Chapter 2 early arrival
"I wonder if it's a boy, should I name him Aizen? Schneizel? Nah, too foreign. Ooh! Maybe Kahn could work…" Entrapta suddenly has an eerie feeling come to mind, "Why do I feel like someone's yelling that name, wait a minute! What if it's a girl?" It had been just over two hours since the meeting amongst the princesses had begun, and all Entrapta could think about was what to name both her baby and the new portal invention she had been waiting to show off for three months. She had considered calling her portal a warp gate, instant transmission, or even the shake-them-up because in a way you're being taken apart and put together sorta like being in a blender that also resembles you when it's done, but as she thought, she looked at one of the murals seeing the night sky shown with the stars in it and smiled softly, settling on a name. "Stargate." She said this feeling a bit proud of the name, even if it comes from a failure, but her train of thought is soon interrupted by a tap on the shoulder causing her to jump a little in surprise and look to the person who taped her. Seeing Glimmer looking at her with a raised brow with suspicion in her gaze even with all the time that had past Glimmer never fully trusted Entrapta after her betrayal, but that didn't bother Entrapta at all. However, Glimmer sitting next to her and looking over her shoulder every so often was bothersome, especially when she blocked her light when she was working "Did you need something Glimmer?" Entrapta smiled to Glimmer.
"You were talking to yourself, again, for most of the meeting." Glimmer frowned at her, thinking she wasn't taking the meeting seriously like normal, but at the same time her eyes would look lower and her frown would fade a little. She returned her gaze back to the current princess talking, which happened to be Perfuma discussing something about terraforming and new plants for medicine, "What's a Stargate anyway?" Glimmer asked, still looking to Perfuma. Entrapta smiled; while yes, Glimmer didn't completely trust her, she had somewhat softened to her since her betrayal for science. Entrapta leaned over to Glimmer.
"It's my newest invention that will hopefully revolutionize travel from kingdom to kingdom, sorta like you're power but less flashy and more like a door, but without the door." Entrapta giggled a little. "It will be easier to show you when it's my turn, but there's no need to worry, with the final touches I added in throughout the last three months it'll go off without a hitch, and furth…ooh!" Entrapta paused mid sentence feeling the baby kick again, if one thing's for certain, it's that this baby's got both her and Hordak's share of energy. She saw Glimmer's slight worry and smiled at her, "It's ok, just the baby giving their mom a kick to remind me not everyone can understand me." Glimmer smiled at that, though still showing signs of concern, Entrapta had an idea. "Would you like to feel? " Glimmer paused at the question looking at her belly before slowly resting her hand on it feeling the kick, shortly after Glimmer seemed to relax with this, smiling a little more then looked to her.
"I take it you were talking to yourself about names before talking about your invention?" Glimmer asked still smiling, slowly moving her hand away. Entrapta gave her a shrug that asked 'was it that obvious' making Glimmer nod her head, "Don't worry, my mom says that when the time comes so will the name." The two smile at each other, Entrapta knew Glimmer still didn't trust her, but at least things were better between them. As Entrapta was about to return to her thoughts, she paused over hearing Mermista and some of the other princesses talking about attacks from what they presume to be Horde remnants.
"These raids have been occurring at night and only to caravans with civilians," Perfuma said in a concerned tone. "It's been going on for a few days now, and from what we've discussed it's been going on around all of our lands; the people have described them as cruel and relentless Horde remnants." Perfuma took a deep breath. "When my forces and Mermista's attempted to ambush and capture them, rather than being captured the remnants …" Perfuma took another breath, "The remaining ones that didn't escape chose to destroy themselves in an attempt to prevent capture and destroy their enemies. Half of the troops we sent were lost due to this encounter, but what's worrying were the words that these remnants said in their demise, 'Long live Skeletor!' " Perfuma, as well as some of the other princesses, seemed confused by those words. Entrapta noted that name for later. Hopefully Hordak would know who this Skeletor was, but now seemed like the perfect opportunity to reveal her new invention.
"Well if it's raids on our caravans and our supplies we're worried about than boy do I have the solution to this problem!" Entrapta stood up slowly and made her way to the center of the chamber. Emily came into the room carrying a strange device on her back before setting it down behind Entrapta, "This is the Stargate and it will revolutionize traveling and transporting supplies between the kingdoms." Entrapta could see the puzzled faces of the other princesses she smiled and began to pace back and forth, "The Stargate is a portal based on the original design from my time with the Horde and with it we will be able to transport supplies in mere moments instead of hours or days, essentially removing the threats of raids or animal attacks or even nature itself! Completely eliminating outside threats and allowing us to use our resources to a better extent and allowing us to progress and explore more First One ruins discovering the secrets of the worlds!" Entrapta looked to the princesses gauging their reactions, thinking they were in awe of her speech, but soon realized they were in shock. Even Mermista couldn't keep her expressionless facade. "Was it too much information? Where did I lose you? I can go slo…." Entrapta looked down before her eyes widened in bewilderment. "...huh. Well would you look at that! My water broke. Oh God! MY WATER BROKE!"