Left For Dead

Rescue

My eyes flutter open to fins myself lying in this field of tall grass. I bring myself up to find I have no bandages on my hips anymore and my armor is not all battered up. As I try to stand up I feel someone on my right shoulder, Nestra. Her short navy and red hair covering apart of her face, I see her violet lips move as if she is saying something, "no.....Treave.....help.....look.....monster" she mumbles. I shrug it off, I try gently to put her head down as I try to stand. 

I am successful and walk around the field towards a tall tree that resembles an oak tree. The leaves however were hanging down like vines with bright multicolored flowers. I slowly move my hands through the vines to see a stone in the ground. There are words on the stone so I take a closer look at the stone.

"Katie (Pidge) Holt"

"April 3rd, 2068 - September 12th, 2084"

I feel to my knees with tears in my eyes. "They all think I am dead.....". My hands covered my face and I was full on sobbing. Suddenly I felt a warmth around me, I bring my hands away from my face to see Nestra with her arms around me. I turned around to bring my arms around her and my face snuggled in her chest. I stutter, "They....ddon't...know...i am aallive".

She starts to rub my back and with the most beautiful and calming voice I have ever heard she says, "They will know soon enough so don't worry because I will promise you this". She holds up her right hand, "I promise that you will be back with your team in no time and it will be known throughout the universe that you are not dead but alive and well". 

She tilts her head and gives me the cutest smile. My face already red from crying becomes a tomato as we comfort each other in a hug that I wanted to last forever. However, I felt the ground shake and soon enough everything faded away.

"Hey um...green paladin someone got our signal and is coming here, they will be here in a couple vargas". She gazes into my eyes to find that they are pretty red. Her expression changes to a worried look, "Are you okay, it looks like you have been crying?" I rub my eyes and wipe away the tears. "Yeah just had a bad dream"

"Also I think I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Katie but all of my friends call me Pidge". She looks at me funny, "Why do you have two names?". "Oh well actually my older brother named Matt gave me that nickname so long ago I can't remember when he gave it to me, it kinda just stuck with me I guess" I shrug my shoulders. She says in a soft tone, "Well I think its cute how you kept the name and it suits you, Pidge" a small smirk emerges from her face as she says my name. My heartbeat seemed to quicken as she said it.

I grab the crutches and I try to stand with them, Nestra puts her arm under my arm. My cheeks become a rosy pink, "Thanks". She helps me get comfortable with the crutches. I asked, "So do you have any idea where we are supposed to go?". "Not quite but they picked up our location when we sent out the signal so they will be close to us so we should be on alert". She brings her hand to the back of her neck, "we can explore a bit if you want?" she asked shyly.

In a gleeful tone I say "Of course, we aren't going to be on this beautiful planet much longer so why not we take in some of the scenery". She clasps her hands together, "Alright let's go".

We find this smooth dirt path that leads through the lush forests of Goren. The leaves of the trees and plants have markings on them that glow in the darkness of the night. All different colors but Nestra seems to glow the brightest even in the dark. 

As Nestra and I are walking I see a beautiful red and purple flower. My eyes widen as an idea pops into my head. I make my way over the flower and pick it. I whisper to myself "It reminds me of her so much". She glances over at me, "Whatcha doing over there?". In a flirty tone, I say, "A little gift".

I show her the flower and she stares at it. Her whole face becomes two shades darker than it was. She stammers, "Tha..nks". I hand her the flower, she stares at the beauty of it and then puts it behind her ear. Her eyes have never sparkled so much. We move closer to each other, our faces so near to each other I could feel the warmth of her breathe on my cheeks. My hazel brown eyes locked with her sea blue eyes that sparkle with specks of silver. 

Then we here a large booming sound. She pulls her head back, "That must be them, we should go". I hang my head, "Yeah we should probably go". 

The walk to them was dead silent. Neither of us spoke or looked at each other. I continuously stared at the ground making sure where to place the crutches while I was walking. The thoughts and feelings running through my head are filled with regret and sadness. I wished so badly I could understand what Nestra was thinking because this could have ruined everything.

Once we make it to the ship we are greeted by Captain Olia and their crew. Nestra turns to a more serious tone of voice as she speaks to Olia. "Thank you for getting our signal and picking us up, we need to bring the paladin back to Voltron as soon as possible". Olia looks back me, "Paladin our medic on board and give you some meds that can make you feel a little less discomfort until you get back to your team". 

I nod my head, "Thank you, Captain". "Please call me Olia, you don't have to be that formal with me". I nod my head, then look back at Nestra but I only see the back of her head. I can't get my mind off what happened back there, I should probably talk to her. I will on the way back.

As soon as we were out of the atmosphere of I go over to Nestra and tap her on her shoulder, "Hi, I think we need to talk". She looks back at me, "Okay". We go to the back of the ship were no one can hear us. I start, "So...um...as you can see I kinda fell for you and I thought we would kiss back there it didn't happen". She crosses her arms and runs her left hand through her hair. "Yeah I can see that I really actually did want to kiss you but some part of me was so hesitant because of my past". 

"If you don't mind me asking, what happened back then?" I asked. She sighed, "So much that it would take me many quintents just to explain everything, once the time has come I will". I nod my head, but then I realize something. "So once I with Voltron again we won't be able to see each other again, you will be doing coalition stuff and I will be with the paladins". She shrugs "I guess".

Suddenly the ship starts to move all over the place I fall on top of Nestra. I feel my face become so hot as if I ate the hottest pepper in the universe. I tried to get off her but the ship was still moving around so much it was hard to get up. Outside I hear lasers, that's never a good sound. Nestra said in a rushed tone, "We will finish our chat later, right now we gotta get the cockpit".

I only grabbed one crutch because the pain meds seem to be working. I limped my way to the cockpit. I saw 4 galra fighters shooting at us, Olia trying their best to move around dodging the attacks. Another person at the crew down below at a turret trying to shoot down the ships. They got one so 3 are left.

"Pidge, strap in", I look to see Nestra fastening into the seat behind Olia. There is a seat right next to Nestra so I stumble over to the seat and try to sit. Next, I try to strap in while being attacked and also trying not to damage my torso even more than it already is.

A loud bang comes from the right side of the ship in the back. Right where one of the rockets that propels us through space. Then another hit where a piece of debris from the second ship that got shot down, go rammed into the other side of the ship in the middle.

Olia's co-pilot pointed out a small planet nearby we could crash land on but we would be stuck there for a while. Olia moves their head back, "Are you okay paladin if you have to stay with us a bit longer than expected". I frantically say, "Yes, now let's get to the planet because this is the only way out".

Olia pilots the ship to the planet. As we enter the atmosphere flames appear on the outside of the ship.  After the flames disappear we see parts of the ship didn't make it as we come hurdling towards the moon. Then crash, everything went dark.