Light Years Away | A Voltron Fanfiction (On Hiatus, sorry, I'm trash)

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The new Red Paladin slowly awoke from his fitful slumber, the dim bulbs in his room shining light across his furrowed brow. Lance had been having nightmares (less recently though) and luckily this one wasn't too bad..... Unless you call being blasted into space and suffocating in the void bad. His heart pounding, the paladin sat up in his small bed and took a slow, deep breath. It seemed real now but Lance knew he was getting much better at dealing with the night terrors ever since he opened up to his team about them- things were looking up for him. This thought in mind, he went to get ready, washing off his face mask and being quietly proud that despite the bad dream he had still managed to get a good seven hours of sleep.
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Keith slashed his sword across a training drone's torso, the clash of metal biting at his eardrums before he swiftly turned and decapitated yet another drone. Level four was becoming easy for him but whenever he attempted level five he failed miserably. I guess that's what practice is for.
"Turn on training level five" commanded the black paladin, brushing the sweat from his forehead and getting ready for his next battle, barely noticing he had been up 2 hours and that it was now 7 o'clock and therefore time to eat the space goo Coran claimed was breakfast.
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"Fellow paladins, how did you sleep?" Asked Allura brightly as the last of the other paladins (excluding Keith) filtered into the dining room and started munching at the pitiful excuse for food laid out in front of them. Her gaze stayed pointedly at Lance for a few seconds, clearly making sure he would tell them if something was wrong again.
"Getting much" Said Lance, which was the truth.
"That's good, hey, where's Keith" asked Shiro, his eyes surveying the room as if Keith was hiding under a chair or something.
"He's probably just training, like Pidge was when I found her this morning, she was up all night!" Hunk answered, staring at Pidge with a concerned look .
"I wasn't training, I've been working on a way to track Prince Lotor's ship.... But so far it's only been picking up his signal when we're within a quarter of a galaxy from him" explained Pidge with a sigh, whilst she was talking she was also typing away at a tablet device.
"It's great that you're trying to track Lotor but it's important to get a full night of rest, right Lance?" Said Shiro, turning everyone's attention to the Cuban boy whilst he absentmindedly picked at the slop on his plate.
"Shiro is right Pidge, please try to go to bed at a decent hour from now on" Allura asked, giving Pidge a concerned look now that the green paladin had looked up from the device in her hands.
"Sure, but I still need to finish this so if you'll excuse me" Pidge left the room leaving everyone to look at Lance.

"Sorry to pull you in back there but I think Pidge sometimes forgets she's only 14 and that she can't take on so much responsibility all at once. I thought reminding her of what sleep deprivation can.... Do to a person would make her take better care of herself" apologised Shiro kindly, Lance gave a genuine smile in response.
"But on that subject, how are you buddy?" Asked Hunk. When Lance had been going through a tough time about a month and a half ago he had kept his problems bottled up inside until he was physically and emotionally recked. He couldn't concentrate or sleep and forming Voltron became impossible. So eventually everyone managed to coherse him into telling them what was wrong. Lance smiled sincerely and replied honestly, trusting his friends with his insecurities was the best decision he had ever made and his self esteem had never been higher.
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After three rounds at level five, Keith could barely stand up straight. Yet again success had evaded him and his anger and impatience was starting to affect his performance- he needed a breather. Upon walking into the clearly lit hall of the Castle the young paladin heard laughter coming from Pidge's room. As the new black paladin Keith thought he should check on them... And possibly join in on the fun.
"Oh, hey Keith" smiled Lance when he noticed Keith stood at Pidge's door, he then proceeded to gesture to the space next to him, hoping Keith would join them. The black paladin let out a small smile before sitting on the bed next to Lance, Hunk and Pidge.
"These guys convinced me to take a break from my tracking system so we decided to pl- Oh my God Keith you reek!" Exclaimed Pidge holding her nose to drive in her point, Keith blushed realising he hadn't taken a shower after training.
"Uhm, sorry Pidge" he muttered, the blood rushing to his face as he got up to leave but Lance caught his shoulder and pushed him back to his sitting position on the bed.
"She's just messing around but you are super sweaty from training... You missed breakfast and everything" laughed Lance whilst the others joined in.
"I mean if you can even call that goop breakfast!"
"Hey, don't insult food Pidge! One day you'll realise all food is worthy of our respect and love" laughed Hunk while he rubbed his stomach before adding "except broccoli, that stuff belongs in the deepest crevasses of the Gulran Empire".
"So goop is great but broccoli is ev-" began Lance before being stopped by by the loud siren coming out of Pidge's Lotor detector- he was with a quarter of a galaxy from them.

They had to act fast.