A/N - Hey again! I've had the day to hammer out another chapter, so I figured I might as well get it to you. You might have noticed that I've re-uploaded chapter seven about three times now, and that's because I wanted to change a detail in the chapter to reflect coming events... and then I was also informed that I had mentioned "lions" a few times instead of "mechas" so I changed that too.

Ugly-Duckling123 - Thanks for pointing out my mistake! Sometimes it's hard for me to keep things straight since this is a crossover, and I find myself saying "lion" instead of "mecha", "galra" instead of "Akuma", etc.

GuardianAngel1234567 - Patience, my friend! Hawkmoth will come about, all in good time. In Miraculous the characters don't get to confront Hawkmoth for a long time... why should they in this story? (I'm mostly messing with you, but a Hawkmoth confrontation will happen a little while down the road).

Guest - If I answered all of those questions, there wouldn't be much story left to tell! You'll just have to see!

Anyway, enjoy the story!


It was a peaceful morning at the castle, with all of the paladins sound asleep. And who could blame them? They'd had quite the exhausting day, and now they were catching up on rest.

Nino, in particular, was loving his new quarters. He had his own room, with a bed much more comfortable than at the Garrison. Like the others, he was sleeping heavily, a smile on his face as he dreamed…

Until the alarm started blaring, and he fell out of bed, flat on his face. Tripping over his blanket, he stumbled out of the door in his pajamas.

Marinette had already been up for hours, and had even already donned her uniform after using the silly catchphrase of "spots on". She hadn't been able to sleep, despite being exhausted. Her family was out there, somewhere, and that's all she could think about. Well, not all she could think about.

Her thoughts went back and forth between her family, Miraculous, the team, and… well, and Adrien. It was ridiculous. A boy should be the last thing on her mind. But she had nearly died yesterday, and she couldn't help but think about what she'd have been leaving behind… the things she would have never said or done.

So, needless to say, when the alarm went off Marinette was ready, immediately sprinting from the room even as Tikki's voice came on over the speakers:

"Everybody up! Hawkmoth's attacking!"

Chloe, on the other hand, simply sighed blissfully, turning over in her sleep. The night before she had donned her facial mask and headphones, and was listening to her favorite playlist (including pop idols from back home). The alarm couldn't make it past the noise of Beyonce's Single Ladies, and as such Chloe remained sound asleep.

Adrien groggily opened his eyes, and they widened when he realized what was going on.

"The castle's about to be destroyed!" Came Tikki's voice, and he immediately darted from the room, only stopping to grab his jacket.

Alya's head snapped up, and she winced at the crick in her neck. She had fallen asleep on the floor in front of her computer. She quickly closed it, tucking it into her bag, and ran from the room.

"Go go go! We need Miraculous now! Hurry! We can't survive much longer!" Tikki yelled into the microphone. She glanced up at Plagg for approval, but he shook his head.

"You've got to sell it a bit more," He told her, moving to take her place behind the mic. "Oh, no! Allura is dead! Aw, it's horrible! Her head fell off! Wait! What? Her severed head is trying to speak to me! What is it, Allura's head? What are your final words?"

"Plagg," Tikki rolled her eyes.

"Oh, yes, Princess, I'm listening."

"It's over." Tikki shut off the alarms, but Plagg didn't seem to notice that the noise had stopped… or that four of the five paladins stood in front of them.

"Oh, I know! If only Miraculous had been formed," He finally looked up, beaming when he noticed the paladins. "Oh! Time!" He grabbed what appeared to be a stopwatch from the counter and stopped it. Marinette raised an eyebrow.

"I guess this isn't an actual attack." She said, as Alya rubbed her eyes and Nino looked at Plagg in confusion. Tikki glared at them.

"And it's a good thing it wasn't because it took you…" She paused, looking to Plagg for the time. "Plagg?"

He grabbed the stopwatch, examining it.

"Seventy five degrees!" He announced, before pausing. "Oh, sorry. No, this is a meat thermometer."

"However long it was, it was too long," Tikki continued, unfazed by Plagg's antics. "You must always be ready to do battle with Hawkmoth. Look at you! Only Marinette is in uniform. Adrien, Nino, Alya, where are your weapons? And where is Chloe?"

As if on cue, the doors slid open and Chloe entered the room, looking calm and refreshed. Her skin shone from the facial mask, and she had on a stylish yellow robe and bee slippers.

"Good morning, everybody," She greeted them with a yawn. "What's going on?"

"Plagg and I have been up for hours getting the Castle back in order," Tikki informed them, glaring blatantly at Chloe. "We had to run a test on the alarms, and we decided to test you as well. Guess which one failed."

"Hey!" Nino piped up with a yawn. "You got to sleep for 10,000 years, man. Monday night, I was on Earth. Now, I've flown through space, fought some evil alien named Hawkmoth, eaten goo in some weird castle. That's a lot to process in, uh... I-I don't know. What day is today?"

"It's the third quintant of the Spicolian movement," Plagg stated cheerfully. "Hump day!"

Nino stared at him blankly for a moment before continuing.

"Right. It's a lot to process."

Tikki strolled to the center of the room, the way she had the other day, centering herself in the middle of a large circle. A curtain of blue light descended on her, and her eyes closed. When they opened, glowing blue symbols appeared in the air, a hologram displaying a vast section of the universe.

"You must understand the stakes of our mission. Over the last 10,000 years, the Castle picked up distress beacons from the following locations," The team gasped as the majority of the hologram turned red. "So, we have to assume that Hawkmoth has conquered almost the entire known universe. Earth is here," She pointed to one of the only remaining blue areas. "An attack on your planet is inevitable."

"Oh no." Nino breathed.

"Exactly. Our mission is to free all of those planets. Plagg and I are getting the castle ready to leave Arus. During that time, you have to learn to form Miraculous, so we can begin fighting Hawkmoth."

"The Princess is right," Marinette told the team. "Let's get to our mechas and start training." She paused. "Wait, but first I wanted to talk to the prisoners we rescued yesterday."

"That's a negative, red," Plagg told her. "The prisoners need to remain in the cryo-replenishers until tomorrow, so they can heal."

"That's right," Tikki agreed. "Now, get to your mechas!"

The paladins raced to their respective mechas, quickly maneuvering their way through the corridors to get to their destination.

Nino, however, had a bit more trouble.

He ran straight to the room he had been assigned, standing on the platform that would lower him down. He smiled as he began the descent, believing this would be the fun part. When it reached the bottom, he would leap onto a zipline that would carry him down.

As the platform stopped, Nino made the jump, grinning with satisfaction as he latched onto the handles and began the journey down into the planet.

Until the zipline suddenly stopped.

"What's going on?" Nino looked around in confusion, shifting his weight to try to get the zipline unstuck. "How do I - ouch!"

He lost his grip, falling from the zipline onto the floor below, and watched as the handle began to slide again… without him.

"Aw, come on."

Four of the five paladins were now waiting outside, suited up and successfully inside their respective mechas. Each of them was looking back towards the castle, waiting for Nino to emerge with the turtle.

"...Should someone go in after him?" Chloe suggested.

Suddenly, the turtle mecha came flying from around the back of the castle, landing beside the others.

"Hi guys. Sorry everybody. Seriously though, can't they park these things, like, a little closer to the bridge?"

The five mechas turned to face away from the castle.

"Alright guys," Marinette said. "Let's just fly in tight formation until we're totally in sync."

"Feel the bond with your mechas and your fellow pilots," Came Tikki's voice over the coms. "Until five become one unit and you form Miraculous!"

The team let out a cheer as they took off into the sky, flying in formation, and...

Nothing.

They tried again. And again. And again.

Still nothing.

Only Nino continued to let out a cheer as they tried yet another time.

"Am I the only one who's still pretending to be excited?" He asked.

"Clearly this isn't working," Marinette stated. "Let's settle down for a bit."

"Maybe we should be building Miraculous from the ground up." Adrien suggested.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, let's try literally building Miraculous, like, stacking on top of each other."

"Like a cheerleader pyramid?" Chloe scoffed.

"Do you have a better idea?" He shot back.

"It's worth a try. Let's go."

A few minutes later, they had stacked the mechas on top of each other, with the Alya and Chloe at the bottom, Adrien as one arm and Nino…

"...Nino, what are you doing?" Marinette asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You're supposed to be the arm. Next to Adrien."

"What?" He replied, confused. "No. No, no, no. I'm pretty sure that when we did it last time, I was the head. Right?"

Chloe rolled her eyes, hardly believing her ears.

"You yelled, "I'm an arm," idiot. Remember?"

"Yeah, I was yelling a lot of things."

"Nino, Marinette is the head." Adrien explained patiently.

"All the time?"

"Let's just try it my way for now." Marinette persuaded him.

"Okay, but next time I call the head."

The paladins carefully rearranged their mechas, Nino taking his proper position as the other arm, and Marinette slowly lowering herself on top.

"Okay. Arms and legs... and I'll form the head. Feel the bonds with your lions. Now, channel your energy into forming Miraculous." The paladins all closed their eyes. "Focus. Focus." After a long moment, Marinette opened her eyes. "Is everyone bonding and focusing?"

"Why was this so much easier before?" Chloe complained.

Marinette sighed.

"Let's take a break."

"Sorry to interrupt," Tikki chimed in over the coms. "But I may be able to help. Yesterday, you weren't able to form Miraculous until you were in the heat of battle."

The team thought for a moment.

"You're right," Marinette conceded.

"Perfect!" Tikki continued. "Because I need to run a diagnostic test on the castle's defenses! This should help!"

All of a sudden, the castle began firing at each of the paladins, and the mechas scattered as they tried to avoid the blasts.

"Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Chloe yelled.

"Tikki, what are you doing?" Adrien called out.

"Running a diagnostic test on the Castle defenses and inspiring you! I believe in you, paladins! Let fear be your guide! Form Miraculous!"

"Forget this!" Chloe exclaimed. "I'm heading back to the castle!"

Turning around, she launched the bee mecha towards the castle… only to be bounced back by the force field now surrounding it, hitting the ground hard.

Nino did his best to dart back and forth, avoiding the lasers, but the turtle was so slow.

"Please stop! Please! Have mercy on us!"

"You think Hawkmoth is going to have mercy on you?" Tikki demanded. "He's probably on his way right now to destroy us all!"

Tikki set the computer to auto-lock, and strolled out of the room confidently. The paladins would have to learn to work together, or face the consequences.

Hawkmoth sat upon his throne, tapping his cane with his fingers.

"You have returned early," He noted, looking at the soldier kneeled before him. "Did you complete your mission?"

"Sir, the moon's crust became unstable. Staying any longer would have cost half my crew."

"Hmm, perhaps, but the half that survived would have been stronger."

The soldier looked up, confused, as Hawkmoth continued.

"Weakness is an infection. Better to cut it off than let it spread."

As if on cue, two guards approached and grabbed the soldier by his arms, dragging him from the room, ignoring his protests.

From the shadows of the throne, Volpina emerged, stepping into the light so that Hawkmoth could address her.

"What have you come up with to capture Miraculous?"

"I have been working on perfecting something," She informed him. "Someone new to Akumatize, that will strike fear into the hearts of any who stand against it. Miraculous may have surprised Stoneheart, but it will not be able to overcome our creation."

Tikki strolled into the room, Plagg at her heels.

"Are we at full power on condenser number five yet?" She asked him.

"No, still just 84 percent." He replied.

Tikki's eyes widened when she noticed four of the paladins collapsed on the couches in front of her.

"You did it! You formed Miraculous!" She exclaimed.

"No," Adrien confessed, the shame evident on his features. "The shooting stopped and the particle barrier shut down, so we just flew in."

"...What?"

"Oh, right," Plagg spoke up nervously, noticing the look on Tikki's face. "Uh, sorry, Princess. I had to turn off the castle's defenses to test the fire suppressors."

Before she could reply, one of the other doors slid open and Marinette entered the room. She stopped short when she saw her teammates relaxing.

"What are you guys doing in here? We're not taking a break."

"Marinette's right," Tikki agreed. "You should be training."

"Ugh, we've been training!" Chloe complained. "When are we going back to Earth?"

"I'm not going back to Earth until I find my family." Marinette told her firmly.

"Yeah, and besides, there won't even be an Earth if we don't figure out how to fight Hawkmoth." Adrien added, moving to stand beside Marinette, who shot him a grateful smile that made the act worthwhile.

"How are we going to fight?" Chloe asked, exasperated. "We can't even figure out how to form Miraculous."

"Well, I'm not surprised." Plagg admitted. "You know, we - I mean, the original paladins fought hundreds of battles together, side by side. They were like a pack of yalmors linked at the ears!"

"...yeah, that's definitely not us."

"During the last attack, your survival instincts forced you to work as a team, but that will only get you so far. You'll have to become a real team to have any chance of forming Miraculous and then beating Hawkmoth next time. You should try working out on the training deck."

Nino looked at Plagg curiously.

"There's a training deck?"


Volpina strolled confidently down the halls of the Akuma ship, towards the place that even the guards would not follow... the place she and Hawkmoth kept their little experiments.

She was rather fond of the arrangement they had. She would find those must suitable to be akumatized, and work to ensure that their akumatized form was as strong as they could be. Like Stoneheart, for example. He wouldn't be twice as strong without the way Volpina had pushed him.

She came to a large metal door, reinforced to ensure nothing escaped. Placing her hand on an identity scanner, the door opened. When it did, what was inside shrank back against the wall, causing Volpina to smirk. All of her pets feared her; she had made sure of that.

"I think I have the opportunity you've been waiting for. How would you like to get your revenge against Marinette?"


N/A - Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Just so everyone knows, I'm breaking down the sections into the episodes of Voltron. The pilot episode was The Rise of Voltron, and since that was extra long it had 13 parts. Some Assembly Required is the second episode, and will likely have only two or three parts since it is normal length. The rest of the chapters will follow suit.

Anyway, thanks again for reading and please leave a comment with your thoughts and predictions!

~ Elizabeth (FanOfDeliciousFlavour)