Was NOT gonna put this up so soon! But I got so proud of this chappie!

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Sakura stood near the healing chamber that Shiro rested inside, she didn't like it, it looked like a glass coffin and that made her feel worse. Romelle stood next to her, a comforting hand on Sakura's shoulder.

"Is - is he gonna be ok?" Hunk asked as they all stood around the healing chamber inside Black Lion's cargo bay.

"Only time will tell if this body will accept Shiro's consciousness." Allura voiced, looking at the chamber with worry.

"Is there anything we can do to help?" Lance asked.

"I think Shiro has to find his way back on his own." Sakura said as she was knelt down with her hands on the chamber. "I don't think we really can help." She looked at the statis that was running.

"I've tried contacting the Voltron Coalition, but I can't get through to anyone." Pidge informed. "It doesn't make sense. There must be some distortion I'm not picking up on."

Sakura turned to her. "Your right. But, could we be just to far from anything right now?"

Pidge thought about that. "You might be right. "Maybe we need to get into the upper atmosphere for a better signal."

Hunk shook his head. "The Lions aren't going anywhere without recharging their power cores."

"Then we're stuck!" Sakura started to panic. "How are we going to get back to Earth now!?"

"We can't panic." Keith told her gently. "We still have plenty of time to get to Earth. We just need to put our heads together and come up with a plan."

"Put our heads together?" Coran asked. "That's going to hurt!" He cried as he clasped both sides of his head.

Everyone gave him annoyed looks. "It's a figure of speech Coran." Lance deadpanned.

Coran blinked a few times. "Oh." He said sheepishly.

"The battle with Lotor severely depleted the Lions." Allura said, looking down as she still felt guilty. "If we still had the Castle Of Lions, we could recharge them, but." She trailed off.

"Is there another way to recharge them?" Pidge asked.

"They can recharge naturally given enough time and ambient energy, but that might take phoebs." Coran answered.

"There's gotta be something we can do." Keith said.

"Well, we are on the Dalterian Belt, home to the element faunatonium." Coran said in thought. "We may be able to use it as a temporary solution."

"Faunatonium?" Lance questioned, confused. "How will that charge the power cores?"

"Well you see, it involves gluon field fluctuations." Coran began to explain, but Lance interrupted him.

"You know what? Never mind. Magic or something? Sure."

"Not far off." Coran replied. "We're going to use the element to expand the energy particles within the cores." He placed a finger to his chin in thought. "But first, we're gonna need a Yalmor."

"Wait. There are Yalmors on this planet?" Hunk asked, making Coran huff.

"How do you think we find the faunatonium? Yalmors have a nose for that stuff."

"Ok." Keith said. "You guys find a Yalmor and get this faunatonium. I'll stay with Shiro."

"So am I." Sakura quickly said. "I'm not leaving Shiro now."

"I'll stay as well." Allura decided. "I may have exhausted the limits of what I learned on Oriande, but I still might be able to help in some way."

"Alright, then, we'll get started." Coran said and followed Pidge and Hunk out.

"Wait." Romelle spoke up, stopping them. "You just fought Lotor, defeated him, stopped an explosion that could have destroyed reality, took your friend's conciseness from the Black Lion of Voltron, and put it inside his clone, and now we're simply moving on?"

"Trust me, I'm always saying the exact thing, but these guys like to move on." Hunk responded and turned to continued to exit, Romelle stayed quiet but followed after them.

Keith turned to look at Sakura, who had a look on her face. "Sakura, no." He warns. "I know that look."

Sakura blinks, looking at him innocently. "What look? I don't have a look!" She quickly said, he just raised an eyebrow. "No look! I swear!"

He didn't look convinced, but stayed quiet, looking back down at Shiro.

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Sakura had fallen asleep on a bench, she slowly awoke and Allura's voice is clear as a bell.

"His levels are dangerously low."

"Fight." Keith's is next. "I won't give up on you."

Sakura pushed herself off the bench and walked over to Keith's side, sitting next to him, placing her left hand on top of his hand that rested on the glass of the chamber. "We won't give up on him." She corrected, and he flipped his hand around to take hers, lacing their fingers together.

"Do you remember that time, we had that paint war with him?" Sakura asked with a smile, turning to Keith who also smiled.

"Yeah. Didn't we get Commander Holt involved too?" He asked, she giggled. "That was such a blast!" She sighed. "Then Commander Iverson broke the fun." She added with a roll of her eyes.

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Flashback

"But Shiro wants to see you." Lance protested as he followed Sakura down a hall of the Castle Of Lions.

"No, no." She protested. "I am not. I refuse it."

He ran up to her, grabbing her arm and turning her around so she was now facing him. "Why? Why don't you?" He wanted to know. "He's here now."

"Because that is not Shiro!" Sakura tried to tell him. "Lance, he disappeared inside his own Lion. His own Lion! And then months later he wakes up in a Galra ship?"

Lance blinked. "I ... I don't know how to explain that."

"Don't you find it odd and suspicious that he disappears out of his own Lion, and then wakes up inside the enemies ship? With no memory on how he got there?"

Lance was quiet for a long while, looking away, then looked back at her. "There are some cases where you can black out and when you wake, there's no memory. That could've happened."

She folds her arms. "I've heard of that, yes. But ... I just find it strange that he just disappeared, and the only thing in there besides me, was his bayard."

"Well, I think Shiro just needs to rest and he'll be right as rain. Once the memory of what happened comes back, Shiro will be back to normal." Lance tried.

End Of Flashback

"I'm afraid the clone body is rejecting Shiro's consciousness." Allura said.

"There must be some way you can help!" Keith said urgently, as Allura looked down at Shiro with a sad expression and closed her eyes in defeat.

"There is nothing I can do."

"You can not be serious!" Sakura cried, pulling her hand away from Keith's, she slammed both her fists on the chamber. "Commander Takashi Shirogane, don't give up!" She slammed her fists harder, making her hands hurt, but she didn't care. "Big brother, come back!"

Allura suddenly opened her eyes with a look of realization. "Sakura, maybe you could try something."

Sakura blinked confused. "Wha?" She halted her fists in midair. "Me?"

Allura nods. "Yes, when I was in Oriande, I found a marking on a wall, what I remember most of it said, the purest heart has healing."

Sakura stared, while Keith looked from one to the other. "Ryner did tell me that White Lion gave me some kind of healing." She said thoughtfully, uncluching her fists and lowering her hands. "But Shiro needs to come back on his own."

Keith wrapped his arm around her waist. "Maybe you can help him." He said gently.

"But I've never tried, never trained." She protested, starting to panic again.

"Sakura, we grew up together. I know you. You're a fighter! You chained yourself to a tree in a central park because the county wanted to take it down, and you refused to give up on it. You went door to door for signatures. You never gave up on that tree."

"That's my favorite tree."

"And it's still there."

Sakura looked back at Shiro. "But this is different. It's Shiro! It's his fight. I don't think tampering will help any." A tear slid down her cheek. "Maybe after. But not before." She chokes out.

Keith slammed his fists down on the chamber, making Sakura jump startled. "Shiro, please. Fight!" He too started to cry. "You can't do this to me again."

The beeping continued for a few more minutes, then it gave a high pitch beep and the surface of the chamber disappeared and Shiro coughed to life.

Sakura gasped. "SHIRO!" She jumped and landed clumsly on top of him, her arms around his neck as tears flooded down her cheeks.

"Welcome back Shiro." Allura smiled with her own tears.

Sakura pulled herself out of the chamber, and Keith pulled her into his lap, hugging her tightly.

"Sakura ... Keith." Shiro looked at the two. "You saved me." He breathed out.

"We saved each other." Keith said as he leaned to hug him, then helped him sit up.

The doors to Black Lion's cargo bay opened to reveal the others walking in.

"Shiro's looking better!" Lance smiled. "Alright!" He then frowned, and walked over to Allura's side. "Shiro, I'm so sorry. You tried to warn me about the clone, but I couldn't hear."

Shiro smiled at him. "It's ok Lance, I didn't have much time to warn you."

"Where were you guys?" Keith asked. "We couldn't get a hold of you."

"We were shrunk by a magic skunk, but we ended up using that sparky dust that makes electricity bigger or whatever. Used it to unshrink ourselves." Lance explained. "So, ready to charge up the Lions?"

Shiro laughed. "It's good to be back."

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Sakura was sitting on a big rock, watching the horizon. Her knees pulled up to her chest as she hugged her legs, her helmet is resting next to her as she rests her chin on her knees.

Hunk climbed up on the rock and sat down next to her, Lance followed suit and sat on the other side of her.

"What do you guys want?" She asked, looking from one to the other.

Hunk looked at her. "We're really sorry for not believing you." He said gently, feeling guilty. "We just thought you were just hurting cause he disappeared after the fight with Zarkon."

"I said I didn't care about that anymore." She said, still looking ahead of her.

"But Sakura." Lance turned to her. "You have every right to be angry with us."

"So, you believe me now?" She huffs as she hugs her legs tightly.

"Lance! Hunk!" Krolia called as she walked over to them, and the two turned to her. "Leave her be."

Lance sighed. "Come on Hunk." He started to stand up. "Let's see if Keith'll throw us into a nearby black hole."

"If it's all the same, I'd rather face off an angry Keith." Hunk said as he began to climb off the rock, and the two Paladins walked away. Hunk quickly pauses, and turns back around and jumps up onto the rock next to his friend again. "I guess telling Keith about that stolen kiss that Lotor took from you, would be pointless, huh?" He asks gently.

"It was more forced." She shrugged. "I don't care, go ahead and tell him, Lotor's already dead."

Hunk closed his eyes tightly. "I'm really really sorry that we didn't believe you. But you never gave any hint that something was wrong. Or at least if you did, I never saw the hints."

Sakura sighed. "I did hide them, but I also dropped hints here and there."

"So that big chewing out that you were giving Shiro, uh ... Clone Shiro." Hunk paused. "Before we helped put Lotor back on his throne. You were on a role. How did you know that Shiro's ... not Shiro anymore?"

"I felt it." She answered, still looking ahead.

Hunk nodded. "Ok." He then sees Krolia walking over. "Uh oh." He panics, and Sakura turns to see what has him so panicked. "I'm going!" He tells the Galra as he stands up, Sakura followed his lead.

Sakura then leans up on her tip toes to kiss his cheek, surprising him. "I never got the chance to tell you, 'thank you' for tackling Lotor off me." She explained when he looked at her. "And your also forgiven."

"Oh." Hunk smiles. "You're welcome." He rubs the back of his head. "And thanks for forgiving me."

"I can't stay angry with you guys for long." Sakura linked her arm through his and they walked over to Krolia.

"Soooo, should I tell Keith?" Hunk asks.

"If you really want to tell him." Sakura said with a nod.

"Lotor did what!?" Keith's very angry voice shouted from inside Black Lion's cargo bay.

"Looks like Lance beat me too it." Hunk replied, then calmly added. "Well, that's a load off my shoulders."

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"You can't do anything now Keith." Pidge commented calmly as she stood in the cargo bay, with Lance hiding behind Allura. "Lotor's already dead."

"If he wasn't, I'd slice his head off!" Keith growled, slamming his right fist into his left palm.

"The important this is, is that Lance and Hunk stopped him." Shiro commented, he decided to continue to rest.

"Well, Lotor couldn't do anything more because the two tackled him before he even had the chance." Pidge continued. "So calm down."

"Yeah." Lance poked his head out from around Allura's shoulder. "Don't I get brownies for that?" Keith glared at him. "No?" He slowly lowered his head down. "Ok." He continued to cower behind Allura.

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I hope you guys like the flashbacks, and I hope they feel real. If not please let me know so I can work on them.

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