Recovery

Defenders of The Universe

A/N: This is where the rewrite officially starts, once again if you haven't watched the first two episodes of Voltron Force I highly recommend you do so! This will help clear up any potential confusion in the future, happy reading!

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Bouncing with every step, Daniel, a Korean boy of 16 with dark, untamed hair and striking purple eyes, replays the events that'd happened just a few days before. Meeting one of his heroes from the now infamous Voltron Force, getting in trouble for giving him lip, making a new friend, uncovering a secret plot with him about the true intention of the "retired" force members, helping them with said secret plot, getting drafted into the team with his new friend, and now being at the Castle of Lions, a place he only dreamed of.

He'd since met another cadet and started his mission on befriending her, while not so patiently waiting to set up the voltcom they gave him alongside his new uniform. But before then, he headed over towards the hangar with the team for updates on even more things that have happened.

"How're you still running on adrenaline, Daniel?" a voice to his side pipped up,

Vince, Daniel's new friend from the Garrison, was a nervous Black boy around the same height and age. They were first lumped together in class, that's where Commander Lance dragged them from and over to Skymarshall Wade for a less than cleanly punishment, starting their weird adventure together.

"Um, yeah! Why aren't you? First we did all that stuff at the academy and then a day after when we get here, Commander Keith crash lands the missing black lion with Pidge and Hunk in tow! Now the force is back together, with us this time! Isn't that unreal?!" Daniel excitedly rants,

"Well yeah! But aren't you the least bit worried? All that and now we're in the middle of Wade trying to lock the team up! Plus, we're apparently the chosen ones now? It's beyond terrifying!" he placed a hand to his cheek, attempting to calm himself down before he had a anxiety attack,

"Definitely your first time being in an important role then," snarked another voice, this time coming from the other side of Daniel, "pro-tip, it's not for the faint of heart,"

Larmina, the next cadet taken on by the force, wasn't exactly impressed by the other two, who her aunt had a hand in choosing. Although she held the title of Duchess, what connected her to Princess Allura, they were exact opposites. From the punch-first-ask-questions-later motto she liked to live her life by to the ginger hair tied in a high ponytail that showed off her undercut, antennae on her head, and lack of Arusian markings on her cheeks, it was hard to believe she was related to her at all. But it wasn't uncommon for the Princess to have Polluxian family, so who was anyone to judge.

Daniel couldn't tell if she wanted to chase them off, or if they were the first people aside from the team to treat her like a kid, which confused her. While for Vince, it was her being a single year older than them or the company she was around being the reason she acted snotty for no reason like that. Ignoring it, Daniel sped up towards the pilots and the black lion.

"Alright, let's start this refresher course," Keith announced,

Immediately Daniel decided that whatever this was was too boring to pay attention to. Instead he noted the changes in each hero as they talked, since he really only ever saw them on TV or on merchandise. Other than some longer hair for Keith and tired eyes that everyone, sans Pidge, had, not much was different,

"As we know, after breaking Black out of Tarvos, she isn't in the best shape. From what I could tell, there was a lot of structural damage, almost like he tried to do a surgery on her," he continued,