I'm not his servant, I'm his lover

III - Why would we want this scum on our team?

Keith tapped his foot impatiently.

"It has been half a varga since the alarms went off, I'm sorry Hunk, I have going to wake him up."

The Alarms suddenly silenced, after having been on during the presumed attack. The princess and Coran were frantically trying to go through the security footage to find out exactly what happened. "Fine, but, I will go. Because the last thing he needs to see, is you right now."

Hunk was pissed. Kieth had no right to treat their teammate like that, though Lance wasnt in the clear either. Lance has been through excruciating pain, and he needed to tell the team. Hunk wasnt going to out his friend about his abandonment anxiety, but he would sure gell Lance to do it. It was a major part of the barrier between the teammates, a secret wall that everyone could feel.

The rest were helping the Alteans look through the videos, when Shiro noticed something in the corner.
"Hey Allura, could you rewind a bit? I saw something in Hallways 230w and 649n T-cross" The princess hummed out in response, while zooming and rewinding, with Pidge watching over her shoulder, learning all that she could about the alien tech. "Right there!" Shiro pointed at a figure on the screen."There's lance, wait, why is he turning right? His room is to the left?"

"Wait, what happened? Why'd it go all fuzzy? Lance couldn't be smart enough to fuzz the camera." Keith thought for a moment, "Allura, you're sure the tech is up-to-date?" Keith was practically fuming, if Lance hadn't gone to ris room, rhan he wasnt asleep.

"Well, um, the batteries may have died..." Coran's sheepish reply was heard, accessorized with a stressed twirl of his moustache.

"Guys! Lance isn't in his room! We need to search the castle!" Hunk ran in startling everyone, but not nearly as much as the crackling of the castle receiving a video call.

"I'm sorry, yellow one, but that won't be necessary, as I have Lance right here." The prince, recognized by the others due to past battles when Lance was not in attendance, stated calmly, moving to the side to show an unconscious lance tied up to the ceiling by his wrist.

"Lance! Buddy! Hang on! We're coming to get you!"

"Nuh-uh-uh, I don't think so. If you want your precious paladin back, you're going to have to give me what I want."

"No. we won't be giving you Voltron. The fate of the universe is much more important than that of one useless, hotheaded, good-for-nothing teenager." Hunk would swear 'till the end of his short little life that he saw Lance's body twitch at Keith's comment.

"Settle down, sparky, I don't want the robot. All I want is useful information. What was the earth term, hmm, gossip? Yes, I believe we should, gossip, about the lions of Voltron." The prince was bribing the team of paladins, and Hunk was about to give away everything, when Keith took command of the situation, shoving hunk back to get him out of his way, as the feisty paladin made his final remarks to the prince.

"We don't care about that idiotic child. He is useless to us. We could go down to earth, pick up any random person, and we'd get a better pilot that him. Look at him, prince, why would we want this scum on our team. Keep him." Kieth than mumbled, "Or shove him out of an airlock."

"You planned that?" Pidge had tears welled up in her eyes at the realization of how cruel Keith could be to her best friend, her brother of another mother, her buddy, her partner in crime. How could he?

The paladins all turned back to the screen to see furry on the prince's face, then the video fuzzed out.

"Good riddance" Keith mumbled, as the realization of what has just happened hit everyone differently. Pidge had her bayard drawn and was being held back by a Hunk who appeared to be seconds away from going into shock. Shiro was going into a panic attack worrying about what could happen to Lance, and suffering shell shock, remembering his days with the Galra. Allura was being comforted by Coran, who had lost his fun-uncle appearance and replaced it with a pissed expression. Keith felt a wave of relief flood over him.

Matt stood in the corner confused and asked, "Who's Lance?"