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When they all hear what Keith said, Shiro walked up to him, practically picking him up and taking him out of the room. "Keith, you have to stay calm. You have to think positive." Shiro said to him in a soft, calm voice, trying to comfort him. Keith was looking down with his hands covering his face. After a minute, he looked up to see Shiro still in front of him. "I..I didn't leave because of him..he does matter, we need him..I need him..right now.." Keith then grabbed Shiro's shoulders and shook him slightly. "Please, let me in the room with him..I need to be with him..!"

Shiro stopped Keith, pulling him into a hug as comfort and trying to calm him down. "Keith, I can't do that..you can't be in there with him right now, we just have to wait it out. I know you want to be with him right now, but you can't..not just yet..be patient.." Shiro said in the mullet boy's ear, rubbing his back softly.

Keith had tears rolling down his cheeks. When he finished, he wiped his face on Shiro's shoulder and lifted his head up. "Shiro, tell me..how did that happen..? I need to know.." Keith asked the other male, making him tense up slightly, which Keith noticed. "..It's not a nice story..but here's what happened.."

"Okay guys, this is a search and rescue. We can't delay anything, we get in, rescue Matthew, and get out. Simple." Shiro explained, recieving a nod from the other paladins. Shiro nodded in response to them. He then held his bayard, as did the others.

When they all landed their lions, they went out in separate directions. Shiro, Hunk and Pidge all went in the same direction, with Shiro telling Lance to go a different was. So, Lance was by himself, going down the middle section from everyone else.

As Lance was walking and being cautious of running into the enemy, he hears the others talking to each other through the comms, neither of them speaking to Lance. He was walking down the middle of two rock walls to the left and to the right of him. He saw that there was a lot of rock at the top, waiting to roll down and crush him from head to toe, but he ignored them and kept going.

Halfway through the walls of rocks, Lance spotted one of the enemies. He hid behind one of the rocks close to the ground and aimed his gun towards the enemy. When he shot a couple of fires, he heard a few small rocks fall, but ignored them. He kept shooting until the enemy was down, then quickly turn around to see that some of the bigger rocks were falling.

Taking the chance to run back to where everyone split up at, he bolted down through the middle of the two rock walls, dodging as many of the boulders as he could without being hit but then. It was then that Lance tripped over on of the medium sized rock and fell to the ground. He tried to get up, but to his avail, he couldn't. His ankle was hurt.

He immediately turned on his microphone on his helmet to contact the other.s "Guys! Guys help me! I can get up, please! Do you guys not hear the rock slide happening?!" When he was about to finish what he was going to say, he covered his head as a boulder almost fell onto his head.

Lance couldn't see very well. A few moments later, a boulder fell onto his legs and he let out a loud scream. His mic was still on, so the other heard his cry. As he did, he was trying his hardest to push the boulder off of his legs.

As more boulders were rolling down, it stopped after a while. In the meantime during that, the others had found Matthew and were heading their way out to their lions. When they were at their starting places, Shiro turned on his helmet mic to see where Lance was. When Shiro go it on, they all heard Lance's scream through the comms, that's when they all came rushing to where Lance separated from them. When they got further down, they saw the rock slide. The three, including Matthew, all called out his name to know where he is.

Lance, leaning his back against a boulder and trying to keep back his cries, weakly held his hand in the air, hoping that the others could see him. He then spoke into his mic, letting them know that he was still there. "H-Hey..I'm still here, I'm okay..just come help me, please.."

Shiro and Hunk went to find Lance while Pidge and her brother stayed behind. Hunk and Shiro were breaking the boulders. Hunk with his bayard and Shiro with his Galra tech arm. They finally got through the boulders and to where Lance was, who was leaning against one for the boulders with the other crushing his legs from the waist down. His face was covered in blood and tears running down his cheeks, obviously not in a good position.

Shiro and Hunk's hearts dropped when they saw him. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Lance, the kind, and soft one of them all crushed under the rock that could've crushed his whole body.

Hunk ran up, trying to push the boulder off of his teammate and friend, wanting him to stay alive. Shiro then went up to Lance's side, first getting rid of the boulder he was leaning on. When that one was gone, Shiro then propped Lance's head up on his lap, trying to clean off his face.

"Lance don't worry, we're going to get you out of here and fixed up, okay?" Shiro told the blue paladin, receiving no answer. They both looked worried mixed with fear. Hunk was trying to break the boulder, breaking it as careful as possible to not hurt Lance. Shiro was checking the boy's pulse, smiling and letting out a sigh of relief when he felt it was still there. "Okay, nothing to worry about yet. He's still going. Hunk, keep doing what you're doing, I'll make sure he keeps a pulse." That said, Hunk did as he was told and Shiro did as he said he would.

Eventually, Hunk got the rock broken to a size he could lift off of Lance. When he did, Shiro quickly picked Lance up and carried him to the black lion, as well as picking Lance's lion up with his. Hunk getting into his own and Matthew getting into Pidge's lion with her.

A while after the left, Lance woke up in Shiro's lap in the seat. He looked up to the other male and closed his eyes, trying to get his words out. "Sh-Shiro..Shiro, I..I can't feel my legs..what happened..?" When Lance spoke, Shiro smiled and almost cried still piloting. 'Oh, thank God you're alive..we were all so worried..glad to hear you speak again, buddy..there was a rock slide where you went searching. You called for us and we came. Me and Hunk had to make sure you were still alive..stay here with us, okay?"

When Shiro said that, Lance began to cry. He was looking up into his leader's eyes, and replied with one simple sentence. "Shiro..you guys should've just left me...I'm worthless to this team anyway, so why did you bother..?" WHen that was said, Shiro's heart sank again. All he did was stroke the Cuban boys hair and let soft tears roll down his cheeks.

When Shiro finished explaining what happened to Keith, it only made himself breakdown and Keith even more. Shiro looked up at Keith, apologizing. "We're so sorry Keith, we know how you feel about him and now he's like this..we're so sorry.." After Shiro said that, Keith pulled him into a hug and patted his back. "Shiro, I'm not angry at you got Pidge's brother back..all I want is Lance to be here with me right now..let's just hope he heals fine..I can't stand being away from him this long.." With that, Shiro agreed with him and they both went back into the room, Keith sitting back in the spot as before they left.

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