"Is he going to be okay?" I ask Allura,as we gather around Shiro,who's in a healing pod.

"Only time will tell if this body will accept Shiro's consciousness." She answers.

"Is there anything we can do to help?" Lance asks. Pidge pulls up a screen from the device on her wrist.

"I've tried to contact the Voltron Coalition,but I can't get through. It doesn't make any sense. There might be some distortion I'm not picking up on. Maybe we need to get into the upper atmosphere for a better signal?"

"The lions aren't going anywhere without recharging their power cores." Hunk speaks up.

"The battle with Lotor severely depleted them. If we had the Castle of Lions we could recharge them but..." Allura trails off. I glance at Keith,who hasn't taken his eyes off Shiro this whole time. I grab his hand,the one not resting on the pod,he doesn't react,but he lightly squeezes my hand.

"Is there another way to recharge them?" Pidge asks,I snap back to the conversation.

"They can recharge naturally given time and ambient energy,but that might take phoebs." Coran answers.

"There's gotta be something we can do." Keith state,finally looking up from Shiro.  

"We are on the Dalterian Belt, home to the element faunatonium. We may be able to use it as a temporary solution." Coran explains.

"Faunatonium? How will that charge the power cores?" Lance questions.

"It involves gluon field fluctuations--" Lance cuts Coran off.

"You know what? Never mind. Magic or something? Sure." 

"Not far off. We're going to use the element to expand the energy particles within the cores. But first,we need a yalmor."

"Wait,there are yalmors on this planet?" Hunk inquires.

"Oh,so were finally going to see the animal you talk about a lot?" I say,slightly excited.

"How do you think we find the faunatonium? Yalmors have a nose for the stuff."

"Okay,you guys find a yalmor and get this faunatonium. I'll stay with Shiro." Keith says,looking back at Shiro. Krolia puts her hand on his shoulder and smiles at him.

"I'll stay as well." We look at Allura. "I may have exhausted the limits of what I have learned on Oriande,but I sill might be able to help somehow.

"Alright then,we'll get started." Coran says as they begin to walk out the lion. I hesitate.

"Go." Keith says. 

"Are you sure? I'm kind of worried about you."

"I'll watch him,don't worry." Krolia said. I nod,then walk to the others.

"Wait." We turn to Romelle. "You just fought Lotor,defeated him,stopped an explosion that could have ended reality,took your friends consciousness from the black lion of Voltron and put it inside his clone,and now we're simply moving on?" She says,animating her words with her hands.

"Trust me, I'm always saying the same thing, but these guys like to move on." Hunk tells her.

~~~

We travel along the planet. We end up in a beautiful forest,we look around in amazement. I stop to look at some large flowers,Coran walks up next to me,sniffs the flowers,then sneezes loudly. I look at the flower,then take a step back. Coran licks the flower.

"Yep,yalmors definitely sprayed here." He says casually,we all groan in disgust. Coran walks forward and lets out loud screeches. Lance and I exchange looks. Similar sounding screeches sound in the distance,Coran gasps and run towards the sound,we follow him. We peak over some bushes to see a creature,kind of reminds me of an ant eater,stops in from of the bushes.

"There's a yalmor!" Coran says.

"Wow. A lot uglier than I thought they'd be." Lance says while crossing his arms.

"I think it's cute,you know in a creepy hideous sort of way."

"Like Lance?"

"Exactly." Pidge and I giggle while Lance glares at us. Coran shushes us.

"Yalmors are extremely aggressive. Any sign of weakness and they attack. You've gotta corner it,and make it think you're the bigger,meaner yalmor." Coran exits the bushes and approaches the yalmor doing some weird...dance moves? "Alfor and I used the Squelzian technique to wrangle up some yalmors."

"Are all ancient Alteans like this?" Romelle asks us.

"Well,we only know two." Pidge tells her.

Coran gets closer to the yalmor,making weird squealing noises. The yalmor growls and snaps its trunk at him. That causes Coran to let out a yell and jump into Hunk's arms,which causes Hunk to stumble and bump into Lance,who backs up into a thorny branch. He lets out a yell,bounces around in pain then lands in front of a small shelled creature. Lance speaks to it,which causes it to panic and blow colorful powder at us. I wave away the dust and notice,its not trees towering over us now,its grass.

"What the quizaker just happened?" Romelle asks.

"It's pronounced quiznak,and I have no idea." Pidge tells her,adjusting her glasses. A loud thumping makes us look around.

"What was that?" Hunk asks nervously.

"Lance,what did you do?" I ask,also starting to get nervous.   

"Nothing! I just bumped into--"

"What's that?" Coran asks,cutting Lance off. We look up to see the yalmor look down at us,blinking its three eyes at us. It lets out a loud growl.

"It's the yalmor! We've been shrunk!" I shriek as everyone screams. We turn and start running,the yalmor right behind us.

"Adventures are not fun!" Romelle exclaims.

"Thank you! That's what I'm always saying!" Hunk yells. The yalmor brushes against the grass,making the dew drops fall around us,I swerve to avoid the water,nearly running into Pidge.

"Watch out for the grass!" Coran calls out,blades of grass fall around us,making the ground shake. A piece of grass looms over Lance,Pidge and I.

"We're not running fast enough!" Lance exclaims.

"Run at an angle!" Pidge yells at us.

"How can I run at a--" Pidge and I scream as run in a different direction,Lance following us. We keep running,until a giant rock blocks our path.

"We're trapped!" Romelle screams. We stare at the yalmor as it gets closer. Lance gets out his bayard and shoots a large nut(or what ever the hell it is) down from a tree,hitting the yalmor on the head. It turns and runs way,splashing in a puddle and knocking water all over us. I wound up on my face next to Lance. I lift my head and cough up water.

"Nice going,sharpshooter." I groan out as we sit up.

"Keith? Do you copy? Allura? Krolia? Anyone?" Pidge calls out into the comms. "The miniaturization must've caused our communicators range to drop exponentially. Nothings getting through." 

"We're so small. It'll take us forever to get back to the crew." Coran says.

"What are we going to do?" Romelle asks,practically in tears. 

~~~

After a bit,we find shelter in a hole of a mushroom. I squeeze the water out of my ponytail,made me realize that my hair has grown a bit.

"What if we're this quizacking small forever?" Romelle speaks up.

"It's quiznaking,and yes,thank you,Romelle. What if?" Hunk replies,taking off his shoe and dumping water out.

"Coran,you said the faunatonium works on gluon field fluctuations,right?" Pidge asks him.

"Correct,it expands atomic distance."

"Maybe,it'll work to make us bigger."

"You might be onto something."

"But how are we going to find the faunatonium?" Lance asks.

"With a yalmor. We'll lure one back here." Coran asks.

"Lure a yalmor? To us? Like this?" Romelle says,motioning to her shrunken body.

"I mean,it's like,I think it you say it." Hunk says,while sliding over.

"Did you already forget that we almost died by one? I mean,I know you're old Coran but come on." I say and cross my arms. Hunk nods furiously,Coran gives us a deadpan look,

"It will be incredibly dangerous,and Hunk's our only hope." Hunk blinks at Coran.

~~~

We,somehow,climbed a large tree and use a vine to lower Hunk towards the ground.

"I can't believe we're doing this." Romelle says as we all strain.

"You can't believe it? I am literal bait! How could I possibly let this happen?" Hunk exclaims.

"I told you,Hunk. You're the biggest meal and you scream the loudest." Coran explains to him.

"I don't care that I--" Hunk's screaming was cut off by a yalmor growling. We see one approaching Hunk. 

"Keep up that panicked yelling. That's what we need to attract the yalmor" Coran tell Hunk.

"Seriously guys..." Hunk stops when he sees the yalmor in front of him. That made him let out more of his panicked screams.

"Now!" Pidge orders. We pull the vine and jump off the branch,landing on the yalmors back.

"We've made it much farther than seems possible!" Romelle says. We hear Hunk yelling and we look up to see him falling towards us.

"This is going well." I say as we stare at a dazed Hunk. We shake as the yalmor moves. It suddenly takes off running,we fall against the yalmor,clutching its fur as it ran,letting out screams.

"This is worse than being bait!" Hunk yells.

"Yes! At least then you were the only one in danger!"

"Hey,Romelle!" We scream again when the yalmor suddenly stops. It digs at the ground,glowing particles float from the ground. The yalmor lets out a call.

"What's going on?" Pidge asks.

"More yalmors!" Coran exclaims,more yalmors appear from the forest and they gather in a circle. "If they link at the ears,we're sitting on a faunatonium wizplute!"

"So this is what you're always saying." I say as we look at the yalmors. They link their long ears together,and let out bellows as the faunatonium float to the air.

"Whoo-hoo! Yalmor time! Pay attention Paladins! This is how you work together."

"Alright lets go." Pidge says.

"Wait,what?" Lance exclaims,look back at her.

"Look,if we want to get back to our regular size,we have to jump in there." She tells him and her and Coran jump down. I shrug at Lance and follow after them,Lance right behind me. We all slide down the yalmors head and jump off. We land into faunatonium bubbles,after sitting in it for a few seconds we grow back to normal size and land in a pile one each other. 

"Oh quiznak."

"My back."

"Lance,your crushing my ribs."

~~~

We enter the black lion and see Shiro sitting up. We all smile as we walk over.

"Shiro's looking better. All right!" Lance says.

"Where were you guys? We couldn't get a hold of you." Keith asks.

"Well,we were shrunk by a magic skunk,but we ended up using the sparkly dust that makes electricity bigger or whatever. Used it to unshrink ourselves." Lance explains. Keith gives us a deadpan look.

"Pretty much yeah." I nod.

"So,are we ready to charge up the lions!" Shiro lets out a chuckle.

"It's good to be back."