Voltron: When Starlight Meets Fire

{Chapter 2 - The Blue Lion}

Hello guys! This is Pulsar. I hope you enjoy this chapter, and if you have any comments or suggestions, let me know!
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"what are you doing?! you're going to kill us all!" Lance yelled over the rushing winds.

"shut up and trust me!" Keith retorted. just as they were about to crash into the ground, Keith twisted the handle of the bike, and the hover mechanism came online to immediately stop their descent.

With the people from the garrison left in the dust, Cori and the rest of the group sped off into the desert.

Cori fiddled with her phone inside Keith's house while the sun rose outside, swiping her index finger across the screen to draw lines.

She was just drawing an anime character's face, when she all the sudden looked behind her with an inquisitive expression, lifting an ear of her noise-canceling headphones.

"What is it, Lance?" she said boardly.

"I had no idea you could draw," he commented.

She raised an eyebrow. "And?"

"and it looks nice," he said honestly.

She shrugged and put her phone away as Keith and Shiro came into the shack.

She crossed her arms on the couch as Keith walked across the room, and whipped off a cloth that was covering... a board covered with notes and diagrams mounted on the wall? She really didn't think Keith was that kind of person who makes a conspiracy board.

Shiro looked closely at the board, before looking back to Keith. "What have you been working on?"

Cori examined the board, and her eyes widened when she saw a picture of a blue lion.

"I can't explain it, really. After getting booted from the garrison, I felt kinda lost and found myself drawn out to this place. It's like something- some energy was telling me to search." Keith said, answering Shiro's previous question.

"For what?" Cori asked absentmindedly, standing up to stare at the picture of the blue lion closer.

"Well, I didn't really know at the time, until I stumbled across this area," Keith responded, resting one hand on a part of the map of the nearby terrain that was tacked to the board. "It's an outcropping of giant boulders with caves, covered in these ancient markings. They all share clues leading to some event, some arrival happening last night. Then you showed up."

"It's the blue lion," Cori whispered, almost too quiet for anyone to hear.

Pidge looked at her questioningly, but Cori was too preoccupied with staring at the board to notice.

"I should thank you all for getting me out." Shiro acknowledged. Cori twisted back to Shiro as he offered his hand to her. "Cori, right?"

She immediately took his hand and nodded, events playing in her brain now that she finally got a good view of his face.

"It's an honor to meet you, sir," she said saluting.

Shiro then shook Lance's hand next, and then Hunk and Pidge's.

"The nervous guy is Hunk. I'm Pidge." the boy said, pushing up his glasses slightly. "So.... did anyone else in your crew make it out?"

Shiro looked away, deep in thought, before responding. "I'm not sure. I remember the mission, and being captured, after that, it's just bits and pieces."

"Yep, Sorry to interrupt," Hunk interjected. "But back to the aliens? Where are they? Where are they now? Are they coming for all of us? Like- where are they, at this very moment?"