A Few Thousand Lifetimes

Chapter 7: Attack of the Fuzzy Purple Bat Cats

.....Or not,

it was currently 3 in the morning and inside the castle of lions and the red alarm that warns of an incoming Galra attack was blaring through the castle.

 Delmira shot out of bed, was into her paladin armor and rushed out the door in record speed only to run into a wall of people sticking their heads and upper bodies out of their doors in varying states of grogginess, shock, confusion and fear, as their minds caught up with Allura voice ringing through the Castle, "THE GALRA ARE ATTACKING, PALADIN'S TO YOU YOUR STATIONS I REPEAT, THE GALRA ARE ATTACKING."

 Dodging people as fast as she could Delmira ran as fast as she could towards the wall at the end of the hallway that would open and take her to her to her lion when she ran directly into someone, knocking her onto her back in the surprise. Grunting as the other person fell on top of her Delmira looked up to find herself looking into the face of the one and only, Anakin Skywalker.

 Delmira groaned, she did NOT have time for this! Shoving herself up she ran the rest of the way to her hanger wall. Just at the wall was about to take her down to her hanger someone grabbed her arm, turning slightly she once again found herself face to face with Anakin.

"Hey are you all right, I'm sorry for knocking you ov-", but Anakin never got to finish as his sentence was interrupted when the wall opened and dragged both him and Delmira down, eventually depositing both into the cockpit of the black lion in a tangle of flailing limbs. After sufficiently detangling herself Delmira shoved Anakin, who had fallen on her lap and was into much of a shock over the whole situation to move.

"What the force was that?" Anakin asked her, sitting up staring at her from his spot on the floor.

Delmira chuckled and smirked at Anakin gently but with a hint of teasing, "That, is how a paladin enters a ship, how else are we supposed to get into our lions?"

Anakin looked at Delmira incredulously, "Wait so this is the cockpit of the black lion"

Delmira nodded while preparing to take flight, "Yep, so I suggest you find something to hold onto cause it's about to get pretty bumpy"

As Anakin sat down in an extra chair the black lion had moved in from its hold and silently started examining the black lion Delmira pushed off, immediately pushing a red button linking her to the team's communications

Allura's face showed up on screen followed by each of the other paladins "Black Paladin online, sorry it took a while, I somehow managed to accidentally drag one of our guests with me but I'm on my way now, where do you need me, princess?"

Wasting no time Allura dived straight into detail "If the Galra continue at their current speed on their current course the Galra ships should be here in almost exactly 15 minutes with a whole fleet aimed directly at the castle. They'll be arriving from the top corner Northeast Quadrant, good luck paladins."

Delmira nodded "Got it, princess, paladins get ready to form Voltron when I say, until then Lance you take right, Hunk you take left, Keith and Pidge you go around back, take out as many Galra ships as you can. Go for the bigger ones first, they'll cause us more trouble if we leave them for last." Delmira spoke into her com while flying out from her hanger and meeting out with the other lions in front of the castle's gate. A few minutes after arriving the air in front of them shimmered, revealing the incoming Galra attack ships

Anakin, who had up until now been scanning the ship around him in awe was jolted back into reality as the black lion took off at the galra ships, rolling to avoid an attack. Launching itself onto the nearest galra battleship, the black lion grabbed onto a wing, clamping it in is's jaw and tearing it off, rendering the Galra ship, useless.

Anakin leaned forward in his seat, "How much power is in one of these things. I've never seen anything just rip off a wing before!"

Delmira shrugged, not really paying attention, "Don't know. Never really checked." She replied, distractedly

The paladin's attack plan was working so far, having taken down quite a few large ships, and a few dozen small ones that got in their way, but what they hadn't planned on was Haggar releasing some of her newest monster creations as a means of attacking, and distracting the paladins, and these ones were significantly harder to kill and seemed to each target a single paladin, dispite the fact there were only four monsters and there were five paladins.

Jumping over to make a swipe at the monster that had been focusing on Lance's lion, a sharp, spiky, steal death ball that could throw it's spikes and was attempting to impale anything in it's was, Delmira called out in annoyance, "Guys, we need a new plan, this one obviously isn't working anymore and the Galra are starting to regroup, anybody has any ideas?"

"Umm not really" Hunk radioed in from the yellow lion, who was hovering slightly above the ground trying to dodge lunges and grabs from a pink slime monster that looked like a semi-humanoid form of the food goo they ate and acted like a moving acid.

"I don't have a clue either," Pidge said honestly from where she was in the green lion. The green lion was now in the front, guarding the castle of lions, while at the same time attempting to tie her monster up with vines...it wasn't working very well.

Pidge's monster looked like a black shadow with eyes, its legs were solid and completely black, rising up and fading slightly as it rose until meeting with its body at what looked like where his ribs would be, but instead of ribs and a chest it had a pitch black smokey fog like substance forming his arms, shoulders, hands, and neck. There were two yellow glowing eyes hovering around a foot above where his neck ended. It had no head. Anytime the green lion attacked it with a vine I's arms would extend and wrestle it to the ground, no matter how many vines Pidge would send at it, it would just grow more arms to wrestle them off.

Keith, whose opponent was a flying snake-like thing with boney arms and legs for grabbing things and causing damage that liked to eat its enemies, scoffed in annoyance "How about we just try to stay alive and not get our but's kicked! These guys are causing too much damage!"

A light bulb flickered on in Delmira's mind, "Damage, that's it. These things have no damage control filter, if we can get the galra all rounded up in one area and use them to surround the monsters then in order to get to us, they'll have to go through them!"

Pidge caught on next grinning, "And because they have no damage control filter, they'll attack the galra because they're only instructions were to destroy us no matter what! The galra will take them down for us, then I'll be just like catching fish in a barrel with all those galra ships just sitting there, cause their too big to be able to move around without crashing into each other, they won't be able to get away."

"Yeah, but how are we supposed to get them all rounded up?" Hunk inquired, still trying desperately to find something that worked on his monster,

Delmira glared at the screen determinedly, "We form Voltron"