Little Wonders

Shards

"What about you?" Allura interjected. "What will you be doing?"

He didn't waste a second, already changing Black's direction. "I'm going to do a quick scan of the area."

They had been set up.

The moment he left the outer atmosphere, something had happened to Black. Without warning, all of Black's systems powered down; causing them to plummet back into the planet's atmosphere.

Nothing was working. Black was completely down and Keith was at a loss. He tried to connect with Black, tried talking to him. Hell, he even tried getting the lion to fire.

But Black wouldn't budge.

A shadow loomed over them and before Keith could even think of an alternative, Black was already being taken up by the alien ship.The ship had been cloaked and in hiding, as if it had been waiting for them - waiting for Voltron to come and rescue their fallen comrade.

All of this had to be a plan to a bigger scheme.

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Hundreds of sentries surrounded Black in what Keith could only guess was the ship's cargo hold, armed and ready to fire at him at any moment they deemed fit. He could feel his patience running thin with every hour that passed. Black wasn't responding still and neither were his comms from what he could tell.

The sound of the heavy duty doors opening alerted Keith, immediately pulling him from his own thoughts to focus on the new visitor.

"Sentries! Weapons down."

Keith froze the moment he recognized the voice. His blood ran cold. There was no way in hell he could be back.

There was no logical explanation.

"What the fuck?" he muttered under his breath.

Once the sentries lowered their weapons, Lotor started his approach to Black, completely unphased by the beast that towered over thousands of feet above him.

"He's supposed to be dead" , Keith thought.

"Paladin! if you wish no harm to you or your lion, I suggest you show your face immediately."

Arrogant fucking bastard.

There wasn't a lot of options left for him to choose from. Either he stood his ground in Black and risk hurting them both. Or, he could surrender and buy himself some more time to figure out what the everloving fuck was going on.

"My patience is running quite thin paladin~"

He never wanted to punch someone more than he did right now.

"Oh fuck me." He groaned out in frustration.

As he grabbed his knife, Keith gave a reassuring pat to Black's side and exited the lion reluctantly.

As he approached Lotor, a sense of dread overcame him. There was no way he wasn't going to get hurt.. Everyone had learnt from their previous mistake of trusting him- and at a great cost too. And whatever was about to happen, Keith knew one thing that was for certain;

They would never ally themselves with Lotor again.

"Halt paladin!" Lotor's voice boomed out as he raised a hand to stop him from walking any further.