The three Voltron force members as well as Voltron fell silent as they knew that those ships were heading for them.
"Keith to Castle of Lions... come in... urgent." Keith said as he continued with a warning procedure. Voltron, Hunk and Pidge were keeping an eye out for anything suspicious while Voltron flies to the crash site and scanning for the boot block in the wreckage.
There was no loud squeal on the line so the communication protocols were set correctly and frequencies were okay. Keith continued communicating with the castle to update them. There seemed to be a deafening silence on the planet, an unconscious note to all inhabitants that a major storm was coming, a Doom attack. Voltron knew that a multi-robeast attack was emanate since it happened before. Even Voltron knew he was going to need help with the situation. Last time he was lucky. This time... who knows. Voltron searched the wreckage and surpringly enough, he found the boot block quickly and easily. The thing was about the size of a computer CPU only this one had a large dent in the side of it, right where there was also placed a sticker with the noted warning on it as said by Jeff earlier. Hunk disconnected any loose wiring in the area that the boot block was tied up in and hefted it to the Green Lion for Pidge to take an initial look at it. Keith looked at it as it was extracted from the ship. "Well I can safely say this, If I had something like that land on my face, I'd be stupid too."
Pidge examined the damage and noticed that the box had been mangled enough to make a small opening near the top. Then, like any computer expert, Pidge decided to open it up "on site."
"What the heck is this stuff?" Pidge exclaimed as he opened up the covering and found a silver jelly like substance inside covering some of the components. Pidge goes to touch it but his hand is slapped away the silver jelly moves.
"Careful Pidge! It could be a mercury base." Keith warned as he slapped the hand away. Then both Pidge and Keith see the silver blob move again.
"I don't believe this!" Keith said in amazement.
"Is it some sort of alien life?" Pidge asked.
"Don't look at me. I'm not the expert." Keith replied shrugging his shoulders. "Let's get it back to the castle and find out. Professor Page should be there by now."
Voltron sensed the Voltron Force returning to their lions.
"Keith, Pidge, Hunk, I have good news to report." Voltron started his announcement.
"The Doom ships have halted their advancement, and the castle systems are almost in complete working order. I detected a long range scanner signal from the castle about half a minute ago." Voltron finished.
"That's good to hear, Voltron." Keith replied to the good news, he felt a little better knowing that those in the castle have a better knowledge of what was coming. "Did you just say that the Doom ships have halted their advancement?" Keith asked Voltron.
"Affirmative." Voltron replied respectively. "I have a report from the castle that the moment the scanners went online Haggar was able to conjure a spell to keep them in place for a while, but she says it will not last."
"Good that may just give us the time we need." Keith said leaning back in his flight seat. "Let's get back to the castle." In a few minutes the lions were airborne again heading toward the Castle of Lions.
"Hey Voltron, can you run a scan on this gooey silvery stuff in the boot block?" Pidge asked.
"Don't tell me the boot block is melted!" Voltron exclaimed.
"No, it moves!" Pidge replied.
"It moves?" Voltron asked his face in the small window contorting interrogatively.
Voltron began a scan as Pidge put the boot block down on a small platform off to the side of his flight seat.
"Pidge... That slivery stuff is alive." Voltron stated continuing the scan. "The molecular structure is unlike anything I have ever seen, a metallic/silicon based DNA-like structure... it's amazing." Voltron scanned further...
"It is aware of all of us." Voltron said. "I can communicate to it but it doesn't understand me, nor do I understand it."
"Could that be what is missing from Vehicle Voltron that makes him work?" Hunk asked. "No wonder why the Garrison would want to keep it a secret."
"Better close that thing up Pidge." Keith ordered. "We wouldn't want to loose whatever is in there."
"Roger that, Captain." Pidge said as he closed up the boot block. However, a small portion of the silvery goo spilled over the back side of the block as Pidge closed and secured it. The goo dribbled down and onto he floor where it slowly seeped into it.
Within a few minutes the lions had returned to the castle. Voltron unloaded himself from the lion ships and was now in his hologram form waiting for Professor Page to arrive. Waiting with him were Keith and Princess Allura as well as Pidge carrying the boot block. All of them were in the Control Room as Coran guided Professor Page and Commander Hawkins in. Pidge put the boot block down on the floor next to him and a control console. A tendril of the bio-metallic life form oozed out of the crack in the boot block seam and entered the control console.
Commander Hawkins was somewhat intrigued by the technology that caused the image of a holographic Voltron looking back at him.
"What did you find out about Vehicle Voltron." Hawkins asked.
"It seems that the system will not work unless it is supplemented with this boot block." Voltron said. "I have also detected an advanced artificial intelligence system within the main data banks that have not been used."
"You said that there was never an AI system installed Professor, what's going on?" Hawkins said looking at the Professor.
"I am sure that there was not an Artificial Intelligence system installed in Vehicle Voltron." Page rebutted. "Dr. Loran and King Alfor had never perfected it."
Voltron placed his scan results onto the castle screen and a still image of the message that was flashed to him. The professor just looked at the images. Then the scans and images of the silvery goo were placed on the control room screen. "This stuff was found inside the boot block." Voltron said.
"You opened the boot block?" The professor interrupted.
"Yes." Voltron replied interrogatively, "Why?"
"You let it out?" The Professor asked raising his voice.
"It?" Voltron asked, "You mean the gooey alien life form we found inside the boot block?"
The Professor was silent.
"Professor? Is this alien being held against its will?" Voltron asked.
"What?" The Professor retorted. "I would never do such a thing... honest. As a matter of fact, by opening it you are putting its life in danger."
"I don't know anything about this, so someone better fill me in on this quickly." Hawkins commanded, not having a clue as to what is going on.
"I agree." Coran joined in.
"All in good time." Voltron assured them.
Voltron all of a sudden shifted violently. Putting a hand (lion head) to the back of his neck briefly.
"Ouch, what was that?" Voltron asked to no one in particular.
"Are you okay?" The Princess asked Voltron.
"I think so." Voltron asked then turning to the screens that were typing out a message. Voltron stopped and stared at the message of symbols.
"What is that?" Pidge asked.
"A first contact." Voltron replied quietly. "I can read it."
Everyone was silent for a moment.
"Well, what does it say?" Hawkins asked somewhat impatiently.
"It says, 'Reconnect.'" Voltron relayed. "I am also detecting a foreign object within my data banks."
"Oh, this is not good." The professor said worriedly.
"Why?" The Princess asked.
"It is a long story." The professor said.
"Well now is the best time to fill us in." Hawkins commanded sternly.
"I'd sure like to know what is going on." Keith agreed.
"All right! All right! I'll tell you. But I must tell you that I do not know everything about this system." The Professor stated.
"I would have known Garrison Intelligence was behind this." Hawkins grumbled. The professor looked at the commander interrogatively, shook his head and started the story.
"I was working with the initial flight team for the Vehicle Voltron project, King Alfor and Dr. Loran were with me at the time." the Professor started. "We had a few of our fighters assigned to escort the robot during its test flight. In flight control we noticed a small spike in the energy readings. Dr. Loran told us that he did expect that to go away after the system worked out an optimization for best energy/work ratios. Everything was working perfectly, we had the system in Manual mode then the systems shut down, all of them. We tried contacting the pilot at the time but there was no answer. I consulted the king about this, he told me that the only reason why the system would do that was if there was a serious problem or a breach of pre-programmed protocols. Then, an error message flashed on the screen, a number that I can't remember. It was then that King Alfor told me that someone was trying to steal Voltron."
"I heard about that in the final reports before we were taking Voltron on the first mission." Hawkins replied.
"Yes, we informed you that because we noticed significant operational differences when Vehicle Voltron returned. Vehicle Voltron's systems after recognizing the breach in protocol shut off, a few minutes later the robot was falling through the stratosphere. Vehicle Voltron's systems reactivated and the thrusters were at a maximum. We told the pilot to abort his actions because we knew what he was up to. There was still no reply from the cockpit. A few moments later the system went dead again, radar couldn't find the robot anywhere, the fighter pilots claimed that the robot just disappeared. Alfor returned to Arus proclaiming the project a loss."
"Disappeared? how did you get Vehicle Voltron back?" Pidge asked.
"We found the robot near destroyed in the neutral zone between the Galaxy Alliance space and the Drule Empire, just drifting in space. But this discovery didn't take place until after Alfor had died. So it was up to Dr. Loran alone to rebuild the robot at re-program the operating system. We put the robot together as best as we could following all of the instructions in the copy of the manual that King Alfor left for us just in case. We could have sworn the repair was a success except for one thing. We noticed that the boot block seemed to be incompatible with the rest of the system. It kept trying to erase the main OS as a virus. We found the metallic liquid inside. I took a sample of it and went to study it. The tests were commenced again. The manual portion of the tests reported no problems, it was when the artificial intelligence systems were activated we experienced more problems. The OS suddenly took control of all the neighboring systems. Settings were being altered to an unknown computer language. The anti-virus program deleted the entire system. Vehicle Voltron's system crashed and the robot was soon falling back to earth. We were able to keep it from impacting the ground but we had to figure out the problem. Days later I found out that the liquid was actually a life form that could communicate to us. However, when it tried the entire lab computer system went down. To this day, we still can't figure out what language it speaks in. The boot block could not be replaced because we did not have the materials to make another, those only came from Arus, under agreement with King Alfor. Under impending attack from the Drule Empire, we put the life form in suspended animation and left it in the boot block. Dr. Loran re-installed the system and let it only operate in manual mode. Opening the boot block, or any damage to the boot block will cause the internal temperature to increase and bring the life form out of suspended animation. It is already clear that it has invaded Lion Voltron."
Everyone looked at Lion Voltron expecting him to crash.
"That may explain why I can now read what the life form is saying." Voltron replied.
"This may be an extraordinary breakthrough." Page shouted as he realized what Voltron was saying. "You cracked the life forms language code!"
"I did?" Voltron said naively.
"Yes you did, try to contact it, again." Page said.
Voltron found a data access port and connected to it. He then commenced to communicate to the alien.
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LV ($ ) - Hello?
Alien ( ) - Who?
LV - Voltron.
Alien - Greetings...
LV - Give internal status
Alien - Unable to comply...
LV - Details...
Alien - Processing...
Alien - System failure, invalid format...
"Hmm… Then why am I able to talk to it?" Voltron wondered, and then began to scan his own system. After a few minutes he found the answer.
DATA TABLE:
$ SYSASSEMBLY:HEXDEC / BITS:8
AUTODCPH PROBE TRANSLATION: SYSASSEMBLY:BDEC / BITS:12
TRUNC: SYSASSEMBLY: -4 - SET+1
TRUNC: BITS: -4 - SET+1
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"That's it?" Voltron wondered as he tried to find a much more difficult answer to the problem. "But that's impossible!"
Voltron kept looking at the data going through. "The probe truncates the data and places the remaining data in the next set… No system is that versatile."
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LV - List data table...
Alien - Processing...
Alien - Relaying...
Alien - SYS: 0123456789ABCEDFGHJKL B: 000000000000
LV - Stand by...
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"It seems we have a language problem." Voltron said. "The alien can communicate, but we have to recalibrate the computers to accept Bidecimal and base 12 binary."
"Well how come you were able to communicate with it?" Hawkins asked.
"I have had a stable system, the probe recalibrated itself to my communication base. That is why I can communicate to it. I will tell the probe to return to the boot block and report its findings." Voltron replied.
Voltron accessed the Green Lion where the probe was detected and sent it a message to return to the boot block.
"The probe just told me it has become a permanent communication link between me and Vehicle Voltron."
"But what about the Vehicle Voltron system? Where will it load itself?" Coran asked not wanting to have the castle a sitting duck during an attack.
Voltron re-entered communication with the alien.
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LV - List data table.
Alien - SYS: 0123456789ABCDEFGHJKL B: 000000000000
LV - Truncate last four digits on each base, and place instructions in next block.
Alien - Processing,...
Alien - NEW BASE: SYS: 0123456789ABCDEF B: 00000000... saving configuration...
Alien - Probe detected... Receiving data...
Alien - Configuring frequencies, feed I/O rate...
Alien - Accessing internal SYSTEM... SYSTEM found: TRACK 0; VOLUME ID: EESD2
Alien - Transferring...
Alien - Optimizing...
Alien - Starting system...
(Alien) VV - Vehicle Voltron version 1.0... Activation sequence paused; awaiting Garrison Command Clearance...
LOGIN: PCKI#114
PASSWORD (Key):
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"Okay, who has clearance?" Voltron asked looking directly at Professor Page.
"I'm sorry Voltron, but I was never given clearance. I never even knew this existed in the system." The professor said.
"You have to be kidding me!" Voltron shouted.
"Dr. Loran must have the clearance codes." Hawkins assumed. "Either he or maybe even King Alfor may have had them."
"No Commander, Alfor does not have them." Page replied. "After the failure of the first trial, he decided to let us handle the project on our own if we were able to get the robot even partially operational."
"Why would my father just leave a weapon of such power in your hands?" Allura asked, followed by receiving a glance of sudden contempt from Hawkins. "Sorry, I just found it odd that he would just give up on a project like that." Allura said trying to cover up her obvious verbal mistake. Commander Hawkins just shook his head in disbelief and continued to listen to the conversation. "Keep in mind dear princess that your father was called back by Coran due to the impending invasion of Zarkon's forces." Page reasoned.
"So Dr. Loran is the only one…" Hawkins thought. "I'd better get on the horn to Galaxy Garrison and tell them the situation."
"That's right, The garrison has no idea what has happened as of yet." Allura said much to the discomfort of Commander Hawkins.
"We don't even know if Dr. Loran is still in Garrison Intelligence." Hawkins replied. "We don't even know if he's still alive!"
"Well we have to find out sooner or later," Voltron said plainly… "If we want to get Vehicle Voltron back into operational status."
The control room console beeped with a negative sounding tone. Pidge looked at the data the console was reporting.
"How do we have until we get Vehicle Voltron repaired?" Pidge asked turning to Hawkins. "I would assume with an average 35 member repair crew, about a week."
"We don't have a week." Pidge reported as he put another image on the main screen. The image showed a single Drule battleship. The statistics were placed alongside the image.
"It's only one ship…" Allura speculated
"It is one ship, but it is about 20,000 tons overweight." That ship is carrying a large cargo.
"That ship is carrying a cargo of 24 robeasts, and 5 fighter squadrons." Haggar said over everyone.
"Haggar… please tell me you're kidding." Keith asked turning to her.
"I wish I could… but that ship is approaching Arus very quickly." Haggar confirmed the group's worst fears.
"The scanners are telling me that the ship will be here in less than 8 hours." Pidge confirmed.
"That doesn't give us ANY time to put VV back together again." Voltron assumed. "The situation looks pretty bleak considering how much trouble I had before with an army of robeasts."
"I can try to put VV back together…" Haggar said quietly. "It will be hard, and it may take all my energy to do it, but I think I can."
"What happens if you lose all of your energy?" Allura asked. Haggar remained quiet.
"I can't let you do that." Allura replied. She knew full well the silent treatment from Keith meant something serious.
"Allura, I appreciate your concern. But it looks like I may have no choice in the matter. Vehicle Voltron must be repaired and reactivated before the robeasts get here." Haggar answered quietly. Her solemness seemed to produce an eerie feeling within everyone in that room.
"In the meantime, we can try to get the codes to VV's system and get him back online here, then all we have to do is a simple system transfer." Voltron concluded.
"I believe we all know what we need to do, and time is short." Keith said.
"Let's hope for the best…" Allura concluded.

A few moments later the Lion force was gathered in the control room.
"Okay then." Keith continued. "Pidge, Hunk, Lance, Princess, We are going to take Haggar to the crash site. And we will remain out there when the doom fleet comes. The Vehicle Voltron Force is to stay here and help protect the castle until their Voltron is operative."
There was a small pause…
"The situation doesn't look good." Keith said quietly. "As much as I hate to say this, we may not make it back, if we fail. I give you the option to bail out now, if you want to. Especially you Princess."
"I'm not backing down!" Allura glared at Keith defiantly.
"Allura, I want you to understand, you are the leader of an entire planet, with out you the people of Arus will be lost. Are you absolutely sure about this, even though it may be a death sentence?"
Allura looked at Coran to see if he was going to prevent her from doing so, surprisingly, he said nothing. Coran only nodded to her.
"I will go." Allura said. "I may be the leader of this planet, but I have no intentions of hiding while my planet is under attack."
"Okay team. Get ready for launch!" Keith concluded.
As the lion force got into their lions, Voltron was briefing them on what he had discovered during the past fight.
"The robeasts are different from the usual." Voltron reported. "Although similar in energy usage, they tend to be Lazon efficient. Even though the robeasts have more endurance because of this, the structure that causes them to be that way is flawed."
"How so?" Keith asked.
"The structure is vulnerable to high volume sound at a specific frequency." Voltron replied.
"Would that be the same frequency as used in the Sonic Roar?" Lance asked quizzically.
"Bingo!" Voltron replied. And the lions with their pilots and Haggar went immediately to the crash site.

Later, in the recreation room, and throughout various places in the castle the remaining Voltron force members wandered aimlessly and nervously. Having been told the recent news, they all felt helpless to what was in store for the future. Lisa was tending to Jeff at the time in the infirmary. Finally that blasted Nanny had given them some time alone.
"Lisa…" Jeff said with a slightly raspy voice.
"Yes, Jeff?" Lisa responded kneeling next to him at the bedside.
Jeff cleared his throat and continued, "I don't think that I will be able to pilot the Command Shuttle with the condition I am in now."
"But Jeff, it is only a cast." Lisa said.
"But it will also get in my way." Jeff said. "If we get VV back in the air again, I want to make sure that everything goes according to plan." Jeff continued. "Everyone's safety depends on it. I want you to come back to me alive."
Tears welled up in Lisa's eyes. But she brushed them aside and regained her composure quickly.
"Who is going to pilot the Command Shuttle in your absence?" Lisa asked.
"I don't know…" Jeff replied quietly as he began to think of likely candidates.
Shifting slightly, Jeff tried to sit up but forgot about the broken leg and winced in pain.
"Jeff, you shouldn't do that!" Lisa said coming to his aid.
"I know that now!" Jeff said with a painful grin.
Lisa smiled in return. "Jeff, get some sleep."
"Sleep? I haven't been able to sleep a wink since all of this happened." Jeff said.
"Oh, you worry too much." Lisa poked wryly.
"And why shouldn't I?" Jeff responded coldly. "I am responsible for the lives of 15 crew members." Jeff paused and then a wry smile came over his face. "And I can't take them anywhere!"
Lisa hit him in the arm lightly and laughed a bit. "You're lucky you're injured, or I would have clocked you a good one!"
"Oh really?" Jeff quipped with a silly grin.
"Yes really!" Lisa replied leaning on Jeff's injured leg a bit.
"Ow! Ow! OW!" Jeff shouted and struggled to get away. "I give in! I give in!"
"Good, I'm glad you see things my way." Lisa quipped.
"Do I have a choice?" Jeff replied wryly rubbing his sore leg.
"Yes, you do…" Lisa said mockingly, "Mine!"
Both of them started laughing.
"Jeff, are you sure you don't think you will be able to pilot the command shuttle?" Lisa asked with concern.
"NOT WHILE I'M AROUND!" Nanny shouted.
"Oh no! She's back!" Jeff muttered.
"You get out and stop putting thoughts into that boy's head!" Nanny yelled point blank at Lisa.
"Nanny! I'm not a boy! I'm a man!" Jeff protested.
"You certainly don't act like one!" Nanny quipped. "All you Garrison people are the same. You try anything to get yourselves killed for no reason at all! I don't know why the Princess puts her trust in you people!"
Lisa turned her head and looked at her with an angry scowl.
"Excuse me?" Lisa spat.
"Uh Oh!" Jeff winced.
"You heard me!" Nanny shouted.
"Well, Excuse me for being here for you people when you need us! Excuse me for being the people you call when Zarkon's forces are about to kill you. Excuse us for having another Voltron!"
"All you people do is put wild ideas into the Princess's head!" Nanny shouted back defiantly.
"We? Put ideas into a Princess's head?" Lisa shouted back. "Correct me if I am wrong but we do not take a gun and point it at her head saying 'YOU WILL FLY THE BLUE LION!' If you want to isolate your precious princess from violence, you might as well tell her to go commit suicide!"
Nanny gasped, "OH! HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE PRINCESS!"
"How dare YOU insult the princess." Lisa spat angrily.
"You have no idea…" Nanny started.
"NO! YOU have no idea! Princess Allura is a grown woman who can make her own decisions. You keep wanting to prevent her from doing her job, protect her from everything." Lisa shouted but gradually lessened in volume. "If you wanted to find someone to replace her, WHY DIDN'T YOU CONTACT THE GARRISON?"
Both paused for a moment Jeff looked on with an apathetic expression.
"If Allura wants to risk her life in the Blue Lion, that is up to her. WE don't force her to do it. I know Allura a lot more than you do."
"How dare you say that! I am her governess!" Nanny shouted.
"AND I AM HER FRIEND!" Lisa shouted and walked to the doorway. "Why don't you be one to her too?" Lisa walked away angry with the words "I can't stand that woman!"
Nanny went to check on the cast and readjusted the straps to elevate Jeff's leg higher, much to the pain of Jeff.
"Geez, what are you trying to do take your anger out on me?" Jeff said wincing in pain.
"Now don't you get smart with me young man!" Nanny said with some disgust.
"Hi, my name is Jeff!" Jeff said smartly. "I at least have a name." Jeff held out his hand, Nanny slapped it away and remained silent fluffing up a pillow.
"She is right you know." Jeff said calmly.
Nanny said nothing and continued to fold linens and fluff pillows, she was obviously angry.
"I am going to have to file a formal report on this incident. I know Lisa is." Jeff concluded.
"File all the reports you want." Nanny spat. "That is all that will be left of you eventually."
Nanny left the room and began crying.

The Commander went into his temporary quarters at the castle. The Princess was kind enough to give him one of the large ambassadorial rooms equipped with a communications terminal. Hawkins proceeded with the communications protocol level zero directly to the Space Marshall. This protocol was used in emergency situations only and could not be tapped into by foreign spy equipment. In a short moment the terminal was establishing the link. A few seconds later a very worried looking Space Marshall Graham was staring back at him.
"Commander, I don't like the fact that you of all people are calling me on a level zero protocol." Graham said coldly.
Hawkins looked down at the table for a moment and then looked Graham straight in the eye. "It may be worse than you think."
"Good, grief." Graham replied in shock. "Then it must be true."
"About the crash landing of Vehicle Voltron and the Explorer? Yes it is." Hawkins confirmed.
"We lost the carrier signal for Vehicle Voltron over 12 hours ago. Where have you been?" Graham almost shouted.
"Permission to speak candidly sir." Hawkins asked, feeling a fit of rage setting in.
"Permission denied." Graham replied coldly. "I have been trying to keep a tight lid on this whole situation by saying it is a main computer glitch. It is all over the network news stations!"
"With all due respect sir, It isn't as if I had my share of problems over here!" Hawkins snapped angrily. "Even though I am on Arus, there is a Doom ship heading this way with 24 robeasts. There is only one robot online and we are trying to get the other reactivated. One of our crew is injured, and we are still trying to figure out if everyone is going to make it through this situation or not!"
Both of them were silent for a while.
"My apologies, commander." Graham sighed. "I have been trying to tell the 900 planets that everything is fine… they don't believe me. Those damn news reporters!"
"I need to get in touch with Dr. Loran." Hawkins continued. "He has the system entry codes."
"You've got Voltron back online?" Graham asked in astonishment.
"Not entirely, we need that passcode." Hawkins requested again.
"I'll get to it personally." Graham replied.
"Thank you sir, but please hurry. We don't have much time." Hawkins stressed.
"Understood… Graham out." And the link was closed. Hawkins sunk into the chair. All they had to do was wait.

At the crash site, the lions landed and all of the pilots except Pidge exited them. Those that exited gazed upon the destruction they saw.
"No matter how much I look at it, I can't understand why this happened." Lance wondered. "I mean Vehicle Voltron was a Voltron."
"Even our Voltron is not indestructible." Keith replied quietly. "They got caught off guard by a cloud of robeasts."
"The worse thing is, one of those robeasts was able to take control of Vehicle Voltron's systems even though the robot is alien." Allura added as she approached them from behind. Just as she reached them their communicators beeped. Keith responded.
"The robeast fleet is now seven hours away from the strike point." Voltron said calmly as he flashed a series of informational screens. One looking like a hurricane path prediction map and others giving out scanning info on the fleet itself.
"This fleet doesn't look that big." Hunk said analytically. "Only five flagships."
"One of those carrying 24 robeasts." Lance added glumly.
"We have no idea what these robeasts are except that they have a weakness that may help us." Allura stated plainly, "What if they have some sort of sound shielding?"
"The Sonic Roar may not be able to help us then." Voltron reported. "We would have to eliminate the shield, then use the Sonic Roar, then eliminate the robeast."
"Sounds time consuming." Keith quipped.
"That depends on how much shielding they use." Voltron added.
"I don't think that Zarkon would send 24 robeasts out into battle unprepared." Pidge assumed.
"So we will have to assume the worst." Keith reported.
"It would be nice if we had the other Voltron to help us." Hunk said with a 'wishful thinking' tone.
"I severely doubt that the Vehicle Voltron would be operational in time." Voltron reported.
"Why not?" Hunk asked almost hurtfully.
"I just tuned into a transmission by Commander Hawkins to the Space Marshall."
"And?" Lance asked.
"They are trying to locate Dr. Loran for the password code. The guy who helped build Vehicle Voltron." Voltron reported.
"So?" Keith asked.
"If my records are correct, I don't know how I got this information, Dr. Loran died 4 years ago."
"Do you mean to tell me that the codes may have died with him?" Lance asked with an unbelieving tone.
"I think, that we won't find them any time soon if they didn't." Voltron said still remaining hopeful. Voltron's mind was mulling over the image that was flashed to him in the EESD2. "I still can't figure out what VV meant by the flash of light he made."
"Flash of light?" Keith asked. "You never told us about this."
"Yeah, a flash of fight with something red in the middle." Voltron relayed.
"You know, I wonder if it was an image flashed for that instant." Pidge said. "Can I see what you saw?"
"Sure, I still have it saved in my memory banks." Voltron said as he called up the necessary file. Voltron played the file to all of them.
When Pidge saw the flash with a red blob he told Voltron to stop playing the file.
"Go back to that flash of light." Pidge commanded. Voltron rewind the images frame by frame until they were all seeing a red blob in a white background with a line of black on the red blob.
"Can you enhance that image?" Pidge asked.
"I can try." Voltron reported. "Let's increase the resolution and despeckle the image." Voltron soon reworked the image to reveal a red rectangle with rounded corners and a black line off to one side next to a series of what looked to be sprocket holes and another black line through the center perpendicular to the other line.
"It looks like a credit card…" Lance guessed as he looked at the image. "One with spoke holes along the top."
"What do you think Voltron would want with such a thing like that?" Hunk asked. "I guess he could use one if his repair bills skyrocket." Hunk quipped briefly but no one was really paying attention.
"I wonder if Professor Page knows anything about this?" Voltron asked. "I'll contact the castle."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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