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"But I guess if we have the Red Lion up and working, we should be able to make it down." "We just couldn't find a way to the ground." He turned to Keith. If he was on planet, why didn't you land?" I never was able to find him on my scanners. "I thought you had given up on finding him. "You all have been stopped here for days," Allura blinked in surprise. "I was wondering why you guys were up here and not on planet," Hunk said, putting his hand to his chin. "In fact, we stopped because Lance's lion is on the planet below." "We were following Lance, though," Pidge said, her brow wrinkling. We eventually gave up waiting and went looking for you guys." "Lance isn't here?" he whispered, turning around slowly, his eyes wide. "Oh, you know," Keith said, looking back at the Altean back-breaking before them, "just waiting for a certain blue stick in my side to show up." "Hey, Keith," Shiro smiled, coming to stand on his other side, "how have you been?" "Good to see you again," she said, her tone trying not to convey the smile she very obviously had on her face.Ī cold hand landed on Keith's head and began to ruffle his hair. "Coran!" He bounced off and swooped the two up into a similar hug. "Allura!" Hunk cried, his eyes welling up again. He perked up again when a whooshing sound signaled Allura and Coran's entrance into the room. "Sorry," Hunk said sheepishly, taking his hands off Keith's shoulders. Hunk stopped and looked over his shoulder at Pidge, who had her arms crossed and a look of happiness on her face. "Sorry! Sorry, I just got so excited to see you because it's been so long and last I heard you were dead in space and we hadn't even discussed injuries from the battle with Zarkon and-"
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Hunk's grip loosened almost immediately, and he dropped Keith, pulling him back at arm's length to make sure he hadn't crushed him. Keith coughed a little, trying to breathe. Thick arms closed like a bear trap around his torso, and his feet left the ground as Hunk spun him around, tears leaking from his eyes. The cry pulled Keith from his thoughts in just enough time to be body slammed by a wall of yellow. Keith promised himself that the next time he saw that lanky, arrogant pilot he would have words. So why was there absolute radio silence? And why did it look like he had traveled farther away instead of closer? Lance knew that Keith's lion was broken, and that the faster someone got to him the better. Why didn't Lance come? Keith knew they had a rivalry going, but he never thought that it would be intense enough for Lance to abandon him.
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A month later, and here Keith stood, waiting for Pidge, Hunk, and Shiro to board. With the warp gates still down, they had to begin the slow way and fly after them. After a month of no Lance, Allura had checked to see if the other three had met up yet, and they had, but they seemed to be heading away from the Castle instead of toward it. In fact, after some horrific jokes just before the connection cut off, no one had heard from Lance at all.Īllura and Keith had met up two months ago. The problem arose when Lance didn't find Keith.
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At the same time, Lance and the Castle were both supposed to find Keith (who, without a functioning lion, was incapable of finding others), and once Shiro and Pidge had found Hunk, they would follow Lance's trail to the Castle. The plan was that Shiro would find Pidge, and then the two of them would find Hunk. In the time they had, they had devised a plan to meet up, as everyone running for the first person they could would lead to a never-ending goose chase throughout the galaxy. She'd told them that each lion could only find one other lion for safety reasons, and they were circular in pattern, meaning Red could only find Black, Black could only find Green, yadda yadda yadda. The specifics of how alluded him, but through some telepathic mumbo-jumbo Allura could apparently only pull off once, she had mentally communicated with all the paladin's who were spread through space. If he had just listened to Coran and not fought Zarkon alone, his lion wouldn't have been essentially useless for the past three months (though he'd never admit it), making him a sitting target and a dead weight his teammates had to come find.īut as three months dragged on, Keith got angry about something else: Lance was supposed to come get him. Often people just assumed his only emotion was angry.Īt first, it had been directed at himself. It often caused fights over small things, or collections of bruises from over working in the training room, or him being expelled from schools he worked really hard to get into.