The Sixth Paladin

Chapter 1

"Well let's see if we can use this complete failure as a lesson for the rest of you. Can anyone point out the mistakes these so called cadets made in the simulator." A student standing behind me raised his hand.
"The engineer puked in the main gearbox." I cringed slightly at that. Poor Hunk and his stomach.
"Yes, puke is not a proper lubricant for engine systems. What else?" The commander asked.
"The comm spec removed his safety harness." A girl said.
"The pilot crashed." Another girl jumped in.
"Correct. And the whole jump was arguing." The commander continued to lecture the crew, when I slightly stopped listening.
"...Is what exactly cost the lives of the men on the Kerberos mission."
"That's not true sir." Pidge said angerly.
"What did you say?" The commander asked, just as angry. Lance quickly clamped his hand over Pidge's mouth.
"Nothing! Nothing sir! He must have hit his head falling out of the chair. But point taken." Lance said nervously.
"Let me remind you that the only reason you're here is that the best pilot here had a discipline issue and flunked out. Don't follow in his foot steps." The commander said to Lance. My heart sped up a bit, I know he's talking about Keith.
"Next!"
Now it was my crews turn. I gave the boys a small smile as we walked past them, which they measly returned.
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"Lights out in five. Everyone back to their dorms."

"We shouldn't be doing this." Hunk said as me, him, and Lance hid behind a wall, trying to sneak out.
"Why are we doing this?" I asked.
"You heard the commander we need to bond as a team." Answered Lance.
"I'm not even on your team." I said.
"We're gonna grab Pidge and hit the town." Lance said ignoring me.
"Okay I'm just going to say this now. Bad idea." Said Hunk, as the lights went out. We then went across the hall, and began running down the hall.
"For some one in the space exploration program you don't have a sense of adventure." Lance said to Hunk and we crouched down near a window.
"All your adventures end up with us in the principal's office." I said and Hunk nodded. Lance peeked in the window and motioned us to follow him, which made Hunk sigh. We continued sneaking around the Garrison, even hid in trash cans, which Hunk got stuck in.
"I'm fine." Hunk said as he got up off the floor. Suddenly a door opened and Lance grabbed our arms pulling us behind a wall. Me and Hunk peeked from behind Lance and saw Pidge leave his room and run down the hall.
"Where is he going?" Lance asked. We followed Pidge to the roof where he was sitting on the ground with some tech and headphones on. Lance started sneaking up behind him. Hunk began to crawl on the ground, trying to be sneaky I guess. While I just walked behind them. Lance came up behind Pidge and moved his headphones, which seems to not disturb him at all.
"You come up here to rock out?" Lance said in his ear, scaring poor Pidge.
"Oh Lance, Hunk ,Korra. No just looking at the stars." He says nervously.
"Where did you get this, doesn't look like Garrison tech." Lance said making me nod.
"I made it." Pidge said proudly.
"You made all of this?" Hunk said trying to touch it but got whacked by Pidge.
"With this I can scan all they way to the edge of the solar system." Pidge said proudly again. I gasped in amazement and looked at the equipment.
"Even all they way to Kerberos. You go crazy every time the commander says something about it. What's your deal?" Lance asked
"Second warning Hunk!" Hunk groaned.
"If we're going to be a team we can't have secrets."
"I'm not even part of your team." I said, looking up from the tech.
"But you're still our friend." Lance stated.
"Fine. The world as you know it is about to change. The Kerberos mission didn't get lost because of some malfunction. STOP TOUCHING MY EQUIPMENT!" Pidge yelled at Hunk making him fall to the ground like a lost puppy.
"So I've been scanning the equipment and picking up alien radio chatter."
"Whoa what? Aliens?" Hunk asked.
"Okay so you're insane." Lance said.
"I'm serious. They keep repeating one word. Voltron." Pidge showed us a notepad full of drawings and the word Voltron in bold.
"And tonight it's going crazier than I've ever heard."
"How crazy?" Lance asked.
" Attention, students. This is not a drill. We are on lock-down! Security situation Zulu Niner. Students are to remain in barracks until farther notice."
"What's going on?" I asked.
"Is that a meteor?" Hunk said pointing to the sky. We all looked up so see a big ball of light coming down from the sky.
"A very, very big meteor?" Pidge picked up a pair of binoculars and looked.
"It's a ship!" Lance grabbed the binoculars and looked with Pidge still holding on to them.
"Holy crow!" He exclaimed. "It's not one of ours."
"No it's one of theirs!"
"So wait there really are aliens out there?" Hunk asked, looking scared. The ship flew across the sky and crashed not far from the Garrison.
"We've got to see that ship." Pidge said and took off running with Lance behind him.
"Korra, Hunk come one." I began running after them with a sighing Hunk behind me, but following.
"This is the worst team building exercise ever."
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We stopped on a cliff not far from them ship. Pidge set up his equipment and is hacking into the ship's system. Lance has the binoculars and was looking at the crash sight.
"Whoa what is that? And who is she?"
"Lance!" I whacked his head.
"Ow! Right alien ship. We'll have to get past all those guards to get a look inside."
"Guess there's nothing for us to do time to head back to the barracks right? Hunk said, already getting up to walk back.
"Wait. They set a camera and I got its feed. Look." We all looked over Pidge's shoulder to look at his computer. There was a man, obviously slightly older than us, strapped to a table. The man's clothes were slightly torn, and he had a chunk of hair on the front that was white, and a scar going over the bridge of his nose. And his arm was... robotic?
"Hey you have to get me out of here." He said.
"Calm down Shiro." The worker said. Shiro? That sounds familiar.
"We just need to run some tests on you."
"You have to listen to me! They destroy worlds!" What is Shiro talking about?
"That's Shiro! The pilot of the Kerberos mission!" Lance said. That's why he's familiar. But he looks different, from the pictures I've seen.
"Guess he's not dead in space after all." I said.
"Where's the rest of the crew?" Pidge asked.
"Do you know how long you've been gone?" They asked Shiro.
"I don't know. Months. Years. Look there's no time! Aliens are coming here for a weapon, they're probably on their way now!" Aliens?
"They'll destroy us. We have to find Voltron." Shiro continued.
"Voltron!" Pidge exclaimed.
"Sir take a look at this." One of the workers said. " It appears his arm has been replaced with a cyborg prosthetic."
"Put him under until we know what that thing can do."
"No! No don't put me under!" Shiro struggled.
"They didn't ask about the crew." Pidge said, sounding disappointed.
"What are they doing?" Lance asked about Shiro.
"We have to get him out." Pidge said, and I nodded with Lance.
"But there's no way to get past the guards." Hunk said pointing to them.
"We've got to think." Lance said.
"What we need is a distraction." I said. Suddenly there was an explosion not far from the ship, making us all scream.
"Is that the aliens. Are they here? They got here so quick!" Hunk said, beginning to freak out.
"No. That was a distraction. For him." Pidge pointed to a man riding over to the ship.
"No way! Oh he is not going to beat us in there." Lance yelled.
"Who?" Hunk asked as Lance ran towards the ship.
"Keith!"
"Keith?" I asked, excited, and ran after Lance.
"Oh I recognize that mullet anywhere."
"Who's Keith?" Pidge yelled after us. We all slid down the small cliff and ran towards the ship. We entered the room, to see the workers passed out on the ground and Keith helping Shiro up.
"No no no no, you don't I'm saving Shiro." Lance said and went and held up Shiro from the other side.
"Who are you?" Keith asked.
"Who am I? I'm Lance." Keith continued to stare at Lance.
"We were in the same class at the Garrison."
"Really are you an engineer?"
"No I'm a pilot."
"Oh yeah. You're that cargo pilot."
"Not anymore I'm fighter class, thanks to you washing out."
"Well congratulations." They began to lead Shiro out when I made eye contact with Keith.
"Your name is Korra right?" I nodded with a blush. Keith nodded and took Shiro outside with the rest of us following.
"They're coming back, we've got to go." Hunk said as we all climbed on to Keith's ride thing, when it tipped over when Hunk got on.
"Is this thing going to be big enough for all of us?" Pidge asked.
"No." Keith answered, annoyed and started it. With all of us on it, I ended up being pressed up against Keith's back, which made me nervous. Then the Garrison spotted us and Keith took off.
"Why am I holding this guy?"
"Hey we did all fit."
"Could this thing go any faster?"
"You could toss some non-essential weight." Keith said. It took a moment for Lance to process what he said.
"Okay so that was an insult."
"Big man lean left." And we turned left, causing some of the Garrison to crash.
"Lean right!" And we turned right, almost making me slip and hold on to Keith. I felt him tense but didn't say anything.
"Guys is that a cliff." Hunk asked, stuttering. We all looked forward to in fact, see a cliff.
"Yup."
"No no no no."
And Keith drove off the cliff. We all screamed and I clung to Keith, as the others clinged to each other. Keith then somehow managed to not kill us and drove us to a house in the middle of nowhere. Which I'm guessing is Keith's. He parked near the side of the house and the guys all slid off.
"You can let go of me now." My eyes sprung open and I realized I was still clinging to Keith.
"Ah I'm sorry!" I said and quickly slide, well more like fall, off his, ride thing.
"It's fine." He said and walk towards the house where the others were.
He's as cold as always.
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(I've lost count of how many times I've read through this after I posted it, and every time I do I find mistakes jfc)
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ALSO SEASON TWO IS GREAT BUT WHERE DID SPACE DAD GO?!?