Lotor, Allura, Corran, Rynar, Kolivan, and Krolia turned from their peace talks at the sound of a knock on the door.

"Enter!" Lotor called out. A Galra solider walked in.

"What is it solider?" He asked, the other leaders exchanging confused looks.

"It's the earthlings, Emperor Lotor!" The poor solider exclaimed. The other occupants of the room immediately became concerned.

"The earthlings?" Allura asked, "What happened to them?"

"We're not sure. They were perfectly fine earlier! But half of them are hiding and the other half are running around, occasionally screaming and suddenly stopping in place should they run into each other."

The leaders exchanged worried looks before running out the door- straight into Hunk.

"Oh! Hey you guys! Sorry. You don't see Shiro anywhere, do you?"

"What? No. We were looking for you all. We were told you were acting oddly and we came to see what was wrong." Allura said.

"Nothing's wrong." Hunk replied, looking rather confused.

"Than why were you acting so oddly?" Kolivan asked.

"We're not. We're playing Hide-and-Go-Seek Tag. Shiro's It."

The others stared at Hunk for a beat before Corran asked

"What?"

Hunk sighed.

"Okay, just a sec. I'm going to pause this and we'll explain."

"That would be appreciated."

Hunk turned around, facing the rest of the ship, before cupping his hands around his mouth and yelling,

"All ye, all ye, in come free!"

A moment later, Lance burst into the hallway.

"Why'd you call a stop?"

Hunk shrugged and pointed at the group of confused aliens.

"They were freaking out over what we are doing and need an explanation."

Shiro nodded as he walked over, Matt right behind him.

"That makes sense. We probably should have explained before we started."

"How were we supposed to know that they don't play Hide-and-Go-Seek Freeze Tag in space?"

Lance asked

"Shouldn't have made assumptions." Keith replied. Lance jumped and screamed, whirling around.

"Dude! Where did you come from?!"

Keith smirked and pointed at Krolia, causing the other humans to face palm.

"Not what I meant." Lance muttered. Keith looked around.

"Hey, where's Pidge?" He asked. Matt snorted.

"My sister is a demented goblin who can hide in the freakiest spots. I don't- AAaRgh! Pidge! Geroff me!" Matt screamed as Pidge jumped out of a vent on to her brothers back."

"I am a queen. Not a goblin Matt."

"Still demented." He muttered.

"Well-"

"Paladins!" Allura interrupted. "You said you were going to explain?"

"Huh? Oh, right. Yeah. You guys didn't need to freak out, we were just playing a game."

"A game?" Rynar asked. Lance shrugged.

"Yeah. It's called Hide-and-Go-Seek Freeze Tag."

"How do you play?"

"Well, one person is declared 'It'. They are the seeker." Pidge said.

"Pardon?" Corran interrupted.

"The seeker. I'll explain more on that in a sec. The person who is It has to close their eyes and count, typically to ten. During that that time, everyone else has to hide. After they count to ten, the person who is it, the seeker, has to seek out everyone else. That's a game itself, Hide-and-Go-Seek. But we mix it with another game, Freeze Tag. That means that once the seeker has found someone, they must tap them. If you're tapped, you have to freeze in that position until someone else comes along and taps you, then you're free to go. The game ends when the person who is 'It' manages to freeze everyone."

Krolia cocked her head.

"Is this a training exercise?"

Pidge shook her head.

"No, just a kids game. It's a lot of fun though."

"You teach your children to hunt and rescue one another?" Kolivan questioned'

"What do you mean by that? It's a game." Lance responded.

"But you are tracking each other down, learning to hide from one who is tracking you, how to hunt and flee, and when to rescue a comrade." Lotor argued.

"I… never thought of it that way." Shiro said, looking stupefied.

"Yeah, I mean, I guess it teaches you that stuff. But mostly it's just fun. Unless Pidge is it. Then it's terrifying. Because she will hunt you down by dropping from the ceiling and leaping off of bookcases while screaming." Hunk said, shivers going up his back. Pidge grinned widely.

"Yes. I will. So be afraid. Be very, very, afraid."

Allura swallowed, smiled, and brushed some imaginary space dust off her dress.

"Well- well, if everything is alright, then we'll leave you to it." She said brightly, before turning around and heading back into the meeting room, the other leaders following her, occasionally shooting glances at the humans.

Pidge blinked as the door closed.

"Ooookay then. Who wants to restart the game? I call not It!" She yelled, touch her nose with her fingertip.

"Not It!"

"Not It!"

"Not It!"

"Not It!"

"Oh, come on!" Lance groaned.

"Close your eyes and start counting!" Pidge said in a sing-song voice. Lance sighed and covered his eyes.

"One… Two… Three…"