This is the last chapter unless someone gives me an idea, btw you will get credit unless you don't want it. Thanks for reading this, I know it probably wasn't the best fanfic, but I tried and I got some positive feedback. From now on, I'll probably write fanfic about my MHA OC or finish the fanfic about my Voltron OC. Also, sorry it took so long to update. Coming up with the ideas took a while and then I had finals to study for, then we visited family, blah blah blah...
Katara
She totally didn't see the Firebender get up, and she definitively didn't see the huge fireball he sent her way. Annoyance made her clench her jaw, Zuko was so irritating. Katara scowled at him and turned to look at the paladins. Their metal guy, apparently a great weapon, had a huge sword in his fist. Something from the caves caught her eye, a group of Galra was entering. She ran toward the caves, silently urging Sokka to come out, holding his boomerang. A row of war balloons blocked her from the caves and a small group of Firebenders and Galra were grouping near the entrance after they got down from the balloons. Katara turned back to the fight, hopefully, Sokka would know to find a good hiding place. He ran out of the caves. Katara wanted to smack him. The Firebenders turned and started to fire at him, but he ducked and continued running.
"Krolia! Help Sokka!" Katara yelled as she deflected a fireball that would have hit Krolia's shoulder.
Krolia nodded and ran, Katara covering her. Before Katara and Krolia could get there, two Earth walls rose up on either side of him, blocking lasers. Katara looked back and saw Toph making her way to Sokka, bringing down war balloons. Aang followed close behind her, deflecting lasers and fire with Airbending. A loud slicing sound made everyone look up to where Voltron was hovering. A thin, glowing line had just exploded on the ship and now half of the ship was falling towards the plains.
Krolia groaned. The other half fell on top of a row of war-balloons, making them explode. A loud shout sounded from the caves and the group of Galra by the caves moved to protect someone.
"Aang fly up and see who they're protecting!" Shiro shouted, holding a Galra weapon.
Aang nodded and jumped, "It's a Galra commander, he's holding someone."
Katara sucked in a breath and turned to Sokka, but he was gone.
"Never mind, it's another Galra," Aang yelled back as he landed.
Katara breathed out in relief and turned to deflect another fire attack.
"The war balloons are almost taken care of," Krolia yelled, shooting another down.
"I'll take care of the rest of them, everyone else, focus on the ground fighters," Aang shouted over lasers.
Krolia muttered something.
"What was that?" Toph asked, glaring at her.
"I said, usually the Galra release smaller fighters instead of using a big one," Krolia said.
"That is weird," Shiro mused, turning back to engage a Fire Nation soldier.
Katara looked back to the caves, the group of Galra was gone and the war balloons were retreating. Something shook the earth and everyone looked at Toph, she looked towards the plains.
"They landed," Toph grinned and buried a Galra under a boulder.
Katara watched as the giant man tore apart into five smaller lions. The lions circled back to the sinkhole and the rest of the war-balloons started to retreat.
Zuko
These Firebenders were suspiciously easy to beat. If Azula had anything to with their training, which she usually did, they would be top notch. He fired another fireball at a Fire Nation. He fell back and Zuko exhaled as he silently wondered what everyone was talking about. They were grouped together ignoring the lasers and fireballs roaring around. He sighed in annoyance and watched Aang land back and glanced a Zuko before turning to the others. Something in his gut twisted and knotted itself. He headed over, just as they turned back to fighting. Voltron split into the five lions and the war balloons started retreating. The ground fighters, Galra and the Firebenders (who were grabbing their injured and possibly dead), were climbing up ladders that the balloons let down.
"Good job," Krolia said from behind Zuko, making him jump.
"Thanks," Zuko, muttered.
The Lions landed around the city and stopped glowing. One after the another, they lowered their heads to let the paladins out. Once they were out, the paladins sprinted towards the group.
"Why did you go in the cave," Lance asked, looking at Sokka, "you could have gotten yourself backed into a corner or ran into a trap."
Sokka sighed, "Lana got hurt and we had to find sturdy cover. All the houses were getting damaged and I didn't trust the debris."
"Well, then why don't we go make sure she's okay?" Hunk asked, starting towards the caves.
"I saw a Galra come out of the cave," Aang blurted.
The paladins turned back and Zuko could see the blood drain out of their faces.
"What?" Allura whispered, worry written all over her face.
It wasn't a question. Zuko felt a sharp pang in his stomach. Failure he assumed. He'd left Lana with Sokka and protected the paladins. He looked up and saw the paladins and the rest of the Gaang dashing towards the caves. He ran after them, ignoring the pain from the burn the Galra weapon had given him.
Lana
Pain. Whirring noises. Blurry light. More pain. An engine. Muffled whispers. Cold metal. The most agonizing pain she'd ever known. Then cackling.
Lance
Panic flowed through him. The looks on the Gaang's faces had told him something was definitely wrong. He passed Keith and Krolia and dashed into the cave system. He skidded to a stop when he saw the shadows. There were fragments of something that looked like black glass, but he knew from training with Lana that it was what solidified shadows looked like when they were shattered. There were blaster marks on the walls and bits of purple fur.
"Scared of the dark?" Keith teased, stepping up behind Lance, his voice died off as he saw the shadow shards.
"Oh no," Shiro said.
A gasp came from in front of Lance, he looked down and saw Katara running deeper into the cave.
"Wait!" Lance yelled, she looked back and Lance could see tears in her eyes, "you need light, plus we should wait for everyone else."
"We're here," Zuko's voice was ice.
Lance spun and saw the Gaang, who had already seen the broken shadows.
"Where did you put her Sokka?" Pidge asked.
Zuko lit up the tunnel and Sokka led the group. Most of the Gaang were crying as Sokka led them and everyone who wasn't crying was stone-faced.
"Here," Sokka whispered.
Lance ran into the cave and stopped. There were three Galra encased in solidified shadows, each had obviously been pointing a gun at a specific spot.
"They tried to free them," Shiro said, "look, the casings have chips taken out of them."
"Why does that matter?" Katara yelled, "she's gone!"
"Hold on," Toph muttered and slammed her fists into the floor.
Vibrations shook the caverns and Toph stood up, head down.
"She's not here is she?" Allura asked.
"No," Toph muttered.
Sokka muttered, "It's all my fault."
Emotion rushed through Lance, Sokka and he had gotten along so well, except when they first met. They'd gotten along since then and had become really good friends.
"No it wasn't," Lance said, "she was hurt and you were trying to protect her and the only safe cover was the caves."
"It was probably set up," Pidge said, "they knew we were here and watched our tactics taking out the scout ship. Apparently, Lana was the biggest threat, so they had to take her out before launching the final attack."
"We have to get her back," Katara said.
"Of course," Shiro muttered, "this part is probably set up too."
Allura
Literally, nothing made sense. Why take Lana when the paladins were as powerful?
She sighed, "Whatever we do it has to be fast so they don't expect it."
Everyone nodded.
"Meet in front of the caves in 10 minutes or less," Aang said, with surprising determination.
Everyone nodded again. It took less than 10 min. The Gaang just had to pack their stuff and prepare Appa, which took 5 min. The paladins didn't have much, it was all on the castle, even the stuff they took from the Shadow Clan. Coran ran to prepare the castle and everyone loaded, including Appa. Allura wasn't sure where Appa was, but she thought that they put him in a hanger or the training room. She ran into the bridge just as the castle took off.
"Do we have a plan?" she gasped.
"Not really," Keith muttered.
"Yes," Sokka said, walking in.
Shiro raised his eyebrows, "Explain."
"We'll go in the lions with the most agile pilots and the rest of us will infiltrate the Galra ship, I know which one she's one. It's the only one that was sending troops off and it has a huge dent in it," Sokka said.
"Sounds better than what I came up with," Hunk muttered.
"So what pilots are gonna be in the lions?" Allura asked.
"Two of them, because one's gonna bring in the passengers and the other is going to be the distraction. I think it should be Pidge and Lance," Sokka said.
"Why?" Shiro asked.
"Becuase Pidge hasn't changed her lion at all, plus she can camouflage and the red lion is the fastest," Katara said.
"And you're going along with this?" Allura asked.
Katara nodded, "Sokka's the idea and plan guy. Also boomerang, but mainly idea. Besides, we knew what we were getting into."
Allura wasn't sure what she meant, but she pretended to understand.
"Ok, that's the plan. Any objections or notes?" Shiro asked.
Silence. Even the Gaang. An alarm went off, signaling that they were within the scanning range of the Galra.
"All right, let's go."
Lana
She woke up without pain, surprisingly, but the cold metal on her wrists and ankles told her that she was bound to something. Opening her eyes, she saw a metal room and she knew that Toph wouldn't be very happy if she were here. It was like purplely and grey, not a good color combo.
"Ahem."
She jumped, even though she was strapped down. An old hag was in front of her. With long white hair and purple and gold robes, she looked really old. The woman, she assumed it was a woman not many guys could grow that long of hair, had something in her hands.
"What are you doing?" The question slipped out before she could tell herself not to say it.
The woman took a step back, "Tell me everything you know."
Lana blinked, "Okay."
"Okay?" the woman looked confused.
"Yeah, it might take a while, but I could tell you," Lana shrugged, "Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my friend discovered the new Avatar, an Airbender. There were four nations now there are three, the Air Nomads are dead. The other three are Fire Nation, Water Tribe. There are benders and nonbenders, I'm a nonbender an-"
"Don't lie to me," the hag hissed, "I saw you manipulate something. You took over a commander's mind and turned his ship away from your hiding spot."
Lana gritted her teeth and sighed in annoyance, "Okay, so you're obviously insane. I've never used bending in my life."
The woman snarled and thrust her hand out, shooting something like lightning at Lana. It hit her directly in the chest. She screamed in pain as the darkness overtook her.
Katara
She felt like she was going to go insane. Somehow it was worse than the times when Aang was kidnapped, although she didn't know how. Maybe it was the fact that Aang had almost always been in great health when he was taken and he was at least three times more powerful than Lana. Sokka placed his hand on Katara's shoulder, startling her. She turned to him, about to yell, but closed her mouth when she saw his expression.
"It's okay, I'm sure we'll find her," Aang said, staring at the fleet of Galra ships fleeing.
"Let's do this," Toph muttered, cracking her knuckles.
"Pidge, Lance, finish preparing the lions!" Shiro yelled.
Pidge's and Lance's icons disappeared from the screen, then reappeared.
"We're ready," Pidge said.
"Load 'em up," Keith said, already heading towards the red lion.
"You sure you don't want to fight?" Hunk asked, "Lance is going to distract and guard the green lion."
Keith paused and glanced and Lance, "I'll ride in the Green lion then."
They loaded up and Appa, Coran, and Shiro stayed on the castle. Everyone else, besides Lance, boarded the Green lion. The paladins that were with them stayed in the cockpit and the Gaang met in the belly of the lion.
"What do we do once we have Lana?" Katara asked.
"what do you mean?" Sokka asked, looking down at her.
"Once we get her out and get back to the ground, are the paladins going to stay?"
"Of course not," Toph muttered, "they have their own word and their own bad guy to fight."
"Well, we don't know if he's actually here or if he just sent a mission here," Aang said.
"So the paladins stay until they know for sure where he is," Zuko snapped.
"There's one other problem though," Katara said, "once the paladins leave, there's no one left who knows anything about the Galra to help us defeat them. There's probably still going to be Galra who are working with the Fire Lord."
"true," Aang muttered, "but we'll get to it when we get there."
"Guys?" Hunk popped his head in, "we're about to latch onto their ship. It's soundproofed down here, so you can't hear anything, but Lance has already drawn the laser fire."
Katara nodded and a jolt ran down the lion.
"That would be your cue," Pidge yelled.
"Got it," Hunk yelled back, "Pidge is gonna bite onto the ship, so you don't have to enter space."
The lion's mouth opened and everyone got off.
Sokka
The corridor was empty, but he felt like he was being watched.
"Any tips we should know?" Toph asked, making Sokka jump.
"Don't get shot or captured. Don't talk to anyone." Keith muttered.
"Anything besides the obvious?" Toph muttered.
"Nope," Keith shot back.
"Let's just go," Sokka whispered.
They crept down the corridor, ducking into others to avoid centries. Eventually, Sokka lost track of where they were going, but Pidge never hesitated once. She pointed them down hallways and every so often pulled up a holographic map.
"If she's in the cells, she's down here," Pidge said and motioned down the hall to the left.
"If?" Katara demanded.
The paladins exchanged looks.
"No way," Keith breathed.
"What?" Toph growled.
"There's a chance that Lana went to Haggar," Pidge whispered.
"Who?" Sokka asked, confused.
"The witch," Keith snapped.
"And what would the witch do to Lana?" Katara snapped back.
"We're not really sure," Pidge said, glancing at Hunk, "nobody's told us. All the people who go in there, don't usually walk back out."
"What she means is that they're dragged out," Shiro said over the comms, making everyone jump.
"Hasn't Shiro gone through it though?" Sokka asked desperately.
"I don't remember any of it," Shiro said, "you should probably focus. Lance is taking some heavy fire."
"I'll go," Pidge said, "Hunk, I'm transferring the map to you. I've already plotted out several routes back."
Hunk nodded and a ping sounded, startling Sokka.
Lana
Everything hurt. She was starting to get used to it. Groaning, Lana tried to sit up but found her hands were bound.
"Obviously you don't know what you're dealing with," the woman snarled, "I am Haggar, high priestess of lord Zarkon."
"Why should I care?" Lana snapped, she was done dealing with this witch.
Haggar paused for a moment and glared at her, "Because you will tell me everything you know."
Lana sighed, "I tried, but you cut me off."
"That's because you weren't taking this seriously," Haggar snapped.
"Well, you told me to tell you everything I knew."
Haggar growled in frustration and stormed out of the room, but not before ordering a guard to shoot her in the arm. The guard rushed after Haggar and just as the door shut, a strange person in a bird-like mask appeared in front of her. The bird mask person raised their arm and a ball of purple energy formed. It shot out and hit Lana in several places, it left marks like scars on her arms and legs. Lana winced, the bolts were so hot, they were burning her and they felt cold. One energy bolt ripped Lana's dress and hit her stomach. Pain roared through her body. She relaxed the muscles in her body, hoping that whatever creep was behind the mask would think she passed out. It worked. Reaching out to the shadows, she could sense the thing leaving her room and walking down the hall. Lana took a deep breath and prepared herself.
Allura
They split up. Hunk and Allura took Toph, Sokka, and Zuko. Keith took Katara and Aang. Allura's group would check the cells and Keith's group would check the other rooms they passed and try to find Haggar's torture room. Thankfully the Gaang hadn't pressed what would happen to Lana if she was with Haggar, Allura got the impression they didn't want to know. Door after door revealed that this cruiser didn't have any prisoners. That was odd, from Allura's experience, there were always prisoners.
"This is kind of creepy," Sokka whispered.
"It is," Hunk agreed.
Zuko shushed them as another pair of guards approached the cells. Allura pushed everyone farther into the cell and closed the door.
"Why do we even need to cover this?" One of them groaned.
"Becuase Haggar said to," the other snapped, "now be quiet before I report you."
The footsteps left. Allura breathed a sighed of relief. The door of the cell next to theirs blew open.
"Why do we have to do that?"
"To scare and catch anyone who sneaking onboard. Shut up and I won't report you."
Something attached itself to Allura's arm and it took all of her willpower to scream.
"Are they gonna open all of the cells?" Toph whispered, squeezing Allura's arm.
"I don't know," Allura breathed, still recovering.
Minutes passed and Allura was sure they'd passed. Toph agreed, Allura didn't know how the blind girl would know that, but she decided to trust her.
"Let's keep moving," Hunk muttered after a few more minutes.
A comm from Keith startled everyone.
"Keith, don't scare us like that," Hunk said, putting Keith on speaker.
"No time. Katara just took over a guards body, but she can't hold him for long. We think we found Lana's cell but it's empty and there's blood on the floor. Sending my location now," Keith said, then hung up.
Lana
She made it out. A Galra soldier had come in a few minutes ago, although he told her that he wasn't Galra. He told her of another group, called the Blade of Marmora, who were also fighting Zarkon. He'd left a key in her hand and made her promise to tell Keith he said hi. Glancing at her blood on the floor, she slipped out of the door. Lana dashed in the opposite way that the bird mask thing had gone. She ran through halls and changed her course so many times she didn't know where she was. Except for the facts that she was in a big room. Something moved out of the shadows. A human guy, tall, about her age, the Fire Nation symbol was flaking off of his chest. Shizack.
Katara
Keith eventually stabbed the guard. The others were taking too long and he hadn't given enough information. Lana had been in the room with the blood and something called a "druid" had gone in to "take care of her." The way that the guard had said that sent chills down Katara's back. Whatever a druid was, she wasn't sure she was ready to face it. Hunk's face popped out from where the hallways connected, scaring her.
"Oh, hey, didn't see you there," Hunk muttered.
She nodded her head towards the room, "That's the room. Nothing in it and the guard is dead."
Sokka poked his head around the corner and darted towards the door. Keith stepped out of the room and shut the door, leaving Sokka plastered to the door.
"Where's Aang?" Katara asked.
"He's shoving the guard in a closet," Keith snapped.
"Once he's back then we'll continue our search," Zuko growled, "the longer we take, the more time they have to kill Lana."
Aang returned a few moments and the silence continued as they checked out the room. A crash shook the ship, making everyone fall to the ground.
"What was that?" Allura yelled, apparently forgetting they were sneaking.
Lana
Shizack was supposed to be dead. Unfortunately, he wasn't. And now he was back, holding a blaster. He was also like ten feet tall. Along with his new height, his arms and legs were coated with metal and on the sides of his arms were little pieces of metal that looked razor sharp.
"remember me?" his voice boomed throughout the room.
"Can't say I do," Lana muttered, gritting her teeth.
"I'm disappointed, I thought I made an impression when we met."
"Funny," Lana snapped, calling the shadows to her side, forcing them into the form of a sword.
Shizack grinned and swung at her. Lana rolled to the side and stabbed his fist with the shadows. He laughed, but Lana could tell it was a forced laugh. The rest of his arm headed in her direction, his fist was heading for her head again. Jumping to the side, she wondered how stupid Shizack could be. Then the metal spikes hit her. They were about the size of her arm and sharper than anything than Lana had ever dealt with before. Her arm got stuck between two of them and another jabbed her legs. Blood spurted from the new wound and Lana could feel the blood streaming down her leg.
"Bleeding so soon?" Shizack laughed, it was forced again.
She gritted her teeth as Shizack lifted his arm, shaking. Lana watched, guessing that her added weight was weakening him.
She grinned, "Getting a little weak?"
Shizack coughed and forced another laugh. Swinging her legs and moving her only available arm, she signaled to the shadows. As she tapped her head, the shadows in the room sprung up and lashed themselves to Shizack's legs. It only took a bit more energy to solidify them. With Shizack distracted, she removed her arm from where it was stuck. Slipping down to where her toes touched the ground, she forgot about the cut on her leg. The metal thing had made the cut bigger as she slid down. Her skirt stuck to the blood and she ripped it off, afraid of what would happen when the blood dried. The shadow sword she'd made earlier clattered to the ground and pain roared through her arm. A minute into the battle and she already had a sprained arm and a huge cut on her thigh. The sound of shattering glass filled the room and the shadows restraining Shizack snapped.
Aang
Silence followed the group down the hall. The paladins were whispering about the crash and Toph and Hunk had found a way to where they thought the crash had come from, Hunk using a map and Toph using the vibrations that kept coming from a room almost on the other side of the ship. They raced down the halls, ignoring soldiers that pointed at them. Aang released wind blast after wind blast, knocking the guards unconscious. Toph directed the group with Hunk and Katara pushed guards aside with water waves. Zuko blasted fireball after fireball randomly into the walls and into Galra, creating a distraction and damage. Allura smacked Galra sent flying by Aang with her whip. Keith covered their back, slashing at anything that tried to get close. Finally, they made it to the room and never made it past the door. A huge guy was blocking the door, dead. It took several encouraging winds from Aang and shoves from everybody else, but they moved the body just enough to get in. Zuko gasped when he saw his face.
"You know him?" Hunk asked, taking a quick survey of the room and sending it to Coran.
"He attacked Lana and she shoved him into a cliff," Zuko snapped.
"How do you know this?" Allura asked, blinking, "and how is he alive?"
"Lana told me," Zuko muttered.
"It looks like he was modified," Pidge said over comms.
"When did you pop in?" Hunk said, transferring Pidge to his wrist screen.
"Since you entered the room," Pidge said, "Lance is listening too."
"Hi Lance," Sokka said.
"Hey," Lance's disembodied voice said.
"You're right though, he looks more like a Robeast," Coran said, startling everyone.
"Sorry," Allura whispered, "I thought the people at the castle would want to know what's going on."
"It's fine," Keith said, stepping forward, "Lance, Pidge how are you doing?"
"We're doing fine, there's a few more of them, but we're just toying with them," Pidge said.
"Alright, just focus on what's in the room," Coran said, interrupting whatever Keith was about to say.
"From what Hunk showed us, it looks like there's another body near the back," Shiro butted into the conversation.
Aang turned and walked across the room. There was someone there. Aang stared in horror at Lana's broken body in front of him, burned and bloody.
Haha, hope you liked it! Credit to nhern1101 for Lana getting seriously hurt. If you want answers to what happens next give me an idea! Sorry it took so long to update!