Intruder Alert

Chapter 17

"No. Absolutely not." Shiro shook his head, "We're going to find another way."

"And if we don't?" Pidge asked, "Shiro we've run out of options! Tell me. Do you see a way out of this? Cause I sure as hell don't."

Shiro ran a hand through his hair. He started to pace back and forth in the room deep in thought. Allura hadn't left her spot from Pidge's side, being the protective older sister that seemed to come naturally. Keith had moved back to Lance's cot sitting beside it. His eyes followed the older Paladin back and forth across the room.

"I've possibly got an idea," Hunk said. He was currently sitting atop one of the crates. His headband was back in it's usual place on his head.

Everyone turned to him, their faces eager. "What is your idea?"

"It's simple." he said to Shiro before turning his gaze to Pidge, "We kill her."

"What!!" everyone, including Pidge shouted. Just because Hunk was a cinnamon roll that we all love, doesn't mean that they doubted that he had a dark side. They just never realized how dark it could get.

"No listen." Hunk said, "What if we make the intruder believe we have killed her? Then while he's distracted reveling in his supposed victory then we can finally kick his ass off this ship for good."

"That may work," Allura said, "If anything it would buy us time to figure out what his weakness is."

One by one they turned to Shiro. He was the only one who hadn't responded to Hunk's plan.

"We can't fake any of it. He's too smart for that."

"Agreed." Coran said.

"That means that it'll be real!" Allura cried out, "Were trying to defeat the intruder without losing one of us in the process!"

"No, think about it." Pidge said, "It could work if we plan it right." she stood up and looked at Keith. "How skilled are you with knives?"

"I'd say I'm pretty good. Better than most." He replied.

"Good enough to stab a person without killing them?"

Keith narrowed his eyes seeing where she was going with this. "I mean yeah. If that was the plan, however, in this case it is not."

"We don't have a choice." Pidge replied.

"There's always an option, Pidge. You just have to look for it." Shiro said. He thought for a moment, "If we could send out a distress signal that would get us backup on the outside."

"And by the time they got here we'd all be dead." The voice was one that they hadn't heard in several hours. It was quiet, like he was scared to speak. They all turned to find Lance had situated himself on the edge of the cot, Keith's jacket draped across his shoulders. Even Keith seemed surprised that he hadn't noticed Lance had woken up. He still seemed unsteady. His hands gripped the jacket tightly as he glanced at the group. His eyes were like an ocean on a stormy day, dull and broken.

"We do have the healing pods," Coran mentioned, "If it really is our only option we could use them."

"I don't like this." Hunk said, "There's too big of a chance that something could go wrong."

"I get that Hunk," Pidge replied. Considering what they were thinking about doing she was quite calm, but then again she had faced far worse than the pending plan. "But we may not have another choice." Hunk didn't say anything in reply, only nodding his head.

"So what are we going to do about Mr. Alien guy?" Keith asked, "He didn't seem that he was going to leave anytime soon."

"We figure out his weakness then," Shiro said, "Coran, can I see that tablet?"

Coran gladly obliged handing the tablet over. Shiro began flipping through the camera's until he found what he was looking for.

On the screen, the intruder could be found in the lounge area. He just sat on the couch leaning back and enjoying the fact that he had a ship pretty much all to himself, save for the crew that was still in the hidden tunnels. Right off the bat it seemed that he didn't have anything that could be used against him, he seemed practically invincible. Then he did something that surprised them all.

In the middle of the room was a pit with the couch in it. The intruder laid down on the couch, face up eyes closed. Then without warning it started raining, filling the center up with water. Then he just....melted. Like literally became liquid mud.

"Is everyone thinking what I'm thinking?" Pidge asked.

"If you mean trapping the bastard while he's in his liquid state then sending his ass into space then, yes." Allura replied.

"The question is, how can we get him to let his guard down once we let our presence known?"