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The bright white light washed over Team Voltron. And in an instant the team is standing in a new part of Honerva's mind. Both Allura and Sakura gasped at the white temple of Oriande.
"Is everyone ok?" Keith asked.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Hunk rapidly nodded. "I'm good."
"Yeah, I'm alright." Pidge replied.
"Just a bit shaken." Allura panted, taking deep breaths.
"Yeah, I'm also a little shaken." Sakura said.
"What the heck just happened?" Lance asked.
"These are traps, just like that monster." Pidge answered, explaining. "They're fail selves Honerva using us to protect her secrets from any unwanted intruders - us."
"What?" Huk blinked. "I thought the entity was supposed to be helping us."
"Ok. So is it help us or trying to get rid of us?" Sakura asked. "Is it dark or not?"
"The entity works in strange ways." Allura answered. "But there is a reason why it's bringing us to these places."
"To trap and kill us." Sakura wrapped her arms around herself, and Allura shook her head.
"No. It's pulling us back to its source. Unfortunately, that source is being protected."
"Cause that's her most precious and tresured thing." Sakura dropped her arms to her sides.
"I'm with Sakura. The thing is guiding us to be killed." Lance sighed.
Allura focused her gaze on the dark temple. "What we're looking for is in there." She turned around to face her friends. "Everyone stay close and stay alert. The darkness ahead will be rough, I know it."
Team Voltron started to walk down the dark hallway. Sakura grabbed Hunk's arm, he gently patted her arm, Keith took her free hand and squeezed it.
Finally they eventually was a light at the end of the tunnel. As the white light blinded the team, Sakura tightened her grip on both Hunk and Keith. Broken and cracked earth and a dark cloud filled the sky with lighting in every corner.
Suddenly pictures in the sky lit up by the lighting bolts. A little girl pulled playfully along by a woman, they were smiling and laughing, their joy fill the empty sky.
"Honerva." Keith said as thunder boomed in the distance, and when lightning flashed new images appeared.
Honerva was older, sitting next to a younger verson of King Alfor inside a university class room.
"Father." Allura whispered. "These must be her memories."
The lightning flashed again, with new memories.
First meeting Zarkon and working on the space time rift with him. When she found the first bit of the antity. The destrustion of Altea. The original Paladins fighting against a corrupted Zarkon. A corrupted Honerva striking the Paladins Of Old with no hesitation and no regret.
The images faded away, and Allura sank to her knees, Lance knelt down nexxt to her and wrapped his arm around her for comfort.
"She ... she killed them." Pidge said softly with shock.
"My God." Sakura breathed, her voice shaken.
"What she did to them was terrible." Hunk added.
Allura sniffed as she tried to hold back her tears, but they slid down her cheeks. "I always assumed they sacrified themselves, but I - I didn't realize what that entailed."
"That's how the original Paladins ended up trapped here. She took their quintessence, trapped their minds in her consciousness. It drove them mad." Pidge explained with realization.
"He was the leader of Voltron." Keith said. "And he just turned on them."
"This is why we must destroy Honerva." Allura said with a dangerous tone in her voice, that had Lance lean back a little with a shock as her hand is covered in a dark mist.
"Allura please." He pleaded in a desperate tone. "We just saw, it was all because of the entity. The same one that's inside you. You need to get rid of it."
"If Allura lose the entity, then we lose our connection to Honerva." Keith points out.
Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning struk through the clouds, and Team Voltron was transforted to another part of Honerva's mind.
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It was dark, twisted and filled with vines hovering around the team.
"Now where are we?" Hunk asked, just before Keith pushed him aside and pulled out his bayard.
"Stand back." He rose his sword, cutting one of the vines. In a split second images appeared.
Honerva is standing on an Altean colony, with the Altean girl Luca in Oriande. the team staggered back as the memories flooded.
"The deeper we get in her mind, the more recent memories." Pidge concluded.
"Good." Allura said as she activated her bayard. Then sliced more vines - which came with more memories.
Resurrection of Lotor, the battle on Oriande.
"Lotor, we will be together again, soon." Honerva said in this memory. When that memory faded, another appeared.
"Pidge, any idea what part of her brain we're in now?" Hunk asked.
"No. I'm not sure."
"Voltron."
Sakura's eyes widened as Team Voltron stiffined and tensed.
Honerva, but she was weak.
Team Voltron covered their ears and groaned at the pain as Honerva's voice grew louder and louder.
"My son ... I will find you."
"This flame represents Lotor."
"The end for anyone who dares oppse me."
Allura began to illuminate a light blue aura. Keith reached out and grabbing her hand, the two were immediately surrounded by the blue light, he reached out grabbing Sakura's hand.
"Hunk!" She reached out for him, he quickly took her hand.
"Everyone, feel the energy of the entity within you." Allura said, and with her free hand grabbed Lance's hand. "Don't fight it, let it guide you."
Pidge grabbed Hunk's free hand, and Honerva's voice only grew until Team Voltron couldn't handle it anymore.
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Team Voltron stood up and looked around. Mountains were in the background hiding the setting sun, and fields of Juniberry blossoms held sweet sents in the warm breeze.
"Altea!" Allura gasped. "It looks different."
"This must be the way Honerva remembers it." Pidge replied. "It must be a place she holds dear. We should be close."
Lance sighed. "I wonder what kind of weird, freaky thing is gonna attack us here."
As if to answer, the team shouted at the sudden arrival of a large object crashing into the surface behind them.
It was Zarkon's mechanical armor!
"Ah! Does that answer your question?" Hunk shouted.
"Find saftey! I'll destract it!" Keith shouted, surprising his friends.
"What? No way!" Lance refused.
"Just go!" Keith yelled, as the others went, Sakura stayed by his side.
"Kura! Get out of here! He told her.
"No! You promised me you would never leave me again. I'm stayin!"
He looked at her for a long moment before nodding, then turned to face the enemy and charged. "You were their leader!" Keith shouted. "They trusted you, and you betrayed them! You don't deserve the Black Lion!"
Zarkon swung his sword, ready to strike down Keith.
"NO!" Sakura screamed, raising her hands and the enemy's sword bounced off a barrier.
Suddenly, a light shone through them and suddenly they were in their Lions, and in the background the other Lions appeared and Voltron was quickly formed.
Voltron stood head to head with Zarkon, ready to battle.
Zarkon wasted no time in pulling out his whip and launched, Voltron raised its arms blocking the attack, then Voltron tried to fly but the whip grabbed Voltron - shooting electricity through Voltron's systems.
"Guys!" White Lion shot towards Zarkon, Jaw Blade at the ready. Zarkon swung his arm and shot a double dose of the electricity at White Lion and she screamed in pain.
"SAKURA!" Keith screamed with pain, watching as White Lion fell to the ground. "Hunk, shoulder cannon!"
"I can't! Ah!" Hunk screamed. Voltron was brought down to it's knees.
"No!" Sakura shouted, White Lion shot through the air, the Lion roared and snarled as it leapt at Zarkon and clawed Zarkon's iron face.
"Sakura, be careful!" Pidge cried as White Lion bit down on Zarkon's shoulder blade. Zarkon reached behind him, grabbing White Lion's head and flung it over his shoulder and the Lion slammed down on it's back hard on top of Voltron.
"Owie, owie, owie!" Sakura cried. "I'm sorry guys."
Suddenly, a ray of light appeared from above and when the light dimmed the original Paladins arrived in their own Lions.
New power coursed through Voltron, Red and Green Lions lifted White Lion off and gently set it down, and the other Lions merged with Voltron.
An Altean circle appeared in front of Voltron and a dim light shot from it, shooting Zarkon directly and greatly weakening him.
White Lion watched as Voltron formed it's sword and raced down and did not hesitated in striking Zarkon down.
It was over in an instant. Zarkon's armor fadded, when it did the Black Lion appeared.
"Uh ... guys?" Pidge said shakily.
Voltron seperated, and Sakura ran over to join the rest of the Paladins.
Zarkon slowly started to wake up as both sets of Paladins were now grouped.
His eyes widened when he saw them. "Alfor, Blaytz, Trigal, Gyrgan." Zarkon turned and gasped when he saw Allura. "Melenor? What are you doing here?"
Anger danced in Allura's eyes like a out of control wildfire. "Melenor was my mother, and you murdered her!" Her voice was danergous. "You killed millions!" She ran up to him and grabbed his head, sending the entity into him and showing every horrible thing he's done over the past 10,000 years.
"Allura, what are you doing?" Lance asked.
"Reminding him of the suffering he's caused." Allura answered with a growl.
Lance ran up to her, grabbing her arm. "Allura! He's free now! Stop!"
She finally stopped and let Zarkon go, Zarkon fell to his hands and knees panting and shaking.
"No." He gasped.
"You did that!" Allura yelled as Lance had his arm around her and kept her back. "All of it!"
"I'm sorry. I didn't realize what I."-
"You knew exactly what you were doing!" Allura cut him off. "You deceived and betrayed your friends and allies!"
Tears flowed down Zarkon's cheeks. "The quintessence ... it blinded me. And you all suffured because of it."
"If you're truly sorry for what you've done, then help us stop her." Allura told him. "You must have been placed here to protect something. What is it?"
"I don't know ... I'm sorry."
"What are you protecting?!" Allura demanded, taking a step forward but Lance had a good grip on her.
Zarkon looked down, then towards the nearby red moon. "That moon. It's a moon of Daibazaal."
"He's right. That moon is not of Altea." Alfor confirmed.
"That must be the source then." Sakura said.
Without warning, Black Lion stood and fired a laser at the red moon. The sky went black for a moment, then soon lit up once again and the moon was painted gold, the golden light showered down on them.
Memories again flashed.
Zarkon and Honerva researching and working.
Honerva holding a baby Lotor next to Zarkon with a smiling face.
The family of three living their daily lives.
"No, it's impossible." Allura said as a young Lotor played with his parents.
"They're her deepest desires." Zarkon told them. "Everything she hopes to achieve."
"How could she possible achive any of this?" Hunk asked. "Zarkon and Lotor are both gone."
"In order to achieve all this, Honerva must be planning to use Lotor's ship to piece through realities and find the one where she can live with her family." Pidge concluded.
"Is that even possible?" Hunk asked.
"Not without destroying all other realities in the process." Pidge finished.
Shortly after is a strong guest of wind and thunder boomed with lightning flashing as he wind picked becoming stronger.
"What's going on?" Lance asked.
"She knows you're here!" Zarkon shouted.
"How?" Sakura questioned.
The question was answered when Allura grabbed her head in pain and fell to her knees as she screamed in pain.
Lance and Alfor ran to her side with record speed. "Allura!"
"What's happening to her?" Lance asked with deep concern and worry.
"The Princess holds the entity within." Zarkon answered. "Honerva controls it now."
The Lions disappeared and the area around the team became worse.
"What do we do?" Sakura asked.
"There's nothing you can do but accept defeat." Zarkon said hopelessly.
"No! We won't give up!" Keith shouted.
"That's your Galra lineage. It's what makes you a great leader of Voltron. You and I share that trait, but look where it has led the two of us. My desire unlimited quintessencess was the catalyst for 10,000 years of destruction. Your quest to save the universe took you into the mind of a psychopath."
Keith took a deep breath to calm himself. "Yes, to gain the knowledge of what she's doing. And now we know."
"Yes you still don't know how!" Zarkon retorted. "She's too powerful!"
"Zarkon." Alfor gained his attention. "Honerva may be more powerful then each of us alone, but the strength of eleven Paladins working together as one is the strongest force in the universe."
"The Lions are gone Alfor. Voltron is gone forever."
"We're bonded to Voltron. And each other." Keith told him.
"We have one last chance to set things right, but we cannot do it without you." Alfor said. "Ride with us one last time, Zarkon."
Zarkon was quiet for a long time, he turned and stared at the storm above as the sky rumbled with darkness. Zarkon pulled out his bayard and activated it. "Form Voltron!"
The Lions flew into the air, and formed Voltron.
"Form Blazing Sword!" Zarkon ordered.
Red and Green Lions formed the sword, it was much longer and covered in a blaze of fire.
Voltron flew up to the center of the storm, a large black orb made of pure dark quintessence.
Voltron struck the sword into the orb. And the team vanished in a flash of light.
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The team opened their eyes to find themselves floating in the empty cosmos.
"Yes did it!" Pidge cried happily.
"Yes! Yes!" Hunnk cheered.
"Nice work team." Keith said.
"And there's no place like home!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Allura, are you ok?" Lance asked.
The celebration was quickly halted when there was no response.
