It's Different There (Klance Alternate Reality AU)

Part 1

This was not how things should have ended up, the castle was shaking under the pressure of being sucked into a portal that Allura created. She had been curious to test the limits of her abilities of her Altean magic, so she tried to create a time portal. It was only 'supposed' to take them a few days ahead of time to test the waters. If they could harness the ability to warp through time they could stop Zarkon in the past when he was weaker.

Although, Lance could deduce that this was NOT going as planned. Most of Allura's portals were blue and controlled. This one looked similar to a black-hole, pulling them towards it. Allura tried her best, but she failed to be able to close the monstrosity she created. "Paladins I need you to pull the ship out of it's range so we have enough time to figure out how to close this," she instructed.

"We're on it princess," Shiro said before jogging out of the room to his black lion. "Don't worry babe, I'll return to you shortly~" Lance flirted while giving her a pair of finger guns while leaving for his blue lion. Allura glared at Lance in un-amusement for his poor attempt at flirting.

Once they were all in their lions, Shiro used the famous line 'form Voltron!' and obviously they did. First, they tried pulling the ship away so they wouldn't have to get close to the aggressive portal but they couldn't get enough force to pull it away. Even when Hunk and Lance pushed their thrusters to their max.

Warily they were forced to circle around so they could push the ship away, but they were having a hard time not being dragged in themselves. "My thrusters are at their limit, it's going to tear us apart!" Lance exclaimed as they were starting to fall into the portal.

"We can't let the castle get pulled in!" Shiro shouted
"Yeah but what about us? We're falling in!" Hunk exclaimed back in a panicked voice.

Then Lance's thrusters stalled out, "oh god..." he paled as they fell straight into the portal. The force from the portal made them pressed into disbanding from Voltron, and then everything stopped.

Everything was black as all the lions were temporarily shut down to recuperate. Lance opened his eyes to look around, "everyone's okay right?" he asked a little warily. Hunk groaned to life, "define 'okay'," he responded and Lance sighed in relief that they were okay.

Looking around, the portal was gone. Completely. It was like it had never existed. The castle was gone too, "hey guys? Where are we exactly?" Lance asked as his lion turned back on, and he moved Blue to circle around everyone once.

Despite the chaos that had jus occurred, Keith really had no words for the situation. Neither did he even know ho to react as they had gotten dragged into things like this before.
His lion was almost directly in front of Lance's. As he looked around more closely he began to feel a sense of dèjá-vu. Before speaking up, he circled Red a couple more times just to be sure.
"Hey guys?...Does anyone else feel like they've been here before?" He trailed off, recalling a similar event in the past.
"I swear this feels familiar.."

Pidge's piped in now, "yeah my radar says we are in the same exact place.. do you think it actually worked?" she asked while turning her lion towards Shiro's hoping he would have an answer. "Well, I guess we'll just have to look around to find out, stay close," he ordered as he then tried to contact the castle with his intercom, but nothing came through except for static.
"Do you think they're okay?" Lance asked with the slightest hint of worry in his voice. If the portal was strong enough to force them to disband Voltron then what had happened to the ship? "Actually I think they're fine, the portal looks like it closed once we got sucked in.. which.. makes us stuck here," Pidge stated.

Keith squinted his eyes toward a certain direction. A small dot was in the distance. He had Red zoom in a little but it was still blurry.
"Do you guys see that? It looks like a ship.." The other lions turned the same way, focusing on the foreign object blurred by weird space clouds. "Wait..no way is that the castle??" He suddenly said aloud, taking in the very similar shape. It was in fact the castle, but something else was off about it, yet he couldn't tell what. If it were Coran and Allura theyd be able to communicate with them.

Lance was the first to follow and leaned forward to try and get a clearer view, "hey yeah it is!" he exclaimed but even he understood that something was off. "We'll ask if it's okay to board, but keep your guards up," Shiro told them as he took the lead towards the ship.
"What if this is a trap? What if it's just a Galra ship somehow disguised as the castle?" Hunk asked worryingly.
"Hunk you have the wildest imagination, plus our princess would never let that happen," Lance assured.

Keith allowed the black lion to fly ahead of him and followed. Now that the castle was growing closer in view, Keith was beginning to put together all of what was wrong with it. The normal blue glow it normally emitted was a weird shade of green and the walls of the castle- ship were grey an nd chipped in places. Even the way it flew seemed unnatural in a way.
"What in the hell...?" Keith mumbled upon approaching it cautiously. He couldn't even imagine what it looked like inside.
"They're not even putting their defenses up..."

Everyone's eyes widened at the sight, if this had been, or was somehow related to the Altean castle they knew they had to check on it.
"Oh my god.." Hunk mumbled through the intercom.
"We have to check on them," Lance said in a slightly more determined voice then normal. Worry was tugging at his chest, he had grown very fond of Allura not just because she was pretty, and Coran was like some weird space uncle to him.
"Be careful don't get ahe-" Shiro started but Lance was already shooting forward towards the ship. "Lance!" Shiro scolded through the intercom but he ignored him.

Keith followed after Lance to keep an eye out in case something would want to attack. No signs of hostility came from the ship, which most likely led Lance to thinking it actually was Coran and Allura.
"Lance, be careful." Keith said, making sure the blue paladin knew he was following. Keeping his team--family-- safe was his top priority.
The castle had been floating slowly. The thrusters were obviously not working.
"I think the power is down. They're barely going anywhere.."

"I know I know, Lancey Lance has got things under control," He assured Keith while slowly circling the ship. "I think we should really board though.." he added as he started to get closer with each go around.
"Alright, but stay close and stay in your lions until I say otherwise," Shiro stated while the others caught up and started to head towards the boarding docks in the castle. "Do you think they'll open them for us?" Hunk asked.
"If they don't Allura gave me access codes to the ship so I can open it," Pidge stated while she opened the boarding rooms doors so they could get in.