I'll never let you go [Closed]

[spaceforged]

Who: [OU] Takashi Shirogane, [OU] Hunk, the crew signed up to retrieve them.
When: August 15th and 16th
Where: Dream width and then airship
What: Two of Team Voltron got canon updated and now must be retrieved.
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for season 6, swearing, violence, aaand idefk I'll add more if we need it.



The signal beeps in a steady rhythm like a heart monitor assuring all the patient is still alive. After vanishing a week ago, Takashi Shirogane's mark on the readouts gives no sign what's ahead.

Nor will Hunk's a day later. What does? The memory nebulas swirling with light and color. Just like any other retrieval.

Comments

[modelcivilian]

Okay, Adrien really has no idea how he managed that, but at least that's one obstacle dealt with. There's still a matter of getting to Commander Holt and he's not going to put that aside. Who knows what else besides crashing the ship would make the memory repeat. Why the memory would repeat - why was another attempting to intersect?? - were questions to ask for later. Keith was at the pilot's seat.

... Wait, Keith was at the pilot seat and pulling to bring the ship back up to level.

Knees bent, hands splayed, he lands on all fours - almost like a cat - as their gravity situation is corrected. Only once they're more sure that he doesn't need to brace himself will he move towards Holt, but he'll at least watch for any other crates or projectiles that might move in his direction.

I rolled....poorly.

[littlemhigan]

Castor felt Zethrid begin to go slack in her hold...just in time for gravity to right itself, sending them both barrelling back into the bulkhead. Castor is smashed between the shuttle wall and Zethrid's heavy bulk, and the impact seems to stun her

"Agh! Warn a lass!" She gasps out when her breath comes back to her, "An' someone get this overgrown Miqo'te off me!"

[thegoofball]

Oh, Jesus Christ. All of this is enough to get Lance to immediately agree with Shiro that the Dream Width must suck. It was bad enough with his memories of the Omega Shield and how Hunk reacted to that, but the threat of a loop and hearing Zarkon-

"I have to agree with her!" He's almost thrown by a box hitting him, but with a pretty decent 17, he takes aim at Zethrid again and fires. "We don't have much time and it doesn't seem like anybody cares!"

Anybody as in the generals. God, they're the worst.

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[promiselisting]

There is so much going on right now and the brief flash of another memory on top of the first isn't helping.

Seeing Keith go for the controls though (and seeing his example), she realizes what's going on in time to find a bit of debris substantial enough to kick off of, and this time to properly latch onto one of the chairs. Which means she has something to brace herself with as shifts violently. Not enough to prevent a few bruises but... well. Enough. Ugh she was gonna be sick after this was over.

As soon as she feels safe to move she launches herself over to where Keith has the controls, turning to face the room and everyone else in it. She's still powerless, Adrien's getting to Commander Holt. At least she could help Keith focus on making sure they didn't crash.

"I think we may be almost out of here, but I'll warn for any interruptions."

1 (and then a 3 hahah)

[pidgeypidge]

Somehow, Keith managed to beat her to the pilot's chair. And then she slammed straight into the back of the chair with an audible oof. But she wasn't going to complain because at least someone got there, an hopefully they'd get this ship straightened out. She's not wasting any time in gripping the chair though, in anticipation of the glorious return of gravity.

Once that was accomplished, she turned to propel herself toward where her father was sitting... only for the gravity to come back in that exact moment. Caught off guard, she tumbled to the floor in a graceless heap. "Quiznak," she muttered, picking herself up just as quickly and finally moving toward her father. At least there was no possible way for her to mess that up.

[spaceforged]

The memory flickers one more time like a grainy video and flicks to a long hallway lit by purple lights. Shiro and a tall soldier carrying a rifle race ahead of robotic sentries. "Pidge, fire up the Green Lion! We're coming in hot!" He looks up in surprise as the sentries at the far end cut off their escape.

The soldier brings the rifle up and fires it. Behind them, a sentry falls over. Shiro peers back the way they came as a sentry falls over. They stare. He faces the sentries at the other end and activates his hand, the deadly hum resonating in the air. He dispatches one machine and the soldier rises, grabbing the sentry and flinging it bodily into the others.

He can't hold back his irritation. "I thought you said you traveled around the galaxy. I mean, you fly a spaceship." Shiro grabs the gun and rights it. "How could you possibly not know how to hold this correctly?"

It fades away as Shiro shakes his head his legs and arms wrapped around a pole along the side of the shuttle. The Generals ended up at the back, while Sam smiled at his daughter and gathered her in a hug. "Katie."

Shiro's face softens and he waits a few minutes before he opens his eyes in the Dream width. His eyes are barely open as he drifts, clad in the same coat, t-shirt, and pants he'd been in when he vanished. His right arm is missing and his hair is shockingly white. He peers at them all and leans into Keith. "You found me."

1/2

[balancingedge]

"Uh, yeah. Sorry- about that." He apologizes to the others as the ship rights and then shoots up. He honestly did not expect to get past Acxa; while she's never actively tried to kill him, she has acted as a roadblock before.

Then the dream changes, and he stares in surprise. Allura. He'd recognize her anywhere, even when transformed in order to blend in. It's hard not to share the irritation, and yet-

[balancingedge]

Yet it's over. It's over and Keith lands the shuttle. A faint smile begins to cross his lips as he turns his head to see the memory of Pidge's family embrace one another and their young friend. His gaze then meets Shiro's for a moment. It might be a memory, but as conflicted as he'd been... He remembers how he felt seeing his pop again. Even if it wasn't real, that he'd been in danger, he- he was glad to have those few moments.

Keith opens the back of the ship with the press of his palm on a pad so the others could kick the generals out; let the Holts have their moment.

It won't be long before the memories fade and they are floating in the space of the Dream Width once more. He ducks underneath Shiro's remaining arm and wraps one of his own around his best friend's waist; he holds on tight. "As many times as it takes," he replies, grasping his tether with his free hand. "Everyone, back to the airship. Futaba, Adrien, get some blankets and pillows from the infirmary and bring them to the lounge."

They'll want to remain by the scanning equipment to look for Hunk while they rest. He looks to Lance with a nod before beginning to pull on his tether to tug him and Shiro back toward the ship.

[thegoofball]

The flash of the hallway - undeniably Galra, with Allura there in disguise - startles Lance, and he blinks dumbfounded for a moment before it fades and...

And they're just in the Dream Width. They've saved Shiro. Suddenly, he feels lighter than air. Now all they need to do is find Hunk, and - and it'll truly be okay.

(If his chest goes tight again, and if his stomach sinks, when he sees Shiro's white, white hair and the remains of his arm, nobody else needs to know. Nobody else probably even notices.

If anyone can see anything but the way Keith and Shiro are, anyways.)

He returns Keith's nod, dragging himself back to the ship so he can get the door open and ready to help Keith in. He doesn't believe he'll be letting go of Shiro any time soon, but he still wants to help. "Need me to do anything, Keith?"

Deferring to the leader - it's become almost second nature, by now.

[balancingedge]

Keith notices, but his focus on getting them all back to the safety of the airship takes precedence. They didn't need to get trapped in another memory just after saving someone, too.

"Help me get Shiro back inside." He remembers how quickly Shiro started to fade back home before they got him back into the Altean healing pod, and the look in his eyes likely says it all. "And, if anyone has a healer asterisk... Shiro's gonna need it."

[promiselisting]

“I’ve got Astrologian,” Futaba volunteers. So... at least there’s that. She follows along in the others’ wakes as best she can. “Still want me to get the blankets first or should I focus on healboting?”

Unless one of the others also had a healer class.

[modelcivilian]

"You stay here and start healing. I'll go get everything ready."

Adrien doesn't have any skills in healing besides probably some hands-on first aid. Nothing for a situation like this - and he doesn't think he'd do any real healing in the future either. Anyway, with a nod, he'll head back to hurry to the infirmary. Blankets and pillows, blankets and pillows...