Intruder Alert

Chapter 3

Pidge sat up with a groan and opened her eyes. She couldn't see anything it was if her eyes were not open at all. Lance shifted beneath her as he recovered from the slide down. Pidge got off of him as he sat up and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Oh that was fun." he chuckled a little bit.

"Lance, can you not be serious for once in your life? Were lost in a maze of tunnels with no possible way of seeing, and Allura is the only one who knows how to get to the bunker. So we're sitting ducks," Pidge groped in the darkness to try and get a sense to the tunnel around them. Her hand met the metal wall, it was nice and cool like the rest of the castle. Pidge stood up and walked along the wall her hand pressed against it. She walked for a bit until she couldn't hear the sound of Lance's voice talking to pass the time. She had stopped listening when she had made contact with the wall and walked away. Allura said that every room in the castle had a secret passage that led to the bunker. So if she could find a room then she could either one escape the dark tunnels with Lance and have a chance of running into the aliens, or she could stay put safely inside the tunnels with no chance of rescue for a while.

Knowing that there was no way a dead end was close to them in this direction she turned back. She walked back the grains of sand would slide under her feet every so often. She stepped carefully. She followed her hand on the wall as it went around the curve.

"idge?...Pidge?" she heard Lance's voice calling out from the darkness, "Pidge answer me!" he sounded panicked.

"Lance you okay?" she couldn't help from smiling as Lance went from chatting a few minutes ago to complete panic.

"Oh my god, Pidge you scared me," relief filled his voice, "Don't ever do that again."

"Sorry, I was lost in thought," she reached her hand out and found Lance's shoulder. She kept her hand on him as she moved passed him.

"What are you looking for?" he asked not moving until her hand left his shoulder.

"Remember what the princess said? How every room in the castle has a secret passage connected to it?" she continued to walk down the passage her hand following the wall. She heard the sound of sand shuffling as Lance stood up and headed towards her voice.

"Not really."

"Of course, you don't. You were too busy keeping yourself from snickering out loud," She stopped walking, "What was so funny anyway?"

Lance was quiet for a minute, "n-nothing."

Pidge was quiet from that point on following the wall and focusing on finding a way out. It was a few moments later that she had collided with a wall and she pulled her hand back.

"I think I've found it," she called out to the darkness.

"Well let's see if Allura was right," Lance replied.

Pidge moved her hands along the door until her hand was stopped by a leaver built into the door. Gripping it with both hands she pulled down on it but it didn't budge. She pushed down on it.

"I-I think it's...stuck." it still didn't budge.

"Here, let me help," he pushed down on the leaver while she pulled. Eventually, the lever moved little by little.

The sound of the panel creaking open filled their ears and Pidge peeked around the corner. They had found the panel that led to the training deck. Pidge smiled they weren't that far from the armory.

"Hey La-" she was cut short as she was shoved outside the tunnel.

"One thing that your princess forgot to mention was that we are very good at shapeshifting," Lance smiled at her before closing the panel with an unsatisfying click. She started banging on the door.

"You imposter! Get back here!" she yelled at the wall. A door opened behind her and she turned to face it. Standing in the door were two other aliens that looked exactly like Allura and Coran.

"Well hello, there green paladin."