Pidge POV

"How did we meet?" Two days had passed since Green had shown me a memory. Since then, she had shown me a couple of others, but none of them had shown how I met the paladins.

He lifted his head at my question. "What?"

"I asked, how did we meet?"

Lance shook his head, but wouldn't meet my eyes. "We met at a place on Earth named the Galaxy Garrison. I was a fighter pilot for the program, and you had been assigned as my communications specialist. You didn't really like me and Hunk, and we didn't know why until we caught you on the roof of the Garrison with listening gear....."

The rest of the story was told as I  listened with attentive ears. Some things of his story seemed impossible, but, here we were, in space, and I had nothing else to do. I listened to his story, and then watched as he left. He'd left me dinner, some sort of green goo, but I didn't want to eat it.

Pushing it towards the cell wall, I brought my knees up to my chin, and stared at the floor.

I shook my head. Answers weren't going to come unless I reached for them. When one of the paladins came back, I would ask.

I closed my eyes. Until then, I could get answers from someone else.

As always, I appeared in the star place, and Green showed me to the tunnel and we walked to a certain memory.

It had my brother and I posing in front of a camera, a rocket in the background. We were messing around, I was chasing him, and then punching him in the shoulder. As always, there was no sound.

"You were looking for him and your dad when you met the paladins."

"I know. Lance told me some of it."

"Come on. We should leave." She turned around and started walking, halting when she realized I wasn't following her.

"Come on, Pidge."

I turned to her. "Why can't I know all of it? Right now? So we can stop these little memory trips and I can have my life back."

Her face crumbled and her eyes widened. She opened her mouth when I heard another voice.

Run

I looked at her, and she seemed just as shocked as me.

"Don't listen to it," she pleaded. She took a step towards me, and I took a step back.

"What is it?" My voice was soft and scared.

"I'm pretty sure it's the reason your memories are gone."

I took another step back, and then another.

Run

I turned around and ran.

"Pidge, no!"

I ran past memories of good things and bad. Past the memories that I so truly wanted earlier. I ran until I couldn't anymore. My knees collided with the 'ground.'

I wanted, and looked around, wondering where I was. My eyes caught on a certain memory. One that was recent by the looks of it. There were only a couple more before the tunnel abruptly ended.

It showed me in white armor accented with green. I was walking through grass, smiling and looking like I didn't have a care in the world.

Then my demeanor changed, and I was turning around. The grass rustled, and out came a creature. The creature and I stared at each other, and then it turned, sprayed me with some sort of mist, and ran.

The me in the memory turned and ran back to a green robot, but I stayed rooted in place.

I heard the padding of running footsteps, and looked to see Green approaching me.

I looked at her face, and suddenly, the memories we're back.

I jolted as they poured into my head.

Matt and Dad leaving.

Getting kicked out of the Garrison.

Cutting my hair.

Meeting Lance and Hunk.

Seeing a giant, blue, robotic cat, and having my life changed forever.

I gasped and fell to the 'ground.' Green rushed towards me, and I smiled. "They're back, all of them!"

She didn't look happy, though. She opened her mouth, and started to talk, but I couldn't hear any of it. She was also starting to fade. Or maybe that was me.

I looked down at my body and confirmed that it was me who was fading. My fearful eyes met hers, and I shouted, "Green!" before I disappeared.

I thudded to the floor of my prison cell. My head whipped around. I had to find the others. I looked for some kind of control box, and when I saw one, practically attacked it.

Everyone had to know that my memory was back, and about the voice that wasn't Green's.

Yanking a couple of wires, the door to the cell opened, and I tumbled out.

I ran for the doors and slammed my hand down on the scanner. It blinked red, and an alarm started to sound, bringing with it flashing blue lights.

I looked at the lights and groaned. Well, at least they knew I was out. I crouched to the floor, reaching for a control box, and again yanked a couple of wires.

Experimenting with Altean tech was moved up to #1 on my list of things to do when I got out of here when the door still wouldn't open.

Figuring that I had done it before and had nothing left to lose, I took my fist and drove it into the box. Wires sparked and the door was open.

I sprinted into freedom, heading for the bridge, or the place that I knew they would all be when the alarms sounded.

I had just turned another corner, still having a long way to go when the voice came again.

Stop

I shook my head and ignored it.

Stop

That one pounded in my head. I groaned and had to stop and lean on a wall. When the pounding stopped, I had just started running again when it came again, rushing in like water in a flood.

STOP

I clutched my head in my hands, kneeling down on the cold floor."Get out of my head!" The spotless floor became spotted with my tears.

"Why? It hasn't been your head for a long time."

My head lifted, and my hands dropped to the floor, and the lights around me dimmed as I saw something else besides the floor. Something darker, like it was space, without all of the stars. "What do you mean?"

"Maybe it was your head once. But not anymore. It's not your head when you form Voltron, and it's certainly not your head with that lion in here."

"That's--" I froze. She was right. It wasn't just my head anymore. When we were Voltron, I was PidgeKatieLanceHunkKeithShiro. Around the castle, I was PidgeKatieGreenLion. I could feel walls closing in, trapping me in this space, but my mind ignored them, focusing on what it saw as the biggest threat: the voice.

"You're just now seeing that I'm right," mocking disbelief colored her words, "poor Pidge. Trying so hard to stand up for herself. Maybe that's the reason they protect you. They've all come to terms with all of this, and are too nice to tell you the truth."

"Who- who are you?" I whipped my head back and forth, trying to find the source of the voice.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm you."

She stepped into my vision, an exact copy of me. "Get out! This is my head!" I clutched my head again, trying to drown her out with a song Matt and I had loved before he left for the Garrison. Now it just flooded me with more memories of him and his smile, his infectious laugh. It made me miss him more.

"See, that's what confuses me. Why are people that you have just barely met allowed in, but I'm not?"

"♪What if I'm far from home--♪"

"If I'm you, then I have every right to be here."

"♪Oh, brother, I will hear you call--♪" my voice was steadily getting louder and shakier, and more tears came. All the while, though I didn't notice it, the walls were closing in, slowly becoming less transparent and more solid. Less like jelly, and more like glass.

"In fact, why don't you take a break, sit back and relax, while I take control." Her words were calming, and it took me a few seconds to realize what she had said. My head shot up just in time to see her wolfish smile, and the wall harden completely.

I was too late.

Maybe if I had noticed the walls when I first came here, I could have stopped it from happening. I could have fought more, and not let her get inside my head.

She slowly started to fade, and I scrambled up only to knock into the wall.

"Good luck getting out of that, Katie."

I started pounding on the wall, horror pulsing in my veins, and not doing a thing to the wall.

I was trapped.
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If you haven't already guessed, the song that Pidge is singing to help her with the voice, it is "Hey, Brother" by Avicci. I chose those lyrics because they seemed like the best fit for the situation😊
Thanks for reading!
~Ash