Survival of the Innocent (A Voltron fanfic) (Book 1 of Fates Entwined)

Extraction Part 3

"Altean flowers are the most beautiful," Alfor's AI speaks to his Princess.

"It is sad that I will only see them in my dreams. But, when I wake, my memories are like these spores, scattered in the wind," Allura sighs.

"Altea is not merely a dream, Allura. It still exists. The Alteans flower, you can see it. You can touch it. I can take you there. I can take you home."

"You can?"

"Would you like to go home?"

"Yes. I want to go back to Altea, Father."

"Then come with me, and I will show you the way," Alfor leads Allura away and the mice squeak.

Meanwhile, Pidge and Hunk are still dealing with zero gravity, "Wait. Wait, wait. I have an idea. Grab on!" Pidge orders, offering her hand, which Hunk grabs.

"Yeah! We did it! Now, what?"

"Now, kick me as hard as you can!"

"What? No, we're friends."

"No, no. Kick me so I can fly across the room and get to the control panel," Pidge explains, being kicked across the room, only to almost miss the gravity button, "Oh... oh, oh! No, no, no!"

"How can you guys be taking a nap while this castle is trying to kill us?" Lance asks.

"Taking a nap? We've been floating around in Zero G! You know how scary that is?" Hunk answers with his own question.

"That's not scary! That's fun! I was almost ejected into space!"

"I got attacked by killer food, and that's the most horrifying thing you can imagine! The stuff of nightmares! It'll haunt me to my grave!"

"Well, I had a robot trying to kill me!" Keith tries to be included, the stress of the situation getting to all of them.

"I don't care what you say, Coran. This castle has gone apples and bananas!" Lance turns on Coran.

Coran groans, "Perhaps the infection from Sendak's Galra crystal is worse than we thought."

"Well, let's get rid of it," Hunk suggests.

"It's too late. When Sendak plugged it into the ship, it corrupted the entire system."

"Sendak? Wait. Has anyone seen Shiro?" Keith feels his breath starting to get shorter and speed up, but pushes it aside for now.

With Sendak and Shiro, Shiro hears Sendak say, "We're connected, you and me. Both part of the Galra Empire."

"No! I'm not like you."

"You've been broken and reformed. Just look at your hand."

"That's not me!"

"It's the strongest part of you. Embrace it. The others don't know what you know. They haven't seen what you've seen. Face it. You'll never beat Zarkon. He's already defeated you."

"I'm not listening to you!"

"Do you really think a monster like you could be a Voltron Paladin?"

"Stop it!" Shiro yells and releases Sendak into space.

Throughout the Castle, alarms blare.

"I remember how you used to dance around this very ballroom. I can still hear you giggling."

"Oh... Those were happy memories," Allura sighs.

"We can create new memories, Allura."

The Paladins rush to Shiro's side in another part of the Castle.