Season 6, Episode 5: Black Paladins

LESS THAN 16 HOURS!


"You all know he would never give up on us."

"Yes I would!"

"You're not helping, Shiro!"


"You'll be the only one on the other side!" Allura protested.

"JUST. DO IT!"

"Geez, okay, Shia."


"Zethrid. Ezor."

"Awwkkkwwarrddd," Lance whined off stage.

"Lance! The mics can still pick you up!"

"I'm aware!"


"Ummmm...is it broken?" Ezor asked.

She lifted her hand up, poking Shiro in the jaw, and he promptly turned and snapped at her finger. She squealed and backpedaled and Shiro grinned. "What? Weren't expecting that, were you?"

"You're an asshole," Ellie declared, though she was also smiling.


"Now I just have to lock it down with a multi-layered, tritrogonal quarantin...fuck."


"Prince Lotor. My son."

Honerva turned and lowered her hood, looking over him. "The anger you feel toward me is to be expected."

"Yeah, no shit, Sherlock."

"How dare you speak to your mother that way!"

"Could you two PLEASE focus? We have to get through two episodes today!"


Behind the Scenes

Keith looked around at the caverns they were using to shoot, lifting an eyebrow. "So...you really want us to have a fight scene."

Donna nodded.

"Out in the open."

"Yes, Keith."

Shiro also looked incredulous. "In a rock quarry?"

"Well..."

"Donna, you know both of us are landing like, actual punches and hits and stuff, right?"

The woman threw her hands up. "It was Alfor's idea, not mine! Just don't kill yourselves, okay?"

Shiro and Keith glanced at one another, eyebrows raised, and then off to the medics on the side of the set they were using. The medics waved.

"No promises," the siblings chorused.


The light flickered on in the pod, revealing Shiro. Another one turned on, and another, and another, until Keith was surrounded by Shiro's. "Okay, cut!" he squawked. "This is too freaky, how did you even do that?"

"Video setting on the screens," Donna assured him, grinning at the real Shiro, who was trying to hide his laughter.

"Fucking weird, I hate it."


"You made a promise once. You told me you'd never give up on me."

"And I should have abandoned you, just like your parents did! They saw that you were broken. Worthless! I should have seen it too."

Keith's voice cracked. "I'm not leaving here without you."

"Actually...neither of us are leaving."

"Cut! Good one, guys, take five while we set up the next part of the set," Donna ordered. She mopped at her forehead and turned to one of the set advisors.

Shiro stepped around the props and settled a gentle hand on Keith's shoulder. "Hey."

"I know. You don't have to say it."

"I'm going to anyway. I love you."

He crushed Keith in a tight hug and Keith shivered, shutting his eyes and pressing his nose into Shiro's armored shoulder. "Sorry," he croaked.

"Don't."


Behind the Scenes

"So this is your younger self," Alfor introduced when Shiro and Keith walked back into the main recording set. He held out a hand and a 12 year old kid who was the creepy, spitting image of Keith stood there, waving sheepishly. "His name is Jay."

Shiro grinned. "Nice to meet you, Jay. You look a lot like Keith, here, doesn't he, Keith?"

Keith blinked. "Dude, like a weird amount."

Jay smiled. "That's a good thing, isn't it?"

"Very much so," Alfor said with a nod.


Season 6, Episode 6: All Good Things


"I'm not here to harm you. Everyone is fine. Just let me explain. The thing that attacked you wasn't me. Since my fight with Zarkon, I've been here."

"When you disappeared?"

"Yeah, and y'all didn't fucking notice! Rude!"

"Shiro!"


Behind the Scenes

"I'm sorry, I have to what?"

"Hold Coran by a rope and swing him around for a bit. He'll be attached to a pully system, so you won't actually be holding most of his weight."

"We couldn't think of a SAFER way to do this scene?"

"Believe me, I wish we could."


Behind the Scenes

"Right, you lot ready to film?" Coran asked, stepping into the main room and tugging on his shirt hem.

Pidge squawked and everyone else just stared. Coran lifted an eyebrow. "What?"

"I'm sorry, I just always forget how RIPPED you are," Lance managed.


"We need you. The universe needs you."

"Thank you, Lance."

The alarms started sounding and Lance broke away from the hug, throwing his arms up. "Aw, come on, I was gonna get smooched!"

"Not without me there, you weren't," Keith teased as his screen popped up on the monitor.


"We're on the same side."

"You fucking BASTARD!"

"Sweetie! PG please!"


"Krolia, get ready! The combination of the fermented Nunville with the energy core should essentially jump-start the main turbine without using the castle's power!"

"I'm ready. But are you sure setting off a bomb in the main turbine is a good idea?"

"No, I'm not sure it's a good idea," Coran admitted, flinging his arms out. "But it's our ONLY ide- whoops, dropped the Nunville. Sorry, Alfor."

"No, actually...I like it. Do that again."


"I'm ready to wipe the universe clean of all my enemies! Voltron, Haggar, and the rest of the Galra!"

"Bitch excuse me?" Zethrid demanded.


"What is that thing?"

"He's created his own Voltron."

"Oh, how originial."

"Hunk!"


Behind the Scenes

Keith watched as the props crew carted away Black's pilot chair. "I'm sorry, I have to pilot while squatting in mid-air?"

"Just for this one scene," Alfor promised.

"Why?"

"Fanservice."


So unless I write it in between getting home from closing at work tonight and the new season airing, I probably won't have episode seven up in time. But the day is still young, so who knows!