Recovery

Coran Coran

Shakily swiping his access card through the scanner, the door seemed to open slower than it ever had before. With the gap finally big enough to go through, Coran beelined to the closest fractal he saw. Holding out his card for a similar scanner, he waits for access again, only to be taken aback by the error sounds that played. Anxiety built up quickly, he swiped his card over and over, only to hear that same grating sound again and again.

Frantically trying to bypass his sudden restriction, he didn't hear the heavy metal footsteps coming up behind him, only catching on when their shadows came up behind him and onto the metal door of the fractal. Gasping, he barely managed to whirl around before a wade-bot struck his head, rendering him unconscious, and powerless to stop the bots from dragging him back out the door he came through.

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"Alright!" Pidge chirped, "We've got a few major developments to unveil for today's science briefing!"

"A question!~" Lance purred, "Is this the kind of science that can smash, burn, and or explode things?"

A beat passes before he dully responds, "yes"

"Eyes on Pidge cadets! This is the good stuff," Lance said, enthusiastically turning towards them,

"Hey! It's all good stuff!"

"No, no, no, of course, absolutely! Please, please continue"

Giving him an eye roll, Pidge displayed the lions on the holographic screens before the team,

"Hunk and I have been working to enhance the lions' combat capabilities with a round of pretty sweet upgrades! By tying each of our Voltcom powers into the lions themselves, we've been able to customize a weapon for each lion's tail!"

Presenting each lion in the order he goes, he lists off everyone's upgrades,

"In your case, Keith, a tail shocker for the black lion,"

Keith visibly gets more interested, eyeing the video of Black's tail with curiosity,

"For Allura, we've got a freeze ray in the blue lion, a precision laser for Lance and red,"

Both perk up at their lion's new abilities, Lance practically vibrating to the thought of finally getting his hands on it,

"Demolition tail for Hunk and yellow, and for me and green Boomer Blades!"

Hunk and Pidge look proud of themselves, having worked on the upgrades while trying to give black an edge, as her battery was still struggling to get past half. Daniel was getting impatient, so he finally spoke up,

"What about us?"

Confused, it took a few seconds before Pidge realized what he wanted,

"Oh! Since you guys haven't activated your voltcom yet, excluding Larmina of course, there's not really anything we can add from you guys"

Larmina took that as a compliment and looked proud of her achievement. Pouting, Daniel wasn't satisfied with his answer and upon seeing that, Pidge decided to give in a little,

"Look, we haven't even fully tested the-"

"I volunteer to test mine!" Lance cut in, "Now's good for me"

Pidge gave him a glare, but before he could respond, the wailing of the alarms stopped him in his tracks. Immediately he rushed to the control center, pulling up a video feed of the threat,

"We've got an incoming fractal! External castle defenses are already active, if you want to test the hardware, Lance, you probably need to hurry before-"