Voltron: Universal Protector | Book 3

Chapter 11: Attack On The Balmera

We hit Zartron with the battle axe at highspeed. They were trying to pull a crystal out of the Balmera. Galra fighters were all around us. "Aurora, Harper, shoot them down!" I shout. Quace took out his bayard and we shot down the Galra fighters with the shoulder canon. Zartron was stunned but there were still fighters coming. We were suddenly hit from behind, the shadow of Zartron over top of us. We stood back up, forming the shield and battle axe swiftly. Zartron blasted with the Red Lion's arm cannon, breaking our shield. "Quace, Brisia, thrusters!" 

"You got it!" Quace yells, pushing his control handles forward. We slid out from underneath them before they could fire again. We swung at them, smacking them in the face with the battle axe. "Yeah! Ha, ha!" They formed their sword and charged at us. We clashed weapons as more Galra fighters swarmed around us. Zafarian starfighters swooped down and shot most of them down. We were knocked down by the force of their attacks, the Green Lion shooting a beam in Voltron's face. 

"Ah! We can't take much more of this!" Harper squeals, as her bayard slot opened. "Huh, looks like its time for some dual wielding action!" She placed her bayard inside the slot and turned it, twin blades forming in Voltron's hands. Zartron swung it's sword downward, and we repelled the attack with our dual swords. We slashed Zartron across the chest and stood up. 

A Galra cruisers were retreating to the surface, where the rest of their army was, as well as us. Our fleet of ships began following them. The capital Galra cruiser began charging it's ion cannon. I pulled up on my control handles and pushed them forward, but I was too late. The ion cannon fired, hitting us onto the surface of the Balmera. The Castle of Lions, along with the rest of the fleet, started firing on Zartron. Zartron formed it's arm cannon and blasted right through one of our Zafarian frigates. "No!" I shouted, "come on, get back up!" I shifted my control handles back and forth. 

Zartron went up and attacked the Castle of Lion's particle barrier, trying to pierce through it. "King Alfor, Zartron is in range, do you want to try and break them apart again?" Coran asks leaning back from the weapons control console. We grabbed Zartron by their wing and tossed them down onto the surface of the planet. "Oh, never mind, they're out of range now."

"Is there anyway we can get closer and help Voltron?" Jade questions.

"Our options are limited, Jade, we have the Galra fleet attacking us and trying to steal Balmeran crystals," Alfor explained to her. He placed his hand on her shoulder. "We need to have faith." Jade glanced down then back up at him. Just then, two Galra ships fired their ion cannons on the Castle, breaking the particle barrier and 

"Alfor, we've taken a major hit!" Shiro tells him rushing into the bridge. "Some of the scaultrite lenses in the teluduv was damaged and I have Slav working on it with his crew." 

Fighters began firing on the Castle. "Coran, get those shields back up as soon as possible," Alfor orders. Coran began working on the shield systems. "Jade, is the main cannon charged?" She nodded. "Good, aim to the Galra capital ship and wait for my command."

On the surface. . .

Voltron's shield was blasted away by the Red Lion's arm cannon. "Our lions are drained, we haven't made much progress, and that-"

Quace was cut off by Alfor, "Paladins," he started, "I need you to disband, I have a plan."

"What's the plan?" I ask as the Green Lion arm blasted Zartron. 

"I need Quace to use the Blue Lion's sonic cannon to rupture the shields of the Galra capital cruiser." Alfor tells them as Coran and Jade aimed the main cannon to fire on the capital ship. 

"Alright team, disband!" I shouted.I looked in the back monitors to see Eliza sleeping in the cargo hold. I knew it had been a little quiet. Zartron was flying towards us, sword going to plunge into Voltron's chest. We disbanded and Zartron stabbed into the ground. 

Quace gripped tightly onto Blue's control handles and pushed them forward, forming the sonic cannon, and blasting the sonic waves at the capital ship. "The shields are down! Fire!" Alfor commands. Coran pushed the button and a beam of energy cut through the ship's engines. The last few fighters launched before the cruiser imploded into flames and melting metals. Zartron formed it's arm cannon again and prepared to fire at the Red Lion.

"Aurora! Look out!" Brisia yells, trying to fly in front of her. Aurora gasped and thrust her control handles forward, forming a giant cannon atop Red. It fired around the same time Zartron's arm cannon did. The two beams were stuck, clashing midway between the two. "Woah, amazing Aurora!" The arm cannon's beam started to get closer to Red. 

"Brisia! A little help please" 

"Oh! Oh, sorry!"

"We got your back," I tell her. Harper, Brisia, and I fired our mouth cannons to help fend off the attack. Quace swooped in and froze Zartron's legs. "Good job, Quace!" The standoff soon ended as we completely repelled Zartron's attack. They were stuck there, frozen as we just kept firing at them. The Castle of Lions shot down another cruiser and it was coming this way.

"We need to scatter, quickly!" Harper says as she retreats. 

"Wait, let's guide the cruiser to crash down on Zartron!" Brisia suggested, flying up towards it. She formed her heavy armor and pushed on the bottom of it. I rushed up to help her with the other lions. We pushed as hard as we could to direct it toward Zartron. They blasted away the ice, but it was too late. We scattered away from the ship and watched as it crashed on top of Zartron. "Yeah, woo-hoo!"

On the Castle of Lions. . .

"King Alfor, we're detecting many escaped craft from the capital cruiser fleeing to the surface," Coran said looking on the console, and seeing Galra soldiers move inside Balmeran caves. Two other cruisers fled from the battle, using their tractor beams to try pulling the crystals out of the ground. Harper formed her vine cannon and shot the engines of one cruiser. The other one ended up pulling a bolder into itself, knocking out the stabilizers and making it crash into the surface. An image of a cloaked figure and Galra generals entering a cave was shown to them. Coran and Jade gasped. "Galra Empress Haggar."

Marae, Allura, and Amethyst entered the bridge. "I'm going down there to fight her." Marae says placing a hand on her hip.

"Not alone you're not." Allura and Amethyst say. They looked at each other and laughed.

"Great minds think alike." Alfor tells them. Marae takes a small cylindrical metal stick and presses a button on it. It extended into a long plasma-ended spear.

"She began a war with the wrong species. . ."

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