As Cold as Fire [VOLTRON Keith X OC]

Blade of Marmora - part 1

I was near to dozing off in my chair as we waited to read the Blade of Marmora's base. I had basically got no sleep at all, while Pidge on the other hand, was practically buzzing with excitement. Her and Hunk's rambling only made me want to take a nap even more.

"I can't wait to see it," she repeated for the fifth time. "I mean, they were able to fold space-time, and that was just at an outpost!"

"Mm, the space taco. It left us too soon." Hunk shook his head sadly.

"Imagine how amazing their home base will be!" she said with a dreamy look.

"Exactly," Hunk replied, also looking dreamy but for an entirely different reason. "It could take on any shape. Like a space jelly donut. Or long, like a space éclair. Or a space cheese blintz with a cherry sauce on top.

Lance whined, "Aw, now I'm hungry for breakfast!"

Keith frowned in his direction, and reminded him, "Guys, this is a serious mission. We need to focus."

Meanwhile, Lance mimicked him in response. "We need to focus."

"The base is in range," Coran announced.

"Take us in slowly."

Coran chuckled nervously, pointing to the base behind him. We saw not one but two giant black holes, and between them, a blue star. "That might prove the tiniest bit of a challenge."

"Is that a black hole?" I stood up, finally awake.

Coran shook his head reassuringly."No, no, no, no, no." I had just sighed in relief, when he continued, "It's two black holes, and a giant blue star."

Hunk gulped. "That's not better."

"Yeah, no kidding," I said, sitting back down and suddenly feeling moody again as the events of last night repeated in my head. Keith and I were so close, I was confident he could feel what was happening just as well as I was. But here we were, acting like none of that had happened, and preoccupied with going in between two quiznaking black holes.

"Just inside a black hole, the temperature is one millionth of a degree above absolute zero," Pidge explained. "But, just outside of that, it's hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius."

"Okay, it's like when you try to nuke a frozen burrito in the microwave, and it comes out all scorching hot on the outside, but it's still frozen in the middle, right?" Hunk asked. Surprisingly that made sense.

Lance whined. "Now I'm hungry for lunch!"

Keith suddenly slammed his hands on his controls, making the three freeze, and shouted, "Guys, quiet! Coran, where's the base located?" I raised a questioning eyebrow at him, but he pretended not to notice.

Coran zoomed in between the three terrifying things to reveal the base. "In between those three deadly celestial objects."

"The perfect defensive position," Pidge nodded.

Allura seemed deep in thought. "Or the perfect trap."

"Yeah, I'm with Allura," agreed Hunk. "Maybe we shouldn't, like, go in there at all?"

Keith interrupted him immediately, "What are you talking about? We have to go in! This is the whole reason we came out here! There is no other option!"

The others blinked at him in confusion while reality crashed down on me. I was so focused on what happened last night, I hadn't realised why Keith was so jumpy. He was nervous, and clearly he had no idea how to get rid of it other than anger.

"Okay. Jeez. Calm down," Lance remarked. I went over to him, and placed a hand on his shoulder. He shrugged me off, deciding to glare at the floor instead.