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Reverse Chivalry

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.

After horribly botched proposal to Karla to marry him, Lance was an extremely desperate and hurt man. Only Allura's comment that someone wake her up and tell her it was all a bad dream, gave Lance an idea of very minimal hope. And he meant to try to attempt it as soon as possible. He had left Castle Control and was headed straight for Karla's room where he figured she'd be. Soon he was standing before the door to her room and was going to knock, but thought better of it. If she was doing what he thought she was doing, it'd be much better if he didn't knock at all. And if she was doing something else, such as changing her clothes, he was already a doomed man so he was willing to take his chances.

He couldn't get the door to open easily. So as quietly as he could, he ripped a panel off the wall next to the door. He quickly glanced over the mess of wires that were inside. With laser gun in hand, he shrugged his shoulders in uncertainty just before he fired a quick shot into the wires. Then the door to Karla's room opened. Karla immediately sat up on her bed. She'd been crying into her pillow and was just where Lance had thought she'd be. The sight of her tear stained face broke his heart all over again.

"How dare you!" she screamed in a shrill angry voice with an intensity much worse than when she had spoken in Castle Control just a short while before.

Lance felt incredibly sick inside, but he had to follow through with his plan. It was his only hope.

He pretended as if he didn't even hear her and quickly began looking at her as if she wasn't even awake. He walked swiftly over to her, put his hands on her shoulders from the front and began to shake her.

"Karla . . . Karla . . . Wake up!"

Karla responded by slapping him across the face. Lance paused a moment and cringed, but then he went on shaking her as if nothing had happened.

"Karla, wake up! You're having a bad dream!"

"Lance, what are you doing?"

"Come on Karla!" continued Lance ignoring her. "Wake up! It's all a bad dream! Everything is all right! You're just having a really bad nightmare! Come on! Wake up! You're ok! Please wake up, Karla. It's me Lance."

"All right, I'm awake!" Karla shouted trying to go along with whatever cockamamie idea it was that Lance was having. Anything to get him to quit it! "What do you want, Lance!"

"Easy, Karla," Lance finally acknowledged her and was treating her as though she awoke. "I don't know what you were dreaming about, but it was all a bad dream. You're awake now."

"You're so dead!" Karla spat.

"No, really I'm ok," Lance countered. "Look I'm right here. Nothing bad has happened to me."

"Oh, but it's gonna!"

"Don't say that, Karla. Whatever you were dreaming about, It couldn't have been a premonition. I�m going to be just fine."

Karla was thoroughly annoyed with Lance, but she finally smiled at him coldly and said, "Very well, Lance. What do you plan next?"

Lance could hardly contain his excitement! His chances of making a difference were looking ever so slightly better then! But he did contain his excitement and did so completely.

"Karla, I'm sorry you were having such a bad nightmare, but I promise you, that's not how your day is going to go for you. I've got fantastic plans for us today! Rrrrrrromantic plans," he rolled his r's like a tiger.

Karla didn't even crack a smile. She was still so furious with him.

"Come on. Let's go!" he said taking her arm and pulling her out of bed, all the while treating the scowl on her face as if it were a smile.

"So you mean to tell me Hunk and Darah aren't really engaged?" Karla probed to see what he would say while they sere still in her room.

Lance stopped right there, still holding onto her forearm that he had been dragging her along by and he quickly answered, looking straight into her eyes, "Why yes they are! But I'm surprised you know since you were there when they announced it."

A look of surprise came over Karla's face over the sheer audacity of Lance's answer. Lance smirked just a little bit before his expression turned completely innocent again and he resumed his advance out of the room pulling Karla along with him. As they passed through the doorway, Karla immediately noticed the damage and sarcastically asked, "So what happened there?"

Lance glanced but kept right on walking and answered, "Oh that's just another really bad dream."

They continued on walking.

"Lance, where are we going?" asked Karla, who was no longer scowling and instead had a relaxed skepticism about her.

"Sorry to drag you along on this, but I'm a bit disorganized and haven't packed yet."

"Packed?"

Lance continued holding onto Karla's arm and drug her all the way to Nanny's kitchen.

"Lance!" barked Nanny. What are you doing here and what do you mean by dragging Karla along with you?"

"Top of the morning to you, Nanny!" said Lance ignoring her statement and her anger.

"It's afternoon!" she barked back.

But Lance brushed right on passed her, grabbing a huge clear bag off a counter along the way. He stopped a moment to get a hold of the bag with the same hand he was holding onto Karla's arm with. Then he began pulling odds and ends of a whole variety of things or food that happened to be sitting out in easy reach into the bag until he was at a refrigerator. There he opened the refrigerator and began putting in a variety of a whole lot of other stuff. While grabbing the last item he was going to bring (there was still plenty of stuff left in the refrigerator) he was pleasantly shocked to see Karla's hand grab it at the same time. He turned to her and smiled big, she returned a sweet yet reserved small smile back to him, and together they put that last item into the bag. Then Lance closed the refrigerator and began his casual escape from the kitchen with Karla still in tow.

Nanny rushed in and blocked the doorway they were headed for to make their exit.

"And just where do you think you're going?" bellowed Nanny.

"Nanny, you're so beautiful!" said Lance seductively. And he closed his eyes, puckered his lips, and leaned in to give her a huge smooch!

"Ahhhh!" screamed Nanny, her eyes wide in shock as she quickly moved out of the way so Lance would miss her.

Lance opened his eyes after he had sensed that he had made it through the doorway. "Whew!" he said under his breath only loud enough for Karla to hear as they walked on. "I was counting on her doing that!"

He had no idea what he'd use any of the stuff for that he'd just swiped. But he was counting on that he'd think of something!

After Nanny's kitchen, Lance brought Karla to Castle Control.

"Hold this please," requested Lance as he handed her their bag of goodies.

Karla held the bag. Then Lance turned his back to her and directed her to take a hold of him around his neck. After she did so, he leaped and took a hold of elevator hanger bar two. From there they landed in a jet shuttle that took them to red lion.

"Where do you want to go?" asked Lance.

Upon hearing the question Karla's expression turned sour. "Home," she answered.

And by that, Lance knew she meant Earth. "Ah, nah. Trust me, you don't want to go there. But Arus has much to share similar to Earth. I'll take you on a little tour."

Lance started the red lion and it leaped out from the lava pool within the volcano. Then he turned the lion around and said, "There's the volcano where red lion is stored. Strangely, there's no historical record of that mountain top ever erupting."

Lanced looked over at Karla and she caught a glimpse of a wicked prankster smile across his face.

"Let's go in for a closer look," he commented casually.

"Whoa!" exclaimed Karla as Lance sent the red lion into a nosedive straight for the pit of lava. She had tried to hold back from reacting, but she just couldn�t help herself.

Lance didn't pull up. He plummeted red lion right back into the lava it had just burst forth from.

"And this is where red lion is stored. Deep within it's source of energy. Not much else to see here except more lava so I'll take you somewhere else."

Lance launched the lion out of the lava again and headed for the desert.

"Looking down below, you can see a desert monument of a lion," explained Lance. "Far below that is the den of the yellow lion which draws its energy from the mantle of the planet. The monument is an exit and an entrance to its den. I'll pull the picture up closer as we fly by so you can have a closer look."

And he did. Karla found herself quite intrigued with the desert statue. After they had passed it, she asked, "What about the other monument we saw nearer to the edge of the desert? What's that there for?"

Lance swallowed. Contemplating the answer to that question was a bit of a damper to the spirit of fun of Lance's plans.

"That's where Allura's mother was buried," answered Lance.

"Oh," responded Karla sadly. Her and Allura had become best friends, but she hadn't yet learned a lot of the details of the queen's life.

"She died right there a long, long time ago. King Alfor had a fascination with cats. The desert lion monument reminded him of the style of the ancient Egyptians of Earth, so he created a grave for her in similar style and also his own resting place for his death, though there were other reasons too."

Then Lance thought it time they quit pondering such a sad topic and changed direction of the conversation, "This isn't the best lion for what I'm about to do, but it'll accomplish the task just fine."

"What?"

"Here we go!"

Lance sent red lion plunging toward the desert, straight for the side of a monstrous sand dune.

"Ahhh!" screamed Karla. She hadn't foreseen at all what Lance had planned to do, and it genuinely scared her.

Red lion came bursting out the other side of the dune and Lance sent it plunging through into a next one. After the initial shock, Karla began to enjoy the experience, but she was angry Lance had scared her for a second time on purpose and gotten away with it.

There, that was fun," remarked Lance in calm satisfaction as he guided the lion back up to the sky. "Yellow lion is really the best lion for that sort of thing, but really any one of the lions can do it too.

"Where next?" asked Karla sounding a bit peeved.

Lance couldn't help but smile a little over her annoyance and said, "Well, how about a land terrain that's quite the opposite of the desert?" Lance answered as a statement even though it was really a question.

Karla didn't say anything. Soon they were flying over a great forest of Arus.

"Notice the area where there's one lone dead tree, huge in diameter?" asked Lance.

"Yeah," remarked Karla in an apathetic tone.

"I'll bring it up for a closer look."

Lance pulled in a close up of the tree and held it steady although red lion was really getting closer and closer to it.

"That huge triangular opening in the side of the tree is the entrance to green lion's den. A wind bursts forth from it every time the green lion comes out. Green lion's power source is wind and legend has it that the tree is an entrance into the very breath of the planet."

"Breath?" questioned Karla. "Breath is akin to life itself. That tree is dead."

Then Lance said something strangely profound for him, "If it was alive, it'd have to take breath back in to survive. Because it's dead, breath is given from it freely. A breeze is always coming out of it, and no one knows why. They're only legends." Lance chuckled and then said, "Hey that's almost poetic. Actually, I don't know why the tree is dead. I made all that stuff up. It just came to me and sounded good, so I said it. But legend does have it that it is the breath of the planet. And when wind isn't pouring out of it as green lion makes its exit, there is always at least a breeze coming out."

"For just making stuff up, your answer sure sounds like something that's true. Maybe that really is why the tree is dead."

"I suppose it could be," said Lance and then he paused for a while before changing the topic. "Here, I'll take us in for a close up on the whole forest."

Having said that, Lance sent the red lion plunging for the trees below."

"La-a-a-n-n-ce! What are you doing?" Karla yelled in a panic, wondering if he was doing it on purpose, or if he'd actually lost control of the lion.

"Hang tight!"

Karla gripped the right side of the back of Lance's chair tightly. She was standing since the lion only had a chair for the pilot as did all the lions.

"Ahhh!" Karla screamed, though she was trying not to. At that point it looked as though red lion was going to crash into the trees. It was headed straight for a side of the forest, speeding toward it as it flew just five feet from the ground. Lance steered the lion quickly from right to left, back and forth, quickly dodging trees. Finally red lion shot out the opposite edge of the forest. He caught a glance of Karla's face. She was so paled with fear. He looked away quickly and smirked, trying hard to hide from her that he thought it was funny.

"Green lion is really the best lion for that sort of stunt, but red lion is also fast and small and performs it almost as well," he said nonchalantly as if nothing particularly exciting had happened at all.

Then he said, "Tell ya what. We've been near the ground for sometime. Now I'll show you the beauty of the sky."

Karla was still too stunned by fear to reply, though she understood all he was saying. Beneath her shock, her anger was burning hot against him very sure to herself that he was pulling stunts to scare her on purpose.

Lance took red lion up further and further into the sky. Then at one point he slowed down, cruising peacefully over a "landscape" of fluffy clouds. The calm inviting fancifulness of the sight was enough to extinguish Karla's fury.

"Beautiful isn't it?" asked Lance.

"Yes," replied Karla in a quiet tone.

"Just something magical about seeing clouds from above," Lance went on. "Makes a person wish they were down there running right over top all that white fluff, sliding right into the valleys and climbing the mountains. Yet it's not solid at all, and nothing more than fog to go inside of. Hmmm, there I go again sounding almost poetic. But here's where I want to show you something truly spectacular. The best roller coaster ride ever is riding over the clouds. Hold tight and enjoy. This won't be scary."

Lance set the lion into a mode where it seemed to be running on air as it headed down for the clouds. There on the clouds, the lion appeared to run right upon them, yet gliding quickly through the air with each step so it wasn't like running on the ground, but like running and flying at the same time. Karla felt her stomach filling with giddy glee like of a small child over the experience. Where there seemed to be valleys, sometimes Lance would have the lion fold it's legs and fly as though it was sliding on its belly into the valley and then unfold its legs to "climb" back out although flying the whole time.

At one point when they had reached the summit of a cloud mountain, Lance brought the lion to a halt, and he and Karla both gazed at the sight to behold. Below they could see a rainbow in a complete circle! Such a rare sight could only be seen from the air.

(Photo by Meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters and modified with permission by Sheila Bliss.)
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(See original photo here .)
(Read more about circular rainbows here .)

"Now there's a sight you don't see very often," commented Lance.

"This is my first time," confessed Karla. "It's so beautiful."

"Yeah," agreed Lance sounding in awe over it. Then he turned and looked up at Karla behind him and added, "But not nearly as rare and beautiful as you."

Karla looked at him in shock, and feeling herself blush profusely she looked back out at the rainbow, speechless over his comment. She found herself in a romantic state, hungering for Lance to do something -- to kiss her, or at least touch her, or do something. But as of yet, Lance had made no romantic move on her whatsoever. She had expected that he would, that the whole purpose of their excursion was an all to obvious ruse to get her to warm up to him again. Although, she couldn't make sense out of why it seemed he was purposely doing all that he could to anger her even more. But regardless, she had it set in her mind that there was nothing he could do to ever get her to warm up to him again. Even with the romantically awesome sight of a full circle rainbow in front of her somehow bringing up a hunger from within her for Lance's touch, even with those feelings, Karla still had it set in her mind that if he made a romantic move, she'd flatly reject it.

After gazing at the complete circular rainbow for a while, Lance saw some dark storm clouds looming in the distance.

"Let's go see a light show of a different kind," said Lance.

He "launched" red lion off the cloud mountain top where it'd been hovering as though it was sitting, and headed straight for the storm.

It didn't take long to cover the distance, and as they were closer, Lance guided the lion up so it'd be up above the storm clouds. There, Lance and Karla watched the lightning within the clouds below them.

After a while Lance said, "Let's go down for a closer look."

"Lance, no!" protested Karla.

But he headed down for the clouds anyway. Karla was quiet after protesting as she was then seeing the lightning from within the clouds. She tried showing Lance up by pretending she enjoyed the sights and wasn't afraid. But some fear did show through the open mouth expression on her face. At the same time, she did quickly find herself enjoying the show of lightning and wasn't just pretending to anymore.

"This is awesome!" she sincerely expressed in a low tone.

It surprised Lance a little she was enjoying it, and wasn't scared. Then he explained, "Yeah, this is the stuff black lion runs off of. The biggest and mightiest of the five lions. And we better be getting out of here soon."

"What for?"

Then lightning hit red lion.

"Ahhh!" screamed Karla.

Lance yelled in pain too, and then the shock of the feedback charge was gone.

"What's going on?" demanded Karla.

Lance was pulling red lion up out of the storm, hoping it wouldn't get hit by lightning again on the way. He took no time to answer Karla in the process.

"Whoa! Lance, look at that!" exclaimed Karla just after she had asked him what was going on. Her expression was one fear and yet fascinated awe at the same time.

Lance looked where her gaze was transfixed and felt a sudden fear strike him as well when he spotted an immense funnel that had formed from out of the clouds and was already almost touched down to the ground into a tornado. But the fascination of awe with the sight was the fact that there was a rainbow seeming to come from right out of it! It seemed such a paradox that a tornado associated with such devastation and destruction would be seen at the same time as a rainbow associated with the promise of safe-keeping. They were two awe-inspiring sights that seemed unimaginable to be seen together -- yet there they were!

(I didn't get permission to use this photo taken by Meteorologist Eric Nguyen, but it can be seen here . )

"Ohhhh!" expressed Lance. "We've got to get out of here now!" Not that red lion couldn't have handled getting caught up in a funnel cloud. It certainly would have been fine. But the possibility of it being a brief shake up was something he didn't want to put Karla through -- especially not after already getting hurt by the electric shock of lightning which he hadn't foreseen happening. The whole time, Lance had continued red lion in the upward ascent to get above the storm and far out of reach of anymore lightening strikes. The tornado/rainbow sight was so fascinating, that Lance had kept watch of it on one of red lion's view screens, and the view had changed. No longer was the tornado by the rainbow, but spectacular shows of lightening could be seen by it instead.

(Sorry I couldn't get permission to show any photos of rainbows with lightening, or permission to display a link to the pictures I found on the internet.)

Once it was quite far above the storm clouds, Lance stopped red lion in a hover. The awe-inspiring sights of the rainbow with the tornado and the lightning were nowhere on his mind. Instead he felt incredibly awful, his face pale over the guilt and shame he felt. In his mind it was completely "game over" with regards to Karla. And worse yet was how bad he felt over putting her in a situation that caused her high physical pain, even though the experience was brief and basically harmless.

Soon after he had stopped the lion, Lance hung his head in shame, and then said, "Karla, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen. I'm so sorry. I'm sure you never want to speak to me again. I deserve worse than that. Karla, I'm so sorry I hurt you." A single tear trickled down his cheek. "I'll take you back to the castle now."

"Lance, wait!" said Karla before he had activated any controls.

Lance instantly froze, surprised she was talking to him at all. Then he quickly turned and look up at her.

"Obviously you didn't mean for that to happen. But what happened? Why'd we feel that?"

"I can explain that. I may as well tell you on the way back to the castle."

"No, Lance!" said Karla, stopping him again before he started.

"What?"

"Look, if you had more planned for our day, just go ahead and do it! Unless this is really it, I'm not ready to go back."

Lance still felt awful, but suddenly felt a miraculous spark of hope again.

"OK, if that's what you want."

"It is!"

"Then I did have more planned, and I'll show you. As for that shock we felt, I'm so sorry it happened. If we'd been in black lion we wouldn't have felt it, at least not electricity from lightning. But lightening isn't red lion's power source, so when it struck us, instead of the energy getting used, we felt it. I should have never taken us down in there."

"So that's what you experience in the lion during battle."

"Actually the feedback charge during battle is often much worse." But he thought to himself that he'd take a whole onslaught of those over how he was feeling right then.

Lance tried shaking his tremendous feeling of guilt. He felt he was going to have to if he even stood a chance of pulling off what he had planned for Karla. He had acted as though he had done nothing wrong at the beginning of the charade, and figured he'd better do it again if the plan had a chance of working. Then by focusing on his hope's desire of winning Karla back, he was able to put the lightning incident out of his mind. But before he did, he knew the memory would come back to guilt trip him later. But for then, it was gone. Only the hope of winning Karla over existed.

"Well, let's see," began Lance after winning the battle of thoughts against himself. "You've seen where red lion is kept, where yellow lion is kept, where green lion is kept, and the source of power for black lion. Only one place left then. . . And there's the lake!"

Just after announcing it, Lance sent red lion into another dive, this time straight for the moat surrounding the Castle of Lions.

Karla was completely shocked yet again since she fully expected that Lance would be nicer after he had seemed to feel so guilty over the pain she experienced when red lion had been struck by lightning.

"L-l-l- a-a-a-nce!" exclaimed Karla feeling her stomach jump. "Why do you always do this?"

Lance didn't answer and soon they impacted the water. He drove the lion on straight where blue lion was kept.

"And there's blue lion. Source of power is water. It's red lion's worst element as well as Voltron's. All laser power is weakened under water. But for blue lion, water is its strong suit. The rest of the lions do fine in it, but with weakened capabilities."

Lance circled in the water nearby blue lion for a while and then said, "Coming up is a little secret where blue lion can't go. Only red or green lion are small enough to fit, but I think you'll like where it takes us."

Lance headed for a cave located in the underwater depths of the moat and went inside. It was just big enough to allow red lion to go through.

Karla felt as though she was in "the tunnel of love" wishing so much that Lance would hold her. She'd wished it often since she'd begun the day's journey with Lance, but not once had he even touched her. It was becoming maddening! Her mind had been set on rejecting him if he did make a romantic move, even when she longed for his affection while gazing at the complete circular rainbow. But since then her longing for him had intensified even more. It seemed as though only the acceptance of his touch and reciprocating it would achieve some sort of satisfaction to quell the feelings building up inside her.

Red lion burst out the other end of the cave where the water became a river which was soon a waterfall. Lance had red lion drive through the river and over the waterfall, but instead of going down, he had it flying straight off into the air. Then he drove the lion up above the waterfall so he and Karla saw its splendor from high in the sky. A rainbow could even be seen in it all that time.

"Lance, it's beautiful!" exclaimed Karla.

"It's our last stop, so I was hoping you'd like it."

Last stop? Karla's insides shivered in excitement over what Lance may have planned for their last stop. But she didn't want to let on to Lance that was how she felt.

"Want to get out for a closer look?" he continued.

"I think I'd like that very much," she answered calmly.

Lance landed red lion at the foot of the falls. He and Karla exited the lion, and there at the foot of the falls, they sat down beside each other with their knees pulled up to their chest. Both sat there next to each other, yet apart and not talking to each other -- their hands clasped around the front of their knees.

"It's so beautiful!" said Karla again, finally breaking the silence.

"Yes, the full rainbow in the sky was spectacular too, and in some ways more beautiful than this. Hard to think of a grand finale after that."

"This finale does just wonderful."

"I was hoping it would."

More time passed as they silently enjoyed the sight.

Then Lance announced, "I think it's about time we had our picnic!" It was an obvious conclusion as to what he ought to do with the stuff from Nanny's kitchen. Though he had had no idea what he'd use the stuff for at the time he swiped it.

He reached for the bundle of stuff from Nanny's kitchen he had brought with him from the lion and opened it in front of him. He reached into the assortment of stuff he had packed on a whim and quickly set up only the things he deemed at the time as useful for their picnic. The rest he put back in the bag and set it behind him.

Then they both enjoyed a wonderful picnic with an excellent spread of food. They laughed and really enjoyed it. When it was all over, Lance suddenly stood up and said, "Well, I suppose we should be getting back to the castle."

"You mean that's it!" exclaimed Karla sounding just a tad bit angry.

"Were you expecting something else?" questioned Lance ignoring her anger.

"No, nothing else," said Karla in a sad tone feeling dejected. "Let's go back."

"Alright," said Lance.

Ignoring her reach up to him to help her up, he simply turned and headed for the lion, leaving all else behind. Karla gathered everything up in a bundle and put it into the nearby bag, and then got up and followed Lance. She wasn't even angry he hadn't helped her, just sad.

The trip back together was silent. Back at the castle they parted ways with Lance saying, "So we'll see each other later then?"

"Yeah," answered Karla not even looking at him, her tone expressionless except for a touch of sadness.

"Ok, see you then!" Lance said in a chipper tone. Then Lance walked away, even whistling, and just left her there in the hall, holding the bundle of stuff she had cleaned up after their picnic. Karla had no heart to do anything with the bundle except to put it in Nanny's kitchen and just leave. Nanny was there, but made no fuss over the inconsideration. Karla looked far too sad for Nanny to think of griping.

Soon it was time for the castle evening meal. Table grace was said and food was passed around to be served. Karla tried to withhold her sadness, but it still showed through. She hadn't tasted anything and looked so sad. Lance was sitting right beside her on her left, looking as though nothing was wrong. All their friends could clearly see the stark difference in their attitudes and were baffled as to what possibly could have happened. Karla stared at the first helping of food she had put on her plate and wondered to herself how she could possibly make herself eat.

Lance heartily took the first bite of his food and while he was still chewing he suddenly looked over at Karla and said , "Oh, by the way, Karla . . . Will you marry me?"

Silverware from everyone except Lance and Karla suddenly dropped, clanging onto people's plates. They could hardly believe Lance's sudden nonchalant proposal in the middle of the meal. Looks of astonished horror were on all their faces.

"Lance, you're dead!" declared Keith in red-faced anger, immediately standing up.

"Keith, stop!" ordered his sister.

Normally it seemed Keith never gave much credence to his sister's requests, but her order shocked him so much considering what Lance had just done, he did stop, and looked at her in angry confusion.

Upon hearing Lance's proposal for marriage for the second time, Karla had felt a fury inside her as she had never felt before. It was at that moment that she realized the day's outing was all a setup to completely infuriate her.

Seeing that Keith was as calmed down as what he ever was going to be, Karla then turned to Lance and said, "Yes, Lance, I'll marry you."

"What?" was the word of complete disbelief that came out of the mouths of every onlooker.

"Yippee!" was the word that soon followed coming from Lance as he leaped up from his chair with such force, it overturned the whole table!

Karla continued sitting and smiled up at him. She'd forgiven him for his cruelty. For within the same moment she had experienced such intense fury, she just as suddenly realized that he did it all in hopes that she could forgive him. Because, if she could forgive him for being so stupid on purpose, surely she could forgive him for the sheer stupidity he had done earlier that day by accident.

Lance paid no attention to the overturned table. He scooped Karla up into his arms saying, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, Karla! I love you so much!" and he gave her a big long kiss as he held her in his arms, with Karla giving in to it freely. Then Lance broke off the kiss and asked, "How about we take another trip and do it right this time?"

"I'd love to! But I don't think we'll have time today."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, when are we getting married?"

"Any time you want, Karla. You pick the date."

"Then I choose tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Allura loudly questioned, getting ever more astonished by the moment.

"Alright!" cheered Lance. "The sooner the better!"

"But that's so little time," Allura went on.

"I don't care how simple the wedding ends up being," explained Karla as she continued looking up at Lance adoringly. "I just want it to be tomorrow."

Even Keith's face was smiling to see his sister so happy. Everyone was smiling except for Hunk. Lance finally noticed this. He set Karla down on her feet and asked, "Why so sour, big guy?"

"You spilled my food," answered Hunk in practically a growl.

"Oops! Yeah, I guess I did," commented Lance as if it was no big deal. "Ummm . . . sorry everyone." (As if that was supposed to fix it!) "Come on Karla," he said just before he swept her off her feet again and carried her out of the dining room in his arms. "We've got lot of planning to do!"

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

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