When I first saw this episode, I thought for sure it's a Halloween episode!

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The six Lions flew through space, avoiding lasers. "This is the Voltron Coalition." Keith said from a open channel. "Lay down your arms and."-

"Open fire!" The Galra Commander ordered, and the base again started firing at the Lions.

"Well, that didn't take long!" Lance said. The team flew back to the Atlas while the ship activated it's barrier.

"Fighters launching, six o'clock low!" Hunk shouted as the Lions flew down towards the fighters.

"Remember, shoot them down it needed. But try to avoid collateral damage on the ground." Keith reminded.

The Atlas fire at the base, giving a direct on the base.

"So much for the punch now, want answers later." Sakura said, moving White Lion and using a freeze ray as she moved along all the fighters. "I loooove the freeze ray!" She smiled as she folded her arms and sat back in her chair. "I'm really craving some chocolate and soda right now."

Suddenly, a rain a lasers showered over the Atlas, but because the particle barrier is activated, the Atlas is protected.

"Does anyone have eyes on where those lasers are coming from?" Shiro asked with a grunt.

"I'm not seeing anything on my scanners." Pidge said. "Trying to locate point of origin now."

"I'll help you Pidge." Allura offered. Blue Lion shone brightly for a moment, before a large sonar cannon appeared on the Lion's back. Large sonic waves erupted from the cannon, taking in everything that was cloaked or not in the area. "I've got visuals on two cloaked cannon satellites."

"How did we miss those?" Hunk asked.

"It looks like we wormholed right past them." Pidge answered.

"Paladins, on me! Form Voltron!" Keith ordered.

Sakura yawned board as Voltron is formed.

Voltron formed it's wings and shot towards the satellites. Soon, everything was a blur as the satellites were cut so easily.

"Great job in making quick work of those satellites, Paladins." Shiro praised. "We've successfully gained control of the base."

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With the base secure, the team headed to the control room. The MEF's stood in the room, looking at the control panels and consoles. Griffin and Kinkade stood with their guns in hand, pointing at the Commander of the ship.

"This one says he's the leader." Griffin said as the Galra turned around. Hunk suddenly smiled and gasped.

"Whoa! Oh! Holy Kaltenecker! What are you doing here?" He asked. "It's me, Hunk. Remember? Paladin of the Yellow Lion? – We worked together."

"I remember."

"Who's the Galra?" Sakura frowned, folding her arms.

"Wait, you know this guy?" Keith asked Hunk.

"Yeah, from the Omega Shield. Oh, that's right, you were on a space road trip with your mom. Keith, this is our friend Lieutenant Lahn." Hunk explained.

"It's Warlord Lahn now, and you and I are not friends." Lahn said coldly.

"Hey, space jerk, stop being cold!" Sakura walked up to Hunk and took his arm. "Or you'll either be Lion food or thrown into a black hole."

"Thanks Sakura." Hunk smiled at her. "But it's ok." He turned back to Lahn. " I just thought we bonded by working together as a team to fix the Omega Shield and save your planet, you know? A Galra-occupied planet, no less. We saved it. It's cool. No big deal."

"Sendak only attacked the Omega Shield after we pledged loyalty to Voltron. Then you disappeared and left us vulnerable to more attacks. I vowed to never let that happen again." Lahn said simply, as he continued to be cold.

"You don't have to be so hostile towards us." Sakura growled as she hugged Hunk's arm.

"It was not our intention to be gone for so long. But we're here now." Allura told him.

"To claim victory over us?"

"No!"

"We didn't come here to argue." Shiro said. "Warlord Lahn, we're asking you to join the Voltron Coalition to help provide stability to the universe."

"What's the alternative?" Lahn questioned.

"If you want peace, if you want to end this war, there can be no alternative." Shiro answered.

"You've attained victory, and I accept defeat." Lahn said.

"How about a life time in jail instead?" Sakura offered, letting go of Hunk's arm so she could fold her arms.

"It doesn't have to be victory or death." Keith insisted. "I know it's the Galra way, but."-

"And what do you know of the Galra?" Lahn cut him off.

Keith narrowed his eyes, Sakura walked over to him and grabbed his hand tightly.

"My mother is Galra." He retorted as he glared at the Galra. "She's a member of the Blade of Marmora. So am I."

"The mutinous Blades have all but perished. Are they so diminished in numbers that they're forced to enlist a half-breed and his mommy?" Lahn taunted.

"Your brain is filled with toxic clouds." Sakura said. "If you want peace, join the Coalition. Don't you remember what peace was like before Zarkon poisoned his people?"

It was quiet for a long moment, until Pidge's communicator beeped.

"Guys, incoming communication."

"Patch it through." Shiro told her.

A red screen appeared in front of the team with a voice comunication link with it.

A distorted male voice came through. "Yordam bering exus. Yordam bering exus. Yordam bering exus."

"It's an emergency protocol built into the sentries when they're under distress." Lahn clarified, turning to Kinkade. "Has your Voltron Coalition attacked them as well?"

"No, we didn't." Keith said.

"Pidge, see if you can reopen the hailing frequency." Shiro told her, but she was already working on it.

"I'm trying, but no response. I'm locating the transmission's origin, but the EMPs we set off have done a number on the communications systems." She's rapidly typing. "Huh? We got a comm signature. Do you recognize this ship?" A large origin of coordinates appeared.

"Yes, it's Klytax V-Three." Lahn answered. "It's one of the 15 ships I sent on an assignment six phoebs ago. They all disappeared. We assumed them dead."

"It looks like they're not dead after all." Keith comments. "We need to get out there. Shiro, how long before the Atlas is ready to launch again?"

"Hours." He answered. "We still need to process all the Galra and prepare the planet to continue operating on its own. This is our mission. We need to see this through."

"Then Voltron will go."

"Voltron is going to save the Galra?" Lahn scuffed. "My fleet would never believe Voltron was there to help. They'd fight you until their last breath."

"That's why you're coming with us." Keith turned to him.

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White Lion was stored back into the Atlas, Sakura stood next to Keith as he flew Voltron. Lahn was sitting on a bench inside the cockpit of Black Lion, Cosmo did not like the Galra Commander as the wolf growled.

"What was this fleet's mission when they left?" Keith asked as he and Sakura ignored Cosmo's growling.

"They were out gathering munitions." Lahn answered.

"Weapons? For what?" Sakura questioned.

"The Galra Empire is at war with itself. We have to do what we can to survive. But if you must know, they were salvaging weapons from an abandoned Galra base." Lahn answered.

"I have visual." Pidge said.

Voltron flew towards a glowing light that was surrounded by broken pieces of debris. Straight in front of them is the ship.

"I'm getting creepy vibes." Sakura said with a shutter.

"Everyone, stay alert." Keith ordered.

"What happened here?" Lance asked.

"Uh, Warlord Lahn, didn't you say there were 15 cruisers?" Hunk asked. "Where are the rest of them?"

"I'm not detecting any signs of life or biorhythms on the closest two ships, but there are some signals coming from the ship at the end." Pidge informs.

"That's Klytax V-Three, where the call came from." Lahn comments.

Keith opened a channel to the ship. "Hailing Galra Cruiser Klytax V-Three. This is Keith, Paladin of the Black Lion of Voltron. Do you copy?"

Only static hissed back.

Lahn turned to face the front of Black Lion. "This is Warlord Lahn, your commander. Do you copy?" The same distorted male voice came through, repeating it's words.

"Yordam bering exus. Yordam bering exus."

"Whoever's in there, we need to find them and get them out." Keith said.

"If I can access the ship's security network, we should be able to find out what happened here." Pidge replied.

"Paladins, Lahn and I are gonna head in first to make sure the entry point is safe. You guys jetpack in behind us." Keith decides.

"Copy!" The others said.

"Hold on. Keith let me go with." Sakura quickly said, Keith turned to look at her.

"Alright. But are you sure?"

"We lost each other once, don't ask me to do it again."

He nods. "Ok." He stands up and the two walk up to Cosmo. The four then teleport out.

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Looking around, they only found crates floating around, but no one is around. "We're all clear. Lahn, open the airlock doors." Keith said. Lahn did and opened the doors to let the other Paladins in. Sakura shivered as she looked around.

"Pidge, are you picking up any signals?" Keith asked.

"There are multiple biorhythms, but they're intermittent, almost random. It doesn't make any sense." She answered.

"Yeah, there's something about this place that's giving me the creeps." Sakura agreed.

"Ok, we'll need to split up to find any survivors. Hunk and Lance, clear the aft of the ship. I'll take the bow and work my way toward you with Sakura. Pidge and Allura, take Lahn to go through the security logs. Find out what happened here."

"I don't like taking orders on my own ship." Lahn said with annoyance that Keith is giving orders.

"Duly noted." Keith said flatly.

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Keith, Cosmo and Sakura went down to the bow finding no survivors. "Nobody's here." Keith said, he turned to Sakura. "Babe, you still feeling uneasy?"

She bobbed her head rapidly. "Uneasy and I'm getting a serious case of the creeps."

"You could've stayed in Black Lion." He took her hand and gently squeezed it. "Cosmo would've stayed with you until we returned."

She nodded. "Yes, that was a thought."

Keith smiled. "Shiro would use me as target practice if something ever happened to you." He squeezed her hand gently, before pulling her along as they continued to search.

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A large hole was drilled into walls, smashing through each room and wall beyand. "Whoa. What do you suppose happened?" Keith asked, Sakura shook her head.

"Dangerous, deadly building height beast?" She suggested. "Or a cute chipmuck?"

Before Keith could say anything, a loud banging noise erupted in the distance. Turning towards the noise, they quickly and quietly went to check it out.

The two turned the corner, seeing remains of Galra Sentries with one Sentry still active but it was stuck in the forcibly closed doors. Coming closer to the Sentry the two Paladins saw multiple claw marks on the door.

"These marks looks like what Pepper does to her scratching post." Sakura said as she brushed her hand over the claw marks, while Keith worked on getting the Sentry out of the door.

"What ever made these claw marks is a lot bigger then Pepper." Keith paused and turned to look at Cosmo. "And I think it's a lot bigger then Cosmo."

"Guys, be on the lookout for a giant, deadly monster!" Pidge calls with a warning over the speakers.

"We believe it's what attacked the crew. Avoid at all costs." Allura added.

"Lance, Hunk, do you copy?"

Instead of answering Pidge with a copy, the two Paladins screamed in fright.

"Guys, are you ok? Lance? Hunk?" Pidge asked.

A long moment of silence, is finally answered by Hunk weakly answering. "We're ok."

"I hope they really are ok." Sakura said with worry.

"Keith, Sakura, we just contacted Lance and Hunk. They saw something. Be advised." Pidge starts but the speaker crackled and fizzed out.

"Oh no, oh no." Sakura is shaking as she's kenlt down and hugging Cosmo's neck. "This is bad!"

"We need to find our way out of here." Keith said, he turns to her. "Babe, it's going to be ok." He tells her gently. "Come on."

Sakura slowly stands up and quickly takes Keith's offered arm.

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Once they got farther down the hall, they heard another noise.

"Hello?" Keith called out.

"What are you?" A male voice asked. Looking farther down the hall, they saw a Sentry repeating the question.

"My name is Keith, leader of Voltron, and this is Sakura. We're Paladins of the Black and White Lions."

The Sentry sai nothing in response.

"Wait. Yordam bering exus. Is that you?" Sakura asked, she was no longer hugging Keith's arm, but she was still very scared.

"Where are the rest of the Galra?" The Sentry instead asked.

"They're still on planet Ryker." Keith answered. "Why?" He asked, pushing Sakura behind him as they intched closer to the Sentry.

"Planet Ryker." The Sentry never got a chance, as it was pulled away revealing a large beast behind it as it roared.

The beast threw the Sentry at Sakura, but she backflipped out of the way. Keith snatched her hand and the two quickly sped down the halls. A bright shone from it's mouth as it shot a powerful laser at them.

Cosmo quickly teleported to avoid the blast. Keith and Sakura activated their shields to block the attack. But the blast was too strong, and the two screamed as their shields broke and the two were slammed into the far wall.

"Sakura!" Keith twisted around the grabbed her waist, pushing her onto Cosmo and she fell onto him like she was riding a horse, Keith grabbed a fist full of Cosmo's main and they teleported out of the hall.

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In the control room, the four teleported in.

"Keith! Sakura! Good, you're here. There's a monster on the ship!" Hunk cried.

Sakura nods. "Yeah, we had a run in with it."

"The base you sent this fleet to plunder, was it Warlord Ranveig's?" Keith asked Lahn.

"Yes, it was." Lahn confirmed.

"Unbelievable." Keith breathed, looking to a far wall.

"Keith, what's going on?" Allura asked.

"The creature on this ship is a superweapon designed to destroy the Galra, and only Galra." Keith wouldn't look at anyone.

"Warlord Ranveig would never create such a thing." Lahn tried to defend.

"Ranveig found the creature in the Quantum Abyss and experimented on it with Lotor's Quintessence. He trained it to take out his Galran enemies, but ... he could never control it. The beast couldn't differentiate between adversaries and allies." Keith continued to admit.

"Wait, how do you know so much about this super-monster-weapon-thingy?" Lance asked.

"Because Krolia and I let it loose so we could escape Ranveig's base. This is all my fault. I'm sorry." Keith admitted his mistake.

"Oh Keith." Sakura walked over to him and hugged his waist, his left arm wrapped around her.

"It's what you've wanted from the beginning." Lahn growled. "Something to get rid of the Galra for you."

"I don't know what it's gonna take to get it through your skull, but we're not your enemy." Lance retorted.

"Pidge, can you initiate the self-destruct protocol?" Keith asked. "We need to destroy this ship and the monster with it. And we need to do it immediately."

"Ok, I'm on it." Pidge began the protocol. "Once I initiate, we'll have two doboshes to exit the ship."

"Two hours!? Isn't that too long?" Lance asked.

"Minutes!" Everyone corrected, and that only make the panic worse.

"What!? That's not enough time!"

Just then, they all heard heavy breathing from behind, they turned and saw the beast above the door.

"Let's move!" Pidge shouted. In the beasts hand was a broken head peace of a Galra Sentry.

"All Galra must perish."

The beast roared and charged at Lahn, who - thanks to Allura was able to escape the beasts' jaws.

Everyone made a break for the door. But just before Sakura and Lahn could reach the door, it closed.

"Guys!" Sakura cried, banging the door with her fists.

"No! Sakura!" Keith cried from the other side.

"We're coming for you!" Lance yelled.

"Sand away from the door!" Hunk shouted.

Sakura quickly does as told, but turned to the big scary beast. It set it's sights on Lahn and went for the attack. Sakura used her jetpack and shoved him out of the way, but she wasn't fast enough to summon her shield and the beast clawed her.

Sakura let out a loud blood cluring scream as she stumbled and fell limp.

"SAKURA!" Keith screamed.

Suddenly, the door was blasted open and Cosmo raced in. He rushed up to Sakura, crawling under her so was on his back, Cosmo rushed out of the room with Lahn.

Keith quickly scooped Sakura up in his arms. "Let's go!" He orders. He and the others raced out of the detonating ship.

"Ten ticks!" Pidge counted down.

"The carbo bay where we entered is the nearest exit point!" Allura said. Suddenly they heard the explosions and roars coming from behind. The team looked behind them to see the beast rushing towards them as they made it to the cargo bay.

"Five ticks! We'll never make it!" Pidge shouted.

Keith turned. "Hunk!" He hurried up to him. "Take her!"

"What are you doing?" Hunk asked as he cradles Sakura in his arms.

Keith's bayard zings as it's activated - he aimed and fired at the door, making a vacuum hole that sucked Team Voltron out of the ship and into open space, trapping the beast inside the ship.

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Hours later, Sakura awoke in the med bay. Shiro was sitting in a chair next to the bed.

"Shiro?" She whispered, struggling to sit up.

He jumped. "Hey." He smiled. "You gave us all a scare!"

She nods. "I know, and I'm sorry." She looks around. "If it means anything, I scared myself."

He laughs. "Of course it does."

The doors slid open to reveal the other Paladins.

"SAKURA!" Pidge and Hunk nearly and try to take each other out as they rush up to the bed and hug Sakura at the same time.