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"I've searched beyond the stars to be here. To be with you. And to be with my son."
Honerva

Honerva has combined her mech with the Sincline ship and now has the ability to traverse realities. Voltron and the Atlas try to keep Honerva and her mechs at bay. Merla pleads with the paladins to spare the Altean pilots, and Voltron disables the mechs nonlethally. Honerva pierces through realities before the heroes can stop her, but Shay calls a convergence of Balmera to the their location. The Balmera fuse Voltron and the Atlas, giving both ships the ability to travel between realities while the other characters attempt to contain the rift. Shiro and the paladins travel into several alternate Altea, which are destroyed as Honerva moves through them.

The combined ships are overpowered by Honerva. Keith manages to stir the paladins into action, and they barely manage to escape the crumbling reality Honerva left them in. Honerva finds her ideal alternate universe, where Zarkon and Lotor are alive and Altea is peaceful. However, the young Lotor rejects her, and Honerva vows to destroy this universe as well.


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  • All for Nothing: Honerva feels this way after the alternate Lotor and Zarkon eventually reject her.
  • Apocalypse How: Class X-5. Honerva's portal didn't just go straight to its destination universe, it bore straight through multiple realities, leaving each one to collapse from the damage.
  • BFS: The combined Voltron/Atlas ship (which is already huge by itself) gets a sword that's big by even that standard.
  • Deus ex Machina: It's noted that the Atlas won't be able to traverse realities, because it's not made of the trans-reality comet-ore like Voltron; but Voltron can't go up against Honerva's mech alone, either, since it's now the size of the Atlas after fusing with Lotor's Sincline mech. Cue the arrival of eight Balmera, which converge all their available Quintessence to now fuse the heroes into an Atlas/Voltron hybrid.
  • Close-Enough Timeline: After piercing through several realities, Honerva finally finds one that suits her needs; a universe where Zarkon has not been corrupted and she seemingly died some time ago.
  • Expendable Alternate Universe: Honerva has no regard for the alternate realities she destroys in her quest to find the perfect one.
  • Freudian Slip: When the alternate Lotor rejects Honerva, she shows how her time as Haggar has turned her into a monster. It's all the proof the alternate Zarkon needs to say she is not his wife.
  • Humongous Mecha: We finally get to see Honerva's fusion mech in battle... and it's as big as the transformed Atlas.
  • I Reject Your Reality: In the single most literal way possible. Not wanting to live in a reality where her husband is dead and her son is... whatever happened to Lotor, Honerva straight up goes to another universe, leaving her old one - and any she passed through on the way - to collapse in her wake.
  • Meaningless Villain Victory: Honerva got what she wanted...For a few minutes. She couldn't come to grips with the fact that her time as Haggar made her unable to cope with a world where Lotor might reject her. So in her perfect world, she still loses.
  • Not Good with Rejection: When the alternate Lotor declares that Honerva isn't his mother, Zarkon offers that the shock of her return has left him in a poor emotional state to cope. Rather than choose to wait and build a relationship, Honerva instead decides to destroy the universe.

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