Silence in Space: (Keith x Reader) A Voltron Fanfiction

Chapter 11: Of Robeasts and Balmeras

"Well, THAT was no fun,"

"Shouldn't have been. YOU started it,"

"Hey, she was pretty! If you're going to whine about me flirting with (Y/N), can you at LEAST lay off when I'm attracting other girls?"

"You nearly got your Lion stolen! How can you call that attraction?!"

"Yeah, I meant before that..."

"Only goes to show that people should maybe LISTEN TO ME for a change?!"

You sighed as Hunk, Lance, and Keith argued amongst themselves for a while. They had just got back from their latest mission. A couple of aliens had crash-landed on a moon and had called Team Voltron for help. While Lance was busy taking his Lion out for a joyride to woo a pretty alien female named Nyma, they ended up deceiving them and stealing the Blue Lion. Thanks to your quick thinking and advice, the Red Lion was able to weave through an asteroid field to stop the ship and get the Lion back.

"You'll have to save your conversation for later," Allura said, typing at the controls. "We'll be arriving at the Balmera soon. Liberating these Balmerans from Zarkon's grasp will not be easy."

"So, what's the plan?" asked Lance. "We go in there and just—Pow, pow, pow!" He then imitated laser fire while making finger guns.

Keith glanced at him in confusion. "What was that noise?"

"Laser guns," the young playboy smirked.

Hunk shook his head. "No, Lance, I think you mean—" He then imitated his version of laser guns. "—Pow!"

"That sounds like fireworks," disagreed Lance.

"Technically, they're more like—ba-choo, ba-choo, ba-choo!" Pidge joined in, imitating her version of a smaller laser gun.

"Okay, enough with the bad sound effects," Shiro halted the team in their antics, to which you were grateful for. However, the feeling didn't last long. "... Besides, it's more like— blam, blam, blam!" Shiro was on his knees, imitating his version of laser guns, to which the other paladins clamored in disagreement. You cleared your throat to get everyone back in focus, reminding them that they couldn't just shoot at the Galra, as the Balmera was alive, as Hunk had claimed.

"Yes, it's an atrocity what the Galra have been doing to this grand beast," Coran said sadly. "Stealing its crystals, its very life force, without ever performing the energy rejuvenation ceremonies to heal it."

"Okay, so we can't go into the tunnels guns blazing," Shiro stated matter-of-factly. "Plan B. We figure out how to draw the Galra up to the surface and battle them out there."

"Wait, I know!" Hunk began voicing a new idea. "If we attack all of this big mining stuff on the surface, the Galra troops will have to come out to defend it. Then we beat them up, head down to the tunnels, Voltron saves the day."

"But how will we know how many are left down in the tunnels?" Shiro inquired.

"We can track the Galra and the Balmerans using Biothermal Life Indicator Point Technology," Allura answered him.

"Oh, BLIP tech!" Pidge piped up, pushing her glasses further up the bridge of her nose as Allura gazed at her, confused. "...It's an acronym?"

"One of you will need to fly around the Balmera and drop sensors into the shafts on each side," the princess continued, pulling up a hologram of the plan. "Then we'll be able to see where the Galra and the Balmerans are. There are already sensors built into your suits."

"I can do it," Pidge offered. "I just modified the Green Lion with the invisible maze's cloaking ability. I should be able to fly around unnoticed."