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Hunk still couldn’t figure out what happened. It was like his body had been on autopilot.
He saw Lance’s older sister drop, eyes in the back of her head but her chest was still rising and falling, breathing. He saw a lot of red on the floor, and couldn’t feel his right leg from below the knee and it was like he couldn’t see what happened.
He remembered approaching Amber in the pod, putting the extra helmets on Lance’s siblings, his older sister waking up just in time for them to reach Amber’s mouth.
It was a bit of a blur after that, but when he woke up, it was to three concerned faces, none of them wearing their helmets.
“¿Estás bien?” The younger girl asked worriedly.
Hunk shook his head. “Don’t… Speak.”
“She was asking, you okay?” The older sister asked, putting a hand on his forehead.
He nodded with a smile as strong as he could muster. “I’ll be… I’ll be fine. When we get back to the Castle of Lions.” His eyes widened a bit in realization. “I, someone has to control Yellow so we can get back.”
Miri looked confused, tilting her head. “I thought this thing was on autopilot.”
Hunk sat up with brows scrunched together, looking around to the front where he saw them moving through space. His heart rate picked up until he felt Amber’s soothing presence overcame him. “Oh yeah… Autopilot, of course.”
“Are you sure you are fine? You should lie back down, you look bad.” Miri said, pushing lightly on Hunk’s shoulder to make him lay back down.
“But don’t you have questions?”
“You can answer while down, can you not?”
Hunk grew sheepish and nodded, settling back down, looking over at the younger siblings, Pyrha and Lance’s brother. “So, what’s your first question?”
“Where is Leandro?” The question came quick and for a moment threw Hunk for a loop, wondering who Leandro was before he remembered.
“Lance? Lance is in the Castle of Lions, safe with the others.”
The questions kept coming, and Hunk figured out it must have been a hereditary trait for curiosity or something similar that Lance had. It wasn’t until the younger brother, Nino, let out a noise and they all looked out the window to see the Castle of Lions come into view. Hunk sighed with relief.
“We’ll be safe now. I bet the others have seen the ship and are getting ready to welcome us back.” Hunk said with a smile, sitting up with a lot of effort and was about to try standing up when Miranda stopped him with a bewildered expression.
“You can’t get up! You are hurt!” She cried, putting her hands on his shoulder to keep him down. “Do they have anything to use as gurney?”
“What are you…?” Hunk trailed off, the last of his adrenaline wearing off as the Castle came into view, as well as finally seeing his leg.
It was a mess of new and dried blood, bent at a bad angle. Hunk felt faint at the sight, his eyes fluttering but he gulped loudly and looked to the ceiling to take deep, calming breaths as pain finally filtered into his mind.
Soon Amber landed in the hangars, and opened her mouth. Hunk and the others heard yells and feet running up the mouth-ramp into the cockpit. Pyrha was the first to see who they were and shouted happily.
“Leo!” She launched herself at her brother, wrapping her arms around his middle. Soon Nino joined her, allowing the second Paladin to reach the older two in the Lion.
“Fina- Hunk are you okay, man?” Keith’s eyes were wide, and he looked pale. “What the quiznak happened?”
Before Hunk could reply, there was a loud cry of relief before a body practically fell onto the Yellow Paladin.
He let out a huff of air in surprise, temporarily forgetting about the pain in his leg, and he managed a smile. “Told you I’d see you again with them, Lance.”
“You…!” Lance couldn’t seem to speak, before he leant forward and kissed Hunk full on the lips with force.
He pulled away, smiling wide with shiny eyes. “Thank you thank you thank you.” He whispered, resting his head against Hunk’s shoulder, and for the moment, it felt like everything was going to be okay.
Story Done!