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Episode: The Ark of Taujeer
Keith and Allura floating in space:
"So what happens if Zarkon does come after us?" Keith wonders to Allura with worry in his voice.
"You said you could pilot us to safety, right?" Allura states back to him with almost anger in her voice.
"Sure, but after that, could we even go back to the group? And if we don't, who could pilot the Castle or create wormholes?" Keith wonders to Allura as he lowers her head to not face her.
"Linna can do that if she ever wakes up, but what about you? Without you, the team cannot form Voltron." Allura states back to him in anger.
"Can't Linna pilot the lion?" Keith asks Allura as he looks back towards her.
"She would never do that." Allura lowers her head to him as her voice lowers to almost a whisper. "She promised that she would never pilot a lion."
"Why?" Keith turns his head in shock to see Allura's face again. "She has a connection with the lions that is greater than all of ours."
"She made a promise." Allura turns her head to face the other direction away from Keith. "That's all I know. My father told me that she would never break that promise anyway. Not even to save a life according to him."
"Not even to save a life?" Keith whispers back in return as he turns to see the stars flickering around them. "I wonder what promise she made?"
"I have wondered that my whole life." Allura tells him as they sit there in complete silence for the rest of the time.
Skip a few hours:
Linna starts to feel another hit of pain in her body as another Altean mark, reveals on her body. She feels sweat travel down her face as she goes numb in her bones. She sees his face appear before her with revenge in his eyes, causing her to wake up with a shock of pain.
"Ah!" Linna screams as she glances around the pod after hitting her head against the door. "What? Where am I?"
Linna presses against the pod as it opens for her. She wobbles out with almost no energy at all in her body. She places her hands on the table in front to see how long she has been out. She looks over to see another mark on her other wrist as well.
"Three days!" Linna states to herself in shock and frustration. "You have to be kidding."
Coran's voice comes over the intercom now. "Keith, Allura, are you there?"
"We're here, Coran. What is it?" Allura comes through.
"Zarkon is definitely not tracking us through either of you." Coran shouts through the mic.
"He's not?" Keith states.
"How do you know?" Allura asks him.
"Because your out there, and a Galra fleet just showed up here! We need you now!" Coran screams in terror.
"We will be there in two doboshes." Allura tells Coran.
Everything goes black from the end of connection. Linna suddenly feels a quick race of a heart beat in her chest. She feels something is wrong with Allura. Linna glances at the marking that has appeared on her wrist from Olkarion. It begins to glow a little, causing her to hide it under her glove as she walks out of the healing pods' room.
"So we don't have Allura or Keith." Linna states to herself of the situation they are in. "So no Voltron. Galra are here attacking." Linna stops in her tracks because she knows what she is going to have to do. "Great!"
Linna runs towards the main area of the castle as she watches Coran run out of it. Linna smirks a little because she knows what he is trying to do. Linna closes the door real quick as she stares at the situation. She looks to see that all of the lenses are broken or cracked. So Linna walks onto Allura's platform as she watches the pillars start to rise up to her hands.
"I will have to use you..." Linna says to herself as she closes her eyes and focuses on something.
She sees them appear before her with their beautiful white color glowing around them. She focuses on their ability of creation as she senses Red upset. Linna opens her eyes and smirks at the feelings that are connecting between her and the lions.
"Let's find them Red." Linna whispers as she focuses on Red in the hangar now.
She closes her eyes and feels the connection between Keith and the Red lion. She can see their bond is strong. She finally reaches Keith's and Allura's location as the Red lion begins to take off towards Keith. Linna smirks at Coran in the hangar, waiting for Red to come back.
"Go get them girl!" Linna shouts with a happiness. "Now, I better get ready to use it."
Allura and Keith:
Keith and Allura are just floating around in space, trying to get back to the other Paladins. Keith closes his eyes to focus on his lion and his bond. He can sense someone else almost with his lion as he finds her. He continues to focus on Red before Allura says something to him.
"Keith, look!" Allura yells as she spots the Red lion coming their way. "The Red lion found you!"
Keith and Allura get into the Red lion as a wormhole opens in front of them within seconds. Keith can still feel the other person's presence in his lion. He looks at the wormhole like he can feel their presence in there as well. They both look at it with a questioning look because it looks like Allura's wormhole. They look completely shocked that it was working because all of the lenses are still broken. Coran hasn't been able to fix them.
"Will you get in the wormhole already!" Linna yells through the microphone. "I can't hold it open as long as you Allura!"
"Linna!" Allura and Keith yell with shock.
"You're awake!" Allura states with happiness. "How?"
"Just get into the wormhole! We can talk about it when this battle is over, okay." Linna states to them as Keith enters the wormhole to appear before the ship. "Thank you."
"Thank you Linna." Allura says as they head into battle against the Galra.
After the battle:
Everyone walks into the ship with smiles on their faces. Allura runs into the main hanger as Linna stands from the circle. Allura wraps her arms around Linna as they both stand there with smiles.
"Linna!" Everyone yells in excitement except for Keith and Allura.
"She is the one that wormhole us here." Keith informs them all.
"You were able to do it." Coran states with shock. "How did you do that when the lenses are shattered to pieces? I thought you couldn't in the first place as well."
"I can do a small jump with maybe one person or two. I can't do the amount of power like Allura. And I didn't use the lenses. I just focused on the Lion's energy and generated that into a wormhole, sort of like making a rift in reality." Linna smirks at him as Allura releases her just so Pidge can grab a hug as well. "Hey, Pidge."
"Wait," Coran stops for a moment at the thought. "You did what?"
"I will explain it later." Linna tells him as she holds onto Pidge for another moment.
"So, what happened to you?" Shiro finally asks Linna before anyone else can ask the question.
Linna lowers her eyes as she catches a glance at the mark before looking back at Shiro. She shrugs at him with a 'I don't know' expression. She takes a deep breath before speaking.
"I didn't feel so good. Sorry if I scared you." Linna tells them all. "I just went back to the Black lion and was out."
"You have been out of three days." Pidge states to Linna.
"Yeah, I found that out." Linna rubs her neck as Pidge releases her from her grip. "But at least I am awake now."
"Yeah," Lance says with a smile on his face as he walks over towards Linna. "We were really missing your sass."
"I don't think you missed me that much." Linna states to him as she takes a step back away from Lance. "I am still new to the group."
"But you are part of our Family." Hunk tells her with a smile.
"Family..." Linna stares at him now as she remembers her family in the past.
"Linna..." Allura places her hand on Linna's shoulder. "This is your Family."
"Thank you." Linna whispers as she looks back at Hunk. "Thank you for that." Linna looks over to Keith and Allura now. "Now, don't you have something to say?"
"Right!" Allura remembers about what she needs to tell the group. "I'm so sorry for leaving."
"Me too. We thought we were doing the right thing." Keith states right after Allura.
"But clearly you were correct, Shiro. We are always stronger together." Allura says as she looks towards Shiro.
"At least we learned that Zarkon isn't tracking us though you two." Lance replies with his arms still crossed on his chest.
"Plus, I learned that my lion can grow armor and extend its claws like that... Ting! Which will come in handy if we ever needed to, say, I don't know, slice up a giant steak while getting beat up." Hunk states to the group as everyone stays quiet until Linna cracks up laughing.
"A giant steak!"
"Or fight evil and save innocent people. That too. That would work. But at least Linna got it!" Hunk restates to the group as he smiles at Linna.
"It was funny." Linna states to the group as she finally stops laughing. "Sometimes you guys are so serious."
"With Hunk, he was serious about the steak." Lance restates to her as they stare at her again.
"Oh." Linna lowers her head but still smirks a little.
"Anyway," Shiro changes the subject now. "The fact that the Red lion came to help Keith from so far away is a vital piece of information. We now have proof that a lion and a Paladin can, in fact, connect over a far greater distance than we realized. Which means we finally know how Zarkon is tracking us." Shiro states to the group before Linna bumps into Shiro and says, "It's through the Black lion."
Everyone stares at Linna and Shiro for a moment. Shiro turns around and stares at her with shock in his eyes. Everyone walks over towards Linna and eye her with confusion in their faces.
"How did you know what I was going to say?" Shiro wonders to her for an answer.
"I am connected to the Black lion too Shiro. Did you forget that?" Linna swings off the middle platform as she looks out into the space before them. "I sensed it when I was in my coma. I felt the bond drawn from you, Zarkon, and the Black lion."
"And you didn't mean to tell us?" Keith states to her with some anger in his voice.
"Why would I do that?" Linna tilts her head towards the group with confusion in her voice. "It is not my business if Zarkon is tracking us through the Black lion, and I have been in the coma for three days. I kind of couldn't tell you because of that." Linna states to the group as everyone still stares at her.
"When did you sense it?" Allura wonders to her friend.
"When I first came here, well sort of."
"What do you mean well, sort of?" Lance asks her with his hands crossed across his chest just like Keith's.
"I know that Zarkon is still bonded with the Black lion. That bond will last for infinity even after death." Linna informs them. "I felt a stronger bond with Shiro but before I woke up..." Linna stops for a moment and looks at the stars again.
"Before you woke up what?" Hunk says the sentence that she just stopped from finishing.
"I saw something." Linna replies to him still staring at the stars.
"Saw what?" Pidge wonders to her as they stare at her when she turns her face to show her expression.
"Someone is coming, and it is not a good someone." Linna tells them as she walks out of the door towards her very old room.
She opens the door with massive amounts of dust gathered after several years passing. She looks at a picture on the shelf beside her bed so she always would see it when she awoke or fell asleep. She lifts up the picture and wipes the dust from it to see King Alfor, Allura, Coran, and her with the lions behind them. She glances around the room and sees her journals that she wrote so long ago.
"He is coming. I will not allow him to interfere with anything. Lotor will not ruin our future." Linna whispers to herself as she places the picture back on the shelf and walks out of her room. "I won't allow it too happen."
Linna starts walking towards the hangar with the lions before the door opens to Keith in front of her. She stares at him with a confused look as she tries to walk into the hangar, but he stops her from entering.
"What do you want?" Linna asks him without looking at him.
"Were you the one that I felt was in the lion when Allura and I got into Red?" Keith wonders to her as her eyes open up with shock.
"You were able to sense me that far?" Linna looks at him now as she glances over towards Red. "She has a very strong bond with you."
"So you were the one that showed Red where Allura and I was, not our bond." Keith states to her with a disappointing look. "Then how do we know if Zarkon is really tracking us through the Black lion? Maybe you are lying to us."
"What?" Linna stares at him with disbelief to him. "Why would I lie to you?"
"I don't know you! We just met you a few days ago, and I still haven't been given a direct answer about who you really are." Keith states to Linna with anger in his voice. "So were you the one that really found Allura and I or did my bond with my lion do that?"
"Your bond with your lion. I was connected with Red to see where you were so I could create a wormhole, duh." Linna tells him as she slips under him and walks towards the lions. "Hey, guys!"
The lions roar at her entrance as they all lay their heads down for her to place a hand upon them. Keith follows her to the middle of the lions as he stares at Red. She lights up at the touch of Linna's hand pressed on her nose. Linna smiles at them before looking back at Keith.
"Come here." Linna says as she grabs his hand and places it on Red. "Feel her heart beating?"
"They don't have a heart." Keith states to her.
"Everything is connected remember. We are all part of the same thing. So everything has a heart. They have a soul and a brain. They have feelings just like you and I." Linna informs him as he closes his eyes to feel the heart.
He focuses on the metal beneath him as he listens to the surrounding area. He feels Red pulling him in closer as he senses it in the metal. He feels the pulse of a heart under his hand, causing him to open his eyes to see that Linna is smirking at him.
"That's amazing." Keith says with shock while looking up towards Red. "You are amazing."
"Zarkon didn't believe these lions to be creatures. That is why I am shocked that Black has stayed bonded with him."
Linna releases her hand from Red as she looks up to Black. She looks up and places her hand on Black's nose as she listens to the lion. Keith drops his hand as he walks over towards her. He stares up at the Black lion as he looks towards Linna.
"I remember when I first met Zarkon. He was nice, but I sensed something dark about him." Linna states to Keith. "I tried to warn Alfor, but he was his best friend. What did I know?"
"You didn't want him to bond with the Black lion." Keith says to her.
"No. I didn't." Linna turns to face Keith now. "I wanted someone else to pilot her. The only other person to pilot her, was me."
Keith stares at her when he remembers what he wanted to ask her when he got the chance. He places a hand on her shoulder, causing her to look up towards him. He takes a deep breath before speaking to her.
"Why won't you pilot the lions?" Keith asks her as her eyes widen in almost fear.
"I just can't." Linna turns away from him as she covers her wrists to not show the markings. "I am forbidden too."
"Why?"
"It is something that I made a promise too. That is all I can tell you." Linna starts to walk away from him before stopping at the door. "Thanks for listening to me, Keith."
Keith stands there in the middle of the lions as Linna walks out of the doors. He looks at his hand that touched her shoulder because he senses something wrong. He feels something different from the Linna that was found here just three days ago. He looks over towards Red while he places his hand on her again to feel the heart beat that Linna showed to him. He can feel it as it beats slower almost with sadness. Keith looks up to Red as he whispers to her.
"You know something is wrong too.."