Connected | Voltron | (Keith X OC & Pidge X OC)

chapter 5

"I'm not finding any coordinates in here. Are you sure this wasn't just a dream?" Pidge said as he scanned Shiros arm.

This morning, Shiro came into the main room thingy talking about a dream he had last night. He looked panicked.

It had been about a week since Rii left. I had started to get used to there being new paladins, and was able to make conversation with them.

"I'm positive. Someone helped me escape," shiro said.

"And he was Galra?" Allura asked, in disbelief, as she squared her shoulders.

"Yes."

"You know you cannot trust them, Shiro," Allura said again.

"Your father must've trusted them once. Zarkon was the original black paladin, wasn't he?"

"That was a long time ago." She said.

Then Lance responded, "wait what?"

"Wait, Allura, Coran, you didn't tell them? Why not?" I asked them.

"Didn't you see how he stole the Black Lion right out from Shiro? Or that he could do all that cool stuff with his Bayard? Shiro's Bayard?" Keith said.

"Why didn't you just tell them the truth about Zarkon Allura? I don't understand," I said.

"I wanted to protect you from the dark history of the paladins so that you would have a chance to bond with your lions on your own," Allura explained. "You are the Black paladin now, not Zarkon."

"Yeah, well the Black Lion may have a different take on the matter."

"Don't worry Shiro. You know now. All you need is a stronger bond with Black," I said, putting my hand on shiro's shoulder.

"Wait a minute, I think I see it now. Some repeating numbers in all this galra code. Let me extract it." Pidge said. Some new pictures formed on the hologram above. "They are coordinates! They lead here: the Thalycon system."

"Then that's where we're headed." Shiro said.

"Shiro, are you sure you can trust this? I mean, after all the Galra have done to you-- They took your arm," Keith said.

"It's worth the risk. Someone helped me escape. If we can locate some allies in our fight against Zarkon, especially ones from his own side, we might just find a way to take him down." Shiro responded. I looked down. That's similar to what Rii said when she left.

"We can check the location, but I do not like this. The Galra are not to be trusted." Lance also looked down, remembering the hope Rii had.

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We went through the wormhole, only to find a bunch of xanthorium crystals. "Well, this is it. No sign of any activity at all, living or otherwise." Coran said.

"Can we get a closer look?" Shiro asked.

"Probably not, Shiro," I said. "Those things are xanthorium crystals contain unstable nitrate salts. Hitting one of them could cause us to say goodbye to this ship. It might even cause a chain reaction depending on the space between them."

"Are you sure this is right?"

"These are the coordinates number five gave me."

"Hey! My decryption is solid!" Pidge said.

"There must be something we're missing." Shiro said.

"We should get out of here," Allura said. "We've checked it out, but now, it's time to move on."