A/N: I hope this chapter is okay. I really didn't know what I was doing and everything happened without my knowledge. Please comment and Review!
Episode 4, Season 3: "Hole in the Sky"
Keith and Lance stand above Linna as an alarm begins blaring in everyone's rooms. Linna screams herself awake as she stares at the boys look at the lights appearing in her room. Lance and Keith look down at Linna as she slowly gets out of bed. The boys head out of the room and wait until Linna appears with new clothing on.
"Let's go!" Keith states to the three of them.
"Alright!" Linna and Lance reply back as they dart down the hall.
Pidge and Hunk are running behind the boys when they notice that Linna with them. Pidge sprints faster as she tries to catch up with Linna but she is unable to. Everyone appears through the door way with a red beaker alarm appearing before the screen. Linna stops and stares as she realizes what kind of alarm it is. The paladins stare at the three Alteans in the room.
"What's going on?" Keith wonders to the rest of the group.
"Yeah, these have never gone off before." Pidge agrees with Keith.
"Allura? Linna? What is it?"
"Looks like you guys just saw a ghost." Hunk says to the three of them.
"That's just the thing. It's an old Altean distress code. One used by King Alfor's ships." Coran answers the group.
"Could it be? Are we not the last Alteans alive?" Allura wonders with hope in her voice and eyes as she stares at the screen.
"That can't be." Linna whispers to the group. "I haven't ran into an Alteans while I was traveling."
"Linna..." Allura speaks when she hears her voice. "Are you?"
Allura runs off the podium and grabs a hold of her friend. Pidge runs to Linna and wraps her arms around her as well. Linna stares at them with her eyes still red and puffy but she doesn't smell terrible.
"How are you? Are you okay? Why didn't you call me?" Allura starts to ask Linna all of these questions.
"Allura," Linna whispers to her friends. "I am fine. I just needed some time to get over something. It is okay now."
"Are you sure?" Pidge wonders to Linna now.
"I am alright. Thank you Pidge. Allura." Linna tells them as she lowers her head in thanks to Lance and Keith.
"Wait. What if someone's cloning the signal to try and lure us in?" Keith asks the group at the thought of there shouldn't be anymore Alteans.
"The signal is from an Altean ship, and we're going to find it." Allura replies to Keith as she begins to get defensive and begins to pilot the ship towards the coordinates.
"Allura..." Linna whispers as she watches a wormhole appear before them. "Please don't be a trap."
"That looks like a Tel-Galax exploration shuttle. One of my father's deep space vessels." Allura announces to the group as they approach the colorful wormhole where a ship is half there and half not.
"According to the ship's identification code, it's Commodore Trayling's ship. But I don't see any records of its destination or mission." Coran informs the group of the information that he gathered from the Castle of Lions.
"What happened to it?" Lance questions the group.
"Is it stuck in a wormhole?" Hunk wonders to the group as they get closer towards it.
"That's unlike any wormhole I've ever seen." Coran explains to the Paladins.
"There's a massive amount of energy emanating from it, centered right where the ship is stuck." Pidge informs everyone.
"We have to see if anyone is aboard. They may need our help." Allura tells the others of her idea.
"We could send a probe over to it, see if we can get some kind of idea what this thing is?" Pidge brings up a plan of attack towards the rift.
"Do it." Keith replies to her.
Linna watches as the probe enters the rift and wonders to herself. What could this be? She watches as it gets closer and closer when it snaps in her brain. It is a rift in reality like Slav had explained to her millions of times. But why is it opened here?
"The engery shows no signs of radioactive decay and it's not thermal." Pidge tells everyone.
"It's not gravitational, our probe is steady on course, and the light is radiating out, not in, like it would in a black hole." Hunk informs everyone.
"But out from where?" Pidge wonders to the group.
"That energy signature, I know it." Coran states to himself. "It's radiating quintessence!" Coran announces to the group when he realizes the signature.
"Wow, that's weird." Hunk says after the probe explodes in the rift.
"Okay, well, let's not go anywhere near there." Lance states to the group after the show.
"We must." Allura tells Lance.
"Hold on. Didn't you just see what happened?" Hunk speaks out towards Allura.
"Voltron's compositional strength far exceeds anything else in this universe. We received an Altean distress call, which must mean that someone is alive on the ship. As Paladins of Voltron, it is our duty to help." Allura announces to the group.
"Princess, I still think there's a chance that this whole thing is a trap." Keith explains his worries to her.
"Even if it's not a trap, it's far too dangerous to go in there." Coran states to Allura.
"I'll do it myself if I have to." Allura informs the group of her determination of the mission.
"Allura!" Everyone yells at her as Linna steps in front of her to block the doorway.
"Linna..." Allura stops in front of her friend.
"I understand all of your concerns about this mission." Linna begins to speak to them. "I know that I have no right to speak on this team especially after abandoning you all of three days without a word." Linna lowers her head towards the group and takes a deep breath before looking up towards them with confidence in her voice. "I know that Voltron will be find going through the field."
"How do you know that?" Coran and everyone else speaks to their with shock in their voices.
"You say that the wormhole is radiating off quintessence. That is exactly what Voltron is made of. It has its own quintessence field around it. So if you are going Allura, I ask you to go with the Paladins to form Voltron and protect yourselves from the quintessences. I do worn you though, do not stay there very long because it could hurt you." Linna looks straight at Allura now as she places her hand on Allura's cheek. "Do not allow the quintessences to destroy you."
"Alright. Thank you Linna." Allura states to her as everyone stands behind her. "Are we going to do it as a team?"
"Let's do it!" Keith answers her with a deep sigh afterwards.
"Coran and I will stay here and watch after the ship." Linna informs them. "Please make sure to come back safe."
"We will!" All the Paladins reply to her as they head towards the hangar.
Linna looks over her shoulder towards Coran who is freaking out. He just turns around and doesn't look at Linna. She smirks at him as she walks over and sits in Pidge's seat for a little while. She watches as Voltron leaves the hangar before them and slowly approaches the quintessence. She closes her eyes for a moment as she remembers Keith and Lance helping her out in her room. She has to Thank them when they get back. She needs to say the words to them.
Pidge's voice comes over the mics as Linna listens to the static. "Guys, my sensors are going crazy. Technically, we should be torn apart the same way the probe was. But somehow Voltron is completely unaffected by the stress of the spatial distortion."
"Hello? What are you seeing? I'm losing visual. Hello?" Coran starts to yell into the mics with a hectic tone of voice. Voltron disappears within the wormhole as everything disappears from the screens. "No!" Coran screams as Linna watches him flip out in panic.
Linna slows down her breathing as she listens to the lions communicating to her what is happening on the other side. She realizes that Slav was right. There are other realities in this world and you can access them. Linna slowly gets up from Pidge's chair and heads towards the hangar where the lions exit out of but after she makes a stop to both Keith's and Lance's rooms first.
"I will wait here." Linna whispers as she sits on the ground in the hangar and feels there presence surrounding her.
Lotor's Ship:
"Amazing. Your theory about Voltron was finally proven correct." Acxa announces to Lotor as they watched Voltron entering the wormhole.
"I was personally hoping to see some more fireworks when it hit that energy swirl. I guess all of the previous attempts to get it out were just more enjoyable to watch. For me, not for your pilots." Zathrid chuckles at the thought of everyone that had died for the fun.
"Voltron made it through because he is made of the same material as that comet that King Alfor and Linna tired to hide from my father. Now, let's see if the new paladins bring it out to us." Lotor informs the group.
"But what if Voltron is unable to escape the other dimension?" Ezor asks the group.
"It's another reality, Ezor." Acxa states back to Ezor.
"What if they aren't able to escape the other reality?" Ezor whines after being corrected.
"If Voltron disappears from our world, then we win. If they make it out with the comet, we'll take it from them. It's a win either way." Lotor chuckles at the thought. "Now," Lotor brings up the Castle of Lions that is sitting in space before them. "Let's see if we can obtain Linna from that ship."
"How are we going to do that?" Ezor wonders to Lotor.
"Linna, will be in the hangar waiting for the Lions to return. She is connected to them in a way that I need her to build my machines from the comet. I also don't want her to help out the Paladins anymore." Lotor informs the group. "So we just have to get into the hangar real quick and snatch her without anyone else realizing it."
Hangar in The Castle of Lions:
Linna sits patiently as she feels the pull of realities when Allura removes the ship from the gap. Her heart starts to race in panic because she can't sense the lions anymore. She quickly gets up from the ground and glances around the room for help. She has to still be able to sense them. Where are they? Her heart races faster and faster in a panic before shutter Linna down to release the stress on her body. Linna falls unconscious in the hangar as another mark appears on her lower back. Her hair covers her eyes as she senses a presence in the room.
"Coran..." Linna whispers before seeing Narti, one of Lotor's generals appear before her. "How did you get in here?"
Linna tries to fight the drug of unconscious in her body. She knows that Narti placed something in her system now that is causing her to go unconscious. She tries to get up but is pushed back down into the floor by a foot. Linna cries in pain as her eyes finally shut when Narti pulls her over his shoulder and carries her out the way he slipped through security on the ship.
"Coran..." Linna whispers as she passes out for good on Narti's shoulder.
Outside:
The Wormhole appears before Coran in the Castle. He starts to jump and down with joy in his heart. He turns around to speak with Linna but she is missing from Pidge's chair. Coran looks over towards the mice as they all scatter towards the hangar to see if Linna is there.
"You're back! Oh, thank the ancients!" Coran screams into the microphones with tears in his eyes of joy. "Paladins, can you hear me? Are you okay?"
Suddenly a blast hits the castle immediately after Voltron appears from the wormhole with the comet floating around them. Coran notices a ship fire off from the Castle with two figures in the ship.
"What was that?" Coran stares at the ship when he sees specks of white hair in the window. "No! Linna!"
Everyone stares at Lotor's ship that has appeared before them. Coran observes the small ship latch onto Lotor's as it disappeared with Linna inside.
"Thank you for answering my distress signal, Voltron. Now I have the comet and someone that I have wanted for a while." Lotor announces over the mics.
Coran watches as the comet is taken away by Lotor's two other ships. He hears the mice scurry in to the main area with panic in their faces. Coran already knows. He watches as no one attacks Voltron which is a good sign but it wasn't good that Linna and the comet are now in Lotor's hands.
"Paladins, can you hear me? Are you okay?" Coran yells over the mic with fear in his voice.
"Coran, we're here." Allura speaks softly into the mic as she awakes.
"Allura, Thanks to the ancients. You are all right." Coran shouts into the mic with happiness.
"Where is Linna?" Allura wonders through the mic. "How is she doing? We had a very big blow there."
Coran stays quiet over the line as Allura feels something empty fill up in her heart. She senses something is wrong with her lion. The other paladins start to wake up as they listen to Coran slowly speak on the mics.
"Lotor has Linna..."
Everyone stops in sudden terror. Their lions awake with anger in their systems as they control the Paladins movements. The lions fly straight to the hangar and eject the Paladins out of them through their mouths. The Paladins stare at the lions as they shut themselves down in response to Linna being taken. The Paladins can sense something is happening with lions. Coran runs to the hangar and walks through the doors to see the Paladins thrown on the ground.
"What do you mean that Lotor has her?" Allura says to Coran with panic in her voice.
"Come see..." Coran whispers with disappointment in himself for not being able to protect her.
Everyone walks over towards the hangar doors and head towards the main area where Coran pulls up the security cameras throughout the Castle. Everyone watches Linna walk out of the main area and slip something under both Keith and Lance's rooms before walking towards the hangar.
"This is after you guys disappeared into the wormhole." Coran states to them as they watch Linna sit in the middle of the floor where the Lions are circling around right now.
"I will wait here?" Linna whispers to the Hangar as the Paladins watch her sit there and waiting patiently.
Coran fast forwards a few minutes and begins to play it. Keith watches as something moves within the shadows towards Linna. She stays with her eyes closed and focuses on the lions and not herself. Keith watches a syringe appear out of the blue and into her neck.
"Look!" Keith points out the syringe that appears before one of Lotor's generals appear.
Linna suddenly quickly gets up from the ground and glances around the room for help. The paladins watch as Linna is looking around like she is searching for something. Keith watches as sweat pours down her face as panic sweeps over her. Everyone watches as Linna falls unconscious in the hangar as something starts to glow on her back for a split second. Her hair covers her eyes as the general walks over towards Linna.
"Coran..." Linna whispers before spotting one of Lotor's general before her. "How did you get in here?"
Linna struggles on the ground before the general. Allura covers her face as she sees Linna struggling to move and get up. Linna tries to get up but is pushed back down into the floor by Lotor's general placing his foot upon her back. Linna cries in pain as her eyes finally shut when the general pulls her over his shoulder and carries her out the way he slipped through security on the ship.
"Coran..." Linna whispers as she passes out for good on general's shoulder.
Coran lowers his head as he turns off the camera and looks at the other Paladins. They all stare at the blank screen as Allura falls to her knees. She feels the tears falling down her face as her vision begins to blur from the water in her eyes.
"Allura..." Pidge lowers down to her as well. "It's okay. We will get her back."
"I told her that she was okay. That she would be safe." Allura whispers in pain. "How did he do this? How did he take her away from us?"
"That general must be able to hide his detection or heat radiating off him. That's how he was able to slip through." Coran answers her with sorrow in his eyes.
"We have to find her Coran. We have to save her from Lotor!" Allura raises her voice as she darts out of the main area with tears falling down her eyes.
"I will go check on her." Pidge tells the others.
"Thanks Pidge." Keith answer her.
"I am going to go see what she slipped under my door." Lance states to the group as Keith and him head out to walk to their rooms. "I wonder what she slipped under there."
"I don't know." Keith answers Lance as they walk towards their doors.
They both open them at the same time and see a slip of paper on the floor before them. They slowly bend down to grab the paper before opening it up. As the read the letter, they realize why she did it. They realize that she is going to be unable to keep this promise that she has written to them. They slowly turn to face each other to see the water forming in their eyes. They quickly turn away from each other as to wipe the tears from them.
"You know what she was going to say, right?" Lance says to Keith while trying to hide the tears.
"I know the words. I remember her speaking them to you as she told the story." Keith replies to him.
"She wanted to say 'Thank you'." Lance and Keith speak at the same time as they walk finally in their room and lock their doors.
No one else needed to know about the letters. They were specifically addressed to both Lance and Keith. Within those letters, there was only a few sentences on it. Keith looks at the letter one last time as he lays in bed. He will make sure that she will keep this promise. Keith reads the letter aloud to himself.
"Dear Keith,
It's Linna. I want to tell you and Lance something when you get back. So meet me in my room later tonight so I can tell you some words that are dear to me now that I have seen what Abe had left for me. I want to say the words in person so please allow me to do so.
Sincerely,
Linna"
Keith closes his eyes and places the letter on the night stand. He will make sure she gets to say those words to him and Lance. He will make sure. He turns out the lights and heads to bed. He has a lot of work to do tomorrow, starting with finding Linna.