Voltron Spartan Defendors

by Codey-Wraith

Who would you want to control Voltron? A soldier that protects those around them or a power hungry madman? Follow the Master Chief, and his allies as they assemble Voltron to defeat those who threaten the universe.

3. Training and planning

Voltron Spartan Defendors Chapter three

Another instalment of the Spartans controlling the greatest weapon in the universe.

I OWN NOTHING!

:Chapter Start:

Arus-Castle of Lions-A Couple days later

Princess Allura was typing away at the main console of the Castle control room. Coran at her side holding what appeared to be a timer while Allura raised her hand before swinging it down as she activated the castles alarms as Coran started the timer.

As the system alarms went off in the Castle Kelly and Linda arrived and Kelly asks, "What is the?" she looked at the Princess and Coran with a frown and asks, "Is this a test?" the princess nods causing the two Spartans to accept the scenario.

Princess Allura frowns as she asks, "Where is the Paladins?" that was when five screens appeared with the Chief, Six, Jorge, Tom, Lucy and Fred were inside their Lions.

The Chief asks, "We are ready for launch, what is the situation?"

Princess Allura frowns before deactivating the alarm and asking in disbelief, "This was a simulation," The Chief nods before Allura suddenly questions, "So you are already in your lions?"

The answer came from Jorge who says, "We were about to start training with the Lions."

Six simply adds, "Not all of us have experience in flying giant machine animals."

Fred sighs and says, "You may want to call the Spartan threes, they are currently guarding all the entrances to the castle."

Tom frowns before asking, "Why exactly was a simulation called?"

Coran answered with enthusiasm, "We were trying to prove that you needed to train harder to form Voltron."

The Chief nods before saying, "Well we have some training to complete. So we are heading outside." The screens closed before the five Lions launched from the main castle.

Doctor Halsey entered the bridge and asks, "Is there an issue? I was going over the technology of the Medical pods that our visitors are currently using."

"Simulation," Kelly answered causing Halsey to sigh and laugh when Kelly says, "John and the others were already in their lions."

Doctor Halsey nods before saying, "My Spartans and the Spartan threes excel at the mission. But I need to get the Spartan threes into them, their augmentations could endanger them."

Coran frowns before saying, "It can't possibly be that bad."

"One of them died killed several dozen enemy combatants then fell over dead when the fighting finished," Kelly informed before leaving the room, "We need to finish checking the supplies," and left with Linda.

Doctor Halsey sees that the Princess was confused, so the moderate Doctor asks, "What is the issue now, your highness?"

Allura frowns in conflict before asking, "Are all humans like this?"

Halsey frowns before saying, "No, this is not normal for humans but is normal for Spartans," this causes the Princess to frown more before Halsey explains, "The Spartans were trained, Augmented and conditioned to be the ultimate soldier," Halsey appears annoyed before saying, "while originally sacrificing the emotions such as compassion and complete free will. Fortunately John has proven that there is hope for them."

Princess Allura opens a hologram to reveal the five Lions with what appears to be a painted Galra escape pod where each Lion was trying to get it from the one holding the pod in its jaw. Allura suddenly asks, "What exactly are they doing?"

"They are participating in a game of keep away," Doctor Halsey states and before Allura could comment, Doctor Halsey says, "It was one of the Spartans' forms of training. Some times in teams and other times all on one. The aim of the game is to ensure retrieve the 'ball' and keep it away from the others, a simple method to practice moving the lions and adjusting to the new type of awareness."

Allura frowns when she says, "Piloting the Lions is not simple!"

Halsey shakes her head as she walks to leave the bridge and says over her shoulder, "What you need to understand is that even a complex machine should be handled with care. In this case, not all of the Spartans have the experience flying any space craft. When they first got there armour they went through a basic obstacle course after learning to walk again," she left the bridge.

"What they need to do is to form Voltron," Allura pressed on the importance.

Coran then says from his terminal, "In a hundred ticks we will have the shield at full capacity and the particle weapons will be ready within the hour," giving Allura an idea.

Galra Capital Ship-Zarkon's throne room

Zarkon sat on his throne as Haggard stands next to him, Zarkon was speaking with talking with the Galra he had sent to retrieve the red lion. Semdak was silent after explaining what had happened to his ship and automated crew. Zarkon growls causing his glowing purple eyes to pulse and says, "You have your orders capture the Lions by any means necessary," the screen closed leaving Zarkon alone with Haggard, "How is your RoBeast experiments going?" as what appeared to be a cockroach that climbed out of what appeared to be a hole in Zarkon's face before it climbed into his mouth before being eaten by Zarkon.

Haggard simply says, "The experiments have been progressing successfully, we are ready for sentient tests," Zarkon was emotionless as Haggard says, "I have selected a short list of possible candidates and have decided on one of the Champion's most dangerous opponent."

Zarkon was emotionless before saying, "Make it so," causing Haggard to bow and leave Zarkon alone, for several days where Zarkon would stay still for years at a time.

Undisclosed location-That moment-Ackerson's personal warship-Frigate-Ackerson's Wrath.

An Elderly man wearing a UNSC Admiral uniform surrounded with several people of different nationalities wearing the different levels of rank and former allegiances. The man, former Admiral James Ackerson, UNSC and former Covenant remnants most wanted human, for the different terrorism, kidnapping and crimes against sentient species, but his worst crime was his weaponising the flood virus and almost destroying the Sagheli homeworld, during the creation of the Earth/Saghelios alliance. Only to be discovered by the Arbiter, his Elites and a unit of Spartan fours.

Ackerson's eye twitched before he says, "How is the operation coming?"

One of his faceless soldier spoke, "Our Freelancers have located the package and are returning to base now."

"Was the location destroyed?" Ackerson questioned he received an acknowledgement before Ackerson says, "Then when they arrive have the leader boards adjusted," as he stares at the different names of American States. Ackerson's eye twitched with insanity.

Arus-Outside the Castle of Lions-Two hours since Allura's alarm simulation

The five lions had stopped playing 'keep away' they were taking a break in their individual lions as the Chief asks his fellow Spartan Paladins, "Any suggestions on what to do next?"

Jorge scratched his helmetless head before saying, "Follow the Leader or we could find a Lion sized obstacle course."

Six suggests, "We could try the canyons North of the Castle."

That was when Allura spoke, "Paladins, the castles defences are operational. I believe that you should be able to form Voltron, you need to be in danger to completely bond as one. Let fear be your guide," That was when the Castle's shield generated around the castle before hundreds of energy beams were shot at the Lions.

They started avoiding the attacks when Fred says, "Well this should be fun," all the Lions increased their pace to avoid the attacks.

Tom shouts as the Green Lion avoided a line of attacks, Tom shouts, "She has opened fire on us," the Green Lion used it's shield to deflect the blast before Tom adds, "Why does it seem that she is using full power?"

Chief simply says, "If she was using full power it would be a continuous beam tracking us," when the others appeared to silently asking him how he would know that, "Cortana checked the specifications in order to better understand the Castle and found records that she translated and gave me the clip notes version." The Lions continued to avoid the attacks each steadily gaining smirks and enjoying the thrill of avoiding danger.

Inside the Castle-With the Spartan III's

Ash, Olivia and Mark was standing next to the large UNSC crates with clipboards reading and counting the different supplies. Ash sitting on top of an open crate filled with packs of ammunition. Olivia was counting the 'Meals Ready to Eat' packs and Mark was counting medical supply packs. Ash suddenly got fed up and asks, "Am I the only one who is finding this useless?"

"Not really," Kelly says as she and Linda arrived from the elevator hearing what the young Spartan behind the doors. She then says, "Our job is to protect the castle at the moment. Having an understanding of our supplies so that we know when we run out and have to find replacements."

Kelly and Linda proceeded to collect their own clipboards. Kelly started counting the supplies of Coffee while Linda handled actual weapons. Kelly shook her head at the three crates with enough coffee to supply a UNSC frigate crew for a year. Olivia frowns before asking, "So why do we have so much coffee, when there is only two people who drink the stuff."

Linda snorts before saying, "You kidding, Mendez drinks decaf. This is all for Doctor Halsey."

Mark questions, "Well we should never have to replace coffee till we are done."

Kelly looked at him strangely before saying, "We'll be lucky if it lasts a month."

Doctor Halsey walked into the hanger before heading straight to the crate the Kelly was counting only for her to take three large coffee tins and leaving silently. The five Spartans frown before Linda says, "Do you need to recount?" Kelly shook her head in the negative and continued to count.

Castle of Lions-Paladin Break room-Close to midnight

Six, Jorge, Fred, Tom, Lucy, Kelly, Linda, Ash, Olivia and Mark were resting in the main break room each eating an MREs in silence as Princess Allura and Coran entered the room speaking about the different systems being repaired. The Princess says, "You did it, you formed Voltron!"

Fred looked up with a fork in his mouth before asking with a full mouth, "We were forming Voltron?"

Princess Allura got angry when she says, "Then how did you enter the castle?"

Six says, "We tried to contact you when the shield stopped and were hoping you would turn it back on. When you did not respond, the Chief suggested we spend some time getting a feel for the lions while in space."

"Where is the Chief!?" Princess Allura questioned.

"He is still in Black," Tom answered before adding, "Apparently he wanted to ask it some questions. I asked Green if she knew what that was about, but she did not know."

Princess Allura frowns before asking, "What exactly have you all been doing?"

Fred answered, "The Chief wanted us to get comfortable with the Lions."

Princess Allura then shouts, "What do you think you are doing!? Voltron is the ultimate weapon in the universe, you need to know how to form Voltron?"

The answer came from the Master Chief as he reached the room and says, "Princess Allura, I understand that you are in a rush for results. But you need to consider that you are asking for us to used technology that we are not completely familiar."

Princess Allura frowns before saying, "Voltron is needed to stop the Galra!"

"I understand, but as I understand Voltron is a weapon of last resort," the Master Chief informs before asking his fellow Paladins, "Do you all feel that you have gotten comfortable with the Lions?" His answered was Fred nodding, Six saying a 'yes,' Tom and Lucy give him a thumbs up while Jorge had his hand horizontal and shaking it a bit, "Tomorrow, Six help Jorge with Yellow and when you are done we can work on Voltron. Until then, Tom, Lucy and Fred we will go over the castle defences. Kelly, Linda, Ash, Olivia and Mark will handle keeping an eye out around the castle until Jorge is ready with Yellow, where you will learn about the castle systems." All of the Spartan nod in agreement.

Princess Allura frowns before saying, "It does not matter if you don't feel ready Jorge, You need to form Voltron as soon as possible."

"Are you aware of each Lions abilities?" Cortana questions, "or if the fact that there is five of them, that they need to always work together?" Allura frowns while Cortana continues, "Because Sister, you have a lot to learn about the progress a Spartan when they are learning to use their equipment," her voice full of sass.

"Now see here!" Allura shouts as Doctor Halsey enters the room.

Doctor Halsey simply asks, "Was your training successful?"

Allura answered in the Negative only for The Chief to say, "Jorge needs more time. The rest of us will be learning the castle systems while he is doing that."

Doctor Halsey nods before looking around and asking, "Where is the coffee maker?" that caused all the Spartan IIs and Six to sigh while the Spartan IIIs were just confused. Halsey realised that there was no coffee maker and says, "Where is the hot water." Jorge stands and shows her to the Kitchen.

Princess Allura growls and says, "Why won't any of you take this seriously?!"

Chief Mendez entered the room and says, "This is how they were trained and having trained all the Spartan's in this castle, if they say they will do something. They will do it." He walks towards the kitchen silently while the Princess leaves the room with a contemplating frown.

The Next day montage

When Jorge returned with Six, Princess Allura and Coran forced the Spartan Paladins to train using Paladin training simulations. The first each Spartan had a shield generator on each wrist and they had to protect their allies. The result was that they defended each other for a full hour before Coran finished the training.

The next task was that they needed to work together to defeat a robot holding a staff. The Chief overpowered the robot as it charged Tom and found itself in pieces. In response Coran doubled the numbers every time the Spartan Paladins managed to defeat them at increasing difficulty. Eventually Coran had to stop before they used up their full supply of training drone.

Their third task was to lead their fellow Paladins through an invisible maze. Once again this back fired on Coran when they did the task without issue.

Coran then had each Spartan Paladin to meditate with special crowns around there head, John was the only one to refuse to remove his helmet. When asked he responded with, "I prefer to be ready for battle at moments noticed."

They started in a meditative sitting position as they holograms of the Lions started to appeare above each of the Spartans. Lucy sat next to Tom as Coran had stated that as Tom was the pilot, that Lucy don't need to be training at this stage but she stayed with Tom.

The holographic lions flew around together with the Green lion appearing to struggle to stay the solid until Lucy placed her hand on Tom's shoulder. The green lion solidified before the five coloured lions combined into a transparent robot before the hologram shuts down due to the Chief removing his crown sensor while saying, "This does not feel right," he turns his helmet covered head to Coran and asks, "Are you sure this is the same?"

Coran straightens his moustache and says, "King Alfore designed this method of training himself."

Cortana revealing herself asks, "Did he actually ever use it?"

Coran could not answer so he simply shouts, "Alfore was the expert, so let's continue!"

Cortana growls and shouts, "Damn it Chief just tell him," the Chief muted Cortana from the external speakers.

Coran looked at them strangely before asking, "What was your construct going to say?" The Spartan Paladins were silent with Jorge avoiding Coran's gaze.

The answer came from above when Doctor Halsey asks, "John did you already complete the objective."

The Chief appeared to take a deep breath before answering, "We successfully combined Voltron, while getting an understanding of how to pilot the Lions through space. Two hour before the Princess had us perform that emergency drill."

Coran appeared to shatter in place as he fell to the ground before standing and shouting, "WHY DID YOU NOT SAY SO!? WE COULD HAVE HAD YOU TRAINING TO FIGHT USING VOLTRON!"

The Chief was silent, while Jorge says, "Well wouldn't have found out that Yellow can dig fast enough that it appears to swim threw water."

Tom says, "Green can turn invisible."

Six says, "Red is unaffected by high temperatures, can fly into lava and still feel a cold breeze."

Fred says, "Blue get stronger underwater," which confused him because of his recent and strong dislike of underwater based missions.

"I located the Black Bayard," The Chief finally admits before asking, "Unfortunately we will have to beat the Galra to get it back."

Coran scratched his head disheaving his hair style before shouting, "You lot are," he sighs deeply before asking, "What the Quiznak was the training you got to become this great!?"

Doctor Halsey answers, "The best," the Spartans nod in agreement while the good Doctor says, "That said, Six, Tom and Lucy, I have a job for you." The three in questioned nodded before heading out the room. The Doctor Halsey then says, "Chief I need to speak to you in a few minutes, while Jorge and Fred please head down to the Gamma Company Spartan IIIs they appear restless. I suggest that you give them some training."

Fred looked to Coran as the Chief left the room, Fred asks, "Think we can borrow the room?" Coran nods in acceptance.

With Princess Allura-Gym control room

Allura stands with Doctor Halsey as they waited for the Chief to enter the room. Allura frowns as she asks, "How can they have formed Voltron already?" she started pacing with an angry growl. If the Paladins had already formed Voltron then why the hell did they not inform her and wasting our limited time.

Doctor Halsey pressed some buttons on a Altean tablet she borrowed from Coran and was using her glasses with a modified translation packed being broadcasted to the lens so that she could read the information. She looked away and at Allura and says, "They are efficient," Halsey then typed on the tablet before saying, "They probably decided that having a giant robot show up while a village of sentient pre-industrial culture."

Allura looked at her strangely before asking, "Why is that a problem?"

The Chief answered, "We wanted to avoid any danger of them getting injured due to a misunderstanding. Plus there is the fact that they probably will start worshiping you when you reveal that this castle is yours. At least if you do," Allura raised an eyebrow before the Chief says, "Humanity has had some experience when meeting Alien species, very painful experience. A full on war that was staged by their leading faction."

Allura growls before saying, "Then why the Quiznak did you fail to inform me of you forming Voltron?"

The Chief simply answers, "Kelly and Linda could not find the Galra bodies in the wreakage of their ship," Allura was confused before he adds, "We located all of the pods to remove all the tracking devices and to get an idea of Galra tech. Plenty of drones but no bodies."

Allura frowns before saying, "How could they have survived?"

"You question it, even though we know that Zarkon is still alive after over a hundred thousand years?" The Chief questioned before un-muting Cortana, "We have been scanning the planet with your limited sensors but until they are fully functional we can't find them without the visual scans the Lions have been doing."

Doctor Halsey says, "The tech I have analysed has shown that they have been using is modified Altean tech, along with some other tech that I don't recognise."

"The Galra have become a parasite in the universe, using the tech of other cultures to increase their power while they also have been taking slaves for labour," the Chief informed.

Allura frowns before saying, "That is impossible, the Galra have always been prideful and were against using other cultures technology unless it was gifted to them."

"The station that had found Red was a mismatch of Covenant ships wielded to their station," The Chief informs the clueless princess before he says, "And there was only two Galra on the station at the time. Cortana found out that the Galra are so spread out, which is why it is was so easy to crash that ship."

Cortana then says, "The amount of the security they had was pointless even having computers on board." Princess Allura takes a seat before placing her face in her hands, before Cortana continues, "There is also discrepancies with their drones. The ones on the ship were easy to hack, but the ones on the station were more difficult as I had to wait for them to recharge. Once, Six, Tom and Lucy return with the Data from the ship we can get a better idea of how the Galra culture has changed since you last interacted with them."

Allura then stands in anger and shouts, "Then we can't wait!"

The Chief then shocks her by saying, "Then kill yourself," before placing his handgun on the table in the room. "Patience reveals what needs to be done. At this stage we need to ease into this war with the Galra. To start there is the Galra rebellion that helped retrieve Red before the Galra could move it. If we can contact the Sangheli and find a way for Earth to supply more support. Cortana has also gone through your data logs and found a couple species that are hopefully still around. Though when we do leave this planet we should head to this Balmera Planet, if it is as valuable as the Alteans' believe it to be then, it should be a priority."

Allura frowns before asking, "You clearly have me at a disadvantage. Can you please be clearer?"

Doctor Halsey frowns before asking, "What did you learn John?"

The Chief frowns before saying, "The power source for the Castle and the Galra use crystals located on such Balmera. Meaning if we take it away from them, slower production of ships."

"And reduce the power of the Galra," Halsey stated with a frown before adding, "You identified a possible target with limited data. I thought we trained you better than that."

"Actually," Cortana interrupts, "We got this data from the Galra Warship. It was rerouted to Arus instead of taking a delivery of Balmera Crystals, for their shipyards."

Allura frowns before saying, "What is a Spartan!? Because so far, they have made all of the Paladin training pointless because of already being well versed in working together."

Halsey answered, "They are Spartans."

Cortana then elaborated, "The Spartan IIs were selected with a rigorous selection process at a young age. They were trained to work, eat, sleep, study and breath together, before being surgically enhanced where only half the original seventy five children," Allura looked shocked and appalled before Cortana continued, "Originally created to stop a group of what can be considered rebels in the Earth Colonies. They believed that the entire UNSC was not trustable due to the corrupt political figures lining their pockets. The Spartans were created to stop a galactic war between humans that could have ended in extinction. Then the Covenant war happened due to their leaders purposely changed the translation so that their manipulated forces attack humans for a galactic level genocide to become gods."

Allura frowns before asking, "What did Humanity do to them then?"

The Chief crossed his arms showing Halsey that he was angry while he appeared calm to Allura, "The Forerunners chose Humanity to take their title and there technological advancements. It is why Spark called Humanity the Reclaimers," causing Allura's eyes to widen in shock.

Allura then says, "Is that where your armour came from?"

Halsey spoke, "No, MOJNIR was developed over the course of fifty years. The first three was glorified work loaders. The Mark Four onwards is Spartan specific armour, they are the only humans who can even use it without killing them," Allura's eyes widened more before Halsey continued, "It was developed to keep them alive, mark five was developed to end the Covernant war while Mark Six has upgraded systems. We had no contact with any Forerunner technology until HALO was discovered."

Allura frowns before saying, "Perhaps the Forerunners left some of their knowledge inside human DNA. Some sentient cultures did develop that medical knowledge."

Halsey frowns and glares at Allura making her uncomfortable as she says, "I feel violated. I may have tampered with my Spartans' DNA, but at least all I did was stimulate specific gnomes to enhance them. Not to make them question whether they are still human."

The Chief was silent before he quietly left the room before Allura questions, "Why does the Spartans appear to avoid showing emotion around others?"

"They have a hard time trusting others," Doctor Halsey admitted before saying, "As long as you fight with them and show that they can trust you, they will be more open with you."

"How can you be so sure?" Allura questioned in disappointment.

"They were trained to observe before coming to a decision," Doctor Halsey answered before saying, "They won't blindly follow orders without question if they can find another way. It has been a part of their training, and it was how John became the leader of the Spartans," Doctor Halsey starts to leave.

Allura then asks before she could leave the room, "Who is John?"

Doctor Halsey simply says, "That is the Chief's real name," causing Allura's eyes to widen as Halsey leaves.

With Six, Tom and Lucy-The Galra Warship wreckage-an hour later.

Six drove his red speeder as Tom and Lucy held onto the side, they parked the vehicle at a large hole in the side. Tom and Lucy lifted their battle rifles as they waited for Six to get out the speeder, the Green Bayard on Lucy's hip. Six lifted up his silenced SMG while holding his Red Bayard in sleep mode as he searched for any hostiles. Six then asks the two, "So why do you not talk?"

Lucy frowns under her helmet while Tom answers, "We are the only survivors of our first major mission. Lucy hasn't said a word since we escaped the planet, we would have been placed in Admiral Ackerson's unit as his bodyguards, instead we were placed as teachers for the next generation of Spartan IIIs."

Six accepts this answer before saying, "Clearly hasn't caused her a problem. Where is this terminal we are looking for?"

Tom gestures to the right and the three head threw a corridor to find an intact terminal. They also find an intact drone that appears to still be active. When it saw the Spartans it says, "Greetings Spartans," Tom and Lucy had their guns up while Six raised an eyebrow as it continued, "The lovely and amazing Cortana has programmed me to attack any Galra unit on board," the only problem with that statement was that the drone was missing legs and arms, "Two Galra had been seen a day ago to retrieve components to build several drones exact numbers are inconclusive. Good Night," that was when the Drones head sparked and exploded without issue.

Six looked annoyed before placing a finger on the side of his helmet and informing the castle, "Coran! The Galra retrieved parts for drones, inform the Chief."

"I will get it done," Coran replied as the Spartans reached the terminal, "How is the data collection coming?"

"We are at the terminal now," Six says as he places his hand on the screen causing it to gain power before he removed his hand and it powered down. Six looked at his robot hand before placing it down and says, "Damn Galra, no sense giving prisoners a method freeing themselves."

Tom pulled out a tablet and connected it to the terminal before saying, "This shouldn't take too long," he presses a couple buttons and says, "Okay we have a travel log with reasons of travel," he looks at the loading bar and says, "This shouldn't take too long," as the loading bar reached fifty percent.

Six asks, "Any idea of what Sendak is planning?"

Tom shakes his head before saying, "Cortana already got the technical specs and recent navigation logs. This terminal holds the backup data of the drones, needed to program with the data to use at their station. Cortana was limited in what she could get the first time." Lucy then gestured to Tom before Tom says, "No, they don't appear to have data on the location of Earth."

Six then says, "Probably a good thing, even with the Galra's limited types of weapons they have more ships then Earth."

Tom shakes his head before saying, "It will definitely be a problem," he types on the screen a couple more times before focusing on some of the data before saying, "Interesting, Sendak has been searching for a group of rebels attacking different outposts. Everyone needs to see this," as he disconnected the tablet before they left the wreckage.

When they reach Six's speeder, Six says, "Let's get back, I don't like it here," while looking to his left when facing Tom and Lucy, both whom noticed the Galra Commander Sendak and his second in command watching them. Six then says, "We will handle them later," Tom and Lucy nod in acceptance. They get in and on the Speeder before leaving the area.

Sendak from the cliff top at the edge crushes a rock before growling, "We will destroy you Paladins!" he turns to his assistant, "Have you discovered how they took over my ship?"

Sendak's second in command nods before saying, "They accessed the drones through the drone control panel. Clearly they have access to personal with scientific genius," the comment just so happened to coincide with Cortana making a noise in the Chief's helmet that sounded like a sneeze and calling it a slight glitch.

Galra Flagship Castle-Prison

Haggard walked out of the dark in front of a heavily injured prisoner and says, "Do you want revenge against the Reaper and Berserker?" the injured prisoner smiles under his breathing mask and simply nods.

:End of Chapter three:

Just to be clear, these are Spartans they are a private people that is why they conceal the knowledge that they can form Voltron. Next time Voltron reveals his existence to the Galra and the natives of Arus.

I hope you enjoyed, please review and comment then BEWARE THE WRAITH!