Authors Notes: I'm back JACK! Sorry for the long delay folks, just started a new job so my updates to all my stories will become a little less frequent than usual. But now we're back with the chapter you've all been waiting for so lets get ready to roll with it!

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (c) Dreamworks animation

Ben 10 (c) Cartoon Network

:Go with the Flow:

On the planet Etheria stands a Horde stronghold in a winding mountain pass through the Whispering woods. The stronghold was large and intimidating as a banner with the Hordes symbol flew in the breeze. It was patrolled by armed guards, and large looking laser turrets that could shoot down anything.

However below the wall the Best Friend Hero Squad lead by She-Ra climbed the cliff to the wall. Ben who was in the form of Spider Monkey climbed the rocks as Rook pulled Bow up from the cliffside. She-Ra and Glimmer stuck to the wall to keep out of sight from the patrolling guards.

She-Ra looked down to the deep chasm below, it was a pretty steep drop. She takes a deep breath before turning to the rest of the team.

"Ooh, okay. We need to find a way to reclaim the Horde-occupied fortress for The Rebellion." She-Ra said to them. "So how are we gonna do this?"

"We do it as a team oh oh first we need a way over the wall ah ah." Spider Monkey said.

"Agreed but I have eyed their defences an arial drop is out of the question the turrets would tear the Proto-Truck apart." Rook diagnosed.

"Way ahead of you Rook." Glimmer said to him. "I'll teleport ahead to scout out a path through their defenses."

"And I'll quietly shoot the closest turrets with my trick-arrows." Bow added showing one of said arrows which glistened in the sun.

"I shall provide cover and neutralise any incoming soldiers with my Proto Tool." Rook said showing said weapon.

"You'll have the advantage in a sneak-attack." She-Ra agreed. "Ben switch to another form we'll need a heavy hitter."

"Don't need a heavy hitter ah ah. Just my big jumper!" SpiderMonkey smirked as he tapped the Omnitrix switching him to a new form.

High above a bird chirps on the front of the cannon, and on the controls stood an unsuspecting guard. Who simply yawned and stretched out of sheer Glimmer teleports behind him and hits him in the back of the neck with her staff and looks with a proud smirk.

Another guard manning the turret, turned and tried to help his fellow guard until She-Ra struck him down with a punch. The other guards were soon entangled in goop shot by Bows trick arrows and he stood on the turret. More guards arrived quickly but were quickly stopped by an energy net shot by Rook and his Proto Tool. Two more Hordesmen arrived with their taser sticks. However in that moment something shot up into the air and landed on the ground.

It was revealed to be what looked like, an alien grasshopper with two green eyes, and on its body white and green armour he had three fingers with a familiar looking hour glass symbol in the belt.

Crashhopper bounces from the ground and rams into the first Hordesman with his armoured head then jumped and kicked the other with his feet.

"Aw yeah two up two down for Crashhopper!" Crashhopper smirked.

Bow cheered from the top of the turret. "Yes! And now…" Bow was cut off a blast blew him off the turret and over the edge.

"NO!" Crashhopper gasped as the group hurried to the wall to see him fall into the abyss below.

Glimmer just broke down sobbing into her hands. While Rook just growled and slammed his fists into the wall.

"NO!" He growled while Crashhopper and She-Ra looked in genuine horror.

"He…he's dead." She-Ra said horrified. However it wasn't all bad.

A doll version of Bow hit the solid surface of a table which was also a map. "Oh, what?!" The real Bow said rather hurt as he held the doll up to the heavens. "Tiny Bow, you will be avenged!" He slumped onto the table.

"Dude." Ben said in human form. "Pull it together its just a doll?"

"A doll with feelings Ben! FEELINGS!" Bow said with such drama.

Turns out no one was killed in actual fact, Ben, Adora, Glimmer, Rook and Bow were sat in a tent gathered around a round table. Adora was in the middle Ben and Glimmer to her left with Rook and Bow sat to her right. In front of them was a map laid out with dolls of themselves and Adora held what looked like a strategy board. It seemed like it was an Etherian version of Dungeons and Dragons however it was really them planning a strategy even if it did look like an RPG (Role playing game)

Adora however turned back to the situation at hand. "That clearly isn't going to work. Let's try this again." She placed the battle figure of She-Ra back on the map.

The group as well as the rest of the Princess Alliance were encamped not too far away from the Horde Fortress at the river pass. Since the forest regrew it gave them chance to provide aid to their allies and captured settlements elsewhere. This fortress was one of them. So naturally Adora wanted to plan an attack, but so far it wasn't going well.

"I shouldn't be dead. That turret came out of nowhere?!" Bow argued.

"Bow the most important rule of engaging in battle is to always be mindful of our surroundings." Rook explained to him. "It is essential when storming an enemy fortress."

"Rooks right you failed to make a successful observation check." Glimmer points out to her friend. "If we're going to retake the pass, we have to be prepared for anything."

"Okay I get that the Horde have it occupied but whats so important about the pass?" Ben asked.

"The pass is the only way in or out of this region. According to the reports, the Horde seized it while we were busy defending Bright Moon." Adora explained as she placed the pieces near the model of the fortress. "So it's crucial that we get it back."

"Agreed, it could provide us with a tactical advantage in fortifying the forest from future attacks." Rook agreed.

"Why does that mean I have to die? And after I made these for you." Bow gestured to the dolls.

"Bow you're not gonna die thats the point of planning." Ben said to him. "But why the stress, we got this."

Adora however saw differently. "Uh Ben no offence, but if you haven't noticed our plans always fall apart. Always!" She said in a rather high tone with a serious expression. "It would be impressive if it wasn't terrifying."

"Okay look I know sometimes things don't go according to plan, but not everything does." Ben explained. "Its like I said during the rescue in the Fright Zone we make a plan, we execute the plan, expect the plan to go south, throw away the plan."

Bow and Rook looked rather questionable at that logic. "That…is a terrible thought!" Bow said.

"I must agree with that assessment." Rook agreed.

"Hey I'm just saying, when things don't go to plan we improvise." Ben voiced.

"Thats true we have gotten good at improvising." Glimmer added.

"GUYS!" Adora snapped everyone to attention. "If we're gonna pull this off, we need to come up with a plan that won't fall apart, and a plan that takes into account everything the Horde could possibly throw at us, including surprise attacks."

"Adora does raise a valid argument, the Horde have become rather cunning of late especially with the addition of Entrapta and her machines to their army." Rook agreed.

"Okay, but you're breaking Tiny Bow's heart. I mean, look at his face!" Bow said gesturing to his battle figure who was smiling as the master archer made it that way. The rest of the group just gave questionable looks while Adora looked serious.

"He's smiling?" Glimmer said simply.

"Through his pain, Glimmer. Through his pain!" Bow whispered to her.

"Guys!" Adora got their attention standing up. "This pass is important. The Horde is not going to give it up without a fight. It's obviously going to be guarded by their very best and brightest."

Ben however wasn't too sure about that last part. "Okay you have a point on that part but their best and brightest? Come on how bad could these clowns be?"

Horde Fortress:

He actually had a point. For in the fortress itself the only so called 'best and brightest' there was Scorpia, Kyle, Lonnie and Rogelio. They stood on the bridge above the site below.

"Move those big weapon-y things! Flap those banners! Uh...keep doing whatever it is you're doing, guy I'm pointing at! Now do a different thing!" Scorpia yelled out to the soldiers below who were scurrying around in different directions to follow those orders. "And look sharp, Force Captain's orders!" She looked rather stern but her expression changed to a smile.

In truth Scorpia was rather excited, for Catra had left her in charge of the river pass fortress. As she had other duties. "Catra left me in charge. Me. Can you believe it?!" She said excitedly in happy disbelief.

Lonnie, Rogelio and Kyle just looked at each other in disbelief why Catra would have left Scorpia in charge of this fortress was beyond even them. Seeing as how the scorpi Force Captain didn't have the best track record.

"Uh, no. I really can't." Lonnie simply said with a face plant.

"Yeah, me neither." She said wishfully as she leaned on the bridge wall. She must really trust me." Scorpia then looked determined. "I can't let her down. Kyle! Man the parapets!" She pointed to Kyle.

"I don't know what those are." Kyle said a little confused.

"THEN FIND OUT!" Scorpia shouted prompting Kyle to run away panting.

Scorpia then sighed before speaking again, remembering exactly what the feline Force Captain said to her before she arrived here. "Scorpia, you're in charge of the fortress," she said. "Even you can't mess this up," she said." Scorpia quoted.

"Even me. She's thinking about me! Ah." She said wishfully "Should I get her a 'Thank You' gift? What's her favorite colour?" She wondered before turning to Kyle yet again. "KYLE, what are you doing?!"

Kyle was standing between two of the parapets on the fortress wall. "Uh, you said…I.."

"Go find out Catra's favorite colour!" Scorpia shouted and Kyle abandoned his first job and ran to his second going slowly past Scorpia and his fellow Hordesman panting.

The Scorpi Force Captain then walked to Lonnie and Rogelio who tried to walk away but it was too late. They were enveloped in their arms.

"Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey you guys know Catra. W-what would she like? I need it to be something that says." Scorpia asked with Rogelio grunting in struggle. "'Thank you', but also." Lonnie and Rogelio grunt as they now find themselves in a headlock. "We are soulmates tied together by the beautiful threads of fate…"

Lonnie had just about enough of this, so she pulled herself free from Scorpia's grip. "We should spend less time talking about Catra, and more time talking about the defenses."

However Scorpia just looked at Lonnie with the same smile on her face as she blinked. Lonnie just groaned. "The reason we're here!" She said frustrated. Scorpia just laughed as she patted Lonnies back so hard it nearly knocked her off the railing. Rogelio then joined them.

"Okay, you don't need to remind me. My wildcat is counting on me, and I won't let her down!" Scorpia slammed her claws on the bridge railing with a dreamy look. "For Catra, I will defend this pass with my very life!" She said in a courageous pose!

"Ahem wrong pass." Lonnie coughed showing Scorpia she was looking the wrong way. Scorpia proceeded to run over to the opposite railing.

"Ah Yes, this is the pass I will defend with my very life. No reason to worry at all." Scorpia said with confidence, sadly however she didn't know that a plan was taking place.

Rebellion camp:

Back at camp something of a plan was still assembling. Looking at the map with pieces marked as the fortress and camp.

"Clearly, that last plan won't work. So maybe, if we try sneaking past the turrets from a different side." Adora wondered.

"Perhaps, but with an arial assault out of the question, we could always attack from below." Rook strategised. "Armadrillo with Perfuma's help could tunnel a way in."

"No good Rook, by now the Hordes already realised thats how we got into their mine during the Corodium incident." Adora then said. "They will be prepared."

Just then Glimmer snatched away Adora's strategy divider. "You're going about this all wrong. We're not going to win by sneaking. We gotta take the action to them!" She slammed it down hard.

"I believe the phrase is take the fight to them." Rook corrected.

"Shh go on Glimmer." Ben insisted. He liked the sound of this.

Glimmers Plan:

So Glimmers plan was told in a very manga art like style with black and pink colours. Glimmer herself looked like a badass hero with a leather jacket. While Ben, She-Ra and Rook looked the same.

"Just let Glimmer handle this." She said with a sparkle in her eye. "Using my awesome powers of teleportation…" Glimmer teleports into the fortress only to be surrounded by cannons. "I take out their first line of defense!"

She teleports away again as the turrets fire to destroy each other.

Reality:

In reality Glimmer swats away the board pieces marking the Horde Forces. "POW!" She said with dramatic sound effects.

Glimmers Plan:

Glimmer teleports in and finds herself facing Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio who all looked sinister with eye patches and crazy hair cuts.

"Then, I teleport over the wall and take out a line of soldiers with one CRITICAL strike!" Glimmer planned. Glimmer energised an energy blast and fired it at the three Horde stooges.

Reality:

Glimmer uses her figure to knock over the pieces marking the Horde Forces. "KA POW!" She said dramatically "I back-flip, front-flip, back-flip into a teleport, poof! THEN, I take out a super-bot, and it EXPLODES!" She said slamming her piece down scattering the Horde pieces.

Glimmers Plan:

Glimmer lands on the otherside of a blaze where a spherical Horde bot exploded behind her in dramatic fashion. "Hold on we're calling those walking bowling balls super bots?" Ben questioned.

"Yeah its cool!" Glimmer said excitedly.

"Glimmer there is one detail missing." Rook then said while in the vision. "What purpose do the rest of us have in this plan?"

"I'm getting to that." Glimmer said.

"You guys are below destroying the rest of the Hordes battalions, Ben turns into Rath and tears through them like a beast possessed." Glimmer tells.

The scene shows Rook and Bow firing their respective weapons at the incoming Horde robots and soldiers, while She-Ra slices a bot in half with her sword. Ben as Rath lets out a lour roar as he tears apart a Horde tank piece by piece.

"Uh Rath isn't a beast possessed, he's just angry." Ben pointed out.

"Yeah whatever." Glimmer dismissed before going back to her plan. Glimmer teleports from one place to another over the wall. "And I'm past the wall….I'm unstoppable, I'M…"

"You ran out of teleports, like, 12 teleports ago." Bow called out.

It was then that Glimmer realised it too. "Then, I land on you!" Glimmer screamed as she fell onto Bow with a big cartoon like explosion.

Reality:

Glimmer drops her figure onto Bows, and real Bow looks in horror. "Tiny Bow! NOOOOOO!" Bow cried.

"Oh brother." Ben said with a face plant. "Still at least no one landed on me this time." Adora shook her head with a face plant of her own.

"Glimmer, we need to come up with a plan based on reality." Adora insisted.

"Yes, and in that moment, I really would land on Bow." Glimmer said looking at the strategy divider only for Adora to take it back.

"Whilst your plan does seem a little ah…" Rook tried to find the right words.

"Extreme?" Ben finished the sentence with a knowing tone.

"I was going to say over the top, some aspects of it could prove useful." Rook continued.

Adora took a moment to consider Rooks proposal, then she realised he had a point. "Hmm. Using a limited number of teleports isn't a bad idea." She realised. "So, Glimmer will take Bow and Rook….

Glimmers Plan:

Glimmer teleports Bow to the top of the fortress out of sight from the gun emplacements. "...and, using her powers teleport them into the turrets' blind spot. Bow shall act as backup with Rook on lookout while Glimmer Ben and I breach the less-patrolled area up on the wall."

Glimmer teleports down to She-Ra who scales the wall, while Ben silently appears as Big Chill as he is the quietest of his aliens. Next to Ghostfreak. "Ben will use Big Chill to approach given his stealth and powers should we run into trouble. Then we…"

Suddenly completely out of nowhere a giant Mermista appeared, startling the group. She looked down upon them. "Uh…"

Reality:

However in reality Mermista just entered the tent. "...Why are you playing with dolls?"

"We're not playing with dolls!" Adora said defensively.

"Yeah! They're war-table battle figures…a…and I don't know if I have one for you. Hold on." Bow said as he started rummaging through his bag looking for a doll that Mermista could use.

Then Glimmer realised something. "Wait a minute. Aren't you supposed to be on watch?"

Mermista with a bored look, just looked to the fortress in the distance. "Oh, look, the fortress is still there, like it was an hour ago. Watch complete."

Glimmer just groaned in annoyance while Rook had an unamused look. "Your sarcasm is not appreciated Mermista." He said.

"Relax, I switched with Perfuma." Mermista said as she sat between Ben and Glimmer.

"We're still coming up with a plan to take the pass." Adora explained to her.

"Am I in the plan?" Mermista asked with a smirk.

"Uh yeah all the princesses are?" Ben said.

Adora was starting to become a little irritated. "We're getting to…"

"I don't have you, bu…t I do have a seashell and a happy otter?" Bow showed Mermista tow battle figures of a very happy otter and a small seashell with goggly eyes. It looked like something you'd get at a beach shop.

The Princess of the sea didn't look very interested in that. "Uhhh, googly eyes?" She said and Bow shook it to show the eyes rattling around. "Pass."

"WAH!" Bow said rather offended that she didn't like his battle figures. Rook just face palmed himself.

Adora just wanted to get back to the point of this meeting. "Can we please get back to…"

"I'll be She-Ra." Mermista interrupted picking up said battle figure. Adora wasn't having this.

"You can't be She-Ra. I'm She-Ra." Adora protested.

"Indeed that is her battle figure, and she is She-Ra in real life." Rook agreed.

Mermista however thought differently as she thought this was a battle game. "Not anymore. Ya snooze, ya lose."

Glimmer growls in frustration and proceeds to grab Mermista then teleport her away. They appear far outside of the tent. The Bright Moon Princess then took the She-Ra figure back from her then teleported back to the tent in a split second.

"Uh, wow, rude much?" Mermista grumbled.

Horde Fortress:

However little did the princess know what was going on in the fortress. Lonnie was on the battlements looking at her tablet. Which seemed to be picking up a signal that went from one place to another. This meant one thing. Lately the Horde had modified their tech to track magical energies, the kind that Glimmer generates when she teleports.

"Alert Force Captain Scorpia." She said to the guard next to her. "We've got a princess problem. And where theres a princess problem a Tennyson problem is never too far behind." The Hordesman saluted and headed into the fortress to warn the Force Captain.

Planning Tent:

Glimmer reappeared in the planning tent and placed the She-Ra figure back on the planning map. She then moved back to her plan.

"Okay I admit, I got a little carried away. But the rest of my plan could work." Glimmer admitted.

"Well while some parts might Glimmer I don't think the rest of your Kangaroo Commando battle recreation is gonna cut it." Ben then admitted.

"Kangaroo what?" Glimmer questioned not getting that reference.

"Look the point is Ben is right, because you're not taking the biggest variable into account." Adora then said.

"And that would be?" Rook asked.

Adora sighed before she continued. "Catra. She's been behind every Horde plan, she led the attack on Bright Moon, she's devious…"

Before Adora could go on to list more things about her friend turned enemy. "And I've already thought of that." Glimmer interrupted rather smugly.

Glimmers Plan:

The group were now standing in a very dark corridor with She-Ra, Bow, Ben and Rook standing behind Badass Glimmer. "I knew destroying the bots would lure her out." Glimmer exclaimed.

Standing in the ever darkening shadows stood a familiar female figure. She laughed rather elegantly "And so it has, Glimmer."

Stepping out of the shadows was Catra who was apparently dressed like a villain from a classic James Bond film. She wore a black dress with a seam exposing her leg, with a fur coat around her arms and pearl earrings in her ears. And ironically she had a furry white cat with an eyepatch in her hands.

"Meow." Catra purrs.

Ben and She-Ra couldn't help but giggle and snicker at Glimmers interpretation of the Force Captain. "This is how you see Catra?" She-Ra snickered.

"Seriously?!" Ben chuckled. "She looks like something out of an old Spy film!"

Then almost as if on cue. "Ah…Mr Tennyson I've been expecting you." Catra said stroking her cat.

"See she said the line!" Ben exclaimed.

"I do not think this would entirely fit Catra's profile." Rook voiced.

"Yeah, this seems a little off." Bow chuckled a little.

"A little?" She-Ra chuckled.

"More like a lot." Ben agreed.

"You fell into my trap." Villain Catra said maniacally. "I've armed the tower with a bomb, capable of taking out my greatest enemy." She points to Glimmer while She-Ra just face palms herself. "You!"

Ben felt like he was watching a spy film. Some part of him actually wanted to see what would happen next. The other part however just wanted this to end.

"Do you expect us to just sit here?!" Glimmer rhetorically asked the villain.

"Oh boy here it comes." Ben muttered with his face on his hand.

"No, princess, I expect you to di…" However before Villian Catra could finish that sentence.

Perfuma burst in. "I cast Giant Flytrap on Catra!" She Said.

Suddenly out of the shadows emerged a giant Venus Flytrap surging forwards with its mouth open. Catra yelps out of the way Glimmer teleports, She-Ra ducks.

"YIPES!" Ben ducks out of the way and Rook dodges to the left while a very tear eye Bow gets eaten.

Reality:

In reality Bows figure has been eaten by a flytrap plant in a plant pot held by Perfuma. "Oops, sorry Bow." She apologised. Though Bow was still a bit sad.

"That is very bad luck my friend." Rook consoled. The group looked to see Perfuma, Frosta and Mermista in the tent now.

"Ugh! What are you doing here?" Glimmer asked a little annoyed.

"Mermista said you were playing a battle game. We wanna join!" Frosta pointed out as Mermista was right next to her smirking.

Adora just groaned. "We are in the middle of a very serious planning session."

"I don't know, so far its turning into the weirdest game of Dungeons and Dragons I've ever played." Ben said slumping on his hands. "Might as well be called Princesses and Hordesman."

"Not helping Ben!" Adora gritted.

"Princesses and Hordesman thats an awesome game name!" Frosta said excitedly.

Rook tried to defuse the situation. "If I may perhaps the other Princesses may have some other ideas for our strategy. Their individual skills could be useful and an advantage."

"Yeah we have lots of ideas for plans!" Perfuma agreed happily.

"Arent you on watch right now?" Glimmer asked and the Princesses all looked at each other.

"We swapped with the other rebel fighters?" Mermista shrugged. Adora took a moment to consider all of this, and she did see Rooks point. Maybe the other Princesses did have some creative ideas.

"Okay, but only if you guys are serious about the…" However before Adora could finish that sentence.

"I'm sitting next to Glimmer!" Frosta said sitting next to said princess.

"I'll sit next to Rook!" Perfuma hopped happily next to the Revonahgander and sat down.

Mermista then sat next to Bow, and everyone began talking and discussing their own plans. Such as what do Flytraps even eat or even Frosta asking Ben what kind of Alien would be cool for this plan, and how they could punch things. Adora looked rather concerned she knew this was going to take a while, she grimaced at the thought. Ben could see Adora looked stressed about this but why did she need to come up with a perfect plan?

Horde Fortress:

Meanwhile back in the Horde Fortress, Scorpia had been given the news of the Rebellion's imminent attack on the fortress. So she decided to take held a small spherical spy bot in his hands it had three spider like legs. Lonnie stood next to him. Scorpia began issuing orders.

"Spy Bot, the mission is simple, I need you to spy on the princesses and that Tennyson guy so I can stop them, and impress Catra so much she'll finally admit we're best friends, or at the very least, we have a bond that can never be broken." Scorpia explained as she paced back and fourth with the two soldiers watching. "You got that?"

Rogelio and Lonnie just bore the same blank look on their faces at Scorpia's rambling. "Uh, it's not turned on, and, um, that's not how it works."

Scorpia just looked back and fourth between the spy bot, and the two Horde Soldiers. Her gaze shifted up and down a couple of times before she spoke again.

"Good, good! Yeah, I was just testing you on whether you knew how to do-that, and...you passed, so…kudos." Scorpia covered up.

However Lonnie and Rogelio weren't so sure as they shared the same questionable look. They were starting to think Catra just appointed Scorpia on purpose as a joke of some kind.

"Now, let's go spy!" Scorpia pointed the way triumphantly.

"Ahem!" Lonnie cleared her throat and handed Scorpia the controls for said spy robot. Scorpia took the controls and Lonnie pressed a button activating the robot.

The spy bot activated with a small red light showing in its eye. It looked at the Scorpi Force Captain and she couldn't help but get all gushy at how cute it looked.

"Aww, aren't you the cutest little fella! Look at you with your little legs and your antenna. You're just about the cutest thing I've ever…" Scorpia was interrupted by Lonnie clearing her throat telling her to get on with it. "Spying. Yes. That is the thing...that we are. Doing."

The Scorpi Force Captain then tried to work the controls. Sadly however her pincer hands weren't exactly made for the small buttons or levers. She starts to get frustrated and nearly drops the remote but just manages to catch it. Lonnie gives a questionable look.

"Second test…" Scorpia sighed.

"Do you want me to drive the Spy Bot?" Asked a deadpanned Lonnie.

"Yes, please." Scorpia conceded defeat and handed Lonnie the spy bot remote.

Rebellion Camp:

Meanwhile back at the planning tent the other princesses had joined. However given Bow didn't have any figures of the other princesses he improvised giving Frosta an ice figure. The other Princesses just improvised.

"Okay, everyone has a figure, except Perfuma who's using her plant, and Mermista who has...that for some reason." Bow said as Perfuma had a venus flytrap plant while strangely Mermista had an action figure of herself as some kind of undersea super hero.

"Says the guy with a bag of dolls?" Mermista questioned openly.

"They're war-table battle figures!" Bow exclaimed.

Adora breathed a frustrated breath, so she decided to try something else. She looked to Ben. "Okay, Ben you've infiltrated fortresses like this before right?"

"Yeah loads of them, though some of them were alien warships full of deadly traps and some were even hideouts in Undertown." Ben recollected all the alien bases and hideouts he'd busted into in the past. "One time when me, Gwen and Kevin were on a HighBreed command ship…"

"Yeah yeah thats great and all but, do you have any ideas how we might be able to get inside and retake the pass?" Adora said getting to the point.

To answer that Ben took hold of the strategy divider and started to think. "Hm thats a good question, how would I handle this?"

Deep thought pondered for a while with Ben tapping his chin with his finger as the rest of the group watched with interest. Rook knew that sometimes his partners plans were crazy and sometimes often worked, so he was wondering what he had planned now. Just as Frosta mimicked Bens thinking pose.

"Got it!" Ben said clicking his fingers as he placed his figure on the map.

Bens Plan:

The whole plan had now turned into what looked like a comic book with the textures, shading and everything. This was how Ben saw his plan.

"Step 1." Ben said and the wall exploded with a comic book sound effect to reveal Armadrillo as the smoke cleared. "I use Armadrillo to knock down the wall giving us an opening."

"Its hero time!" Armodrillo exclaimed charging forwards.

"Step 2: Rook you Mermista and Perfuma take care of the turrets so they can't blow us up!" Ben describes. Mermista uses her water powers to create a wave to carry Rook, Mermista and Perfuma up to the turret ready for action.

"The turret would shoot you down before they got there." Adora pointed out. The turrets fire at them and nearly hit the three heroes. *ZAP! ZAP!*

"Okay Rook throws up a shield with his Proto Tool to provide cover while Perfuma uses spiked vines to destroy the turrets." Ben then corrects. Rook uses his Proto Tool shield to shield his squad from the blasts.

"Uh technically vines don't have spikes so…" Perfuma tried appearing in a comic panel.

"Hey don't steal my mojo I'm on a role." Ben said brushing it off.

"Step 3: I switch to Big Chill, so Frosta and I team up and freeze all the bad guys in place." Ben continues.

Armodrillo switches to Big Chill and stands next to Frosta as the two of them use their respective ice powers, to cast a wave of ice across the ground. The soldiers were frozen in place.

"Aw yeah the Ice blast squad!" Frosta cheered.

"Step 4: Switch to XLR8 to blast through the remaining guards, and take out any resistance, so Bow can neutralise the security bots." Ben explains.

Big Chill changes to XLR8 and zips through the guards punching them down POW BANG BAM! In a comic book like fashion. Bow jumps in and fires an arrow capturing Lonnie Kyle and Rogelio in a net. This gives She-Ra a clear path.

"Step 5: Glimmer teleports me Bow, Rook and She-Ra to the upper levels before the big boss fight." Ben said dramatically.

Glimmer grabs hold of XLR8, Bow and She-Ra teleporting them away *ZAP!* They reappear before a rather intimidating looking door with a giant Horde symbol on it.

"Step 6: I turn into Humungosaur and rip down the door and on the other side lies the very overlord of the Horde the mastermind behind it all!…" Ben said in dramatic fashion.

XLR8 switches to Humungosaur and tears down the door with his bare hands and then he switches back to his human form and is dressed in what appeared to be a super heroes outfit. It was that of Ultra Ben.

"We're here to save Etheria from your evil clutches!…Catra!" Ultra Ben said dramatically.

A loud cackle comes from the darkness and emerging from it was a rather sinister looking version of Catra. With spiked metal armour on her shoulders and chest plate with metal boots and razor sharp claws. A large Horde symbol lay in the middle with sharper fangs.

"Hahahaha Your too late fools, soon I supreme ruler of the Horde will conquer the planet and soon the entire universe!" Catra cackles maniacally.

She-Ra just looked completely gobsmacked at this interpretation of the plan. "Wait hold up! Catra isn't the leader of the Horde? Hordak is?"

"Well she might as well be the leader I mean we hardly see her boss outside the Fright Zone." Ben explained. "I can't be the only one thinking that?"

"You know he does raise a point." Glimmer realises.

"ENOUGH! Prepare yourselves for destruction!" Sinister Catra yells as she sharpens her claws. "Let this be!…OUR FINAL BATTLE!"

"We'll see about that ITS HERO TIME!" Ben slams down the Omnitrix and changes into Razor Kat.

"Time to Omni kick it up!" Razor Kat exclaims but before he could.

"Hold on!" Rook called. "The Omnitrix will have run out of energy after those quick changes in a row, therefore you cannot access Omnikix with insufficient power."

"Geeze way to step on my moment partner." Razor Kat said changing back to Ultra Catra yells and lashes forwards claws first, Ultra Ben, She-Ra and Glimmer duck out of the way only for Bow to get slashed to bits.

"Oh no." Bow whined and slash he was cut to shreds.

Reality:

By this time Bow had just about enough of him being killed in these plans. "Okay thats it give me that!" Bow said snatching the Strategy Divider from Ben.

"Hey I was getting to the good bit!" Ben exclaimed.

"Nope! So far I have been shot, eaten, sliced into bits and squashed. We're doing my plan." Bow then said with a relaxed smile. "And there will be no death, no dying, just heroic good times."

Bows Plan:

The scene is now very similar to the settings of an eighties cartoon show. The Horde fortress was a tower with a ram skull on the top and standing before it was Bow in a new outfit. Blue pants, gold boots, gold bracelets, a gold and white chest piece with a red heart in the middle his arms were exposed. His most distinguishing feature was a moustache on his face.

"I am Bow. She-Ra's best friend, and defender of Etheria." Bow introduced as he smirked with confidence. "When the evil Horde strikes, I strike back" He stood in an arrow action pose ready to strike with sparkling sound effects.

Behind him were the rest of the Alliance dressed in their own outfits. She-Ra had a golden tiara with long hair and bangs coming down the side, a white skirt with a gold belt and star like chest piece with gold boots and a red cape. Glimmer wore a purple and violet bluish outfit with a purple head piece, her arms were bare with bluish violet pants and purple boots. Frosta had a blue and white outfit with ice spike shapes on her white boots that went up to her thighs, and a blue cape. Mermista's hair was down with a light violet outfit with green shells on her chest and green arm bands. Pefima had a pink flower dress with a pink flower head piece.

Ben and Rook had retro outfits of their own. Ben wore a green sleeveless jacket with a black belt with an Omnitrix symbol in the middle, a long sleeved white shirt underneath, black pants with green furred boots. He had longer brown hair. The Omnitrix still remains on his wrist.

Rook was wearing white armour with a curved face mask on the chest area with shoulder plates and gauntlets on his arms. He wore a curved gray helmet with white circuit shapes on top. His user suit was black with white armoured boots and belt with gray like barbarian furs on the waist. Rook also sported a moustache.

"Ooo we all get hats!" Perfuma squeaked happily admiring her head piece but Mermista just grumbled.

"Are you for real? Why do I look like something in an eighties cartoon?!" Ben asked looking at his outfit.

"Why do I also have facial hair?" Rook wondered looking at his own attire.

"I don't know I think it looks good on you Rook." Perfuma asked.

Bow just continued to tell his plan in his heroic fashion. He fires an arrow to destroy the turrets. "After I destroy the turrets with my trick arrows, Glimmer teleports us to the tower…"

Glimmer teleports the group into the tower where they appear in a long dark corridor. "There, someone waits in the shadows…" Bow said dramatically, before everyone could hear a cackle in the shadows almost cat like.

Bow knew it was only one person. "…Catra." He breathed.

Almost on cue the villain enters the frame, she too is wearing a retro outfit. She was in a red outfit with a Horde bat symbol on her chest plate, blue eye shadow, with a red v necked collar, black lipstick and has red boots with a purple cape. Her headpiece now had green eyes in it.

"Meow, Fools. I won't let you destroy my purrrfect plan." Catra said purring like a cat.

She-Ra just couldn't believe how ridiculous Bows interpretation of Catra was. "WHAT?" She exclaimed in disbelief.

Glimmer and Ben couldn't help but laugh at this development. "This is kind of amazing." Glimmer laughed.

"Yeah I gotta admit that is pretty funny!" Ben said between laughs. "She sounds like Nancy Chan on a bad day."

Bow ignored that and continued with the villain hero banter. "It looks like I've got you meow, evil doer!"

"I'd paws to reflect on your upcoming death if I were mew." Catra taunted back with her own cat puns.

"I don't know, I'm feline pretty good right now." Bow said pretty confident.

"Hey!" Ben exclaimed. "If anyone heres doing cat jokes its me pal!"

"Ooh, stop. You gotta stop." She-Ra said with her hands on her face.

"Now we're all hoping this plan kills us." Mermista groaned she couldn't take another minute of this embarrassing plan.

Catra took up a battle stance. "Then purrrr-pare to meet your end!" She puts her head piece over her face and out of nowhere shape shifts into a panther like creature with red armour.

She-Ra and Ben looked with questioned raised eyebrows and dropped jaws. Even Rook had to admit this did seem a little unbelievable. "Wait, she can do that?!" Frosta said surprised and impressed.

Reality:

In reality however Bow just had a pair of figures in his hand was a small purple cat and another was a dragon. "No, but I-I ran out of figures and only have this left, so she can now."

"Bow Catra can't shape shift into a cat, thats just silly?!" Adora criticised.

"Yeah." Ben agreed before he turned to the fourth wall with his hand in front of his face. "At least not in this continuity." He whispered.

"Okay well, the Horde also has dragons now because I did not make enough robots." Bow explained.

Bows Plan:

Towering over the group was a rather large looking dragon. "Fear not, Ben will handle this changing into Razor Kat!" Bow said dramatically.

Ben steps forward and raises his arm with the Omnitrix in the air and said. "BY THE POWER OF THE OMNITRIX!"

(Music starts playing He-Man classic theme)

Energy surges out of the Omnitrix as it began to transform him. He now stood in front of a large Omnitrix symbol with a green void. A flash of light later he's transformed into Razor Kat who looked more like a barbarian. He had a metal harness on his chest with the Omnitrix symbol present, he had an emerald green belt with similar gauntlets and black furred boots and pants.

"I…HAVE…THE POWER!"

(Music ends with a record scratch)

"HOLD ON A MINUTE!" Ben exclaimed interrupting the plan.

Reality:

"I'm sorry Bow but in what universe do I say 'I have the power' whenever I transform?" Ben asked indignantly.

"I don't know I thought it sounded catchy, besides you said you went to alternate dimensions right?" Bow then asked. "Maybe in an alternate dimension you say I have the power?"

Ben just scoffed at that jokingly. "Yeah and in an alternate dimension Adora has a brother who also has a magic sword?" Ben said pointing to Adora.

"SAY WHAT?!" Adora said completely taken aback.

"I'm kidding!" Ben raised his hands up in defense.

Meanwhile in an Alternate Dimension: (Note this is not connected to Heroes of Power in anyway!)

Far away a young man near enough Adora's age with short blonde hair, blue eyes and wore red and black tribal clothing with tiger stripes with a white shirt. He stood in front of a young girl with tanned skin with long white hair gray and orange wore a sack with a sword shaped object in faced a couple of villains one in purple and a green muscular man with brown and metal clothing. They looked with deadly intent.

"Get the real sword out of here!" Teela exclaimed to the boy.

"I HAD A SWORD THIS WHOLE TIME!" With that Adam drew the sword which was rather large with a metal blade with marks on it. He yelled as he charged forwards.

"Hand it over thief!" Evelin demanded.

"You want this come and get it!" Adam said holding the sword.

Suddenly before the witch could attack she and Adam noticed the golden cuff on his arm glowed and showed a skull like shape on the sword hilt and it started to glow with energy. To everyones surprise storm clouds gathered. On the sword golden writing then appeared it was in an unknown language but Adam could read it.

"By the power of Grayskull…I have the power?" He read, then out of nowhere a column of golden light blasted down and surrounded him.

His eyes lit up with power as the sword enlarged with a golden blade within the metal the light exploded and Adam surged with power as he transformed into a large muscular man with flowing golden hair. He opened his eyes as he wore a grayish blue sleeveless suit with armoured boots and gauntlets with silver symbols. Suddenly a harness appeared with a large red split sword in the middle. On his belt was a skull shape within a golden light.

"I HAVE THE POWER!" He yelled holding the sword up as a giant skull shaped castle appeared behind him.

Cronis and Evelin looked and were very surprised to what happened.

"What?" Cronis said surprised.

"No!" Evelin growled.

"YAHHHHH!" He-Man yelled as he stood before them.

(Note: again this is not connected to Heroes of Power in anyway! This is just for fun!)

Etheria:

"Okay okay new plan!" Bow exclaimed going back to his plan.

Bows Plan:

Back in the fight of Bows plan the dragon stands over them. "I'll shoot her with my net arrow!" Bow fires said arrow from his namesake but it misses Catra's cat form and bounces all over the corridor until finally.

Reality:

Bows figure falls over and ends up being caught in a plastic net. Much to the master archers dismay. "OH COME ON!" Bow complained.

"Well in retrospect dude you did that to yourself." Ben pointed out.

"Be that as it may Ben, Catra is easily agile enough to dodge the arrow, and instead of Razor Kat perhaps GutRot would be more appropriate." Rook explained.

"Exactly you can't underestimate Catra or the Horde. "Now, I think we can exploit a weakness in the wall." Adora noted taking the strategy divider.

"You raise a point Adora, there are areas on the wall we can take advantage of." Rook agreed. "However we must use strategy and quick thinking to over come the defences." Rook placed his figure down as he began his plan:

Rooks Plan:

The scene changes into a world that looks like its set within a black and white wartime film. The Alliance lead by Rook gather around the wall, everyone is in normal attire. Except for Rook who was actually in his Fist Rook attire.

"Now the upper turrets prevent an arial approach so we strike from below." Rook strategised. "Perfuma can use her vines to breach a section of the wall. But first we need to neutralise the guns."

Perfuma uses her powers to open a small part of the wall close to the ground. Opening a small hole near the wall thats closest to the cliff.

"Glimmer, you will teleport Bow to the turrets blind spot, as he is the best equipped he can nutralise the turrets."

Glimmer teleports Bow to the point where the Turrets can't fire where he quietly uses his arrows to short out the turrets. "While you then teleport myself and Adora onto the upper wall were we can neutralise any guards that would give us away."

"Okay I'm liking this so far." Adora said liking Rooks strategy.

Glimmer teleports Rook and She-Ra onto the upper wall, before vanishing. Quietly going in different directions they use stealth to take down any guards on the upper defences. Rook stuns them with his Proto Tool while She-Ra sneaks up from behind a Hordesman and quietly knocked them out with her sword then switches it to a rope to grab another solider and knock them out with her fist.

Far below ground, Ben is now Swampfire helping Perfuma dig into the ground below the wall, as the other princesses follow.

"This will buy Perfuma and Ben the time they need to tunnel under the wall and come up from below. Swampfire with his similar powers can help burrow said hole at a quicker rate." Rook strategised. "They will hold their position under the centre of the fortress. Once we are in position we commence the assault."

The hole erupts from the ground with a combination of Perfuma's and Swampfire's vines paving the way for the other Princesses as they leaped into action.

"Now for the attack we will need tight coordination." Rook strategised. "Mermista and Frosta you will work together to neutralise the ground forces, wash them away with water waves, and freeze them in place. Ben will then use Echo Echo to neutralise any incoming bots with sonic screams."

The Princesses attack Mermista sends a crashing wave of water through the fortress washing into the Hordesmen troops. Frosta attacked next with her ice powers to freeze them in place. Swampfire switches to Echo Echo and his duplicates let out a sonic scream to shatter and short out the Hordebots that explode in mere seconds.

"With the ground forces occupied that will provide us an opening." Rook continued as his plan continued.

She-Ra, Echo Echo,Bow, Glimmer and Rook then join each other just outside of the bridge to the fortress. "Now to conserve Glimmers energy Ben will utilise Ghostfreak to phase Adora, Bow and myself through the walls of the fortress where we will neutralise Catra before she can act."

Echo Echo switches to Ghostfreak and holds onto the rest of the group as they phase into the fortress tower. Once inside they encounter their deadly foe Catra (normal looking.) She surrounded by Hordesmen armed with taser sticks.

"She will most likely be guarded, so we must quickly take down the Hordesman, quick attacks thats where Glimmer and Terraspin come in." Rook said.

A huge battle breaks out, Ghostfreak switches to Terraspin who uses his wind powers to take down the Hordesman with strong gusts of wind. Then it was Glimmers turn and sends out a powerful energy wave with her staff knocking them down. She-Ra then attacks Catra with her sword.

"Adora will then take the fight to Catra, but what she will not be prepared for is we have the numbers." Rook strategised.

"I will attack with a net and once restrained Ben will use Gutrot to neutralise her with Catnip gas." Rook continues.

Catra is about to attack back until suddenly Rook swoops in and fires a net from his Proto Tool trapping her. TerraSpin then turns into Gutrot then nutralising the feline Force Captain with Catnip gas.

"The fortress is captured mission accomplished." Rook said as he stands with a success flag in his hands and Perfuma standing at his side all lovingly while everyone else looked with a thumbs up of admiration.

Reality:

"Well I do like this plan." Adora said.

"At least I don't die this time." Bow agreed.

"Thats Rook for you strategy works every time." Ben complimented his partner.

"Ah yes but if I could make one alteration to the plan?" Perfuma asked enthusiastically which got everyones attention.

"Which is?" Adora asked in an almost dreading tone.

"I use my magic to grow a Plant Golem to take down the tower!" Perfuma exclaimed.

Perfuma's Plan:

Suddenly the ground rumbles below the feet of the Hordesman on duty. They look up and see Perfuma herself standing on the wall. However standing behind her was a large golem made of green vines and plants. The beast let out an ear piercing roar. The soldiers scream as the beast extends its vines to wipe out the Hordesman.

"Hold on!" Bow called with his hand up snapping them back to reality.

Reality:

"If it's made out of plants, how does it roar?" Bow asked.

Perfuma just giggled into her hand. "It's plant magic!"

"But.." Bow tried.

"Bow don't argue about it, its like asking Charmcaster how do her rock monsters roar if they're made of stone." Ben pointed out.

"Oh and thats not all!" Perfuma said to them.

Perfumas Plan:

"For to assist in the battle is a mighty warrior with just as much care for nature as me!" Perfuma said dramatically.

On the vines stood a warrior with wood and furred garments. It was Rook though she didn't say. He wore a harness made of wood with a flower in the middle he had plant barbarian furs with vine gauntlets on his arms. With furred boots and a sword which was his Proto Tool.

Reality:

"Okay and who is this warrior?" Ben asked.

"Oh uh no one special." Perfuma blushed and unknown to the Revonnahgander she was looking in his direction. Bow just sat down and Adora just slammed her fists into the table.

"Perfuma, we're not just making up whatever we want." Adora said trying not to lose her patience.

"Well for what it is worth I thought it was very creative." Rook pointed out which did put a smile on the flower princesses face.

"Yeah but your idea is dumb." Mermista simply said.

Perfuma rather took offence to what Mermista had said with a scoff. "And what would you do?" She asked.

"Uh, I step forward and I say…" Mermista then explained her plan.

Mermista's plan:

The Horde Soldiers gasped when they looked up to see Mermista standing an a wave with a trident in hand. However there was something different it had a red jewel in the middle of it.

"I am Mermista. Fabulous secrets were revealed to me in the day that I held aloft my trident and said…" She raised her trident and said the words.

"FOR THE HONOUR OF GRAYWALES!"

The tridents stone glowed and transformed her into her equivalent of She-Ra as she calls herself Sea-Ra. She had longer hair with golden shell shoulder pads with a large starfish in the chest plate. She had a tiara with conned shells on it, with golden bracelets and gems with traces of gold on her shoes with a blue flowing cape. Just then a dolphin in the same colour as Swift Wind swam by with a smiling face.

Reality:

"UGH! Are you for real a knock off She-Ra?" Ben groaned.

"Uh no its totally original, its Sea-Ra not She-Ra." Mermista explained.

"Do you even have a trident that does that?" Ben asked.

"Uh yeah." Mermista said.

Ben just slammed his head onto the table several times. Like Adora he was starting to get sick of hearing ridiculous plans, well except Rook and Glimmers plan anyway.

"Then it's like sparkle, sparkle, dolphin, sparkle." Mermista then continued.

"Mermista…" Adora gritted through her teeth getting more and more irritated.

"I get shoes that are slightly better than my normal shoes, there's probably another dolphin…" Mermista goes on ignoring Adora.

"MERMISTA!" Adora yells but to no eval its like she wasn't listening to her.

"Then, like, I twirl and my hair does this thing." Mermista flows her hair around. "where it looks all messy, but it's actually, like, really super-beautiful…" Mermista continued.

Adora had just about enough and was about to act however, a bright flash of green light had beaten her to it. Suddenly a familiar white paw grabbed the princess. Mermista was now face to face with Rath who looked very annoyed.

"Let me tell ya somethin Mermista! And Rath is gonna make it very clear! YOU CANT TRANSFORM INTO SHE-RA!" Rath growled.

"Uh, duh, I'm Sea-Ra. Princess of the Oceans, obviously." Mermista simply scoffs.

"THATS THE SAME THING!" Rath yelled.

"Ew take a breath mint much?" Mermista asked.

"Ben put her down and transform back!" Adora said to Rath.

Rath growled. "Don't tell Rath what to do I'll do what I want!"

"Right, so its your idea to put Mermista down and transform back." Adora hinted.

The Apoplexian calmed down and put the mermaid princess on the ground. "Fine but only because I want to not because you told me to." Rath said before he slammed the Omnitrix symbol and changed back to Ben.

Ben then sat down but Perfuma was still a little upset about her plan being dismissed. "No, i..i..if..if she gets to be Sea-Ra, I get to have a Plant Golem."

"Everyone please, we are getting off topic we need to…" Before Rook could finish.

"The Winter's Bane needs no help from a plant!" Frosta then spoke up with her arm out dramatically.

"THE WHAT?!" Ben and Adora said incredulously.

Frosta's Plan:

A large flurry of ice and snow emerges from a blast in the wall. Mermista and Perfuma looked in surprise as out of nowhere snow began to fall. They looked and saw that all the Hordesmen had been completely frozen in ice.

"My enemies know me as Frostbite Winter's Bane. My friends call me Bane." Frosta described. "That is, if I had any. But no one comes close to the Winter's Bane!"

Frosta was armed in large ice armour that looked more like a barbarian themed mech suit with several ice spikes. Along with a red flowing cape. She had a scar going along her left eye.

Reality:

Frost shows the group a drawing of her character The Winters Bane. "She's got an obsidian broadsword that enhances plus three, and her finishing move is: the Snowstrike!" She explained.

"Wow I gotta admit thats pretty badass Frosta, I do like the way your mind works sometimes." Ben complimented.

"Yeah me too." Frosta smiled.

Just then Mermista spots something on the drawing, along with the Winters Bane design sketch it looked like a small pink blob with the sketch of a familiar looking princess.

"Uh what's that pink blob next to her?" Mermista asked.

"Her sidekick. Glimmer." Frosta explained still a little excited. However Glimmer had other ideas.

"What?!" She said in shock and anger.

Adora just stood up with her hands on her head almost getting a headache from all this procrastinating. "We're getting so far from the real plan. Can we please focus?!"

"Yeah. Focus on how I'm not a sidekick!" Glimmer exclaimed.

"Everyone please calm down!" Rook tried to calm the situation.

Everyone was so engrossed in their bickering they failed to spot a little spy enter their tent. The small spy robot from the Horde entered the tent and started recording its findings.

Horde Fortress:

At the fortress, Scorpia, Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio look at the monitor on the controls. "We've got visual. Turning on the audio." Lonnie said activating the audio to the footage.

"My army of Plant Golems will take down the tower instantly!" Perfuma exclaimed.

"No Way Big will tear down the tower wall piece by piece so everyone can get in." Ben added.

"Frostbite uses Snowstrike to encase the tower in ice and then crack it apart…KAPOW!" Frosta said with excitement.

"Uh, you mean Sea-Ra will use the Trident of Power to blow it up." Mermista argued.

"You don't have a Trident of Power!" Glimmer argued.

"I do agree, you have no such weapon Mermista, it does not even exist." Rook agreed.

"Bow, make me a Trident of Power." Mermista argued.

"I just don't wanna die again!" Bow whined.

"Bow don't be such a drama queen man!" Ben argued.

Lonnie, Rogelio, Kyle and Scorpia honestly couldn't believe what they were hearing right now. Were these guys honestly making up random silly plans? How have they even beaten them so far. Scorpia just shook her head.

"I can't believe it." Scorpia said walking away.

"Me either." Lonnie said in a non belief tone.

However Scorpia was taking it in rather seriously chuckling nervously. "They're gonna give us frostbite, then attack us with a Plant Golem, then something Way Big is gonna tear this place apart! And a woman named Sea-Ra?! And Bow's got a Trident of Power?!" Scorpia said in an overdramatic fashion as the world around her went black. "Who knows what that does! Oh, we're doomed!" She collapsed with tears.

Lonnie honestly couldn't believe she was hearing this. "Ugh they're obviously just coming up with ideas. Terrible ideas!"

"We cannot risk it." Scorpia said in denial.

She then tried to get the remote from Lonnie's hands but she fought back. "Get in closer! Scorpia exclaimed.

"Hey get off me!" Lonnie yelled as she tried to keep her from getting the controls. Rogelio just yelped as the two fought for the spy bot controls.

Rebellion camp:

The small spy bot ran around uncontrollably while the Alliance was bickering among themselves.

"Maybe we should have Rath throw Bow over the wall…" Mermista joked.

"Maybe we should have Rath throw everyone else over the wall!" Bow argued.

"Rath can't throw that many people even I know that!" Ben argued.

"There goes taking this seriously!" Adora argued.

"Everyone please let us focus." Rook cut in.

Mermista then decided she was thirsty and reached for a soda pop close to where she was sitting. However the cap was a little stuck, she grunts as she tugs on it. Eventually the cap comes off and soda shoots into the air and spills on the spy bot. It runs out of the tent out of control sparking from shorting out until finally it lost power and fell to the ground. The robot sat silently.

Horde Fortress:

"Nooo!" Scorpia cried with Lonnie on her back. "Kyle, go grab one of the other Spy Bots you packed!"

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Was that my job?" Kyle asked still confused from all his duties.

"Kyle!" Lonnie exclaimed while Rogelio just shook his head.

"Really, Kyle? I don't know how you haven't been fired?!" Scorpia said in disbelief as she shook her head. It really was a wonder why the most useless Horde solider hadn't been fired.

Rebellion Camp:

The Alliance, Ben and Rook still discuss their different plans and approaches.

"I teleport in…" Glimmer said.

"And run out of teleports." Adora dismissed.

"My Plant Golem tears down the wall!" Perfuma exclaimed.

"The Horde will set it on fire." Adora shoots down.

"I turn into Way Big and tear the wall down!" Ben exclaimed confidently.

"The cliffside wouldn't take Way Bigs weight and collapse into the abyss." Adora shot down.

"Frostbite smashes the wall!" Frosta exclaims excitedly.

"The ice armour cracks as soon as you hit stone." Adora yet again shot down.

"We come up from below the wall and distract the ground troops after neutralising the turrets." Rook proposed.

"The guards would over power us and the turrets would be heavily guarded." Adora shot down.

"Sea-Ra destroy's the Horde bots!" Mermista exclaimed dramatically.

"There is no Sea-Ra, and you guys aren't taking Catra into account!" Adora said almost losing her temper.

However they were taking the matter of Catra into account. "Oh, sure we are, see?" Perfuma explained.

She-Ra looked and found herself with how Perfuma sees Catra. It was a childs doodle with angry eyes. "I have a lot of negative things to say, and I hate flowers!"

Frosta however didn't think the same way. "No, no, she's more like…"

Suddenly Catra in her Prom outfit slumped onto She-Ra's shoulder with a wine glass and sunglasses on her face. "I love ruining parties!"

"Nice try Frosta but as someone who's fought her before she's defiantly more…" Ben then said.

"MUHAHHAHAHAHA I'M the supreme empress of evil I WILL BE MASTER OF ETHERIA!" Bens version of Catra appeared behind She-Ra towering above her with an evil red glow.

Then Glimmers version of Catra appeared leaning on She-Ra. "MUAHAHAHA I'm a monster!"

"What a purr..fectly evil group!" Bows Catra then said appearing from behind the other Catra's.

With all the laughing and acting going on all around her Adora had finally just reached her breaking point. No-one here was taking this seriously.

"NO! None of this is right!" Adora exclaimed this caused the group to groan and slump sadly.

By this time Ben had all he could take. "Okay look we've been here for hours and are no closer to a plan than before! We should just go for it!"

"Bens right its time we attack!" Glimmer agreed.

"The Horde will counter whatever we throw at them." Adora said rather serious. "We're gonna go again, and we're not gonna leave until we have a perfect plan."

Everyone in the tent just looked at each other with the same confused and unsure look, they knew Adora wanted a plan but a perfect plan? Just why was Adora going to so much trouble for the perfect plan despite their track record saying otherwise.

Finally Rook spoke up. "Adora, while I understand the importance of planning a strategy it would seem you feel the need to, I believe as Ben would say go over the top with the planning." He said. "I do like a strategy but so far we have had a success rate despite some complications."

"Yeah Rooks got a point. We've faced the Horde before. What's the worst that could happen?" Bow then asked.

"You wanna know the worst that could happen?" Adora said rather deathly serious. "Fine. Ben and I are the heaviest hitter, so Catra will separate us right away." She said holding up her She-Ra doll and Bens. "Trap me, take my sword, do something so I'm helpless. She'll tire Ben out and wait for him to run out of power so he can't transform and render him helpless when she turns on you." Adora continued "She knows everything about me, exactly what I'll do, exactly how to take me out."

She tosses her figure onto the board. "They'll overwhelm Frosta and Mermista with bots" She then knocks over Mermista and Frostas own figure representatives. "they'll fire on Perfuma and use her to draw Rook out into the open, pinning them down between the bots and the Horde soldiers." Adora knocks over Perfuma's plant and Rooks figure. "Glimmer and Bow will teleport in to save him, but she won't have enough magic left to get out, trapping them both."

Adora proceeds to knock over Glimmer and Bows figures and she gets more and more stressed as she describes the scenario. "Catra will make me watch all of it before she finishes me off, Ben will try and help but the Omnitrix isn't always reliable in giving him the right alien and he'll turn into something useless so Catra can over power him and then everyone is gone, and the Horde wins the war, and Etheria crumbles, and it's all my fault!" She yells as she knocks all the figures off the table.

This revelation took everyone completely by surprise. The reason why Adora needed a perfect plan, was because it was on her head. "The Horde nearly destroyed Etheria. We were barely able to stop it. If this plan isn't perfect." Adora let out a breath. "if I'm not perfect...everyone will…" She sighed.

Everyone was silent for a while, they were so caught up in planning they didn't realise how much of a toll this took on her. Ben could empathise the most for more than once did the fate of the world hang on him, be it fighting Vilgax without the Omnitrix, or the final confrontation he and his team had with the High Breed during the Alien Force days.

"Says who?" They heard a voice, they looked and saw it came from Ben. "Adora who says you need to be perfect? No one is perfect. But sometimes you need to prepare for the fact that not everything is going to go to plan. If it doesn't thats okay sometimes we just need to go with the flow. If I could count the times none of my plans went the way they should I would've given up but I didn't."

Adora listened intently to what Ben had to share from his own experiences. He wasn't the only one who had an opinion on the matter.

"Bens right." Glimmer agreed. "I was captured by Shadow Weaver, taken to the Fright Zone, and lost my powers."

"Glimmer not helping!" Bow whispered.

"Yeah I wasn't really leading with that!" Ben gritted his teeth.

"Hold on I'm going somewhere with this." Glimmer said to them. "But you know what? We escaped. I fought without my we won! Bad things are going to happen. That's life. You can let it paralyse you can roll with it. Figure out the things you can and, trust that your friends have your back for the rest."

"You insist Catra knows everything about you and how you fight, but does she know what those around you now can do?" Rook also agreed.

"Right, everyone here has a specialty they bring to the table." Ben said as he gestured to everyone at the planning table. "Glimmer, she's the very spark of the rebellion the sparkling light that keeps us going!"

"Aw thanks Ben!" Glimmer said rather touched.

"Bow, he's not just a sharp shooter he's also a talented tech master." Ben then said. "Sure everything Entrapta has built for the Horde is made to destroy us. But he builds things to protect the rebellion and those around us. Not to mention keeps a cool head."

"Well try to anyway." Bow admitted.

"Mermista, she's the princess of the sea she can wash away the Horde and still look good doing it." Ben gestured to Mermista.

"Naturally." Mermista smirked.

"Then theres Frosta she's a total badass of an ice princess, and though she's small she can still deal a whole lot of damage." Ben complimented.

"You bet I can!" Frosta agreed.

"Oh oh me do me next!" Perfuma practically bouncing her hand up in the air waiting to hear what the Omnitrix bearer had to say about her.

"Oh and who can forget about Perfuma, she's the rock of the group, keeping us together, with peace and harmony. But when the stakes are high she brings her A-Game when it comes to it plant golems and all." Ben complimented.

"This is very positive for my harmony and the rest of the groups too! Thank you Ben." Perfuma complimented with a smile.

Ben then turned to his partner. "And of course theres Rook, the master strategist sure we may disagree on look before we leap but when it comes to it we work together and see it through. His courage and determination to have everyones back is one to be admired and makes him a hero. A hero I'm honoured to have as a partner."

"Well said partner." Rook nodded.

"Oh and though they're not here theres our dynamic duo Spinerella and Netossa the Rebellions dream team they watch our backs and know where to line'em up and knock'em down!" Ben then said complimenting the two princesses.

"The point is, your not alone in this Adora, I told you before the Beacon I'd share this burden with you. I know everyone else will too. We have your back no matter what." Ben said with a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

Adora had to admit a small reassured smile from that little speech, and he wasn't alone. For everyone around her was with her in this together.

"He's right. You've got this Adora." Bow agreed.

"I cast friendship and support on my next turn." Perfuma said smiling.

"We are all in this together for individually we have power but together we will triumph over whatever the Horde concocts next." Rook said with support. "We are all with you Adora."

"Here. This is my Trident of Power." Mermista said offering her weapon to Adora as it shone in the sun. "I want you to have it, especially since Bow and Rook are making me a new one."

"We didn't agree to that!" Bow said coming into the frame.

"You will." Mermista smirked.

"Doubtful." Rook muttered.

It was Frosta's turn to step up. "The Winter's Bane stands with you! Also..me..Frosta…stands with you..I..can't tell if we're still in character, or not…" She said smiling.

Adora gave a grateful smile to her supporting friends and family figure. They were right, she didn't need to be perfect and she no longer had to handle this burden alone. She had friends around her who care and support her, and she couldn't have been happier for it. Especially towards Ben who she had nothing but grown admiration for.

"Thank you." Adora said gratefully.

"So...What do we do now?" Bow then asked. Adora developed a confident and enthusiastic smile on her face, she knew just what to do.

"We do what we do best: we improvise." She declared.

This put a prideful smile on Bens face. "Then what are you waiting for say the magic words."

Adora smiled at that statement so she unsheathed her sword of Protection, held it aloft and said.

"FOR THE HONOUR OF GRAYSKULL!"

The sword glowed bright as it enshroud the whole tent and one epic magical transformation later Adora was now transformed into She-Ra Princess of Power.

Her friends stood by her side as they readied themselves for the battle to come. So with one determined smile. "Lets go." She-Ra declared.

"Oh yeah!" Ben exclaimed before activating the Omnitrix and dialled in an Alien. "ITS HERO TIME!" He slammed down the dial and was consumed in a bright green light.

Horde Fortress:

As the Horde flag flaps in the gathering wind, the whole fortress is on high alert. More Horde Bots are covering the battlements and more soldiers, they knew the enemy was coming just what would they expect?

"We've added more bots to the tower's weak points. Kyle is...hiding somewhere, and Rogelio is commanding the extra turrets." Lonnie reported, but Scorpia just clung to her with worry.

"A-And if there are plant monsters or warriors in ice armor or giant Way Bigs or Sea-Ra…" Scorpia stuttered with worry.

Lonnie grunted as she pulled from Scorpia's embrace and snapped her back to reality. "Ugh for the last time, none of that stuff was 've reinforced our defenses. We got this." She said rather confidently.

Scorpia let out a relieved breath as she looked to Lonnie. "Okay. Good. Thanks, Lonnie."

Lonnie just looked away rather humbly bashful by this. "Uh who's Rogelio?" Scorpia then asked.

"Rogelio. The lizard guy?"Lonnie reminded.

"Oh, right. Yeah, I wondered what his deal was?" Scorpia remembered as Lonnie face palmed herself. Suddenly they heard a loud explosion coming from the wall.

The soldiers went over to look and out of nowhere, the wall exploded scattering rubble all over the place. Something emerged from the smoke, and it was Armadrillo with his drill arms at the ready.

"Knock knock Horde your toast!" Armadrillo announced. The soldiers and bots readied their taser sticks and weapons. Lonnie just looked rather smug at seeing the alien here all by himself.

"Wow, you must be brave or stupid if you can handle us alone Tennyson?" Lonnie smirked.

Though they couldn't see it but Armadrillo just smirked back under his helmet. "Who says I am?" The moment he said that they heard a loud crash on the walls, and much to Lonnies horror, a loud roaring sound.

"No!"Lonnie cried in disbelief as appearing on the wall was a large vine hand. "I..it can't be?!" Kyle just screamed in horror at the very sight of this.

"Oh but it is." Armadrillo said as a group of vines lifted him up as a wave of them overwhelmed the soldiers on the ground.

Rising from the wall was Perfuma and Rook who stood atop a plant golem, yes a plant golem which even roared. Perfuma giggled excitedly before she declared her presence. "For the She-Ra and the Ben of ten!"

"Your time occupying this place is over Horde Scum!" Rook proclaimed with determination. The golem roared rather loudly. Lonnie and Scorpia couldn't believe what they were seeing the plant golum was real what else was there?!

"F..FIRE!" Scorpia commanded. The turrets opened fired on the Plant Golem. Rook quickly moved to shield Perfuma using his Proto-Tool shield.

Out of nowhere a blast of ice froze all the turrets in place, The two looked up seeing what happened. They smiled knowing this was the work of one person.

"Yay, Frosta!" Perfuma cheered.

"Excellent timing!" Rook agreed.

Frosta leaped onto the wall wearing what looked like ice armour on her body and feet, her hands had pincer like gauntlets on them. She was acting out her ego the Winters Bane.

"This is...colder than I thought it would be." The Ice Princess admitted as it did feel rather cold. "But not a problem." She looked determined.

Approaching her left were a small squad of Horde bots charging at her. Frosta however knew what to do and runs straight at them.

"SNOW STRIKE!" She exclaimed as she punched and slammed all the bots off the wall.

One bot was still standing, to all around it, you would think it was trembling. Frosta smirked and pounded her ice fists together, with one punch. *SLAM* She punched it right off the wall.

Frosta looked with triumph however she noticed one of her Ice gauntlets was missing. Then all of a sudden water came in and Frosta's ice froze it over her hand again into a gauntlet. She looked up and waved to the person responsible.

"Thanks, Mermista." Frosta thanked.

"You mean…." Mermista waved her trident and she was revealed to be wearing a make shift version of her persona outfit. "..Sea-Ra, Princess of the Oceans!" Water waves shot up from the water below and washed all over the turrets and shorted them out.

Suddenly arrows shot in and exploded destroying the turrets on the left. Then energy arrows shot through the turrets on the right. The source was from Bow and Rook with their respective weapons.

They leaped down from the vines and just as Glimmer teleported in Armadrillo landed next to Bow and Rook as She-Ra, Mermista, Perfuma, Glimmer, Frosta, Bow and Rook stood together ready to fight.

"Charge!" She-Ra yelled raising her sword.

"I am Sea-Ra!" Mermista declared.

"Plant magic!" Perfuma exclaimed.

"The Winters Bane!" Frosta exclaimed.

With that Armodrillo leaped down from the wall, his pile driver in his arm forced back and once his fist hit the ground slammed in sending a shockwave through the ground cracking the floor and sending the Horde soldiers flying into the air. The waters waves then swept in and flooded the fortress sweeping the remaining soldiers away.

Lonnie just looked completely gob smacked. However she wasn't ready to give in. She readied her taser stick, and suddenly Rook leaped in and his Proto Sword clashed against her taser stick. Lonnie forced him back and performed a round house kick on the Revonnahgander which he easily countered with a block of his right arm and then sent her flying with a spin kick. She hit the ground and was restrained with vines, compliments of Perfuma.

Frosta smashed the incoming Horde bots with her ice armour gauntlets. However suddenly the presence of a crawler bot armed with laser blasters changed the odds. One laser blast hit Frosta dead in the chest of her armour. She rolled to the ground. She gasped as she was surrounded by the bots. Mermista leaped in and blasted them away with her water magic flooding the insides of the robots.

"Your up Winters Bane!" Mermista called and so Frosta concentrated her powers and froze the water inside the robots which exploded with ice spikes.

"Aw yeah!" Frosta called. However another Horde bot appeared out of nowhere ready to strike them. Armadrillo saw his comrades needed help so he ran over to them and quickly tapped the Omnitrix symbol switching him to CrashHopper.

CrashHopper leaped in the air with a *BOING!* Then crashed down onto the robot head first completely smashing its armour. CrashHopper then proceeded to bounce up again and land feet first smashing the rest of the robot like a pancake.

"Heh now thats what I call hop to it!" CrashHopper smirked.

"Hah hop to it good one Ben!" Frosta giggled.

"Yeah its not funny." Mermista groaned.

While the battle took place below, She-Ra had managed to make her way up to the bridge heading to the main tower. She ran towards the entrance, however within the shadows of the entrance lay a lonely figure in the shadows. She-Ra stood with her sword at the ready.

"It's over, Catra. You've lost." She-Ra said with conviction.

However she wasn't ready for who came out. "Catra's not here." She-Ra was rather taken aback to see not Catra but Scorpia step out into the light. "But I'm happy to take you down for her." Scorpia yelled and attacked She-Ra.

CrashHopper meanwhile had rammed into another Horde bot crashing straight through it. He looked proud of himself however he heard the sound of clanking metal and looked up at the bridge and saw She-Ra was fighting not Catra but…

"Scorpia?" CrashHopper said quite surprised.

He was so surprised however he didn't see a Horde bot about to attack him. Thankfully he was saved as a barricade of vines swooped in and crashed the bot into the wall. The alien grasshopper looked and saw Perfuma had helped him.

"Thanks Perfuma!" CrashHopper called.

"Your welcome, go help the She-Ra." Perfuma called back to him. CrashHopper nodded as he bounced up towards the bridge.

On the bridge She-Ra and Scorpia clashed against each other with the sword clanging on the Scorpi Force Captains thick armoured pincers. The two locked eyes as they clashed.

"Catra's really not here?" She-Ra said surprised. "And she left you in charge?"

"Yes! Why do people keep acting surprised about that?" Scorpia said still dumbfounded by everyones reactions.

Scorpia threw a clawed punch forcing She-Ra to back away and swing her sword which the Force Captain bended back to narrowly avoid. The Princess of Power tried to strike her but Scorpia caught her hand in her claw and twisted the sword right out of her hand and it fell to the ground. Scorpia then flipped She-Ra over onto her back.

Scorpia smirked and is ready to attack, when suddenly a sudden boing sound gets her attention. She's met by the feet of CrashHopper who kicks her back across the bridge and he landed in front of She-Ra. The Omnitrix beeped and switched him back to Ben and he had something in his hand.

"Ben!" She-Ra said amazed.

"Hey, look what I caught on the way up." Ben said holding the Sword of Protection in his hand. He helped She-Ra to her feet and gave her back her sword.

Their attention then turned to Scorpia. "So your here? Is Catra claws clipped or something?"

"No she trusts me and I won't let her down." Scorpia said. "And hey if I beat you guys then she'll admit we're best friends!"

"Yeah and I'll invite Dr Animo over for dinner." Ben said sarcastically."

"Uh what?" Scorpia questioned not getting the sarcasm.

"N..Never mind, your still going down, and Diamondheads been itching for a rematch!" Ben said as he activated the Omnitrix and dialled in Diamondhead, and slammed down on the dial.

Everyone was blinded by a green light. Within a green void with white molecules, however he wasn't turning into Diamondhead. For his hand surged with power and it turned into a pincer claw in dark green and he was now a more muscular figure with a scorpion tail emerging from behind him. He was clad in a suit with a green arrow like shape on his chest with black on the lower separated with a white belt and green pants with black boots. He had armoured knee pads and curved scorpion spikes on his ribs. He had his normal tone of skin with black hair and green eyes.

Ben had now transformed into what appeared to be a male version of Scorpia with the Omnitrix symbol in the belt. His armour and claws though were a shade of dark green.

As Scorpia and She-Ra unshielded their eyes they gasped and couldn't believe what they were seeing. "YAHHHH!" The new alien exclaimed as he surged with energy.

He looked at himself and was very surprised. "Whoa! Okay are there any other Force Captains you haven't scanned Omnitrix?" He asked with a much deeper version of his own voice.

"Ben?" She-Ra said in surprise.

However Scorpia was the most surprised of all, for it had been a long time since she'd seen one of her own kind, let alone in the flesh. Now Ben had transformed into one, how was this possible?!

However she brushed that off and charged straight at him. She-Ra saw her coming. "Ben look out!"

The new alien looked and saw Scorpia running towards him. "Okay lets see what this guy can do!" He said.

He charged at her, leaped into the air and tried to land a punch with his pincer claw. Scorpia just blocked the attack and pushed him back. The alien looked up and saw Scorpia standing over him with her tail at the ready to sting him. She thrusted it down but the alien blocked it with his own tail then wrapped it round and tossed her across towards She-Ra who landed a punch in the face knocking her back.

"Wow this stinger is handy." The new alien complimented.

She-Ra stood next to him as they stood battle ready. "Way to go on the attack Ben." She-Ra complimented.

"Yeah." He said but then an idea hit his head. "Attack? Yeah thats it I'll call this guy….SCORPATTACK!"

Scorpia growled as she attacked them again. Throwing her clawed punches at Scorpattack who was able to block them with his own pincer claws. He quickly grabbed one of her punches and swung her to the side and She-Ra slashed her sword at her claws but she blocked it and pushed her back into Scorpattack.

Meanwhile:

Glimmer teleports near one of the gun emplacements, where she strikes down a Hordesman catapulted to the ground. Another was about to strike from behind but Glimmer quickly strikes him down with a whack of her staff. Another soldier attacks, but Glimmer teleports away then reappears and kicks him in the back.

Glimmer hears a sudden scream from behind her and it was Kyle who had a taser stick in his hands. But he was easily neutralised by a net arrow. Glimmer looked and saw it came from Bow.

"Ha ha! Whoo! Yeah, gotcha!" Bow cheered in victory. However he was oblivious to the turret behind him manned by Rogelio who charged the turret and was ready to fire pulling the trigger lever.

"Bow!" Glimmer cried as she teleported to him, grabbed him and teleported away just seconds before the beam fired and hit the turret nearby. The princess looked to the fire origin and teleported over to it grabbed the surprised Rogelio then teleported him away and reappeared as he fell off the wall and into the cavern below as she teleported away.

Glimmer collapsed as she reappeared almost tired. She looked to Bow. "You okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, Rook was right I need to learn to mind my surroundings." Bow admitted. Suddenly they heard clanging metal they looked and saw She-Ra battling Scorpia with who appeared to be a male version of her.

The two could tell by the colour scheme of his outfit it was Ben. "Is that Ben?" Glimmer said surprised.

"Must be a new one?" Bow figured.

"I don't know its hard to keep track." Glimmer groaned, she could see they needed help so she teleported over to them.

Scorpattack blocked another of Scorpia's attacks crossing his claws. "So hold on Catra really left you in charge?"

"Yeah you surprised?" Scorpia asked.

"A little but I gotta admit we don't see you much in these battles since Bright Moon?" Scorpattack genuinely asked.

Scorpia tried to strike him with her stinger tail but Scorpattack quickly pushed her away. Scorpia charged into him to land a stinger tail. However Scorpattack dodged out of the way, but she couldn't stop in time and fell off the bridge she was about to scream. When suddenly she didn't fall, she looked and saw that Scorpattack had grabbed onto her foot with his pincer claws. She was genuinely surprised why would he save her?

He moved to pull her back onto the bridge and they briefly shared eye contact in genuine surprise. However she quickly pushed him away. However this left room for She-Ra to attack from the front with her sword. However Scorpia grabbed her wrist and tossed her into Scorpattack who caught her.

Scorpia moved to attack again until suddenly a large energy blast hit her in the head. She looked and saw Glimmer yelling and charging towards Scorpia with her staff in hand.

She tries to attack striking with her staff, however Scorpia blocked it with her tail. Glimmer tried to attack again but Scorpia grabbed it with her tail and much to Glimmers shock twisted it out of her tail slamming Glimmer to the ground.

She's knocked out and Scorpia picks her up. Scorpattack gasps as he sees what she's doing. "Glimmer!" He gasped and She-Ra could see Scorpia had Glimmer by her cape hanging over the edge of the bridge.

"Bup, bup, bup! Both of you stay where you are." Scorpia stopped them dead in their tracks. "Or we'll find out if Sparkles here has enough magic to land on her feet."

"Scorpia don't!" Scorpattack said.

"Don't you dare!" She-Ra growled with her sword in hand but Scorpattack stopped her.

"Come on Scorpia you think this is gonna earn Catra's respect, she doesn't respect anyone but herself!" Scorpattack tried.

Scorpia tried to deny these thoughts. "No..no your wrong Catra trusts…" Suddenly she felt a punch in her face and looked to see Glimmer struggling. "OW! Hey! You don't hit the person dangling you over the edge! Stop!" Scorpia tried as Glimmer kept kicking and punching as she held her face to face.

Glimmer then blasted some of her sparkle magic into her face blinding her. This forced the Scorpi Force Captain to toss her at She-Ra who grabbed her in her arms.

"Glimmer? Are you okay?" She said in genuine concern as Scorpattack looked over her.

"How's that for improvising?" Glimmer breathed rather tired. Which earned a smile from both She-Ra and Scorpattack.

"Heh, thats my girl." Scorpattack smiled at her to which she smiled back.

"Also, it's your turn now because I'm completely out of magic." Glimmer said rather worried as they saw Scorpia looked angry as she headed towards them.

Scorpattack decided it was time to stop pulling punches. "You maybe out of magic Glimmer, but I'm not out of juice. Time to Omni-Kix it up!"

Scorpattack twisted the dial on his waist 90 degrees to the left and it flashed in a green light. Suddenly Scorpattack was armoured up with armour coating his stinger and pincer claws which suddenly surged with energy.

He was now armoured up in green armour shaped like his original suit, with black armour on his waist and legs with white and green armoured boots. His scorpion spikes were now made of bright green energy, with white armoured shoulder pads. His helmet was green and black with a gray face plate and a spiked green visor. His tail was armoured too with an energy stinger on the tip. He struck a pose with his tail and pincers surging with power.

"OMNI KIX SCORPATTACK!"

Omni Kix Scorpattack then charged at Scorpia who charged at him and tried to strike him with her claws. The armoured Scorpi dodged her attacks then landed a punch of his own which Scorpia blocked. However what happened next came quite suddenly because Omni Kix Scorpattacks pincer tips charged up and surged with green energy. It shocked her full of energy propelling her back.

Glimmer and She-Ra were completely taken aback as was Scorpattack himself as he looked at his armoured claws, they surged with energy.

"Energy stingers ha! Nice!" He smirked behind his face plate. Scorpia shook off the electro shock and so she attacked again. Omni Kix Scorpattack dodged the incoming punches and landed an energised upper cut with his pincer claws. The two clashed with their claws interlocked they growled glaring each other in the eyes. The armoured Etherian Scorpi then raised his tail which was shocked with energy.

"Surprise!" He fired an energy blast from his taser tail which forced Scorpia back. However she wasn't giving up she got up again and faced down the three of them with a defiant glare.

"Give it up Scorpia you can't win!" She-Ra exclaimed.

"No!" Scorpia defied. "Like I said Catra trusts…" Suddenly she was interrupted by a blast of water that hit her in the face. Her hair was all wet. "Catra…" She was interrupted again by a barrage of plants which stuck to her hair and face. "Catra trusts…huh?!" She quickly dodges an arrow and an energy blast from behind her.

"Catra trusts m…" Suddenly a blast of ice hits her face and generates icicles on her hair and face.

"W..o..o..okay, seriously? How many of you are there?" Scorpia turned round and saw behind her, Frosta, Mermista, Perfuma, Bow and Rook standing battle ready with Bow and Rook training their weapons on her. The princesses also glowed in their respective auras.

"More than enough." Rook simply said. "To level your ground forces."

The Revonnahgander gestured to the ground below, and they saw the soldiers and tanks were all but defeated. Crushed or tied up in ice or vines.

Scorpia looked with shrunken eyes in shock it was clear she'd been beaten and was outnumbered. "Ohhh. ...Too many."

Omni Kix Scorpattack simply crossed his arms and looked smug behind his face plate. "I think we all know what comes next."

The next thing Scorpia knew, she was tossed off the wall of the fortress she screamed as she splashed into the water below. She surfaced and saw that Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio were waiting at a Skiff on the land, along with what remained of their forces.

High above the Horde banner fell from the tower wall and up on high the princesses, Rook and Scorpattack cheered in victory. The fortress was theres.

"Wahooo!" Everyone cheered waving their arms in the air.

"That. Was. Awesome!" Bow cheered happily.

"Indeed it was my friend, while unorthodox like many of Bens plans back home, it served well here today." Rook agreed to their joined plan.

"Good planning session." Glimmer elbowed She-Ra happily.

"Thanks guys." She-Ra said embracing her friends in a hug.

"Hey we told you we got your back Adora, we always will." Scorpattack said, just then the Omnitrix timed out changing Omni Kix Scorpattack back to his normal form then back to Ben. Ben then accessed the selection dial and showed the holograms. "And look."

Ben showed everyone the selection hologram and it was showing one of Scorpattack. Just then something dawned on Bow. "Oh so thats why that one looked so familiar! Because it looked like Scorpia." Bow slapped his head in realisation.

"So since when could you change into Scorpia?" Glimmer asked.

"Best guess when Scorpia tried to take the watch back at the Princess Prom." Ben remembered.

"I see in defending itself the Omnitrix sampled her DNA just as it did Catra's." Rook realised.

"Welcome to the club, Scorpattack." Ben smiled as he looked at the selection hologram dial.

"Scorpattack?" Questioned Mermista.

"Thats an awesome name!" Frosta exclaimed.

"I do agree, he was on the attack!" Perfuma said happily.

"Ha good one Perfuma." Glimmer complimented her pun.

Meanwhile far below the remains of the Horde crew were heading off back to the Fright Zone in defeat. It was very clear Hordak nor Catra was going to be happy about this. So there was only one thing to do.

"All in favour of blaming this on Kyle?" Scorpia said raising her claw hand.

"Oh, yeah." Lonnie agreed and Rogelio not being a lizard of many words just growled in agreement.

Kyle had a panicked face, he knew he was going to be in trouble, he was being thrown under the bus. He knew Catra was never her best when she's angry, the same can be said of Hordak too.

"Yep. Yeah, that's unanimous." Scorpia finally said.

Kyle just slumped in defeat and sighed. "Oh man." He said.

Scorpia was dissapointed in losing the fortress, and was surprised that Ben could now change into an Etherian Scorpi. However there was still something lingering in her mind. Why would he save her from falling off the bridge? He was her enemy, so why would he save someone he would've considered an enemy?

Epilogue:

She-Ra was looking out from the view on the fortress walls as the Rebellion had reclaimed it from the Horde. She turned to face the fourth wall.

"We all want things to go exactly as we plan, but sometimes its never that easy." She said. "Things don't always go the way we want it. But my friends taught me that when plans don't go one hundred percent we improvise, roll with it and go with the flow. Sometimes the results can surprise you." She-Ra then smiled. "Until next time."

"Uh what are you doing?" She-Ra turned to see Mermista looking with a perplexed look.

"It was Bens idea." She-Ra explained before looking to the side where Ben was standing. "Why did I have to do this again?"

"Hey you never know you could be famous for it someday." Ben said as he winked to the fourth wall.

Authors Notes: Well thats that chapter done, and I hope it was a nostalgia trip for me as it was for you and that small reference treat I placed in the story too. It was also for good reason a fun fact the voice actor for 16 year old Bens Yuri Lowenthal is the voice actor for Prince Adam/He-Man in the 2021 Masters of the Universe CGI reboot.

Also in Bows nostalgia plan I decided to have Ben and Rook dress up to look like the 80s version of Prince Adam and Man at Arms as it seemed appropriate for this chapter, as well as, some inspiring references try to guess what they are.

Hopefully Adora's learned that sometimes its okay to go with the flow and roll with it for future plans, especially with those watching her back.

Now, next chapter is going to be an original one, lets just say that it'll be a time where Ben is more homesick than he was before he found out he and his partner were stuck in Despondos.

Until next time!