Guys, Voltron season four is coming out this week and I don't know what to do with myself right now. I don't think I'm mentally prepared. Oh well. I don't own anything except foR MY OWN PERSONAL HYPE TRAIN! CHOO CHOO!
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"This is impossible! We can't find Shiro or form Voltro一AGH!" Hunk shouted from his yellow lion. Five galra fighters kept shooting at Hunk, but Pidge easily took them down from behind.
"I hate to say this, but I agree." Pidge shouted into her comm device, "We going to be decimated and I don't see Shiro anywhere!" Keith growled, "No we have to find him somehow! I don't care if there's too much, I'm not losing Shiro again!" The red lion darted in between fighters and took down another galra cruiser.
"Paladins," Allura's voiced came through each of their comm devices, "It hurts to say this, but Shiro isn't here. We've run some tests in this area and I can't pick up his or his lion's signature." She sounded frantic and a boom was heard over the comm devices. The ion cannon fired at the castle again apparently.
"Come, we must take our leave of this place," Coran said, sounding just as panicky. Lance sighed then yelped as fighters fired at him. "If we're gonna leave, we need to do it quick!" he hollered.
"Okay," Keith said, "First, Lance and Hunk get into your hangars while we cover for you. Pidge and I are faster in our lions and while we enter the castle, hopefully the castle defences will cover for us enough to make a quick escape." He heard sounds of a agreement and they executed his plan without much difficulty.
Allura quickly powered up the wormhole jump as soon as they entered the castle. "We will find you again Shiro, I promise." she whispered to herself as they escaped from the Galra fleets.
"No way," Leo stared up in awe at the huge piece of machinery. Jason, Piper, and Percy were right. It was hard to tell what it was supposed to be since it was in one of the darker parts of the woods, but whatever it was, it was much bigger than Festus.
Shiro stood before it and immediately recognized it. It was the black lion. He walked up to it and felt all the camper's eyes on him, but he was used to being watched like that. He placed his hand on the cool metal and reached for the strong mental and emotional bond he and the lion shared.
At first, the link didn't do anything, but soon it became more and more active and the metal started to groan as the lion slowly rose from it's uncomfortable position. It turned to face Shiro directly, almost as if checking if it was her paladin, before letting out an ear-splitting roar.
The people behind him yelped and covered their ears, but Shiro welcomed the familiar noise. Everything here was so unfamiliar, a lot changed from when he was last on Earth and thankfully he had his lion with him.
His lion bowed it's head so Shiro could stroke it's metal nose, a routine they practiced whenever he felt stressed. He heard Chiron wheel up to him and turned around, keeping his hand on the lion. The campers were either gazing at the lion or listening to the commotion at the edge of the wood where the rest of the camp was, wondering whether they should figure out what made that roar or not.
Everyone had no idea what to say at the sight until Shiro eventually broke the silence. "Well, it's long walk back to the camp, do you want a ride?" Chiron and smiled as the teens cheered an enthusiastic 'yes!'
Soon, Shiro was in his familiar pilot seat with Annabeth, Leo, and Chiron behind him. It felt a little strange not wearing his paladin armor in the seat, just his regular clothes, but refreshing nonetheless. Jason, Piper, and Percy, the people who weren't that excited to see how it worked as the other two, sat in the carriage part of the ship with a full view of everything below them.
Shiro grinned as he pulled the controls forward and shot the lion into the sky. "It's so graceful in the sky! This is a pure work of art," Annabeth and Leo kept gushing about it and asking how everything worked and Chiron just observed. Shiro was glad he could share this experience with someone else other than just the paladins.
"You guys doing okay down there?" he asked into the main speaker of the ship to the other teens in the carriage. "Never better," Jason replied. Shiro gave him a quick 'alright' and zipped over the forest towards the camp. It took less than a minute to reach the main clearing of the camp and he set the lion down there. The other campers gathered around the lion and gazed at it in a stunned awe.
Chiron chuckled and wheeled out of the cockpit and Leo followed, careful not to touch anything, no matter how much he wanted to. Shiro stayed for a minute opening the carriage exit for the other demigods to exit and Annabeth just watched.
"How does this ship work? I mean I noticed that no control you used did the same thing, like, you pushed both controls forward to lift off, then did the same thing to turn around. It's like there's no regard for the rules."
Shiro brushed his hand through his floof of white hair and looked up at Annabeth's stormy grey eyes. "Well, this might sound strange, but I don't actually control the lion. We're equals. I mean, we share a sort of mental connection of what each of us needs and we work towards a common goal. I tell her what I need and she tells me how to achieve it."
Annabeth seemed to understand and nodded her head, but then frowned. "I'm sorry about the way I acted earlier, I was just really suspicious, you falling from the sky and all. I hope you can forgive me."
Shiro smiled. "Of course, now you go and join your friends. I'm going to see if I can get a message into space." Annabeth nodded and smiled at him for for first time.
"Thanks, also, you're going to tell me how that artificial arm of yours works." She called over her shoulder as she left the cockpit. She could help but wonder how she just met him, yet she feels comfortable following him, everything he did, he did with confidence. A perfect kind of leader. She shook those thoughts away and left the lion joining her boyfriend, telling them about the lion and the stranger who pilots it.
Meanwhile, Shiro was getting little results. The signature of the castle wasn't in this solar system, no surprise there, but there was no way he could trying finding them in space alone. The universe is infinite. It would literally take forever trying to find them and that's only if they stayed in one place.
He groaned and looked outside. There were still campers milling about and he spotted Chiron in his centaur form talking to Leo, probably still talking about the probability of getting a powerful signal out into space or not. Whatever it was, they kept motioning to his lion.
He closed his eyes and put his hands on the controls. What should I do? He asked her, I don't know if I can make it back to my friends ever again. Surely, you must have an answer. He heard loud purring within his head and images flashed through his head. Images of his past experiences with his new family of paladins and bonding with them, eventually becoming their fatherly figure they all could rely on. It pained him to imagine how they were doing without him, but the experiences gave him a newfound determination to find his family again.
"Thanks," he patted the controls and got to work again on the broadcasting system and controls. He was sitting on the floor, fixing one of the jammed pedals when he heard a thumping noise. He stood up and was very alarmed to find that he was there for a good few hours and the sun was setting.
The thumping he heard came from Leo and Annabeth knocking on the purple particle barrier that formed around the lion when it wasn't in use. They waved up at him and he shut down the barrier. He lowered the lion's head so the ramp formed and they entered. He sat back down, meticulously working on a foot long panel that belonged in the control board that had somehow stopped working altogether, meaning all forms of contact were pretty restricted.
In his head, his lion kept growling and purring directions of what was needed to be done and how to do it because Pidge was probably the only paladin who could perfectly fix a part of her lion with no help at all. They rest were mildly adequate, to put it nicely.
"Hellooo?" Leo poked his head in and spotted Shiro screwing in the last piece to the panel before it hummed back to life and glowed a bright purple. He placed it gently back into the control board before turning to the pair.
"Hi, sorry the lion just needed a lot of fixing up after it's fall from space," Shiro said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Wow," Leo said as he looked at the lit up controls that glowed the vibrant color of the Galra, "This stuff is amazing. I can't makes heads or tails out of any of this stuff or how it works, but it's pretty cool."
Just then, Annabeth came in with a basket. "I brought you some fruit. You didn't come down for dinner so I assumed you might be hungry." She placed the basket on the ground and sat down next to it. So did Leo.
"Okay," Leo began, "So, my cabin mates and I are trying to figure out how to broadcast such a strong signal into space and we concluded it's going to be hard sending it past our system. But, all we need it a really strong energy source and we're good."
Shiro thought about it for a moment. Then replied, "We could use the lion." Leo immediately brightened and nodded. "Then it's settled. Cabin 9 has been really bored this summer and this gives us something to do. We'll start tomorrow." With that, he marched out of the door and exited the lion.
Shiro shook his head. That kid reminded him too much of Lance, it was almost scary. "Well that was quick," Annabeth remarked. Shiro nodded before turning to her. Her eyes were calculating and she had a strange look on her face.
"You didn't bleach that hair white, did you?" Shiro froze and Annabeth immediately raised her hands up in a defensive position. "Okay, it's cool if you don't want to talk about it. I just want to let you know I may understand more than you think."
Shiro noticed that his arm was involuntarily powering up and he took a deep breath, forcing to keep it from burning a hole through the floor. "No, no it's fine..it just brings back some bad memories. Maybe I'll tell you later, but not now. Right now you need sleep." Annabeth started to protest but was silenced by the stern look that her father gave her when she misbehaved, only it was Shiro giving her the look this time.
She sighed and told him goodnight and exited the machine. One day, she'll figure out what feelings he had bottled up. And why he reminds of her dad so much.
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Shiro is the best space dad. Anyways, it's really late right now, so I'm going to sleep, but please leave a review for me because I need motivation and reviews are the only things that motivate me, so...yeah. Peace out. Bye y'all.
~KindredShadow