She Chose You~[Shidge]

Shock at First Site

The three Paladins sprinted to the bridge bursting through the door to find Coran in the center of the room, his eyes following the small Olkari running circles around him. His laughter filling the room every time Coran tried to grab him only to fall flat on his face.

Hunk lept into action. Reaching out he grabbed the boy and lifted him into the air, spinning him around. The boy shrieked with laughter and held his arms up.

When Hunk finally lowered him to where he could hold him easier the other three people in the room approached. Coran didn't bother to hide his look of annoyance from his face as he adjusted his clothes and smoothed his hair.

"You hungry little guy?" Hunk asked. The Olkari placed his small hands on his stomach and nodded. "Well then let's get you something to eat!" Hunk replied happily. Now that he knew the Olkari child was safe he was more than glad to get him something to eat.

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It had been a few hours since the Olkari child had been found and Pidge was back to working in her lab. After many failed attempts to make contact with the Olkari, she had concluded that she was just going to have to go to the scene herself.

Slinging a bag, that held a few field analysis devices, over her shoulder she strode from the room. With all that, she had to look for she would probably get so lost in what she was doing to even pay attention to what was going on around her. Even though she hated the idea she knew it was better than being found dead amongst the rubble, she shuddered as a diplomat came to mind.

He had been trying to open the door when the first bomb went off. In a panicked frenzy, he had run from the door to the table. He never made it. Above him, a huge slab of the ceiling broke off and plummeted to the ground crushing him mid-stride.

She shuddered again as she heard the sickening crunch of his bones breaking. The sound had only haunted her nightmares before, but this? This was a whole new level. Her hand placed itself against the wall fighting to keep her upright. Screams of the dying and gunshots filled her head and she let out a whimper. She felt a hand touch her shoulder gently and she jumped nearly knocking Keith out in the process.

"Geez, Pidge you alright?" Keith asked, "You looked like you were seeing something."

She took a deep breath. Since when was she out of breath? "Sorry Keith, I didn't mean too. You just scared me is all." she fiddled with the strap of the bag, "Say are you doing anything at the moment?"

"Yeah, Coran nabbed me right before I was about to head to the training deck. I'm helping him run tests apparently," he replied rolling his eyes.

"Oh, Ok! well... have fun!" she waved to him before continuing down the hall.

"Don't count on it!" he called back.

Hunk was going to be too busy with the Olkari, which means....oh no...

She groaned at the thought of having either one with her, and just when she started to fall for one of them too, they had to go and be all dramatic.

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Pidge found them both a few minutes later on the training deck go at it with each other. Lance would strike, only to have Shiro come back twice as fast and just as hard.

"Hey, guys?" she called out. However, she got no response. Surely that was loud enough that they would've heard it.

"Hello!!" She called again only to end with the same result. Sighing she looked to her left and found the light switch to the room. Smirking she reached over and flipped it off without hesitation or warning.

A gasp.

The sound of two bodies colliding together before hitting the ground reached her hears. She flipped the light back on to find Lance and Shiro in a tangled mess on the floor. She approached them her patience growing thinner.

"There are other ways of getting people's attention you know that right?" Lance asked rubbing the back of his head.

"I tried to trust me, but that's beside the point. I was wondering if you guys would be willing to help me with something?"

"What's up?" Shiro asked shooting Lance an annoyed look before giving Pidge a friendlier look.

"I was wondering if you two could be my eyes and ears while I look over the scene?" She looked between the both of them her eyes pleading.

"Pidge the Olkari have already searched the site several times they found no evidence as to what might've tipped off the Galra," Shiro responded cutting Lance off from speaking.

"Please, I know they must've missed something. It just doesn't feel right that out of the million possible locations they could've chosen from they pick one that just happens to be having a diplomatic meeting that is against their cause?" Pidge crossed her arms waiting for a response.

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"Pidge, do me a favor and remind me never to get into a debate with you," Shiro said over the comms.

From the front of the group, Pidge turned around and gave him a smirk, "Sure thing Shiro!"

They came upon the site almost immediately. Lance and Shiro hardly reacted when they saw the blown apart buildings and gaping craters in the building, and simply moved on.

Pidge, on the other hand, stopped. Her eyes widen and her mouth agape. Shiro noticed a few steps later that the smallest paladin was no longer walking beside them. He turned to find her entranced by the destruction of what once was a beautiful building. Stopping Lance he went back to her.

If you looked closely you could still see smoke rising from the ground. Among the rubble were small pink flowers marking the graves of the diplomats who were buried so bad the Olkari couldn't remove them until they made some bigger machinery. The sight caused Pidge to choke back a cry.

"We need to figure out who did this," she said, mostly to herself as he came closer.

"We will, but first we need to find something that could help us do that."

Tearing her gaze from the decimated section of land she nodded her agreement, "The sooner we can figure out who did this the sooner we can get these people a proper burial.