Spirit of the Lioness (Keith x OC): A Voltron Fanfiction

Chapter 17: Eye of the Storm

Nifa watched as the team spoke to a new alien race down on a planet known as Olkarion. The team had met the Olkari people in the forest, where they adapted from machine to nature-based technologies when the Galra overtook their city. 

Here, she noticed that Pidge had become friends with an Olkarian elder named Ryner. She taught Pidge something Nifa had been taught long ago: living beings were made of the same essence, and all shared a bit of the same consciousness. 

But not all Olkari were as wise as Ryner. While rescuing the Olkarian King Lubos, the paladins found out that he willingly sold out his people as slaves to live in comfort, as he built a super-weapon for Galra forces. It was a shocking discovery, but she knew it was a thing of the past. Now, she needed to help save the Olkari with Voltron. 

The others had already formed Voltron, and she was now in the fight, battling a giant Olkarian cube, something the Olkari had invented. It had the power to echo anything in range, and the Olkari had been forced to turn it into a weapon and send it to Zarkon.  But Nifa was far from letting that happen. 

"All right, team, let's take that thing down!" Shiro ordered. "Form shield!"

Nifa rose her left arm, and it was done. Keith then struck back with the Red Lion's laser. At first, it seemed like nothing happened. But then, the cube sent back the exact same laser, forcing Voltron to defend itself with the shield.

"We need to increase firepower!" Shiro said upon seeing the attack had no effect. "Hunk, use your blaster!"

"Wait a minute-!" Nifa tried to stop him, noticing a pattern.

"I'm not sure this is a good idea-" Pidge began, also seeing what was going on, but it was too late. Hunk formed the shoulder cannon and fired before Nifa had a chance to prepare for it. The cube echoed the attack once again. 

"It's giving back whatever we fire into it, like Coran's echo cube!" Shiro realized.

"Yeah! How about that?!" Nifa snapped sarcastically.

"Yeah! How ABOUT that?!" Pidge repeated.

"Forget about who's right and who's wrong!" Hunk said. "How do we beat it?"

"Maybe, if we form our sword, we can cut through the surface and hack right into the center thinking point place?" Lance suggested.

"Can't hurt to try," Nifa figured. "Form sword!"

Voltron's sword was formed and they sliced right through the cube. That seemed to do it, but it just formed two more of them. They attacked again, but that turned out to be a mistake. Now there were four of them. 

Just when Nifa thought the situation couldn't get any worse, all four cubes fired with the power of the shoulder cannon, sending multiple blasts into Voltron's body. Nifa screamed with pain as black cracks formed on her body with every impact. Finally, all four cubes charged a final blow together, converging and firing a single laser, which nailed Voltron right in the face, where Nifa was. That hit was too much for her, and she fell out of Voltron's consciousness and into blackness.

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"What's happened?! We're lions again!"

"NIFA! She's been knocked out of Voltron's consciousness again! She might be hurt!"

"Shiro, what are we going to do?"

"There doesn't seem to be any way to stop them, but we can't let this weapon get into Zarkon's hands! Pidge!"

"The Green Lion's in trouble!"

"Pidge! Are you okay?"

Various voices were the first thing Nifa heard when she opened her eyes. She was floating above Olkarion. Voltron had disbanded into lions again, and they were fighting to dodge the cube's attacks. Nifa winced, looking down at herself. She no longer saw the black cracks, but she knew she had taken a bad blow as Voltron. Her physical body must've been recovering.