#keith gets a little too into cannibal

[darkpeacemusic]

Creepypasta Headcanons: Theme Songs

Jeff the Killer - Numb by Linkin Park

Homicidal Liu - Never Too Late by Three Days Grace

Sully - I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters

Randy - Psycho by Hardy

Keith - Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots

Troy - Welcome to my Life by Simple Plan

Ben Drowned - Discord by The Living Tombstone

Jane the Killer - GRRRLS by AViVA

Mary Vaughn - Wrap Me In Plastic by Chromance

Masky - Hide 'n Seek by J-honny

Hoodie - Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

Toby - Freaks by Surf Curse

Kate the Chaser - Mad Hatter by Melanie Martinez

Charlie Matheson Jr. - Thanks for The Memories by Panic at the Disco

CR - Nowhere to Run by Stegosaurus Rex

Lulling Lauren - Secret by The Pierces

Cat Hunter - Kill the Lights by Set It Off

Third Base - Little Swing by AronChupa

Rouge the Prowler - Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace

Wilson the Basher - Another Way Out by Hollywood Undead

Skully - Sleeping Powder by Gorillaz

Chris the Revenant - Where the Lonely Ones Roam by Digital Daggers

Slenderman - Come Little Children by Eurtan

Splendorman - Buttercup by Jack Stauber

Trenderman - Fashionably Late by Falling In Reverse

Tenderman - Death Bed by POWFU

Offenderman - Teeth by 5SOS

Zalgo - When You're Evil by Voltaire

Laughing Jack - Left Behind by DAGames

Eyeless Jack - Cannibal by Kesha

Doctor Smiley - Happy Pills by Weathers

Nurse Ann - Dark Horse by Christina Grimmie

Doctor Pain - Dr Sunshine is Dead by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

X-Virus - Drugs by Falling in Reverse

Dr. Locklear - God Syndrome by Madame Macabre

Lifeless Lucy - Cradles by Sub Urban

Lily Kennett - Dollhouse by Melanie Martinez

Sally Williams - Hide and Seek by Lizz Robinett

Sam Williams - Little Game by Benny

Lazari - Monster by Mia and Dia

Slendrina - Killing Butterflies by Lou Bliss

Nightmare Ally - Whisper by Evanescence

Vailly Evans - Control by Halsey

Lulu - Alice by Avril Lavigne

Nina the Killer - Pretty Little Psycho by Procelain Black

Kagekao - Aishite by Kikiuo

Clockwork - Lotta True Crime by Penelope Scott

Smile Dog - Lion by Hollywood Undead

Grinny Cat - Get Out Alive by Three Days Grace

The Seedeater - I Will Find You by Moikkz

Mr Widemouth - Cartman by SPBeams

Will Grossman - At The Huts of the Underworld by Korpiklaani

Laughing Jill - Carousel by Melanie Martinez

Jason the Toymaker - Hypnotic by Zella Day

Candy Pop - Balloon Animals by Madame Macabre

Candy Cane - Circus by Britney Spears

April Fools - Cirque by Sub Urban

Nathan the Nobody - A Match In Water by Pierce the Veil

The Puppeteer - Cigarette (duet) by Princess Chelsea

Emra - Bloody Mary by Lady Gaga

Zachary the Proxy - Hayloft II by Mother Mother

Sonic.exe - Monster by Skillet

Tails Doll - Can You Feel The Sunshine from Sonic R

Dark Link - Someone Must Get Hurt by She Wants Revenge

Herobrine - Andromeda by Dance With The Dead

Lost Silver - Game Over by Falling In Reverse

Glitchy Red - Haunted by Laura Les

Strangled Red - I Bet On Losing Dogs by Mitski

Oliver Henderson - Dumb Dumb by Mazie

Stripes - Limbo by Freddie Dredd

Rosie - Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani

Scarecrow Girl - Rät by Penelope Scott

The Skroll - Sarcasm by Get Scared

The Rake - Night of the Hunter by 30 Seconds to Mars

BOB - Six Foot Deep by Creature Feature

Bloody Painter - Heathens by Twenty One Pilots

Judge Angels - Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift

Suicide Sadie - Goodbye to A World by Porter Robinson

Roadwalker - The Zombie Song by Stephanie Mabey

Zero - Everything Black by Unlike Pluto

Hobo Heart - My Demons by Starset

Dollmaker - Creepy Doll by Jonathan Coulton

Killing Kate - Not Nice by Megan the Stallion

Ted the Caver - Blood // Water by grandson

Frankie the Undead - Coming Back Down by Hollywood Undead

Evan - I Don't Care by Fall Out Boy

HABIT - Boogie Woogie Wu by Insane Clown Posse

Jeff Koval - Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell

Alex Kralie - Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People

Jessica Locke - No Surprises by Radiohead

Amy - If You Seek Amy by Britney Spears

Sarah - Sarah Smiles by Panic at the Disco

Seth - All I Wanted by Paramore

Screaming Dawn (oc) - I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace

Queen Blackheart (oc) - Bring Me To Life by Evanescence

[bugbearfrasier]

I want to ramble about something- bare with me.

I live in the U.S. I voted for as many Democratic candidates as my ballot had (or an Independent in one case). And, like a lot of people, the result I wanted was not the one I got.

I don't show emotion well. I keep a lot of things inside. Grieving, for me, is very internal. Don't get me wrong; I've taken time to cry, and I'm sure I will again, probably before the day is over.

But I want to ramble about a moment I had this morning. I promise it's relevant.

Like a lot of Americans, I have a commute; roughly 30 miles, give or take. I tend to plug in my phone and pull up Pandora (hate Spotify, but that's another story). I have a station set up that plays a lot of musicals and songs from the Internet. I listen to the Hazbin Hotel soundtrack a lot, and get some cover songs from Helluva Boss.

One of the songs that played this morning was "Loser, Baby." I love that song. It helped me lift my mood a little. I'm a big fan of Keith David, and I wish he got a chance to play more characters like Husk.

The next song that played was a cover of "House of Asmodeus" from Helluva Boss. And I don't know what came over me, but I really felt the need to sing along. Maybe because I love that song, too (Ozzie and Fizz might be my favorite couple in that show). As I sang, I felt an energy that I hadn't felt in weeks.

But I think what really happened is that somewhere in my brain, a part of my subconscious said "they can't take my enjoyment of this song away from me. They can't make me stop singing about gay demons."

I'm laughing just thinking about it. There's no other way to say that- no matter what stupid bullshit they try to pull, no matter what 50's era pearl-clutching they try to emphasize, no matter what they deem to be "degenerate," they can't make me stop liking it. Now this is absolutely a position of privilege- there are millions of people who can't just sing in the face of the very real danger they're going to face. I'm not trying to sound like a group of celebrities singing during Covid (another problem for another day).

I think that last bit from Moxie is the best part: "I'll never take you for granted. I'll always give you my best. And if you can offer the same Fate will handle the rest."

I guess my point here is that after you take the time to grieve, or while you're grieving, go find something you like that is degenerate (affectionate). Go find your favorite song about gay demons, or whatever it is. Hell, go make a song about gay demons. They can't stop art. And then take that energy, and try to do good with it. Go help your community; reach out to friends and neighbors; get ready for the hard fight ahead. We don't have an army of cannibals, but we can still be ready for this.

[hazbincalifornia]

Hazbin Episode 1 Liveblog

In order to avoid this post getting Way Too Long, I'm going to make one post for episode one, and one for episode two!

I will say, I'm kinda sad we don't have a 'proper' theme song/intro, just the little jingle :( I do get it, but ah well.

Oh my god the commercial is even better in full.

How the fuck did he get Charlie to keep the name if it was still him???

Al's so fucking offended they're making him use a camera he made it one giant middle finger. I love it.

The voices are definitely going to take a bit of adjustment. It's probably because I've rewatched the pilot a zillion times, though.

I like how Alastor didn't even look at Angel. "Never going to happen!"

Awww, Charlie's ringtone for her dad is cute.

I DO really love Keith David as Husk right away, he suits the role perfectly.

"I like being forced!" and I love you, you weird little gremlin. Hoping for some good CNC stuff with her now, tbh. She'd be fun for it.

The flat delivery of 'crack is expensive' made me wheeze out loud.

Aaaa and here we go, full animation for Happy Day!

Why... why is the 'shoving barbed wire in your hole' guy an imp. Is that, like, his job or something. Is he just an asshole?

Ooooo, that was VAGGIE singing the 'bloodthirsty and deranged?' line? More fodder for her being a fallen angel/exterminator.

'Helluva post' for the mail. Ha.

This just made me fully realize how much the cannibal colony probably considers the post-extermination like a feast day.

Awww, the music note background is a fun touch.

Something about the fact that the 'touch my parts!' guy is a completely shapeless slug-creature instead of just keeping the dick offscreen makes it funnier.

Oh, I love Adam. The fun kind of punchable prick.

The animation seems a bit... overacted? I've noticed it all along but with Vaggie in the scene where she talks about making a new commercial especially. It sort of felt like they wanted to match the pilot's very snappy energy but weren't quite sure how, so everybody makes kind of... aimless motioning instead of moving with purpose, if it makes sense? It feels more like 'moving body parts for the sake of moving things' over 'moving with intent'. It's sort of awkward and distracting. The shifting proportions don't really help, but I just know people are going to be Fucking Annoying about that when it's unfortunately part of the package of making a whole season at once by a regular animation studio.

Oh yeah, Blake's perfect for Angel, lmao. It was more of a change than I expected from the few lines we'd gotten since they sounded more like the original, but he's got the energy.

Charlie didn't know Adam ran the angel army? That seems like the kind of thing she should have known. I wonder if she was relatively sheltered growing up.

'Call me dickmaster' why do I get the feeling the Chaz fans will like him, lmfao.

Since I'm on Adam though, another little groan to myself about the lack of fat characters in the hellaverse that aren't either gross stereotypes or background characters. Adam falls into the misogynist type, (like, the 'redditor', you know the one, just sort of mixed with a sleazy rockstar) Mammon's literally Greed and a talentless abuser, the lady at the pound was gross/uncaring and ugly, and I still think the Nurse was the only one that really broke the pattern and I've seen approximately one piece of fanart or mention of her ever (despite her clearly-developed positive relationship with Barbie!) and it was porn. I'm allowed to bitch on this after people were so fucking annoying about how wanting Bee to be fat was wanting her to be a 'gross ugly blob' and then saying other people were being fatphobic for pointing out everybody's skinny. Somehow. Anyway.

Well, at least they got the vagina joke out of the way early.

I love how his deal isn't for anything that would genuinely screw Vaggie over, he's just pissed they want him to deal with TV.

The fact that the pilot's still 'soft canon' makes sense with how Angel just immediately starts admiring his new clothes without any surprise, since it's happened before. Also, Niffty with the Marilyn pose is cute.

Oh, I'm definitely going to like Lute. I still like my idea she used to be close to Vaggie but when Vaggie was cast down, she stuck tighter to the rules.

Adam's song is fun!

So season 1 takes place over the course of six months? Huh. I'm guessing we'll have some time skips if we only have eight episodes.

I wonder what the Heaven Embassy is for? I can't imagine it's only for meetings like that considering there's couches in the lobby and stuff. Can sinners communicate with loved ones in heaven or vice versa, maybe, just using the holograms?

Oh my god the Katie voice IS basically just Brandon's Bryce voice. Amazing.

Ohoooo? VERY curious who managed to pull off killing an exterminator, and 'can't let them catch on'... hmm.

[localthumbcache]

Eli Conri

i have FINALLY decided to actually go into detail about my sims instead of just posting silly little screenshots. this isnt as detailed as a google doc but it still gives a pretty good rundown of him :)

he/him ♐️ born on dec 3, currently 47 6'10"/208cm | 7'2"/218cm when transformed

mention of suicide attempt & child death

cannibalized his newborn son and attacked his ex-wife during his first rampage. to make matters worse he threw pieces of him back up once he transformed back

the scar on his face and collar was from his ex defending herself with a kitchen knife. she fled and he never saw her again

immediately made an attempt on his life afterwards, hence the scar on his neck. unfortunately for him, because of his new abilities, when he woke back up the wound had already healed itself

feeling like a danger to society, he fled from brindleton bay. he wound up in kristopher's home after being found passed out on the side of the road

gets way too drunk at bars

he learned how to resist so that he wouldn't hurt anyone else again

keith was the first vampire he's ever met. they met at the grimtooth bar where they immediately clicked and have been best friends ever since

they have a podcast called fanged friends where they discuss human-occult equality, politics, and similar topics. right now they have a following of 67k. the podcast also acts as a great coping mechanism for him

owns a little convenience store/gas station called eli's box

incredibly warm and affectionate!

he has a husky-shepherd mix named peanut. she was the first stray to come to his doorstep. she wouldn't leave, so he just decided to keep her.

his place is pretty much a haven for stray dogs. he has bowls set up on his porch and even gives the familiar visitors nicknames

he isn't a part of either pack however he's a close friend to both of them

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2022 - June

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - "3 Kings" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Okay so now Solomon's in charge and there's no war so things are good? Except he's going around murdering enemies Godfather-style. And now a parade of kings as we run down the list and deeds of the rest of David's successors.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - "4 Kings" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

I think Eliseus is the star here? But the details of the chapters are more scattered. Perhaps due to winding down the chronicle of the kings. Hazael, Jezrahel, Jezabel, oh my. Oh shit Jehu will not stand for Baal worship. Dang, and Jerusalem has fallen!

Tales of the Dominion War - "What Dreams May Come" by Michael Jan Friedman (2004)

The complacency of fools something something.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Night of the Vulture" by Greg Cox (2004)

As close to Cannibal Holocaust as Star Trek gets.

Tales of the Dominion War - "The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2004)

Put up your walls and a gun for every good citizen.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Blood Sacrifice" by Josepha Sherman & Susan Schwartz (2004)

Impatience is a sign of having lived too long.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Mirror Eyes" by Heather Jarman & Jeffrey Lang (2004)

If your place is compromised, that’s your new place.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Twilight's Wrath" by David Mack (2004)

Slash the throat of your master to serve you and yours.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Eleven Hours Out" by Dave Galanter (2004)

The only place to go is the way ahead.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Safe Harbors" by Howard Weinstein (2004)

Call them all in, we’re alone.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Field Expediency" by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (2004)

Desperation will keep you from seeing it all.

Tales of the Dominion War - "A Song Well Sung" by Robert Greenberger (2004)

When your enemy leaves you bare.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Stone Cold Truths" by Peter David (2004)

The children only know what they see and hear.

Tales of the Dominion War - "Requital" by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels (2004)

What will you do, when you find it?

Dracula Daily - "June" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897)

A slow and obvious realization that your friend is not your friend.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)

The lecture-style of story-telling wears just a bit too thin for my tastes.

"Aquarium" by NoneToon (2022) 

It’s hard to make friends, wouldn’t you agree?

"Making art in America. 👁👄👁" dir. Angie Wang (2022)

Please find a way.

Montana Story dir. Scott McGehee (2022)

Leave when you have to leave. Your place is where you choose to be.

Crimes of the Future dir. David Cronenberg (2022)

The subtle ways in which we fall apart.

Watcher dir. Chloe Okuno (2022)

👍👍👍

Jurassic World Dominion dir. Colin Trevorrow (2022)

Give DeWanda Wise her own adventure movie/series.

Top Gun: Maverick dir. Joseph Kosinski (2022)

Get your planes, get your guns, step right up.

G.I. Joe: The Movie dir. Don Jurwich (1987)

Better with no context whatsoever.

Elvis dir. Baz Luhrmann (2022)

That new Elvis biopic is more entertainment than history, but it still helped me get why Elvis was a big deal after growing up on 90s media made by 70s kids who treated him as a joke. And Austin Butler's portrayal of Elvis is :chefskiss:.

The Black Phone dir. Scott Derrickson (2022)

It sets up all the pieces perfectly.

Lightyear dir. Angus MacLane (2022)

I like space and I like adventures but when you’re Pixar there’s a burden to deliver on a certain level of charm that is missing here.

The Cat Returns dir. Hiroyuki Morita (2004)

A neat little fantasy, and you know, I didn’t realize how much I missed whimsical fantasy adventures with some small measure of risk.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp (2022)

Marcel’s got the improv quips and a lovely story about what it means to stick to family or to let them go.

Goosebumps - "My Hairiest Adventure" (1996)

Body hair and its many wonders.

Goosebumps - "It Came from Beneath the Sink" (1996)

Stick to the book, although it’s neat seeing the beginnings of an actor who went on to success in the horror genre.

Goosebumps - "The Barking Ghost" (1997)

Woof.

Goosebumps - "Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes" (1996)

Sometimes I see that a given book has been adapted for television and try to imagine how they would’ve pulled it off on a low TV budget of the 90s. And with this one, I fretted over the fact that unless they chose to use expensive stop-motion animation, they’d probably find a way to have little people dressed up as lawn gnomes. Sure enough...

Goosebumps - "Shocker on Shock Street" (1997)

Love the book, not the TV episode. Gonna fret any time a fucked up book ending gets swapped for a more tame TV-friendly version.

Goosebumps - "Haunted Mask II" (1996)

You didn’t have to redo everything from the first one. The book knew that.

Goosebumps - "The Headless Ghost" (1996)

Oh. You know, you had something there at the end. A comeuppance would’ve been good.

Goosebumps - "How I Got My Shrunken Head" (1998)

The book was vague in its exact location and cultural references but the TV episode makes it much more specific about which backward people the white westerners have decided to enslave.

[stevie-wicks]

baby, it’s cold outside

cw: infidelity, cannibalism (this is up for debate)

The snow in the driveway comes up to Steve’s calves. Enough of it to build a snowman as big as the house. Stick a candy-cane North Pole sign on it and you wouldn’t know the difference.

The point is, it’s fucking cold. And Nancy’s watching from the window, waiting for Steve to get a move on.

Hope Byers brings a snowplow, Steve thinks grimly, trudging into the darkness. Hope he’s bundled up in enough layers before he comes to fuck my wife.

(ao3 link)

Maybe Karen’s in on it, too. Maybe she’ll ask Steve to stay a little longer. Long enough for pillow talk, for Jonathan to kiss Nancy goodbye; sweet farewells like they’re in fucking Romeo and Juliet. “Have a cookie, Steve; they’re fresh from the oven!” Karen in a fancy dress, a smile just like her daughter’s. “Some eggnog while you wait for Johnny-boy to pull out!”

He doubts the prescription is real, anyway. It’s the first he’s ever hearing of Nancy’s insomnia; she’s usually out like a light by the time Steve goes to bed, and the only thing in their room that hasn’t been there before is another man’s condom. It’s probably a couple of Tic-Tac in a bottle, prescribed in Nancy’s own handwriting. Maybe it’s peppermint-flavored. A little festive cheer he can’t find in his own goddamn home.

It’s so fucking cold. At least the snow has stopped, so. Small miracles.

Loch Nora is a good ways from Karen’s. Halfway there, Steve considers sinking face-first into the snow. Let the flurries seal his tomb. They’ll dig him out come spring. Hope the hairdo is cryopreserved.

Maybe Nancy will cry at his funeral. And then she’ll let Jonathan fuck her on his grave. Here lies Steve Harrington, beloved cuck.

A misshapen snowman leers at him from Karen’s front yard. Stone-cold eyes watch him scramble up the front steps.

It isn’t Nancy’s mother who opens the door.

“Hey.” The man grins. Drags heavy blue eyes along the length of Steve’s body. He leans against the doorway as he drawls, “Looks like Santa dropped my present off earlier than I expected.”

It shouldn’t work. Still makes Steve blush, even though it’s minus bumhole degrees outside. “Uh, hi. Is- is Karen here?”

“Aw, shucks, pretty boy.” There’s that smile again- lazy and gorgeous. Steve bets he’s gotten a lot of things done with that smile. “I could show you a better time.”

No doubt, no doubt. “I appreciate the offer, but I’ll have to decline.”

The guy winks. Sleazy on anybody else. He pulls it off. “You’ll come around.”

No doubt, no doubt. “Could you get her for me?”

“She went out.” A wicked tongue runs over almost razor-sharp teeth. “You’re welcome to wait inside, though.”

Steve has to admit, it’s a stroke of brilliance on Nancy’s part. “Ask Mom, she’s the one who knows where they are.” Make sure Karen’s gone out, so Steve has to wait. And if the cold gets to Steve before the arsenic does, all the better.

“So, you’re the new beau?” Steve wonders what this guy’s sob story is. Keith’s had been burnout after flunking out of college; Tommy’s girlfriend didn’t slap him around like he’d wanted her to. “Didn’t catch your name.”

Another razor-sharp grin. Jesus. “Billy.”

“Just Billy?”

“Just Billy.”

Daddy issues it is. “Nice to meet you, Billy; I’m Steve.”

“Just Steve?” the guy, Billy, Karen’s newest boy toy, teases.

“Harrington.”

“Ex?”

“I’m screwing her daughter.”

Incredulity looks good on Billy. “Clearly.”

“She sent me here to get her medication.” Steve doesn’t know what he’s trying to prove. If history means anything, Billy will be packing his bags before New Year’s. “Can’t fall asleep without it. Insomnia.”

“A good dicking usually does the trick.” It’s hard to tell if Billy’s taunting or flirting. Maybe a little bit of both. Maybe neither. Maybe Steve passed out in a snowbank and his subconscious is fucking with him.

“Know that from experience?” Steve musters up. A lukewarm retort. Staler than his and Nancy’s relationship has been since high school.

Billy grins. There it is again, that wicked tongue. Steve’s been celibate for far too long. “You look like you could use a good night’s sleep, pretty boy.”

It’s a come-on if he’s ever heard one. Steve refuses to rise to the bait.

For how long, though?

He changes the subject. “How long is Karen gone for?”

Billy shrugs. “Long enough for you and me to get to know each other better.”

Steve’s wife is sleeping with a guy who stalked her in high school. He deserves this.

Billy returns with two glasses and whiskey, by which time Steve’s made himself comfortable on Karen’s sofa. “You, me, ’n Jack Daniels. Ménage a trois.”

His French is abysmal. Steve’s dick stirs anyway.

“Merry Christmas Eve, pretty boy,” Billy says, pouring one out for Steve.

And another.

And another.

“That’s funny.” Steve hiccups, head lolling on the sofa. “Coulda sworn your eyes were blue.”

“Trick of the light,” Billy assures, ember-eyed.

Steve wonders if it’s the light that makes Billy’s teeth look so sharp.

❄

Turns out, Billy’s right. A good dicking does do wonders for your sleep.

❄

Come Christmas morning, Steve wakes up with a hangover and Billy’s morning wood carving a hole into his side.

He extricates himself from under Billy’s arm and slithers out of bed. It’s hard to know which part of his body hates him more- his head or his ass.

They’re in Karen’s room. Steve steps over a negligee puddled on the floor. A bra discarded by someone all too eager to do so. His own boxers, rumpled but wearable. Someone’s wiped cum on the front; it’s still a little damp. Steve drags a finger across it, then puts it in his mouth.

He stumbles downstairs and makes a beeline for the kitchen. Pours himself a glass of water. Rubs the sleep from his eyes while he takes small sips.

It’s way too fucking bright outside. White skies, white snow, white Christmas. The trail of red sticks out like a sore thumb.

He’s barefoot. He should feel the cold.

There shouldn’t be blood on the snow.

It leads him to the shed in the backyard, a dilapidated old thing that houses gardening tools. Broken down appliances. Karen’s mangled body, crumpled in a corner.

“Oh, there she is.”

Billy’s a vision in the morning light. Gold hair, gold skin. Teeth stained red.

A beetle crawls out from where Karen’s arm had once been.

“Her arm’s gone,” Steve observes. What a sleuth. What’s he going to point out next, the teeth marks on her chest? The chunk of flesh missing from her thigh?

“Certainly looks like it,” Billy agrees.

“I think.” Steve takes a step back, right into Billy’s chest. He doesn’t budge from the doorway. “I think we should call the police.”

“It’s Christmas. You shouldn’t bother them.”

Steve nods, slow. Another beetle crawls out. Maybe they’re having a feast. “Nancy, then. She should know.” He turns around. Billy’s watching him. “That’s funny. Could’ve sworn your eyes were blue.”

“Trick of the light,” says Billy.

Steve takes a step back. Karen’s foot brushes his ankle. “My,” he says. “What sharp teeth you have.”

When Billy sinks his teeth into Steve’s flesh, all he can think is, I wonder what Nancy will say.

[letterstothemidnightsociety]

THAT’S RIGHT BITCH! It’s October and I am still watching and inexplicably blogging about Supernatural - a dinosaur of a television show that’s been on the air longer than most children I know have been alive. 

I know I’m An Old because I don’t think kids these days understand the struggle it was watching television before streaming. We had to wait for episodes. Hell, I don’t think kids these days even really have to wait for seasons. I mean, Voltron premiered on Netflix in 2016, capped off their seasons at 13 episodes a piece and, oh yeah - aired seasons 5 - 8  all in 2018. Was I mad about that? No of course not. Do I also say phrases like “kids these days? Yes, so who even knows if what I think is relevant anymore. 

Alright, so speaking of seasons, last time I looked at pilots and pilot seasons and how the streaming era is changing everything we know about starting a TV show. But once you’ve got your pilot down, now what? 

Not this kind of pilot. Also, based on the prerequisites for demon possession, we’re all agreed this co-pilot’s like, an alcoholic, right?

There’s a rule in TV (sort of) that the first six episodes (some might argue the first season entirely) should be a kind of rehash of the pilot. The pilot sets up your premise and once you’ve got your pilot down, your job as a TV writer is to re-establish that premise over and over again. You’re building your world, you’re writing it’s rules. You’re setting up a template, a formula for how your episodes are gonna play out. This helps your audience get to know the characters, get familiar with your world, get comfortable spending time with them. Essentially, you’re getting your audience to trust the show that they’re going to be tuning in to for at least the next 20-some-odd episodes. 

I’d also argue that this is important so that later, you can break that format later. I’m not saying you should break the trust your audience puts in you, and that’s probably a real fine line of distinction. But if you break your rules right, it can hit the audience with a big emotional sucker punch. Or, it can stand out as a real breakout, tentpole of an episode - I’m thinking specifically about Ghostfacers! In season 3, or Once More, With Feeling, from Buffy. Those episodes work, really work, because they deviate from the formula, but they only work because we know the formula so well.  And these aren’t big changes to the way episodes are done, they’re just shifted ever so slightly that they felt new again.. 

So what is the premise of the first four episodes Supernatural? What’s the formula they set up for the rest of the series? 

Brothers. I said it in my last post, I’ll say it again, Sam and Dean/Jensen Ackles and Jared Jared Padalecki are what makes this show. Full stop. I think we could have gotten 5 seasons out of a show starring two other dudes. I do not think this show could have gotten 15 seasons with two other dudes. So from the pilot through Phantom Traveler, we learn that Sam and Dean have a sh*tty home life - their mother was killed by some mysterious evil thing and their father raised them to be little demon-hunting child soldiers while they look for the killer. Oh yeah, and Sam’s girlfriend died the exact same way which we will never forget because Sam’s gonna have a dream about it almost every episode from here on out. We set up the tension between the brothers - that Sam got to go to college while Dean stayed with their dad like a good boi. We learn that everybody hates each other probably because they are deeply and unhealthily codependent love each other so damn much. 

Next we get the basic rundown of the season arc: 

Dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home in a few days. The Winchester brothers are looking for him and by extension, looking for answers as to what killed their mom/Sam’s girlfriend. We also get the basic rundown of every episode: dad is a mysterious and elusive sonuvuabitch, so every episode they go about, say it with me now:

“The family business.” I would also accept “Killing as many evil sons of bitches as I possibly can,” but why can’t I find a gif for it?!? 

Backtracking on this but you know what else gets hecking established with the Winchesters? Sam is the cute one with the people skills and the puppy dog face, so you’d naturally assume that he’s the soft one. No. Not the case. Dean is the Sofffft Boi. The SOFTest boi. Dean wants Sam to talk about his feelings, Dean wants Sam to not keep things bottled up, Dean is the one who desperately wants to keep a hold of his family and also is just deeply broken and traumatized on the inside and oh no, I told myself I wouldn’t do this but I did it anyway. Sorry not sorry. This watch, I’m really picking up on the fact that Dean is, weirdly, the Mom Friend in this first season. Like, he’s basically a Trailer-Trash-Teen-Pregnancy Mom who’ll give you spaghettios five nights a week and a shot of whiskey so you’ll quit yer bitchin’ and go to sleep faster, but he’s the Mom nonetheless. Later in this season and in other seasons, I think you even see him do his dumb-baby-best filling in as the Mom when John went off the deep end. Anyway, I have a lot of feelings and we don’t have time to unpack all of that so I’ll just move on.

RUDE.

Next we set up our Supernatural Bag of Holding - what’s in it? What are the mystical artifacts they use to kill those evil sons of bitches? First up is The Car. Damn, I am not a cars girl, but that 67 Chevy, it does things to me. 

This car has some weird pavlovian trigger for me, it’s not NATURAL. 

The journal. 

John Winchester, you journal the way I imagine a psycho killer journals and I would just really appreciate it if you could be ANY MORE ORGANIZED THAN THIS.

The Trunk Full of Weapons - I love that in these first few episodes (and possibly the rest of the series???) they give this HELLA conspicuous look every time they open the trunk full of weapons. It’s hilarious EVERY TIME.

No, you’re not being obvious at ALL, guys.

The Fake ID’s - from credit cards to impersonating feds, these boys are not afraid to break the law to save some lives and I feel like that’s...that’s the theme of the show maybe? They’re here to save people and they’ll do what they have to to do that? In a world that clearly establishes a dark vs. light/good vs. evil dichotomy, the Winchester make it their job to live in a world of grey? Basically? 

Next on the checklist for this first season of Supernatural - it’s spoopy. *Spoop mileage may vary.* I said it last time, but I’ll say it again: this first season aired at 9:00pm at night. That means it’s primetime stuff for the 18 - 25 year old crowd, but they don’t want to risk some 13 year old watching it and getting too scared before bed. 9:00pm is X Files time slots, Fringe time slots. 9:00pm says you’re gonna get something a little more gruesome and gory and shocking than at 8pm. 8pm is for Friends. Vampire Diaries aired at 8pm its first season. 9pm is for the real adult content (but not too adult because the audience is still mostly children). 

SPOOP!

But yeah, let’s look at the real horror vibe that you get off of these first four episodes. We talked about La Llorona from the first episode - this is a legit ghost that they fight. The kids at the end that literally drag their mom to hell? Pretty spooky stuff. The Wendigo in episode 2 is a literal monster of the week and so for me personally, it’s not that scary, but it is a cannibal monster that eats human flesh. Dead in the Water has vibes from both Jaws and Friday the 13th. Everything from the lighting to the sound design let’s you know this is a horror show, or as horror as you can get on network television. Listen to the scenes just before somebody dies and you get a nice creepy “Come play with me” whisper coming out of the water. I’m a little spooked just thinking about it now. Yes I know I’m a chicken, and I’m OK WITH THAT. And if we go past my season 1 disc 1 into episode 5, Bloody Mary is STILL terrifying and I STILL watched that episode with half my face covered. That’s where I am these days. It’s 2020 and the world is a nightmare but imagining Bloody Mary creepin’ out in my mirror does not need to be a part of it. 

SHE F*CKIN CLIMBS OUT OF THE MIRROR GUYS! I DIDN’T KNOW SHE COULD DO THAT!!!

Then we get Phantom Traveler and our very first case of black-eyed-demonic possession. Watching this episode now, it’s like watching someone’s home movie of their first steps as a baby. They’ve never even done an exorcism before guys! They have to read the exorcism rite out of the journal! It’s so cute!!! Let’s not think too hard about how they got that full sized bottle of holy water past TSA in a post-9/11 world. And try to ignore how poorly these special effects have aged - the smoke from the demon possession?? OMG! THIS EFFECT! I’m pretty sure I could make that effect with my first ever graphic design software on my, like, 2009 mac book pro. So cute and soooo good! I’m gonna leave that CG plane alone, they’re doing their best. 

SO cute and SOOO good!

You want to know what my favorite established staple of Supernatural season 1 is? The extras. LOOKIT these guys - 

Wendigo you have Cory Monteith who later goes on to star in Glee. 

You have Alden Ehrenreich, Debatable Han Solo, doing a lot of face work with very little dialogue. 

You have Gina Holden who is in SO. MANY. Spooky-type things! My personal favs are Blood Ties and Harper’s Island, but she’s in Fringe, she’s in the SAW franchise, she’s in the Final Destination franchise, she was in some deleted scenes on an episode of Teen Wolf! I LOVE seeing Gina Holden, anywhere she pops up. 

And speaking of Harper’s Island, you’ve also got Callum Keith Rennie who played John Wakefield in Harper’s Island, a show that was A+ Great and I highly recommend if you like Agatha Christie and/or murder mysteries. 

Honestly, Rennie looks like he’s about to murder a bitch in this episode of Supernatural, it is not a stretch to believe he’s a psycho killer.

Dead in the Water you’ve got Amy Acker, a regular in Joss Whedon and Whedon-adjacent type shows.

Good LORD, this wardrobe was SO 2000′s WB and it PAINED me.

And finally in Phantom Traveler, you have Jaime Ray Newman who also shows up in a lot of the shows that I like to watch. She was in Eureka, she was in Midnight Texas, both kind of terrible shows that I love because they are terrible, but she was ALSO in Bates Motel and Veronica Mars, which are generally considered to be more quality, so there’s that. 

This still implies that they actually LIT scenes, which is a SURPRISE TO ME. 

Point is, seeing these actors in Supernatural back in the early 2000’s felt like I was seeing the start of their careers. That may or may not have been the case, but as a viewer it was exciting to see them pop up again in other things.

So what about TV now? Do we still use those first 6 (sometimes more) episodes to re-establish the premise? Well, it certainly hasn’t gone away. Look at any network show that still produces 22 - 24 episodes a season and you’ll still see that the pilot season just keeps re-iterating the premise established in the pilot episode, specifically in anything that’s procedural - that’s you’re monster/problem-of-the-week shows. Think sitcoms like Brooklyn 99 or Superstore or dramedies like Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. The reason being that these shows play in the traditional model of television - on a network, once a week. They are not releasing episodes all at one time or relying on their audiences to stream a whole season in one sitting. These are shows that still assume that someone out there is going to tune in or stumble across their show one night while they’re surfing channels (lol) and need to be told, no matter what episode they’ve just turned on, what the premise of the show is. They need to be formulaic so that people can pick it up anywhere at any time.

But what about shows that don’t follow this traditional model? I mentioned in my last post that seasons are getting shorter and shorter, so when you’re writing a show that only has (8) episodes instead of 22, how much time do you really want to spend establishing the premise? Because of these short seasons, you’re also dealing with shows that are more serialized and less procedural than their predecessors - meaning, you’re dealing with a show that focuses on a season long story (think Game of Thrones or Stranger Things where each episode is an important chapter that you can’t skip) vs. a procedural (think the shows I mentioned above or any cop drama really) where each episode is it’s own contained story, neatly wrapped up at the end. These are shows where you can skip an episode and still know where you are in the show no matter where you start or stop watching. Supernatural is a little bit of both - procedural with their monsters of the week AND serialized with a season long arc. We’ll talk more on that in a later post. 

Not only are we getting shorter seasons, but we’re also dealing with shows that are not released over long periods of time. A few streaming channels, like Disney+ and HBO Max, make a deliberate point to slow-drip their seasons, but most streaming channels will release entire seasons in one shot. You don’t need to worry about your audience missing an episode because they have 24/7 access to all the episodes all at once. And for the most part, they’re designed to be binged. They start at full speed and they don’t slow down to keep driving you to the finale. 

Do I think the procedural is ever going to go away? No. As much talk as there is about dropping the cop drama from TV all together, I think audiences still love a good mystery series. And you can’t just think of procedurals as cop dramas either - a procedural also covers most if not all sitcoms. New Girl, Letterkenny, Parks and Rec, Superstore - these all have a premise that doesn't change from week to week. They may make tiny shifts away from what they set up in the pilot, but by and large, you know what you’re getting into any time you turn on an episode. I think we as an audience still like that kind of familiarity. We may be seeing a bigger swing towards more serialized content, but that doesn't mean that the procedural is dead and gone. 

So that’s what we’ve got for Supernatural - two dudes, driving around in a car full of spears and hand guns, killing bad guys. Some day, they may even find that father that’s missing. What could possibly go wrong? A lot. Stay tuned. 

[thecomicsnexus]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #52-56 OCTOBER 1992 - FEBRUARY 1993 BY KEVIN EASTMAN, PETER LAIRD, JIM LAWSON, KEITH AIKEN AND MATT BANNING

SYNOPSIS (MIXED WITH TURTLEPEDIA, TMNT ENTITY AND COMIC VINE)

Casey wakes up in Gabby's trailer, too injured to eat. Gabrielle tells Jones that he can stay there and rest up if he wants to, and Casey says that he might. Jones then dials the local police to report the incident, but when the operator answers he just hangs up. He grabs a drink and heads outside to take a walk.

April is reading about the Foot violence in the New York Times. The story sparks her memories of the Foot burning down her antique store. Robyn interrupts her sister's thoughts and the two head out to do some shopping.

Gabby gets an hour off so she heads home and is surprised to find Casey still there. Jones has cleaned up the trailer and made lunch that they share.

Master Splinter is in the woods of Northampton, Massachusetts, attempting to meditate, but something is on his mind and he cannot concentrate.

Casey and Gabby are talking about the family that Jones left behind in New York.

"You miss your family, huh Casey?" Gabby asks.

"Yeah, I guess..." Casey mumbles, "Yeah..."

Gabrielle takes Casey's hand and tells him, "I just want you to know... when you're ready... if you're ready... to tell me... I'll be here. Until then... I'd like you to stay."

With that out in the open, Gabby kisses Casey.

In New York City, an Asian businessman is riding on a bus. He opens his briefcase and connects a cordless phone to his laptop computer, using it to hack into the power company's computers. He flags an account as seven months overdue. The power company discovers this odd glitch and wonders how it got past them for so long without anyone noticing, but rather than investigate further, they simply shut off the electricity in a building - one that the Foot Soldiers are using as a headquarters.

In Tokyo, Japan we see a conference with numerous business people gathered around a table. A man notes that their software has almost completed beta test phase and that it is a pity that they allowed the New York factions to go to war for so long. A woman notes that it was to their advantage to wait.

"In chaos there is weakness." she states.

Back in New York City, the Turtles prevent a woman from being mugged by three men. Raphael is tired of being a street vigilante and wants to find the Foot.

We see the old man in the hospital, sitting up for the first time with assistance from his nurse.

Leonardo tells Raphael that they just need to wait, and that in time their path will be revealed.

"Could ya keep the Zen crap to yourself for now, Leo?" Raph sneers, "We don't all have your freakin' Buddha nature, ya know... some of us actually enjoy linear thought! Like me... if I can't figure out whose butt I'm supposed to kick soon, I'm just gonna - -"

With that, Raph sees a strange robot emerging from out of a van driven by Foot Soldiers.

"--bust--" Raphael concludes, "Oboy. ALL RIGHT!"

The robot starts destroying a nearby bus, the one that contains the businessman who had earlier hacked into the power company's computers. The Turtles attack the robot and an army of Foot Soldiers appear from nowhere. Chaos ensues. Raph manages to destroy the robot, and the guys regroup, only to find themselves surrounded by Foot Soldiers and two more robots.

"What a revoltin' development this is." Raph notes as the Foot close in.

Well, look at it this way, Raph," Mike states, "It can't get much worse!"

In the final panel we see one of Shredder's Elite poised on top of a building.

Master Splinter is still attempting to meditate in the woods of Northampton, Massachusetts but his efforts once again prove futile.

Casey has taken a job as a grocery bagger, but he messes up by putting the bread on the bottom of the bag, which enrages his boss. The angry older man gets in Jones' face and reads him the riot act and insults Jones. Casey gets angry and puts a bag over the man's head and punches him in the face, sending him flying. Jones then storms out, but as soon as he's outside he realizes that he needs the job and goes back inside. Casey apologizes for the incident and asks for his job back. The man makes Jones get on his knees and beg for the work, but then screams "NO!" in Casey's face. So Space Case lets another punch fly and heads out.

Karai's plane has arrived in the United States, and she boards a helicopter that takes her to Foot headquarters, an imposing skyscraper in New York City.

Casey and Gabby are watching a romantic sunset. Gabrielle announces that she's getting hungry and wants to head for home, but before Casey starts their Jeep, he produces a ring and proposes. Gabby accepts Casey's proposal and the two are engaged.

April is having dinner with a slick weasel with a ponytail. The man brags about his programming prowess and then grabs April by the knee. O'Neil throws her coffee on the fellow and storms out. As she walks home, April reflects on how much she dislikes California.

Master Splinter is awoken by a voice, insisting that the old rat must eat if he's to survive. The Sensei tells the voice that he has nothing to subsist on.

"Help me..." Splinter implores.

"The help you seek," the Voice replies, "Is your own."

"There is little nourishment in riddles, shadow." states Splinter.

"The riddle is yours... that which can sustain you is within your reach... but not yet within your grasp." the Voice notes.

"I'm hungry... cold... in pain... and yet you torment me. You are death." concludes the Sensei.

"I am not," the Voice states, "But I know death."

Leonardo encourages his brothers to go on a training run. Raphael is not interested, but after some cajoling, he agrees to go along.

The old man is sitting up at the hospital, gazing longingly at the shuttered window.

As the Turtles jump from rooftop to rooftop, Raphael steps in some dog dung. This enrages Raph and he angrily stalks off towards home. As Raph makes hi sway back, he's ambushed by one of Shredder's Elite Guard. Raph is badly cut on the face, but he manages to severely wound the Elite by stabbing him in the side with a sai, thus taking the Elite out of action. Leo, Mike and Don arrive just as the fighting ends. The Elite gazes up at Leonardo.

"Y-you... you are the kappa... that killed my Master... Oroku Saki!" he stammers.

"Yes." replies Leonardo.

"I am... duty bound... to slay you... to... avenge my Master..." the man croaks.

"I think your avengin' days are over, pal." notes Raph.

"Perhaps... in the next life..." notes the Elite.

"Perhaps." answers Leo.

With this, the Elite Guard commits seppuku.

Master Splinter continues arguing with the Voice.

"Who are you!!?" Splinter demands.

"I have had several names," comes the answer, "But considering the circumstances, perhaps none is more appropriate than this... you may call me... the Rat King."

At her programming job in LA, April is feeling restless.  She goes to her boss and states that the project he currently has her assigned to is a waste of time.  Her boss sends her back to her desk and tells her to finish it.  April sits back down, frustrated and angry.

At a Justice of the Peace's office in Colorado, Casey and Gabe tie the knot.  Returning to their trailer, Casey has decorated the whole place in a tropical island theme to serve as their honeymoon.  Gabe is thrilled with the gesture.

Inside the abandoned smokestack in Northampton, Splinter has been surviving off melted snow for water, though he needs food soon or he’ll perish.  The Rat King urges him to eat the rats that scurry about his reach, claiming that once Splinter dies, the rats will have no second thoughts about eating his remains.  Splinter refuses, believing himself to be above something as reprehensible as cannibalism.  The Rat King tells Splinter that he is making a mistake by trying to shed his animal nature in search of spiritual perfection.

Back in LA, April returns home to Robyn’s place in a foul mood.  She chides Robyn again for being messy and irresponsible and the two get into an argument. Robyn reminds April that their mother is dead and that April is not their father.

In the smokestack, Splinter grabs a rat, but lets it go; still unable to do the deed.  The Rat King calls Splinter a weak master for his students, but Splinter believes it better to die than give in.  Splinter asks if the Rat King is human and the Rat King reveals that he rejected his humanity long ago.

In New York, Karai and the Foot Clan have tracked the Turtles (who have grown sloppy) back to their water tower.  Karai has assembled a unit of Foot Soldiers from the remains of the New York branch that are lost and looking for leadership.  They plant a bomb beneath the tower, setting it on fire and sending the Turtles fleeing onto the rooftop.  The Turtles, caught totally unawares, struggle to battle the Foot Soldiers (while in the hospital, the old man lays quietly in his bed).

Karai orders her Foot Soldiers to take the Turtles alive and they break out their tasers.  The Foot Soldiers get Leo, zapping him unconscious.  Though they’re loathe to do it, the other Turtles retreat before they’re caught, too.  As they escape, Karai sends an arrow their way with a note attached.  The note contains a phone number.

At Robyn’s place, April receives a phone call from the Empire Estates Nursing Home.  As it turns out, their father passed away that morning.

REVIEW

When this story started, all these characters were in pain with their present. But as the story progresses, they start to figure out that they found their destiny, and that they cannot really avoid it. By being separated, they became weaker. If you like metaphors, all these divisions are reflected in the TV reports about conflicts in Europe and Asia. These fractures are food for vultures.

To make things more interesting, Karai made her debut in these issues. We are still not sure what she wants but... well... I already know the character :p

As for Casey’s story. I never heard of this Gabe before, so I don’t think that story is going to end well. And I think this mostly because of all the characters that are rediscovering themselves, Casey is the only one that seems to have been benefited by this arc. We’ll see.

The art got better with Matt Banning. It’s no secret that certain artists look better paired with certain inkers... maybe Keith Aiken wasn’t the right choice for Lawson.

I give these issues a score of 9.

[sideofwritingsandramblings]

Day 3: Cannibalism: the (almost) bsd au

For @sheithmonth prev / on ao3 / next July 3rd - 24 Hours

Allura stood before them with a clipboard held tightly to her chest and Keith felt his stomach drop as he took in her grim expression, eyes downcast and mouth set in a thin line. Coran stood to her left and slightly behind her, and he was uncharacteristically quiet. Shiro stood close beside Keith, his human hand reaching for Keith’s own.

“It’s some kind of… virus,” Allura started, holding her clipboard out to them which Shiro took quickly, “A virus that in 24 hours will kill the both of you, unless we can find an antidote.”

“And what if we can’t find an antidote?” Shiro asked, “Is there anything else we can do?”

Allura and Coran shared a look, obviously keeping something from them. Keith could only assume it was even worse news.

“There is another way,” Coran started but seemed to struggle to find the words, “But-you see... it is a last resort. Under no circumstances will either of you consider this until the very last moment, do you understand?”

Keith could feel Shiro’s eyes on him but he stared ahead to Coran, dreading the words that would come next. They nodded and Keith felt Shiro squeeze his hand tightly.

“The virus has connected the two of you together. Your life forces anyway,” Coran continued, “If we can’t find a way to reverse it in time you both will die, unless… one of you dies first. If the connection is broken between the hosts, the virus will be destroyed with it.”

Keith closed his eyes, suddenly feeling the weight of both his own life and Shiro’s on his shoulders. It had only taken a split second and he already knew what he had to do. Shiro had already died once, and Keith was not going to let that happen again.

“Keith, look at me,” Shiro grabbed his shoulders to turn him and Keith slowly met his eyes, “We’ll figure this out.”

“I know Shiro,” Keith replied softly.

22 Hours Remain

When the paladins had first arrived on this small, seemingly harmless planet, they were simply answer a ship’s distress call that had crashed on its surface. They could have never expected the sinister virus that had spread itself across the planet. The Black Paladins had been the only two to go down to the planet’s surface, and they had unfortunately not taken the proper precautions. The moment they stepped off the ship they had been alerted by their suits that there was oxygen. Yet the suits didn’t account for what else was in the air.

The moment Shiro and Keith took a breath of the crisp air a strange sigil had appeared between them before disappearing just as quickly. But the damage had already been done and they were overcome with symptoms. Coughing, intense pain, and dizziness that had them both falling to their knees. They hardly got themselves back into the Black Lion and Keith struggled to pilot them back to the Atlas. Now they knew the crew of the crashed vessel had been killed by the virus long before Shiro and Keith had arrived on the scene.

And unfortunately, Allura’s diagnosis was incomplete. She knew what the virus would do to them but had no data on its origin or how to stop it. For now she could only give them pain meds to fight the symptoms.

Keith knocked his head back against the headrest of the Black Lion’s pilot chair. Shiro stood, an ever constant presence, behind him with his hand resting on Keith’s shoulder.

They had spent the past two hours in the lion scouring the surface of the small unnamed planet for any sign of intelligent life. Life that perhaps knew how to combat the virus. But no such luck. Sickeningly, they could only find empty ruins and sometimes alien remains, including those of the crew that had the unfortunate luck to crash on this hellish planet.

The other paladins were currently doing their part to rescue their infected comrades. Pidge was contacting every single ally they had to see if any information was known about the virus. Lance and Hunk had gone down to the surface in reinforced suits to collect samples of the fauna that might have produced the virus. And Allura and Coran took those samples to study.

Allura was convinced that the virus had started as a natural illness but dark magic had been used to enhance its effects, thus explaining the magic sigil Shiro and Keith had seen. However, that would imply there was a caster and perhaps if they could find them, they could reverse the spell.

“But why would someone make a virus like that worse?” Lance had asked, annoyed.

“I can only assume that it was used as some kind of biological warfare,” Allura replied, “If you can affect multiple enemies they would either die or be forced to kill one another to survive.”

“That’s so fucked up!” Pidge cried, "But we can stop it, right?"

"I… I don't know," Allura replied sadly, "But we have to try everything we can."

Keith heard a groan of pain from behind him, pulling him out of his thoughts. He reached his hand back to cover Shiro’s but kept his eyes on the planet below. Keith also felt a stab of pain in his stomach, one of the many symptoms of the virus, and could only imagine how much worse it might get as they get closer to the end.

They searched for hours but came up empty.

There was no avoiding the heavy exhaustion that overcame the Black Paladins as time wore on. They only had just over half a day remaining, but they were forced to retreat back to the Atlas, both almost asleep on their feet.

The symptoms were taking a lot out of them and the pain was just getting worse.

Shiro pulled Keith by the hand into their room and down onto the bed. Keith snuggled as close as he could, hugging Shiro tightly to his chest. They would only sleep for an hour, it was decided, and despite their dire situation Keith drifted off quickly.

12 Hours Remain

Keith awoke, feeling a little bit better, and reached out to pull Shiro closer.

But the space beside him was empty.

He shot upright from the bed, already in panic, but was immediately calmed when he saw Shiro sitting on the edge of the bed with his head in his hands. Keith edged quietly towards him, wrapping his arms around Shiro’s shaking frame.

“I was going to leave,” Shiro admitted quietly.

“I know. I’ve thought about it too.”

Shiro turned to look at him and Keith could see the pain and grief in Shiro’s gaze, “Keith, I can’t let you die. You have to let me go.”

Keith shook his head, arms tightening, “I’ve already mourned you twice. You can’t do this to me again Shiro. I can’t do it again. We… we’ll just have to go together.”

Shiro let out a shuddering breath, twisting on the bed to hug Keith back. Keith moved his hands to instead cradle Shiro’s face and then leaned forward to press a kiss to Shiro’s forehead. And then to the scar across his nose and his cheeks, until he finally gave in and kissed him properly.

There was a desperation in this kiss that Keith had never experienced. Sure they’ve had adrenaline fueled kisses before and after missions, but this? This was Shiro pushing Keith down into the mattress and practically devouring him.  It was like they couldn’t get close enough.

How could they possibly get close enough when they had so little time left? Keith felt dizzy and he no longer knew if it was a symptom of the virus or their breathless kisses.

They moved against one another, and Keith took his time exploring Shiro’s body, committing every moan and breathless sigh Shiro made to memory. And as they lay panting after they found release, Keith knew he had no regrets. If this was where his life would end, he had been so lucky to meet and have Shiro. That was enough.

6 Hours Remain

Pidge slammed their hands down on the table, “There has to be something else we can do!”

The rest of the table remained silent, and it started to sink in just how hopeless their situation had become. Shiro and Keith were both bedridden, the full effects of the virus taking hold.

Allura and Coran had successfully replicated the antidote to the natural virus but, due to the nature of the dark magic, the antidote alone couldn’t reverse the damage. Pidge had also had no luck discovering any information from their allies either. No one had seen or heard of this planet or its virus before. Their only chance was to find the original caster. However, between Keith and Shiro’s visual search and the Atlas’ own scans for life, they all came up completely empty. It was possible the caster wasn't even on the planet anymore.

“Wh-What if we could find another one of those clone bodies of Shiro?” Hunk started, “I mean maybe if his soul was transferred to a new body… wouldn’t that be enough to break the spell?”

“Perhaps,” Allura replied, “But we’re not even sure if any of the clone bodies survived Keith and Kuron’s fight. And, even if we could find one in time, I’m honestly not sure that Shiro will survive yet another body transfer.”

Pidge sat for a few more minutes listening to the conversation but could tell it was going nowhere. They couldn’t just waste all their time here talking. They had to do something now.

Pidge stood from the table and walked away without looking back.

2 Hours Remain

Shiro had been passed out for a while now and it was easy enough for Keith to sneak out of bed and slip out of the room without anyone noticing. The pain had spread from his stomach to his lungs and throat and, honestly, everywhere just ached. He knew there wasn’t much time left. And he’d already made up his mind. He’d wait, like Coran said, for the very last moment. But when that moment came, he’d be ready to make the sacrifice.

He was not going to let Shiro die.

Keith stumbled his way into the hanger, bypassing the Black Lion to instead jump into a small fighter jet that had been assembled and brought from Earth. He entered the various launch codes and prepared himself. For a moment he hesitated. He wanted so badly to go back to their room, press himself close to his lover, and spend his last moments alive in Shiro’s arms. But then they would both die.

Taking a deep breath Keith started up the engine and resolved himself. However, just as he began to lift off, the sigil from before reappeared in front of him, burned brightly for a moment, and then burst in front of his eyes.

2 Hours Remain (but somewhere else)

Pidge coughed into their hand, ignoring the blood that collected on their glove. It had been four hours since Pidge first touched down on the virus’ planet and 2 hours since they’d taken off their helmet. Just as suspected, however, since they were the only living creature on the planet, only the natural virus was taking effect and the sigil hadn’t yet appeared.

Pidge stopped in front of another large scattering of ruins and placed their hand on the side of one of the broken walls that was covered in vines. They closed their eyes. The Olkari had taught them everything they needed to know about connecting with nature, and yet another scene appeared before them.

Pidge saw a memory of a group of druids running into what once had been a large cathedral-looking building and disappearing underneath the ground. Pidge opened their eyes and ran to the spot on the ground where they’d vanished, finding it covered with rotten wooden boards. It took a little while to cut through and move them aside, but below them was a stairwell leading underground.

Pidge followed, finding an old, dusty hallway that eventually led out into a large open room. In the center was a dark orb of quintessence and behind that, with its hands pressed against the orb, was a single druid.

Immediately drawing their bayard, Pidge readied to go on the attack, but the druid didn’t appear to notice them.

“Hey!” Pidge yelled at it, but still the druid did not move, “If you’re the one controlling the virus, I’m going to need you to stop!”

Pidge threw out their bayard and it connected with the druid’s mask, ripping it off, and Pidge froze in shock when they realized the druid was dead. The figure was still hunched over the orb, somehow generating energy, but all that was left of the druid itself were bones covered in its tattered robe.

“Okay, that’s horrifying,” Pidge said, pulling back their bayard and taking aim for a second shot.

Lining it up, they threw it again but this time connected directly with the orb, knocking it out of the druid’s hands and onto the floor. The glass container cracked and dark energy began to spill out.

“That can’t be good.”

The druid’s skeletal face snapped up to look at Pidge with glowing red eye sockets.

“Oh shit!”

Pidge didn’t wait to watch what would happen next, running out of the room before the druid could figure out how to move its skeletal legs. P idge ran down the hallway, up the stairs, and tore out of the ruins. They called out to their Lion the whole time and luckily the Green Lion was ready and waiting when they burst outside. Without even hesitating the Green Lion shot from her tail behind Pidge, where the druid had been catching up. Pidge turned back in time to see the druid get knocked back and a large sigil appear in front of it before exploding in a burst of light.

The druid collapsed and Pidge decided to get the fuck out of there.

When Pidge returned to the hanger, Keith was waiting for them.

“You actually did it,” he said with a tired smile.

“Sure. Yeah. No problem, but why are you not in bed!” Pidge scolded, helping Keith stand up and pulling him back towards their rooms by his hand, “Allura still needs to treat the virus with the antidote now that the spell is broken. You could still die if you’re not careful!”

“It looks like you need the antidote too,” Keith shot back, elbowing Pidge in the side.

“Yeah yeah, I’ll be fine,” Pidge replied, and Keith could swear he saw tears in their eyes.

“You okay? You didn’t get hurt down there?”

“I’m fine, it’s just… We almost didn’t make it. If it wasn’t for what I learned from the Olkari, I never would have found the source of the magic in time. You and Shiro would have both died and we would have just had to sit there and watch.”

Keith didn’t speak for a moment, letting himself get pulled down the hallways of the Atlas. He didn’t tell Pidge that Shiro would have been fine in the end. But if he could guess from the looks they were giving him, Pidge already knew why Keith had been in the hanger.

“You’re not allowed to die either, okay?”

Keith smiled, still unused to having so many people who cared about him, “Okay.”

2 Hours Later

With the antidote distributed to the three paladins, Shiro, Keith, and Pidge were already on their way to a full recovery.

The moment Pidge and Keith had walked through the bedroom door Shiro had pulled them both into a tight hug. Keith knew that Shiro was going to chew him out later for leaving in the first place, but for now they simply took the time to appreciate being alive.

Pidge had gone back to their own room to rest and Allura went about preparing the Atlas for launch so that Shiro didn’t have to. The rest of the team was working on alerting all of their allies about the planet and its virus.

Now that a couple of hours have passed the symptoms have mostly abated, and Shiro and Keith were finishing off some delicious food goo prepared by Hunk.

“I’m sorry for leaving,” Keith said softly, avoiding Shiro’s eyes as they cuddled close on their couch.

“I know how stubborn you can be. Honestly I should have handcuffed us together,” Shiro teased, pressing a kiss to the side of Keith’s head, “You really scared me when I woke up and you weren’t there. When the sigil was destroyed I was sure you were-”

Shiro cut off, unable to say it out loud.

“I’m just... glad you’re back,” Shiro said instead.

Keith finally met Shiro’s eyes again, “It’s good to be back.”

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Sorry this one took so long I had to rewrite it a few time before I felt like I did a good job on it I hope you enjoy it  Book1 Chapter 31 The Cube

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Galra central command

Haggar was waiting in the Hanger Bay  for the prison transport for her four new test subjects for new war machines. She wonder why out of all the willing Soldiers and her druid why did her husband want  four random prisoner. It made no scents to her as the Transport ship start to landed . She watch as Twenty armed Soldier and fifty Sentries started move the prisoner out. The pilot of the Ship Walked over to Her 

“  Here you Go lady Haggar ”  They said Handing over the data pad 

Haggar took the data pad from the pilot and Saw the first Prisoner was a humanoid horse with wings was coming out of the Ship with Only two guards walking out him out. Haggar looked at the data pad to see who this was

Name: Skyver

Sex: male

Race : Pegasusion

Height: 5′. 11″

Wing span. 10′.6″

Eye color blue

Hair color blonde 

Age: 156 

 Crime: Eight Murder charges . weapons dealing with out a licenses, forty two charges of dealing weapons to rebel and terrorists originations, and hundreds of  theft charges

Sentenced: Death by the gladiatorial combat

Pilot of Polarity

the next two prisoners were a set of twins  

Name Harley 

Sex Female

Race: Galra

Height:6′ .3″

Age: 23

Crime attempted assassination  of Emperor  Zarkon 

Sentence: Death by Gladiatorial combat

Name: Quinn 

Sex: Male 

Race: Galra

Height: 6′.3″

Crime attempted Assassination  of emperor Zarkon

Sentence: Death By gladiatorial combat

Pilots of nemesis  

Haggar Started coughing as the Last Prisoner was being Dragged out of the ship by All the Guards and Sentries Â

Name Root rot

Race: Floran

Sex: Male

Leaf color: Blue

Age five thousand three hundred and fifty twoÂ

Height 6.6³

Eye color Dark gray

Crime: Cannibalism, attempted genocide ,Thousands of murders and bio terrorism charges.  

Sentence: Death

Pilot of Cyclone 

Haggar wondered why lord Zarkon would chose anyone of this lunatics after what they had done in the first place. His obsession with capturing voltron and the Valkyrie was causing him not to think straight. She needed to put him back on track before he brought down the whole empire they had worked so hard to build. But what worried her the most was how fast the new paladins bonds were forming. it showed in the way they had taken out her three monsters and how they destroyed so many ships in the span of twenty minutes  when they came to rescue Allura. Or how fast Shiro was bonding with the black lion. Remembering how Shiro learned to teleport  when  His husband was being shocked and how painful it was when she was punch in the guy.

“Why are we here?” Skyver asked braking Haggar thought process  

“ Does it matter were I'm just hunger for battle and meat” Root rot said in a deep raspy voices.  as he started to get out of his straight jacket

“Of cause you are you weed” Quinn said as he covered his mouth trying too block out the smell

“Do you wish to join the countless people I have killed “ Root rot said as he tried to rip apart the straight Jacket that was  

“Tough talk for a weed trapped in a jacket” Harley said as she stuck her tongue out

“that’s it  “A bud appeared on top of his head opened and a cloud of green gas started coming out of it causing everyone to start coughing some of the guards to throw up from the smell of rotting flesh, meat and dead animals   Haggar started to gag the moment that smell hit her Nosie  she was done with this. She snapped her finger  and powered down the hanger bays barrier Causing the All the air , the gas and some of the Guards and Sentries to be sucked out into space. She Watched as the three of the four prisoners were holding onto Root rot do to his body having shot out thorned vines that had broken through the straight Jacket and embed themselves into the ground to prevent him from being sucked out in to space. She snapped her fingers again closing the barrier

“Now are we done Here” Haggar said as she looked at her new test subjects as more soldiers started to flowed the hanger 

All four of them looked at each other before nodding the heads yes

“But what are we doing here anyway ?”Skyver asked again

“ you all will be testing out new super weapons to capture Voltron kill the paladins And if you do this Your criminal record will be erased  She lied 

”Can I eat the bodies when I kill them”Root said with a twisted smile on his face as the straight jacket he was wearing was offing a part. it was clear to Haggar that the straight jacket was only there because he wanted it there

 “Do what you want with the bodies when your done”She replied”Now follow me” Haggar started walking away to her lab

”i like her” Root Said as he got off the floor an started following Haggar

Are we really just going to follow her that easily after what she just did  Harley asked her brother 

“I mean if it get us out of prison then it’s not the worst thing to do and we can use what’s she giving us to escape when the time come So we should just play along with Her place for the time being “  Quin whispered to his sister

 “ok” She replied

” if you two are done taking lets got going Skyver said looking at the twins 

the two looked at each other again before they were forcefully picked up by some of the guard and were now being push toward Haggar’s lab 

Else where

Allura and Coran were standing on the bridge trying to help the paladins with repairing the castle 

“ Ok what are we trying to repair again “ Keith asked as he starred at a helix shaped power node for the starboard side of the castles particle barrier    

“ Were relining the plaqusons”  Coran said over the comms

“ Can you be more specific?” Hunk asked

“ Sorry Hunk  he meant the ploclones  on the angroclams .” Allura said 

“ ok thanks Allura . Jay what are they saying “ hunk asked 

“ It’s just like they said .But see as Allura forget none of you can read or understand Altean. I will be out there shortly to help “  Jay said 

“ No need I got this”  Lance aid was a cocky smile on his face

“   No Pidge, Keith Stop your boyfriend from doing something stupid “  Jay said. But it was to late warning appeared in the bridge and as the node turned red 

“ No lance not the flaunter the ploclones “ Allura yelled

“  No the Plaqusons” Coran said 

“ Lance move it I got this”  Pidge said  as she grabbed the node pulled it out twisted it to the right and pushed it back into place turning it back to blue “ The technology of this ship never ceases to amaze me “ Pidge said with stars in her eyes.

Jay fly out from a near by Airlock and landed next to the Paladins

“Oh You fixed it without me neat “ He said He just floated there  

“ Yeah it’s was easy and Lance is not my or Keith’s  boyfriend . Yet” Pidge wisped that last part  

“ I know but the three of you have been hanging Around each of a lot as of late so I just guess you three just started dating each other “ Jay said shrugging not really caring about what he said as he started floating away from them do to the castle of lions was still moving 

“ Wait you can date more them one person” Keith said confused by that statement

“Yes but that only works if everyone is will to do it “ Shiro said as he walked toward Jay as he just floating away and grabbed his leg and pulled him down as Jays boost magnetized to the ships hall of the ship 

The three young Paladins looked at each there then looked away quickly In a random direction. This was new to all of them 

“ Ah young love in it’s weird pubescent state isn’t it wonderful Shiro “ Jay said over a private comms Channel 

“ Yeah it is I just wish it was under better circumstances “ Shiro replied 

“Same but hey Maybe now three of them will stop coming to us  for dating Advice. I mean after a week of knowing how Pidge and Keith feel about him . I would think he would choose one already or at less one date “Jay said crossing his arms

“ Hey it took me and Adam four years before we started dating .So Just them time to figure it out for themselves .”

“ I know but after watching my brother and his Husband dancing around each other for twelves years I'm just a little impatient that's all .” Jay said as he watched the four paladins were working other node

“Hey what do you think those two are talking about?” Lance asked as he looked over to Shiro and Jay

“ Don’t know don't care. I'm just trying to wrap my head around something”  Kieth said 

“ About what Jay said ?” Pidge said as She and Hunk were working on the node 

“ No but how would it work any way?” Keith Asked

“  It works like this. I date you and Pidge at the same time while you and pidge date each other “ Lance said

“ that seems Easy enough“ Keith said

“ it’s not it takes all of commitment ,time and effort,everyone liking each other and the fact that the whole bed thing is another mess in on itself  and the only reason I know all this is because my Aunt was in the same situation a few years back “    Hunk said as he was working on the node Before getting hit by something “ What is this” He said as he wiped away some green moss like thing 

“ No clue but there’s more of them on it’s way.”  Lance said as the Castle of lions was flying towards a cloud of the green balls that were just floating there in space 

“ Ok No matter how old or jaded I get after this war I'm never going to stop loving What this universe has in store for use. Am I right “Shiro said as he watch the moss balls floated passed them 

“ Yeah man I know what you me-{ Splat} “ Jay was hit in the face by a moss ball 

“ Boom head shoot “ Lance said with a smile on his face

Jay wiped away the moss of his visor as he grabbed a moss out of the air and throw it at lance only for him to dunk and hit Keith in the back of the head causing him to turn around to look at him “ Sorry I was aiming for Lance. you can get a free shot in ” He said as he grabbed another one

 Keith grabbed one as well and Started walking towards Jay and as he was up close and personal with Jay He suddenly around and hit Lance in the Face “ like that “ Keith had a smile on his face

“Own it’s on ” Lance said as he throw another moss ball at Keith starting an all out war 

Allura and coran  listened to the paladins laugher over the come. As they we listening the door to the opened and Beauregard and  Adam  walked in. Coran turned 

“So what is the damage report ?” Coran asked 

“ Well Engine two and five are damaged , Decks Eight through Thirteen are out power, the wave flux generator has some broken plates and the power crystal that runs has some cracks in it. It still work but it will need to be replace as soon as possible along with some miner things.“ Adam said handing over a data pad over to coran 

“I have my remaining bodies working on the engines and trying to restore power that will take a couple day though” Beau said 

Coran looked at the data pad for a few seconds before replying “ it’s good to know about the wave flux  generator because that could cause a problem later .But is going to be hard to fix because of how rare the plates now a day “ 

“ What are the made of? they are made up maybe Jay or matt and the other might have them“

“ They are made of skulltrite” Coran replied 

The visor on beau’s current body turned from blue to green then back too blue after a few minutes “  Sorry the other don’t have any do to the ships they have use warp engines  and neither dose the captain because of the laws against wormhole travel back on mars” Beau apologized

“ It’s alright Beau we can find a place to replace the plates later. But right now we need to fix the problems that can be fixed” Coran replied as a loud laugh came from over the bridge comms

Back outside with the paladins the moss ball fight was still raging on as it turned into a free for all  But as the boys were have there fight Pidge was busy studying the moss. As she studied the ball her helmet started picking up a faint signal “Hey guys I need you to see this “ Pidge said as she turned around to see that lance and hunk using Keith  as a body shield from Jay who had jumped into the air with a huge moss ball and throw it at them  

“ What is it pidge?” Shiro Said as he walked over to her 

“ Yeah small fry what’s up” Jay said as he used his thruster pack to fly over to her and took a sitting position floating there in front of her     

“ I think some one is send a message”  She said still looking at the moss ball 

Jay looked at the moss ball the he looked to pidge the asked “ May I look at it ?”Pidge looked up and handed it over to him. Jay looked at It. it was weirdly familiar like something from the one of his father books about different planets flora.then he saw a faint signal appeared on his helmet. “ ok this looks familiar and I did see a signal appeared . It’s faint but it think the castle can get a better read “ He replied and handed the moss ball back to pidge 

“ All right  let’s head back to the bridge then” Shiro said 

“ But what about the realigning  the node?” Hunk said

“ I will handle it” Jay said as he started moving towards the next node 

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Jay started up his music and started working realigning the nodes. But then he saw a shadow of someone walking toward him. He looked up and saw Keith walking towards him. “ Hey Keith way didn’t you follow the other back to the bridge?”

“ I wanted to ask about your half human half Altean right. And your home town is full of galra right  ” Keith asked as he graded a different node that need to be realigned.

  “ Yeah My Mom was human Dad was altean. And yes iron oath has a mostly galra community why do you ask” Jay know where this was going. 

Keith went quite and through about how he was going to word this question then he spoke “  Can Human and Galra “

“ Yes they can Have kids.” Jay yelled cutting Keith off  “Two of my best friends half human they were twins Yorak looked like his dad who was human and Yuri looked his mom who was galra. it common on mars for humans and galra to hook up because galra fine humans quite attractive because how hard they fight and there scent of honor  along with other things.”  Jay replied super nonchalantly “ look if you think your galra I don’t give a shit about that. I’m not Allura who holds grudge and I don’t think anyone beside her will care” Jay said as he realigned the node and start walking toward Keith’ s node and realigned it “  And you shouldn’t care either. Also why did you bring this up with me and not Shiro or Adam ?” Jay asked just a little confused 

“I did bring it up with them. but I wanted your opinion because blunt,straight to the point and you might be the only person here who might understand what I'm going through ”   Keith said as rude the back of his helmet

“I understand . But I don’t understand what your going through. But I will try to help where I can” Jay said trying to be reassuring 

“ Thanks man “ Keith said 

As the two stood there taking about other thing the comms roared to life with Shiro’s voice “ everyone to the bridge we found something “

“ looks like Were need on the bridge” Jay replied 

“It seems so” Keith replied 

A few minutes later everyone was in the bridge 

“ So what have you found for us today Sister “ Matt asked looking at the moss ball in a tank being scanned by the castles computer 

“ It’s a distress signal and a set of coordinates to a planet “ Pidge replied 

“ How do get that from a that ” Shay asked curiously as she starred at the moss ball.

“ Some races you the bioluminescence in algae or in certain moss and fungus spores to sent message when there are no other way of commutating. So says my father ”  Jay said as he closed the book in his hand

“ So what is the distress signal about any away?” Lance asked

“What do you think it’s about lance “ Rolo said just a little annoyed 

“ Ok it’s most likely galra but what if it’s a red queen or a different kind of monster that fell from the sky and is just wrecking everything we don’t know.”Lance counter

“ Well if it’s a red queen I we call Isara the moment we see it”  Jay said 

“ OK can we not start fighting over what the possible problem is and just get there and see what the problem is.” Beau said  as a worm hole started to open in front of the castle of lions as it slowly start to move into it

“  So who send the message anyway to change the subject” Adam said looking at Coran seeing as he had the most experience with traveling the universe   

“ Well by the coordinates. Were going to Olkarion the home of the universe’s greats engines. they are so skilled in there craft that it come off as magic and they made this  ”   Coran said as he pulled out a black cube and let go off it. the cube floated there. Then he spoke to it” Coran Coran is a handsome man”

“ Coran Coran Is a handsome man” the cube replied in Coran’s voice 

“ Wow that so cool can I play with it for a bit Mr. Coran?” Usamu asked as he jumped up and down with stars in his eyes

“ Here you go young lad” Coran said hand the cube over to Usamu 

Usamu looked in Awa at the cube and started walking back to his brothers.The crew start talking about the possible foe they will be facing when they get to Olkarion. Maybe it’s a new robeast, or just a small fleet of ship or even a new monster altogether. But that all came to a stop when they made it to Olkarion. The planet looked like it had a rocky Frisbee thrown through it with a weird air bubble surrounding it

“   Not going to lie that is a pretty cool looking world” Lance said 

“ You got that right” Pidge replied 

“ Yeah it’s pretty neat  not as cool as the Balmera but it is cool to see it” Hunk said while holding Shay’s hand 

As they were all looking at the planet A city popped up on the screen.

“ Ok Allura What are we dealing with” Shiro asked 

“ I don’t know because the scanners are on the fritz again .” Allura said looking at Shiro with a frown on her face.

“ I don’t care what were facing I just what to get a look at that city “ Pidge said 

“ Alright then Everyone to there ships and lions. Jay I need you to stay here and watch over the castle. Will call if we need you” Shiro said 

“ Yes Sir “ Jay said while giving Shiro a two finger solute. He sat down and watch his sons as they all starred at the planet. After a few minuets the lion and the Prometheus going  to the planet. The team entered the planets atmosphere they felt shook from entering.

After a few second of turbulence. The team flow over a mountain range and as the cleared it The found them Selves  at  the edge of the highly advanced city scape and the tree line  

“ Woah look at all this tech . it’s amazing I wonder how the build it all” pidge said

“ Yeah but Why is the city Empty then ?”  Keith said

“ Pidge keep your head in the game Were looking for the sources distress signal” “ Shiro said 

“ I know but look at all this tech I can’t help it” Pidge said as happy as a kid in a candy shop 

“ Pidge I know how cool al this tech looks but we need you to focus on the mission and when it’s done I will go with you and slight see with you also the signal seem to be coming from the forest  ” Matt said over the comms quickly followed by everyone turning towards the forests  

Pidge let out a groan after hearing that” Why doesn't anyone ever send a distress signal come from a cool place? I hate the outdoors nothing  but sun burn and poison oak”  

“Question why did you take the book worm who care not for nature and not the guy who has spent most of his life in and working at a flower shop and who father is a  botanist?” Jay said over the comes 

“ Because we need some one to act as the first line of defends and you don’t need Thirty second to combo into a giant Robot “  Adam replied 

“ True that man” jay said 

“ Hey Guys I'm picking up a huge amount of life sighs coming from the forest  and weird energy signature coming off the trees”   Matt said as hundreds of Small plasma bolts flow out of the forest below them .

“ what the heck is going on “ Hunk yelled as the bolt just bounce of his lions thick armor 

“ Should were fire back”  Keith said as he dodge the bolts

“ No they might be the once who sent the distress message now everyone start to land “ Shiro said as he started to lower the black lion into the forest

“Ok but if they start shooting at us again I'm Shooting back” Ace said She said 

“ Same here “ Adam said as He and beau started up the Prometheus’ s land protocol  

The others followed suit and started landing in the forest . As they were landing they say a small group of people some were holding spears while other had weird looking blaster in the cover their whole hand Also in the group were  Mechs  that looked like they were made of wood.  The people were tall and slim there skin was green with a greenish brown crest on top of there hand. 

“ Are you kidding me we got taken down by a bunch of tree people “ Lance said

“ We really weren’t taken down we came down to see who was shooting at us “ Adam said followed by Shiro saying 

“ We come in peace” As he said 

From that back of the group a person wearing a hood walked to the front and removed it to reveled an older olkier women with a red dolt on her for head “ Voltron parse Lubos “ 

“ Lubooooos” Everyone in the group yelled  happily 

The paladin seeing at the people weren’t going to shoot them on sight the each came out of there lions found by most rebels

“ Hello i’m Shiro pilot of the black lion an Lead of voltron were here to help “ Shiro said as he walked up to the group of olkier 

“ I'm Ryner it’s good that voltron has returned”

“ Wait you know What voltron is?” Pidge said as she walked up to Shiro and ryner.

“ Yes The olkier and  the Altean had an allies Back in the day and they helped  make Voltron “    Beau said as he walked out of the Prometheus But the moment he walked out of the ship Every olkier pointed the Blasters at him.Seeing that he was still currently using a galra sentry as his body. Beauregard Throw his hands up seeing that he had every olkier pointing there blasters at him “   Please don’t shoot I'm a friend”

“ Is He?” Ryner asked Shiro 

“ Yes He is. He’s the copilot of the ship he just walked out of and head of security, repairs and supplies of the castle of lions.”  Shiro said Ryner waved there hand and every one lowered there blasters 

“So I guess it’s the galra were fighting to day” Rolo whispered to lance

“  shut up “ Lance said punching Rolo in the shoulder joking

an few hours of walking later The team had found themselves  to the Olkier settlement with Build seemingly fused with the tree. Other olkier with crowns on there heads as they were pulling their hands into a flower like plant and it turned into the blasters  the had seen earlier. they then watched as ryner picked up a fallen branch with two leafs on it and turned it into a dragon fly life machine it flow of into the distant

 “ You really are the most incredible engineers in the universe . To be able to switch from precise machinery to a couple of stinks is a amazing

“  Some could say it’s magic “ Matt said jokingly 

“ Come on matt Aren’t  you just  as existed as I am “Pidge said 

“ Yes I am i’m just better a holding in my. Oh my god did they just turn that bush into a power generator”  matt said 

“ Yes they did and the reason being is that we can shape everything around”

“ Well that sound great but I woud take my computer and rover over a tree any day

“ So how long have you been living like this?” Shiro asked 

“ Many deca- phoebs After they took are king lubos“

“ Lubooos” the group of olkier said sadly 

“After that many of are people lost the will to fight an were capture and were force to work on a weapon that the galra commander wants.”Ryner said dishearten

“ Well then it looks like we need save then” Shiro said

“ That was the most cliché line I've ever heard‚ Beau said in Jay’s voice Shiro turned around and glared at the Ai

 Ryner Smiled as she heard what Shiro said and laughed a little at what” beau said “Thank you all”

Back on the castle of lions Jay was just sitting there reading his father’s book in the Bridger with his sons, Allura and Coran just waiting for the others to tell then what was going on down there

“So what do you think is going on down there?" Usamu asked his brother

”“ I don’t know maybe they’re fighting off an army of robot” Bastion said

“ Or maybe there was another robeast hiding on the planet Fitz said

“ Or they just found the olkier and are trying to come up with a plan to free the planet” Jay said not looking up from his book

The three boys look towards him just a little annoy by his bland answer

“ That makes scenes“ Coran said

“ But that’s boring” Fitz said

“ Well that's just How life is sometimes Kids not ever mission will end in a giant monster fight.” Jay said 

“ But every mission we’ve seen end in a awesome fight”

“ That’s true Not going to argue that.” Jay said then he looked up from his book “Wait don’t  you three have home work to do?” The boy’s faces turned white “  Do it now please and no buts”

“But what if some thing cool happens” Fitz asked 

“ I will call you back to watch now get going “ The three boys started walking out off the room a little sad “ Coran Can you make sure they do the work please”  Jay asked

“ Alright wait for me boys “ Coran said 

“ Thank you Coran” Jay yelled

“ No problem. Hey when you three Are done with your work I will tell you the tell on how I wrestled a Bespin Moon Bat”  Coran said 

“Yeah” The three boys yelled exactly  

Allura laughed as she heard “ I loved hearing that story as a kid. An your doing great as parent”  

“ Thank you I'm trying my best Also how big and strong  are those bats?” 

“ I don’t know really I've never been to the bespin “ Allura said  

“ Alright.” Jay looked back to his book then he looked up and turned to look at Allura “Hey Allura can I ask you something” Jay said

“ What is it?” Allura asked

“ Why did you loss your shit on Ulaz when we first meet him. it seemed out of place for you?”

Allura looked away from jay and placed her hand over her mouth before talking “ I had a nightmare before he showed up”

“ Really a bad dream what was it about?” 

“ I was at a grave yard where each grave had one of your names on them ”She replied

“ And you thought that Ulaz was going to kill us because he was galra”

“ Yes I let my prejudice get the better of me ” 

“ No you saw a guy who broke into your home attacked your friends and acted like a person and attacked them.I would do the same so you shouldn’t. be sorry about ”

“ I know that but I'm supposed to be a the leader of this team and a princess. But how am I supposed to lead if I can’t look passed my by biases”  Allura asked

“ I don’t know I'm a cybernetics expert not a therapist. But getting over bias takes time I think I don’t again I'm no therapist .”  

“ But your blunt and to the point at times and that can be just as helpful as your therapist thing ” Allura said with a smile on his face

“ Keith said the same thing  earlier today” Jay replied smiling as well 

The two continued to take as they waited for the other to return 

back on Olkarion  the paladins were standing in front of a tree with huge fruits hanging from it 

“ Uh Ryner where are we ?” Keith asked 

“ You will soon see Now please put this on “ Ryner said as She and other olkier started handing each paladin a wood crowns. “This will help you with interfacing with the nature around us “  

“ And how are we going to do that “ Lance asked 

“ Just place your hand on the tree and tell it what you want to do. But your commands must be in binary code “   Ryner said 

“ So like this “ Pidge said as she placed her hand on the tree as she did that a blue light appeared from the spot she placed her hand on. The light started to spread up the tree and to one of the fruits. the fruit started to glow and fell from the tree. it fell with a loud thud and kicked up a cloud of dust. As the cloud cleared it revealed a one of those mechs they saw earlier

After that The other tried to do it as well. First can Shiro , Lance, Keith , Hunk And adam Sadly no one could do it. Next Came Shay, Rax , Ace, N-7 , Rolo and Nyma. it was no surprise that Shay an Rax Were able to do the same .

“    You three us have deep connection to nature  .”  Ryner said 

“ Thank you” Shay said 

“ Thanks” Rax replied 

“ Not really Do to my pale complexion I was mostly stunk indoors”  Pidge replied

“  Well then you must understand you and I and everyone and everything are all made up of the same cosmic dust” Ryne Said

Pidge raised one of her eye brose. “ Dose that mean I need to start Gardening” 

“ That sounds like a wonder idea ” Shay says Happily 

“ No but I does mean You have to give your friends a ride “ She said looking at the other paladins 

After a few minutes of show Shay and Rax the ropes on pilot their mechs. But after that the team move out to the Galra work city

In the Galra war ship that was looming over the city. 

The commander of the ship stood in the bridge and watch as the olkier he had enslaved were working on huge cube 

“ For a people with magic metal bending powers they are surly taking their time working on my super weapon. Lets show them what their working for” The commander said as a screen appeared above the cube and show a Old and Fat olkari Man his head and hands cuffed 

“pleased Stop Don’t hurt me” The olkier man Said before being Shook causing him to let out a scream of pain. Seeing their king in pain the enslave Olkari started to push themselves to the breaking point hopping to save their king

Else where the paladins lead by ryner found themselves on a cliff side over looking the city

“ by lubos” Ryner said surprised as she saw the huge Cube

“ What's wrong Ryner?”  Shiro asked concerned As a screen appeared in side the mech  show pidge, Lance And matt

“  Hey that looks like the cube Showed us back on the castle” Pidge said 

“ But  why is it saw big?” Lance asked 

“ I don’t know how they did it but the seem to have found lubos’s designs turned them into a super weapon and it looks like it’s almost done ” Ryner said

“ Then we have to move Fast.Ryner Do you know where their keeping lubos? “Shiro asked

Ryner pointed her mech toward a tower at the middle of the city it was also directly under the warship “  Their keeping him there”

“ Ok then Matt ,Lance ,Keith, And Hunk your with me.”

“ Alright Matt “ Said

“Pidge Get back to the Green lion and Act as are pick up When We get lubos” 

“On it “Pidge said as Lance and Matt  

“ Ryner Take the others and rally Your men” 

“ ok” She replied as she let Shiro and Adam out 

“ Adam, Rolo And N-7 Give us covering fire with we get caught alright “

“ Ok love “ Adam said as he grabbed a beam rifle off his back 

“ And Beau Get a call to the castle of lion and tell Jay to get ready for a fight “ 

“ Yes sir “ Beau said 

A few minutes later Adam and his team had set up a Snipers nest  an watched as shiro and His team Slow made there way to side gate of the city

“ Matt your up” Shiro said 

“ On it “ Matt walked up to the gate’s control panel an plugged in his wrist computer and Started to hack into it. after a few seconds the gate opened and the team moved into the camp . they moved quickly and quietly through out the camp dodging sentry patrol and the weird triangle security drones that floated around the area. It felt a little to easy as they move through the camp . But they knew   better then to look a gift horse in the  mouth. But that changed when they made it to the base of tower it had ten sentries standing guard . The team was stand around a corner looking at the entrains 

“  So How are we going to get in there?” Keith asked but that was quickly answered by a bolt of plasma that flew in to one of the Sentries destroying it. When it’ s body hit the ground the other sentries raised their blasters and started looked to the source of the shoot only for three more bolts slammed it three more sentries. Followed by five more shots. The last sentry stood there alone about to call for reinforcements only for Lance to shoot it down       

“ I guess that how were getting in” Lance said As he looked both away before quickly ran across the empty street to the tower entrains.

 Shiro placed his hand to his helmet and pressed the comms button “ Thank love” 

“Your welcome dear” Adam replied

“Shiro come on “ Keith said from the tower entrains

Shiro decide to try a teleport again seeing that he had just gained it. Keith watched his brother close his eyes as a bright purple aura surround him and Then disappeared with a popping sound and reappeared in front of him. Keith took a step back confused by what he just saw.

“ How did you when could you”

it’s a long story and  we have a king to save. “ Shiro said  as he walked passed Keith and entered  the room it was small and only had an elevator in it  

 “Going up” Hunk said As he entrained the elevator followed by everyone else  .The elevator had only one stop and that was the top of the tower.

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“Is it just me of dose this seemed to easy” Matt said 

“ true but every time it seems easy it gets a lot harder the moment we try to do  something. So I'm guessing there is going to be thirty or forty sentries waiting “  Lance said 

“ So everyone get ready for a fight” Shiro said as he activated his arm.Matt grabbed his bow staff, Lance raised his Bayard ready to fire , Hunk and Keith activated their Bayard .

It was a tense few minutes as they  waited for the door to open up. The door opened to a dark room and the sound of crying. They all ran into the room and saw no guards waiting for them all But there was any other olkari  standing there with a tray in his hand watching the movie well Lubos was sitting there crying about the two people on the screen kissing

“ They're so in love with each other” Lubos said 

“ Oh Hey I saw this one it’s not the best by hey it’s a good time waster” Matt said lowering his bow staff 

Lubos stopped crying and turned to see the five paladins standing there.” Are you the jester I asked for?” He asked as he got up from the chair 

“ No were where to save you” Shiro said just a little confused 

Lubos face had a look of confusion on his face. “ Oh great finally I'm save” Lubos hit a button on his chair then got up”But how are we getting out of here and how long will it take for them to get her ?” 

“ She’s on her way so just a wait a few more minutes” Shiro replied

Keith looked around the room and noticed the lubos didn't have cuffs on him But the other Olkari did which he found odd.  Also Lubos clothes looked new while the other was wearing the same clothes as Shiro when he found them. Then the lights suddenly turned on to reveal a Galra commander standing there with a smile on his face

“ Ah the paladins of voltron What an honor  ”  The galra said 

“ And who are you?” Matt asked his bow staff pointed 

“ Oh I'm Branko The man who just captured voltron thanks to His majesty “ �� Branko said 

They all looked towards the Lubos 

“ Had don’t blame me he forced me to do it” lubos said pointing towards

“ Yeah and did the forces feed you too “  Lance said pointing his blaster towards Branko 

“Ok were can play the blame game all day but I have a super weapon to test . So came with me” Branko said 

“ I don’t think so” Keith said grabbing Lubos and pointed his bayard at lubos’ s throat. “ Take one more step and the king gets it” 

“Keith what are you doing “ Hunk said confused

{I just Made him the successor of the black lion. What have I done } Shiro thought to himself

“ Hey I'm the victim here why am I being used as a meat shield” Lubos said 

“ Your no victim” The other olkari said “ He sold out his own people Just to save his own skin”

“ La -sai I trusted you” Lubos said sadly

“ I know that But I'm done with all the lies” La-sai said 

“ Well that was a beautiful little moment but I'm on a schedule and seeing as your not coming willingly I will just give your bodies and lions to lord Zarkon and regain my honor that way and maybe I will be promoted to Fleet Admiral.”  Branko said as the sentries started to power up their weapons about to fire.

“ But what about Are deal ?” Lubos said 

“ Consider it complete” Branko said with a twisted smile on his face.

“ Get ready for a fight guys “ Shiro said . But just as he said that a beam of blue plasma cut into the room leaving a huge whole in the room that reveled the green lion.

“ Need a ride?” Pidge asked as the green lions mouth opened followed by the team ran toward the lions open maw

Branko looked to his side at his sentries that were just standing there”   What are you doing  you useless pieces of junk Shoot them” He yelled As one of the sentries turned to look at him with it’s visor a bright blue.

“ Sorry but no” Beau said as he left the sentry he was in to return to pidge’s Wrist computer  as the sentry’s visor turned green it like the other sentries turned to face each other an fire upon each other leaving branko alone.

In the green lion’s cockpit 

“ Thanks for the save You two” Matt said as he was trying too remove the cuffs from La-sai’s hands 

“ No problem” Pidge said

“ Your welcome. Also Jay is waiting for us to return “ Beau said 

“ Alright Let’s first pick up Adam’s team then will head back to Ryner and the others” Shiro said 

“ On it “ pidge said as she took the green lion to Adam’s location 

After that they returned to the olkari Rebel camp. Jay had land Only a few minutes before the others returned taking to Ryner about the planets flora and about Getting a few of those cubes that Coran had along with a few commissioned Weapons for Val to use later on

“ Thanks for hearing me “ Jay said 

“ It was no problem. It’s the most we can do for Voltron and I hope your sons enjoy the cubes and the other toys we made for them.” Ryner said 

“They will” Jay said  looking up to the Sky and saw the green lion coming there way “  Looks like Your king has returned” Jay pointed to the green lion as it landed 

“ praise lubos he has returned” Ryner said  walking towards the green lion.

Jay watch his teammates walked out of the green lion with Lubos in toe. He watch as Ryner face turned from joy to fury as Shiro told her something followed by Ryner slapping Lubos. Jay then looked to Adam as he walked toward him

“What the hell just happened?” Jay asked Adam

“ Lubos Turned out to be a Sell out,a cowered and now there is a super weapon that is being made that you guys need to destroy “

“ I knew about that last one but thanks for filling me in Man.” Jay put his thumb and pointer finger on the bridge of noise and groaned” The boys are never going let me live this down “ 

“ Why is that?” Adam asked 

“ I just told them that not every mission ends in a giant robot fight but knowing about the super weapon and how this teams habit of seemingly attracting robeasts. I’m guessing the moment Shiro stops Lecturing lubos about how he should have been a stronger lead even thought not everyone is a super strong willed Moral paragon of justice”  Jay took up a dramatic pose .Adam laughed a little an jabbed jay in the shoulder. The two laughed for a little but stopped when they heard Ryner yelling “ Today we fight for are freedom.” The two of them looked at each other then started waling towards there respective Ships

“ Don’t get Shot out of the Sky again “ Adam said giving Jay a two finger salute  as he headed toward the Prometheus  

“ Don’t Crash my house again” Jay said shooting a finger gun at Adam as he walked to Val as she stopped Scanning everything Around her. 

Else where

Branko was in the bridge of his war ship Yelling about how his victory was stripped away from him and how long until the weapon was up and running 

“Uh Sir we have a  problem” A galra solider said starting at the screen in front of him “

“What is it. Show it on the screen “ Branko said as a screen appeared Showing  An Army of Olkari emerging from the forest charging toward the city with Voltron , the Valkyrie and the Prometheus  flying over them. A look of fear creeped a cross Branko face “ Is the weapon Ready yet “ 

“ Yes it is sir then power it up and get us to a safe distance. Will pick up Voltron and that other one when my super weapon ends them” branko yelled  

“ On it Sir” The soldier said as he started hitting buttons on the console turning on The cube on 

The paladins Watched as the warship started moving away from the city leaving any Sentries an soldiers behind to fight off the on coming Army of Olkari

“  So they’re leaving what are we going to do about that Shiro?” Jay asked

“ You go after them. We will handle the super weapon” Shiro order

“ On it “ Adam said 

“See you guy in a few seconds. ” Jay said as he, Val and Adam chased after the fleeing Ship

“ Ok team lets take this super weapon out before it power up” Shiro said

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“ Uh Shiro it might be a little to late” Hunk said As he watched as a huge Cube started to slowly ascended to their level 

The cube was pitch Black with a violet light that ran across the middle of it. the cube was the same height as the Valkyrie in her human form.it just floated there not doing anything for a few seconds before a bright purple light appeared from it. The light hit voltron but it did nothing 

“ Uh what is it Doing” Lance asked as the light started moving up and down 

“ It’s scanning us “ pidge said 

“ Ok then let give it  something else to scan then” Keith said as he Fired the red lions mouth beam.

The shot made contacted with the cube but in stand of exploding it was absorbed into the cube cause a ripple to appear across the cube’s surface that was quickly followed by the ripple to reveres and a blue bolt of energy follow out of it. The team only had a few second to react to the shot and dodged it.

“ Ok it just fired a shoot back at us just like the Valkyrie can”  Pidge said

“That’s not good.” Hunk said worried

“ How are we going to deal with that?” lance said

“ Guys we have as sword remember” Keith said slamming his Bayard into the slot and summoning the sword

“ Oh yeah that's a thing” Lance said a little sheepishly

Voltron Charged the cube At full speed . As it did the cube started to fire a beam of energy as it slowly started to move again. But Voltron knocked the shot aside with their blade and raised it up and brought it down the middle Calving  the cube in two followed by another cut through both pieces  . The four pieces of the cube fell back where it came from seemingly lifeless. The team watch the cubes not taking their eyes of it because how easy that fight seemed. As they watched all four cube started to come back to life and started rising up faster then before.  The four Cubes started to surround voltron and started firing on them

“Oh great now there are four of them” Lance groaned as voltron fly hiigher into the sky

“Ok team this might look bad but we have faced tougher opponents. We can get through this lf we work together.”   Shiro said in calm voice as he took voltron out of the city and into the forest  trying to keep the the olkari and the other from being caught in the cross firer leading the cube out o   

Else where Jay ,Adam and Val were chasing After the fleeing Warship

“  So what do you think the others are doing with that super weapon right now?” Jay  Asked 

“ Don’t know but how is this ship out speeding us” 

“ No clue But why are we chasing this Ship instead of just using of Shooting it down with the bow” Val said 

Jay stopped the Valkyrie turned her into her human form ,slammed his Bayard in to the slot and summoned the huge bow and pulled back to summon a bolt of energy and let it go and repeated the motion four more times just to be sure  . They watched as the bolts screamed through the air. The first Shot slammed into the Warship’s shield causing it to faultier the next shot followed suit ,the third one knocked the Shield out  and the last two shots punched through the warships engines and travel through the ship an exited just barely missing the bridge.

“ Did you forget you had that ? I mean I never saw you use it before until yesterday “ Adam said as he laughed a little by Jay’s sudden realization and he started laughing hard as Jay stayed quite as the warship started to slowly fall into a near by river. It was a beautiful sight as the Ship crashed into the water causing it to shoot up as the ship slowly settle into river  that was then followed by the Ship exploding sending fragments of the ships and earth flying everywhere

“  Well that went from zero to hundred real quick “ Jay said just a little suspired by what happened

“ Yes that escalated quickly and we weren't even aim to destroy the ship that just kinda happened ” Val replied

“ We Should go help the other  “ Adam said 

“ Agreed” Val said as she started to fly back to the came

“ I hope things haven’t gotten out of hand with out us ” 

Back with voltron 

“This has gotten out of hand real quick”  Hunk Yelled as he dodged a shot from one of the now four super fast moving cubes

“ I got this ” lance said as he fired the frost beam into one of the cubes. But it just absorbed the shot and fired it back at him freezing the blue lions head “it’s so cold “

“ Lance” Keith yelled as he fly over to lance and used his molten beam to melting the ice around the blue lions head

“ Thanks Keith”  Lance said as they both dodge a on coming shot from one of the cubes

“ No prob-” Keith was cut off by a shot from another cube knocking him out of the sky 

“Keith “ Shiro yelled before getting knocked out of the sky as well

“Ok these thing are starting to get on my nerves. Why did we cut the cube again  ?” Lance asked 

“ How were we sunspots to know it would do this if we cut it” Keith said as he got the red lion back to it’ s feet and took back to the sky followed by Shiro 

“ So you Guys cut something that basically tried to cut something that gets fast and multiplies when Cut. That seemed pretty stupid “ Adam said over the comm

“ Yeah that’s just sounds like a bad time”   Jay said 

“Yes when are you two getting here?” Lance asked as he dodge another ice beam fire from the cube he was fight

“Right now “Jay said as he fire a bolt from the Valkyries bow  .Lance watched as the bolt of energy slammed into the cube but the cube absorbed the ball. The ripple appended again on the cube followed by it reversing and fire the bolt back at the Valkyrie. Jay quickly dodged the Bolt. Jay and val were caught of guard by this Copy of there power ”Ok were facing smaller versions of Val this is bad” Jay said as he dodged a shot fired at him. But unaware to him pidge was behind him and took the full focus of the shot 

“AAaAh “ Pidge yelled as the Green lion slammed into the forest down below them powerless

“Shit Pidge I’m Sorr “ Jay was cut off by the cube he shot at Slammed into him 

“ Pidge are you alright ?” Hunk said

“ Pidge can you here us “ Lance yelled

“ Pidge you alive ?” Keith asked

“ Katie Speak to me “ Shiro said

“ Sis please talk to me Katie “ Matt yelled over the comms after hearing Everyone else yell about this  

Pidge tried to tell the other that she was alive but the green lion wasn’t responding to anything she tried. “Come on Green I need to get back up the team  needs us “ Pidge  shook the control sticks violently and got out of her chair “ Come on green Get up!!!” She yelled before letting go of the control sticks as she sat back down pissed that she was now stuck in her lion . She grabbed the control sticks again as she did that She heard her teammates yelling for her or in pain. Pidge tried to turn on the green lion again to no effected this piss her off even more because she felt helpless. as her team was being assaulted by the cubes . The she heard Ryner voice through the green lion 

“Pidge you need to calm down” Ryner said from out side of the green lion’s cockpit.

Pidge let go of the sticks again as she did rover turned on and flow out of her backpack and flowed toward her beep the theme song to her favorite show. Pidge laughed at her little robotic companion”    Ok I'm calm now. What do it do now?” Pidge asked as she started to pet rover like a dog

“ You most bond with it’s spirt for it to fly again” Ryner said

�� Ok” Pidge said a little  skeptical. But she tried it anyway She closed her eyes and grabbed the control sticks one more time as she did she heard her teammate and her brother yelling for her to be alright. But she had to focus on deepening her bond with her lion and as she cleared her mind She felt someone standing behind her. Then She heard a soft purring sound all around her then she felt everything in the universe rush through her body . Ryner watched as the green lion’s eyes started to glow again and has they did the vine that had surrounded the green lion Started to glow as well the disappeared. The moment the vines disappeared the green lion got back up let out a huge roar then took back to the sky.

Back with the rest of the team  Jay dive bomb the Valkyrie  to protect the blue lion from  being shot out of the sky He countered the shot and used It to boost the Valkyrie’ s speed

“ Thank for the save man”  Lance said 

“No problem Lance” Jay said as he charged at full speed towards the cube ready to see if impaling it with his spear would do any thing to them. But before he could do that A green beam hit the cube as it did the cube floated there for a few second before Roots exploded out of the causing the cube to fall to the ground powerless . 

“What was that?” Val asked confused by what she just saw

“ That was me guys” pidge said as the green lion flow up to the Valkyrie “ Now leave the rest to me” She turned the green lion around and started moving and blasting each cube with her new power and everytime she shot one Roots erupted from the leaving them powerless and motionless .Back  in the City and the enslave olkari were freed the battle was won and the day was saved.A few minutes later most team returned to the city to celebrate the victory well Jay went to scan the cubes to see what new ability val would get from them. Pidge, Matt, Shiro ,Adam and Ryner Watched the olkari and the rest of the paladins started to celebrate the victory.

“You did great today Pidge “ Shiro said 

“ Yes you really save are Ass back there

“Yeah Sis that was awesome “Matt said as ruffed he hair

“Thanks Bro but I have to thank Ryner Because of her I unlocked my lions Hidden power” Pidge said looking towards Ryner 

“ Thank you and I most that you all for saving Our home” Ryner said 

“ There is no need for thanks it's are job as the defenders of the universe to help anyone in need.” Shiro said

“ But Still thank you” Ryner replied 

As They were talking a familiar looking Olkari still in galra slave clothes walked up to them “ excuse me “  The olkari said a timidly voice

They all turned to look at him and Shiro recognized him “Oh Your La-Sai right” 

“ Yes I am I've been meaning to ask you something” la-sai said rubbing his forearm

“What is it “ Shiro asked curiously 

“ I wish to join your team to make up for all the year I stay silent as my people were forced to work the past few deca-phoebe If you will take me” La-sai said

Shiro looked At La-sai then said” Welcome to the team La-sai”

La-sai looked surprised by the sudden Answer then a smile came to his face “ Thank You Thank you . You won’t regret this” La sai grabbed shiro’s hand and Shacked it Then he Ran of to get his things

A few hour later the team had returned to the castle of lions and were telling Allura and Coran what had happened on the planet and introduced La-sai to the rest of the team.While Jay was showing of his new  prosthetic arm and toys to the boys  as Rolo was getting use to the new like weight leg of his.

“ Hey Shiro why aren't you wear your new arm ?” Jay asked as his sons were playing with all the cool things they just got.

“ Don’t need it yet I will wear it when this brakes “ Shiro said as he flex is current arm

“ Alright them” Jay said as looked at the bright red and green olkari tech arm “ this so quiznaking cool”

“ Not as cool as this” Coran said as he pulled out his cube and it split into five different cubes” Thank you La-Sai”

“ Your welcome Coran “ La-sai said with a smile on his face

“So pidge how did you unlock that new ability?’ Allura asked

“It weird  You all know ive always been a tech junkie that's how I connected to the world but for the first time I felt connected to everything . I guess it’s just like Ryner said we’re all make you of the same cosmic dust” Pidge said in a profound realization

“So that mean were all related. that this Ship those stars, The olkari and Even the galra. That’ s wild” Kieth said

“Yeah you could say that “pidge replied 

But before Allura could Question what she just Heard the entire Galra central  command Appeared in front of them

“ Oh Quiznak” Everyone said at once

"Back at the destroyed Galra ship Branko crawled out of the river His body burnt and broke from the crash “ Damn them Damn them all. I was this close to regain my honor this close “  He yelled as he slammed his fist into the ground several times. The sound of wings flapping and the sound of something landing in front of him so he looked up and saw a bright white bird with a single crimson eye looking at him “What are you looking at “ Branko swung a the bird But it didn’t move it just stood there looking at him. Then it’s eye ripped open and a deep Basie voice came out  of it

“Do you want to make a deal” the bird said 

Branko didn’t know if this was a hallucination or real but that didn’t matter he was pissed off and will to do anything to get revenge”  Yes I would”

“ Good know Follow me” Warren said as a twisted smile appeard on the eye

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Inferior 5 #1

Hopefully this will be like when Giffen made the Legion of Super-heroes super fucking dark.

How many dicks can you find, kids?!

"How many dicks can you find, kids" is the least quotable line I've ever written. The Kamandi just out of surgery cosplayer winds up getting exploded by the kid in the canvas sack face mask. You know the kid is bad news because he can make people explode with his mind. Although if you ran into him in the desert, you wouldn't know that immediately so I should have stated the other ways you can tell he's bad news so as to maybe avoid exploding. First off, he's a kid out in the desert alone. Kids by themselves are creepy. Plus he's wearing a canvas bag on his head. Canvas is always a warning sign that you might be dealing with cannibal hillbillies, especially when it's covering an almost certainly mutilated face. Also, the kid's canvas bag mask has a big red X on it. Anybody who's been through the American educational system has a strong aversion to red X's. Also spooky: the kid recites nursery rhymes. When you hear one of those, you know you're either about to die or laugh hysterically because did you hear how the Diceman said "cock" instead of "clock"?! How did we never stop laughing in the Eighties?! Oh, one more clue that not all is right with this kid: he lives in Dangerfield, Arizona. That's almost as big a red flag as some sweaty, long-haired kid in overalls from Back Swamp, North Carolina. The story picks up with some nerdy kid (probably Merrymaker since he's the big virgin of the group) whining about how his dad died in The Invasion of Metropolis (what was that? Is that a reference to the beginning of The New 52 when Darkseid attacked Earth? Or is this a reference to the Invasion by the Dominators which was compiled in three way-too-long comics?). After the Invasion, he and his mom moved to Dangerfield, Arizona. Because who wouldn't feel safer in a place with a name that causes constant anxiety over a place where the greatest hero in the world lives?

According to the date on this calendar, the Invasion mentioned was the Dominator one which created the Meta-Gene explanation of superpowers which we recently learned was a computer jargon shortening of the term "metal-gene."

The calendar isn't the only proof that this invasion was by Dominators and not Parademons! By turning the page instead of trying to ferret out what's going on by examining every panel carefully and spending an inordinate amount of my short lifespan trying to guess what's about to happen instead of just fucking turning the Goddamned page and letting the writers explain it to me, I discover the Dominators are leading an invasion of Earth Number This Is Fucked Up. At least I think it's Earth Number This Is Fucked Up because the invasion seems to have worked. Superman is dead and most of the other heroes have been placed in a space gulag. Plus that kid in the canvas bag marking X's on houses seems to play an important role in the Dominator's invasion force.

Unless this is all just a comic book on Earth Number Main Earth?

Maybe I should turn some more pages! But first, I just need to Google "Lisa Loeb's boobs." The kid complaining about the Invasion comic book is named Lisa (no relation to Lisa Loeb's boobs) and she points out to the suspiciously bloody comic book seller with a light sensitivity named Vlad that the Invasion really happened. So I guess DC is simply profiting on everybody's pain and misery. I bet just to make the series even more painful and miserable, DC hired Scott Lobdell to write it. Justin, the whiny kid from Metropolis, is being observed by some outside observers (as opposed to inside observers which would be, I guess, parasites?). He heads downtown where he's about to make contact with Dumb Bunny and Awkwardman! Except he doesn't. Man, I should probably read more than two panels at a time before writing anything. It would save everybody a lot of wasted effort, me with writing sloppy synopses of comics and the three people reading this having to fucking read this. But then I don't have any responsibility to anybody to make these "reviews" shorter. It's not my fault if somebody wanted to Google "Lisa Loeb's boobs" but found they didn't have enough time because they were reading this shit. That's their own fault for not prioritizing their desires! Googling "Lisa Loeb's boobs" was so important to me that I did it in the middle of this review! Come on, people. It's the modern age! You can view Lisa Loeb's boobs any time you want (through clothing, that is. I'm not advocating for searching for nude pics of Lisa Loeb's boobs which probably don't exist anyway and if you think they do, it was probably just Lisa Loeb's head photoshopped onto a naked torso). Lisa has been uncovering clues to the weirdness of Dangerfield, Arizona because she dresses like Velma. Unless she dresses like Velma because she searches for clues the way her hero, Velma, searches for clues. I don't know enough about Lisa's backstory to say. It's possible Lisa isn't even aware of Velma and it's just Giffen spending some easy pop culture capital so readers associate Lisa with Velma and understand her more simply by looking at her image.

Here are a bunch of the clues she's uncovered that I didn't want to try to parse through my digressions and fascination with Lisa Loeb.

Billy Shanker, the kid with the canvas bag who says things like, "Oh! The three little kittens! They fucked their mittens! Oh! Look at the way I hold my cigarette! Boom!", murders Justin's mom and takes her corpse to some guy in a hazmat suit that might be a Dominator but also might be, seeing as how Giffen is writing this, Ambush Bug. Man I hope it's Ambush Bug! Justin returns home to find his mother gone and the interior (five?) of his house covered in red X's. Oh no. That's a really bad sign! Not one black check mark in the bunch! Some people might think Keith Giffen isn't the best artist in town because he's a writer and his art isn't for everybody. Plus he never puts any thought into his panel layout and just goes the same size boxes every time (sometimes in the six variety, sometimes in the nine). I happen to love his art so I'm not one of those people. But in keeping with a guy whose art isn't what people would call great (although those people usually love mainstream great garbage art like John Romita Jr or David Finch or Tony S. Daniel), Jeff Lemire draws the back-up story. I don't think that was an insult at Lemire's expense. If it was, I'm sorry because I was really just trying to insult John Romita, Jr and David Finch and Tony S. Daniel. The back-up story features Peacemaker whom I only remember by look. According to the Who's Who, Peacemaker is a guy who loved peace so much that he realized sometimes he'd have to use extreme violence to ensure it. Also he suffered a head injury during Crisis on Infinite Earths which seems like a weird thing to mention in the Who's Who. "Trillions of lives were extinguished during the multiversal extermination event! Billions and billions of worlds destroyed! People's pasts erased in the blink of an eye! Supergirl and Flash and some other people nobody remembers killed! And Peacemaker suffered some head trauma." I suppose it's important to the character. Maybe it was meant to make him more extreme so he'd be relevant in the post-Crisis era. Peacemaker is on a mission for Amanda Waller to find some super weapon that the Russians want. His search leads him to a bunker with a dead Dominator, a mysterious capsule, and a map leading him to Dangerfield, Arizona! Inferior 5 #1 Rating: B+. I'm a sucker for Giffen stories and Giffen art. And Giffen stories backed up by Lemire's writing are probably even better. This one was pretty good so consider it evidence that my previous statement is almost certainly correct. One thing I like about Giffen is that he doesn't mind writing things that can be confusing on their first (or even second!) read through. He tells the story, makes the jokes, slowly unveils the plot, and to hell with anybody who doesn't want to invest a little time in making it all out. Seems to me, a lot of modern comic book readers could learn to love ambiguity. But they're all so desperate for the interior monologue of the main characters so they know exactly what to think after reading something. They're so coddled that they think subtlety is when a story explicitly shows them what's happening without the main character also explaining it in a monologue as they experience it. They wouldn't recognize subtlety if it...well, I mean, it's subtlety. It should be hard to recognize so I don't know how to finish that statement. Now go read Inferior 5 and hate me for recommending it when you're finished.

[disinvited-guest]

10/27/2018 NYC Mini Recap

Since there is a full length recording of this show as well as several videos, and because I want to be all caught up on recaps going into my next round of shows, this is just going to be a mini recap.

-I took a bus and two trains into the city, then walked several blocks.  I had planned to get there earlier than I did, but it all worked out, as due to some intense strategizing and brilliant execution on the part of @monopuffstan and @integrityproject , we snagged a spot in the front row in front of the drum riser.  It had been far too long since I had been over on that side of the stage, and I really enjoyed the change in perspective.

-While we were waiting, we saw a bunch of the backstage goings-on through a gap in a curtain that covered a balcony over stage left.  Just about everyone passed through that point before the show, and Dan and Linnell both peeked around the curtain to check out the crowd.

I- realized at this show that Curt has a tablet set up in front of his riser.

-The setlist wasn’t an exact replica of the night before, but it was fairly similar.

-Dan was right in front of us for the Damn Good Times solo, and it’s even more spectacular up close

-I got a smile from Danny towards the start of the show.  Towards the end, of the second set, you could see him checking the first few rows from one side of the crowd to the other and making sure he had acknowledged everyone he recognized.  I got another smile then, and I thought it was nice to see how much he cared about us fans.

-Linnell was taking pictures on a disposable camera as they came onstage, and while Flans was greeting the crowd.

-Flans referred to Terminal 5 as both “the concrete box that rocks” and “our home away from home, even when we are at home”

-Linnell apparently had slept most of the day, then had and exhausted conversation with his wife about how strange Canada was “that was weird”

-They claimed in touring Canada that the had missed Moosejaw and Winterhat, but had been to Sascacheeeee....

-Flans talked about going on someone’s twitter profile (sometimes when a person posts something incomprehensible, he explained, you have to check out their profile) and they described themselves as "shy af." He pretended to us that he had no idea what that could mean, and Linnell told him it was a photography term and it stood for out of focus.  “It all comes back to photography.”

-Flans mentioned that he had presented Robin with their first ever piece of taxidermy (the mini-tiger which he had mentioned in Ithaca).  They’ve decided to keep it in a nook at the top of their basement stairs.  What happened next is too hilarious not to include longform.

Flans:  The interesting thing about taxidermy is that you either lose all your friends or you gain a whole new set of friends who are just a little bit creepier.

Linnell: Or you could just taxidermy your old friends.  It’s a win-win.

Flans:  It’s that kind of outside of the box thinking that’s kept this band fresh for all these years

They continued on that vein  for a while, the exact wording of which I forget, then continued

Flans:  What’s a little cannibalism among friends?

Linnell: I didn’t say anything about cannibalism.

Flans: And that is the basis of our collaboration.  You mention taxidermy and I’m like “hey cannibalism!”

-Flans said the second set is all fusion rock and we’d have to pay to leave.

-When Linnell tried to start during the Future of Sound on his Kaoss pad, nothing happened and he had to reach up and turn it on, which everyone saw since the camera on his keyboard was projected to the big screen

-Flans told us we weren’t in the oversized paper clip section of staples when introducing the contra alto clarinet.

-When introducing All Time What, Flans said Dan was on the keyboards.  Dan eyes got huge, and he asked Danny about it.  Danny went over to Flans and told him that he was introducing a different song than was next on the setlist.  Flans asked him what was on the setlist, then brushed him off, saying that that was the song he was introducing.  Linnell then teased Danny that it was “a little early in the show to start fuckign everything up.”  Danny threw his hands in the air, walked back over to Dan, and said something to him, obviously to the effect of ‘are you going to play keyboards on this’ which Dan responded to with an adamant headshake.

-According to Flans they don’t have any other time to talk, so the show is also a meeting for them “last week they confronted me about the cold medicine and I was like ‘I don’t care guys, I am an autonomous individual of destruction.”

-According to Linnell, they wrote Let’s Get This Over With when they were “stone drunk and flat broke in the Louisiana rain,”  in a deep gravelly voice that he claimed was his “real” one

-Dan was wearing his Chicken Parm Shirt.  Linnell pointed out to us all that when he first came onstage wearing his jacket, it looked like it said “ick ar” and that when he was wearing his guitar strap it had said “chick arm.”  He thought maybe there was more to the shirt than just chicken parm.

-Since we were in New York, Flans figured everyone had a solid theatre background.  He told us the “safe word” for the night was new song.

-When Linnell announced they were reaching the end of the first set, he said it was “when we will be taking our hopefully well deserved break.”  

-Flans apparently usually listens to an audiobook during the break.  Linnell thought it was a Keith Richards autobiography, but Flans claimed it was The Making of A Star is Born (which made Marty shoot him a dirty look).  They decided that the audiobook was narrated by Gilbert Godfrey, which was apparently an in-joke based on the rotating narrators of the Keith Richards’ autobiography, which Flans had been listening to.  Linnell has decided that the last chapter of every audiobook should be narrated by Gilbert Godfrey.

-During Spy, Linnell started yelling “Now the night is gone!” over the guys playing instead of using the song sample he has programmed.

-Curt felt a little bit towards the end of the first set  Dan covered a bit of his part during When Will You Die, and the Spy intro was a little shorter than it had been.  Whatever it was, he recovered a lot of his energy by the second set.

-I met @marcuskane briefly during the break between sets!

-Flans discussed George Soros again during the Quiet Storm.  Apparently, they are making The Shining 2 about him, and how he is everywhere, doing everything.

-Linnell told us in the future of 1844, everything has the word space in front of it: space beards, space horse-and-buggy, etc.

-Flans used the phrase “push back the hands of time” in introducing Applause Applause Applause, which caused a few gasps in the front few rows before they started the song.

-How Can I Sing Like a Girl was a “long distance dedication to anyone not running for the Supreme Court” because it “wouldn’t be the acoustic section without unwanted political comment.”

-The electronic drums in an acoustic set are “a musical non-sequitur” according to Flans

-Curt was right in front of us for the intro to Istanbul, which was unbelievable.

-Linnell claimed that he was a kid in the year 3000 BC before the Mesopotamians

-When Flans introduced the Sun as being the single off their new album, the crowd went wild like Flans had demanded they do for new songs during the previous set.

-“The sun is like a huge atom-smashing device for crushing. The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between this finger. That’s it.”

-At the beginning of the show, some people were yelling out requests and Flans told them “That’s right, we’re not taking requests.” They tried it again before She’s an Angel, and someone handed Flans that fake setlist that had shown up on Miscellaneous T a few weeks before.  When thanking people individually a bit later, Flans told him “you have a lot of ideas but this is neither the time nor the place.”

-Dan’s guitar was having trouble during the second set and he had to switch to another for a few songs.

-Flans started Operation with “People of Terminal 5 New York, allow me to inform you about my operation.”

-Flans sang his individual thank yous to the crowd with Linnell’s keyboard accompaniment.

-During  band intros, Dan did that thing where he tracked and repeated bits then played over them, shutting it all off abruptly with his foot.  

-Danny squeezed up next to Marty on the drum riser during Curts intro to have a conversation with him.  There is not enough room up there for two people

-Danny mimed eating when he was introduced as from Long Island “where the weak are killed and eaten” once again, but since he was using a ‘spoon’ it looked more like he was eating cereal from a bowl than the weak who had crossed him.

-“How bout that band? Only one rehearsal!”

-Coming out for the second encore, Linnell told us “You’ve made a happy band very old.”

[brightlyburning1]

Wow, people are really into this little AU of mine! First part is here. I’ve added onto it below; I’ll work on getting the first chapter done and posted on AO3 this weekend. Expect huge amounts of Shiro pining and a lot of discussions of trust. Possibly some fantasies on Shiro’s part?

"I'm Takashi Shirogane. Please, call me Shiro."

Keith nods, his gaze direct, no flinch or retreat in him, no anger at the man who lost Kerberos. It hits Shiro all at once - this man doesn't know him, doesn't look at him and see a wreck, a revenant returned from the grave, or a victim. Just a man. A hard black clot in his chest eases. He breathes.

"I'm Takashi Shirogane. Please, call me Shiro."

Keith nods, his gaze direct, no flinch or retreat in him, no anger at the man who lost Kerberos. It hits Shiro all at once - this man doesn't know him, doesn't look at him and see a wreck, a revenant returned from the grave, or a victim. Just a man. A hard black clot in his chest eases. He breathes. Asks,

"How'd you know to find me?"

Keith's attention moves past Shiro to the shack, and Shiro turns in time to see three heads duck out of the window. Honestly, they could at least try to seem stealthy.

Keith leans back against the bike in an easy sprawl of long limbs, one hand settling into what seems to be its customary position on a knife at his belt. His jaw works before he speaks, and his eyes scan Shiro's face as if searching for cruelty. "Been hunting an energy source that led me to some carvings in a cave. They talked about an arrival when the stars were right, as they were last night. I followed the directions and found you." His mouth twists, attention dipping back to the house below. "And them." "They said you were a great pilot," Shiro offers, as if to defend his... friends? comrades? with bribes of compliments. "I know these hoverbikes, they're not easy to control." He smiles, a bit rueful. "Especially when overloaded with three other passengers and one dead weight."

Keith's gaze warms, a tiny crack in his veneer. "The dead weight was the easiest part. The passengers were the ones that strained the ion engines."  Shiro glances at the rearmost engine and winces. Scorch marks trail upward along the hull from the ion ring, signs of the hoverbike struggling to compensate for the excessive weight and gravity.  "Going cliff-jumping didn't help, I'm sure. Sounds like an incredible maneuver, though; wish I'd been awake to see it. How'd you learn to pilot so well?"  Wrong question, or a step too far; the crack in Keith's composure seals over, a hint of heated annoyance washing across his face. "Nowhere."   Shiro has to be careful - he casts about for something to say, finds inspiration in the excavated depression beneath the bike, the shape of a human form. "Did you have to sleep out here?" There's only the one cot, and Shiro had taken up all the space. "I'm sorry."  Keith snorts. Even the way he wrinkles his nose is absurdly charming. "Don't be. They're so loud, I slept better outside. Done it before." The corner of his mouth twitches upward, as close to an expression as Shiro's gotten from him. A flicker of warmth in his dry voice. “Besides, they slept better without the cannibal around.”  "Oh. You, ah, heard that."  "Hard not to." Keith frowns. "How long were you in space?"  An odd question; his shack is within driving distance of the Garrison, so shouldn't he be aware of Kerberos? Still, Shiro shouldn't judge.  "About a year and a half; five months out to Kerberos, and then a year with the Galra, but I don't remember what I was doing with them." A pause. "Did you... not hear about the Kerberos mission?"  A beat of silence. Keith's level gaze, the drum of those elegant fingers against the steel hull of the bike. "No."  Well. That's definitive. What to say, how to keep the conversation moving-  "Shiro!" Lance calls from the porch below. "He hasn't killed you yet, has he? We just got you back!"  Shiro winces, and Keith takes pity on him. "Let's go inside." He pushes off the bike and walks in a wary arc past Shiro, careful, still, to stay just out of reach. As they descend the hill, gravel rolling beneath their boots, Keith's stride shortens, his shoulders hunching inward - no surprise, really, that a hermit isn't looking forward to returning to his despoiled sanctuary.  Shiro feels an obscure guilt that isn't helped by Lance's questions the moment they climb the step to the porch.  "Dude, how long have you been out here? That map is intense. What's this energy source? Why're you out here anyway? There's nothing around for miles! Pidge can barely get a satellite signal, and I've literally never seen that happen before. Also Hunk tried to open that can of baked beans in your cabinet and he mayyy have snapped one of your knives. Just a teensy bit."  "I'm out here to avoid stupid questions like that," Keith snaps, "and I- what? What knife?" He shoulders Lance out of the way and storms into the cabin to find Hunk whimpering and clutching his bleeding hand, beans strewn across the kitchen floor.

[ao3feed-keithshiro]

Flour and Blood

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RogG44

by VictoriannWings

Sendak the barber gets a little too close to Shiro the piemaker, and Keith wants to fix that.

Words: 570, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender, Sweeney Todd (2007)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Sendak (Voltron)

Relationships: Sendak/Shiro (Voltron), Keith/Shiro (Voltron)

Additional Tags: sendak as sweeney, shiro as ms. lovett, Keith as the apprentice kid, Stargazing: A Sheith AU Fanzine, Sweeney Todd AU, SHEITH - Freeform, Blood, Burning, Character Death, Murder, Amputation, Abuse, Cannibalism

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RogG44

[shslpunkartist]

Imagine the corrupted versions of the NG duo are there too and C!BF clearly expects them to help him- only for them to go over to Core's side to help him out instead. Because no matter what, they'd always have Core's back. Plus the sight of normal Pico (and their own uncorrupted selves assuming they were brought along too) makes them remember what they all lost, and they'll be damned to allow it to happen again! Even though this Pico isn't theirs, they'll be damned to allow anything to happen to him either!

C!Otis would also take Core's side too imo. Now one would say he'd probably be jealous over the fact that Core was able to find happiness, and I say that wouldn't be wrong per say. However I see him having a better grasp on himself compared to C!BF in several ways, especially after he had saved Morgana from those cannibals. I know you purposely left it vague on what had happened afterwards in that CC answer but I hc that Morgana spoke with C!Otis after he calmed down to speak and, after some time chatting, C!Otis in the end decided to not corrupt Morgana, instead choosing to protect him as best as he can. What ultimately factored this decision? Morgana admitting to C!Otis how he felt like everything would have been so better if he had just allowed himself to be corrupted- how he felt like he done so much wrong over him simply wanting to stay uncorrupted. Morgana would recap how he felt during those days he spent constantly on the move, always tired and afraid yet unable to rest for long, how he wanted so badly to answer C!Otis whenever he heard him call out to him yet cannot because to do so would make pre-corrupted Otis's actions in vain... just everything. And hearing all of this? It was like an eye opener for C!Otis, and he'd feel so ashamed of himself for putting Morgana through such an ordeal. Now there would still be a part of him that feels like that nothing can really be done and that it'd be pointless to try to resist, but he won't force the matter on Morgana. Instead C!Otis will remain by his cousin's side and protect him as best as he can - as he should have done in the first place. Morgana might still get corrupted in the end one day but C!Otis will make sure that Morgana can at least go a little longer before then. It's the least he can do for him y'know?

C!Otis would've chose to help Core no matter what but this here would heavily contributed to his decision to do so. That, and to be honest, it's also the realization that there is an alternate world where none of this tragedy happened also helped too. I hc that C!Otis would NEVER want any of this tragedy to happen to any other versions of him and his friends, and he'll be damned to allow C!BF to selfishly ruin the lives of their alternate selves just because he got jealous. Oh and the sight of the babies also definitely contributed to his decision too because they're family and he'd be damned to allow C!BF to bring harm to them! On a slightly humorous but sweet note, there is a small part of him who is just like "I'm an uncle now omg" and honestly wishes to have met the babies under better circumstances.

C!GF wouldn't be able to do much in her current state but assuming she happens to be there to witness all of this, I can see her very distressed. What would make it heartbreaking is that C!BF would most likely KNOW she doesn't approve of his actions but would be in denial about it, acting as if she distressed over what Core has done and at Keith for "stealing" him away. C!GF would also realize that C!BF is purposely making himself believe he's in the right and I can see her eventually working up enough strength to finally speak a bit, which may or may not push her body to the limits enough for the big wound to show. But this she won't allow this to stop her. It might take her a bit longer to speak due to the pain but she'll eventually speak her mind and make it damn clear to C!BF that he needs to stop. As much as she loves her baby blue, what he's doing here makes him no better than the lemony bastard who caused all of this tragedy to happen!! And of course C!BF wouldn't take this well at all. But it had to be said or else he'd probably continued on with his selfish actions here~

As you can see here, I had way too much fun thinking this over. Hope you don't mind this ramble of an ask here Punk lmao

I've had this saved for soooo long because I really liked this ramble, but at the same time I have no idea how to add on to it, sorry about that! I did have the thought of C!Amelia/Star (kinda considering Starlight) being scared of C!Keith/Komet, but that just seems something to only fuel myself and make nobody feel good

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

Flour and Blood

read it on the AO3 at Flour and Blood

by VictoriannWings

Sendak the barber gets a little too close to Shiro the piemaker, and Keith wants to fix that.

Words: 570, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender, Sweeney Todd (2007)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Sendak (Voltron)

Relationships: Sendak/Shiro (Voltron), Keith/Shiro (Voltron)

Additional Tags: sendak as sweeney, shiro as ms. lovett, Keith as the apprentice kid, Stargazing: A Sheith AU Fanzine, Sweeney Todd AU, SHEITH - Freeform, Blood, Burning, Character Death, Murder, Amputation, Abuse, Cannibalism

read it on the AO3 at Flour and Blood