REBORN

Episode 1, Part 3

"Princess, you must eat. It's been 10,000 years." Coran tried to give the Princess food.

"I'm not hungry." She replied shortly, still staring at the holographic screen.

Lance stood to the side and looked at the Princess in confusion. In Tartarus, she and Annabeth had to survive on fire water.  It was understandable that their appetite was destroyed. 10,000 years without food in a chamber that keeps you frozen does not make you lose your appetite, as far as Lance knew.

"You should eat Princess, it is not healthy to dismiss the nutrients your body needs. A freezer chamber thing does not keep all the nutrients in." Lance spoke from the side. The Princess looked at her and then took a small bite of the food and went back to the screen. Coran looked at Lance thankfully, she just waved off the gratitude as if it were nothing. To Lance, telling someone to eat for their health was nothing.

"I haven't eaten since breakfast and I'm starving." Hunk held his stomach.

"Yeah but you've thrown up like 5 times." Pidge said from beside him.

"Hm, good point." And Hunk began eating the green goo food that was meant for the princess. Shiro began talking to the princess but Lance looked around the room. Taking in every detail. She heard a small squeaking noise and turned around as she saw the princess picking up 4 little mice from the chamber she was in.

Just then an alarm went off.

"A Galra battleship has set its tracker to us." Coran shouted to the princess.

"How did they find us?" Princess Allura asked, scared.

"I'm not sure. I am sorry for leading them here, if they did follow us." Lance apologised to the Princess.

"Yeah, you should be sorry. After getting us stuck on the other side of a wormhole." Keith was angry and Lance was just annoyed. What had she done?

"I'll stick you in a wormhole!" She shot back, angrily.

Shiro was quick to break up the fight. "How long before they arrive?" He asked Coran.

"At their speed? Oh, well, carry the two. I'd say probably a couple of days." Coran used his fingers to calculate.

"Good. Let them come! By the time they get here, you five will have reformed Voltron, and together we will destroy Zarkon's empire." Allura said angrily, which seemed to be her default emotion. 'Understandable after what she woke up to.' Lance thought. She was then struck with a memory of a certain blond son of Jupiter saying something along the same lines, ". . . and together we will destroy Gaea! Now, who's with me?" She pushed the memory away, 'now's not the time' she scolded herself.

Hunk burped really loudly, "Sorry. Food goo."
'At least he has the decency to look sorry and sheepish.' thought Pidge and Lance.

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Percy's ADHD was gone but that didn't stop Lance from zoning in and out of reality. She often didn't even realise this was happening until everything moved and she realised that she missed half of the conversation. That happened again when she finally snapped back to reality and saw the entire universe on display. To say she was shocked was and understatement. She nearly stumbled back, keyword being nearly. She caught herself just in time and muttered a small 'wow' to herself as the others were a bit louder.

"These are coordinates. The black lion looks like it's in the same location as the blue lion." Pidge spoke. This caused Lance to look up. She and the Blue Lion had a weird connection, she didn't think it was just because she liked the colour blue.

"Look at your primitive synapses firing away in their little brain cage." Coran slipped into Pidge's observation.

"Very observant. That's because the Black Lion is in the castle." Allura praised Pidge. Lance zoned out again, studying every detail of this universe as she could. It was beautiful. The stars, the planets and everything. She fingered Riptide in her pocket, not being able to lose the habit. The watch Tyson made her still glowed brightly. She had practiced her powers away from everyone so that they wouldn't find out. She thought that people would call her a freak if she told them, so she stayed silent. Thinking back, Lance hadn't laughed since coming to this universe. She gave smiles, smirks and her signature grin but she hadn't laughed since coming here. She didn't dwell on it further as Allura started speaking about the Lion's character traits.