Okay, so this is the end… this has been a wonderful ride, my friends. Hope you enjoy this extra long chapter!
okay so the team went on with the mission
Pidge didn’t go
I’m serious
Seriously joking
Bruh the hell you think Pidge is
She legit jumped into Lance’s duffle bag before he got on and he still doesn’t know even though he’s legit in his position and opened his bookbag to take out his dismantled sniper rifle
HE STILL DIDN’T SEE HER
Whatevs
So Pidge is there folded into Lance’s bag and she’s doing her whole hacking shiz and helping the Paladins out by turning off the Galra’s cameras and all that ish
But THEN she finds the camera footage of the dungeon (which was basically the engine room with little prison cells in some nooks and crannies) and she sees her bro and dad there and she immediately taps into the audio to hear what’s going on
Unfortunately, it was also time for Lance to start shooting and it was LOUD AS HELL AND SHE COULDN’T HEAR A THING
She thought she could just guess what was going on but then Zarkon, the leader of Galra Industries and all their human experiments, stepped into the camera feed and she got desperate
She legit even pressed her small laptop to her ear to see if she can hear what he was saying
all she heard was “Destroy”, “friends”, “daughter”, “death”
Then Zarkon LEGIT ATTACKED HER FAM
She wasn’t having any of that so she burst through the duffle bag zipper
Lance almost shot her cuz she scared him
After realizing that it was just a little Pidgeon in his bag he legit laughed and handed her one of his extra handguns
“Go get ‘em, Pidgey.”
Pidge found her way to the prison cells real easy and she had to choke back a sob
There, fighting Zarkon, was a bloodied Keith.
Cowering behind him was her father.
Matt was laying against a wall, but it seemed like he was just recently thrown at it because he was slowly getting back up
No one noticed she walked in the room so Zarkon continued with his stupid monologue
“It is pointless, Keith. You may pretend to be one of them but remember that you are one of us. You’re like me. Why must you serve such useless people who can’t even defend themselves?”
He grabs
“You are a Galra, soldier. You don’t need such an inferior race.”
*cue Katie silently gasping*
Keith is pissed off now.
“I may be a Galra, but I am not nor will I ever be like you!”
Keith roars and throws four knives at Zarkon. Zarkon raises up a hand to block the weapons aimed at his heart but when he puts his arm down, Keith is gone.
Suddenly, Zarkon feels a kick to his face and he falls on the floor with a loud thump.
Cue angry fight between Keith and Zarkon
Pidge saw that Zarkon’s focus was no longer on torturing her brother and father and she took advantage
She ducked and ran to her father and her brother, who were both trying to stand up and help
They saw her and their eyes lit up and they were about to say something but she shushed them before they can bring attention to themselves.
She freed them and began leading them through the halls when she heard an explosion coming from the prison cells
She spun on her heel and began worrying when she saw smoke coming from the hall.
She turned around again and saw her father doubled over and coughing.
She couldn’t decide whether she should guide her family to safety or go back to help Keith.
However, she didn’t need to choose because Shiro came to the rescue.
“Pidge! What are you doing here?” Shiro swung Sam onto his shoulders
“I thought you guys would need help.” Pidge helped her brother walk and they continued shuffling towards the exit.
Shiro rolled his eyes but he wasn’t angry to see Pidge, “Well, wait until Keith finds out. Come on, he should be finishing off the armory and then we’re out of here.”
Pidge then realized that Shiro didn’t know what was happening to his best friend, but she decided against telling him. As she continued helping Matt, she heard another explosion from the armory. She looked back and she could see thick, black smoke pouring from the prison doors.
Without hesitating, now that she knew her family was in safe hands with Shiro, she gently let her brother go and bolted for the prison doors.
Matt was woozy cuz of his blood loss and he didn’t really process what was going on and he leaned against Shiro.
*cue confuzzled Shiro*
“Pidge, help your broth- Pidge? Pidge! Come back!”
Pidge sprinted through the halls and shot any Galra that got in her way (none of them were lethal but it was enough to prevent them from following her).
Then she heard a loud voice booming through the P.A.: “ATTENTION ALL GALRA SOLDIERS: WE ARE ON LOCKDOWN. WE HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. REPEAT WE ARE ON LOCKDOWN.”
Just then, the doors started shutting down.
From a distance, Pidge can see the prison doors closing, but she couldn’t see anything inside.
Pidge huffed and puffed harder than ever before to get there. The wind has never whizzed so fast past her head. She has never felt such a rush of adrenaline until then.
Her thirst, her want, she need to make sure Keith was safe - that he was alive - consumed her whole body and guided her movements. She no longer had to think as she aimed to shoot. It was almost as if her body was an automatic weapon.
She had to squeeze in between the doors before they shut on her and she rolled on the floor when she made it inside.
She coughed as she lifted herself from the floor. Smoke was everywhere in the room. Fires were burning the prison cells’ bedsheets, it was melting the iron bars, it snuffed out the light.
It took a moment for Pidge’s eyes to adjust to the darkness of the room, but she managed to make out holes on the floor that revealed parts of the underground levels.
Her senses were being overrun. The smell of burning fabric, the stinging of the ashes in her eyes, the hot temperature, the red light surrounding the room, the low glow of a spreading fire, the crackling of nearby flames. However, only one sound was strong enough to catch her attention: Keith’s cough.
Pidge sprinted to the sound. It was a strong, throaty, almost choking cough. It was continuous and the labored breaths in between them told Pidge that Keith was struggling.
As she neared him, she could hear his raspy voice calling out, “Help!”
At last, she found him.
Dangling from one of the openings to the lower floors. He was there holding on to the end of a thick iron wire that is used for foundations and to layer cement. With one hand, he was holding on, with the other, he was covering his mouth in an attempt to keep the smoke out of his respiratory system.
Pidge had to choke back a tear and she bent down to offer a hand.
Keith looks up with a relieved look but then when he saw who it was, his eyes widened in fear and concern, “Pidge?!”
“Shut up and take my hand!”
Keith didn’t argue.
With A LOT of heavy lifting from Pidge, she was able to lift Keith out of his predicament and the two laid on the floor panting.
“You should lose a couple pounds.”
“I’m sorry. I’ll do that the next time I decide to dangle above a burning fire.”
Pidge laughed and got to her feet and helped Keith up while being aware of his injuries.
Keith chuckled and held on to his ribs and winced, “I thought … I told you to … not come.” He let go a sharp breath at the last two words and winced.
Pidge ignored him and felt his abdomen to feel his abs to feel his ribs.
“Keith-”
“I know.”
Pidge shook her head and wrapped Keith’s hand around her shoulders and took on most of his weight and she made their way towards the broken window at the back of a cell, “Come on, I’m getting you out of here.”
Keith coughed once more and asked, “Why’d you come back for me?”
In truth, Pidge didn’t know. At first, it was because he’s a part of the team who saved her missing family and she couldn’t let him die. Then she thought it was because he saved her life thrice already. Then she thought it was because of the butterflies and the red in her cheeks every time she takes a glance at him.
Eventually, she answered, “Why wouldn’t I?
Keith merely stayed quiet and let her help him but one their way out, a big figure materialized from behind them.
Pidge immediately dodged out of the way and rolled across the prison floor wrapped up in Keith’s arms.
When she regained her senses, she immediately got up to her feet and jumped out of the way of the incoming blast coming from Zarkon’s gun
“Do you think you got rid of me that easily, Keith? It takes more than a 30ft drop to kill me.”
Zarkon powered up his gun and aimed a shot at Keith, But when it fired, Pidge threw a chunk of fallen metal in Zarkon’s way and the blast ricocheted onto him.
Zarkon had to take a few steps back and then fixed his glare on to Pidge.
“So you’re the annoying Holt daughter that my two prisoners wouldn’t shut up about?”
“Yeah,” Pidge began and shot at Zarkon (which she missed), “I am.”
Zarkon laughed and taunted, “You missed.”
“Did I?”
Zarkon was confused before he heard a creak from up above. He turned around and was doused in thick black oil. Pidge shattered the fuel canisters.
Zarkon roared and wiped the oil from his eyes. When he opened his eyes and could finally see again, Pidge was nowhere to be found.
Then he feels a powerful force fall on him.
They roll around and he finds Pidge on top of him working on some ropes. He slaps her off of him and she tumbles on the floor. She gets back up and finds that her cheek is bleeding.
She lifts a hand to it and then calls out, “Keith, now!”
Zarkon completely forgot about the half-dead Galra he left behind and looked up to where Pidge was looking.
Keith was up on a ledge holding a heavy tank full of God-knows-what.
Zarkon watched as Keith dropped it from his position and as the tank fell, Zarkon was pulled up. Zarkon didn’t notice that the tank tied up to the very same rope he was tied to.
Now, his only form of escape is a 60ft drop. He watched as Pidge through a burning chunk of wood into the pile of oil he was dripping and the whole floor beneath him lit on fire.
As Zarkon spit threats and insults at the pair, Pidge managed to call Shiro for help and she could hear their helicopter by the side of the building. She picked up Keith and she shuffled towards an open window where the helicopter was waiting.
She handed Lance an unconscious Keith and as she boarded the helicopter, she looked back into the dungeon and aimed her gun. She only had one bullet left so she only has one shot.
She closed an eye, aimed, and fired.
The bullet whizzed past the open window, grazed Zarkon, and then embedded itself into an engine.
“Go, go, go, go, go!”
Shiro swerved away from the building and left the area immediately and behind them, the building blew up to smithereens along with anyone inside.
Now, they’re back and Keith has already recovered thanks to his Galra genetics.
Pidge and Colleen have already reunited with her father and her brother (it was a huge pile of crying Holts and it was endearing)
Shiro and Allura finally told the team that they were dating
Everyone already knew and had placed bets on when they were going to tell the team. Pidge got $20 from Lance and Hunk and made a note to remind Keith to pick up his winnings.
Now that everything is back to normal and she had her family back, the Holt clan is looking for a new house. The Galra trashed their old home.
With the prospect of her departure and the fact that she now knows his secret, Keith distanced himself from Pidge. The two barely spoke anymore and if they were asked, the team (and the Holts) would definitely say that the sexual tension is becoming unbearable.
Stealing glances, biting lips, longing looks, These two aren’t fooling anyone.
However, their stubbornness is what’s tearing them apart and it’s taking a toll on both of them
“She’s leaving?! Why should I try to start something that won’t work out?”
“He started avoiding me first! Why should I apologize?”
Allura then had enough and she talked with Keith (something along the lines of “If you don’t want to die alone you better go get her because no other person can deal with your quiznaking crap as well as she does.”)
Matt did the same with Katie (”I don’t know about you, Pidge, but he’s the only guy that has actually cared for you genuinely despite the fact that you’re a Holt. So you better pull yourself together and get you that hunk of muscle.” “Matt!”)
So now the two are awkwardly standing in front of the other and Keith hasn’t looked at her in the face yet.
Pidge rolls her eyes and became fed up with Keith’s shyness and walked up to him and lifted his head by his chin to make him look at her.
Pidge searched his violet eyes only to find them full of uncertainty. Pidge narrowed her eyes and asked, “What’s going on? We used to be so close, but now you can’t even look at me straight in the eyes.”
Keith hesitated before answering, “You’re leaving.”
Pidge paused and let him continue, “You’re leaving and then I won’t see you again.”
Pidge sighed, “Keith, I’m not leaving.”
Keith froze.
“Back home, I have nothing to do other than sit in a computer. With you guys, I get to work for a good cause and my work is needed here. I’m staying with you guys.”
Keith stood there for a minute before cracking a smile and chuckling, “So, you’re not going back with your family?”
Pidge shrugged, “Well, it’s not like I won’t see them. They’ve got their own lives, it’s about time I start mine.”
Keith stepped took the few steps that separated them and he wrapped his arms around Pidge’s petit one and whispered, “Am I in it?”
Pidge flushed a deep shade of red at Keith’s sudden flirts and opened and closed her mouth as she tried to find something to say. Once she finally did tho, she was just as smug, “It depends on you.”
“Oh, Jesus Christ! Just make out already!” The two laughed at Lance’s voice from the gym’s loudspeaker system and accepted the teasing.
The two leaned in until they met in the middle.
Keith, who had to bend down a bit, sighed as Pidge wrapped her arms around his neck and tip-toed to press in closer to him. Their lips moved in sync with the passion of the moment leading them to deepen the kiss more and more with every passing second.
“Ah! My eyes! I take it back!”
Keith led their kisses slower and slower until he pulled away to whisper a word, “Finally,” before reconnecting their lips.
Pidge did the same, “I,” kiss, “know.” Kiss, “Took,” kiss, “you,” kiss, “long enough.” Kissssss.
Keith chuckled and placed some more pecks on Pidge’s lips before they heard an unfamiliar voice over the loudspeaker.
“Hello, Paladins of Voltron and guests. I know we’ve had our differences in the past.”
Keith pulled away from Pidge and glared at the loudspeaker and growling, “Lotor.”
Pidge looked up at her ... lover? boyfriend? a really hot guy friend that will make out with her? ... with a questioning gaze before hearing “Lotor” continue, “But since you’ve killed my father and left the Galra under my control ... I think it’s time we have a discussion.”
Here they are! Sign-ups for the Voltron Rarepair Bang!
A quick reminder:
WHAT IS A BANG?
A big bang is a type of fan challenge in which writers and artists work together to produce new collaborative content for the fandom, in which the writer signs up first and the artist claims who they want to work with based on the writer’s summary and a small excerpt of their wip!
(Artist sign-ups will begin AFTER writers submit their claims wips!)
What are the requirements?
-writers must complete a new fic of at least 5,000 (five thousand) words
-only new fics are allowed (you may continue an au or a series, as long as the bangfic is stand-alone and not an added chapter to a preexisting fic.)
-final drafts are expected to be beta’d, preferably with the help of someone else
-you and your artist are expected to work together on your project in whichever way(s) you’re comfortable with!
Will there be a theme for this bang?
This bang will not have a theme! This means that you can explore any AUs, or themes that you would like.
Please remember, though, to tag your writing accordingly, which includes triggers and/or ships!
What ships can I write for?
As long as the ship is NOT klance, sheith, or shallura, anything else is okay!
Any other type of pairing is acceptable, as long as it’s tagged accordingly.
(You WILL NOT be forced to produce content for a ship you are uncomfortable with.)
Do I have to be an experienced writer?
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Can I partner with somebody to co-write a fic?
Sure; however, you need to let us know who your co-author is.
you will also be ‘up-charged,’ meaning you will be asked to complete a fic of a minimum of 7,500 words.
YOU BOTH HAVE TO FILL OUT A SIGN-UP FORM AND LIST EACH OTHER AS EACH OTHER’S CO-WRITER.
There are currently a LOT of fandom projects going on at the moment! A lot of them are signing up within this month/next month.
So here’s a question:
I know it’s short notice, but would you all like to keep the schedule as is? Or would you like to push the starting date BACK, so that people don’t have a hundred events running at once?
Currently, the beginning sign up date for the Bang would be in 4 DAYS, ON MAY 5.
But if majority decides to hold off on sign ups, they’ll most likely be pushed to MID TO LATE AUGUST.
This isn’t a necessary schedule change, but I would like to open the option for discussion due to the fact that there are so many great events going on right now, and I want people to be able to participate in whatever events they’d like to without being too overwhelmed (: So please feel free to reblog/respond to this post with your thoughts! I’ll keep the discussion open until tomorrow, and make the decision then based on popular vote. Thanks!!
