"So Sora, what were you doing before you landed on Etheria?" Glimmer asked as she followed him, Adora, and Bow outside while carrying some camping equipment. Despite her complaints, she still somehow managed to get roped into camping out for the night, albeit on one of the castle's courtyards, but still. There was a good amount of the week left where Glimmer was still grounded before she's allowed to leave castle grounds, and her friends thought a good way to pass the time was by teaching her how to rough it outside. Safe courtyard admittedly, but baby steps.

Bow thought a small bit about it. "Yeah, now that I think about it, we've never asked before. I don't think we've ever gotten the chance to stop and get to know both you and Adora."

Adora gave a heavy sigh as she dropped her load at there campsite, "Things have been pretty nonstop. This may be our very first break since I met you guys."

Sora crossed his arms after putting his load down as well. "Hmm, okay then. Where to start? So right before I landed here, I had just failed the Mark of Mastery Exam. It's a test to see if I'm worthy enough to become a Keyblade Master and learn a new ability called the Power of Waking." He scratched the back of his neck bashfully. "I almost passed, and for a moment I had the Power of Waking, but something bad happened and I ending up failing AND ended up losing most of powers, including Awakening. My task is to regain my powers and strength back, especially the Power of Waking, and to do that I was gonna visit my old friend Hercules. He's this super powerful guy that at one point lost his strength and will to fight after an accident, but managed to regain it back. I was hoping to see if I can figure out what he did so that I can maybe get my powers back. Then on my way there, our ship got sucked in through a wormhole and here I am!"

The three of them looked at his with hanging jaws. "Wow, was not expecting any of that."

"Well, what were you expecting?"

Glimmer let out a sigh as she had a dreamy look on here face, "Something like how you valiantly saved a kingdom, or you slayed the evil dragon and rescued the princess, or maybe falling in love." One could almost see the thought bubble playing out her imagination.

Bow looked at her with some disbelief. "Really? That's what you thought?"

"Well, what did you think he was doing?!"

Bow crossed his arms and smirked, "Simple, flying his spaceship and fighting evil aliens. I mean, he did crash his spaceship here, so it can't stand against reason that there are others out there. To add to that, not everything you meet out there is nice, so I think there's a good chance for epic space battles." He held his arm out while making a gun with his fingers, "Fire the cannons, PEW PEW!"

Sora smiled as he listen to the two banter, he turned to Adora, "So what do you think I was doing before I landed here?"

"Yeah, yeah! What do you think?! I'm betting you thought space wars too!" Bow urged her excitedly while Glimmer leaned in closer to listen.

"Well," Adora scratched at her chin, "If I had to guess, I'd say he's been out there pretty much doing what he's been doing with us."

Glimmer put a hand to her hip, "What? That's no real answer."

Bow agreed, "Yeah, want to maybe expand on that?"

Adora shrugged half-heartedly, "You know, going place to place and making new friends. Going on unexpected adventures to help people while making silly face and jokes along the way."

Sora started applauding for the three of them, "Wow! That's amazing, none of you guys were wrong! That's exactly what I usually end up doing when I'm traveling around, for better or for worse."

"Wow, so you've saved princesses before?! That's so romantic~!"

"You've gotten into space battles?! You've got to tell us what that's like!"

"Did you and one of the princesses you've saved fall in love and live happily ever after?" Glimmer got that dreamy look again.

Adora smiled and shook her head as she watched the three of them in somewhat envy. If only she could make friends as easily as he does. Maybe if she tried acting the way he did a bit more, it could come a bit more naturally. She laughed as Sora's face got red and he covered it up a little.

"I mean, we haven't gotten to living happily ever after yet, and love is such a strong word...but I think she like likes me too. There's also a lot of big stuff happening right now, and also she's not exactly a Princess princess like you, but I guess technically speaking..."

"Woah!" Bow put both hands on his shoulders, "For real?! You and a princess together?! Dude, nice!"

Glimmer shoved him out of the way, "Oh my gosh! You've got to tell me how it happened! I bet it's such a sweet story~. What's her name? What kind of powers does she have?"

Sora became even more red and flustered. "T-tell you what. Figure out how to set up a tent after we show you, I might tell you a little about her."

While uncouth, Glimmer didn't care as she pumped her first and dove at the camping equipment, "You're on! And you better not be making this whole thing up too!"

Donald and Goofy gave a relieved sigh as they finally made it back to port. It's been an adventure and a half with the sea captain Sea Hawk, a man though not quite as unusual or eccentric as Jack Sparrow, is far more reckless and energetic, which spelt some trouble for them for the past few days. Whenever they met a rival ship delivering goods, Donald always had to talk the man down from lighting his ship aflame and ramming them, and that was just the start.

There was another incident where Donald and Goofy had to dive after the captain as he tried to swim down to fight a shark bare handedly. Goofy was able to bash it away with his shield.

And another time when a giant squid attacked their ship and the two had to pry Sea Hawk off one of its tentacles as he tried to gnaw it to death. Donald was able to zap it away with his thunder magic.

Now that they were back at shore, they could start calculating the pay they've earned while also looking for a crane to salvage for ships, but first rest. The sun was about to disappear from the horizon as they set up their hammocks on the coast further away from other the sailors on shore leave.

"Gawrsh, sweet land, finally" Goofy commented to himself and he patted at his bed before climbing on. Unlike Donald, he had a bit of a hard time adjusting to constant rocking from the waves.

"A phooey, you just haven't grown into your sea legs is all. You'll get to like it soon, you'll see" Donald tried to assure him.

"Oh well,we'll see. For now I'm just looking forward to seeing the moon for once. It's been nothing but cloudy since day one, and I miss seeing the moon and the stars. It just reminds me I'm not too far from Maxy when I look up there."

"Ooooooh, I miss Daisy and the boys too, but they have to wait. This mission is too important to fail, but we'll get to see them soon. I promise."

"Gawrsh, thanks Donald. I think I really needed that." Goofy rolled on to his hammock. "So tired, not sure if I can even stay up to see the stars...Zzzzzzz, Zzzzzzz~"

Donald twisted his head over to look at his friend, already he was out. "Oh bother." Donald watched the moon calmly, it was a nice crescent moon, so perfectly shape. Very relaxing. He maybe watched the moon sitting alone in the night sky for an hour longer before dozing off, but something off lingered in his mind.

"Okay Glimmer, it's time for the checklist" Adora announced.

The Princess stood straight and gave a salute, "Ready ma'am!"

"Tent."

Bow poked his head inside her tent before testing its sturdiness. "Check."

"Camp fire."

Sora hunched over and looked at the fire. Logs were set right, barrier was proper, a fair amount of spare firewood was stacked, and two buckets filled with dirt and sand mix to eventually put out the flames were nearby. "Check."

"Firewood and fire retardant."

"Also check."

"Food."

Bow walked over to the nearby tree where their food was elevated and was hanging by rope so no wildlife could get to it. "Check."

"And lastly, sleeping bags." She looked at her feet where four bedrolls laid. "And that's a check. Gotta say Princess, you did a pretty good job following through. Even more so since this was your first time."

"Yeah, way to go Glim!" Bow grabbed her shoulders from behind and gave her a congratulatory squeeze.

"Yeah, nice job! We knew you had it in you!" Sora gave her a thumbs up.

Glimmer blushed from all the praise, even more so as the guards off on the side dutifully applauded her as well. "Well, what can I say, I had some good incentive. Now it's time for Sora to hold up on his end of the deal. Start talking!"

Sora crossed his arms before swaying his head, "Hmm, I don't know. I did say might, as in maybe, after all."

"What?! That's not fair!"

"Hmmm, like I said, maybe if you-" Sora had to duck as Glimmer grabbed one of the logs and tried to swing it at his face.

"NO MAYBES! WE HAD A DEAL!" She tried to swing again and started chasing Sora around their small campsite all the while as she kept swinging and teleporting.

"Okay! Okay! I was only joking! I'll talk, I'LL TALK!"

Glimmer looked like she was gonna relax for a moment, but then she held of the large piece of firewood and squinted at him, "I'm watching you" she threatened, but sat down all the same. Sora, Adora, and Bow joined her and together they all sat around the campfire and listened as Sora told his tale of Destiny Islands and of he and his best friend Riku meeting and befriending a mysterious girl that appeared out of thin air one day named Kairi. How ten years had passed by and how almost everyday they would all get together and play on their small little playground island. Sora thought for a moment before he shared about the day they started building their raft to try to see other worlds and the dark events that followed. He didn't get too much into detail about some of the worlds he, Donald and Goofy visited (saves those for next time) or how Riku went off the super deep end as he was possessed by Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. He did tell them instead of the evil fairy Maleficent and how he put a stop to her, of how he saved Kairi before leaving her back home to try to find Riku who got lost in the Darkness. For Glimmer's sake he did also talk a little about how and when he and Kairi were reunited and how they become closer after that.

"Wow, that is an amazing story!" Glimmer swooned, "And such a romantic story. I wish I could have a fairy tale ending like that, too, one day." She gave a discreet glance over at Bow as he stared at Sora with sparkling eyes.

"Dude, that is so cool! All those awesome fights and world saving, I wish I could do half the stuff you can do!" Bow stood up before trying to imitate some of the scenes Sora described to the best of his imagination with sound effects. "Seriously man, if there is a way, point me in the right direction and I'll do it. No questions about it."

Sora crossed his arms as he thought about it. "Well, if you're super serious about it...The place I was trying to get to, Olympus, has a legendary coliseum that attracts the greatest warriors from every corner of Creation to come and fight. If you really try to will it, that's how other warriors have made it their, or so I've heard. If you do make it, there's this one guy named Phil that can get you started. He's called the trainer of heroes, he actually helped me a lot with some of my training, too."

His jaw dropped as he thought in wonder, "Phil, the trainer of heroes...SO COOL!" Bow closed his eyes and brought his hands together before chanting "I think I can, I think I can, I know I can."

Glimmer tackled him down, "No, stop! What happens if you actually do disappear?! I need you here, you jerk."

He held his hands up defensively, "Easy Glim, I'm pretty sure I won't disappear just like that."

"I wouldn't say that" Sora chimed, "I've known people that have."

Glimmer put her hands on her hips and gave Bow a glare, he gulped and admitted "Okay, so say I do end up there. The worst thing that can happen is that I come back stronger than ever and I'll be a hero!"

"No."

"I'll be back to help finish the fight-"

"No!"

"Then everything can be-"

"NO!"

He crossed his arms and pouted, "Geez, fine! As if I can ever win against you anyway."

It was then that Adora made her presence known again as she fall back from her seat laughing. She pointed at them and struggled to get out, "And you thought Sora and I were the comedy team! Watching you guys is hilarious!"

Sora jumped between them while looking upset, "Wait a second! Adora, are you admitting defeat?! Letting them take the Laugh Crown?! What is wrong with you? I thought you never gave up!"

She sat there red faced as she tried to laughter, letting out a snort here and there. "Sure, I'm competitive, but I don't mind losing here and there."

"Liar! I know for one you never like to lose at anything! You and me, Adora, we are gonna dethrone these two and take that crown for ourselves!"

"I *snort* think I'm really fine with losing-"

"No!" he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her close, "I'm telling you, We're! Not! Losing!"

The back and forth between the four of them went on for a few hours more as they all continue to share the laughs. Eventually it was getting late and they all started getting ready for bed. It wasn't long after before they began nodding off and fell asleep. Sora and Adora were the last ones awake.

"Hey Sora?" she called out quietly, hoping he was still awake.

"Yeah, sup?" he responded sleepily.

"You and Kairi...how did you eventually know or decided that you like liked instead of just like?"

He was in the middle of yawning as she asked, and cough and choked a little, he was quick to calm his fit down. "Um, uhhh, I'm not too sure how or when. All I know was there was a time that I liked her and somewhere along the time I really liked her. I don't know if it was there the whole time or not. The heart is funny like that, you know." His glowing face was hard to miss.

Adora thought about it for a moment, a small blush growing around her cheeks and ears, "And how did you know that she liked you back?"

"...I'm really not sure. Even before my first adventure, there was just something special felt between me and Kairi. It was just...something I felt in my heart." He turned and looked at her for a moment, she was looking up at the night sky. She soon noticed his gaze and blinked hard before looking back at the sky, her blush getting worse. "So why do you ask?"

She turned over away from him, "Nothing. I'm going to sleep now. Night" she ended the discussion there and then.

Sora decided to let it go for now and relaxed himself and he looked back at the sky. He tried not to think about Kairi and Riku, Donald and Goofy and the King, about Yen Sid and the mission he was on to save all those whose lives were ruined by Xehanort. 'Damn. I'm thinking about it now. Reeeeeaaal heavy stuff. Blah, blah, blah. None of that thinking is gonna do me any good. Just need to sleep right now. Maybe I can start counting stars, that always knocks me out. Let's see…wait, what?'

Sora sat up before rubbing his eyes and looking back up again. The sky was still blank. Nothing at all besides the moon hanging there. He started into the fire before back to the sky. Nope. He rolled off his spot before trying to trying from a different spot, when that didn't work he tried to cross the courtyard. Still nothing.

Adora, who hadn't fallen asleep yet, sat up and watched him oddly. "Sora, what are you doing?"

His head snapped at her before he ran up to her. There was urgency in his voice, "Adora, where are all the stars?!"

"Um, stars? Like the small lights in the sky?" He nodded his head vigorously. "The stars that no one has seen in centuries?"

Sora's eyes began to shrink, "Huh?"

"Yeah, no one has seen stars in forever."

Sora was still for a long moment before he ran and jumped on Bow and Glimmer. "Guys, guys! You've seen the stars before, right?!"

Very clear as day, the two were not pleased by the rude awakening. "Sora what do you think you're doing?!"

"Yeah man, not cool."

"Guys! You've seen the stars before, right?! RIGHT?!"

"Come on, dude, why didn't you bring up that fairy tale when we were awake?"

Sora looked at Glimmer, only to see she wasn't going to add anything positive or hopeful. He quickly ran away and up the wall to where the guards that were watching them were. "You guys have seen the stars before, right?!" The two stood back nervously from the young man before carefully shaking their heads.

Adora, Glimmer and Bow watched in worry as Sora ran away from the two guards and disappeared into the castle. They could he him opening a door and yell out the same question as before until he clearly moved on to repeat the process.

The two turned to Adora before asking "So, what's going on with him?"

"Something really bad that none of us has realized all this time, I think...and afraid?"

"WHAT'S HAPPENING?! WHERE THE HECK ARE ALL THE STARS?!" Sora's voice echoed all over Bright Moon.

"WHAAHAHAHAAAHHAAA!"

"Donald, what's wrong?!" Goody hopped of his hammock and leapt to the wizard's side.

"Look up at the sky Goofy!" Donald pointed up.

He looked up and tried to search for what Donald was pointing at, but even squinting he couldn't see anything up in the dark sky. "Gawrsh, what am I looking for?"

"The stars Goofy! The stars!"

Goofy blinked twice before looking him, then it hit him like a train, "Oh no! They're all gone! Does that mean the Heartless are taking over the worlds again?!"

"But they're all gone at once?" Donald didn't know what to make out of it. Not even the Heartless can work that fast, unless Xehanort somehow had a hand in all this. But it didn't make sense, not now that they knew his objective. Destroying worlds didn't follow along with any plan that would force the Seven Guardians of Lights to clash with the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness. Something wasn't adding right.

"Gawrsh Donald, I'm getting scared."

"Me too Goofy. We gotta get the Gummi Ship back together and find Sora, pronto!"

"What is the meaning of all this?! You'd better have a good explanation for all this, young man?" Queen Angella glared down at Sora as he lead the small group of friends to barge in to her personal bedchamber. Not in so many years has anyone even seen her in her nightgown let alone her chambers. The guards even knew to enter her room only in the most critical of emergencies, nothing less than that.

Glimmer nervously stepped forward, "Sorry mom, but he insists that it's an end of the worlds kind of emergency. He's really worked up and panicked about it."

"It is that kind of emergency!" Sora stepped forward, "I'm real sorry about the intrusion, but I need to know where are all the stars?!"

"So sorry mom" Glimmer moaned out.

The tall Queen put her fingers to the bridge of her nose and let out a sigh. She placed her hands at the hips and bent down to meet him at eye level. "Really, this is your terrible emergency that couldn't wait until morning?"

"Please, you have no idea how important those stars mean. What happened to them?"

Queen Angella let out another sigh, "I can't believe that this is happening. From what my mother told me what her mother told her from before was that there was a terrible tragic event where the sky lit up, the world shook like never before, and the stars disappeared forever. That was supposedly over two thousand years ago, other than that story told from tongue, there is no other history, recorded or otherwise, ever found or discovered. Are you now satisfied?"

Sora took a deep breathe, "Oh boy, oh boy. Two thousand years? That's still after the Keyblade War I think, right? Okay, so this is the big problem everyone, before I arrived here, in every world I've ever visited and been to, there have always been stars. In fact, for each star you see in the sky is actually another world out there. The fact that there aren't any stars now is really scary for me right now because on my first adventure, stars were disappearing one by one. What was happening was that these terrible dark monsters called Heartless were conquering and actually devouring worlds. With the help of my friends, I managed to put a stop to it and bring back all those worlds destroyed by the Darkness. Please tell me you see where I'm getting at with all this?!"

Adora, Glimmer and Bow looked more than a little concerned with the revelations of the happenings outside their world, more so with the lack of stars with this new knowledge. Queen Angella turned back into her room before looking out her window up the night sky. She was quiet for a short moment as she pondered his words. "If you what you speak of is true, then there is good reason to be concerned. In all my years, never once did I ponder of what there once was in the sky, what stars could have been. I thought I was being told of a useless story, a myth that would have no bearing or impact on anything."

Glimmer was getting nervous, she's never seen her mom like this before. "Mom, are you okay?"

The Queen turned back to the group, her face incredibly passive, doubtlessly accredited to her centuries of ruling. She strode back to the four and gently pulled her daughter into a small hug. "Yes, of course I am sweetie. Whilst the revelation can be a bit disconcerting, from where I stand it doesn't change much."

Sora's jaw dropped, "Doesn't change much?! All the stars I.E. the worlds are missing! How does that not change much?!"

Queen Angella let out a tired sigh as she let go of Glimmer, "The moon will still set as the sun will rise from the East. Rain will still fall down from the sky and surely accompanied by thunder and lightning occasionally. Animals will still frolic through the forest as we aim to hunt them to feed ourselves. Our war still rages on with no end in sight still, nothing has changed for our world."

"But-!"

The Queen gave him a stern look, "Sora, the stars have been gone for millennials. Nothing has changed for our world. That is all I find myself concerned with. I'm afraid I can't burden myself with the affairs of other worlds."

Glimmer couldn't believe with what she's hearing, "Mom?! Are you even listening to what you're saying?! If what Sora's saying is true, something terrible is happening to countless worlds, where countless people are being affect and worse!" She gulped as her mother put on her angry face.

"And what do you expect me to do?! Magically save all the the worlds in Creation when I'm failing to defend our own world?!"

"But, but-!"

Sora stepped in between the two, "Stop! Stop, please. Glimmer, your mom is right. Queen Angella, you're absolutely right. *Sigh* There's in fact a law for world travelers: Do not meddle in the affairs of other worlds. I'm exempt from the rules because I'm a Keyblade Wielder, so I can't expect much from you or anyone else on that matter." Sora let out a heavy sigh, "This is only for me to worry about. I shouldn't have bothered you with this. I really do need to prioritize fixing my ship though, and finding Donald and Goofy too."

Queen Angella turned around and sat at a small table. She gestured for him to approach and sit across her. He complied with a solemn look on his face. "In my very long life, I've encountered many people with different kinds of personality and background than I'd care to count. I've roamed the lands of this world and seen much of what it has to offer, yet still secrets waiting to be found. I like to think you are one of the most unique things I've encountered in a long time, I'd be a lot happier if it weren't under such dire times for the two of us." She leaned back and let her wings stretch out before trying to relax again. "I truly do wish I can be of greater help, and I am thankful for your understanding and service to me, but I am sad to say I cannot offer much of anything substantial in aid. I do, however, think I point you in the right direction of someone who can."

"You can?! That's great!" Sora excitedly stood up from his seat. The motherly Queen gave him a look to tell him to sit back down. He sheepishly did so, "Sorry. So that's great. Who is it you think that can help me?"

Queen Angella gave a small grimace, "She's...a unique sorts, a lot like you in that regards. I'm also afraid that's what alienated her from the rest of the Princesses and Royal line. She is Princess Entrapta of Dryl, and she fancies herself as a scientist and an inventor. She immerses herself in her research of the First Ones and dedicates the rest of her time to inventing all sorts of machines. Perhaps you could persuade her into assisting you in locating more missing pieces of your ship and repair it too." She paused for a moment, "I doubt you could, but perhaps you could persuade her in joining the Princess Alliance as well. I'm rather doubtful given it would take away her research time, but you never know."

"...I mean such a huge deal in the Etherian Inventor's Community. I mean I saw her once before at a convention, she brought a huge Firsts Ones' robot, or at least its arm and head attached to a new body, and had it repurposed to build walls. We're all pretty sure it was a combat robot, so all the more impressive if it now builds instead of, you know, blowing people up!" Bow finished his long story about Princess Entrapta, whom they were now on their way to see at her castle. They all walked along a rocky, ocean side path.

"Hey, that's pretty cool. Where's the robot now?" Adora asked.

Bow sheepishly scratched the back of his head. "Um, last I heard, it blew itself up." Sora, Adora, and Glimmer gave him a deadpan look. "What?! Sure it failed eventually, but no one else has even come half as far as she has when it comes to ancient tech."

"Yeah, I guess that deserves some props" Adora conceded.

"Wait, what were you doing at there for? At the convention?" Sora suddenly realized.

"Uh, hello?" Bow pulled one of his arrows from his quiver, "Did you forget how awesome my trick arrows were during our fight with the giant robot bug, or during our fight with the Horde when saving Plumeria?"

"No way I'd forget. Some of those arrows were really cool!"

"Well, who do you think made them? Only yours truly!" Bow thumbed to himself.

"What?! No way, you made them yourself?"

"Yeah-uh!"

Sora smiled before elbowing Glimmer, "Hey Glim, those trick arrows could have fooled me! Get it, because they trick?"

Glimmer sent him a glare, but said nothing as she walked ahead of him.

"Glimmer?" She let out a huff and kept walking. "Come on! Why are you still so mad?!"

She turned around and pointed angrily at him, "You tried to summon monsters in my castle!"

~Flashback to the night before~

It's been less than an hour since they left Queen Angella's bedchambers, and the gang were having a bit of a hard time falling back asleep. As they waited around their campfire, waiting for sleep to take them, they suddenly noticed that Sora was absent and weren't sure how long that was the case.

After a short bit of searching, they found him carefully tiptoeing through a hallway with his Keyblade in hand. "Here Heartless, Heartless, Heartless. Keyblade Wielder tirefully walking around late at night. Would really suck if I got ambushed right about now."

"Sora, what are you doing?" Adora asked him.

"Trying to see if I can get Heartless to appear here."

"Here?! In the castle?!" Glimmer yelped.

"Yeah, why?"

~End Flashback~

"Come on, I told you already! Keyblades and their wielder are like homing beacons for them. I realized last night I haven't seen any yet since I got here" Sora tried to explain himself again, "Usually when I go anywhere, they showup almost right away. Longest time before now was maybe an hour tops, that I haven't seen a Heartless right away."

"You were still trying to summon them in my castle!"

"It was an experiment! It's not as though any showed up, even after I tripped and skidded my knee. I tried so hard to fake cry to see if they would come!"

"You're unbelievable! The monsters you explained that can devour and destroy entire world, you were trying to summon them in my castle!"

Adora let out an agonizing sigh, "Glimmer, please would you let it go? Nothing happened last night."

"Really, this broken record is getting really exhausting to listen to" Bow agreed.

Sora got on his knees before giving her a charming smile and batting his eyes at her. Glimmer rolled her eyes, "Guhh, fine."

"Yay!" Sora picked her up in a hug before giving her a quick twirl before continuing down the path.

Her face went a little red before let out a small growl, "Hey, I said I forgive you. So can you please let me down?"

"Nope, not until you super forgive me!"

She let out another sigh before teleporting out of his arms and by Adora and Bow's side. Sora stuck his tongue out and blew a raspberry. Glimmer did her best to keep a straight face and not give him the satisfaction of making her smile. She failed.

"Hey guys, rockslide" Sora called out. Just ahead of them, the path was blocked by a large pile rocks and boulders.

Bow gave it a quick study, "Guys, we should be extra quiet. If we're too loud, we could set off another rockslide."

Adora immediately ran forward with a child like smile and called out, "For the Honor of Grayskull!" After the usual explosion of color and lights, Adora as She-Ra busted through the block pathway.

Bow held his face, waiting for the impending rockslide, none came however. Sora stood besides him and commented, "You know, if she didn't do it, I would have debated on doing the same thing."

"Whoo! Getting the hang of this!" She-Ra cheered.

"Why?! That was incredibly dangerous! If we aren't careful, we could knock the entire road into the ocean!"

"Come on, what's the big deal? It worked and nothing bad happened." She turned around and continued on the path.

"H-h-hey, you can't just solve everything by busting things down with your magic! What if you really did cause an avalanche. What would we have done if the road collapsed into the ocean with us in it? The waves would have caught us in its currents and smash us into the wall. Glimmer and I aren't like you and Sora, we'd be turned into paste!"

That gave her pause for a moment, but she shook it off and kept going, "Yeah, but it didn't happen, so what's the big deal?"

Sora looked over the edge into the waters below with Glimmer besides him. They both grimaced, "So if that did happened, I would have been able to pull you guys out in time, right?" Sora asked himself more than anything else.

"Let's hope it doesn't come to that" Glimmer answered regardless.

"Look, I've spent my whole life without powers and got along just fine. Things are just gonna be easier and better now that I'm She-Ra is all."

Sora pushed himself into their argument, hoping to put a calm end to it. "Adora, I think what Bow is just trying to say is 'look before you leap.'" She let out a frustrated sigh, but before anything could be said or done, a bolt of lightning shot out of a tall, castle tower. There was an odd, bright red light glowing atop of it. "Oh look, the castle."

"And she's got lightning!" Bow gushed.

Glimmer looked worried, "That light is the castle's distress beacon, they might be under attack!"

They all looked to each other worriedly, "But there's been no Horde activity in this area though. Queen Angella would have said something!"

"It doesn't matter, we have to help however we can. Let's go!" Sora led the way with She-Ra at his heels.

"Wait! Stop!" Bow called out to them, but it was too late. They weren't sure which one of the two set it off, but who ever did activated a trap door with a bed of spikes waiting for them at the bottom. Sora, with a foot already at the edge out of the trap, was able to grab hold of She-Ra's wrist and yanked her out of the air. The two tumbled over each other on the ground before rolling on their feet, but they were clear of the trap.

Picking themselves up, Sora commented, "Right. Back to 'look before you leap.'"

Bow and Glimmer and out a sigh, "Good, you two are okay. Everyone, we have to all remember, this is Entrapta who we're dealing with. The tech genius, doubtlessly she built all sorts of traps around her home to keep the Horde, or any unwelcome visitors, out. It's even in her name!" Bow warned everyone.

Sora and Glimmer nodded to acknowledge him, but She-Ra put a hand to her face and had a pained look upon her face.

"Hey Adora, are you okay?" Sora asked.

"Something...feels wrong with this place. I'm not too sure why...nevermind mind. Let's keep going."

*SLAM*

"Who's there!" She-Ra challenged while pulling out her sword, everyone else got into a combative stance. Nothing around them moved or spoke out, they relaxed a little.

Glimmer tried calling out again as everyone began to spread out, "Hello?! Princess Entrapta?! I'm Princess Glimmer, my friends are here to help...and maybe try to recruit you to the Princess Alliance!" Still nothing. A second later she yelped and jumped in fright. Looking down at her feet was a dismembered robotic hand.

She picked it up and gave it a curious look over before it seemed to come back to life and started crawling around and managed to grab hold of her forearm. It took several attempt while flailing her arm to shake it loose, and kicked it away when it did. Her friends all gathered around her as they heard her struggle.

"Ah man, I was really looking forward to seeing all the cool traps Entrapta has and maybe use them against the Horde, but this was not how I imagined being introduced to them would be!" Bow complained.

Metal scraping against concrete was heard just below them, someone had stuck their head out of a nearby manhole. "They're coming. You've got to get out of the square!" Having delivered his warning, the person disappeared and slid the cover back into its place.

"Wait, come back! Who's 'they?!'" She-Ra tried calling out. A screeching noise filled the air and made them jump.

They all got ready for a fight as Glimmer suggested nervously "I think we should move further away from whatever's making that sound. Sounds good to everyone?"

"This way!" The four dashed into a nearby hallway before being stopped by a slowly limping, damaged robot. It looked at them before letting out a screech and tried to rush them with its arms out. She-Ra and Sora ran and met it half way before She-Ra roundhouse kicked it towards Sora who bisected it. They thought it was over as the robot was missing its bottom half, but it refused to stop as it tried to crawl toward them. Sora was quick to smash its head into pieces with a swift strike.

The four looked around to see if anymore were coming, they were alone for now. Bow took this as a chance to inspect the machine for any clues while Sora checked the nearby door for any more traps. "It looks similar in design from what I've seen from Entrapta's work at the conventions, but why would it attack us?"

He looked up just in time to see She-Ra rearing her arm to breakdown the down the door with an excited Glimmer supporting her. Sora's back was turned as he was still inspecting the door, unaware that the tall blonde was about to break it down anyways."Really?!"

Sora barely started to turn his head to ask "Really wha-AAAHHHHHH!" The moment She-Ra took a swing, the door and the floor slid back, dropping the three down a trap hole. The trap closed itself up right away before Bow could go after them.

"Glimmer! Sora! Adora! No, no, no! This can't be happening!" He tried to take a deep breathe, "At least Sora's with them. He seems...sensible-ish. But who's here with me?" he whimpered. That's when a pair of arms grabbed hold of him and pulled him into the darkness.

Sora, She-Ra and Glimmer banged into each other the entire time falling down the metal pipe before coming to an abrupt halt as they landed hard in a cage. She-Ra and Glimmer sat on top of Sora who moaned out "My back."

The two quickly got off of him. She-Ra bent down to check on him as Glimmer panicked. "Oh no, oh no! If the three of us are together, then that means that Bow is all alone with those things! We've got to get back to him!"

She-Ra helped pick Sora up before asking, "What do we do?"

"I'll teleport us out."

"But there's three of us!" She remembered how when they first met, teleporting she, herself and Bow knocked her unconscious for almost a minute and drained her of her powers. "Isn't two your limit?"

"I've been practicing, I can do a few jumps before I have to stop for a moment. Besides, unlike last time, I fully charged up before we left. Sora, get ready, I'm teleporting!"

A flash later, the three were squeezed in together in a very tight and intimate space. Glimmer and She-Ra were forced to sit down and squish Sora further. Though Sora could not see it, the position was very compromising and easily put a blush to their faces. "Now my everything! What happened, I can't see?! Are we out?!"

"Gah! What did I touch?!"

"U-u-u-uhhh no, we're not out!" Glimmer tried to wiggle herself free, but felt things become worse. "NOPE! Everyone hang on!"

A flash later again, the three were now standing on a very narrow ledge of a massive cliff where Sora was already more than half way about to fall off. The three screamed as they grabbed hold of each other and teleported again.

A flash later again again, the three, still holding onto each other, were now falling down a different kind of shaft and heading towards a giant death clamp. Screaming, they teleported again.

After their final jumped, the three were still holding onto each, but this time She-Ra riding piggyback on Sora, with Glimmer riding piggyback on her. They heard a cracking noise. "My back!" Sora yelped before falling forward and the girls piling on top of him, hurting his back even more.

The two scrambled off of him the moment they realized that they were, once more, in an awkward position with the boy, albeit not as embarrassing as three jumps ago, but still embarrassed nonetheless.

"Cure" Sora casted on himself, relieving him of backaches. Picking himself up and stretching his back, he noticed the girls patting and adjusting their rear ends. "Wait, what happened?"

"NOTHING!" They yelled in unison. She-Ra turned to the much shorter girl, "And we are official done teleporting in this place!"

"Fine by me! I'm spent anyway, never thought I'd be glad to say that, too."

Sora looked at them questioningly before asking again, "Wait, what happened?"

"NOTHING!" was their same response in unison as before, both their faces glowing a brilliant red.

"...O-kay. So we should probably work on getting ourselves out of here."

"Yup!"

"Sounds good!" The two said as they walked passed him and down the new hallway they found themselves in.

Sora crossed his arms as he tried to make things out, "Wait, what happened?!" He did not get a response and just opted to follow them.

They hardly took any steps forward before a crashing noise sounded out as vent snapped open and a dark figure with glowing red eyes pulled itself through the opening. Sora and She-Ra got into a stance ready to fight as Glimmer took cover behind them with hands glowing with magic.

The tall ominous figure took several steps forward with its long, narrow legs before jumping forward and landing...on a shorter pair of legs? The figure removed its mask reveal a short girl wearing a slightly grease stained shirt. She had magenta colored eyes and extremely long, purple pigtails that trailed along the floor. She honestly looked like she just checked out from work at a mechanic's shop.

"Princesses and other person! I'm saved!" the girl cheered happily as she approached even closer.

Sora immediately let down his guard and dismissed his weapon. He cracked up laughing as he thumbed her, "It's not a killer robot. It's just a girl. Thought we were about to get swarmed by a horde of robots for a second.

She-Ra, too, let down her guard before letting out a chuckle or two in laughter, "Yeah, me too. Thought we were about to fight our way out for a second."

"Wait, Princess...Entrapta? I mean, yes it is. Good to see you're okay. Hope you don't mind, we sort of let ourselves in."

"Then let ourselves out of your cage trap thing" She-Ra cleared her thought and played off nonchalantly.

"Wait, we were in a cage? I only remember being faced down or falling to our deaths."

"Good!" Glimmer snapped at him.

Princess Entrapta maneuvered herself next to them, "I welcome you three to Dryl" she tried smiling for them. "I just want to say from now, things are usually fun around here...and almost never this deadly."

"Question!" Sora raised his hand. "When you say 'almost never this deadly' does that mean it this place is usually deadly, but not to this degree, or do you mean it is this deadly, but happens very rarely?"

She stared at him for almost 30 whole seconds before her apparently prehensile pigtails reached into a thicker part of her lockes and pulled out a voice recorder. "Log 107, I would like to set a reminder to make up a statistic of the deadliness of the castle, rating it of how deadly and the consistency of said deadliness. End log."

Sora, She-Ra and Glimmer looked at her oddly before Sora suddenly got excited. "Your hair is so COOL!"

A/N: Hello everyone! Sorry for the long wait on the story. As you may recall or just reread up my last message to you all, I was packing up and set to move across the country back to sunny LA. Got my PC all packed and ready to go. That's when I get a big o' warning from my friend to extensively check the insurance policies with USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc, and good thing I did. They make it very unclear of what is covered and what isn't when it comes to whole PC rigs. I followed up and read up on forums online about the issue, and read that plenty of times a computer would get damaged and the shipping company refused to cover the damage. Claiming that without the right proof and documentation, they had no way of knowing the PC's condition before it was sent out. They said this despite plenty of pictures being provided. Now I could have taken this as someone wanting to vent and complain, trying to justify themselves, but I came across the same complaint more than once, and while there were more good things said than bad, I wasn't about to take that chance.

I ultimately had to leave my computer several states away back at my old house with the rest of the furniture. I have no clear idea when I'll be able to get it along with the rest of the stuff I had to leave behind. This whole chapter was typed up on my phone! So much I want to get written down, and I have to type it on my phone. *Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggh* I'm sure the lot of you had to type up a long text or even an email on your phone at least once before, imagine getting out 8,000 words. I really love my story idea, and I want to keep writing, but I'm sadly very limited with no computer or laptops I can really borrow. It also did NOT help that I 100% Kingdom Hearts III in almost 80 hours. Cannot and will not comment my opinions on the game other than gameplay is at its greatest in the series. Will be starting on the next chapter right away, so sit tight everyone.

P.S. It's also a bit hard to navigate the browser on my phone, so answering those PM left me a little dissuaded. I'll try to get to those as soon as I can, I have not forgotten about you all. Leave a review to keep me moving forward!

P.P.S. I've gone over and proofread this this chapter, and spell checker is lazy and doesn't want to work. Please excuse the errors you see in here. When I have access to a PC again, I shall return to use that wonderful life saver and get all those errors scrubbed out.