I was inspired by the episode of mlp to write this. I also just love the silent lance trope!
I really suggest you watch the episode, it sends an amazing message!
Can you stop talking?!
It's how I cope!
Shut up lance!
I'm trying.
This went on for months. Everyone wanted lance to stay quiet. It was so hard though. He needed a way to please everyone somehow.
And luckily, one came up....
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Team Voltron arrived at a new planet to try and get a new alliance with them. lance was about to enter the meeting room when Shiro stopped him.
"Lance, stay out here." he said.
"What, why?" lane asked.
"This is very important. You'll just talk the whole time." Shiro then closed the door on him.
Lance felt tears of anger in his eyes. He stomped away to the the village, and past that into the forests.
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Lance found himself in front of a large stream.
"Be careful!" someone pulled him away. "That's the stream of silence!"
"The what?" lance asked.
"The stream of silence! If you step in, you'll never be able to speak or feel emotions ever again!"
Lance looked down at the stream. He had been searching fir a way to please his team. maybe this was the way! And an added bonus, he'd wouldn't feel his depression anymore!
"Thank you for warning me," Lance thanked the villager. "I'll be careful."
The villager smiled, and walked back to his home.
Lance waited until the villager was out of sight, then started to strip into his undersuit. He took a deep breath and stepped in. He waded deeper and deeper until he was fully underwater. He closed his eyes, at peace.
Lance emerged from the water. He no longer felt sad or mad at Shrio.
He didn't' feel anything.
It was amazing.
He tried to scream, but nothing came out.
Perfect!
Lance put back on his amor, and walked back onto the castle ship.
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"Lance!" Aurra stormed up to him. "What took you so long getting back here? And why are you all wet?' she yelled.
Lance shrugged. He couldn't really answer her, even if he wanted to. He also didn't feel any misery as she continued to yell.
"Well, what do you have ti say for yourself?" Alura crossed her arms.
Lance shook his head, and left for his room.
TIME SKIP:
Lance was now a quiet soldier with no feelings. And the others seemed happy! They wouldn't yell at him because he would no longer do anything wrong! They wouldn't annoy him, and he wouldn't disagree with them!
The others seemed happy, and Lance was finally pleasing them.
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"Hey Lance?" Pidge popped her head through Lance's doorway.
Lance looked up at her.
"I'm not feeling too happy right now. Can I talk to you?"
Lance nodded, and Pidge sat down and started to cry.
Back when Lance could feel, he would've given Pidge a hug. But now that he no longer had compassion, he just sat there, watching.
"I miss my family so much! And I feel like I'm not doing enough to find them!"
Lance just started at her.
"What?" she asked. "Is it not Ok to cry?!"
lance said nothing.
"I thought I could come to you for help!" she ran out of the room crying.
Lance shrugged.
The team was in a training session. Lance looked over and saw that a bot was about to hit Keith. But not being able to talk, he couldn't warn him and Keith got hit.
"End training sequence!" Shiro shouted and turned to lance. "What was that?!" he yelled.
Lance looked up at Shiro.
"You obviously sawn Keith was about to get hit, why didn't you warn him?!" Shior yelled.
Lance shrugged and walked out of the room.
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They were all in the lounge, minus Lance.
"Um, guys?" Pidge asked." Do any of you know what happened to Lance?"
They all looked down in sadness.
"Yeah, he just-Stopped talking." Hunk said.
"Like, he doesn't' even talk when it's necessary!" Shiro said.
"That's not all," Pidge said. "Its like he doesn't feel anymore! I came to him one night needing comfort, and he just sat there and watched me cry. He didn't give me a hug or anything!"
"Yeah! And he doesn't even comment on my food anymore! Once, just to test it, I made one of Corran's recipes. He didn't even notice the difference!"
"Perhaps we should put him in the healing pod?" Alurra asked. "Check to see if he's Ok?"
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TIME SKIP:
Lance fell out of the healing pod and into Hunk's arms. He looked up at him.
"Hey bud, how are you feeling?" Hunk asked hopefully.
Lance said nothing.
Hunk sighed. "C'mon, maybe Corran will find out what's wrong with you." The to sat down on a bench, waiting for Corran to finish reading the report.
"By Alfor's name...." Corran breathed.
"What is it?" Pidge asked.
"Is he gonna be OK?" Shiro asked.
"Did you find out what's wrong?" keith asked.
Corran nodded.
"It seems he had been in the stream of silence." Corran said.
"What's that?" Keith asked.
"It was back on planet Sythical. If go into the the stream of silence you lose your voice and your ability to feel emotion."
Alurra gasped. "Paladins, we left Sythical three months ago..."
They all looked at Lance, who just stared at the ground.
"Oh Lance..." Pidge and Hunk held him tightly.
"Corran, is there a cure?" Shiro cried.
Corran stayed silent.
"Corran!" Keith cried. "Please! Is there a cure?!"
Corran shook his head.
The team burst into tears. They screamed at Lance, they shook him, did anything to try and get a rise out of him.
But nothing worked.
Lance was gone.
THE END
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