The Silver Paladin

Greening the Cube

~~~~Saoirse~~~~

We were outside the ship, Coran said that the ship needed some repairs after the battle we had with the robeast.

"Alright, let's hurry up with these repairs. Zarkon could be here at any moment." Shiro said. Ever since we our battle with Robeast, Shiro had been on edge more than usual. It started to scare me a little.

"Okay panel's up, now what?" Hunk asked as the panel rose from the side of the ship.

Coran replied, "Very simple. Just loosen the blaxums on the somoflange."

Hunk and the others were confused when they heard the Altean language. Last night, in a dream I saw my parents teaching me the Altean language. It wasn't much that I could remember, but it was enough to understand a little of what Coran and Allura were saying.

"Could you be more specific?" Hunk asked.

"Sorry Hunk," Allura apologized, "he means the poklones on the argoclams."

Hunk turned his heard in slight annoyance. Lance smirked and pushed his friend out of the way.

"Easy, Hunk, I got this." Lance said confidently.

Lance pressed a few buttons and pulled a lever, but it didn't help fix the problem. In fact, it only made it worse.

Alarms began to sound and the once blue lights around the castle blinked red, causing most of us to panic.

"Uh oh!" Lance exclaimed worryingly, "That can't be good."

"No, not the smelters, the poklones!" Allura shouted.

"No, no! It's the blaxums!" Coran corrected.

"What are you talking about?" Keith asked.

I sighed and was about to do what I could, but Pidge beat me to it. I pushed myself away as she stared at the mechanism intently.

She quickly pressed the correct buttons, turned a few knobs and twisted the handle on the top of the panel.

"There." Pidge said as the red lights faded stopped blinking and everything went to normal.

"Well done, Pidge!" Allura said happily.

Pidge turned back towards the panel and gazed at it with both excitement and amazement. I chuckled at her happiness and saw the stars around us deflecting in her eyes as they glowed.

"The tech on this ship never ceases to amaze me!" She said, "It's so mathematically elegant. Its fit is 100 times more frictionless than any exoskeleton we have on Earth. It's.... beautiful."

"It's not a sunset Pidge." Lance said.

Pidge's smiled faded as she looked at Lance for a moment and then back at the technology in front of her.

"You're right, a billion sunsets just happen everyday. Some genius engineer actually built this." Pidge pressed a button and the panel went back into the ship wall.

"Kind of looks like a big delicious curly fry." Hunk said, smiling at the descending panel.

I chuckled at his comment, "I have to admit, I enjoy watching this type of technology work as well. Back home, I barely even scratched the surface of this type of energy manipulation. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to study it."

"Both of you are giant nerds." Lance said

Pidge and I laughed at Lance's comment about us. I looked around at our group of friends and saw Keith not joining in on the conversations. His arms were crossed, his lips creased into a frown.