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The short and sweet: Pidge becomes a badass and Iâm Seasalt trash
The long version: The team is aboard a Galra ship for a mission, Pidge is doing her usual thing of hacking the main computer and pulling the strings when sheâs discovered, she manages to secure the room again but in the process gets shot, like mortally wounded if the team doesnât get to her soon sheâs dead kind of shot. Cue her four big bros freaking the heck out and trying to get to her. She can see the odds are against them, she knows that theyâll either escape without her or get captured with her so she does what she needs to do, leads them away from her and to safety before, with whatâs left of her strength, rigging the ship to short out and trigger an explosion thatâll knock out the systems and get the team out. In that final moment before in all goes to hell Lance murmurs âWeâre going to need a miracle to get out of thisâ and Pidge manages to choke out âThen say hallelujah cuz here it is.â Things blow up, hangar doors are flung open and everyone is sucked out into space. Cut to Shiroâs visor and all you see is a reading on Pidgeâs armour showing sheâs flatlined. No time to get her though, Allura swings in, picks them up and off they go. Once inside the ship it starts to settle in: Pidge just blew herself up to save them. Shiro practically roars amd punches a hole through the wall before sinking to the floor, face in his hands. Keith sits next to him, staring blankly ahead as his eyes grow glassy. Poor Hunk doesnât have the chance to give way to his own grief as he tries to calm down Lance, whoâs having a full blown grief driven panic attack. Allura and Coran arrive and try to console them but itâs no use. The final shot of is of the inside the Green Lionâs cockpit, the lights are all off, everything is dimmer than usual. As the screen fades out we hear a small sniffle and see Lanceâs leg poke out from behind the empty pilotâs chair where heâs sitting.
Weeks later, the team has gone numb, Pidgeâs loss still heavy in the air. But they have a mission to complete aboard another Galra ship. Itâs going well, until theyâre attacked by something. Itâs cloaked in black, small and moving freakishly fast, darting in and striking before retreating back into the shadows. Shiro manages to grab the robe and pull it off, revealing Pidge. Only itâs not her.
Haggarâs handiwork is instantly recognizable.
Every part of her has some kind of Galra tech now. Her left leg from the knee down, her right from the thigh down, the right arm from the elbow and most of her left hand are all prosthetic as. There are power nodes and panels across her body and her left arm has some kind of control band built in. Even the base of her skull, under whatâs left of her hair, is Galra tech now, all of it glowing eerily purple. She stares at them, expression blank and eyes vacant. Her right eye glows purple in the second before she launches forward to attack with enough force to leave dents in the floor. Her attack is mechanically precise, each move carefully calculated and executed, her size and speed used as an advantage as she lands blow after blow. Hunk is the one to save the day here, while the other three fight just to keep her at bay he rips open a wall panel and uses the wiring to short-circuit her. The glow of the tech fades as she falls heavy and limp to the floor, surrounded by her teammates nursing the wounds she gave them.
They get their Pidge back of course. Once Hunk hooks her up to the Green Lion and uses the Lionâs energy to re-boot her sheâs back with no recollection of what happened - her brain is half electronic now so the memories were literally deleted. Everyoneâs ecstatic, Pidge is ok and has some p cool new abilities including downloading info directly into her brain, hacking things at a finger touch and the increased strength, stamina and resilience that her mostly tech body gives her. (She also loves her new âtechno undercutâ and the fact that she glows green) Lance jokingly calls her the Miracle Maker but it sticks. He starts affectionately referring to her as âMiracleâ and whenever she does something techie and helpful on a mission heâll say âhallelujahâ and it kind of rubs off on the rest of the team and becomes a sort of call-sign for her. One time Lance called her âMy Miracleâ and didnât even notice until Hunk told him later âSo thatâs why she blushed?â