Stranded

Chapter 10- Arrival

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"What happened to this place?" Allura gasped out as the Castle of Lions entered Thrakzian's atmosphere. The entire planet was almost completely a desert with only a few small patches of green spread out, Allura could tell that this wasn't the natural environment for the planet though, ruins of large cities, destroyed buildings, and the ground seemed to have been burned.

"What could have done this?" She couldn't believe her eyes, she had seen her fair share of destruction while piloting the Castle and working with the Paladins, but the entire planet had been destroyed. There was only one question that remained in her mind- was this due to a devastating natural disaster or was there a more sinister force behind this?

"We need to focus on finding the Paladins, Princess." Coran's voice pulled her from her thoughts, "Now that we're below the Thrakzian's upper atmosphere we can use the short-range scanners to find them, although due to the damage of the ship, it might take some time."

"Right, how did the power transfer go?" One thing at a time, the Paladins came first, then they had to fix the Castle of Lions, after they accomplished those two tasks, then she could look into this planet's history.

"We lost half of our speed, but the weapons system is back online, and the shields are almost fully charged while the healing pods have full power and are ready to be used if needed." Coran and Allura both heaved a sigh of relief at his words, in all honesty, their situation was slowly becoming less desperate.

"Good. Active the scanners to search the whole planet for the Lions, once we find one, we'll go pick them up and throw their Paladin in a Pod." The space mice saluted her and huddled in front of the appropriate screen to help in the search for the missing Paladins.

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"Are we there yet?" Lance jokingly drawled out when he woke up from his nap, after the two of them had checked on both Red and Black, they had decided to switch places. The green lion was a lot further from their position then the other Lion's had been, so Keith half-suggested, half-threatened Lance to rest while he took over and piloted Blue.

"Not yet. Go back to sleep, you need it." Keith glanced down at him, he wasn't bleeding and he maintained steady color in his face, but Keith was still worried about him. He knew that none of the Paladins had taken the time to properly attempt to fix themselves up, they had all instead decided to stubbornly ignore their injuries and focus on the task at hand. It wasn't one of their smartest decisions, and it definitely wasn't a healthy one, but it did help them to keep moving toward their goal.

"I'm alright. How are you doing?"

"Just fine."

"That's a lie if I ever heard one." Lance scoffed, "You drive, but let me see that leg."

"It's fine Lance." Keith swatted his hand away, but Lance wasn't having that.

"Keith, you probably don't even remember now, but when we fought that creature he threw you outside; not to mention, even before that, you ran all the way from Red to me. If we don't take care of that, it will get infected! And don't even get me started on you nearly blowing up!" Lance gave him the most intense glare that he could muster before grabbing the med kit and dropping to his knees next to Keith's leg.

Lance carefully removed the armor plating on Keith's leg that had at least partially been protecting the wound from the elements, the bandages from the last time they did this were still intact and he didn't seem to be bleeding at the moment. Lance removed the old wrappings, cleaned the wound again, rewrapped him, and put the plating back into place without a problem. He did, however, encounter a problem when he tried to take Keith's left hand.