Keith and Shiro were engaging in a sparring session, working on dodging tactics. Shiro was fast but Keith could dodge easily for him being smaller and more sleek. Sheewo, not realizing it, accidentally activated his mechanical arm and punched Keef in the chest. Shiro didn’t realize what he was doing until he heard the hissed profanity of his best friend. Keith was launched backward and landed on his ass on the floor, he was wearing his armor, but he must have a pretty nasty bruise. “K-Keith?! I’m so sorry, I di-didn’t mean to-“, Shiro is cut off by Keith sighing heavily. “It’s fine, but i’m going to have to sit out training for a while... thanks....”. Keith didn’t look that pleased with his predicament. “Why don’t you go help Pidge or play with the mice or something?”. “Ok?” Shiro said, that was a bit scary.
Pidge and Hunk were working on a new invention, it was a tiny mouse house for the mice. Shiro had walked in to check on them. “Shiro! Just who we needed! Can you hand me the wrench?” Hunk exclaims. “Uhh, sure?” Shiro says, he quickly hands Hunk the wrench. Hunk screws in a loose bolt, then Pidge notices that there is a unnecessary rise of plastic in the house, “Shiro, can you get me the scalpel?” She says. Shiro gets the scalpel, but Chulatt runs right in front of his feet. Shiro has a mini heart attack and falls over, Hunk and Pidge are able to escape in time, but the scalpel stabs right through the almost finished house. Shiro jumps back, he rises his hands as if begging for forgiveness. Pidge looks absolutely enraged and at the same time looks like a gamer being defeated by a noob. Chulatt senses the anger and runs off. Hunk gives the house a sad look. “You know... we worked on that for 9 days... 9 DAYS YOU ASSHOLE!” Pidge screams, “Pidgeon, chill!” Hunk says. “And while she’s raging Shiro, could you please leave?”. Shiro looks very hurt, “Ok?...”. “Now, why did you go off on Chulatt like that?!”, Hunk questions. “HE MADE OUR STUPID LEADER YEET HIMSELF INTO THE TABLE AND STAB IT!!!! Dumb rat...” Pidge screeches. Pidge didn’t know that Shiro heard only the words, “Now why did you go off... OUR STUPID LEADER... INTO THE TABLE...”.
Allura and Coran were cleaning out the pods, Shiro sauntered in and was immediately greeted with, “Ah ha! There he is Princess!”. “Greetings my friend, we were just getting prepared to place Keith in a pod, he should be out in about 15 ticks. He was getting very impatient and seemed a little concerned about something...” Allura says. “Ok...” Shiro says, and without warning, walks off. “Huh, is he alright?” Keith is leaning against one of the pods. “I don’t know Keith... is he?” Coran questions.
Shiro tried to go see what Lance was doing, but this time, Lance actually told him directly, “Nah, it’s fine bro, I heard that the blues were coming off of you from Mullet head, I don’t want to make you feel any more stressed than you already are... ok?”. Shiro was getting very teary-eyed now, “O-ok...” Shiro says with a crack to his voice. He stalks out of the room, holding the tears until he gets in his room. Which he locks himself in and begins to burrow himself under the blankets, curls up into a ball, and starts letting the tears flow.
“Has anyone seen Shiro yet?”, Lance questions, he is sitting right beside where Shiro usually sits. “He’s probably resting, he looked pretty tired earlier” Says Pidge. “I’m going to go check on him” Hunk plactates.
Hunk goes up to the door, and the squeaking becomes a bit louder, but Hunk hears sniffling all between it. “Buddy?” Hunk murmurs, opening the door. The sound hits him fully, sobbing, wet with tears. “Shiro!... Shiro... what’s wrong...?”. Shiro looks up from his cocoon of blankets, his face wet. “Hey... what’s wrong?” Hunk says, Shiro whimpers and crawls into Hunks lap, his face burrowing into Hunks chest. Hunk runs a gentle hand through Shiro’s hair, “Ok... what’s wrong?...” Hunk plactates. “E-every-everyone s-seems t-t-to w-want me t-to g-go a-a-away... I-i was t-trying m-m-my b-best n-not t-to r-ruin your d-days but-“ Shiro is shushed by a finger to his lips. “Shh... it’s okay, let it out... we didn’t think you ruined our days, Keith told me he was only disappointed and didn’t mean to snap at you, Pidge was working on the house for nine days, she was just angry at Chulatt because he ruined her creation by startling you, Allura and Coran were actually trying to ask if you could help with feeding Kaltenecker, they didn’t know you were so stressed, and Lance was trying not to make you feel any worse, he wasn’t dismissing you because you were about to “ruin” his day...” Hunk soothes Shiro when he starts sobbing again. “I-it d-doesn’t matter, i-i was the c-cause i-i-in this a-all...” Shiro tries to squirm away from his teammates grip, but Hunk pets his hair to comfort him. “Hon, do you want me to tell you what we feel? Your an amazing leader and a very good friend, you help us when things get screwy around here, you’re also the best person to be around and despite you being quiet, your always giving us orders so we don’t die...”.
Shiro snorts after the speech from his friend, “Tch... why d-did A-Allura e-even c-c-choose me? I-I’m b-broken...”. “N-no your not!” Hunk is being brought to tears too by his heart aching for the Black Paladin. “Y-your always in control, even when your scared, and you always protect us. Remember that space tornado we had? It was you who carried Pidge down to the basement when she was scared and who ran through the halls checking if everyone was down in the basement. You even ran when the tornado broke a window and stabbed you in the neck with it. We were all very worried when you collapsed down the stairs, but you... while very slurred... comforted us while Coran tried to remove the glass from your neck...” Hunks voice is shaking, but he managed to hide it to keep Shiro from thinking he made Hunk cry. The speech still makes Shiro hiccup and cry even harder, Hunk hugs him even closer and whispers into Shiro’s hair. “Shhh... we all love you, and we would never purposely try to make you cry...” Hunk rubs Shiro’s back and he notices Pidge in the doorway. She looks saddened by her friends crying and at the same time Hunk can see the barest hint of a tear on her cheek.
Hunk smiles at her and feels Shiro start to calm down in his arms. “Thank you...” Shiro says, breathless from all the crying. Hunk simply just closes his eyes and gives a toothy grin. “STUPID RAT!” Comes the yelled exclamation from the doorway. Pidge was knocked down by the Plachu.
Shiro yeeted himself inside his lion.