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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.
There Hunk was, sitting on the floor of the hanger bay of the self destructing Doom ship. And wrapped within his arms and legs, was a female Drule officer he was keeping detained until the rest of the Voltron force came back. Or, at least they had to come back since their lions were all docked in the hanger bay. Hunk had arrived after Allura, Lance, and Pidge began their search for Keith on the failing Doom ship, and he was counting on their return to help him out.
Just after Hunk had denied Darah release saying he couldn’t trust her, it was only a short moment of silence before they both heard a high pitched sound quickly increasing in volume.
Hunk immediately thought of his laser gun that had dropped down into the sparking circuitry of the hole in the floor he had pulled Darah out of.
“Great, my blaster must have overheated and went on overload. Duck down!” ordered Hunk. He and Darah leaned forward. An explosion soon followed that caused the floor to fall through more, making the hole it had fallen into even bigger.
Moments after the explosion; King Keith, Queen Allura, Pidge, Lance, and Keith’s sister, Karla, came running through the doorway into the hanger area.
“Hunk,” said Pidge immediately noticing his friend sitting on the floor a short distance away.
“And a Drule!” exclaimed Lance.
“Watch out, she’s not friendly,” warned Karla.
“Hunk, quick take her with you on your ship. We’ve got to leave now!” ordered Keith.
“I’m not moving or she’ll run. She needs to be tied up.”
An explosion happened that sent sparks up through the floor creating another hole about 50 yards away from the group. The floor shook.
Lance rushed over to Hunk with some tape from his utility belt.
“Watch out, her arm is hurt,” said Hunk loosening his bear-hug so Lance could tie Darah. But as soon as Hunk let up on his hold, Darah bolted forward into a front summersault that pulled her out of Hunk’s arms and slipped her legs out from being pinned under his legs.
“We don’t have time for this,” stated Keith as he drew his laser gun.
In a flash, Darah was upright and ready to run, but a look of genuine fear showed on her face when she saw in split seconds what was about to happen while everyone else except Keith had expressions of shocked horror on their face. In an instant after Darah was upright, Keith shot her! Darah collapsed to the floor. Hunk immediately was up and dashed to her side. Pidge was shocked to see what he thought was a tear forming in the corner of one of Hunk’s eyes.
“She’s still breathing,” said Hunk.
“Of course she is,” remarked Keith. “It was only set to stun.” He looked around at the shocked looks of horror on his friends’ faces. “What’d you all think I was doing?” he asked incredulously. “We certainly don’t have time to be running her down.”
The looks of shock disappeared and were replaced with looks of sheepish embarrassment that they would think their captain would ever harm a defenseless Drule. Perhaps it was what they knew he had once done to Lotor that raised their fears that he could outright dispose of another living being. Keith’s expression changed to one of angry disappointment when he realized from everyone’s reaction that they had indeed thought he might have had his blasters set to kill.
But the moment was brief, and Keith quickly said, “Come on, we’ve got to get out of here. Hunk, you take her with you. Let’s go!”
“Right, Chief,” answered Hunk. “Lance, toss me that tape. I don’t want her attacking me when she comes to.”
Lance did. Hunk took Darah’s bad arm, bent it so her hand was on her stomach, and then taped it wrapping the tape twice around her wrist and twice around her waist. Then he took her other arm, wrapped the wrist twice with tape, and crossed the arm across her bad arm where there wasn’t any tape. Then wrapping the tape several times around her arm, he secured the wrist of her good arm to her bad arm. That way her bad arm would be safe from pain unless she chose to try to free her good arm and escape.
Then an explosion went off, after which the back left leg of green lion dropped through the floor. Everyone except Hunk and of course Darah, turned and saw it happen. Pidge’s eyes especially opened wide because he knew best how soon the imminent danger of total destruction was approaching.
“Hunk, we need to leave now!” shouted Pidge in a panicked tone. He ran over to Hunk and physically pulled on him to go.
“I need someone’s blaster. Mine’s gone,” said Hunk as he stood up holding Darah across his arms.
“Take mind!” insisted Pidge taking his own laser gun off his belt and putting on Hunk’s.
Seeing that Hunk was finally ready to go, everyone started to run for their respective lion ships. Karla started to go with Lance, but Keith grabbed her arm and said, “You can ride with Allura.”
Allura looked back when she heard her name.
Lance also looked back, unsure of how Karla would react to that order. He saw her soured expression glaring back at her brother who was still gripping her arm. Then she caught sight of Lance watching her.
While his eyes were locked with Karla’s, Lance tilted his head quickly toward Allura and mouthed the word “Go!” to Karla. After seeing that, Karla obeyed Keith’s order reluctantly but quickly and without question.
Pidge was in his lion first and then Queen Allura with Karla. Lance noticed Keith wasn’t getting in black lion and paused to see why.
Keith turned and looked at him. “Go, Lance. Make sure all of you get out of here. I’ll make sure Hunk does.”
Hunk managed to make his first jump with Darah from the floor to the top of yellow lion’s front leg. He had heard Keith’s orders to Lance.
“I’ll make it, Captain,” said Hunk without looking back.
“I know Hunk. I’m just staying to make sure.”
Hunk made it to the top of the head and entered through the hatch. Then Keith quickly jumped his way to the top of black lion and got himself seated inside.
Everyone else was already a safe distance from the Doom flag ship long before Keith or Hunk had a chance to take off.
“Pidge, are they going to make it?” asked Allura getting teary.
“They better, Highness,” answered Pidge. Then with a touch of anger he mumbled under his breath while getting a little teary himself, “You guys better make it out of there!”
The Doom ship blew up with no signs of the yellow or black lions leaving it. Tears streamed down Allura’s cheeks as well as Karla’s who was standing just behind her. Tears were also pouring from Pidge’s eyes. A lone tear escaped one of Lance’s eyes as the reality of the situation hadn’t quite struck him yet.
Suddenly the yellow and black lions did appear and came sailing out of the flying debris of destruction.
“They made it!” exclaimed Lance.
“Whah? All right!” cheered Pidge jumping right out of his seat.
“Keith!” exclaimed Allura softly to herself in relief. “Don’t ever do that to me again!”
Karla inhaled deeply and then exhaled in relief.
“We made it, Chief,” commented Hunk.
“We just had to make sure we were in the lions before the explosion and then the structural integrity of the lions kept us safe," explained Keith calmly with the techinical jargon of what Pidge might use.
“Now that that’s over, we better be getting back to Arus,” stated Pidge.
"We need to drop my sister off first," said Keith. He bowed his head and squeezed his eyes hard to hold back tears. He had failed to protect that which most dear to his sister, their parents' home. He raised his head and opened his eyes. Two tears trickled down either side of his cheeks. "Karla, I'm sorry I didn’t protect our parents' home. I'm sorry it's all gone. Where do you want to go now?"
The queen's eyes filled with tears as well as Lance's. Allura knew the story behind Keith's sister, and Lance was remembering from what she had told him so many years earlier. Hunk and Pidge realized that losing a house was a sad situation, but they didn't realize why it was so sad. What they did know is that there must be much more behind it all than what there seemed to be.
"Arus," Karla answered her brother calmly in a matter-of-fact way.
"What!" said Keith, shocked that his sister would choose to leave Earth.
"It's ok, Keith. I'm ok. I was crushed at first. But now I'm free. Free to go where I want to be. I've never seen Arus. That's where I want to go."
"I'm happy to hear that," said Keith still stunned.
"So am I," commented Lance not very loud.
Keith glared at Lance through the view screen, and Lance cowered a little and nervously added, "Arus is a beautiful planet. I'm sure she'll like it there."
Allura especially noticed King Keith's unwarranted anger toward Lance which was obviously because of him being over protective of his sister.
"Let's get back to Arus then," said Allura, trying to redirect Keith's attention. "Depending on what's happening when we get there, we may not have a moment to lose."
"Right," said Keith getting his focus back to his duties at hand. "Ready to form Voltron."
"Ready!" the Voltron force answered back.
"Activate interlocks, dynatherms connected, infracells up, mega thrusters are go."
"Let's go Voltron force!" shouted the team.
"Form feet and legs," Keith continued. "Form arms and body. And I'll form the head."
After the transformation was completed, Keith stated, "Let's go home, team."
"All right!" responded the rest of the team.
Then they began their course for Arus, traveling as Voltron because it was faster than using the lions.
Commentary: To find out what Keith had once done to Lotor, read the story Wedding Terror. Although Pidge is left handed, I figured it made no difference when it came to laser guns and that they universally all can be used by a lefty of a righty. Strangely, although Pidge is left handed, he holsters his blaster on the right side of his belt. The lions withstand a lot of beating when they fight a robeast, so I figured the integrity of their structure would withstand the destruction of a ship exploding all around them. To find out more about the background of Karla, read the story Keith’s Sister.
[Author -- Sheila Bliss, based on the previous creation of Voltron by World Events Productions]
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