Catra was pacing around her Force Captain's quarters in absolute distress. "Why did I let them leave.. or better yet WHY The FUCK did I let them leave with Adora's Hordak damned magic best friend-stealing life-destroying bullshit sword!?" She slammed her face on her firm mattress and let out a mighty groan. Oh you know damn well why~ the voice on her head teased Catra with flashes of Adora.

The reasons didn't matter now Catra told herself. The damage was already done, Shadow Weaver had eyes and ears everywhere in the Fright Zone even unconscious Shadow Weaver would know what she did. The Magicat had only one option left for her continued survival; she needed to run.

Catra quickly packed up what little items she owned or stolen over the years and all the ration bars she had on her sadly they were the brown ones. But hey crap food is better than no food when you are running away from the only home you have even known. Once all packed up Catra sprinted out the door only to immediately crash into Scorpia who was about to knock on said door.

"Oh you headed somewhere Wildcat?" The ripped Scorpion asked innocently. "Didn't hear about any missions today most of us are stuck on clean up after that invasion yesterday. I can't believe those no good rebels had the audacity to impersonate an Inspector!"

Catra groaned both from charging head first into the sentient brick wall of muscle known as Scorpia as well as the migraine she was getting by hearing said girl drone on about falling for some idiotic distraction. "Look Scorpia I'm busy so if you don't mind I need to-" " You are defecting" Scorpia bluntly stated. Catra blinked and readied her claws scowling " And what if I am?" "Then we should probably head to Skiff Bay D the cadets there just went on break so we got about an hour before anyone would show up and take inventory. "

"Wait what?" Catras jaw nearly hit the floor. Scorpia lovable sweet innocent bumbling Scorpia had thought up a well conceived plan of escape. "How did you do that tand what do you mean we?" Scorpia patted Catra's shoulder "I'm not letting you leave alone if you are leaving then I'm leaving with you." Catra was taken aback by the girls loyalty all Catra had ever done was either push her away or use her yet here she was willing to give up everything for her friend that even though would not say so out loud needed her, Catra felt a very disturbing sense of deja vu.

"Thank you Scorp." The cat girl being the one initiating a hug for once, "you are a great friend, better than I deserve…" "Oh wildcat.." Scorpia blubbered and tightened the hug. The tender moment was interrupted by an invasive voice. "Fright Zone log it appears that the angry feline person and the tall scorpion person are friends and that hugging is a thing in the Fright Zone contrary to popular belief"

The Force Captains ended their hug abruptly at the intervention of this new voice. "Who the hell are you!?" Catra shouted at the short woman with purple hair, her claws out and ready to gouge if Catra deemed appropriate. " Hello I'm Entrapta." The woman replied "Don't mind me I'm just doing some research while waiting for my friends to find me. They had a hard time finding me last time when. I ran off so I decided to stay here and wait for them.."

Catra blinked and remembered where she had seen this girl before. " You were at the Princess Prom… they left you behind when they rescued Sparkles and Arrow boy." The cat girl felt some empathy for the abandoned princess. "What no, I'm sure they will be back." Entrapta brushed off the remark "Fright Zone log hour 40..41 that's too many hours.. it appears the cat person is right. They aren't coming back for me." In a surprisingly display Catra patted the princess on the back her own feelings of abandonment. "Come with us we are getting out of here, might as well drop you off on the way it will give us a direction to go."

"Hmm okay I accept let me just go get Emily." The mad scientist smiled. "Um who is Emily? " Scorpia asked, causing Entrapta to gasp. "Oh how rude of me! Here let me introduce you! Oh Emily here girl!" Entrapta whistled and a hordebot with purple accents made its way to the princess. "I reprogrammed her, gave her some upgrades, and named her Emily." Scorpia daaawwwed at the bot acting like a pet while Catra's eyes only twitched before she shook herself out of the stupor. " Uh-huh right okay time to go. "

The three girls and the bot made thier way to the understaffed skiff bay. The area was quite large and filled with all manner of skiffs ranging from small scout models to large cargo skiffs. "Okay let's grab one of those cargo skiffs might as well weaken the Horde a bit as a final fuck you by takeing one of the best." Catra smirked and the three girls began to load thier gear and Emily onto the cargo skiffs. Suddenly the room began to drop on temperature as the light started to fade. " And where do you think you are going?" a condescending voice echoed out from behind the three. Catra and Scorpia turned to face the voice both holding on their terror. Shadow Weaver was awake, had found them, and was pissed.

" Do not make me repeat myself child" the witch glared at the cat girl. Catra stood her ground and sneered. " I'm obviously leaving, what gives? thought you would be happy not having to deal with my 'flippency' anymore." "Oh child." Shadow Weaver smirked. "Had you gone alone I would have no issue, infact I would both condone and applaud your actions. Finally seeing yourself as the waste of resources you are and removing yourself from our ranks. I would be nothing short of proud." Catra flinched at the blunt disregard for her life.

"However…" the sorceress continued. "That is not the case now is it? Not only are you stealing both a horde bot and a skiff but dragging Force Captain Scorpia and who I believe to be the princess of Dryl.. I cannot have you wasting such valuable assets and resources now can I?." "Y-you Shut you UGLY mouth!" Scorpia shouted, surprising both Catra and Shadow Weaver for she never shouted especially not with such anger. "How dare you Catra like that! She is an amazing person and a great leader, I am choosing to follow her of my own choice! So don't ever call her a waste! "

Catra couldn't believe the faith Scorpia had in her. She was in awe, but that awe quickly turned to fear as Scorpia fell to the ground red lightning coursing through her body. " You insolent fool!" Shadow Weaver shouted." How dare you raise your voice to me! " The witch turned her attention to Catra who was running. "Yes, run away. It's the only thing you have ever been good at." Lighting chased after Catra who narrowly avoided getting hit by the onslaught of magic bolts which hit the skiffs behind the cat. "You have always been a disappointment. You've learned nothing from me!" Shadow Weaver let out another burst of lightning only for Catra to jump into the air and corkscrew to both avoid the attack and face her.

"Oh, no I learned everything from you." Catra started smugly as she charged back at her poor excuse of a mother figure. "How to present when you will attack." Shadow Weaver struck again now infuriated only for Catra to leap onto a support beam causing the sorceress to miss. "How to dodge, how to resist." Catra taunted. " You thought you were punishing me all these years? Wrong." Catra leaped forward catching her abuser by surprise. "You were training me for this day!"

With the fury of over a decade of torment Catra sliced Shadow Weavers mask and shattered the shard of the Runestone embedded in it. The magic binding Scorpia dissipates as Shadow Weaver panics at the loss of her magic. " No! Come back to me!" The witch desperately trying in vain to fix the broken shard.

Catra stood over the fallen sorceress is a victorious smile. "It would be so easy to kill you now for all you have done to me but I gotta go." The cat hybrid then looked around. "Besides I'm sure Hordak won't be too quick to forgive you letting 2 force captains and a princess escape under your watch. Not to mention all the property damage you caused~." Only now did Shadow Weaver see what had become of the skiff bay dozens of skiffs had been rendered useless by her attacks at Catra and tens more were in desperate need of repair. Catra had played her.

Without looking back Catra sauntered over to the cargo skiff and the three girls headed off towards the Whispering Woods. Catra looked ahead, brimming with confidence. She had done it, She had defeated Shadow Weaver, She defected, and most importantly she did it by her own merits and not with the help of a certain blonde idiot and her best friend-stealing sword.