Look out above

Escape: part 1

"You're not getting out, Keith what are you thinking?" Shiro snapped as Keith was helping Lance to stand on his feet but his legs gave out again.

"F-fuck," Lance whispered as the chains dug into his wrist. He finally stood on his feet but his deep inhale opened a wound on his chest and blood dripped slowly.

"Shiro look at him, he's going to die," Keith glared.

"Better him than us," Shiro whispered but Lance looked at him hurt.

"Yes, cause staying down here following orders like puppets is so much better than what actual freedom is," lances lips trembled.

"I have a future!" Shiro yelled frustrated.

"I have a sister and my love of my life! Is that not a future?" Lance had tears running down his face. "I have my people to lead, if my sister dies then so does my clan if I'm not there!"

"We have order! We have respect! We are not savages," Lance snarled taking short breath as his legs gave out, crying out when fresh blood ran down his arm from his wrist.

"Shiro! Help!" Keith pleaded holding Lance up as best as he could, but Lance was taller than him and heavier, with his dead weight Keith could not carry him.

"He's a leader Keith, you want him to tell his people everything?" Shiro scoffed.

"Tell them that you torture us? I don't know anything else," Lance gulped closing his eyes as his head went limp to the side and Keith held him up.

"Lance wake up," keith looked at him glaring.

"I'm not dead," Lance mumbled. "I just want to go home,"

"Shiro please, give him a chance," Keith glared at his brother figure harshly but with pity.

"If this backfires, I don't know if I can help you Keith," Shiro whispered as Keith kept his hard gaze.

He went to lances wrist holding a pocket knife as he dug it in the cuff until it snapped the cuff off and Keith cried out when lances body leaned on him without the chain holding him up. He waited for Shiro to do the other wrist and held up Lance for Keith. Shiro saw the wounds more up close and felt Lance tense up whimpering.

"Let's hurry," he whispered as Lance looked around and tried stabilizing himself on his bare  feet as he only had his pants on.

"Same way as we got in," Shiro told him as Lance grabbed the wall and growled pushing himself up ignoring the pain.

"Got it," Lance nodded as Keith helped him up the ladder.

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"How do we get in?" Ezor asked as they stood around the entrance to the underworlds base.

"It's a code," Matt knelt down as Allura stood behind him and Lotor already had a sword out. He pressed the key pad and placed his hand on the scanner. It accepted.

"We're in," Matt told them. "Take only a few, it's a quick in and out,"

"Allura and I, Acxa, and Narti," Lotor looked back.

"What? What about us?" Zethrid glared.

"If it's easy in and out, we need stealthy, you know the call for when we need back up, hopefully it won't come to that," Lotor told her calmly and offered Allura a hand as she crawled into the entrance and found a ladder. She let go and jumped off the ladder as five seconds later she landed in a crouching position on the ground but glared feeling the cool metal under her finger tips.

She knocked on the ladder five times and Lotor nodded as he jumped down as well rolling to his feet. Acxa landed easily and Narti silently slid down the ladder as Matt climbed down and jumped off second to last step.

"Bravo," Allura said flatly looking at him and Matt rubbed the back of his head smiling awkwardly.

"We aren't use to jumping 20ft without breaking our legs," Matt told them as he put in a code on the wall and a large door open as they saw it was dirty with blood on the ground. Going two ways.

"That's the infirmary, wounded soldiers go there," Matt motioned to a different path.

"The R sector is a heavier built prison, he'll be held there, be carful if Iverson is there or anyone, if the alarms go off just get back up," Matt told the four and Allura crossed her arms.

"How do we not trigger the alarms?" Lotor asked.

"Don't get caught," he stated turning around and saw the four rabids gone already.

"Easy in an out..." He sighed and began running down his own path to find his sister.