I just wanted to let you guys know that there might be a short break between this chapter and the next. I have something special planned for the eighth(?) chapter and am trying to nail some stuff down for it. I've also been trying to nail down how I want season 7 to work for this since... Well, either you saw the season and can understand what I'm getting at or you haven't so I couldn't tell you anyways. I have a vague idea of what I might do, but if you guys have any ideas, I'd love to hear them. It should only be a week at most delay, but I just wanted to give you guys fair warning.

VoltronPals
Published on Oct 31, 2029

We learn some stuff, I tease the boys about romance some more, and Lance gets tied to a tree.

The video opened on the group gathered around the dining room table. Most of them were standing behind the chair Lance was sitting in, but Keith was sitting on the table in front of him and Pidge was leaning against it between them.

The camera slowly zoomed in on the three and an instrumental version of "Kiss the Girl" began playing as Lance leaned forwards, saying, "Sounds like the mice did more than you, though."

"I punched Sendak!"

"Yeah, apparently after I emerged from a coma and shot his arm off."

"We had a bonding moment. I cradled you in my arms!"

"Nope. Don't remember, didn't happen."

The screen went black and words began to scroll up, Pidge's voice reading them aloud. "Warning: these people are all either professionals, geniuses, aliens, idiots, or some combination thereof. Do not try this at home."

The video cut to the cartoon teacher Allura setting from before, though this time a cartoon Keith sitting at a desk had been added in.

"Welcome back, friends, to Allura's Space School!" Pidge's voice announced with faux cheer. "Today's lesson is…"

A clock appeared on the pull down screen.

"The universal time measurement system!"

A question mark appeared over Keith's cartoon version's head as he asked, "What is this and why do I have to be here?"

"It's a segment for the vlogs where Allura gets to inform the viewers about random space stuff," Pidge explained as the question mark disappeared. "You're here because we need a student character. Hunk is too smart, I'm the narrator, and Shiro's an adult. So that leaves you or Lance and Lance is still pouting over Nyma."

"I'm eighteen. I'm an adult too."

"You are? But your in the same grade as Lance and Hunk."

"I have an early birthday."

"Huh… well too late to back out now!"

"But -"

"So Allura, how does time measurements work in space?"

"Shouldn't Coran be doing this? He loves this kind of stuff," Allura pointed out. "He even used to do learning videos."

"He did?" Keith asked.

"You know, I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Anyways, Allura, I love Coran, but he can ramble, a lot, sometimes. We might bring him in for the more technical stuff, but you should be able to handle the basics," Pidge explained.

"Well, alright then. So the smallest, most commonly used time slice is a tick. Ticks are comparable to Earth seconds though our study has shown that ticks are slightly longer."

"You mean the clock race?" Keith scoffed and his cartoon version's arms became crossed.

"Precisely! I'd estimate there is approximately 1.6 seconds in a tick."

"Where are you getting these numbers?"

"The next smallest time slice is a dobosh, which is comparable to an Earth minute. There are forty-nine ticks to a dobosh.

"Next is a varga -"

"Space hour?" Keith said and a speech bubble appeared over his head while teacher Allura looked angry.

"Yes. There is fifty-five doboshes to a varga."

"What's a space day? Sixty-seven varga?"

"A quintant is twenty varga. And there are five quintants in a movement."

"A space week."

"Are you going to keep interrupting?" Cartoon Allura had her hands on her hips while cartoon Keith turned away.

"I thought that was why I was here."

"Are students on earth allowed to constantly interrupt their teachers?"

"No, but I'm starting to understand why he got kicked out of the Garrison," Pidge snorted.

A lightning bolt hit cartoon Keith as a smack sounded and he yelped with pain.

"Now hush unless you have an actual question," Pidge said. "Allura, the floor's yours."

"Thank you. So the next time slice that is used universally are phoebs, which are composed of six movements or thirty quintants."

"That's actually exactly like a month."

"PIDGE!" Cartoon Allura crossed her arms and glared at the ceiling.

"Right, sorry!"

"Next is a deca-phoeb, which is -"

"Ten phoebs?"

Cartoon Allura threw her arms in the air. "That's it, I'm done!"

Cartoon Keith looked up at the ceiling as Cartoon Allura marched off. "Maybe we should just get Coran next time."

"Nah, this was great."

The video cut away to the star room, where Lance, Pidge, and Hunk were lounging. "Hey everyone! I'm back! And the first thing I'd like to say is…" Lance glared at Pidge. "I saw what you put in at the beginning of the last video you little gremlin! What the quiznak was that?"

"So you do remember the bonding moment," Pidge snickered.

"Well now I do! And there was nothing romantic about it!"

"Uh huh."

"There wasn't!"

"But he cradled you in his arms!" Hunk chuckled, holding his arms up like Keith had.

"Hunk you traitor!" Lance whined, slumping against the larger boy. "How could you do this to me?"

"In other news," Pidge said, shoving the boy off his chair. "It turns out I'm a girl. I mean, I knew I was a girl, but I never told these guys or you all, so yeah. I guess you guys could have looked up my family and found out the truth, but still."

"Yeah, she had this cute little coming out moment. It was great! Lance freaked out because he was the only one who hadn't figured it out," Hunk said, patting her on the back.

"Well excuse me for just taking someone at their word when they say they're a guy!" Lance huffed as he sat back down. "Let's talk about something else, like Hunk's girlfriend!"

Hunk groaned, his hands coming up to cover his face while Pidge laughed.

The video cut to Lance and an unfamiliar yellow alien sitting in some sort of cockpit.

Lance winked at the camera. "Hey everyone, this is Nyma. We're helping her and her team fix up their spaceship."

"Who are you talking to?" she asked with a frown.

"Oh, no one really. The other paladins and I just record these videos to share with the people of our homeworld so they can see what we get up to out here."

"Oh, like reality shows?" she asked, leaning over his shoulder.

"Um, kind of. You guys have reality tv out here?"

"What's tv?"

"Nevermind. Watch this." Lance twisted the controls and Nyma slid to the side slightly, laughing and tightening her grip on his seat.

"Woo!" she cheered. Her eyes widened and she pointed at something beyond the camera. "Look, a kinetic spring! Let's land over there. The minerals reflect off the water, making a rainbow."

He blushed as she pulled her hand back, brushing his shoulder as she went. "Wow. Is there anything you don't know?"

Smiling, Nyma pulled back and tapped at her bracelet. When she turned back to Lance, her eyes landed on the camera and she frowned. She leaned down so her face was next to Lance's and stage whispered, "Maybe we should turn that off now, don't you think?"

As he grew redder, he nodded. "Right, later guys!"

The next cut revealed Lance lying on the ground, his hands chained to a tree and his helmet lying next to him. He was glaring up at the camera with a pout.

"Come on, Mullet, just let me go!"

"Calling me names isn't going to make me go faster, you know."

"Keith! Buddy! Come on!"

"We both know Pidge would kill us if I didn't get a picture of this for her to put in a video."

"KEITH! No one can see this! I'll kill you if you let her put a picture of this on the web!"

"You don't scare me."

"Fine, whatever, just take the picture already! You're as bad as Nyma!"

"At least I'm not the one tied to a tree. What did you even think she was going to do when you let her tie you to it?"

Lance blushed. "I didn't le- JUST TAKE THE PICTURE!"

"I'm trying! I just can't figure out h- Oh."

"What?"

"N-nothing," he breathed, his voice betraying barely restrained laughter. "I got the, uh, the pic. Just let m-"

The video cut away to show Pidge alone in the star room.

"This video is dedicated to Keith in gratitude for getting me the most hilarious video of our local flirt being the you-know-whaty idiot he is," she said, saluting.

"You-know-whaty?" Keith asked from offscreen.

"I can't actually say what he is while keeping this family friendly," she said with a shrug. "The point is, this video goes out to you and your inability to use a camera."

"It's not my fault you and Hunk didn't label anything on that Altean camera you fixed up for me."

"If you had a phone like a normal person you wouldn't need the alien camera in the first place."

"I had a phone, I just left it at the shack so Ad-someone couldn't follow us. Besides, it was a Garrison issued phone. They don't have cameras."

Pidge gaped at his apparent place offscreen before throwing her hands in the air. "A Garri- Keith they had those things blocked and monitored like crazy! How would you have been able to do anything on one of those?"

"What would I have to do besides call people?"

Pidge placed her hands over her chest. "Keith, that is the most pure and innocent thing I've ever heard. Even Hunk has looked up those videos on his phone a few times."

There was a moment of silence before the sputtering began. "Wh-what? How do-do you even know-know-nope, nevermind. I don't want to know. This conversation never happened. I'm too ace for this."

Pidge laughed as the sound of an automatic door swishing open and closed sounded in the background. She winked at the camera and said, "Until next time, everyone! Voltron, disband!"

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