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[spacebaloney]

[While most people are still asleep, Lance is on the grind. Like, literally. He's standing in the bathroom of the Attack on Voltron house, clad in the Starmiebucks' uniform with the nice circular logo of a Starmie in the center of the apron, flashing a dazzlingly white smile at the camera even if it's just after dawn and most people are still asleep and the poor souls who are awake aren't even thinking about popping fingerguns at the network like he's actually doing right now, oh my god. His hair is laid and his face is moisturized to perfection, sunscreen and high quality lip balm and all. Someone's gotta make the Latias Lattes and it's gonna be him. Lance might as well look good while doing so.]

Hello, world! I'm Lance and this is my announcement that today, the best leg of Voltron, the right blue one, is gainfully employed at your local Starmiebucks. [He cups his ear, feigning deafness because he's also dramatic as well as being a moron.] Wait? What's that? What's Voltron? Oh, just a gigantic robot that's currently saving the entire universe back at home, one Galra at a time.

[Christ, who was idiot who hired this braggart fool? Fire them and him.]

Anyway, this week, we're running a half-priced special on your favorite Pokéccino and with every one purchased by a pretty face, you get a chance to win a date with me, Lance the Blue Pala-

[Enjoy that sudden high pitched shrill scream that can probably be heard for miles as the 'gear clatters to the floor and the sound of Lance scrambling along the floor is heard following it. All the camera catches is one blue tentacle slowly retreating back behind the shower curtain, leaving droplets of water in its wake.]

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[bent_the_world]

Wow, somebody has a really healthy sense of self, huh?

[Korra's doing her best not to snicker. He's already been - literally - knocked down a peg.]

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[spacebaloney]

THAT'S NOT THE PROBLEM!

[Yes, it is, Lance, and everybody but you knows it.]

Something grabbed me!

[By the voice, he can tell it's a girl. If he was in the right mindset at the moment (or wrong mindset depending on who you asked), he'd be hoping she isn't cute because being groped by an unknown Pokemon in the dark is bad enough.]

[whatsacactus]

[He recognizes the bathroom and. Oh boy. Staying with them, huh.]

guess no one warned you about him huh

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[spacebaloney]

[Sorry Keith, but the first response you can't hear is a barrage of cursing in Spanish, the kind Lance's mother would give him a chancleta to the back of the head for.]

[spacebaloney]

[And of course he lives here now. You know Shiro has a bad habit of picking up rogue teenagers.

Once Lance manages to toe the Pokegear closer to him--he ain't brave enough to peek in the tub just yet--he groans seeing it's Keith. G R E A T.]

TELL ME ABOUT WHO???

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[icecastlemadonna]

[Since Yuuko is still new here, she's pretty alarmed by seeing someone being abruptly pulled away by something with tentacles.]

Lance, are you okay? What was that?!

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[spacebaloney]

I don't know! Something cold and wet!

[And very very scary. But hey, he recognizes that voice! Can't forget how she let him down nicely either.]

Yuuko?

action; im sorry

[shiro2hero]

[Literally nothing wakes you up faster than the sound of one of your teammates screaming. Especially when they scream like that. At a time of the day when people should be sleeping -- people whose names rhyme with "dance" anyway.]

[So.]

[Needless to say? One (1) previously sleeping man (sorry Matt) goes bolting out of bed. And just straight into the bathroom. Possibly knocking the door half off its hinges in the process. Starmie-pattern boxers, not hair all over the place, and not much else.]

Lance! What's wrong! What happened!

Re: action; i reject your apology. there is nothing to be sorry for.

[spacebaloney]

[But see here: people whose names rhyme with "dance" has to go in early for training. He doesn't have much of a say on when Starmiebucks opens. Just like he didn't have a say in being harassed in the dark by something cold and wet and icky and then having to witness a wild looking Shiro dressed in nothing but his skivvies busting down the door. How does anyone sleep in this house with all this racket?

Lance is startled all over again by Shiro's arrival, too startled to realize the man is practically naked, but manages to jams a finger in the direction of the shower curtain.]

Something's in the tub! And it grabbed me!

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[isleavepossible]

[Holding back her laughter....no she's laughing.]

I have no idea what pokemon that is, but it's now my favourite.

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[spacebaloney]

[Ugh. First his Miltank bowls him over, he gets shot down by a married woman with triplets, and now he has girls laughing at him over the network. Lance would like to go home now and drown his sorrows in garlic knots.]

You can have him. He's free to a good home.

[Don't listen to him. He can't be going around giving away other people's Pokemon just because his ego is bruised].

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[schachmeister]

[Armin isn't at home yet, but he sure recognises that bathroom and those tentacles.]

A-are you all right?

[He'll deal with the fact that apparently another one of Shiro's team has joined them later. First gotta make sure this guy didn't manage to crack his head open on the toilet seat or anything.]

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[spacebaloney]

I'm okay!

[He really is. Coran is tucked back into the tub and Lance is combing his hair back into place. Everything is back to normal or whatever counts as normal in this crazy ass house.

Or so he wants this pretty face on his screen to know. Two girls already laughed at him. Lance needs no trifecta.]

Now what I want to know is if you're okay?

[And if not, do you need help? He's heard a date with Voltron's Finest Leg cures every ill.]

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[fuelthefire]

[Please do not mistake the absence of laughter in this video communication for the actual absence of laughter. For once, Krieg is practicing some tact and not opening the communication channel until after he's got the gut-busting laughter well under control.]

Did Sugar forget to tell you about the bathtub Shell Squid?

[...With that said, though, he definitely sounds like a man who's just been laughing.]

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[spacebaloney]

[Uh, well, maybe Krieg should have opened with the laughter because that is a very unexpected visage Lance is greeted with. He ain't saying the man's ugly, just the hose mask thing is a little unexpected.]

Sugar?

[Lance looks confused as hell for a bit and then realizes this guy means Shiro. Wow. How did we go from Shiro to Sugar?]

Did you just call Shiro Sugar?

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[dreamsofahero]

You know, while I suppose it does have good lighting, perhaps a bathroom isn't the best choice for recording a message like that...

*though it sure is hilarious in this case*

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[spacebaloney]

Everybody's a critic.

[Grumble grumble. Don't worry about Lance. His ego is just bruised to hell and back. He'll be salty all day.]

It's early, okay. I didn't have many lighting choices.

[rediscover]

I'm sorry, wait, wait, what? You're...a leg? Like, a bunch of guys stacked in a trenchcoat but a robot?

[She wrinkles her nose.]

My sister works for Starmiebucks, too, and I'm pretty sure you can't use your job as a dating service.

[spacebaloney]

Kinda? Only no trenchcoat and we're piloting robot lions transform that make up the bigger robot. Two are the arms, two are the legs, and one's the head and the rest of the body. And then we do really cool things like shoot fire and ice and laser and cut things with swords.

[Totally scientific explanation there about mecha, by the way. ]

There's nothing in the employee handbook about that.

[Not that Lance actually read the thing. He just pretty much skirts around rules most days in his life.]

Who's your sister?

[No, Anna, don't do it. SAVE ELSA.]

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[lionroll]

[Hunk had been sleeping.

For a long while actually.

To the point that when he woke up, groggy and sore and confused, he couldn't even remember where he was. Or what he had been doing. Thankfully, Shay is quick to welcome him back to some level of awareness and the synapses his brain begin to fire and make the connections he was having trouble making.

Right.

He's in that weird world with all the Pokemon critters in it.

And judging by his surroundings, he's in a Pokecenter. When one of the nurses inform him of his long, long rest, he flails into panic mode. His first instinct is to call Shiro. Because Shiro should know what to do. Except when he opens his gear to call the older Paladin, he's instead suddenly greeted by a most familiar face, and as equally familiar scream...]

LANCE?!?

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[spacebaloney]

[Oh, wow, so that scream was heard for miles. Thank heavens for technology, huh?

Lance is in the middle of trying to get himself off the bathroom floor when he hears someone calling his name. And that voice is familiar too, so Lance expects Hunk to come banging on the door in a second or two. A shame it would be for Hunk to come home from a long trip to shenanigans after going to find himself out in the Pokemon world, or at least that's similar to what Lance was told when he asked where Hunk was. But this is Team Voltron and shenanigans are their bread and butter.

Alas, when Lance gets to his feet and opens the door, the hallway is empty. Still dim with the lack of true morning lit, not even a Pokemon in sight. No Hunk. Could he have moved that fast? Not a question anybody's going to answer, but Lance is definitely sure he heard Hunk's voice.]

Hunk? Hunk, where'd ya go?

[Now if this dummy would just rethink his strategy and go look at his 'gear...]

[forsaintcecilia]

[That okay, because Kazuki wakes up at literal dawn to go jogging with his Furret! This isn't strange to him at all.]

Voltron? Where have I heard that before... Woah, you okay? I think there's a Tentacool in your shower!

[spacebaloney]

I'm fine, I'm fine.

[No, he isn't. His butt hurts, his hair is messed up, and his ego has a large crack in it, but hey green haired guy, how are you?] And maybe you know some of my friends if you've heard of Voltron! Shiro? Hunk? Matt?

[But not Keith. Keith is no friend right now.]

Nah, it's something called an Omanyte. To be honest, it looks like a snail mixed with an octopus. Still creepy as hell.

[Hey, Coran heard that! Enjoy those offended sounding blurbles, Lance.]

[islandshore]

[There's a laugh from this silver-haired stranger, and a slow shake of the head. Wow.]

Well, that's one way to advertise. Sudden danger. Manly screams. Sure to be a hit with the ladies.

[Well, he's mostly just ribbing. But hey, he remembers the days when he had a massive ego, too.

Boy, those days were weird in hindsight. But he's in his twenties, now, rather than a cocky teen.]

[spacebaloney]

[Hey, who said he was aiming for the ladies? Maybe he was aiming for dudes too! (He's totally aiming for both. Two kinds giving him attention is better than none.)]

Still getting girls to talk to me here, so it worked. Women like it when you show a little fear.

[Laughing at him is still talking to him in Lance's mind.]