Quintessence Effect

ESKK: Chapter 3 lets get this story started.

(Start Arus Castle of Lions)

Repairs on the Castle of Lions were well ahead of schedule as Allura and Corran thanks to the added benefit of the Normandy mechanics were able to cut the time well in half. Of course, Allura had to help coordinate seeing as she and Coran were the only ones who knew about the technology. Of course, there was one other aspect that they needed to attend to and that was getting the Paladins trained in both combat and the lions.

Allura wanted to take care of that, but Shepard stopped her since apparently her method involved firing lasers at the Lions and using fear to get them to cooperate. The group were already friends with each other and thus gave Shepard an edge in getting them to work as a team. Still, he knew that when it came out that the Paladins were a group of teens a lot of people were going to be angry.

Of course, some of the methods Allura hoped to use did have merit after all. Such as a holographic maze that you needed guidance to get through and mentally linking up your minds to form a holographic Voltron. Both of those had proven to be excellent team building exercises and kind of hit Shepard hard when Kalvin had friends who he could count on and vice versa.

During the down time Hector helped the engineers to get the Castle back to working order. A lot of parts fell into disrepair after centuries of inactivity and needed to be replaced. Thankfully, the castle had spare parts they could use; the main issue was the Teleduv that created the wormholes for the castle. Corran had concerns that the lenses needed to be replaced at some point and was hoping they can be studied to recreate them for the castle. They would have added an Eezo drive to the Castle of Lions, but they currently did not have the resources for it. Just a reminder of how different Altean and Prothean technology were from each other.

Then came Tali, Penny, and Liara. Tali and Penny were hard at working upgrading the Paladin Armors with personal shields to make them up to speck with modern armors. Tali had discovered that the armor was made up of a metal that she had never seen before just like the Lions when she helped with those. Getting the shields onto the armors was a simple task for the two mechanics and even had a visual hub installed into the helmets and were working on linking those hubs to the Lions. Liara was of course hounding Allura and Coran with a million questions about the Protheans that it got to a point several times when Shepard had to find something to distract Liara to give Allura and Coran breathing room.

Allura had a lot of unflattering things to say about the Protheans, but she clearly never wished them to go extinct by these Reapers. Speaking off Allura had surprisingly given Zarkon's remains a proper burial using the dead emperors broadsword as a grave marker. It was noble but clearly Zarkon's betrayal had struck close to home for Allura. No one pushed it and Coran kept the information close to his chest out of respect for Allura. Of course, she added a small helmet tot the top of the sword but when someone had asked Allura kept it shut. This only added to the theory that Zarkon's war against Altea had struck close to home.

Speaking of Zarkon the group had wondered how Zarkon even got to this planet and had used their training to scout the area around the Castle for any other ships. Partial it was to find spare parts, another was to find other life forms, and the last one was to find data on the Galra. They may be extinct but at the very least it will provide Allura with closure.

At the moment Penny and Leon had gone with Tali and Garrus to investigate the area. From what he gathered from Joker they found Zarkon's crashed ship and had got off to investigate the crash site. At the very least there should be stuff that can be salvaged from the ship for their own use.

"Commander." Allura was heard as Shepard looked and saw Allura had entered the command deck.

"Oh, Princess how can I help you?" Shepard asked as Allura entered the room. Allura had changed her outfit to a jump suit no doubt in preparations for the launch to get back to Citadel Space.

"Well other than a few questions I had about some of the Citadel laws I came to let you know that the repairs are almost done." Allura said as she smiled at the man. "We should be ready for launch by late afternoon." Allura said grateful for what help the Normandy crew had provided for them.

"That's good." Shepard said as that was another thing he had been doing. The crew had been giving Allura and Coran a rundown of Alliance laws and Citadel laws to make sure they don't stumble accidentally into an international incident. Allura took to these lessons like a fish to water taking notes and asking questions where needed. Garrus had been a great help with that being a former C-Sect officer gave him an understanding of the Citadel's laws. "Once the teams are back from their scouting run, we can make preparations to launch." John said knowing that the away team is bound to find something out there.

"So, anything I should know about the Council or the political stage of this galaxy?" Allura asked as the way she spoke reminded Shepard that Allura was raised and brought up as a princess before her people fell. The common stereotype for royalty seemed to be that the children were brats and a few of the crew had actually fell into it. Of course, Allura was oddly welcoming and kind but the way she understood politics was what gave away her upbringing. Even Shepard was ashamed to admit that he thought she would be a brat as well but opted not to voice it.

"Not much for now worry about the Council I'll let you know about the other races later." John said as he did not want Allura to find out about the Batarian Hegemony too soon. Not many people like them and for good reason to one might add. Even Shepard had reason not to like them due to their pro slavery views of the Galaxy.

"I was talking about from the Alliance." Allura said as she was made aware of the Alliance's representative Udina.

"Expecting backstabbing?" Shepard asked but Allura sighed to this.

"One of the few rules of politics be most concern for your inner circle." Allura said showing she had learned this lesson the hard way before the war between Altea and Daibazaal.

Just then Shepard's communicator went off as he went to answer it. "Commander our scout team are coming back, and they found something." Joker said and thus John nodded to this.

"Alright I'll head to the castles hanger to meet with them." Shepard said and thus he got ready to leave. "Sorry Princess seems we might need to postpone this discussion." John said and thus Allura nodded.

"Understood." Allura said and thus they headed out to meet up with the away team.

(Later in the hanger)

The Blue and Green Lions had retuned, and the team were already bringing everything they had managed to gather. "We got a few good parts we can use." Tali said as the teams were already digging through for things they can use. "But we found something else." Tali said and thus Garrus spoke up.

"The Princes might want to see this." Garrus said and thus Allura looked confused.

"It's a bit of a doozy." Leon added knowing that Allura needed to get a look at what they found.

(In the Lounge Area)

Once they made their way to the lounge area the entire Normandy team and the Paladins were gathered as Tali displayed what she found. On the image they found Zarkon much to their shock alive and well, but the feed was static and heavily encrypted.

"Princess... Cycle... Voltron... Reapers... Protheans..." Zarkon's voice spoke but sounded tired and weak which surprised Allura. It also carried a hint of urgency in his voice but with how broken up it was they could not make heads or tails of it.

"That was all we can get after downloading its mainframe." Penny said as she showed the images. "It sounded like Zarkon was trying to warn you." Penny added as Allura glared at it.

"And why would that monster try and warn me?" Allura asked finding it hard to believe.

"The name Reapers dropped... I got a pretty good idea why." Kalvin said as he saw that Zarkon may have been pushed to a corner. His father told them what he knew about the Reapers which was not much.

"Princess if this has anything to do with the Reapers we need to know more." John said as Penny figured as much.

"Me and Tali are already working on a decryption program using data from the Castle of Lions though it might take a while to decrypt it all." Penny said as then Tali cut in.

"We were barely able to get this much." Tali said as it may reveal why Zarkon came to this planet when he did.

While Allura knew that it was a longshot any information on the Reapers was helpful even if it came from Zarkon of all beings. "Go ahead but I doubt Zarkon can be taken at his word." Allura said spitefully as she glared at the image of Zarkon before she left the room. As everyone stood there Kalvin could not help but worry that Allura may have some secrets of her own.

"Let's get the repairs finished and prepare to launch." John said as they needed to get this bird in the air. After all, Allura had a meeting with the Citadel Council to attend.

(Meanwhile with Saren and Haggar)

Saren saw images of two of Haggar's newest Robeasts as he had to admit they were impressive by all means. One bore a striking resemblance to a lizard that Haggar had acquired, and the other was truly fearsome looking like a certain project on Peak 15 on Noveria.

"Your certain these new Robeasts will deliver?" Saren asked as he glared at the Robeasts.

"Yes, and if not... they will keep Voltron distracted while we acquire what we need from Noveria and Zhu's Hope." Haggar said as she was clearly using whatever advantage to remain one step ahead of these new Paladins.

"If what you assume is true these Paladins are mere children." Saren said as he wondered if the Lions had their wires crossed.

"Never underestimate an opponent, Saren." Haggar said as she made this clear. "When you do... your enemy will undoubtedly surprise you." Haggar said as she did not want to take risks not after living for well over 50,000 years.

"Very well... but I have one idea... can you create a third Robeast?" Saren asked as he looked to Haggar.

"Whatever for?" Haggar asked with a raised brow. All Saren did was smirk as Haggar began to see where this was going.

(Scene Break Castle of Lions Command Deck)

The time had finally come to launch the castle. The Normandy crews had returned to their own ship while Allura, Coran, and the new Paladins remained in the ship for the launch sequence. Allura stood under the light of the crystal as she prepared to launch the Castle to space after 50,000 years of silence.

"To your positions Paladins." Allura said and thus one by one chairs color coded to each paladin rose up around her. Each of the Paladins took their positions and from there holographic screens popped up giving them readouts of the Castle of Lions. Once the Paladins were in their positions Allura gave the next order to them. "Activate Interlocks." Allura began as the ship began to come to life.

"Dynatherms connected." Coran said from his position on the controls. Outside the Castle began to glow brighter as it prepared for its launch after centuries of inactivity.

"Infracells up." Penny added as she did her part as well.

"Mega thrusters are go." Allura said as they were now ready.

"We're ready to depart Arus on your mark princess." Coran said and thus Allura nodded to this.

"Firing main engines for launch." Allura announced before Sven cut in from communications.

"Ze Normandy is launching as vell." Sven alerted and thus they were ready.

"Here we go." Kalvin said as everyone was strapped in just in case.

(Outside)

The Normandy was the first to launch as it flew towards space to give the Castle of Lions room to launch. The Castle however was bigger and thus needed both the space and the time. To the shock of the Normandy crew the four towers opened up as the mountain the Castle was atop of began to rumble. From there the ship itself began to rise showing that half of it was buried under the rocks thanks to time burying it there. As the Castle rose up it revealed itself as the vessel that it was.

Flying towards the sky the Castle of Lions made its way into space with the Normandy accompanying it acting as an escort for the ship. The two ships flew side by side as they began the journey to the Citadel to inform the Council of what had transpired from their arrival all the way to the activation of Voltron.

(Over on the Normandy)

The Normandy was off to the stars once more as they escorted the Castle of Lion to the Citadel. "Commander the Castle of Lions is hailing us." Joker said as Shepard stood in the cockpit behind Joker and Alenko.

"Put them through." Shepard said as he was ready to hear them.

"You got it commander." Joker said and thus he put the comms through. "A castle spaceship who would have thought totally Final Fantasy." Joker said as they got the communication link through.

"This is the Normandy, Castle of Lions do you copy?" Shepard asked as they were communicating on the same channel now.

"We hear you Commander, I'm preparing the Teleduve to open a wormhole to the Citadel do you have the coordinates?" Allura asked as she awaited Shepard's respond.

"Sending them through now." Kaiden said as he nodded to this.

Once they came through Allura spoke again. "Coordinates received." Allura said but then something caught her eye. "Hold a tick." Allura said as she noticed something concerning or surprising.

"Something wrong?" Shepard asked but then Allura spoke up.

"Yes or no." Allura said as she could not make heads or tails of it. "According to my computers the Citadels coordinates is already saved into the travel logs." Allura said and thus this surprised the group.

"Wait what?" Kaiden asked and thus Allura spoke again.

"According to my computers the Citadel's coordinates matches up to the Prothean capital." Allura said and thus this was surprising to hear.

"Please confirm did you say the Citadel is the Prothean Capital?" Shepard asked needing confirmation from Allura.

"Yes, according to my data that is." Allura said and in turn Shepard nodded.

"Confirmed." Shepard said and got down to it. "Open up a wormhole and the Normandy will lead through." Shepard said and thus got to the rest. "Your ship is big, so we'll go first to avoid causing a panic." Shepard said and in turn Allura nodded.

"Understood." Allura said and thus she got down to it. "Opening the wormhole now." She said and from there came the wormhole. From there the Normandy flew towards the Wormhole and the Castle followed it keeping its speed to match the Normandy's current speed.

(Meanwhile in the Sovereign)

Haggar was once again in her lab as she had a pair of Geth strapping a Krogan into a machine. "Release me now!" The Korgan roared in rage but the restrains kept him locked up. "Hey wench do you hear me let me go!" The Krogan snarled as he glared at Haggar who seemed to ignore him. The restraints were strong no doubt they were made with Krogans in mind as the unnamed Korgan tried to free itself.

"I suggest you hold your tongue." Haggar said as soon a pod closed around the Krogan who saw this. "You're about to become something much greater." She said and in turn the pod was moved into position. Once that was done her hands began to glow before Haggar released a current of violet energy into the pod and the Krogan within. The Krogan roared in agony as he could feel every cell in his body being ripped apart and his essence extracted from him.

Outside of the bod pipes and conduits glowed to life as it flowed towards a massive machine behind it. The Robeast was being given life and modelled from a Krogan the Robeast will be gifted with tremendous strength for the coming battle with Voltron. "Yes, my beast rise." Haggar said as she smirked as her new creature came into being.

(Scene Break the Citadel Serpent Nebula)

The Wormhole had opened and from it the Normandy flew out followed by the Castle of Lions. As the two ships flew to the Citadel the Normandy flew on ahead while the Castle hovered and awaited clearance. Inside the Normandy Shepard was once more on the comms to contact the Citadel flight control.

"This is Commander Shepard of the Alliance requesting clearance to land and clearance for our... guests to land as well." Shepard said as he made the call.

Just then the comm channel buzzed to life after Shepard finished speaking. "This is Citadel Control we hear you, but may we inquire the nature of this... second vessel?" Citadel Control asked via the comm channels.

"They're with me, enroute to meet with the Citadel Council." Shepard said as he made sure to put in a few things. "They are expected." Shepard said and in turn had more to give. "The Alliance is also expecting them as well." He added and thus Flight control got down to it.

"Please hold." The Flight control said and thus the group waited. Soon enough the Citadel Flight command called them back with an update. "SSV Normandy please dock at docking bay 422 and inform the second vessel to make contact as we prepare an escort." The Flight Control said and thus Joker smirked to this.

"Well time to face the music." Kaiden said as he knew what was about to happen.

"Not sure which is worse being torn a new one by the Council or being torn a new one by Udina." John said as once it came out the Lions picked teenagers heads were certain to roll. "Castle of Lions this is the Normandy the Citadel is asking you to make contact." John said as he got down to it. "This is where we part ways for a bit." Shepard said and in turn Allura had her response.

(Meanwhile on the Castle of Lions)

"Understood thank you commander." Allura said and thus she ended the call. Allura ended the call and sighed a bit as she glanced at the Citadel.

"Is everything alright, Princess?" Kalvin asked as he looked to Allura.

"Oh, sorry its nothing." Allura said once she realized all eyes were on her. "It's just... I remember coming here so many times with my father and the original Paladins." Allura said as she recalled those days. "Altea used to have an embassy here where the Protheans had their seat of power." Allura said before smiling bitterly. "I wonder if it's still standing." Allura mused before Coran sighed and Leon spoke up.

"It's ok if you're not up for the meeting princess." Leon said before Allura chuckled and steeled herself so she can focus on the task at hand.

"No, it has to be done." Allura said before focusing on the task. "Coran open a link to this... Citadel Flight Command." Allura said as she had to focus on the mission.

"At once Princess." Coran said and performed the task. "Communication link established Princess." Coran said saluting to Allura.

With a nod Allura then spoke into the comm channel. "This is Princess Allura of the Castle of Lions we were told by Commander Shepard to contact you." Allura said as she kept her voice diplomatic and neutral.

"Yes, an escort party is enroute to your location." The woman said giving direct instructions to the new arrivals. "They will escort you to your designated docks to land." The woman on the other end said as Allura paid rapt attention. "Do not deviate from the escort or you will be shot down." The woman said a hint of warning in her voice.

"Understood thank you." Allura said and thus she ended the call. Soon enough they saw several ships fly near them to guide them to their landing spot.

"Check it out!" Penny called out as her face was now glued to the window. "The Destiny's Accension the flagship of the Citadel fleet!" Penny called out as she looked at the ship that was larger than even the Castle of Lions.

"Look at the size of that thing." Leon said amazed at what he was seeing. "Could tear through or shields in a single shot with that shooter it has." Leon added as he looked at the ship.

"Wonder if Voltron can take it." Hector mused as he wondered how a fight like that would turn out.

Allura chuckled as she had seen many ships like this one, but she had to remind herself that the humans were not used to such sights. "Coran begin landing procedures... the Paladins and I need to change." Allura said as she knew what was expected from them.

"Wait vhy do ve have to chance?" Sven asked when he heard this.

"It's always wise to try and make a good first impression." Allura said as she spoke to the group. "That means dressing appropriately especially for a diplomatic situation such as this." Allura said making it clear at the moment.

"No offense Princess but the only outfits we have are the ones we brought and the ones in the castle." Kalvin said knowing that they had nothing else to where that was presentable.

"Your armors will suffice." Allura said as she assured the Paladins that it will be enough. "Now hurry up we're on a short timetable." Allura said reminding that in diplomacy punctuality was also a good way to set a good first example.

"Come on guys we need to get ready." Kalvin said as he reminded Penny, Leon, and Hector they had a task to do.

(Meanwhile on the Normandy)

Shepard is talking with both Udina and Anderson through holograms again as he was making a report to them before making his report to the council as Udina said, "This is a serious situation Shepard, as mass relay cannot activate on their own."

"I know, whoever did it sent a some sort giant cyborg creature, to attack the castle and a side note that my son and his friend dub it "Robeast", which seem appropriate," Shepard said as he can say it was a bit creative as it was a half beast and half machine to say the least as they can put down something of what to call it as Anderson said, "Maybe but we do have another issue as you have said the lion may be semi sentient, which we all know what that means."

"A.I. programing, I know, and giving the law of being illegal, but we did a diagnostic on these lions, and we cannot find where a A.I program could be, whatever is going with these lions their not normal ," Shepard said as Anderson said, "I believe you and hope the council would believe it otherwise they may put down these lions."

"Now let not be so hasty to believe this, as Princess Allura has not agree to join with the alliance yet, so technically speaking, the alliance cannot touch them so as long Allura hasn't join yet, until we are certain that these lion are legal," Udina said as in a way he seem to be interested in these lions by the look on his face if it says anything about what he could be after with Shepard and Anderson keep a clam and stone look on their faces as Shepard said, "I'll be sure to tell the princess this, so in the mean time I need to prepare the rest of my report to the council and prepare the Castle crew of what's coming."

"Understood Shepard, we'll meet you at the council meeting," Udina said as he and Anderson soon hang up as Shepard sighed a bit as he said, "Better get moving."

(Scene Break the Human Embassy)

The two Alteans were given a personal escort with the Paladins. Allura was once more in her regal dress as the five Paladins were in their armor for the meeting. Thankfully since it was the Alliance to have discovered Allura and Coran they were responsible for her safety with C-Sect aid. The vehicles they were given helped to keep Allura and Coran from the public eye as right now this was a delicate case.

A new species from the Prothean age but one's that were dying out. The Castle of Lions was safely docked, and the crew was able to depart from it. At the moment they were entering the Human Embassy to find Shepard with his team waiting for them with Anderson and Udina there as well.

Most of the teens were trying not to look like they were young but being awestruck by their surroundings didn't help much. The most advance they had ever seen beyond their home in Mindior was the Academy. Allura lead her entourage into the embassy and needless to say all eyes were on them the minute they met in Udina's office. Since the System Alliance were the ones to discover Allura even under watch from a Council SPECTRE they basically got first crack at the Alteans. But at the same time, they did not want to make themselves look bad to the Council and Allura's claims of being from the Prothean Era was too good to pass up.

"Princess Allura," Shepard greeted to her and welcoming her to the Citadel as she nodded as and said, "Shepard, I'm assuming this is our welcoming comity as some may put it?"

"Something like that, this is the former captain of the Normandy, Captain David Edward Anderson," John introduce him, he came up to the princess to shake her hand as well and said to her, "It's an honor to meet you Princess Allura, and I am sorry to have heard what happen with your people, I'll make sure you help you in any way possible."

"Thank you for the kind gesture," Allura said as she can tell this man meant his words and had a caring look to him, with a look of authority which reminded her of her father in a way, as then Anderson step back while John soon introduce the next person saying, "and this is Ambassador Udina."

The ambassador stepped up next and shake Allura's hand as he said to her, "Welcome Princess Allura to the Citadel, I do hope that your stay will be pleasant."

"Thank you, Ambassador Udina," Allura said as she may smile but she was getting an unpleasant feeling from him as he keep on smiling before stepping back before John Shepard soon, "Now with that out of the way, let get to moving and get ready for the council meeting."

"Understood, lead the way," Allura said as Shepard nodded as he lead the group to the council room with Coran standing behind the princess and the paladins around the princess in a bodyguard like manner with Kalvin next to her as he whispered over to her, "Feeling nervous?"

"In a way, it's just been a long-time since I been here last that so much has change in the last fifty thousand years," Allura said as Kalvin said, "Well your sort of not the only one, this is the first time coming here myself so I kind of get it."

Allura chuckled a bit and thus they proceeded to meet with the Council. Allura had long since prepared herself for this meeting learning the names and races of each Council members. Tevos the Asari councilor seemed to be the leader somewhat of the group. She seemed to be the most opened minded of the three. Her species had the longest life span rivalling the Alteans in that regard.

Valern the Salarian Council member wanted only facts and from what she understood his species had short life spans. Apparently the Salarians switch out their councilors every four years and while he is a man of intelligence, he was also one of a, I tell, you do, sort of personality.

Sparatus may be the hardest to deal with but not impossible. Allura was aware of the Turian Councilor and his issues nothing detrimental but one that required a certain tact. He was one to require hard evidence never taking anything at face value a good thing to have but serves as a double-edged sword. Thankfully Allura took pause at the castle to gather as much Altean history as she can.

She also studied on their laws and the reasoning behind them. Some would say she was being overly thorough, but Allura was brought up as a royal. It was required for her to be able to navigate the political stage. So, approaching the Council Allura already felt several eyes on her. "Well Commander Shepard you've certainly been busy." Tevos said to start up the conversation.

"My report was sent to the Council of what had happened." John said as he looked to the group.

"Yes, it's certainly something we've seen and never expected to come across." Tevos said as she found the information to be both intriguing and concerning. "Though the activation of a Mass Relay was cause for concern." Tevos said and thus it was Allura who spoke next.

"Pardon me." Allura said as she got down to it. "While my people had never relied on the Mass Relay's I can promise you that the Relay near where Commander Shepard and his crew had found us was not activated by anyone amongst us." Allura said as she had a few memory crystals to prove that taken from the Castles own Surveillance drives. "I can provide evidence if you wish." She added and thus all eyes fell to her and Coran.

"Oh; pardon me, Princess Allura, correct?" Tevos asked as she greeted Allura noting how young she was.

"Yes, and you are the Asari councilor Tevos." Allura said as she looked to the Asari. "It's a pleasure to meet you." Allura said being diplomatic with the Asari and the other Councilors.

"I see that you are well informed." Sparatus said and thus Allura smiled.

"Of course, you SPECTRE has been helping me prepare for this meeting." Allura said gesturing to Shepard. "A true testament of the Council that he was willing to aid someone in my position." Allura said as she smiled to the Council. "You truly had trained him well." Allura said and in turn Valern cut in.

"SPECTRE are not trained... but we thank you for the praise regardless." Valern said noting that Allura was good at the game of Politics keeping her cards close to her chest.

"My apologies for that mistake." Allura said as she smiled kindly. "Now despite my people being all but extinct, I was still brought up as a princess so diplomatic relations were a part of my lessons." Allura said making it clear that she wanted to make a good first impression.

"Of course, my condolences for all that you had lost, Princess." Tevos said as Allura suspected those words to be empty platitudes.

"I thank you for your kind words." Allura responded as she suspected at least once councilor planned to try and get a rise out of her. Or at the very least start questioning her about the Protheans. "I must confess I've only been here for a short moment of time and already my visit here is leaps and bounds better than my many visits to the Protheans when they controlled the Citadel." Allura said as she was stroking their egos. For the brief moment it seemed to work but Allura kept her actions neutral and diplomatic.

"It's true, we may find the citadel, and have built upon to not only restoring it to when it originally but improve it as well." Valen said as he looked to the last daughter of Altea. "But I'm sure you not here to discuss such things," Valern said as Allura nodded as she said, "Correct, I have come to bring peaceful tidings, but it seem those who are aware of my existence does not."

With the councils attention on her Allura began to please her case to them. "I will not lie whoever had activated your mass relay had sent a creature, which would rival mountains, upon the world my castle had lay for thousands of years to attack and destroy my only home I have left." Allura said as she explained the attack on her was unprovoked.

"Surely you jest, there can be such a creature that you have told us," Sparatus said as Allura brought forth one of the crystals and said, "You may not believe it, but it is fact with many eye-witness to it including your SPECTRE.

John nodded knowing that Allura was banking on his SPECTRE statues here and the fact that Allura was from a race that had once gone to war with the Protheans. "But if you wish for more proof of it." Allura began as she then held up one of the data crystals "I hold the record of the date when it first landed on the world of Arus." She said and in turn using the crystal and project a hologram screen showing said creature. It seemed slow, but its feet shaken the ground leaving imprints of its foot behind as it walks with people around gasp to such a site while other didn't believe it, as Tevos said, "Can you confirm to us that this image hasn't been fabricated in anyway?"

"Yes, I can, I do not joke of such matters, even if you don't believe this or my words I will stand by it," Allura said as Tevos nodded to this as Valern, "We will take this into consideration. We have also received report of these five lion ships that can combine with each other forming one know as Voltron, what can you tell us of this… weapon."

"It was created by my father years ago from a meteor that struck one of our allies world." Allura began as she explained the tale. "Voltron was built to fight against an enemy that planned on destroying the world of Daibazaal." Allura said as she remembered the story well. "At the time my father had taken the mantel of the red lion and joined together with 4 other warriors to becoming the first paladin of Voltron to combat the threat that threaten us." Allura said telling the tale. "The paladins had managed to push them back by forming Voltron for the first time," Allura said as Sparatus soon pointed out, "You said your father held the mantel of the red lion, as report said that is the right arm of this Voltron… why not the head?"

"That is correct, my father gave the head and leadership of the paladins of Voltron to another." Allura said confirming the story. "Even though my father was the king of Altea, he would also follow those who are most deserving," Allura said which left a bad taste in her mouth but keep her neutral look, as Sparatus soon ask, "So if your father would have decided to take the head of Voltron, could he?"

"I am unable to say," Allura said as she knew where was heading as Tevos soon asked, "And why is that?"

Allura took a deep breath as she know she'll have to tread carefully as she soon said, "My father had always been the paladin for the red lion. See he and the lion had bonded together."

"At the time, my father had never sought out to be any of the paladins of any other lions including the head, and during the battle against my people greatest enemies, the Galra the paladin of the black lion… had fallen." Allura said reminding herself that those days were gone. "So, with little options left he took it upon himself to hide the lions before he fell in battle protecting me and the black lion that he hid in the castle of lions, so even if he could try to, I don't know if he could have or not."

John looked to Allura, and he can say he was impressed of how Allura was holding her ground against the council. But he knew this was only the beginning as soon enough Valern spoken up saying, "So if your father couldn't, would you have been able too."

Now here comes the real battle as Allura knew she couldn't avoid it as the council want to bring out the truth to everyone as she soon said, "I'm afraid I can't even if I could."

"Can you tell us why?" Valern said as Allura took another deep breath as she soon said to everyone without any hesitation, "Because the lions chooses their paladins."

This got people talking around as Tevos soon said, "You said the lions choose who would operate them, correct?"

"Yes, I did," Allura said as Sparatus scoff and spoken up saying, "IF what you say is true, then that mean your lions have A.I programing."

"If I may council," John Shepard said as he stepped up to this. He knew he had to step up for this one as he said, "I have seen evidence that these lion are somewhat sentient to say, and also thought it was AI made." John said as he knew this would come up. "But we had run a full diagnostic test, and check their data, blueprint, and anything else we could din." Shepard said as he looked to the council. "But we found no evidence of any Artificial intelligent programing within them not even an AI core." Shepard said knowing that this was beyond what constituted an AI.

"Can you prove that there no AI within these lions, or even say why their paladins are… human?" Sparatus said as he clearly wanted more proof. "Can you say that their choices are a result of alter programing?" Sparatus said as John Shepard soon said, "I had some of the best tech specialist that are among my crew to check this, and they are Asari and a Quarian and after they had taken their time to check, they discovered no tampering of anything, I can bring them forth to testify to this."

"There will be no need for that, but it is unusual to say that all of the paladin to the lion are humans," Tevos said as she want to deal with this peacefully as she can as Allura came up and said, "I don't know what my father did exactly to creating these lions, but the chosen paladins are unbiased as the first paladins of Voltron were made up of many different races, not just Altean as my father was. At the time, my father was the only one of our people who became a Paladin. And I understand that use of AI is illegal for you and those you have allied with your council, but I can say for certain my father never put any artificial intelligent into the lions and no one else had assisting him in building the lions, as any intelligent the lion may possess may be more naturally form than made."

"And what can you tell us of how these lion choose human than any other being that were among the Normandy crew?" Valern said as Allura said, "It to say that there were not many matching choices for the lion to pick from, by accident or fate 5 earthling stumble upon one of the lions and form a bond with one of them before taking off and came upon the world I resided on."

Allura was being honest with the council but the way she spoke with such conviction and honesty clearly the Princess of Altea was no stranger to the political arena. "At the time the Normandy crew had followed them to my castle where I was awoken." Allura said getting to the point. "It quickly became clear that I needed to form the paladin of Voltron once more in case of a greater threat were to arise and the personality of 6 human being were a positive match for each lion." Allura said as she got down to it.

"Wait you said 6 humans?" Tevos said as Allura nodded as she soon said, "It seem that there was two matches for the black lion, with one happen to have been the SPECTRE, John Shepard and his son Kalvin Shepard, but unfortunately John Shepard could not take the mantel of the black lion due to an accident which lead his son to take the head of Voltron."

"I suppose it understandable, but what do you mean of a greater threat?" Tevos asked with Allura took a moment to gather herself as she said, "After the war with the Protheans, my people and her allies of Voltron spent years to recover from said battle, forging an uneasy peace with the Protheans."

Allura had recalled how she was tasked to act as the voice of her people amongst the Protheans to keep the peace. "But then the uprising of the Galra happened." Allura said recalling this dreadful days. "They had quickly taken over and destroyed many worlds, brought down one of the original Paladins of Voltron." She keeping her emotions in check. "With the lose of this Paladin we lost the ability use Voltron, which caused the deaths of many of my people who were not soldiers but innocent people that were going by their days." Allura said recalling what had happened. "They were reducing my people to near extinction that my father had no choice but to hide me away with the black lion along with my caretaker Coran." Allura said getting to the part where she had awoken.

"For me it was just a few moments but when I awoke to this new galaxy over 50,000 years had passed instantaneously." Allura said as many suspected she may have carried some trauma from this. "When I had awoken, I had quickly found records that the Galra had destroyed my planet completely… and also discover that the Galra are also no more." Allura said as her voice became inquisitive. "There was no record telling me who did it or why other than a fragmented message from the leader of the Galra himself Zarkon… and the giant robeast that attacked my castle." Allura said as in turn this got the ball rolling.

People whispered to themselves as they started to seem worried as Udina was happy that Allura didn't mention anything about reapers and such but have given a hint of an unknown enemy as the Council looked a bit worried as well. But the Turian councilor Sparatus wouldn't give in as he said, "And how would you know if it was some unknown enemy?"

"The Galra were warriors, but they were certainly not barbarians, it was either victory or death." Allura said recalling the battle cry of the Galra. "They will always claim to be the victor any way possible that translated into ambition, cunning, and resourcefulness." Allura said making it clear how things were back then. "I have witnessed such things within the last war against the Galra, and they claim many world enslaving many lives, and for this they wouldn't be defeated so easily." Allura said and thus got to her next bit of evidence.

"If you don't trust my word for it, then trust the records I have with me that does tell this if you wish to see them," Allura said as she held up another crystal and show fragment of the Galra war that was stored within her ship showing the violence, the destruction, and the death with many people gasping to this. These were the kind of recordings that could not be faked so easily. Allura then ended the recording as she went on saying, "I believe the Galra wouldn't just sit by and vanish into nothing, whatever made them to have done so, is why I needed to reform the Paladins of Voltron and bring back Voltron himself to not only combat this unknown enemy but help bring peace to the universe itself, on this I swear!"

With that everyone around soon started to applause her, which is surprising to say, even the council were shocked by this with Anderson smile to this as he sees Allura as a great leader, as if the alliance doesn't accept her, then he knew it was their lost. Udina on the other hand saw Allura was easily able to weave through the political field at such a young age. A testament of her upbringing and the fact she knew Protheans personally made the princess a living Prothean Beacon.

Valern raise his hand to this make everyone settle down as overwhelming that was to the council, they keep their cool as well.

"There is one other concern that I feel needs to be addressed." Tevos as she knew if this got out it would make a lot of people especially the humans look bad. "That the current Paladins are all children." Tevos said and thus the whispers began causing Allura to sigh and keep her cool.

"I believe the humans call them... teenagers the midway point between childhood and full adulthood." Allura said as Tevos saw what Allura did there. Even if her tone was one of respect Allura did not take kindly to that. "And as I said the selection of Paladins was outside of my control." Allura said as she had to remind the Council that the Lions got the final say. "I would have selected others, but the Lions seemed to pick others." Allura said before John Shepard cut in.

"If I may." John began as he was respectful about this. While he wanted to convince the Council of the Reaper threat Allura's method seems to play in their favor for now. "When I sent the teams out to retrieve the lions, I set them up with the intention that the teens would not be selected." John revealed as he looked to the group. "I placed adults in each retrieval team, Ashely Williams and Kaiden Alenko went to retrieve the Blue Lion, Urdot Wrex went to the retrieve the Yellow Lion, Tali Zorah and Garrus Garerra was sent to retrieve the Green Lion, the Red Lion had already made its choice, and I was intent to be chosen for the Black Lion." John said and thus it was clear that John worked with what he had and at that moment it was just not enough.

"So, you're firmly against the Lions selections, Commander Shepard?" Valern asked as he raised a brow.

"Yes, I would have preferred trained soldiers of age instead of teenagers." John said and thus this put a few points in humanities favor showing they did not want this to happen. While it did put Altea in a slightly negative light Allura also knew that it had to be done for humanities sake. More so the fact that five humans from an Alliance colony world were made the current Paladins of Voltron may very well but Voltron and the lions firmly under the jurisdiction of the System Alliance navy.

Kalvin of course did not like it, but he also had to agree to this. He was following Allura's lead at the moment since politics was not something at which he was good. He was also worried that he might end up being drafted into the Navy for this which he figured was the best way to keep Voltron from the wrong hands.

"We will need to review a few of our laws involving AI's to see if the Lions fall under what classifies as an AI." Tevos admitted as Voltron not having any signs to show it as an AI was of concern. More so they did not want to risk another incident that had led to the creation of the Geth, and the Quarrians exiled from their home planet of Rannoch.

"Perhaps a brief recess is in order to allow us time to deliberate." Valern said and in turn Allura nodded to the Salarian Councilor.

"That would be agreeable it will allow us all time to process what we have learned." Allura said as she agreed for now. With that the meeting was adjourned to give the Council time to process and deliberate in private.

(Later back at the Human Embassy)

The group were gathered back at the human embassy as the Paladins had taken off their helmets once in the safety of Udina's office. "I have to admit you handled yourself expertly in there, Princess." Udina said as he had his assistant bring in drinks for the group.

"Well of course, just because she is a Princess does not mean she sits around waiting for prince charming." Corran said as he got down to it. "Princess Allura was brought up with the grace of a princess and taught everything she needed to know for when she would succeed her father in ruling over Altea." Corran said as he recalled those lessons.

"Corran that's quiet alright." Allura said a bit bashful over how Corran described her.

"I see that stereotypes were a thing back then also." Kalvin said as he smirked at the scene.

"Why didn't you mention the Reapers?" John asked as he looked to Allura.

"The Council would not have believed me without sufficient evidence." Allura began as she looked to the group. "I overheard Ashley talking about it and added it to my preparations to meet with the Citadel Council." Allura said as she reminded the group for what she was here. "But the hint I left would no doubt have them thinking that it may be linked to the Reapers you spoke of, so by feigning ignorance I leave the pieces for them to connect." Allura said as it may not be much, but it was a start.

"Again, with the Reapers." Udina said as he did not believe they existed or if he did, he did not deem them a real threat.

"Any who politics in any era is not something I'm foreign to." Allura said as she looked to the group. "The rules may change but the arena does not." She added showing that having someone who was raised since birth for this role was a good ally to have. "Though I must thank you for the Omni-Tools." Allura said as she activated her newly acquired Omni-Tool. "This should help me and Corran to fit into this new era." Allura said as she was glad to join this era.

"It was our pleasure." Andersons aid as he smiled at Allura. Udina had gotten a few strings pulled to get these two Omni-Tools when they arrived. The tools had arrived just in time for the meetings end and already Allura and Corran (With help from Penny and Tali) had the tools set up to suit their needs.

"Speaking of don't you think we should contact their parents?" Ashley asked as she figured their families must be worried sick for their kids.

"I agree." Garrus began as he looked towards Ashley, "Their parents must be worried sick for them." Garrus said as he did not want to be involved with that cluster fuck when it hits.

"Ve're vigth here you know." Sven called it before Anderson cut in on him.

"It's already been handled Williams." Anderson said as he had a long talk with the parents. "Though they should call them up as soon as possible." Anderson said and thus Penny nodded.

"Got it." Penny said but she was distracted by the Citadel. "Still, this is so cool." Penny said looking outside of the window at the Citadel.

"Soak it in Penny our first trip to the Citadel free of charge." Leon said as he smiled with her.

"Trust me I've had similar thoughts during my first visit to the Citadel." Tali said smiling at Penny and Leon's excitement.

"If vou vanted to go vou could have asked me." Sven said as he looked to the group as a reminder that he was from a wealthy family after all.

"You never offered." Hector said and then Sven had his own counter.

"I didn't vink I needed too." Sven said and thus it was clear that the group were just bonding here.

"Shepard a moment." Anderson said to John who nodded and spoke with his old mentor. Once they were away from the others Anderson was the first to speak up. "I don't like this giving access to such a powerful weapon to a bunch of children." Anderson said as he looked to the scene of the Paladins interacting with Allura and Coran.

"Trust me Anderson you're not the only one." John said as he added his two cents on the matter. He did not like this any sane being would not like this, the Lion chose teenagers as their Paladins, teenagers. Shepard cannot emphasize enough the problem with sending children teenagers or otherwise off to battle. Maybe if they were eighteen, legal adults, he wouldn't have many issues with it. But fifteen at the youngest to seventeen at the oldest there were so many ways this could go horribly wrong, both political and combat wise, that John did not want to even consider it. More so with Voltron in play it would be long till every being in the galaxy is gunning for it.

There was also the issue that Shepard had withheld from Allura, the group called Cerberus. A Xenophobic terrorist group that had been causing issues for the Alliance and for the Galaxy at large. Shepard knew that the moment Voltron goes public, or the Alliance acquires it Cerberus will be the most direct in acquiring the Legendary Defender. Once can only imagine the level of devastation that Cerberus could cause to the Galaxy with Voltron.

Opting to change the subject John went back to another important matter. "How is the Alliance taking it?" John asked which Anderson looked slightly concerned.

"From what my contacts are telling me, a mixed bag." Anderson said as he looked to John. "They don't like the concept of teenagers being the ones to operate a weapon like Voltron." Anderson said which John nodded in understanding.

"With that we all agree on." John said but he also knew Voltron was their best weapon to facing the Reapers. More so for some reason he felt that the lions and Voltron had some sort of grudge against the Reapers as well.

"But they see some sort of tactical value in the new technology that the Princess and the lions can provide for us." Anderson said which meant if the Alliance offer Allura amnesty or even full citizenship it would no doubt so they can get close to learning all they can about Altean Technology. "No, I don't think the Alliance will do anything drastic but I'd rather we be safe than sorry." Anderson said with concerns for the girl. She's already lost her whole world, her people and while Anderson knew she seemed to be dealing with such a level of loss would no doubt leave its mark on her. He rather she not become some political tool in some one's game even if it's his own kind.

"Anderson off subject but... do you think it's possible the Alliance may waver their laws on genetic manipulation and cloning?" John asked suddenly as he looked to Allura. "At least in terms of the Princess." He added and thus Anderson sighed to this.

"I personally doubt it, genetic engineering like that was made illegal for a reason." Anderson said as he knew what John was thinking. "Using it to revive a dying species is a tall order especially this one." He said as he looked to John. "If we can get a human on the Council, we might be able to push for it if to save a dying species from extinction." Anderson said which Shepard nodded in understanding.

"It was just a thought was all." John said which Anderson knew.

"A noble one I know." Anderson said as he could see where Kelvin gets it from.

But before anything else could be said alarms suddenly began to blare around the Citadel. "Uh what's going on?" Howard asked with a clear hint of fear in his voice.

Panic began to hit the streets as the group saw everyone was running to the shelters as the VI was giving the alert to head to said shelters. "Hackett what's going on!?" Anderson asked into his Omni-Tool calling up Admiral Hackett.

"Something just entered Citadel space and it's not stopping." Hackett said and thus Allura looked shocked by this.

"You don't think." Kalvin said and then Penny saw it.

"Look!" Penny called out and thus she pointed to the area outside.

(Outside)

A Robeast Coffin was heading towards the Citadel laser fire and rockets bounced off it. The Destiny's Ascension could not target it due to its size and managed to slip past it showing the vessel was not the target. It headed to the Citadel towards one of the arms where the Presidium was located closest to the Castle of Lions. It crashed in causing untold amount of damage and death to the people there.

Soon enough the Coffin opened up and from within a new Robeast stepped out bearing a striking resemblance to a Krogan of all things. It was large, bulky, and most of all dangerous. Its tail was longer than the average Krogan as its entire right arm was a cannon of all things. The Robeast roared out before taking aim and firing around the area in Krogan like rage.

(Back at the Human Embassy)

"This is bad." John said as he saw what was going on.

"We need to evacuate now!" Anderson said but Allura begged to differ. She understood his intentions, Allura was a VIP, but the people needed help.

"No, we need Voltron." Allura said as she stood up and headed out the door.

"Are you insane you won't be able to make it there." Anderson said but Kalvin agreed with Allura.

"Right now, Voltron is our best shot at taking this thing down." Kalvin said knowing that if they wanted to win this then they had to utilize Voltron. "We don't have time to waste is there some way we can get to the Castle of Lions quickly?" Kalvin asked as he looked to Anderson.

"Captain Anderson this might be the perfect chance to show the Council Voltron is benign." Allura added as Udina heard this as it would also give the Alliance an idea of Voltron's capabilities.

"Captain." Johns aid as while he was against it, he knew they had to stop the Robeast. "I may not like it, but this might be our best shot." John said and thus Anderson sighed.

"Hackett, we need a drop ship here now." Anderson began as he spoke to Hackett. "WE have a few who need to get to the space port, I'll explain later." Anderson said and thus Hackett understood.

"Wilco Drop shit enroute now." Hackett responded and thus hung up.

"I hope you know what you're doing." Anderson said and thus Ashley had to agree.

"Me too." She said and thus they waited for the dropships arrival.

"What should we do?" Tali asked and thus John was already on it.

"Get the people to safety we need them off the streets!" John said as he knew civilians were going to be caught out here.

"Ah I wanted to fight the big one." Wrex said but Kaiden had a different response.

"We're on it, Commander." Kaiden said and thus he got moving to help evacuate the civilians.

(Scene Break Castle of Lions)

The Robeast continued its rampage as its visor-like eyes scanned for the Castle of Lions. Finding it at the spaceport the Robeast was already on its way there. But the ships flying around and firing at it was becoming annoying. Still the Robeast fought on its mission clear the capture or destruction of Voltron.

In the Castle's command deck Allura ran over to the Teleduv and activated it while she got ready to help. "Paladins to your Lions now." Allura ordered and thus they all got moving.

Four doors activated color coded with red, yellow, blue, or green. Leon stepped into the red door, Hector into the yellow door, Sven into the blue door, and Penny into the green door. From there the four Paladins stepped into lifts that began to lower them downwards.

Kalvin on the other hand stood around the Black Paladins chair on the control deck revealing it had its own lift exclusive for him that began to lower. Once all the Paladins got to the bottom, they were met with handlebars for ziplines that they jumped and used to travel down a tunnel. Once they got to the end of the tunnels, they flung themselves down a slide like tube and landed inside hover pods and began to ride towards their individual lions.

Travelling a short path, the pods arrived at another lift that began to lift them up towards their lions. The pods were loaded into the lions and from there each of the Paladins went to the cockpits and activate their individual lions. The Lions eyes flashed to life before they each let out a mighty roar showing they were ready for battle.

One by one the lions launched with red, yellow, blue, and green launching from the four pillars of the Castle while the black lion launched from the main tower. All the while Allura and Coran watched from the command deck as they would be acting as coordinators for this battle.

"Go lions." Allura said as the Lions launched into the Citadel to fight back against the Robeast.

(The Battle)

The Robeast roared out as it destroyed many things in its way climbing up areas to get closer to the Castle of Lions. Alliance at Citadel ships were firing at it, but the Robeast was not being stopped. It fired off its arm cannon taking out several people doing so. Just then a roar was heard and from that a heat laser was fired at the beast causing it damage from the shot. All eyes went towards where the shot came from revealing the Lions had arrived with red being the one to fire the shot. The Lions surrounded the Robeast like a pride hunting for a meal snarling at the Robeast.

"Alliance ships fall back and provide support we'll deal with this." Kalvin said into his communication link as the Lions surrounded the Robeast. "Paladins move in!" Kalvin called out and with a roar from Black the attack began.

The lions went for the attack red firing a heat beam at the Robeast once more. It was an attack that Leon had discovered when training with John on Arus. The heat beam hit the Robeast who was forced to block the attack before it returned fire. Moving fast the Red Lion summoned a jaw blade and sliced into the Robeast.

Then Sven flew in and fired a freeze beam causing the Krogan like Robeast to be covered in ice around the area the beam hit. By the looks of it the Lions were working to move the battle to a less populated area. Green and Yellow under the command of their Paladins Penny and Hector flew at the Robeast with jaw blades and sliced into the Robeast with them. The Robeast opened fire at the Lions shooting wildly but the Lions kept their distance moving around to avoid the shots.

The Robeast roared and went on the attack but then yellow and blue moved in and pounced from behind. Following this up Red, Green, and Black went on the attack and the Robeast was being attacked from all sides. The Robeasts visor turned red and soon with a furious roar the Robeast and forcing itself back up despite the lions the Robeast was enraged. It threw red and green off its arms before slamming the Black Lion into the wall forcing to get off as well. Using its arm, it grabbed blue before tossing it up and then forcing Yellow off of it. It fired at the two airborne lions sending them flying back.

"Paladins regroup!" Kalvin called out and in turn the five Lions regrouped seeing the enraged Robeast.

"Was that a Korgan rage?" Leon asked shocked at what he saw.

"Seems zhat vay." Sven responded and thus Penny had to ask.

"Kal what do we do?" Penny asked before Leon spoke again.

"Yeah, do we keep shooting it, take out that gun; call it names?" Leon listed off but Kalvin had an idea, and it was their best.

"We can't afford to keep this battle going in the Citadel." Kalvin said as he fell into the role of a leader almost naturally. "We need to take this monster down and there is only way to do it." Kalvin said and sensing what was about to happen the Lions roared and released their aura for the coming formation. They in turn flew upward in formation as Kalvin gave his next order. "FORM VOLTRON!" Kalvin called out and thus began the combination sequence for Voltron.

(Forming Voltron)

Black Lion roared out as it flew forward with its arms folding into the needed sections. First it folded backward before folding into the container units and once secured Black Lion began to take on a more humanoid look. Then Green and Red Lion flew in as they flew upward leaving behind a trail of energy in there colors as when they did their legs began to fold up and secure themselves to form the arms of Voltron as once, they did they flew off to continue the formation.

Next up was Yellow and Blue Lion as they flew in and began to fold up their legs to be secured and become more leg like themselves as once, they were secured they now looked more like legs. They were now ready for the finishing touches as they got ready to form up with their prides leader the Black Lion. Red Lion attached first as once it was in the socket a connecter shot out and not only secured the arm but also made sure it was usable as this caused the Red Lion to extend a bit to be the right arm of Voltron.

Green Lion was the next to connect as its back shield was now the shoulder pad for Voltron as once Green Lion was in the socket the connection was made and secured in turn allowed the arm to extend a bit to better form the arm like with Red Lion. As this was done Green Lion roared out. Once this was done Blue and Yellow Lions began to form the legs as when they did it was shown that once the Black Lions rear legs were inside Blue and Yellow Lions it began to seal up to both connect and secure the connection as once it did and both legs were secured the transformation was almost done.

Now that the body was formed Black Lion's head was now ready as the yellow eyes then flashed as the maw opened up as first the crown formed and in turn the maw opened up to reveal the face of Voltron as soon Voltron formation was done. When the formation was done Voltron then crashed the mass of Red and Yellow Lions before splitting them apart while a current of energy went through them. Voltron then struck a pose with legs and wings spread and the right arm pointed upward before releasing a burst of Quintessence that formed the Galaxy behind it in turn as Voltron was ready for battle.

(End formation)

Voltron landed on the ground glaring at the Robeast as the Robeast saw its target before it. Since it could not capture that only meant it had to destroy. "Remember we're one unit fighting towards one goal!" Kalvin called out and thus the battle began.

Voltron activated his thrusters and went in for the frontal assault rearing back his right arm against the Robeast. Leon roared out as soon the Robeast clashed its cannon arm against the maw of Red Lion as Voltron sent forth a powerful punch. The collision caused a shockwave to blast outward between them shattering several windows in the area. Following this up both mech and robeast fired off their lasers with Voltron doing it through the red lion and the Robeast doing it through its cannon arm. The two colliding shots caused an explosion between them but despite this Voltron flew back unscathed and fired off two lasers from both hands at the Robeast. The robeast uses its arms to shield itself for a moment before it returned fire at Voltron. Voltron dodged the initial two shots but was hit by the third knocking him down to the ground.

Once Voltron hit the ground Voltron flipped back onto his feet and saw the Robeast was coming at him. Summoning his shield Voltron blocked the Robeast charge and used his boosters to hold his ground from the Robeasts tackle. The Paladins were struggling but holding their ground they roared out and forced the Robeast to the side where it crashed into the ground. Getting back up the Robeast roared but only found Voltron's maw beams in its face before it fired. The Robeast was hit but acting fast it fired its cannon and forced Voltron back. Voltron hovered int he air before landing on the ground once more.

"FORM SWORD!" Kalvin ordered and with Leon using his Bayard Voltron summoned forth his sword. The Defender of the Universe was ready for the next bout as the Robeast snarled at Voltron. Moving in the Robeast charged at Voltron firing its arm cannon at the defender. Voltron dodged the first two shots before summoning his shield to block the third. Once that was done Voltron jumped up into the air and brought the blade down slicing the Robeast clean in two stopping its advance in its tracks. The Robeast stood there for a moment shocked by the looks of it over what had just happened.

The Robeast two halves fell to either side as Voltron stood there for a moment and called off its weapons. Recalling what had happened last time Voltron grabbed the two halves and threw them to the sky above and when he did the two halves exploded safely upward. This action prevented severe damages to the area around Voltron and may have saved several lives as well.

Voltron stood there looking towards the explosion for a moment unaware of the thousands of witness from Council Races to even the lowest of the Volus bearing witness to this event. Voltron had just saved the Citadel from an attack by the Robeast and in turn had put itself in the public eye doing so. In turn Voltron split itself into the five lions once more and then flew off towards the Castle of Lions all while people young and old took pictures and recorded videos of the event. It would not be long until Voltron would hit the extranet.

(Scene Break Citadel Council Chamber)

After the chaos began to settle and the damages were being viewed Allura and her Paladins were once more standing before the Citadel Council. The Normandy team with Anderson and Udina were also there for their part in all of this. In front of them were holographic images of the battle and there were varying responses over the clash of titans in the middle of the Citadel.

"I hope you have an explanation for this." Valern said as he showed the videos and images of the battle.

"With all due respect councilor, we acted to the best of our abilities." Allura said once more in the role of a diplomat. "If you had seen the battle the Alliance and Citadel were both struggling against the Robeast." Allura said as the images showed that fact well. "Our main objective was to end the battle and prevent any further loss of life." Allura explained as the Councilors looked to each other.

"Commander, your reports suggested that Geth were seen digging in the area where the Yellow Lion was located yes?" Tevos asked as she looked over to John.

"Yes, it's one of the main reasons I suspect Saren may be involved." John said as this got everyone thinking.

Tevos then looked to her fellow Councilors as they saw the gears turning as well. "Geth digging around the Yellow Lions lair, an attack on my castle on Arus, and now this." Allura said as she noted how this was too much of a coincidence to ignore.

"It seems that someone is making attempts at your life, princess." Sparatus said as he could not deny the pattern here.

"The pattern is hardly a plausible coincidence." Valern said agreeing on this as it was clear that someone was actively targeting Allura. The Geth added to this since they were discovered to be excavating for the Yellow Lion at the time.

"Councilors." John began as this got Kalvin's attention. "If Voltron is being targeted by Saren this would most likely put this under my views." John said as he made clear what he was thinking. "If possibly having Allura and her vessel travel with me would allow for both her protection and give Saren cause to come to me." John said as not many people liked this.

"If this Saren figure is indeed after me then acting as bait would likely benefit us." Allura said seeing the logic in what Shepard was suggesting here.

"Princess please reconsider this." Coran said as he did not like what Allura was suggesting.

"Coran I will not live in fear because one man is attempting to end my life." Allura said making her stance on this clear.

"Commander, you do realize that by taking this responsibility their actions and safety fall upon you to burden, correct?" Tevos asked as she looked to Shepard.

"Yes, I fully understand." John said and thus Anderson cut in as well.

"Don't the Alliance will take full responsibility for her as well." Anderson said as he looked to the council.

"Very well if you are ok with this Princess." Tevos said and thus Allura smiled a bit.

"Yes, I am ok with this this." Allura said and thus the council agreed to this.

"Very well then until the Saren investigation is concluded Voltron will be left in the hands of the System Alliance." Tevos said as her fellow council members agreed on this. "We will readdress the Voltron situation after Saren has been apprehended." Tevos said and thus the meeting came to an end allowing for everyone to leave.

(Later at the Human Embassy)

"Well, that solves a lot of problems for us." John said as the group were meeting up again.

"Was kind of hoping they give us SPECTRE Statues." Leon joked as he knew the SPECTRE's more or less had a get out of jail free card from the council.

"Nice try son but your still a few years away from that." Anderson quipped as he looked to the hot head.

"At the very least we won't have to worry about the Citadel Council for the time being trying to put our lions down." Penny said grateful that they can walk away from this with the lions.

"For now." Kalvin said as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.

"The best way to prevent that outcome in the future is to show Voltron in a positive light to the known Galaxy." Allura said as she looked to the gathered group around her. "So, if Voltron's aid in hunting down Saren will keep the Council from taking the lions, then I suppose we'll be in your care Commander." Allura said to John.

"Great." Kalvin drawled clearly not happy about this outcome as he should.

"Your vessel is quiet, large though Princess and I doubt even you can command every system on it." Anderson said and thus Allura sighed.

"I'll have to make do I'm afraid." Allura said as with her meager crew it was all she had.

"Maybe I can help with that." Anderson said as he still had military connections that can assist her. "I have a few contact in the Alliance who can probably hook your ship up with a crew." Anderson said as he looked to Allura. "More hands onboard will make running the ship in and out of battles easier to handle." He added and thus Allura nodded to this.

"Thank Captain I appreciate the offer and humble accept it." Allura said grateful to have the added aid. Plus... it might be nice to see people roaming the halls of the Castle again. "But the Castle may need a few retrofits to operate better." Allura added and Anderson chuckled to this.

"My thoughts exactly." Anderson said as he was certain there was a way to allow the Castle of Lions to use the Mass Relays. The Wormholes were a great boon but having a fallback would not hurt either. "I'll go make the calls now better to get it done sooner rather than later." Anderson said and thus this left John and Kalvin alone for a second.

"Kalvin... I..." John began as they had barely the time to talk after everything that was happening.

"Save it." Kalvin said as he didn't want to hear it. "Right now, we got to focus so I don't want to hear whatever excuse you can pull out of your ass." Kalvin said as he walked off leaving John to sigh in defeat.

Ashley saw the whole thing play out and knew that Kalvin and John's relationship was a mess. She was someone who had valued her family above all else and it pained her to see the Shepard's like this broken and disconnected. It wasn't any of her business, but she owed it to the skipper to help him patch things up with his son or at the very least try to make peace.

Plans were made, goals were set, and now Voltron has joined the hunt for Saren.

(Meanwhile with the Citadel Council)

The councilors were meeting in secret to discuss what had just happened, mainly the Altean, the Robeast, the lions, and of course Voltron. "Are we certain leaving this Voltron weapon in the human's hands was a wise move?" Sparatus asked as he had his concerns.

"For the time being yes, they made excellent arguments that Saren was targeting the Princess and this Voltron." Tevos said as it was the best choice, they can make with what information they had. "This also can help us in understanding the nature of Voltron and the lions." Tevos said as then Valern spoke up.

"I already have the STG making preparations to place plants in the System Alliance." Valern said as he looked to his fellows. "I would not surprise me that the humans are already sending agents of their own in order to study Voltron to replicate it somehow." Valern said and thus it was clear that they were simply biding time to put their pieces in place.

"The Lions and Voltron have changed everything the Extranet is already flooding with Voltron." Sparatus said as he had his Omni-tool displaying it. Videos, pictures, posts, and even discussion boards all about Voltron. "If the humans have full access to Voltron, we will need some method to level the playing fields... just in case." Sparatus said knowing that if Voltron is as powerful as he fears the humans have a weapon that nothing can stop.

"Then let us hope that the Princess and her allies will continue to use Voltron for the betterment of the galaxy." Tevos said as she knew Allura was a seasoned politician no doubt due to her upbringing prior to her planets fall. "For now, all we can do is wait, observe, and adapt." Tevos said knowing it was their best bet to keep Voltron as a mighty ally to the council instead of a powerful enemy to the Citadel.

(TBC)

ESKK: This took me a good two days, but the chapter is done. For a moment I thought it would be another long chapter that needed to be split in to, but I was wrong. Now then you all know the drill leave a review and as always folks, ja-ne.