Anon...why?! Because you know I'll turn the angst dial up a bit.
Cause like there is no way Zarakon keeps them together in the same cage. No he'd have two. Both with plenty of space and Luxury ornaments, because Shiro and Lance avatars are designed to be pretty and ornamental. So they are beautiful and have the finest things. And the cages are close, but just out of reach for Shiro and Lance to touch each other. So they can only see and talk to each other, but that's it. They can't help the other if Zarakon does something to the other.
Also, they can't really gain levels in stuff, so their fighting skills and such are always lower then those around them. So their escape attempts get foiled easy too.
Most of the time they hang out on the side their cages share. And are really snarky towards Zarakon or Sendak.
When Lance and Shiro didn't wake up, the rest of Team Voltron knew something was up. But it took them a while to figure out, because not even the game company knew what was up, and they needed to recover. However a picture for inside where Lance and Shiro were kept was posted online, and then they knew to go in and free them.
The ai found the Voltron group quickly once they entered the game. And helped them out in reach Lance and Shiro to free them. Poor baby just wants them back. Because I imagine them coding themselves in the game, and sneaking around to visit Lance and Shiro. Check in on them and keep their spirits up as much as possible. Because they still have their psyche protocols, so they help Shiro and Lance as mentally stable as they can. Yet the ai could never free them from within. It had to be from the outside. So they do everything to guide and help the Voltron team...and their helpers (the MFE pilot and Veronica, who are already a team before meeting Voltron.)
And yeah, little ai baby corrupts and destroys Sendak so bad when threatens their parents on the final level. They just want a happy family.















