Vibrant Lights [o.h]

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Ember watched the Castle of Lions approach the yellow-greenish planet with a pensive stare. When they get closer to the planet, she would have to run to throw her armor on and gather the medical supplies she would need. Her finger tapped a beat on her shorts as she thought of everything she would need.

  Bandages, we'll need a lot of them. Regardless if the - uh, rock people? Regardless if they don't bleed. Anti-infection cream, thread, neddle - wait. . .They're rock.

    "We'll be arriving at the Balmera soon." Allura's voice broke through her thought process, bringing Ember back to the present. "Liberating these Balmerans from Zarkon's grasp will not be easy."

    "But you guys got this!" Ember sent them all a reassuring smile. Even when the other paladins looked away, she kept the smile on her face. 

    "So, what's the plan?" Lance asked the million-dollar question from Ember's left. "We go in there and just - pow, pow, pow!" He imitated the sound of a gun and waved his arms around. Ember backed away from Lance, only to run into Keith. "And free the prisoners?" 

    "What was that noise?" Keith rose a questioning eyebrow, holding onto Ember's shoulders to steady her. 

    "Laser guns," Lance replied smugly, narrowing his eyes at Keith defiantly.

    "No, Lance, I think you mean-" Hunk lunged forwards, doing his own imitation of laser guns. His final shot was a loud Pow. 

    "That sounds like fireworks." Lance retorted.

    "Technically, they're more like-" Pidge entered the conversations - making a finger gun to emphasis her point. "ba-choo, ba-choo, ba-choo!"

    "I think it's more like; pew, pew, pew!" Ember joined in, pretending to reload her 'gun' and pointed it at Keith with a cheeky smile. "Pew!"

    "Okay, enough with the bad sound effects," Shiro ordered. "Besides, it's more like - blam, blam, blam!" He got down on a knee - pointed his 'gun' forwards and held his wrist. If the former cadets actually thought about it, that was the way the Garrison taught them to shoot. 

    "What?" Keith snapped lightly. 

    "You're crazy." Pidge denied.

    "No way,"

    "Wrong,"

    "Sorry Shiro," 

    "Paladins, focus." Allura spoke up, gaining their attention again. 

    "Besides, we can't just shoot at the Galra. This Balmera, it's, like, alive." Hunk tried to explain. "And from what we've seen, it doesn't look very good."

    "Yes, it's an atrocity what the Galra have been doing to this grand beast," Coran let out a disappointed statement as he showed a graph of the planet. "Stealing it's crystals, it's very life force, without ever performing the energy rejuvenation ceremonies to heal it."

Ember tilted her head as more images popped up. A familiar picture of two people on one side of the crystal - hands held out - and a third person on the opposite side showed. 

  Oh yeah, I saw that when I was going through the archives. She thought, That makes more sense now.

    "After seeing Shay's people enslaved, it made me realize how bad Zarkon really is," Hunk assessed, looking at everyone in the room. "Are we're the only ones who can stop him." 

    "Okay, so we can't go into the tunnels guns blazing," Shiro excluded. "Plan B. We figure out how to draw the Galra up to the surface and battle them out there."