One Last Adventure (Catradora)

First Mission

TRIGGER WARNING: HORDAK AND SOME REFERENCE TO SEASON FOUR!!

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Adora and I both get dressed in our space suits, and I quietly exit the room to wait on the platform. Glimmer and Bow wait for me, and Melog follows not far behind me.

The silence as we wait for Adora, Entrapta, Hordak and Wrong Hordak is devastating to my ears. I know they hate me, but them not showing any signs of hatred hurts me more than it would if they were yelling and screaming at me.

When we defeated Horde Prime and told everyone that we were going to restore magic to the universe, Entrapta wanted to go so bad that she practically begged Adora to let her come along. One thing led to another, and Wrong Hordak and Hordak tagged along. Oh, and Emily.

Last I saw of them, Entrapta was working on making Hordak's body look more like, well, himself.

And before we left, Glimmer spent some quality time with her father. He wanted to come, but Glimmer convinced him that if one more person decided to come along, the ship would sustain heavy damage. So he stayed behind to care for Etheria while we left.

I hear Entrapta and Hordak before I see them. "Yes, I feel way more like myself now! Thank you, Entrapta."

Entrapta's cheerful voice enters my ears. "Anytime! Now, where did Wrong Hordak go...? Oh well, you go wait outside with the others, I'll look for him and Emily."

I gasp as I see a sight I have not seen in a while. Hordak steps onto Krytis, his hair dyed back to dark blue, and his eyes and teeth changed back to red. He wears a space suit that Entrapta must have made for him, and smiles.

I jump back and hiss, my tail stiffening. Melog turns red and growls at him.

Hordak sees me and blinks. "Ah, Catra. How strange to see yet another familiar yet different face--"

"Don't talk to me." I straighten and attempt to relax my body. "You and I have nothing to talk about."

He squints. "Really? So you lying to me about Entrapta is nothing??"

I roll my eyes. "Well, things seem to have worked out now, so stop meddling in the past, alright?"

Hordak's eyes widen, and he steps towards me. "You dare speak to me that way--?!"

"Whoa, Hordak!" Entrapta maneuvers around Hordak with her hair and blocks him from reaching me. "It's okay! I've forgiven her."

Melog steps in front of me as if to keep me from attacking him.

"Yeah, Hordak," I cross my arms and look at him provokingly. "She's forgiven me!"

Hordak steps forward one more time, but Entrapta holds her arms in front of him to stop him. "Hordak!"

After a minute, he smirks. "You're right, Entrapta." He turns away. "We wouldn't want Catra hurting another one of her friends."

The way he says friends makes me snap. I yell out and lunge at him in anger, my claws outstretched and ready to tear flesh.

"Catra, no!" Adora slams into me in midair, and I yelp as we fall to the ground.

I try to push her off but she holds firm, pinning my arms and legs to the ground with her own. I thrash and yell. "Adora, get off of me!!!"

"Calm down, Catra!"

I shake my head and tears fall. "No! I can't calm down, I won't! You can't--!"

Adora slowly leans down and kisses me gently on the forehead. I freeze in shock and stare up at her.

"Catra," she lets go of my arms and lifts my head to her shoulder, with her hand on the back of my head stroking it gently. "Calm down, it's okay. I'm here."

I can't move an inch of my body. That was just so... sudden. Wait, has she been waiting to do that?! For how long?!?!

After a long moment, I realize that everyone's watching. I yell out and shove Adora off of me. "H-Hey! Personal space!!"

Adora sits up and raises an eyebrow at me, looking very cocky. "You didn't seem to have a problem with personal space last night, or earlier this morn--"

I blush furiously and jump at her, landing on top of her. "Shaddup!"

She laughs and snorts at me. "You know, you are so cute when you're angry!"

I laugh sarcastically. "Oh, you think I'm cute when I'm angry? Well get ready, because I'm about to get gorgeous!"

Our bickering goes on for a minute or two, until Entrapta clears her throat. "Um, not to alarm anyone, but we've been here for about half an hour." She looks at Hordak and raises the tips of her pony tails as if shrugging. "Are we going, or what?"

Emily walks out of the ship with Wrong Hordak and beeps.

Entrapta gasps. "Emily!"

She hugs Emily and examines her with her pig-tails. "You're sure you're not hurt? No malfunctioning or anything?? You've been missing for hours!"

Wrong Hordak steps. "That would be because we were playing hide and seek!" He winks.

Entrapta blinks. "Ah. Alright then." She pulls out her tracker-pad and sighs. "Okay, I'm done waiting, so if any of you want to come with, now would be a good time."

As she starts walking off, she looks behind her to see all of us following. "Ah, good."

We walk for a long while without talking. After another long while, I groan and throw my head back. "Okay, Entrapta, what exactly are we looking for??"

Entrapta whips around and grabs me by the shoulders with her pigtails. "Oh, ANYTHING! Anything that has magic of any kind! Artifacts, potions, unknown substances, ANYTHING!!" She laughs maniacally.

I look at her and sigh. "How's your luck?"

"Well..." She turns back around and looks at her tracker-pad. "I can't seem to find any readings... But no matter!" She grabs the tracker-pad with her pigtails and plants her hands on her hips. "If scientific investigation was easy, no one would want to do it!"

No one wants to do it anyway.

After a minute of silence, Melog halts in their tracks.

I stop too and look back at them. "Melog? Come on, we've gotta go."

They shake their head and walk after me. But a second later, they let out a growl.

When I look back, I see Melog shake their head again. Their mane and eyes switch from red back to blue, and I start to get worried.

"Melog?"

Out of nowhere, they turn to red and stay that way. They look up and roar at me, and they start to grow.

Until they tower over me.

Oh no.