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Lance had an awful feeling in the pit of his stomach while they were fighting Zarkon, after Voltron had formed their flaming sword Zarkon started to practically disintegrate. While Zarkon was expelling light and disintegrating Voltron started breaking apart, right before all of the energy from around Zarkon burst, Lance threw his steering wheel up to protect Shrio. Then everything went black.
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Keith opened his eyes and saw the wreckage that Zarkon had caused.
"Did we do it?" Shrio's voice said over the intercom.
"Is it over?" Hunk questioned. Keith looked around more and saw that most of the Lions were still, but the eyes were lit up, all except Lance's which was odd.
"...We need to go!" He heard Coran over the intercom and slowly sat up before starting to fly back to the castle. He looked over and saw that Blue still wasn't moving.
"Lance!" Keith called out worriedly, hopping for a response from the blue paladin.
"We have to tow him back onto the ship!" Pidge said before going over with Keith and picking the lion up, quickly getting all of the Lions and their paladins back to the ship.
As soon as Pidge and Keith had put Blue in her hanger Pidge spoke through the com. "Princess, we're all on board." After the princess got their message they were going through the wormhole.
As soon as the jump was done Keith started running towards the blue lions hangar, breathing heavily as worry and dread filled his chest. Was Lance dead? He hoped not, but couldn't help himself from preparing for the worst.
Everyone trailed behind Keith as he ran. "Lance?" Keith called out, trying to see if maybe now they would get a response. As soon as Keith got to Blue, she opened up for him and he stepped inside. "Lance..?" he called out again, not seeing anyone or any sign of anyone. Only his bayard remained in its holder that came out of the lion when it was needed in combat.
Everyone circled round the pilot chair as they stared at it in disbelief. "He's gone.." Shiro said softly, starting to tear up. The whole crew going silent as they stared into the seat.
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Lance woke up choking on air, he looked around and realized the walls were moving. Was he being carried? He pondered on the possibility before his chest got uncomfortable from the deep inhales he was taking, his body shaking as he started coughing, falling out of the person's arms.
"I'm sorry, blue paladin." a voice said to the right of Lance. He looked up to see traditional Galra uniform and instantly scooted away, but continued to look up. The person had lavender skin, long white hair and yellow eyes that were amazingly shaped. For being Galra, this guy was pretty hot, Lance thought, smiling and coughing again.
"Where is my lion? DId you kidnap me? How did I get here? " Lance said in a weak voice, his throat not being content with how it was feeling. He started coughing again and looked up to the Galra.
"I do not know the location of your lion, I did not kidnap you and you just appeared on my ship, paladin." the person spoke in a strong voice, his voice wasn't legato like some of the other Galra he met, this one had very strong and noticeable diction.
"Who are you?" Lance wheezed out while wishing Hunk was there with his inhaler.
The Galra scooped Lance up in his arms and started carrying him again before looking down. "My name is Lotor. I am the new Emperor."