Chapter 35
Falling From The Sky
After the incident between Coran and Storm, Coran decided to head out on a mission to retreat some refugees looking for a new home. Allura and Lance went with him as she was the only who could open wormholes and Lance could not pass an opportunity to accompany her. We watched from the upper platforms how the Castle of Lions took flight and left the Olkari atmosphere. The mighty ship lifted off with ease and glimmered as it disappeared from sight, it was incredible that after so long, the castle was still functional. As I continued to gaze up at the sky, I felt someone nudge my shoulder. I turned around to see Storm looking down at me with a bit of enthusiasm and hope shining in his eyes.
"Can we please go try on my armor?" He pleaded.
I chuckled at his excitement, "Sure we can."
Shiro and Hunk stood with their arms crossed talking about the refugee camps set up and how much good the Olkari had done by receiving them on their planet. I made my way to them stopping Hunk from continuing his statement, "Hey, Storm and I are going to head out to test his armor. Let us know if we are needed."
"I would ask to come, but I know it's going to involve heights. So, I'm okay here." Hunk said pointing down at the floor with a slight grin.
"I'll let you know." Shiro stated and ran a hand through my hair with a smile. I returned the expression and he nodded for me to go. I ran to Storm who stood eagerly at the edge of the platform hunched over ready to take flight, he lowered his head to the side and I grabbed on to one of his horns for him to lift me up and onto his back. Storm leaped off and glided to White's landing pad to pick up the armored cube that stood by Nimawe's front paws, left there by Shiro.
"Where should we go?" Stormed asked eyeing our surroundings.
"Let's head into the forest as the refugees are still getting accustomed to your presence. Seeing you in your armor might scare them."
Storm nodded his head and gave a hum of approval, he once again jumped off the platform to take flight toward the edge of the forest. He flapped his wings rapidly, ascending until the horizon was in front of us, where the trees and the sky meet. It had been a while since we had flown together, even after the defeat of Zarkon, things have been really busy. Taking care of the incoming refugees or freeing planets from the Galra rule was no easy task. It felt nice to hang low for a change and just fly freely like the wind that ran its invisible fingers through my hair. A feeling of content flowed from Storm to me making me feel even more alive. I closed my eyes and extend my arms out with a laugh just feeling the elements around me.
Storm found the perfect spot to land, one where the trees formed a circle around a small clearing; he took me by surprise when he suddenly retracted his wings and dived. The upper half of my body fell back until it touched the roughness of his scales.
"Hey! You did that on purpose!"I protested with a grin.
"Just keeping you on your toes." He retorted with a laugh.
Storm landed with a loud thud; the animals hiding among the bushes rushed out of their spots to run in different directions, some of the leaves upon the trees floated down with the ruffle of his wings. I leaped of his back and examined the area, the golden rays of the sun shinned through the trees igniting the shade with hues of yellow, the soil beneath are feet felt mushy as if there had been rain recently; the whole forest was covered in a blanket of silence, only the occasional snap of a twig from the smaller beings could be heard.
"These are my usual hunting grounds."Storm said as he watched me attentively observing the scenery.
"No wonder the small creatures bolted when they saw you."I said turning around with a smile, "I like it here, it reminds me so much of the forests back home."
"You haven't showed me what you saw in your visit to Negetia."Storm reminded, "When will you show me?
I huffed and looked down at the ground playing with a few strands of grass with my foot, "There is not much to show, Storm. The planet we use to know is long gone, that is no longer Negetia. It is a twisted reality of what it once was, plummeted in darkness. If you want to see for yourself, feel free to look through my memories, but I warn you, it isn't pretty." I waited for Storm to start flipping through my mind, but after a few doboshes, he did not do so. "Something Shiro told me when we were on Negetia has been replaying in my head since we left. He told me that Negetia now resides in me… The whole essence of our people now resides within us, Storm. Nothing will ever change where we came from, but what we decide to be from this point on is up to us. Whatever happens, we will always have each other, and we will represent our people wherever we go."
Storm took a step forward making me look up at him, "Your right, we need to make the best of what we have and what we are now. No point in dwelling in the past, however, it is inevitable that it will come back to haunt us on occasions, but we will get through it." He pondered on his next words for a few ticks, "I could not be prouder of the person you have become, to be able to call you my bonded partner brings immense joy to my heart. You have become more than a Queen, and I am sure that where ever your parents reside, up in the cosmos, they will surely be looking down at you with pride."
I touched his snout and gave a wide smile, "And I am glad to call you my Drako." Stormed hummed, sending vibrations through my hand and throughout my body. "Now let's do what we came here for, before we are called back, or something happens."
We took a few steps back from each other, Storm placed the cube between us observing it as its veins pulsed with blue light. He then looked up at me and I nodded with my head for him to proceed. With the tip of his talon, he touched its surface and its veins began to pulse rapidly and its light became brighter. Its silver surface started to shift, like it was alive, in odd angles until it latched on to Storm's left paw and began to crawl up his limb slowly. Back then it had been a fast process, but it seemed that the armor was familiarizing itself once again with its wearer.
Storm kept his paw in the air watching the armor slither up his neck and come around until it stopped in the middle of his chest. The light emanating from it suddenly ceased and on its center was the insignia of the water Drakies; it was a lone water droplet about eight inches in height.
"Is that what supposed to happen?" I asked confused.
"Uh, let me try something." Storm closed his eyes in concentration trying to ignite the armor once again, but nothing happened. I began to fiddle with the tips of my gloves as time passed and observing the kinds of plants in the clearing. Something about the Olkari forest fascinated me, they seemed to have a mind of their own and how the people had managed to connect with nature and transform them into working objects left me in awe since the first time I witnessed it.
I began to ponder in our journey since the reunification of Voltron and the planets we had managed to save from the Galra, I sat down crossed legged on the ground and picked at the strands of grass; there was not much I could do, it was all up to Storm now. When I looked up at him, he seemed to be lost in the depths of his own mind, nothing around him could break his concentration even when I accidentally flicked a rock with my foot at the nearest tree. I was about to lay down to gaze up at the sky when the insignia on the armor began to glow a bright blue, I had to cover my eyes at its intensity, the sound of metal shifting suddenly filled the silence. I moved away from the beam of light finally being able to see and saw how the armor began to click into place all over Storm's body. It expanded from his chest to his shoulders and connected to the wings at his side. Storm's dark blue scales began to disappear underneath the silver surface with each clicking sound until he was covered in it from head to tail. The veins that once adorned the surface of the cube now trailed over his body glowing with its original blue color, each talon ignited in the same light and when he opened his eyes, they were a mesmerizing azure color.
Storm lifted his wings to examine them; the metal rubbed on each other making scraping noises in the process. The inside of his wing was mostly silver, cut into sections, each section was divided by a small glowing vein. The veins where designed to store the kinetic energy of his wings and provide an extra boost to his flight making him about half as fast as a Voltron Lion. The armor would cover or retract from his mouth depending on the type of atmosphere he was currently, in space he mostly had to rely on his talons, tail, and powers as his weapons. Storm, with a single thought, could order the reinforcement of the armor in certain areas to provide better cover.
"How do I look?" He asked.
"Like you are ready to take down a Galra fleet and form Voltron with us." I answered still looking over the armor fascinated.
"Shall we test it out?" Stormed asked with eagerness as he lowered his body to the floor placing one of his wings closer to the ground like a stepping stone to his back.
"I would love to, but I forgot my helmet back on the platform. So, we can only fly inside the planet."
His eagerness diminished, but then he had a thought, "Then let's go get it. What's the point of using an armor that was meant to be used in space, when I can't use it outside the planet."
I looked at him hesitantly, that was exactly what I did not want to do, the refugees would spot him in an instant and does who were not familiarized with him would become frightened. "Come on Tay, live a little. It'll be fun." He persuaded nudging my shoulder with his snout, "The wide-open skies. The thrill of heights. Air acrobats that only we Negetians know how to do."
I crossed my arms and squinted my eyes at him playfully, "You know me too well… You had me at heights."
He gave a roar in triumph as I ran up to his wing lifting myself up onto his back, once I was safely secured between his massive shoulder blades he flapped his wings and began to leave the ground behind. The trees around us swayed with the wind brought upon them and with one final strong flap, we shot up into the sky. We flew faster than Storm normally could, using the armor to his advantage. I held on tightly to his neck as the force of the wind threatened to pull me off his back.
Storm flew above the forest in one big loop before making his way back to the landing platforms. He brought us even higher into the sky, the sun was brighter and the wind colder, it felt like we could almost touch the heavens. Storm left his wings extended letting the winds carry him down, slowly descending.
"So, what's it going to be?" He wondered, "Fly down and grab or dive down and save?" Memories of our childhood flooded his mind at the dangerous stunts we use to pull away from the watchful eye of my parents or our care takers. I watched him flip through each one with happiness and adrenaline; his joyful energy transmitted to me.
"Shiro is so going to kill me…but my mind is made up."I said with a slow grin growing on my face, "I'm diving."
"Good choice. Just tell me when you're ready."
I took a deep breath letting the pure air from above fill my lungs and the sun caress my face with its warmth. A chuckle escaped my lips, "I can't believe I'm actually going to do this. It's been a while since I felt this free." Storm began to glide side to side and his laugh echoed in my head. I slowly let the grip of my legs loosen until the air lifted me off, the only thing that was keeping me in place was my arms around his neck. "I left my helmet on top of one of White's paws, I'll see you down below." With that said, Storm flipped over until he was flying upside down and I let go. I felt weightless falling from so high up, it was almost like a cushion of air was holding me up.
I spun around to face the ground and changed my trajectory toward White's platform that still looked like a tiny dot in the distance. I extended my arms out to slow down my decent and allow me to use the wind currents to guide me to my destination. Everything around moved so rapidly, the trees looked like green blurs and the Olkari buildings glimmered in the sunlight. I pushed my body forward until I front flipped and brought my hands close to my body shooting me down at an incredible speed. The people that busied themselves on the lower platforms looked up and pointed at me in wonder causing others to face up at the sky.
As I neared, the eyes of the White Lion lit up and she stood up on all fours giving a loud roar. "Relax Nimawe, I am not in any danger." I communicated; she replied with a low growl. "But I do need my helmet." I send her an image of it on her left paw. The ground was coming dangerously close as I only hovered about twenty feet in the air. Nimawe lifted her left paw throwing the helmet in the air which I took graciously in my waiting arms. Just as I was about to hit the ground, Storm appeared out of the blue and caught me in his talons shooting us up in the air. He let out a roar and I joined him by cheering loudly and laughing. He took me in his right paw and placed me close to his neck for me the grab on to, with my helmet secured on my head, I climbed on to his back. Once Storm felt my legs tightly on his back, he flapped down once, and bright blue sparks emanated from his wings bringing us up at super speed to the vastness of space. He used his leg force to keep climbing until we could see Olkarion whole.
We floated there in silence just taking in the scenery before us, in the place where the tendrils of space let us rest, weightless. It felt like old times, when I had no Lion of Voltron, where it was just him and me fighting alongside our forces and saving each other's lives. When we moved swiftly and with precision through enemy forces and took down Galra fighters. The voices of my fellow elite guard members echoed in my head, they would always fly beside us in their own space ships protecting us from every angle. We managed to work sometimes without uttering a word; we knew each other so well. If only Varek, Marel, Sapphire and Nisa were here with us in this moment, it would have added that touch of perfection. They knew what needed to be done before I even gave the order, that's what made them so efficient.
Time passed as Storm just let us drift inside the gravity line of the planet, on occasion, a refugee or resistance ship would appear and enter the Olkari atmosphere. Some of them were caught by surprise at seeing a Drako up in space, but relaxed when they noticed the glowing insignia of Voltron on my shoulders and chest.
The Castle of Lions suddenly came out of a wormhole and made its way to land. I waved at them as they passed by, Coran's voice broke the silence, "Queen Fireheart is that you?"
"Yes, it's me Coran." I smiled. Storm moved to intercept them and held on to the side of the castle catching a ride down to the surface, he let go when the ship began to move in a vertical position activating the landing gear. Storm landed gracefully on the platform, his silver armor casted beams of light as it reflected the sunlight. I jumped off his back as Shiro and Hunk approached us.
"You really want to give me a heart attack, don't you?" Shiro said stopping in front of me with his arms crossed.
I chuckled placing a hand on his bicep, "Come on don't be mad, Storm and I have done these types of dives since we were children. We have it all down to the minimum error, plus I could save myself at any time by summoning my own wings."
"You see, that's why I did not want to come." Hunk commented fiddling with his pointer fingers, "I can't imagine falling from so high up, its stuff of nightmares. What if something goes wrong? I would never be able to taste my favorite foods ever again or taste new once." Shiro looked at him rising and eyebrow, but a small smile slowly appeared on his face.
"Well you too seem to make a great team." Shiro praised looking back at us, "Just warn me next time you decide to perform the kiss of death."
"Yeah," Hunk laughed, "Shiro legitimately let out a yelp. He thought you got knocked out or something."
"One of my greatest dreams was to fly down from the Helma Mountains back on our home planet." Storm said, "A few attempted it, but froze about half way there since they were so high up, with this armor, it wouldn't have been a problem. Too bad it will only stay like that… a dream." He added with a hint of disappointment.
"We still have a lot of new planets to explore, perhaps we can find a mountain range suitable for your adventures." I said patting his leg. The armor began to shimmer and contract until it was once again only on his chest, revealing the dark blue scales of his body.
"Perhaps."
A pod began to descend from the castle and it opened to reveal Lance and Allura, they walked up to us and greeted with a hello and a few smiles.
"How are things?" Allura asked as she came to a stop beside me.
I touched her shoulder and showed her what Storm and I had done, she gasped at the memory and looked at me dumbfounded. "I really hated when you did that, it makes me so nervous."
"Shiro almost jumped out of skin." Storm said with a laugh, joining the conversation.
"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, Storm." She said with a smile.
Just then, the pod of the castle appeared lowering down refugees, they began to flood out analyzing their new surroundings as this would be their new home. The pod made countless trips until Coran appeared trying to squeeze himself through some big looking aliens, "Excuse me! Coming through!" He grunted. He finally managed to make it through only to yell and fall face flat on the ground. The aliens began to rush out stepping on him like a stamped of wild animals.
I covered my mouth trying not to laugh as he stood up with his uniform dirtied, "Just right in there. They'll get you sorted out." Coran called after the aliens, but they were already out of earshot.
"Is that the last of them, Coran?" Allura asked.
"That's it." He responded placing his hands on his hips, "A few hundred more souls looking for a new home."
"A few hundred more soldiers in the fight against the Galra." Shiro added with a smile.
I was about to ask Coran if he was okay after the stampede, but a lion roar interrupted my thoughts and the shadow of the Green Lion fell upon us.
"Pidge is back!" Hunk cheered.
The Green Lion landed in its assigned platform and Hunk immediately took off running to greet her. Everyone else began to follow, I stayed behind with Shiro who calmly walked after them.
The lion lowered its head to the floor letting out an overly excited Pidge and a boy who followed behind her with a grin watching her enthusiasm.
"She found him." I gasped taking hold of Shiro's arm, looking at them with a wide smile.
Pidge began to introduce the team one by one; he seemed to fan over Allura when she pointed her out but broke out of his daze when Lance suddenly stepped behind her with an angry frown. He rubbed his eyes and opened his mouth to say something but stopped when his gaze landed on Shiro; he gasped his name.
Lance and Allura moved aside to let him through as he came to stand before Shiro with a look of happiness, "It's so good to see you," He said excitedly extending his hand out, but suddenly became nervous, "Um, sir." Shiro took his hand and pulled him into a brotherly hug taking him by surprise, but he quickly relaxed returning the gesture.
Shiro pulled back, "Pidge never gave up on finding you."
"Yeah, she can be pretty stubborn at times." He said looking back at her.
"You got that right." I said, making myself known.
Pidge's brother looked at me with his mouth hanging open, "This place is full of beautiful women. Why didn't you find me sooner, Pidge?"
I let out a low chuckle; Pidge stepped forward with her hands behind her back to introduce us. "This is Taylin Fireheart, Queen of The Drakie. Tay, this is my brother Matt."
"It's nice to meet you Matt, Pidge has told a me a lot of things about you." I said extending my hand to him, he took it with a wide smile, a few ticks passed, and he still would not let my hand go. I gave a confused chuckle.
Pidge nudged her brother with her elbow, "She is also Shiro's girlfriend."
He stopped shaking my hand, "Oh." And looked between Shiro and I. "You have a very pretty girlfriend." Matt stated rubbing his neck, turning slightly red.
"I know." Shiro said and placed an arm over my shoulders bringing me closer to his side with a smile.
"Pidge is a very dear friend to all of us." I said, "She is practically family and anyone of her blood siblings is welcomed in our fold. Know that everyone here is ready to help you search for your missing father." Matt nodded his head in gratitude and Pidge came forth to embrace my side; I patted her head.
Matt suddenly jumped back and screamed covering the side of his face with his hands; a shadow fell upon us.
"Why am I not surprised." Storm commented, "Humans are so predictable."
"Sheesh Matt, relax." Pidge said stepping in front of her brother, "This is another of our team members. Storm, a Drako of the planet Negetia."
Storm lowered his head until his breath ruffled Matt's hair, "Hello Earthling." Matt gave him a sheepish smile with a small wave, his face later changed into that of shock and looked down at his sister, "Did he just talk?"
"Alright, I'm done." Storm grumbled and turned around to leave to his usual resting spot.
"Excuse my Drako, he can be sensitive at times." I apologized for him.
"Uh-hu." Matt uttered still looking behind us at Storm.
"Come on Matt, I'll explain later." Pidge said pushing her brother in the direction of the ship, "I want to show the castle!"
We watched them go inside with smiles at their reunion, it felt heartwarming that after so long, two lost souls had finally found each other. Everyone stood there until Lance said he was headed to his room and the others began to disband into different places. I felt Shiro take my hand and begin to guide me to the entrance of the castle, "You hungry?"
I was about to answer when my stomach beat me to it by giving a low growl, "Do I really need to answer that?"
He laughed at my statement, over all the commotion of testing out Storm's armor, I had forgotten to feed myself since early morning. The walk to the kitchen was peaceful and silent and only broken when we bumped into Matt and Pidge running in the hallway; Matt chasing after his sister, which she talked nonstop trying to explain every detail of The Castle of Lions.
Sometimes no words needed to be said and only being next to each other or holding hands made up for all the bad things that occurred during the day, this was one of does times. Being with Shiro simply brought me a deep content to my being that I could not explain, his presence made me feel safe.
When we got to the kitchen, Shiro took two plates from the storage inside the island in the middle and handed one to me. He went up to the food dispenser and observed the two hoses tapping his bottom lip with his middle finger.
"Are you seriously thinking what you're going to get?" I asked with laugh, "Because nothing else is going to come out of their but the usual green goo."
Shiro joined me with a deep chuckle, "It doesn't hurt to feel like I have options."
"Sure, it doesn't." I took a step forward and filled my plate with the goo and motioned for him to bring his plate closer to serve him as well. We took our food to the island, instead of heading to the dining hall, and began to eat.
"Can I ask you something?" I asked as I finished gulping my second bite.
Shiro took spoonful of his food and nodded his head.
"Is the term girlfriend the same thing as mate? Is that how Earthlings call their mates?"
Shiro finished chewing before he answered, "Well…. No. The term girlfriend for us is more of a statement that changes the statues of a relationship from being just friends to something more. It usually applied when a woman is in a deeper relationship with a man and they are together." He explained looking a bit flustered, "Does that even make sense?"
"So, what does mate mean to you?" I asked.
He rubbed the back of his neck setting his spoon down, the tips of his ears began to turn a bit pink, "Um, it means that we… you know. You and me…" Shiro motioned his hand from me to him, but I gave him a confused look not following what he was trying to say, until realization hit me.
"Oh." I voiced clearing my throat, "I didn't know that word meant that for your people. I guess mate is the equivalent of girlfriend in Earth customs. For us it just means that you have chosen to be with someone and maybe get married in the future which would change the statues of the woman to Namenhu, meaning wife."
Shiro listened to me attentively and when I finished he looked like he wanted to say something else but decided against it. "Is there something you want to ask me?" I smiled at him in reassurance.
"It's nothing, really." He said brushing it off.
"Come on Shiro." I pushed getting closer to him, looking up at him with a slight pout.
"Oh no, that is not going to work on me again." He said with a smile and tap my nose with the tip of his spoon leaving some goo there.
"Hey, what was that for?" I said rubbing the goo off my nose, Shiro tried to apologize but I had something else in mind. I scooped up some of my goo and lunged at his face, the goo hit him in-between his eyes. I covered my mouth trying to scuffle a laugh; Shiro narrowed his eyes at me, "Two can play at that game."
He grabbed some of the goo he had left and threw it at my direction, I squealed and moved back but it still hit my chest. I moved to grab some more and returned fire running away from his line of aim.
"Come back here." Shiro stated playfully and came running after me, "Don't expect to start a war and run away from it."
He chased me around the island a couple of times managing to miss me by a hairs length until I suddenly slipped on some goo that had fallen on the floor. Shiro catches me from behind before I hit the ground, turned me around and sat me on the counter.
"Got you." He joked with a grin, "You just can't get away from me."
"Oh really? You want to see?" I mocked and got closer to his face, our noses inches away.
Shiro looked me in the eyes with his mesmerizing grey gaze that always sent shivers down my spine. He scanned my face until his gaze landed on my lips, "You have no idea what you do to me. I'm not going to lie, I did see other women back on Earth but none of them matched your beauty."
"I'd say I'm jealous, but I was sort of in a coma for about ten thousand years so, no harm done."
Shiro leaned closer, his hot breath on my face, he stayed like that for a few ticks until he finally connected his lips to mine. My mind immediately shot up to the highest place in the universe. There was no one there but us, everything around us always faded away when we shared moments like these. He began to push against me leaning me back further onto the counter, I wrapped my legs around his waist not wanting to have any space between us. A fire, so intense, coursed through my veins and warmed every part of my body until it felt like it was in flames. It tickled my insides and prickled the top of my skin; it was a good feeling. I felt like tearing off my armor until there was nothing denying me of his touch. Everything was perfect, until someone cleared their throat and squealed. Our lips broke apart and we both looked to the entrance of the kitchen, Hunk was standing their looking nervous, "I, uh, sorry, um, I'll come back later."
I suddenly noticed our positions and felt my cheeks heat up at the embarrassing posture. Shiro moved back and pulled me to a standing position, "No, you don't have to leave. We are uh… done here."
Shiro grabbed my hand and tugged me out of the kitchen, I send an embarrassed trail of apologize to Hunk before we disappeared from sight.
When we made it to the end of the hall, we turned to look at each other and burst out laughing.
Pidge and Hunk called an emergency meeting in the control room, with the help of Matt, they had managed to create a map of Galra forces moving in nearby sectors. They had intercept a transmission of a Galra fleet moving in to attack.
"Whoever they're attacking, we have to help." Allura stated.
"I don't like it." Shiro voices, "We should be gathering intelligence, not diving into a fight without knowing why, especially now that we know Zarkon is alive."
That was a thought I was trying to keep out of my head since I found out a few vargas ago, Zarkon was still breathing in this universe. Somehow, he had managed to survive our last battle and it was just a matter of time before he came back in full force to rule his empire and pursue our destruction; it seemed we could never get away from him.
"We could go check it out." Pidge suggested.
"I think they'd probably notice us." Lance said looking down at her.
"Not if we're clocked." She remarked with a smirk.
"You have cloaking?" Matt asked shocked, "Who are you?" Pidge rubbed her neck and grinned widely at her brother's praise.
"I don't think is wise to send in just one lion." I stated, "If you are somehow tracked, you will be easily overwhelmed. There are more than five battle cruisers heading to that area and that's not including the fighters aboard. Its way to dangerous."
Pidge did not allow my comment to disappointment, rather, she perked up when an idea popped into her head; that's one of the things I admired about her, she had faith in her abilities. "I'm pretty sure I can upgrade Voltron with cloaking. We could all go."
Everyone looked at her surprised, "Were you just waiting for your big brother to show up before you rolled that one out?" Lance remarked elbowing her.
"How can we do that?" I asked surprised.
"It's something I've been working on for a while." She answered, "But I can't pilot the Green Lion and operate the cloaking at the same time." Pidge looked at her brother once again with a grin, "But if I had a co-pilot…"
"Absolutely." Matt agreed without a second thought.
"Let's get to the lions." Shiro ordered.
We got on our lions and formed Voltron once we were in space, I set a course to the Galra fleet coordinates moving us as fast as we could. At the pace we were going, soon before us were dozens of Galra cruisers opening fire, "We're getting close. Everyone, get ready." Shiro said.
"What is so important in this sector that they had to launch a whole battalion of ships to take it out." I commented, "Fights inside the Galra ranks are becoming bigger every-time."
"Better they take each other out, it leaves us with less to do." Lance added.
"Initializing cloak." Pidge said, "I'm not sure how long we can keep this up."
"All right, let's take a look at who the Galra are attacking." Allura said.
We stopped at a safe distance analyzing the battle before us. Purple lasers raced out of the Galra cruisers all concentrating fire in the middle of their circle. The vastness of space was ignited in yellow and orange explosions.
"What the cheese?" Lance exclaimed, "Tay is right, it's Galra-on-Galra violence, again."
"Oh, these people just do not like each other." Hunk stated.
Suddenly, two small space craft appeared on our radar moving fast towards our location.
"Whose ships are those?" Pidge asked.
The ships moved at an incredible speed and the way they maneuvered seemed very familiar to me, Allura recognized it as well, "Its Lotor."
"Lotor and Zarkon must be fighting for control of the empire." Shiro theorized.
"Not even Zarkon gets along with his own son." I said grinding my teeth.
"Guys, those ships are getting awfully close." Hunk informed.
I quickly turned us to the side before the ships could make impact with Voltron, but something about them, when they passed, made our clocking fritz.
"Uh-oh, not good." Lance voiced.
"Can someone explain what is going on?" I asked, "They didn't even graze us."
"The trails from Lotor's ship drives messed with our cloaking spectrum." Matt explained.
"Can you find a work around?" Pidge asked him.
"It's too late." Shiro said, "Our cover has been blown. We may have to engage."
The Galra ships began to fire at us, we took evasive maneuvers dodging dozens of laser cannons at once. I turned Voltron around, but a laser caught us right in front, Pidge and Lance blocked the laser before it hit the chest.
"Hunk, use you Bayard." Shiro orders.
"You go it." Hunk responded and plugged in his Bayard summoning the shoulder cannon, opening fire. The cannon fired in multiple locations hitting many ships at once.
"Let's get moving, before they can mobilize again." I said and pushed on my controls moving Voltron away from the fight and back to Olkarion. Something on my control panel began to flicker and when I tapped it Zarkon's voice came through, his menacing dark voice made me remember all the horrible atrocities he had committed; it filled me with rage.
"Attention, citizens of the Galra Empire." He said, "From this day forward, my son Lotor is to be regarded as a fugitive criminal of the empire. All citizens are authorized to use deadly force to stop him or any of his soldiers. I repeat, Prince Lotor is an enemy of the state. Engage with extreme prejudice. Kill on sight." Our eyes widen at the last part of the transmission.
I knew very well that Zarkon had no compassion, he would destroy and kill without remorse. We had to find a way to terminate Zarkon before he began an extermination mission once again with innocent beings. I needed to find a way to get justice for the loss of my parents.
Even if it was the last thing I did.
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I hope everyone had a great week, till next time.