With A Snap

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Chapter 18: With the Power

Glimmer hadn't left her room much; she didn't have it in her to leave. No one could blame her after all her mother was gone. Her mother wasn't dead, but that might have been worse; her mother was trapped in wormhole between worlds.

Adora and Bow did their best to pick up her slack, and all the other princesses did everything they could to help. But in the end, what could one do for such a loss?

Glimmer walked into the meeting room, her eyes red, and the others didn't say anything.

Glimmer would try and work to take her mind of everything.

"What are the movements of the Hoard?" Glimmer said, looking down at the map on the table.

Adora and Bow looked at each other, unsure if they should say anything. Adora finally said, "They're pretty steady. There hasn't been a lot of movement. With everything that happened with Hordak and the portal-" Adora flinched at the word and the reminder, "I'm sorry,"

"Keep going!" Glimmer ordered.

Bow hesitated, "Well, they're a mess right now. It looks like they're waiting for orders."

Glimmer was about to speak when she felt this wave of nausea sweep across her forcing her got to sit down.

"You okay?" Adora asked, trying to wave off a stifling feeling.

"Yeah, something feels weird." Bow told them, "It's windy or something."

"Windy?" Adora looked around, "All the windows are shut."

"Bow?" Adora gulped.

Bow looked at his hands as dust began to grip over his body, "What's going on?"

"Bow!" Glimmer let out just in time to see her oldest friend vanish. "What just happened?"

They heard screams in the hall; they both bolted outside to find guards turning into dust before them.

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Catra was emotional, more so than usual. Scorpia just dissolved in front of her, which was screwing her up. There was no attack, no weapon, no illness, no spell; she just turned to dust. Catra might have guessed it was some attack from the princesses maybe Shadow Weaver helping them. No, this wasn't their style; they liked to have the moral high ground. There was no warning or anything.

It was verified later when they got reports of this happening not only at their bases but everywhere in the world. They even managed to get reports that this was happening in the princess territories to their people.

Catra wouldn't put it pass Shadow Weaver, but this didn't sit right. If she had this kind of power, why didn't she use it before? If it was because she couldn't control who got targetted, then why use it? Shadow Weaver was messed up, but this seemed random there was no telling who could get hit. They hadn't gotten verification, but it looked like a couple of the princesses were now dust in the wind.

None of this made sense!

Catra almost wished she didn't ship off Entrapta; if that geek made it, she would be going nuts on trying to figure out what happened and how to replicate it.

"Catra!" A young man ran towards her.

Catra groaned, "I can't believe you made it; I didn't even get to keep the good Kyle."

Kyle just handed her a report, Catra just scanned it only more news on how half their people turned to dust and that several others seemed to run off.

"Kyle, listen closely cause I can't have you getting this wrong. Send a message to all the Captains have them hunt down every deserter. Then have them make an example of at least one they catch, make sure no one else things od running off."

Kyle gulped and ran off.

Catra just knew he was going to screw that up.

She walked into a dark room and sat in the main chair, it was one Hordak's, but he was gone now, and she was still there. Typically being put in charge of the Horde would have made her happy, but she couldn't enjoy it. Hordak and that stupid imp of his just fell apart into dust, and she was left with half an empire ready to fall apart.

After that portal incident, the Horde was weak, a lot of their stuff was damaged, and without Entrapta, their tech was glitching out. She would love nothing more to go after Adora while she and her friends were weak, but now, a fight like that might end them too.

No, she had to play her cards right. They still had armies of robots, and if they could get their troops in line, then they could crush that precious Princess Alliance and make Adora pay.

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Adora was in Beacon trying to find answers. Glimmer was busy trying to keep things from falling apart. Perfuma, Spinnerella, Shadow Weaver, and Sea Hawk were confirmed to be gone. Frosta was still there doing what she could for her kingdom and the same for Mermista.

The AI system was not giving her much help. Light Hope was telling her nothing, just walking her in circles.

Light Hope flashed graphs and all sorts of things she couldn't understand.

Adora rubbed her face, "I don't understand any of this!"

"I think I have someone that might get this first one stuff." Glimmer announced, walking in with Entrapta walking behind her, her hair carrying her. "Ooh!~!" Entrapta cooed, "Look at all of this beautiful First One Tech! It's so pristine!"

"Entrapta?" Adora started.

"Yeah," Glimmer reported, "we caught her at the end of the forest trying to find her way here."

"Oh yeah," Entrapta waved her off as she tried to open up a console. "Catra zapped me, which hurt a fair bit, and then I got shipped off to some island. Luckily I came to I took control of the pod. No biggie. When all sorts of critters and people just started to dissolve, I figured I'd check in on you. I'd figure maybe we work together, give me some assess to the first one tech you have we might have a chance to find out what happened."

The science princess stared at the information displayed before her, "It looks like you already started…. huh?"

"Huh?" Adora asked, "What does it mean?"

"It doesn't make any sense."

"Well, I already knew that."

"No, the dimensional barriers that kept this world secluded they've been shattered."

"What?!" Adora and Glimmer yelled.

"Yeah, weird."

"Shouldn't that, I don't know, destroy us?" Glimmer began.

"Yeah, I thought something like that would." Entrapta explained, "It didn't, it seemed to happen at the same time that everyone got dusted. The process is very different from the portal, the whole thing weakened the barrier, and it penetrated it. It would be something like osmosis that left the outer membrane weaker. It was some unidentified wave of energy, it swept by quickly distorting space, and it affected organic life. I can't get the details from this, but whatever distorted time-space seemed to specifically target people, but I can't see why it was so random. I'd need to run some more tests.

Glimmer kept wondering if this meant her mother was safe or…

Adora had to ask, "Was this an attack? From the people that Hordak was trying to contact? Are they trying to get in?"

Entrapta shook her head, "I don't think so, " she hit a button, and various distressed messages began to play, "Messages are coming through, and it looks like it happening to them too."

Author's Notes: Okay, so more stuff. I like Entrapta and she should have friends. Like no romancer right now let her get some friends and then maybe down the line people can think of shipping her. Anyway, I hope she makes it back to the good side after being zapped. I mean, the princess left her behind by accidents thinking she died on a rescue mission and when they found out she was alive they did try to get her back. Catra then zapped her and shipped off when she was going to try to stop her insane place.

Anywho, yeah, this group had issues with dimensional barriers and they figured out what the snap did. Luckily for them it didn't blow up everything.