Tangled Plance (AU)

Part 8

Pidge watched as Hunk and Keith ran away. She immediately looked forward, not wanting to give away that someone else was here.

"Let go of me!" She shouted, squirming to keep up the act. They were getting close to the door and she felt anxious for a second. Maybe Hunk and Keith were just getting her hopes up and weren't actually going to help her.

Suddenly, the door in front of them shut, as did all the other doors surrounding the hall. Pidge smirked.

A guard angrily banged on the door. The small window opened and Pidge recognized an orange mustache.

"What's the password." Coran said with a challenging grin on his face.

"Open this door!" The guard shouted.

Coran chuckled. "Well that's not even close."

"We will break this door down." The guard threatened.

The window opened again and Coran stared at the guard unamused. "Wrong yet again. Are you even trying?"

Coran and the guard continued arguing and Pidge noticed the guards around her slowly being taken out and dragged off. Her eyes followed one of the unconscious guards getting dragged off and saw a black mullet. She smiled at Keith to say thank you. She turned to look back at the single guard who was arguing with Coran with perfect timing. When the guard turned around to check on Pidge, he found she was standing alone.

"Hello." Pidge said teasingly, raising her shackled hands to wave. The guard stared at her confused while Pidge watched behind him with glee. Coran opened the door and sent a flying kick, knocking the guard out. Coran gingerly stepped over the knocked out guard.

"That is what you call a flying kick-sneak attack." He said proudly. Pidge laughed. "Thank you." She said, when the thud of running boots was heard behind her. Great. More Guards.

Pidge immediately ran in the other direction, and as she ran she heard the loud steps suddenly stop. Hunk stood before the crowd as a distraction. In his hand was a plate of delicious looking foods.

"Can I interest you in any Pizza Pockets from Hunk's very own kitchen?" He asked. The guards looked confused. Some of them reaching out to grab one of the bite sized Pizzas. Pidge stood watching with a smirk. That's when Shiro came out of the corridor running. He took out all of the guards in one swoop. Pidge watched, astonished even though she knew she should be running.

Shiro looked at her and gestured to a door behind her. "Go out that door, and we have someone waiting out there to escort you to wherever you need to go. Hurry." Shiro said, before motioning for Keith, Hunk, Coran and the other people from the Snuggly Duckling to leave.

Pidge nodded a thank you. She owed these boys so much.

She suddenly opened the door, and immediately started speaking. "We need to get to the forest now. Lance is in tro-" She stopped suddenly. She stared astonished for a second before she ran up and tackled the escort with a hug. Her eyes were wet.

"Well- I've missed you too Katie." The voice of Matt said from above her. Pidge just burrowed herself into his shirt further, trying not to sob.

"How did you- Where-" She started, breaking away from the hug.

"Well, I went missing all those years ago because I was kidnapped by group of pirates." He started. Pidge stared at him confused but let him continue. "I recently escaped and found my way to a restaurant and they were all chatting about some wanted criminal who had just passed through and I saw the wanted poster-" He explained. Pidge chuckled slightly, looking down.