Keith was panting heavily as his head still spinning. Slowly, the shadow figure woman approached to him. "Now, do you see?" The shadow figure hummed, "I've fully awakened of the true, new you?"

"Get the quiznaking away from me!" Keith growled as he waves his arm across the shadow figure's waist.

"As you wish," the shadow figure moved away. "But still, you should have thanked me for that type of change."

"Thank..." he snarled, "Thank you? For what?" Keith stood up as chains still raddling on his wrists. "I've never asked to change or to look like this. You did that or forced me out of my free will!"

"Oh, so true." The woman shadow figure hummed,

"Why?" Keith's ears still stay flat as he snarls, "Why did you do this to me?"

"Oh, since you asked." The woman shadow figure giggled, "I did all that because I need you to be used to be either a pet or a lab-rat."

"What?" Keith jumped,

"You see," the shadow figure sat in thin air. "I am doing an experiment here on the base, but the experiment only requires a half-breed or a hybrid. To be functional to operate the experiment, that is."

"Well, you shouldn't be needing me." Keith growled,

"Why would you say that?"

"Because there is plenty of other hybrids that are roaming around the galaxy. And/or living in different planets of the universe."

"True but," the shadow figure moved a bit. "I don't need any ordinary hybrid, I just need only one that is very different than any other."

"And that is?" Keith lessen his growl,

"The strength that they carry must be an alpha, the strongest one among their pack."

"Well, there's news to you." Keith hissed, "I am no alpha,"

"Oh, but on the contrary, you are." The shadow figure crept closer,

"What?" Keith stepped back a bit,

"In the past," the shadow figure begun. "You were either an omega or a beta that lives behind the scenes of your group."

Keith's eyes widened, A beta or an omega? Me?

"Before the thought of you," the shadow figure continues and snapped Keith out of his thoughts. "There was once another alpha, who was very strong hybrid and a great leader. So, they say. Before I've made a task to retrieve him, but something else has come up."

"And that is...?"

"Betrayal and chaos were occurred," the shadow figure hissed.

Something tells me that she doesn't like battles, Keith thought.

"To be able stay out of it," the shadow figure spoke. "The children and I have begun to wait,'

Children? Keith jumped,

"But until," the shadow begun. "We heard word about either his death or disappearance, along with his new and old enemy. So, we have begun to do the search all over again. Until three years later, word has spread about the alpha's new and old enemy has resurfaces and begun to head course towards Earth. Where the Tau'ri lives,"

(Forgive me for using the words from Star Gate, was the huge fan for that show. And, I need a different term for Earth for the shadow to use for this story.)

No, Keith's eyes widened. She...she couldn't mean...

"Oh, if you are wondering the alpha's name true is. But...right now, I'm trying to remember what his name is. I believe it starts with the letter "L". Oh, what was it," she rubbed her shadowy head. "Was it..."

"Lotor," Keith mumbled.

"Yes, that's it." The shadow figure pipped up, "That's the alpha's name," suddenly, she saw Keith begun to shake up for a bit. "Oh, don't worry. I haven't forgotten what you once were," she touches his cheek. "Young former paladin,"

"Don't you dare touch me!" Keith hissed as he stepped away from the shadow figure.

"For..."

"You should have..."

"Should have what?"

"You should have get the chance to get him instead of me," Keith growled.

"Why is that?"

"Because of what he did," Keith growled. "That Galra hybrid, he had lied to us. To the empire. To everyone in the universe. He betrayed and used the surviving Altean descendants for their quintessence. Quiznak! He has also used and betrayed one of my friends for power!"

"Ah yes, the Princess of Altea." The shadow figure hummed, "Bless her soul,"

"You have no right to bless her under her name," Keith hissed.

The shadow figure giggled, "Your quiet right, I do not. But wishful thinking for me to interfere but have not will to do so,"

"Then what and why of all of this has to do something with me?"

"Since you ask," the shadow figure drew a little closer. "You were one a leader of Voltron, and your strength has added to the team and for the Blades. With all that strength, it has given you the status of an alpha.

"Including of defeating that clone friend of yours and become leader. It all has defines you to an alpha,"

"It proves nothing," Keith snarled. "I have to earn it by Shiro's trust, because he is my brother. Whose been through thick and thin with me and saving him by putting his spirit into his cloned body. All of that is for both selfish and selfless acts,"

"Oh, all of that is so true." The shadow figure hummed, "But your strength, is what makes you valuable to me."

"If you think that," Keith growled. "Then I'm going to rot before you could use me,"

"If so," she summoned a familiar glass orb with a strange rose wrapped around it. "Do you know what this is?"

"A fish bowl?"

The shadow figure narrowed its' or her eyes, "Very funny, but no." The shadow figure hissed, "Let me demonstrate of what it is," she put her hand into the orb and grabbed a yin-yang ball that is in red and black. That is in the middle of purple aura. She squeezed it,

Keith shouted in pain, went to his knees and held his side. "What are you...?" Keith shouted in pain again,

"You see," she let go of the ball and pulled her hand out of the orb.

Keith sighed in relief, collapsed to his side and panted.

"This orb holds your life," the shadow figure begun. "It allows me to reach in and grabbed that orb from the inside and allow me to touch and to squeeze it. That will allow you to have aching pains from the inside of your body, like giving you a heart attack for an instant."

Keith struggled as he tried to sit up,

"But don't worry, I will only do it when there are temporary consequence. So, you will behave yourself."

"It feels like mind control," Keith has started to taste something bitter on his tongue.

"It is like mind control, but no. It is more like a leach and you are wearing an invisible collar instead,"

"If I have the strength left... I will take it away from you and break it? So, I will be free from your control."

"Oh, I won't do that if I were you."

"Why not?"

"If you break this, you will die instantly."

"What?"

"It's true, it has happened before. To one of my other prisoners. Once this orb breaks and shatters, death is sentenced upon within a tick."

"So, if that orb is either hands like yours or mine." Keith tried to summon it up, "I will still die when something happens to it."

"That is correct,"

"No," Keith begun to shake.

"Oh, don't worry. It's only temporary,"

"What's with the rose?"

"Oh that," the shadow figure spoke as the orb disappeared. "That answer will come to you in time, but for now. It's time to behave and see who is boss around here,"

"I will starve to death instead of listening to you," Keith stood up as he growled.

The shadow figure giggled, "We'll see about that, but in time. You will be either mine or not,"

"And I will never become yours or a lab-rat, ever."

"We will shall see," she floated to the window of the cell door and appeared at the other side of Keith's cell. "We will talk some more soon, fellow blade." Then the shadow as disappeared into the hallway. Without a trace.

While the shadow is gone, Keith is now alone once again. In fear, Keith sighed and put his back against to the wall. He slid down and sat for a moment. Keith nearly felt the erg to scream but questions has taken its place. What am I going to do now? Keith hugged his knees as his own gut is giving out about something else that he won't be liking of what is going to come.