This was requested by @jesus is_alive

I hope you enjoy this, sorry it took so long to get done.

Lances pov

I watch the child looking shiro stare at the helmet placed on his head. Allura flicks the switch and it turns him back into the grown man we all knew him to be.

It was amazing, to watch everyone turn back into the way their younger selves looked like, they were all so adorable and small.

Allura and coran say it's a bonding method but I think they are only doing this to embarrass us, it was all in good fun.

"Ready lance?"Allura asks holding the helmet out to me. I nod and walk over, it will be fine. It will only be a few minutes. I think to myself and feel the helmet get placed on my head. I squeeze my eyes shut as I feel electricity spread through my body. Once it finally stopped I open my eyes and look around. I was so small, everything towered over me. I could feel my breath start to pick up, I didn't like being this small, I feel defenseless again.

"Oh no..."allura says, I turn to her and see in her hands the helmet is now smoking, and my breathing starts to speed up again.

"It will be able to work right? I'll be able to be tall again won't I?"I ask my words were fast, and I tried to keep my breathing at bay.

"Uh, we'll have to fix it first, it's to risky to try and use it while it's broken, it could kill you."allura says and places the helmet down. What no?! This couldn't happen, please put it on me! Flip the switch I'll either die or I'll grow big and both sound better then this right now.

Fear was opening its big mouth with its sharp teeth, and it comped down on my spine, making the new wounds burn with anxiety.

I look up at everyone, how they could easily over power me, how they could do what ever they wanted to me! Oh god they never liked me! How's their chance to change all that!

My breathing was fast, and the world was getting blurry.

I feel a hand get placed on my shoulder and I lost it. I ripped myself back slamming into the wall, I could no longer figure out of to fit air through my throat, like the toys you play with when your a kid, where you have to get the correct block through the shape it matches with, well right now air didn't match my throat. The world was blurry and all I could see was the giant shapes of people who were going to hurt me, I didn't want to do this again.

I knew I needed to start bargaining for my life, maybe they will listen, maybe they will have mercy, but I thought that about my dad and look where that got me.

"Please don't hurt me!"I scream, I would close my eyes but I didn't want them to attack me by surprise, I know I can't see them but I can still make out their shapes.

Hunks pov

I watch the tiny lance tremble in the corner, his eyes refusing to move away from us and his breathing so off I thought he would pass out soon. I wanted to hold the small boy in my arms and comfort him, but I knew touching him would only make it worse.

"We won't hurt you."shiro says, his voice calm and soothing, he had bent down so he looked more lances size, he got closer but all the lance did was curl up tighter.

"I-I'm s-s...Sorry."he says out between ragged and rough breaths, like cloth being torn by nails and hooks.

"These no reason to be."shiro said, he kept his distance from lance, he was handling this really well.

The little lance, did seem to calm down, he only stayed in place, he had stopped talking to us, so shiro tried to comfort him for a distance.

"I-I don't like being small..."lance finally mutters from his place in the corner.

"Why's that?"shiro asks, lance stands up slowly, and inches his way towards us.

Although he came closer, he still kept space between us and him, he bit his lip and looked up at us, his eyes analyzing our every movement.

"Nothing...it's nothing."lance says. Then he looks at the door as if he saw something.

"It's not nothing, you are terrified."I say. I lean down towards lance, he watches cautiously.

"You can tell us anything."I say and reach my hand out now thinking it was okay, instead he he flinched back, and let out a shriek. His breathing was fast, but wasn't as bad as earlier.

"C-can I leave?"he asks, his eyes darting towards the door, if he wanted to leave so badly why did he not just do it?

"Sure."I say, and he walks out quickly, his eyes darting all around him as if watching out for something. We needed to give him some space, and then once he's calmer we will talk to him about it.

Lances pov

I ran into my room and the door shuts behind me, I turn on all the lights marking sure I could see ever inch of it.

I curl up on my bed, using my blanket to cover me, I hadn't felt this feeling in so long, and I despised.

I am in an alien war where my life is on the line every day, but it never seemed to match this fear, the fear that my father would storm into my room then beat my body and mind.

I had tried so hard to push these memories into the corner of my mind, it never did work of course, the paranoia always lingered in the back of my mind, but now the memories, refreshed themselves, they fully resurfaced, they seemed to be the only thing I could think about.

Like how easily they could snap my little arm in half, or how I wasn't tall enough to fight back, about how if I screamed for help on this ship no one would care because they all hate me, and I would be stuck with another 13 years of this shit.

As I sit shivering alone, and scared in blankets, I closed my eyes and imagined traveling to a better place, with no pain, and my loving family, where I didn't need to be scared....

I rock back and forth on my bed and pray that this won't be as bad as last time.