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Catra Pov
Catra was pissed, after all that planning, they lost because of a rainbow. “A fucking rainbow... Ugh”. Her strategy was foolproof they (She) only lost because of magic. “I bet I would be unstoppable if I had magic, then I’d show Adora she’s not special”.
Looking up Catra noticed that she was outside of the Black Garnet camber. After the battle, the room was cleared of all Entrapta’s tech and moved to her lab. Stepping inside Catra was met with the memories of her youth in this room. Useless beast “Fuck off...I beat you”. Scanning around the room she noticed a book that was left on top of the shelf. “Let’s see what we have here.” Skimming through the book she quickly realized that this was a journal, herself.
{Catra-Magicat
I have to find a way to drain this beast again before her untapped magic has a chance to manifest itself. I need to do this by next week or she may unknowingly break the spell on her memories.
I know she helped Adora escape from here, I am surprised she didn’t leave with her, but she is just like me.}
“That bitch..she fuck!!!!.’ Catra turned to stare at the runestone rage boiling over the longer she stood there. Catra put her hand on the stone watching it glow where her hand was. “Give me power, I deserve it, Scorpia doesn’t want you.” Pressing her claws into the stone, Catra felt the stone crack. Black lighting cracked throughout the room surrounding her. She could feel it seeping into her skin burning as it went.
Brightmoon
3 years with no horde activity had the alliance relaxing too much. Queen Angelia had all but put the thought of the war and missions out of her mind. Enjoying the relative peace of not being attacked.
Glimmer on the other hand was pissed, always trying to find something to do now that we were all basically grounded in the castle.
Adora was torn with everything, the horde not attacking couldn’t mean anything good now that she knew that Catra was the strategist. Back during training, Catra was always better in that class and every strategy that they used in simulations was planned by her.
“What is she planning it must be something big after that last battle.” Adora stared out the window of her balcony watching the leaves blow on the trees of the forest. This wasn’t peace more like the eye of a hurricane and she could feel that things were about to change.
Pink sparkles started forming inside the room before Glimmer and Bow appeared both looking shocked. “We caught two horde soldiers!!!” She Glimmer shouted with a huge smile grabbing Adora before teleporting away.
The best friend squad appeared in the war room seeing two horde soldiers wrapped in vines both looking uncaring. Basic horde training never show any fear or give up information if captured
Glimmer stormed over to the prisoners “What is the horde planning? Why haven’t any other soldiers or bots been seen? “
Looking at the soldiers Adora noticed that she knew both, the chaos twins Rex and Riley duo force captains. The other princesses started throwing out their own questions while the prisoners just looked at Adora with blank faces. “We aren’t in the horde anymore” Riley spoke up with a huff flipping her red hair out of her calculating jade eyes.
The queen picked that moment to speak during the questioning. “So you two are here to join the rebellion then?” laughter erupted from the twins after hearing the question.
“No horde defector would join the rebellion, fighting for a ruler that doesn’t understand what it’s like to be raised being expendable, Adora is an outlier.”
Glimmer gasped before yelling. “ Adora is our best friend not horde scum like the rest of you.”
The twins shared a look before looking at the princesses, and then Riley spoke. “Best friends after a few months hmmm she was best friends with Catra for 14 years before stabbing her in the back or was it she dropped her best friend with benefits.”
No why would they bring that up..C-Catra never brought that up.
Adora backed up feeling herself start to panic anticipating the looks of disgust that the rest of the alliance would be giving her knowing that her secret was out.
“Adora? “Bow gently grabbed her shoulder trying to ground her while talking softly. “Hey, take a deep breath we can talk about it later.”
Glimmer couldn’t believe what she just heard, Adora used to be with that scum willingly, how many years had that been going on before she left.
“Dating isn’t allowed in the horde hahaha…but nothing is wrong with blowing off steam, Adora didn’t like sharing but after she left others finally understood why she kept a tight hold on that one” Riley smirked while talking making sure Adora got the meaning of her words before turning to her brother.
Rex nodded looking around the room. “Well, this has been fun, but we have an appointment to keep..” Before anyone else could say any he dropped a pellet on the ground, thick black smoke enveloped the room, and a laser could be heard.
Spinnerella cleared the room as quickly as she could, but the prisoners were gone, only leaving broken vines and a piece of paper where they stood moments ago.
{Earn freedom with The Requiem}
Adora had read that note multiple times hiding in her room. After the prisoners escaped all the other princesses and Angela tried to ask about what life was like in the horde. She ran to her room not wanting to go down that rabbit hole right now if ever. I need to get out of the castle, maybe Light Hope has something for me to do.
Once the sun set Adora decided to sneak out to the Crystal Castle. She made her way there quickly hoping to disappear before anyone noticed that she was gone. Light Hope told her to track a signal to the Crimson Waste, which meant she would need to go back to Brightmoon for supplies.
The walk back was slow, remembering the smirk on Riley’s face and what she about her Catra..no no she’s not mine…ugh did Catra and Riley…nope not thinking about it.
“So Riley is one of the others but who else.” I just said to not think about that…why am I still thinking about it? How long did she wait before moving on…stop it we don’t need to think about it.
Hey Adora…the answer to that question you want to ask is yes so much better, don’t forget you left me but you’ll never guess who I had in my bed. “Just what I need Catra’s voice in my head.. -_- I’m not going crazy.”
Getting back to her room Adora makes a list of what she would need to make the trip before realizing that she didn’t have a map to plan with. Damnit I need a tracker pad and Bow has those. Her train of thought stops as she sees one on the floor halfway under a dresser. “Yes, it’s time to get out of here.” Wow, I’m so shocked not even asking anyone to cover for you this time.
With a clenched fist, she walked through the halls taking care to not be seen or heard, she did have practice sneaking around from her time In the horde. So this shouldn’t be too hard to do.
Adora made it to the woods once again a took off running as fast as her legs would take her. Hoping to put some distance between herself and the castle.
So why go alone? Don’t you need your sidekicks to blame when this plan goes to shit? “Can you stop now?” Hmmm, let me think…nopppe.
Brightmoon in the morning
“What do you mean Adora isn’t here?” Swift Wind grunted looking at the princesses. “We have a sacred bond so I’m telling her herd that she isn’t here but like near the Crimson Waste.” Glimmer jumped up from her seat with a huge grin. “ Well you know what that means, we have a mission to help Adora with whatever she’s doing.”
Teleporting everyone to the other side of the Whispering Woods they all saw Adora fussing at herself.
Adora POV
Great why did they all find me and now I’ll have to go back? Or you can do what you do best and leave them behind. “Fuck off I didn’t…” Shit, I said that out loud.
Turning around she saw that everyone was giving her this weird look. “Um hey guys, what are you doing here?” “ For Adventure!!! of course.” Sea Hawk yelled with a huge smile on his face. Perfuma stepped closer before telling her that Swift Wind gave them her location and that they wanted to join so they did.
Haha ah guess it won’t just be us together princess. There is no us. Who’s fault is that ooh it's yours. Adora put on a smile before explaining what the plan was. Now backed up by the best friend squad, Perfuma, Mermista, and Sea Hawk they made their way into the desert.
After walking for what felt like an hour they came to a stop at the Cantina that they had gone to before but noticed a crimson banner with a gold half-moon on it.
Going inside everyone came to an abrupt halt upon seeing Riley sitting with Huntara laughing.