Coran's voice screamed through the loudspeakers and everyone shot awake.

"GALRA SHIPS SPOTTED! THEY'RE IN ATTACK FORMATION! ONLY A DOBOSH AWAY!"

Lance stumbled around his room, clumsily pulling on his armour and running out the door, running back to grab his bayard then running again.

He was the last person into his lion. The other four were already ready to go.

"Hurry up Lance! We need your lion!" Allura yelled.

"I know, I know! Still waking up here!"

Red started moving straight away and the lions flew out to meet the fleet.

"How did they find us?! Wasn't the castle invisible?!" Hunk exclaimed, disheveled and hungry.

"I don't know, but now, we have to protect the castle!" Shiro lead, caving a path with Black.

Lance blinked his eyes. They were blurry and full of crusty sleep stuff. Not a good time to be attacked.

After a period of not much success, Shiro ordered them to draw back and form Voltron.

"Everyone, in formation, now!"

The five lions moved into a V, and the paladins waited for the transformation to start, but then Pidge noticed that Lance wasn't flying in line with her.

"Lance! You have to move faster! We aren't lined up!"

"I... I can't! Red isn't going any faster!"

"Your lion is the fastest one, Lance! Pull yourself together!" Shiro ordered.

Ouch. His tone hurt.

"I'm trying Shiro! I can't go any faster!"

"LANCE! YOU HAVE TO! WE NEED TO FORM VOLTRON!"

"I'M TRYING!"

Red was starting to seriously lag behind the others.

Shiro let out a very audible growl of frustration, before speaking.

"Break formation! Get back to the castle! We need to get out of here!"

The lions spread out, heading back to the castle, which had succumbed to heavy damage.

Lance stared down at his lion's controls.

"Come on Red! You're better than this!"

There was no response. If anything, they were traveling slower still.

"Coran! Prepare to wormhole!" Allura's voice rang out.

All the other lions had reached the castle, it was just Lance.

"Hello?! Red Lion! We need you back here!"

"Red isn't listening to me! He's moving slower!"

A shower of attacks sent Red flying in a direction contrary to the Castle.

Lance was terrified. He hadn't experienced a lion being stubborn like this before, and he was getting hurt, real bad.

"... Damn it! I'm going back out to help him!" Hunk yelled, ignoring Shiro's orders to not.

The Yellow lion quickly flew out to Lance, and wrapped its tail around the red lion, dragging it along behind him.

"Lance! Can you give me any cover?!"

"No! Red isn't responding at all!"

Lance was starting to panic, talking to his lion in increasingly panicked ways.

The Green Lion rushed past, giving Lance and Hunk the cover they needed to get back to the castle.

"Red please!"

The Lions re-entered the castle and Coran activated a wormhole, and they swiftly escaped.