Once I put my fingertips to Keith's temples and closed my eyes, I felt myself falling. Falling in darkness that looked like it had no end to, until I landed on my arm, hard.

"Ow," I whisper to myself as I stand and rub my arm.

Then I hear some type of crackling noise, a croaked voice echoing, and an awful scream that seems to get closer to me.

"Ahhhhh!" I then see the source of the shrilling sound that seems to echo in this place, somebody skidding across the darkness, holding their ribs and coughing up something.

"Fine, if you won't tell me, I'll just kill you," I hear the croaked voice before I see the cloaked figure.

Haggar is standing there with a snarl on her face as she raises her hand up with a big ball of energy that is buzzing with energy, but before I could move to stop her attack, Keith suddenly springs up from his position on the floor and blast her with his own power that hit the witch square in the chest. She flew back, and he collapsed on the ground, this time not moving.

(x_x)

After I put Allura on the cot beside Keith, I feel a sharp spark of pain behind my eyelids. I just squeeze my eyes close as I rub my temples, hopefully making the headache go away before it gets worse, but before I could make the pain disappear, I hear a wet scream to my right, where Keith is at.

I quickly open up my eyes and walk the two steps distance between him and the princess to get to him. Keith seemed to have coughed up blood, and his ribs with his chest showed blossomed bruises, looking both purple and black. Tears were falling from his shut eyes and I feared what was happening.

Before I could call out for help from the others, the wet scream stopped, and his eyes opened and showing yellow eyes that glowed a fierce neon yellow. He glowed a blood red color with black sparks surrounding him for a tick before he turned back to normal, his eyes closed, but his breathing was faint.

(x_x)

I ran over to his body and saw a small puddle of blood of where he was coughing up earlier. I kneeled by his side and saw how limp he looked, his chest barely moving as his breathing seemed shallow with small rasping noises that followed.

"C'mon Keith, you cannot die, we need you," I whisper as I splay my hand on his chest, feeling how faint his heartbeat, "I'm going to try something okay?" and I let some of my outer layer quintessence transfer over to the wounded man.

I could feel that he did not have any outer layer quintessence left over, probably using it all for the last blast he did. I felt a little dizzy afterwards for a tick, but other than that fine. I have to wait another tick before I see Keith's eyes start to flutter open.

"Keith?" I whisper as I rubbed his shoulder.

"'lura?" he sounded horrible, his voice sounded rasped and scratchy like he been yelling for hours, which I sadly do think happened.

"Yeah Keith," I reassure him with a nod of my head, "I'm here,"

He grunted in response as he tried to get up. I quickly help him sit up. I hear the painful winces, and once he was up, it did not leave me how terrible he looked. His pale skin almost paper white, sweat rolling down the side of his face, and the intense shaking.

"Where are we?" he croaked.

"We're in an Astral Plane of your making. Do remember what happened before you were here?" I place my hand on his non-injured shoulder as I asked the question.

He cleared his throat before he answered, "I remember Shiro on the ground with Haggar standing above him w-with her power trained on him. T-then a blur of red and black before darkness enveloping me as I fell here," he answered as he turned his head to me once he was done.

I nod my head as I squeeze his shoulder and started to get up. I then help him stand. Once he was up on his feet and I was sure he was not about to fall over, I could hear that his breathing sounded off and he looked exhausted.

"How do we… get out of here?" he was shaking a little and I was a little scared.

(x_x)

My whole body ached with every inhale of air that I took. My head felt like it was stuffed with cotton, yet I could feel the pain that was pounding behind my eyes. My right shoulder felt like it was on fire. Then my torse was whole another type of pain that was barely manageable. It felt almost numb, yet every inhale and exhale I took, I could every bruise that was blooming, cuts that were being reopened again, every burn felt like fire was licking the skin, and I felt my broken ribs with every breath. My chest felt like there was a boulder on top of it, making it harder to breathe.

I looked over to my left to see Allura there studying me, watching me suffer with every harsh breath that seemed to push out air than allow me to suck it in.

She cleared her throat, "There's a backway. That is how we will get out of here, let me just…" she trailed off as she raised both her hands up and waited a moment in silence.

Then, a whoosh of air as a blood red door appeared in front of us. She staggered a little into me. I quickly grabbed onto her, ignoring the sharp pain that sparked in my chest, as I made sure she was stable. She sent me a smile in thanks before she straightened up and walked over to the door.

"Here we go," she whispered as I followed her through the door.

We walked into a blinding, white room with a pay phone in the middle of the room. There were mirrors, from the ceiling to the floor, around the room, making me see my reflection stare back. I looked down at the white ground, from the quick look, I looked awful and I did not want to stare any more that I had to.

"Let me go first," Allura broke through my thoughts, making me stare up at her, "Shiro will need my help getting you into a pod," she smiled a small smile.

I nod my head as she walked closer to the pay phone. It looked exactly like any pay phone down on Earth, it was just white like the room.

"Just put it by your ear a few seconds after I do, and make sure to put it back here," she pointed to where the phone was placed before she followed her own directions, picking the phone up and disintegrating into white pixels before disappearing.

(x_x)

I turn around to see Allura gasping as she finally awoke. She seemed a little drained and tired, but other than that, fine.

"Keith should be coming out soon, though his would be more painful unfortunately because of his poor cond-"

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

The wet scream came from behind us. Keith arched his back painfully above the table he was on, and I saw why he screamed. Now on his back seemed to be a burn that was not there covering his back.