Paladins of the Elements

Chapter 19: Paladin's Journey

"Pidge, I don't like the idea of you going alone." Shiro said over the coms. Pidge was currently sitting in her Lion, Shiro on screen talking to her. Her only company was her little bot Rover. "You sure you don't need backup?" Shiro questioned.

"I'm sure." Pidge replied. "The intel that shopkeeper gave me leads me to believe they could pull out of their location at any time. I need to act fast, this may be my only chance. Plus, you guys still have plenty to on Olkarion." She stated.

"You're right. Good luck." Shiro said.

"Hey, while you're out, will you look for some more fluuto beans?" Hunk asked.

"No, no, no! No more beans for Hunk!" Lance strongly rebuffs. Pidge groans.

"Gotta go." The Green Paladins says and ends the transmission. She looks up at Rover, who beeps at her. She smiles and pilots her lion off, eventually arriving at a scavengers type planet.

She ventures into the city, dressed in a brown cloak to lay low, and Rover in tow. Following a map, she arrives at a rundown underworld shop. She ventures in, walking through the dark creepy place. She turns a corner, and sees a Unilu man at a desk, his feet prompted up on said desk.

"Shop's closed." The man says.

"I'm just looking for directions to a show." Pidge says as she approaches the alien. "I heard it's explosive." She adds while stopping in front of the guy.

"So you're the one looking for the nano-thermite titanium-boron? Very expensive. Difficult to procure, I assure you." He says.

"Keep it." The Green Paladin replies.

"You're backing out on our agreement?" The guy says as he sits up.

"Altering it, in your favor." Pidge replies. "I'll still give you the money, but in return, you tell me who is in this video and where to them." She says as Rover shows the video of her brother when he was being broken out of Galra prison.

"Why would I know those people?" The Unilu asked.

"Because they used nano-thermite titanium-boron, and you're the only one in this section of the galaxy that seems to be selling it." She stated.

"I've had some good luck selling things of value, and I think the Galra would pay a lot to know how you got your hands on that security footage." The alien smuggler exclaimed as he pulled out twin swords, aiming at the Green Paladin.

"Really? This is we're doing it? All I want is the information." Pidge says, a little annoyed. The Unilu then lunges at her, though the Paladin retaliates by pushing back the table he was standing on, causing him to lose his balance. The guy gets up and goes for her, but she quickly uses her bayard to lasso a metal chuck of something, and hit him in the back of the head, effectively knocking him down.

"Had to do it the hard way." She sighs as she leans down to the smuggler. After tying him and up and getting him to talk, Pidge finally got what she needed. "Thanks for the intel." She says as she chuckles and walks out of the place, leaving the guy tied up on his desk. She walks back to the Green Lion and flies the ship off the planet, heading to find the rebel that broke Matt out of the Galra's clutches.

"Te-osh." She said as she pulled up a picture of the same person who was pulling Matt out of the prison in the video. "Looks like I got a positive ID." She says as she and Rover compare the images to confirm it was the same person. "Last known whereabouts..." She says as she searches her lion's database then an image pops up. "Kraydah's moon." With that she made her way to said moon.

She soon arrives at the moon, only to find a freedom fighter's base there being attacked by the Galra. Crap! Pidge grunts and flies in. Just in time too, the situation wasn't looking too good. The Green Paladin proceeded to take the Galra fighters out and save the freedom fighters there. Needless to say, the rebels were surprised to see the Green Lion. Pidge saw one of the fighters coming up and she proceeded to land the Lion and walk out to see the guy.