Klance Omegaverse/Galtean AU

(28) The Asylum

Keith's P.O.V:

"Are you two rea- Oh sorry I didn't mean to interrupt!!" Hunk shouted and covered his eyes with one of his hands. Lance stepped away, and I hopped off the counter. "No you're fine, we were just talking. I just have to grab a sweatshirt in case it gets cold!" Lance said and left to get one. Pidge came in with two backpacks, giving one to Hunk and putting the other one on. "Both night vision cameras, check. All four flashlights, check. Snacks, check. Water, check. Face masks just incase, check." Pidge said, checking off a mental list out loud.

  Lance came back in holding a black hoodie. "We all set?" Hunk asked, Pidge and Lance nodded. We all followed Hunk outside and got into his car. Hunk in the drivers seat, Pidge in the passenger seat and me and Lance in the back. The backpacks were put in the trunk so that they weren't in the way. Lance explained that the 'car' doesn't fly and this specific car we were going to be using is called a jeep.

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The 4 'hour' car ride there was loud, but fun. Well more fun for the other 3 since they actually knew the words to the songs that played and sung along to. For most of the ride I just stared out of my window, observing the humans and their unique buildings as we drove past and couldn't help but wonder what was going on back home, and then I wondered what happened after Lotor's outburst at the First Altean Kingdom.

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It was dark and Hunk told us we had to walk from here because the road was too overgrown and the jeep wouldn't be able to get through it. We all got out of the jeep and Lance looked tense so I reached for his hand. Lance noticed what I was trying to do and held my hand, seeming to relax a little. Hunk and Pidge got their backpacks out of the trunk and made sure each of us had a flashlight, once everyone had one Pidge and Hunk took out their night vision cameras and started recording. "Tonight is a little special because Me and Hunk have Lance and Keith joining us to explore the Abandoned Asylum tonight!   The path to the Asylum is too overgrown to go further with the jeep- but we can still walk the path ourselves!" Pidge stated with a wide grin and a thumbs up towards Hunk's camera before she set off and walked ahead of us.

  Hunk panned the camera over me and Lance and then followed after Pidge. Lance squeezed my hand gently and then we followed the two down the overgrown path, it was pretty dark and it kind of put me on edge.

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    I stopped holding Lance's hand at some point so we could all look around the building for a way into the Asylum. The front entrance was boarded up, and so were all the windows. "I didn't want to have to do this but we're out of options, and I am getting in there." Pidge said and put down her camera, then she rummaged through her bag and pulled out an axe. "Pidge are you being serious? You're going to literally break in!?" Hunk shouted and Pidge only nodded as she went towards the front entrance and tried and failed to hack away at the boards.

   Pidge was a pup still and wasn't exactly getting anywhere with her efforts to destroy the boards. I could tell she really wanted to explore this place though so I took the axe from her hands. "Hey!? What are you doing!? Give it back!" Pidge shouted as she reached for the axe I held up and out of her reach, understandably so for not knowing my intentions. I shook my head and gently guided her away from the entrance, she was still confused. Lance and Hunk were also perplexed but just watched from the sidelines. Once I deemed it far enough away for the pup I took a deep breath and adjusted my grip on the axe. I swung it up and then slammed the axe as harshly as I could down on the boards on one side of the entrance and then took another deep breath and did the same on the other side. Once the middle section of the boards was gone and out of the way I went to push open the door, kind of expecting it not to open, but it did.

   "Nice one!! Hunk did you get that!? That was so cool!" Pidge exclaimed, jumping up and down in excitement. "Oh- Yeah I did! But me or Lance could've done that, you didn't have to Keith." Hunk replied, as I handed the axe back to Pidge who swiftly put it back in her backpack and picked her camera up off of the ground. "Let Keith be the cool badass Omega, If he had a problem with it he wouldn't have done it." Pidge said pointedly, and that made me smile. "Okay, okay. I was just s a y i n g." Hunk mumbled.

   "Anyway... Now that we can actually get in, lets get this over with. This place is giving me the creeps." Lance said as he walked over to stand by my side. Pidge eagerly nodded and turned on her flashlight and cautiously walked a couple steps inside the dark building, and then turned right back around. "Guys I think we're going to need the face masks after all." Pidge said with a look of disgust and then coughed.

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   Once we put on the black face masks we walked into the Asylum, Pidge leading the way and I followed right behind her, Lance a few paces behind me and Hunk lagging behind as he was taking in the awful state of this place with his camera. Furniture was seemingly thrown around and papers were strewn about the floor here and there, and small spots of what I can only assume were very old blood stains was splattered on one of the walls. There were plenty of doors and hallways that we could see from where we stood near the entrance. Even Pidge seemed to be overwhelmed and hesitant to continue exploring.

   "Well.. this place isn't going to explore itself!" Pidge said and marched forward, picking a hallway at random and went down it with the rest of us following closely her. Room by room we saw more disturbing things, the rooms where patients were kept, the strange writing and drawings on the walls that was all over the place, more extremely old blood stains. The floorboards would creak every now and then and set all of us on edge. Lance seemed to get more apprehensive as we kept exploring, and I hate to admit that I was too busy looking after Pidge that I hadn't noticed it until now that Lance needed some sort of comfort now more than ever. "Lance." I said calmly and held out my hand for him, Lance nodded and took it in his gratefully. "Get a room you two!" Pidge teased, and continued walking down the next hall to see if we could find a staircase up or down.

   We found ourselves standing in a lounge like room that looked torn to shreds, in the same state as most of the rooms with furniture thrown about. We were walking around more cautiously because the floor boards were squeaking more than usual in this room.

    Pidge tiptoed over to one of the three bookcases in the corner of the room to investigate what books were left behind and what they were written about. Lance and I let go of each others hands so we could do separate things, Lance and Hunk were debating whether some of the spots on the ground were blood or not and I knew they were so I just went to join Pidge but then a very loud creak from the floor boards set my instincts off and I ran the rest of the way towards Pidge. "PIDGE!" I yelled and pulled Pidge close to me just before I felt the floorboards under us collapse and sent us plummeting who knows how far down. Pidge yelped my name, and Hunk and Lance were yelling incoherently above us. I kept my arms tightly wrapped around her and made sure her head was protected with my hands and braced myself for the impact of the fall. Hoping it won't hurt too badly and that I can take most of the fall for the pup in my arms.