me: okay i am done thinking about voltron and pokemon go, it is over

brain: what about pokestops? pokemon gyms? teams?

me: oh no

Whoa, I didn't expect anyone to read this...I didn't expect anything at all! Thank you all so much! You're all really really nice.

I can't really write anything serious right now, my hands hurt too much to write anything long, and I had some more ideas, so here's some bonus content, I guess. I know a lot more about Pokemon Go now than I did before. I have little experience with the game itself. I live in the middle of nowhere, no Pokemon show up within walking distance, let alone gyms and pokestops, so I've only been able to do anything the one time I went to the mall. But information has been circulating, and I've learned a lot. I'm more prepared to play myself, and it's easier to think of other shenanigans Team Voltron's been up to.

if you're looking for it, this might have some minor implications of sheith, klance, and hunk/pidge. or not. whatever you prefer. i cannot write shiro or keith to save my life. i put the same or even less effort into this as before, so don't expect this chapter to be any better lol"So...what exactly is 'Pokemon Go', anyway?" Shiro asked.

The other Voltron pilots around him, besides Keith, gasped.

"How do you not know what Pokemon Go is?" Lance demanded. "It's only, like the greatest invention of all time!"

Keith rolled his eyes. "Give him a break, guys. He spent a long time in space, he wasn't even on Earth when Pokemon Go came out. I don't think there's any way he could know what it is."

"That makes sense," Hunk agreed at the same time that Pidge muttered, "He has a point."

"Fine, whatever." Lance looked pointedly away from Keith and crossed his arms. "It doesn't matter. We'll just have to explain it to him." He glanced over at Shiro. "Okay. First of all, do you know what Pokemon is?"

"Of course I do, are you kidding? I grew up with Pokemon," Shiro said.

Lance blinked. "Wait. Really?"

Shiro laughed. "Playing Pokemon was one of the first things I remember. I started out with Bulbasaur." There was a faraway look in his eyes suddenly as he started reminiscing. "I love that little guy. We went all the way to the League together."

"Right..." Lance scratched the back of his head. "So, basically, Pokemon Go is..."

"Pokemon Go is the best thing ever!" Pidge interrupted as she jumped in front of Lance. "You play it on your phone, and it uses your location to let you find and catch Pokemon in the real world! And there's real life gyms, where you can put your Pokemon to the test, and you can evolve your Pokemon, and there's these things called Pokestops where you can get more Poke Balls! And somehow, it still works out in space!" Somehow, she said all this in one breath. She was really excited about Pokemon.

"Yeah." Lance shoved Pidge out of the way. "So basically, you can catch Pokemon on the real world, on your phone."

A tear fell out of the corner of Shiro's eye.

"Shiro, are you okay?" Hunk asked him.

"This is what I dreamed about when I was a kid," Shiro said. "It's a dream come true." He wiped his eyes with his hand and laughed again. "Of course, I ended up going into space instead, and eventually became a pilot for the most powerful weapon in the universe, but, well..."

The other four paladins just stared at him.

"So, anyway." Shiro pulled out his phone, a small flip phone that was lucky to have a free demo of Tetris on it, and definitely couldn't handle any apps or games. "Does it work on this? Or is my phone too old?"

"Uh...we'll work something out," Hunk told him.

"So everyone's level five now, right?" Hunk asked.

"Everyone except Keith," Lance told him. "Keith hates fun and stuff like that."

"What are you talking about?" Keith frowned. "Of course I'm level five, I've been there for a couple of days now."

"Wait." Lance frowned. "You're actually playing?"

Keith shrugged. "You're all playing it. I don't really have much else better to do."

"So we're all level five," Hunk reiterated, hoping to defuse the situation. "Which means we all have to pick teams, right? So what team is everyone joining?"

"I'm joining Valor," Keith said immediately.

"Well, I'm joining Mystic!" Lance retorted.

"I've already been on Instinct for awhile," Pidge said.

"Hey, me too!" Hunk and Pidge grinned at each other.

"I think I'm joining Valor, too..." Shiro muttered.

They all looked at each other.

"So what, I'm all alone here?" Lance asked. "The other teams each get two Paladins, but we're only stuck with one?"

"Lance, it's not really a big deal..." Pidge told him.

"Of course it is! The teams get to take on each other's gyms, and people from the same team help each other! I don't have anyone to help me to defeat your gyms, and if I manage to control a gym, no one's here to help me to defend it!" Lance shot back.

"We don't even know if there are any gyms here yet. No one's found any on the castle," Keith reminded him.

"Well...well..." Lance struggled to argue with that, but finding nothing to respond with, shut his mouth.

"Oh, alright."

The five paladins turned to see Princess Allura approaching them.

"If it's really that important to you all, I'll start playing this 'Pokeman Go', and when I get to level 5, I'll join Lance's team to make it even. Does that work for you all?" she asked.

Shiro, Pidge, Keith, and Hunk all nodded. Lance was a little more enthusiastic.

"I know what you're really after." Lance slowly slinked an arm around Allura's shoulders. "It's just you an me alone on a team in space. This is just your way of-"

Before he could say another word, she interrupted him with a slap to the face and walked away. "I am not interested," she reminded him sharply.

"Right..." Lance muttered, rubbing his face where he got hit.

"Guys, I found a Pokestop!" Lance announced.

The five paladins had split up to look for Pokemon, but they all quickly gathered around Lance at the mention of a Pokestop.

"Is it here?" Shiro asked.

Lance nodded, showing them his phone. "Right next to the bathroom...who knew."

"Huh." Pidge checked his phone and looked at the Pokestop. "'The Castle of Lions. sorry guys it's not actually made of lions'. Well, at least it's a Pokestop."

"Phew, finally." Hunk sighed with relief. "I was almost out of Poke Balls."

Leaving the Pokemon Go app open but going back to her home screen, Pidge dialed Hunk's number and called him. When he picked up, she kept her voice low. "Hunk, I found a gym."

"Wait, really?" came Hunk's louder reply. He sounded surprised.

"Yes, really. Keep your voice down, I don't want the other to find it yet," Pidge explained. "We're going to claim it first."

"Alright." Now Hunk's voice was barely audible, which was perfect. "Your Pokemon are stronger, right? You can claim it and be gym leader while I head over, and I'll put one of my Pokemon in to help defend it."

"Good plan." Pidge smiled. "You know the room where we were keeping Sendak? It's down here."

"I'm on my way now," Hunk told she. "I'm close by already, it shouldn't be too long."

Pidge nodded, and the two hung up. Happily, she went back to the idle Pokemon Go app and prepared to take the gym. But by the time the game loaded, the gym was no longer unclaimed. It had been taken over by Team Mystic.

She scowled, looking up. On the other side of the room, Lance was smirking at her. As their eyes met, he waved, phone in hand.

"Sorry, Pidge, you were too slow," he said. "You should've claimed the gym before calling Hunk for backup, because now its mine."

She readied a retort, but Hunk entered the room before she could say anything. He ran over to her.

"You got the gym, right?" he asked.

"New plan, Hunk." Pidge said through gritted teeth. "Lance claimed the gym first."

"Oh, it's on." Hunk grinned. "We're not leaving this spot until we beat him and take it for ourselves. Not even for food. It'll be difficult, but we can do it."

In a different part of the castle, Keith and Shiro had found a different gym. They both put different Pokemon in, claiming the gym for Team Valor, and waited.

"Should we tell them we found a gym?" Keith asked.

"Probably, but..." Shiro trailed off, eyes sweeping the area. "They don't seem to be around. We should probably wait."

Keith sighed. "Where is everyone, anyway?"

"Sorry, guys," Lance gloated. "Your Pokemon just don't stand a chance against my Vaporeon."

"There's no way it should be that strong..." Hunk frowned, examining its CP.

"Come on, Venemoth!" Pidge told her game. "You should be able to take that thing, no problem!"

"shiro is a teenager and you can't tell me he didn't grow up with pokemon but he was in space for awhile and missed out on a lot of pokemon stuff including pokemon "