The Gold Paladin

Saving A Paladin

The Lions and their Paladins stood in space staring at the hordes of Galra fighters emerging from Zarkon's Central Command ship. Four of the Lions flew off to escape the attacks set to crush them, however, the Black Lion was caught, not listening to Shiro's orders as he was in constant pain.

The other Paladins couldn't hear it, but Shiro was hearing high pitched, horrifying screams of a woman. Screams he knew far too well. The Black Lion was being pulled in towards the ship while the other Lions continued to battle.

The Yellow and Green Lions fired their lasers at the other smaller ships, disabling them from attacking the others again. The Blue Lion fired its ice laser at the Galra fighter ships, freezing them in their tracks before the Red Lion rammed into them, destroying them for good.

"Oh, there's no end to these guys!" Hunk shouted looking out at the thousands more Galra fighters the team had to take down. 

All of a sudden, just as the cruisers were about to fire, something else beat them to the punch. It was a large beam of light that shot straight through the Galra cruisers, and it came from the Castle of Lions swooping in to save the Paladins.

"Coran attack!" Coran shouted from the bridge, "I've waited then thousand years for this!"

The Paladins cheered for their friends coming in to help them, however, Shiro continued to groan from the strain of being pulled in by the tractor beam of Zarkon's Central Command ship.

"AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" The screams continued, his spine shivering and his stomach turning at the sheer agony of the screams.

"Shiro, are you okay?" Keith asked.

Shiro groaned again, "Something is overriding the controls! My lion is not responding!" He answered. Suddenly he screamed.

"Shiro's in trouble! I'm going in!" Keith announced and rushed his Lion over to Shiro to help.

Shiro panted heavily, the voices and screams in his increasing by the minute.

"You cannot fight it. Your connection is too weak." The voice said to him.

Shiro's eyes shot open, his panic rising even more as the screens went from English, to Galran. The crest of the Galra Empire appeared on the center screen and the pilot seat pushed Shiro back and out of the Lion. As if the Black Lion had rejected Shiro entirely.

Shiro was flung out of the Lion and into open space. He used his jetpack to stop himself from flying too far, until he landed on the side of the ship. He gripped a panel on the exterior of the ship and saw the Black Lion be pulled further into the ship.

"What do we do now, guys?" Hunk asked, "Our plan isn't really working out as... well, planned!"

"I'm going for the Black Lion. You guys, find Novae now!" Shiro ordered.

"I've identified Novae's exact location." Coran informed the team, "Uploading the coordinates to you, now."

"In the meantime, Coran and I shall provide covering fire from out here." Allura added.

"All alone, against an entire fleet. So, yeah, do you mind hurrying?" Coran asked slightly panicked.

"Actually, Shiro, it seems that you're the closest to Novae. Perhaps you should get her first and then the Black Lion." Allura said.

Shiro knew that they had to save Novae, but he also had to get the Black Lion and didn't want Novae to get even more hurt in the crossfire. But, if he had a chance to save her before it was too late, he would take it right then and there.