M A N I A - Klance - Langst

Chapter 1 - Something Happened

Lance POV

"Ok, Team, when we get in there, Allura, go with Pidge and Hunk to the control room, Lance and I will back you up until we reach the entrance when we turn left and keep guard. Pidge will hack us in and locate the Battle Plans. If something goes wrong, head back to your lions and return to the castle. Though, that shouldn't happen because Shiro will be monitoring our positions on this map. Everyone got it?" We nodded. Keith was hunched over the table with a map of the Galra Base and had been pointing out where everybody was going.

"Wait, shouldn't I go with you, Keith, seeing as I have no knowledge of technology apart from the castle's and we could cover more ground as a three?" Allura said, I agreed with her. It did make more sense to do it her way.

"No." Keith replied, banging his fist on the table and clenching his teeth, "It'll be just me and Lance. No one else." We were all slightly taken aback by this and I put my hand on Keith's shoulder to calm him down. He glanced at me and then quickly moved his eyes back on the map. "I-Is everyone happy?"

A smattering of yep's and "sure"s came from the rest of the team and we strode to our respective pods to suit up.

I flew down the zip-line in a rush of adrenaline and hopped into my speeder. I raced to the Red Lion and spun into the seat.

"C'mon Red! Let's kill it out there, buddy!" I patted the control panel and we sped out of the hangar and made a leaping descent to the Planet Xanis.

Red was much faster than Blue had been. I still miss her, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. When I'm with Red, I feel more uptight and less relaxed, but Allura's doing a great job with Blue and I know she's in safe hands. Or paws.

We landed our Lions just behind a huge boulder and out of sight. The planet was grey and rocky, quite dull to say the least. The only thing worth mentioning was the towering Galra base that dominated the planet. The purple lights shone from small cracks in the ground, I guess this place was bigger than we thought it was.

Red opened her mouth and I stepped onto the dusty planet surface. My helmet told me that the air was safe to breathe here and I took it off, the others followed suit. I accidentally inhaled a mouthful of rock dust and coughed a few times.

"You okay, Lance?" Keith asked, floating towards me on the low gravity.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, putting my helmet back on. Maybe that wasn't my best idea.

"Let's move, Team." Keith motioned for us to get into position. I stood to his right and raised my bayard, while the others moved to the other side and did the same. He silently signalled and we opened the doors, ready to fight. But there was no one there.

"That's odd," Hunk, looked around, confused, but he had spoken too soon. Through a door in the ceiling, Galra soldiers jumped down and started firing at us.

They came flooding in from all directions. Right, left, even from above us. Soon, we were surrounded.

"Surrender your weapons," said one of the soldiers in a robotic voice.

"So much for the element of surprise," I muttered to Keith and he scowled, gripping his sword, ready to attack.

"Wait for my signal," Keith said, just loud enough for us to hear him. "Ready your bayards, on the count of three. One, two, three!"

On three, we charged at the Galra, who subsequently charged back. I mean, what else would they do? Hunk and I shot at them while Allura and Pidge used their however you are supposed to use a whip and a triangle stabby thing, (I still have no clue what it's called).