"Lotor? Shiro?! Shiro!"

Lotor groaned as he laid on the metal ground looking to the side, seeing Shiro laying on his stomach with the destroyed crystal scattered all over the room, the room was dark without the source and the smell of metal burning was surrounding him.

He sat up with a groan and pushed himself up to see if the captain was alright.

"Black Paladin," Lotor grunted. "Black Paladin we must go, the ship will be destroyed,"

His ears rung as he could hear muffle yelling in the ear pieces. Atlas Trying to defend themselves, trying to contact the Paladins, trying to get ahold of them.

"Atlas can you hear me? Paladins? Holt?" Lotor held his head in pain at the headache he had.

"Lotor are You and Shiro alright?" Sam reached him.

"We were caught in the explosion but were both breathing, Shiro is unconscious," Lotor told him calmly.

"How are the Paladins?" He asked.

"It seems the red lion is activated and back in the battle, took out one cruiser within the last minute," sam explained quickly and Lotor let out a breath of relief, lance was okay.

"I'll alert you when we've left the ship," Lotor confirmed as he grabbed shiros arm and wrapped it around his shoulder to pull him on his back.

Only minutes later Sendak found the empty room of a destroyed crystal and no proof of who was there to destroy it.

-

As the atlas held back their ship kept sinking closer and closer to the earth but the canons blast it gave the Paladins time to start fighting back once again, they followed lances lead and used all their strength to destroy all the cannons and ships. While the mfe pilots were able to neutralize their own targets with the time they were given.

"The only remaining hostile is Sendak's ship," Veronica tapped through as they were soon seeing victory.

"It's free falling towards earth, it's already hit terminal velocity," she frowned.

"Shiro is still in there," Sam narrowed his eyes, Lotor hasn't contacted him that they left the ship yet.

—

"Are you alright?" Lotor asked as Shiro gained consciousness and was stabled on his feet again.

"Bruised but alive," Shiro nodded.

"Good, because we're about to crash in this ship so we need to go," Lotor punched the door in the ceiling that lead to the top of the ship.

Shiro jumped up and pulled himself up to the surface as he and Lotor sprinted across the top of the ship as they were already in earth's atmosphere, it was hot around them, if it wasn't for their suits it would've probably burned.

"You!"

Lotor immediately turned around knowing that voice and snarled seeing Sendak.

"Paladin go," Lotor growled grabbing his sword.

"I'm not leaving you behind," Shiro glared back. They both had this mans death on their list.

"No more games, this ends now," Lotor twirled his blade.

Sendak sent a blast at the men as they jumped out of the way, Shiro blocked the next blast with his arm to shield himself and Lotor took it to run towards Sendak.

"I knew you were alive," Sendak growled at Lotor.

"Three years I've waited, I got a taste of my dream when I got to make your little lover scream from his broken bones, a weak little prick," he chuckled darkly. Lotor let out a roar and raised his blade.

Shiro came around slamming his fist into Sendak's head but it only made the galra flinch. The commanders clawed grabbed the captain and threw him against the ex prince.

The two slid across the ship as they were surrounded by earths clouds. Lotor looked to the side seeing the lions. Shiro noticed as well, it was either to jump and hope the crash would kill Sendak or do it themselves and risk their own lives.

"Every ounce of my being will be directed towards the destruction of you and this pathetic planet!" Sendak sneered as he walked towards them.

Lotor grabbed shiros ankle and easily threw him back as he went over Sendak's prosthetic that went to grab him and Lotor was able to deflect it from himself. Shiro used his robotic arm to defend himself with a greater strength against the galras.

Sendak was able to over power him and send the human flying, almost off the side of the ship.

Lotor tightened his grip and threw his blade at Sendak from behind, it impaled in the galras shoulder making him scream, Lotor grinned but noticed the ship wasn't going down anymore but gliding itself downwards. It must've been the lions trying to make the crash lessen.

"Shiro! The lions are beneath! Get to the black lion!" Lotor yelled to him.

Shiro was clinging to the side of the ship but looked down. He looked back at Lotor and nodded in trust.

He let go and fell off the side.

A moment past as the two galra watched to see if anything would happen. That was until the black lion flew past them with its jaw shutting. Lotor knew the Paladin made it.

"That champion will perish as soon as I've spilt your blood," Sendak ripped the sword out of his shoulder and threw it to the side.

"Your arrogance will be the end of you, a bastard commander of a damned empire," Lotor narrowed his eyes.

—

"We need to make it past the city!" Keith helped the others with leading the ship to the canyons of the desert.

But they couldn't hold much longer. They got to close to the earth and had to move out of the way to let the ship crash.

It was destroyed as soon as it hit the earth.

"Lotor!" Shiro ran to keiths chair seeing the ship crash.

"He's not with you?!" Sam called through.

Lances eyes widen, his heart stopped seeing the smoke from the crash, he didn't see any movement. But he immediately started flying to the sight, the black lion dove through faster.

-

Lotor slowly opened his eyes as he laid on his stomach and forced himself to lift his head, he could feel a sting on his cheek, could be a cut or a bruise. It all hurt the same.

He heard footsteps coming his way. He looked to side and only felt annoyance seeing Sendak walking.

"I guess neither of us really can die at this point," Lotor pushed himself up and growled holding his ribs.

"I can change that," Sendak grinned.

"Victory..." Lotor gulped forcing himself to stand as blood dripped down from his cheek and down his neck.

"Or death," Sendak narrowed his eyes.

Lotor took a step forward but only to see the black lion appear from the dust behind Sendak and the mouth was open, a figure let out a long battle scream as a Paladin didn't hesitate to take their blade to make the final kill. Keith swiped his sword and rolled across to the ground to his feet as sendak stood there from the sneak attack.

Blood dripped off keiths bayard and sendak fell.

It was over.

Neither of the half breeds said a word, lotor walked over to examine the death, he looked over Sendak's body and saw blood pour from his throat.

"Thank stars, Keith, may I?" Lotor opened his hand and Keith raised a brow and handed him his bayard after turning it into a sword again. Lotor raised it and cut off Sendak's head in a clean motion. Keiths eyes widen disturbed.

"I don't need him coming back, in anyway, he'll die forgotten and in dishonor," Lotor spat at the corpse and handed Keith his blade again.

"Thank you," he sighed finally catching his breath.

"Thanks for staying on our side this time," Keith raised a brow.

"But no one is celebrating your death today," he smirked a little. Lotor nodded softly inhaling a deep breath.

"We did it!" Pidge screamed.

"Earth is safe!" Hunk cried in joy.

Lotor looked at the red lion cautiously. Swallowing a lump in his throat.

Was it really over?