The Sixth Ship [Keith×OC]

Some Assembly Required

☆Tai’s PoV☆

An alarm blared through the castle in the early hours of the morning

“Paladins! Quickly, Zarkon is attacking!!” Allura’s voice accompanied the alarm throughout the once still air. “Go, go, go! We need Voltron now!” I, who had been in bed, tripped over myself as I raced out the door, quickly making my way to the bridge, not bothering with my armour. “Hurry! We can't hold out much longer!” As I neared the great doors I could hear someone, Coran, wailing some words that sounded like: 'Oh no! Allura is dead! Her head fell off!' I opened the doors and fell into a group with the other paladins (minus Lance) watching as Coran acted out a terrible scene of Allura’s death.

“Coran” Allura called trying to get his attention

“What is it Allura’s head?” he asked in a falsely teary voice

“Coran! It's over” she told him

“Oh I know! If only Voltron had been formed!” then he seemed to notice the five of us “oh! Time” he exclaimed, standing quickly

“I’m guessing this wasn't an actual attack” Shiro asked rhetorically

“and it's a good thing it wasn't! It took you...Coran?”

“seventy five degrees” he read off of a handheld device “oh no, that's a meat thermometer”

“well however long it was, it was too long. You must always be ready to battle Zarkon” she scolded us “and look at you! Shiro’s the only one in uniform. Keith, Pidge, Hunk where are your bayards? L-Tai where's your armour?”

“I figured that in the event of an attack my armour is the least we have to worry about. Besides, your father once let my fight an entire battle in pyjamas” I told her. She scowled at me

“Where's Lance?” she asked looking around. As soon as she had said that the doors to the bridge opened and Lance walked through, dressed in a bathrobe, sleeping mask, blue lion slippers, and a cup of some drink in his hand.

“what'd I miss?” He asked, yawning

“Oh god” I pinched the bridge of my nose “where did you even find those?” I asked referring to his slippers “I thought I burned them!” but of course I was ignored

“Coran and I have been up for hours getting the castle back in order. We decided to test the alarms and you. Guess which one failed” Allura told us, looking at all of us with a merciless expression. Hunk complained about sleep and how we had gotten to sleep for ten thousand years. “you must understand the stakes of our mission” Allura told him “while we slept the galra continued to spread. We have received distress signals from these planets” the maps of the universe floated through the air, pinpoints of red marking galra territory “earth is here. An attack on your planet is inevitable” Allura explained “Coran and I will work on getting the castle going, meanwhile you six need to work on forming Voltron, we'll need it”

“Allura’s right. You five are pitifully inexperienced” I told them bluntly

“hey!” Someone shouted offended

“Tai and the princess are right. Let's get to our lions and begin training” Shiro said

“wait! But I wanted to talk to the prisoners” Pidge argued

“uh, negative number 5. I have you all ranked by height” Coran explained as he talked to Pidge

“what about me?” I asked frowning

“oh, you're the sixth one” Coran told me

“uhhhh...thanks…?” I muttered

“anyway. Negative number 5, the prisoners are still healing and need to stay in their pods” Coran told Pidge, who frowned at the news.