Hardships

Returning to Camp

Adora's POV:

"Lets go fuckers! We gotta save our friends!", Glimmer yells grabbing all of us and yelling, "TO BRIGHTMOONN!", My eyes widen and before we knew it we teleported to Brightmoon. "Man! I've missed this!", Glimmer says excitedly, putting her hands on her hips. Catra falls on her knees and covers her mouth and grumbles, "I could've maybe gone with a warning Sparkles!". I crouch down and rub her back, helping her up. Thats when a huge rumble made all of us whirl around. My eyes widened in horror as the castle was falling apart.

Glimmer dropped to her knees and cried out, "No! God damn it! No. NO. We were too late!". I sigh and put a hand on her shoulder, "Its ok, Glimmer we'll build it up again ok? We just need to find ou-", Catra growls and jumps on Melog and says, "You all go find the alliance. Im going to take Prime's clones and bots down. Maybe we cant rebuild it completely but I'll make sure there is a foundation that we can build off of". My eyes widen and both Bow and I grab her and say, "Stop!".

Catra looks at me and says, "I'll be fine Adora. Go find your friends. I need- I need to see if I could do something to stop it all from crashing down. Get the survivors out of there". I shake my head and say, "Catra you're being impulsive! Stop, and think. Theres a whole damn fleet out there. You can DIE. Please think about this. I appreciate you being selfless and trying to help but you wont be helpful if you die". Catra takes her hand off my shoulder and pressed a kiss to it to the back of it and says, "Let me do this Adora. I need to do this. Its not fair that all those people are having to watch their home burn down. Trust me, when the Frightzone was blown up it was horrific for me to watch. Maybe if I can help them it'll settle any demons im dealing with. Let me try". I sigh and say with a shaky sigh , "Fuck me, fine".

Catra smiled a soft smile and turned to look at Bow and says, " Bow, I'll be fine. Stay with Adora and Glimmer. Make sure they're safe and make sure that you can all take off the chips of your friends. From my experience they need some type of electrical current to cancel out the surges that are running through their nervous system. They're all connected through a Hive Mind". Bow nods and pats her shoulders and says, "Listen, I'll protect them with my life and we'll try and figure out what happened with our friends. But you better get back to us safely or I swear I'll beat your ass myself. You will be ok. And you will help those people and you will join us and help us save Etheria alright, so here take this", Bow says with a pause before digging into his pocket and digging out a small device.

"Put this on the back of your ear, its a tracker. I can send you my location and once you get it a small map will appear on your wrist right here", He says taking a tracker pad that look like a bracelet and strapping it onto her wrist pointing to the blue crystal on it. "You will see a blinking blue light that represents all of us. You can also send us our location by tapping the crystal or the tracker 3 times". Catra nods and puts the tracker behind her ear. "Thanks Bow-Man", Catra says squeezing his shoulder before saying, "I'll meet all of you once I figure out the situation with Brightmoon, ok? May we meet again".

I nod and run over to her, hugging her and whispering in her ear, "We will meet again Catra. You're brave and strong and adorable. Come back to me ok? And please safe". Catra pulls back and tucks a strand of hair behind my ear and presses a soft and sweet kiss on my forehead and says softly, "I always am princess", Before winking at me and rubbing Melog's mane and saying, "Lets go bud", in a voice that I could only describe as strong. I watched as she ran into the battlefield, jumping off Melog and destroying Prime's bots like it was nothing. I watched as she and Melog reappeared and disappeared, fighting off the bots and running off in the distance until I could see was a tiny dot resembling Catra and Melog.

I felt hands on my shoulders and turn to see Bow and Glimmer and Entrapta and Wrong Hordak looking at me with sympathy. I sigh and take their hands in mine and say, "I know where our friends are. Just take my hand and Glimmer will be able to take us there. Catra will be fine. Our friends are not". Glimmer nods and says, "Everyone hold on tight. We're going to find our friends".

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We teleported in front of the trees that protected our friend's camp. I put my hand on the bark of the trees and whisper, "Eternia". The trees open up to reveal a wall that was built up around what I remembered was the camp from before I went off into space. A gate opened and a voice called out: "PUT YOUR HANDS UP, WEAPONS DOWN AND SHOW US YOUR NECKS!". Before we knew it we were wrapped up in plant roots and flowers, our weapons thrown on the ground, and our hands were forced up in the air.

"Is that really you guys?", Frosta says as she approaches us cautiously. I nod and say, "Yeah, its us Frosta". Frosta growls and jumps ontop of the roots, climbing over our upheld hands and moving our hair out of the way. "They're not chipped!", Frosta announces and before we knew it our hands were released, and we were greeted with Shadow Weaver, Perfuma, Swift Wind, Sea Hawk, Netossa, and Glimmer's aunt Castaspella.

"YOU'RE BACK!" They all yell. Swift Wind wraps his hooves around my body and squeals, " ADORA! YOU'RE BACK I KNEW YOU WERE BACK! I COULD FEEL YOU! IM SO SO SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE!". I giggle and hug him tighter and say, "Im glad Im here too Swifty". I pull back and Im tackled into a hug by Frosta and Perfuma. "Thank you! Finally! Im no longer in charged!", Perfuma cries out hugging me tight. I hug her back with wide eyes and say, "Ok uh take all out of it out Perfuma". Perfuma cries into my shoulder and I rub her back before Frosta shoved her out of the way and says, "Adora! Its been hell without you guys here! Im glad you're here now though. We need to help Mermista, Scorpia, and Spinnerella, and Micah. They're all chipped".

I nod and say, "We've got it ok? We have information on Prime that will help us ok? Lets just go into camp". Frosta nods and I turn to see everyone greeting eachother and hugging each other, especially Glimmer and Castaspella. Frosta grabs my hand gently and pulls me in.

We'll take on Prime and Catra will come back with Melog and we will figure out a way to make sure that Prime will never touch Etheria or any other planet it the universe again.

To be continued...