As they were running towards the lions, Kieth couldn't help but glance at his former teammate every few seconds. He didn't realize until now, but he noticed how cute he Lance looked. Keith stop gaydreaming! Keith shook his head and tried to focus on getting out. Lance could see his lion in sight, and sighed in relief and in annoyance when he saw Lotor standing next to Red.

"Where the hell have you been. You were supposed to stay by my side. Unless..." Lance raised his bayard at Lotor. "You were doing something you didn't want me to know." 

"You can relax paladin. I haven't betrayed voltron, I was collecting some information which may aid your team against the Galra." Lance lowered his bayard a little, still not trusting the prince.

"Whatever. Just get inside the lion." Lance glared at the prince as he entered the lion.

"Hey Lance, isn't that Lotor?" Lance looked at Keith, noticing he too had a glare on his face pointed at the prince. "Yeah, that was Lotor. I don't know why, but Shiro thinks we can trust them."

"What! Is Shiro crazy? Why on earth would he trust Zarkons Son?"

"I don't know, but let's get back to the castle. Guys I found Keith and Lotor. He was 'collecting' information." Lance sent out a message to the team, letting them know

"Nice work Lance. Meet you back at the castle and hurry." 

"Yeah, we better hurry. The security systems will be back online in five minutes." 

Before the two could even say Kaltenecker, they were surrounded by what seemed to be hundreds of Sentrys. Lace and Keith took out their weapons and got into a defensive stance.

"I take the ones on the right, you take the ones on the left?" Lance suggested, getting ready to shoot the nearest guard. 

"Sounds good to me." The two charged at the Army, taking down as many guards as they could whilst trying to dodge the gun blasts. Lance looked to see that Lotor was also joining in with the fight guessing that he heard the commotion.

"Lance what is going on. You were supposed to be out here 5 doubashes ago." Lance heard Allura over the Comms. He noticed that her tone was more in annoyance than worry.

"Sorry Princess we're a little busy at the moment. We could use some help though. There's about a hundred Sentrys out here." The three managed to take down half the guards before the others came to join in the fight. They were doing fine taking them down when Lance noticed a Sentry coming up behind the green paladin.

"PIDGE BEHIND YOU!" Lance tried calling out to his teammate, but with all the commotion she didn't hear her, and his bayard was knocked out of his hand so he couldn't shoot it down. Lance's body moved without thinking, ran towards the Pidge and pushed her out of the way of the gun blast.

"Ow! What the hell Lance! Why did yo- LANCE!" When Pidge turned around, she saw the red paladin laying on the floor with a small pool of blood forming around him. "Guys, Lance has been hit." Lance tried getting up, but his body was in so much pain. Keith ran over to the two and helped Lance up. It was difficult for the paladins to go anywhere as the Sentrys just kept coming in waves.

"Guys, we need to get out of here now. Pidge, can you find a way to get us out of this."

"I'm on it." Pidge immediately started calculating an escape route, and told the others what to do.

"Hunk, when I say, I'm gonna need you to blast that pipe over there. Keith, try and get Lance and Lotor to Red and get out of here."

"Got it. Lotor, grab his arm. We need to get out of here." All though Keith didn't like their former enemy helping them, Lance's safety and survival was more important. Both Keith and Lotor each had Lance's arms round their necks as they got Lance back on the Red Lion. Keith noticed that Lance was getting paler by the second, and that his eyelids were drooping.

"Lance, buddy, I need you to stay awake. Pidge, we got him back on Red."

"Okay." Pidge waited until the next wave of Sentrys came through before giving Hunk the signal. "Hunk now!" Hunk fired his blaster at the pipe and the Sentrys were caught up in a explosion and were buried in debris, giving the team enough time to get out. 

Keith sat in the pilot seat of Red, and sighed in relief when he responded to him. Although Keith was no longer his Paladin, Red knew that he had to allow Keith to pilot him once more to save his current paladin. "Alright, lets get back to the castle as quick as possible. Lotor, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm trusting you to look after Lance. There should be a first aid kit in here somewhere."

"Found it. And don't worry Keith. You can trust me." 

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After practically racing to get back to the castle, Keith ran at full sprint to the healing pods whilst carrying Lance bridal style and almost running into Coran. When the Altean saw a worried Keith and a blood covered Lance, he immediately rushed him into a healing pod. It wasn't long until the rest of the team came stumbling into the medical bay.

"Is he going to be okay?" Hunk asked, seriously worried about his best friend.

"He should be fine after a couple of days in the healing pods, but he did lose quite a bit of blood. What happened?" 

"He got shot whilst trying to save me." Pidge hung her head down, upset not only because her friend got hurt because of her, but she also remembered the way she treated him earlier. Allura noticed Pidges expression, and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"It's not your fault Pidge. And I think we all owe an apology to Lance when he gets out." They all looked towards the healing pod, hoping their friend would be all right.