2 AM... That the time where I'm at! I should be in bed but I had to finish this chapter, I hope you like it! This chapter is not what my original plan was, but I went with it. So if it's cheesy and choppy that's why. Hope you enjoy, and as always. Like(star), Comment and Share!

~Kayla05w

"When you finish knocking out the communications hub, meet us at the rendezvous point." Shiro told Pidge and Hunk over the video com. Pidge looked down at him, he looked worried she didn't blame him, she was worried too, they all where.

"Copy that, Shiro. According to its trajectory, it passes through the dark zone in five ticks." She started her countdown as Hunk mumbled to himself.

"Four, three, two, one," She let go of the bar above her and dived out of the loin into the deep, dark, void of space as they jet backed to the hub.

"It's locked," Pidge told Hunk, "I could hack it, but we don't have the time, can you blast it?" She asked her fellow paladin. "One way to find out" He shot it once... nothing. "Wait!" She whispered as she knelt by the door, popping a banal open that sat beside it. "I thought you said you didn't have time to hack it?" "I'm not" She let the spaghetti like cords fall out of there place. She cut some of them in multiple places. "Now shoot the panel" She instructed him. He obeyed without question. The doors busted open, and they ran in, Hunk shooting, Pidge beside him sweeping officers off their feet, with her bayard.

A Galra sentry attacked Hunk forcing him to go on the defense rather than offense. "Pidge, we can't let them trip that alarm!" He grunted

Pidge sat atop an officer she flung the string of her bayard at the last remaining Galra. It wrapped around him like a snake; He jerked against the cords causing Pidge to go flying in his detraction, she activated her jetpack to use that movement to her will almost kicking him in the face. She tried to throw a punch but failed; he got her arm in his claws. She tried to hide the fear in her eyes, as he taunted her. "Why look who it is! Haggar's little pet." He flung her across the room; adrenalin flowed through Pidge now more than before, she once more activated her pack and thrust herself back at him. She jumped on his back wrapping her arms around his neck. "I'm no one's pet!" She grunted

"Get off you little pest!" He fell backward using Pidge to cushion his fall, she hit the floor with a splat, and groaned "Well see about that!" he smirked as he stood. She quickly recovered sitting up and grabbed his leg.

"Pidge, duck!" She turned to see Hunk coming in her direction. She understood what he was about to do and scurried out of the way, while Hunk finished him off. She rested against the consul in a daze, knees to her chest, "Will see" he said. The words repeated over and over again she shook her head "Focus, worry later" she moved over by Hunk as he pulled the right wall panel open. She knelt in front of and got to work. "Comm station hacked, ghost signal initiated. Fully automated so Galra HQ thinks it's running. We have about eight hours before they figured it out." she frowned at her screen. Hunk smiled and said, "Until then, no calls get in or out."

Shiro's face popped up on her screen, she tried to hide her worry as he talked "Coran will monitor it from the castle so we know when it's back online. Great work, guys."

The fight had begun, everyone was doing their part to make sure their plan worked. The rebels were on root to the first cannon while the blades where getting ready to attack the second.

As for Pidge and Hunk they where just boarding the black loin, to be taken to their loins. Pidge ran in Hunk at her heels, "Pidge wait up" He called, she didn't listen. She ran into the loins cockpit. "Good job Pidge" Shiro told her as he finished setting up the auto pilot. He turned to her and stopped. Katie, what's wrong? What happened?" he questioned leading her to a seat.

Her mouth felt dry as he spoke "Haggar knows... She knows we where there, she knows our plan." He stared at her confused. He knew she wasn't lying she would never lie about something so serious. "Pidge...You can sure run." Hunk entered hands on his knees. "Pidge, what wrong?" he asked as well. "When you guys found me and Matt did you ever check us for trackers?" She asked the silence told her; she knew they hadn't. She quickly stood removing her helmet, she then pulled the top half of her armor off tying it around her waist, she wore a black tank-top underneath, her arms had goosebumps. "You need to check me, now!" Neither of the men questioned the young girl, Shiro touched a few buttons on his suit, Pidge stood very still as the scanner did its job. A couple beeps later Shiro looked up, fear in his eyes. "There's one in your arm just below your shoulder.

"take it out!" She demanded, she tried to hide the fear in her voice as it quivered slightly. "Pidge we don't have the right stuff to do that" Hunk told her. "I want is out! I don't want to be the reason this mission failed.

"She's right. Pidge sit down Hunk come with me, we got to make her as comfortable as possible."

"What is the Quiznak! How did we miss that!?" Shiro moaned

"It's no one's fault; we were more worried about keeping her alive" Hunk said as he rummages through the medical supplies, finding the things they might need. "But what if it's too late? what if they know the plan?" "They aren't going to know the plan, now let's go get this out of her! The sooner, the better.

"You might want to lay down." Hunk told her. She obeyed and lowered herself down onto the cockpit's floor, she could feel the rumbling of Blacks machinery doing its job, it was comforting. Hunk sat on his knees scanning to pinpoint the tracker. Shiro has behind her letting her use his lap as a pillow. Hunk took a pen and drew a circle on her left arm of where he needed to cut.

He then dapped alcohol like cleaner onto her skin. While putting on the medical glove, he told her. "Pidge I'm not going to lie..." "Because you don't know how." She joked trying to fight the fear. He smiled "You are right, but in all seriousness, It's deep, under a lot of mussels, something like this is done with antiseptic..." She took a deep breath "Well... Lets get this over with, we have a fight to win." Hunk looked at her, sadness in his eyes. He then bent over kissing her on the forehead, "You're so brave... Braver than anyone I know. Don't ever forget that." She smiled at him. "You probably shouldn't watch." She nodded and turned her head away.

It was a long prosses, eventually Shiro had to hold her down, to avoid any unnecessary damage eventually. But they got it out.

She felt a cool rag against her cheeks whipping away the tears. "Pidge" Shiro began. "We couldn't get it all out, it's bigger then we thought it was, but it's deactivated so the Galra can no longer know where we are." She opened her eyes. "Ok" She croaked. Shiro helped her sit up and Hunk handed her a water bottle. "Pidge maybe you should sit this one out?" Hunk suggested "NO! I'm coming... I need to do this. Besides, it does not hurt nearly as bad as before. She eyed her are it was wrapped. She stood and put on her suit, It did hurt, to be honest, but nothing compared to the Galra. She would fight no matter what her team said.

"All right, Paladins, we've got one chance to take Naxzela, so let's make it count," Shiro called over their comm-link.

Voltron quickly got to work, blowing up ships and bases in hopes to capture Naxzela. "Incoming cruiser, three o'clock!" Lance shouted

Voltron easily maneuvered out of it's shoots but got blasted by an invisible force.

"What was that?" Allura voice came

"I didn't see," Lance said. More and more of the invisible blasts came. Pidge closed her eyes grunting trying to stay calm.

"What's hitting us?" Shiro yelled. Pidge knew that questioned was directed to her, and quickly tapped at the screen to her right

"We're in a minefield. Somehow, the bombs were cloaked." Hunk cut her off "Shield! Shield!" He squawked at her. Activated Voltrons shielding then continued to explain. "My systems detect the mines, but there's just too many to safely maneuver through them. And with the cruiser covering all possible exits from this minefield, we have no way out!"

Quickly Allura jumped in "Wait a tick. Perhaps I can freeze the mines." Lance caught on to her idea just as fast as it was mentioned and added "Then we could fly out of here before they explode."

"All right, that sounds like a plan. Freeze them Allura!" Shiro said as they unformed Voltron letting Allura get to work on the mines.

When she was done Shiro gave the next order "Let's move! Form Voltron!"

"Great work, team. Let's secure Naxzela" Shiro told the rest

"Quiznak!" Came Coran's Voice "The communications satellite is back online. Galra distress calls are going through!"

"It doesn't matter, Coran. They're too late. We've just about secured Naxzela." Shiro reassured the Altean man.