The blue paladin was in a bit of a pickle, and the random voices of Princess Nya and Wu shouting at him to move out of the way were not making matters any better. The purple beam being shot at him repeatedly could only do so much, but with the energy of Wisp soon draining, it'll only get worse. 

"Are the others out of the ship yet?" Jay asked, jerking his controls to miss the ray of destruction. 

"Unfortunately, no. You're going to have to stall a little longer." Wu told him. 

The freckled boy could hear the shuffling around the control room by Nya. She was starting to become anxious, and impatient. "Until Kai is able to connect with red, and Cole gets down here to retrieve the black dragon, we should be fine. If all else fails-" 

"We die, I KNOW!" 

While Jay was holding off the ship, Nya muted their coms and turned her attention to her mentor, "I think they're going to need backup-" 

"You're not going up there. It's already bad enough your brother is up there, I don't need to be sending you to your doom too." He said, his brows furrowed with a scowl on his face. 

Her ocean eyes were threatening, "You can't baby me anymore, I'm eighteen." 

"You may be of age, but that does not mean our customs doesn't apply to you." He scolded. 

The ravens shoulders start to tense, "How do I follow our customs if there is no one to follow them to? Our planet is dead, our culture is burned to the crisp, and all you want to think about is customs!?! We're in war-"

"And you are a princess-"

"OF WHAT?!? WHAT DO I GOVERN!?! I COULD NOT RULE EVEN IF IGNACIA WERE NOT DESTROYED IN THE HANDS OF THE ONI!" She yelled, her eyes glistening with a slight glow of blue, "I was cursed with father's creation, I am unable to follow our customs because of his proposition! My life, my beliefs, my gift were no longer my right to yield! Instead they used it in their own benefits to give to my brother.  He was raised to become an emperor while I was raised to become someone's playmate. I never had a right to do anything from our customs. You were able to do however you pleased because you had your own benefits. So don't you lecture me about customs, and rules. War is war, there are no rules." 

Wu was stunned by her stubbornness. She had always been pretty vocal about how she felt about the 'favoritism' with her brother. Ignacian customs held men to a higher standards and women had to follow with whatever they seem fit. In Nya's mind, it was unfair and makes females have no power for themselves. That was something she wanted to change once the war was over, but the universe had other plans. 

Breaking the awkward silence between the two, Cole's voice broke through the coms, "We've retrieved the red dragon. I repeat we've retrieved the red dragon. The green dragon is taking me back to the temple now." He informed the duo. 

A heavy breath escaped from the princess's lungs. She went and unmuted herself to get a hold of Cole, "I'll meet you down in the hangers to retrieve the black dragon. Once you connect with it, get back on the battlefield and prepare to form Voltron." She explained, already giving herself a head start to the hangers. 

Back on the battlefield, the current four dragons were still getting used to being back in the universe. Along with the paladins figuring out how to take control of their assigned dragons which for both returners and rookies became very stressful.  

Lloyd and Kai were probably dealing with their dragons the best, most likely because they already had prior experience with flying. Zane and Jay however... were having some difficulty. 

"Jay! Watch where your dragon is shooting that thing!" Lloyd shouted, almost getting hit by the blue dragon's lightning ray meant for the Oni warship. 

"Sorry." He responded, redirecting his dragon's ray. 

Zane wasn't having the vest luck either, his dragon seems to have a mind of its own- well it does have a mind of it's own to clarify. It just doesn't want to listen to the white paladin.

It was getting to the point where Zane would have to yank the controls from the dragon in order for it to stop. The thing about the icy blue eyes boy is that he doesn't like not being in control of what he's doing. This was a very good highlight of those moments. 

"Stop it! Why are you not listening to me? You can't keep trying to hit the ship head first! Shoot a lazar or something, anything!" He pleaded to his dragon, only to get a aggravated growl in response. 

Without any input of hesitation, the white dragon zoomed straight into the warcraft, almost breaking the barrier of sound itself.  The reaction caused the ship to accumulate multiple explosions within the ship, which caught the attention of the other paladins. 

Blue electric eyes widened, he exclaimed, "That. Was. Awesome! Zane, I didn't know you had it in you bud!" 

Sheepishly, Zane rubbed the back of his neck, "Uh, thank you?" 

"Guys, we have a little problem." Kai said, his eyes drawn on the elevated platform of missiles and canons. 

Although Zane had broken down at least half of the ship, the front of the ship remained with full cavalry in hand. Once the canon started to grow a energy of purple, Wu broke in the coms, "If that things fires, it'll destroy anything that gets in its way, including the planet and Voltron." He cried. 

"Where is Cole?" Lloyd demanded. 

"He's still trying to connect with the black dragon, black... is being very picky at the moment." 

The green paladin raised a brow, "What do you mean, picky?" 

"It's complicated." 

"Wu, how do we stall it without getting killed?" Jay panicked, pressing all the buttons he was told not to touch to see if anything would happen. 

"Um... I don't really know," The old Ignacian admitted, "We usually had an entire military unit ten thousand years ago. I'm sorry that I couldn't help more." 

Kai's brows furrowed, his green orbs glaring at the almost charged ion canon ready to destroy everything in its path. He promised his father all those years ago to protect Voltron, its paladins and heart. If things were going to get worse, they're going to have to go with their last resort. 

"Wu-" 

"Paladins. I'm headed your way." The voice of the one and only black paladin emerged through the coms, "Get ready on my mark." 

The paladins former concerned conscience turned the other way around once they see from the corner of their eyes the black paladin in his own dragon. 

"Cole!" They all exclaimed, their hope returning.

The black dragon pulled up with the other four dragons, all aligned next to each other, ready to face the unknown dangers of the war ship. "Paladins!" Cole shouted, his eyes on the prize. Everyone turned their attention to the paladin in black, ready for his order. 

"Form Voltron!" 

The five dragons flew in sync, their thrusters left a trail of colors of elements, side by side until the end. Black flew at a faster pace, with red and green right behind it, and blue and white barely following. The dragons moved closer together, and the transformation began. 

The blue and white dragon's mechanical parts transition to become apart of the black dragon.  Their bodies changing to become the legs with blue acting as its right and white for the left. Black's hind legs connect with the white and blue dragon's bodies to make the bottom part of a man. 

The red and green dragons flew over to the upper body of the black dragon. The heads leading the way to form the hands as their limbs stick onto their bodies almost like glue. Both dragons become apart of the upper part of the black dragons body to form the arms. 

Finishing off the transformation of the defender of the universe, the head begins to change into its new form. Instead of the once dragon like head, it forms into a samurai like face. With it's dim eyes, there comes to the heart to activate the intense yellow beam of the head. 

"Holy cow." Jay croaked, his head going every which way to view the new form of the dragons. 

Lloyd was astonished, "This is different." 

"Lets get back on topic, paladins." Cole interfered with the paladins curiosity of Voltron, "We have a planet to defend." 

The defender flew into the stars, finding its target of the ion canon. There weren't going to be able to stop it's beam from shooting, but luckily, one paladin knew the secrets of Voltron, "FORM THE SHIELD!" Kai yelled, his bayard forming in his hand and slamming it into the control panel. 

The other paladins did the same, which brought up a massive hunk of metal to block the purple beam about to destroy the entire planet. It's pressure was hard to contain within the shield, however; Voltron was stronger. 

The beam stopped the ion canon, clearly drained from using the amount of energy persuaded to the combined dragons of Voltron. The paladins noticed small ships exiting the war craft, giving the hint of evacuation. Now it was just the home base and whoever didn't make it out in time. 

"Kai," The black paladin addressed, "Form sword." 

The red paladin did was was instructed, and turned his bayard in the panel to create the sword of Voltron.  Voltron clasped its hands together, and as it pulled away from each other, a thick streak of blue was created. Once it's hands were far away from each other, using the right hand, grabbed ahold of the newly built sword of the legendary figure. 

"I've missed you." Prince Kai said to himself in a dream like state. 

"Lets finished this." 

Voltron lunged its sword at the war ship, and in only a matter of seconds the entire thing exploded. Gazing at the amount of flames and the decrease in any life abroad, they realized one thing. They won. 

"Is it over now?" Jay asked, sweat coming down his forehead. 

Zane scanned around the area of space, looking for any hints of life or machinery from the destruction, "It seems so. I cannot detect any life forms or cavalry. I believe we've won the battle."  He stated, pulling up his holograph of the other four paladins. 

"But not the war." Cole murmured to himself, making sure the other paladins didn't hear anything from under his breath. Although, Lloyd seemed to have notice, but before he could say something Princess Nya interrupted, "Paladins, head back to the Temple of Dragons.  We need to recharge the dragons in the hangers, and so you may rest and regain your strength."    

Still intact in their Voltron form, they set flight back to the planet. Unknown to the other paladins, Princess Nya and the black paladin were having their own private conversation. 

"How did it go for you, Cole?" 

"It was fine, though, I feel more drained than what I'm used to." He replied to her. 

Nya gentle massaged her temples at the response, "I'm sorry we could not find your bayard, Cole. I'm not sure how much your arm can handle Ignacian technology with Voltron just yet. It's just going to have to do for right now until we are able to track your bayard." She told him. 

"It's fine, Princess." He said, slightly chuckling at her glare she was giving him, "Oh come on, you don't like the nickname?"

"I much prefer that 'waterlily' nick name you used." 

"Flower person?" 

"On Ignacia, we had flowers everywhere. That was one of the few things my mother and I shared in common was the love of it's nature and scent." 

He raised a brow, "Can you find those types of flowers anywhere in the universe?" 

Nya sighed, "No. They only excited on Ignacia. Much to my dismay." She admitted. 

Their eyes connected for a moment, "What were they called?" 

She smiled to herself, "Kersenbloesem" 

They sat there in silence. Not knowing what else to say to each other. Some was that they just ran out of topics, but others were that wanted to avoid certain topics. Whether or not Nya wanted to talk about them or not was not her choice, because Cole Brookstone asked before she could end the call. 

"Thank you. For showing me the truth, Nya." 

She shut her eyes, wanting to shut everything out like she was always taught, but she could not escape this one. "Your welcome." 

"Is there a reason you choose not to share?" 

"It was not my decision to make." 

"What do you mean?" 

She looked up at him, her eyes almost asking for him to drown in them, "Do not discuss any of this to anyone." 

"Princess-"

"Promise me, Brookstone." 

He took a moment, "With my life, waterlily."

Sorry for the week delay, I had a hard time with the action scenes... Also for those wondering,  Kersenbloesem mean Cherry Blossoms in Dutch. I didn't want to take the Juniberries from the Voltron Universe, but I also couldn't figure out a random flower lol. But if you know my writing, I use cherry blossoms quite a bit lol.

If you haven't watch Voltron legendary Defenders on Netflix (Which I would totally recommend lol) I pretty much just finished episode 1 haha... tbh this episode is over an hour long. Soooo congrats you got through my version of Ninjago Voltron episode 1 lol -_-

  Hope y'all enjoy! BYEEE!