Voltron: When Starlight Meets Fire

{Chapter 11 - Confrontation}

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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Cori lay on her bed, tired green eyes staring at the stone in her hands.

There was a map in here, somehow. Where it led, that was anybody's guess. But how was she even supposed to get to wherever the white lion was? She could only imagine the chaos that could ensue if she told the others about this.

And even more pressing, what to do about that? Keith was galra. How much he was galra was unclear. But... did he even know? He would tell the team if he knew he was galra. Right?

Why didn't anyone else- especially Allura- question the fact that he could interface with their technology?

Even if he didn't know though, she didn't know how to feel about this sudden paradigm shift. Emotions were always hard, but this just made it worse. "Quiznack..."

Cori turned her face into the pillow and groaned loudly, the rest of her body limp. She should worry about Keith later. Right now she needed to stay focused on the current 'find the white lion' mission.

"Everyone, you are needed in the detainment hall." Allura's regal voice said over the speakers. Cori groaned again and sat up, then sighed and slipped the stone into her pocket as she started making her way to the said location. What was it this time? The last time somebody called her anywhere, she ended up with a bucket of water on her head because of Lance.

Nonetheless, she trudged her way there, to see everyone crowded around a cryo-pod with another clear cylindrical container next to it.

"What's going on?" Cori questioned, one eyebrow raised, stopping next to Pidge.

"You're keeping Sendek on your SHIP?!?" Nyma hissed over her. "What if he escapes?!? What then???"

"Yeah. he could do some serious damage." Rollo agreed.

"Nyma, we appreciate your concern, but this is a risk we must take. We can't afford to lose this information, and we cannot let Sendeck remain free to terrorize other worlds either." Allura growled curtly.

"Besides, He's in a cryo-pod. There's no escaping, trust me. I know from experience." Cori added, shooting daggers at the rest of the group. They still needed to pay for shoving her back into that quiznacking pod. Allura grimaced at her glare.

Pidge nodded, pushing her glasses higher up on her nose bridge. "I've triple-checked the security protocols. He so much as twitches, and we'll know."

Nyma set her jaw. "I still don't like this."

The group's focus shifted to the cylindrical container resting ominously beside Sendek's cryo-pod.

Hunk leaned in closer, his curiosity piqued despite the potential danger. "So, what's in the mystery tube?" he asked, trying to peer inside.

Allura stepped forward, gaze locked on the cylinder. "It's an Altean memory storage device. This is how we're going to interrogate the mongrel," she explained.

"Yes." Coran agreed, pacing devices on Sendek's pod, and then shifting his focus to the storage module beside it, pulling up a holo-screen. "But I have to warn you. This technology was built to keep altean memories alive, not to interrogate prisoners."

"Coran, we understand this isn't what the technology was meant for. But if we extract Sendak's memories, we might gain valuable intelligence on Zarkon's troop locations." Shiro explained.