Voltron's Mechanic (Keith x OC)

9) Shiro's Escape

Lance and Hunk made it back maybe an hour after Keith and I did. Now that I was back I could see just how bad of a shape Shiro was in. He was in a healing pod, grunting like he were having a nightmare.

"Is he okay?" Hunk asked.

"Sometimes the healing process can cause involuntary brain wave reactions," Allura responded.

"He looks like he's having a bad dream"

"He just got blasted by a space witch and mauled by giant lizards. What dream could be worse than that?" Keith asked.

"Maybe it's of his time as a prisoner. I know while I was held captive I had nightmares for days straight. It must've been worse for him," I suggested, avoiding looking at anyone.

I was still thinking of Keith and the kiss. Was he awake enough to know what he was doing? Did he remember it? Or was he just half asleep and not aware.

"Is nobody going to ask how you flew the Red Lion?" Lance asked.

"I'm not entirely sure myself, but I'll figure out the answer to your question eventually"

When Shiro woke up he told us about what he was dreaming about, how a Galran named Ulaz planted coordinates in Shiro's arm. We all went to the lab where Pidge hooked up his arm to check.

"I'm not finding any coordinates in here. Are you sure this wasn't just a dream?" Pidge asked.

"I'm positive. Someone helped me escape," Shiro told her.

"Let me look, Pidge," I said, crouching beside where she sat. She let me search through it as the others spoke.

"And he was Galra?" Allura asked distastefully.

"Yes"

"You know you cannot trust them"

"Your father must have trusted them once. Zarkon was the original Black Paladin, wasn't he?"

"That was a long time ago"

"Wait, what?" Lance asked.

"Didn't you see how he stole the Black Lion right out from Shiro?" Keith asked. "Or that he could do all that cool stuff with his bayard? Shiro's bayard? You know, the black one?"

"Why didn't you just tell us the truth about Zarkon?" Shiro asked Allura.

"I wanted to protect you from the dark history of the Paladins so that you would have a chance to bond with your lions on your own," she answered. "You are the Black Paladin now, not Zarkon"

"Yeah, well, the Black Lion may have a different take on the matter"

"I got it," I told them.

A screen appeared above the desk, showing us where the coordinates would lead us.

"They are coordinates! They lead here, the Thaldycon system," Pidge said.

"Then that's where we're headed," Shiro said.

"Shiro, are you sure you can trust this? I mean, after all the Galra have done to you-they-they took your arm," Keith said.

"It's worth the risk. Someone helped me escape. If we can locate some allies in our fight against Zarkon, especially ones from his own side, we might just find a way to take him down"

"We can check the location, but I do not like this," Allura said. "The Galra are not to be trusted"

"Anyway, just in case, I'll work on some sort of camouflage for the Castle," I told them.