She-Ra: Codename Resurrection

CHAPTER I: Maiden Voyage

The engines roared for two long minutes before the ship had completely left the Etherian atmosphere. Over the week, Entrapta had distracted herself with the ship and the vast wealth of First Ones tech onboard - adding restraints, editing the sleeping chambers, playing with the high-speed engine, taking things apart and putting them back together. The few times Scorpia dropped by, Entrapta had been working silently, her visor down, and said nothing. But now, apparently back to normal, Entrapta was the only one cackling over the screams of the rest of the crew as the ship sped out of the sky and into the vacillating blacks and purples and yellows of space.

As soon as the ship reached a comfortable cruising speed, Entrapta furiously unlocked her own restraints and headed to the viewport. The stars beyond sparkled enticingly, and the buttons below lit up in patterns she'd memorized three times over, begging her to take control.

A violet sphere popped up above the dashboard. "Welcome back, Entrapta," a digital voice intoned.

She burst into laughter and leapt forwards to hug the sphere. "Darla!" She hadn't noticed that everyone else had also released themselves from their restraints. Scorpia approached the viewport slowly as Entrapta began running the first docket of diagnostics.

"Gosh," Scorpia breathed, looking up at the swirling stars above. Without noticing, she leaned forwards onto the dashboard. Immediately, it lit up with the first stage of the advanced autotracking procedure and Scorpia leapt back. "Oh, that's my fault! Sorry. I didn't realize the whole thing was buttons."

"Oh, yes," Entrapta replied, quickly shutting down the procedure and pulling up another diagnostic holo-screen. "This is the dashboard, which is Darla's primary control panel. Say hi, Darla!"

"Welcome, passenger," Darla intoned.

"Oh, uh..." Scorpia leaned in and gently poked the side of the hovering violet sphere. "Hey, Darla. How is this happening?"

"Arcanomechanical nanotech!" Entrapta replied. "The crystals that fuel Darla are processed into magical energy through a helical plasma engine, which is diverted through the rest of the ship! Into the thrusters, into the nanotech interface, and into the weapons!"

Scorpia blinked. "Oh."

Entrapta turned, recognizing that maybe she was speaking over her. "Uh... the ship... eats crystals... and makes very small robots."

"Ooh!" Scorpia brightened and tapped the side of the sphere again. "So it's a bunch of tiny robots?"

"Looks good. We're on track for the blue planet, which we have not named yet." she heard from behind her, and whipped around. Bow was standing there, his tracker pad in his hand. He paused as she turned. "Wait, did you say something about weapons?"

"Of course!" Entrapta replied cheerfully, opening the repair-showfloor graphic, which materialized momentarily where Darla's sphere was. "I rigged her with plasma pulse launchers on either side, with turrets! I had to take out two of the sleeping chambers to do it, but I think we still have enough."

Bow stammered a lot and then waved his tracker pad. "How many beds do we have?"

"Sleeping chambers! And, um..." She searched the realtime diagnostics. "Four."

"Four?" Bow turned around to make sure no one else heard.

"Hey, I'll sleep out here," Scorpia offered. "If the sleeping chambers are those little things we saw on the way in, I don't think I'd fit anyway."

"See, Bow, it's fine," Entrapta said, shaking his head a little between her pigtails. "I'll be sleeping out here, too. Someone has to keep an eye on the bridge. And it's me. I'm the one who's going to keep an eye on the bridge."