"Thank you for agreeing to meet with us Princess Allura," Kolivan bowed to her. She gave him a small smile and a nod. They were gathered around the dining hall table with the Paladins and Alteans on one side and the Blade of Marmora on the other. Kolivan pulled up a stolen layout of a Galran base and placed it on the table.

"There is valuable information, regarding the locations of important members of the Blade and our allied rebel forces stored in this base's hard-drive, it is imperative that we get our hands on it and away from the Empire," Kolivan started. "We need to find a way in without being spotted, and complete the mission without alerting the Galra. We were able to infiltrate successfully some time ago, and have access to some of the surveillance feeds and schematics,"

Immediately the room was filled with the sound of ideas being thrown around; Lance quietly listened to the different scenarios coming from his teammates and stored them in the back of his mind quickly picking out the flaws and how he could secretly tweak them when they were out in the field. He realized that the others would reluctant to listen to his ideas because of how he had already presented himself to the group. So he decided to quietly help them in the background instead. He pulled up the information on his screen and scrolled through the information available. Without a word he began highlighting points on his map that would require extra surveillance once they entered the base. Unbeknownst to him; Kolivan was watching over his shoulder with interest and nodding along to each dot. After Lance stopped and absentmindedly nodded his head, Kolivan put his hand on his shoulder. Lance yelped and he shot around to look at the leader of the Blade.

"Apologizes Blue Paladin, I would like to hear your ideas for this infiltration," he admitted giving Lance all his attention. Lance gave a tentative smile and opened his mouth, only to be interrupted by Hunk and Pidge's laughter. His head turned to the two and he shrunk into himself a bit knowing that the two were laughing at him. Kolivan only looked with a raised brow.

"Sorry Kolivan, but you don't want to ask Lance for ideas," Pidge giggled. The two of them cracked up into laugher, eventually dragging the rest of them minus Lance, Kolivan, and Coran who were looking at them incredulously.

"I apologize, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Please explain why I should not consider the Blue Paladin's suggestions," Kolivan said stepping forward. The laughter stopped aside from a few sniggers and they looked toward him.

"Kolivan. Its Lance, Mr. Razzle Dazzle, get all the girls and glory," Pidge said with finality. "His plans probably involve a lot of shooting and not getting anything done,"

"Yah, he has fighting power but when it comes to infiltration..." Hunk continued with a shrug. Lance could feel the blush traveling up his face, and his shoulders bunched up further as if to protect him.

"All his brain can store, are cheesy pickup up lines and weak insults," Keith commented. The others burst out laughing again; Allura and Shiro only giving weak smiles. Kolivan looked down at the blue paladin and while he seemed shocked and saddened; he could see anger stirring in his eyes as well.

"Hey! I have more in my brain than that, I have good ideas!" He cried trying to defend himself.

"Really, a thousand times ten?" Keith asked with a smirk. Lance's eyebrows drew down with an angry grimace.

"I was trying to break the tension," he growled. His hands were clutching the armrests of his chair tightly, his knuckles turning white from the pressure. Shiro stood up from his chair and carefully approached the angered teen.

"Its okay Lance," he said soothingly. "We all have our weaknesses, this is just yours," he gave him a soft smile. Lance looked at him in pure disbelief; this man was the leader of their group and he was going to let Lance believe that he couldn't contribute to the planning of this mission.

"My weakness?!" Lance growled. "You know what?! I'm done!" He yelled jumping out of his seat and pulling his screen along with him to the front of the room. The others looked at him with quirked eyebrows.

"What? Going to shows us the pretty dots on your map?" Keith taunted with a smirk.

"No, each of these dots is a mistake that you over looked," he hissed. He pointed to the first one and pulled up the surveillance from the base's server room. "This is a PXY-6075 system, you were going to go in blind with a code not appropriate for this system, it would shut down the entire thing and we would lose everything," he swiped across his screen and sent a code to Pidge's system. She pulled it up out of curiosity and her jaw dropped before she looked up at Lance.

"Lance, this is genius," she muttered. He ignored her and went to the next beacon. A security camera showed a hallway were Shiro suggested they infiltrate on the way to the server room. He turned to the leader with crossed arms.

"This hallway is filled with blind spots and vents, how could you even think that this was a good place to enter?" Lance asked with a quirked brow. Shiro only crossed his arms in defense.

"It is the fastest way to the server room, we need to get in and out quickly," he replied. Lance gave him a short glare.

"So because it is the fastest way to the server room, it is automatically the safest, you're putting the safety of your teammate on the line in order to complete the mission faster?" he asked getting closer to Shiro who tried to avoid his eye. "What would have happened if we went down here and there were drones or weapons in the vents, we could have died in there," he pulled the map back and brought up a different hallway. Shiro looked at it and back at Lance for an explanation.

"It's a maintenance hallway, the other direction from where this one is, it is fully surveillanced with no blind spots and no places for anything to be hidden," he said pushing the screen into Shiro's who looked at it sheepishly. He zoomed out letting the outside of the base show. He turned to Allura who jumped at being in the teen's sights.

"The defense of the base is different from the cruisers we come across Allura; if we had gone on the mission and used what we usually did we would have gotten caught and the entire mission would be compromised," he stated bluntly. He brought up the schematics of the base and pointed along the foundation "This area is susceptible to fire, if I send out an electrical pulse along the base, it should collapse the barrier without any alerts to the Galra," she carefully nodded it response watching the tiny barrier breaking down on her screen. Lance looked around at the ashamed paladin avoiding his gaze around him.

"Need I go on?" He asked quietly. He humphed when he only received sheepish nods. He turned to Shiro and pushed a finger into his chest.

"Next time when you say something about someone's "weakness", don't. None of us are weak and you out of all of us should be the one to see that," he said pushing him back. He turned to Keith.

"You shouldn't be so insulting," he said standing beside his chair. "I know that I haven't shown you what I'm capable of but you don't have to be so condescending,"

"You shouldn't be so quick to judge," he stated turning to focus on Pidge. "I try to come off as the carefree goofball because let's face it, we're fighting in a war and we're a bunch of kids who probably shouldn't be out here," he turned to look at Hunk as well at this point. "You should know that I'm smarter than I act, you have known me the longest,"

"Lance," Hunk tried but Lance only raised his hand between the two of them.

"Please let me finish," he pleaded. "I wasn't at the Garrison as a charity case or anything, and everyone here ignored that. I tried to do the best I could to keep the peace and keep the image of comic relief because it seemed to help you perform better," he looked down at the ground trying to avoid the gazes of his teammates. His hands were shaking by his sides, the only visible sign of his anger through the entire rant until he started to feel a tremble in his lip and tears gathering in his eyes.

"Lance..." he heard Shiro hesitant voice call. His head shot up causing a tear to roll down his cheek as his eyebrows furrowed in anger.

"No! I don't want to hear it!" he shouted shocking the other into silence. "You have been pulling this shit for too long, and you didn't think anything of it! Well, it hurts! It hurts and no one cared enough about me to stop it!"

"Lance, we're sorry," Pidge said reaching out for the teen trying to put her hand on his arm. He slapped it away and started making his way to the door to leave. Before he left he put his hand on the doorway and looked back at Allura.

"Call me for the mission, I need to cool down for a bit," he said quietly. Angry tears still streaked down his face, be he felt and looked resigned now. He turned and left, leaving the bridge in thick silence. It was broken by Kolivan making his way to the entrance to follow Lance to wherever he decided to hole up. Just like Lance, he looked at the others before he left.

"Perhaps next time, you should get to know your soldiers before you judge what they are capable of,"