Recovery

Rogue Trip Part One

A/N: (crawls out of grave) So it's been a wild few months, huh. I decided to post what I have because the second half of this chapter is giving me problems. Thanks for waiting so long for another upload, my dear readers, I can't promise that this won't happen again lol. Happy reading!

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Hunk snuck down to the catacombs and walked into the cadets' lair. They scarcely decorated it with posters, a few chairs, and an accompanying table. He walked past them and reached a single computer terminal that was tracking three high-speed objects.

He groaned, "Radar duty, whatever. I'm not missing much," he mumbled to himself.

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Daniel whooped as his motorcycle's back tire balanced backwards in a wheelie. The bike was huge and painted red with white accents. It had two insanely large exhaust pipes behind it, and cyan lights added for extra decoration.

He sped up in front of Larmina and Vince, "Oh man, Hunk doesn't know what he's missing!"

"Sure he does," Larmina snarked, "He knows he's missing your obnoxious face!"

"I can't hear you! Too busy being awesome!"

Vince rolled his eyes. It had been a few months since the first Hunkyard visit, and the cadets had put some actual effort into upgrading their rides. After the team had defeated the giant droid with Voltron, the cadets couldn't help but gush about their day and their vehicles, minus the secret lair, of course. The pilots later decided it'd be a good way to teach them how to work on the lions by working on similar mechanics in their vehicles.

Vince's turret was now shorter, with a smaller gun too. The cockpit was sturdier and shaped like a snake's head, with its fangs poking out and cyan lights around the edges. Its underside weighed down the machine more, too.

Larmina had enough of Daniel's holier-than-thou attitude and raced up to him,

"Well, if you think you're so cool, let's play chicken, hot-shot!"

He didn't need to answer her, as his engine's revving was all the confirmation she needed. As they rode through the open canyon they were in, they set their sights on the enormous cliff in front of them and put pedal-to-the-metal, trying to get there first. Larmina, already having thought out her plan, pushed forward to get Daniel to act recklessly. Which is exactly what he did. Pushing a dangerous speed, he pulled ahead of her and looked into his side-view mirror. She was gone and as he looked; he spotted her on top of the cliff ahead. She had jumped onto the top of the cliff and stared him down. After glaring at her for a few seconds, he looked back in front of him and almost had a heart attack from seeing how close he was to the cliff wall. He forced his bike sideways in a last-ditch attempt to slow down before hitting the wall, which he lightly bumped into by the time he reached it.

She laughed at his shoddy attempt at reorienting, as he tried to see if looks could kill. "It's not my fault that I'm better than you at thinking things through!"

Her vehicle had changed a lot, too. Originally, she controlled her enormous skeleton with a rope and pulley system connected to every limb. Now she was untethered and moved around with holographic gloves and boots to better match her moves. The surrounding rings had stayed. It activated a shield to protect her when needed, and inside her sphere she had a console for settings like power and speed for her ride. The gun had gotten a major upgrade, now looking like a giant taser with lethal power. Aesthetically, there were cyan lights to match the boys and spray-painted icons of a skull and lightning bolt on the joints of the front legs.

Vince cut in before he could take the chance to sass her back. "Cool it, guys! We're here for more than a joyride, and I'd really like to get back to that super awesome reason."