Stranded

Chapter 14- A Long Night

I apologize for the long wait for this chapter, but my computer had a problem and deleted over half of my recently written work on the majority of my recently open works which led to a lot of rewrites on my documents. I am happy to say that the problem has been fixed and all except for one document has been rewritten. Now, please enjoy the chapter!

It was close to one o'clock in the morning when sleep deprivation finally claimed all of the Paladins huddled together in the Yellow Lion. Yellow had the most room, and after being separated like they had been, they all refused to be apart now.

It was three in the morning when Shiro woke up, darkness surrounded him both inside the Lion and out, the only sounds to be heard were the soft snores coming from the dog-pile positions the remaining Paladins were in. He slowly sat up, allowing his eyes to adjust, his mind wondered as they did. They were almost completely together again. Despite being apart, he had the peace of mind to know that all of the current Paladins of Voltron were alive and mostly well, but there was more to their little group. His mind now was consumed with worry for their remaining two members, his worry drowned out all of his other thoughts to the point that he could hardly think. They hadn't heard a single peep from Allura, Coran, or the Castle since this whole thing started. The Paladins had been far apart from each other, but had managed to remain in contact and not a single one of them was apart for long, even Hunk had been able to send them a message, but Allura, Coran, the Castle- radio silence from the whole lot of them!

"Shiro!" Pidge whisper yelled at the man, startling him out of his own head so badly that she almost jumped out of her skin at the speed of Shiro's neck spinning to look in the direction of her voice.

"Why are you up? What do you need?"

"You got in your own head again, didn't you?" Pidge eyed him closely, he was breathing too hard for someone who just recently woke up, his pupils were slightly dilated, and his hands had appeared to be on the verge of shaking just a moment ago.

"I'm fine Pidge, don't worry about it. Just get some sleep, okay? We have a lot to do in the morning." Shiro started to lay back down, forcing his body to relax once more. He remained in that position for ten minutes, sleep almost claiming him when he heard her soft voice.

"Shiro?" Pidge was lying to his right with her head down close to his feet, she was the furthest away from the others, but she gave off the vibe that she definitely didn't want them to hear this.

"Yeah?" Shiro answered mimicking her volume level.

"Are we going to get off of this planet?" Shiro squeezed his eyes shut, he knew that question was going to be asked at some point, despite being together, their situation had not improved. He wasn't really sure what he should say to her, the harsh reality that a group of teenagers were now forced to faced didn't seem very fair in the grand scheme of things, he knew that he needed to encourage her, and motivate her, but it's a hard thing to do when so many doubts plagued his own mind- still he would try.

"Of course we will. Now that we are together this planet doesn't stand a chance. I know this is scary, but we will pull through, as fellow Paladins, and as friends we will find a way."

"But everything I've tried doesn't work! The technology just doesn't exist!" Pidge sounded like she was on the verge of tears now, the pressure she put herself under to find a way for them off of this planet was starting to shine through.

"Then we'll invent new technology. We've employed crazy plans before, plans that no one in their right mind would ever try, even if they had the ability to come up with them in the first place. Besides if five mechanical lions can transform into what's basically a giant robot, I'm pretty sure they can get us off this planet, banged up or not."