A/N: Sorry for the later update. I was pretty busy this weekend and didn't know what I wanted to do in this chapter. I hope you like this chapter. Please comment and review!
Season 4, Episode 3: "Black Site" Season 4, Episode 5: "Begin the Blitz"
Lotor's ship:
Lotor stares at her before looking over a dark purple couch that lays within his room. He strolls over to it and sits down. He lowers his head into his palm as he waits for Acxa to come to get him before they do their test run.
"I want you to explain to me what happened to you. You better tell me," Lotor whispers to Linna before feeling himself start to fall asleep. The next moment he knew, Acxa is in his room to wake him up.
"Prince Lotor," Acxa shakes his shoulder. "The test is ready."
"Alright," Lotor waves her away as he looks to see that Linna is now motionless in his bed. He places his hand on her to see if she is still breathing. He can feel her heartbeat as he notices another marking on her other shoulder but different from the one he saw before. "Let's go."
Acxa watches Lotor with wonder in her expression as she follows Lotor out the door of his room. He leads her towards the second ship that Linna has helped them create with the comet. Acxa however, has never seen Lotor like this before.
"Do you know who we will be testing?" Acxa asks her leader.
"Voltron..." Lotor answers her with nothing in his voice as he enters the hangar with the second ship. "I want to destroy Voltron and I will be doing it with these ships."
Lotor and Acxa start to head towards the ships to take out Voltron when their ship wails off alarms. Lotor stares at the alarms in anger before turning to Acxa. He didn't know what the alarms are for but he wanted to make sure that Linna is with him.
"Go retrieve Linna now!"
Acxa darts back towards Lotor's room as he listens to his other Generals informing him of what is happening. He knows exactly what is happening when he hears the firing hit the ship. He could tell what kind of firing it is. It is a Galra fleet. Zethrid comes across the intercoms with anger in her voice.
"A Galra fleet is attacking us!"
"Return fire!" Lotor orders her.
"Wait, there is another fleet. And another one. We can't hold them all off," Zethrid informs Lotor with panic building up in her voice.
"Prepare the Sincline ships to takeoff. Load the comet and Linna into mine," Lotor orders his Generals. "We're leaving."
Lotor walks out towards his ship as Acxa brings Linna to him. He picks her up like a bride and carries her into his ship. He lays her gentle on the bed that pulls out behind his chair. He hears his ship rumble as the firing continues upon them. Lotor growls in anger when he walks out of his ship waiting for everything to get loaded up in his ship. He sees his Generals appear as he walks up to them to give them orders about what to do.
"Divert all power to defenses. Hold the attack off until we're away. Then scuttle..." Lotor orders his soldiers when the ship tips with all of the firings upon it. Lotor falls to the ground in frustration.
"How did they find us?" Acxa wonders to her commander.
"We must have been tracked," Zethrid replies to Acxa which causes Lotor to wonder.
He stares at the ground when he remembers Linna strangely staring at Narti. It was like she had already sensed something and the magic backfired into her own mind. Lotor gets up from the ground with anger in his grip. He turns to Narti before linking the clues together. He takes his sword and swings it right through Narti's body as it falls to the ground. All of his generals stare at Lotor with panic but all Lotor does is walks towards his ship. They prepare the ships and dart out of the end of the ship in disguise. Lotor sees Voltron appear from nowhere when their ships drive pass them. He holds his anger though because he knows that Voltron can hold the fleet until they are in a safe distance. Lotor glances over to see Linna still asleep next to him.
"I don't want them to take you away from me just yet," He whispers to himself when he hears Acxa speak to him.
"Sir, we are picking up a transmission."
"Attention, citizens of the Galra Empire." Lotor's father's voice comes over the intercoms. "From this day forward, my son Lotor is to be regarded as a fugitive criminal of the empire. All citizens are authorized to use deadly force to stop him or any of his soldiers. I repeat, Prince Lotor is an enemy of the state. Engage with extreme prejudice. Kill on sight," Zarkon informs everyone in the entire universe but he adds something else that surprises Voltron. "There is one other thing. Prince Lotor has a prisoner with him. She is necessary for our empire to continue to thrive. Her name is Linna and she is an Altean. She has beautifully long white hair with blueish/magenta eyes. Lotor has her prisoner at the moment. Whoever obtains her, unharmed will get a great reward. Obtain her and I will make you a general in my fleet or higher up if you already are one. That is all."
The coms go silent as everyone stares at one another with shock in their faces. Lotor turns to Linna still asleep on the bed as her long white hair falls towards the ground. She still has a bandage around her mouth because it is still healing.
The Castle of the Lions:
Kolivan and Keith show up on the big screen in front of the Paladins. They needed more information about the issue with Lotor. This might be their chance to get Linna.
"Entire Galra fleets have been mobilized. Zarkon seems to be out looking for Lotor," Kolivan informs Voltron.
"They are even searching for Linna," Keith tells his friends with worry in his voice. "She is one of the Galra fleets' main focus."
"We heard about that," Allura replies to Keith. "I hope she is okay."
"I wonder what Zarkon meant about her being necessary for the empire to thrive?" Lance asks the group.
"Her knowledge on the lions," Keith states to Lance. "She knows so much that he probably thinks that she will tell him a way to get the Black Lion back or destroy Voltron for good."
"We have to find Linna before Zarkon or any other Galra general finds her," Pidge replies to Keith.
"I am going to see if we can find Lotor," Keith starts to inform the group when Shiro interrupts him.
"It is only a matter of time before he gets the empire back in order," Shiro replies to the Blades of Marmora. "We need to take advantage of this moment."
"What are you getting at, Shiro?" Allura wonders to Shiro's statement.
"Now, is the time to reassemble the coalition that Voltron has been building. With the intelligence gathered by the Blades and the coalition observers, combined with Pidge's Galra tracking software, we now have a detailed map of the Galra Empire." Shiro informs the group of what he has been thinking about.
"I've identified an intermittent line of the coalition planets that runs through the territory," Pidge tells the group. "If you look closely, there's only one Galra-occupied planet left on that line."
"Naxzela," Allura states the name of the planet.
"Exactly,"Shiro tells her. "If we capture Naxzela and solidify that line, we can cut off all the Galra troops behind from central command and use our position to defeat them."
"Wow! We could take back a third of the Galra Empire in one fell swoop," Pidge states with excitement. "Linna would be proud of that."
"Do we have a plan?" Hunk wonders to them.
"We attack several locations across the region, at once," Shiro tells them his plan. "First, we'll have to cut off communications between the region and Galra Central Command by striking the satellite relay station orbiting Vantax Five."
"Pidge and I can handle that!" Hunk announces with excitement.
"The Blades have informed us of two Galra defense systems coming online called Zaiforge cannons." The picture of the cannons appears before the group. "Now, these cannons can strike any target within our combat theater. The first, in high-orbit around the planet Teq, will be attacked by coalition air-forces led by Matt and Captain Olia. Kolivan will lead a Marmoran strike team against the second cannon, located on the surface of Senfama, which is vulnerable to a convert ground attack." Shiro takes a deep breath before continuing to talk. "We intend to take control of these cannons and use Zarkon's own firepower against him. Once the coalition forces and Blades neutralize these targets, Galra defenses will be weakened, allowing us to take down the remaining Galra-occupied planets in this area. While our forces are taking control of the planets, Naxzela will already be under attack."
"By whom?" Allura stares at Shiro with disappointment with his plan from the very beginning. She is not liking the risks that Shiro is implying for this plan.
"Voltron," Shiro answers her with no emotion in his voice.
When Shiro says this though, everyone is all on board with the idea. Lance comes up from behind Pidge and Hunk with an evil smirk across his face as he speaks to the group with excitement.
"Aw, yeah! Team Voltron's gonna drop in Naxzela, form Hunk's giant laser cannon and be all like, "Pow! Pow! Pow!" Easy-peasy." Lance wraps his arms around the two of them with a creepy smile of happiness.
"Unfortunately, not that easy," Shiro informs Lance. "Naxzela will be tough. It's heavily fortified with Galra. Our attack must be swift enough to neutralize the Galra forces before they have time to contact Galra Headquarters. 'Cause, if they call for reinforcements, we'll be caught in a fight on two fronts."
"If this works, the Voltron coalition will possess a third of the Galra Empire's territory. It will be a massive victory." Kolivan says to the group.
"And inspire a whole new wave of rebellions," Allura adds on to Kolivan's statement.
"There's no time to waste," Shiro tells them.
Lotor's ships:
"Ezor, Acxa, set a course for the coordinates I'm sending you." Lotor informs his generals.
"Where are we going?" Ezor wonders to her leader.
"Just do as I told you!" Lotor orders her with anger in his voice before blacking out his screen.
He looks at Linna still sleeping on the bed behind him. She has two more markings that line the front of her chest line up towards her neck. Those are very hard to hide from him. She curls in her sleep when he hears her start to whisper to herself.
"I am sorry..."
"What are you sorry about?" Lotor wonders to her.
"This happened because I denied Zarkon's offer..." Linna whispers to Lotor before rowing over to the other side of the bed.
Lotor stops in the seat as he recalls what she just said to him. He really did not think that she is going to reply to him. He thought she is still sleeping.
Hours later: Lotor's ship
"Sir, we're approaching the coordinates, but my scanners don't detect anything," Zethrid informs her commander.
"They're not supposed to," Lotor replies to her.
Their ships float towards a dusted area as a destroyed planet appears before them. Everyone stares at the ruined planet because there is no life there.
"Lotor, what is this?" Ezor wonders.
"The ruins of planet Daibazaal," Lotor replies to her.
Their ships fly closer to the life-less planet. Lotor watches as Linna struggles like she knows where they are. She can sense the power that lurks before them. Her marks start to glow by the sense of magic which causes Lotor to grin at what he sees.
"What is that?" Ezor asks her commander.
Lotor turns to see the glowing sphere before them. He grins with happiness that it is still here. His father still has not figured out what Lotor created a while ago with the help of Linna when he had her as a prisoner before.
"Zarkon believed that Alfor's plan to blow up Daibazaal and destroy the rift between the realities actually worked. No one comprehended that the experiments of my mother, Honerva, could never be undone." Lotor grins as he continues to explain to his generals. "I had a secret team construct this inter-reality gate on the rift, where her work began. Just as Voltron was able to, I will pilot us through the rift, and we will harvest the unlimited quintessence that exists in the layer between realities."
"I never doubted you, Lotor." Acxa repliest to him.
"So, we can just fly right through this thing to another reality?" Ezor wonders.
"I've not yet had a chance to test the gate," Lotor informs them. "My plans have been accelerated by our recent turn of events. But if my calculations are correct, by infusing our ships with concentrated quintessence, we should be able to pierce the barrier between realities."
The ship starts to get closer to the rift. The ship glows with quintessence as Linna struggles harder in her sleep. She can feel it absorbing in her body like when Hagar's black quintessence's hit her.
"Sir, this is all the concentrated quintessence we have left," Zethrid informs Lotor.
"And I will use it to reap an untold amount more," Lotor informs her.
As the ship enters the rift which causes Linna to scream at the top of her lungs. Lotor turns to stare at her as she struggles off the bed towards the floor. Her marks glow with pain entering her body. He sees that her jaw as magically healed within seconds.
"Uh... did it work?" Zethrid wonders as the ship reappears like on the other side of the planet.
After Voltron's battle: Lotor
Lotor stares at the gate with anger on his face and his arms crossed with disappointment. His generals stand farther away as Linna sits in the middle of them. When they entered the rift part Linna woke up in a panic. She finally stopped screaming but is not talking with anyone just yet.
"Told you so. All Lotor's plans failed." Ezor tells the Generals. "He's gonna turn on us as soon as it's in his best interest."
"We have to strike first," Zethrid tells them.
"If we turn him over to Galra Headquarters now, maybe they'll show us mercy." Ezor wonders to the group what they think about her plan.
Linna turns her head back to Acxa to wait to hear what she has to say. She wonders what his first general is thinking at the moment. Acxa just watches Lotor with something in his eyes.
"We gotta take him down. It's our only chance." Zethrid speaks to them.
Linna watches as Acxa closes her eyes for a moment to think before walking towards Lotor. The generals look at one another for a moment before seeing the light come from Acxa's hand.
"For Narti..." Acxa says as Linna stares at Lotor fall to the ground.
"Did you kill him?" Ezor wonders.
"He's just stunned," Acxa informs them. "Now, help me secure him. Let's make this quick."
Linna stares at the Generals before slowly getting up from the ground. Acxa and the other two turn to see Linna standing up from the ground.
"What do you think you are doing?" Zethrid wonders to her.
"Are you going to kill me?" Linna asks them with a question than answer them.
"We might turn you in. It will be probably a better reward compared to Lotor." Ezor tells Linna.
"Then I have to fight for my life," Linna states to them as she pulls her fists in a fighting stance.
"Why are you fighting now?" Acxa wonders to Linna. "You haven't fought any of us until now."
"I would rather deal with you all and Lotor compared to that monster Zarkon and Hagar. He wants me to kill the paladins. He wants me to bring him Voltron. I will not let Hagar enter my mind again either. I would rather die than go back to them." Linna tells them as she feels the quintessence still circling her body.
"We can take you," Zethrid tells her as she cracks her knuckles towards Linna.
"I hope I have enough," Linna whispers to herself as she focuses on Allura. She has to focus on her for this to work. "Allura..."
Linna feels her body cover in the quintessence that she absorbed from Lotor's ship. She feels another mark appears with all of the power that she is using at this moment.
"Allura..." Linna whispers again when she feels her body travel through realities. She feels her body hit the ground with a thud, causing her to open her eyes to Coran in front of a map with the Galra Empire's coordinates. "Coran..."
Coran turns around when he hears his name being called. He stops in his tracks with tears falling down his eyes. He shakes his head to make sure this isn't a dream. Linna slowly starts to stand before him.
"Linna?" Coran says her name.
"What was that Coran?"Allura wonders what Coran just whispered.
"Please tell me you are really here," Coran says to Linna ignoring Allura's question.
"I hope I really am..." Linna whispers to him as she feels her body fall to the ground once again.
"Linna!" Coran screams as he feels her body enter his arms. "You really are here! Guys! Linna is here! She just entered the Castle!"
"Linna!" The paladins and Keith yell with excitement and confusion for what they just heard from Coran.
"Linna is back!" Coran replies to them but then the alarms start going off to tell Voltron and the coalition that they are out of time.