I OWN NOTHING

After seeing the third season, we've got good news, our ideas for this story won't change much.

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Deep in a cave, the Horde made their move, "Wow, it is dark in here." Scorpia said inside a tunnel with Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio close behind her.

"It's supposed to be that way to remain unseen." Kyle replied shyly.

Scorpia sighed and tapped the walls with a claw and continued walking, tapping the rock as she spoke, "Yes, but can't we get a couple lamps around? Nothing fancy to decorate the place, but anything to not...ow!"

A protruding stalactite smacked her on the forehead, to which she winced and bent over to try to nurse her forehead. Being taller than Rogelio had its downsides, but at least said lizardman was there to attend her with a small first-aid kit and a hiss.

"Indeed." Kyle said with a nod.

Scorpia groaned as the lizardman checked her red forehead, "Okay, seriously, how do you know what he's saying?" she asked with some awe and frustration from the third time she hit her head in a cramped cave she was forced in. "I'm sorry if it sounds rude, but...I got to know."

"I know the language." Kyle replied, "I can't really speak it since I don't have a reptile snout or a forked tongue, though."

"Really?" Lonnie asked with some surprise, arms crossed under her breasts, "I just go by context. I get like a third of what he says, then take a guess."

"Grr..." Rogelio replied with narrowed eyes at Lonnie.

The braided girl pointed a finger at him with a dull expression, "Yeah, like that, I think you're telling me to learn a few of your words."

"Sorry, buddy, but your language is NOT easy." Kyle replied to soothe his friend.

Hissing again, Rogelio rubbed some ointment on Scorpia's forehead and left.

"So, um, translation?" the white-haired captain asked impatiently.

"He's going to talk to the wife and kids as he gets another med kit." Kyle answered the scorpion woman.

"Speaking of lovey-dovey talk, where are our captain and her pet?" Lonnie asked with a sour look on her face.

"Please don't say things that could get us in trouble." Kyle pleaded with a sheepish grin.

"Oh, they're overlooking this place." Scorpia answered, "I wanted to join, but some of the corridors here aren't made for girls my size. I've scratched nearly every wall I've come across with my shoulder spikes, and don't get me started on the ceilings." She frowned, "If I had that fluffy hair puff Adora has, it'd be messy within seconds."

"Alright, so..." Lonnie tried to be patient with the taller, beefier scorpion lady; the Amazonian woman was like a puppy she couldn't get mad at.

"Oh, they're at the top of the main facility." Scorpia pointed upwards and the other two had to step back when she accidentally knocked off a stalactite, "Oops..."

As she said, sitting atop a spire just in the tunnels, Catra leaned against Adora's back, "So, this resistance or whatever are..."

Catra started to ask, resting her chin on Adora's shoulder. She considered napping or at the very least lazing about as a fleet of gigantic drillers tunneled through the cave. Gigantic cylinders moved by tank tracks and moved at different angles with pistons made sure the mountain fell piece by piece.

Her best friend and not-so-secret crush sat in front of her, "It is to remove a village as a threat from the war proper. The plan is to cause a landslide that will keep the village away from the war proper. That or at the very least distract an armed force of Horde opposers long enough to keep them from resources."

Catra nodded, "Isn't there like a Princess nearby? Scorpia mentioned her, I think." Heterochromatic eyes narrowed in anger, "What if the Forest Gale comes?"

"Judging by the reports, this princess is unaware or doesn't care." Adora answered, "Apparently, according to our spies, she prefers to lock herself in order to further her studies."

Catra snickered, "Shut-ins like her couldn't care less for anything away from their immediate reach, like the big boss. Still, we came here for him and she's around."

"A minor nuisance, so far." Adora answered as they observed Hordak's measure to ensure victory. "We will keep the enemy from gathering resources and stop these princess supporters. Knowing him and that pink princess he's with, they will come to stop us."

"Look at you." Catra smirked and placed her hands on her friend's shoulders, "Making good assumptions. So, keep everything under surveillance and look for any hint of him sneaking in, right?"

"That's why I had Scorpia look around...and why I had Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio accompany her." Adora was fond of the scorpion woman but wouldn't say she was the sharpest tool in the shed.

"Oh, and here I thought you sent the munchkin trio with her to spend some quality time with me." Catra fake-pouted.

"Shush, you..." Adora snickered and put her hand on Catra's face to lightly push her back a couple inches.

"What're you going to do now?" She asked Adora, who merely closed her eyes.

"The Forest Gale will be here soon. Possibly. It'll be good to be ready."

Adora looked over the ridge, as did the cat warrior. Seeing Scorpia had finally made it out of the tunnels, Catra got up and stretched, the motion of which made her lithe body and ample posterior move in extremely enticing ways.

"Time to kill the Forest Gale… If he's around, that is." Catra snickered to herself.

Adora gripped her sword in her fist, "Catra, be careful. He's getting stronger. If you got hurt…there's nothing I wouldn't do to end him."

Rubbing her arm, Catra gave her an earnest smile, "You know me, nothing can get to me."

Despite saying that, she was trying to hide how her heart beat extra fast at that grim promise from Adora. She was really becoming someone she loved more than anything else. Shadow Weaver, the Horde, Hordak… All of them meant nothing to her if Adora wasn't around.

"I mean it!" Adora said, making the cat girl's heartrate accelerate.

"Oh, please, I've got like nine lives worth of tries." Catra said confidently, putting her face inches from hers to get a blush from her blonde captain.

Then, pushing Adora's side with her elbow playfully, Catra leaped from the rock, grinding her way down by manner of coiling her body around it and using it as a makeshift escape pole. When she landed down, she lightly stepped to the side.

Adora smashed into the ground with her fist, "Heh, she doesn't change."

She got up, her sword swinging around several times as a cushion of air broke her fall after using her blade.

Scorpia arrived, "Hey! You're already here! Uh, yeah…Kinda makes me a little self-conscious, ya know?"

The beefy captain was blushing and covered in bandages. She looked like she had scrapes and scratches all over her. Rogelio walked past her, a box of medical supplies held by the handle behind his back.

Kyle looking at a scanner with a frown, "Weird readings, eh, buddy?"

Rogelio peeked at them, yellow eyes narrowed with his spare claw placed against his chin. He let loose an elongated growl, clenching that claw and pointing at the ground.

The skinny boy nodded, "Yeah. I think so. The princess must be using some kind of device to halt seismic activity."

Lonnie swiped the scanner from Kyle, rubbing his hair with one hand while she did so, "Yep, shit's whack. Okay, she doesn't know what we're using on her home-turf. As far as she knows, it's just earthquakes. But damn, the girl knows how to make shit work for her. Whatever she's doing is sending out signals all throughout the canyon. She's blocking our drills progress without even realizing we're using drills."

Catra swiped the scanner next and glaring at it, "Someone as smart as that must be some kind of crazy genius for a shut-in."

Adora nodded, "Considering it's only a matter of time before the Forest Gale arrives, we should keep them at bay."

"Um, about that, captain..." a random soldier said, approaching the group sheepishly. "You may...want to check something out."

"Don't tell me..." Adora put her hand to her face, rubbing it in aggravation.

Catra growled at the messenger, "Isn't your job to inform us of this immediately?"

"I-I'm sorry, but we don't really have a spy network here, just surveillance and forces to keep intruders at bay!" everyone sighed, knowing who they'd face.

Adora took a deep breath and turned to her friends, "Listen, let's just prepare, he must be getting ready to fight."

Scorpia nodded seriously, "Yeah, who knows what kind of cunning plans he could be part of with a new princess as his ally."

Lonnie turned to her with stern eyes, "Remember, his well-being is our last concern."

"Do you see how cute he is?" Scorpia retorted with wide eyes, "Come on, you kind of want to pinch those cheeks. Admit it, team."

"Um...well, it is tempting..." Adora admitted with a blush, to which Catra's tail puffed angrily at.

"Personality-wise he's really not cute." Lonnie huffed.

"Back to the matter at hand..." Adora coughed into her fist nervously. "If he's here, no doubt will he try to gain the princess' attention. Any ideas on using that against him?"

"Duh," Catra said with an angry snarl. "If he's here, I want a rematch, so let's make him come to us...with a little incentive."

"You mean...taking a princess? But how?" Kyle asked in shock.

"Well, she's interested in what we're doing, so..." Catra smirked as the gears in her head turned.

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Entrapta was spinning around her lab, running from console to console, scanning things, checking up on data, and flat out hyperventilating from sheer excitement and overwhelming energy, "5 times 50 to the power of- The data came in! Oh, oh, oh! So that's how you use the Mystic Swordarts! That's beyond incredible! This chakra of yours boosts power by a factor of 10 to the power of 3! It's comparable even to the mana used by other princesses! I myself don't possess natural magic, but more to the point! if we can duplicate this chakra, even I could use swordarts on the level of… OOOOHHHHH!"

"Is she always like this?" Glimmer asked from the side to the cooking staff, looking anywhere but a bare-chested Naruto's sculpted defined pecs and slim tummy.

A tall, overweight woman scratched her head with a sigh, "Can't say she's acting different than usual, but it's like..."

A slim petite woman in a baker's outfit tapped her chin in worry, "It's like her personality's taken to a new degree."

Indeed, Entrapta was in an ecstatic state of focus, pure scientific euphoria, "I just realized, we could duplicate your energy and give it to the average soldier! Making them into powerful soldiers and boosting their own productivity! OHMYGOSH! I am having so many ideas it's terrifying! Need more recorders, ASAP!"

Naruto had to make a question, "How much longer will I be stuck here?"

Sitting in place with a bunch of suction cups all over his bare chest, Naruto looked rather impressed by the volume of energy Entrapta had. Although it might have been the extra ten cups of Night's Melody she downed prior to her analysis. Glimmer stood nearby with a blush when seeing him start to sweat from Entrapta's requests.

He was ignored as the tiny engineer continued, "AMAZING! Simply, amazing! We need to record your brainwaves while you sleep! NO! We need to understand even more about you! It's insane how little we know about chakra users in the first place! You said you came from an entire planet or world full of them!? And you were only a beginner in their arts!? OHMYGOSH! VEIGAR! Do you understand what this means!?"

She asked a nearby drone that she had given a nifty little blue hat, then rolled back into place on her chair, her hair forming a pair of hands which lifted her up and off it just so she could look at a new reading.

"Do tell..." Glimmer said interested while Naruto did katas, thrusting his wooden sword in a series of precise and fast stabs to practice the Howling Sword techniques.

Entrapta couldn't contain her excitement, at all, "So much data could be found! Entire schools of foreign martial arts and techniques! Entirely new realms of data transportation! Maybe even the ability to summon dragons!" She was losing it, drooling at every single thought that crossed her astonished mind. She then gripped Naruto's bare shoulders with saliva dripping down her chin, "Naruto, you have to make babies soon! I mean it! We need more data, more subjects, more variables! Ooooohhh...! You totally need to marry a princess or see if one or – better yet – dozens would like to carry on your genes!"

"Wait!" Naruto exclaimed, fear in his eyes from Entrapta's red lenses staring into his soul.

If that wasn't traumatic enough, she started to pull up her shirt, revealing an ample view of the underside of her C-cups, just bordering on the edge of her nipples, "In fact, I wouldn't mind starting just to see the development of-" that was as far as she got when Glimmer blasted her on the head, "Ow!"

"Hey, he's not here to...to...do that!" the pink princess had upgraded her blush from a lantern into a lighthouse.

Entrapta pouted and pulled down her shirt, "Aw, and here I was willing to also study first-person experiences of...what was the term? Did it have something to do with fruits and popping?"

Rubbing their faces, the staff members tried not to look at their guests in deep embarrassment while Naruto tried to not think too much on what the tiny engineer meant.

Putting on his orange t-shirt and then his one-sleeved white tunic, he he asked impatiently and partially dead inside, "So, can you give the alliance some more thought now?"

"After a couple more readings and tests." Entrapta said and darted to the side, her hair picking up several tiny cupcakes to gobble each one in a single bite. "Now, to find a proper room for this test. Perhaps we can use the outdoors! Huh, first time I'll see sunlight in...how many months? Vi!" a pink humanoid droid with large arms appeared, "Please get last month's prototypes."

"Prototypes for what?" Naruto asked worriedly.

She turned to the others and giggled, "For physical training in order to not leave the lab and stay fit! As well as measure my progress! Don't worry, I tried them myself, but exercise is kinda boring and takes too much energy out of me I could use for more studies like this! Also, sweat! I may bathe every other day...well, week! But still, sweating is not fun! Once I discovered exercise was a waste of my time when I could just do a lot more research, I decided to use those machines to test others' limits and made this!" she pointed to a small pedaling machine under her chair, "It's smaller and helps me stay fit without sweating too much!"

"Do you ever slow down?" Naruto finally asked, overwhelmed by her energy.

"She's like the opposite of a sloth." Glimmer commented in disbelief.

Once outside, the robot had set what looked like...devices of a certain...adult nature, "Strap in, Naruto! Time to really test your limits!"

"Yeah, no." Naruto said and stared at the...machine, if it could be called that. It had straps made specifically to keep him dangling and was just a whip, a bottle of lube and leather clothing accessories away from a dark and kinky fantasy. "I am not getting on something so... Glimmer...?"

He noticed the princess staring at the machine with a blush and unfocused eyes.

"Uh, yeah!?" she gasped in shock, shaking her head.

Naruto couldn't find the words, "What...were...you...?"

"Sorry, the idea of you in that...It's d-disturbing, to say the least!" she squeaked out. "Entrapta, please, we came here to do more than...put Naruto through that."

The short-stack scientist kept her smile and a strong will, "But this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to study an actual alien being! And one with a body which is compatible with our world's biology!" she was near bursting with enthusiasm and excitement, "I'm talking of a new evolutionary line! Chakra is hereditary, of that I am certain with his anatomy! Possibly capable of its own mutations for the sake of adaptability, too! It could revolutionize our entire species! Can you imagine if a princess was born with that energy!? Magic boosted with a natural source of energy which can be linked to nature itself!?"

"Wait, linked to nature...?" Naruto cut her off.

Entrapta giggled, tapping her fingers, "Oh, yeah, your chakra seems to sustain itself thanks to the very energy which keeps our world together."

"Like me with Bright Moon's Runestone?" Glimmer asked.

"No, more like every part of the world." Entrapta explained excitedly with her fists up, "Naruto, you could channel this natural energy – which I am in the process of finding a proper name for – into chakra! Do you know what that means!? It'd be like using the power of a Runestone without a Runestone!"

"What!?" the princess and her bodyguard exclaimed with wide eyes, looking at the scientist in shock.

"In fact, perhaps more than my style, you should learn the one at Mystacor, the...forgot its name." Entrapta frowned for half a second, cheering up just a split fraction of time later. "Oh yeah, the Shining Sword! Its use of meditation and inner peace would greatly push forward your control of it! Out of all the styles, it is one of the most difficult to learn, and yet your chakra could give you the advantage to... OOOOHHH! Just... Just think what'd happen if you had babies!" she gripped him by the lapels, getting him to sweat as she put her face inches from his again. "Naruto, for science and the future, I am willing to give you my first-"

"Stop, stop, stop, please!" Glimmer yelled and pulled Naruto back with tightly shut eyes, a frown, and enough red on her face to be called a ripe tomato with her round and appealing form. "No...doing anything any princess should do only after marriage, please!"

Her eyebrows trembled as she attempted to kick the images of Naruto and Entrapta sharing a bed out of her mind.

Entrapta pouted in disappointment, "Oh, but he's quite endowed where it counts."

"How did you know!?" the other two asked in shock.

Entrapta giggled, "Hey, I made sure to study you deeply, don't think I overlook any details."

Naruto felt an odd blend of emotions as he awkwardly took a step back, "I'm...terrified...and also impressed."

Glimmer looked away, holding reddening cheeks, "I'm so sorry, Naruto. I swear to make it up to you."

"Oh, may I suggest marriage?" Entrapta giggled like a little hyperactive gremlin.

The other princess glared daggers at her, "NO!"

Entrapta didn't lose her smile, "But I'm really excited to see the child of a chakra user and an immortal! Do you think they'll call me Auntie Entrapta?" She moved around the plump princess, "Plus, your body is the ideal kind for him. Fertile and with the right amount of meat to secure warmth as well as the perfect child-bearing hips! Hm...too bad your mammary glands don't seem large enough to produce the proper amount of milk to sustain a child with such high metabolism. Although maybe the magic in you could-"

"Can we...take a break...?" Glimmer finally asked, her face buried in her palm when she skipped the point of embarrassment where she'd drop to her knees and whimper. Instead, she went directly to the point an already mentally exhausted person would arrive: surrender. She just resigned herself to her fate of emotional anguish and accepted Entrapta's quirkiness.

Entrapta was taken back, then nodded with an eager, trembling smile, "Oh, right, more coffee!?"

"No!" her guests exclaimed as one.

"Alright, I'll see you in my lab once you're done catching your breaths!" and with that, she zipped back into her castle, leaving the two utterly floored.

Finally, at long last, Naruto made the question in their minds, "What just happened?"

To his surprised, Glimmer buried her face on his chest, "Let's forget this ever happened, please. For the sake of the alliance, we need her."

"I-I know, but..." he blushed from feeling her warmth and half-apple sized breasts on his torso. "She's not going to listen."

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Atop a mountain trail, observing the odd group, Catra smirked, "Can't believe they're making this so easy for us...Then again, it is thanks to the drills working as they should none suspect we could attack."

She let out a snicker, followed by Adora and the munchkin trio sans Rogelio. The lizardman and Scorpia were tasked with waiting for a signal on the other side.

"The princess is almost inside the castle..." Lonnie reported as she observed the girl with a pair of binoculars, "And, um, she's taking that odd thing she wanted to...put the Forest Gale on."

She blushed as she had some, dare she admit it, fantasies of being in a similar device. Despite her tough exterior, she wouldn't mind letting someone take charge.

"I got her on my sights..." Kyle said with a small rifle in his hands, evening his breathing.

"Keep it steady," Adora said and nodded at Catra. "Divide and conquer, right?"

"Yup, nothing should be more fun than rubbing this on his face once we get him." Catra licked her lips at the idea of one-upping the blond after their fight near Perfuma's kingdom.

"She's nearing the door." Kyle urged them.

"Now!" Adora shouted as she and Catra jumped down while Kyle fired, soon running off in a different direction with Lonnie close.

A small dart struck Entrapta's neck, the genius inventor's hair plucked it out and pulled it up in front of her face, "Oh, this would be a mark 7 Hypnos sleep daaaaaaaghhh…" she begun to say before her red eyes rolled up and she collapsed in a pile of limp cloth and hair.

Catra dashed down, "Snag her! Now!"

Kyle fumbled with the rifle, panicking for a split-second as she raced to the unconscious princess. Adora charged after her, sliding down the path and sending rocks scattering in her wake. The reason for joining was quite clear, as running out of the castle was none other than the swordsman himself.

"Howling Sword: Raging Sea Spear!"

She was ready to fight the boy, and then surprised when he threw his sword skywards, reared back an open palm, and shot the wooden blade forward with his palm striking the pummel! The chakra, the brute force of the kid, and the change in moves threw her off for a moment!

"Roaring Sword: Panther Devouring Gazelle!"

She responded in kind, swinging her own blade down then up in the same motion, creating an illusory image of a large cat. The resulting collision of the twin moves meeting brought an echoing blast of wind which sent her skidding back and returned the wooden to its master, who had charged forward to keep his attack!

Catra landed down, both hands together as her hair crackled and stood on end, "I might not be a swordsman…BUT I CAN STILL FIGHT!"

Acrobatically, she sprang into a handstand then a flying kick, both her clawed feet savaging Naruto who stepped back with every frantic tilt of her body. Landing down, her eyes flashed with the intention to kill, her body coiled in on itself. An aura sparked from her body and, when she launched herself, she was coated in a brilliant gleam of gold and blue light!

Naruto put his sword to his side, tracing the index and middle fingers over his blade, "Don't complain to me if I take out your arms or legs, you've made your choice." Chakra lines echoed out, a web of light flying into the air as he declared with full strength in his voice the name of his attack and stabbed the earth. "Howling Sword: Rock Breaking Mighty Waves!"

A pillar of chakra erupted between the two, Catra bouncing off it painfully and landing down on all fours, her tail waved once, twice, thrice before she launched herself forward again!

And then... "Hi!" cheered none other than Scorpia after sneaking up on Naruto and delivering a hook which sent him rolling on the floor.

"Scorpia!? You're supposed to be with Rogelio!" Adora raised her voice with surprise and some level of relief.

"I know, but I couldn't leave you alone with him!" the Amazonian captain argued nervously, "Besides, I really wanna try something new!"

"New...what?" Naruto asked as he stood up using his wooden sword as a cane.

Scorpia just smiled, "Forest Gale! You're not the only one who's strong! I've created my own style to stand up to you!" then she blushed and poked her pincer tips together, "Also, I don't want to be left out of the fun of the cool naming attacks thing. I got a little jealous and wanted to see if you'd like what I came up with."

'Cute...' both Adora and Naruto thought in unison.

"Get ready, this is all new and improved Scorpia!"

Naruto smiled and wiped his cheek off some blood from his teeth cutting into his inner cheek due to her sucker punch, "Alright, let's see if you can match my swordplay."

The buff female captain beamed like a little kid at a candy store, "Then try this one I made up just now! Super Serious Scorpion Style: Flipping Bird Cage!"

Scorpia pushed both claws into the ground, her back muscles bulging before she punched the ground and dug her claws into the rock. Flinging her claws up, lines of dirt were sent into the air along with the rocky floor they had been fighting on! Naruto was sent flying high into the air while Catra narrowed her eyes like the cat she was, ready to strike her prey.

"Whoa! She's...really tough!" Adora yelped as she kicked from rock to rock, Lonnie below them and picking up Entrapta underneath her arm.

Glimmer flashed out of the castle, her eyes widening when she saw Entrapta in their clutches, "I won't let you take her!"

Lonnie got cocky, "Oh yeah, what can you do about it?" the dark-skinned girl blowing her a raspberry, her index and middle fingers held in a V for victory gesture in front of her tongue mockingly.

Glimmer made a wing like sigil with her hands, the fingers forming wings and the thumbs crossing to form the head of an angel, "You asked for it!" When she dropped them, purple lights appeared around her body. "Brilliant Mystic Arts: Descending Judgement!"

Lifting both hands up again, she flung them forward, scattering light beams in a barrage of glowing lasers!

"Like that'd work on me!" Catra snarled and lunged at her.

"Oh no..." Glimmer gulped.

Catra dashed in front of them, both claws crossing as she took a deep breath, her eyes flashed gold and blue, and she clawed the beams out of the air! Moving her hands so fast her claws only brought an empty vacuum in front of their frenzied swipes! Glimmer had to be quick to teleport out of the way as she was chased by the furious feline warrior. Every step and teleportation the plump princess needed to measure an unfortunately limited pool of energy. Unlike Naruto, she had to find ways to balance her magic bolts and escapes, but Catra wouldn't let her.

"Get back here!" the cat girl exclaimed mid-kick which the princess had to dodge by jumping to the side. Seeing her move instead of disappear in a flash made her grin, "Oh, what's the matter? Are you already out of juice?" She held her claws to the sides with a widening, wicked smile. "Don't you want to save your friend?"

"I do and I will!" Glimmer said mostly to put up a strong face, but she was sweating slightly.

Catra got an idea and put a hand to her ear, "Wait, did you capture him already!?" she asked in perfectly acted shock.

"Wh-" that was as fast as Glimmer got out before seeing Catra dash right at her...

Meanwhile, Naruto still had to deal with Scorpia and her creativity, "I may not have cool names for my attacks, but I got the heart! Super Serious Scorpion Style: Toppling Castle Punch!"

Scorpia's claw pushed against Naruto's scabbard when he used it to block her strike. It would've cracked the hard wood if not for his chakra hardening it.

"Hey, do you really need them!?" he asked, "You're plenty strong as you are now..."

He dreaded the idea of fighting her if she learnt a fighting art like his. Scorpia's strength sent the two of them skidding back, just right in front of the castle door. As he blocked her immense blunt blow, her tail zipped around his guard, the stinger wiggling before his eyeball while he kept his guard and senses up.

And they weren't alone, "He's all yours, Scorpia!"

Naruto caught his sword in the opposite hand deflecting a second strike from Adora who had circled behind him! Fighting two at the same time, he let his grip on his scabbard loosen, sending it into the air and letting Scorpia's tail reflexively wrap around it. Spinning the blade around so the hilt was pressed against Scorpia's stomach, he tried to pull her and make her trip, but the beefy woman shocked him when she snagged him into a bearhug! With his head nestled in a place most men would kill to be in, she lifted him up, her arms clenching around his back and making his vision blur inside of his flesh-prison.

"Nah uh! I know you'll probably counter me! No sell! Sorry! This is for your own good, Forest Gale! Super Serious Scorpion Style: View into Heaven!"

Adora looked down at her own breasts self-consciously, "…Seriously…?"

"Don't knock it until you can try it! This will knock him out and we won't have to kill him!" Scorpia said with her usual level of gusto and cheer, smiling as Naruto's struggling seemed to die down after a few seconds. She gently lowered him to the earth, saying out loud while watching Glimmer and Catra still go at it, "Aw, he's cute when he's all tuckered out!"

"Good morning!" Naruto cheekily joked as his eyes snapped open, and he sprang to his feet, having played possum.

Scorpia lowered her head dejectedly, "Oh nuts. He tricked me."

"Get even by defeating him!" Adora said, keeping her eyes on the boy.

Surprise overcame her again when the young swordsman's foot kicked up his scabbard, dual wielding it and his wooden sword. He pointed his blade at Adora, who threw up her guard, and the sheath at Scorpia, who realized the importance of his stance.

The scorpion woman…actually got excited, "Oh! You learned a little of dual-blade wielding from Netossa?! Awesomesauce! You know, she's legendary for using two swords at the same time! The Binding Sword doesn't really require it, but it can be used like that! You might not know her style yet, but it'd be so cool to see you figure it out!"

Adora almost let herself hit the ground in a heap from the unbelievable shock of Scorpia's words, "WHY ARE YOU SO NICE TO HIM!?"

She couldn't help how her voice hitched out of aggravation and dismay.

Naruto ignored her as he gave Scorpia a nod of cocky yet sincere respect, "I learn better from fighting other people or watching them fight. You're self-taught…but you're good. You learned CQC?"

He asked as the trio circled each other, Scorpia and Adora always at his front and back, "Yep! I'm pretty good at it! Wrestling is a big favorite! I can do all sorts of grappling techniques. And hey! Look, I've got a third arm and hand!"

Her tail wagged at him to illustrate that point.

"We got both princesses!" Lonnie shouted out as Entrapta got a piggyback ride on the female soldier's back, drooling slightly on her shoulder, "Ew..."

Naruto was more shocked to see who they had gotten unconscious on Catra's shoulder, "Glimmer!"

"Aw, are you crushing on her or something, Forest Gale? How quaint." Catra mocked him with her characteristic smug smile, "Not a bad choice, though, she's got a caboose for days. Although I would prefer my girl to be slimmer, a tad more athletic, and with a perkier butt."

Naruto ground his teeth, and reluctantly lowered his sword, which made Scorpia cheer, "Good, we don't have to fight anymore!"

"Don't fight back if you truly care for her." Adora said and approached him, the sword Hordak handed her aimed at the boy.

"Do you know the problem with your logic?" Naruto asked them seriously, eyes cold.

"What?" Catra shook, unable to believe what she was seeing, "When did he...become a different person?" her tail fur stood on end as Naruto clenched his sword and sheath tighter in his hands and his eyes turned into iced sapphire. Every instinct told her to be careful, but his defiance pissed her off, "Hey, don't get any ideas! Do you hear me!? Do you know how I got her!? I fooled her into thinking you were hurt!"

"You..." Naruto's eyes changed from radiating with cool anger to burning rage.

Catra felt that she had him, but was still furious that he wouldn't quit, "It's your fault for making her care for you, so don't move!"

And it clicked for Naruto as Adora approached him, a split-second decision where he took the stupidest, most reckless choice.

"Stop!" Adora yelled and readied herself to strike him.

"Did you not hear her!?" Catra snarled with her eyes going feral...and then wide in horror.

"What...just happened...?" Scorpia asked in shock as Naruto let Adora's blade sink into his gut just to grab the girl by the shoulders, "Wait, what're you doing, Forest Gale!? If you-"

"Shut...up..." Naruto grunted as he took in a sharp breath to endure the horrible pain, "If it's...to save Glimmer...I will go through you!"

The blonde female captain was too stunned by his fiery determination and his strong tolerance to heavy doses of iron in his diet to react to what came next. Naruto brutally head-butted her into unconsciousness!

"ADORA!" Catra yelled in horror when her friend's head rocketed back with a bloody nose and her eyes closing.

Holding her with an arm and his free hand slowly yanking out the black sword, Naruto copied Catra's strategy as a madman with a death wish would, "I'm taking her with me...!"

He growled with his hostage secured by the arm around her throat. At the very least he had dealt with Adora, a girl innocent at heart, so the sword didn't hit his vitals.

It hurt like all Hell, though.

Catra bared her teeth, "Idiot, if you do anything to her, we'll make your princess feel it tenfold!"

"And I'd have nothing to lose!" Naruto shot back, making her skin tingle. Then, as if to demonstrate his will further, he yanked out the sword with the faintest of flinches, "I can heal this wound, come after you, take out the Horde..." he willed his body to remain up straight and forced his voice to be firm. "If you take Glimmer, what stops me from going directly after all of you myself!?"

Catra trembled, unable to believe him, "Do you not see the hole in your logic!? You'd be down a princess, your alliance would be nothing, you'd fight a war alone, make her mother grieve-"

"And I'll keep fighting!" Naruto shouted back with the eyes of a soldier who accepted his fate. "Can you say you'd do such a thing!?"

"For her I can and I will!" Catra snapped, going fully feral.

But Naruto knew her as good as he knew himself, "And that's your problem, you're as stubborn as me when it comes to something worth caring!"

Catra was taken back, but before she could reply Scorpia had a fearful question, "Hey, what's that sound!?" she yelled while Naruto gasped as the ground shook, signaling a new landslide! "Everyone, run!"

"Wait, Rogelio, no one gave the signal!" Kyle yelled into a walkie-talkie, getting a hiss, "What do you mean it wasn't you!?"

"Look!" Lonnie pointed to where Naruto and Adora where standing.

As if luck would have it, they were right where he had stabbed the ground hard enough to create a chakra pillar, but there was more to it than a simple strike. The hole Naruto made cracked, expanded, and soon swallowed him along Entrapta's machines and the parts of the mountain they had held back!

The cat girl was horrified, "Noooo, Adora! ADORA!"

All she saw, as if the world had slowed to a crawl, was Naruto glaring at her as he fell, Adora still clutched against his body. He fell into the darkness with Adora, rocks falling over them and sealing where he was under several tons.

Staring at the mess, Scorpia nodding with her arms crossing underneath her bust, "Yep! We'll have to start digging! Might take a few hours though!" Lonnie tossed her the walkie-talkie, and she spoke through it with a less excited tone, "Hey, uh, guys? Can you get us a couple of drills and maybe some excavation equipment? We need to rescue Force Captain Adora from the Forest Gale. Fell down a hole, you see!"

"Affirmative, we'll bring you what you need Force Captain Scorpia." She chucked the handheld radio back to Lonnie.

Catra was hyperventilating by the filled in hole. She flung Glimmer down on the ground and drew her claws back as if she was going to rip her throat out. However, thinking better about what she was going to do at the last moment, she begun howling to vent her rage and savaged a rock pillar violently with her claws.

"Adora…No! NO! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!" she was close to tearing her hair out, until Scorpia placed a comforting pincer on her shoulder.

"Calm down, we have time to rescue her, so please be calm...for her," the scorpion woman was happy when she paused.

Looking into her pants pockets, Catra stared at something within its depths and swallowed. Adora was counting on her. She couldn't break down, especially not when there was a chance of rescue and salvation. The plan was hers. The idea was hers. Taking several moments to repeat that mantra, she calmed her anxiety attack through forceful repetition of that mantra. When she turned around again, her yellow and blue eyes held a strong determination in them.

"How long until we can break through?" she asked the massive woman, walking over to the rock pile.

Tapping her claw against her chin, Scorpia smiled massively, "Give us about two hours with me using my own strength, and we'll be through to the bottom of that hole! No problem!"

Catra nodded grimly, "Get these two back to our camp and restrain them. We need to prioritize, I'll keep watch over the hole, Scorpia you stay with me, Kyle, Rogelio, Lonnie you three get them back. When you're done, assign several guards to watch them and make sure that at least one of you, preferably Rogelio, stays behind to keep watch."

"Roger!" the munchkin trio replied with a salute, and a hiss from the walkie-talkie.

Catra had a hand covering her mouth, her eyes glaring at the hole as she gave very rapid-fire commands. Glaring at her, Lonnie begun to open her mouth until she saw how determined Catra was. Her tail was waving about very slowly in shallow almost hypnotic sideways patterns, a sign of her mind and heart being as calm as possible.

"Tch…when did you grow up and start acting like a real commander…" Lonnie grumbled as she towed Entrapta off with her, Kyle struggling to carry Glimmer but somehow finding the strength in him to follow Lonnie.

"When Adora put her faith in me to make sure she always came home back to me…" Catra mumbled softly to herself, clenching her fist inside of her pocket as hard as she could over the object within it.

Although I am cracked and weak, I am still myself. The strong should dominate the weak, but care for their own. A cat bows to no master save for the one it loves.

-0-

"Okay, show of hands, who's not dead?" Naruto snapped his finger, a blue spark erupting from it to form a small ball of light made of chakra over his index finger.

A female groaned softly in response to his question. He saw Adora getting up from her spot on the floor. When she realized he had her sword in his hands, she flinched, glared, and clenched her fists all in one motion. Grunting, she held her forehead, still numb from his headbutt.

"Why haven't you killed me, yet?" the captain asked him.

Scratching his cheek with his free hand, he kicked her sword up and caught it in his hand, "Because I'm not about to waste a good hostage when you can be my assurance to save Glimmer and Entrapta." Walking around, he pointed around them, rocks all over the place and only soft dirt ahead of them in their cavernous hole. Turning to her he continued talking, "If we want to get out in this lifetime, we have to dig or be patient enough to wait for your buddies to free us."

She walked over to him, keeping aware of the fact that she was unarmed, and his guard was up, "Why not wait, then? My friends and Catra will save us. Why risk the safety and stability of the tunnel digging?"

She got an answer she didn't like when Naruto tapped the ground softly with her sword hilt and was hailed by a rain of small and even medium sized rocks falling around them.

"The rocks are kept in place only by the ones around them. I'm good, but I can't stop an entire landslide crashing on my head and keeping all my energy in stock." She swallowed, rubbing her head with another look up above them as he held his glowing finger up, "Digging might get us a safe space if we get far enough from the hole. We can use it to either get back up or alert your friends to our location."

"Forest Gale, I-" She begun to say until he surprised her by tossing her back her sword.

He clutched his own in hand, "It's Naruto. My name. I'm not trying to hide it from anybody, and I want my fans to call me that. Don't use my that nickname to single me out as your target." he told her, pointing his sword at the soft soil in front of them. "Once we're out, we can keep going as much as you want, just don't think you're having an easy time for scratching my stomach."

Adora took a place by his side, holding her own sword in hand, "Why do you even continue fighting? You should have no loyalty to anything but your desire to be famous. What drives you?

They started to dig, using their swords to push through the soil and pierce it as a united force.

He grunted, dirt falling past their chests as they took a step forward into an empty space that was steadily growing, big enough for them to stand apart by about a foot or two, "I want to be famous, that's as simple as it gets. My village looked down on me. They called me everything from brat to bastard, anything but my name. Nobody ever told me what I did to deserve it."

Frowning, she dug harder, replying to his confession with her own, "I want to make a peaceful world. I'm not as naïve as I look. I realized what we were doing to the Princesses' land. The Horde lectures on them is all propaganda. But I'm aware of that truth. We're not good people, we do bad things. But I don't care about the details."

"Then let me ask why you follow their bullshit, and I hope I offend you by saying you're full of shit." Naruto was too right saying he and Catra were alike, Adora noted.

The blonde captain swallowed but answered him, "What justifies it is that we'll have a peaceful world when we're done. Everyone, even people who aren't princesses, shall be equal. It'll be a better world. Where wars don't happen. Where good people don't die for pointless causes. Where children don't get raised up as warriors. And where they can grow up with each other in peace."

She was talking about herself and her own past, he presumed, "And you think that the ends justify the means? That's a different sort of stupid where you think everything will work out if you're the one leading it. Me, I just want the world to sing me praises and keep my name alive."

"You're called a hero, but you don't act like it." She accused as they dug further, getting at least five feet out of the hole they were in before.

He shrugged in response to her words, "I don't care if you think that, I'm fighting to help the people who actually gave a damn about me, people who praised me for helping them." He told her sincerely, "People in from the place I called home acted as if I didn't exist, so I am going to be someone worth writing and remembering. I want the people here to keep the name Naruto Uzumaki alive to prove I existed, that I was worth something."

"Why would they...?" Adora asked, before catching herself. "Doesn't matter, you don't have to explain."

Naruto smirked smugly at her, "Good."

"Still, your reason for fighting while not selfish is still centered on you..." she started.

Sighing, he answered bluntly, "I have another reason now, thanks to Glimmer." He then looked at her from the corner of his eyes, "And before you say something along the lines of how your cause is better, forcing people into a peaceful world doesn't solve anything."

Adora narrowed her eyes at him, "It's worth the effort."

"Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep." Naruto shot back dryly.

Deciding it was best to not argue further since they needed to find a way out, Adora shut up and kept digging, "Let's just get out of here..."

Similar to a theatrical play, her words were followed by them getting through the wall of dirt in their path and finding a deep void under their feet, a stone path, and the sound of rushing feet. Naruto readied his sword for any incoming attack as did Adora. Shadows crawled around the walls, feet tapped the floor as someone or something approached them, and soon a figure greeted them with several torches at hand. The torches lit up arrows which were promptly aimed at the two. And leading the group was a slim shadow taking a bold step forward.

"Do not fight back, for your own good," the leader said while the others aimed with their bows.

Luck truly was a whimsical mistress.

-0-

And that's my rap!

Sorry for the cliffhanger. Next chapter will be up soon, I hope. Here's hoping you've enjoyed it and that you can be patient for the next one.

Regarding what you guys have suggested, yes, I may go for the idea Entrapta suggested, but I will try to have Naruto build some relationships with the princesses.

So far Spinnerella and Netossa wouldn't mind having kids with him, but they still must test him. Entrapta sees it more as an experiment.

Suggestions will be listened to, appreciated, and thought over. Just don't expect them all to be used or followed to the letter, we are trying to do our own thing, after all.

Now, here's a list you didn't ask for but may have wondered about.

The Swordslinger presents his Top 10 Favorite She-Ra Reboot Girls!

10. Perfuma – Hippie girl doing hippie things, can be fun if used correctly and she's got a fun dynamic of love/hate with Mermista.

9. Frosta – Despite her serious shift in personality from season 1 to 2, she's adorable and the bipolar thing could be fun to write.

8. Mermista – Regardless of her attitude, she's great fun to write here and would be the most fun to annoy.

7. Netossa – Possibilities for her having sass, attitude, and getting things done are endless when writing her here.

6. Spinnerella – Mostly because of what I can do when writing a character who's got only 1 line in 26 episodes, and she's THICC.

5. Adora – I've grown fond of her, I just wish she had better development or ended up as Catra's prisoner in a harem girl outfit.

4. Catra – Love her as much as I want to kick her tail and tell her to get her act together, she needs a Kazuma Kiryu equivalent in her life.

3. Scorpia – Like most if not all of you, I have an urge to hug her, feed her, tell her cute fairy tales every night, and let her bearhug me.

2. Entrapta – Kooky, energetic, crazy, and the cutest mad scientist the world needed after Polly from Jumpstart 3rd Grade.

Honorable mentions – Angella, Castaspella and Shadow Weaver, who could've benefitted from the original version's backstories for them. Lonnie, for all the jokes The Lord Of Pages and I have made of her pinning Kyle down for some rigorous stamina training. Huntara, for being another muscular babe to add to our list of favorites along Scorpia.

Dishonorable mention – Light Hope who we all can see is manipulating Adora into being an ideal She-Ra, the meaning of which could be dangerous.

1. Glimmer – I have a thing for her cute design and her backstory is the one I feel has the most potential. Out of all of them, she grew the most on me.

Swordslinger out!