Like I said, I have no idea where this is going. If you have an idea, please let me know. I will try to use all of the ideas that people suggest. Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Most of this chapter was inspired by nine1775, so thank you! I hope you like this because I got some pretty strange looks as I was trying out Shadow and Light bending. ;) This will be the post for September 19!

Zarkon

"The paladins have disappeared, my lord," said a captain of a fleet that Zarkon didn't much care for.
"Haggar said that she located them," a druid spoke.
"Why did you not tell me earlier?" Zarkon demanded.
He just wanted to destroy Voltron and rule the universe, was that too much to ask for?
"Because the paladins signal is almost identical to Lotor's signal," the druid said.
Zarkon resisted the urge to yell at them, "Trace the signal. It doesn't matter if it's Lotor's, he's too weak to do anything."
The druid bowed and backed off. The captain, on the other hand, had to be punished. Maybe Zarkon would order him to be shot into space.
"Commander Ezel, please take care of the captain," he said, putting emphasis on "care."
The captain struggled as soldiers took him away.
"Sire, we have located the signal." Haggar appeared, scaring him.
He nodded.
"There is a slight problem," Haggar said, "they are in a different universe."
Zarkon snarled, cowards. Voltron had the ability to travel between universes and they used it to run.
"How far is it?" Zarkon asked, trying not to get angry.
"The entrance isn't too far from last time we saw Lotor," Haggar spoke of her son like she spoke of a parasite.
"Head in that direction," Zarkon ordered, "and flatten out the material from what we have of Lotor's ships. The metal will be put on the front, sides, and back of our ships."
Haggar nodded and headed off.

Zuko

He was starting to regret the walk. They were walking through street after street, not saying anything. Now they were close to a cliff on the opposite side of the city where they'd come from. Lana suddenly stopped walking and looked to her right. Zuko looked at the house, it wasn't turned to rubble like the others on the street. It wasn't in the best condition either, with holes in the walls and the supports creaking.
"Four hours to dawn," Lana said, breaking the silence.
"What is this place?" Zuko asked he had a feeling he already knew.
"My big sister's house."
Zuko looked at her, surprised. He'd thought it was her house.
"My house is that one," Lana said, reading his mind.
Zuko looked where she was pointing. It was easily the most destroyed house, almost totally turned to ash. He turned back to Lana and took a step back, she was holding a hand out to Zuko.
"Let's stargaze," Lana whispered.
Zuko smiled a little and took her hand. She shot out her other hand behind her in a 'stop' gesture and the shadows bent. They jumped and the shadows lifted them up to the roof. In a brief moment, Lana looked back at Zuko and he thought that she might be blushing. Then the roof hit. Lana, who was looking back at him, smacked into the roof. He landed on his feet and held out a hand to help her up. She laughed but stayed sitting down.
"We're here to sit and relax, not stand," Lana laughed.
She laid back against the roof and Zuko looked over the edge. Shadows were wrapping themselves around the bottom floor and solidifying.
"Don't worry about the house falling," Lana said.
"I wasn't," Zuko muttered.
They sat, together, watching the stars and not saying a word. A small weight pressed into Zuko's shoulder and he looked over to find Lana, sleeping and using his shoulder. He sat, imagining all the things that could have gone differently in his life and the scenarios that he might have been in. The sun peaked over the sink hole's edge and Lana blinked sleepily.
Zuko smiled at her, "Morning."
Lana smiled back, still sleepy, "Huh, you're smiling. That's a miracle."
Zuko rolled his eyes, "Whatever."
"Look at the streets," Lana whispered.
Zuko looked, "They look like they're glowing."
They did, the sun's light made the stones glitter.
"I bet I could make them glow," Lana said, grinning, "what'll you give me if I do?"
Zuko thought for a minute, "An I told you so?"
Lana frowned, "Fine."
She stacked her right arm on her left arm and took a deep breath. When she let it out, it was a cloud of light fragments. Lana opened her right fist, so it was an open palm, and pressed it on the fingers, in a fist, of her left. Then she jabbed her left elbow down. She breathed out of her mouth, a slow, quiet breath. Below, the stones in the road began to glow. All along the street, the stones glowed. Zuko stood up next to Lana and she smiled at him.
"I told you so," she whispered.
They stood together as the sun rose fully, showing a huge, floating ship with weapons pointed everywhere.

Pidge

Lana seriously scared her. Zuko kinda scared her, but not in the way Lana did. When Lana had fallen asleep on Zuko, Pidge had gotten bored and have rewatched some of the videos she'd recorded. Most of them were pranks or funny things that the paladins had done. She'd gone through them and had finished just as Lana and Zuko started whispering. When Pidge heard Lana suck in air, she turned and froze. A Galra ship was hovering over the plain that they'd crossed the other day. She looked at Zuko and Lana, staring at the ship, and looked back at the houses where the rest of the paladins were. It was too far, she'd have to reveal herself. Pidge was just about to fly over to the roof Lana was on, but then she felt something wrapping around her ankle. She looked down, a chunk of shadow had attached itself to her leg.
"I was wondering when you were going to notice."
Lana's voice startled her, and next to her Zuko turned to look at Pidge.
Pidge scowled, "How? I was in stealth mode."
Lana raised an eyebrow, "Even though I lost most of my power, I can still sense movement in the shadows."
Pidge glared at Lana, "You're lying to us. You never lost your bending, I saw you put that guy in the cliff."
Lana's face changed, going from smug to annoyed. The simple act of bringing her eyebrows down gave her an angry look. Pidge hated to see what she would look like mad.
"So you were spying," Zuko said, interrupting their staring contest.
Pidge scowled, "So what if I was? The real problem is the Galra ship overhead."
"Is that what you call it? Galra?" Lana mused.
"I'll explain later, but that ship is going to fire on the plains and destroy everything," Pidge said, struggling to get her feet unstuck.
"How do we get up there?" Zuko asked, shielding his eyes and looking at the ship.
"I can get up there with my jetpack, but it's meant for short bursts, so I'll have to get someway back."
Lana smiled, "I've got wings I can use. Zuko, can you try doing that thing your sister did? Using Firebending to fly?"
Zuko thought for a minute, "I can try."
Lana handed Zuko a rope that seemed to come out of nowhere. He tied one end around his waist while Lana tied the other end around her foot. Pidge prepared her jetpack and watched as Lana stood straight and held out her arms. Her right arm was level with her shoulder and her left hand was on her right shoulder. She brought her left arm to the same level as her left shoulder and tapped the tip of her right shoe to the roof. Inbetween her shoulder blades, shadows collected and formed a pair of wings. As Pidge flew over three rooves, to the roof Lana and Zuko were on, the wings solidified. Zuko stared in amazement at Lana and she grinned back.
"One thing, before we go, no one speaks of this. Okay?" Lana said, looking at Pidge.
Pidge nodded, feeling the tiniest bit of annoyance that Lana felt like she couldn't trust Pidge.
"Let's go," Zuko interrupted Pidge's train of thought.
They looked at each other and nodded. Pidge took off, with Lana flying right beside her. Zuko called small fires to propel him, but he was mostly getting dragged by Lana. Pidge looked over at Lana, making sure she was okay. Instead of looking serious, like Pidge expected, she was grinning. Pidge looked down, they were farther than she'd thought, maybe fifty more feet until they were in throwing distance of the ship.

Zuko

They entered the ship from the cannons, as Pidge called them, and Pidge led them through the ship's lower levels. A few times she had to stop and recheck the direction they were going in. So far no one had approached them, but footsteps echoed down hallways they skipped. This was nothing like the war balloons that Zuko had seen, much more complicated and bigger.
Pidge motioned them closer, "The footsteps we're hearing are the centries, foot soldiers. Just up the hallway is the entrance to the bridge. The bridge is where the commanders are, so we need to take them out. Usually, there are three officers up there, I'll take one, Zuko takes one, and Lana can take the head officer."
Lana nodded and looked at Zuko. They nodded. Pidge led them up the stairs with Zuko at the back.
"Sir, something is moving."
Zuko froze.
"It's just the shadows."
"What if-"
"It's not, you've been on edge since we got here."
Pidge and Zuko looked at Lana in surprise. Her eyes were closed and she was swirling her arms, manipulating the shadows to cover them. As Zuko looked around, he realized that he could see the shadows surrounding them. Lana's light grey eyes were a sharp contrast to the dark shadows surrounding her body.
"Come on," Pidge whispered.
They entered the room, four purple guys were standing at desks with displays that looked like Pidge's. They were tall, purple, and had furry ears coming off the sides of their heads. All of them had the same grey armor and turned at the same time. Before Zuko could get a good look at their faces, they attacked. Next to him, Lana dropped her arms and the shadows disappeared. There was a brief moment of confusion for the guys and at that moment Zuko attacked. He shot a flame at one of the guys and he dropped, trying to put out the flames. Pidge engaged in hand to hand combat with another one and that left Lana with two. Zuko frowned and shot a flame at another one, but Lana pointed to the one he'd just taken care of. He was standing back up and Zuko let go. Fire poured from Zuko's hands, he directed it towards the guy. When the fire stopped, Pidge had a weapon pointed at her throat. Something cold hit his throat, another weapon, it looked kind of like Lance's weapon, but smaller.
"Don't move," the guy holding him growled.
Behind the guy, a metal shield lay, burnt beyond repair. Zuko watched as the last two guys circled Lana. One of them ran at Lana, but she was ready. She ran at him as well, just jumped at the last minute. Using his shoulder as an anchor, she flipped and landed behind him. His momentum worked against him and Lana easily flipped him over her shoulder. He landed on his back and got a knife in his throat. Blood spilled immediately and his comrade didn't even look at the body. Instead, he ran the desk thing. Lana jumped over the body and landed right behind the other guy. He turned, panicking, and pointed a weapon at Lana. Thanks when Zuko noticed Lana was glowing. Her body was giving off a soft, moonlight kind of light and her hair, usually in a braid, was now loose and floating. Her eyes were glowing as well, like the time that Zuko had seen Aang in the Avatar state.
"Disarm and get rid of them!" Lana yelled.
Her voice was normal, not a bunch of voices at once. Pidge disarmed her guard and hit him with her weapon. He fell to the ground unmoving. Zuko heated up his hands and moved them towards his attacker's head. His attacker forced the weapon into Zuko's throat, forcing air to come out of his mouth. Zuko breathed fire on the guy. Without his shield and unsuspecting, he was vulnerable. He fell to the ground and didn't move again. Zuko rubbed his throat after he breathed fire it always itched. He looked over at Lana, who still had her palm on the guy's forehead. Shadows were crawling up and down her arms, then she tensed. The guy's eyes glowed yellow and arched his back like he got shot by Azula's lightning. Lana gritted her teeth and the shadows rushed to the guy's forehead. Soon his entire body was wrapped in shadows and he was screaming.
"That's the captain," Pidge breathed.
Lana controlled the captain like a puppet, she put one arm out, he mimicked it. Still glowing, she turned to Pidge.
"How do we change the course?"
"Pidge turned white, "We can't make it explode. I don't know how to, I've never done it before."
Lana nodded, "I'll just look through his memories."

Lana

She sifted through the captain's memories like moving paper. Her body ached and she knew that she'd be really tired after this. Something in his memories started glowing, piloting lessons. She followed the instructions and turned the ship. It started heading in the opposite direction. Suddenly a hooded figure popped up, an old woman probably. She hissed at Lana.
"We have to go," Pidge said.
Lana released her prisoner. She breathed out and turned towards the captain. Grabbing his face, she twisted it, hard, and heard the snap of his neck. His body fell to the ground and she ran down the stairs. She just barely made it down the stairs, everything was moving. The ground was getting closer, too close. Suddenly she jerked up. Someone was holding her, a person with a scar. Dizzily she remembered all the scars she had on her body.
As everything was growing fuzzy she said, "You're lucky, you only have one scar."
Then everything went black. Pain. Death. Absence. Then hope.

Haggar

She watched the girl, almost unconscious, say, "You're lucky, you only have one scar."
Haggar was stunned, she'd never had someone control someone and then kill them so easily. Her level of brutality was almost level with generals. Of course, the green paladin had shocked her as well. The boy who burned the second in command could also be useful if he could be turned. She continued watching as the green paladin directed the fire controller to the escape pods. The prisoner had recongnized the girl and said she was wanted by a powerful government. They were careful, not saying names or places or anything besides directions. Her mind raced as she thought about the next step. Now she knew the general area of the paladins, but the other people were probably wanted too. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so far away from a town.
"What is the closest ruling government?" Haggar demanded, turning to the prisoner.
"Fire Nation," the prisoner said, with a hint of pride.
"Prepare contact with this 'Fire Nation,'" Haggar ordered to the nearest druid, "tell them we have something they want."