Chapter 2 Meet The Catilyn.
Keith's POV
The team is on the green lion cloaked, and Pidge lands the lion a safe distance away from the base. We sneak up on the base and Shiro cuts hole in the base big enough for us to fit. Sentries spot us and a fight breaks out, Hunk rapid fires at the Galra sentries but some of the lasers go through the wall and an explosion happens.
"Hunk what did you do?" I shouted.
"I don't know." Hunt shouts back. Pidge looks through the giant hole in the wall.
"You hit some sort of power source." Pidge then types something in on the control panel next to the glowing purple orb.
"We have about 30 minutes till it completely explodes and kills us all." she said casually.
"So let's get out of here before this thing blows." Lance said.
"We still need the data from the main computer in the control room." Shiro pitches in. We all start running to the control room destroying any sentries in our way. When we were just outside of the room there's a thud from inside, then another explosion. We all shrug but before we can walk in a lot of sentry's start shooting at us and I mean a lot. We're pined down with our shields up. Some sentry's enter the control room and the alarm goes off. I hear shooting and other movements coming from the control room. There's definitely a fight going on in there.
"Keith, Pidge, and I will cover lance and hunk while they shoot down the sentry's." Shiro explains. Lance and hunk start shooting while the rest of us keep the Galra from shooting them. Lance is shooting at the last sentry when a girl walks out from the room. The laser just barely misses her head as she stumbles back. The girl looks at us and I can't see half her face because she's wearing a bandanna. She's also wearing some kind of armor on her chest, legs, and arms. I run forward and place my sword at her throat.
"Keith!" Shiro snaps.
"She could be Galra." I snap back. The girl rolled her eyes before slapping my sword away and kicked me in the head.
"Me Galra!?! Not in a million deca-phoebe.'' She snapped. I look at her In surprise. She may be wearing a bandana but I can tell she was smirking at my surprise. I was going to say something but lasers were fired before I got the chance. The girl started running at the Galra sentries.
"Hey wait." Pidge yells. She pulled out her swords and cut the sentry's up with ease. she swung her swords in a circle with the flick of her wrist and then put them back in the holsters on her back. She looks back at us, we all have shocking written all over our faces.
"What?" she said harshly. Lance, Hunk, and Pidge flinched at her tone while me and Shiro just stood there. she chuckled at the three paladin's response. Another explosion happens and the base shakes again. But we all lost our footing including the girl. She gets back up quickly along with the rest of us and she starts to run to get out of the base. She runs past the control room when a hand grabs her throat and throws her against the wall.
"You thought you could get away that easily. You'er going back in a Galra prison shadow warrior.'' the commander says. Shiro has a shocked expression on his face. The girl kicked the commander in the gut and he let her go and stumbled back.
"No, I will never go back to Galra prison and I will never be called that name ever again." her voice was full of anger. My eyes widened at the anger and it kinda scared me. "But on the topic of prison." She grabs him by the collar and slams him against the wall, her voice still harsh.
"Where is my brother?" the commander smiles a wicked smile.
"Wouldn't you like to know."
"Yes I would, that's why I'm asking." she said annoyed.
"Why ask when you could just look in the data you stole." he responded stalling.
"Good point I guess I can just get rid of you. One less Galra.'' she says while pulling out one of her swords.
"Wait, wait don't kill me." he pleaded. "Your brother died in the gladiator pits." She drops him to the floor. Her body went stiff.
"Regretting asking?" The commander says with an evil laugh. She raised an eyebrow and turned around and I saw her eyes widen with fear. I don't even think my body just did it. I ran at her and tackled her. I wrap my arms around her torso as we roll on the ground a few times. I take one arm from around her to keep me from crushing her. She turned her head to me and gasped, she moved away and I noticed her bandana fell off the bottom of her face. I could see her whole face, not just her emerald green eyes. 'She's beautiful.' i mentally slap myself for thinking that. I get up and walk over to her, I outstretched my hand to her and she takes it. I pull her up from the ground.
"Thank you." she says while dusting herself off.
"You're welcome." I say with no emotion in my voice. She lets out an annoyed sigh. I turn around and walk back over to the other paladins. Lance gives me a confused look. I hear the girl let out a sigh of relief then another explosion goes off.
"Can we leave now!?" Hunk says distressed.
"Yes Hunk we can leave now." Shiro's response. We all start running down a hallway to get out of the base.
"Wait, what about the girl?" Lance says and I stop in my tracks. I turn around and start running back to where the girl last was. When I get there I see her fighting more sentries, she kicks one in the head slamming it against the wall.
"Keith hurry you only have 5 dobashes." Pidge says over coms. The girl attacks the sentries with her double swords cutting up them all. She then turns to me.
"This place is about to blow, you need to leave." I warned her as another explosion occurred.
"Look out." she yelled at me. I hear scratching above me, I look up to see the metal ceiling falling on top of me. I feel the metal force me to the floor. The girl runs over to me and I hear the metal scraping against more metal, the girl grunts as she lifts the metal. She lifts it enough for me to crawl out.
"Thanks." I say once I'm out from under the metal. She drops the metal sheet and puts her hands on her knees breathing heavenly.
"Keith you only have 60 ticks. What's taking so long." Pidge said through the comm.
"We have to go. Follow me.'' I told her. She nodded and followed me as I started running down a hall.
"30 ticks."
"We're not going to make it." the girl saids from my left.
"Yes we will."
"15 ticks."
"This way, it will lead us to the hanger." the girl said as she grabs my arm and runs down a hall dragging me with her.
"10 ticks." The hanger came into view and we ran to the nearest fighter. She jumps in the pilot seat and pushes a few buttons and the fighter is taking off.
"You know how to fly this thing?" I question her.
"Yup. Now hold on.'' She pushes forward the right control stick and the fighter launches forward. I stumble backward.
"I told you to hold on." she said with a smirk. The base exploded right as we left it.
"Keith are you alright?" Shiro asked over comms.
"Yeah I'm fine." I responded.
"What about the girl?" he asked.
"She's fine. were flying back to the castle now." I responded .
We're inside the castle hanger and the other paladins are there waiting.
"Uh hi." The alien cat girl is confused and nervous.
"Hello. My name is Shiro and this is Pidge, Hunk, Lance, and you've already met Keith.'' Shiro introduces us all to the stranger.
"My name is Mika." the girl saids. 'So that's her name.' I say in my head.
"What are you?" lance asks.
"First off, rude. Second off, i'm a Catilyn.'' Mika said and I glared a lance for being rude.
"Catuh what now?" Lance questioned again.
"Catilyn, it's what my people are called." she tells us.
"Where are you from?" Pidge asked.
"I'm from a planet called Catilynia." The castle shakes for a moment.
"What was that?" Mika asked.