Daughter of Sendak: KeithxOC (ON HOLD)

Across the Universe

Getting in a pod as fast as he could, The Ambassador took off, hoping to catch up with the Red Lion before it wormholed away. However, the pod wasn't fast enough. Making a quick decision, The Ambassador launched himself out of the pod, using that force, and the boosters on his armor, to quickly grab a hold of the Red Lion, right as it was landing inside the castle. But a big blast of magic from High Priestess Hagar, corrupted the wormhole, sending all the Lions into the void. Along with The Ambassador hanging on for dear life to the Red Lion.

"Ahhhhh!" The Ambassador yelled as he tried his best to cling onto the Red Lion. Suddenly, the Red Lion was no longer inside the corrupted wormhole. They appeared to be on a rocky planet, not that The Ambassador was paying any attention to that. He was too busy trying not to die. They were getting closer and closer to the ground, when–

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There was a loud ringing in Keith's ears. He blinked a few times, trying to get his vision to clear. He coughed.

"You ok, Red?" Keith asked, moving the controller a bit, but nothing happened. "Okay. We'll fix you up. We had a tough battle."

Keith climbed out of the Red Lion, taking in his surroundings. It was a very gray planet. Very rocky and misty.

"Where are we? Where have we landed?" he asked himself. Suddenly, he heard a flickering sound, not too far away. He got down from the Lion, looking around. Only a few feet away from the Red Lion was a figure. As he got closer, he recognized the cape the figure wore. It was the masked figure he had seen at the Galactic Hub! He approached the masked figure cautiously. He bent down, placing a hand on the masked figure's shoulder, pushing it towards him, so Keith could see his face.

It was a very shocking sight. As Keith had turned to figure, his hood came down, revealing silver hair with wolf ears on top of his head. Since his mask was the thing causing the flickering sound, Keith could see his face. His skin was a light tan color, not light purple, like the Galra. The masked figure wasn't even Galra! But the thing that shocked him the most, was that he wasn't a he. The masked figure was a girl.

Keith just stared down at her for a moment, completely taken back. Eventually, her mask stopped flickering, and just seemed to disappear. Her face started to scrunch up, and she was shaking her head slightly.

'She must be having a dream. A bad one by the looks of it.' Keith thought. He decided that she needed help. As soon as he could, he would put her in a healing pod at the Castle. But until then, he would put her inside the Red Lion, hoping that she could get some rest without the possible dangers of this strange planet. He picked her up, bridal style, and carried her into the Red Lion, placing her down on a bench inside. He looked at her face, she seemed to have calmed down from her dream, now just peacefully sleeping, almost. Keith wiped away some stray hair from her face, seeing some blood around her eye he didn't notice before. 'That looks like it's going to a scar' Keith thought. At the thought of a scar, Shiro popped into his.

"Shiro." And he ran off looking for his friend, the mysterious girl almost vanishing from his mind.

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"Explain to me how you let Voltron escape," Emperor Zarkon said, in a tone that implied he was not happy.

"Perhaps it was a mechanical failure, Sire. Haggar boosted the solar barrier's power beyond its normal limits," Prorock answered, hoping that Emperor Zarkon would find this satisfactory.

"This was no mechanical failure. The two sentries that were guarding the barrier control were found destroyed. This was clearly sabotage," High Priestess Hagar informed.

"Lord Zarkon, I will start an investigation immediately. I will not rest until the perpetrators are captured," Prorock said.

"Perhaps I can save months of investigating. Who has been trying to chiesl Voltron away from me this entire time? Who sent out his fleet without my orders to get Voltron?" Prorock started to look concerned.

"Sire, no! I–I would never do that."

"Get rid of him." A couple of sentries came up behind Prorock, dragging him away.

"No! I'm innocent!" Prorock continued to struggle and try to prove his innocence.

"Before we dispose of him, the Druids will find out all he knows. Then, he will receive a punishment worse than death," High Priestess Hagar told Emperor Zarkon.

"Lieutenant Thace..." Emperor Zarkon said, making Thace look up. "You are now incharge of the investigation... Commander."

"Vrepit sa."

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After Thace had left, Emperor Zarkon still had something on his mind.

"Have you or your Druids figured out where The Ambassador has disappeared to?"

"I'm afraid not, Sire. Though I fear that she might be a part of the solar barrier incond–" Hagar was interrupted.

"The Ambassador would not betray the Galra Empire. We have raised her. There's no chance that she would let Voltron go," Emperor Zarkon raised his voice.

"Yes, Sire."