**TW: Domestic abuse. Read at your own discretion ples!**
No one had any idea what to do, everything just seemed so hopeless.
"What about the Rebels? Have you received anything yet?" Adora asked, pacing the room nervously.
"Nothing... Adora, I'm trying but no one's answering. I think they're all gone" Bow sighed, shaking his head.
Adora huffed, turning away as Entrapta hummed.
"Uh-oh, I think I found the blockade Perfuma was talking about..." She murmured from her spot where she was hunched over her tablet.
A pink hologram lit up the windows in front of her displaying a scene where a hundred-- no, a thousand-- sleek Horde ships pointed downwards at a cloudy planet.
Etheria.
"That's a lot of ships..." Bow and Harley mumbled as they gaped at the picture before them.
Glimmer ranted about how much space hated her because it had severed her connection with her runestone but Adora spoke up next, a determined glint in her eye as she declared that they were going home regardless.
Catra wasn't a fan of the idea.
"So your plan is to... What? Ram through an armada of ships?" She scoffed from where she was sat at the bottom of the pilot seat.
"No!" Adora announced, her tone a little loud, "Maybe! We have to try!"
Catra jumped to her feet, the movement startling Harley as she reared on the blonde, her fists curled into balls at her sides as she snapped at her, "You heard Perfuma! They're waiting for us! They're going to catch us and if they do..." Catra's hands started to shake, a worried crease in her brow before her expression shifted back to that of monumental disinterest, "Take it from someone who's defeated you guys, like, a lot: Charging in without a plan won't work."
"OK, well, heh, you didn't defeat us." Adora scoffed, nudging Catra with a disgruntled glare and the cat-girl only rolled her eyes.
"Adora... Catra's right." Bow sighed, turning around to meet the squabbling girls."That felt weird to say... We barely made it out last time we tangled with Prime, we need to figure out another way to help our friends. Catra, you were with him, does he have any, kind of, I don't know, weaknesses?"
"What?! You think he'd tell me?" Catra snarled and Harley moved to stand beside her, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder and she calmed down but shrugged it off.
"You are correct, Brother" Wrong Hordak spoke up from behind the squad and everyone screeched, spinning around to meet his towering form, "We do not discuss Horde Prime's weakness."
"Uhhh, well-- huh... So that means Horde Prime does have a weakness." Adora concluded as everyone stared intently at Wrong Hordak who tilted his head at them all, ears downturned and glowing, green eyes narrowed.
"No... Horde Prime is all-powerful", his right eye twitched and Bow groaned as Catra raised an eyebrow at Wrong Hordak.
"You just said--"
"We do not discuss Horde Prime's weakness. We do not discuss Krytis--" Wrong Hordak chuckled awkwardly, sweat beading his forehead and Harley narrowed her eyes to slits.
"What's Krytis?" Glimmer asked and Harley didn't fail to notice the way Catra's eyes glazed over as she gazed down at her feet and a droplet of sweat dripped down her temple.
The cat-girl tenderly rubbed the swollen flesh at the back of her neck, her eyes widening for a moment. Harley placed her arm gently on her elbow and Catra jerked to the side, staring up at her concerned face.
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Forever Fallen (Catra x OC She-Ra Fanfic)
Fanfikce~~Before we get into anything, can we please talk about the AMAZING fanart by Jen Bartel I used for the cover? It really, truly did make me that much gayer~~ Harley was your average young adult, leading her average young adult life, until one day, s...
