Survival of the Innocent (A Voltron fanfic) (Book 1 of Fates Entwined)

Explosive Exit

Keith had no idea where he was going. He just knew it felt like the right way. Left, left, straight, faster, right, left, right, right, faster, faster. By the time Keith recognised the hallways, he was moving too fast to stop. The first sentry was dealt with as he passed. The next few he felt with with ease, running on walls to avoid getting shot. As he travelled, he began to take diversions, no longer listening to the feeling fully as he recognised the route, avoiding the more heavily guarded hallways.

Eventually, he all the hallways were as guarded as each other. Keith stopped at the end of one of these hallways and gripped his dagger tighter, mentally preparing himself to make a dash for the door they were all guarding.

In.

And...

Out.

Keith ran. He used his momentum to strike the first few soldiers down, run on the walls slightly to avoid getting shots, slashing downwards to behead a sentry, dodging past another soldier, hitting the back of his head with his dagger to knock him out and avoiding getting shot. He dashed towards the door, used the scanner to open it and immediately ran inside, closing the door quickly.

Immediately, he was shot at. Again.

Easily, he dealt with them. Again.

As he took a moment to catch his breath, Keith looked around the familiar room; it was huge and empty, except for one thing. Machines held a giant red forcefield, slightly suspended, but it was what was inside this forcefield that held the Galra's interest: a huge, red, mechanical lion. This lion was one of five that form something known as Voltron, which was the only weapon that could defeat Zarkon.

The lion was deactivated, like it had been for a long time. The only time it had showed any life was when Keith snuck in here for the first time, when he was younger, and the commander came to 'collect' him. He had been upset and tired of life, at the time, when this same feeling caused him to leave his cell and come to this room. He had felt safe here and told the lion everything. It had been a burden off his chest and that feeling had changed to comfort him. He stayed there for who knows how long; it was the first time he felt nothing but happy since his parents. Then the commander found him. He wasn't happy. It had scared Keith and the lion had reacted. It activated and glared at the commander, growling the entire time. The commander had taken a step back at that. Keith was forced to calm the lion down and left peacefully with the commander. After that, he was kept under constant watch when he left his cell.

He walked up to the red forcefield and rested his hand on it.

"Hey Red. Want to get out of here?" He asked his m-lion.

The lion roared in response, the forcefield deactivating, and it lowered its head, opening its mouth for Keith to enter.

"Thought so. I've been waiting for this," Keith said, stroking the lion's jaw affectionately.

Banging could be heard from the door and Keith immediately walked into the lion's mouth. The lion closed its mouth once Keith was inside and stood back up. Keith say in the pilot's chair and got ready to leave.

"Alright Red. Let's do this. I promised to find Shiro, after all," the lion purred affectionately in agreement and Keith laughed.

Their moment was ruined when the door was blown up by Galra lead by Sendak.

"Stop him! Don't let him escape!" Sendak ordered.

The lion's response was to shoot Sendak. In the face. With a laser.

Sendak, however, dodged the blast, much to the lion and Keith's displeasure. The other Galra took that as their cue to charge the lion, who simply swiped them away with its tail. Rather than wait for them to recover, they blasted a hole in the wall and flew out, just as the alarms went, causing many soldiers to be blown out into space.

Outside the ship, Keith could easily see the damage caused by Ulaz's distraction at the other end of the ship to the escape pods. However, he doesn't have time to breathe as the ship starts firing at him and the lion but the lion is fast and agile. He listens to the lion and his instincts and is able to dodge the large majority of the lasers, only being hit a few times. They eventually manage to put enough distance between them and the ship so that they are out of range.

They fly faster in random directions until they are out of range of the ship's scanners, before setting course for Earth. The lion purrs lowly to Keith, telling him to rest whilst she heads to Earth. He relents eventually and agrees.

"Don't worry Shiro, I'm coming."