Space dad?

Leaving(changed)

The four paladins began to panic. The trail had disappeared from the sand leaving them infront of a water fall.

"Oh my gosh! What are we going to do! What if Lance is in trouble?" Hunk woried waving his hands around in the air.

The team's shared looks. The letter. The truth. The panic attacks. This was A lot happening to one person.

"Well i think he can han- wait guys listen." Pidge held a hand to her ear leaning towards the waterfall. There was an echo, a small delay of sound.

"There's a cave behind it," Shiro sighed inclining his head to focus on the walls around it.

"There," keith pointed to a small path jutting out on the right side. It was thin and long. Just walking the path carefully could take five minutes.

"Alright let's move. Watch your footing," Shiro said as he led them up the winding spiral of loose gravel placing each foot more carefully then the last.

"Don't worry Lance, we're on our way." Keith whispered.

Lance looked at the ground trying not to let his knees give out as the man heavily crunched the sand around him. He could feel the anger in the air it made him stand straighter. His Bayard was hooked on his belt but his hands were a shaking mess. He didn't trust himself to pull out a weapon. No he didn't deserve that weapon. As his father circled him the comments were hissed into his ears.

U s e l e s s

B e t t e r - o f f - d e a d
A - m i s t a k e
S t u p i d
T w i t
A b a n d o n e d
R e t a r d
D i p - s h i t

Every word pierced his heart. Crushed what ever courage he had gathered. His scars ached. Lance cursed himself for caring. Leo had been a set up. Laurence had killed his mother and threatened to kill him too if he didn't bring the right one. It didn't matter. Leo was dead now. His neck broken like a twig. His small frame dragged through a tiny wormhole moments after. He was alone.

Alone and afraid.

The circling steps came to a stop infront of him. "When I ask you a question. " the man whispered his sour breath fanning over Lances face. "You ANSWER," he roared. A horrible snarl that even the robotic soldiers flinched at.

"No. I won't give in to this," Lance mumbled. His own voice sounding small in the cavern. He hated this. The fear coursing through his body, the smell of alcohol in the air, the heavy breathing of the man he was now facing.

Laurence flashed a crooked sneer, "Would you look at this, " he laughed. "my bitch ass of a son thinks he has a fucking choice. My demand is simple we leave, no one else has to suffer." another wormhole appeared behind Lance. It was different than Alluras bright welcoming teal. This was a swirling mass of dark corrupted matter. An inky pool of the unknown.

"Mr. McClain i would rather you leave alone." he snarked a sudden burst of bravery flooding his muscles.

His dads face dropped into some evolved form of a scowl. Slowly his arms crossed the muscles tensed and bulging to escaped the sleeves of the shirt, his mouth turned down in rage. His eyes glinting like pools of blue acid burning into Lances own. The look...

Lance's head spun and his breathing sped up. "I-I," he stumbled his knees buckling.

"Stop!" Shiros voice boomed some where down the caves entrance.

"Your choice. Choose now," The man growled grabbing his arm roughly.

He heard a crack and flaring pair shot up through his oddly bent and broken limb. His friends were coming closer. The sound of pounding feet getting louder and faster.

"Lance?" he heard Hunk screaming his Name. God he was going to get his friends hurt or worse... Killed

"I'll go." He whispered. A new sense of urgency filling the room.

It was to late...

"The fuck do you think your doing!" Keith panted his knife poised. Matt paled but kept his ground. Pidge stared between the two wide eyed. Shiro was stone faced glaring dagers at the man holding Lances now broken arm.

"Guys please!" Lance was terrified. This was his fault. "I took to long," he mumbled.

His father grunted out a times up as soldiers rushed the team. He grabbed lance by the back of his neck dragging him towards the escape. The portal.

"No, no, no! Stop! Don't you dare touch them i swear if you hurt one hair on-" he pushed away from his dad forgeting about his throbbing arm. When Laurence refused to let go He punched the man off.

Something that shocked and angered His dad who growled disappearing into the crowd. The battle froze he had Pidge and Matt each by the neck. For someone so large he moved quickly.

The remaining soldiers moved to defend their leader who gripped the brother and sister tightly.

Shiro was pinned, Keith was held by several guards, hunk was burried under a dog pile of soldiers. One Glance was all it took. His eyes met the terrified pair of siblings and something inside him snapped.

Lance remembered that look. That was look his sisters had whenever this man would enter the house. The look His mother tried to hide in front of her children. A look that had stained his face for year's.

Lance felt rage, an anger he had never felt before. He started to laugh, a dazed and insane chuckle. "I have had enough of this. You hurt me that's one thing. You reach for my friends no my family! Thats something i can't let slide." his Bayard was in his hand and aimed. He continued to stare the man who made his life hell in the eyes. A crazy version of confidence blazing his blue eyes to ash

"Do it. I bet you don't have the skill. Or the courage. One wrong move and," he tightened his grip and matt coughed.

Lance barked out a laugh his hands shaking as his Bayard glowed.

Bam

Shock. Laurence felt shock before the pain. He actually did it. Warmth dripped down his chest. He released his captives in favor of covering his wound. Keith and Hunk rushed foreward to help their friends up. The soldiers were in pieces a shot through each of their heads. Circuits shattered by the precision of Lances shots.

Lance lowered his arms. The two blue pistals steaming and morphing back into one weapon, "I'm done being afraid. I'm done being a pawn for you to play with."

Laurence hissed charging the boy through the flickering portal. Screaming, blood who's was what was unknown. The warp had been corrupted. There was No telling where it leaded or where it was meant to send them.

"Lance!" Keith screamed chasing after him.

"Keith wait!" shiro was next followed by Matt, then Pidge, Finally Hunk scurried through.

The portal closed leaving behind the charred and broken remains of their fight