Numbed Feelings - Shklance

Chapter 3

Lance stayed silent as he heard both Keith and Shiro quarrel on the intercoms, Pidge and Hunk equally loud.

"We can't do anything right now, Shiro! It's too dangerous for anyone to go down there!" Hunk reasons out, both Pidge and Keith nodded their heads in agreement.

The team found out that one of the Galra ships were attacking them were exporting prisoners and rebels. Not only that, they were also tons of weapons stored inside the ship that would be used in the war, thanks to the Princess' coordinates.

"Hunk, think of all the people that we can save!" Shiro exclaims, shooting one Galra ship down that was aiming for the castle. Lance hummed in acknowledgement. Shiro was right, if they want people to be on their side of the battle, they need to save a lot more of them to gain their trust and attention. Now that Lance's fears are away, he could easily express out his ideas with seriousness.

"He's right." He voiced out, looking at the screen of his teammate's shocked face. He aimed another ship with Blue's gun before shooting it down with a loud explosion.

"Bu-"

"If we want to survive this war, we need a lot of people in our side. One of it is going to be with the slaves and rebels, plus the fact that we can hijack the ship so that we can burn a quarter of their weapons down is a huge opportunity! We can't let this opportunity escape!" Lance reasons out, his words held firm and stern, and monotone.

"Lance, I understand where you're going at, but we are at a huge disadvantage here! There are more and more Galra ships aiming at us, and there are only 5 people defending the castle!" Pidge replies, grunting as she has been a bit by small Galran beam, which Keith immediately shot down. Lance narrows his eyes, as he puts his self on past-Lance's shoes. How he will handle this, and how he could convince any of them. He closes his eyes, before an idea pops up back at his head.

Compassion.

"Pidge, imagine if your family was down there, wouldn't you want to save them too? How about you, Hunk, what if there were women and children being tortured and beaten down there? Would you still stand by and watch?" he asks, dropping his voice a few octaves to imitate his past-self's caring voice.

"Keith?" the brunette calls out, waiting for anyone of them to reply. He looked at the screen, seeing his eyes turned dark and calculating.

"I just don't want to lose anyone of you." Keith whispers, the sound of the explosion is slowly drowned out by his own heartbeat.

"And you won't." Lance assures, Shiro smiles sadly opening his mouth to express his gratification and assurance, only to be cut out by Blue's loud roaring sound and Lance's appalling words.

"Not anyone important anyway."

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Lance landed safely on top of the said Galran ship that hosts over thousands of servants and rebels on the bottom floor, as well as the craters upon craters of weapons for the Galras. He rolled his eyes before turning off his intercom, as to stop his teammate's constant warnings and screams of pleading and fear for his life.

He sighs as he adjusted the bandages of his broken arm. Taking out his bayard, Lance trudged inside the Galran ship with ease, no emotion on his face.

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It took a while for Shiro and the gang to land safely at the ship. They took out mostly of the Galran ships, it turns out it was just a small fleet of ships rather than big fish itself, which was fortunate enough for them, regarding with Lance's now rebellion stage.

Keith and Hunk jumped out of their lions, they were the ones who run to Lance's aid while Pidge and Shiro were on the lookout for any more ships.

Turning on the corner, Hunk almost vomited at the sight of fresh blood splattered around the Galran walls with a lot of Galran soldiers lying dead on the floor. They surveyed the whole ship, only to find it... empty, if you don't count the dead bodies on the floor.

Finally seeing the doors to the basement, they both stood there, their jaws ajar to see Lance all bloody, face caked with splattered blood, underneath him where hundreds of soldiers, dead with various shot wounds.

Keith was the first one who snaps out of it.

"L-lance.. are you hurt?" He asks, inching towards the bloody brunette. The said blue paladin looked down at his body, seeing his bleeding leg, broken arm, bleeding shoulders- and is that a whole in his body? He didn't even notice.

"Yeah, I think so." He replies casually, limping towards them but smiling nonetheless. Keith stifled a gasp while Hunk's eyes watered in fear and concern of his friend. Lance, seeing this, smiled re-assuring-ly before placing an injured hand on his best friend's shoulder.

"Oh, no, don't cry..!" He imitates his past self. "Its fine, I'm really fine, don't worry about it." He laughs before smiling darkly.

"But you're hurt!" Keith exclaims, he laughs again.

"It's fine, really!" he re-assures again, before feeling his eyesight to darken.

"I can't feel anything anyway." He says, before blacking out.