AN: There will be a bit more canon divergence since I'm adding a certain series. Also, certain events will happen, but 'skipped' and mentioned/shown in flashbacks. This chapter starts at Episode 3.

Chapter 6

Naruto knew that his parents were going to be upset, but his mom was royally pissed off. He'd told them everything, and how there were a few serious problems. Zarkon, the Galra, the war to come, and the princess of Old Altea. Being over 10,000 years old, Minato remembered how the war started. So, did the Alteans of today, their history hadn't been censored; thus allowing a grudge to form against the old royal family. Still, his parents felt that he should be honest with Allura before they came to New Altea, and they were definitely coming; they would need some things in order to stand a better chance against the Galra. Voltron wouldn't be enough, and the castle was in need of some serious upgrades.

Plus it was better to just this over with as soon as possible. "She is going to be so pissed, they all are excluding Shiro who already knows." He stood up and left his room. "At least I'm not the only one keeping secrets, Pidge has been trying to hide the fact that she's a girl…a very cute, insanely smart girl." He smiled. Pidge had been about to round the corner behind him when she heard the blonde talking.

'Who's going to be pissed off and what does Shiro know…wait, he thinks I'm cute?!' she silently exclaimed. 'How long has he known?' Did the blonde think that she was cute before he realized that she was actually a girl? Did he go both ways? Pidge took a deep breath and waited for a few minutes before continuing to the navigation room.

As he walked his mind went to their training just a day ago when they'd managed to form Voltron outside of battle.

They'd failed to form Voltron with the castle firing at them, the maze was a massive failure since Naruto's sense of direction in tight places was very bad, and the nose dive exercise ended with only himself and Shiro succeeding. Obviously this wasn't good enough so now they needed to meld their minds and focus on Voltron. It didn't sound easy and obviously wasn't going to be. They had their eyes closed with images of their thoughts coming into existence, they could see into each others minds. Naruto and Pidge weren't exactly 100% in.

An image of New Altea flashed through everyone's minds. The beauty and serenity seemed to consume them. The sight of Alteans living peacefully seemed to pull them in without mercy. Naruto grit his teeth in ire, he could feel them going deeper in; any deeper and they would learn the location of New Altea and how to reach it. Naruto let out a burst of quintessence that knocked them all back. The teen was now breathing heavily. "What was that?!" Keith exclaimed. "Oh my god…" Naruto's eyes were now glowing a blueish white color.

That's when he forced everyone out of his mind in order to keep the location of New Altea a secret, and it would stay that way until they needed to go there. But, now he would have to reveal his secret.

Castle of Lions – Navigation Room

"Naruto, you called us here so what's the problem." Shiro asked. The blonde gave him a nervous look. "Oh." He backed away.

"I believe that it's time I came out and told you all the truth." The blonde said. 'You can do this.' The blonde let down his disguise, revealing his true features. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, the First Prince of New Altea; it's a pleasure to meet you all." Silence, there was absolute silence. "I'm sorry for hiding this from you all and there were times when I really, really wanted to tell you all, but I couldn't."

"Why, why couldn't you tell us? We're your friends." Pidge said.

"You didn't trust us or something?" Hunk asked.

"No, I trusted you guys, but the agreement was that I couldn't tell anyone while on Earth, but now we aren't on Earth so I can talk about it." He stated. "You've got no idea how hard it was keeping it from you guys every day, not to mention we were in a building full of government employees that would be really interested in getting their hands on an alien." He said. "Not to mention, my parents wouldn't think twice about taking me back by force if I was unable to say anything."

"By force, that's not how Alteans handle things, what happened to peace and diplomacy?" Allura asked.

"Yeah well our home planet being destroyed may have had some influence with us becoming a little bit more violent when it comes to protecting our own, our people hold a grudge that's been going strong for over 10,000 years." He stated. "We still value peace and diplomacy, but we aren't going to lose our home again, it's why we've advanced so much, to protect ourselves." He explained. "And from what I've seen so far, we might just be more advanced than the Galra; years of isolation has given us time to think and prepare."

"Hold on, could they help us in the fight against Zarkon?" Keith asked.

"I don't think my word alone will be able to convince my parents to send an entire army out here, not when it's just Voltron out here fighting." He said. "Plus, revealing New Alteas location is extremely risky, then there's you…" he said.

"What's wrong with Allura?" Pidge asked upon seeing Alluras upset expression.

"Some Alteans blame her father for the war and the destruction of Old Altea, they feel that King Alfor could've done more." Shiro said. "They need someone to blame, sure they're angry at King Alfor, but…"

"Some of them really hate the Galra." The blonde finished. "It's the 'genocide for genocide' hate, and trust me they will act on it if given the chance so that is another reason to avoid going directly to New Altea."

"Well, at least now you know you guys aren't the last Alteans." Pidge said. "Now you have something to look forward to for the future." Allura and Naruto were now staring at each other. Old royalty and new royalty, neither really knew what to say to each other. The title of Princess didn't hold much influence now, not when the Prince was here.

"Maybe I could tell you about New Altea later if you want." The blonde offered.

"I…I'm not sure if that's a good idea."

"Oh, that's understandable, I totally get it."

"No, I don't think you do." She whispered low enough so that he didn't hear. Before another word could be said, the perimeter alarm suddenly went off much to everyone's relief. The screen came up to reveal a small native outside, dashing from rock to rock while approaching the castle with his weapon. "A native of this planet."

"All of the fighting must've scared his people, thus they sent him." Naruto said. "What is he exactly?"

"A local Arusian most likely." Allura answered as the small local approached the castle.

"What do you want to do?"

"We'll try peace first and welcome him." She said. "It's the Altean…let's just go." she proceeded to leave. Naruto sighed and chose to give the princess some space; a lot of space so as to not cause any unnecessary tension. Unknown to him, there was quite a bit of tension back home.

New Altea – Palace – Meeting Room

Minato had read his sons report over and over again, but all he could think about was the fact that his son was going to war with Zarkon and there for the Galra Empire. "Damnit, we seriously can't do anything to help him?" Obito asked in frustration. "Don't we have any other assets or weapons we can send him; Voltron might need serious upgrades after all."

"Not without risking this planets location." Kakashi stated. "Our Galra assets are all we have too."

"That's not exactly true." Minato said. "Years back I commissioned a fleet to find worlds to colonize, and they did amazing for a while; even creating a super weapon that could definitely be useful against the Galra and any other threats."

"I'm guessing there's a reason we don't know about this?" Obito asked.

"They encountered something, well someone that nearly wiped them all out without any sort of provocation; the survivors have all but passed on, but the files say that the weapon was left on a planet." Kushina pulled up a holographic image of the planet. "The planet itself can be weaponized, well could've been weaponized."

"What happened to it?"

"The tracking signal suddenly disappeared a few years back, the planet itself suddenly disappeared and now we don't know where it is."

"Weaponize an entire planet, that's insane."

"Yeah, well it was built with the objective of revenge at the time." Kushina said. "The planet itself was called..." She looked through the files a bit before finding the name. "Etheria." It wa a beautiful name given to an insanely deadly weapon.

Arus – Arusian Village

The arusians were a nice enough people if a little, well very primitive. "This is nice and all, but I have a really bad feeling." He looked into the direction of the Castle. "We should've brought our lions with us just in case." He glanced to the arusians. "If the galra were to attack right now, it would put them in danger." Protect the people of this village, this should be their first priority until they got off the planet. Then it would be to protect everyone.

"Something wrong?" Koran asked.

"Yeah, our duty will be to protect and save everyone when we get off this planet, and it's going to be kinda weird working together with Allura." Naruto stated. "You see the way she looks and talks to me now, before I thought we could be good allies and friends, but now she can't stand to be within 6 feet of me."

"Ah, well that's because of, uh…it's complicated given the situation, just give her time to adjust to the fact that our people are alive, but she can't see them…we can't see them."

"I have to keep the location a secret no matter what; I have to protect them even if it makes Allura and yourself upset, I'm the prince and protecting my people comes first…that includes my fellow paladins." He stated. "I hope that the Princess will come to understand this, but for now I'll take her hate because it's necessary for everyone's survival." Before he could say anything else a massive explosion caught everyone's attention. "I knew we should've brought our lions!" he exclaimed. "Get the arusians to safety while I go get my lion, meet me when you can!" the blonde ran off as fast as he could. "Why didn't anyone listen to me?" Upon getting far enough away, he closed his eyes and concentrated. "Blue come to me!" immediately the lion let out a roar and flew to the paladin.

It landed and Naruto jumped inside. "Now." The lion flew into the air. "Let's see what—oh my god!" it was a massive humanoid robot, it was grey and dark grey in color with glowing purple eyes. Then there was it's right hand, it was a wand with a glowing dark purple ball of energy. "Guys, I—I'll draw it's fire away from the arusian village so could you please and I hope it's not to much trouble but get to your lions and save my ass!" the orb was launched at him. "Hurry up!" he fired at the beast and lured it away just as planned. "That's it, keep trying you ugly fu—" the blue lion was sent into a mountain, the orb had come back around after he had dodged the last attack. "You'd better believe that you'll pay for that with your life!" his hands were shaking. "Damn, I'm actually kind of scared."

Despite it only being 10 minutes, it felt like hours before the others came to his rescue. "Naruto." Shiro called.

"Thanks, I was actually—"

"We will talk about this later." The older man stated sternly. "But, for now let's focus on this…thing." He didn't know what to call it. "Form Voltron!" the five lions combined into one and quickly charged the beast.

"Wait, you saw how this thing was kicking Naruto around, we shouldn't charge in like this!" Keith exclaimed prompting them to jump back.

"That orb comes back around every time, and we can't focus on both so it's best to wait for a proper opening ." Shiro said. "There's always an opening." The ro-beast attacked once more, and while the sphere was blocked via shield, Voltron was still sent flying backwards.

"It can't keep doing that over and over, there has to be a—"

"Recharge period!"

"Exactly!" Voltron stood up. "But, we'll need to be fast when it comes." Naruto closed his eyes and proceeded to flood Voltron with his quintessence.

"Whoa, whoa, you guys feel that?" Hunk asked.

"It's power." Pidge said in amazement. "I feel amazing!"

"Naruto are you…"

"Yeah, now it's up to you Shiro, find the opening and I'll…" he the blonde was breathing heavily. "Ok, Voltron takes a lot of quintessence as it turn out."

"Don't use anymore, just pilot." Shiro said, though it was more if an order.

"You..got…it." he gripped his controls. "Let's get this (unintelligible)!"

"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?!" Allura exclaimed over the comms.

"Hey, she's the one who taught me every insult I know…she's a very passionate woman."

"Oh god, let's concentrate on—dodge!" Voltron dodged with enhanced speed before charging the ro-beast with sword in hand. It dodged the orb once more and followed close behind. Voltron swung the glowing blade three times, left arm and right arm fell to the ground. Then their enemy split in half, a perfect cut. "Did…did we just?"

"We were all thinking the same thing, it was like we were really one being, as if we were Voltron itself." Keith said. "But at the same time—"

"We were separate and still ourselves." Pidge stated.

"Trippy." Was all Hunk could say to describe the experience. "Naruto are you alright?" he received no answer. "Hey, Naruto are you alright?" silence.

"Oh no." Voltron separated and they immediately opened the Blue Lion. Naruto was unconscious and his body was steaming, what's more he was still breathing heavily. Something was very wrong with their friend.

20 Minutes Later – Arus – Castle of Lions

Naruto was in one of the healing pods, his body had overheated due to his usage of his quintessence, and he'd gone into shock. Despite all of this, he hadn't let go of his bayard. "These cybernetics are amazing." Pidge said as she examined the internal scan of the blonde. "They're advanced beyond anything I've ever seen, not only are they keeping him alive, but they're regulating the quintessence his body is constantly producing, but some of this looks like it was made for military usage." She explained. "They're bio tech as well and it looks like they were implanted when he was a child…they really are keeping him alive."

"Wait, does this mean that his body is rebooting itself?"

"Kind of, his physical injuries are healed, but something is keeping him from waking up."

"It's likely mental, let him rest, he'll wake up when he's ready." Allura said.

Naruto's Mindscape

Naruto didn't know where he was. Only that he was surrounded by a starry sky and the ruins of a city that he'd never seen before. In front of him was a young altean woman with gold irises, purple pupils and white sclera along with light purple hair. "Well, isn't this a funny situation you've found yourself in?" she asked before sitting on an intact bench. "Come on, sit, I want to talk to my nephew." Naruto's eyes widened in surprise.

"Aunt Honerva?"

"That's right, and don't worry you aren't dead." She said while the teen sat next to her. "I never thought that I'd be an aunt or that my nephew would become a Paladin of Voltron, I couldn't be prouder." She hugged him. "Oh, there's so much for us to talk about!" the woman was right. They were family after all and inside he knew this woman was 100% his blood and flesh. So he told her everything about his life. "New Altea sounds amazing, and you've learned so much about alchemy, but it sounds like there's quite a bit you have yet to learn." She smiled. "And since there's no telling when you'll wake up, I might as well teach you a bit of advanced alchemy that only I know."

2 Days Later – Arus – Castle of Lions

Naruto's eyes shot open when the healing pod fully opened. Everyone was there, they'd been waiting for him to wake up. The blonde stepped out albeit rather shakily, he would've fallen had Keith and Hunk not caught him. "What happened and how long have I been out?"

"Two days, the castle was attacked by Sendak, we have him imprisoned, and you somehow managed to walk out and shoot him through his mouth before passing out again." Hunk explained.

"I wasn't completely useless, that's a relief to hear." He balanced himself and let out a sigh. "Are we still on Arus?"

"Yeah, bit we're getting ready to leave."

"Mm, give me at least 3 hours to go get some meat and other edibles for our travels, food goo is going to get old rather quickly, right?" he turned to leave, his pupils slitting for a moment before returning to normal.

Chapter 6 End