Makuta, Scorpia, and Perfuma walked out of the tent and went in the direction the other villager had ran. Scorpia vouched to take the lead, while Makuta and Perfuma followed close behind. Reaching a crowd of people gathered around something, the three moved through the crowd, coming out of it to see Skorp standing there, eyes narrowing as he saw their approach. Waspix hovered next to him.
"Woah," Scorpia said; the armor was new to her, especially the four insectoid legs.
"Skorp?" she said.
"So, you actually recognized me." Skorp said.
"I don't understand, what happened to you?"
"You mean you don't remember?"
"No, I thought you were dead."
Skorp chuckled: "No, but I came close. I was somehow saved at the last minute."
"By who?" Scorpia asked. Behind her, Makuta was slowly figuring that very thing out; Scorpia had said they attacked one of Entrapta's towers. If that exploded, than that only meant that Skorp wasn't wearing armor, and that he got this new robotic body from…
Makuta facepalmed: "Of course she did…"
"What?" Perfuma asked.
"Remind me to smack Entrapta when we get back."
Scorpia overheard this: "Wait," she said to Skorp, "Entrapta saved you?"
Here, Waspix nodded, "Yup, she sure did. Skorp doesn't remember much here so I'll fill the details in."
"Who even are you?" Scorpia asked.
"My name's Waspix. I'm Skorp's cyber partner in combat."
Skorp waved the wasp aside, then turned back to Scorpia, eyes narrowed.
"Look," Scorpia said, slowly walking towards Skorp, "I'm sorry for what happened. I didn't want to leave you; you were my friend."
"Then why did you?" Skorp demanded.
"Because I was in the Horde then. Do you have any idea what would happen if Hordak had found out I had put someone's life above the mission?"
Skorp thought for a moment; Scorpia actually did have a point there. Hordak did not take acts of selflessness in his ranks lightly. In fact, he actually had seen it as weakness.
"After that day, I constantly regretted leaving," Scorpia continued, "I never forgot about it. But I've changed now; I left the Horde."
"You did?" Skorp asked.
Scorpia nodded: "And I'm not the only one," she said pointing to Makuta behind her.
"Wait, I know you." Skorp said to Makuta: "You're the guy who kept showing up Double Trouble."
"You know about that?" Makuta asked.
Skorp nodded: "The guy would NOT shut up about it; he really hated you."
"Makes sense."
Skorp returned his attention to Scorpia: "So, you and him defected."
"And two others: Adora and Catra." Scorpia said, "We realized what the Horde really was, so we switched sides and began fighting back."
Skorp nodded: "I was doing that same thing. I actually attacked a squad of soldiers last night."
"We figured," Makuta said, "One of them crawled into the town this morning."
"I see."
Scorpia made it next to Skorp: "So, will you accept my apology? Are we still friends?"
The two scorpions stared at each other for a few moments. Finally, Skorp sighed and said: "I guess so."
Lighting up, Scorpia hugged Skorp tightly: "I'm still a hugger." She said.
"Yeah, no kidding," Skorp hoarsely said. Once Scorpia let go, Skorp retracted his insectoid legs, combining them until they became normal, mechanical humanoid legs.
"So, what now?" Waspix asked.
As if on cue, a scream was heard behind them. The group whipped around to see a Horde spider robot rampaging through the town.
"Now," Makuta said, raising his shotgun, "We kick that thing's ass."
"Can't argue with that." Skorp said.
"So, what's the plan?" Scorpia said.
"Skorp, you specialize in sneak attack, right?" Makuta said.
"Yeah, why?" Skorp asked.
"While the rest of us keep it distracted from here, you can come around and ambush it. We're bound to find a weakness on it."
"I like where you're going with that." Skorp said.
"I'm in." Scorpia said.
"Let's rock!" Waspix yelled.
"I'll go help the other people get to safety," Perfuma said.
Makuta nodded, and the princess ran off. Then, facing the bot, said: "Let's go!"
The group ran towards the bot: Makuta began firing at its head to get its attention.
"Over here, gear brain!" he shouted. The robot stopped and faced Makuta, unaware that Scorpia and Waspix had moved to either side of it; Skorp was nowhere to be seen. Makuta continued firing his gun, putting multiple holes in the armor until he ran out of ammo. Then, holstering his gun, he bared his claws and ran towards the bot. The robot charged up a laser cannon to fire at him, but before it could, he dove under the bot, raking his claws against the underside and tearing massive gashes in the armor. The bot tried to turn around, but was stopped as Scorpia and Waspix held two of its legs in place.
"NOW!" Wspix cried.
Suddenly, the ground below the bot erupted as Skorp shot out of the ground, driving his claws through the damaged underside and tearing the bot in half. The bot then crashed to the ground, and the people watching the fight began cheering for the heroes. Makuta simply smiled and waved back at the crowd. Then, he looked over at the others. Scorpia and Skorp high fived each other while Waspix flew around in joy. Makuta suddenly had an idea; he walked up to Skorp.
"Ya, know. I just thought of something. He said."
"What is it?" Skorp asked.
"Recently I've been trying to put together a team. One composed of real fighter that don't really fit in anywhere. I'm calling it the Rogue Squad."
"Are we fighting the Horde and other villains?" Skorp asked.
"Of course." Makuta asked.
"Then I'm in."
"Count me in too!" Waspix said.
"Well alright then," Makuta said, "Catra's gonna love this. Now, let's finish hunting those Horde survivors down, because I really need to have a talk with that geek, Entrapta when we get back to Brightmoon."
Author's note: This ends Skorp and Waspix's section of the intro chapters. I know Waspix didn't get much spotlight here, but that's because she's meant to be a mysterious character. Next, we have the survivor of an ancient race. This time, Frosta is going to be the one with her hands full as we see the appearance of the Fire Knight: PYROC.