#and probably Pidge shrieking in laughter in the background

[danny-devito-jesus-offical]

Keith: *walks up to the microphone at a wedding, taps the microphone*

Everyone: *smiles as they get ready for the amazing speech they're gonna give*

Keith: if anyone doesn't want their cake, pass it to me please

[tokyoteddywolf]

A Blue CatAstrophe Ch.6

*sighs @ self* i have writers block currently, so im just gonna go bake some things and pray for death while eating cake batter and tears.....

so here, have the last chapter i managed to squeeze out.....

There will be more though! Just...not for a few days? Ehehe ^w^;;;

enjoy!

She was worried. She could feel the waves of anger and hurt through the bond with her Paladin, so she was already bending down to allow him into her cockpit as soon as he came storming into the room. His face was as dark as a thunderstorm, expressions flicking between hurt and frustration like flashes of lightning. He climbed in and begged her to leave the Castle, gunning the engines and she took off with no hesitation.

She didn't know where they were going, as all she was getting was that they had to get away. He didn't want to be there for the moment, so she complied with his wish. She let him out in a seemingly harmless looking field of flowering trees, and for a moment thought that they looked familiar. They were almost 20 feet tall each, and the flowers would have probably made her sneeze if she had a sense of smell.

Her concern increased when Lance had started asking why he wasn't good enough, and took note of the strange dust falling out of the flowers as he pounded his fist against the tree trunk. He was bleeding now, from his knuckles, and as soon as she heard him cough she was on high alert. She'd panicked when he started screaming, and used her ice cannon to freeze the offending area as she had an inkling as to what was making her precious little Paladin choke. Then came the violent seizures, and she'd screamed for him to hold on, that she'd get the air to be breathable again, and scooped him up into her muzzle and tilted him around until his back was against the dashboard.

She'd activated her barrier in a terrified attempt to filter the air out, she couldn't lose another Paladin, she refused to lose such a precious light in her life to something as stupid as dusty air! Then she'd heard his bones snapping and rearranging and felt warm blood splashing everywhere as his body mutated and forced itself into an unnatural shape, and she'd used some of her Quintessence to try and alleviate some of the agony.

It must have influenced the change somehow, because now he was a miniature version of her Earth form, a tiny baby lion cub that wasn't a lion. A cat, her database supplied, and she tentatively tested the bond between her and her little Paladin, relief flooding her body when she felt that it was still there, tinged with pain but standing strong.

She knew he was hurting, so she curled up in on herself, hoping to shield him better. How was she to explain this to the others?

Lance purred and rubbed his head against each of the Paladin's knees, as they had all sat down during the story. It was more like watching a movie, through the Lion's eyes. Blue rumbled overhead, having finished her tale. The world shifted, and soon they were back in Blue's hangar, as if they'd never left. Keith blinked clear of the vision first, and ruffled Lance's ears. “That looked painful, man...” The Red Paladin muttered, and Lance mewed sadly.

Pidge snapped out of it next, and swooped in to steal the kitten from Keith's aggressive rubbing, babbling something about mutations and DNA structures and alien plants, too fast for Lance to keep up with. Hunk joined in on Pidge's chatter, as Lance dangled from the Green Paladin's arms. Shiro hadn't moved yet, simply staring at Lance with an unreadable expression on his face. Suddenly Pidge gasped. “Oh my God I know why that plant looked so familiar!!!” She shrieked, Lance flattening his ears down from the noise.

She started laughing, almost hysterically. Keith and Hunk shared a look, and Hunk gently pulled Lance from the laughing girl's arms. “Lance! You- It's!!! Gah! You were transformed by Blue's Quintessence and alien catnip!!!” Pidge howled, tears streaming down her face as she rolled on the ground laughing.

Keith's jaw dropped, and he started laughing too. He couldn't stop, he just couldn't withstand the irony.

Shiro had gotten up at this point, and seemed to be better at holding in his laughter at the revelation. “Well, at least we know where you've been this whole time.” He chuckled, and Lance mewed in agreement before his stomach growled. “Oh! You haven't eaten for a while! Hang on, let's go get you some food, buddy!” Hunk yelped, then took off for the kitchen, Lance letting out a startled yowl as the Samoan teen moved faster than you'd think possible, leaving the others in Blue's hangar.

Lance purred as he munched on the weird space turkey bacon, tail twitching. “So, as a cat, you can still understand human language?” Oh yeah, Hunk was questioning him excitedly while Pidge was off getting supplies to run tests on him. Shiro and Keith were currently explaining the situation with Allura and Coran, so Lance was left to eat in relatively normal peace.

He nodded at Hunk, chewing on a particularly rough piece. Pidge burst into the kitchen, holding up a ball of yarn and some weird machines tucked in her arms. “I got the stuff! Hey, Lance, can you try to resist playing with this string? I wanna see how strong your instincts as a cat are.” The excitable Green Paladin chirped, holding up a piece of silver blue string and jiggling it near Lance's head.

Lance's paws twitched, and without thinking he went into a cat-crouch, wiggling his tail before lunging and biting the string, rolling around and snagging it on his claws as Pidge giggled and pulled him to and fro since his claws were caught in the alien thread. He growled and rolled onto his back, hind claws kicking at air and snatching on the string while he bit at it fiercely. Pidge was overjoyed at this. “Holy quiznak! Blue must have used more Quintessence than I first thought! You're really acting just like a cat!” She said happily as she messed with her tiny, fluffy teammate.

“Well, I think we should find a cure and soon. Who knows when Zarkon will attack next...” Hunk said as he fried up more space bacon. Pidge nodded.“The lab I set up is already running the first few scans on that pollen that changed Lance into a kitten. I plan on testing it further once I'm done here. My hypothesis is that the original shape was supposed to be similar to a feline, but because of Blue and the fact that Lance isn't from the planet Kolkar like the Kolkarians are, it merely changed him into something similar.” Pidge explained, pushing her glasses up and tugging the string from Lance's paws.

Lance pouted as best he could as a cat, and rolled back over to continue munching on his food. His ears pricked at the sound of the door opening, and decided to ignore that. He did, however, very much like Shiro's human hand running down his head and neck as he ate. “Allura says she's going to talk to the Kolkarian's about the plant that made Lance like this, so until then we're supposed to stay here and keep an eye on him. Pidge, since that pollen is what made Lance change, I want to be there when you test it, just in case you accidentally get some on you or anything. We can't have two cat Paladins, especially when you're the best shot for a cure.” The Black Paladin explained, scratching behind one of Lance's ears.

Pidge grinned, her glasses shining bright enough to obscure her eyes. “You can count on me, Boss!”

Lance purred a laugh at the sound of Hunk facepalming in the background.

//thats it! I have officially gotten writers block! I don't know when it will go away, but don't expect an update for a few days….. this was all I could finish this chapter with, pls forgive me…… so yeah. Have some cat Lance and Space Catnip and oh man I need to go lie down or something sheesh…..