Take Flight (Pidge Romance) [Voltron Watty Awards 2017]

Chapter 2- PUNishment [Edited]

Once I wake up, I somehow manage to make myself seem very awkward in the first day of being in space.

My arm is completely healed, for starters which I find is strange, but not as strange as the fact that I am surrounded by six people who I have never seen in my life.

Well, Keith is there, but I didn't count him in those six people.

"She's awake!" Is the first thing I hear, then I'm immediately scooped into a hug by none other than Keith. "Hey man," I say weakly. "Where the heck are we, who the heck are these people, and how the heck is my arm healed?"

Keith releases me from the hug and takes a step back, allowing me to stand up on my own.

"Well, you know how you've always wanted to go to space, right?" He says hesitantly, and I can instantly feel my heart thudding in my chest.

"No. No way. There's no way that we're actually in space. You're actually kidding me, right?" I breathe heavily.

"Welcome to space, Ellie," he mutters, and right then it takes some serious self-control not to squeal out loud. I take a few ragged breaths and try to calm myself down and focus on the more important questions. Once I feel more calm, I ask for an introduction.

"Oh, right!" Keith says, jumping into action. "These three are Hunk, Pidge, and Lance from the Garrison, you may know them." Sure enough, they look familiar, but I've never interacted with them enough to know their names. "This is Shiro, an old friend," Keith says, glancing up at Shiro with nothing but pure admiration in his eyes. I resist the urge to crack a smile, and let Keith continue with his introductions. "And then these two are Coran and Princess Allura of Altea."

Princess? Better watch out for her then.

"It's nice to meet you all," I say, bowing my head slightly. And I get a few 'hi's back.

"I'll show you where your room is, so you can settle in there," the guy named Hunk volunteers, and I smile and accept. We step out of the room, but I'm cautious. I did just meet him.

"So, welcome to space, huh?" He asks, and I give a wry chuckle.

"Yeah, that definitely was not what I was expecting when I woke up. And Keith said that you studied at the Garrison- how come I've never seen you? Or Lance and Pidge, as a matter of fact?"

Hunk smiles. "We go out to eat, or just eat on the rooftops. And then I don't recall having you in any of my classes, so that might explain why you haven't seen me."

We round a few corners before we get to a hallway which has doors in it. "These are the rooms in which we stay," Hunk explains. " Over there is my room, which you can always stop by if you need to."

"Thank you," I mutter.

"No problem. Next to mine is Shiro's room, then across from that is Lance's and Pidge's. Your room is right across from Keith's as per his request." So Keith requested a room by me? Thank God. At least someone I know is close by.

"Thanks, Hunk. I really appreciate it."

"No problem."

"Is there anything else we need to do?" I ask. "I have this habit of going off to do my own thing and someone will need me for something."

"Actually, yeah," Hunk says. "You should probably come down to the kitchen and we'll explain what's going on here."

One half of an hour later, my mind has been thoroughly blown.

"So let me get this straight." I say around a bowl of nasty space goop, which the others are eating as well. "You five are some part of Voltron, a giant robot formed by some big kitties, we're in space with no way to really go back, we have to save the universe, and somehow live through all of this?" I run a hand through my bangs and prepare to drop a pun (I saw an opportunity, okay?). "Back up, you guys are going to need to give me some space to process this."

Lance groans and Keith chuckles, with Princess Allura, Coran, Hunk, and Shiro all express some sort of playful annoyance.

"That was a really star-studded pun," a voice pops up. I look to the sound of the voice to see that it's the green paladin, Pidge. I grin at him and he grins back.

"Wow, sunny, did you just come up with that pun, or did you planet beforehand?" I remarked, and giggled at myself. At this, the whole room groaned, and even my former contender looked surprised.

"You can't simply use a double pun!" Lance complained, and I laughed. "Yes I can!" I argued playfully.

We stayed up late that night by telling each other puns. Pidge was always quick to return them, which make the group groan, but then Lance would join in. Hunk knew all sorts of puns about food, and Shiro knew even more about space, but when cats came up, I was ready to drop a major bomb on them.

"Did you know that cats don't always land on their feet? When I first heard that, my first thoughts were 'you've cat to be kitten me right meow.' I couldn't get over it. It was a pretty clawful revelation, especially since I grew up exposed to the pawsome fact that cats always land on their feet. What a purrfect world it would be if cats always landed in their feet. I would say 'is this fur real?' I mean, me-wow, that would be great."

I blushed as everyone started laughing, even the normally-stern Keith.

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A while later, there is a knock at my door. My watch reads 1:37 a.m., so I'm instantly suspicious of who's at my door. When I look through the peephole and see that it's only Pidge, I relax and open the door. As soon as I open the door, Pidge starts speaking.

"That was a pretty interesting tail you told about cats earlier?" He jokes, and I laugh.

We spend the rest of the night making puns.

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So, the group is introduced! Ellie is quickly revealing her pun-loving side to the group and making everyone laugh with it. What do you think?

And I actually came up with all of those cat puns a long time ago. I have this piece of my brain I like to call 'the corner of PUNishment' where I keep my puns until they can see the light of day....

Jk

And I think last chapter I mentioned something about you guys not liking the interactions with Pidge and Ellie? Well I completely scrapped my current plotline and that's what happened.

That, and its three a.m. and I wanted to write about puns.

Don't worry. Bad interactions are coming soon >:3

-Scarlett