Astro

The Blue Paladin

Never waste time, because you never know when there will be any time to waste.

Lance remembered that exact saying, the same saying that his abuela would repeat to him on a daily basis. Being an invalid, there was little she could do but spread her wisdom as she was dealt the short end of the stick in life. In some cases, her advice was actually helpful, but other times, she would say that it was 'meant for a much later date'.
That later date was now.

Soon after becoming a paladin of voltron, Lance realized that the chances of him ever going back home to earth were diminishing. while he knew that it was for the good of the whole universe, it bugged him to no end at the fact that his life would forever be lost in time. How could you properly know what time it was when your surrounded by nothing but an empty void of space? He was going to new places, seeing new sights...and time moved differently for each.

So, to distract himself from fully realizing the painful truth of his situation, Lance turned to galatical girls. Girls were great on Earth, but better in space. Time and time again, a new beauty was welcomed aboard the ship and stuck around for maybe 2 or 3 months before the relationship was over and she was dropped back at her house.
This cycle continued for almost a year now, and the whole Voltron team was, quite simply, getting tired of it. They had confronted Lance about it several times, telling him that this was not healthy, but he simply joked it off.
In all honesty, what he really wanted was to meet his mate. Could you imagine?A mate that would be worthy of him and he would be worthy of them. He wanted only one girl, for one lifetime, for one universe. Being able to wake up next to them every day, rub their feet when their sore, cuddle them when their cold....it was all Lance ever dreamed about.
But so far that had never happened. Every time he was so close to finding "the one", he was brought back to reality with a disturbing habit his past "lovers" had. A perfect example was Jupī, an alien from the Solaris species on planet Solari. Cute, fun, easy to please, and always had some form of wit that was either smart alic-y or purely punny. All this was good, great even. But Jupī had a knack for eating.......dicks. So after nearly having his "little friend" chopped off in the middle of a heated sex session, she was promptly dropped back off on her planet with a "sorry, not sorry" note attached to her luggage.
The team had always wanted to confront Lance again on his "mating problem" , with a little more force, but the time just never seemed right. Lance was either kicking butt out on he battlefield or he was in his room, coping with the fact he could never return home. Either way, neither times were comfortable or acceptable to the other paladins. After all, we all cope differently to different things.
But this endless cycle of meet, heat, Yeet, all came to a halt when Allura began blasting over the intercoms for an important team meeting what one could only assume was around 2:36 am.
Lance crawled sluggishly out of his bed, his dark blue covers slowly fall off his bare shoulders. He yawned, cracking out his knots in his neck and back from a thankless, sleepless nights rest. Like he needed to be briefed about another mission, or lectured on how reckless he could be when he wants to be a so called "hero". The princess just didn't understand the importance of sleep. Not someone like her who has been asleep for, like, 10,000 years.
     He stumbled out of bed, grabbing his robe before heading over to the special room at the very front of the ship. Not like he hasn't been here before. Naturally he was the last one there, and he honestly couldn't care less. The team was already there, all dressed in pjs and listening to Allura as she showed off another random planet that Lance (up till now) had never known existed.
    "Lance. Nice of you to join us" Allura sarcastically greeted, her smug smirk matching Lance's own. He put a hand on his hips, examining the hologramed planet spinning before all the other paladins. It doesn't seem like a "vacation" kind of planet him, and for several reasons why.
        It was a deep sort of purple-ish blue color, with swirling black clouds and random craters visible from space. There was no greenery, and from what Lance could tell from the screenshots orbiting the hologram, a good 2/3 of the planet was bare wasteland. No oceans or any other kinds of water, and no moon orbiting it either. It looked boring, nothing fun to do there. And Lance was 90% sure that there was some kind of flesh-eating monster hiding in some kind of enormous cave or whatever. Truly scary.....
    "The planet your looking at, now that you decided to join us, Lance-" Allura began, her voice containing an unreasonable amount of saltiness and pettiness...Something the princess seemed to have a lot of. "-is the planet Crevatan. This planet serves as a high-tech Galran base, housing much of the supply desperately needed for the galran warships. Intel from the Marmoran Blades spies suggest that a new weapon, one more stronger than anything the Galrans have previously developed, is being shipped there tonight. It's imparriative that we intercept the weapon or infiltrate that base so we can destroy if. With our current time, we're looking more towards infiltration."
     Lance let out a secret sigh. Another infiltration mission...just great. It's not like the last few ones were that much of a success...sarcastic wise. The more of these mission that they did, the more their performance nose dived into the pit of failure. "Infiltration" was exactly the 'voltron way'.
     "How are we getting in, and what is everyone going to be doing?" Shiro asked, folding his immensely strong arms over his equally strong chest. He was always a step ahead, whether in plans or in fighting. It was always a trait Shiro just seemed to carry better than the other paladins. Allura smiled at him before continuing, going on the explain all about the different roles the paladins would be performing.
     "Pidge your on tech duty. Hack into the mainframe and get cameras, doors, pins, and anything that can grant us access to the weapon under control. Make sure their systems don't detect us coming either . Hunk and Shiro will split up at the north entrance and go through the west and east duct. You'll be placing sensors, helping Pidge gain more eyes and ears, as well as thoroughly checking out each of the eight containment units in the base."
     Shiro and Hunk did a small fist bump, their confident smiles mirroring each other.
      "I will infiltrate the weaponry and see if I can at least find the weapon or plans of the weapon there. Lance, your on sniper duty. Your our eyes in the sky"
    Lance gave a thumbs up, giving his comrades his signature competitive smirk, his eyes showing with the same amount of  awesomeness Lance just seemed to have radiating out of him.
"Alright then. We'll leave in a small carrier, fixed with Pidge's cloaking device. It will be undetectable to the enemy. From there we'll have about 2 hours to find the weapon and steal or destroy it. Dismissed!"
One by one the paladins exited the room, heading down to the castles docking bay. A new weapon, eh? Lance thought, his nonchalant tone causing whatever nerves he had at ease. Why be worried anyways? If worst comes to work, they'll just blow the place up like always and it will all ends there. Then he could get back to his reality: banging some out-of-this-world chics!
      But, like always, the universe had other plans. Why should anything go Lance's way? It's much more fun to see what he will do when his world goes topsy-turvy and he has to rearrange ALL his plans. And that's just what the universe was planning on doing. Destiny could have a price of the action, but whatever Lance wanted to happen, whatever he wanted to see come true, would be re-written for the sake of the universes entertainment.....as all of our lives are.

    Because, just for the kicks...someone else was already living at that Crevatan base.....and that someone was a really, high tech weapon

Hey guys!
So originally I wasn't planning on continuing with Astro cause I honestly didn't think that it was that good of a story...but then something amazing happened! People started to read it and then asked for a continuation, so I made one! I got all these crazy ideas for this story, so hopefully they'll be good ones. Chapter three should come out relatively quick since I'm on summer va-cay. So thanks for your comments and your votes! (They really lift the spirits!)
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