No picture this chapter cause my computer is stupid

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Peeling my heavy eyes open, I slowly sat up. Rubbing my eyes, I stood up then stretched. I put on my jeans and jacket and brushed my hair back into it's usual ponytail. I walked out of my room, passing Keith's. He's always up before me, I walked down the hallway and saw the others heading to the main room. I joined them as the door slid open and Coran was at the controls. Allura must still be resting.

"We should be entering Taujeer's orbit soon." Coran said.

"Raise the particle barrier. Scan for Galra." Shiro ordered. I went over to my seat as the control panels raised from the floor.

"Where are Keith and Allura?" Shiro asked. I looked at the seat in front of mine to see it empty. Weird, Keith was always and early bird, where is he? I looked over to see Shiro looking my direction, I shrugged.

"It appears one of the pods was launched in the middle of the night." Coran said.

"Wait a minute! Keith and Allura, in the middle of the night? You don't think...?" Lance trailed off as he looked over at me.

"No Lance, Keith isn't like that." I said, but there was still that nagging doubt in the back of my mind.

"Contact the pod."

"Yes, contact that pod!" Lance and I said.

"Princess, Keith where are you?" Coran asked once he connected with the pod.

"Exactly where we should be, far away from the castle." Allura answered.

"What? Why?" Shiro asked.

"We must know if we are the ones Zarkon's tracking." 

"They're isolating the variables. Well two variables." Pidge spoke up.

"English please." Lance said.

"In order to test the hypothesis."

"I said English!"

"Argh! Never mind!"

"Pidge is right. If Zarkon finds you despite me not being there, we will know that we are not the ones he's tracking." Allura explained.

"Splitting up makes us vulnerable, come back to the castle now." Shiro said.

"I'm sorry I can't."

"If Zarkon finds us I will be able to pilot us to safety. There's plenty of room to maneuver, plus Pidge added that booster rocket." Keith finally spoke up, a pang went through my chest at his voice.  I heard Coran mumble to himself. 

"We need both of you back here now!" As Shiro was speaking something hit the castle making it rock and the alarms go off.  

"What's going on?"

"We're in some sort of debris field." Hunk said.

"I believe its coming from Taujeer. Correction: I think it is Taujeer!" Coran said. I looked out to see rocks floating all around us, in front of us was a green planet.

"Coran, what's happening?" Allura asked. Then static.

"Some kind of radiation from the planet is interfering with commutations." Coran shouted.

"Move the castle away and reestablish the link. Everyone else get to your lions." Shiro ordered. I stood up, with one last gaze to Keith's chair, and ran over to the hanger with my lion. We all flew out the castle and towards the planet.  We all maneuvered around the rock and landed on Taujeer.        

"I don't see any Galra." Hunk said.

"Looks like that fancy Galra finder doesn't work. Nice try Pidge." Lance said. I could practically feel Pidge's glare. Shiro exited his lion and ran up to a Taujeerian.

"Thank goodness you're here. I'm Baujal, leader of the Taujeerians. The Galra just destroyed our ships engines and left." He said in his weird robotic voice. 

"So the Galra where here Lance." Pidge said. 

"Hmph."

"They've taken everything. We must get everyone off before it dissolves completely!" Baujal said.

"How long do we have?" Shiro asked. The planet suddenly rumbled and we look over to see a piece of the planet break off.

"Not long." I said.

"How did this happen?" Shiro asked.

"We've known for years our planet would eventually loose its outer layer."

"Like a snake shedding its skin?" Lance asked.

"Yeah, yeah that doesn't sound so bad. I mean beneath that layer is a new, healthy layer right?" Hunk said. The planet rumbled again.

"No I think the next layer is acid." Pidge said and I nodded.

"The plan was to evacuate to our nearest moon, where we built a colony to wait out the shedding process. So we relocated to higher ground and built that ark." Baujal said and pointed to the ship behind him.

"What happened?" I asked.

"The Galra attacked. Led by a vile commander named Morvok. He robbed us and left us with only one working engine. Stranding us here."

"You're not stranded anymore. We will save your people."

"I believe you. I have heard many legends about Voltron. Six brave paladins dedicated to this... wait. I count only five of you. Are you not Voltron." I rubbed my forehead, Keith chose now to leave?

"Almost?"Lance said, though it sounded more like a question.

"Where is the sixth paladin?" Baujal asked.

"He's.. not here. But we can still help you." Shiro said.

"I would feel more comfortable with all six paladins." I couldn't help but roll my eyes at that.

"Duly noted. Pidge, Hunk go look at the ark and see what we're dealing with." Shiro said.

"Piece of cake, we'll getting flying in no time." Hunk said. The plant shook again as more pieces flew off. The ark suddenly broke apart as it fell to the ground.

"Would you settle for upright?"

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"Assuming we could get it back up, repairs will take some time." Pidge said as we floated above the ark. The planet shook once again,

"Which appears to be the one thing we don't have." Lance said.

"We need to slow down the shedding." Shiro said.

"How do you stop a planet that's falling apart at the seams?" I asked.

"By sewing it back together!" Hunk said.

"What do you mean?" 

"That new green lion weapon causes vegetation to grow right? Well I was thinking if you aim it at the cracks, the vines could act like stitches!" 

"But won't the acid dissolve the stitches?" Shiro asked.

"The stitches might hold longer if they're frozen." Pidge said.

"It's a plan. Hunk, Korra, you'll and I will take our lions and get this ark upright while Pidge and Lance buy us some time.

Pidge and Lance flew off while the rest of us went over to the ark. 

"Our sides clear Shiro." Hunk said as we moved the last piece off the ark.

"Almost there."

"Yes! It worked!" Pidge said.

"It wont hold forever, keep going." Shiro said. Hunk and I grunted as we tried to move the ark.

"That's it! We're almost there." Shiro said. We finally got the ark upright.

"Okay, time to work on those engines."

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With Hunk's lion supporting one of the engines, he used his bayard to weld it back onto the ark.

"Well, its not pretty but it should get you airborne." Hunk was cut off by another piece of the planet coming off, this one a little too close for comfort.

"Just in time." Shiro stated. The engine sputters, then turns one and starts to lift the ark. A purple blast suddenly came down and shot at the ark, causing it to fall back on the ground. We looked up to see a Galra ship.

"What was that?"

"The Galra. They're back." The ship shot more lasers around the ark, making pieces fall into the acid below.

"Hunk, take the yellow lion and hold the ark. If the ark falls the Taujeerians are doomed." Shiro ordered as Hunk flew over.

"Also the guy beneath it. Which would be me." Hunk said.

"Lance, Pidge, Korra we got to draw the cruisers fire." Me Lance and Pidge all flew over towards the ship.

"Coran we need you here. Attack the Galra cruiser!" Shiro said.

"I'm on my way!"

We all, except Hunk of course, flew towards the ship. Shiro and I shot lasers down the ships sides. The ion cannon started turning.

"They're aiming the cannon at the ark. Lance, Pidge, Korra start attacking the ship with your jaw blades!" We equipped the jaw blades and started flying along the sides of the ship, cutting what we can as we go. Shiro got his jaw blade and cut the cannon making it turn and shoot the ground.

"Rocks! Big, big rocks!" Hunk said, as pieces flew towards him.

"We got you buddy!" Lance said as we hit and shot the rocks away. The castle started shooting at the ship.

"Way to go Coran! Hunk, whats your status?"

"Mostly just trying not to fall into the pot of acid." Hunk answered. The Galra ship focused all its fire on the ship.

"We're being overwhelmed!"

"We need Voltron!"

"Oh if only there was someone who could pilot the red lion" Coran mutters to himself. Then an idea struck in his head.

The hanger of the red lion opened to reveal Coran in armor that looked similar to the paladins. A cape flowing behind him as we swaggered over to the red lion.

"Finally Alfor! I will walk in your footsteps! Oh red lion, I am unworthy to be your paladin, but since you have chosen me, Coran Hieronymus Wimbleton Smythe, I humbly accept." Coran said. The red lion turned on and stood on all fours.

Then flew out the hanger.

"Okay uh guys, the red lion ran away." Coran said through the comm.

"That's the least of our worry's, Coran." I said while dodging a laser.

"I can't hold it any longer!" Hunk suddenly yelled. I looked over to see he was getting dangerously close to the acid. I go to fly over to help, only to be knocked down by on the the purple lasers.

"You have to. If you let go the Taujeerians will die!" Shiro said. I groaned softly and made my lion stand.

"Hey Korra, you okay?" Pidge asked.

"Fine. I'm decently going to feel that in the morning." I say and fly up once more. I could hear Hunk screaming in my ear. I look over to see the yellow lion upgrading.

"Whoa armor claws! Guys I can keep this thing from falling any farther, but I need your help getting it back up." He said.

"We're on our way." We flew over to the ark, Shiro and I landing next to Hunk while Lance and Pidge went higher. We grunted as we all pushed on the ark. A loud thud made us all turn. The ion canon fell into the acid below us. I looked up to see a familiar lion flying over.

"Keith!" I yelled excitedly.

"Good to have you back."

"Good to be back." He said.

"Is the princess with you?" Lance asked.

"Yes."

"So did you guys do anything? Anything that would require me to beat you cause you broke my best friends heart-"

"Lance!" I scolded.

"Keith a little help!" Hunk interrupted.

"On my way buddy. And to answer your question no I didn't Lance I'm not like that." Keith answered as he landed next to my lion and started to push.

"I told you Lance." I said, feeling a little relived, but kinda heart warmed at the Lance's protectiveness. We finally managed to get the ark up a safe distance from the acid.

"Alright everybody. Let's show them what they're dealing with. Form Voltron! "

The ship turned, aiming towards the ark.

"They're aiming for the ark!" I yelled out.

"They're gonna ram it!" Hunk yelled after.

"We'll have to meet them head on." I said.

"Form sword!"

"Will the sword be able to cut through an entire battle cruiser?" Lance asked as we flew towards it.

"It'll have to!"

"Guys, I think my lion is telling me something." Keith spoke up.

"Yeah mine too." Said Lance.

"I can feel it too." Pidge stated.

"Same here." Hunk said.

"My lion is doing something." I said. Pink was having me look at where my bayard goes.

"Then do it!" Shiro yelled. We all jammed and turned our bayards in the slot, the sword turned blue and became bigger. We lifted up the sword with both hands, or lions, and went under the cruiser, slicing trough was we went. Explosions can be heard behind us from the cuts. We went trough the entire ship, the ship splitting in half then exploding. We cheered.

"Now lets get the Taujeerians to safety." Shiro said.

"How are we going to do that? Their rocket boosters are shot." Hunk stated.

"I have an idea." I said. Voltron flew over to the ark and went under it. We lifted the ship and flew up toward the moon.

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"I'm so sorry for leaving. " Allura said, as we gathered around her and Keith back on the castle.

"Me too. We thought we were doing the right thing." Keith said while maintaining eye contact.

"But you were right Shiro. We are always stronger together."

"At least we learned Zarkon isn't tracking us through you two." Lance stated.

"Plus I learned that my lion grow armor and extend it's claws like that." Hunk makes a claw gesture with his hands. "Ting! Which will come in handy if we ever need to say, I don't know slice up a giant steak while getting beat up." He stopped when he saw the looks on our faces.

"Or fight evil and save innocent people. That too." Hunk said sheepishly.

"The fact that the red lion came to help Keith from so far away is a vital piece of information. We know have proof that a lion and a paladin can connect over far greater distances then we thought. Which means we finally know how Zarkon is tracking us. It's trough the black lion."

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My favorite episode is next hehehe