Chapter 3
That was a lot of complications in that plan. First and foremost, my fake identity was a boy. For that I needed to fudge a whole lot of paperwork, which is 100% illegal. How I'm not in custody amazes me. I just need to look male in the computer. My outward appearance was the easy part. I just cut my hair, put on glasses, and wore clothes that were 3 sizes too big.
By some stretch of a miracle and good grades, I got into the Garrison without getting caught. I was in a flight group with two other future paladins, Lance and Hunk. Lance was our pilot, Hunk was the engineer, and I was our communications officer. I was pretty distant at the time, but I came around.
But on a random night of monitoring alien radio chatter (no big deal), an alien escape pod crashed in the nearby desert. Lance, Hunk, and I went to check it out. Low and behold, it was Shiro. We tried to rescue him from custody, but Keith (another future paladin) beat us to it and we tagged along for the escape.
Shiro said that an alien race called the Galra captured him and the rest of the crew and they were looking for a super weapon called Voltron. He couldn't remember much outside of that, but seeing Shiro gave me hope that my family was out there and alive.
Soon after, we took a field trip to some desert mountains and found the Blue Lion and big shocker, it's a lion that is blue. It choose Lance (out of all people) to be it's paladin. Then, we were sent on a joy ride to outer space.
I was utterly terrified (normal reaction), but also amazed (Pidge reaction). The lion was just so darn fast! It took months on end for my brother to get to Kerberos and we just pasted it in minutes!
The Blue Lion took us all to the planet Arus. We got to a large castle that housed Princess Allura and Coran, the last two living Alteans. The princess thought I was the perfect person for the Green Lion.(or maybe she looked at the color of my sweatshirt.)