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“Remember this is only a recon mission,” Kolivan reminded me before I sprinted down the halls.
After a few turns I was in front of the door to the control room. I quickly placed my hand on the scanner, and heard the swoosh of the door when it opened to five sentries. I quickly unsheathed my blade, letting it extend to a full sword. I quickly sliced the robots in half before any of them could fire a shot that could give away my position. I slipped the chip that was on my suit hidden near my boot, and walked over to the computer to place it inside the console.
“Okay Kolivan, all set here,” I say to the leader of the blades.
“Good job Keith, give V’ek here a tick so he could download the files from over here,” he replied.
The screen then showed a purple bar that seemed to have indicated that the computer was having all of its content downloaded. Then, the ship shook from underneath me, making me stumble a couple steps to the right.
“Kolivan, what’s going on?” I asked through the coms as I stared back at the screen to see it being close to finished.
“Haggar just joined the fight against Voltron, and her druids are her too, we mu-” he got cut off and I just heard static.
“kolivan!” I shout through the coms, but I just receive more static than an actual response from the leader., “Quiznack.” I mumble to myself as I look up to the computer to see that the information has been downloaded from the console.
I quickly snatch up the chip and run back toward the way I’ve came. As I take a left turn through one of the halls, I hear a crackling closer to my left side, so I quickly move to the right, then run up the wall to jump and I do a backflip so I land behind the druid who tried to attack me.
“Ahhhh,” the druid simply says with a nod of its head, “I see that the paladin changed costume, your friends must be happy to see you,” the menacing druid croaked.
I just shake my head before I throw my galra blade at the druid’s head, but before it does, it disappeared into a swirl of black particles of something. I close my eyes, and I trust my gut’s feeling and quickly spin around to punch the vile creature. I make contact with my fist to its face, but it then it blasts with a power surge to my side before I could run.
“AHHHHH!” the scream is just ripped from my throat as I feel the burning in my side and I am flung across the hallway into a wall, denting it inwards as I slump to the ground. I see my blade only a couple inches away as I make sure my injured left side doesn’t have much pressure on it, but I could still feel like flames attacked me and my whole side is on fire.
“The witch will have fun with you little one,” the druid creature sneered.
Black dots starts to dance in my vision as the druid just creeps closer. My blade was to my left, and I was so close to reaching it, almost there. I tried to army crawl to it, but any movement that involves my side is just killing me. I try to reach out to grab it, but I can only graze the handle, but I am so focused grabbing the blade I don’t see the druid being back its leg and-
“AHHHHH!” another scream of pain makes my throat feel raw.
The druid took the blade, as I attempt to curl in on myself to hide from the pain, seeing a decent flow of blood from the kick seep down my side, and it placed it in its cloak, hiding it from my line of vision. Then the druid bends over to grab my ankle tightly before it starts to drag me across the floor. I have to bite my lip to stay quiet as we walk –be dragged- down the halls. My mask has been deactivated, and my hood has just been collecting anything from the floor. My back felt soar, my head felt a little fuzzy as my ankle felt like I have been pulled from it –oh wait, I am- and it’s becoming hard to think straight.
I hear a voice over the coms with a robotic voice that said, “We’ll about o hyperdrive in 3... 2...,” Oh no, I quickly think before they say number three, and feel the whole ship lurch forward really fast, and when we do stop, my injured side hit the floor hard and I black out with one thought in my mind.
I hope the team made it out okay. And then blackness consumes me into nothingness.
~_~
“Um, guys, I see Haggar and she seems furious, what do we do Shiro?” I hear Hunk shakily ask me.
“We don’t want to stay too long, but I think Voltron should try to hit her with one good hit, then quickly leave,” I command as I know that Keith, my younger brother, was down thereon that ship on a recon mission.
I hear Pidge and Lance shout as they aim their lions at the witch, but when they fired, there was a poof of black quintessence stuff, and I realized she vanished.
“Where she go?”
“Did we get there?”
“Shiro, what do we do?”
“Head back to the castle, I see the Blades’ pod leaving the ship now,” I command as we turn around and head back to the castle.
We have only started to devise a plan to gain a major portion of the universe from Zarkon’s empire, but we need more information, so the blades went to go retrieve it, but this cruiser was the one that will give us much needed information. We follow the blades’ pod to the Castle of Lions. We quickly disband and get into our respected hangers. Once my lion lands, I get out of the chair, and head to where the blades landed. I haven't seen Keith in what feels like weeks. Once I walk into the hanger, I do a head count, but I only count three blades, but wasn’t there supposed to be four...
I walk toward the three blades and they all deactivated their masks with solemn looks, one of them included Kolivan , but I couldn’t find the raven-haired teammate.
“Hey, Kolivan , where’s Keith?” I asked the leader of the Blades.
“ Shiro , Keith didn’t-”
“Paladins! It’s Keith! Come to the bridge now,” I hear the princess’ advisor shout through the coms.
I sprint toward the door, hearing the blades follow, then I run toward the bridge. Once I get there the first thing, I see on the screen was Hagger with a twisted smile on her face that could send shivers down anybody’s spine, but that wasn’t the scariest sight on the screen. The scariest sight was behind her, where the unconscious raven-haired boy who payer than usual with two druids behind him and a small puddle of blood underneath him. That’s when I heard the paladins come into the bridge.
“Well hello paladins, blades, it’s nice to you see you all here,” the evil witch croaked with a crooked smile.