"I don't follow, could you explain it one more time?'' says Entrapta as I finish explaining my plan for the second time

''ughhhhh, fine I want to help you get back to your friends.'' I say in a slow easy to understand tone. ''do you understand that?"

''yes I understand but I just don't know why?'' says Entrapta

''because Hordak demoted me and I finally see things clearly.'' I say as I think of Adora

''But why help me?" asks Entrapta

''Because…because I'm a good person!" I lie.

''oh I think I get it now, you want to go to Bright Moon to be with Adora.'' Starts Entrapta ''but you know they would never accept you so you are going to use me as a…..a sign of good faith, did I get that right?"

''sigh, yes that is about right. When you say it out loud you make me sound like less of a good person.'' I say as I look at the floor, my tail droops and my ears drop.

''hey don't be sad, I'll still go with you.'' Says Entrapta

''you will!'' I practically shout "but why, if you know I'm using you why come with me.''

''the other princesses may have left me to die and they certainly don't have any good tech. but I want to be as far from this place as possible.'' Explains Entrapta ''I try to understand everything but even I can't understand Hordak.''

''ok well in that case you should pack up.'' I say as I walk her out of my dorm. ''we need to leave soon, before I'm sent on any missions.''

''one other thing Cat lady, we need to go back to my kingdom.'' Says Entrapta ''I want to see how everyone is doing in Dryl.''

''fine whatever, just get out of here before someone sees you.'' I say as I shut the door. As I close the door something falls on the other side of the dorm room. I turn my head to where the noise came from and I sniff the air for another presence. I slowly walk towards the closet on the other side of the room. As I get close I smell another person in the closet.

''shit, whoever's in there better come out.'' I say as I ready my claws. The door slowly opens and on the other side is Kyle.

''Hi Catra…..nice weather we are having.'' Says Kyle as he slowly walks out of the closet.

''god damn…..what are you doing here Kyle?" I ask extremely annoyed by his presence. ''and what did you here?"

''well I'm in here because this is my room, and I heard that you are going to leave with that princess lady.'' Says Kyle, as he finishes talking I grab him by the shirt collar and put my claws to his throat.

''and what are you going to do with that information Kyle?" I ask in a soft whisper

''don't kill me Catra, I won't tell anybody.'' Says Kyle. I drop him to the floor and turn to walk away, before I can get anywhere he grabs my arm. "Catra…..will you take me with you?''

''you want to leave the Horde with us?" I ask in surprise "why?"

''i….i have nothing here. No one even knows who I am and all we do is hurt people.'' Says Kyle as he looks at the ground "I….i talked with that Bow guy, he was really nice to me. Nicer than anyone in this place. If everyone in Bright Moon is half as nice as him than I want to be a part of that.''

''oh, well…..you can come with us then. But you slow us down and we will leave you behind!" As I finish talking Kyle's face lights up.

''thank you Catra.'' Says Kyle as he gives me a hug. This feeling is nice, I wonder if this is how Adora feels all the time.

''alright Kyle you can let go now.'' I say as I push him off me. "I get it man, meet me here tomorrow that's when we will try to get out of here.''

''ok Catra, I'll see you then.'' Says Kyle as he walks out of the dorm room. As the door closes something moves in the corner of my eye. I look but see nothing else in the room. "Just the shadow's jumping on the walls calm down Catra" I say as I walk out of the dorm room. Now I just need to say goodbye to Scorpia and I'll be good to leave this dreadful place behind me. the first place I check for Scorpia is the lunchroom and it's no surprise that I find her there. She waves me over to the food bar and I gladly walk over.

''hi ya Catra.'' Says Scorpia as she chows down on some bland looking potatoes.

''hey Scorpia.'' I say as we walk to a table together.

''so Catra, how was the talk with Lord Hordak?'' asks Scorpia ''I know he can be rough sometimes.''

''rough is one way to put it, he demoted me all the way back to fresh recruit.'' I say as I rest my head in my hand. ''I'm not his second or a force captain anymore.''

''that awful, I'm sorry to hear it. Hey if it helps at all I'll still call you boss.'' Says Scorpia, her attempt to cheer me up works but not because the joke was funny. It's just nice to have a friend again, even if I am about to betray her. I wonder if this is how Adora felt?

''yeah I don't know if I'm even gonna stick around.'' I say as I look at my nails, Scorpia stops eating and looks at me.

''you can't leave the Horde, that will be considered treason!'' says Scorpia ''besides you wouldn't want to disobey Lord Hordak''

''Lord Hordak shunned me! He used me and when I failed he tossed me aside.'' I say a little louder than I should have. I look around at all the other Horde soldiers now looking at me. "I'm not going to leave Scorpia, it's just going to be hard.'' It hurts, lying to her like this. She looks at me and smiles.

''don't worry I will help you through this, with time I'm sure Lord Hordak will promote you again.'' Says Scorpia as she reaches for my hand. I let her take it and she squeezes it with her claw "you'll be okay Catra'' I tear up when she says this. I stand up from the table and start to walk away.

''are you okay?'' asks Scorpia as I stand

''yeah I'm alright just need to be alone.'' I say as I walk away. Before I leave I turn back to face Scorpia. She looks at me confusion and sympathy in her eyes. "Goodbye Scorpia.'' Is all I can manage before turning and walking away.

"Escaping the Horde, log one we have just left the main base and now appear to be in the outskirts of the Fright Zone. The cat seems to be in distress and we have another person coming with us.'' Says Entrapta

''I am in distress Entrapta! We are trying to defect so maybe be a little quieter!'' I say in a whisper shout.

''I'm Kyle.'' Says Kyle as he holds out his hand. Entrapta shakes it with a part of her hair and doesn't look at him.

''hmm this is really fascinating, so Kyle what is it like leaving everything you've ever known, all for the small chance that the others will take us in?" asks Entrapta

''well when you put it like that it makes me feel a little less hopeful.'' Says Kyle as he rubs the back of his head.

''Entrapta no more logs or questions till we are out of the Fright Zone.'' I say as I trudge forward.

''okay sure thing.'' Says Entrapta as she puts her recorder to her face. "Escaping the Horde log two, Catra has said no more logs so the rest will be in a whisper.'' I let out a long sigh when she finishes speaking, man this is going to be a long day. After about an hour of walking we reach the wall that leads to the wild woods. Kyle points out a hole In the wall and we quickly escape the Fright Zone. As we walk deeper into the woods the Fright Zone becomes a distant dot on the horizon.

''Okay Entrapta, the deal was to go to your kingdom first so lead the way.'' I say as I cross my arms.

''wait we are going to the kingdom of Dryl!'' shouts Kyle as his face loses color "isn't that place dangerous!"

''well it was when a virus took over and made all the robots try to kill everyone!" Says Entrapta ''it really was fascinating to say the least.''

''that's Fascinating to you?'' says Kyle as his face continues to lose color ''Catra this is crazy!"

''well you can always go back.'' I say as I point back the way we came. ''but good luck in these woods alone.''

''n-no, let's keep going.'' Says Kyle after a long pause.

''Escaping the Horde log three, the boy seems distraught I'm going to continue to monitor his emotions while on the trip.'' Says Entrapta as we start walking towards Dryl. After a few hours and more breaks than I would've taken we finally arrive at the castle but everything seems off. There are Horde vehicles everywhere and the place seems picked clean.

''w-what is all this?" asks Entrapta as she runs towards her castle. Kyle and I quickly follow but half way through Kyle trips some kind of trap and he falls in a large pit.

''Kyle! Are you okay?" I ask as I run over to where he fell. He is holding on to a ledge and there are spikes below where he is hanging.

''I'm okay just get me out of here!" shouts Kyle. I reach down and grab his hand. I pull him out of the pit and we slowly make our way after where Entrapta went. When we reach the main door into the castle there is no one to be seen.

''what do you think happened here?" asks Kyle as we enter the large castle.

''I think the Horde did what they do best. They used this place and got what they wanted.'' I say as we turn down a long hallway "I think Hordak knew this place would be exposed without a princess so they came in and stole all the tech and supplies.''

''what happened to the people?" asks Kyle "I mean that village down below was empty.''

''I don't know, hopefully the villagers escaped to another kingdom.'' I say with a sigh "but if they didn't than the Horde either killed them or enslaved them.''

''The Horde enslaves people?" asks Kyle

''man you are just like Adora, yes the Horde enslaves people. They do a lot of bad things to good people.'' I say as I think back to all the raids I went on ''I stuck around because I wanted Adora and I to take over. I always thought her and I could have lead so well together. That was a long time ago though.'' In the distance I can hear Entrapta tinkering with something. "Do you hear that?" I ask Kyle as I walk towards the source of the sound.

''I don't hear anything.'' Says Kyle as he rushes to catch up to me, stupid humans and their weak ears. We enter what looks like a laboratory but everything is either missing or destroyed. Entrapta sees us and slowly walks over, her hair droops as she walks.

''Escaping the Horde log four, my home and labs have been ransacked. The people are gone from the village most likely dead or captured. All my tech and research is gone most likely stolen by the Horde. i…..i don't know what I'm going to do now.'' Says Entrapta before tears start to stream down her eyes.

''hey it's okay Entrapta not everything is lost.'' I say as I pull her into a hug.

''what isn't lost? The Horde took or destroyed everything and everyone!'' shouts Entrapta ''and by now they know we left so I can't go back there to get the tech. there were projects that I worked on for years, all just gone!"

''hey you still have your logs and the most important thing. You still have yourself.'' I say as I let her go ''everything you made or did is in here.'' I tap her head and put my hand on her shoulder ''Adora found a temple made of first ones tech. it is where I found that one crystal thing, the whole place is made of those crystals. I'm sure the rebellion will resupply you with your lost tech and more!"

''y-you know you might be right.'' Sniffles Entrapta, she wipes away her tears with her hair and smiles weakly at me "I guess we better head to Bright Moon.''

''yeah lets go.'' I say as we all walk out of the lab. We walk through the wrecked kingdom and Entrapta tears up every once in a while. We make it back to the woods but Entrapta stops and looks back at her destroyed home.

''Escaping the Horde log 5, my home and everything I knew is gone, all I have left are a few friends and people that abandoned me. But today is not all sad, with every ending there is a beginning…I hope this beginning is good.'' Says Entrapta before she clicks off her recorder.