The Paladin's Honour

Rescuing Shiro

Pidge's POV

Hunk, Lance, and I were exhausted when we finally got to the crash site, but the thought of seeing an actual alien ship made us keep going. Since the Garrison had gotten their first, they had the area quarantined while the three of us managed to get to a little cliff overlooking the site without getting spotted. I handed Lance my binoculars while I set us my other equipment in the hope of hacking into their feeds.

"Woah! What the heck is that thing?" I heard Lance comment before I looked over to see him looking at something... or someone else. "And who the heck is she?"

"Lance!" I quickly smacked my girl-crazy friend, earning an 'Ow!' from him.

"Right, alien ship." Lance lowered the binoculars, "Man, we'll never get past all of those guards to get a look."

"Aw, man." Hunk said disappointedly, "Yeah, yeah, I guess there's nothing to do but head back to the barracks, right?"

~~~~~v~~~~~

Hunk's POV

I got up, and was about to leave when Pidge quickly stopped us.

"Wait." He said, "They set up a camera in there and I grabbed its feed. Look!"

Lance and I looked over Pidge's shoulders to see the screen, witnessing the inside of the tent. There were three people in hazmat suits examining a human strapped down on the table.

"Hey! What are you doing?" the human said, sounding a little panicked.

"Calm down, Shiro." Commander Iverson's voice spoke up from one of the hazmat suits, "We just need to keep you quarantined until we run some tests."

Shiro then struggled against his restraints, "You have to listen to me! They destroy worlds! Aliens are coming!"

~~~~~v~~~~~

Lance's POV

"That's Shiro! The pilot of the Kerberos Mission!" I pointed to the screen as I recognized the strapped human, "That guy's my hero!"

"Guess he's not dead in space, after all." Hunk commented before Pidge looked at the screen with a raised brow.

"Where's the rest of the crew?" He wondered out loud before the three of us continued to watch and listen.

"Do you know how long you've been gone?" Commander Iverson asked.

"I don't know. Months? Years?" Shiro answered, "Look, there's no time. Aliens are coming here for a weapon. They're probably on their way. They'll destroy us. We need to find Voltron."

The three of us looked at each other in surprise, Pidge have mentioned hearing 'Voltron' in the alien radio chatter before this.

~~~~~v~~~~~

Hunk's POV

"Sir, take a look at this."

The three of us look back at the screen when we heard a different voice speaking up, "It appears his arm has been replaced with a cyborg prosthetic."

"Put him under until we know what that thing can do." Commander Iverson ordered, causing Shiro to panic.

"No, no, no. Don't put me under! No! There's no time! Let me go!"

"They didn't ask about the rest of the crew." Pidge commented.

"What are they doing? The guy's a legend. They aren't even gonna listen to him?" Lance asked, causing Pidge to glance at him. "We have to get him out."