"Would you like to meet your daughter, Shiro?"
Shiro turned from looking through a Galaxy Garrison guide book, to see Piper standing in the doorway of the main room of his quarters. "What?"
"Edith really wants to meet you." Piper continued, now walking further into the room.
"Wait." Shiro sat up further on the couch and the book he'd been reading, slid to the floor. "What? She knows about me?"
"Of course she does." Piper said as she sat down on a chair. "James is with her in the other room." She explained. "I wanted her to know about her father, I wanted her to know how much of a hero her father is. And ever since I told her that you really are alive and back home on Earth, she's been really looking forward to meeting you."
Shiro slowly smiles. "Yeah. I'd like that."
With a smile, Piper turned. "James!" She calls, then turns back around to face Shiro who was struggling to sit up. "What did I tell you about straining yourself?" She scolded as she stood up and walked up to him and carefully helped him sit up.
"I'm worried about tomorrow." He confessed.
"You shouldn't." She said firmly, just as James walked into the room with Edith.
Piper walked over to them. "Edith." She knelt down in front of her. "Come meet your daddy."
Edith stared over at Shiro, then back to her mother. "He looks bigger then the pictures."
"Come on, sweetheart." Piper encouraged as she stood up and placed a hand on Edith's back, guiding her forward.
Shiro straightened his shoulders as they got closer. He smiled a little. "So, you're Edith, it's a pleasure to finally meet you."
"Mommy and Uncle James told me stories about you." Edith slowly started to smile too. "And ... and you're my daddy." She couldn't help but stare at him, studying him and frowning at his missing right arm. "What happened to your arm?"
"The bad guys took it." He answered simply. "But that's ok, I'll be getting a new one tomorrow." He added with a smile.
Edith took a step forward. "You missed a lot of birthdays and Christmas'." She pouts.
Shiro slowly nods. "I know, and I'm sorry. I didn't plan to be gone for so long."
Piper turned to see that James had left the room. Standing up, Piper walked out of the room.
XxXxXx
James stood inside the hallway of the Garrison, leaning his back on the wall.
The door slid open to reveal Piper walking into the hallway. "I know you're jealous." She said as she folds her arms.
James snorts. "Me? What do I have to be jealous for?"
"Oh, I don't know." She said with a shrug. "You have been there for Edith her whole life, being her uncle and a father figure when she needed it, and now Shiro and Keith are back."
James shrugged. "Ok, fine. So I'm jealous. Being Edith's only uncle, and a father figure for a long time ... yeah, I am."
Piper places her hand on his shoulder. "James, you really are Edith's uncle by blood."
"I know. I just can't push this jealously down."
Piper removes her hand. "Well, you're going to have too, because Shiro and Keith are back. And now that Edith has meet her father, I'm sure she doesn't want him to leave again." Her eyes started to tear up. "And I don't want Shiro to leave again either."
XxXxXx
Shiro laid on a medical bed. Outside the room are the Paladins, Romelle, Coran, James, and Madison who watched from the hallway.
Piper stood with Sam, they had to take the still remaining part of Shiro's Galra arm and for it to be replaced with an Altean arm, Shiro had beamed with excitement.
"How are you feeling Shiro?" Sam asked, once Shiro opened his eyes and took a few deep breaths.
"Good, I'm good."
Piper sighs heavily with relief.
"I'm happily to you we've successfully attached your prosthetic arm." Sam told him as he placed a hand on Piper's shoulder.
"We just need to power it on and make any final adjustments." Piper added as she nodded to a doctor to continue with the final steps. "We've outlined it with the most powerful energy source Earth has to offer."
"It's the closest we could get to mimicking a Balmera crystal's energy." Sam continued. "It should generate enough power to operate most of it."
"The remaining power will be drawn from your body's own electronagnetic field." Piper replied, just before the machine let out a loud noise causing the ones in the room and out in the hall to jump startled, Shiro started screaming. "Shiro!" Piper cried, rushing over to him, grabbing his human arm. "He's crashing!"
"We have to shut it down!" Sam yelled, one of the doctors tries to grab and steady the arm, but it threw him towards the wall, just as Allura came running in and tackling the Altean arm to the floor.
"Sam, we need to remove the power source!" She yelled, he quickly hurries over to her and the two work fast in removing it and replaced it with crystal from her tiara.
The arm hummed to life as it still struggled, until the beeping from the machine quieted down. And the heart monitor returned to normal.
"Shiro!" Piper gasped when he fell limp into her.
After awhile Shiro opened his eyes. "W, what happened?" He asked weakly. "I feel strange." He looked towards his new arm and tested it. "I feel great."
Keith and the others hurried into the room.
"You're going to be ok, Shiro." Piper smiled, kissing his cheek as James walked up behind her.
"Damn right he is." Keith smirked.
"It's good to have both arms back." Shiro replied, and Piper hugged him tightly.
XxXxXxX
Pidge and Allura stood at the head of the room. "We've learned so much from Sendak's memories." Pidge started the meeting. "We discovered his methods for taking over planets, like Earth."
"Sendak constructs armaments at key strategic points around planets." Allura picked up. "This gives him the ability to control the conqured populations."
Veronica then pressed a button on the datapad that sat on the table, bringing up large continents. "Based on data from Commander Holt's micro-satellites, cross referenced intel, we've ascertained that Sendak built six massive structures on Earth. We never knew what they were being used for until now."
Hunk stared at the screen. "They're the weapons? So, what's stopping us from blowing them up?"
"We simply don't have enough firepower to do the job." Admiral Sanda stated firmly from her end of the table. "And even if we did, there's a good chance those facilites contain civillians. We can't just go in blind."
Shiro turns his gaze to his datapad. "Admiral Sanda's right. That's why we should infiltrate a base and gather intelligence first."
Veronica studied her information. "The nearest base is fifty two clicks south of our position." She said as she brought up the image so everyone else could see.
"What's the terrian like?" Shiro asked.
"The region around what we'll call Base One is a complex urban environment. Our route will take us through highly patrolled areas. It'll be hard to keep proper survallence of our surroundings due to all the structure damage."
Shiro started pressing some buttons on his pad with his left hand. "Then I suggest we form two teams. A ground unit that will infiltrate Base One and gets eyes on whatever is inside, and a sniper team that will observe from a higher position, covering the ground unit and providing some visbility."
"Use communications sparingly." Veronica replied. "Stay on the move. Keep an eye on the timing patterns of the patrol drones. Pidge, Keith, Allura, and Griffin. You're the ground unit. Hunk, Lance, Kinkade, and I will be sniper support."
XxXxXxXx
Celestia walked up to Keith as he walked through the hall. "Keith!" She called, and he stopped and turned around to see her walk up to him. "I'm very sorry I missed the briefing." She apologized.
"I was getting worried about you." He said, putting his hands on her waist. "You didn't answer when I called you."
"I'm sorry I worried you." She apologized again. "I was having a spirital connection with the ancients."
He raised his eyebrows. "Say what?"
"I'll have to show at a later date, it's hard to explain."
"Yo Keith." James said as he walked over to them. "Let's fly." He continued to walk down the hall.
"Wish us luck." Keith kissed her cheek before he turned and followed James down the hall.
XxXxXxXx
After a few hours, everyone is back in the confrence room. Pidge stood at the front with a hologram of a cannon on the main screen with information that she and Keith found.
"Sendak has built Zaiforge cannons. Our intel indicates the cannons were just completed. They could launch at anytime!"
"What exactly is a Zaiforge cannon?" Commander Iverson asked.
Keith leaned forward in his chair. "Planet killers. If those cannons launch and are fully charge, Sendak will be able to destroy Earth within seconds."
Rizavi looks at Keith. "What do we do?"
Keith turns his gaze to her. "Ideally, we attack all six bases at once, allowing them no time to stage a counterattack."
"That's not possible." Admiral Sanda said.
Keith turns his gaze to her. "If we had our Lions, it could be. We'll have to find a way to retrieve them since the ship we rode in on, crashed."
Sanda glared at him. "Your Lions are orbiting another planet. There's no way to get you to them. Plus, there are only five Lions."
Celestia stood up, gaining everyone's attention. "There are six Lions." She corrected.
"Celestia." Lance trailed off when she looked at him.
"Yes, it is true that White Lion is not apart of Voltron, but my Lion is just as powerful as Voltron." Celestia cut him off, as she talked she looked at Sanda, who matched her glare.
Pidge suddenly gasped loudly, making everyone turn their attention to her. "Celestia, your connection to the Lions can help us!"
Celestia nods. "Yes, my connection can bring them here to Earth." She said while looking at Pidge. "But, you each have a connection to the Lions." She added as she looked at each of the Paladins. "You all have formed a bond with them." She looks at Shiro. "Even you Shiro, your bond with Black Lion is faint, but it's still there."
Shiro smiled at that, and Keith placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Uh, Celestia. That's really sweet of you. That'll catch the Galra off guard. I mean assuming our Lions will answer our calls. What if they don't come?" Hunk asked.
Celestia stood up to stand next to Pidge. "They will." She reassured. "Over the years of our adventures while fighting Zarkon, then Lotor, then his generals whom are now known as Warlords, your Lions have grown with you." She looked at each Paladin. "When they do arrive, we will strike and destroy all six cannons simultaneously before they can be launched. Once that is finished Voltron will be formed to finish off Sendak and his forces."
James turns to the Paladins. "My pilots can transport four of you to the Galra bases."
Veronica turns to Shiro. "I'll bring Lance to Base One. It's the closet, so I can do it by ground."
"It's settled then. While Veronica drops Lance at Base One. the MFE's will each fly a Paladin out to a base." Shiro said. "The Paladins should reach the drop zones at the same time the Lions arrive. We launch a coordinated attack on all the locations at once."
XxXxXx
Celestia kissed Keith as they stood next to James' jet. "Good luck!" She smiled.
"You too." He kissed her gently, holding her tightly as he pulled her close, and deepened the kiss.
"Keith! Are you two done playing Ken and Barbie?" An irritated James asked as he sat in his jet, his fingers drumming on his knee.
Keith rolled his eyes. "Be safe, babe." He kissed Celestia again, she smiled.
"You be safe too." She kissed his cheek, then she turned and walked away.
"You wanna jump off Cloud 9 and get your head back in the game?" James questioned Keith climbed into his seat and plopped down.
"You and Madison use to hot and heavy for a long time." Keith retorted.
XxXxXxX
Celestia walked back into the hanger of the Garrison, but when she did Sanda snuck up behind her and locked an arm around her throat from behind.
"You're taking me Sendak now." Sanda threatened as Celestia struggled, then felt something hard press to her back.
