In Etheria, Catra is having another day to do her job as Force Captain of the Horde, but she doesn't feel motivated herself.

Not with the glare Adora gave her on that fateful day. It's not something she could erase from her mind easily. In fact, she's been having nightmares about it. It scared her, knowing the fact that this is the moment Adora has completely given up on her. She thought back on the relationships she had lost, not just hers. She thought back of tasering Entrapta and sending her to Beast Island, and then threatening Scorpia of the same fate.

She had lost everything.

She has no one to blame but herself.

That was from two days ago.

Hordak eventually found out the truth regarding Entrapta, so he strangled her with the strength of his armor and is ready to sentence her to her death for lying to him. However, this punishment is being halted by the arrival of Horde Prime, who finds her useful regardless of what she did. He and Hordak share the same species. Anyway, Prime is now the leader of the throne, and Hordak is fine with this.

Knowing very well that this ascension brings more danger, Scorpia has left the Horde to search for her own refuge. Of course, with Catra having threatened her from that day has really destroyed their relationship. Regardless, Prime finds that for the best, so he ordered his little brother to not pursue her. He also gave him the order to bring Entrapta back from Beast Island as he finds her scientific mind useful for their cause.

One day, they attacked a random village. Horde Prime targeted a single villager, and he imprisons him at his own house.

"Burn it."

"What?!" Catra couldn't believe what she has heard from him. Sure she attacks villages, but she never kills them. Anyway, the poor guy has a family inside, including a baby.

"Until it smoulders, these people will need to learn how to fear us and must be made examples of," Prime gives her a fire lit torch.

"With all due respect, sir, I was not trained to murder the innocent."

"But you were trained to follow orders."

The threat coming from him is thinly veiled. Catra couldn't believe what this guy is capable of; he's worse than Hordak. With no time to waste, she douses the torch in a barrel of water, refusing to follow his command.

"Insolent coward!" Prime sneered, and he gets another torch from one of his soldiers as its flames touched the house, burning it in an instant.

This act horrifies Catra, and she immediately goes inside the house by jumping to its window. After two seconds, she came out of it with the villager and his family before the building went down in flames.

It felt good.

How good it is to do something the Horde would find offensive.

She smiled after saving the family from meeting their deaths. Before long, she took out a folded paper from her leggings.

"Give this to Adora, please. She's in Bright Moon," she told the little girl with pleading eyes, and she nodded at her request as she and the family left the area. Before long, a Horde soldier hits Catra in the head with the barrel of his rifle as she gets restrained by the other soldiers.

"The sentence for insubordination is death," Prime snarled while in his hovercraft. "Such a pity. You threw away a promising career."

"Consider it my highest honor, sir," Catra growled. She is not even afraid that she will be beheaded for daring to defy the Horde. In fact, she wanted to die for all that she did, including with the portal which is the moment she lost Adora forever.

Just then, one of the villagers threw a rock at the vehicle, sending Prime speeding forward and crashing down the water tower. This got the two soldiers restraining her distracted, allowing Catra to scratch their armor and running to the vehicle to pilot it herself to escape.

"Get her! And don't hit my hovercraft!" Horde Prime ordered as his soldiers fire their guns on her direction. As she reaches the the bridge, she got shot in the back as it went straight from there to her chest. This sends her falling down the river. The soldiers continuing firing there to make sure she is good as dead. "Don't waste your ammo. Let the traitor rot in her watery grave!"

With this, he takes his leave from the area.

Three hours later, the family that Catra saved went to the castle of Bright Moon in their greeting of its new queen, Glimmer. They saw Adora entering the hallway and boy, does she look tired? Ever since the sacrifice of its previous queen Angella following the incident with the portal, Glimmer has ascended to the throne. On the top of that, Bow became her advisor. Since then, Adora is doing solo missions on her own without any of the two backing her up.

"You're Adora?" the little girl approached the blonde.

"Uh, yes?" was her reply, looking confused.

"This is for you," she gave her the folded paper before she took her leave alongside her family.

"Wonder what was that all about?" Bow asked, looking confused.

"I'm not sure," Adora said as she opens the folded paper to read what's written on it.

Hey Adora,

By the time you read this, I'm dead. In circumstances, I do not know. If I were to die this soon, then I will accept it. I deserve it for trying to destroy all of Etheria with the portal. At least we don't have to fight each other to our deaths.

I just wanna say I'm so sorry. I'm sorry for not joining you with the Rebellion, and not being there when you needed me. I'm sorry for not being your best friend. My biggest regret is the moment where I think I lost you forever when you gave me that look in your eyes during the incident with the portal. I just hope you'll have it in your heart to forgive me. From now on, I don't wanna miss another chance to be with you. If you let me, I'll be the best friend you once knew and loved.

Good luck winning this war without me. Also, when you came across Scorpia and Entrapta at some point, tell them I'm sorry.

With love.

- Catra

The more and more she reads the letter, Adora felt the words in the heartwrenching message hit her in the gut. Her eyes are filled with tears, and she went down to her knees, crying harder from what she read.

"Adora?" Glimmer is confused as she stands up from her throne as she and Bow tried to comfort her. "What are you crying about?" she grabs the letter from her hands and started reading it alongside Bow. "Oh no..." she reacted.

"This can't be," Bow reacted.

Now understanding what Adora is crying about from the moment she read the letter, all the two can do is comfort her. Normally Glimmer would find the news as a good thing considering who is indirectly responsible for her mother having to sacrifice herself to fix reality, but with Adora sad about it, she couldn't bring herself to react in the way she originally intended.

"Catra..." she cried with more tears, knowing fully well that she will have to live the rest of her life remembering the glare that she gave her former friend on that day and that she died believing she hated her. "What have I done?"

Meanwhile, Catra is seen in underwater on that same bridge she fell after getting shot at, and regret is on her face.

I guess this is it. It's best for me to die like this.

I'm sorry for everything, Adora.

At least I go down not fighting you to the very end.

Hope you and the Rebellion can win this war without me being a part of it.

After collecting her thoughts, she closed her eyes as she accepted her impending death. Just then, a portal appeared by the river and it consumed her.


Author's Note: And this is how Catra ended up on Earth where she meets John Wick. The first half of their adventure will be on Earth as they teamed up to take down the High Table, and the second half of their adventure will be on Etheria as they teamed up to take down the Horde. Anyway, Catra's "death" is so heartwrenching, even to Adora.