Electric Love

Protocol

Today, Adora and I have training with Light Hope. We have been training with her the past several weeks and I have had this feeling that I can't quite place. She has been having me do separate training with her to focus on concentrating my powers into big output to power up things. I have no clue why but she's been very harsh about it. It's been making me exhausted. I know she's important to Adora and her training so I try to ignore it. After rushing through my doctors exam and rushing to the pasture, I meet Adora and Swift Wind to head to the Crystal Castle. 

"How did it go?" Adora asks. 

"Good, my bruising is gone and the burns are almost healed." I tell her. 

Light Hope has set up the room as the Fright Zone and has created several bots. I give Adora a look before we charge ahead towards the bots, me frying their circuits and She-Ra slicing them with her sword. It was pretty easy. 

"Either we're getting too good at this or its just too easy." I joke to She-Ra. 

She smirks before jumping on top of a bot balancing on it. Light Hope appears and doesn't seem impressed. 

"You are not taking your training seriously." Light Hope says. 

"What? Me? That doesn't sound like me. Does it, Ella?" She jokes.

I smile at her sarcasm, "No. Not at all, Blondie."

"Adora." Light Hope says sternly. 

"Ugh. Come on, Light Hope. It's not like I'm learning anything new here." She-Ra points out.

"Then I must offer more hands-on instruction. There is a bot behind..." Light Hope says before She-Ra throws her sword and I electrocute it. 

It falls and explodes, She-Ra and I turning back towards Light Hope. Adora crosses her arms like a little child does when disciplined. She gives a sideways glance at Light Hope. 

"Am I done now?" Adora mumbles. 

"I sense resistance." Light Hope says. 

"Because this is useless. I don't need more training. I need answers. We're fighting a war, and the Horde has been one step ahead at every turn. Glimmer thinks they're tracking She-Ra somehow. Is it because my sword is First Ones tech? Or because I'm a First One? And what does that even mean? Who were they? When we found Mara's ship, she left a recording behind..." Adora spins out before Light Hope interrupts. 

"Adora. Mara was compromised. And so was Electra. They became unhinged." Light Hope tells Adora and I. 

"She didn't seem unhinged and neither does Electra, from what Ella tells me. They seemed scared. And Mara was talking about a weapon. If there's something that can protect us from the Horde, I need to know about it." Adora says strongly. 

"Once you balance the planet, all will be clear. It is your purpose as She...She...She...She...." Light Hope stutters out before she starts glitching.  

"Oh, wow. Really? Way to avoid the subject." Adora says frustrated.  

 "Hey, we'll figure this out. With or without her." I say grabbing her hand. 

"I know. It would be a lot easier with her though." Adora groans in frustration. 

We waiting in front of Light Hope for a few more seconds before we try to open the doors. But of course they are stuck because Light Hope is glitching. Adora wedges her sword between the door and she pulls while I push using my super speed. 

"Stupid glitchy door." Adora grunts. 

Adora falls back and I slip and fall on my face. 

"That is not the Sword of Protection's intended purpose. Or the purpose of Electra's powers." Light Hope informs.