"Anyone else scared that we're to face Sendak?" Hunk asked through the screen as the lions flew to help the labor planet. "Sendak 'who almost took all the lions sendak'?"

"Don't forget he came back from the dead basically, yea same guy," lance perked up.

"Takes one to know one," pidge smirked a little. "We're Paladins, we got this right shiro?"

Shiros mic was silent as on the other side he felt sweat drip down the side of his head as a migraine was starting to form.

"Pidge is right, lets focus on the mission," shiro tried his best to sound alright.

A worm hole opened up for them to make it to the planet who called for them. They raced out the worm hole and found the fleet of Sendak's troops in front of the defenseless planet.

Suddenly shiro grunted a strangled cry as a piercing pain entered his head.

"Shiro are you alright?" Lance heard it.

"I'm fine, come on we need to form voltron," shiro growled through the pain.

The lions former together into the giant but as soon as they started to fly to destroy Sendak's ship, the galras screen popped up on their panels.

"I know your true weakness, that you value the lives of others," Sendak purred darkly as the Paladins kept their eyes on the ion canon.

"I will hammer that weakness until you are crushed beneath my heel, as your one Paladin will be my prize,"

Lance narrowed his eyes remembering Sendak's threat from the kral zera. He knew he was the only person Lotor would die for, kill for, only person he truly cares for, and Sendak knew that too.

His jaw dropped slightly seeing the ion canon shot past them and destroyed the shield of the labor planet that was the only thing protecting them.

"Bastard," lance breathed. "We can't let them get away!"

"Lance there's no time! We gotta fix the shield as soon as-" shiro was cut off by the pain increasing for his vision blinding white and his ears ringing.

"Shiro what's going on?" Allura asked concerned.

"I'm fine," He panted gripping the handles of the lion.

"Your obviously not," lance frowned.

"We don't have time for this, we can't leave that planet unprotected," he gulped shaking his head a little. They flew to the headquarters of the shield to contact them still assembled as voltron.

"We are the Paladins of voltron, on behalf of emperor Lotor," shiro spoke with a steady voice. "We're here to help, what is the status of your shield system?"

"Paladins I am commander bolgh, our damage report indicates that a plate has been fractured, our generator is offline and needs rebooting, other plates have been shifted out of their harnessing and must be repositioned," the commander told them with the soldier beside him.

"We only have five doboshes until the next solar sequence," he nodded.

"Hunk your the engineer, how should we handle this?" Shiro asked.

"We need to split up, pidge you handle the generator system," Hunk told them thinking quick.

"Then I'll need shiro to come with me, I can use his arm to repower the main frame," pidge explained.

"Allura and lance I'll need you to refuse the fractured plate," he went on looking at the two.

"I'm going to try getting the plates aligned, got it? Okay let's go!" Hunk clapped getting them along as they didn't have much time when they split the lions up to follow the order they were given.

"Is there a quick tutorial on how to fix the massive broken plate?" Lance asked as he and Allura got to the destruction.

"You gotta make sure the connection is straight, one degree off even will make the shield fail," Hunk told them.

"That's not a tutorial!" Lance cried out.

"If you hold them in place I'll freeze them together," Allura looked at the plate and told him quickly.

"The ice won't stand from the radiation that long, I could use the heat Ray to weld them together," lance crossed his legs looking back at the mess with a shrug.

"That's perfect!" Allura gasped excited.

"You truly have gotten smarter, did you go through the same thing as hunk?" Allura teased a little.

"Ha ha, i would never go through that, Lotor told me about naylas mom, didn't think she'd be that scary," lance snorted shaking his head.

"Let's go lance," Allura focused on the mission smirking.

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"They're in place," Lance called as he used red to keep the plates together long enough for Allura to freeze them with blue.

"Alright hopefully this works, won't look pretty though," he pushed the lever forward as red shot the red laser to hit the shield, but not to much to puncture through. He pulled back and smirked when it work, tracing reds laser along the cracks until they were finished.

"Thank god," he breathed.

"Nice job! Let's get back to Hunk now," Allura smiled.

"Guys the radiation belts getting a little to close," Lance noticed on the way back.

"Last piece is in place, pidge fire up the power!" Hunk called as he finished with his lion and flew back to get out of the radiations way.

The lights of the shield went up as the power connected it all and the whole shield around the base went up. They smiled at the success.

But something went wrong as it went backwards and the lights went off.

"No, what's wrong with the plates?" Lance asked wide eyes.

Lance gasped seeing something was more than wrong when the shield started to spark up, he recognized the manufacturer as it would create a laser. And it was aimed right at the blue lion.

"Allura look out!" Lance screamed as he pushed red into blue just as the laser hit him.

Lance felt a familiar scream rip from his throat as electricity rippled through his body.

The familiar scream of a whip licking his back. Every time Hagar tortured him with her powers.

Lotors comforting touch after it all. Lotor...

Then it went black.