Allura was embarrassed when Nanny escorted her to her room to make her change. She insisted her to wear proper princess attire. But she refused the dress that Nanny picked out because of how small it was. She was pregnant and she badly wanted a comfortable sundress to put on. Nanny was not about to take “no” for an answer.

Nanny put her hands on her hips saying, “Young lady, have you lost your mind? That dress in not appropriate to wear. What you need is a couple of swipes on your behind.” She pulled out Allura’s customary pink dress. “You’re wearing this gown, princess. Quit acting like you have no sense at all. Act like a proper Princess of Arus!”

Nanny made sure she dressed properly and escorted her to the others.

The argument between Keith and Allura was the buzz around the castle. People still wondered what they had been disputing. Keith hadn’t been seen since he stalked out of the room. Nanny and Coran hadn’t let Allura out of their sight. But all Allura could think about was how miserable she was in her dress. She was seriously considering changing before dinner. If only she could get Lance or Sven’s attention to run interference for her. She just wanted to get her swollen self into some comfy clothes, have dinner, then go to her room and take a nice, relaxing bubble bath.

“Our spies have reported that Princess Allura is pregnant with twins and the father is allegedly Captain Keith Armstrong, Haggar cackled.

“My, my,” Zarkon chuckled. “Looks like Captain Keith is sleeping with the princess. All this time I thought the great captain held such high standards for himself. It looks like the Galaxy Alliance may punish the captain. But I’d rather kill him and destroy planet Arus in the process. Are the wolf and terrapin robeasts ready yet?”

“Yes, sire. We won’t tell Lotor Allura is having a baby. He is too fond of the Princess. Maybe when he does find out, he’ll conquer Arus with two robeasts. How is the new invisibility spell for Lotor’s ship working?”

“Just fine, sire. Lotor is instructing his soldiers now. They will break into he Castle of Lions and kidnap Princess Allura. Then bring her to Planet Doom and prepare for her wedding to him. After she is his bride, he will crush Arus and kill her protector, Captain Keith.”

Allura had had just about enough. It was the last straw when Coran and Nanny made her show her crown and coronation dress to everyone. Coran was trying to force her into marriage before she was ready. And to a prince she did not love. She loves Keith with all her heart and soul. He’s the father of her children. She just sat there thinking this while everyone stared in awe at her gown. Princess Paula was drooling all over it.

“What is wrong with you?” she asked. “Not wanting to get married and wear that beautiful dress and gown?”

Allura said through her teeth and under her breath, “I’m just waiting for Keith to ask me.”

Princess Ellen’s sister asked, “What was that, Allura?”

Coran also demanded to know what she had said.

“Young lady,” he started, “you have been talking under your breath a lot lately.”

Allura just sighed. She was mentally drained and just wanted to retire to her room. All she could think about was taking a nice hot bubble bath.

“All I said was it’s no big deal what I think, Coran. You make the decisions for me anyway. Besides, I have to think of the twins first. I have to make some important decisions in the coming months. I have to set up the nursery, talk to the father of my children and get his opinion, and take care of being princess of Arus. I am very stressed out right now. I need to relax before I make the twins and myself sick. I’m tired and have had one hell of a day. I will retire to my bedroom now.” She left the room and didn’t look back.

Nanny bellowed after her but Allura made it her bedroom before Nanny did and locked the door with a secret code that only she and one other person knew. That was Keith.

Meanwhile, Keith was pacing in his room like a caged animal. He was thinking about the serious argument they had about whether or not to tell Coran that he was the father of the twins. He couldn’t believe that Allura had called him by his middle name. Lawrence. He hated being called Lawrence. It always made him fell like he was in trouble. And then she slapped him in the face. How could she? He tried to understand that from her point of view she should be seen as adult since she was soon to be a mother. He really should see her as an adult and not some child. But she should think before she acts. She had grown a lot and was not the same sixteen year old he first met. But he should not have become emotionally involved until she calmed down. He really was not thinking when he was arguing about their children. He really feel bad about the way he acted and they really needed to talk about their feelings about the twins. Dr. Gorma said that the twins had some ability to understand how their parents were feeling right now. He should be the father he wanted to be to the twins and go to them and explain why mommy and daddy were arguing. Then a light bulb went off in his head and said he finally understood where she was coming from and maybe they could come up with a compromise.

Allura was in her bedroom and had relaxed a little after she had a good cry. Maybe she has acted like a child about her feelings.

Keith left the comfort of his room and went to talk to Allura after he had calmed down some. He looked out from his room to see if anybody was around. Satisfied that the hall was empty, he proceeded to walk down the hallway to Allura’s chambers. Everyone else was in other parts of the castle and had not retired to bed yet. He was in front of her door and tried an access code but it was denied. Keith then realized Allura had used their private code since she didn’t want to be disturbed. After the door swished open, he looked inside. He almost panicked when he didn’t see her at first. He decided to check the bathroom when he heard water splash. He found her there taking a bubble bath, looking as beautiful as ever.

Allura opened her eyes and saw Keith staring at her.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“I came to talk,” Keith replied, quietly.

“All right, let’s go back into the bedroom.” Keith held a big fluffy towel out to her. After she dried off she put on her robe.

“How are you and the babies feeling?” he asked, following her into the bedroom.

“We’re doing all right. I’m a little stressed out, but I’m okay.”

“We should talk about the fight we had today.”

“You’re right.” She sat down on the bed. “I’m not trying to shut you out of the twins’ lives. Think about how it will look if I was grounded by Coran and Nanny. I would be pretty embarrassing if I couldn’t discipline our kids if I was grounded myself. It would cast a shadow on me, making me seem like an unfit parent. I just can’t do that to the twins, Keith. I have learned from my mistakes and how to stand up for myself. I was trying to get Nanny and Coran to see me as an adult and not a child. I have to be able to stand on my on two feet.”

Keith let out a sigh and sat down beside Allura. She continued.

“I will not have another man raise our twins, Keith that’s all there is to it. But I can just see Coran and Nanny going behind my back and accepting a proposal for me. Its makes me sick to my stomach thinking I might not be able to choose the man I spend the rest of my life with.” “Now it’s my turn, Allura. Just listen to me. It really hurt me badly when you wouldn’t let me protect you and the twins. I felt left out. I was dying inside that you wouldn’t let me tell Coran I was the father. You acted like you didn’t want him to know.”

“I know, Keith, I was just trying take responsibility for our children. You were trying to be a real man and be there for his kids. I understand that now. I feel foolish that I was thinking of anything else. I am just tired of Coran and Nanny treating me like a child. It just makes me mad.”

“I understand where you were coming from too, Allura. Once I thought about what would happen if you were sent to your room by Nanny or Coran. People would think you were an immature, unfit mother and that you never should have had children. It's not a pretty picture. That’s not how I want our kids to grow up. I want them to feel that they can always come to us with their problems. That they can never be afraid of telling us anything.” “That’s how I feel too, Keith.”

“Let’s see if we can reduce some of that stress you’re having with a full body massage,” Keith grinned.

Allura chuckled. “Keith, that’s just an excuse to touch my body.”

“And your point is...”

“Awww, is Lawrence feeling neglected today? That’s why he’s grumpy?”

“Don’t call me Lawrence,” Keith whined. “It makes me feel like I’m in trouble.”

Allura had just notice that Keith had on his favorite boxer shorts.

“If you’re that hot, Keith, maybe you need to take a nice, long, cold shower,” she teased.

Keith got serious before playtime began between them.

“Allura, I want you to promise me that we’ll always talk about the things that bother us. And that we’ll make decisions for the twins together.”

“It’s a deal, Keith.”

Keith rubbed oil on his hands to give Allura a full body massage. He started with her shoulders first and continued down her body to her feet. Then started the process all over again until Allura was so relaxed she let out a sigh that sounded something like a purr.

“Turn over,” Keith whispered to her.

She did and he started massaging her breasts.

“Oh, Keith, I am totally relaxed. I’m in heaven. You have the most wonderful hands.”

Then he move his hands down to her stomach and very slowly and carefully massaged that area. He then bent over and gently kissed her belly.

“Daddy loves his twins and he is sorry that he argued with mommy today,” he whispered.

Then he resumed his message. When he bent down this time, he captured Allura’s nipple and start to suckle, going from one breast to the other. All Allura did was make sounds of pleasure over what Keith was doing to her.

Keith looked into Allura’s eyes and said, “I now know why I was so grumpy today. We didn’t spend the morning holding eachother or cuddling after our love making. We didn’t have the simple pleasure of waking up in eachother’s arms; we both felt like we missed something today.”

“You’re right, Keith. When I woke up today and you weren’t in my bed, I missed you. I know we see each other every day, but I miss our private time together. I know when the twins are born, we’ll have even less time together, but that’ll be okay. We’ll be doing family stuff then. Eventually the twins will start sleeping through the night and we’ll be able to go back to spending time together in the morning, and then it will be with our kids too.”

“I like that idea,” he replied as he slipped into bed with Allura. “Do you feel like making love tonight?”

She answered him by pulling him down for a nice, long kiss.

“Wow, that was a good answer,” Keith laughed.

“Well, you see, Keith, I’m a very deprived woman. Our love making has been interrupted for the last few nights and I’ve been feeling very neglected. Care to take care of the problem, big boy?”

“Is that a challenge, Ally? I think I’m more than man enough to handle it.”

“Are you sure you can keep up, Keith?”

“I’ll show you who can keep up!”

Keith slipped into Allura quickly and gave her all the pleasure she could handle. Kissing, cuddling, and caressing, they were definitely in their own world.

Haggar was given the signal to start the plan to kidnap the Princes Allura and take her planet. She used her crystal bowl to find out that Allura and Captain Keith were making love to eachother and realized this would be the perfect time to attack. She had a fool proof plan to capture Arus this time.

“King Zarkon, you will not fail,” she said. “We will bring Arus to its knees. We’ll kill the heirs to the Arus throne and Captain Keith too. The wolf and terrapin robeasts will crush Voltron and turn the planet to dust and we’ll take the people as slaves.”

“This is a very good plan, indeed, Haggar. The best you’ve has. Victory will be ours this time. Even with my foolish son leading the mission. He should be arriving on Arus any minute now. Undetected, I might add. Thanks to your new magic that make his ships invisible they will never see the attack coming.”

Zarkon and Haggar did not tell Lotor that Allura was having a baby because they wanted to keep him focused, knowing his obsession with the Princess. Lotor readied his troops that were with him to break into Princess Allura’s bedroom.

“ The Princess is not to be harmed, do you understand me?” Lotor bellowed.

Keith was moving in for the home run. He was thrusting deep into Allura. Allura had her legs around his waist, shouting out his name in pleasure. Neither of them heard Lotor when he broke into the room. They were too wrapped up in eachother [Literally!] to notice the attack. Lotor was furious with Keith at what he was doing with Allura. He drew his laser sword and ran towards the bed.

As, Keith threw his head back in pleasure, he finally noticed Lotor coming at them with his sword. Keith switched from lover to soldier mode in a hurry. He made sure he had Allura securely with him, then rolled off the bed and onto the floor.

“What the hell’d you do that for, Keith?!”

Just as Keith was about to answer her question, she noticed Lotor was in the room. She also noticed that he had brought guards with him and they were coming straight toward them. The castle alarms started going off from the break in. This was a very bad situation. One, they were naked. Two, Coran would kill them if they didn’t put some clothes on. And three, they had to fight and they were outnumbered. Lotor went after Keith with his sword with a vengeance. He tried to cut off his manhood. Keith was trying to find his back up sword. He kept dodging Lotor and finally grabbed it from under the mattress. Allura was having a hell of a time with the guards.

“Isn’t it cozy?” Lotor taunted. “The great Captain Keith Armstrong was finally caught off guard and he was sleeping with the Princess Allura. I wonder what the Galaxy Alliance and Coran will think about that. Surely they want her to marry a prince. Not a commoner without royal blood.”

With that last comment, Keith started to get the upper hand. He managed to disarm Lotor and throw him into a wall. Within these few seconds, he managed to find his boxer shorts and put them on. He also threw Allura her robe. She was holding her own with the guards. Then help arrived. Sven, Lance, Hunk, and Pidge came running to help Allura with the guards. But they were still outnumbered. They hoped Coran got there soon. Keith didn’t like the idea of Allura fighting. She could lose the twins. Finally Coran showed up and evened the odds with the guards. Keith threw Lotor into a wall again. He had completely lost his temper at Lotor for endangering his woman and his twins. He could kill for that. Lotor did manage to block Keith’s moves. He noticed that Coran and some Galaxy Alliance officers had come into the room.

“Did you know that Captain Keith is sleeping with the Princess?” Lotor asked. “I caught them in bed together just now. How does it feel to be outsmarted?” he chuckled, turning to Keith.

Lotor managed to throw Keith off balance. After regaining his sword, he cut Keith’s leg. “The Captain is sleeping with the Princess and they had you all fool, didn’t they? He’s been using her as his love slave.”

Before Keith to get to him, Haggar transported Lotor and the guards back to the ship. Keith turned to his team. “Get to the lions, Coran, see that Allura gets medical attention immediately.”

Before they reached the portals, the whole castle shook. Keith was barking out orders left and right. immediately. Once Keith made his way into the control room he was able to assess the situation better. He saw that Lotor brought his whole fleet and two robeasts with him. Keith turned to Space Marshall Graham.

“We need some extra fire power from the Alliance, sir.”

“Contact the Explorer and see how far the are from Arus,” the Marshall replied. “Tell them to pick up the speed and get here fast.”

“Launch the lions,” Keith shouted.

Admiral Lawler asked, “Aren’t you forgetting something, Captain?” He was referring to Keith still being in his boxers.

“No I am not.”

He jumped into the chute and head to Black Lion. After that the whole castle shook again.

The battle raged on as the lions tried top drive the robeasts away from the castle.

“We can’t play cat and mouse like this for long,” Lance said to Keith.

“We should form Voltron,” SVEN REPLIED>

“I don’t know,” Pidge said. “Even if we do form Voltron, we can’t possibly take on two robeasts at once.”

The wolf robeasts had captured Yellow Lion and was trying to break it in half.

“Uh, guys, some help here,” Hunk pleaded. “This big ugly’s got me.”

“On my way, hunk,” Pidge answered.

Keith radioed the castle. “How far away is the Explorer, Coran?”

“About ten minutes.”

Keith was getting ready to ask the others how they were doing when his communications were cut. The Terrapins robeasts had caught him and was trying to rip Black Lion apart. Lance launched his claw missile. But the robeast moved and the missile hit Black Lion.

Keith growled. “What are you trying to do, Lance, kill me?!”

“Sorry, Keith.”

“Forget it. Let’s form Voltron and see what we can do about destroying these robeasts.”

The battle was fierce. Galaxy Alliance ships were trying to take out some of Lotor's fleet and handle the Terrapin robeast. Than a call came in to Castle Control.

“Castle Control, this is the Explorer. We’ve entered the atmosphere and are getting ready to launch the Vehicle Voltron team.”

Coran contacted Keith. “Jeff and his team are here now.”

“All right, team, it’s time to form Voltron.”

After both Voltrons were formed, they attacked. Vehicle Voltron took on the wolf beast. Jeff ordered a football tackle onto it. Keith was having a hard time with the terrapin robeast. It has grabbed him and was trying to break him in half. Lance manage to get Voltron’s arm free and gave the robeast a blast of fire. It quickly let go.

“Why don’t we do a spinning laser blade attack and cut the robeast’s legs off,” Pidge suggested.

Vehicle Voltron had the advantage over the wolf beast give it one more fist into its face. Then they formed their blazing sword and destroyed it. They broke into their separate vehicles and decided to help the Alliance fleets.

Several missiles came out of the Terrapin’s stomach. One hit Hunk’s release plate and he lost control as the Yellow Lion started falling. Keith had take control of it and bring it back to Voltron. They then prepared for a lion head attack to blow through the beast. It used its beam to try to hit them but missed.

“It’s that time, ‘ Keith said. “Form Blazing Sword!”

Voltron sliced the robeast into pieces and it exploded.

The Vehicle team and Alliance fleets were taking care of Lotor's fleet. Lotor and his fleet finally retreated back to planet Doom. Keith sent Voltron after Lotor’s ship in leftover anger from before. The sword sliced through the ship, but they could see the escape pod leaving in the explosion. Keith pressed on after him. He was seeing red. The jerk had tried to kidnap Allura and try to take his babies away. Nobody treated his woman and children like that.

“Come on, Keith, let him go,” Lance called over the comm. “Let’s get back to the castle and check the damage that was done to Arus.”

Lance couldn’t say what he really wanted to since Coran and Marshall Graham were listening. Coran broke his thoughts.

“Bring Voltron back this instant. That is a direct order from Space Marshall Graham.”

Keith ignored them all and kept following Lotor’s ship. Then King Alfor appeared on his view screen.

“My future son-in-law. Go and see to the condition of my pregnant daughter and your children.”

Keith was coming out of his angry haze to see King Alfor. Had he just given him his blessing to marry Allura?

As his image faded, the king said, “Come and see me tomorrow night.”

Keith had a shocked expression on his face. King Alfor wanted to see him! Tomorrow night!

“Let’s go home, team,” he said.

Back at the castle, Allura and the twins were fine.

“I don’t think Keith would mind me sleeping in his room for the night,” Allura said to Nanny.

“And where else would the boy sleep. He isn’t sleeping in your bed, is he?”

“Of course not. He’ll sleep in his study on his futon that turns into a bed.”

“And how do you know it turns into a bed?”

Allura averted her eyes. “Well, I walked in and found him sleeping on it one day.”

In castle control, Keith was going a chewing out by Coran and Marshall Graham.

“What were you thinking going after Lotor’s ship after the battle was over?” Graham bellowed.

Keith responded by asking, “How are Allura and the twins?” He really didn’t care about what Coran and Graham were asking.

“Allura and the twins are fine,” Coran replied. “Now what the hell got into you, disobeying orders?”

“I was making sure Lotor thought twice before he attacked Arus again.”

Keith stormed out of castle control and heading to the med-wing to get his laser sword. When he walked in, Nanny and Allura were arguing about her putting Keith out of his room.

“I insist that Allura take my room for the next couple of nights. I’ll sleep in my study.”

Dr. Rita Carter came running up to him. “Captain, let’s treat that wound of yours.”

Keith got up on the examining table and let her clean and wrap his leg. He the left the med-wing to change and to get a change of clothes for the next day. The guys were waiting for him in the rec room.

“We’ll have the briefing at one o’clock tomorrow. Jeff, will you and your team be there, please?”

Jeff nodded.

“Keith, what happened in Allura’s room? When we got there, you were only in your shorts.” Sven asked.

Keith ran a hand through his hair. “Actually, that’s more than I had on before you guys arrived.”

“Ah, so Lotor caught you two in a compromising position?”

“Yeah, that’s basically it.”

“You must have had to change from lover to soldier in quite a hurry,” Lance perceived.

“Yes, Lance, I did. We can’t tell Coran and Graham what really happened, though.”

Meanwhile, those two and Admiral Lawler were wondering how Keith got to Allura's room so fast.

“He was in shorts,” Coran noted. “That was odd. And Allura wasn’t fully dressed either. Oh, dear, could Lotor’s statement be true? Is Keith sleeping with Princess Allura?”

“Let’s not try to figure it out tonight. It’s eleven o’clock and we have a briefing tomorrow,” Admiral Lawler said.

“You’re right,” the Marshal replied. “I think something is seriuosly being covered up but we’ll tackle that issue tomorrow. Goodnight, gentlemen.”