Somewhere in space:
In the emptiness of space, a giant, majestic ship is flying. This is the Castle of Lions, home to the Paladins of Voltron and their Altean comrades. After meeting a Galran alien named Ulaz, who helped Shiro escape, after being captured a year ago during an exhibition to one of Pluto's moons, Kerberos. The Paladins found out about a secret organization of Galra that are working secretly to defeat Zarkon called the Blade of Marmora. Finally after Shiro managed to strengthen his bond with the Black Lion, it was safe for them to go to the headquarters base without being detected with Zarkon's connection to the Black Lion.
On the bridge, everyone was present and in their lounging attire. The Paladins were at their stations, minus Shiro who was standing by Coran at the monitor with Allura at her pillar station powering the castle. The Green and Yellow Paladins were excited to witness what technology was at the base, since there experience at Ulaz's outpost, the Blue Paladin was bored, just there, the Black Paladin and the two Alteans were interested to know if these Galra were to be trusted and if they could be great allies in the fight against Zarkon, while Kieth was curious and staring at the blade he'd had all his life. After seeing Ulaz with one that had the same five-shaped symbol, he had questions, perhaps it could give him some answers about his past.
Shiro finally spoke, "Coran, how long till we get to the Marmora base?"
Coran looked at the screen and answered, "Based on the coordinates Ulaz gave us, we should be there within seven...vargas".He paused looking at the screen peculiarly. "That's interesting."
This alerted the Altean Princess. "What is it, Coran?"
"There seems to be a life signature ahead but no space craft," he said, displaying the signature along with a video feed. It looked like an orange creature with yellow hair floating motionlessly in the cold space.
"Pidge, I need you to get to your Lion and bring them in. Coran, prepare a healing pod," Allura spoke, showing concern for the poor creature.
In the Green Lion:
Pidge got in her Lion and out the Castle. She slowly approached the creature, opening her Lion's jaw and closing it with the creature inside. She flew back to the Castle and landed, to find the others waiting for her return. As Pidge exited the cockpit and entered the jaw to see what creature they had discovered, she was left in shock ,she couldn't believe what she was seeing. It was impossible.
In the Green Lion's hanger:
As the Green Lion's mouth lowered, everyone waited patiently for Pidge and their new guest. The mouth opened to reveal a shocked and frozen Pidge. "What's wrong Pidge, did something happen?" Allura asked with concern.
"Yeah, you look like you've seen a ghost" the Paladin of the Blue Lion, Lance agreed.
Finally Pidge answered, "You guys are not going to believe this." she then bent down and picked up the creature which had a small horse like structure with an orange coat, a yellow mane, a mark with three apples on her flank, a cowboy hat, a brown saddle bag with apple buckles on the sides and a necklace with a gold lace and an orange gemstone with some green, in shape of an apple.
The Yellow Paladin, Hunk broke the silence, "Um, is that a... pony?"
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(Rock Music)
Voltron,
Harmony Defender!
Voltron,
Harmony Defender!
Voltron,
Harmony Defender!
Voltron,
Harmony Defender!
I never knew what friendship could be,
(Voltron)
Until you shared its magic with me.
(Voltron)
When I felt all alone,
(Voltron)
You were here all along
(Voltron)
I've been honest,
(Voltron)
And so kind
(Voltron)
Your laughter,
(Voltron)
Has brought me a smile
(Voltron)
Your generous,
(Voltron)
And loyal heart
(Voltron)
Has ignited,
(Voltron)
A magic spark!
Voltron
Harmony Defender,
And the Elements
Twelve hearts together,
As the best of friends!
As the best of...
As the best of...
As the best of
Friends!
RubyRainbow118
presents...
Voltron: Harmony Defender!
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In Twilight's Castle, Equestria:
In the throne room, five ponies and a small dragon were waiting for their friend to arrive. "What do you think is taking Twilight so long? Considering she's the one who called us here," an orange earth pony, Applejack asked.
"I don't know, but it better be worth interrupting my nap for," the impatient pegasus, Rainbow Dash said, slouching back on her throne.
"Oh, I'm sure Twilight wouldn't have called us out of the blue, if it wasn't an emergency," the shy, yellow pegasus pony, Fluttershy said.
"Sorry I'm late everypony. I was just going over a few things before meeting you here" a purple alicorn, Twilight said as she came through the doors, levitating a book with a purple cover, gold outlines and a crest with a yellow gem with a 'V' shape on the front.
"Don't fret darling, we understand that you like being prepared," the gorgeous, white unicorn, Rarity said.
The alicorn smiled in gratitude. She loved that her friends understood her and always supported her no matter what. They were the best of friends even before they met and would always have their special connection, and their connection to the Elements of Harmony. The very enthusiastic, pink earth pony approached the princess and put a hoof around her neck. "So what's this super exciting thing you wanted to show us, Twilight?" she said before she quickly rushed back to her seat.
"Well, yesterday I was doing a book counting, looking for the old books to take to storage to make room for new ones. When I found this," she levitated the book she was carrying to the center of the table. Everyone stared at the book in awe. It looked old in design, but the gem on the front sparked in the light like it came straight from the jewelry store
Rainbow Dash looked unimpressed. "Seriously Twilight, you called us over here to talk about books?" She got some disapproving stares from her friends. "What?"
Twilight flipped a few pages and started to explain, "It's not just a book, let me explain. First of all, I've never seen this book or even heard of it. It's like it's appeared out of nowhere."
Rainbow Dash scoffed, "I think we've all had bigger problems than excess books in a library, Twilight" She earned more glares from the others.
"Maybe if you'll let me finish, I could explain why it's so important!" Twilight said angrily, which made Rainbow Dash settle down. "Anyway, what was really weird was the information it contained, look" she said as she pointed to a page in the book. The image was of five lions but not of its regular colors, but of blue, yellow, green, red and black, all with yellow glowing eyes. The black lion was larger than the rest and had teal blue marks on its chest and mane. "From what I've been reading, it's about five, mighty lions that protected their world from evil and those who would try to harm others. They were famously known as 'Voltron, the protectors of the universe'. That was until great evil forced them to disappear for ten thousand years, and has since then inflicted harm on their world."
She explained as she flipped the pages to show a snake that was purple, pink and a little grey with purple glowing eyes and beside it a bat that was blue, yellow and grey with yellow eyes and red marks on its face.
"I don't think I like this story very much," Fluttershy said as she sank into her chair.
"But after thousands of moons, they finally returned and have been getting their world back on track and recruiting allies to help them try to end the war." Twilight finished as she showed a picture of green and pale yellow lizards and other variations of animals, beside the lions.
Rarity finally spoke up, "That was a beautiful story Twilight, but I don't see what was so important that you had us come over." Twilight flipped a few more pages and showed it to the others. It was unbelievable! It was the Elements of Harmony in front of not five... ,but six lions.
The Element of Laughter was in front of the Blue Lion, the Element of Kindness was in front of the Yellow Lion, the Element of Generosity was in front of the Green Lion, the Element of Loyalty was in front of the Red Lion, the Element of Honesty was in front of the Black Lion, and finally the Element of Magic was in front of a new Pink Lion. The Black, Red, Green, Yellow and Blue Lions were surrounding the Pink Lion which had a rainbow surrounding it. It was beautiful!
"I can't explain it but somehow us, the Elements and these Lions are connected. After reading, I found a piece of parchment in the gemstone, which was actually a hidden chest." Twilight pulled out the paper from the gemstone chest and started to read, "It says,
"Twelve hearts of like hearts and minds,
Will shine and bring an everlasting light,
With bonds so strong and hearts so true,
Their rainbow light will forever shine through."
Whatever this prophecy means, it must be referring to us and these lions. We have to find them!" she stomped her hoof for emphasis. Her friends looked at each other with worried looks, then turned to Twilight while smiling.
"And you'll have your friends to help you," Applejack said walking over the alicorn, The others followed.
"I don't care if we have to search all of Equestria!" Rainbow Dash said proudly.
"We're all here for you Twilight," Rarity said.
" And always will be," Fluttershy added.
"Woohoo! This is gonna be so much fun!" Pinkie Pie squealed.
"As long as these Lions don't try to eat us, I'll be good," Spike said bravely.
"Thanks guys. You're the best friends ever!" Twilight said as they all shared a group hug. Twilight knew she could do anything with her friends by her side. No matter what, the Magic of Friendship will always be with them.
In the pod room:
The Paladins and Alteans were all in the pod room, where they first met, as Coran had finished placing the creature they had found inside a healing pod. The humans were all dumbfounded as to how a mythical creature, that on Earth, believed to be fictional, was right in front of them. It was a wonder to behold. After adjusting the pod, Coran turned to face the others. "Good thing it's small, I'm not sure how we would put them on two feet," he said scratching his head. "Anyway, I've got good news and strange news. The good news is that this should only take a few doboshes. It seems they only need a little exposure to oxygen, no physical injuries"
"That's great,...but what's the strange news?" Shiro asked.
"Well, the good news is the strange news. There is no way for any creature to survive in space without a suit," Coran said.
Pidge walked over to the pod, holding a scanner. "It may have something to do with the necklace. It seems to be giving off strange readings, kinda like it's pulsing," she said, clearly interested.
Allura walked up to Pidge, and took the scanner and said, "It looks like its radiating quintessence!"
They gasped, until Lance asked, "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?". He got strange looks from his teammates, "What?".
"That must be how they were able to survive that long in space," Hunk said, finally understanding.
"Where would they get such a powerful artefact?" The Red Paladin, Kieth asked. They heard a familiar sound, it was the pod opening.
"Hopefully we can get those answers, but remember we must treat them with respect, they are still a living creature." Allura said, warning her comrades.
The pod opened with the orange creature, but without its hat and saddle bag. "What happened? It feels like I bucked a whole tree of apples on my head," the creature asked ,rubbing its head with its front leg ,in a female country accent, like it came straight from Texas. "UUhhh..., AAAHHHHH!" she screamed backing up from the strange two-legged creatures in front of her. "AAAHHHHHHH! Where am I?! How did I get here?! Who are you?! Wait, you have two legs, am I in the mirror world?! Would somepony answer me?!"
The Paladins looked at each other and Allura stepped forward, "Hello, there is no need to be alarmed. I am Princess Allura of Planet Altea, and these are the Paladins of Voltron and Coran, my guardian." she said, as she turned to her friends. "We are aboard my Castle of Lions. Please, tell us your name." This made the creature calm down and reassured her they meant no harm.
"I'm Applejack, pleasure to make your acquaintance. I come from Ponyville, Equestria, I'm a member of the Apple family, and the Element of Honesty. Also, have you seen my hat and saddle bag?" she said, feeling her bare mane and back.
"Here they are. I kept them nice and safe for you," the Yellow Paladin said with a smile, as he handed her the belongings.
Applejack took them and thanked him, "Why thank you. What's your name, sugarcube?"
"Well, I'm Hunk, you've met Allura, that's Coran, Pidge, Lance, Kieth and Shiro." Hunk said, introducing his fellow Paladins. "Uummm... by any chance could we ask you a few things?" Hunk said as he nervously fiddled with his fingers.
"Sure thing, as long as I can get somethin' to eat after. Ask-away." Applejack said and not more than two seconds later, questions came piling up.
"What are you exactly?"
"What's an Element of Honesty?"
"What's that mark on your flank?"
"Where did you get that necklace?"
"Why is it radiating quintessence?"
"How did you get into space?"
"What's with the cowgirl get-up?". The last question, from Lance earned him strange stares. "What, you said 'any' question? Also, you're of the Apple family, right? Don't tell me your grandma's called Granny Smith."
"Don't you dare joke about my granny, loud mouth!" Applejack stomped her hoof, ready to kick him off the ship.
Lance looked at her wondering if she was joking, "Wait, you're serious-"
"Sorry, sometimes he doesn't know when to shut up. So could you answer our other questions?" Pidge interrupted Lance before things got bad, and he got his but kicked.
"It's times like this I miss the others. Sure, 'what am I?', well I'm a pony, more specifically an Earth pony. They're are four types of ponies in Equestria: Earth ponies, they have the responsibility to till the land, most of us are farmers and a few run in the rodeo business. We're more of the country folk. Next are Unicorns, they have magical horns they learn to use to do all the magical spells, potions and what-knot, they're usually wizards and scientists. They are one of the advanced types of ponies. They're also Pegasi, they have feathery wings they use to fly. They're in charge of controlling the weather and most of them live in the clouds. They have the special ability to walk on clouds, so I guess it's solid for them. The last are the Alicorns, a combination of all three ponies, but they are extremely rare. The're only four...no five in Equestria. Their magic is more powerful than the rest and each of them has the title 'Princess'. But they aren't born that way, they're born either as unicorns or pegasi and had to earn the other, by doin' some 'princess worthy deed', except one that was born an alicorn. That was a doozy. One of my best friends is actually one of them, Twilight Sparkle, the smartest pony I've ever met that's for sure. But we met before the wings.
"Uuhhh...next question, well I guess talking about Twilight and my other friends would answer the questions about the necklace, the Element of Honesty and the mark. Well, back home there's somethin' called the Tree of Harmony. It's a magical crystal tree that was planted by six legendary ponies, before they disappeared to fight an evil pony of darkness and shadow, but that was a thousand years ago and a story for another day. Anyway, from the Tree, came the Elements and they're six of 'em. I'm the Element of Honesty, the others with ponies are Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness, Pinkie pie, the Element of Laughter, Rarity, the Element of Generosity, Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty, and Twilight, the Element of Magic. When we first got 'em they took the form of these necklaces, except for Twilight's which became a crown. Each of us are connected to our Elements and to each other, why this mark on my flank is proof of it.
"When we were just fillies, before we met, my friend Rainbow Dash performed the impossible, a legendary Sonic Rainboom. Back at her old flying camp, some bullies were pickin' on Fluttershy, since she was a weak flyer, and Rainbow Dash defended her honor in a race. She was going so fast, she broke the barrier and did a Sonic Rainboom. It created a rainbow effect that spread all across Equestria, even to us. I never would have left my aunt and uncle in the big city to go back to my farm if I did see that rainbow pointing me back home. Fluttershy who had fallen to the ground, never would have been able to comfort the animals after being frightened by the sound. Pinkie Pie would have never found the courage to leave her home, to spread that joy she felt when she saw it. Rarity never would have found some beautiful gemstones in a rock ,that she was pulled to with her magic and cut open by the boom effect, that inspired her to decorate some costumes she was assigned to make for a play. Twilight never would have passed her entrance exam into Celestia's school of magic, if she hadn't felt that burst of magic, which made her not only hatch a dragon egg but turn him into a huge one. And Rainbow Dash never would have known how much she loved that speed and thrill of the race. From these experiences we all got our Cutie Marks, which represent our unique talents and special abilities. It can take years for a pony to find theirs but it's always worth it. The six of us never would have met each other, or found our strong friendship to wield the Elements of Harmony, or even defeat all those evil ponies we had. All of it wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the Magic of Friendship!" Applejack finished after explaining all the experiences she had with her friends.
The Paladins took a long time to soak in all that they had just heard. The Magic of Friendship didn't sound real, but the way she said it with such enthusiasm made them reconsider. But to have permanent marks that show your special abilities sounds amazing, and the fact about hearing six ponies got them at the same time, and them having a special connection with each other before they had met sounds impossible, even if it wasn't. Their magic explained the quintessence readings and how she was able to survive in space for so long. Kieth then remembered another question, "But all of this still doesn't explain how you got into space."
"What are you talking about?" Applejack asked, confused.
"Well we found you floating in space, and there was no broken debris from a ship attack," Coran answered as Applejack stared at him, still confused.
Allura realized she needed another approach, so she asked, "How about you tell us what you were doing before you woke up. Maybe it could answer how you got here."
"I suppose that's easy enough. Well, I was with my friends and... Ohhhh no." Applejack started before she realized something. Oh no! Oh no! OH NO! This is terrible, how did I forget! By any chance did you also find five ponies and a small dragon?" Applejack asked hopefully, but to her dismay Coran shook his head. "No! They're probably hurt, or lost, or trapped, or worse! Please, you have to help me find 'em. They mean everything to me, I can't bear to lose my friends!" Applejack said, with tears forming in her eyes. They felt pity for her, she lost her friends and to who knows what.
Allura feeling concern said, "Coran, search the area for anymore life signatures, and check the Castle map for Equestria" Coran did as she said and left the room, Allura then knelt down and petted Applejack's mane to comfort her, and said, "We will find them, perhaps you could explain what happened, maybe it could give us some answers?"
"Thanks Princess, for everything." she said, wiping her tears. "My friend, Twilight has a crystal castle, which has a crystal map of all of Equestria. It's connected to the Tree of Harmony, and has special magic to call on ponies with their cutie marks to solve friendship problems. The six of us were called with Twilight's dragon companion, Spike, to a weird abandoned village at the end of Equestria. When we got there, we found a strange cave with a glowing crystal wall. When we finally broke it, it exploded. Then I woke up here, I don't know what it was, but it may have been some kinda ancient magic."
"Whatever it was, it must've been how you got here," Shiro said, shedding some light on the situation.
"What do you think caused it? Could it have been a wormhole?" Keith asked.
"I don't know, do you happen to remember anything unique about the light?" Allura said, turning to the pony.
She shook her head, "Sorry Princess, I don't. It was too bright to see anything." They all lowered their heads.
Coran's voice then came through the speaker, "Princess, I have both good and bad news."
Allura stood up, "What's the bad news?".
Coran started, "Well, I've searched all across the map and castle database, there is no record of the pony-world. But that means it hasn't been found or occupied by the Galra."
On the bridge:
Coran is at the monitor and continued, "But the good news is that I've located six more life signatures. I'm putting it on screen." He pressed a few buttons and in the pod room, a digital display of five ponies and a small dragon, floating in space appeared.
Back in the pod room:
Applejack jumped up, "They're okay!"
Allura turned to the Green Paladin, "Pidge-"
"On it" she said, already leaving.
Allura's gaze turned to the Yellow Paladin, "Hunk, stay here and prepare the healing pods. Coran, come down and assist him."
"On my way, Princess." Coran said before he cut the transmission.
"The rest of you come with me, we'll need to bring them down. Let's go!" she finished, and ran to the Green Lion's hanger. They all had their orders, and would do them to save the pony's friends.
In the Green Lion's hanger:
As they arrived at the Green Lion's hanger, the Green Lion had just arrived. As the Lion's mouth lowered, Applejack started running. She couldn't wait any longer to see her friends. As Pidge was about to exit, Applejack ran past her, even though she was frightened by the lion. Her heart sank to find her friends lying unconscious on the cold, metal floor. With tears in her eyes, she said, "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you. No matter what."
In another part of space, in the room of a large and eerie warship, a female alien with blue skin and red marks on her face and wearing a long, blue and pale yellow robe was standing at the center. This was Zarkon's High priestess named Haggar. She was not of Galra lineage, but was just just as ruthless. She had powerful magic that she used to serve her emperor. Her eyes opened and glowed yellow, in a bone-chilling way.
In the throne room of the warship, an alien with purple-pink and grey armor, grey skin and purple eerie eyes was sitting on a throne. This was Emperor Zarkon. Haggar walked towards him and bowed. She spoke in a scary voice, "My lord, I sensed a powerful magic, something ancient. It could very well threaten to destroy your empire."
Zarkon lifted his head and spoke in a deep and intimidating voice, "Then prepare for the battle ahead."
Author's Note:
Dun-Dun-DUN! Sorry, if I made Applejack look so emotional, but imagine finding yourself with complete strangers and being separated from the people you love. Hope you enjoy my first book.
P.S: I've changed the theme song 'cause I felt like I wanted mine to be unique.