Disclaimer I do not own She-ra and the princesses of power and I am not making any money by writing this story. I hope everyone reading can enjoy it.
Thoughts will be in italics
Catra's Room
The young magicat now understood what if felt like to be embarrassed by a parent as the Angella replica had dragged Scorpia and Lonni to her room for a sleep over. Catra got along well enough with Scorpia but she and Lonni had never really gotten along which made the night feel awkward for a while until the snacks and bad romance vids had been brought to her room which managed to help things along as the two made fun and mocked the writing and premises of the vids though Scorpia seemed to eat them up really enjoying the shows and shushing them whenever their was a scene she liked that they laughed at.
"I have to Catra I never really liked you all that much but then again you never really put in the effort to be friendly with people, but I can respect you. You put in the effort to get to where you are now unlike Adora." Catra smiled a bit as during her time as a force captain she had learned a lot of the other higher ranking Horde members had not liked Adora all that much with how close she was with Shadow Weaver who had a lot of hate aimed at her from the just about everyone in the Horde and most felt that Adora had everything just handed to her without putting in the same amount of effort everyone else was.
Catra had actually been rather surprised at how much people had been willing to bad mouth Adora once Shadow Weaver had gotten imprisoned. Catra had also understood instantly that despite the respect she was getting that was temporary and would only last for as long as she did a good job as a force captain. "So Catra why the mom thing? I understand the premise of a magical guardian well enough, but this just seems a bit much."
Catra paused not really surprised by the question but still struggling a bit to put her thoughts into words. "I wanted to hurt the princesses, hurt the rebellion and hurt Adora and her new pals. I wanted to have someone that actually cared about me and wouldn't betray me. I wanted to win Lonni and I wanted to make sure that my win hurt my enemies." Lonnie actually looked a bit freaked out but nodded a bit after some thought. "Makes sense but dam that is cold. I mean to use the image of someone's dead mom against them is just harsh. Can't wait to see the look on those idiots faces when they try to make a move on us."
"Shshshshshshsh come on guys this is a sleepover. We talk about clothes and cars and gossip not about work." As Catra and Lonni were about to rebut Scorpia that it was just as a good a time to talk about work to large pillows slammed into their faces. Scorpia laughed as her two fellow soldiers fall on their backs from the force of the throw but quickly recovered and started attacking back as feathers and laughter and cheap romance vid dialogue filled the room. Outside the room the replica Angella smiled as she watched her little kitten having fun and making friends.
As she turned around to leave Vector arrived handing her a note that Hordak wanted to meet with her. Nodding she left though feeling a bit overwhelmed trying to understand what their leader would want with her.
Hordak's chamber
"Ah good you're here thank you for being punctual. So, few of those that I call for are." Hordak motioned the replica to a seat next to the holographic table he was looking over.
Sitting down Angella noticed it was a map of a large area of Etheria. "I was hoping you could help me plan out an attack as the Rebellion has managed to stalemate us for a while since the princesses started working together again."
"I'm not sure how much I could help you lord Hordak. I was only a spy in Bright Moon and I was never really able to see any chinks in their defences." Hordak hid a smile as he felt a perverse joy in hearing this replica even if it was the real Queen Angella call him lord. "True you may lack much knowledge about their defences, but a map of the territory would be very useful once we break through their barrier. Please get to work on it and make it as accurate as possible." As the replica got to work Hordak left letting himself chuckle a bit as he came to appreciate Catra's plan a bit more with the benefits he was starting to reap from it. "Oh, I will have some food and drink brought to you Lady Demona so please take your time."
I have to give Catra credit while its not a fully proper replica she still seems to have knowledge of Angella's kingdom even if Catra had to modify some of those memories to make sure things stayed stable, but the name is also quite fitting and will be no where near as annoying as constantly referring to her by that pain in my ass queen's name.
Activating his communicator Hordak sent a message to one of his force captains to put some pressure on the kingdom of Plumeria. Its defences were much weaker than that of the other kingdoms and its princess was in Bright Moon at the moment, so it was an easy target to start up the campaign again. Small victories were better than no victories. Plus, this will make it easier to see the current state of the rebellions fight forces and make my moves accordingly. Even if I couldn't contact my brother Etheria will still be mine. Even in this failing body I will have accomplished this dead and proved my worth if Prime ever finds Etheria.
Hordak felt happy as he imagined the pride that would be in Prime's eyes when he handed him Etheria the planet kept from his grasp by the first ones.
