The following is a story of Voltron I made up based on the T.V. cartoon Voltron by World Events Productions. I did not have World Events Productions' permission to do the story and therefore it does not have World Events Productions' endorsement.

Darah was just beginning to enter the main Doom ship when she saw Voltron slicing through the robeast.

"Idiots!" she exclaimed. "They should have used the robeast to attack Galaxy Garrison."

As Darah watched on, she saw the top half of the robeast slide down a little on the angle of the cut and then it exploded.

Darah had entered the main Doom ship just in time as it was beginning to leave the area. She landed the Doom fighter near a wall in the hanger bay of the flag ship, and then climbed out. Suddenly, a high pitched sound began to emit from the Doom fighter that was quickly becoming louder and louder.

A look of fear paled over Darah's face upon hearing the sound as she recognized what would probably happen next. Without even looking back, she immediately ran toward Lotor's ship, the Revenge, by another wall, leaped over the front of his ship, and crouched down behind it covering the back of her neck with her hands and her ears with her forearms. Soon after she had taken cover, the Doom fighter ship exploded.

Darah stood up after the explosion was over and looked over where the Doom fighter used to exist. All that was left were some smoldering pieces on the floor, and it had left behind a hole in the wall. Exposed circuits inside the wall were sparking because of the damage.

"Piece of junk!" stated Darah.

She left the holding area and walked on until she entered the control room.

"Oh you made it back," stated Hagar uncaringly. "What was that sound?"

"Just the explosion of a death trap I managed to escape. I don't know what the empire expects to accomplish by using these worthless heaps of scrap."

Meanwhile, back in the room where Kieth's sister was being held captive, she had continued gazing out the one window in the room. As the Doom ship left the Earth's atmosphere, the scenery turned into outer space. There in the view of the blackness of space, Karla felt a strange solace come over her. It was a healing peace working within her despite all the tragedy that had so recently happened. Then she began to feel a sense of freedom and hope at the sight of the black expanse before her.

She said aloud, "Mom, Dad. I wish you could hear me. But wherever you are, my life goes on, and I'll be here when you get back."

And having said that she didn't mean that she'd be any specific place when they were back. What she meant was that she would still exist. She would not lose herself to her sorrow. She would live her life so she'd be there for her parents when they returned. They certainly weren't the healthiest reasons for getting on with her life, but for the first time since she could ever remember, she had hope in the possibility of her parents being alive and hope that she would live a fulfilling life meaningful to her even if she never saw them again. She felt free that she hadn't given up on or forgotten them even if she allowed other things in life to be just as important or even more meaningful to her than the essence of remembering them.

Suddenly the ship's speed was drastically impeded and it lurched to a slow down.

"What just happened?" demanded Lotor.

"It appears that somehow a chain reaction of breakdowns has occurred in the ship's systems," answered Hagar.

"What's going on?" asked Darah incredulously.

"That's what I'm trying to find out," replied Hagar. "It appears that the problem originated . . . in the ship's hanger bay."

Both Hagar and Lotor turned toward Darah and looked at her accusingly.

"You're joking," said Darah as she began to realize what the cause was for the systems breakdown. "A few short circuits in one bulkhead is causing a whole ship to go haywire? You people don't know how to build anything, do you?"

"Quick to the escape pods," said Hagar.

"I'm not leaving without my ship," insisted Lotor, and he ran to leave the room. In the present danger of the situation, he'd lost interest in keeping Karla, and so she'd just be left behind.

"Where are the escape pods?" demanded Darah, ready to leave as quickly as possible.

"No time to show you," answered Hagar as she was fitting herself along with Kitty into her space coffin through a hole she opened in the wall. "Go with Lotor."

Darah turned and dashed after Lotor just as he was out the doorway.

Lotor ran through the doorway leading into the hanger area where the ships were docked as flames burned along spots in the walls along the way. As Darah approached, flames started shooting up across an entire area of the floor in the hallway. She stopped just before it, her arms outstretched downward and her mouth and eyes open wide as she briefly looked panicked. Then she quickly reached behind her and tore off the military cape attached to the shoulders of her Drule uniform. It would have only gotten in the way for what she planned to do next. She backed up and stopped again when she felt heat behind her. She turned and glared at a fire that had showed up across the entire floor behind her. Then she backed up closer to it only to suddenly rush forward at full speed. She raced for the fire towering from the floor ahead of her. Then she leaped into the air, and just missing the ceiling she tucked herself into a ball and sailed over and through the very top of the flames. Fortunately the floor wasn't full of fire on the other side. After she had cleared the flames, Darah untucked herself, landed on her feet, and immediately took off into a sprint through the open doorway leading into the hanger.

By then, Lotor was almost to his ship when suddenly he was aware of the sound of footsteps behind him. He whirled around with his laser gun drawn and saw Darah fast approaching. She froze in her tracks at the sight of the gun.

"Stay back," sneered Lotor.

"I'm going with you," countered Darah in an angry confident tone.

"No you're not." Then Lotor shot her in the right shoulder.

Darah let out a groan of pain as she immediately covered the wound with her left hand. Flames were sprouting up from the floor scattered throughout the hanger bay. Just after she had been shot, the floor cracked in front of Darah and flames shot up from the crevice. Lotor took advantage of the situation and shot at the floor where the fire was coming up through. The floor cracked some more and a small area of it collapsed through becoming a hole, dropping Darah with it. A scream escaped her mouth as she fell. She caught a piece of solid floor with her left hand and held herself from falling. Far below her, flames and sparks of the ship's damaged circuitry danced about.

Lotor promptly got into his ship and took off through the hanger bay embarking doors that opened for the Prince of Doom and then closed. Darah had been left all alone to perish in a helpless situation.

[Author -- Sheila Bliss, based on the previous creation of Voltron by World Events Productions]

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