On the busy streets of Plaht City in Nebraska, there is a town where some of the residents live.

Bustling vehicles and sounds of people talking and walking.

Among them is a 16-year-old guy.

He is tan and has brown hair, wearing a green jacket with a white hood that covers his ears, a navy blue sleeveless turtleneck, blue pants, black fingerless gloves, and a pair of grey shoes.

He walks out of school and takes a small stop by the grocery store to buy food when someone calls him out.

???: Lance! Lance McClain!

There is an alleyway where James Griffin as he looks at his phone until an interruption occurred.

Nadia: Hey! Get a move on!

Nadia Rizavi pushed Lance to move faster as Ina Leifsdottir and Ryan Kinkade followed behind.

James: My bad, Lance. We ended up singing too much karaoke, and now we don't have a train fare to get home. I'll pay you back tomorrow, so lend me this much.

Lance knew what he wanted.

Lance: 10 thousand dollars? No way do I have that much on me.

James frowned.

James: Then withdraw it.

A long pause occurred as Lance silently refused before answering.

Lance: No.

James: Huh?

Lance: No, James. I have no intention of lending you any money.

Lance goes to turn around.

James: Damn you... Don't mess with me.

Lance: I'm leaving now, so step aside.

Ryan and Nadia try to stop him, but Lance is too strong as he is forced to push them away and starts running and the group is following him behind.

On his way there, he got bumped into someone and they land on the ground.

???: Hey, watch where you going!

Lance looks up to find a 15–year–old girl who is his friend.

She has golden brown hair in a side ponytail and pale skin with freckles and brown eyes, wearing a white camisole underneath her oversized cardigan sweater of green, orange, and white, grey shorts and black knee-high socks, orange converse shoes, and a pair of glasses.

She then looks up to see him.

Katie: Oh, Lance! I didn't see you there.

Lance: Yeah, sorry to run into you. Is just that, James wanted me to withdraw, so I left before else.

Katie: Well, we better get you somewhere safe because I think they're heading this way.

Katie looks behind him to find James and his gang catching up.

Lance nodded before they ran away.


Later, Lance walked into his apartment where he lives with half of his family.

In the past, they used to live with his dad who turned out to be very abusive.

But now, with them being free, they need to stay strong to survive.

Lance: I'm home.

As Lance takes off his shoes, his mother, Rose, enters the room.

Rose: Hello, Lance. How is school today?

Lance: Same as always, except for my encounter with the MFEs, but I managed to escape with Katie.

Rose smiled.

Rose: That's good to hear.

Lance: Well, I'm off to my room. I'll catch up with you later at dinner.

Rose nodded before he headed upstairs.

Little did he know that Rose is worried about his statement and his supposed happy life.


Lance enters his room which is covered with stars and a shelf full of lion figurines.

He goes to his desk and starts his homework.

He just finished his second semester at school and he needs to keep up to help his family.

The only thing he could go out is the winter season.

Suddenly, his phone rings, and goes to check it to find out that his best friend, Hunk, was calling him.

So, he answered.

Lance: Hey, Hunk. How are you doing?

Hunk: Hey, I'm good. Well, I just wanna let you know that my mom just got a call from Colleen that if we wanted to have a Christmas stay at the cabin in the middle of the desert in Arizona.

Lance: That's a great idea. I'll let my mama know about it.

Hunk: 'kay. See ya later.

Hunk hung up and Lance shuts the phone off.

Just then, a knock on the door, and his sister, Veronica, comes in to check.

Veronica: Hey, Lance. I just wanna let you know that dinner's ready.

Lance nodded and followed his sister downstairs.


After Lance informed his mother about the plan, she is very delighted that they could spend some time with some friends on Christmas.

It's like a family reunion.

A few weeks passed by, and everyone had already prepared for the trip.

Everything is now packed up as Marco, Lance's older brother puts all the luggage in their camper.

Lance is the last to leave the building in his turtleneck sweater.

Marco whistles when he sees what his brother is wearing.

Marco: Looking good today.

Lance: Gracias.

Soon, his mother, sisters, brother-in-law, and his niece and nephew are in the car.

Lance is in the passenger seat while Marco takes the wheel.

And soon, they drove off beyond.


The McClains had just arrived at the cabin in Arizona.

Once they parked the camper aside, they started unpacking.

Just then, the cabin door opens revealing an 18–year–old man.

His hair is black with white streaks, greyish-indigo eyes, and peach skin.

He wears a red leather jacket, white shirt, black pants with a brown belt, black boots, and a pair of fingerless gloves.

He then goes on to help Lance to carry the luggage.

???: Here, let me help.

He takes the luggage from Lance and the boy is delighted as he takes another.

Lance: Thanks. I've never seen you before.

???: I moved here with my dad because my mom was abroad.

Lance: Oh, I see.

Once they enter the cabin, they soon greet Colleen, Katie's mother.

Colleen: Hello, Lance. It seems that you're making friends with Keith.

Lance looks at Keith in realization before offering him a handshake which Keith replies gladly.

Soon, the McClain family arrived at the door.

Colleen: Rose! I'm glad that you made it.

Rose: I do, Colleen.

Lance: Hunk, Katie!

Lance greets Hunk and Katie who are at the counter drinking hot chocolate.

Hunk: Hey, Lance.

Katie: We got you some hot chocolate.

Lance: Thanks.

Lance takes a cup of chocolate from Katie as Keith approaches the three.

Meanwhile, Rose then greets Hunk's mother, Brianna.

Brianna: I'm very glad that you brought your son Lance for this occasion.

Rose: Oh, it's nothing.

As both mothers chat further, there's a knock on the door.

Kevin: I got it!

Kevin, Keith's father, approaches the door and opens it to reveal two men around twenty-five years.

Kevin: Shiro, Adam. I'm glad you made it.

Shiro: Thank you for the invite, Mr. Kogane.

The two enter the cabin as Kevin takes their bags away.

Just then, Keith approaches them.

Keith: Hey, Shiro. Hey, Adam.

Adam: Keith! How are you, man?

Keith: I'm fine, I guess.


Over the next few days, Lance and Keith seemed to get along with things and had some unique interests.

Lance: So, what are things you like?

Keith: Well, I like to listen to rock music which is my favorite music genre, I like taking things seriously meaning I don't like anyone joking around in a serious situation, and I like to combat with the knife my mom gave me.

Keith pulls out a knife that is wrapped in a bandage covering the crest.

Lance is impressed.

Lance: Woah, that's awesome! It's like your mother's family had a legacy connected to the heirloom!

Keith: It seems so.

Hunk walks into the room with a tray of blueberry muffins.

Hunk: Hey, guys. I made muffins for today.

Lance: Thanks, Hunk.

Lance and Keith take the muffins from the tray.

Shiro walks in and decides to take a muffin as well.

One moment had come until someone noticed something was missing.

Shiro: Where's Katie?

Keith: Probably on the porch, like always.

It was evening, and it was almost dinnertime.

The boys go to the porch to indeed find the feminine gremlin by her laptop with her headphones on.

Lance decided to sneak behind her and carefully remove the pod that covered one of her ears to speak.

Lance: You come here to rock out?

Katie shrieked and jumped until she realized it was him and the boys.

Katie: Oh, hey guys. And no, I'm just looking at the stars. With this thing, I can scan all the way to the edge of the solar system.

Lance: Really? All the way to Pluto?

Katie: Yep.

Hunk tries to touch the equipment, but Katie smacks his hand away.

Katie: Stop it!

Keith walks over to look at the screen.

Keith: What's your deal with this thing? It's not like you always did.

She was about to reply when she noticed Hunk tries to sneakily touch the equipment again.

Katie: Second warning, Hunk!

Hunk groaned.

Shiro sighs.

Shiro: Look, if this is private, I understand. We don't mind looking at it further.

Katie: No, no, it's okay, because I wanted to let you know something.

The boys seemed confused about it as she explained.

Katie: The world as you know it is about to change. There is going to be an upcoming event that will soon come towards our home if we don't prepare– HUNK, STOP TOUCHING MY EQUIPMENT!!!

Katie sees Hunk trying to touch the equipment again and tells him to stop.

Hunk groans but finally desists.

Katie: So I've been scanning the system and picking up alien radio chatter.

The boys seemed interested in the topic.

Hunk: Whoa, what? Aliens?!

Shiro: Really?

LANCE: No kidding.

Katie: I'm serious! They keep repeating one word:

Katie pulls out a notepad with a drawing of a robot and a word saying...

Katie: "Voltron". And tonight, it's going crazier than I have ever heard it.

Keith knitted his brows in question.

Keith: So, she knows?

LANCE: How crazy?

???: As crazy as people thought that you're bluffing or making things up.

The group turned to see Kevin by the door.

Shiro: Kevin?

Kevin smirks.

Kevin: Come with me.


The group followed Keith's father down into the basement and that's when they saw something covered in a big cloth.

Kevin pulls the cover to reveal a device.

It was big, bulky, and was made from a metal that they had never seen before.

Kevin: This device is a communicator. This is where I communicated with my wife and her crew when Keith was still younger.

Hunk: Okay, but what's the point with that with this "Voltron" Katie mentioned?

Kevin: Voltron is known as the legendary defender. It consists of five lions, each has its traits to form into a giant robot. It was scattered across the galaxy due to the overdose of quintessence that their creators had been experimenting on.

Hunk: So, those creators are aliens as well?

Kevin: Exactly.

Katie: And you do realize that that thing is made by aliens as well.

Kevin: We knew.

Lance: What do you mean by "we"?

???: He meant us.

They all turned to see Sam, Colleen, and Matt are by the stairs.

Katie is shocked.

Katie: Guys, you knew and you didn't tell me?!

Matt: Well, you were there as well, but you were a few months old to remember that.

Colleen: Maybe this could be the proof.

She hands them a photograph to find out to be true.

All they saw is a photograph of Katie as an infant with a 3–year–old Keith on the lap of his mother whose head is off the picture.

However, Keith's appearance in the photograph is kinda different.

His hair is completely white with cat ears, his raven blue eyes have yellow sclera, and his skin is lavender followed by a pair of purple scars on both of his cheeks.

Everyone stared at Keith in question and the emo sighed and admitted.

Keith: Yes, my mom's an alien, but I'm also a human too.

Lance seemed confused about his behavior.

Lance: Keith, you may act human, but how do you act human? I mean, you said you moved here two years ago, right?

Keith goes to reply, but he flustered when he remembered something.

Keith: Can we get back to the topic?

Everyone agreed and Kevin proceeded to speak.

Kevin: So, back to the topic, two of Voltron's creators were overdosed with quintessence during their experiments which causes them to lose their sanities. The quintessence also absorbs all of the life forces from their homes despite that quintessence is within us all.

Shiro: May I ask who are the creators?

Kevin: The creators are known to be the rulers of their respective home planets: King Alfor of Altea, and Emperor Zarkon of Galra from Daibazaal.

Katie: By the way, about your wife and her crew, are they Galra, Altea, or something else?

Keith decides to answer that.

Keith: Mom and her crew are Galra, but they go infiltrate the empire to stop the nonsensical plan.

Katie: Oh.

Lance: What about those Alteans?

Keith: As far as we know, just like Korea, Altea had been split into two clans. The first half are Altean Alchemists under Alfor's rule, just like North Korea. Not much is known about the other half however, but the only thing known about them is that they disappeared after they rebelled against Alfor.

The group was concerned about the situation coming ahead until Shiro spoke up.

Shiro: Do you guys know where the lions are located?

Kevin: Yes, the only lion we know is the Blue lion which is hidden in the canyons.

Their eyes widened about the information.

Hunk: As in, the Blue lion is on Earth?

Kevin: Of course.

Lance: So, when do we get started?

Colleen: How about tomorrow after we ate breakfast and informed your families.

Lance, Hunk, and Shiro realized.

Lance, Hunk, Shiro: Oh.


The next morning, everyone gathered around to have breakfast.

The group told the rest about the info and everyone was shocked about it, even Veronica is excited about it.

Rose on the other hand, is concerned about his safety, but she decided to support him no matter what.

After breakfast, Lance, Keith, Hunk, Shiro, Kevin, and the holts head into the car and follow their destination in the GPS.

They soon locate a nearby cave that leads to the dark path.

They exited the car when Lance suddenly covered his ears alarming everyone.

Hunk: Lance, are you okay?

Lance: Yeah. I just heard a loud crash of waves coming from the cave.

Keith listens to it but it never happens.

Keith: I didn't hear anything. It's probably just you.

Lance thinks about it

Lance: I guess so.

They went into the cave and broke into the rocks which are carves.

Shiro: What are these?

Sam: These are the lion carvings. They're everywhere around here.

Once they reached deeper, the Blue Lion stood there covered in a spherical force field.

Lance: They are everywhere.

Katie: Is this it? Is this the Voltron?

Colleen: Krolia said it's part of it.

Keith approaches the Blue Lion, and the rest of the team slowly follows.

Keith: Looks like there's a force field around it.

Lance notices something as the sound of the water is getting louder for him.

Lance: Does anyone else get the feeling this is staring at them?

Shiro: Hmm... No.

Lance: Yeah. The eyes are following me.

Keith runs up to the force field and touches it with no reaction.

Keith: I wonder how we get through this.

Lance, on the other hand, is a bit confused because the lion is still staring at him other than the rest of the team.

The closer he gets the sound goes louder in his every step.

???: Reach me.

Lance turned around but no one besides the group was there.

???: Reach me.

Lance is concerned about what will happen.

He soon touches the force field and then it reacts, dissipating and igniting the area around them in blue.

The team sees an image of Voltron forming from the five Lions in their minds.

Everyone: Woah.

Lance: Uh, did everyone just see that?

Hunk: Voltron is a robot! Voltron is a huge, huge, awesome robot!

Katie: And this thing is only one part of it! I wonder where the rest of them are.

Shiro: This is what they're looking for.

Keith: Incredible.

Matt noticed that the Blue Lion is gone.

Matt: Hey, where's the lion?

Everyone seemed confused about what happened until something moved on Lance's feet.

Lance jumped and saw a blue-furred feline with a red collar.

Shiro: That is... unexpected.

The blue cat turned toward the others.

Blue: Greetings.

Everyone jumped in surprise.

Katie: Did that cat just talk?

Blue: No, I'm just talking to you telepathically.

Everyone looked at each other before looking back at the lion.

Blue: I know it's quite a surprise, but yes, I am part of Voltron.

Lance clears his throat.

Lance: No offense, but do you have a name, or do we just need to call you by something?

Blue: My new paladin will decide on my new name.

The cat turned her head to Lance as the boy's eyes widened.

Lance: Me?

Blue: Yes.

Katie: That was amazing!

Keith: Huh. Never knew.

While everyone is distracted, Kevin notices something to draw their attention.

Kevin: Uh, guys? Looks like the lion isn't the only one we found.

Everyone turned to see a pod standing there.

Blue: I've been guarding the pod for one reason. To get her out.

Keith walks closer to the pod and the pod suddenly opens revealing a white-haired black lady in a royal gown.

The lady opens her eyes to see her surroundings.

???: Where am I?