AI Chapter 4, a voltron fanfic

Zarkon was assembling his fleet for an attack on Arus. Lotor would learn his lesson, by the death of Princess Allura and her blasted planet. As far as Zarkon knew, there would only be one Voltron to destroy since the crash of that other one. Zarkon felt guaranteed a victory. A guard stepped into the throne room. "Sire! The battle fleet is ready for combat."

"Excellent." Zarkon said amazed at the speed of the order. Zarkon only gave the command two hours ago. As he got up from his throne and descended the stairs, he noticed all the guards running in
lining up and providing a path for him to follow to the main attack ship. Each soldier saluted as Zarkon passed them. "Efficiency and control," Zarkon thought, "Conquering Arus will be easier than I thought."
A cloaked woman walked up to Zarkon. "24 of your best robeasts are awaiting your orders sire." The cloaked woman said.

"Did you just say 24 robeasts?" Zarkon asked amusedly. "What kind of trick is this?"

"Oh, no trick, I assure you." She said, "Come, Sire. Have a look for yourself." She took Zarkon by the hand and directed him to a cargo ship. Inside were 24 robeasts all in line and ready to be deployed at
his command.

"This is unbelievable!" Zarkon shouted and then turned around to find the woman had taken off the hood of her cloak. To Zarkon she was Lotor's equivalent to Princess Allura! She had long green hair
yet her features were humanlike. This for some reason made no difference to Zarkon at all. She was very, VERY attractive.

"You are definitely better than Haggar ever was." Zarkon said calmly.

"Is that a compliment, Zarkon?" She said, "If it was meant to be, I thank you. But don't ever compare me to Haggar again."

"A threat?" Zarkon thought, "How does she know about Haggar?"

"Beware Zarkon, I can read your mind." She said somewhat sensuously.

"This is going to be very interesting." Zarkon thought.

"I know." She said. Zarkon was not expecting the reply. The telepathy was quick. But she definitely wasn't like Queen Merla either. She dove into people's minds and sorted through their thoughts.

"Who are you?" Zarkon asked.

"My name is Zelia." She spoke to him telepathically, implanting her thought into his. She was full of surprises for Zarkon. Especially at one point, she turned on her heel and stared down at a guard forthinking something. She "turned his mind inside out" and purged any negative thoughts about Zarkon. The guard later fell to the ground and died. Zarkon was starting to have his doubts about her now. She possessed too much power, he was afraid that she would overthrow him sometime later.

"Zarkon, how can you think that way about me?" Zelia whimpered, her face showing signs of pain. "I would never do such a thing to you."

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Zarkon said.

"Oh Zarkon, I would do anything for you." Zelia said pleadingly, her face showed honesty.

"Oh come on Zelia!" Zarkon started, "You and I both know that an old Drule like me is bound to kick the bucket and die someday." Zelia laughed loudly. "Oh Zarkon," she said in between fits of laughter. "Have you already forgotten the change that,...Yurak made upon you." Zarkon had to remind himself again that he was not an old fogie anymore. Zelia approached him
and embraced him.

"I never knew that Blue Drules could be so handsome" She cooed as she started to rub her hand through his white hair. Zarkon was completely taken by surprise now. This was going to be one heck of a day for him.

In the meantime both Haggars were sitting by the entrance to the infirmary chanting again, this time for the health and well being of Chip. Old Haggar was using good magic now and was trying her best
to keep from constantly looking over her shoulder nervously and breaking the spellcasting. Old Haggar then felt a strong surge of evil flow through her, this time it made her shake in fear, for she knew that she
would soon be tormented by the coming evil spirits. She broke the chant suddenly. Young Haggar looked at her and found out why immediately.

"They're coming!" Old Haggar whispered, "They're coming to get me!"

"I know." Young Haggar comforted, "We can survive this."

"No,… They want me dead!" Old Haggar said with solemn grimness.

"They want you kill you?" Young Haggar questioned in an unbelieving tone. "Yes,…." Old Haggar paused for a moment, "I also know why." Old Haggar then quickly stood up.

"Come! We must hurry!" Old Haggar said almost dragging Young Haggar off the chair."

"Whoa! Wait! Let me get up first!" Young Haggar said staggering to her feet while Old Haggar still pulled on her arm."

"What do we need to do?" Young Haggar asked.

"We need to get to the Control Room and call back the lions." Old Haggar said quickly, "We must revive Voltron before Yurak gets here!"

"Yurak? But he's,…"

"Dead?" Old Haggar interrupted, "not anymore."

"He's been revived?" Young Haggar couldn't believe it when she asked her.

"Along with many other robeasts of my past creation." Old Haggar confirmed.

"This is insane!" Young Haggar exclaimed.

"Zarkon's insane, Lotor's insane, Yurak's insane, Cossack's insane! Does it matter?" Old Haggar asked sharply.

"Yes, I think it does!" Young Haggar said.

"Then move your ass!" Old Haggar yelled in frustration.

"Okay! Okay! It's moving!" They both ran to the control room as quickly as they could.

Outside, Pidge was in his Green Lion, he went to pick up the large master cylinder that was the brain of Vehicle Voltron. All the while he kept a close eye on the developing storm with his scanners. When the cylinder was secure Commander Hawkins climbed into the Green Lion.

"What do you make of that storm, Pidge?" The Commander asked.

"I don't know I'm getting a lot of weird readings. One reading says that there is no precipitation in the cloud." Pidge was flipping switches and turning dials, making sure all the equipment was set correctly.

"I see a lot of lightning in that storm," the Commander said as he looked at the viewscreen. "Where is it going?"

"The storm is heading NE at 40 MPH," Pidge said, "Sounds like a typical storm to,…" The control panel started beeping. Pidge looked at it while the Commander stared at the viewscreen. He could swear that he was now seeing the storm approach them.

"It changed direction, heading due east at 70 MPH." It's heading straight for us," Pidge exclaimed.

"How can a storm just suddenly pick up speed and change direction?" Pidge took a look at the viewscreen when he received a call from the castle.

"Pidge, this is Keith do you read me?"

"Loud and clear, chief." Pidge replied. There was some fumbling with the microphone on the other end and soon Haggar's voice was on.

"Get out of there now!" Haggar shouted.

"What?" both Keith and Pidge noticed the worried look on Haggar's face. It was serious.

"That isn't a storm, it's Yurak! He is the one who destroyed Vehicle Voltron and he's out to do the same to Lion Voltron! Get out of there NOW!" Haggar was on the point of hysteria.

"We better do as she,… NNGAAAAAHHH!" The Green Lion was swept up into the winds of the storm which had more force than a tornado. The Lion went spinning out of control both Pidge and the Commander were thrown about. The master cylinder was being pulled from the lion's teeth.

"I'll take this, and destroy you all!" A voice was heard from the wind. It wasn't Yurak's voice.

"The master cylinder, we can't loose it!" Hawkins shouted.

"I'm trying but the controls are jammed!" Pidge replied.

Back at the Castle the remaining Voltron Force was called into the control room and were now watching the events unfold before them.

"We better get to the Lions and fast!" as Keith said this he grabbed a hold of the Princess. "Oh no you don't, Not this time."

"But Keith,…" Allura pleaded

"No, Princess. I can't say this enough, you have to stay here you are more important here than out there right now." Keith said calmly. "I know you like to fly the Blue Lion and I know you are good at it, but there are other people who won't be as much of a risk to this planet's safety. You must understand me." The Princess looked down and then back at Keith. "Okay, I understand." "All right Cliff, go into elevator four." "Right!" Cliff said as he jumped into the elevator and grabbed the T-bar They all went into their lions as Keith launched he contacted Lance who was still out with the survey group. "Lance come in,…"

"Keith! Pidge has been just been engulfed in this weird cloud! I can't get to him." Lance shouted.

"Be careful Lance! That's the cloud that bloody near destroyed us!" Cliff warned.

"Pidge can you hear me?" Keith shouted.

"Pidge has been knocked unconscious!" The Commander relayed. "I've lost the master cylinder! I think the cloud robeast has it!" Soon Commander Hawkins was released from the clutches of the darkcloud. The Green Lion was now falling toward the ground. Instinctively the Commander grabbed the control handles and pulled back hard. He was thrown back into the chair as the Lion made a sharp U-turn
going straight up.

"Wow! This thing has more power than I thought." Hawkins said amazed. The rest of the lions reached the area where the dark cloud was. The dark cloud started to take shape. Pieces of Vehicle Voltron were being absorbed into it. It looked like it was putting him back together. Soon the lions were faced with a gruesome sight of a fully formed, battle damaged Vehicle Voltron. The worst part was, the robot looked evil and menacing. Half of Vehicle Voltron's face had been ripped off, along with many dents and bruises caused by the crash. Wiring was hanging out of some of the joints. Voltron looked like a robot zombie. Commander Hawkins looked at the robot in disbelief. "What the hell is going on here?" Vehicle Voltron started the attack rushing at the lions. He seemed to use all of his weaponry at once. Each lion was knocked down. Every time a lion got up they were knocked down again. Krik got on the communicator."Try to attack from all sides, Voltron cannot keep track of all of you."

"That would be a good plan,… provided we could get up to do that!" The Commander saidsarcastically. He looked up at Vehicle Voltron again and saw Keith right in front of him. A surge of energystarted to pulse around Voltron. "KEITH! LOOK OUT! HE'S GOING TO USE THE ELECTO-THERMOBLASTERS!" Keith had just heard the warning when the blast came. Measuring about one megaton, theBlack Lion was thrown a distance of two miles! Allura gasped at the sight on the control room monitor!Old Haggar screamed loudly and flew across the room, collided hard against the wall and fell to the ground. "Oh my God! She's bleeding!" Ginger screamed and tried to help her. Vehicle Voltron ran toward the Black Lion and pounded on it when he reached it. Keith was in pain as he was jostled out of the flight seat. Old Haggar convulsed with every impact that Vehicle Voltron's fists made. Vehicle Voltron stopped as soon as the Black Lion stopped moving. Then he started toward the castle. Haggar lie on the floor a battered old witch. Without another word she started chanting, she started
at a whisper and spoke louder and louder as the entity that had possessed Vehicle Voltron drew nearer and nearer to the castle. At the end of her chant Old Haggar let out the loudest of screams that echoed
everywhere in the castle. A white light emitted from her as she screamed. As the last bit of light exited her, her scream quieted gradually until she was deadly quiet. Coran went to check on her as she lay on the floor
putting his hand on her neck, he felt no pulse. Old Haggar was dead. The light shot out the window toward the injured lions. All the lions absorbed the energy, Commander Hawkins saw all the controls go nuts and soon the lion just shut itself off. The same went for all the lions. Lance was fumbling with the controls. Hunk was in the air and his lion started to fall when it shut down. Cliff was still down. Keith had just woke up from a temporary unconsciousness to see all sorts of weird coding on the viewscreen. Then just as soon as the lions shut off they turned themselves back on again. All the lions reading one line on their viewscreens:

PREPARING ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM...
EXECUTING VOLTRON FORMATION SEQUENCE... STAND BY

The viewscreens activated showing Vehicle Voltron heading toward the castle. The Black Lion's viewscreen was blinking in the corner of it. A small box was forming. As soon as it loaded up, the instructions were clear:

WAITING FOR VOICE COMMAND CLEARANCE...

Keith climbed back into his chair. "Ready to form Voltron!" he shouted.

COMMAND COMPLETE, INITIALIZING PRE-LOAD SEQUENCES...
SYSTEM READY.

"Activate interlock!" Keith shouted instinctively. The screen followed suit by confirming.

INTERLOCK #1 ----- STAND BY
INTERLOCK #2 ----- STAND BY
INTERLOCK #3 ----- STAND BY
INTERLOCK #4 ----- STAND BY

"Dynotherms connected!"

POWER SOURCE EFFICIENCY IMPROVED 350
PROCESSOR RATE CLOCKED AT 950 THz.

"Infracells up!"

SOLAR CELL POWER INPUT ACTIVATED --------- 150055
PREPARING REOMTE SYSTEMS FOR FORMATION.--- DONE

At this point, all the other lion ships were now reading the same thing.

DRIVE AND THRUSTER SYSTEMS TEST: --------- OK.

"Megathrusters are go!" Keith finished.

"Voltron!" they all shouted. As the lions went to merge. Keith was keeping his eye on the littl box at the corner of the screen. It seemed to tell him everything that was going on in much more detail. Then the lions merged.

ACTIVATING ELECTO-STATIC SHIELD 1870 MV
BLACK LION FORMATION 0
RED LION FORMATION 0
GREEN LION FORMATION 0
BLUE LION FORMATION 0
YELLOW LION FORMATION 0

The percentage numbers rose quickly as each lion went into it's transformation. The other lions connected to the Black Lion. "Form feet and legs!" Keith shouted.

ANNEXING REMOTE SYSTEMS...
INTERLOCK #3 ENGAGED
COM 11-15 CONNECTED INPUT 1
INTERLOCK #4 ENGAGED
COM 16-20 CONNECTED INPUT 2

"Form arms and body!" Keith shouted.

ANNEXING REMOTE SYSTEMS...
INTERLOCK #1 ENGAGED
COM 1-5 CONNECTED INPUT 3
INTERLOCK #2 ENGAGED
COM 6-10 CONNECTED INPUT 4

"And I'll form the head!" Keith finished.

ERROR IN INPUT 5 ------------- CONTINUOUS FEED CONFLICT
CONTINUOUS FEED SOURCE ------- UNKNOWN LOCATION
CONTINUOUS FEED TYPE --------- DISTRESS SIGNAL
CONTINUOUS FEED CHANNELS ----- ALL WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES
INPUT 5 CANNOT BE SHUT DOWN! AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED - ALFOR03
INPUT IGNORED --- WARNING! INPUT FEED MAY CAUSE SEVERE OS CONFLICTS
SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE CHECK IS REQIRED.

OPERATING SYSTEM ACTIVATED IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODE.
FORMATION COMPLETE.

LION VOLTRON AI SYSTEMS ONLINE.
ENCODING INTERNAL SIGNALS
ACTIVATING ADV. DEFENSE SYSTEMS
ACTIVATING ADV. SCANNER SYSTEMS
PREPARING PRIME AND SECONADRY DIRECTIVES: ----- AUTHORIZATION: ALFOR03

DISENGAGING ELECTRO-STATIC SHIELD

PRE-LOAD: (IMMEDIATE ACCESS)
BLAZING SWORD
SPINNING LASER BLADES
SOLAR COMBAT SPEAR
ELECTRO-FORCE CROSS
DIAGNOSTICS

OTHER WAEPONS LOADED UPON COMMAND.

LOADING TACTICAL PLAN FILES -------- DONE.

As soon as all of the computer jargon had been said the words in the box were replaced with a 3-D lookalike of Lion Voltron's head.

"It looks like we have a major problem on our hands!" The talking head spoke using a slightly regal British accent and using facial expressions which made Voltron look more animated.

"Who's in charge?" Voltron asked. No one answered they were all gawking at the little box thinking that this wasn't really happening. Those at the castle witnessing this event were also astounded. Voltron TALKED! The Princess knew that Voltron was a sentient being, she would talk to the Black Lion on some nights hoping it would respond. She had never seen the robot act under his own power until now. Lance was the first to say something. "This,… this can't be happening!"

"I'm asking a question and I need an answer fast, Who is in charge?" Voltron said stressing the question. Keith finally spoke up, "I am."

"Great!" Voltron said with a big smile, "I was beginning to think that my creator put inexperienced people in there out of desperation. Oh, by the way, my name is Voltron if you didn't know already. We'll have to pause the introductions there."

"This is cool! This is so cool!" Hunk exclaimed.

Pidge was coming out of his unconsciousness. "Oh, What happened. Immediately Voltron went into action, and then stopped dead in his tracks.

"Hey, is that who I think it is?" Voltron asked pointing toward the castle and Vehicle Voltron. LV (Lion Voltron) noticed VV (Vehicle Voltron) try to pound the castle in. "What the hell does he think he's doing?" LV shouted.

"That's not VV, it's a robeast!" Keith stated reluctantly.

"Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Pidge said getting up and approaching the flight chair. Pidge was gawking at the little box in the corner of the viewscreen where Voltron was talking to the crew.

"Commander can I have my seat back now?" Pidge asked politely. The Commander turned to him. "You okay, Pidge?" Hawkins asked.

"I'm fine now." Pidge replied. "Now I would like to have my seat back,…"

"Okay! Okay!" Hawkins laughed. "Here, take your damn seat!"

"I see why you like this assignment so much." Hawkins said strapping himself into a seat in the back of the flight compartment.

"Well where's the real one?" LV asked absent mindedly.

"That is the real one." Lance added, "Just possessed by a robeast."

"Well that makes things much easier doesn't it? LV said sarcastically. "I've got to destroy the robeast without destroying VV."

"We should, at least, try to get him away from the castle." Pidge said.

"Hey look who's come back to join us!" Keith said.

"Well whoever he is, he got the right idea!" LV said. With that LV ran up behind VV and put a light stranglehold on him.

"Come on VV! Let's go take your anger out some where else." LV quipped. VV started shooting at LV. Soon they both looked like two giant wrestlers. LV would flip VV over his shoulder and VV would unleash his spinning laser blades with the swiftness of a kung-fu fighter. LV looked like he was loosing, VV seemed to be one step ahead of LV. For every one of LV, attacks there was a counter attack for each tactic from VV. For Keith this was odd. "I could have sworn we fought a ro- beast just like this one." Keith thought. Keith remembered the way to defeat it also. Keith started looking on different scanning frequencies. It was on the wide band frequency that he noticed something odd about the shape of VV.

"Hey, Voltron, take a look at this." Keith said. Voltron immediately switched is attention the frequency Keith had set. Upon the switch Voltron staggered a bit. His view went from a multi color world to a purple background with a light purple blob in the center, not to mention a loud squealing noise that increased to a volume that almost set off Voltron's gyroscopic stabilizers.

SYSTEM FEED ERROR – WIDE BAND FREQUENCY SCAN

"It looks like something was superimposed upon him." Voltron said immediately ignoring his own system warning. "I see your point, but I don't see where you are getting at,… YEOW!"

"Voltron? You okay?" Keith asked in concern.

"I'm fine, I just have an input overload in #5." Voltron shook off the effects of the overload but could not completely eliminate them.

"I had a tactic for this type of ro-beast." Keith said. "Voltron, prepare to disengage the arms."

"What!" Voltron yelped.

"Lance, I'm going to send you the Blazing Sword via Electroforce Cross. Just like last time." Keith said.

"Okay Keith," Lance said. "Pidge you remember this one?"

"Remember it, I put it into the computer once we got back!" Pidge replied "It should be automatic!"

"Oh yeah? What's the filename?" LV asked.

"TACT.Pidge-1" Pidge replied proudly.

"Oh, of course! The computer scientist always has to put their name on things." LV quipped. "It must be in the MI-OS partition."

"MI-OS…?" Pidge asked.

"Manual Interface... I'll explain later." LV interrupted.

VV started to charge again at LV. "Found it!" LV exclaimed and the tactic went into action. Followed by a comedically melodramatic scream from LV. "AAAHHH! My arms!"

DISENGAGE LIONS 2 AND 3... COMPLETE
ACTIVATING REMOTE ACCESS VIA ELECTROFORCE CROSS
AUTODETECT LOCATION
OBJECT SEND... PWPN BLAZESWORD

Both Green and Red Lions separated and landed on the ground right next to each other. VV missed LV and ended up on the ground. The Electroforce Cross was sent down to both lions and the blazing sword was formed in a few short minutes the Green Lion was reconnected and the red lion was flying around with the sword.

"Wait a minute!" Lance shouted. "We can't destroy VV!"

VV got up again but was now disoriented, the robot seemed to be going crazy. Upon VV's disorientation he stepped on a few houses, and fell down crushing part of a small town.

"Where are you LV!" VV shouted. "You won't defeat me this time!" VV got up and was now searching with his hands, as if he were blind. "Oh! Come on now! Surely the great LV would not fight an enemy on unequal terms now, would he?" There was no response from LV, just a change of position.

"That's it Voltron, keep him wondering where we are until we figure a way to separate the robeast from VV. Keith said.

"Keith, If worst comes to worst,… I give you full permission to destroy VV." Hawkins said solemnly.

"Don't say that yet, Commander," Pidge comforted. "We still have a chance. The castle speakers went on, the robeast's voice using VV as an outlet filled the silence. "Haggar is dead! Thanks to Voltron! HA! HA! HA!" VV stated. LV looked at him dumbfoundedly. "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Oh! You know definitely what I'm talking about!" VV was still looking for LV in his blindness. "It is an act of revenge!"

"Revenge?" said LV amazed.

"Don't you remember the time you went and asked your creator about your fifth input device?" VV started. "It still does annoy you, doesn't it?" The loud squealing noise filled Voltron's head again, causing him to fall to his knees.

"AHHH! What's happening." LV cried. The sound was starting to break circuits in his head as it filled the flight compartments and invaded the ears of the Voltron Force. All of the force members holding their hands on their ears tightly.

"System overload?" VV asked with an evil sneer. "It's enough to make one go mad, isn't it?"

"Oh, creator!" VV said melodramatically, "I can't help your kingdom like this, This infernal noise is affecting my instruments and scanners, I'm starting to see things that aren't there. Since you cannot find a problem, I must go see the goddess at the end of the universe. Maybe she could help me find or get rid of this problem." LV was beginning to recall the event.

"It was so kind of King Alfor to let you go, even in the middle of a war. After all the effects were starting to be noticeable at that time." The robeast said wryly. "You were seeing enemies, like Haggar, inflicting pain on the people of the kingdom in mass numbers. Many times you would leave the repair bay to go and fight things that weren't there. You knew Haggar had inflicted this upon you Voltron, you could feel that it was her magic. Not to mention that she invaded your sleep cycles!" VV laughed maniacally at this.

"King Alfor, poor King Alfor, didn't know what to do. He was seeing his greatest creation go mad before his eyes! His wife had already thought you were crazy, thinking that once you go mad you would be bent upon total control of Arus!" VV paused to look at LV's expression. Although the face outside couldn't give one. The gold lights in his eyes were burning brighter.

"No one knew that it was a trick." The robeast continued, "And Voltron, the biggest fool in the universe went for it! So you went to the edge of the universe,…" the robeast started his conclusion. "The goddess greeted you with open arms. But it was not the goddess, but the craggy old witch Haggar that cursed you,as you discovered when you came face to face. She put a spell on you that nearly destroyed you!" the ro-beast continued on his seemingly endless explanation each point driving emotionally at LV.

"But she didn't, I'm still here" LV replied.

"Yes. But what TIME is it?" the robeast laughed. "Twelve years have gone by! Did you ever bother to look at the world surrounding you? There is a new castle standing, you know. How, did that come about?" LV looked at the castle saw the new one had come up from the ground.

"Voltron, be careful! He's going to try to manipulate your mind." Keith warned but LV wasn't listening, the sound in the flight compartment muffled his speech.

"Yes, Voltron! Much time has passed, since you were last activated." The robeast said. "The princess is now a pretty young woman at the age of about 20. You never noticed? Where's her father? Oh, I'm afraid I have some sad news to tell you,…" LV was listening, he couldn't hear anything else now. The robeast's voice channeled through VV was the only audible thing.

"… Your creator, King Alfor, is dead!"

"NO!" LV shouted. "You lie!"

"Yes, it's true I'm afraid, he was run though by the blade of your worst enemy Zarkon! But youwouldn't have known that, you weren't there to save him! You weren't there to prevent future torture andslavery of the people you were created to protect! You weren't there to see to the safety of the royalfamily! You weren't there to see Zarkon occupy this planet and make the beautiful grassy plains of Arusturn into barren dessert! It is your fault that King Alfor is not here today,… strike two! HAHAHAHAHA! " Allura gasped at hearing this and immediately went toward the communication unit. "Voltron don't listen to him! You couldn't have known,…"

"Yes, Voltron, you couldn't have known. But the fact of the matter is, you risked the lives and freedom of Arus for a problem with your circuitry! Your ignorance killed King Alfor!"

"NOOO!" LV rushed VV. The Red Lion reconnecting.

"Voltron, What are you doing!" Keith yelled. The robeast that controlled VV had regained his sight and formed a blazing sword of its own. Now both Voltrons were fighting using their swords. The fight was fast paced, LV putting all his energy into it. He was gaining an upper hand. Then as soon as it started it ended with a bright flash of light through VV midsection. VV didn't blow up, he just shattered into his 15 pieces and his sword. Keith looked at what the sword had impacted with and was filled with dread.

"Oh, No!" "The master cylinder,… it's destroyed!" Lance finished. Voltron looked up at what he had done There he saw VV's master cylinder split in two by his own sword.

"Oh, God,… What have I done?" LV stammered in complete shock. The group gathered around the Control Room monitor took in the sight of what had happened. They all could not speak. The robeast formed out of no where, right in front of LV. It was in fact the Evil LV robeast that Haggar created. "Strike three LV!" It laughed at him. "You must be going mad, you have just killed two lives and ruined the future of another. Not to mention putting fifteen people out of a job! Shame on you!"

"Voltron listen to me,…" Keith shouted but was too late.

"You BASTARD!" LV got up again and charged at the real robeast, but was overpowered by the advance timing that the Evil LV had. They both fought again this time the Evil LV was gaining the upperhand. Soon LV was pinned to the ground. More robeasts formed around them, including Yurak.

"Good job! I'm impressed. Zarkon nor Lotor could even get this far." Yurak said confidently Four robeasts surrounded Voltron and dragged him upright by the arms. Yurak started hitting Voltron in the midsection. It looked more like a gang fight now, and it was seriously in favor of the enemy. They all took turns beating LV. The Voltron Force felt every impact that Voltron felt. "We need a big weapon, Voltron!" Keith shouted.

"What about the lion head attack?" Lance asked.

"There are to many, the lion heads won't get them all." Keith replied, "We need something else." The picture of Voltron in the corner was now starting to show static. They were loosing him.

"Voltron I need a list of all the weapons you have." Keith said calmly. Voltron did not reply verbally but he did manage to come up with the list. Keith looked down the list, carefully ruling out weapons that he knew wouldn't work. Then he saw it.

"Voltron! I need a Sonic Roar!" Keith shouted.

"It is,… only used in the Black Lion. Voltron managed to say. Keith pounded his fist on the controls. "We need to get out of this!"

"Maybe I can multiply the file for all the lions, because I can't find it here." Pidge replied.

"Do it!" Keith yelled, "We're running out of time."

"Don't give up Voltron!" Lance said seeing the picture of Voltron go blank for a split second.

"I've got it!" Pidge exclaimed, "Try it now Voltron!" And with that Voltron activated the loudest Sonic Roar yet! Multiplied by five! The sound wasenough to measure at least 2 megatons of force and shifted the air around Voltron as it was emitted. The Voltron Force were covering their ears tightly and yet still going dizzy by the deafening noise. The castle windows shattered. And the Robeasts were thrown a distance of 4 miles. Some robeasts disappeared in a
flash of light. Everyone in the castle was on the floor and trying to get up after the awful din subsided. About half the robeasts remained. They were getting up again. Yurak was still alive or dead but still moving. The robeasts charged at Voltron, collided and tacked him. More beating took place.

"This is impossible!" Pidge shouted.

"Voltron! I need another Sonic Roar!"

"I can't do that for another ten minutes! The solar battery has to recharge." Voltron replied in pain.

"Now what?" Lance asked.

"Why don't we spli'up and disperse 'em?" Cliff shouted.

"Great idea Cliff!" Keith shouted, "But we have to get out first." In the castle, odd things were happening with the castle computer. Coran looked at the monitors. Chip had entered the room, he had been permitted to leave just a while ago. With all the noise, he wondered what was going on. "I don't understand this, the Castle computer just started downloading something into the emergency data bank." Coran said.

"Where is it coming from?" Allura asked.

"I'm trying to figure that out now." Coran replied as he pushed buttons on the console. "The computer says that the data stream is coming from the repair bay."

"But there isn't anything in the repair bay." Allura said. "Do you think the castle has been breached?"

"That's highly unlikely." Coran said. "But the sensors are detecting a metallic object with high energy emissions."

"Where's Vehicle Voltron's sword?" Chip asked looking up into the monitors Everyone turned around to see Chip approaching the group.

"Chip! You're okay!" Ginger shouted, almost about to run up and hug him.

"The sword contains all the backup data." Chip blurted out almost uncontrollably. Coran managed to get a visual of the repair bay. Vehicle Voltron's sword lay embedded into asmall opening in the wall only the hilt was seen. Suddenly, the castle alarms went off followed by a communication from a guard station in the laser turrets. "Coran! The castle weapons system is going crazy!"

"Voltron's downloading himself into the castle system!" Chip shouted.

"How do you know this?" Allura asked.

"Your father told me." Chip said.

"My father?" Allura gasped Then, without any warning the systems went dead. "Now what's going on!" Coran shouted. A statement flashed on the control room screen.

SYSTEM INCOMPLETE --- AI NOT FOUND.

"But Vehicle Voltron never had an artificial intelligence system!" Coran yelled worriedly, "All the controls are locked up!"

TO BE CONTINUED…