//------------------------------// // The Year in Equestria and A Unhappy Reunion // Story: Dimensional Tales // by snivygamer97 //------------------------------// Four months later Keith and Lance were in Keith's room looking through the book Celestia gave them to find which dimension they are from. While Lance was looking through the book Keith was doing some of the physical therapy exercises that the doctor gave him to get better. After all these months most of his muscles felt better except his chest. The doctors could not figure it out. It looked like it was healing but no matter how much time passed it still hurt like on the day he woke up. "Ugg," Lance said as he checked another dimension with the magic mirror celestia gave them to see into other dimensions. "That was not our world either. We have checked hundreds of dimensions and still nothing. We are in the p's of this book and I feel like we are not any closer to finding the right one." "Don't worry. I'm sure we will find our dimension soon," Keith said with a little worry in his voice. "Why don't you take a break? It's my turn to look now." "Ok, fine. But don't over do yourself." Said Lance. Knock knock knock "I'll get it," said Keith with a knowing look on his face. Keith opened the door and a castle guard was there with a serious look on his face. "How are you feeling your majesty?" He asked "I'm fine," said Keith. "Like I was ten minutes ago when I told the last guard and the one before that. Can you please stop asking every ten minutes?" Asked Keith. "I'm sorry your majesty, but these are the princess's orders." Keith then closed the door after he left. "Man, how long is Aunt Celestia going to keep this up?" Keith asked in frustration. "Patience yields focus. Patience yields focus," Keith muttered to himself, trying to calm himself down. "Wow, you just called her Aunt," Lance teasingly said. "She insists I call her that," replied Keith. "Uh, just forget it! Let's just get back to work." Three months later Keith and Lance had snuck out one night to the garden to just stargaze after a long and busy day without Celestia or the guards knowing. "The constellations are different from the ones back home," said Keith "Yeah," replied Lance, a little sad as he was getting really homesick, "So how is the training going with Celestia?" asked Lance. "Great," said Keith, "I have learned so much like levitation and other useful spells. The big one she is teaching me is a spell to hide my wings for when we get back." "That's great," replied Lance. Looking up, Lance said, "I think it's time to talk about what happened with the others." "We've been over this Lance. I don't think you're remembering that right." Said Keith. There is no way the others attacked me." "Well you did not look like yourself when you came by." "Yeah but-" "And you were kind of irrational and sleep deprived." "Yeah." said Keith dejected. "And you were seeing things that weren't there and may have looked like you were attacking them." "Yeah your right. I just hope they don't hate me." Said Keith. "I'm sure they won't. It was just a big misunderstanding. I'm sure they'll be more upset with themselves when they find out they hurt you," said Lance. "Yeah you are right," said Keith. They then spent the next few hours calling out different constellations till they got caught. Three months later They were checking dimensions again. They were on s's and losing hope. "This is going to take forever. We will never find the right one," said Lance with a hopeless look on his face. "Don't lose hope. I'm sure we will find it soon," said Keith with a sad look on his face. "Hey I know we both said it was way to obvious and a little dumb but why don't we look to see if there is a Voltron dimension. Every dimension we looked at so far was named after a big event that happened there," said Keith. "Yeah you are right," replied Lance. "So the biggest thing to happen in our dimension was Voltron so we should at least check to be sure," said Keith "You're right. Let's check," said Lance. They flipped the book to v section and looked and found that there were four Voltron dimensions. The first dimension looked so 80's and pidge was a guy, the second dimension looked CGI, the third one had what looked like the team from the first dimension but older and three kids were with them, and the last one was the one they were looking for. They were happy they found the right one but upset that it took so long and that the obvious answer was the correct one. "Well we can finally go home. I can't wait." Said Lance. Then there was a knock on the door and Celestia walked in. "Hello you two. How is the search going?" she asked. "Great! We found the right one. Once we get all our stuff we can go home," Said Keith. "Really," said Celestia "But what about your wings?" she said with a concerned look. "It's ok. I mastered the spell to hide them months ago." "All right," she said worried and a little sad, "But at least come to the Grand Galloping Gala. It is in two days and I was hoping you both would come and hopefully liven things up a little bit. The gala can get so boring sometimes." Lance and Keith looked at each other both knowing what the other was thinking nodding their heads both said, "Yes."' "We would be honored to come," said Keith "Especially after all you did for us," said Lance Celetia smiled at both of them and gave Keith a hug before leaving "Looks like we are going to the biggest party of the year. Better get special outfits for this big occasion," said Lance. "Yeah," said Keith with a little worry. "You ok?" asked Lance with concern in his voice. "Yeah, I'm fine," said Keith as he left the room. The night of the Grand Galloping Gala Lance was waiting outside of Keith's room waiting for him to come out so they could go to the Gala. He was wearing a blue and silver tux. "Hey Keith, are you ready to go yet?" asked Lance. Keith walked out but instead of wearing a tux like Lance was, he was wearing a form fitting red and purple dress with gold accents and that sparkled like stars. "You're wearing a dress." "Yes. Yes I am. What about it?" Keith asked, curious as to why Lance was asking why Lance seemed to be making a big deal over such a small detail. "Nothing, it is not important." Lance awkwardly responded, blushing all the while. "If you are wondering what this is, I am genderfluid. What it means is that I don't have one fixed gender. I rotate between being male and female. In Equestria, my body also changes to go with the gender I am feeling. For example, I constantly feel female in Equestria like right now for instance so I am wearing a dress." Keith explained. "Oh. Well, that explains why your body figure has been constantly changing depending on the day and time." Lance started to understand. They arrived at the Gala. For some reason everyone walking in was singing. It confused the both of them. They walked into the main room and saw a long line of people to see Celestia. After seeing the long line they both agreed to meet up with her later. They walked into the main ballroom to get some snacks and Lance went around and flirted with some of the mares and looked at some of the stallions. Most of the mares stuck up their noses at him or laughed and giggled in his face and left him there. None of the stallions even looked at him. He turned to Keith and asked in a joking tone if she wanted to try. He said as they walked to a balcony that had no one on it. "So do you want to try?" he asked with an eyebrow raised. "No I'm not interested." Keith said. "Oh guys not your thing?" Lance asked. Keith sighed. "Actually, I am into guys. I just don't have any interest in looking for a relationship right now." "Oh, okay. I was going to help you find someone, but if you prefer to be single, then I won't interfere," Lance said. "Thanks Lance. Most people are not as understanding as you are. At least that is from my experiences from back on Earth." "Actually, thanks to Shiro, I've learned that I am bisexual, myself," Lance revealed. "Oh, okay. Don't worry. I'm not going to judge you," Keith reassured. "I don't know if this is rude to ask but who knows you're into guys?" asked Lance. "No, it's ok. The people who know are Shiro and Adam. They are the ones that helped me figure myself out with my gender identity and me being homosexual." "That was cool of them." Lance responded. "Hey, do you have a female name yet?" "Yes. My female name is Katherin or Kat for short. However, I think that maybe we can find more Equestrian names to have while we are here," Keith answered. "Well, I was thinking since you are currently harmonious with yourself, maybe you should be called Harmony." "Harmony. Sounds fitting. Thank you," Keith, or rather Harmony, thanked Lance. "Hey I've heard some of the guards joke that you are like my knight. Maybe I should call you Lancelot." "Lancelot. Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome Harmony." Lance responded, happy to have received such a cool nickname. They spent the rest of the Gala taking, joking on Lance's part and telling stories about their time back at the Garrison. And putting some of the water under the bridge after becoming as close as siblings while they were here. When they got back to Princess Celestia they could tell that she was bored. They spent the rest of the Gala just talking to her and trying to cheer her up. The next day They just finished getting ready to go home after so long. Lance was wearing his jacket and shirt that was fixed up and Keith was wearing a red jacket and a black shirt. They had their saddles packed and and Keith just finished the spell to hide his wings just like he did last night. They heard someone knock on the door before Princess Celestia walked in with some tears in her eyes. "Are you sure you don't want Shining Armor to come along or at least one guard or two?" Asked Celestia with worry in her voice. "We told you before Aunt Celestia we don't need a guard or two or the captain of the guard. We will be fine. Like I told you before they are our friends. They would not hurt us," said Keith. "I know, but I worry. Just know that you always have a home here and that you both are welcome here anytime," said Celestia. They both hugged each other while Lance looked on with a smile on his face then he open the portal with the scissors. He was handing them to Celestia before she pushed his hoove back and shook her said, "No. Keep them. That way the both of you and those friends of yours can come and visit. Oh and if either of you need help with anything my door is always open," she said. They both nodded smiling with tears in their eyes and went through the portal home. When they stepped out of the portal they landed in the red lion's cockpit. The second they stepped in the lion it woke up all the controls light up they both felt a happy, but angry purring sensation in their heads. "I guess red must be so happy to see us after so long, said Lance. "Yeah you're right. Sorry red," said Keith. When they looked at the camera to the outside hanger they saw the other paladins and Coran with looks of shock on their faces. Shiro was trying to get through Red's forcefield. "We better get out there before Shiro hurts himself," said Keith with worry in his voice. "Agreed," said Lance. Suddenly, Keith felt a lot of pain in his chest which Lance noticed. "Are you OK?" asked Lance. Keith responded, "I'll be fine." They exited the red lion and went through the particle barrier, then they got tacked by the rest of the paladins and Coran into a group hug. When they looked up they noticed that all of them had tears in their eyes. They were given a rapid fire of questions by everyone. "Are you ok? Are either of you hurt?" asked Hunk. "Where did you guys go?" asked Pidge. "Keith, How did you and Lance get rescued?" asked Shiro. "What happened to that dangerous creature?" asked Allura. "Do you know what it wanted to do with all of us?" asked Coran. "Yes, we are OK. No, neither of us are hurt. We went to another dimension. We didn't need to rescue anyone. What dangerous creature? We don't know what you mean," Lance answered each of the questions. "What do you mean? Lance was kidnaped by that thing," said Allura. "It is good that you guys came back, though. We were about to replace you guys as the red lion's paladin," Shiro tactlessly said. "Either way, good to have you guys back. We should probably get going to Oriande." "Hold on. What are we going to do about that creature? After all, we can still be in danger so long as it is out there somewhere," Coran cautiously referenced. "I'm pretty sure that Keith and Lance already dealt with the creature on their own, right?" Shiro said. "Wait what? We didn't kill anything," responded Keith, feeling awkward and uncomfortable about this conversation. "What do you mean you didn't kill anything. Is the creature still alive?" asked Shiro. In an annoyed and angry tone. "Yes," was Keith and Lance's responses. "How can the two of you be so stupid?! You put this whole team in danger! If you two are this in competent then you two should not be paladins anymore. You two will be easy to replace. Get out right now and never come back," Shiro yelled in anger. Everyone was so shocked at Shiro's words that they didn't notice his eyes glow purple while he said it. When he was done yelling his eyes stopped glowing and the words he said sunk in and he immediately regretted them. Everyone was so in shock they didn't say anything. "Keith, Lance I-" Shiro tried to get out. Before he could say anything else, they ran back into the red lion with tears in their eyes. Pidge and Hunk ran into the red lion after them. Before anyone could say something to Shiro he ran after them. "Keith, Lance!" he yelled. He heard something sound like talking from the cockpit and went to it. When he got to the door he heard what sounded like talking then a loud poof. When the door opened there was no one there. He searched the entire lion. They were all gone. A few minutes earlier with Lance and Keith Lance was in tears. "How could Shiro say that? How could the others agree with him?" said Lance, very upset. Keith had tears in his eyes but did not cry. "How could Shiro say that? He promised that he would never abandon me. He promised. He is like everyone else," said Keith. Keith clenched his fists and just said, "I want to go back to the Blade," over and over again while on his knees hugging himself. Lance grabbed Keith's hand asking if he was OK and before he knows it Keith's hands were glowing and the light was enveloping them. Pidge and Hunk had gotten into the cockpit and were about to approach the duo, when they were suddenly enveloped by the light as well. When everyone opened their eyes they were surrounded by the Blades. "Kit, there you are. And the other paladins are with you. You just vanished two movements (weeks) ago," said Kolivan in the stern tone he usually had, but it had underlines of care and worry. "Wait, it has only been two movements?!" Lance cried out in shock. "It has been a year for us! We went to another dimension. We learned that Keith was part pony 're telling me that we spent a Deca-Phobe (year) in Equestria trying to get home only to get kicked out of Voltron and we only left for two movements here?! Also, what do you mean the other paladins are here?" "Wait, you went to another dimension?!" Pidge was shocked to hear this. "Yeah, and you were gone for a year while there? Was the dimension even safe?" Hunk was concerned. "The dimension was peaceful, and what are you both doing here?" Lance asked the duo. "You see, we found out that the two of you were who we attacked. Sorry, by the way, and we have been trying to find you guys while you were gone," Hunk explained and apologized. "Yeah. We don't at all agree with what Shiro said. We wanted to say we're sorry for everything that happened because of us. We would like a second chance at being friends with you guys," Pidge apologized. "Well, I'm not sure how easily we can accept your apology, guys," Lance responded. "What about you Keith?" Keith answered with, "I need some space and time to think about it, you two." Before anyone could say anything else Keith grabbed his chest in pain. Kolivan called for a medic to look at it. When the medic removed Keith's jacket he found that on Keith's chest was a black veiny jagged scar running from his chest to his shoulder. Kolivan questioned, "Where did you get this wound?" Keith revealed, "When I arrived at Voltron they thought that I was an evil creature and attacked me." Unbeknownst to Keith, his mother, Krolia, was also in the room and she looked furious. Kolivan finally said, "With this wound on your chest, I would say you are in no condition to continue fighting for the moment. However, if time really works differently in this Equestria then it may be good to recover in this land instead of ours. That is, if you can return to this land." Before Keith could say anything Lance said, "Yes we have these dimensional scissors that can get us back there." Kolivan nodded. "If you want us to, we can take you back to Earth," said Kolivan. Lance looked at him then at Keith. "Thanks but no thanks. I may miss my family a lot but my parents taught me to always help a friend in need and Keith needs my help and I will not abandon him." Kolivan just nodded. They got everything ready and opened another portal. Before they walked through, a hand placed itself on Keith's shoulder. It was Krolia, who said, "I will be here for you when you return." Keith did not know how to react so he just nodded. Before they went through Lance asked, "What was that all about?" Keith's response was "I will tell you later." Then they went through the portal to Equestria. Before the portal could close, Pidge and Hunk blindly decided to rush into the portal, not wanting to lose their friends again. However, the portal changed color after Keith went in and while they entered Equestria as well, they found themselves in a different part of Equestria than Keith and Lance.