Chapter 7

Pumayra saw the dinky ship up ahead in the forest standing there so vulnerable and ready to be captured by Mumm-Ra legions.

The other animals were taking their sweet time, why Lord Mumm-Ra kept them around was beyond her. Lizard mechs had fallen far behind, since swiftness was the key here .Of course since the other cats didn't seem to want to join him, and instead followed a false king. Though that will all change once her master had his victory over Third Earth and the rest of the Thundercats.

Every time she just thought of those names her anger grew, a false king abounding her and the rest of her people. What did the other cats see in this self-proclaimed hero? Just the mere thought made her blood boil in rage.

If the Cats were to survive then Mumm-Ra was the future.

More importantly if she were to survive and get her revenge thn Mumm-Ra was her future.

That revenge was coming soon, Mumm-Ra power was growing by the day, his armies and the machinery of war becoming more and more impressive. Not to mention a sorcerer and dark magic that would be unparalleled to anyone.

Mumm-Ra truly was the future and anyone who didn't see that was a fool.

"The ship is up ahead" Slythe hissed.

"Good, secure it so we can transport it"

"Why does Mumm-Ra even want this ship in the first place," Kanar groaned, as he stalked through the thing "Not like he has all the best tech in the world"

"Perhaps it's something that he lacks" Vultair contemplated, "I myself would love to get a good look at it, i've dabbled in tech back on Avista, so perhaps this has something we don't"

Pumarya rolled her eyes, "Let's just finish the mission, that is if the lizards can handle it"

Slythe hissed at her, "We can handle anything" he smirked, "Don't be like your predecessor Grune, he overestimated us, and yet look where he is now"

Grune the Destroyer, Mumm-Ra previous general and in many ways the one who started all of this was not loyal to him. He only desired power, he was selfish just like the current king. There was no greater sense of a mission. She would not fall into that trap. There was only revenge, pure and simple.

"Grune wasn't loyal to our master, I am" Pumayra argued.

"What are you implying?" Slythe hissed.

"Hey I'm just in it for the slaughter," Kanar laughed.

Atticus smirked, "Indeed, Mumm-Ra one of the few masters who actually enjoys my enthusiasm for death"

Pumayra scoffed, she didn't care about these brutes, there was a mission to fulfill, no time to argue with lesser animals. It was clear why Mumm-Ra put her in overall command of his forces. All of it was for the sake of her revenge, every victory, every inch of territory taken for her master, all of it for the greater goal of taking down the king once and for all.

Finally they saw the wrecked thing and began to surround the area, ensuring the ship was secure before the necessary equipment was ready to drag it to the dark pyramid. With the time they had perhaps a look inside to see if any valuable information would be necessary to secure it.

The inside was cramp, and very high tech, in fact a lot of it looked very much like Mumm-Ra Pyramid.

Very high tech and from another world.

"Fascinating" Vultair looked around the control panel, "I wonder if I could perhaps get a good look inside it"

"Once we secure it I'm sure our master will let you do whatever," Pumayra muttered.

Slythe hissed, "I'll get the troops to secure it"

Kanar began to sniff the air.

"What are you doing?" Pumarya scowled.

Kanar laughed, "We're about to have company"

"Then get ready!" Pumayra hissed feeling the killer instincts grow inside her "Move it."

-000-

"Entrapta you may wish to slow down" Hordak suggested as he held on for dear life.

Entrapta decided to politely ignore her lab partner and push this tank in full force. It was so fast and so epic. Much faster than a Horde tank. She remembered testing them out during her stay at the Fright Zone during a few practice runs. She had plans to update them, give them better engines. Her plans were almost complete too, until Catra shocked her and sent her to Beast Island.

It always made her sad...She never got to improve the engines because that would have been amazing.

Oh and she supposed Catra's whole betrayal was bad too, but still the engine, oh how she could have improved the Horde tank. She actually still had to show Hordak the original designs. She had so many she never got to build. Maybe one day. Dryl could always use tanks for riding around.

"I can't Horadk, we gotta save Darla!"

"Can't you listen to your boyfriend!"

Both her and Hordak turned to see Catra sitting behind them looking both horrified and angry at the same time.

"Hi Catra" Entrpata waved, "What are you doing here"

"Making sure you won't get killed that's what, I saw you sneaking around a tank, was worried you were going to get us killed, or worse, kicked out"

Hordak eyes narrowed, "Entrapta's methods may be extreme but they are good in intention, unlike others I know"

Catra eyed him but sighed, "Just turn us around"

"Sorry Catra, I have to save Darla," Entrapta replied.

"Darla is trapped in the middle of the woods with a bunch of enemies out there, she's probably already gone"

Entrapta put her mask over her face, "I can't let friends behind"

That got Catra to be quiet for a moment, she had a bit of a guilty expression on her face and took a deep breath sighing. An expression of guilt for actions long passed came across her again.

"FINE!" she shouted in exasperation, "I'll help you"

"Um hello?"

Entrapta blinked and saw Orko sitting next to her..

"Oh hello Orko!" Entrpata blinked.

Hordak gasped, "What are you doing here!"

"I saw you two sneaking into the tank so I thought I'd follow to make sure you'll be okay" Orko said.

"Great! The more the merrier!" Entrapa beamed.

"I also brought this guy too"

Suddenly a Robear Berbil, Rober Bill popped his head, "Hello"

"More of them?" Hordak muttered.

"Rober Bill wants to help his friends!" He declared.

"Hurray! Will get Darla for sure" Entrapta replied.

"Entrapta" Hordak said, still holding onto his seat tesily for some reason, "Are you sure this is a good idea, we do not know if those creatures will return to the ship, we should have waited for the others"

"Hordak, Darla's in trouble, and we don't leave friends behind!"

Catra groaned, "Great...No problem at all" suddenly her ears twitched, "Wait...STOP THE TANK!"

Robearbill pushed a button that caused the tank to immediately stop right away.

Suddenly from the trees dozens of lizard men emerged, all of them carrying weapons, along with the large lumpering one, the dog one, and the white haired furry one that Entrapta didn't know any of the names of. Leading them was a tall feline woman who had a very smug expression.

Hordak scowled, "It seems like felines tend to cause us trouble doesn't it Entrapta"

"Statistically speaking it's only been one...Ooooh you're trying witty humor, most excellent Hordak" Entrapta applauded.

Hordak smiled and nodded, "Thank you, I've been practicing." Thankfully he had his canon at the ready to fire.

"Go ahead, fire, my forces can take you out in a second" The cat smirked.

"What do you want with our ship?" Hordak demanded.

"My Lord Mumm-Ra wants it for his own ends, says it's important, I don't question him"

Hordak smirked, "Blinde faith doesn't lead to good outcomes"

"It's true" Entrapta nodded in agreement, "The great thing about science is that we're always questioning everything, even the things we have definitive answers for, we have questions, just shows how much the universe is expanding"

"Ugh, Pumyra enough talk, more kill" The giant dog growled.

"Fine, get rid of them and secure the ship"

"Uh oh" Entrapta muttered.

However to her shock the Thundertank unleashed several missiles at the lizards causing them all to scatter. Looking down, Entrapta saw Roberberbil begin to drive the tank, zooming it back to give them a better position.

"Get them," Pumayra shouted.

"We gotta get them to retreat," Hordak suggested.

"How?" Orko looked nervous, "They seem pretty tough"

"Are you not magic" Hordak insisted, "Perhaps magicing them might suffice"

Orko beamed, "Oooh good idea"

The tiny spright thing rose a few feet in the air, and began wiggling their hands and saying, "Toil and Trouble put them all in a bubble"

Suddenly a bunch of bubbles emerged scooping up the lizard folk, only to be popped when they were hit by a plast.

Orko sighed, "Ah nuts"

Battle continued as Robear Bill tried to get the tank to a safe location, however a few the giant mecha continued to fire on it causing the tank to lose control causing everyone out. Entrapta was first to get to her feet and rushed over to help Hordak who was looking limp.

"Hordak!"

"I'm alright" Hordak sighed, standing looking at something, "Behind you"

Entrapta ducked as Hordak fired his cannon at a group of oncoming lizards that had cat Pumayra hovering over them.

"Finally" The Puma got her claws out ready to strike.

Until another familiar cat jumped at her.

"Good thing I followed you" Catra said, kicking Pumayra back.

"Look out!"

Catra turned as Pumayra struck back.

A cat fight had begun.

-000-

One would think throughout all her years of fighting Catra would have fought another cat, but yet she never did. So it was a bit odd to be fighting someone who was probably closely related to her. However she kept her wits about her as she went toe to toe with this cat.

It was a good thing too that she followed Entrapta when she did. The moment she saw the geek princess eye that tank, that sense of mischievous was on the horizon. However she didn't know she'd be foolish to get them in a full on trap. But that was just luck for them, or as she Horde luck she called it.

"So, what's your story?" Catra snickered, trying to get the other cat to talk.

Pumayra scowled, "What are you talking about"

Catra stood in a tree branch, "Your story, you work a bunch for a bunch of lizard people and clearly you want that ship, so what gives. Mercenary, good money? I like to know why I'm gonna beat yuh before I do"

"I could ask you the same thing, fighting for a worthless king"

"Hey, I don't fight for the red head, I'm fighting cuz you're attacking my friends" Catra leaped at her but she was pushed back, "I don't even live on this planet if that's what you think"

Pumayra, "Either way it's foolish, your going to lose, Mumm-Ra will have that ship"

"This Mumm-Ra must be some guy, let me guess, is he promising you power and all that good stuff".

"Better...Revenge"

Catra rolled her eyes, "Been there, didn't like it, trust me, revenge is overrated".

Pumarya glared at her and struck again, "You have-"

"No idea, oh please, I have more ideas than you'll ever have, but honestly I'm not interested I just want our ship back so my friends and I can leave this dumb world, then you can wollo away in revenge forever for all I care".

This cat was annoying, Catra gave her that, but was fierce and definitely an opponent in her own right. She was fierce but operating out of anger. Something she knew quite a lot about. But that was good, it meant that she just had to keep her distracted long enough to keep her on her toes until Adora and the others could come and wreck them.

All she had to do was keep distracted.

Still, she felt sorry for her, sure it was callous to not care too much about helping someone, but this cat didn't seem like they wanted to change their vengeful ways. Heck Catra herself knew that sometimes talking one out of vengeance was hard. She herself was stubborn, and it had cost her more than once in life. She needed to hit rock bottom before she could truly realize what she was doing.

But Catra was not here to play therapist to people who reminded her of herself, she had a mission to fight.

"Fire!" Pumayra shouted.

"Uh oh"

Catra jumped dodging bullets from the lizard's blasters. Thankfully they couldn't shoot for shucks, heck even Kyle had better aim than these guys.

"Oh yeah" Entrapta came out, "FIRE!"

To her shock but yet for once joy Horak fired his own cannon onto the lizards sending dozens of them flying. It was nice for once to not be on the receiving end of that thing. Catra continued to keep them all distracted. These lizards were honestly not as good at firing their weapons and easy to take out.

Of course it was Pumayra that was the hardest to take out.

In the background the three generals from earlier though just watched

"You can intervene anytime now" Pumayra shouted at them.

"Oh no, you seem to be handling yourself" The dog called Kanar snickered.

"Not now!"

"Just kill them already and get the ship, our master needs it" Slithe hissed at her,

Catra snickered, "You know I hope you have good chains, I remember halling that thing out of the Crimson Waist, boy did that take a while, Kyle kept screwing up on the locks"

That was a hard mission, hard to believe that the ship she personally tried to take back to the Horde just to keep out of Adora's hand would be the one she and Adora would be flying around and galavanting around the universe like a pair of crazed lovers. Well they were always crazed lovers but still. Irony at its purest.

This cat clearly had problems but Catra wasn't going to go around helping out every angry person who came across her path, especially when they were attacking her friends.

Catra might have sympathy for people who reminded her of herself but she knew that sometimes you had to fight before you could talk.

So this fight was on, and she was going to win.

-000-

Pumayra was getting annoyed.

These fools were just getting in the way of the mission. She needed to always show her loyalty to lord Mumm-Ra otherwise she'd never get her revenge upon the Thundercats and the so-called King. However this new cat was becoming a nuisance. She was fast and agile and worst of all, really annoying.

This cat was fast, but she would be faster. Part of her wondered if she was an old soldier in the Etherian army. She never saw her before during any of her training. Regardless, her insistence of protecting these odd outsiders was strange. Just as strange as Mumm-Ra's obsession with them. However she would not question his wisdom.

Still she would rid herself of this cat and get the ship for her lord and master….

"PUMAYRA!"

"Master" Pumyra felt his presence in her head.

"FORGET THE SHIP! BRING THE PALE BAT CREATURE TO ME!"

"I….Yes my lord"

Pumayra looked to the other others now, "Kanar, Attiducs Slythe, deal with the cat, I'm after Mumm-Ra new prize"

"New prize," Kanar asked.

"Just do what I say!"

Pumayra leaped into the air avoiding the young cat, she wasn't about to let her master down, not now, not when she was so close to getting her revenge. She now rushed with all her anger and rage fighting the young cat now harder than ever before.

"Woah what's gotten into you" Catra snickered.

"Enough!" Pumayra kicked her back onto a tree, "All fire on the tank"

The lizards began to go full on in their assault, and what they lacked in any skill they made up for in numbers. Kanar and Atticus filled in the role of the brute maniacs with Slythe overseeing it all. Pumayra of course would go for the objective.

As the ground began to shake Pumayra looked in joy as the Mecha's arrived.

"FIRE!"

Rockets began to reign from the sky, one hittin right on the space ship's engines.

"DARLA!" Entrapta yelled

Catra jumped into the air again but Pumayra was too quick and knocked her out on the tree causing a massive impact that knocked her out.

"Surround the others"

Kanar aimed his own laser on the weird bat creature's cannon causing it to explode knocking him back.

"Hordak" The Pink Haired one grabbed him and held him.

Finally they had them in their clutches and all the lizards surrounded their captives now.

"The mission changed" Pumayra declared, "Take these two back to the Dark Pyramid"

"And what about the Cat?" Kanar smirked, giving her a hungry look.

"Do whatever, I don't care"

Slythe intervened, "I know where to put her"

"Fine whatever" Pumyra declared.

Whatever the lizard had planned she didn't care, her only priority was to serve her master and get revenge on the false king and nothing would get in her way.

Nothing.