Keep Fighting
“HUNK! I need some back up right about now!” Lance yelled through the intercom, Lance’s head ached. The constant shouting and fear tore at his brain, he had barely managed to escape an energy beam as he called for hunks help. “Yeah buddy I’m coming now! You’ll need to distract them though!” Hunk was panicking just as much as the rest of the team, “You got it buddy!” Lance swerved to avoid another energy beam, Lance piloted his lion to keep the cannon distracted. “Hell yeah Hunk! Amazing shot!” Lance called out after Hunk crashed into the cannon of a Galra battle cruiser, the cannon completely detached itself from the ship and was now just a useless piece of metal floating in space. “Paladins! The castle of Lions had just picked up 20 more battle cruisers incoming!” Coran interjected with his thick eccentric accent. “Hunk! Two fighter jets on your flank!” Keith called out as his lion shot an energy beam at a fighter jet that was attacking him. Hunk harshly put the brakes on his lion and the fighter jets crashed into the lion with a small explosion, “Thanks Keith.” Hunk said happily. Lance yelled loudly, His lion had just been struck by a battle cruiser's cannon. Keith turned his lion around to see the blue lion floating without any power, “Lance what the hell!” Keith yelled angrily. “Shut up, would you mullet! I just saved your ass, but I have a bigger problem now. My lion doesn't have its power back yet, I need to get back to the castle. Mind giving me a hand? Please.” Lance was still groaning in pain from the energy blast, with a quiet sigh Keith responded. “Yeah, yeah I’m comin’ hold tight for a few seconds.” Keith destroyed a few more fighter jets before he was able to get to Lance’s lion.
“Coran, open up the castle. The blue lion is damaged. Oh and Lance, thanks for saving my skin back there.” The red Lion placed the blue lion gently in the castle’s hanger, “yeah no worries no go help the others. I’ll be out as soon as I can.” Keith made eye contact with Lance through the eyes of the blue lion and gave Lance a small nod. “Come on blue, help me out girl. Please.” Lance whispered, Lance could still feel his connection to blue and wasn’t willing to let his friends fight Zarkon alone. Lance pressed different buttons and flicked a few switches suddenly there was a roar of energy and blue had power again. “That’s my girl!” Lance called out excitedly, “Whoohoo! We’re back baby!” Lance laughed as he returned to the fight and took out more fighter jets. “Just in time!” Pideg said with a laugh, “Lance I need you to freeze this cannon and Hunk I'm going to need you to knock the cannon off. Keith and I are kinda busy and it’s becoming a real problem!” Pidge manoeuvred so their Lion could point out the cannon, “You got it pidge!” Hunk and Lance Said in unison. “Shiro! How long is this going to take! We can’t hold off much longer! Lance has already had to go back to the castle.” Keith yelled as he tried to avoid several energy beams from fighter jets, one beam managed to hit the back of Keiths Lion knocking him back. “Shiro!” Keith yelled again. “I’m trying Keith, there are a lot more guards than usual. Somethings not right.” Shiro was suspicious. “That’s it! I’m coming in!” Keith yelled as he directed his lion directly where the fighter jets were emerging from, “Keith, No!” Shiro responded loudly but it was too late. The Red lion flew back to the castle swiftly while Keith broke into a battle cruiser. “Keith! Stop! Ugh, perra estúpida (you stupid bitch)!” Lance called angrily.
The amount of fighter jets had decreased since Keith entered through the hanger door, he must’ve jammed the computer sequence. Pidge, Hunk and Lance and the castle of Lions were still fighting as best they could given the situation of their lions. Pidge and hunk’s lions were in much better condition than Lance’s was. Pidge had lots of scratches and a few dents while hunk had a lot more dents from crashing into the cannons but his lion still had plenty of scratches. The castle of lions was holding up the best, the particle barrier had low health but was still holding on Lance’s Lion however had serious damage, after all he was getting targeted to most. The blue Lion was missing a few panels of metal revealing lots of wires, the body of the lion was littered with dents and scratches. On the back left hip of the lion's body was a large burn mark from when the cannon's energy beam had hit him, the eyes of the lion were also cracked from when broken fighter jets crashed into his lion. “Hey guys, I’m back. Let's get this over with!” Shiro said as he emerged from the battle cruiser in the black lion, “Uhh, hate to break it to you but we’re still missing Keith…” Hunk said urgently. “Keith! I’m coming back for you now.” Lance flew in front of Shiro, “Wait, let me go. Blue isn’t going to hold up much longer if I stay and fight. Plus you're a better pilot than me, go help them I’ll get Keith.” Shiro nodded and flew to help the others.
“Keith, get your ass back to the hanger now!” Lance yelled, he had landed in the hangar and fought off the remaining sentries. “As much as I would love to do that, I'm blocked in, I’ll send my location to you now.” Keith replied, the sounds of blades slicing metal were heard through the intercom. “Ugh! Jeez, I'm coming to you now.” Lance groaned, Lance managed to narrowly escape almost all the sentries. Lance! Watch out!” Lance turned just in time to avoid a sword through his throat. “Thanks Keith!” Lance quickly shot down the Galran soldier, “You got two at 12 o’clock!” Keith reacted to Lance's words quickly and easily avoided the blaster shot to his leg. “Shit, got any ideas?” Keith whispered as his back bumped into Lance’s back. “Not a good one.” Lance whispered back, “it’s all we have at the moment it’ll have to work.” Lance stifled a giggle, “You asked for this just so you know.” Keith struck down a sentry before turning to Lance with concern. “Hey guys we need you to attack the ship we’re on.” Keith froze, “Lance do you want us to die?” Keith yelled, still trying to fight the soldiers. “You got a better idea, McMullet?” Lance yelled back, Keith rolled his eyes. “Go for it guys. Hate to admit it but Lance is right, we won’t be able to get out until you disrupt the ship's functionality.” Keith sighed, Shiro could just be heard cursing under his breath through the intercoms. “You heard them, we need to attack that ship. Coran, Allura, do you think you can cover us?” Shiro asked quickly. “Yes, Shiro the Castle has regenerated most of its power and shield health. We shall protect you and the rest as best as we can.’ Allura answered politely.
“Keith! This way!” Lance ran and slid under a few soldiers legs, when he stood up he shot a blast through their chest. When the soldiers fell to the floor Keith stood frozen, he was a little shocked at Lance's ability to do what he did as swiftly as he did. “Praise me later Keith, if we don’t get going we’re going to be Zarkons dinner.” Keith scoffed out a laugh and ran to join Lance. Pidge sent a shot to the ship's engine and the whole ship shook, the shaking caused Lance to trip. Keith also stumbled but fell over Lance’s legs, Keith fell on top of Lance’s back with a loud groan. Keith quickly scrambled off Lance and helped him up, the ship shook again this time they didn’t trip over each other but Lance ran into a soldier. “Shit!” Lance reached up to his cheekbone, he could feel a large bruise forming from where the Galran soldier’s blaster rammed into his face. “Guys we’ve distracted them for as long as possible. You need to get out of there. If we shoot at the ship now it’s going to explode and you're going to die.” Hunk screamed in a panic. “Shoot! I can see the blue lion from where we are!” Keith called back. Keith used his bayard to attack one of the sentries attacking him and threw his other knife to Lance. ‘Lance! Catch!” Lance turned in time to see the purple dagger flying towards him, in a panic Lance grabbed the Galran soldier by its chestplate and pulled the soldier forward to block the knife. Lance pulled the knife from the face of the Galra soldier with a shocked smile. “Aha! That actually worked! Dude, that was awesome!” Lance laughed a little from shock. “That’s not what I meant but hey it worked. Now let the the fuck outta here!” Lance nodded in agreement.
“Come on almost there!” Keith yelled as he ran beside Lance. They would both feel the rumble of the explosion rattle through the ship making its way to the fighter jet hanger. Lance managed to get into the blue lion's mouth first, Lance reached a hand out to Keith and managed to grab Keith's hand just before the Blue lion took off. Had they left in the blue lion any later they would have died from the force of the explosion that had caught up to them. “Got him! Keith and Lance heading back to the rest of the lions.” Lance had run to the cockpit of the lion to continue piloting, Keith on the other hand took his hand getting to the cockpit. When Keith eventually got to the cockpit he fell heavily on the bench-like table, and Lance could faintly hear Keith groaning. When Lance took a short glance towards Keith he saw a pool of blood forming on Keith's armour. “Allura get a wormhole ready! We need to get out of here now! We’re not going to win this fight, we’ve risked too much already and Keith is seriously hurt!” Lance was forceful, “Lance I'm fine.” Keith’s voice was weak and shaky through the intercoms. “No estas bien maldito idiota! (Your not fine you fucking idiot!)” Lance had resorted back to swearing in Spanish, something he did when he was annoyed. “Keith it’s fine, we’ll finish this fight later, Allura let’s get that wormhole going.” Shiro said politely, within a few seconds a large wormhole appeared. The castle, Hunk, Shiro, Pidge and finally Lance and Keith entered the wormhole. Once they were in the wormhole Lance left his seat and grabbed the small first aid kit all the lions were equipped with, “Shit Keith that's bad!” Lance whispered more to himself than anyone else. Keith took his helmet off and threw it off to the side, “I’m fine Lance-'' Keith's complaining was interrupted with a sharp yell of agony, Keith threw his head back against the wall and bit his tongue. Keith yelled in more pain as he moved to stand up. “Stop you idiot! Now who wants to die? Stay still, you need stitches.” Lance kneeled in front of Keith, his face level with Keith's navel. “Get away-” Keith’s words were once again disrupted but screams of agony
“Allura, what was that?” Pidge asked frantically, “I'm not quite sure Pidge.” Allura responded, “One of Zarkons mages must have stuck the wormhole once we entered because the structural integrity is failing. Which means we have no idea where we’re going!” Coran yelled in a panic. “Pilot this damn Lion back to the castle then help me. We can’t afford to get separated again.” Keith groaned, with a frustrated huff Lance agreed. “Everyone, try to get to the Castle, we need to stick together.” Lance said through the intercoms, “Lance is right, we can’t afford to get separated.” Shiro commented, Hunk and Pidge managed to get to the castle quickly and landed in the hangar. “After you Shiro, I’m right behind you.” Lance said as he flew behind Shiro, after Shiro had landed Lance flew to the entrance of the hanger but felt something pulling him back. “Ugh guys, what’s pulling me back? I can’t get in any further.” Lace tried to get his lion to burst through the tension but failed. “Lance, there's nothing holding you back. Now is not the time to joke.” Lance rolled his eyes, “Thanks for that Pidge, but I'm not joking. Something is pulling me back. Oh shit!” The blue Lion was forcibly pulled away from the entrance of the castle’s hanger entrance and forced into the walls of the wormhole. “Lance!” the team called out in a unified panic.
No, no, no this can’t be… separated again. No clue where the hell we are, and Keith is injured as fuck, what am i going to do… ok, lets just breathe. I’m smart, I can problem solve, just stay calm. I can do that. Right?
“Try to hold on Keith, this is going to be a bumpy landing.” Being forced out of a wormhole into a random planet’s atmosphere had messed with blue’s energy, she was much weaker than a few minutes ago. “Come on Lance, you can land this.” Keith was stod clinging onto Lance’s chair, Keith looked like shit. Blood dripped from his stomach, his hair oily and scruffy from his helmet. Lance pulled back harshley on the controls the blue lions blasters engaged, the force from the blasters slowed their descent to the unknown planet. “Pess that.” Lance couldn't tell if Keith was delirious with blood loss or he was just a raging lunatic but he listened and pressed the button that said ‘off’. The Blue Lions engine and blasters stuttered to sleep and all power had been turned off, Lance squealed in fear as the lion’s descent speed increased dramatically. Nothing was stopping or slowing the blue lion from falling from the sky until Keith slammed his hand on the power button and the lion roared to life and the blasters managed to slow them down just in time for them to crash onto the desert planes of the planet.