Voltron's Mechanic (Keith x OC)

34) Lion's Pride

We landed in the Atlas and my helmet disappeared from my head, leaving me in my glasses.

"The manifold in the left flaxum assembly felt loose. See if you can tighten that down," Griffin told one of the workers. "All right, lets get this fighter charged and ready to go"

The ship started to shake as we took heavy fire. Sendak probably sent all his fighters and cruisers towards us. But Voltron started attacking, keeping us from getting hit too much.

"Aris, you've gotta show me how those glasses work!" Rizavi said, jumping out of her MFE. "How do they form a fully functional helmet?"

"I'll explain later. I need to go see what's happening on the bridge"

"Right, right, we're in the middle of battle"

I ran to the bridge, almost falling over when the Atlas was struck again, but I made it quickly. I stopped beside where Shiro was standing behind some controls.

"Commander Holt, what's the status of the Zaiforge cannons?" Shiro asked.

"According to their projected trajectories, they've started moving together, but their convergent point is..." Sam trailed off.

"Sam? Sam? What is it?"

"I know what Sendak is doing. He's going to converge the beams to make one massive amplified emission of particle radiation"

"Is that even possible?"

"It shouldn't be because of how dangerous it is, how one wrong move could destroy everything," I said.

"It is. I know because I gave them the technology. When I was enslaved, the Galra had me working on particle emission amplification. I'm sending you the Zaiforge cannons' movements"

Shiro and I both looked at the screen that showed us how the cannons were moving closer together.

"This is a simulation I've run based on their current trajectory. It leads to a single point in space. Once they're in position, their individual beams will merge together, exponentially increasing their destructive force. It will be powerful enough to completely vaporize Earth"

"We can't let that happen. What do we do?" Hunk asked.

"Should we go after the Zaiforge cannons?" Allura asked. "The Lions might not be able to defeat them all in time"

"That's the thing, you'd need to destroy them all, not one less, there's not enough time," I said.

"If even two of those beams connect, they'd have the power to destroy Earth," Sam said.

"We know they're being controlled by Sendak. Let's take him out," Keith said.

"Wait! There's some sort of reading coming from the Earth. A weapon going off, watch out!" I told them, noticing the scans my glasses were showing me.

They dodged the cannon's fire in time, letting the beam shoot out at nothing in space.

"What the heck was that?" Lance asked.

The cannon shot again but this time they couldn't avoid it. They moved away from it but it reflected off some panels, hitting Voltron in the back.

"We're under attack from one of those bases that launched a Zaiforge Cannon!" Allura said.

"They must have been designed to defend the cannons after they launched," Pidge said.

"Shield!" Keith said.