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Lotor leaned forward as he sent a discussed glare at the five Lions that were approaching his ship.
"Mayhox!" he shouted. "Destroy them!"
"Not yet, Sire," Mayhox said. "Soon."
"Then maim them," Lotor growled.
"As you wish," Mayhox hissed with an evil sneer. He made his way over to a small control panel that rested on the right side of the ship's bridge. As he pressed the red button he had just installed a few days ago, a purple beam of energy suddenly sprang from the ship and into the ground below. On the spot that it had smashing into a black swirling hole began forming. Foul looking purple light began glowing from the hole.
From inside Blue Lion, Larmina exclaimed, "What is that?"
"Try firing missiles," Keith said.
As the pilots reached for the switch that launched the missiles, the purple light suddenly went black causing every one of the force to hesitate except Keith who hit the switch hastily. Black Lion's missiles soared towards the hole with great speed, but even their speed was not fast enough.
When they were only inches away from the ground, the purple light from the hole suddenly flared up again blinding everyone's vision so they were unable to see what had happened to the missiles.
When the light had finally blackened a second time, the force glanced down at the hole. The missile hadn't even left a dent. Instead it seemed to be imbedded in the hole swirling around like an object in a black hole. That's when they realized that that was exactly what they were looking at, a black hole.
"Vince! How are we not getting sucked in?" Hunk asked.
"I don't think that is its purpose Hunk," Vince said his eyes growing wide. He said this because of what was crawling out of the hole. Thousands of tiny little scorpion robeasts were emerging from it.
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"We should be on our way now," Mayhox said.
Lotor glanced at him and then back at the Lions. He then nodded with approval. Leaving the scorpions on the ground, they turned the ship around and headed back into space.
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"He's getting away!" Keith shouted.
"I think we have a bigger problem than that, Keith!" Lance exclaimed gesturing to the scorpions.
"What are those things?" Larmina asked.
"Let's just focus on destroying them," Vince said.
"Alright team," Keith said. "Let's do this!"
The force navigated their Lions down to the ground where they planned to crush the scorpions under the Lion's paws. As they steered the lions down on the first couple of scorpions the tiny robeasts began crawling up the Lion's legs.
"What are they doing?" Hunk asked.
The force tried everything they could to throw the scorpions off the Lions. When they had tried everything they could think of, the scorpions were only a few feet from the opening that led to the pilots.
"Guys, I'd rather not find out what these things will do to humans when they find their way inside the Lions," Hunk said.
"Evacuate team," Keith said.
"What?" Lance asked. "We can't abandon the Lions!"
"We have no choice," Keith said. "Eject! NOW!"
One at a time the pilots followed Keith's example and hit the eject button. Still seated on the chairs they had been sitting on, they were throne high into the air.
"Pidge!" Keith exclaimed into his voltcom!
"I see you!" Pidge said from inside the castle. "I installed engines in the chairs. There should be a small compartment on the left side of each of your seats. Inside is a small button. All you have to do is press it and you'll be safe."
"You guys here that?" Keith asked the other pilots. That's when he noticed the others had already hit the switch in the compartment and were no longer plummeting towards the Arusian soil but instead floating up in the air.
Keith quickly did the same. Two large tubes suddenly grew out of his chair. Fire spat out causing Keith to float upward a few inches and then he came to a rest. Wrapping around him was a small control panel that he could navigate the chair with.
"Thank you Pidge," he said into his voltcom. "Let's get to the castle team!"
"Whoa," Larmina said staring at the scorpion covered ground. As they navigated their chairs towards the castle, scorpions continued to crawl out of the hole. Suddenly the same purple light that had emerged from the hole before began radiating from the scorpions. It was once again too bright to look at.
The pilots were forced to cover their eyes. When the light had finally dimmed Larmina gasped at what she saw.
The scorpions had grown as ten feet tall. Standing on two muscular feet they clapped their sharp claws together ready to take on the five pilots.
From the castle, Pidge fired lasers. The beams of fire soared towards the scorpions vaporizing them as they hit but it wasn't enough to destroy all of the scorpions.
"Let's get down there and fry up some scorpions," Lance said.
Larmina giggled at the comment.
"Daniel," Keith said into his voltcom. "Get down here and help us!"
"On my way," Daniel said from inside the castle. He was just waiting for Keith to say that.
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From inside the castle, Allura watched in horror as the terrifying creatures marched towards the village. "Pidge!" she cried. "Keep them away from the village!"
"Already on it," Pidge said firing beams of fire at the scorpions.
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The Voltron Force navigated their floating chairs down to the ground. When Larmina was about ten feet from the scorpion infested dirt she leaped from her seat, blue energy rod in hand.
"You guys came to the wrong planet!" she declared before she leaped up in the air to drop kick the closest scorpion.
From behind her, Daniel dashed with light speed on his yellow lion claws towards her.
"Hey Larmina!" he exclaimed as he erupted beside her.
Larmina twirled her staff in loops swiftly smashing it into a scorpion's head nocking it to the ground. "Sup!" she said glancing at him briefly before attacking her foes.
"Guys!" Vince exclaimed rushing to their sides. Both Larmina and Daniel glanced his way to see him throw a blast of white energy at several scorpions that had been seconds away from crushing Larmina and Daniel beneath their feet.
"Thanks," Daniel said.
Larmina nodded a thank you before the three began fighting the scorpions again.
After about five minutes of a constant battle Daniel suddenly realized it could be a perfect time to ask Larmina out. Even though they were in the middle of a fight, they were still together.
"Larmina," he said. "Larmina!" he shouted realizing the noise around them was loud.
"What?" she shouted over the noise of their clashing weapons. Suddenly her eyes caught Lance's. He motioned for her to come over to him before returning to the battle.
Larmina smiled and then sprinted forward.
Unaware that she had just left his side Daniel said, "Will you go out with me?" he whirled around and to his surprise met Vince's eyes instead of Larmina's.
"What? Dude…no! Are you crazy?" Vince chocked out.
"No, no, no, no, no! Not you!" Daniel exclaimed. He quickly dashed forward in attempts to look for Larmina. As he sprinted he made sure to demolish as many scorpions as he could.
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From inside the castle, Pidge did his best to destroy as many scorpions as he could with the castle weapons.
"Allura, I could use your help over here," he said.
"I don't know how to work the controls," Allura said. "You're too smart for your own good. No one can figure out how to work your upgrades."
Pidge sighed, "Ok um, I don't know what do to. The scorpions seem to be multiplying."
"Wha…Pidge look," Allura pointed to the screen. The scorpions suddenly began materializing into a sandy substance.
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Outside, Larmina stood back to back with Lance who had called her to his side for a little help.
"What's happening?" Larmina asked as the scorpions around them turned into purple sand.
"I…I'm not sure," Lance said.
As the purple sand fell down to the soil it began sinking into the dirt.
"Whatever it is it doesn't look good," Lance said.
"Pidge?" Keith's voice was heard over their voltcoms. "Any ideas of what just happened?"
"No, I…I don't even have any good guesses," Pidge said. "Can you guys bring me a sample of the sand?"
The force made their way to where Keith stood. When Vince had reached him, he bend down scooping up some sand with a curved disk and then placed it into a small container.
Daniel glanced at Larmina. "You got the flowers right?"
"Huh, oh yeah," Larmina said smiling as she glanced at Lance. Thinking it was only a friendly gesture he smiled back.
"Did you like them?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah," Larmina said. She supposed Daniel had helped Lance get the flowers.
Before Daniel could respond he was suddenly throne to the ground by Vince who shouted, "Don't ever try to make a move on me again!"
"What are you talking about Vince?" Daniel asked rubbing his shoulder.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about fool," Vince said before he stomped away.
"Uh…Daniel?" Lance said. "What was that about?"
"I swear it's just a miss understanding," Daniel said leaping to his feet.