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

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The entire castle was lit red and blaring alarms made it difficult to hear one another- a big flaw in the design honestly. All of the paladins were now suited up after rushing around alerting everyone of Lotor's impending arrival.
"But why would Lotor not be here already? If he's that close shouldn't he have already gotten here?!?" Rambled Pidge whilst she typed furiously away at her tablet, it had been 10 minutes since the initial alert came through and Lotor's ship was capable of traveling that distance in 30 seconds.
"Perhaps he's taking advantage of the scenery? To your left you'll see the great Windalyerian, a magnificent..." pondered Coran whilst twiddling his moustache between his thumb and forefinger.
"Whatever the reason, we need to be ready for anything" commanded Shiro in his stern I'm-the-leader voice, despite Keith being the new black paladin.
"I've already put up the particle barrier and I've set up the castle defences" announced the Princess upon entering the command bay, she too was wearing her paladin uniform.
"Listen, Lotor is only travelling with one ship so he should only have his usual 4 generals with him. He isn't looking for a fight with Voltron- he's a skilled pilot but the ship he's in couldn't take us down. So he must want to board the Castle" said Keith confidently and Lance nodded in agreement.
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The Gulran Prince stood looking at the Altean ship on his monitor, his four generals standing behind him. One was growing impatient of his desicion not to attack quite yet, but knowing what she was about to say he lifted his hand in a motion to silence her. His generals were skilled but he often found them trivial.
"Open a call with Altean ship, I want to send them a message" commanded Lotor smirking as he thought of the looks on the paladins' faces. Faces he was yet to see clearly.
"Our request to speak has been sent through Sire"
"Good" Lotor replied watching the screen until it lit up, static shot across it and then showed the 5 paladins, plus their butler and- well, project Kuron seemed to be progressing nicely.
"What do you want, Lotor?!" Asked the Altean Princess angrily despite have fear in her eyes. The prince laughed maliciously.
"So this is what the universe has to offer? A princess of a dead planet, her butler, a child who can barely reach the controls of their lion, a fat lump, a moody teenager, my father's old champion and-" Lotor's voice faltered as he reached the last paladin, he wore blue and had an angry scowl across his face but... He was beautiful. His tan skin glowed gold and his muscles bulged but didn't protrude too much as to make the Prince jealous. He coughed slightly, realising he had been staring silently.
"Ahem, my generals and I..." Lotor's voice faltered again, the paladin was too distracting, curse his Gulran genes. It was going to get in the way of the mission.
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"What are you and your little entourage going to do, huh Prince Loser?" Though admittedly not the best play on words Lance smirked slightly whilst the rest of his team sighed and continued to wait for the Prince to say his piece and desperately figure out a plan. At Lance's words Lotor's eyes widened before returning to their natural position and he cut off the call before giving the paladins any real clue to his plans.
"Well this sucks" frowned Hunk after the Prince had left, he looked at his teammates to see if they could shed some light on what to do now.
"Look, Lotor is smart so we'll just have to be, ugh, smarter?" Said Keith, his confidence from earlier gone as he tried to be a good leader, a job that Shiro was clearly better at.
"Quick Paladins! Lotor's ship is approaching! There's no time for a plan, let's just get to our lions!" Exclaimed Allura as the ticks counted down on the moniter. They would just have to wing it.

The paladins rushed through the castle, only for a blast into the side of their ship to knock them off balance.
"Allura, I thought the particle barrier was up?!" Shouted Lance through the comms, he was trying to run down a lone hallway to the red lion but the repeated thuds were making it near impossible.
"The barrier is up! We're under heavy fire and our defences are too weak to combat it" yelled Allura in response, managing to get into the Blue Lion hanger just as Lotor blasted his way in. Whilst he was still across the room the Princess had an idea and told Pidge to activate D10, a fete that could take more time than they had...
"Why hello Princess" smiled Lotor, Allura froze for a second before pulling out her Bayard.
"No need for that, I haven't come for you" said Lotor motioning for his generals to advance. Before being over run Allura did manage to catch a glimpse of disappointment in Lotor's eye when he looked at her.
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The Prince sauntered through the castle, knowing the paladins were slowly getting taken out by his guards.
"Stop right there Lotor" yelled the angry teenager from earlier, he was dressed in red but held the black Bayard. Interesting.
"Now, now, is that any way to treat a guest in your home?" Lotor smiled cunningly, knowing he could beat this child in a fight, the kid was good but certainly not as masterful with a sword as he was.
"It is when they came in uninvited" remarked the paladin, brandishing his sword.
"I called first" laughed Lotor, before allowing the black paladin to lunge at him, dodging was easy.
"You're just tiring yourself out young paladin" he smirked after a few minutes of fighting, slashing with his own sword and knocking the bayard out of his skilled opponent's hand.
"No, I'm stalling." Smiled the paladin. The Prince stepped back, wide eyed as the ship started to come alive at the walls. Guns blasted in Lotor's direction making any further action impossible.
"Do you have the package?" Asked Lotor with a sigh into his comms, retreating from the murderous corridor as he did so, his shoulder getting grazed in the process. Nevermind, he had learnt from an early age to bare pain.
*Yes*
"Then initiate protocol 'black out' "
*Sire that function is untested and ironically takes a lot of power*
"Don't question me"
*Of course, Sire*

And with his command the Altean ship lost all power, except the defence system, which was better protected in case of attack.