Green - Voltron Fanfiction - 1215

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The princess' angry voice ranted through the lion, "I knew they couldn't be trusted!"
"It wasn't him!" Shiro quickly countered.
"How can you be sure?"
"It doesn't matter now!" Coran cut in, "What should we do?"
"Why can't we wait here in the space-Clam and wait for it to go away?" Hunk asked, and I turned from the door I'd been blankly staring at to make the most annoyed face I think I've ever conjured. He's a paladin of Voltron, the defenders of the universe, with characteristics of utmost bravery... and he wants to hide?
Jeez, they need to update their history lessons back at the Blade.
"Everyone get to your lions, but don't launch. Wait to see what this thing does." Shiro instructed, "I don't want to risk fighting it if we don't have to."

Outside of the red lion, I was alone in the ship. They'd run off to their lions the second he landed, and I left so as to not get in his way. I swallowed hard, worried, and walked slowly towards the control room of the ship. Or at least, where I hoped it was.
I couldn't hear what they were saying to each other, and the halls were creepily white the more time I spent around them.
After one year in the blade, I was heavily trained, agile, didn't get distracted or overrun with emotion in fights. I was able to keep a clear head, listen to instructions, move in a split second to dodge bullet fire... but I'd never been deployed on a high risk mission. I'd been all over the universe, but never in a Zarkon empire controlled ship. I'd never been in a high risk fight against massively advanced technology like this. But even still. Why would Ulaz tell me to go with them instead of stay with him?
What was he thinking?
I clenched my fists, turning another corner and praying I'd find someone eventually, some open door to where that dumb princess was. Now, the only thing I could hear was the sound of blasters outside, some distant, some close. Too close.
We were still in the space pocket... they must have the sensors to identify it. They found us. Not only are they compromised, but so is this extremely important communications base. Not only is it a hub for sending messages back to the leadership, but it's a safe place for any Blade soldier that's on the run, or who needs medical equipment or food.
They said that this is his fault... but we're the ones who are losing things trusting them. Just a bunch of human kids and a traumatized pilot who was a Galra prisoner, lead by an angry princess with way too much hate stored away for anyone who looked anything like a Galra.
Just as I started to hear voices, recognized as the man who was yelling stupid like a radio host and the princess, the ship started to move off balance. I stumbled, moving my hands out to try and catch myself before I smashed my head on something. What was happening out there?!
When the movement stopped, I ran forward following the voices and stopped when I finally found them. The princess was standing on a platform in the centre and the other Altean man was a few feet ahead of her in front of a larger control key, watching the battle in front of them.
"We're exposed! The space field has been lowered!" The princess announced. I felt my blood run cold, and I looked to the side to see Ulaz and the base just sitting there. It was so small, so insignificant. But it was important to us, and now because of them, we were going to lose it. But didn't Ulaz say that the kind of technology used for the space pocket cannot fall into the wrong hands? There has to be a way out of here.
Voltron... really is as strong as they say, right?
"Well, there goes Ulaz." The man spoke, and my eyes followed the ship speeding out and around us.
"I knew we could never trust a Galra."
I swallowed. The colour wasn't coming back to my face. I felt sick, and I took a step back. Does she know I'm here yet? Ulaz isn't here to tell me how to move forward. I've never... I've never been alone like this, not with other humans, not with the last of a race that will never ever trust me, even if I sacrifice my life for her.
But... is this any different from how things were for me on Earth? This is exactly how I felt walking to class every day, especially after Kate left me there that day. I narrowed my eyes as Voltron got thrown around in the blast field. Back then, when Kate left that day, was when rumours started to spread about me. I remember how much I hated feeling like that. How much I hated everyone who looked down on me.
Voltron who? The thing that needs our help? The help of a Galra rebel clan? I can scoff all day at this. What a joke. The last thing I'll let that princess do to me, is get the better of me. I won't ever let anyone use me and kick me when I'm down again.
Coran sent a blast out to the eye of the beast, allowing Voltron to get out of it's suction grip on them.
"Is everyone all right?"
Blue's face showed up on the screen, "Alive? Yes. Alright? No."
The ship shook and I quickly moved to press my back to the wall, lowering my stance to try to keep myself still. She'd put the ship in Voltron's way, and now we're the ones getting pulled in. Voltron blocked the beam with their shield, throwing the machine into a large cluster in hopes the blast would take it out, but whoever made it, made it so it could handle catastrophe. It came back stronger, and the worst thing was hearing Hunk say that he wasn't sure they were strong enough.
They're supposed to be Voltron, the strongest power in the universe. But I guess, they're not anymore. Maybe they never were, or this war wouldn't have started at all.
"Hang on!"
I blinked, turning from the window to the screens where sound waves were vibrating from the com-link. That was Ulaz.
"I'm going to take it down from the inside!"
I kicked off from the ground, past Allura and to Coran's side. I looked over the panel, but couldn't read anything.
"Put me through to him!" I barked, and he did as told, "Ulaz! What are you doing?!"
"Voltron is too valuable! The universe needs you!"
He can't be serious- I looked back up to the scene in front of us, my eyes hurt from the lights but I refused to blink. He sent his ship, flying at an intense speed, straight into the beasts mouth without any real last words.
'The universe needs you'. He said.
From the inside, Ulaz opened up the space pocket so that the bot would collapse in on itself, taking both of them out and any last firepower into the abyss of the universe. Never to be seen again, a supernatural, overtly complicated death. Was it painless? At least tell me it would be painless. Scary, but painless, because he deserved a peaceful death.
He deserved more than all this, actually. And it made me so... so angry.
I ducked my head, pressing my hands to the edge of the panel. I took deep breaths, my head spun and I kept hearing all these things in my memories that I didn't want to hear. I wanted to forget them, be as calm and collected as Ulaz, and move on from this.
"Ulaz saved us." One said.
"He's... gone." The other said.
I groaned, shutting my eyes tight, "Shouldn't have trusted a Galra, huh?" I began.
"What was that?" The Princess asked.
"That's what you said, right?!" I whipped around, "You said you knew you shouldn't have trusted a Galra. Well a Galra just killed himself to save you and your team! Is that enough for you now?!"
She took a moment, looked to the side and then back at me. She looked almost annoyed, like she didn't even want to respond. She didn't have a damn thing to say, because she didn't care.
"Thousands, if not millions of people have died at the hands of Galra, you know. A Galra dying doesn't change anything."
I sucked in a breath, "Nobody else should have to die, no matter who they are! You selfish- spoiled monster!"
"Monster?!" She gasped angrily.
The team ran in, having heard the commotion over the com, probably. Blue quickly tried to push me back, and I pulled out of his grip,
"Don't touch me!" I hissed, "My Galra skin might taint you, Paladin!"
His eyes widened and he let me walk past, out of the room and down the hall, I couldn't catch my breath. I picked up a run and went as far out as I could, getting lost, and then hiding in the first dark hangar I found.