High Sea Gate Battle!
(10 Minutes Ago)
"So… boring." Catra winced as she lay on her back of the ship staring at the sky feeling like it's been hours since she left the Frightzone for this mission.
"Hey Catra, glad to see you're not feeling seasick anymore." Scorpia walked up to her.
"Guess seasickness has gotten boring for me now." Catra sighed.
"I can see that since we stop moving for a while now." Scorpia mentioned.
"Whatever, I just-wait, what?" Catra jumped looking around.
Scorpis was right, the boat stopped moving as they are anchored close to a reef instead of moving forward like they were supposes to, she goes to the front looking down at Kyle with a telescope in his hands and over his right eye.
"Why have we stop moving?" Catra asked frightening him a bit.
"The Sea Gate is blocking our path. There's no way past it, Force Captain Catra." Kyle answered with a salute.
"What?" Catra surprised to hear.
She jumps from the high point onto Kyle's shoulders, grabbing the telescope from him, and jump to the edge of the bow looking through the telescope seeing the Sea Gate blocking their path just as Kyle said.
"Oh, Shadow Weaver didn't bother to mention that there was a massive gate blocking the way to Seaworthy?" Catra asked sarcastically. She really hates that witch for being abuses over the years, but not telling her anything important like what to expect on missions like these.
"Wait, didn't you learn about the Salineas Sea Gate in Force Captain Orientation?" Scorpia confused.
"There's a Force Captain Orientation?" Catra shocked as this is the first time to hear about an orientation for those who have been promoted to the Force Captain rank.
"Oh, yes there is." Scopria laughed a bit, understanding that Catra was never informed about that.
Catra's ears twitch upon hearing the three cadets laughing at her which only makes her angry.
"All hands on deck!" Catra shouted very firmly making Kyle, Lonnie, and Rogelio.
"We're finding a way through that gate!" Catra determined to not fail this mission.
"Oh, impressive captain yell." Scorpia commented, seeing this girl may already be a better Force Captain than her.
(Present)
"I can't believe we didn't thought of this before." Scorpia said as she aims the cannon at the Sea Gate.
"This should be easy from what it looks like the Sea Gate is getting weaker, this should help speed up the process." Catra smirked.
Lonnie check the targeting system is the Sea Gate is in the certain of the red circle marks.
"Ready on your command." Lonnie reported.
"Fire!" Catra ordered and Scorpia fires the cannon blasting the Sea Gate making a big hole at one spot.
At the certain of the Sea Gate as it got blasted causing Adora to yell in pain losing focus on repairing it with her sword.
Catra look through the telescope seeing Adora in her She-Ra form cover in electric currents and grunting in pain.
"Keep us going full speed. I got something more important to do." Catra smirked and running off the ship making her way to Adora.
"They're coming right for the gate." Bow alerted and Mermista groans in annoyance.
"I just need a little more time." Adora said as she believes to be close on fixing the Sea Gate.
"Then we have to keep them at bay." Jack advised as he appears with Glimmer.
"Bow, you take out that cannon while Mermista keep the move from advancing any further. Glimmer and Sea Hawk will join you soon." Jack planned.
"And what will they be doing exactly?" Mermista asked.
"You'll see, now go!" Jack said as Glimmer teleports back to Sea Hawk's ship
Bow nodded and jump down one floating rocks at a time while Mermista jumps down into the water with her legs becoming a single mermaid tail.
"Whoa, did she just turned into a mermaid?" Jack shocked.
"Jack, focus!" Adora reminded him of what is at stake here.
Bow fires an hook line arrow to the Horde's ship to zipline onto the sail and tearing a hole with his bow as he go down, then he shot an arrow at Kyle pinning him to the door by his shirt and Lonnie pulls out a stun baton charging at Bow. She swings her stun baton at Bow as he dodges it and tries to hit her with his bow though she flips backward and jumps up, Bow fire an arrow at her though narrowly miss and got pin down, but she saw him smiling for some reason.
Because that arrow wasn't meant for her at all, it was for the taking out the cannon with a goo that short circuited it.
"Oh, come on!" Scorpia gasped as the cannon stops working for a while.
Lonnie is shock that the cannon has been taken out by a single arrow, Bow use that distraction to push Lonnie off and the ship starts shaking because Mermista has controlled the seawater to making the Horde ship stop before diving back into the sea. Lonnie tries to attack Bow only to be caught in his bow and the stun baton knocked out of her hand, he saw Kyle charging trying to attack only to be taken out by Bow as he threw Lonnie at him and they're knock off the boat by a water stream attack sent by Mermista.
"Awesome!" Bow shouted smiling, then get lifted by Scorpia with her claws on the neck-back of his shirt.
"Oh, you're big." Bow surprised to meet a tall woman like her.
"I workout a lot." Scorpia shrugged before throwing Bow over to the kill in the engine fan.
As Bow scream for his life seeing no way out without his bow that he dropped when Scorpia lifted him up, he braces himself for the coming death, but suddenly Sea Hawk swings in grabbing Bow saving his life.
"Sea Hawk!" Bow relieved to see the adventure-loving sailor.
Sea Hawk swings himself and Bow on his ship where Glimmer is handling the wheel and Mermista soon hops on the deck.
"Bow, are you alright?" Glimmer asked worry if he is hurt or not.
"That was… amazing!" Bow squealed exciting.
"Thank you for noticing, Bow. It was amazing, but we need to focus on the task at hand like stopping the Horde from destroying the Sea Gate." Sea Hawk pointed out at the Horde ship is still moving toward the gate.
"Then we'll just have to go with Jack's plan, but NO ONE is allowed to tell my mom about this." Glimmer said.
"Well, time to send the Horde back to where they came in a blaze of defeat." Sea Hawk grinned.
"You're going to set your ship on fire again, are you?" Mermista asked deadpan.
"Yes, yes, I am!" Sea Hawk answered proudly.
Jack is seen with his sword hand ready to strike at any enemy that may come here while Adora is doing her best to fix the Sea Gate though has been struggling for a bit, but she is not giving up and nothing is going to battle her.
"Adora, how are you doing?" Jack asked concern.
"Just fine, not letting the gate fall and all." Adora answered groaning a little.
Then Jack's ear twitch once upon hearing a single footstep on the middle floating rock, he quickly pulls out his sword and swings it to the intruder stopping his blade at the neck to see the enemy is Catra herself.
"Wow, you got good instinct." Catra commented in a mocking tone.
"It's pays to be sharp in the mind." Jack smirked.
"My name is Samurai Jack, Warrior of Hope and Honor." Jack introduced.
"I heard about you, causing trouble for the Horde, and taking down two of our bases. You're becoming popular in the Frightzone." Catra said playfully.
"Does that include a cute-awesome catgirl like yourself?" Jack asked flirting a little.
"I might be if we-wait, did you just called me cute and awesome?" Catra asked shock as her cheeks blush and his eyes widen of what he just said.
"Uh, m-maybe." Jack stuttered.
"Jack, no time for flirting with the enemy!" Adora shouted in jealous for some reason.
"And Adora, I have to say the tiara actually gets stupider the more I look at it." Catra said.
"Catra, how did you find me?" Adora asked while retaining with the sword to the gate.
"Let guess, childhood friend?" Jack asked.
"Former childhood friend. I mean, I always knew she was kinda dumb, but come on." Catra chuckled rolling her eyes.
"What's your plan, insult me until I rejoin the Horde?" She-Ra asked as she groan in pain a little.
"I don't think Shadow Weaver is planning to give you much of choice, but yeah, something like that." Catra shrugged.
"Sounds to me like you didn't have a choice either." Jack pointed out, making Catra slightly flinch.
"So, Adora actually did me a favor by leaving because I got the promotion, she wanted so badly in all her life." Catra pointed at her Force Captain badge.
"Well, congratulations. That doesn't matter to me anymore." Adora stated.
"Really, it seems like only yesterday that this badge is matter to you more than anything in the world and you're-come on, Adora, hasn't this all gone long enough?" Catra asked, hoping to convince Adora to come back.
"I told you before, Catra, I'm not"
"It's because you're afraid of being alone, isn't it?" Jack asked, cutting off Adora's sentence.
"What?' Catra glared at Jack.
"I can see it in your eyes, the sadness and loneness of never having anyone or even one single person to be by your side and help wash away your fears, yet you try to get rid of that fear by wearing a false mask but that will only make it worse and soon you'll come to realize that your fear of being alone will come true." Jack advised and warn Catra about what she is about to go through.
Adora's eyes widen upon Jack's words about her once best friend that she is feeling alone and felt abandoned too, she has known that Catra never got along with anyone back at the Frightzone and had some trust issues too which makes her the only person the cat girl could ever trust in her life. But she never thought about how much Catra was hurting on the inside after leaving the Horde Army and joining the Rebellion, maybe it is not too late to help her see the light and leave the Horde like she had.
"Catra, was it? You don't have to worry about your suffering, come with us and" Jack's instinct kicked in when Catra swing her claws at him as his body moves on its own dodging the sharp claws.
"Worrying… about my suffering. Did you really think you can just play life coach and make go with you idiots just like that?" Catra asked anger.
Catra blitz at Jack slashing her claws as he block each attack with his sword though she manage to get his left arm and right side of the torso, she grabs the arm with the katana holding it in the air and thrust her freehand to impale his face only to be grab by his hand.
"Tell me, is THIS what she left me for? Dress-up games and a light show? And the only new best friend I'm seeing is right here." Catra growled.
"Believe me when I say this, I know what is like to lose a friend in the worst possible way and I can never see her again. If you still care about Adora so much, then it's not too late for you to change." Jack tried again to help Catra see the light.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Catra kicked Jack down to another floating rock.
Catra jumps down for an axe-kick to the head as Jack moves back to dodge it and hold his sword in the defense position to black and parry her claw slashing attacks, Jack remove one arm from the hilt to elbow her in the face but her grabs the arm by wrapping her tail on his and drag him closer to give him a headbutt making the young samurai to stumble back a little.
"You must think you're some kind of hero, are you?" Catra asked.
"I don't think, I know I am." Jack determined.
"Then you know you're about to become fish food for the sharks." Catra threatened.
"Well, just so you know… I really do think you're cute-awesome." Jack admitted as he sheaths his sword.
"Okay, now you're trying to flirt with me again." Catra rolled her eyes.
"That, and you're about to go overboard." Jack grinned.
Catra look at him confuse of what that meant until it was too late when Mermista came in with Bow on her back hitting the cat girl with water knocking her down to the ocean.
"Thanks for splashing in." Jack punned.
"Yeah, whatever, and that joke wasn't that good either." Mermista said, looking away to hide her blush.
Meanwhile, Sea Hawk and Glimmer charge at the Horde ship with his about to ram them as they yell "Adventure" before she teleport herself and Sea Hawk right before the ship sudden burst into flames scaring the Horde squad forcing them to abandon ship. The burning ship crash into the Horde ship causing an explosion destroying the means to break through the Sea Gate.
With that out of the way, Adora now focuses all the energy of the sword into the Sea Gate fully fixing it good as new. Catra is seen floating on the water watching Adora celebrating victory with her new friends as Scorpia swimming on a broken piece of wood grabs Catra with her claws to swim back to shore. Catra also got one last look at Jack with a smile on his face as her heart beats a little faster than usually.
Soon, everyone got down look at the fully repaired Sea Gate.
"Huh, what do you know, you actually fixed." Mermista surprised.
"It's beautiful." Adora complimented.
"Now that's a gate." Jack smiled.
Mermista blush a bit looking at Jack before turning to Sea Hawk.
"I guess you're gonna be needing a new ship. I suppose you can have one of mine." Mermista groaned and pointed at Sea Hawk's new ship causing him to gasp.
"She's gorgeous." Sea Hawk cried in joy.
"Don't set it on fire." Mermista ordered.
"No promises. But Princess if I might ask for one more favor." Sea Hawk said.
"Uh, you're always ruining it." Mermista annoyed of him all over again.
"Now, now, just hear me out. You should consider joining Glimmer's Princess Alliance, she is a brave and strong captain. With her at the helm, she is sure to lead the Rebellion to victory." Sea Hawk encouraged the mermaid to help defeat the Horde once and for all.
"Aw, Sea Hawk. You even got my name right." Glimmer smiled.
"Okay, I'm in." Mermista said.
"Really?" Glimmer shocked smiling.
"Yeah, the Horde almost destroyed my home, I want to help fight them. Plus, one of your friends can turn into a, like, 8-foot tall lady with a sword and the other is a badass sword fighting dude, and I want them on my side." Mermista explained her reason making Adora and Jack looking at each other smiling and everyone cheers that Mermista has join the Princess Alliance.
(Frightzone)
"Well, Hordak is not going to like this." Scorpia said as she dries herself off with the towel.
Catra didn't pay much attention she just sits on a box thinking about what Jack said about her feelings and couldn't get that stupid, handsome face out of her head.
"Ugh!" Catra growled as she walks away.
"Hmm, maybe she shouldn't go to any more sea missions." Scorpia said.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
I decided to make this new chapter since the fifth and final season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power came out yesterday. Hopefully, we haven't seen the last of She-Ra and everyone on Etheria.
Everyone managed to hold off the Horde while Adora fixed the Sea Gate winning the trust of Princess Mermista to join the new Princess Alliance, and it looks like Jack may have also won her heart as well. He certainly threw some strong words to Catra as that will sink in her head and she may come to understand while slowly starting to have a crush on him too.
KO comment, favorite, and follow through of how this story will go!