One Shots At Random

"We're going to laugh..." Hunk started.

Humans once wielded formidable magical power, but with over 7 billion people on the planet, tha Mana to create that magic has spread far too thinly to have any effect on people. When hostile aliens reduce humanity to a mere fraction, the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again.

Alternate universe of what could have happened when Voltron got to Earth. And Pigde was not a Paladin of Voltron but still a part of the team as a scientist and an engineer.

The alien commander, Sendak, steadily walked towards the meeting point, his exosuit crushing every skull and piece of rubble in its way.

The war - or more fittingly, slaughter - had been entertaining. Still, all good things must come to an end, so when the leader of the human resistance requested a meeting, he easily accepted it, content to accept their surrender and return home the victor. He turned a corner and saw a lone woman sitting on a broken column.

She was a scientist and an engineer once, a lifetime ago. Before the invaders came. First, she lost one of her legs when a building collapsed on her; then, three fingers from a stray blaster shot. When she stepped up and picked up arms, supported by intricate prosthetics, a grenade explosion burned most of her face off.

She had suffered so many injuries that most would be dead by now, but she was filled with far too much spite, anger and determination to allow herself to die.

"There you are," Sendak said with the scornful tone one would reserve for a runaway pet.

"Here I am," she rasped. Her voice was rough, coarse, her vocal cords irreparably damaged.

"Finally realized you can't win, didn't you Comander Pigde? And now here you are, begging to surrender."

"Oh, this isn't a surrender," she remarked calmly. "Sure, there were some of us who wanted to. They're gone now."

The alien commander found the callousness with which she had said that admirable.

She lifted her hand before her face suddenly and a small blue flame flared up above her palm, bobbing up and down gently.

"Incredible, isn't it?" she said.

Sendak scoffed, unimpressed.

"Magic, as we call it. We have so many stories about it; a mystical power harnessed by great heroes to fight forces of darkness. We always thought they were just stories. Turns out they were not just stories. Turns out, that magic is something we humans could do. But it's a finite resource. With 7 billion of us on the planet, it was spread too thin."

"Then you came." Pigde turned her eyes away from the flame and towards the alien. He could have sworn he saw the glint of death in her eyes.

"And soon, there were a lot fewer of us. So here we are now, wielding it again. Thank you oh so very much for giving us this power back."

"Do you think some petty tricks that you have no understanding of can save you?" he growled.

The... 'magic' Pigde held was new to him, but he was certain that should she try anything, his exosuit would protect him long enough to close the distance and snap her neck like a twig.

"No. you're right," the woman said, standing up. "Even this phenomenal power has a limit. It's just not enough. We can't win."

Sendak smiled. A cruel smile but a smile nonetheless.

"But we can make you'll lose," she continued.

His smile lowered slightly, almost wiped away by the woman's confidence.

The woman lifted her hand above her head, the flame flying up into the sky and blowing up quietly into a bright, blue blaze.

"Is that it?" the alien laughed with palpable relief. "A pretty little light? It didn't even hit anything."

"Oh, that wasn't a weapon. It was a signal. For now the rest of us to start."

"Start what?" the alien asked.

"See," she said, "this magic got us wondering; what other stories aren't just stories?"

The alien suddenly felt something new, unfamiliar. He felt... uneasy.

"We decided to invite some... old friends over," she smiled.

A red light suddenly popped up on his visor; an alert for a rapid rise in energy fluctuations. He felt... he felt like something was watching him. He raised his eyes up towards the night sky.

And he saw the stars blink.

He turned towards the woman, his terror absolute. Her face, whichever parts of it she could still move, was twisted into a mad grin. Countless other alerts appeared on his visor before it shorted out, overwhelmed by the reports. A siren started blaring in the distance.

"They're coming," she growled.

As she said this the Lions of Voltron came up behind her and sat down as the rest of the paladins came out to stand next to her all wearing smirks that could only be made by the idea of killing your enemies.

A horrible stench he had never smelled before somehow penetrated the filtration system of his suit.

"We're going to laugh..." Hunk started.

"As we watch you scream," Lance continued.

"And weep," Shiro laughed.

"And watch your comarads be killed," Kieth said, loving the fear in Sendak's eyes.

"Like you have never seen before." Allura finished.

"Just like you made countless people go through before... But we are going to do the same to you but worse by tenfold." Pigde said as she walked closer, getting in Sendak's face.

Sendak's legs felt weak; never having felt such fear - or any fear - before. A veteran of a thousand battles yet nothing could have prepared him for this.

"And you're going to die." she continued, pushing him back onto the ground.

The sky above was torn open, darkness flooding in from the gaping celestial wound. The old ones peered through, awakened from their slumber by the vile, forbidden magic.

"Every. Last. one of you."

And soon, her cruel, gravely laugh and the sight of the Paladins of Voltron standing over him was all that was left.

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~Hi~ My shes, theys, hes, and everything in between this is your creator and it is nice to see all y'all again. This chapter has 1062 words. Please know I love the Paladins of Voltron I just made them this way for the story, and if it wasn't for what happens in this story I would have never made them act like this. And I hope y'all have enjoyed reading this trash. Let me know if you have any questions, complaints, or advice. Thank you and have a good day.

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