Merla the good evil person or whatever....part 3

Okay, since last time we were together, I omitted the part where the Voltron Force went to save Allura from Lotor, only to be too late. (gasp and horror, oh noooo!) As in, Keith shot the minister dead after that pesky man and wife part. (Wait, did I just say dead? Keith? hmmm, like he's the king of darkness or something, hmmmm) So Voltron Force all...took Lotor prisoner, and Allura all cried a lot. Now we're back in the castle of Lions, where Merla has somehow become Queen of Arus. (Turbo has dementia, she guesses)

"I WANT A DIVORCE!!" Allura cried, "NOW!!!'
"Please." Merla corrected.
"Dude!" Hunk gave Merla an indignant look...at least I think it was indignant.
Keith bopped Lotor on the head, "You're a jerk Smurf-boy!"
"Smurf?" Lotor asked.
"Another cartoon of the 80's. We were cooler, though." Keith informed everyone.
"You know, Keith..."Lotor started.
"QUIET YOU!!" Keith bopped Lotor."Perhaps we should give him a chance to speak." Merla suggested.
"Man?" Lance looked puzzled.
"NO!" Keith answered.
"Well...I'm in charge now, and I say we let Lotor speak!" Merla commanded.
"What do you mean you're in charge now?" Allura cried.
"While you were gone, princess, Coran put me in charge of Arus because I am a Queen." Merla said gleefully.
"Allura's a Queen, too!" Lotor bellowed before once again being bopped on the head by Keith.
"What? What do you mean?" Allura asked.
"Well, we got married," Lotor tried to dodge Keith's bop to no avail. "Keith, cut that out!!" Merla shouted. "BRO!" Pidge chimed in. "Now what do you mean, I'm a Queen...hey that rhymed!" Allura giggled.
Lotor huffed, "Well, duh! I was a prince! You were a princess! WE get married, ba-da-bing ba-da-boom! We're KING and QUEEN!!"
Keith bopped Lotor one for good measure.
"Queen Allura...wow..." Allura said dreamily.
"Well, Lotor, I guess being married to you isn't so bad after all."
Keith bopped Lotor and mumbled to himself.
"So now you're a Queen, Princess? Fine. Take control of Arus back, I don't care!!" Merla huffed. "DUDE!" Hunk waved frantically. Keith bopped Lotor, "What, Hunk?"
Hunk pointed to Lotor and said, "...dude!"
"Yes, he's a man, Hunk." Merla agreed.
"No no no, what he's saying is that...if you give control of Arus back to Allura because she's Queen, now Lotor actually gets to rule since he's KING." Keith explained.
"Well, that's a silly rule." Merla expressed. (It is a silly rule, I might add)
"Yeah! I don't like it at all!" Allura agreed.
"Man.." Lance sighed, the VF was in some predicament here. On the one had, no way coul they let Merla Queen of Darkness rule planet Arus. And on the other hand, no way could Merla relinquish her power to Allura because then Lotor would get what he always sort of wanted. Control of Arus. Tough situation, how am I going to write them out of this?....hmm.....
"We ought to talk to Coran about this..."Keith pondered.
"Yes!" Allura agreed. "Excellent idea Keith!"
"Thanks" and for a moment or two the Queen and Pilot gazed deeply into each other's eyes. "Oh, please....you're making me sick...." This time Merla bopped Lotor on the head.
Twenty minutes later the VF had made a pow-wow circle around the the royal advisor minister guy known as Coran. "What do we do, Coran?" Allura pleaded.
"Um..."Coran scratched his head. "I'm not sure..." sweatdrops all around
"Well, I know what to do!!" Merla said assuredly!
"Bro?" Pidge asked.
"I'm not your bro, I'm a woman!!!" Merla shouted.
"What DO we do, Merla?" Lotor said...annoyingly.
"We get....therapy!" Merla said confidently.
The Voltron Force looked confused.
"Therapy?" asked Keith.
"THERAPY!!" beamed Merla.
"O....k...." Keith gave in.
And so...next time...THERAPY!!!!
TBC