Pidge stared into a fire for a few more moments before making a small humming noise of . "Well, I guess I'll have to tell this eventually..."
She lifted her eyes to the sky, and the unfamiliar stars. "My father was always heavily involved in the Galaxy Garrison, and my older brother was apprenticing to him. They were preparing for expedition to the distant moons of Pluto and my friend Shiro was going to pilot. They were going to study the make-up of the ice there. My dad was always obsessed with looking for alien life and he had high hopes."
"...And then they disappeared. They don't even tell me or my mom, we only see it on the late-night news. They called it a death due to 'pilot error' but...I knew it couldn't be true. Shiro was their best pilot, my family had done this a thousand times. So I snuck in and hacked their database, watched the footage from their cameras, and found no evidence at all that any pilot error had taken place."
She can't keep the emotions out of her voice anymore, though she's trying very hard to do just that. "It was like they just...vanished off the face of Kerberos and the Garrison wouldn't admit anything, like they were hiding whatever really happened! After the, what was it, third time? They banned me from the property and the commander told me I'd be arrested for treason if they caught me trespassing again."
"So I enlisted. I made a fake identity with a new name, cut my hair, and disguised myself as a boy just to be on the safe side. And it worked. I was officially enrolled and I could gather all the information I needed without anyone suspecting me. But...it seemed like Garrison had already given me all the information it had. I kept scanning outer space for anything I could find and eventually one word kept rising to the surface: Voltron.
Eventually I found out that my family had been kidnapped by a hostile war-like race called the Galra. Shiro escaped, much worse for wear, but my family was sent off to a work camp somewhere. I still don't know where they are. I found that Voltron was a powerful robot weapon and I became one of it's pilots and...well, then I came here."
Stupid tears in her eyes. She'd probably not admit it out loud, but she misses Team Voltron terribly, even Lance. Who could think you could miss Lance?
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She lifted her eyes to the sky, and the unfamiliar stars. "My father was always heavily involved in the Galaxy Garrison, and my older brother was apprenticing to him. They were preparing for expedition to the distant moons of Pluto and my friend Shiro was going to pilot. They were going to study the make-up of the ice there. My dad was always obsessed with looking for alien life and he had high hopes."
"...And then they disappeared. They don't even tell me or my mom, we only see it on the late-night news. They called it a death due to 'pilot error' but...I knew it couldn't be true. Shiro was their best pilot, my family had done this a thousand times. So I snuck in and hacked their database, watched the footage from their cameras, and found no evidence at all that any pilot error had taken place."
She can't keep the emotions out of her voice anymore, though she's trying very hard to do just that. "It was like they just...vanished off the face of Kerberos and the Garrison wouldn't admit anything, like they were hiding whatever really happened! After the, what was it, third time? They banned me from the property and the commander told me I'd be arrested for treason if they caught me trespassing again."
"So I enlisted. I made a fake identity with a new name, cut my hair, and disguised myself as a boy just to be on the safe side. And it worked. I was officially enrolled and I could gather all the information I needed without anyone suspecting me. But...it seemed like Garrison had already given me all the information it had. I kept scanning outer space for anything I could find and eventually one word kept rising to the surface: Voltron.
Eventually I found out that my family had been kidnapped by a hostile war-like race called the Galra. Shiro escaped, much worse for wear, but my family was sent off to a work camp somewhere. I still don't know where they are. I found that Voltron was a powerful robot weapon and I became one of it's pilots and...well, then I came here."
Stupid tears in her eyes. She'd probably not admit it out loud, but she misses Team Voltron terribly, even Lance. Who could think you could miss Lance?