Before Queen Angella made Chronera her daughter's bodyguard, she had summoned the Captain of her royal guard to ask him about the future Princess of Time's character. She needed to know if she was suitable for the job.

"Captain, what can you tell me about Chronera personally?" Queen Angella inquired.

"Chronera's always been a model soldier, Your Majesty. She's disciplined, hardworking, and loyal," the Captain of the Royal Guard answered.

"So, she has never been difficult then."

"Actually, to be honest, Chronera used to have trouble controlling her anger."

"She had anger issues?"

"We've given her counseling and she's kept her anger under control, but after what she went through as a child that kind of rage just simmers inside. A few times during her early years, whenever she got frustrated, she would fly into a rage and lose control. I've had to discipline her a few times and get her help to control her anger," the Captain explained. She remembered how a younger Chronera got frustrated during a sparring match.

"And the source of this rage is her grudge against the Horde," Queen Angella concluded.

"Your Majesty, Chronera's a good kid, but this anger of hers makes her unpredictable and it's why I've never allowed her to fight on the frontlines against the Horde. She's disciplined where it counts, but when the Horde is concerned, she's not emotionally stable and I'm afraid of what her anger would make her do."

Back in the Horde Fortress, Zi-O just had a first encounter with a Time Jacker, Swartz. She now knew what they were capable of as Swartz froze time. He then reactivated Another TheBee whom she had just defeated.

"Alright, I beat you once, I can beat you again," Zi-O said. That was true, but according to Woz, she needed the correct Ridewatch to beat an Another Rider. This probably meant that she would need Kamen Rider Kabuto's power to beat Another TheBee for good.

Another TheBee buzzed. However, instead of attacking her, it sped off in the blink of an eye.

"Hey, stop!" Zi-O shouted but Another TheBee was long gone. She clicked her tongue in annoyance. Finding Another TheBee the first time had only been due to luck. Now she would have to go and hunt it down and behind enemy lines no less.

If only she had some way to track Another Riders. As she mused on her next course of action, she failed to notice as a spherical robot snuck up behind her on its four spider-like legs. When she finally realized she was no longer alone, it was too late. She turned and her vision was blinded by a bright red light before everything faded to black.

"Could you take care of her?"

A royal guard had brought a little girl to an orphanage in Brightmoon.

"Oh, my," the kindly old orphanage caretaker, aka Granny, knelt down to look at the girl. "What happened to her?"

"The Horde attacked her village. She was the only survivor."

"I want to join the Rebellion!"

"Sorry, but you're too young."

"I want to join the Rebellion!"

"You again? Go home."

"Let me join the Rebellion!"

"What part of 'no' don't you understand?"

"Seriously, kid. Go home."

"I'm not leaving until you let me join!"

"Okay, okay, fine! I'll take to my CO if you can join!"

After dealing with this everyday for two whole years, they allowed a child to join. The guard thought the little girl would never last basic training. However, she was determined and focused like nothing else mattered. She did collect a whole lot of clocks, though.

The ticking always brought her comfort.

Chronera came to when she felt some taps on her cheek.

"Ugh..." she groaned and then looked up to see Catra grinning at her.

"Hey, wakey wakey, Sleeping Beauty."

"Huh? What...?" When Chronera finally came to, she found herself shackled and chained to a wall. "How did I get here!?"

"Emily found you and knocked you out," Catra answered. "And now you're our prisoner."

"If you are going to torture me for information, then just do it. It'll be pointless," Chronera challenged.

"Wow, a prisoner asking for it," Catra took out her stun baton which crackled. Chronera began to sweat. "But, no. I mean, I could, but then you'd just tell me what I wanted to know just to make it stop." She turned it off and held it against Chronera's chin. "It'd be fun, but not really effective."

"Lady Adora will come for me," Chronera said.

"Adora abandoned you," Catra countered. "She left you behind."

"It was a tactical retreat then," Chronera argued. "As we speak, she's planning a rescue."

"Wow, you really believe that, don't you?" Catra questioned.

"Where are my things?" Chronera asked.

"Oh, your stuff? I took them then gave them to a friend to look at. Honestly, you've got some really fancy toys." Catra laughed a bit, enjoying toying with her prisoner. "I can you and me… we're gonna have a fun time!"

"You left her behind!?"

Adora had returned to Brightmoon and quickly gone to wake Glimmer up. After Adora finished explaining what happened, the Princess of Brightmoon was now wide awake.

"I was overwhelmed and she just rushed inside. I couldn't do anything," Adora argued, feeling just as badly about losing Chronera to the Horde as Glimmer probably felt, if not worse.

"And she even swore she wouldn't do this," Glimmer facepalmed and then she took deep breaths. "Okay, Okay, here's what we're going to do: we'll grab Bow and then go and rescue Chronera. I know it's late, but we can't wait."

"Catra's probably interrogating her right now," Adora frowned. "Or worse…"

Adora had not told Glimmer about how she and Chronera had fought. Adora especially wasn't about to tell her that their friend just went berserk when she tried to stop her from killing Catra.

"This is bad! This is bad! This is really really bad!" Glimmer said, biting her nails a bit. She wasn't panicking. She definitely wasn't starting to panic after what Adora just told her. Okay, maybe she was, but for good reason! They had to get her back. They couldn't lose another friend like they had lost Entrapta. Especially after they finally started becoming friends and not just mutual princess acquaintances.

"I know it is, but we can't just rush in this late! I'm sorry, Glimmer. I wish I had a better answer for you, Glimmer."

"Okay just breathe, Glimmer, just breathe." Glimmer said, as she took deep breaths. Could it wait until the morning? She honestly didn't know.

"Glimmer, I know you're worried, but Chronera will be alright," Adora said reassuringly.

Entrapta had a crazed look in her eyes as she held the Ziku-Driver in her hands. Catra had gotten it for her. She was mean sometimes but she was a good friend who always got her the best gifts.

"Oh, this is amazing! Unknown tech! Can't wait to see what makes this baby tick!" Entrapta cackled. It was like she was on a sugar high, but it was hard to tell.

"That's nice," Scorpia yawned. She was just as happy and excited, but it was also getting late.

"It is nice! Now I know how these watches are supposed to work!"

On the table were the Ridewatches Chronera had collected, which also included the Drive Ridewatch.

"From what I've observed, this belt syphons a mysterious energy from the watches to augment the user with a suit of armor. It would appear the watch bearing Zi-O's image creates the default from while additional watches can augment it. Oh, I need to see what makes this thing ticks! I need my tools!" Entrapta was going to have so much fun.

"You and Lady Adora were friends. I can understand why she cares about you," Chronera said.

"Yeah, but not enough to stay," Catra frowned. "Well, her leaving ended up being good for me. Now I'm second-in-command of the Horde."

"Second-in-command to a group of murderers," Chronera scoffed, rolling her eyes a bit. To be captured in her most hated place was certainly ironic.

"You really hate us, don't you?" Catra asked, raising an eyebrow towards the prisoner.

"How can I not? You're evil and you destroy everything you touch," Chronera answered angrily.

"Is that really what you believe?" Catra once again asked.

"I was there when your army destroyed my village. What else can you call an army that just attacks a civilian village?" Chronera spat violently from her mouth, rage building up in her.

"Ohoho that seems to make you really angry. The Horde does what it needs to do, and it's easier not to question the… morally ambiguousness of war. After all, you said it yourself, in war there are casualties." Catra stretched a bit and yawned. After years of abuse by the hands of Shadow Weaver, Catra could care less about every little sob story that passed her by. That's just how things worked. People got screwed over, end of story. She didn't bother to say anymore, as she walked out of the room where Chronera was.

Catra entered Entrapta's lab, which had been more or less put back together as it usually should look. That wasn't saying much though for how dirty and messy it was.

"Scorpia, I need to talk with Entrapta. Can you look after our prisoner?" Catra asked, blasting through the door.

"Sure! You got it!" Scorpia, happy as ever, left the room, leaving Catra alone with the inventor.

"So, you managed to learn anything about our prisoner?" Catra asked.

"Well, I learned that her equipment is not First Ones' tech but it's no less amazing," Entrapta said with a smile. "Based on my observation, that belt uses the watches to generate a suit of power armor that greatly enhances the wearer's physical performance."

"Oh, really?" Catra was interested and she picked up the Ziku-Driver. Something like this could be useful to the Horde. "So, can anyone use it?"

"Unfortunately, no. It seems to have some kind of biometric security system. Basically, only she can use it. Nobody else. It's really genius."

Catra frowned. So it was pretty much useless for anyone else.

"Well that's just great!" Catra complained, throwing her hands up into the air.

"But all is not lost! If I just have a little more time with it, I could whip up a way to reverse engineer it! Then we'd be all golden!"

"That's what I like to hear." Catra said, throwing her hands down and smiling. Everything might turn out her way, after all.

"Hi, I'm Scorpia. Are you comfortable?"

Chronera scowled in response.

"OK, that's a stupid question. So, do you need anything? Water or food? I'm not sure if I can offer you to use our bathroom. I mean, I doubt Catra will be happy if I let you go."

Chronera remained silent.

"Wow, you really don't like talking. That's kinda rude." Scorpia sat down next to Chronera. "So, I heard that you fought She-Ra. Really wish I could've seen that. Would've been so cool."

"Is this some new form of torture?" Chronera finally spoke.

"Wow, she does speak!" Scorpia's eyes lit up. "So, what's your name?"

"Chronera, former royal guard of Brightmoon." Chronera said flatly.

"I'm Scorpia, Force Captain in the Horde. Nice to meet you." Scorpia was ever the friendly Force Captain, even when it came to their prisoners.

Chronera cocked an eyebrow. She was expecting anything but not this.

"Anyway, we have your stuff and it looks cool. Can't believe there was anyone else with something like my watch," Scorpia said.

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"Oh, this." Scorpia took out her Kabuto Ridewatch and showed it to Chronera.

"You have a Ridewatch!?"

"Oh, is that what it's called?"

"How do you have it?"

"Oh, my parents gave it to me when I was a kid before the Horde landed in our kingdom. I've had it ever since."

Chronera began to connect the dots.

"You're a princess."

"Yeah, I am."

"How...how could a princess of Etheria join the Horde?"

"Well, to be honest, we weren't given much of a choice."

"But you could've fought, resisted. You could've driven them away!"

"If we did that, our people would've gotten hurt. It was just easier to surrender and let them set up base."

"And thus allowing the Horde to murder innocent people as long as your people stay safe," Chronera said in disgust. "You should be ashamed of yourselves, you cowards."

This, this finally got Scorpia angry.

"I lost everything to the Horde." Chronera continued, before she could listen to anything Scorpia had to say. "Everything that mattered. My village was just a village, nothing of importance, so we didn't get a chance to submit to the Horde. They ravaged everything. They killed, they imprisoned everyone who mattered to me in my life. Submitting to tyranny is just as bad as… It doesn't matter." Chronera closed her eyes and simply shrugged, allowing her tiredness to overtake her. There was no use talking to these people. They would never understand. \

Scorpia didn't know what to say, so she didn't. She couldn't be completely angry, but it was all her family could do to protect their people. It was the correct choice… Right?

Another TheBee was on the hunt. Due to its ability to Clock Up, it could move undetected. It needed to find the Ridewatch as Master Swartz had commanded it.

He entered a room and found Chronera asleep while shackled to the wall. Sitting against the wall, also asleep, was Scorpia. Another TheBee spotted the Kabuto Ridewatch in Scorpia's possession.

Another TheBee went to take the Ridewatch when Scorpia suddenly threw a punch in her sleep. Another TheBee recoiled from the strike. Her tail also seemed to have a mind of its own and stood like a snake that was ready to strike.

This may not be as easy as it looked.

Catra and Entrapta needed more information from Chronera, as much as they hated to admit it. As they walked down the hallways of the Horde lair, they saw Scorpia being thrown out of the room that Chronera was imprisoned in.

"Oh great!" Catra yelled, running forward and checking in on the Horde Force Captain. Unconscious, but breathing. That was good. Breathing was good. She turned to face what had thrown Scorpia. Had their prisoner escaped?

Instead, she was met face to face with a horrifying sight. Catra was never particularly fond of bugs, let alone wasps, so being faced with a giant one was not high on her priority list.

"What is this thing!?" Catra yelled as Another TheBee stood in front of her, her ears sticking up straight.

"Oh, that? That was the monster Zi-O fought earlier," Entrapta answered, not batting an eye at the giant wasp man.

"And you didn't think to tell me about it!?" Catra yelled, pulling out her baton to fight the giant wasp monster.

"Oh, I must've forgot." Entrapta shrugged a bit, and Catra sighed in retaliation.

"Just get Scorpia out of here while I deal with our intruder!" Entrapta saluted with her pigtails, picking the scorpion girl up off the ground with them, before getting back to her lab.

Catra did her best to fight the giant insect, but it wasn't going too well. It was moving way too fast for her to do any damage to it. As it ran off after Entrapta, Catra groaned and ran after it as fast as she could. She was lithe and agile, sure, but that didn't mean she could move at such sonic speeds.

Chronera soon woke up to the sound of someone approaching her. It was her captors, no doubt. Only a moment later, however, she was proven wrong by a familiar and annoying voice.

"You seem to be in a bind, My Princess." Woz said, waltzing up to the Princess of Time.

"Woz, how did you-? Never mind, just break me free!" Chronera had come to accept there were some things not worth getting into. At least Woz had come to prison break her.

"With pleasure, My Princess." Woz replied, moving his scarf freely. It had to be some sort of magic to move fabric with such precision and force. His scarf quickly whipped at the chains, shattering them and freeing Chronera from her imprisonment.

"Thank you, Woz." Chronera said, happy to be freed.

"I suppose it's time we took our leave. We appear to have overstayed our welcome." Woz said, frowning a bit.

"Not yet, Woz. I need to get my Ridewatches and my belt back. I also need to get Kabuto's Ridewatch. I came to get it and I'm not leaving without it."

"Splendid resolve, My Princess." Woz replied, opening his book, which had a detailed layout of the Horde lair. Again, Chronera didn't question Woz's foreknowledge of anything thrown his way. "I would assume they brought your gear to the laboratory… Follow me at once, My Princess!"

Woz led Chronera out into the hallway, and the two quickly made their way down towards the laboratory.

"So where are Lady Adora and the others?" Chronera asked, raising an eyebrow to where her allies' whereabouts were.

"They are, last time I checked, arguing about how to rescue you. So I came myself, since that seemed to be the most efficient way to sneak in without being caught." Woz replied, turning a corner. "It should be right this way!"

They saw Another TheBee attacking Catra, while Entrapta watched and took data on the fight. Catra was thrown, much like a ragdoll, towards the hallway wall. She let out a groan, as Chronera looked down at her.

"Not so tough, now, are we?" Chronera wished she could just end things now, but she had bigger fish to fry. She broke into the lab, ignoring the Another Rider and Catra, who slowly got up from the ground.

"You!? How did you get loose!?" The second-in-command of the Horde pulled out her baton, only to be disarmed by Woz.

"You shall not harm My Princess." Woz said, taking the baton for himself. "You'll deal with me for the moment."

"You're the prisoner…! How lovely, I can get some real combat data now!" Entrapta said, moving from side to side in excitement. It only took a few moments for Chronera to notice the Ridewatches, including the Kabuto Ridewatch, and the Ziku-Driver. No one got in her way as she picked up the belt, attaching it to her waist. She put the Drive Ridewatch in one of the empty slots of her holders, before turning to face Another TheBee.

"This ends here and now, Another Rider." Chronera said, facing the monster. She spun the dials on both Ridewatches and activated them simultaneously.

Zi-O!

Kabuto!

"Here goes nothing!" Chronera yelled, attaching the Ridewatches to their respective rails, before spinning the Driver around counter clockwise. "Transform!"

Rider Time! Kamen Rider~ Zi-O! Armor Time! Change Beetle! Kabuto!

As her default armor appeared, the Kabuto Armor pieces attached to Zi-O's body while generating a hexagonal energy field. Twin robotic beetles mounted on her shoulders as a rhinoceros beetle horn attached to her helmet. The chestplate was a shining crimson too. Her visor now read 'Kabuto'.

As usual, Woz opened up her tome to introduce His Princess' new form.

"Rejoice you worthless peons and look upon her with awe! She who has inherited the power of another Rider! The future ruler of time and space! Her name is Kamen Rider Zi-O: Kabuto Armor!"

Zi-O held the Edge of Time in a reverse grip in her left hand then pointed at the sky with her right.

"Grandmother said this: Even in a world full only with enemies, there will always be someone you must protect!" Zi-O Kabuto Armor yelled, facing Another TheBee. Another TheBee attempted to outspeed Zi-O, but she quickly zoomed to keep up with the creature.

Armed with a giant stinger attached to its wrist, Another TheBee tried to strike her down as quickly as it could to obtain the Kabuto Ridewatch. Quickly zooming past Another TheBee, Zi-O blocked its attack with her sword, before striking it hard to cut the stinger off.

"Try this on for size!" She yelled, switching the sword to its gun mode, before firing off a furious volley of blasts at the wasp. It screeched out in pain, several volleys of energy bullets piercing its exoskeleton. "Not so tough now that we can both Clock Up to the same speed, huh? I'll strike through you with all my power!"

Zi-O grabbed Another TheBee and sped off incredibly quickly out of the room and into the hallway. She kicked it in the abdomen, causing it to grunt over in pain. Smiling underneath her helmet, she jumped into the air and kicked it as hard as she could, sending it into the wall. It groaned loudly, as Zi-O struck it with a fury of slices.

Another TheBee began to back up in fear, its host's personality showing. It knew this wasn't a fight it could win, as Zi-O placed her sword away and hit the buttons on both Ridewatches.

"Let's finish this, shall we?" Zi-O questioned.

Finish Time! Kabuto! Clock Time Break!

"Rider… Kick!" Zi-O said, turning around as great amounts of electricity channeled in her foot. Another TheBee ran at her in a futile attempt to stop her attack, only to be met with a simple roundhouse kick to the head, sending it flying down to the ground. "And that's all she told."

TheBee screamed as it exploded but instead of a monster, Kyle collapsed to the cold metal floor of the lair. The Another Ridewatch came out of him and rolled over to stop by Entrapta's feet.

"Oh, what's this?" Entrapta went to pick it up but she never got the chance as it sparked and then shattered to pieces. "Aw..."

"My Princess, shall we go?" Woz asked.

"I'd rather not spend another moment in this place," Zi-O answered venomously.

Smiling, Woz whipped his scarf around the two of them. It expanded and spun around before the two of them vanished. Catra couldn't believe a single thing that had just happened, scoffing a little bit. The Rebellion just had to have that sort of thing, didn't they?

Both Woz and Chronera reappeared at the entrance of Castle Brightmoon.

"It's good to be back home," Chronera said. "And thank you, Woz."

"It's my pleasure to serve, My Princess," Woz bowed. "And this should be a personal victory for you as well. Not only were you successful in infiltrating the Horde's lair, you managed to escape as well. They should learn now not to underestimate you."

"I should go see the others before I go to bed. I don't want them to panic," Chronera said to Woz.

"Chronera!"

She was startled when she heard her name being called and was not prepared when Glimmer and Bow hugged the Princess of Time tightly. Adora stepped up to them as Chronera began to look uncomfortable.

"You're back," Adora said, relieved. "How did you escape?"

"Woz helped me," Chronera answered and found him absent. "And now he's gone." Well, that was typical Woz.

"We were so worried!" Glimmer confessed.

"I'm sorry," Chronera apologized.

"And we were going to go rescue you too!" Bow added. "Queen Angella just sent us off."

"Well, I can just tell Her Majesty that I'm fine," Chronera said, smiling. "I also managed to get these." She showed them the Kabuto and Drive Ridewatches. Chronera knew she was in for a large amount of yelling for disobeying orders, but right now her small lived victory is all she cared about. Although when she looked to Adora, she could only look down.

Adora knew that look. It was a look of shame. They would surely have to talk about their fight eventually, but for now, Chronera needed to report to Queen Angella and tell her what happened. Chroenra, broke from the other three, and headed off to meet with her superior.

"It is unfortunate that we could not question the prisoner as we wished to…" Entrapta said, sighing a little bit. She took a quick sip of her fizzy soda, before turning to the side.

Entrapta looked up at her computer screen which showed the Ziku-Driver's schematics. Catra was wounded, but bandaged up and smiling now.

"We got what we wanted in the end, though, didn't we?" Catra said, laughing a little bit. Everything was going according to plan, even if they were minus two Ridewatches. They had the data from her previous experiments, and now they had full schematics for the belt. Nothing could be sweeter.

"According to this book, Chronera, average royal guard, was destined to become the Demon King of time, Oma Zi-O. In order to obtain her birthright, she obtains the Kabuto and Drive Ridewatches, becoming stronger as she obtains more power! However, she came to blows with She-Ra, Princess of Power, and the two are now at odds with each other on how to handle the Horde." Woz said, reading from his book in the darkness. His eyebrows raised as he continued to read. "This is impossible! Could it be… They shall reunite to fight a new Another Rider…? No… my book says… It can't be… a joker clad in navy!?"

A/N: Another thanks to KR Chrome for helping edit and co-write this chapter! Enjoy and let me know what other things you'd like to see next!