The Tides Of War

once upon a time in the waste

Huntara and the others had gone into the ship. Heat radiating off of the metal interior, everything seemed to have been looted. Huntara claiming that if they didn't want anything to be taken they should've bolted everything down.

As Adora shielded everyone from the bats. They entered the control room. Looking around.

Bow touches a console, which beeps and activates screen

He shouts then recognizes the text, "This is it. This is the same message from my tracker pad."

Another hologram materializes

Bow shouts again.

Mara's hologram speaks, "I am Mara, She-Ra of Etheria, and I am gone."

Adora tries to speak to it. Silver watching in confusion. "Mara. I have so many questions for you. I don't even know where to start."

Mara's hologram loops, "I am Mara, She-Ra of Etheria, and I am gone."

Adora tries again, "Um... Hi? I'm Adora."

Mara's hologram loops again, "I am Mara, She-Ra of Etheria, and I am gone."

"Well, that's unsettling." Silver nods.

Adora frets, "No. No, no. This isn't it. I've done this before. There's usually a password or something."

Mara's hologram kept looping, getting rather annoying, "I am Mara, She-Ra of Etheria, and I am gone."

Adora tries and tries, "Eternia. I have the sword. I am She-Ra. Administrator detected! Speak to me!"

"I am Mara, She-Ra of Etheria, and I am gone."

Adora laughs maniacally, and Silver's ears flatten.

"Uh..Adora?" Glimmer worried for her friend.

"Of course it's on a loop. Of course it is. Because why would a hologram ever give me a straight answer? Solve a puzzle. Train. Let go. I do everything they tell me, waiting for answers, And all I'm left with is... is... Why was I taken from my family? Why was I forced to become a soldier? Why did I come here if this was nothing but another dead end?"

Adora punches console which beeps, revealing a hologram of a sword hilt. She gasps.

Bow tries, "Adora, I'm sorry. Maybe we can –"

Adora places sword in console which activates, another hologram of Mara, hopefully they one they were looking for.

Mara hologram weeps, "I don't have much time. I barely made it out... If you are seeing this, it means you wield the Sword. You are the new She-Ra. It means we failed. I was supposed to be the last. And I am so, so sorry.

Silver's eyes widened at the hologram and she stood next to Adora. Something caught her eye and she looked down. Someone's shoulder and tail at the side of the chair.
They seemeed to be struggling to keep themselves up.

Mara's hologram, "I don't know what they told you, but it wasn't all bad at first. We were the first ones to settle Etheria, to really study this planet's magic. How could it go so wrong? Light Hope use the-- Can't-- Weapon-- The weapon-- Weapon--"

Adora tried, "What weapon? Bow, how's it going? Have you fixed it?"

Bow called back, "I'm trying, but I think the message got damaged when the ship crashed."
Silver touched Adora and pointed at the other figure in the message, Adora gasped.
"Thalia? " Silver nodded.

"

I opened a portal to a completely empty dimension and pulled Etheria in. We hid us from the rest of the universe to keep everyone safe. This is the one place they'll never find us. I saw what they would do. The deaths that would follow. I couldn't stop them before, but I can now. Hiding is our only option. Maybe it's been a week. Maybe it's been thousands of years. I never wanted to be a hero. I won't be remembered as one."
"Heroes aren't that bad," A chuckle made Mara sob and laugh as well.