"This is the klii nyn system, there's a blade of marmots rally point located on a moon here," Krolia pointed out to Keith as they flew for a few hours at a steady pace.

"We should check in with them and get updated on their operations," she looked at her son as keith looked at the map.

"Team, we're going to make a quick stop, everyone follow me," he said over the speaker; while lance had Coran with him going through the healing pods ratings and updates in reds hangar.

"Do you mind being left for a little? I don't think I can leave red on auto pilot for this," lance looked at Coran with no hint of joy or much emotion at all.

"I'll make sure everything stays at ease," Coran nodded softly as he looked at lance.

"Lance," he called before the Paladin left making him stop and turn around. There was no hostility in Lances eyes as he looked at the other altean, he's seen his anger to Romelle and Allura, he was just glad it wasn't against him as well.

"Keep me updated when you come back," he smiled happily at lance. Lance shared the slightest smile back at him and nodded.

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When the lions landed on the marmora base, the Paladins and krolia exited with helmets on and jet packs helping them guide themselves without the gravity.

Allura used her altean strength to open the metal door with a grunt, as they entered krolia noticed how empty it was. It sunk in to them all seeing it's been abandoned, what seems for a long time.

"It seems like no ones been here for years," Keith looked around.

"The system won't boot," Pidge tapped the control panel in the center with krolia behind her.

"Looks like the backup power has been out for a while," she looked back at them.

"If the blade of marmora abandoned this place, that means something real bad happened," hunk looked around curiously.

"That's impossible, this base was still fully operational during my last check in with the blades," krolia stayed near Pidge as keith flew over to them with lance close behind.

Suddenly the building raddled with dust falling as there was a thud above them.

"Enemy ships incoming!" Coran cried from the red lion.

"Everyone back to the lions!" Keith commanded as they jumped to the zero gravity and used their packs to fly back quick as possible, the base was still being attacked as it continued to shake as they escaped.

They all race into the lions and took off one after the other to get out from the attack, Keith observed as he took the lead.

"It's a small fleet, mostly galra fighters," Keith told them all.

"That's good, we should be able to take them out easily," Allura nodded.

"Yea but remember we're not flying at full power," Pidge said flatly.

"Everyone stay sharp, shes right," Keith tightened his grip on the controls as he looked out ahead.

The sprawled out a little more to divid the fighters so they could take them out separately as lance pulled the red lion back and diverted two fighters after him as he flew off.

"Keep an eye out, if there's fighters there's usually a cruiser nearby," lance told them as he kept his eyes ahead.

Pidge shot back at the fighters but noticed the lion quiet as Romelle was no longer in the lion with the wolf, and Coran has been with lance since she begged for the two to be separated.

"Where'd she go?" Pidge blinked.

Allura gridded her teeth together as Romelle was teleported behind her with the wolf and a second later the wolf was gone the next second.

"Some of these ships look like Lotors fleet," Romelle popped up next to allura.

"Wha- how did you get in here?!" Allura almost screamed in surprise but both girls screamed when they were hit but kept going.

"We need to get out of here," Keith grunted as they were being outnumbered within the minutes.

Lance narrowed his eyes seeing fighters go after Hunk with Lazer wires shooting out and attaching to the yellow lion and yanking him back. It is lotors fighters, he knew those fighters, but it wasn't under Lotors command obviously. Who was the one in command with his ships?

"Guys I can't move!" Hunk cried out as the two ships didn't let go.

"We're coming Hunk!" Keith flew towards him as full speed sending his mother and shiro back. He formed the jaw blade and quickly cut through to free the yellow lion.

"We need to do something, our asses are getting handed to us," lance wrinkled up his nose in frustration.

"We don't have enough power to form voltron," he pursed his lips trying to think.

"We'll have to try," Keith growled.

"No we can't, the lions are to weak," Pidge defended.

"So what now?" Hunk asked.

"Run!" Keith cried out and they all flew ahead to escape the galra.

Pidge flew to the side to avoid getting hit but an explosion hit her side instead and sent her flying. Suddenly explosions lined up around them as hunk and lance went flying as well as they were surrounded.

"What did we hit?!" Hunk looked out confused as lance pulled up a screen.

"Xanthorium crystals, they're cloaked, they're basically like a land mine," lance explained quickly.

Suddenly Keith crashed into one and sent him rolling as the galra formed a Lazer with three of the fighters together and hit the lions as they were forced deeper and deeper into the crystal death trap.

"These are galra fighter formations, we can't get away without taking them out," lance told them panting as he twisted out of the way of a laser but crashed into a crystal with a gasp.

"They're trying to trap us by chasing us through the crystals, there's more up ahead," Keith looked at a screen of the scanner picking up more locations of the bombs.

"Theyve got us cornered, we have the xanthorium around us and these bloody pirates behind us, and a cyclone ahead, there's no way," Allura gasped keeping up with the others.

"We have no choice, everyone into the cyclone!" Keith told them taking the lead again as no one disagreed. "Hunk your with me to punch a hole in the storm for the others to have a path, you ready?"

"Let's go," hunk sped up to be side by side with Keith as the three other lions were close behind  in formation.

"The lions won't be able to handle this for much longer, the storm is to strong," lance kept an eye on the scanner and glanced at a camera seeing Lotors pod, it was still in tact surprisingly.

"We need an exit, somewhere to have the advantage, Pidge are you picking up anything?" Keith asked as he kept getting hit by rocks in the cyclone but blocked for the others.

"There's a volcanic ice planet near by," Pidge told him. "It has geysers, steam vents and ice tunnels, extreme changes in temperature and an unstable core,"

"Sounds dangerous. Perfect," he smirked.

They flew to the side of the coordinations to the ice planet into its atmosphere with the fighters close behind. They flew low in the valleys and canyon of the ice and rock as keith told them to follow him and stay close. Avoiding getting hit by the geysers that popped out.

Lance ducked as two shots were aimed above them and laughed.

"You missed!" He smiled. But the blows went to a bridge above and shattered the rocks and ice to block them.

"I see a cave, Lance I need you to bring up the rear," Keith looked ahead and lance nodded trusting his team leader.

"When everyone is through the tunnel, fire above the cave opening, red should be fast enough to get in before the ice hits and completely block the way," Keith elaborated for him and lance smirked at the idea.

"You got it," lance drawed back from the group and aimed at the tunnels opening ahead but made sure he would still have enough time.

"Three two go," he shot the tunnel as everyone was inside and sped up to make it in before it collapsed on him, he made timing perfect. Only to see fighters behind him.

"Bastards," lance growled looking back. "Guys some fighters made it in,"

"Split up, thin out the attackers," Keith told them.

Pidge and lance flew with Keith but the red and green lion split off again from the tunnel as one fighter went after the black lion instead and two went after red and green.

"I can't move enough to shoot it," Pidge flew ahead of lance trying to aim.

"The tunnels are to narrow," Lance growled.

"What do we do?" Pidge asked.

"You usually have ideas," he shot back.

"You know the galra!" She whined.

"I don't know who the fuck these guys are!"

"Well my canon isn't operational so I'm fucked!" Pidge grunted as she was hit again with the wolf watching her.

"Ya know what if you have any thoughts let me know," she looked at the wolf unamused.

Suddenly he disappeared in a flash making pidges face drop in shock.

Then two fighters went down without them touching the fighters and then the third one went down.

"Um what happened..?" Lance blinked confused.

"I think keiths wolf saved us," Pidge said unsure as the wolf teleported back.

"Good job bud," she smiled at him but saw he was injured.

"Aw we'll get you fixed up wolf, you did good," she pet behind his ear as they exited the tunnel meeting the others.

As soon as the sky hit the lions a cruiser was above them with a ray that forced the lions into the ground and unable to fight back.