A/n: No actual spiders, got it?
Your POV
"You guys are finally back!" Lance exclaimed.
Everyone walked down to the pod hangers. Allura and Coran returned from their trip to the Balmera.
"Yes, there was lots to do. How was it here, in the Castle?" Coran played with his moustache .
"Everyone's back to normal, as you can see. Nothing too bad." Keith replied reluctantly.
"We faced a Galra fleet a few hours-er-vargas after you left. And Lance claimed that he saw a wormhole." you quickly said. Allura looked affronted.
"Another wormhole? That couldn't have been me, and the Castle wouldn't activate one in peace."
"Let's go to the bridge." Shiro left. Pidge was typing furiously on her wrist device.
"The pod is damaged. I can fix it." Pidge said after a scan. "Yup, one of the metal bars inside broke down and the engine overheated."
"Sure. We'll fill you in later then." Coran skipped away.
"I'll help." Hunk bent down and grabbed a blowtorch out of nowhere.
You nodded to Allura and took the short way to the bridge, passing the kitchen.
You turned your head sharply when you heard a crash in the kitchen. You activated your bayard quickly and raised your katana.
You glanced at a rolling can of scaultrite powder and a toppled chair. More rustling in the cabinet to the corner, and you dashed to it and opened the cabinet door.
There was nothing in the cabinet except for a rattling spoon. It spun on the tip before falling and staying still.
You stared at the spoon and slammed the cabinet door. The kitchen had been searched by someone right before you passed. It couldn't be Pidge or Hunk or Lance or Keith or Shiro because they were doing other stuff. You scanned the room, found nothing, then made your way to the bridge.
"The kitchen was disturbed on my way here. Someone or something's in the Castle." you reported as soon as you walked in.
"I'll take a quick scan." Allura turned away to the bridge Castle control things. The other paladins did a what-happened-there gesture. You replied with a maybe-later-now-look movement.
You glanced at the huge screen at the front of the bridge. It displayed everyone in the Castle as colored dots. Red, black, blue, orange, white, and pink dots were at the front, which was the bridge. Yellow and green dots were in the Altean pod hanger, while a strange grey spot was moving around in the kitchen.
"Y/n's right, something's in the kitchen." Lance pointed at the kitchen on the scanned map.
"Maybe something Galra. If it was one of our belongings, the Castle wouldn't put it on the map." Coran supplied.
"We'll check it out." Keith grabbed Shiro's arm and dragged him out of the Castle with his sword in his left hand.
You watched the sliding door close and looked at Allura.
"Keith, Shiro, get rid of it quickly. It could also be a Galra tracker that was placed in the Castle somehow." Allura reasoned.
"Got it." Keith said. A loud, sonorous crash was heard somewhere in the Castle. A yell, then more crashes, and then footsteps. Keith reappeared at the door, his bayard gone.
"Are you alright?" Lance cocked his head. Keith groaned and leaned against the wall, shaken.
"Keith, it's gone." Shiro came running quickly with the red bayard.
"What happened? Did you find the device?" Coran rushed upwards.
"Yes, but it got away." Shiro said.
"Keith, you look scared. For once in your life." you spoke out.
"I just saw... er...-" Keith broke off and looked away, slightly pink.
"The device was a mechanical spider. It was Galra for sure, and it had eight eyes and all the legs and everything. It jumped on Keith and then he got scared and ran. The bot got away before I could do anything." Shiro explained.
"Wait, Keith's scared of spiders?" Lance said, amused. "Sounds like Hunk."
"Say that again, and you'll be in hell." Keith flashed his sword at Lance.
"What does a spider look like?" Allura wondered.
"Here." Shiro did some tech stuff and showed a screen of a Brazilian wandering spider. You winced as the picture magnified itself. Keith shut his eyes.
(I'm not gonna actually put a picture on, search up spiders yourself)
"They look quite frightening." Allura said without any fear in her gaze, voice, or actions.
"Planet Earth must be interesting." Coran said.
You looked at the picture and examined the shining eyes and many, hairy legs. Weird.
Shiro shut the picture away. The door slid open and Pidge and Hunk walked in.
"Hey guys, something's searching around." Hunk said.
"We know, it's a Galra thing that's like a spider." you said.
"Oh good. We tried to get it but it just disappeared when we turned around." Pidge said.
You looked back at the map of the Castle and watched the grey dot on the screen move in a circle and enter through a door.
"It's in the Black Lion hanger!" Shiro yelled suddenly. You squinted and saw the words Black Lion etched on the room the Galra spider entered.
"Quickly, get in there!" you ran out of the bridge with Shiro, Lance, and Pidge.
You activated your bayard into the katana and almost collided with Lance when the Black Lion hanger doors opened.
"Black! Black, are you alright!" you said to the Black Lion the moment you got in.
"Y/n? Oh something's wrong, I can't feel the others..." Black replied sleepily.
"Black can't communicate or hear the other lions talking anymore." you told the others, who were looking at you with bewilderment.
"They could talk to each other?" Lance wondered.
"Let's check the lion over." Shiro got into Black's just-opened mouth and searched the cockpit.
Lance ran to check the back of the lion while you continued your conversation with Black. Pidge was running around the lion, scanning the metal.
"Something Galra got in, I can't sense it inside me though." Black said inside your head as you sat down.
"Are the other lions okay?" you asked the lion.
"I can't tell."
"Well quiznak. There's nothing wrong with the Black Lion in my scanners." Pidge concluded.
"That's a good thing." Lance jumped down with his jetpack and scratched his helmeted head.
"Yeah, nothing's wrong." Shiro sighed.
"But there is something wrong." you argued.
"Let's check on our own lions." Pidge said then left at a run.
You walked out too and slowly walked to White's hanger.
"Hey lions, you guys good?" you said to the air.
"No." Red answered first.
"No." Blue repeated.
"Y/n, please hurry." White replied.
You didn't get an answer from Green or Yellow until you got into your lion's hanger, and you figured the lions couldn't hear each other.
"No sorry Y/n." Yellow finally said.
"White, what's wrong?" you shouted as you ran inside.
You looked around the cockpit. The White accent lights had switched on and everything on the screen looked normal.
"I'm getting a signal. It's very disruptive." White said really fast before going silent.
You got in the seat and scanned the lion. A wavy signal line appeared and continued to wave big and small.
"Guys, are you getting this signal?" you sent it to the others.
"We see it." Lance said. "I think."
"This is the type of signal to interrupt communication and joining together." Pidge said.
You stared at the signal.
"White, can you tell the other lions things?"
"Their presence does not exist." White said sadly.
A bang and the red alarms of the Castle turned on. Galra fleet entering the galaxy.
You flew White out and formed your jaw blade. Battle first, bots later.