Author's note: Thank you for the wonderful comments, The Best Guesst! I appreciated it so much! This is another two-part chapter will be based on Episode 12 from 1984 version of Voltron. I will be adding a certain scene we saw in the season 3 trailer in the next chapter.

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Summary: Keith is beginning to find out his dreaded fate.

"Prince Lotor, if you may, I wish to explore and gather some useful materials for future purposes." as Haggar stood beside Lotor who was watching the view of vast space from his other private chamber.

"Oh? This is quite rare for you, Haggar, to be away from my Father's side. What has caught your mind?" as he tapped his fingers on his crossed arm.

"On Planet Nemon, there is a rare mineral known as Nemonium that I wish to obtain and use for a certain purpose."

"I've heard about that. Why must you go there yourself when I can order them to bring it here, witch?"

She smirked. "My prince, I will be visiting the Planet Lyra also to pick up a certain flower for a very special purpose."

Lotor gave an evil laugh and glanced at Haggar. "I see. Then I wish you luck and feel free to use anything at your disposal."

Haggar bowed and turned when she felt a cold hand on her shoulder. Lotor lowered himself close within hearing range and whispered close to her hooded ear.

"If you get to encounter my lovely Red Paladin, please send him my best regards."

A sinister grin appeared on her face as she bowed again. "With pleasure, my prince."

Lotor stood up with his hand back to where it was before and continued with star gazing, but watched Haggar leaving from the reflection off of the window. He smiled as he reminisced his few personal encounters with the Red Paladin, but his second meeting was still vivid and short for his liking.

His fingers couldn't forget the feel of the Red Paladin's smooth skin; smoother than any male species he has encounter before. Those low murmuring sounds of pleasure were melodies to his Altean ears and only excites him more as he could tell this one was still pure. He wonders what other beautiful sounds can he bring out from the Red Paladin's sweet mouth.

"Hmm..." as he tapped his arm again and smirked. "It's time for our beautiful nightmare to begin, my dear Keith."

"Princess, the Castle's scanner has picked up a distress signal from an unknown craft. Should we check it out?" as Coran looked over his shoulder from his control station.

"We should check it out. What should we do, Keith?" as her fingers typing on her right holoscreen for the location coordinates.

"Lance will go with Hunk and take the Yellow Lion to go check out the ship first. We will be on stand-by."

"Aye aye mon capitaine~" as Lance flashed his sexy smile at Keith while doing a mock salute which made Keith sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

He wondered if he made the right decision about Lance and their so-called relationship. He wasn't sure how to go forward with Lance, but was grateful how patient Lance was with him. Keith can only hope Lance can tone down his affection down a notch, but the way Lance just did, it was a no-go. He sighed with his shoulders slumped down since he underestimated how affectionate Lance is like a cat.

"Just take him away, Hunk." as Pidge made a gagging motion with her finger into her mouth. "Lance's stupid PDA is quite sickeningly sweet to handle."

Lance's brow quirked. "Aww'd. Don't be jealous because I am showing my awesome affectionate love to Keith and not to you, Pidge."

"Okay!" as Hunk grabbed Lance by the back of his shirt-jacket and dragged him out of the bridge. "Let's go, Mr. Casanova."

Pidge slapped her forehead on her palm as she had to see Lance blew a flirtatious kiss to their current leader, Keith, who in turn, stood like a stiff statue and his face being beet red with Coran and Allura looking all over him as they poked him. Pidge chuckled happily as she felt relieved that Keith has opened up slightly to Lance and the rest of the team.

At the same time, she felt guilty to feel this way when she doesn't know where her father and brother are. Her head tilted down consciously when she felt depressed until a familiar touch was on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Keith with a gentle smile.

"We won't give up finding your family, Pidge. I haven't forgotten that promise."

Pidge nodded and wiped her eyes with her sleeve arm. She believed in his words because that's how special Keith is to her. He may said some harsh words in the past about her selfish wish to find her family, but now, they both have grown to accept their duties and responsibilities for their Paladin roles. With Keith, he had given her opportunities to find any clues whenever they have the chance to infiltrate Galra ships disguised as missions as long she can kept her tasks in mind ever since he became their leader.

For that, she was grateful for Keith and deep down inside of her, she felt a little envy with Lance and was glad that Red was on her side. She chuckled at the thought which made Keith quirked his brow at her.

"Oh nothing. Just remembering how Lance blew a good-bye kiss to you, Keith~" with a huge grin on her face.

Keith looked cute with rosy cheeks along with the way he tried to look angry while turning away. She was going to keep this secret to herself. As long Keith is happy, she's happy too.

Their awkward silence broken when they heard a beep from an incoming message. Coran went straight to his control panel and pressed the button to accept the message.

"Coran." as they heard Lance's voice through the bridge's communication system. "You should have one healing pod ready. We are bringing someone on board."

"Gotcha Lance! It will be ready in two ticks!"

"Coran, do you know what kind of species is this?" as Lance examined up, down, and side-to-side of the cryopod.

"Nemonians from the Planet Nemon. It's a dry, desert planet, but with excellent technology for their water irrigation system. From what my last recollections, they were heavily enslaved by Zarkon for their known Nemonium metal."

"Nemonium metal?" as Slav popped up next to Coran. "That's what the Galra Empire used for their weaponry especially with their ion cannon and the two wings of the Black Lion."

They looked at Slav with suspicion in their eyes. "What? You all bored me with this low graded Castle systems so I checked out the exterior with each of the highly sophisticated Lions."

"Black."

"Green."

"Blue."

"Yellow."

"Red."

All they heard was their amusing purring and somehow, they enjoyed Slav's rubbing on their armor as their chosen Paladins groaned.

"Anyway, Pidge, were you able to find out anything from the ship's database?"

"After Lance and Hunk made a clear go ahead on the ship, I was able to hack in and download their data. I am still decryption their data, but I found something else... "

"What is it, Pidge?" Allura asked.

Pidge bit her lower lip. "There was a recording in their database. A recording of Prince Lotor's coronation."

"Show it, Pidge." Keith said in his commanding voice.

Pidge took a quick glance at Keith and nodded as she retrieved her file. She pressed play when the video started out statically until clear where it showed a three-pillar coliseum filled with Galra soldiers and that's when Keith felt his breath hitched hard and took a step back.

Lance stood next to Keith immediately and held one of his hand when he looked down as he saw and felt Keith's hand trembling and cold. He looked back at the screen with fierce glaring at the one in the center of the coliseum.

"I am Prince Lotor, the only son and heir of Emperor Zarkon."

No, it can't be.

"My father built our empire on the bones of our enemies.

And with that, he was our greatest Emperor to the Galra race.

Yet, after 10,000 years of rule, the universe's answer to defeat us was Voltron."

Why does he sound like the person in his nightmares?

"They may have defeated Emperor Zarkon, but they have not weaken our Empire.

Because the universe can no longer doubt our strength."

Why does he sound like him?

"Each ally gained only makes us stronger."

Keith watched closely as the cameras turned until it was in full view of Lotor in his full royal armor similar to Zarkon without the cape, but with mix hues of blue and purple.

He has Altean ears just like Allura and him.

"All those who continued to stand against us...will be crushed."

His violet eyes dilated with horror and confusion with flashbacks of his first meeting with Sincline at the hot spring bombarded his mind. The way he held his naked body closed to his and caressing his face with some kind of admiration.

But his haze memory from his time on Planet Scythia became clear. It was him who walked into his room. He recognized the outfit and his voice, but most of all, it was that same caressing feel on his face that his body remembered even though he wanted to forget it. Another flashback showing Lotor's joker-like smile as he came close to his face before he passed out.

He wanted to make sure his assumption was correct.

His voice croaked. "Is that him, Lance? The one you saw in the image. Please tell me the truth."

Lance gave a blank stare at Keith's profile while giving a slight squeeze on his hand before nodding to him. Keith wasn't sure what happened next, but the last thing he heard was everyone calling out his name when his body lost the will to stand. Lance calling out his name with desperation as he held onto his body tight to lessen his fall with everything became black.

And there was an amused chuckled slithered through his chaotic mind.

I can find you anywhere.

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