It would not be a controversial statement to say that the rebellion was different from the Horde.

This difference could be seen in many areas, from the food to the command structure.

But Adora wasn't necessarily sure that this difference was always a good thing.

Her experience with films would prove to be the perfect example.

(A)

"I know what a movie is." Adora scoffed at the accusation, seriously the Horde wasn't that bad.

She honestly wasn't sure how exactly the conversation had gotten to this point, Adora had just been checking in with her friends after a training session with Light Hope and they suddenly decided to spring a bunch of random questions on her.

Lots of questions about what exactly she knew about movies and what exactly movies in the Horde were like.

"I never said that you didn't." Bow held up his hands in protest.

Glimmer nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah, we were just wonder what the quality of films were like."

Deciding to indulge her friends questions, Adora thought back to the few times that movies were shown back in training, they were probably some of her fondest memories of her time in the Horde. Like when she and Catra couldn't sleep after they watched 'The terror of the bloody princess' and ended up staying up all night with each other keeping an eye out for scary princesses.

Or when they watched the comedy 'The Horde and The Holy Grail' which had the pair of them laughing for weeks on end.

"I'd say the quality of films were pretty good." Adora said after some thought.

"Right, but were they really good or were they just propaganda?" Bow asked the hard hitting questions.

Adora had to consider this, it was probable that they were propaganda, for example 'Saving private Kyle' would probably be better if they didn't have a massive speech in the middle of the film about how the Horde was the best thing that ever happened to Etheria in the middle of it.

"Well, they do have some scenes that in retrospect might be propaganda." Adora admitted. "But some of them can be really good!"

"Right." Glimmer said skeptically.

"Why are you asking anyway? What's with the sudden interest?"

Glimmer and Bow grinned in a way they only did when they had something new to show Adora.

"Well we were talking and thought about things you might have missed while you've grown up in the Horde." Glimmer explained.

"And we decided to have a movie night!" Bow exclaimed.

"Movie night?" Adora repeated, knowing that they'd explain it.

"Basically where you, me and Glimmer all settle in someone's room and we watch a bunch of movies together." Bow explained.

Adora smiled at the idea. "That sound like a lot of fun."

"Good, good. We can do it in my room at let's say… five?" Glimmer asked, receiving a nod from both of them. "Great I'll bring the snacks!"

"And I'll bring the movies." Bow said.

"And I'll bring the…" Adora trailed off as she wracked her brain about what exactly she could bring to the movie night. Blankets? Pillows? The sword of protection?

"You can just bring yourself." Bow said gently.

"Alright, at five then?"

"At five." Glimmer confirmed.

"See you then."

(A)

Soon enough five o'clock came around and Adora found herself outside Glimmer's room. She took a deep breath and entered, seeing that Glimmer's bed was actually on the floor for once. It had been converted into something more like a sofa rather than a proper bed. A television screen had also been procured from somewhere and had been placed in from of the sofa/bed.

Glimmer and Bow where already waiting for her, both of them with buckets of what was presumably a form of food (a third one was nearby, presumably for her) and looked comfy on the sofa/bed.

"Adora! Glad you could make it, take a seat and grab some popcorn." Bow gestured to the vacant seat in between him and Glimmer.

With some trepidation, Adora took the designated place and grabbed the remaining bucket, looking at the food inside with curiosity.

"So this is popcorn?" Adora sought conformation.

"Yep, although we didn't know if you'd prefer sweet or salted popcorn so we got both." Glimmer said casually. "Give it a try."

And so Adora did, taking a small handful and shoving it right into her mouth. A few moments later she only had half a bag left.

"Slow down there, save some for the movie." Bow chuckled.

"So, what do you got for us today Bow?" Glimmer asked.

Bow held up the remote for the tv. "It's an oldie but a goodie, Civilian Kane."

"Daffodil bud." Glimmer whisper yelled. "Good choice Bow."

Bow shushed her as the film started, and Adora wasn't quite sure what she was watching.

It was all done in black and white, and there were a lot less explosions than in productions by the Horde. It wasn't like anything by the Horde in terms of tone either, those films either tried to make you laugh or feel patriotic. (There was lots of propaganda in either case). But this film just was different and didn't really appeal to her tastes.

Throughout it Adora kept (subtly) glancing at Bow and Glimmer to see their reactions, they seemed to be enjoying it which was nice for them.

And eventually, the movie ended as the credits rolled. And her friends looked at her for her opinion.

"Well, what do you think?" Bow asked.

Adora thought for a moment about how to put her thoughts into tactful words. Bow and Glimmer clearly enjoyed the movie and hoped that Adora would as well.

"Well, it's certainly… different from anything I've seen in the Horde." Adora said as lightly as she could. "It was very…" Boring. "…Interesting."

Bow's face fell. "You didn't like it."

Adora's hands waved around in denial. "No, no I liked it, really."

"What was the importance of 'Daffodil bud' then?" Glimmer asked.

Oh dear. She wracked her memories but drew a blank so she guessed.

"It was… the name of his newspaper company?" Adora winced as she guessed, the looks she was being given indicating that she guessed wrong.

"His childhood sled, it was the name of his childhood sled." Bow said, a slight amount of disappointment in his voice.

"Okay, so I might not have really liked it." Adora admitted. "It just didn't really appeal to my tastes."

Bow looked thoughtful. "What if I got something more action packed?"

Adora nodded. "Yeah that sounds great!"

"Then I have just the thing." Bow felt around his bag for a film and lifted it out triumphantly. "The Determinator."

"Woo!" Glimmer yelled before sounding out a theme tune. "Duna dun the dun, Duna dun the dun."

Glimmer patted Bow on the back. "Nice choice, oh then we can try Determinator two; justice day."

They all went silent as Bow played the film on the tv.

It was a much better experience for Adora, like the films back in the Horde but without the propaganda.

Explosions, action and more than a few awesome chase scenes through Brightmoon meant that Adora was kept more entertained. Even if she didn't really like the overall message that 'you couldn't fight fate' which she disagreed with on many levels.

The end credits rolled and Adora was pumped.

"Alright, what did you think about this one then?" Bow asked confidently.

"It was awesome!" Adora enthused. "That guy, the determinator? He was so cool. And Kyle Rice with Sara Donner? They word so well together."

"Yeah!" Glimmer high fived Adora. "What's next then Bow? We should have time for one more."

Bow looked thoughtful before he pulled out one final movie.

Glimmer made a skeptical noise. "Isolation? Are you sure Bow?"

"What's wrong with Isolation?" Adora asked.

"There's nothing wrong per say, but it's a horror film so it's a tad scary." Glimmer explained, causing Adora to blink.

"Is that it? I used to watch The Terror of The Bloody Princess all the time." Adora dismissed their worry's cockily.

Sure the movie had given her nightmares for weeks afterwards, but she was mostly over it.

"If you say so." Glimmer said skeptically. "Start the movie Bow."

And start the movie did, it was something of a slow start. But as it went on and on, Adora found herself becoming more and more tense. There was just something that kept Adora on the edge of her seat, then there was the crashed ship.

It just evoked a feeling of wrong in Adora, a feeling that was made worse by the eggs. It was no exaggeration to say that she let out a small scream when that thing came out of the one of them and attached it to Dane's face.

But after that they returned to the ship and everything seemed fine. A creepy story that would haunt her dreams for a while about on par with 'The Terror of The Bloody Princess'.

Then Dane's chest exploded.

Adora screamed again, but found she couldn't bring herself to look away. Eyes fixed in morbid fascination at the gore on screen.

From there Adora would barely blink as she watched the Horror unfold, the crew was picked off one by one until only Ripples was left. To say Adora was relieved to have it end would be an understatement.

Then of course it didn't end and the monster was revealed to have snuck aboard the escape ship, Adora could barely keep herself from just hiding under the blankets. But then the monster was destroyed by the engine and Adora felt relived. The credits finally rolled and her friends turn to ask Adora her thoughts.

"Okay, what did you think of that one?" Glimmer asked eagerly.

Multiple responses came to the forefront of her mind, ranging from it was scary to it was terrifying, but what came out instead was:

"It was great." Adora said with a largely forced smile, one that Bow and Glimmer would have noticed if they weren't so tired with it being so late.

"Good." Bow yawned loudly. "I'd ask more but I really need to get some sleep."

Glimmer nodded sleepily in agreement. "Yeah, you guys can both say here for the night. It's really time to hit the hay."

Adora didn't protest as they all cuddled into Glimmer's bed, the closeness of her friends keeping the terror away as she settled into a dreamless sleep.

The next day, Adora was fine. No, really. Throughout the day nothing eventful happened, they received a mission to liberate a rebel camp that the Horde had occupied the previous night.

Bog standard really. They left first thing that morning, making good time towards the camp located in the Whispering Woods and Isolation barely registered in Adora's mind.

But as nightfall approached and they got closer Adora's mind decided to remember the creature from 'Isolation' and it asked a question that ignited proper fear in her mind.

What if the Alien was real?

Of course, this naturally would affect the liberation of the camp, but not in the way one would think…

(C)

"Anything interesting?" Catra called out to the troops looking over the rest of the camp.

All of them reported back a negative, causing Catra to stamp her feet in frustration. They'd been sent in to clear out this particular camp because the scouts had reported that it should some tech the Entrapta could use.

The princess was actually with them and everything, ready to analyse anything they found.

But even after searching all day, they'd found nothing of value, just some trash as it turned to evening. Old junk like movies and books, nothing that was really valuable.

"Hey Catra!"

Catra jumped back at Scorpia's sudden appearance and gave a pre-emptive sigh of frustration at whatever Scorpia thought of to waste her time with now.

"Yes?" Catra asked, annoyance clear in her voice.

"I've found something!" Scorpia's voice was filled with enthusiasm which allowed Catra to get her hopes up. Well, until Scorpia raised her claws to show several of the rebel movies they'd found earlier.

"Scorpia, no."

Scorpia pouted. "You didn't even know what I was going to say."

"You were going to suggest we watch those movies." Catra rolled her eyes.

"It'll be fun!" Scorpia insisted. "Come on, we can take a break while these guys search, we'll see what the rebels watch for fun, we can just relax with Entrapta for a bit." Scorpia looked really hopeful. "Please?"

Catra's resolve crumbled under the puppy dog eyes Scorpia gave. Damn her.

"Fine, one movie." Catra relented. "One."

Catra immediately regretted this decision as Scorpia scooped her up into a violent hug that Catra tried unsuccessfully to escape from.

"Come on, let's go and see Entrapta!"

Catra was then finally dropped and followed Scorpia to the small metal building they'd allocated Entrapta so that she could work in peace and stop bothering Catra.

"Hey, Entrapta want to watch a movie?" Scorpia said by way of greeting as they entered the makeshift lab.

"Sure!" Entrapta replied, not missing a beat as she worked on some piece of machinery. "Which one?"

"No idea, their all rebellion movies so we were hoping that you'd tell us which one was good." Scorpia explained.

Entrapta hummed as her hair took the movies out of Scorpia's claws and she looked at the movies with a hum. She then discarded five of them before squealing excitedly at the fifth one.

"This one! This one! This one!"

"Why? What's it about?" Catra asked, arms crossed but curious at what had gotten Entrapta so excited. (Not that it was hard to achieve.)

"Well, it's just that it's the only one I haven't seen yet and all the other princesses keep telling me how good it is." Entrapta explained with her usual energy.

"Fine." Catra said shortly. "We'll watch this one, Isolation, do we have DVD player?"

"Emily plays DVDs." Entrapta grinned. "I can't wait, my first ever horror movie!"

"Horror movie?" Scorpia asked, looking slightly dismayed. "Like The Terror of The Bloody Princess?"

Catra chuckled at the memory of that movie. "I like it already."

The choice of movie decided, they all settled on an old couch that was in the building as Emily dimmed the lights and projected the movie on the wall.

(A)

The best friend squad overlooked the former rebel camp that was currently being occupied by the Horde from their vantage point on a nearby hill. The camp itself was a section of small buildings with lots of tents in the middle of a clearing in the Whispering Woods.

It looked pretty standard as far as Horde occupied territory went, with all the soldiers looking around the camp presumably to see if the rebellion had left behind anything useful.

But of course it would be less than standard if the alien showed up…

Adora shook her head as if it would make the thoughts go away which they defiantly didn't. Stupid stubborn thoughts.

"Well looks like nothing special." Glimmer declared. "Just the standard patrols, a few troops and bots. Easy."

"But the survivors reported that Catra was in the area." Bow raised a valid point. "Adora?"

"Well, I think we should just keep it simple, you two draw off the bots and soldiers, I'll infiltrate the camp and deal with Catra." Adora laid out the plan to which they both agreed.

"Alright, see you on the other side." Bow said as he readied an arrow on his bow.

"Stay safe." Glimmer commanded before she teleported Bow and herself away to presumably deal with the bots and troops.

Unless the alien from the movie attacked them…

No.

Adora refused to entertain that particular possibility. Instead she took a deep breath and got to walking down the hill, trying to focus on dealing with Catra instead.

(C)

The credits rolled and Catra felt more than a little disturbed. Disturbed and ever so slightly completely terrified.

"That was GREAT!" Entrapta enthused.

Of course Entrapta loved the movie, she'd spent the whole thing talking about the various scientific possibilities the movie had presented which honestly made Catra feel worse about it.

"Is it over?" Scorpia peered over the back of the couch. She'd hidden back there in the first ten minutes and stayed there while the movie played, occasionally looking up, making a scared noise and hiding back down.

"It's over." Catra confirmed and Scorpia left the back of the couch.

"Great movie right?" Scorpia laughed nervously.

"Something like that." Catra replied. "Now come on, let's get back to work."

They left the building only to find that something was very much wrong.

Not a single bot nor soldier could be seen for miles and a light fog had descended over the camp, giving it a really creepy feeling. It was also night now which really didn't help.

"Hello, anybody here?" Catra called out with the only the silence of the night answering.

Scorpia weakly chuckled. "Hey, this kinda reminds me of that scene, you know the one with the eggs?"

Why did she have to bring that up? Why did she have to bring that up?

Trying to hide her fear like a pro, Catra raised her voice. "That's just a movie, nothing like that could happen in real life. Nothing like those eggs or that alien could exist in real life, right Entrapta?" Catra was disturbed by the thoughtful look on Entrapta's face. "Entrapta, nothing like that could exist… Right?"

"Well…" Entrapta tailed off as she thought about it. "Based off what I saw in the movie, it's a definite movie. A lot of its design suggests that it was engineered rather than being a naturally occurring species and given what we know about the first ones, then it's defiantly possible that they made something like that."

Naturally these were not the words Catra wanted to hear, primarily because they gave fuel to her fears that an alien much like the one in the movie was lurking in the woods.

Scorpia also looked terrified at Entrapta's words. "Uh, Catra? Normally I wouldn't suggest this but do you think we could abandon the camp for a little while?"

"Just this once, I agree." Catra nodded in agreement, her eyes peering into the fog as she did so. Then she spotted movement in the fog.

"Did you see that?" Catra asked her friends, locking her eyes locked onto where she had spotted the movement.

"What? Where!?"

"There!" Catra pointed.

"I don't see anything." Entrapta said.

But just as Entrapta said that, something lurched out from the darkness…

"Surrender now!" Adora jump into view from the fog, her sword raised and ready for a fight.

"Oh, thank goodness." Some of the tension left Catra's body. "It's just Adora."

Adora looked slightly offended at that, but also slightly intrigued. "Where you expecting someone?"

Catra did her best to appear nonchalant. "No. Obviously not, wha- what gave you that idea?"

"All our guys are gone and we think the alien from Isolation is out there." Scorpia gave out all their information.

Adora looked freaked. "The alien from Isolation?!"

"Yeah, we just finished watching the movie and all this foggy mist appeared out of nowhere." Scorpia explained.

"But that doesn't prove anything." Catra pointed out weakly.

Entrapta nodded along. "Yeah statistically it would be very unlikely for the alien to appear just as we finished the movie. But…" Catra was really starting to hate that word. "Unlikely stuff always seems to happen to us despite the odds of it being terrible."

Great, now even Entrapta looked afraid of whatever might be lurking in the misty dark.

Then a great loud metal noise rang out across the forest and the four of them went back to back with each other, the conflict of rebels against the Horde temporarily forgotten.

"Adora." Catra said, her voice unnaturally calm to even her own ears. "Just this once, do you think you can do the She Ra thing?"

She saw Adora nod in the corner of her eye.

"For the honour of Grayskull!"

One light show later and She Ra was with them, making Catra feel marginally safer.

But said feelings of safety lasted all of ten seconds when a second loud noise was heard and a distinct silhouette of some four legged creature with a tail could be seen against the light of the moon.

"Run!" One of them (she wasn't sure which) shouted and everyone ran directly into the building that had served as Entrapta's lab, which was promptly boarded up, leaving them trapped in it until further notice.

(A)

The last of the windows were shut and tables moved in front of the door.

Adora could now breath freely. Well, as freely as someone could when trapped in a building hiding from a terrifying monster with three of her biggest enemies.

But sure enough everyone caught their breath and processed what happened.

"Why does this always happen to me?" Catra moaned while Scorpia hugged her for comfort. Entrapta instead muttering rapidly to herself in the corner.

"Glimmer and Bow!" Adora shouted suddenly, remembering that her two friends were out there unaware of the monster lurking in the shadows. She bought out her communicator and tried to call them only for the device to show 'no signal'.

"Dammit." Adora cursed as Catra finally wormed her way out of Scorpia's grip.

"For the record, I blame you for this." Catra pointed directly at Adora.

"What did I do?"

"It's a rebel movie we were watching." Catra growled. "You're a rebel, obviously it's your fault."

Adora thought briefly about arguing the point but decided against it. Instead she elected to take command.

"We need to get out of here." Adora said bluntly.

Catra rolled her eyes. "Gee, thanks captain obvious I had no idea."

"And I think I have an idea." Adora continued on, ignoring Catra's sarcasm. "It's a fairly simple plan, we charge out, me and Scorpia will draw its initial attention while Catra sneaks behind it to surprise it from behind, Entrapta can provide support."

"Hey!" Catra protested. "What makes you think that you can take charge? If anyone should be it would be me. The Horde is doing better than ever under my watch."

Adora's eyes narrowed. Bow and Glimmer could be in danger, she didn't have time to have this conversation with Catra for the tenth time this week. "Fine."

"Fine?"

"You be in charge." Adora gave the sorta grin that got under peoples skin. "I'm assuming that have a better plan?"

"Of course I do!" Catra growled but didn't follow up on it, prompting stares all around.

"And that plan is?" Adora smirked.

Catra mumbled something.

Adora's smirk grew wider. "Speak up please, we can't hear you."

"You and Scorpia draw its initial attention while I sneak behind it to surprise it, Entrapta can provide support." Catra spat out looking like she'd bitten into a lemon. "And wipe that stupid smirk off your face."

Adora had no attention of doing such a thing, at least that was until Scorpia spoke up.

"Great, so should we go now or…?" She trailed off nervously.

"Sooner is better than later I suppose." Adora replied uneasily.

Entrapta raised a hand, well a hand and some hair. "Oh, please don't destroy it too badly. Think of what we could learn from its corpse."

Adora made the mental note to incinerate the corpse at the first available opportunity.

They then slowly moved the barricade away and prepared to charge.

"On three."

"After or on?"

"On."

"One." Adora tensed as She Ra's muscles prepared for movement.

"Two." Scorpia's tail swished nervously behind them and so did Catra's.

"Three!"

They all charged out, screaming wildly as they searched for the target onto which they could focus their attacks on. But no such target appeared, making them all look like idiots as their limbs flailed wildly. The misty fog that had engulfed the night was now gone, making the atmosphere a lot less threatening.

Then a loud clunking noise was heard, and they all turned to see a cat (a regular one) looking at them rather judgementally.

"Is that it?" Adora asked the others awkwardly as she lowered the sword and reverted back to her regular self.

"I guess so." Catra replied.

Scorpia chuckled a little. "I guess there was no monster after all, it was just a bunch of coincidences."

Adora's communicator rang and she answered it to reveal Bow's face.

"Hey Adora, we've wrapped up here and are on our way. The bots are destroyed and the troops retreating." Bow reported. "How did things go with Catra?"

"Ugghhh." Adora glanced at Catra as the feeling of embarrassment swelled up inside her. "We fought, they retreated back to the Fright Zone, I'll wait for you here."

Adora closed the communicator and turned to face the super pal trio. "This never happened. We fought for a bit before you guys went away."

Catra considered this for a few moments before nodding, the mutual embarrassment bringing them to a rare agreement. "Agreed. Come on lets get out of here."

Catra departed with Entrapta and Scorpia, leaving Adora to wait for her friends and she decided to take measures to ensure that nothing like this would never happen again.

Measures Bow would disapprove of as Adora threw his horror movie collection out the window the following week.

Notes:

And that's the end of that chapter.

I had problems with trying to end this particular story, but I think it was a decent enough ending.

As always thanks everyone for reading, with extra thanks for those that comment/review, your all awesome.

Next time Glimmer's birthday is fast approaching and Adora asks everyone for gift ideas and I do mean everyone. Till then I'll catch ya'll on the flip flop.