07x06 - The Journey Within

[bunniefuu]

Huh? [sighs]

Maybe if we run this configuration.

Still nothing.

-Allura, try the sonic wave.
-[Allura] Okay, I'll try.

[charging hum]

[Allura] It's still not working.

And it probably won't work again
until our power-cores are recharged.

Roger that. Well, our long-range scanners
still haven't detected any planets nearby.

No star systems, nothing.

Ugh.

-How long have we been out here?
-Going on four movements.

And how long is it gonna take us
to get to Earth at this speed?

I think Pidge said something
like ten billion deca-phoebes.

-I said one and a half Earth years.
-[Romelle] Eh.

Whoa, whoa.
Wait, there's a big discrepancy

between ten billion deca-phoebes
and one and a half Earth years.

-Which one is it?
-It's one and a half Earth years!

We've gone over this several times,

though there may
be a margin of error of about a month,

depending on any time dilation
we encounter.

Look, we knew this wasn't going
to be an easy or quick voyage,

but replacing the Castle of Lions
is our top priority.

We just have to stay sharp
and maintain discipline.

We knew when we started this journey
that we'd be low on power.

We didn't plan on going through the
galactic void, but we'll get through it.

Don't worry, guys. We'll run into
something eventually

that will turn this trip around.

What makes you so sure?

If my experience in space
has taught me anything...

it's that something always
comes along to try to k*ll us.

[Lance] Hey, Pidge, why is it so dark
out here?

[Pidge] I can't be sure, but my theory
is that this area is surrounded

by some kind of nebula
that blocks most of the light.

[Lance] Oh, yeah. Must be a patch
of that dark matter I've heard about.

That isn't what dark matter is.

Although, when it's this dark,
I guess it doesn't matter, right, guys?

This is why no one rides
with me anymore, isn't it?

Guys, I think I might have an idea on how
to get the lions back to full power.

And you're just now telling us this?

[Shiro] Well, I'm sorry, Lance,

but I guess
having my consciousness transplanted

from the infinity
of Voltron's inner quintessence

into the dead body of an evil clone
of myself

has left me a little out of sorts
for the past few weeks.

Oh.

Yeah.

[Keith] What is it, Shiro?

It's difficult to articulate, but remember
when we were fighting Zarkon...

and we were hit with that beam
that drained all of our quintessence?

Yes, you were all
completely incapacitated.

[Shiro] That's right,

but we managed to regenerate
enough power to keep fighting.

Yeah. We repowered Voltron ourselves.

Exactly. And I think
that's how it's meant to work.

Since I disappeared,

you've been relying on the Castle's
crystal to keep the lions charged.

But if you were a team of fully-realized
paladins, you wouldn't need that.

I... I can't help but feel
this must be my fault.

You were able to recharge Voltron before,
but since I joined...

[Shiro] It's no one's fault.

Being a Paladin of Voltron takes training.

You just haven't had time
to focus on working together

to find your balance
in this configuration.

Well, we've got nothing but time now.

That's right. We've been down before,
and we always come back.

I'm glad you're here, Shiro.
After all you went through,

how did you find
the strength to be the leader of Voltron?

I had help.

That's why there are five of you,
to lift each other up.

So, what should we do?
Maybe some flight formation exercises?

What's that?

-You know, when you line up and...
-No, no, no! That! Dead ahead!

[Pidge] My scanners aren't picking
anything up!

[Lance grunts] What the quiznak is this?

[Keith grunts] Whatever it is,
we got to move!

[thuds]

[electricity crackles]

[grunting]

Break high!

Ah!

[all screaming]

[groaning]

Is everyone all right?

[groaning]

I'm here.

[grunts] Still alive.

That was crazy. [grunts]

I'm fine.

[gasps]

Hey, are you okay, buddy?

Shiro, can you hear me?

[display beeping]

[Pidge] Shiro seems to be frozen,
but his vitals are strong.

[Keith] Same here.

Copy that with Romelle. What's going on?

Coran is frozen as well. Our paladin armor
must have protected us from the shock.

The Blue Lion is completely incapacitated.

[Lance] Yeah, Red is out too.

So, we're all alone in space,
no power, no way to call for help,

nothing within several
thousand light years...

What do we do?

Pidge, is there any way
to get the lions back up and running?

Maybe, but I don't know
how long it'll take.

And I don't know if you've noticed,

but we're all drifting
in opposite directions after that blast.

If we don't get the power back on,
we might lose each other.

Okay, the power's gonna have to wait.

Our top priority
is tethering the lions together.

I think I have an idea
of how we can do it.

[Lance] How? Some magical powers
that you learned on Oriande?

No, I have some
leftover zip line in my hull.

[Lance] Oh.

We're getting out of our lions to do this?

We don't even know
what that energy pulse was.

It's the only way to stay together.
Allura, grab that zip line.

Let's get moving.

[grunts] Everyone stay sharp and hang on.

Ugh.

So many lions, all spinning.

[retching]

Come on, Hunk.
You've been through worse than this.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. Let me just...
Nope.

No good. Oh, don't barf
in the space helmet, Hunk. Don't do it.

You're going to need
to push your lions to my location.

Otherwise, there won't be enough cord
to attach us together.

Uh, by ourselves?
I don't think that's possible.

Yeah, no,
we're definitely gonna need more help.

[grunting]

Our jetpacks just don't
have enough thrust.

This is gonna take forever.
We're gonna have to do this one by one.

On our way. Everyone to the Yellow Lion!

-Oh, no!
-What?

Everyone hold on!

[all grunting]

[Pidge] I'm losing my... [screams]

[grunting, gasps]

[all screaming]

[Pidge screaming]

I'm losing sight of the lions!

-Stay together!
-[Hunk] Oh, no!

-[Lance panting]
-[Hunk grunting]

I got Hunk!

[Allura] I've got Pidge!

Fire your jetpacks. Let's get stabilized.

[Hunk] Oh, thank you.

-Does anyone have eyes on the lions?
-I can't see them.

Neither can I.

At this point, I don't even know
which direction they're in.

Okay, let's run through our checklist.
Does anyone have any supplies?

-[Lance] Nope.
-Mm-mm. Nothing.

No food. No water.

Our suits will recycle enough moisture
to keep us hydrated for a little while.

We just need to hang tight.
We have each other.

Don't worry, Hunk. Something else
will be along to k*ll us any minute now.

Any minute.

Any minute.

[beeping]

Everyone sound off.

-Lance here.
-Pidge here.

Allura here.

-Hunk?
-I'm hiding.

I need you to sound off, Hunk.

It's important to maintain discipline
and mental acuity in these situations.

These techniques helped my mom
and I through the Quantum Abyss.

Keith is right. Being lost in space
has been known to drive one mad.

Too much time contemplating infinity
is not good for the mind.

I like to keep busy
calculating pi out as far as I can.

The record is 4 quadrillion,

but that's using the Hadoop
parallelization framework.

I'm just using my brain.

[Hunk chuckles]

Hadoop.

-Wait. Guys! Look! Lights!
-Told you Lance would go crazy first.

No, no, no, no! I see them!
There really are lights!

-Perhaps it's a ship.
-Oh, yes! Yes! We're rescued!

Amazing.

They're beautiful.

We should follow them.

-What?
-Yeah.

They must be heading somewhere.
Like a hive or something.

Wherever that is, it must be better

than floating around here
just, like, starving to death.

Hunk's right. Let's follow them.
Everyone stay together.

[all gasping]

[Lance] Where'd they go?

Were they even real?

I guess they could've been
a hallucination.

But that usually only happens
when you're going mad.

[beeping]

Everyone... [exhales]

Everyone sound off.

Allura here.

Lance here.

Pidge here.

Hunk, sound off immediately!

-Keith, you don't have to--
-It's okay, Allura. It's okay.

I was just kind of, you know,
lost in this fantasy

that we'd get to Earth and,

you know, the Garrison would throw us
a parade and all that stuff,

and then, you know, maybe I'd meet
some hotshot pilot

who wanted to check out the Yellow Lion,

and then maybe the Yellow Lion
would take a shine to her, obviously,

and I'd be like, "Whoa.

Whoa. I can't stand in-between
you two. The bond is strong here."

[Lance] Hunk, what are you talking about?

Fantasizing about quitting Voltron.

No, no, no, no, not quitting. No.
Just, you know, being the bigger man.

Just stepping aside to pass the baton down
to a younger generation.

Am I quite wrong or is Hunk
still very young by Earth standards?

[Hunk] No, I think time is different
for me,

like I'm on dog years or something.

[all screaming]

[Pidge] What's happening?

[Lance] What is this?

I'm being pulled away!

[all grunting]

Something is attacking us!
Keith, what do we do?

[Allura] I can't hold on!

[grunting]

[Pidge grunting]

My bayard won't work.
We don't know where the lions are.

We're being attacked
by things we can't even see.

Keith, what are you talking about?
There's nothing out there. It's just us.

[beeping]

-Keith, shouldn't we sound off?
-What's the point?

-Lance here.
-Pidge here.

-Allura here.
-I am Hunk.

-I wonder how my dad and Matt are doing.
-Better than us, hopefully.

My father had something
he always said in dire situations.

-"Give up"?
-Sorry?

It just doesn't seem like he was
a real fighter when the chips were down.

Keith, come on.

You have a lot of nerve
questioning someone's leadership

-seeing how you left us!
-Allura, please.

As I recall, you were the one who got us
all cozied up to Lotor.

Keith, you ran away.
Maybe you should have just stayed away.

Lance, Keith, everyone, stop!

Look, guys, I understand
what's happening here.

You're all brave heroes who don't know
how to react to being scared,

and it's causing you
to attack one another.

That or you're all going space mad.
Hopefully, you're just scared.

I'm scared all the time.
I can talk you through it.

Sorry, Hunk, I guess I just don't know
how to be a coward.

-Right. That's what I'm saying.
-Why don't you leave him alone, Keith?

Just drift off by yourself, Mr. Lone Wolf.

-Fine.
-No, don't!

[grunts] We have to stay together!

Why, Hunk? Are we really even friends?

Is there anything holding us together

besides some messed up series
of coincidences?

I mean, what are we? Some chosen saviors?
Do you really believe that?

What are we even doing out here?

We're doing what we have to.

-Let me go!
-No!

Uh, guys?

[Lance] Is it more of those creatures?

No, it appears to be a single source.
It looks like a planet.

No way.

[Keith] It's... Earth.

That wave must have knocked us
all the way across the universe!

We're home!

We're gonna make it, guys!

Wait, wait, wait, wait,
guys, where's the sun?

Where's the other planets? Or the moon?

Stop! This is too good to be true.
Stop. Everybody, stop!

-Hunk, what are you doing?
-Stop it, Hunk!

No, no, something is wrong!

Hunk, you're hallucinating! You're going
space mad! Just let us take you home!

[all grunting]

No! Listen to yourselves!

You're letting all of this
get the better of you.

There's no way that can be Earth.

Just trust us, Hunk.
You'll thank us when we get there.

Let me go!

[grunts]

[shouts]

[all screaming]

[thuds faintly]

-What the quiznak is that thing?
-Hunk was right.

-He saved us.
-Here it comes!

[all screaming]

[Allura grunting]

[Lance and Pidge grunting]

Guys, that thing is hunting us.

It's gonna get us all
unless we do something.

Like what? We can't even use our bayards.

[Pidge] How did you manifest yours, Hunk?

I don't know.
I just knew that I needed to.

[Lance] What are we gonna do?
We don't stand a chance!

Get out of here.
I'll buy you some time. Go!

-[Lance and Pidge] Hunk!
-No!

[bayard pulsing]

[shouting]

-[creature roars]
-[shouting continues]

[grunts]

-What are you doing?
-Fire jetpacks!

-[all screaming]
-[creature roars]

What are you guys doing?
I told you to escape!

-Why would we ever do that without you?
-Yeah.

You can't expect us to just leave you.

We're a team, Hunk.
We have to stick together like you said.

I'm sorry I said those hurtful things
earlier. I was wrong.

This series of messed up coincidences
did happen for a reason.

They brought us together as paladins.

But more importantly...

they brought us together as friends.

All right, team. We have to attack this
thing with our bayards

from every side possible.

-That way it can't target us all at once.
-[all] Yeah!

[grunting]

[Pidge grunts]

-[roaring]
-[grunts]

Ah!

[both grunting, screaming]

It's toying with us.

[shouting]

[roars]

[roars]

[shrieks]

Yeah, you better run!

I think he might actually
be running from that.

-[Hunk] Again?
-[Allura] We know we can't outrun it.

[Keith] We're not running this time.

Form Voltron!

[roars]

Huh?

[console beeping]

[whooshes]

[all grunting]

[gasping]

[whines]

[Shiro groans]

What happened?
Did something come to try to k*ll us?

You know it.

[squeaking]

[Coran yawning]

It looks like that nebula carried us
thousands of light years away.

So, where are we?

[Pidge] That looks like...
I recognize these constellations!

This is Earth's solar system!

[Pidge] It's the Milky Way!

Home.

We made it.

We're finally here.

Well, what are we waiting for? [grunts]