Paladins of the past.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1: future into the past.

"Keith! Watch out!" Lance shouted, just as Keith was shot. Keith dropped to his knees, his hands gripping at his paladin vest. Gasping from shock, Keith looked down towards his chest, eyes widening in horror at the realisation that he would not live through this. "No!" Lance screamed, his Bayard changing into a sniper, he shot at all of his enemies before running towards his boyfriend. "Keith!"

"Lance," Keith breathed out, "Are you alright?"

"Am I alright? You just got shot," Lance replied making Keith lay down, "We need help! Keith is shot!" Lance said over the intercom.

"We're on our way," Allura said.

"Lance, you and I both know that I'm not gonna make it," Keith whispered

"Shut up! Just shut up!" Lance said as he focused on putting pressure on the wound "Allura and Coran are on their way, just hold on," Lance said as tears gathered up in his eyes, threatening to fall.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine," Keith sang quietly, just loud enough for Lance to hear. "You make me happy when skies are grey," A sob broke out of Lance's mouth as Keith sang more, "You'll never know, dear, how much I love you," Keith started crying as he sang, biting back any sobs that came up his throat.

"Please don't take my sunshine away," Lance cried out, tears falling onto Keith's face, who only lifted his hand to wipe them away.

"You can't give up!" Lance wept.

Keith poked Lance's nose, giving a smile, "I gotcha nose,"

"Please, stop. Now's not the time to be silly," Lance replied, even more, heartbroken.

"I just wanted to see you smile, just one last time," Keith said, his voice weak, his pale hands gripping weakly on Lance's. Lance gripped them back harder, a smile on his face as he looked towards his lover.

"Please, don't leave. Not like this," Lance begged.

"Lance?" Keith asked, looking toward the sky, "I will always be with you."

"Just please don't leave me, I need you!" Lance cried out, but Keith's hand loosened and fell onto his chest, one last breath escaped his mouth. "Keith?" Lance asked eyes widened with panic as he gripped at his lover's hand "Keith?" he asked ones more, new tears gathering at his eyes. Lance quickly tried to find Keith's pulse, only to find nothing. "No! No, no, no. Please, no!" Lance wept. Lance gave up all hope and gave a scream full of anguish, hugging his dead boyfriend's body closely, rocking back and forth crying out.

Only a few minutes later did Allura and Coran finally arrives, only to see the tragedy that had taken place. Coran walked up to Lance, hand on Lance's shoulder, Lance looked at him, tears streaming down his cheeks "He's gone. He's really gone." Lance got up and hugged Coran, weeping as he did so. Allura looked on in sympathy.

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It's been a year since Keith's death in the war. It got progressively worse, they had lost Shiro and the rest of the people on earth, only three months before Keith's death. Lance didn't know why he was still alive, he just wanted to go and be with his family.

It had been three years since the fight with the Galra Empire started, and they have lost countless people, on both sides. The Voltron has very few members now, while the Galra seems to have plenty of spare. Hunk and Pidge were on a mission, but they hadn't checked in with the castle in a while, so Allura, Coran and Lance all go to check it out. When they arrived the Galra had already fled, leaving only the bodies of the Green and Yellow paladins dead on stakes above the building. It wasn't long until all hope was destroyed.

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It's just Allura and Lance, against an army of Galra. Lance was ready for death, after watching Coran get tortured to death, he had just given up. He watched the world around him burn, it seemed the blood of his friends stained his hands. Allura, on the other hand, did not accept that this might be the end. "Lance!" She called out as she killed another soldier, "I'm going to do something, that you are not gonna like." She shouted.

"What is it?" He called back, dodging a bullet before firing his own.

"I'm going to send you back in time." She said into the earpiece.

"You can do that?" He questioned, looking towards Allura, who nodded "Why didn't you do that to save our friends, our family?" Lance all out screamed.

"It's a one-time thing and I can only send one person." She said, slightly annoyed at Lance shouting at her, "I want you to go back, to when you first arrived to meet me and Coran, and help stop this from happening." She explained.

"What about you?" Lance asked worriedly.

"I'll be left here,"

"I am NOT leaving you!" Lance declared.

"Too bad," Allura said running over to Lance, giving him a slap "Bye Lance,"

"Allura! No!" Lance shouted trying to grab onto Allura, only to skim her clothes and watching get shot up, leaving her to die, Lance disappeared into dust.

"Go get them sharpshooter," Is all Lance heard before his world went dark.