the dark side of light

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It wasn't long after that Shiro crashed back on earth and Lance saw Keith again. He had been studying his friends and knew they could bond with yellow and green if needed. Though he hated the idea Kieth is the type of hot-head red likes, Shiro, the youngest pilot to graduate from the garrison, would be perfect for black. He went to save Shiro and bickered with Keith "It doesn't matter who saves him mullet!" Keith scoffed and pulled Lance's braid "You have no right to talk about my hair McClain" Lance froze cause Keith had his knife in the other hand "I grow it out cause all I remember about my birth family is hair. I dye it to blend it but if I cut it, it would be like cutting them from my life entirely" Keith put his knife up to Lance's hair making Lance cry but he put it away "You should embrace them. I know what you mean. My mother left the knife for me. Did they leave you anything" Lance shook his head and was quiet the whole way to Keith's cabin there Hunk punched Keith to the ground "They were killed in a fire! There was nothing to give!" Keith rubbed his cheek and looked at Lance as he got up. Lance had undone his braid and ran his fingers through his hair "H-Hunk i-it's ok... He didn't know. There are two types of orphans. he's the lucky kind" Keith sighed "Lance... Tho it doesn't mean much I know how you feel, my dad... the parent that raised me died in a fire saving people." Lance looked over "I don't need your sympathy." Keith looked away and saw Shiro looking at the board and got up "Just something I was working on. I felt a strange energy out here and charted it" Lance looked at the broad "That's there my memory began here. One of the relics of my planet is there but I can't leave without finding pilots for its friends. When I said my parents died in a fire I never said it was of this planet." Pidge's eyes went wide "You're an alien?!" Lance nodded but Hunk spoke up "When you said your father was a great ruler you mean of a whole planet?" Lance nodded "My home planet was called Altea, A paladin gone mad set the whole planet ablaze and destroyed it. His son gathered up the survivors under the guise of protecting them and used them for energy... I know this cause I was one of them but I was on the other side of it. Me and the prince survived longer than we should have using the life force of my people. When I found out I was disgusted and left. I ended up here and you all know the rest" Shiro went white "You survived Zarkon! And he has a son!" Lance nodded "I survived solely to get revenge. When that bloodline is over I can rest in peace"

Keith was shocked "How long we're talking?" Lance had to think "The ice age on earth. more or less. 10,000 years but on altea its deka-phebes. I have one of our communicators if you don't believe me. My escape pod has been destroyed for parts for a long time." Lance smirked "Or I can summon my lion. the source of the energy you felt out here." Lance went outside and looked up and a huge mechanical lion flew to them and sat in front of the cabin "Meet the right leg of Voltron—the blue lion. There are 4 just like it: red, yellow, Green, and the biggest of them Black. Black is the head and needs a leader. Without one Zarkon wins. He was the black paladin and since he is the only one still alive he can access his bond with black. Black doesn't follow morals she follows the power of will. So the leader we need has to have a strong will, a reason to fight, and natural instincts. Shiro from what I know about Zarkons prisons you have to have those in abundance" Shiro was in shock "If you know all this and have such a strong bond with blue why need us" Lance sighed "Cause 10,000 years ago when black was taken from him he launched a full-on attack of my home and the other 4 attacked together and no of them came back alive... Including my father. He created the lions, knew them better than his son, and still lost. My bond with Blue can never be as strong so I need a team only if you choose. There's no guarantee you'll come home. I'm willing to lay down my life but you all are still young. You all still have a life to live. The day my planet burned I had nothing to return to but I was saved and told every day that I survived for a reason and tried to find it."

Shiro stepped up "You are still young too. take back your time and use it! If I had that mentality I would have died out there." The light returned to Lance's eyes for the first time since he came to earth "I needed that... over the years I guess I forgot I still have a life to live but still I lived hundreds of your lifetimes so if it comes to it I'll take the blow" Pidge was already in Blue and admiring the tech for being so old. Lance sighed as Hunk went in after Pidge "Nerds" Shiro sighed slightly "let's get you in. You seem weak" Lance looked down "I quit the substance keeping me alive. My own ran out ages ago" Lance's hair returned to its natural light blue colour and his ears elongated before he passed out. Shiro got Keith in and brought Lance to the cockpit "Take him home" Blue flew off and through a wormhole. She landed in front of a castle that looked to be built by the same people as Lance's communicator Hunk looked around "Think this is Altea? Don't look burned?" pidge was amazed "Life could have returned after all that time. On Earth, we were leaving the ice age so"