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The White Lion

By Sheila Bliss

Pictures from James Mallinson's "Voltron Valhalla Site" at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood /2373

Read the re-written version here


The following is a story of Voltron that 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.

WARNING: CHARACTER DEATH

The Logic Behind The White Lion: One of my favorite things I imagined was because I noticed that the lion ships of Voltron are of the primary colors -- blue and red both primary colors of pigment and light -- green a primary color of light -- and yellow a primary color of pigment -- and black is special because it is all the colors of pigment and the absence of color for light -- but that leaves out the color white which is all the colors of light and the absence of color for pigment so I thought that logically there should be a white lion. And so the story of the white lion I imagined is as follows:

Background (not according to World Events Productions): Keith and Allura had confessed their love for each other after Allura in self defense reluctantly thought she had killed Lotor. Witch Haggar saved Lotor. On Keith and Allura's wedding day, Lotor came as Keith was getting ready and fought Keith. Keith was injured to the point that he should never fly a lion again and Witch Haggar again saved Lotor (but he did lose an arm.) Later on the rescheduled wedding date, as the wedding ceremony was over, Keith's shoulder was healed when Allura's wedding ring flashed when her hand touched his shoulder. Both Keith and Allura happened to obtain each other's rings from the same source -- a strange old man with white hair who seemed to live in the caves (strangely, the appearance of his face did resemble that of a lion) and the man had not been seen by anyone before, and after Keith and Allura saw him, he was never seen again. (Insight -- the lion-like man was the spirit of the white lion come from the black lion summoned by the angel-like creature the Voltron force encountered when the Omega Comet took them to the end of the universe [the angel-like creature and the Omega Comet exist according to a cartoon episode and the angel-like creature said it would be with Voltron always.]) Lotor's arm was replaced by a powerful mechanical one. With the marriage of Allura, Lotor did marry someone out of hopelessness although Witch Haggar and King Zarkon were delighted to see him seemingly getting on with his life.

And as the story continues: Despite his marriage a rage over his loss of Allura burned inside of Lotor and he decided that he would have her once and for all no matter what, or no one would. Lotor had Witch Haggar make three robeasts and had her change him into the most powerful robeast ever known. Haggar transported the three robeasts in space coffins to Planet Arus and hid the coffins on the planet for the robeasts to be enlarged to full size later. Lotor as a full size robeast came and drew out the Voltron force. They immediately formed Voltron when they saw Lotor who was nearly twice as big as Voltron. When both Lotor and Voltron were in space just above Planet Arus, Lotor immediately went after Voltron but stopped when he heard a voice.

Keith: Lotor, don't do this. We don't want to destroy you.
Allura: Listen to him, Lotor. I know there's good in you. There can be peace between us yet.
Lotor: You both have attempted to kill me before and what is good does not satisfy me. The only peace that can exist between us, Allura, is when you belong to me and all of your planet is enslaved to Planet Doom.
Hunk: Then you will be destroyed before you have a chance!
Lotor: You overestimate my arrogance. I have not come to destroy your world on my own, although I know I could. Activate robeasts!

Haggar on Planet Arus heard and pointed her staff toward the three space coffins. Three beams came out from her staff and the coffins split as three giant robeasts grew out of them, not quite as big as Lotor (about the size of Voltron.) Two robeasts flew and positioned themselves near the castle. The other positioned itself to destroy the homes on Arus. The Castle of Lions started firing upon the robeasts, but the robeasts stood unaffected and did nothing.

Lotor: At your first attempt to destroy me, I will have these robeasts destroy the castle and the people of Arus.
Lance: Well, that would be stupid because with the people gone you couldn't make slaves of them.
Pidge: Lance, I don't think he cares.
Lance: Just trying to make a point.

Keith called Castle Control and told Coran to cease fire knowing that it was futile for the castle to fight two robeasts without Voltron's help.

Keith: What are your terms, Lotor?
Lotor: Surrender Allura along with Voltron and all of Arus and I will spare the lives of the people of Arus. If not, then it all will be destroyed. If I can't have that, then no one will.
Allura: Lotor, don't do this, a part of you must not want to do this.
Lotor: I want you and all of Arus. If I insist on you deciding right away, you probably won't decide and I will have to destroy it all. Therefore, you have twenty minutes to decide what to do. If you haven't surrendered by then, your people will die.
Allura: Lotor, don't do this. Lotor. Lotor!
Lotor: Your time is wasting.

Keith closed off his outside communications and told the others to do the same and so they did.

Hunk: There's got to be a way out of this.
Keith: If there is, I don't know what it is. Think team!

Allura's wedding ring flashed and suddenly a memory came to her mind.
Allura: Maybe there is a way out of this! I remember my father once told me about a dream he had after making the lions and Voltron. In the dream he said he had been told that if Voltron were ever in a situation in which defeat was unavoidable, if the riddle of the white lion could be solved, it could be used. The riddle is threefold and is simply "What is the white lion?"
Lance: So the white lion must be three different things.
Allura: Something like that.
Hunk: I hate riddles. Pidge, you're a genius. You must be able to figure it out.
Keith: I think maybe I've got a part of it. Remember guys how when we first came to Arus, black lion was stored inside a statue of a white lion? Perhaps somehow black lion is the white lion. Hey, something is going on here!

Keith described to the rest of the team how a panel suddenly opened in the black lion and a green and yellow light lit up and there were four other lights that were off.

Allura: That must be and answer to part of the riddle. The black lion is the white lion! But what else is?
Hunk: Well, the white lion must be more powerful than Voltron and yet it must be involved with what the black lion is.
Pidge: Black lion is a part of Voltron.
Allura: So maybe Voltron turns into the white lion.
Keith: That's got to be the second part of the riddle because three more lights just lit up (red, blue, and black.) There's just one more left.

After that they were stumped because if Voltron was the white lion, what else could white lion be?

Keith: Come on team. We're running out of time. Think. What else could white lion be?
Pidge: Well, since Voltron is the white lion, it must turn into the white lion. If it did that, Voltron's arms would become the front legs, the legs would be the back legs, and the black lion would be the body and head.
Lance: But what would be the tail?
Everyone: The white lion!

The last light in black lion lit up white and a statue of a white lion with wings came out from a panel that opened right in front of Keith. His wedding ring glowed as he reached forward and pulled the statue's head down. The head came back up and the eyes flashed yellow light that turned into green and then off as it opened and closed its mouth.

Keith: (As Voltron transformed into the white lion) Form front legs and feet. Form back legs and body. And I'll form the head and tail.
Everyone: Let's go Voltron force!

Voltron transformed into white lion with apparent magic similar to what Haggar used for enlarging robeasts in that certain parts of Voltron such as the front legs and head enlarged themselves to be in proportion of looking like a white lion and from out of the roar of the black lion's mouth came the roar of a white spirit looking lion with wings that ran on space to the back of the white lion and folding its wings flat on its back it turned into a mechanical looking white tail that attached itself to the back of white lion. The four lion feet then also took a turn at roaring, and finally all five lion heads (the four legs and head) roared at once.

During this short period of time for transformation. Lotor had ordered the robeasts to attack. He went for the white lion after its transformation knowing that Voltron can't be attacked while it's being formed (according to the cartoon) he thought it must be also dangerous to attack during the transformation he just witnessed. But, he had no chance of even touching white lion, because it immediately raced down to Planet Arus and pulled away the robeast just in the motion of beginning its attack on the people and their homes. When it had pulled it a safe distance away, it clamped its head jaws down on the robeast's side and it exploded. From out of the explosion flew the white lion toward the Castle of Lions. It clamped it's head jaws down on one robeast exploding it and then the other and it exploded. To it, the robeasts had been as easy to destroy as what Planet Doom's tiny drone space fighters are for the lions or Voltron to destroy. The white lion then sped up into space to confront Lotor.

Keith: Surrender now or leave and you won't be destroyed.
Lotor: That lion can't stop me!

Lotor was bigger than the white lion and Lotor attacked. The battle was futile for both for a while until Lotor came close to grabbing the end of white lion's tail which is the white lion's one weak spot because the tip of white lion's tail is a knob like thing connected to the rest of the tail by a part the size of a person's wrist and is only protected by a special silver shielding which Keith could suddenly tell from the information being presented to him on his panels that if the tip of the white lion's tail was broken off, white lion would be gone never to be used again and Voltron would be their greatest defense from ever after that. Lotor had another chance to go for the tail when a weapon he used broke the silver shielding off. (It plummets into the lake the blue lion is stored in.) But, just as he was attacking the spot again, the silver shielding was already in the process of replacing itself and the energy of that threw Lotor back and off his guard.

Keith: (He discovered a new weapon) Form saber teeth!

Long teeth resembling that of a saber-toothed tiger, formed from inside the white lion's mouth. Then white lion pounced forward on space and slashed Lotor across his middle. Lotor then exploded and was destroyed.

Lance: Wow, he's gone.
Allura: (Sadly) And with him probably all chances of ever making peace with Planet Doom.

(Insight, Lotor's wife does have a child that is Lotor's -- Prince Narlon, a new menace without the goodness inside him that his father had.)

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

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