Sorry! No action in this one!

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Celestia followed Keith into the bridge, he started for his station but quickly did a 180 and walked towards Shiro's station.

"Keith, the Black Lion has chosen you. You can do this." Allura said firmly, but in a gently tone.

He looked at her for a long moment, then turned to gaze at the leader's station. Closing his eyes, Keith took a deep breath before letting it out. He turned to look at Celestia who was at her normal station.

"Have faith and believe in yourself Keith!" She encouraged. With a nod, he sits down in the chair and the floor under him began to lower and the Red Paladin disappeared.

Celestia sighed as leaned back in her chair, but Keith's voice over the speakers made her jump.

"Lance, where are you?"

"My Lion's not responding to me!" Lance called back, making Celestia frown.

"Well, figure it out and catch up to us as soon as you can." Keith added.

A blinking on Celestia's station, had her concentrate it. Her eyes grew in fear. "Keith!" She cried with fear. "Prince Lotor! That's Prince Lotor!"

"Who's that?" Pidge asked.

"Zarkon's son!" Celestia cried in an answer.

"Then he's going down too!" Keith replied.

The three on the bridge could only watch as fighter jets swarmed the three Lions.

"Lance, we need you! The Lions are being attacked!" Allura called out to him.

"I'm trying!" Lance's reply was a mix of excitement and panic.

Allura turns and steps off the platform. "I'm going to see what's going on." With that she hurries out of the bridge.

Celestia folds her arms. "Blue Lion, what's going on? Why aren't you letting Lance in?"

"He is no longer my Paladin." Came the simple reply from Blue Lion.

Celestia's eyes grew. "What!? Since when!?" She demanded.

"Since the moment he has accepted Keith as his leader." Blue Lion answered like it was no big deal.

Celestia sprang to her feet. "WHAT!?" She screamed, causing Coran to jump startled and look at her with panic and a little fright. She then sank back down and leaned back in her station. "Then who has who!?" She again demanded.

"The annoying one is my Paladin now." Red Lion answered, causing the princess to groan.

"And Princess Allura is my Paladin." Blue Lion reviled, Celestia gasped.

Coran took a few steps towards her. "What's wrong Princess?" He asked in concern, and she looks at him.

"Allura is now the Paladin of the Blue Lion!"

Coran's eyes comiclly grew large.

Soon the Castle Of Lions flew into the battle, Coran fired the castle's weapons, managing to hit Lotor's ship. But the ship only shook and returned fire from the Prince's vessel. Then the Prince's troops retreated once Blue Lion showed up.

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After some time, Celestia is in a far off hall, pacing the floor. "I can't believe it! Zarkon finally achieved his goal!" She ran her hands through her hair.

"All the quintessence that Zarkon he's stolen from home." White Lion said. "He must've experimented on Honerva while she was expecting with Lotor."

"That's a nightmare." Celestia shuttered. "He has to be more then 20,000 maybe 100,000 years old!"

"He would be dead, if not for the quintessence." White Lion replied.

Hearing footsteps coming her way, Celestia turned and quickly ducked into the room she'd been standing in front of.

But after a knock and the door slid open, Keith stood in the doorframe. He walked up to her.

"You ok?" He asked in concern. "Coran said that you panicked."

She shrugged. "I guess I did." She sighed.

'What happened?" He asked as he sat next to her on the bed, he frowned when wouldn't look at him and shook her head.

"I'm not ready to talk about that." She said as she looked down at her lap.

His frown deepened. "Ok." He started to stand, but she was quick at grabbing his left wrist with both her hands, stopping him. He turns to look at her.

"It hurts to talk about it." She told him in a pained voice as Keith sat back down.

"Ok."

She suddenly grabbed his face, and pulled him to her, their lips meeting in a steamy passionate kiss and it deepened when she lowered herself down, pulling him with her. But just as they began to melt into each other with his hands sliding under her shirt, a beeping noise is heard and Keith pulls away and stands up.

Celestia slowly sat up as she leaned backwards on her hands. "What was that?"

Keith put a hand in his right pocket of his jacket. "I managed to put a tracker on Lotor's ship."

She blinked with surprise, "What?"

"It's time to take the empire down." He fixed himself as he walked towards the door, once the door was closed her hands slid back and she fell back onto her back on the bed as she wished their moment could've lasted a lot longer.

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Celestia walked into the infirmary, she walked over to the panel and typed a few buttons to check on Shiro's progress. Once satisfied, she walked up to his healing pod.

"The team needs you, Shiro." She told him. "Keith needs you, he feels lost without you."

Shiro never opened an eye, or twitched or gave any sign of waking up.

Sighing Celestia walked out of the room and the door closed behind her.