Chapter 22

A/N: Once again people, just own the story and OCs, nothing else is mine. Got it? Got it.

Alright, just FYI, the Beta Traz episode remains relatively the same, and as fun as that episode is, I don't really want to write something that would barely change. So I'll be skipping right onto Allura and Jaz! Won't that be fun?

/commlinks/

"Bold is intercoms"

Flashbacks/dreams/telepathy

Jaz stood at the helm controls as Allura sat behind her playing with the mice. "Two words."

The mice squeaked back.

"Second word?" she said. "Waves?"

There was a disappointed squeak.

"At least I'm close. Ocean? Splash? Drink? Water?"

There were of series of happy chirps at the last guess.

"Water!" Allura cheered. "It's water! Alright then, first word."

Jaz glanced back as she heard small growled and she raised an eyebrow. The mice were stacked on top of each other, making little paddling motions with their front paws.

"That's a Bytor! Bytor water!" she laughed as the mice cheered. "Hunk was right, these Earth road trip games do help pass the time. Jaz, would you like to join us for the next round?"

"I'm keeping an eye on the scanners making sure we don't die, so…no," she replied before tapping a blinking button and Coran appeared on the holographic screen.

"Hello Jaz! Princess! How are both of you? Are you almost to the Balmera?"

"We're due to arrive in a few minutes," Jaz replied.

"I just hope we're able to find a crystal big enough for the teludav," Allura piped in.

"We could just use that giant one that consumed the robeast last time were were there," Jaz suggested.

Allura tossed a sideways glance at her. "I don't think that would work."

"And why not?"

"Because we don't want it getting free again."

"I could be dead!"

"Exactly! We don't know, so we can't use that crystal!"

"What if we can't find a crystal big enough? What then?"

"Have you had contact with the other Paladins?"

"We were in contact with Lance, Shiro, and Pidge a little bit ago," Allura smiled looking back at the screen. "They've located Slav."

"Though I can't guarantee that Slav will be alive when they get back," Jaz chuckled, "from the sounds of it he's driving Shiro up the walls."

"I'm certain they'll be fine," Coran waved. "What of Keith and Hunk?"

"No word yet."

Coran began twirling his moustache, "Don't worry. I'm sure my scientifically accurate instructional video was of great help."

Allura and Jaz shared a skeptical look. "Maybe I should've gone with them, I've been to a weblum before," the Awoken woman muttered.

"If they collect enough scaultrite for the lenses, will your teludav structure be complete?" Allura questioned.

"It's nearly done. The Olkari and I have been working day and night. It will be ready in time."

Allura crossed her arms looking down. "I hope so."

"What's going on Princess? You sound worried."

"…I was thinking of my father. He gave his life to try to keep Voltron from Zarkon's hands and now we have a chance to defeat him. I…I don't wan to fail."

Gulping, Jaz quietly took a few steps back, she felt like she was intruding on something private. Problem was, she didn't really have anywhere to go. She had to keep an eye on the equipment.

"You know Princess, your father would be proud of you. It wasn't that long ago we found out that Altea had been destroyed."

"I've never felt so alone."

"Nor have I. but we could've easily given up, but we didn't. You didn't. Now look at us. We reformed Voltron. We freed the Olkari and the Balmerans and now they're working alongside us."

"You're right Coran," Allura smiled. "We have allies, and that's what's going to defeat Zarkon."

"Crack a squizzle on the Balmera Princess, and Jaz," Coran saluted.

"Thanks Coran," Jaz deadpanned.

-.-

Stepping into a lander, both women stood silently as they went down to the ground.

"The Balmera welcomes your return Princess and Jaz," the elder Balmeran lady spoke as they stepped out.

Shay stepped forwards, her hands clasped together over he chest as she tired looking behind them. "Princess, did Hunk happen to accompany you?"

"I'm sorry Shay, but we've come alone."

Jaz slid up beside the girl, "But we'd be happy to take a message."

Allura tossed Jaz an irritated glance that the other woman elected to ignore, before speaking up again, "The others are on missions of their own collecting important elements we need to defeat Zarkon.

"Defeat Zarkon?" they gasped. "How can we help? The Balmera and its people can never thank you enough for all that you've done."

"If the Balmera will give it, we need a crystal."

"Battleship class?"

Jaz shook her head. "Bigger, a lot bigger."

-.-

Haggar glided silently into her primary lab, drifting over to the monitor. After Macidus' foolishness, she deemed it time to secretly check up on the projects of her underlings to ensure that no projects that weren't in the Empire's best interests were being conducted.

Hearing the door open, she didn't both to look back as Macidus and another of her druids walked in. "Haggar."

"What is it?"

"We found futher evidence of a spy within our ranks. This encrypted chip was in the outbound quantum entaglement chain."

"Put the chip back and wait see who retrieves it," she ordered.

Sensing them leave, she continued her work, frowning as she saw a scan being done on a genetic sample, on Macidus' orders. Changing the result recipient to herself, she turned and strode away. If Macidus wanted results, he could come and explain his insubordination to her. He just better pray that his results are useful.

-.-

"Holy draaf," Jaz cursed as she gazed up at the massive crystal with the others.

"It's incredible."

"When the Galra were here, these caverns were closed off," Shay informed, "as if the Balmera were protecting itself."

"It probably was," Jaz sighed placing her hands on her hips, "I would've hated to see the results if the Galra Empire got their hands on this."

"But now that the Balmera is free and healed, these caverns are open once more."

Allura tapped Jaz's shoulder and they walked up standing on opposite sides of the giant crystal, placing their hands on it. The Balmerans around them did the same, and they all began the ceremony, exchanging quintessence for the massive gem.

Jaz grit her teeth as she felt the stone move under her hands, at this rate she would need a few days to recover the power she'd lose doing this. The ground rumbled, and Jaz relaxed, sensing something, the Balmera perhaps reassuring her, or was it someone else? Someone else who was worried perhaps.

She didn't have long to question the feeling because as soon as it came, the ceremony was over, and the feeling gone with it. "Thanks big guy, Hunk says hi," Jaz muttered patting part of the wall smiling slightly as it rumbled back.

If anyone saw, she would forever vehemently deny that it ever happened.

-.-

"The crystal has been loaded onto your Castle Princess," Shay informed hugging Jaz and Allura.

"We wish you could stay longer," the elder smiled hugging them as well. Turning to her son, she grabbed a bowl. "I made you stickercup stew for the sky road."

Jaz held back a gag as she watched odd blue slimy creatures lean over the edge of the bowl. Tossing Allura a look, she silently begged her to politely deny and say they had more than enough, or the fridge was full, or lie about the extra weight. Something to keep them from taking that bowl!

"Oh, thank you," Allura grimaced, taking the bowl with a shakiy smile. "I'm sure we'll enjoy this immensely."

Jaz kept herself from shaking her head, nope. No, no, no, that was all Allura. She was not going to eat that unless she was dying of starvation.

"To all you Balmerans, thank you once again!" Allura called.

The ground rumbled and Jaz nearly stumbled. Was the Balmera purring? Could they even do that?

"What was that?" Allura questioned.

"Maybe it's purring?" she offered her only idea. The rumbling continued and they watched as the crystal encasing the robeast began to crack. Jaz slumped, "Nevermind, it's throwing up its last meal."

"EVERYONE! TAKE COVER IN THE BALMERA!" Allura ordered, dropping the bowl in order to amplify her voice. Jaz would have to high-five her later for the creative way of disposing the bowl. "WE'LL HOLD IT OFF WITH THE CASTLE'S DEFENSES!"

"Wait, what now?" Jaz protested chasing after as Allura ran into the pod. Getting inside, Allura bounced in place as Jaz paced the small area. "How are we going to beat this thing? I mean the only way we defeated it last time was because the Balmera quiznaking ATE it!"

"I'm sure we could find a way!" Allura exclaimed as they raced out and onto the bridge. "Activate the particle barrier!"

"On it," she replied activating it before typing quickly. "Weapons systems online, ready when you are."

"Fire!"

Jaz nodded setting the target before firing, gritting her teeth as she saw the headless beast continue to lumber towards them as two glowing violet crystals floated by its side, blocking the shots. "Our guns aren't strong enough! It's using the crystals as sheilds to deflect our attacks!"

The crystals moved to the side and its chest began to glow green.

"Brace for impact!" Allura ordered as the fiery beam hit the barrier. "We need to lure it away from the Balmera."

"Then we better do it quickly, this attack is weakening the particle barrier. We're currently as sixty-five percent power!"

"Launching in three, two, one," Allura counted before the engines started up, shooting them away from the surface as Jaz watched. "It is following?"

"Unfortunately," she grumbled.

-.-

Keith felt eyes scrutinizing him, making a glance to Hunk his shoulders visibly slumped as he caught the Yellow Paladin continuing to stare. "Are you trying to see if my skin is purple?" he scoffed.

"…No…"

/HUNK! KEITH! ARE YOU THERE?!/ Jaz shouted making both boys jump and look at the comms system.

"We're here Jaz, what's going on?"

/The Balmera threw up the robeast it ate! We need you back at the Castle!/

"We're on our way!"

-.-

"We should contact Allura and let her know we have Slav," Pidge said as they gathered in the Blue Lion's cockpit, "and that we're ready for her to use the teludav."

Slav popped up between Lance and Pidge, looking angry. "You didn't say we'd be travelling by teludav?!"

Shiro slowly began to turn red as the scientist continued to happily tapdance on his last existing nerve. "WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?! WE'RE TRAVELLING BY TELUDAV! SO JUST COUNT YOUR HAIR FOLLICLES, OR FLUFF A PILLOW, OR WHATEVER YOU NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE WE SURVIVE THE WORMHOLE TRIP IN THIS REALITY!"

They all looked at him mildly terrified.

Slav nervously started tapping his fingers together, "I was just going to point out that the teludav is a very efficient form of travel."

/GUYS! ARE YOU THERE?!/ Jaz shrieked.

"Whoa," Lance winced rubbing his ears, "cool your jets, Jaz."

/MAKE ME!/

"Jaz, calm down, what's going on?" Shiro questioned.

/The Balmera Robeast is back/

"WHAT?!"

/Don't ask me how! The crystal broke, Balmera threw it up, whatever! Just get back here!/

"You've got it Jazzy, your Sharpshooter's on the way," Lance smiled.

"Sharpshooter?"

"It's my new nickname that I gave myself, pass it on."

/Lance, the day you're a sharpshooter is the day you beat me, Darvah, or Keith on the firing range. And that will never, ever happen/ Jaz deadpanned.

"We're ready when you are!" Shiro called.

Jaz grunted as another blast slammed into the barrier. /Particle barrier at ten percent!/

/Opening teludav now/ Allura informed.

-.-

"What the…?" Keith trailed off staring at Godzilla-turned-Headless Horseman.

/How is that thing operational?! It doesn't have a head!/ Lance exclaimed.

/It probably has something to do with those crystals/

/We can't worry about that now/ Shiro interrupted, /We have to protect the Castle/

"How did we beat it last time?" Keith questioned.

/WE?! THE BALMERA QUIZNAKING ATE IT LAST TIME!/ Jaz snapped.

"True, I think Voltron's cannons just made it mad," Hunk grimaced.

/Whatever happened last time, we're going to need Voltron/ Shiro stated.

/But we only have two lions!/

/Maybe we could form the legs as kick it?/ Lance suggested and Keith barely kept himself from facepalming.

/LOOKOUT!/ Jaz shouted as the robeast fired another blast, forcing the two lions to weave out of the way of the green laser as it cut through two of the Balmera's moons, effectively obliterating them.

"Qurgh," Keith cussed glaring at the robeast. This was going to be a challenge.

/That new laser is definitely more powerful/ Shiro said sounding like he was gritting his teeth. /We're definitely going to need all the lions. Hunk, you distract it so we can fly back to the Castle, once we get our lions we'll cover you so you can fly Keith in for Red/

"Wait, wait, wait! I have to hold that thing off by myself?!" Hunk protested.

/You have Keith/

"Yeah, but he's in here with me!"

/There's no time to argue! We've got to do this now/

"Oh, Quiznak," Hunk whined.

"Stop complaining and get moving," Keith ordered snapping Hunk out of his distressed stuptor.

"R-right!" he nodded sending Yellow flying forwards. Opening the jaws, laser blasts shot out, trying to hit the headless beast as the crystal sheilds continued to deflect. "Those crystals ar blocking all of our attacks!"

"Duck!"

The Yellow Lion dove down, pulling up in time for them to watch as the particle barrier of the Castle go down as Jaz started cursing explicitly over the comms in various languages. "The Castle's doomed unless we distract that beast!" Hunk exclaimed.

Turning Yellow, he drove straight down towards the robeast, not even bothering to slow down as it placed the crystalline sheilds in front of it. Bracing himself, Keith grunted as they made impact, nearly being thrown around the cockpit as Yellow spun.

He'd have to high-five Hunk for the move later. Looking up, Keith smirked as he saw the creature flying at them. "Good, it's chasing us."

"You and I have very different definitions of what is good!" Hunk exclaimed as he flew Yellow away from the chasing beast.

-.-

"About time!" Jaz exclaimed as she angrily was pressing buttons on the control console. "Particle barrier is at two-percent!"

"Lance! Get back out to give Hunk cover, Pidge and I are right behind you," Shiro ordered.

"On it!"

"Don't worry about me! I'll just hand out here!" Slav waved.

Shiro turned to look at him, "Can you help the Princess and Jaz restore the particle barrier?"

"Yes!" he exclaimed before standing there uselessly.

"Now?"

"Oh! You mean in this reality! Got it."

"What does he mean by in this reality?!" Jaz questioned as Shiro quickly sprinted to his bay. He didn't want to be around for when Jazmyne Venj inevitably exploded.

-.-

"Bank left!" Keith ordered as another beam fired at them. "Barrel roll! Nosedive!"

"Quit back-lion driving!"

"In case you forgot who's the most experienced pilot between the two of us?!" Keith snapped.

/Hunk! I've got you covered!/ Lance interrupted.

"Yes! Thank you Lance," Hunk sagged in relief as he turned Yellow around. Flying back towards the Castle, they weren't given any warning when the beam hit.

/GUYS!/

Hunk screamed as Keith muffled his own cries, it felt similar to the blast that the druid back at the glalactic hub gave him when they'd been fighting. But thankfully, not as bad, but that could be because Keith already got hit once while Hunk hadn't. The pain stopped and Keith was the first to recover, paling as he saw tinges of fire from atmospheric entrance begin to form around the falling Yellow Lion.

Glancing at a semi-conscious Hunk, Keith winced. Making a note to apologize later, he shot a small zap of quintessence into his friend, making him wake with a sharp cry. Keith felt horrible, but he didn't have time to focus on that. "Hunk, do something!"

Realizing what was happening, Hunk began frantically working at the controls. "I can't! Nothing's working! Come on boy! Come back to me!" he pleaded.

/Hold on!/ Shiro called and Keith gripped the seat tighter as they were jostled as the Black Lion pulled them out of their descent in time to watch Green and Blue fly past, chasing after the robeast as it continued to fire at them and black their shots with its stupid sheilds.

/I'm getting real tired of that crystal! Let's take it out!/

/On it/ Pidge said.

Keith furrowed his brows, looking back at the Castle. Hopefully it wouldn't take him too long to reach Red. They could really use Voltron right about now.

/Shiro! It's on its way to the Castle!/ Pidge called and they turned around the see the robeast flying at them.

/I got it!/ the Black Paladin responded, flying towards the enemy to intercept.

"Who's got me?!" Hunk whined as they started floating aimlessly.

Gritting his teeth, Keith whirled on his heel and raced for the nearest exit. They couldn't afford to wait any longer, not with the Yellow Lion out of commission for the timebeing. "Keith?! Where are you going?"

"I'll jump out and jetpack over to the Castle," he replied not even waiting for a response. Climbing out of the exit in Yellow's head, he pushed off and launched towards the Castle.

"You better hurry, I'm not sure how long the others can hold that thing off," Yorak reminded.

"How long are you estimating?"

"To get to the Castle? Approximately two minutes."

Keith growled, he could make it less than that. Flying fast, Keith had barely just enough time to sense a dark energy surge shooting his way. Without thinking, he summoned a light shield as the green blast hit, screaming as it surrounded him. Every part of his body felt like it was on fire and being eroded away under the undead beast's blast, it was very possible that it was. The shield shattered, and everything exploded into white hot agony.

-.-

Keith grunted as his body slammed painfully in the cockpit of a very angry and very distressed Red Lion. She was almost overwhelming their mental bond with her fear for him, her concern for how hurt he was, and her relief that he was back.

"Welcome back to the land of the living," Yorak greeted hovering above Keith's face as the freshly revived Guardian panted.

"How long…?"

"About a minute to regenerate your body, that blast completely destroyed it."

Blast? What was…Keith's eyes widened as he scrambled into the pilot's chair, looking for the others. To his horror, Hunk was caught in the arms of the robeast with the crystal charging right at him and his lion. There was no way they'd survive, not after taking one blast from a distance. Look what it did to Yellow the first time; it destroyed his light shield in a few mere moments.

Sensing his distress, Red roared and they shot down towards their distressed teammates, firing a blast into the chest of the robeast as they did so, sending it flying away from Yellow. "Sorry I'm late guys."

/Alright, now lets form Voltron and take it down like we did last time!/ Lance said.

"I doubt it's gonna sit around and wait for us to form Voltron."

/Keith's right/ Shiro agreed, /we'll need to think of something else/

/At least we outnumber those crystal sheilds/ Hunk pointed out.

/Yeah, he can only block two of us!/ Lance said as the beast fired, forcing them all to pull up out of the way or end up like the Yellow Lion a few minutes ago.

/I think I've got an idea!/ Pidge spoke up. /See if you can get me an open shot at its chest!/

/Got it!/ they all said turning. Black, Red, and Yellow fired the first volley at the chest, making the two sheilds collide together to deflect the shots. Ducking down, the three revealed the Blue Lion waiting behind them. Lance fired an ice blast freezing the two sheilds as Pidge flew above, aiming her cannon down at the gem sticking out from the center of the robeast's chest. Vines popped out enveloping the creature.

/Nice job Pidge!/ Shiro praised. /Now everyone, form Voltron!/

The transformation sequence was as time-staking as ever, giving them just barely enough time to form the sword as the robeast fried the last of the plants off of itself to turn and face them. Fortunately, it was just a little too slow as Voltron stabbed the sword between the two crystal sheilds and into the beast's chest, shattering the heart.

Unfortunately, it exploded and blasted them back, but they were fine, bruised, but fine.

/Great work Paladins!/ Allura congratulated.

/Yay another day, another battle won. NOW SOMEONE GET IN HERE AND GET SLAV AWAY FROM ME!/

-.-

"Why is there a grand entrance on the fortieth floor? And what's with all the ziplines? You have hover-technology?"

"Ziplines happened to be quite fashionable ten-thousand years ago," Allura scoffed.

"What do you have against ziplines?! They're fun!" Jaz exclaimed tossing her hands in the air.

"There's always a—"

"I don't want to hear another statistic from here or any other universe!"

The Paladins all glanced at each other all silently wondering which woman would lose it first. But, before that could happen, Keith stepped forwards, "Allura, Jaz, have you heard from Coran?"

Jaz's anger at Slav was forgotten as she tackled the Red Paladin. "HI HEFHAH! FOS LOST LOROT?! DREH HI LOST NAAN ZAAK VIR HINZAL TOL LOST?! HI VUST'ST DIR! HI LOS GLUUSKEI HI LOS'NI DILON DAHIK ZU'U FUND'ST KRII HI DIMAAR FAH TOL! [You idiot! Do you have any idea how stupid that was?! You could've died! You're lucky you aren't dead because I would've killed you myself for that!]" Jaz shrieked shaking Keith by the collar of his armor. She angrily pointed a finger in his face. "Dre'ni dreh nii ontzos! [Don't do it again!]"

Lance raised a nervous hand, "I know my Awoken isn't the best, but…what did he do?"

"Something Jaz doesn't approve of," Pidge remarked with a raised eyebrow. Honestly, it was surprising that Keith of all people was the person who did something crazy enough to make Jaz explode, Pidge always figured she'd get mad at Lance before Keith since the Awoken woman tended to give the Red Paladin more leeway when it came to dangerous stunts. Which was rather odd now that she thought about it.

"Wait, are you yelling at him for throwing himself out of the Yellow Lion to fly back to the Castle on his own?" Hunk asked.

"WHAT?!" Shiro exclaimed and Keith bit the inside of his cheek holding back his curses for Jaz.

"Daar hinzaalreym prii ofaal okmaar krii! [This hinzaalreym almost got himself killed!]" she said pointing at him with her thumb.

"Nii lost zok'nel ven! [It was the fastest way!]" Keith protested.

Shiro crossed his arms, "Zok'nel uv ni, nii lost tul hinzaal! [Fastest or not, it was still stupid!]"

"Paladins!" Allura snapped and they all looked at her. "Focus."

"So did you get in contact with Coran?" Keith repeated.

"Yes."

"So, we ready to pop through the wormhole and get back to Olkarion?" Lance questioned.

Allura perked up, "Yes, we managed to check in with Coran and the teludav is nearly complete. Hunk, thank you for getting the scaultrite."

Keith closed his eyes, of course she was still mad.

"No problem…you know, Keith was there too," Hunk voiced and he tossed his friend a grateful glance before looking back to Allura as she glared at him. She seemed to be trying to glare daggers through him, but Keith refused to back down, meeting her gaze calmly before she looked away without acknowledging him once again.

Keith sighed, it wasn't like he literally just died for this team or anything. No big whoop, to Allura, he was still expendable.

Oh well, it wasn't hard for him to understand, who would want to trust a Galra?

-.-

"We've made great progress while you were gone, and now that we have the scaultrite, we should be finished in less than a quintant," Coran informed as they stood in the observation room.

"Wow," Lance gasped, "that's one big teludav."

"Nice work."

"Good job Coran," Hunk said holding his fist up, "fist bump." Coran, raised an eyebrow before tapping his fist against Hunk's and the Yellow Paladin made a small exploding noise, pouting when Coran didn't do the same thing. "Now blow it up."

"Don't you dare! It took forever to build this teludav! And let's not forget it's a pivotal piece in our plan to defeat Zarkon!"

"He didn't mean blow up the teludav Coran," Jaz deadpanned.

A monitor popped up and Coran panicked as Slav was seen banging on the side. /I've made some improvements to your design. This will increase our chances of survival in this reality two-hundred-five percent/

"Is this guy a little…?"

"Yes."

"No doubt."

"Not a fan."

"Can I please blow him up?"

"STOP HITTING THE TELUDAV OR I'LL LET JAZ BLOW YOU UP!"

"CORAN!"

There was an exlplosion and both Jaz and Shiro threw their hands in the air, "YES!"

-.-

Keith stood with the others on the central platform gazing out into the sunset. This was it, this crazy adventure was finally going to end. They were about to embark on a plan that would either save the universe or doom it as Zarkon continued his tyrannical reign.

It was, honestly, hard to grasp.

He grew up hearing stories of Voltron, playing games as Paladins with his friends; and then all of a sudden, he was a Paladin. But…now it was all going to end. How long had they even been gone from Earth anyways? Weeks? Months? Maybe a year? Time was always weird for Guardians. It couldn't've been too long though; his friends still looked the same age.

What would they all do after this anyways? Pidge was easy, she'd go look for her family. Jaz, she'd probably help Pidge. Shiro would either go with them or go back to Earth and try to rebuild his relationship with Adam. Lance and Hunk, they always complained about how homesick they were, so it was an easy guess.

What would he do though? Keith could go to the Blade, continue to try and find his mother, help handle any aftermath of Zarkon's death, maybe eradicate a few rouge Hive nests here and there. Or he could go home. He could feel his light churning and sparking in anticipation at the thought, it would be good to go back, see his family, his pets, his home, to see everything again. Would he take the Alteans with him? lead them back to a population of their own kind? There were a few hospitable, unoccupied planets and moons they could live on and establish a new civilization. The biggest questions were: would Allura trust him and how would he get them to believe him? Wasn't like he could just walk up and explain everything.

Keith sighed, perhaps it was for the best he just left once it was all over. He was immortal, he couldn't afford the emotional attachment that came with friendship to non-Guardians. They would inevitably die and he would live on till he finally met the bullet with his and Yorak's names carved on it.

"What's everybody thinking about?" Katie said breaking the silence.

"Zarkon/Calzones," Shiro and Hunk said simultaneously.

Keith raised an eyebrow, why is it that Hunk was always thinking about food?

"I mean—uh, hec, yeah; I'm thinking about calzones, ok?" he sighed. "I mean, does it always have to be about Zarkon? He's a bad guy, we're trying to defeat him, I get it. But I'm hungry."

At least he was honest, Keith sighed looking out towards the horizon again. "We've come a long way."

Lance snorted, "Yeah, remember when Hunk used to throw up from riding in the elevator?"

"Glad I missed that," Jaz chuckled as Hunk groaned.

"You guys remember that Arusian? Klaizap, I think his name was? Cool name."

Lance laughed. "Yeah, Keith tried to beat him uo even though he was the size of a peanut."

"He was their greatest warrior!" he defended crossing his arms.

Pidge chuckled, "How about the time the food goo machine attacked us in the kitchen?"

"It took me forever to get that stuff out of my hair," Jaz snorted.

"That was the scariest thing that's happened to me the entire time I've been here," Hunk said.

Jaz shared a disbelieving look with Lance, "Seriously?"

"What? It's the truth!"

"We've faced sentries, a haunted castle, giant robeasts, a mall security guard—"

"Don't forget that cool cube thing!" Katie interrupted.

"And that awful cube thing!" Lance finished.

"You realize once we defeat Zarkon, the universe won't need Voltron anymore," Shiro spoke up and they all went quiet.

"We can go home," Lance breathed.

"I can find my family," Pidge said.

Keith shrugged, choosing to lie, "Guess I can go look for mine."

"This is really it," Jaz muttered.

"As long as everything goes according to plan, we can't fail."

Keith felt something heavy settle in his gut. "Pār skori gaomas mirros jikagon fodos naejot kȳvanon. [Since when does anything go according to plan]," Yorak murmured.