Chapter V: "Where there's despair in life, let me bring your hope"

Miles away aboard the Horde Alpha, Hordak was in his chamber when one of his Horde Troopers came in with some news. "What is it" The Dark Warlord asked the Trooper Replied "We have captured Prince Adam but there is another being with, he's not associated with either the Horde or the Masters" Hordak thought and said "let Adam in, the stranger has to wait outside" The trooper bowed and went to carry out Hordak's orders. Moments later, Prince Adam came in with hand ankle cuffs on, he bowed before Hordak and said "Great Hordak, I come to plead for your mercy" Adam said as he waited for Hordak's response and said "Speak young one" "Hordak, if it will please you take me only, leave Adora alone, she still has a life ahead of her and Teela would need someone to take care of her, so please Hordak let me go in my sister's place." Hordak thought and said "very well Prince Adam, you have your wish, I assume your consoler will be staying with you" Adam nodded and with that Hordak summoned his guards to escort them to a cell.

The two were taken to a cell in the cargo hold of Horde Alpha to await the trial. "Just what type of justice will Hordak dispense" the young man of the cloth asked Adam sighed and said "well, usually for 'criminals' like me execution, but I think my little scene just might have bought me a slight reprieve instead death I get a thousand years of suspended animation" Father O'Rielly looked grimly at Adam and said "oh" Adam did the best to smile and said "If I don't make out of here, promise me you'll Teela and everyone how much they meant to me?" Adam said realizing that his chances of survival are slim. "Adam, I think that I might be able to make sure that you'll make it back, and I'll ask Hordak for a prayer service." Adam smiled and thanked the priest for his kindly gesture and went to bed.

Meanwhile on Earth, Teela and Adora were busy devising their own plan to defeat Hordak. "So how about this Teela, Me and Adam go to Hordak and while he's distracted you go into the control room, free any other prisoners and then take control of the ship?" Adora asked waiting for Teela's response, "that won't work Adora, even if there were a thousand prisoners on that ship we would still be outnumbered by those Horde Troopers and Hordak can probably see everything that's going on in his ship" Teela said and getting quite exasperated. "This was so much easier when we had Stratos, Roboto, Sy- Klone, Ram-Man, and the others here, if he had them we could just blast our way into Horde Alpha and force him to leave Earth forever'" Adora said as she looked up remembering those individuals and sighed. Teela gave Adora a stern look and said "Well, we don't those people here but who do have is you, me, Adam and as Sy-Klone once said 'sometimes the best army is a small one'" Adora smiled at hearing the words that the former protector of the Legacy Stones had spoken "but..." she said "how an army's no good without a plan and with out a plan it's hopeless, let's face Teela, Hordak has finally won." "enough of this of this negative talk Adora, sometimes, I wonder how you survived the Great Rebellion? Did you cry out 'it's hopeless' every time you didn't win a battle or knocked out a Hordesman?" Teela said sternly, Adora thought for awhile and said "No, but I was able to become She-Ra then, and besides even then the people of Etheria knew me, no one knows me here, well, not as a great champion, just simple old Adora." Teela was now getting annoyed at Adora's negativity, Adora sensing Teela's anger and exhaustion walked came up and said "I'm Sorry, Teela, it's just that I love Adam and to see anything happen to him makes me upset, and we're both tired why don't we get some rest" she suggested with that they went into living room to get some rest.