Stranded

Chapter 8- Blue

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"Did I or did I not, specifically say that I should have been the one to go outside?! How do you even manage to cause an explosion from just the wiring in Blue?! You better not have hurt Blue! No, the almighty-hero-Keith just had to go and nearly blow himself up and give everyone heart attacks! Do you realize that you almost killed all of the Paladins of Voltron in one swoop, from the heart attacks we had?! The Galra must love you right now! Those creatures too! Speaking of which, one could have come and gotten you, or me, or both of us!" Keith had yet to see Lance take a breath as he vented all of his pent-up worry while Keith couldn't run away.

"Not to mention the fact that—Oh holy quiznak!" The second round of Lance's rant was cut off by a sound that no one was expecting to hear at that time. His accusing and worry filled eyes turned into pure surprise as he stared, slack-jawed at Keith's equally unbelieving face, except Keith had one other emotion showing; relief. Pure unfiltered relief.

Blue had just thrummed to life, on the outside her eyes shined proudly as she rose into a sitting position, ready to go.

"H-how?" Lance question, he thought that whatever had happened with Keith had caused more problems with Blue, he had never imagined that she would actually come online from that.

"Uh, Pidge?" Keith called through the coms, just like Lance he didn't have a clue as to how this was possible, but if anyone on the Voltron team knew, it would be their resident expert.

"What now?" Pidge sounded absolutely exhausted, but that was about to change in just a moment; making sure he was on the open channel, so everyone would hear him he delivered the long-awaited news, "Blue just came online."

Keith heard a crash before relieved laughter from Pidge, cheering and whooping from Hunk, and an amused chuckle from Shiro filled the coms.

"Okay, that's great and all," Hunk managed to get out once his cheering started to die down, "but how? Last we heard something tried to blow you up, and we knew you were okay, but how did that help Blue?"

"Wait Lance you said that Keith's left arm and hand are burned right?" Pidge was onto something while everyone else still remained confused, but they knew better than to interrupt, knowing that Pidge would eventually answer the unspoken questions.

"Yeah, his hand is worse that his arm, and his shield projector is broken." Lance answered while impatiently shuffling his feet.

"So, even though he was only about three feet away from the explosion, the only damaged he received was on the arm that was actually inside of Blue's wiring, correct?"

"Yeah, and his leg, but he already had that before going out." Okay when you put it like that, it does sound suspicious.

"When the explosion happened did you see fire or just light? Was there a fire in Blue when you were getting Keith, Lance?"

"I remember a blinding flash of light, almost like it was lightning. Now that you mention it, I never did see a fire, there were black marks on Blue's leg though."

"Like lightning, eh? Well, what if it wasn't an actual bomb, but an electromagnetic bomb? That would explain the great flash of light, and the minimal damaged to Keith, also the Lions have the ability to turn that sudden surge of power from the 'bomb' into useable power for them." Pidge explained as the pieces started to connect in everyone's mind. Lance had to admit that it did make sense, even though he was scared out of his mind, body, and soul when Keith was "blown up" he really did have minimal damage. Someone who was that close to a bomb would have had their arm blown off, not slightly burned.