Among the Memories and Love
Catra looks over to see a piece of First Ones tech then Entrapta came into thought, remembering her saying that she would like her to bring back a piece of tech from this little mission.
"Hey Adora, would it be okay if I take some of this tech back with me to the Fright Zone for Entrapta. She detected a signal from this place and probably wants to see the data, maybe to help you guys a little." Catra requested.
"But wouldn't that also help the Horde if they caught wind of this?" Adora asked.
"They already know that Entrapta is there, and she's being held "prisoner" with Scorpia watching over her right now, and she's expecting me to come back with some piece of this tech." Catra explained.
"True, Horde would gain something out of this, but this would also keep them from figuring out about our spy. So, I think we should let her take a piece." Jack pointed out.
"Okay, huh…" She-Ra turned around to the hologram.
"Hey, I know this probably has nothing to do with Light Hope, but I was wondering if my companions can take one piece of tech from this place. I promise it's for… She-Ra stuff, for Etheria and stuff." She-Ra tried to ask permission to take a piece of tech, but the way she's talking doesn't sound convincing.
"And just to be clear, these two are with me and have my permission to be here." She-Ra added about Jack and Catra.
"She's not good at lying much, is she?" Jack asked.
"Yep." Catra answered.
"Authorization is acceptable." The hologram said.
"Okay, I think that means yes." She-Ra nodded before walking over to a console and took out one piece of First Ones tech.
"Okay, I just need to figure out what that hologram meant by let go." She-Ra said.
"Maybe it's your soul." Catra joked and she laughs.
"Maybe if we explore this ruin a bit, maybe we can find some more clues about this place and this Light Hope character." Jack suggested.
"Okay, huh, let's try going that!" She-Ra pointed at a random door and goes to it.
Jack and Catra look at each other for a second and shrug thinking they might as well go some walking, better than just standing around and doing nothing for a while which also gives Jack an idea that this could be a good opportunity for him to get to know these girls more.
They walk straight forward in a hallway leading to wherever in this ancient ruin is.
"So, you also became Force Captain like Adora?" Jack asked Catra.
"Well, we both were training to being the best, I always get the jump on Adora." Catra bragged a little.
"Only because you caught me when I let my guard down, I would've so pulled a reverse on you." She-Ra proclaimed.
"Please, I'm the literal cat girl with the reflexes." Catra smirked.
"And both of you were ranked together?" Jack asked curiously.
"Actually, I was the only one getting promoted to Force Captain and I was ordered to attack what I was told to be an enemy fortress which in reality was a small innocent village. It was around the time that I found this sword, like it was meant for me only." She-Ra explained.
"And guess who's the bitch who went off to attack that little village?" Catra asked while pointing her tail at herself.
"Shadow Weaver, is there no cruelty she won't do?" Jack asked, oblivious to what Catra was going on.
"What? No, me! I was talking about me! I was the one who lead the attack on that village!" Catra revealed with a little yell.
"Really? But you said bitch and Shadow Weaver is the bitch and you're not." Jack stated.
"Huh, you don't think I am? Even after how I tried to destroy Adora and her weird friends?" Catra asked in shock with Jack.
"Hey, my friends aren't weird. Well, maybe they can be a tiny bit, but they are cool." She-Ra smirked, trying to make her friends sound cool.
"Bow literally named our little group the Best Friend Squad." Jack deadpanned.
"Okay, so maybe group naming stuff isn't exactly his thing, but who says friends have to be perfect." She-Ra chuckled with a shrug.
"So, you really didn't think of me as the bitch who attacked a small and defenseless village?" Catra asked Jack.
"Nope, all I see is a brave and fierce kitten who charges forward to face the problem ahead, and one with a brave heart." Jack petting Catra's ear making her purr.
"Oh, I haven't heard you purr in a long time!" She-Ra found this scene to be adorable.
Catra quickly realize what is happening here and smack his hand away from his ear and yet the sensation has become fresh in her memory, this was going to be even harder for her to not think about Jack as such a sexy guy like this, especially when she still has her own feelings for Adora.
But suddenly her thoughts of both Adora and Jack were interrupted when they stop for some reason, and that reason is because there is a wall in front of them.
"Dead end." Catra said.
"No, it's not." She-Ra believed this wall is something else. She places her hand on the wall and said the word "Etheria" and then the wall opens up.
"How did you know that wasn't a wall?" Jack asked in shock, Catra is also in shock of this as well.
"Long story." She-Ra said, and they continued walking.
But when they enter, they suddenly found themselves in a complete room of darkness as they are almost blinded until She-Ra lights the way with her sword.
"Cool, you found the Infinite Darkness room." Catra commented sarcastically.
"Maybe some parts of this ruin aren't power like the others." Jack guessed.
"I'm sure we'll find something." She-Ra hoped.
"Besides something that could jump out and attack us, like in those old princess scary stories we were always told." Catra mentioned those stories.
"Oh yeah, those were scary back then." She-Ra chuckled.
"Well, if we can't find anything then we'll just go out the way we… came." Jack turned around to discover the door is no longer there. Must've close when they come in.
"Okay, I think we may have a problem." Jack said.
"Wait, I think I see something. Hello? Light Hope?" She-Ra called out as she goes to the light.
"You know, this would be one of those moments for someone to scream the "Don't go toward the light" line." Jack said.
"You do not it's not that kind of light, right?" Catra asked with one raised eyebrow.
"I know, I'm just point it… out?" Jack stopped when he saw where he and the girls are right now.
Somehow, the three ended up within the building of the Fright Zone, they are within the enemy territory.
"The Fright Zone? But how? We should be in the First Ones tech ruin!" She-Ra felt like she was about to freak out.
"This better be an explanation or else I'm going to lose it! It's like we're all seeing one big illusion!" Catra was angered by this.
"(Illusion?)" Jack thought wondered about that.
Jack looks around to see there is a Horde guard standing over there, he decided to test his theory on this guy and went over to him and gave him a karate chop on the head, only his hand went right through the guy like he was a ghost.
"Girls, this is just an illusion!" Jack called out.
Jack ran back to the girls, and they are both staring at younger versions of themselves, like they have just gone back to the past.
"Does it look broken to you?!" Younger Catra asked sniffling.
"It's not broken, you're fine!" Younger Adora assured with a little laugh.
"I'm bleeding!" Younger Catra shirked, thinking she saw blood.
"You're not bleeding! And why would you try and pick a fight with Octavia anyway?" Younger Adora asked.
"I didn't do anything; all I did was exist near her. ...And scratch her on the eyeball. And call her a dumbface." Younger Catra explained, pointing out that she did pick a fight with that Octavia soldier.
"Catra—" Adora scoffed.
"What?! She has a dumb face!" Young Catra said.
"Where is she?" Younger Adora asked, offering her hand to the cat girl.
Younger Catra takes the hand and leads Younger Adora to where Octavia is, leaning against the wall and her left eye is covered in bandage from her fight with Catra.
"Hey, Octavia!" Younger Adora called out, getting Octavia's attention with a grunt of acknowledgement.
"You're a dumbface!" Younger Adora insulted, which much to Younger Catra's surprise.
Octavia roars in anger and stomps her way up the steps.
"She's coming!" Younger Catra laughed.
"Run!" Younger Adora laughed as well.
They both run away from the angry Octavia, and when they ran past a pillar the two girls are back as their present selves as Adora is in her normal self with Jack standing next to them.
"Was it fun reliving your childhood?" Jack asked.
"It was fun, but freaky at the same time. Seriously, what the fuck was that?" Catra asked.
"It must have been some kind of simulation. It's tapping into our memories. Why, I have no idea..." Adora said, being amazed by this place.
"Ugh, this place is so weird. How can you deal with all of this magic stuff?" Catra asked.
"Honestly, I'm still a bit weird out by all this." Adora admitted.
"So, if this place is showing us the past of each of us, then that mean it could show my past to us any second now." Jack was shocked, that means they could see his home and where he really came from.
"You sound embarrassed, are we going to see you as a baby having your mom change your diaper?" Catra asked teasing.
"No, but something more than that. Something to show you who I really am, where I really came from." Jack said.
"Where you came from? Like some far-off land that hasn't been touch by lives outside in years?" Adora asked.
"Not quite, more like… from another world, literally." Jack said with a little revealing.
Adora and Catra look at him for two seconds and they suddenly start laughing because of what just Jack said, claiming that he's from another world and far beyond from Etheria which is the silliest thing they have ever heard as they look at Jack who is being calm with his peaceful smile yet there is a level of seriousness in his eyes.
"W-Wait, yo… you're serious, are you?" Adora asked as she stops laughing, followed by Catra.
Jack turns around and walks forward then made a right turn on a pillar.
"Jack, wait! This better not be a… prank?" Catra gasped when she suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar place.
"What… What is this?" Adora asked in shock as well.
Adora and Catra find themselves in an unfamiliar city with lots of tall buildings, vehicles on wheels moving through the streets, and lots of people doing their own thing and such. Adora saw one car is about to hit Catra.
"Catra!" Adora quickly grabbed Catra's arm and throws her out of the way though she would get hit instead.
What Adora has forgotten is that everything here is a hologram illusion as the car that was going to hit her just past through her, she opens her eyes in two seconds and look to see the other vehicles are just going through her like she is the ghost here. Just like when her younger self and Catra ran through her.
"Adora?" Catra wondered if Adora is okay.
"Did you seriously just take a blow for me?" Catra asked with a teasing grin.
"Huh, yeah, I guess I did. Maybe because you're more important to me than I realize." Adora admitted.
Catra was surprised as her cheeks became red and her eyes widen, she didn't think Adora would actually say something like that to her.
"Hey, girls!" Jack called out, getting their attention to see him standing on the flank of stairs.
"Come on up, there's more to see from my memories." Jack gestured them to come over.
Adora and Catra look at each other for a moment almost like they're reading each other's minds even though they really can't, but they are thinking of the same thing.
"(Who are you, Samurai Jack?)" Adora and Catra thought wondered.
They follow him up the stairs that appears to be a really long staircase though they were able to make their way to the top.
"So, what we're seeing right now… is not Etheria." Adora said, looking around to see that everything is so different.
"That's right, this is the world I was born in, where I grew up just living a peaceful life with my family and friends." Jack nodded before stopping at the top of the steps.
"Adora, Catra, this world is called Earth and the one of the many countries here is called Japan." Jack gestured to the front, making Adora and Catra turn around to see the greatest view they have ever seen.
This city within this Japan place was unlike anything they have ever seen, there were taller buildings, lots of people around at some places, and the weird symbol things that none of them recognize as they appear to be a different language that not even Adora could read. There are even pictures of different things like food and weird creature characters.
"Whoa, this is just… whoa!" Catra commented.
"You took the words right out of my mouth." Adora said.
"Oh, it looks like we're in that moment." Jack said as he turns his head and saw something he wasn't expecting to see.
"What moment?" Catra asked.
Adora and Catra got to the top to see some kids playing, and one of them is a younger version of Jack playing with his friends.
"This was the time when I first stood up to someone who thinks they can do whatever they want." Jack answered.
Then a bully came in pushing two of the kids down with an evil smirk.
"You guys are so stupid!" The Bully chuckled.
The Bully was about to go pick on the other kids, but Younger Jack stood in his way with his arms spreading out.
"You can't do this! It's wrong, you need to treat others with respect!" Younger Jack scolded.
"Like I have to listen to you." The Bully glared before he punched Jack down.
"Oh, that looked like it hurt." Adora commented.
"It was, but I did not care about the pain. I didn't want him to hurt others, and this was back when I had only started my training." Jack explained.
Younger Jack stood back up and got in the Bully's way again and got punch across the face that gave him a bruise. But Younger Jack didn't care about the pain, he just stood back up like it was nothing and push the Bully back about a few feet.
"That's it! You're dead!" The Bully shouted in rage.
The Bully charges at Younger Jack to throw another punch, but this time he dodges the punch and uses the momentum to make the Bully trip and land on the ground face-first, this got the Bully really angry as he tries attack him again and again only to fail each time and Younger Jack has been able to counter them all.
However, his foot stepped on a chalk and trip on it causing him to fall. The Bully took this chance to tackle him down and beat him up, but soon Younger Jack threw a headbutt to push him off and make him fall on his back.
"No matter how much pain you bring, there will always be others who will stand up to meanies like you." Younger Jack believed strongly.
The Bully got back up angrier than before, but then all of the other kids got in front of Younger Jack to defend him and stare angrily back at the Bully forcing him to retreat.
"Wow, you really stood your ground." Adora complimented.
"And you look like shit, but in a cool way." Catra smiled at the Younger Jack.
"That's right, now you know about where I really came from. I can only hope that the two of you don't hate me." Jack said, looking a little sad.
"You haven't told anyone about this, not even to Netossa and Spinneralla?" Adora asked.
"No, I just kept it a secret because everyone would think I was insane and wouldn't believe me in the first place." Jack pointed out, Adora and Catra would understand that because they're still having a hard time believing it.
"And there is another truth I want to tell you girls." Jack smiled; he goes over to the girls giving them each a kiss on the lips much to their shock.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Now Adora and Catra know about Jack being from another world through the weird holographic illusion after showing Adora and Catra's childhood, and he also gave them a kiss on the lips showing that he also has feelings for both of them.
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