told you that things had a way of working out. Welcome to the club Sailor Neo Arus."
Sam sat up and smiled at her. "Hi, Aunt Sel. Do I have to revert back to normal now or can I stay like this for a while?"
"Your Aunt Nikki and Aunt Lisha are currently training out on the castle lawn, so why don't the two of us join them?" Sel waited for the usual whine that the young ones tended to perform when forced into their first training session.
"Wow training already?" Sam stared at her in surprise. "I can't even savor this moment for a day or two?"
"Young lady this is a privilege just like making the Lion Force team. You need to learn what your new abilities are and how to control them. I hope better than you control your psi and temper. That little show on the castle lawn wasn't very promising." Sel folded her arms in front of her and impatiently tapped her foot.
'Fangs I guess I have to go train now with my Aunts…Aunt Sel is here and she's giving me that look.' Sam reluctantly got to her feet.
Danny was currently swimming off his frustrations in the Lake Jess. 'Sammy you just got your wish don't press your luck by angering Aunt Sel.'
"You win Aunt Sel. I guess training won't kill me." Sam found that her new spiked heels weren't easy to walk in.
"Are we having problems?" Sel smirked.
"I happen to be fifteen-years-old and these are my first heels!" Sam gritted her teeth in sheer concentration, as she tried to keep her balance.
"Poor baby Small Lady didn't get heels on her boots." Sel steadied her by placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you kidding me? Small lady would have killed herself in heels!" Sam giggled. (MK don't tell me that you're still brooding.)
MK didn't answer his twin.
(Don't worry big brother you can still have Blacky.) She reassured her twin.
(Tell Blacky that! He refuses to power up and return to the castle.) MK was not in a good mood.
:Blacky… Michael Keith is your V force pilot, but I still want to fly you and Jetta when I'm not training.: She sent to the lion.
:No war this time?: Blacky powered up.
:Of course, there isn't gonna be a war. I would never take away my brother's life dream.: Sam reassured him. :I remember what happened between momma and Daddy and it isn't gonna happen again.:
:Thank you princess all of us are at your call when you need us.: Blacky headed for the castle.
(Please tell me that he didn't just say all of us cats…) MK couldn't believe his ears.
(Wow now that's something to think about.) Sam grinned. "Aunt Sel I'm ready to train now."
"Yes let's get some training in you before you accidentally blow something up." She opened a portal and ushered her inside.
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(Arus Galaxy Alliance Academy)
MK still wanted to see Alison regardless if she was still in class or not. Therefore, he decided to observe her advanced martial arts class. The instructor was Rand's eldest son Jacen. They were currently working on the black belt level kata. 'Hello beautiful nice outfit.' He growled softly into her mind.
Alison at fourteen and half wasn't expecting him to talk to her during class. It was to put it bluntly against the rules and he knew that. She lost all concentration and landed on her derriere instead of her feet, as she finished the final move of the kata. "Damn it that hurt!" She slammed her palms down on the mat in frustration. 'This had better be important Tiger!'
Jace walked over and helped her back up to her feet. He'd sensed that MK was somewhere in his dojo, but hadn't expected him to interrupt his class. "Are you alright Alison?"
"I'm fine sensei someone distracted me and I lost my concentration." Alison looked around to see if she could zero in on MK. 'Get out here tiger. You've already messed up the class.'
'Sorry about that Red that looked like it hurt.' MK wasn't in the mood to come out of hiding.
Jace zeroed in on MK and grabbed him by the ear. "You are in big trouble young man!"
"Ow! Easy on the ears Jace! I'm sorry that I messed up your class. I just wanted to check on Ali." He winced in pain.
Jace let go of his ear. "What did she do now?" He surmised that Sam was up to something again and so the reason for MK to run to find Alison.
:Sam just got Senshi powers this morning and Daniel is back on Arus to stay. Need I say more.: MK snarled at his cousin.
:Daniel saw our Sam dressed up like a Senshi.: Jace was beginning to understand why MK had sought out Alison. :Yeah that would bring on the major Ali withdrawal. Daniel must have kissed Sam.: Jace was highly amused.
MK narrowed his eyes at his cousin. "It's not funny Jacen Michael."
"I think it is cousin." Jace chuckled. "Now she can finally kick your sorry ass."
"Who are you two talking about?" Alison frowned at the two of them.
"No one can beat MK." Athena stared at Jace, as if he were nuts.
"That's not true Thea." Hunter walked into the dojo. "Sam can."
"No way!" DJ did not believe it.
"That was decided at the tournament and MK won." Devlin, Hazar and Merla's youngest son, entered the conversation.
"If Sam is like Small lady then she can so kick anyone's butt." Di grinned.
"Oh crap there goes the planet." Dar groaned.
"No way!!" The kids were still in denial.
"She's out on the castle lawn training with our Aunts." Hunter nodded.
"Well Hunter and I have official team stuff to go over, so we will let you get back to your class." MK was not about to let Daniel near Sam again.
"Not so fast you two." Jace growled. "I believe that my students would learn a great deal from a demonstration of martial arts preformed by the two of you." He was not about to let MK go and tear Daniel in half, not that it was possible seeing as Daniel was better than MK and Sammy combined.
"Jeans and a t-shirt aren't exactly martial arts friendly." MK growled.
"Then go change. Your gear is still in your lockers. " Jace pointed to the boy's locker room.
"Ah man!" MK and Hunter grumbled in unison, as they stalked to the boy's locker room.
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(Castle Lawn)
Alicia and Nikki were trying to figure out what Sel meant by saying that they were in need of training.
"Was I hearing things or did Aunt Sel say that we were getting rusty?" Nikki growled.
"That's what it sounded like to me. Not that I want to argue with Aunt Sel…I just do as she asks." Lisha rolled her eyes at Nikki.
"It's not like we can train without Andy and the others!" Nikki focused on forming an energy ball in her hands.
"I know, but at least it's a nice day." Lisha called up a breeze.
"Hello Tigara and Avalon. I want you to meet our newest Senshi." Sel appeared on the lawn with Sammy. "This is Sailor Neo Arus."
Nikki stared wide-eyed and dumfounded at her niece. "When did this happen?" She still couldn't believe her eyes. (Eric since when is Sam a Senshi?)
"At least her skirt covers more than ours does." Lisha didn't know how to react.
"Just a little while ago, as you can clearly see she's still trying to get her footing." Sel was referring to Sam barely being able to balance on her high heels.
(How the hell do you know that? She had better be in her room!) Eric was not pleased that she was still running around in her new look.
(She happens to be out on the castle lawn with Aunt Sel! This isn't my fault, so stop snarling at me!) Nikki growled back at her twin. "It's no wonder, putting spiked heels on a fifteen-year-old isn't a good idea; it's amazing that she can still stay standing."
(Damn it! She is not gonna train in that with Daniel still on this planet!) Eric got dressed and went hunting for Daniel.
(Eric you're being paranoid. The skirt isn't nearly as short as ours is. The girl has to train or she might blow something up! The Daniel situation, well, that I didn't know of, but She's fifteen now so you are just gonna have to trust her.) Nikki lectured him and then shut off their link. "Your father isn't that thrilled about this is he little niece."
Sam was hell-bent on learning to maneuver in her new heels. She was running up and down the lawn in front of the three of them. "He said he wanted me to be happy again and now I am. Besides he's just gonna have to get used to seeing me in this."
Alicia was on the verge of biting her nails again. "Daddy had an attack when Dromi got her powers…I can just imagine what this is going to do."
Sam was attempting to do a cartwheel and landed on her derrière. "Damn that was so not what I wanted to do! I showed my paintings to all of my grandparents, not to mention most of my Uncles and Aunts, so this isn't gonna floor him or anything." She did another cartwheel and nearly landed it.
Keith and Rohan walked outside to watch her train.
"Sammy you need to land on your feet not your rear!" Keith couldn't help but tease her.
Sam stuck her tongue out at her grandfather. "You come over here and try to do any of the usual martial arts moves in spiked heels!"
"The one plus is that the skirt is at least covering her behind." Rohan observed.
"That and its nice to see her smiling again." Keith sat down on the lawn. 'Alley, my heart, guess who got her wish and is out training on the castle lawn…the funny thing is her new look came with spiked heels.'
'Poor baby I'll be out in a sec. Orry just got home and he's not going outside in his school uniform.' Allura was finding that her youngest son was more of a handful than Dromi ever was. Most of her chicks had flown the nest…the twins were on Voltron One. Jamie, Rose, Lilly and Shawn were still on Earth for the time being…Alex and Chris ruled Druel. The only kids left on Arus were Andy, Ariel, Lisha, Jax, and little Orry.
'Tell Orry that I'll give him a lesson if he doesn't give you a hard time.' Keith chuckled. Little Orry was trouble times ten and he had been since he could crawl.
'He's looking for you anyway…He's only good when Cindy is around.' Allura herded him back to his room to change.
'I know that's because he's showing off.' Keith chuckled.
Sam was attempting to spar with Nikki, but she just couldn't keep her balance. "Damn it the hell! How the hell do you fight in these bloody heels?"
"Samantha Lynn watch your language!" Keith shouted.
"Relax Sam, it just takes practice." Lisha helped her back up to her feet.
"No!! Camera's!!!" Sam spotted Sel with her holo-cam and landed on her face.
"This is for the official records, besides this is just too good to miss getting on holo disk." Sel winked.
"That's the ultimate form of blackmail and you know it!" She growled at her Aunt.
"It won't be if you just relax and ignore everyone around you, so that you land on your feet." Sel lectured.
"Relax!? I can't keep my balance in these things!" Sam raised her fists up into the air and a huge wind gust raced from the lawn to half way across the lake.
Daniel, who had just finished his swim, was thrown back into the water. 'Samantha Lynn what the hell did you do that for!'
'Daniel are you okay. Sorry about that, but then I'm new at this.' Sam looked over towards the lake and watched as Daniel rose up out of the water. Her jaw dropped open as she took in the view of her wet angry prince. 'Wow you are an absolute dream hunk…' She sighed dreamily.
"Sammy Lynn you aren't ready to try out your attacks yet!" Nikki scolded her then noticed whom she was gaping at. "Now I get it Daniel was swimming."
Alicia glanced in the direction of the lake and grinned. "Our Sam just realized that Daniel is an actual dream hunk. Instead of just a pal."
'Uh… princess? What did you just call me?' Daniel shook out the water in his sandy blonde hair and reached down for the towel that he'd left on the lawn.
"Oh my, Daniel sure is giving our Sammy a show." Allura and Orry joined Keith and Rohan.
"Daddy why is Sammy dressed like that?" Orry pointed at Sam. "Danny looks mad."
"She's like your big sister now and Daniel got thrown back into the water, because Sam lost her temper again." Keith explained as he pulled him onto his lap.
Daniel was slowly toweling himself dry. 'Sam?' He looked over at his shell-shocked princess.
"Daniel Rohan put some clothes on! Quit giving Sam a show!" Rohan shouted at his son.
Daniel ignored his father and proceeded to walk over to his princess. 'Angel mine, snap out of your daydream and talk to me.'
:DANIEL ROHAN MCCLOUD THAT WAS NOT A REQUEST!: Rohan roared at his son.
:It's too hot to get dressed. What's your deal father!? Sam has seen me in shorts before!: Daniel wasn't getting the point that his father was trying to make.
Sam gave into her instincts, bolted passed Daniel, and headed straight for Blacky. This was quite miraculous seeing, as she was still not used to her heels yet.
"Sammy Lynn! What the heck is wrong with you today?" Daniel gave chase.
:You can't be that dense son. Sammy just realized that you her best friend and partner in crime are boyfriend material.: Rohan filled in the blanks for his son.
:It's about time! Thanks for the heads up Dad!: Daniel was very pleased with this news.
'Sam just ran away from a situation. She never runs from anything.' Keith grinned.
'I know, but then Sam has never been fifteen-years-old either.' Allura winked at him.
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(Academy Dojo)
MK could sense that something was up with Sam. (Am I gonna have to hurt my best friend?) He was getting suited up in his Gi.
(Daniel isn't just fangs anymore.) Sam whimpered shakily.
MK tied his masters' black belt around his waist. (Sam start making sense or I'm gonna go hunting!)
(I was on the lawn training…trying to master maneuvering in these damned high heels…) She grumbled.
(Samantha!) MK and Hunter went back into the dojo.
(Sorry! Well I got frustrated and accidentally sent him flying back into the lake with one of my new powers.) Sam waited for his reaction.
(So Daniel went swimming in the nice cold lake after he kissed you…New powers that's just wonderful...So then what happened?) MK and Hunter stood in the center of the dojo. They bowed to Jace, then bowed to each other, and started sparing. "I need to warm up before I demonstrate anything."
Hunter eyed him warily. "Just remember that I'm not Daniel."
(He wasn't happy and rose out of the water in a temper…I lost all ability to think after I called him a dream hunk and now I'm hiding in Blacky.) Sam finished her play by play.
(You called Daniel a hunk and he didn't chase after you?!) MK was taking out his frustration on poor Hunter, who was barely able to defend himself.
(I don't know! He asked me something, but I just ran for Blacky!) Sam wailed.
'Michael Keith! Hunter is not Daniel! Lay off him before you really hurt him!' Alison brought his attention back to what he was doing.
"Sorry buddy." MK helped Hunter back up to his feet.
"No problem I thought you were talking to Sam. Did Daniel make a move on her or something?" Hunter winced in pain his whole body ached.
"YOU HURT HUNTER! THAT WAS SO NOT NICE MK!" Thea glared at MK.
"No Hunter Scott he didn't do anything like that! She's hiding in Blacky, because she saw him coming out of the lake!" MK snarled at him.
"Enough!! MK will begin his demonstration the rest of you sit down!' Jace growled.
MK had worked up a sweat, so he took off the top part of his martial arts uniform. Then he went into action. Performing the various kata's one performed at the black belt level. Alison was most definitely enjoying her view.
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(Castle of Lions Bridge)
Daniel glared up at Blacky, who had barred his access to the lift in the pedestal. "I need to see her!"
"See her! You scared her half to death Daniel! Go away!" Blacky snarled.
"That's why I need to see her! Now lower the god damn lift!" Daniel was losing his patience and Sam was still shutting him out.
"Daniel I don't wish to harm you, but I will pick you up with my mouth and hurl you back into the lake if you don't go away!" Blacky warned.
"Samantha Lynn Lawson since when have you ever hidden from anything! I've known you since before you were born and have been heart linked to you ever since! Now either come down here or let me up there!" Daniel ignored Blacky and continued to try to get Sam to talk to him.
"I warned you Daniel!" Blacky launched off the pedestal scooped him up in his mouth and headed out over the lake.
"Damn it Blacky! I just need to make sure that she's okay!" Daniel was in full fang mode. He forced open Blacky's mouth with his bare hands, jumped up to the top of his head, and knocked on the top hatch. "Open the hatch Samantha."
"You win, but if you hurt her I will make you pay." Blacky allowed him entry.
"She happens to be my soul mate. I would never hurt her." Daniel was now sitting in the co-pilot seat looking over at his princess. She was curled up in the pilot seat. "We're going into the next step of our relationship. It's when our friendship turns into a more serious boyfriend/girlfriend phase when the feelings get scarier, stronger, and we face them together." He reached over and pulled her onto his lap.
Sam buried her face against his bare shoulder and burst into tears. "You must think that I'm a baby."
"Angel mine, that couldn't be further from the truth. You are my beautiful, intelligent, and mischievous princess. You have every right to be confused about these new feelings or reactions to innocent situations." He tried to soothe her frazzled emotions. "You still aren't over the after effects of being kissed for the first time and that really spooked you."
Sam looked up into his endless sky blue eyes and was back on wow he really is a dream hunk mode again. "I guess I hadn't really noticed how much you have…um…changed."
Daniel grinned mischievously down at her. "That's right you called me something and I want you to repeat what you said. So I know that you actually said it." He began to place tiny kisses all over her face.
Sam melted in his arms. "I said that you were a dream hunk." She sighed dreamily.
"There now that wasn't so bad now was it beautiful." He bent his head lower, so that he could kiss her.
"You don't play fair…" Her words were cut off by his kiss.
The moment didn't last for very long because Eric, who had been sitting silently in the back of the lion, made his presence known. "Ok you both love each other now break it up!" He stalked over and growled down at the teens.
They of course ignored him.
"Daniel Rohan I mean it! Stop kissing my baby or I will put you on graveyard for a year!" He played his trump card.
They reluctantly broke off their kiss.
"Daddy we were only kissing!"
"I don't want to hear it! You need my permission to date and you are way too young!"
:Blacky… Daddy needs to go swimming.: Sam was furious with her father.
:No Samantha! He'll tear me apart!: Blacky resisted the urge to comply with her wishes.
:He overreacted to this whole situation and is being unreasonable! I'm so not ready for anything but kissing yet!: Sam smiled serenely at her father.
'Sam don't even think of doing what I know you're thinking!' Daniel growled.
"Sam I'm only thinking of your own wellbeing." Eric also knew that she was up to something.
"Daddy you overreacted, so go cool off in the lake." Sam used her mind to open the top hatch and her power to send him flying out of the lion and into the lake. :Next time trust me!:
'NICE GOING SAM! NOW WE AREN'T GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE EACH OTHER UNTIL OUR WEDDING DAY!' Daniel was beyond furious.
'If that's how you feel then go join him!' Daniel went flying out of the lion and landed in the lake. She flew Blacky towards the waterfall. I'm gonna go visit Rena!
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(Academy dojo)
MK was in the middle of a masters level kata when hot searing pain shot through his head knocking him out cold on the mat. This was his first major Real dream.
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Real Dream
Sam was in a dark alley somewhere fighting mean looking gang bangers with Robin. The final gang member still standing pulled out a gun and started shooting at them. The first bullet hit Robin in the shoulder. Sam shoved him out of the way and took a bullet in her wrist, before finally taking him down. Robin, who had been in body armor, wasn't in that bad of shape. Sam on the other hand was really bleeding…
End real dream
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MK writhed in agony, as he experienced his twin's pain. "Sam! Someone shot her!" He was still completely out of it. The very force of his emotions blew out the glass windows in the dojo.
"Son of bitch! He's having a Real dream!" Jace swore. "Sorry about that, but this is not good!"
Rohan raced into the dojo. "How long has he been out?!"
Alison was kneeling next to MK. "Uncle Rohan please help him." She whimpered.
"I would say about twenty minutes…He called out that Sam was shot and then blew out the windows." Jace filled him in.
"He knows better than to fight one of these. It only makes things worse." Rohan checked his vital signs and they made the scanner go tilt.
"No…it hurts…she really got herself in trouble this time…" MK was barely conscious now.
"Samantha is fine. You're having a Real dream now stop fighting it or you will end up in the medical center." Rohan lectured him. "Whatever you are seeing isn't happening now, so just let it run its course."
MK reluctantly did as he was told. He got what was left of the vision and tried to tell Rohan. "She was really upset at Dad and Daniel and ended up at the wrong place. I think she was trying to get to Uncle Bruce and Aunt Andria's…She ended up in an alley where Robin was single handedly taking down this gang…one of the thugs had a gun and shot them…man that hurt…she was bleeding…" MK's nose started to bleed and he was getting light headed again.
Max raced into the dojo with his team. "God Damn it! Son of a bitch! Frickin hell!! Shit!! I was hoping that this would skip their generation!" He gave MK a shot to counter act the effects of the Real dream. "Sorry about that kids forget that I said that."
"We've heard worse from MK when he broke his hand last year. When Sam and him went rock climbing." Jess, Jasmine, and DJ grinned.
"Daddy is MK gonna be okay!" Allison was frantic.
"Not now Alison." Max and Rohan got MK up on a hover stretcher and rushed him out of the dojo.
"Michael!" Alison ran after them.
DJ, Jess, and Jazz weren't far behind.
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Sammy had been concentrating on opening a portal to Tokyo when she lost her concentration due to the backlash from MK's Real dream. The portal opened and she stumbled out of it. Her head was still reeling from the effects of the backlash and she barely noticed that she was in a dark alley in the middle of the night where there was a fight occurring in front of her.
Sam watched, as two thugs slammed Robin against a brick wall. While two others held very lethal razor sharp blades. She used her night vision to locate the rest of the gang. She counted twelve against one.
"Honestly guys and I use that term loosely. Twelve against one isn't fair." She appeared out of the shadows as Sailor Neo Arus.
Robin used the distraction to send the four thugs flying. "SAM!? What the hell are you doing here?!" Tim was surprised to see her.
Sam didn't answer him. "Hey boys taste the power of a tornado!" She let loose an attack. "Arus Vortex!" A mini twister sucked up six thugs and sent them flying into another dumpster.
Robin threw five unconscious thugs in with them. "Nice look babe, don't mind the powers either." He liked his back up.
"Yo Bitch and bird boy! You're gonna die for that!" The last remaining gang member pulled out a gun and shot Robin in the shoulder.
He was gonna shoot him again, but Sam pushed Robin out of the way. "Robin!" She took a bullet in the wrist. Pain like nothing she had ever experienced in her whole life ripped through her arm. She ignored the pain and managed to land a kick in the goon's face sending him flying into a dumpster. Shit! I don't really wanna die…then Daniel will never forgive me. She forced herself to concentrate on healing her arm until she wasn't bleeding as badly as she was before.
Robin ripped off his cape and used it as a tourniquet above her wound. "Samantha don't go to sleep. I need you to tell me if you were hit anywhere else."
Sam blinked up at his blurry face. "No…I want you to tell everyone that I'm sorry…" She lost consciousness.
Rohan stopped his Jag in front of the alley. "Robin there's no time! Get in the car now!"
Tim picked up her limp form and raced for the car. "How did you know?" He got in the back with Sam, closed the door, and Rohan floored it.
Sam detransformed back into her jeans and t-shirt. "That can't be good." Tim checked her pulse and was relieved to find that she had a strong pulse.
Rohan ignored the panicked teen and was making several calls to various people. The first was to Dare and Zach, who were there consulting on a special case with Mac Sinclair. The next one was to Bruce and Andria. Last one was to Mac Sinclair a friend of the family, an expert on gun shot wounds, and a top surgeon.
Robin looked in need of medical attention to. "She saved my life. I got mad at dad and went skulking for heads to bang…She appeared out of nowhere and saved me!"
"Look kid just because you happen to be immortal now, doesn't mean that you're bulletproof, nor does it give you the right to take out every gang in the city by yourself!" Rohan snarled at Tim in frustration. He silently thanked the gods that Eric was Sam's father, because her healing factor was saving her life.
He screeched to a halt in front of the Wayne Memorial Trauma center doors. Dare, Zach, and Mac were waiting for them.
"Damn it to hell! What in the name of the gods is she doing here!?" Dare caught sight of Sam's unconscious form in Tim's arms and hit the roof.
Zach got her out of the car and onto the gurney. He peeled back the cape to see how bad the wound was. "Oh angel that is one nasty looking owie." They rushed her into the hospital.
"Samantha!" Andria screamed in terror when she was rushed passed them. "Tim!"
Tim had shed his armor and managed to stumble into the trauma center and right into Bruce's arms. "It's no big deal…I just got scratched." He passed out cold in Bruce's arms.
Sandra was on call in the ER and motioned for the orderly's to get him on a gurney. "When will you ever learn?" He was taken into the doors that Sam had disappeared through.
"It really is going to be okay angel." Bruce felt like killing someone.
"Dromi is going to go out of her mind when she hears this…MK is gonna hurt Tim…Since when can she call up her own portal!? She must have taken the bullet that was meant for him." Andria was forcing herself not to fall apart.
"Dick is trying to reach them, but something must be up because no one is answering. I wonder if that has anything to do with why Sam ran away." Bruce and Andria sat down to wait.
Rohan came out to talk to them. "Andria you're a blood match for Sam. She's going to need a transfusion."
Andria sprang to her feet and raced to where she was to donate her blood.
"Bruce this is Andy and Eric's child. There is no way that she's going to let one bullet wound beat her." With that said, he went back through the doors.
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(Hours later)
Bruce was filling out hospital forms, while he and Andria waited in the private waiting area. It had been nearly six hours and the only good news was that Tim had been moved to a private room. Clark had been at the manor when they had gotten the call, so he was waiting with them, along with Serena, Renny, and their guardian cat companions Diana and Luna.
Clark, when he got nervous tended to seek out junk food and was currently raiding the machines for a snack.
Serena was holding Sam's locket in her hands.
"It's okay Serena she's going to be fine." Luna was curled up beside her.
Renny was so worried about her best friend that she couldn't sit still. "Why didn't she come see me? Then this wouldn't have happened and she wouldn't have gotten shot! I mean she knows how to use her locket! Heck she's been Sailor Neo Arus for like two years now! She makes Aunt Andy look like an amateur!"
"Renny maybe snarling at everyone isn't such a good idea right now." Diana was curled beside her mother.
"Renny that isn't the Sam that you think she is…" Andria tried to calm her down. "She doesn't know how to use her powers yet. She's only fifteen-years-old and Dromi informed Dick that she just got her new Senshi form today. Dromi says that she got into it with her father about kissing Daniel for I believe the second time in Blacky. He went flying in the lake…Daniel snarled at her and then he went flying as well. Then MK had a Real dream and that's why they aren't here yet. Sam lost her concentration and ended up in the alley to save Tim."
Bruce got up and stretched. "I'm going to go check on Tim. Come and get me if there's any news on Sam or if Eric and Dromi arrive."
"Mom?! I'm gonna kill Sam when I get back to the future!" Renny growled.
"Again not a good idea," Diana sighed.
"Don't bother like mother like daughter." Luna sighed.
"Honestly Renny the poor baby has been shot! You are going to do no such thing!" Sere glared at her seventeen-year-old daughter.
"She never told me that she got shot here! I got back from my training in the past and she had the bionic implants in her arm, but I just assumed that she got shot fighting Prince Stalker or one of those morons." Renny sat down and pouted.
"Selena has a saying I believe that it's called need to know." Diana muttered and Renny glared at her.
"I think that someone needs a candy fix." Clark walked in with his arms loaded with sweets, chips, and snacks. "Tim was still sleeping off the effects of the general anesthetic when I checked on him and Bruce was handing Attila the nurse the forms." He dropped his load of goodies on the table.
"I would think that getting shot is something that she might not have wanted to remember. She is two years younger than you right now and is scared to death, so calm down, and focus on her instead of you." Sere rolled her eyes at her child.
'Good news, my sweet. Sam is going to be fine...She did go into shock for a few minutes, but we stabilized her, and the surgery went smoothly from there. We're just finishing up and she will be in recovery in about half an hour.' Dare gave the good news to his wife.
Sandra and Bruce led Eric, Andy, and Daniel into the private waiting area.
She was giving them an update on their daughter. "She'll be in recovery in about thirty minutes. The surgery went beautifully and there were no complications." She gave them the good news and then went back on rounds.
Renny hugged her mom.
Luna and Diana sighed in relief.
Bruce hugged Andria.
Daniel sat down on one of the sofas and went into a sort of meditation.
Eric and Andy went to sit down next to Andria.
"How's MK? Is Danny talking with Sam?" Renny fired questions at her Aunt and Uncle.
"Honestly Serena Raye, they just got here let them be!" Sere growled at her daughter. "I think that Sam might want this back." She handed the locket to Andy.
Eric and Andy gaped at Renny. "Sam really did miscalculate her portal…your seventeen not fifteen!"
"Well no ones perfect. Not even Sam." Renny winked at them.
"MK is psychically tapped out due to his Real dream, but he's going to be fine. Now as for Daniel talking with Sam... We would have been here sooner, but he had to reestablish his link with Sam the second he exited the portal, and that took about an hour. So yes he's talking to her." Andy answered Renny's questions. "Thank you for keeping this safe for her." She fingered the locket in her hands. "She just got it yesterday and things haven't been going all that great for her since she finally realized that Daniel over there was an actual guy…Lion here isn't handling it well either and they really have only kissed twice." Andy laid her head on Eric's shoulder and closed her eyes.
Andria finally voiced her one and only concern. "Eric you aren't going to hurt Tim are you?"
"Why would I hurt him for something that wasn't his fault? Dick filled me in on the reason why the portal has been shut down on your side for the past year. Is Adrian still breathing…my uh existence sort of depends on his not being killed." Eric arched a brow at Bruce.
"Adrian is in a shipping container at the bottom of Gotham harbor, but he's still alive." Bruce reassured him. "Sel made me close off the portal."
"That's a good prison for him to be in for a thousand years. So is Tim going to be okay?" Andy frowned at her twin.
"Yes thanks to Sam. He only suffered a bullet wound to the shoulder plus the usual bruised and abrasions one gets when you go out and purposely get into a gang fight!" Bruce was going to send Tim to the monks in Tibet for this one.
"Tim thinks that being like Rohan means that he's as invulnerable as Superman." Andria sighed in frustration. "No pun intended Clark." She glanced over at Clark, who was watching Renny pack away the sweets.
"Rohan came up with that kryptonite antidote, so I don't have that problem with my kids. They're normal kids and that's how it should be." Clark rescued a candy bar from the pile that was almost gone. "Lois wore a red kryptonite locket when she was pregnant and that counteracts the effects of the sun. Then we have special id bracelets made by Rohan that they wear on their wrists that keep their feet on the ground."
"Sam says that she's very sorry, you can ground her for life if you want to, and it sucks having her arm fixed by twenty-first century medicine." Daniel opened his eyes and finally breathed a sigh of relief. "She's still very weak…I mean almost tapped out…but she's out of danger, and I think she's gonna be fine."
Rohan, still dressed in surgical scrubs, walked into the waiting room. "She's in recovery right now…The surgery went well we repaired as much damage as modern medicine will allow. It's a wait and see situation when it comes to how well she'll be able to use her right hand again." He stretched his sore tired aching muscles. "You must be Daniel." He finally noticed the twenty-year-old mirror image of himself that was currently sitting in one of the chairs.
"Dad please kill me…I got Sam shot by getting her so mad at me." Daniel was miserable, scared out of his mind, and fighting back tears.
"I got Sam angry by overacting to the two of you kissing in Black Lion. You got her even more furious by assuming that my swim meant no more Sam until your wedding day. We're both at fault for this…then MK had even worse timing with the Real dream and Sam was shot saving Tim. Somehow I sense Aunt Sel's hand in this situation." Eric let Daniel off the hook.
"Your temper got my grandbaby shot?!" Gwen had just arrived and she was not pleased.
"Mother!?" Eric wasn't expecting to see her.
"Grandma?!" Daniel felt even worse.
"Yes, Eric I happen to live in Gotham now. So this is one of my grandsons'?" Gwen took a good look at Daniel.
"That is Daniel Rohan. Sam's soul mate and my second oldest son, as for Sam she's going to be fine." Rohan got between them.
Andy wasn't in the mood to deal with any of this. 'Lion I want to go see Sam.'
'Ok lioness I will ask Rohan.' Eric wanted an escape from his mother. "Can we see her?"
"I've already cleared it with the nurses. She's still asleep, but you can go see her." Rohan sat next to his son.
Everyone except for Daniel and Rohan filed out of the waiting room.
'You didn't by chance link up with Sam a little over an hour ago did you?" Rohan raised a brow at his son.
"I went to go get her from her great-grandparents. It took me hours to finally re-link with her, but I did finally manage to." Daniel nodded in response to his father's question. "MK couldn't because he's tapped out…I mean completely psi drained."
"That would explain the instant change in her vital signs during the surgery…Hold it you don't mean that you had to go get her from the Astral Plain do you? As in she went to see her dead grandparents?!" Rohan buried his face in his hands.
"Aunt Dromi used to do it all the time when she was hurt. Thanks for saving my Sweets." Daniel shuttered when he realized how close he had come to losing his princess.
"I think we both saved her son. She was having a bad reaction to something that we had given her, but you re-linked with her and got her back." Rohan hugged his son.
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(King Alfor Medical Center)
MK awoke hooked up to various medical machines. He was grouchy as hell. His head hurt, his wrist hurt, his body hurt, and to top it off he couldn't link with Sam or Alison. "It happened didn't it? She went and got herself shot." He snarled at his grandfather, who was currently napping in the chair next to his bed. Allura and Allison were curled up on the couch in his hospital suite.
Keith opened an eye to look at his extremely grouchy grandson. "You've been sleeping for a day and a half and yes Sam did go and get herself shot."
MK began to pull off the wires and nodes taped to his body and then attempted to get out of bed. "Sam needs me." He winced in pain when his body screamed at him to lie back down.
Keith pushed him back against the pillows. "You are in no condition to go anywhere now lie back down!"
Allura and Alison were jolted awake by the sounds of screaming medical machines. "Michael!" They panicked.
"You're awake!" Alison ran over and pounced on him.
MK groaned when she pounced on him. "Yes Alison I'm awake…" His voice seemed a little high, as he situated her, so that she wasn't kneeing him in his lower anatomy.
Keith knew that feeling and winced in sympathy as he turned off the screaming medical machines.
"Thank Arus! You scared us to death young man." Allura walked over and kissed him on the forehead.
"Sorry Gram. Now someone tell me how Sam is. I seem to be tapped out and can't sense her." MK growled.
"She saved Tim by taking a bullet to her wrist, but then you know that already. Rohan, Dare, Zach, and Alison's great-grandfather Malcolm Sinclair all worked together to fix her arm. Andy, Eric, and Daniel went to be with her." Allura filled him in on what she knew of the current situation.
Max looked into his hospital room. "Michael needs his rest. Alison you can go home now." He was not pleased to see his baby in bed with MK.
"She's fine Uncle Max." MK glared at him.
"She's been here off and on for nearly two days and needs to go home and take a nap in her own bed." Max met his glare with a do-not-push-it-I-can-make-your-life-hell glare.
Alison didn't feel like refereeing between the two of them, so she chose to do as her father wished. "See you later tiger." Alison kissed him for the first time.
MK kissed her back. "Later, Red." He reluctantly let her go, but whispered in her ear that he loved her.
"Later…" Alison all, but floated out of his hospital room.
MK lay back on his pillows with a very satisfied grin on his face. "Thanks Uncle Max!"
Max stalked after his daughter.
"Okay Michael I think that you've tortured him enough for one day…Now stop being brave and tell us how you really feel." Keith rolled his eyes at him.
"One phrase comes to mind…I want my mommy." MK pouted. "I hurt."
"I feel for you kiddo, but you just sent away the only means of pain relief, and he isn't coming back any time soon." Keith chuckled. "Rohan is at home, Alan and Kitty are looking after your siblings, and Ash is taking Mac's class on a field trip."
"Ah man I can never catch a break!" He rolled over on his stomach and buried his face in his pillows.
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(Wayne Memorial Medical Center)
Sam awoke hurting and grouchy like her twin. She had two intravenous drips on either arm. One looked like it was for medication and the other had been getting blood back into her body. She looked like a sci-fi experiment, because of all the medical devices that she was connected to. She couldn't move either arm, because they were both strapped down for her own protection and there was an oxygen tube in her nose. She forced her eyes to focus on the occupants in her room. She was in a hospital suite. Her parents were sleeping on a sofa. Daniel was snoozing in a chair beside her bed. He looked like hell and if she wasn't seeing things had started to grow a reddish gold beard. Ok Samantha there's no need to panic…just try and move your right hand. She could just barely move her thumb. Well that isn't anything to worry about. I mean this is prehistoric medicine and they can make your hand all better when you go back home. The machines were starting to beep, because they reacted to the change in her pulse.
Daniel instantly woke up. "Welcome back angel mine. How are you feeling?"
"I'm sorry." She could barely talk and tears threatened to stream down her cheeks.
"Oh no angel, there's nothing to be sorry about." The machines were really starting to make some noises. 'Calm down before Dad, Uncle Dare, Uncle Zach, and Mac converge on this room.'
'I hurt and all I can do is barely move the thumb of my right hand.' She was almost totally awake now and clearly not happy. "I want to go home!" She burst into tears.
Eric and Andy instantly awoke and rushed to their daughter's side. "We know that baby, but you just came out of surgery." Andy brushed away her tears.
"I…(sniff)…want…(big sob)…31st…(sniff)…century medicine!" She pouted.
"Samantha Lynn Lawson behave yourself!" Andy glared at her miserable child.
Mac Sinclair came in to check on his patient. "I don't blame you kiddo, but my grandson is going to have to wait for a little while longer."
"I can't do anything, but barely move my thumb! I want my Uncle Max!" They were lucky that she was almost completely tapped out or things would have been flying around in the room.
"You were shot with an armor piercing bullet that did extensive damage to the wrist area of your arm. You should be thrilled that you can at least move your thumb. It takes months to recover from a wound like this, so you just have to be patient." Mac was updating her chart.
Sam didn't want to hear anymore, so she changed the subject. "How is Tim doing?"
"Tim was shot in the shoulder and is going to be fine." Andria and Bruce came to see how she was doing.
"I was kind of out of it, but I do remember one distinct detail about Tim that I know he's never had before…" She locked eyes with Bruce. "Since when does Boy Wonder have fangs?"
"Let's just say that Adrian happened and leave it at that." Bruce was not about to describe what happened at the manor or what had cost them the life of one of his twin girls to a fifteen-year-old innocent.
Yet another visitor entered the room this time it was Renny. "Sammy!"
Diana padded in after her. "See I told you she was going to be fine."
Sam stared wide-eyed and open mouthed at the almost fully-grown up version of her best friend. "You look just like that picture in your memory book! Charlie must be in big trouble if they sent you back into the past."
"Samantha!" Everyone besides Renny glared at her.
"What! She's seventeen and I'm fifteen! I had to comment!" Sam glared at them.
Renny was highly amused. "I kind of went over curfew. Now as for you and Daniel well you look exactly like your mother and that drives both Eric and Daniel crazy." She winked at her friend.
"Renny does the term grounded for life ring any bells?!" Diana leapt up on Renny's shoulder and hissed in her ear.
"Serena Raye!" The parents were not amused.
Daniel kissed Sam and then raced out of the room. 'Thanks a lot brat now I need a very cold shower!' He groaned.
'Sorry fangs.' Sam wasn't a bit sorry.
Renny ignored Diana and sat down in his empty seat. "Poor Daniel, now tell me all about why you ran away from home."
"I think its okay to leave these two alone for a while. I'll watch over them while you go back to the manor and get some rest." Bruce chuckled.
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(Days later on Arus, but a month or so later in the past)
MK was finally able to move without wincing in pain and was waiting for the arrival of his twin sister. "What is taking them so long?!"
"Get a grip kid or I'm ordering you back to your room." Max gave him his one and only warning.
Dare, Allan, Zach, and Rohan were pacing nearby.
"I'm still tapped out and will snarl if I want to!" MK growled in frustration.
"Not fun being a semi-normal teenager is it Tiger." Allison liked having him be not so powerful.
"Not funny Red." MK reached over and tugged on her braid. "This bites I can't even heart link with you."
"Next time don't fight the Real dream." Rohan knew that it was a matter of time before everyone knew that Bruce, Andria, and most of their family were still alive and well in the 31st century.
MK narrowed his eyes at his Uncle. "What's wrong Uncle Fangs did they discover some deep dark secret of yours."
Rohan, who was still several inches taller than MK stalked over, and glared down at him. "I thought that you only saw Sam getting shot?"
MK matched his glare with one of his own. "I lied. No wonder Aunt Felecia, Dex and Tammy stay on Earth. They're under Aunt Sel's thumb. Uncle Bruce, Aunt Andria, Tim, Brian, and Danielle are all alive .They created all three Voltron's and with the guidance of an ancient named Zordon put the spirits of the lions into the robot lions. Now I can understand the need to keep this all nice and quiet, but Sam well she doesn't like being lied to."
"Lay off him Michael Keith…We had this conversation already and I know that I had to save Tim."
Daniel was holding Sam in his arms.
"Fangs put me down! I've been cooped up for two months! My legs work fine it's my hand that is screwed! Not that Uncle Max's grandfather and the others didn't do their best to fix it with their primitive medicine."
"I know you little sister. If Danny puts you down you will bolt and go into hiding." MK walked over and took her out of Daniel's arms.
"I'm only your little sister by a margin of five minutes and three seconds." Sam pouted up at her twin. "Traitor..." She didn't mean to say this out loud. "Son of a bitch…Shit…Frickin hell! Not even that works!" She went on to swear in numerous languages.
"Your tapped too I see." MK had never really heard her swear like this. "Sam we get the point, so stop before the parents go and get some soap."
"Sorry, but this sucks big time..." Sam noticed that her Uncles were surrounding her. "Don't I have a choice?"
"I know that this isn't any fun, Samantha, but we have to finish what we started on your wrist and arm." Rohan took her out of MK's arms.
"Where are mom and Dad?" MK frowned.
"They went to see your brother and sisters at the castle. They know that Sam is in good hands here." Daniel grinned.
Sam was finished being the brave girl. Her hand was still no better and she was beginning to lose hope. "What if you can't fix it and I go through all that pain for nothing all over again!" She was on the verge of tears.
"This is 31st century medicine not prehistoric 21st century medicines remember." Dare and Zach tried to cheer her up.
"Don't worry little sister. I will stay with you if it's okay with our Uncles." MK wasn't gonna be away from his twin.
"Daniel would offer to stay with you as well, but he faints when he sees the first sign of blood." Rohan smirked.
"Dad!" Daniel's face flushed crimson. "I would do anything for Sam and I faint at the sight of my own blood!"
"Daniel Rohan we just got back, so don't get yourself grounded for hurting your father." Sam glared at him, but then saw the hurt in his eyes, and changed her tone. "You can stay with me if you really want to." With that said the group left the lobby and headed up to the surgical wing.
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(Castle of Lions)
Andy walked into the castle and Starsha zoomed into her arms. "Mommy!"
"It's okay Starshine. Sam is gonna be fine." Eric reached over and ruffled her golden blonde hair.
"DJ won't talk to anyone. He just sits on the window seat in his room, and stares out at Blacky. He won't even talk to Di." Rafe sighed.
"Jess and Jazz have been really quiet too." Lisha was holding Endymion Ryan in her arms.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Jess, Jazz, and DJ raced over to them. "Is Sam okay?"
"Sammy is gonna be fine. She's getting the rest of her arm fixed. Then she will be as good as new." He gave them all a big hug.
"Then will we be able to hear them again?" DJ and Jess were not convinced.
"We can't silent talk with them anymore." Jazz bit down on her lip.
"Sam and MK are not the same." Star agreed.
Eric looked over at Andy. 'Even Rohan can't answer that one. The kids miss MK and Sam telling them what to do.'
'Both of them are just temporarily tapped out!' Andy refused to think otherwise. "MK and Sam are tapped out, but it's just temporary." Andy explained.
'Dromi we don't know that!' Eric growled in frustration. "We are just going to have to wait and in the meantime treat them like you always do as if nothing is different."
'Rohan and the others are wrong! I don't care what the test said! The twins cannot function without their psi!' Andy was not happy that he didn't feel the same way. "Let's go see how they're doing." Andy didn't even bother to say goodbye to Lisha and Rafe. She took the kids and headed out of the castle.
"Sorry about that she's just stressed out…" Eric apologized to the two of them then went after Andy.
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(Medical Center)
MK insisted on being able to be next to his twin, while waiting for her to wake up from the surgery. Max insisted that he get some rest and this way he could sleep and keep Sam safe. "Stop brooding Daniel…Dad would've gone ape shit if he'd seen you holding Sam like this in bed. I can't let her out of my sight…I keep seeing her getting shot in my head."
Daniel stretched out on the couch in Sam and MK's hospital suite. "I had to go and get her from the astral plain. It took me over eight hours to get her back. Forgive me if I wanted to hold my princess." He sulked.
MK had a cup of ice chips in his hand and threw a handful of them at him. "She was where!"
Daniel glared at him in annoyance. "Visiting your great-grandparents! Pay attention!"
MK threw the rest of the ice chips at him, but Daniel stopped them in mid air. "Since when can you do that!"
Daniel sent the chips back into the cup and then moved the cup over to the table beside his couch all without touching anything. "Since forever… I just don't rely on it like you and Sam do." He closed his eyes and went back to sleep and his dream with Sam and wings.
MK went back to sleep.
Starsha had ditched her parents, so that she could check on her older siblings. "They really are back." She eyed the two on the bed and then Danny on the couch. "They gonna be okay now?" She walked over and sat on Daniel.
Daniel opened one eye to see his current pest and groaned. "Yes Star they are going to be fine. We just need to let them rest, so that they can heal." He situated himself on the sofa, so that she could curl up beside him.
Star however had other ideas. "I'm gonna sleep with big brother and Sissy." She proceeded to climb up onto the bed, curled up on MK's chest, and fell fast asleep.
MK, who was very used to this, as she had been doing this since she was in diapers. Put his arm around her middle and continued to sleep.
"Finally peace and quiet," Daniel went back to his wing dream.
Max looked in on them and put up the disturb-and-die notice on the door.
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(Arus two months later)
All was quiet on Arus. Most of the families were off-world attending various events on different planets. Andy and Eric were reigning monarchs while the King and Queen were away on holiday in Crystal Tokyo. There were minor problems that couldn't really be dealt with like the V force team not being able to form Voltron. This in turn caused them to miss the annual team competition for the first time in over 30 years and MK was not at all pleased that he was breaking the family tradition.
Their Voltron relied on linking with Leo the Patriarch of the lions in order to form the mighty robot. MK was still psi tapped out, so this was not possible. The result in each attempt was the whole teaming getting a flying lesson and ending up in trees, the lake, and the castle maze. Eric and Andy had added this particular failsafe to the new cats, so that Voltron could never be taken over by enemy hands.
"Michael this isn't gonna work. Dad is the most ancient spirit when it comes to all of us and trying to override me to get to him is just gonna make him ornery. He'll do something worse than throw you guys out into the lake…I don't know what but worse. He likes his sleep." Blacky's voice echoed around the dry docks.
MK was almost finished putting in the manual override that he had designed. "I can't help the fact that I can't link right now, but I can make it so we can still form Voltron."
"Don't blame me if you go swimming or get shock treatment this time." Blacky grumbled.
"We're missing out on a competition that this team has won since Grandpa was its Captain. I'm gonna make the big guy form again." MK had his mind made up.
"I just think that you're obsessing on this, because Alison is on Earth with her parents." Blacky countered.
"No comment cat." MK finished what he was doing.
Sam appeared in the lion. "MK! I told you that the chances of that working were like one percent out of one million, but this doesn't surprise me. I mean you never give up on anything that you set your mind to."
MK glanced over at his twin sister. "Defeat is not in my vocabulary little sister. "I thought that you were training on the lawn with Mom."
Sam rolled her eyes at her brother. "That was simply hours ago. Seriously, MK, you've been at this for hours. The guys were even watching me train for a while. I even practiced the dance that I'm gonna do for Mom's big birthday bash and their 15th anniversary. I had no idea how much work it was to dance a ballet and not use any psi and you still have to decide whether you want to do a martial arts demo with the rest of us or not. I mean when would you have the time to practice? You are obsessed with forming Voltron!"
"This is more important than any celebration, besides I don't like martial arts the normal way it's boring, and it's too much work. Dad thinks that we need to refresh our skills now that we can't use our psi anymore." MK was not at all happy with his current condition.
"Don't panic big brother. I did all the research and always come out to the same conclusion. The two of us canceled each other out. It's a bitch waiting for it to restart though." Sam pulled out an apple from her sweatshirt pocket and munched on it. "I've been thinking that it's been too quiet around our enemies lately. I can't seem to track any of them down with any of the computers and spy gadgets in the lair. Do you think that after all of these years that they're actually gonna try something? Is that the reason you're obsessed with forming Voltron again?"
MK got up and stretched his aching back muscles. "Don't let Mom or Dad; catch you using the stuff in the lair. You heard what he would do to you if you ever tried to become like mom's former alter ego. I mean grounded for eternity with no parole, and never seeing Daniel again till your wedding day is really incentive not to follow in mom's footsteps." MK reminded his twin before going on to comment on what she had just said. "If I was the enemy and I knew that the two of us were basically powerless, then yes I would create an incident."
"Here on Arus?!" Sam choked on a piece of apple that she had just swallowed.
MK rushed over and pounded her on the back. "No not here, but the planets that currently don't have the domes online due to yearly maintenance."
"Earth and Druel are both currently upgrading the domes. It does seem logical that one of our enemies might try something. You call the rest of the team and I'll go get Jetta. I really don't think that this has got a remote chance of working, but then I got an upgrade to my Senshi form and anything is possible."
"Daniel, Hunter, and Dylan the day at the beach has been canceled it's time to get back to work." MK barked into his wrist com.
"So that's where they went after Daddy chased all of them off the castle lawn." Sam was about to leave for Jetta, but MK had a hold of her ponytail.
"Hunter and Dylan were supposed to be on watch this morning." MK was not pleased.
"Don't make me hurt you big brother." Sammy hated it when someone touched her hair. "Daniel was watching me train and then they came out to join him."
"Hunter and Dylan are on graveyard for this one." MK snarled.
"Are you gonna pull on my hair all day or can I go?" Sam growled.
"Sorry about that, but I hate it when they don't follow orders." MK let go of her hair. "So what was the upgrade?"
"Let's just say that one of these days Daniel gets to join that exclusive club that only Dad and Grandpa Dare belong too. I still have yet to figure that one out, but Daniel sure was grinning when he saw my wings." Sam shrugged her shoulders, as if it wasn't a big deal.
MK raked his hand across his face in frustration. "I'm not about to go there… I mean anything that can put Dad and Grandpa Dare on their knees can't be good. Let's just forget that we ever had this conversation and just go fly the big guy." MK flushed a slight shade of red. How someone that has an off the charts IQ can be this naïve about the obvious amazes me. Daniel is gonna be in a cold shower for eternity if she's this clueless.
Sam stuck her tongue at her twin. "It's like mom and Grandma Sere's secret weapon. It's not like I don't know what they're referring to, but what do wings have to do with that. I mean wings are just…" MK cut off her ramble.
"Enough Samantha I get the picture! Just drop the subject before Dad eavesdrops and you get grounded for life. It's not like we could sense if he were here or not right now. Now quit stalling and let's get in the air." MK ended the conversation.
"Well at least the water is a little warmer than it was yesterday." With that said she vanished from the lion.
"Poor Michael, she really does know how to push your buttons doesn't she." Blacky chuckled, as MK piloted him out of the dry docks.
"No comment pal." MK groaned.
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Eric and Andy were out on the lawn having lunch. They had also been eavesdropping on the twin's conversation.
Eric was highly amused. "Poor MK... She really does know how to keep him on his toes."
"I thought that you would be upset about her getting wings." Andy settled back in his arms.
"I was at first, but our angel is so clueless about the whole wings thing and what it means that I really don't have anything to worry about. Daniel is gonna be in cold showers for years to come." Eric was a very happy parent.
"Sam is eventually gonna find out and then you're gonna be pulling your hair out wondering if she would ever use her new found knowledge on Daniel." Andy burst his happy bubble.
"I can wish can't I?" Eric pouted.
"It's about as hopeless as MK trying to form the big guy without linking with him. " Andy pointed to Jetta and Blacky, as they shot into the sky.
"Then I'm doomed. Flying the cats is nothing…Now forming Leo; well he's grouchy if you don't wake him up the right way. No link no Voltron." Eric waited for the swimming to commence.
"He feels like he's let everyone down by not being able to go to the annual competition on Earth's moon." Andy felt for what her son was going through.
"He's still pouting about that? Uncle Jeff reassured him that this year they would just use the competition as a training exercise." He cuddled her closer to him.
"The other three just arrived, cross your fingers it might just work this time." Andy focused on what was happening above them.
"Not a chance in hell, but the water is warmer now." Eric smirked.
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"Ok people lets do this…Ready to form Voltron." MK switched on the override.
"Just keep us over the lake this time. The last time I landed on the castle roof." Hunter growled.
"I know landing in trees bites the big one." Dylan grumbled.
"Last time I ended up in the rose garden maze!" Daniel snarled.
"Boys can be such babies." Sammy smirked.
"SAMANTHA!!" Hunter, Dylan, and Daniel snarled.
"Look you three I'm in a bad enough mood already so shut up! Oh and Hunter and Dylan you both are to take turns on graveyard until I say otherwise." MK was not in a good mood the signs were that the override wasn't going to work.
"WHY?! WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" The two boys snarled.
"That's what you get when you ditch patrol to go out and drool at the Commander's twin sister." Daniel chuckled. "You do know that this is just a waste of time don't you?"
"Then its just gonna be our loss isn't it." MK growled. "Activating interlock…(it didn't work)…Oh shit not again!" MK looked up at the now open top hatch of the loin.
"I will say this for you young prince you are very persistent." Leo's voice chuckled with amusement. "No link no Voltron…I'm going back to my nap now."
"I told you not to piss off my dad! Now you're going swimming again. It could have been worse…He likes you enough to actually talk to you without the link." Blacky sighed. "Happy swimming..." MK went flying.
"Neo Arus diamond power!" Sam was now Neo Arus complete with wings. "I'm coming big brother!" She didn't mind getting shot out of the panther she had wings.
MK was just about to land in the water when Sam caught him by the arms. "Your wings do come in handy."
"MK one word lay off the sweets! You're heavy!" She barely had the two of them flying above the surface of the lake. "I'm really gonna feel this one in the morning." She was straining her right hand.
"I happen to be bigger and stronger than you are! I'm supposed to be heavier!" MK grumbled, as she flew him towards the castle lawn. "Daniel isn't gonna be happy with you. I think he landed in the rose garden again."
"You're my twin, besides he can fly if he wants to, and so can you when you aren't frustrated or don't you remember that." She dropped him onto the grass and swooped up into the sky.
"Samantha Lynn get down here you are giving everyone a show!" Eric shouted up at his daughter.
"Honestly lion you happen to be reigning monarch right now quit causing a scene!" Andy grabbed him by the arm.
"The hell with protocol Sam has wings and Daniel is somewhere around here!" Eric searched the sky and the surrounding area for any sign of Daniel.
"Leave her alone! The last thing that I need is for her to get mad, run away, and then get shot all over again!" MK stalked over to his parents.
"Michael Keith you will not use that tone with me! I brought you into this world and I can sure as hell take you out of it!" Eric was on a rant, but Andy took a moment to interrupt him.
"Excuse me? I don't recall you giving birth to the two of them?" Andy started to say something else, but the look that Eric gave her made her think twice. "As you were I just wanted to correct you about that."
"You are my kid that means that you abide by my rules! You are fifteen not forty! I'm your boss got that!" Eric set his son straight.
"Look! Sam doesn't have a clue as to what "wings" refers to. There is nothing to worry about. You promised to trust her and I expect you to keep that promise!" MK was not backing down.
"He does have a point Lion. We both know that she's clueless about serious relationships, so just let her have some fun for a change." Andy tried to soothe her lion.
"Uncle Eric! Why aren't you doing something! They are staring at my princess!" Daniel limped towards them.
"She's just having fun kid, besides I trust her." Eric wasn't about to end up on the couch over this situation.
"Come on you two I have a million things that I have to do before Momma and Daddy get back and I can't do them all by myself." Andy decided that the three of them needed to go into the castle.
"But Mom!" MK hated royal duties.
"Sorry son, but the boss has spoken." Eric motioned for him to head for the castle.
"Ah man this bites!" MK stalked towards the castle. "What about Sam?"
"I never mentioned that Sam had to come along just you. Now move your butt." Andy growled.
"She was helping out this afternoon…while you were hiding out in Blacky." Eric informed him.
"I can't win." MK pouted.
"No kid you can't it's just something that you're gonna have to get use to." Eric chuckled.
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Sam waited for the three of them to enter the castle before landing beside her prince. "Fangs is there a reason that you're in a temper?"
Daniel stared down at his clueless love. "Gee Sam let me think about that for a moment! I just got shot out of Neo and landed in the rose maze for the twentieth time this month! Not to mention that all of those guards are drooling at you!"
Sam giggled highly amused. "Is My Prince Fangs jealous of the castle guards? I train in this everyday, so it's not like they aren't used to seeing me in it by now." Sam reached up to pluck a stray feather off one of her wings. "These things are so soft I could just curl up in them and take a nap." She handed him the feather.
Daniel didn't refuse the treasure that she had just given him and stowed it away for safe keeping. Daniel my man just think of the prize…not the now, but what you will eventually have…And you will survive this. He continued to eye her warily her wings beckoned to him to touch them. "If you say so angel mine…Why don't we go for a ride or something?"
Sam arched a brow at him in curiosity. "Aren't you curious about how they feel? It's not like you see a girl with wings everyday you know. I mean I'm giving you permission, it's no big. I mean it's not like Daddy is gonna rip you in half or anything like that."
Daniel knew differently. "That's okay sweets if you say that the feathers feel soft then I believe you." He tried to keep his tone light and casual.
Sam wasn't one to take no for an answer, so she did her usual and tackled him to the grass. "See they feel like silk." She tried to get him to touch a wing, but he was desperately trying to get free.
Shit this is not good…I'm not sure what my touching a wing will do, but I'm fairly certain that she's not ready for it! He was just about free of her when his hand grazed across the side of a wing. A feeling that shocked the two of them from their heads to their toes shot between them. Sam was now clinging to him in terror and that triggered his Galaxy knight armor for the first time. This was all from just grazing one wing. "Samantha Lynn next time take a hint and listen." He sat up with a now wingless Sailor Arus in his arms.
"Sorry my bad…" She whimpered shakily. "Um, Daniel? Why are you in Galaxy Knight Armor?" She traced the symbol of the white lion on the armor of his chest.
"You really panicked and I guess it called to the dormant knight inside of me." Daniel didn't mind his new look.
"No wonder Daddy panicked about my wings…That was way over my head." Sam bit down on her lower lip.
"Sweetheart, that was over both our heads." He set his chin on top of her head. "I feel like a rocky road ice cream sundae with all the trimmings. Then you and I can work on your psi exercises in the Sun Room."
"I guess, but it's not gonna do any good." Sam was too frazzled to protest his suggestion.
"Sam you and I have made really good progress. I mean you can now hear me when I really want you to and that's a big step towards getting your psi back." Daniel had the patience of a saint.
"You win, but this had better be a triple fudge sundae." Sam sighed in defeat.
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(Earth)
Adrian might have been dead as a door-nail, but he had one more ace that he had yet to play. It seemed that he had some offspring and they were set to exact revenge on the Royal House of Arus.
Adrian Jr. watched, as the dusk fell over the quiet hot spring resort in the kingdom of Crystal Tokyo. Soon his plan would be set into motion. "You're sure that no one will come to the rescue when we make our move?" He narrowed his eyes at his twin sister.
Adrianna hated to be second guessed about anything and slugged her brother in the jaw. "The Hot Springs is the private resort of the Royal family. Our trap is miles away from the palace and the only ones that could possibly come to their aid. They won't know what hit them, just like father's triumph at Wayne Manor all those years ago. It is going to be glorious."
Crowned Prince Arislan of the planet Arcane was their silent partner in this. He had other plans for the rest of the royal family of Arus. He just needed to take out the eldest of them first. "As promised the staff was paid off by my men. The royal family is never going to wake up again. The fallout of this will crush the remaining members of the royal house of Arus and what I want will finally be mine." He was one of the youngest most ruthless rulers of the middle universe. He was considered one of most sought after catches in the three universes at six foot five, with wavy jet black hair, piercing violet eyes that could persuade anyone to do his bidding and he wanted the jewel of Eric and Andy's crown Sammy.
Adrian, Adrianna, and their minions left the room.
"That sounds great in theory big brother, but the twins might not go along with your plan." Dominique was not so sure that this plan of her brothers was such a good idea. "I think that you're leaving us wide open for an all out attack by Arus and her allies. I mean their Great Grandfather blew Planet Doom sky high and that was just for poisoning the prince!"
"The twins aren't a factor in this equation. They are hopelessly psi blocked due to the backlash from the Real dream that the prince suffered. They are also only fifteen and I for one am not afraid of children even if one of them is growing up very nicely…I'll deal with her when the time is right. For now we go with the original plan." Arislan sneered at his younger sister.
Dom had the body of Venus, the intelligence of Athena, and the face of an angel. All of which were highly deceiving, because an angel she was not. "You have your fun big brother I'm going home. I want to be as far away from this as possible when it all blows up in your face." She vanished from the room.
"You worry to much little sister I know exactly what I'm doing." He signaled for the attack to start.
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(Arus…)
(Castle of Lions Sun Room)
Shawn had just arrived at the castle with six-year-old Shane Rohan and the newest addition to the family nine-month-old Allura Elizabeth.
"Sam there's someone that I want you to meet." Shawn sat down next to Sam. He had little Laurie in his arms.
Sam cooed down at the adorable baby girl. "Shawn she looks just like a miniature version of Aunt Lilly."
Daniel looked down at his niece. "She sure is getting big."
"You should see Shane, that little guy is growing like a weed." Shawn chuckled.
"Where's Aunt Lilly?" Sam laughed when Laurie started to play with a lock of her hair.
"She wanted to visit with the twins for a little while longer. She insisted that I go on ahead with the kids and get them settled in our new home. Shane loves the beach, but I just like being home again." Shane spotted the feather in Daniels jacket pocket. "Nice little souvenir baby brother…So Sam graduated to wings did she." He winked at the two of them.
Sam blushed crimson.
Daniel arched a brow at his brother, "At least I get to have wings." He had meant to mentally send that comment to his brother, but had said it aloud instead.
"Daniel Rohan McCloud I can't believe that you just said that!" Shawn got all parental with his brother. "Sam doesn't need that visualization in her head!"
'Sorry about that Sam…I didn't mean to say that…ah man it just kind of …oh forget it.' Daniel was bright red. "I wasn't thinking clearly! I'm having one of those days! Besides we sure as hell aren't ready for that yet!"
Sam couldn't have gotten any redder if she had wanted to. She didn't even notice that she wasn't even tapped out anymore. 'That's okay Daniel…I hear my mom calling me.' She beat a hasty retreat out of the Sun Room and right into her Uncle Rohan's arms.
"Where's the fire little blossom?" Rohan took in her red faced and very flustered appearance.
Sam stared wide-eyed up at her Uncle. "Fire?" She squeaked. "Don't be silly Uncle Fangs…I... um…remembered that I promised to help DJ with his school project."
"Nice try Samantha, but DJ is at school." He led her back towards the Sun Room.
Sam would've put up some sort of protest, but she was about to be plagued with her very first Real time vision. The force of it made her cling to her Uncle in order to stay standing. "I don't feel so hot..." She passed out cold in his arms. 'Daniel I got my psi back...' was all that she could send out before the vision hit her like a brick wall.
"Samantha!" Rohan carried her into the Sun Room.
'Sam!! Talk to me!!' Daniel panicked when he saw his father carry in his unconscious princess. "What happened?!" He was ready to hurt someone.
Rohan ignored Daniel and focused on Sam. "Shawn take Laurie to see your mother. Then go get Eric, Andy, and MK."
Shawn vanished from the room.
"Son you need to get a grip. I need you to go to my car and get my medical bag." Rohan set Sam's trembling form onto the sofa. Daniel couldn't seem to leave her. "Move it! I need to know what's wrong with her!" Daniel vanished from the room.
Sam was clearly spiking a high fever and something was causing her whole body to shake as if she were freezing cold. That and her teeth were gritted together, as if she were in agonizing pain. She whimpered in her sleep.
"Sammy honey its Uncle Rohan…You are having a Real dream forget about what you're seeing and remember your training. Fighting it only makes the after effects of the dream worse, so let it run its course and you will be fine." He tried to reach her, but her only response was to shake her head violently, and she was trembling even harder now.
Daniel appeared next to his father with the medical bag. "She's having a Real dream just like MK had only this looks worse. I'm just glad that something jump started her psi that's the last thing that she managed to send me."
Rohan took out his medical scanner and checked out the reading on Sam's vitals. The machine couldn't even begin to handle the readings that it was getting and was almost instantly fried. "MK's Real dream was nothing compared to this…I think she's having a real time vision about something major occurring right now as we speak.
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'Sam's vision part one'
(The Kingdom of Crystal Tokyo)
She was standing in various rooms simultaneously watching, as the Hot Springs resort that her grandparents and various family members were staying at was invaded by what appeared to be Adrian and his goon squad. No one was able to fight back due to what looked like some kind of drug induced sleep…They tore into Nate and Ariel's suite the scene was horrific so much so that it made Sam sick to her stomach. It was over in minutes the result was Nate, Ariel, and Noelle lying lifeless on their beds.
"NO!!!!" Sam wanted to wake up, but she couldn't. She was forced to watch as the same thing occurred over and over again. "Please stop I don't want to see anymore!" She begged, but no one was listening. Finally, after what seemed like hours help arrived in the form of Bruce, Andria, Bri, Tim, and Danielle who tore into Adrian and his goons with the fury of revenge. Sam was relieved, because they had been going for Max, Ashley, Alison, and Mac's rooms next. Portals began to open all over the spa. The Senshi, the Generals, and Endymion all converged on the scene.
"NICE TIMING BUT YOU ARE TOO LATE!!" Sam wanted to scream at them. It was no use she was being shoved to another location.
'Fade out of Vision one'
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"NO!! TOO LATE!! THEIR ALL GONE!!" Sam cried out. Her head thrashed against the pillow that Rohan had set behind her head and tears were streaming from her closed eyelids.
"Shit what the bloody hell is she seeing?!" Daniel tried to reach her and the result was him being flung across the Sun Room and into one of the overstuffed chairs.
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'Vision Two'
(Moon Base)
Lilly was sitting next to Drew and Tony. They appeared to be watching home movies of the kids. Nichelle and Pippa were sitting at their feet.
"Ah, finally something good I was beginning to think that I was going to go through hell again…" The vision panned out until she could see the entire moon base. "No, this isn't a good sign..."
The explorer was orbiting just bellow her and it looked like they had both Voltron's tucked in for the night. It seemed a little too quiet…
She was now on the main deck of her Great Uncle Adam's flag ship. Oh not good. This is not a good sign. The ship seemed to be cloaked just north of the Moon. Shaitan, a mirror evil image of her grandmother, Titania, Logan, Merck, Adam, and Khan all seemed deliriously happy about something. Damn that's not good either! This must mean that they were up to something, but what?!
It took moments to get the answer to her question. The evil version of her grandmother pressed something on the device in her hand. The result of which was the Explorer blowing sky high. The others followed suit and soon all that was left of the moon base was a big black smoldering crater on the moons surface.
"No!!! Voltron's One and Two were on that base! My Aunts, Uncles, cousins, and friends all gone! Lilly, Drew, Tony, Shell, Pippa, Nicky, Seth, Ryan, Liz, Alexis, John, and Becca! Thea, Shane, and Laurie just lost their parents! Stop it I don't want to see anymore!!" She was going out of her mind.
'Fade out of vision two'
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"Samantha!" Andy screamed in terror when she saw what was happening to her daughter.
"Damn it Rohan she's in pain wake her up!" Eric's was in full fang mode.
"No!!! Sam is seeing something really bad!! I mean fire bad tree pretty…go visit the astral plain bad!" MK was clearly feeling some of the effects of his twin's situation. "I don't know what she's seeing, but you force her out of it and she goes to see Great-Grandma and Grandpa for keeps!"
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'Final vision'
(Planet Druel)
Druel was on fire. There were explosions rocking the entire planet. It looked as if the planet was experiencing some sort of cataclysmic event.
"NO!! Not them too! Mom couldn't handle losing both her twins!" Sam held her head in pain. She could see an almost translucent image of an older version of her Uncle Hazar laughing, as the planet blew itself up.
"Aunt Lexi! Uncle Chris! Nicky And Sabrina gone!! I can't take this anymore let me out! I will die if you show me one more thing!!" She screamed. "Let me wake up!!"
'end visions'
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"Please make it stop this is killing me to see all of this!" Sam sobbed in her sleep.
"Alex, Ari, Lilly, Drew, and Tony…they're gone…" Andy fainted in Eric's arms.
"Dromi!" Eric was on the verge of panic both of his girls were down and he had no clue why.
"Shit this is not good! Something major just went down and Sam saw it! Now Andy can't feel her siblings! This is very bad!" Rohan took another reading and it showed him that her vital signs were back down to normal, so he gave her something to counteract Sam's body from going into shock.
MK turned on the telemonitor and GNN was reporting on something major.
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Massive causalities have occurred on the moon due to a terrorist attack on the Explorer and the moon base. No one has claimed responsibility for the complete annihilation of the Explorer and the Moon Base. There were no survivors in both attacks. In other news we have reports that a cataclysmic event caused a chain reaction on Druel that blew the planet apart. The royal family of Arus was unable to be contacted due to the fact that the King and Queen are currently on holiday somewhere on Earth. This just in our sources report that a major event rocked Crystal Tokyo this evening, but details of the event are not known. It is known that there are massive casualties due to said event and at least three deaths are confirmed at this time…"
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MK punched his fist into the screen. "Damn it! I hate it when I'm right!! This is worse than I thought they all struck at once!"
Eric was sitting in one of the overstuffed chairs with Andy cradled in his arms. "Alex, Chris, Nate, Ariel, Bree, Nicky, Noel, Lilly, Drew, Tony, Pippa, Shell, Seth, Ryan, Liz, and Alexis all gone! Not to mention John and Becca! Damn Shawn is going to…the kids…" Eric muttered to himself.
"Momma, Daddy, and the others…!" Andy sobbed. "Find out if their…" She couldn't bring herself to say the words.
"Lilly…" Daniel felt tears of rage burning in his eyes. "I have to go find Shawn." He vanished.
"Oh man Hunter is not gonna want to survive this." MK vanished.
Rohan was making some calls and it seemed like hours to get the answers that they needed. "Okay no use avoiding this…It appears that Adrian, had and I stress had as in dusted, fathered twins." He took a deep breath. "Those twins exacted revenge on everyone at the Hot Springs, but Max, Ash, and the kids did not suffer the same fate. The reason being Bruce, Andria, and their fully grown army of kids dispatched the twins and their minions. Dare and the others arrived to help tend to the wounded and take in the damage." Rohan paused for a moment and waited for all of this to register in Eric and Andy's minds.
"How is my family?" Andy whimpered bracing herself for the worst and hoping for the best.
Rohan raked his fingers through his hair in frustration and blinked back the tears that were threatening to pour out of his eyes. "Keith, Allura, Rand, Sheena, Jax, and Kitty, are all in critical condition. The kids look like they're all going to be fine." His voice broke he didn't want to say what he had to say to them. "Nate, Ariel, and Noel were pronounced dead on the scene…I'm sorry for this…He was my brother…Those were his kids…and they did the same thing again!" Rohan was about ready to crack.
Andy was too numb to say anything. She buried her face against Eric's shoulder and bawled her eyes out.
"That's what our baby girl saw!? She isn't going to wake up is she?" Eric stared at Sam's sleeping form. Now that the vision was over she had fallen into a deep sleep. "This isn't your fault Rohan…"
"She will wake up. It's just going to take time. Her vitals are all fine now and this took a lot out of her. She's stronger than MK, but don't tell him that I said that." Rohan picked Sam up in his arms. "I'll take her back to her room."
Eric stood up with Andy in his arms. "I can't lose her too. Andy couldn't survive that." He growled hoarsely.
"You won't little brother now take care of Andy. I will watch over Sam." Rohan forced himself to remain in control of his emotions.
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(Rohan and Allana's castle)
Shawn punched Daniel when he tried to console him. "It's my fault that she's dead! I should have insisted that she come with me and the kids! She's gone and it's my fault!!" Shawn was in agony over the loss of his soul mate. "She didn't want to let go of the kids when she saw us off at the base. She didn't want to let me go! I should have known that she was trying to tell me something!!" He fell to his knees and broke down completely.
Daniel helplessly watched his brother being torn in two. He didn't know how to reach him. "You can't shut down Shawn! Laurie and Shane need you. Lilly is gone, but those two kids are very much alive, and need their daddy."
Shawn glared at Daniel. "I know that little brother! How am I going to tell Shane that…" His voice broke. "His mommy is dead!"
"You tell him that his mommy loves him very much but…" His voice broke, "…there was a terrible accident and his mommy and her brothers didn't want to go away, but their with the angel's watching over all of us." Daniel tried to find the words to say what needed to be said to his big brother.
Shane Rohan, who had gone to see why his Daddy was so upset, clutched his stuffed lion in his small hand. "Don't cry Daddy. Mommy's an angel now." He ran over and clung to his father.
Shawn held his son in his arms. "Yes kiddo Mommy is our guardian angel now." He could barely speak.
Lilly appeared next to them. "Always, my angel… I will always watch over you, Laurie, and my prince." She seemed very sad yet extremely calm.
Shawn felt his heart ripping in two, as he looked at his princess…his forever love. "I'm so sorry Lil…"
Lilly put a ghostly finger against his lips. "Don't be my love. None of this was your fault. I made the choice to visit my brothers…I want you to promise me something Shawn Alexander McCloud."
Shawn held Shane closer to him. "Anything angel. You know that I could never deny you anything."
"I don't have much time Shawn…Tell Laurie that her mommy loves her very much and that I will always watch over her. Shane you take care of your baby sister and your daddy for me. I love you so much my little man." She blew her son a kiss.
Shane caught it in his hand. "I will momma. I promise. I love you." Tears streamed down his cheeks, as he said good bye to his mother.
"Shawn, promise me that you will allow another love to enter your life. I want you to be happy and to live a full life with our kids." Lilly was starting to fade away.
"You are my soul mate. No one could ever replace you in my heart." Shawn's voice broke.
"Promise me!" Lilly's time there was nearing an end.
"I can't Lilly you are not someone that anyone could replace!" Shawn snarled in frustration.
"Promise me Shawn this is my last wish!" Lilly's was nearly gone now.
"I promise Lilly, but it's never gonna happen. I love you with every fiber of my being and no one will ever replace that!" Shawn growled hoarsely.
"I love you Shawn take care of our legacy and remember your promise…" She was gone.
"NO!! LILLY COME BACK!!" Shawn cried out in agony.
Shane just clung to his father and cried.
Daniel stood and silently watched over the two of them. Tears streamed down his face. "You will be missed Lilly."
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MK was watching over Hunter. "If you want to hurt something I'm gonna give you this once in a life time chance to kick my ass."
Hunter was taking out his grief and agony on one of the heavy bags in the castle gym. "I'm all by myself now! They left me all alone!" He growled hoarsely.
"You aren't alone Hunter. We're your family and you will never be alone." MK put a hand on his shoulder and Hunter hauled off and decked him.
"I told them not to go!" He took out his emotions on MK. "That we had all kinds of places to relax here on Arus! " He punched MK again. "I couldn't put my finger on why they shouldn't go but it's to late now!" Hunter dropped down onto his knees and let his emotions flow.
MK dropped down beside him and the two of them grieved together.
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Andy stared out at the lake, she felt completely alone now. For the first time in her life she felt empty. "I will miss all of you terribly." She whimpered.
Eric held her in his arms. "We'll build this huge memorial and surround it with a beautiful place where everyone can go and remember them." He mourned the loss of his two best friends.
"We'll have fountains, flowers, trees, and statues of the two Voltron's." Andy brushed away her tears. "They would want us to not dwell over their deaths and to go on with our lives."
"Yes and we will watch over Hunter for Nate and Ariel. We have to focus on the ones that are still with us now and not look back at the ones that we lost." Eric blinked back his tears.
"Bruce and Andria will have to come back here to stay on Arus. I can't be this far away from my sister. They've been in hiding long enough." Andy forced herself to think passed the pain of losing those friends and family.
"I think that Mom and Dad would like that. They are going to make it through this Dromi." Eric hugged her close to him.
"They have to Eric. They just have to." She turned in his arms and cried against his shoulder.
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(Earth)
Jeff was on a rampage. He was not dealing with the loss of all of those friends, family, his son and daughter-in-law Becca." I WANT ANSWERS! FIND OUT WHO DID THIS AND THEN WE WILL WIPE THEM OUT OF THE UNIVERSE!" He roared.
"More violence is not going to bring any of them back." Ginger glared at her husband.
"There is nothing on radar. If someone was there by the base then they had to have been cloaked." Mark snarled.
"We have to focus on what's left. Mourning our fallen friends and loved ones and honoring them with a place where their friends and families can remember them comes first before any talk of vengeance." Felicia Andria Grayson-Hunter the newly appointed Prime Minister of Earth and Mark's wife remained calm.
"THEA CRIED HERSELF TO SLEEP! DAD HAD A MILD HEART ATTACK! ALLY AND KEITH MIGHT NOT PULL THROUGH THIS, ASHLEY, MAX AND YOUR GRANDBABIES ALL ALMOST GOT BRUTALLY ATTACKED AND YOU EXPECT ME TO FOCUS!!" Jeff roared.
"DEATH HAPPENS! SHIT HAPPENS! HORRIFIC EVENTS OCCUR! IT'S A FACT OF LIFE AND NOTHING CAN EVER CHANGE THAT!" Felecia snarled back.
"Honey back off he's just hurting right now we all are." Mark placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!" Felecia's eyes blazed and her fangs were forming. "WE ARE NOT GOING TO ALL OUT UNIVERSAL WAR BECAUSE WE GOT CAUGHT OFF GUARD! WE WILL BURY OUR LOVED ONES; HONOR THEM WITH A MEMORIAL, AND THEN FOCUS ON REBUILDING NEW VOLTRON'S!"
"It's not that simple Felecia! They weren't replaceable!" Jeff snarled in frustration.
"Jeff she's in a temper my sister will hurt you." Ginger hissed in his ear.
"Our grandfather and an ancient named Zordon built the three great robots known as Voltron. I think that he might be persuaded to build two more. It will give him a challenge again." Felecia forced herself to calm down.
"Now that he's out of seclusion he'll be moving to Arus. Andria will want to be with her twin." Mark reminded her of that little factor.
"If they rebuilt Voltron lion force they can rebuild the other two." Felecia's mind was made up.
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(Astral Plain)
Allura stared at the iridescent barrier that separated life from death. She had suffered a devastating loss. Five of her babies were on the other side of that barrier. The children that she had beaten all odds to bring into this world had now been taken away. "How do you expect me to come back from this one!" Her voice echoed around her. "I don't think that I can!"
"You have a choice to make my daughter." Alfor appeared beside her.
"DADDY! I WANT THEM ALL BACK! I WENT TO HELL AND BACK JUST TO HAVE THEM! ONLY TO HAVE THEM TAKEN AWAY!" She screamed at her father. "IT'S NOT FAIR!"
"Life isn't fair my child. You can be selfish and choose to cross into the barrier before you. Let Andy pick up the pieces, after she buries all of you alone. Not alone her baby brother and Andria will be with her. She'll have to raise him as you would have wanted. What choice does she have… Keith won't live if you die. She will have lost four sisters, two brothers, and her parents all in one shot. Oh yes she'll have the entire kingdom on her shoulders as well." Alfor gave her choice number one. "Not that any of this should bother you, after all Dromi can live through anything. Samantha however isn't as strong as her mother. In fact she saw everything during a Real dream and the shock of it sent her here to visit us on the Astral Plain."
Allura went into instant panic mode. "Sam can't be here! Andy would die if she lost her! Where is she?! Take me to her at once!" Allura was not about to lose anyone else.
"She's currently being watched over by Keith." Alfor awaited her final decision.
"Take me to them Daddy. There has been enough dying to last a thousand lifetimes." Allura walked over to her father and took his hand.
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(Elsewhere on the Astral Plain)
"Samantha Lynn you are not supposed to visit here!" Keith was trying not to panic.
"I could say the same for you and Gram! Momma has lost so much already! I will be damned if she loses the two of you!" Sam sat down in his lap. "Besides, I had a Real dream about the whole thing and that's what sent me here." She cuddled even closer to him.
"It's not like I want to be here Sam. I'm waiting for Allura." Keith was trying to keep calm and in control of his emotions. "You saw everything? Oh angel, no one should ever have to see what you saw."
"Alfor is bringing Allura. As for you young lady running away never solves anything." Jess appeared in front of the two of them.
"I'm fifteen what do I know." Sam shrugged, "I'm not leaving here without my grandparents."
"We aren't going anywhere Samantha our bodies just need to adjust to what has happened to them." Keith tried to get her to see reason.
"Sammy! Keith!" Allura rushed over and hugged them both. "Don't just sit there we have an eternity to get back to."
"Be well my baby and know that we are always watching over you." Jess hugged her and then joined her husband.
"Farewell sunshine." Alfor and Jess vanished.
"Can we go back before Uncle Rohan hooks me up to a machine?" Sam frowned at her grandparents.
"Let's go home our family needs us." The three of them vanished from the astral plain.
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(Arus two days later)
Rohan was about to carry Sam to the castle's medical wing when her vitals showed instant improvement. She had been sleeping for two days straight. :Daniel try and link with her and see if you can wake her up.: He woke his son, who was sleeping on one side of Sam, and Andy was sleeping on the other.
Daniel opened one eye to glare at his father. :You said that she was going to be okay!:
:She's going to be fine! Now try and link with her!: Rohan snarled at his son.
Daniel really looked like hell. He had two days worth of reddish gold beard on his face, his hair was messed up, and his eyes were bloodshot. 'Samantha it's been two days…Enough with the beauty sleep. Your brother is grouchy, your parents are frantic, dad has actually aged, your sibs are worried, and I'm getting another gray hair.' Daniel finally linked back up with Sam.
"Good news she linked with me again." Daniel gave her hand a squeeze and she squeezed it back.
'Daniel I got my grandparents back for momma…I feel like hell…am I hooked up to a machine?' She was starting to wake up. 'Oh Momma is with me and so are you.'
Daniel was so happy that he was crying. 'We're all here angel mine now please open your eyes.'
Andy felt Sam move and instantly sat up. "Rohan?" She tried not to panic thinking that something was wrong.
Eric and MK were jolted awake by her panicked cry. "What's wrong?!"
"My goodness can't a girl get any sleep without having an audience?" Sam voice was barely above a whisper.
Andy and Daniel hugged her, "You're awake!"
"Thank Arus! You had us worried. MK thought you were visiting your Great-Grandparents." Eric sighed with relief.
"How are you feeling?" Rohan checked her vitals.
"Quit fussing, I'm wiped out, sore as hell, but otherwise I'm fine. MK was right as usual, but I did manage to save Grandma and Grandpa while I was there." Sam was nearly awake now and really grouchy.
"Samantha you could have been killed!" Andy cuddled her closer.
"Chill mom. She didn't have a choice the Real dream overloaded her body, so she just hung out with them for awhile." MK defended his twin.
"Growl at me all that you want! Grandma and Grandpa are gonna pull through! No one else is gonna die! I won't stand for it!" Sam was finally experiencing her emotions, about what she had seen and all that she had lost.
"YOU DIDN'T SEE THEM DIE ONE BY ONE! I DID! YOU DIDN'T SEE THEM ATTACKED LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, BUT I DID! THE EXPLOSIONS THAT BLEW EVERYONE APART UNTIL ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS A CRATER!! THE PLANET DESTROYING ITSELF!" She was near hysterical now. "I DON'T CARE IF I BROKE THE FRICKIN RULES! I WAS THERE SAW THEM AND WAS DAMNED IF I WAS GOING TO LOSE THEM TOO! MOM COULDN'T SURVIVE THAT!" Tears streamed down her cheeks and her voice was hoarse from screaming.
"I couldn't survive losing you. I know that it sounds selfish, but I'm happy that my kids are still with me. That is my main reasons for living never forget that." Andy was in lioness mode.
"Wow Daniel you, MK, Uncle Rohan, and Daddy all need a shave." Sam reached up and touched Daniel's beard.
"Yes well, now that you're finally awake the rest of us can go shower." Daniel kissed her palm.
Eric sat down on the bed and pulled his girls in his arms. "Never do that again." He growled hoarsely.
"That place is weird Dad she won't do it again." MK stretched his aching muscles.
"I'm starving." Sam changed the subject yet again.
"I'll go fix you something to eat." Rohan left the room.
"I'm fine Daddy now go and teach MK how to shave." Sam hugged her father fiercely.
"Sammy! I know how to shave!" MK growled.
"Only when you barely had any whiskers on your face and even then you cut yourself like ten times." Sam rolled her eyes at her twin.
"Yep things are back to normal again." Andy curled up against Eric and drifted off to sleep to the sounds of MK and Sam arguing with each other.
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(Crystal Tokyo Medical Center)
Rafe was going out of his mind worrying about everyone on Arus and the family that were currently fighting for their lives, after the viscous attack at the Hot Springs. "It's been nearly three days since this disaster of monumental portions happened to this family and so far the death count boggles the mind. Three different events one of which was a clearly premeditative attack on the Galaxy Alliance and the other on the royal house of Arus! What happened to Planet Druel… well I'm still not convinced that someone wasn't behind that one! That was a completely stable planet and there was no sign that an event like this was even gonna occur! I mean we knew about Yellow Stone way before it blew its top causing the event that had us sleeping for countless years!" He began to pace his Uncle's Office. "Everyone is coming out of their traumas except for Uncle Keith and Aunt Allura, which doesn't make any sense seeing as they are two of the strongest willed people in the three universes! We should have seen this coming and stopped it that's what the guardian's of this universe are supposed to do! Aunt Sel didn't even see this coming and I didn't think that was even possible!"
"She isn't the current guardian of the time gate. Her brother Cronos is and he only bends the rules when the event is gonna hurt the time stream. Shit happens kid you just have to get passed it and move on." Zach was trying to figure out why Keith and Ally hadn't woken up yet and Rafe wasn't helping by distracting him.
"Renny said something about having to have a permission slip in order for any non-adult to pass through the gate. I just thought that she was kidding." Rafe frowned.
"Sam kind of made that one a necessity. Evidently, nothing can happen to her not in this or any time stream. He gave Sel hell for not preventing her from opening a portal. Sel countered with Tim being an important person during that time and that he had to live…therefore Sam had to get shot." Zach rubbed his eyes to clear his vision. The screen that he was looking at was getting blurry due to the strain of hours of research.
"Somehow, that doesn't make me feel any better…" Rafe changed the subject. "Mom and Dad are handling this amazingly well."
"This isn't our first taste of loss kid. We've lost numerous friends and family in our lifetimes. I guess it just gets easier to accept." Zach looked up at his nephew of sorts.
"I'm sorry if I'm venting, but I can't seem to contact anyone back home. I've tried the castle and I get E telling me that no one is able to come and talk to me right now. I've tried Uncle Rohan's, but all I could do was tell Shawn how sorry I was about Lilly. I just don't get why no one is around!" Rafe was worried about how Dromi and the others were handling things.
"The only one with contact to Arus is Bruce. Sam had the mother of all Real dreams and isn't doing that hot. I believe Bruce's words were that MK thought that she went to visit their great-grandparents, so apparently all of them are camped out around Sam's bedside. That is all I know now leave so that I can get some work done!" Zach was about to throw something at him.
"Are you trying to tell me that on top of everything that has happened that we might end up losing Sammy as well!?" Rafe was on the verge of losing it. "Dromi would not survive that type of loss."
Zach had heard more than enough. "Samantha is not going to die! She saw the whole thing by way of a Real dream and is now sleeping off the repercussion of the visions. That's right Rafe! She had three separate visions and that's enough to kill a normal person, but Sam is not at the medical center she's sleeping in her own bed. Now do you think that you can leave so that I can focus on Keith and Allura's condition and how to reverse it?"
"I thought that I heard the two of you in here." Dare walked in with not a frown, but a smile on his face. "I actually have good news to report to both of you. Bruce is on the mobile. How he can get a mobile to work across three universes is beyond me…"
Zach and Rafe glared at him.
"Sam just woke up a little over an hour ago. This means that Keith and Allura should be waking up any time now. Sam got the two of them back from the astral plain. Ordinarily, I would be furious, but then she did go through hell, and she needed to do something while she was there."
Zach not really believing what he had just heard touched several different screens to check on Keith and Allura's vital signs. To his relief they had approved to the point of normal levels. "We owe her something huge, because it looks like the two of them should be waking up any minute now." He sat back in his chair and closed his eyes for the first time in almost three days.
"If Sam saw that much then she's so gonna need therapy." Rafe thought of what seeing something like that could do to a fifteen-year-old girls' psyche.
Zach fell out of his chair and stared at Rafe, as if he had two heads. "Who in their right mind would be brave enough to attempt that, besides us, and you know that she's going to completely shut down around all of us!?"
"Danielle could do it and Sam is her cousin. That and she's got the patience of a Saint." Rafe came up with an answer.
"It won't hurt her and it will be for her own good." Dare's mind was made up.
"Nice idea kid you can pitch it to Eric and Dromi." Zach grinned.
"Cowards…" Rafe muttered under his breath.
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Keith awoke connected to a battery of medical machines. He didn't know why because he felt like a million bucks. He could feel that he had a bandage around his neck. This told him exactly what had gone down at the Hot Springs. He looked around the room and saw Jamie staring out of the window and Bruce was talking to someone with what looked like a mobile phone.
"Bruce? Jamie?" Keith made an attempt to talk, but his voice came out barely a whisper.
Jamie was over to his father's side in seconds. "Dad you woke up!"
Bruce gave the good news to Rohan and then ended the call. "Welcome back Keith you had us all worried." Bruce sighed in relief.
"Are Allura and Samantha okay?" Keith needed to know if the two of them had woken up or not.
"Mom just woke up a little while ago. Andria is all but sitting on her, because she wants to get to you. Now as for Sam, well, she woke up a little over and hour ago." Jamie gave him some good news.
"Sam is just like her momma. She refuses to give up on something once she sets her mind to it. This time it was getting us back from the Astral Plain. I just need to know if she was okay or not." Keith tried to move, but he had all of this medical stuff connected to him in various ways. "Someone get this crap off of me before I get grouchy." Keith wanted out of bed. "I feel better than I have in my whole life."
"You my friend are adjusting to the feeling of being immortal. It's kind of a rush when you first wake up, but then that passes in about ten or twelve years. Just think now you can have that rematch with Eric and win." Bruce was standing beside the various medical machines.
Keith got impatient and began pulling all of the tubes and wires off of him. The IV in his arm was carelessly ripped off, but then the wound healed instantly. "I could get used to healing like that. I mean I have my healing factor, but this kicked it into overdrive."
The machines went ape shit and Bruce shut them off. "A lot has happened in the past few days and I don't think that you want to learn about it on GNN."
"I know that this might be hard on you Dad, but you need to hear it from one of us." James prepared him for the news.
"I know everything. That's one of the perks of being on the Astral Plain. Allura and I got to say our goodbyes to everyone, as they crossed over. It still hurts like a bitch that they aren't going to be with us anymore, but we got some sort of closure by getting to say our goodbyes. Allura didn't take it well at first. That was one of the reasons why we didn't wake up sooner. She had to decide whether she wanted to wake up or not. I had Sammy keep me company until she came back with her decision and the rest is history." Keith threw back the covers and got out of bed. "Is there a robe or something? I mean I can't go around naked. Allura wouldn't really like that."
Bruce was handing him a robe to put on when Rand and Sheena walked right into the room. "Good he's awake…" Sheena turned bright red, as she took in the view. "I'll see you later." She bolted from the room. Wow no wonder Allura brags so much!!!
Keith, who was also a nice shade of crimson, hastily put on, and then belted the robe. "Big brother… I see the two of you are fine…" He tried to find his voice again.
"Sorry about that little brother. Now maybe she will learn to knock before entering a room." Rand was highly amused.
"Daddy you're awake!" Orry came barreling into the room.
"You're okay! I bet we kind of scared you didn't we little man." Keith picked up his son and held him tight.
"I was brave like big brother." Orry gave him a big hug.
"Yes you were little bro and we are very proud of you." Jamie still couldn't believe how good Orry had been.
"So how's Cindy? Did she keep you company while we were sleeping?" Keith knew his son all to well.
"Those two won't let each other out of their sight for long…Hey is that the secret that you refuse to tell the rest of us!" Jamie growled.
"Not really I just wanted to make sure that he was back to chasing Cindy again." Keith shrugged.
"Cindy is mine!" Orry grinned.
"KEITH MICHAEL!!! DID SHEENA SEE YOU NAKED!!!" Allura stalked into the room with Andria on her heels.
"Oh boy come here kiddo…Dad is in the doghouse." Jamie took Orry from Keith.
Keith's jaw dropped Ally looked twenty-one again and furious as hell. "Not on purpose angel. She just walked right in without knocking and I will point out that I was trying to put my robe on." Keith eyed her warily.
"You are for my eyes only!" Allura was looking at him, as if he were her next meal.
Andria looked at each of her parents and then made a decision. The two of them need some alone time. "Okay everyone lets leave these two alone for a while." Andria herded them out of the room.
Allura locked the door, "We were rudely interrupted on the night of our anniversary." She slinked up against him and purred into his ear. She noticed that he still had the bandage around his neck and took it off. "Welcome back lover what do you say the two of us celebrate our new lease on life." She nipped his neck.
Keith reacted by kissing her senseless.
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