Paladins of The New Age

by Ostia Queen of Randomness

In a future where Empress Honerva rules supreme alongside her husband Zarkon and son Lotor, the Paladins have gone into hiding with their families. Some captured, some on the run, but a new coalition is on the horizon. I own no characters, aliens, robots or planets from the TV show, only my OCs. All of the original paladins are in their 40s in this, btw. Rated M for bloody scenes.

8. I Swear This Isn't Rogue One

The plan was a good plan when they trout of it next to the IGF Atlas, until it came to actually getting anywhere close to the surface of the Balmera. The general in charge of these particular mines was obviously point-blank driven by craze with keeping this poor Balmera as secure and trapped as possible. There must have been some absolutely huge crystals when the site was founded, or they wouldn't have gone to this much effort to keep it so heavily draped in that eerie purple metal.

Pidge looked at the mines with heavy eyes, remembering when she first met Shay and her family living in such terrible conditions, not even being able to see the sky, and this one was a hundred times worse. A Balmera-wide force field was installed around the surface, supposedly to prevent any rogue ships from stealing the loot a that the general had claimed for themselves or to sell.

She looked at Lance, who seemed just as puzzled as she was with the whole situation, and in no better state of mind.

"There's no way that anybody would be able to get into this place without having some kind of ID card, I think." He said, "They would only let in Galra."

Pidge sighed, "And we don't exactly have a very purple ship, either."

Remembering her training from the garrison, Pidge suddenly had an idea.

"Lance? You know when the Garrison said that if you were stuck in space, there was a button on every ship that you could press that made the ship land immediately on the nearest habitable planet?"

Lance looked up and his remarkably slow train of thought led him to what Pidge was talking about after a good minute. "If we went straight through the force field with the helmets on, we could parachute our way down to that entrance when the ship burns up from the force field!"

Pidge grinned, then pointed to the Balmera. "There's a mine shaft there where we could land without being seen. Should we do it?"

"Yep!"

"That. Was. Awesome." Pidge said between gasps of air. "Using the packs like that... I didn't think you had it in you to be smart, dumb one."

Lance rolled his eyes, "You still won't let that go, will you?"

"Nope. Now, come on, let's find a crystal and shoot some sentries and get past some doors." She crept deeper into the cavern.

Lance chuckled, "Just like old times, then."

"Yeah."

They shot some sentries and got past some doors.

Just like old times.