The Last Paladin

Collection and Extraction

"I'm going with you. I've traveled through the Galra transportation hubs many times with my father before the war began. I know more about them than any of you."Allura demanded.

"Princess, I'd rather you stay here." Coran tried to protect her.

"I'm a part of this fight against Zarkon as much as anyone.I'm going. Does anyone have a problem with that?" We all did as she wished.

"Uh Fine." Coran gave a hesitant sigh.

"Suit up." Shiro commanded.

"We'll go in low, fast, and hopefully undetected. Coming around the dark side of the nearest planet should keep them from getting a visual on us. Thanks to Pidge's modifications to the Green Lion, we'll have 30 seconds of cloaking." Shiro began to explain as we were going in on the green lion.

"I can flood their short-range sensors with a radiation burst. That should buy you a minute or so, while they assume it's cosmic interference. But, after that, it's up to you to be out of sight." Coran explained.

"Interference clear in three, two, one." The mission echoed.

"Psst! Hey!" Shiro taughted the Galran soldier. We all quickly attacked and knocked out the others.

"How's it look out there?" Shiro asked.

"All clear." Keith commented.

"This shouldn't take too long." Hunk replies.

"We'll have all the information we need in a few minutes. Hunk and I have made some improvements since the last time I tried to download Galra info. We should get a nice, clean translation immediately. Hunk had a great idea about how to do it." Pidge explained.

"Do you guys remember when we studied algorithms at the Garrison, and Mr.
York told us that joke about the ghost learning symbolic logic and innumerably infinite sets?" Hunk reminisced on.

"Boring!" Lance yawned.

"Right, yeah, totally, it was boring. Anyway, the joke goes...." Keith cut off Hunk.

"Hey, guys, sorry to interrupt, but I think we got company."

"Think we should get out of here?" I asked.

"We just need a few more seconds." Pidge replies.

"Stay low. We need this intel." Shiro responded. "Get down!"

"Huh? He's still looking." Lance whispered. "I think he's waiting for a signal or something."

"I got it." Hunk grabbed the knocked out soldier and began to play with its hands. "Whew."

"Nice job, Hunk." I gave him a thumbs up.

"Thanks." He shrugs.

"Okay, download complete." Pidge jumped in.

"What's it say?" Keith questioned.

"Nothing. This place doesn't have any useful information.Just a schedule of the ships coming in and out."

"Well, I guess this mission was a bust." Lance announced.

"Let's get back to the Castle." Shiro began.

"Hold on. Pidge, do you know where that ship is headed?" Allura asked.

"Um, it's scheduled to be here for about a half an hour, then head off to Central Command."

"That's where they have the information we need, and I'm going to sneak aboard that ship and get it for us." Allura stood up.

"What? No way!" Lance shook his head.