She-ra, the Great Princess of Power

Chapter 24 Peekablue, where are you? (part 2)

Spritina started making soup for Peekablue and her guests.
Catra was sitting on the floor, with lose heart.
"I can't believe I messed up again. I'm never going to make peace with Adora" .
Claws licked her cheek to console he.
"You both have been through a lot. It's only natural that you're not capable of solving all your problems in one day" Peekablue told her.
"If you can see everywhere, you probably watched me doing some terrible stuff" Catra said.
"I did. But I saw you're trying to change. That's why I don't mind your presence" .
"You mean, you like me?" Catra hopefuly asked and Peekablue smiled to confirm.
"I wish there was a way to make Adora see what you saw" Catra sighed.
"Go talk with her. Make her see you want to be a better person" Peekablue suggested her.
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Catra went outside.
Adora was sitting on a rock, with Spirit's muzzle on her shoulder. He was trying to make her feel better, just like Claws did.
"Adora-" .
"Don't say that I should forgive you!" Adora interrupted her "You have no idea how difficult is for me to be around you. You've hurted me so much, and the worst thing is-. . . There's a small part of me that still cares about you" .
"It's not easy for me either. I can't get out of my head the look on your face when you almost-" Catra didn't finish that sentence. She reached into her hair and pulled out her mask.
"Years ago, I took something that belonged to you. Something created by a person you loved. Break my mask and we'll be even" Catra said to Adora.
"I don't want to break your mask! Catra, this eye for eye idea of yours is not going to fix anything. If we want to be okay, we have to stop hurting each other" Adora explained.
Catra sat behind her.
"I'm sorry for trying to kill you" Catra finally apologized "I did everything to please Shadow Weaver, but she was just using me as a substitude in her weird fantasy" .
"You're not the only one who was living a fantasy. Once I would have done anything to make Hordak proud of me. Turns out he kidnapped me from my real family" Adora confessed.
"He kidnapped you!?" Catra quickly turned around "I had no idea. . . All this time I thought you spat on the luck of having a caring parental figure to go with the rebells" She felt even worse.
"We're both unlucky when it comes to parental figures" Adora laughed with tears in her eyes.
"We really are!" Catra agreed and a tear streamed down her cheek.
After laughing and crying for a minute, Adora said she was glad that Adam made them go find Peekablue together.
"You know that even if I forgive you, we could never be as close as we used to be, right?" .
"I do. But I don't want to keep living with this pain in my chest" Catra answered.
"Me neither" Adora stood up and offered her a hand to stand up.
"I've heard breaking something helps to feel better after getting upset because of a bad parental figure" Adora smirked.
Catra threw her mask on the ground and stepped on it repeatedly.
"Take that, Shadow Weaver!" .
"Good job!" Adora cheered "Now you have to clean up" .
Catra collected the pieces of the mask, muttering something under her breath about Adora.
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In the town, Adam felt the ground shaking, and it wasn't an earthquake.
He saw a group of huge robots marching towards the town.
"Mermista! Perfuma! There are more robots over there!" He allerted the princesses.
They went to fight those robots that for some reason were bigger than the others.
One of them was directed to the cave of Peekablue. Perfuma and Mermista went after it, leaving He-man and Battle Cat take care of the rest.
"Surprise! What do you ladies think about my friends?" Leech was on the shoulder of that robot "They're a project that Entrapta didn't get to use. I thought it was a waste to leave them with the Horde" .
The robot blowed up the ground where the princesses where standing. Perfuma risked to fall off the cliff, but held onto a root.
Mermista didn't know what to do; there was no water she could use.
"Mermista, remember what I told you before?" Perfuma said.
"When you were about to sing?" Mermista asked.
"I wasn't, but yes. Water is what connects us all" .
"It's. . .everywhere!" Mermista understood what Perfuma telling her. So she focused and took the water out of everything around her: the small plants, the soil, the nearest clouds and even the water in Leech's body.
Mermista gathered it all in a huge bubble that was floating above her. Then she made it go inside the robot and this imploded. The water she used fell like rain.
"I did it!" Mermista esulted after destroying the robot "Perfuma, did you see-? Oh my starfish!" .
Perfuma looked like a dried grape because Mermista accidentally took her water as well.
"Are you okay?" .
"I just need a refreshing bath" Perfuma spoke with a soft voice.
"Thanks for what you told me before. I'll never take for granted the presence of water on the land again" Mermista swore.
"That makes me happy" Perfuma nodded.
The two princesses went to Leech, who was lying down, deprived of strenght.
"Water. . . Water. . ." .
"They'll give you water in prison" Mermista said and Perfuma tied his with a plant.
The princesses brought their prisoner to He-man.
They asked him about the other robots and he pointed at a pile of wreckage.
"I had so much fun!" .
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While Adora and Catra were eating Spritina's delicious soup, Peekablue prepared to use her powers.
She sat on her bed and assumed the position of meditanion. She closed her eyes and spread her tail. When she openned her eyes again, they were shining blue.
"I see the Fright Zone. It's completely empthy" Peekablue started describing what she saw "There are cables connecting all the sides to one room. A robot is controlling the metal with his arm" .
"Like Hordak did?" Catra exchanged a look with Adora.
"It's building something, but. . . Oh no!" Peekablue looked scared.
"What do you see?" Adora asked.
"A bomb! The robot is building a bomb!" .
"We have to go back to Bright Moon and tell everyone" Adora left her bowl of soup and thanked Peekablue for the help.
Catra was about to leave with her, but first she asked something to Peekablue.
"Would you mind if sometimes Claws and I visited you?" .
"Not at all. I'll be waiting for you" Peekablue answered.
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In the evening, Adora's group returned to Bright Moon.
Teela ran to Adam and lifted him up for their tipical hug.
"What happen while we were away?" Adora asked to Bow, noticing how tired they looked.
Orko was still trembling for the ice-ray.
"Shadow Weaver managed to escape. I'm sorry" Bow apologized.
"Forget about her. What matters is that you're okay" Adora patted his back.
"Of course we're okay! That witch was no match for the powerless heroes! . . . That sounded cooler in my head" Teela said and Adam laughed.
Adora looked at Lohni and Romeo.
"Look who finally decided to join us" She made way for Catra and Claws.
"We're finally together again" Catra smiled.
As it was to expect, Romeo and Lohni weren't happy to see her.
Lohni walked away and Romeo followed her right after.
In that moment, the rebells that went in the Scorpion Kingdom returned.
"Catra! I thought you were still in the Whispering Woods!" Scorpia was so relieved. She ran to her friend and Catra asked her to wait.
"Scorpia, I. . . I'm sorry for putting my desires over yours" .
"Your desires?" Scorpia didn't understand.
"I didn't want the Horde to lose the war, because if that happened you'd have returned to your kingdom" Catra confessed "You deserve a better friend" .
"And do you want to be a better friend?" Scorpia asked.
"Yes!" .
"Then I accept your apology" Scorpia patted her head with her claw.
Adora went to hug Glimmer.
"I've made sure she came back safe and sound" Sea Hawk said.
"Yeah, right. Why do I have the feeling it was the other way around?" Adora laughed.
Glimmer informed her that the Scorpion Kingdom was free from the Horde.
"But we have some terrible news. Horde Prime isn't gone" Frosta said.
"What? He survived AGAIN!?" Bow couldn't believe it.
"Yes, and he's plotting something. He's trying to build a bomb" Adora added.