The doors opened with shiro next to Lotor who's hands were cuffed in front of him as they faced ezor and zethrid, while Axca went to take care of the black lion.

"Zethrid, ezor," Lotor started unamused.

Suddenly the ship raddled harshly as the black lion clawed its way in as it opened a hole in the wall to space as air was sucked out.

But within moments it was gone while Axca chased after the lion. Ezor grunted slamming her hand on a control as they got through the doors and for them to shut behind and were airlocked. Lotor grunted as zethrid grabbed his handcuffs and forced him to his feet as she towered over him.

"Was lance apart of this?" Lotor asked darkly but truthfully he didn't want to know the answer.

"Not even close," zethrid snarled in his face. Lotor felt relieved anyways.

Shiro went to take Lotor back under his guard but zethrid stopped him.

"We'll take it from here," she told the changed Paladin.

Lotor and zethrid walked ahead as ezor stayed with shiro as his face didn't show any expressions, he didn't blink when she poked his cheek curiously.

"Is it broken?" She quirked a brow poking his face one more time.

"Just leave it, We've got orders," zethrid told her with a scoff.

"Ezor!"

"Coming!" She smiled brightly running back to zethrid as shiro didn't move.

Until he was given another order from the voice in his mind.

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"The lions are at about 60 percent, just need more time," pidge sighed at the screen as the lions were back in the hangars recovering from the battle.

"Whatever those ships hit them with really did some damage," Hunk nodded by her.

"May be my fault, when I worked with the galra I gave away some of our information on the lions," lance crossed his arms looking down.

"What?" Allura hissed.

"What? Gonna hit me again and send me away? It was a different time Allura, we weren't exactly allies at a time," Lance defended himself.

"Then where do you stand?" The blond altean, romelle, asked with a glare.

"Your new, but if you come on this ship and act like your one of us then you need to back off," lance barked at her.

"Where do you stand lance?" Allura asked softly from her post.

"As always, I'm loyal to Lotor, I knew about the alteans," lance looked down again pursing his lips. "He doesn't hide anything from me,"

"You knew?" Coran asked heart broken.

"He told me last night, I was worried about today, about the mission, I didn't want him risking his life knowing what it did to his father, he told me that he was doing it so he could one day free the alteans and become united as one, the galra and altean, no more war, just unity," lance explained not looking at anyone as his voice was steady.

"He killed my little brother," romelle spat.

"And my little sister is dead but I'm not ruining lives for it!" Lance snapped back at her.

"It was murder!" Romelle gasped offended.

"I'm not comparing dead sibling stories with you, I'm just saying I know what it's like for someone you love to be ripped from your hands, but I'm damn well not letting it happen again to the man I love!" He turned to romelle and took a step towards her.

"And I understand that," krolia put a hand on Lances shoulder.

"You want to protect the ones you love, but so do all of us, together we can all win and keep everyone we love," she nodded softly as lance looked at the galra woman.

"Who's she?" Lance whispered loudly looking at the others over his shoulder.

"I'm Keith's mother, krolia," she smiled softly as lance backed up a little.

"Oh... nice meeting you, your sons a piece of work," lance crossed his arms again.

"I suppose," krolia smiled.

"Allura are you picking up anything yet?" Hunk asked breaking the silence.

"No, I fear that the wormhole May have deposited them beyond my abilities reach," Allura sighed disappointed.

"I'll try to contact some coalition forces to provide assistance," Coran went back to the controls. But suddenly the power went out.

"Coran what's happening?" Allura asked as the room was dark.

"It appears the castles systems are shutting down one by one, as if someone hacked into the ship and let loose a kill protocol of some sort ," Coran pulled up the castles screen.

"Lance what have you done?" Allura looked at him sharply.

"This isn't me," Lance defended.

"Have you tried an override?" Pidge got to work immediately.

"Or maybe a counteracting it with a live protocol?" Hunk offered.

"The virus is moving to fast!"

"Okay I'm in the system," pidge growled a little as she moved her fingers on the screen as faster as she could feeling weight on her shoulders.

"Subroutines right through 19 have me completely locked out, but if I can just skip ahead- come on come on," pidge felt sweat run down her temple as coran called out the systems that were shutting down as she worked.

"Main turbulence is down!"

"Crystal matrix offline!" He called as Allura looked up seeing the crystal above her was shutting down.

"There! I've got it isolated, now I just have to lock it down with a multi layered tru tetragonal quarantine, and- ha! Yes!" Suddenly the systems were back up as the room lit up while pidge threw her hands up in victory.

Relief flooded in the room.

"Well done pidge," Coran sighed looking at her as pidge let out a soft breath sitting back.

But suddenly the system went back to shutting down as the alarms went off again.

"What?! The virus has countermeasures that specifically target my quarantine!" Pidge almost screamed distressed.

"Lance What did you do!" Allura cried out fearful now.

"It's not lance!" Pidge snapped back. "This isn't something anyone would know, but this thing it knew my strategies..."

And the room went black with no power.

"If this shuts down the teludavs mass regulator, the ship along with everything in the neighboring subsystem, would be destroyed," Coran explained keeping his back to them.

"This isn't me, I-i swear," lance whispered wide eyes as he held his body tightly.

But suddenly pidge was up on her feet running off through the ship.

"Where are you going?!" Hunk called after her.

"No time!" Pidge called back determined.