With the horrible consequences of their battle with Lotor and Sven still reverberating, the Voltron team track a distress signal to a remote part of space. They hope against hope that it will lead them to their missing friend—but what they discover will come as a shock. And amid the chaos, Allura continues to grapple with her approaching destiny… Also: Part two of Mark Waid’s exploration of the origins of Voltron. How did the Drule called Zarkon rise from a lowly infantryman to the ruler of the Ninth Kingdom—and what does it have to do with Voltron?