Horse with Swiftness of the Wind
The three friends are very shocked because what is coming up to them is a horse, literally a horse is walking through the hallway towards them and throwing up his mane just to show off.
"What am I looking at exactly?" Narc asked.
"Our horse!" Bow answered, quickly recognizing this horse to be the horse they got from that village that was attacked by the Horde, back on the day when Adora transformed into She-Ra for the second time.
"I am my own horse. Call me Swift Wind!" The flying horse introduced himself in a majestic way with his voice, revealing that he can also talk like any other person.
Swift Wind has a yellowish white coat, with pink-orange hooves, wings of yellow, orange, navy blue, purple, light purple, blue and turquoise colors. He also has a yellow and yellow-orange horn, a mane with rosy-orange, orange and light orange highlights and blue-purple eyes. He is also noticeably thinner and less bulky than any other normal horse.
One second later and the three screams in shock of the sudden revelation that the horse Glimmer and Bow knew is really talking to them.
"Our horse can talk!" Bow pointed that out while freaking out.
"Yeah, yeah, I can speak my mind now, pretty crazy-SO, I was thinking—" Swift Wind tried to talk with them about why he's here but got cut off.
"The horse with the pointy horn is talking to us!" Narc freaked out as well.
"As we've established. Now—"
"He has wings!" Glimmer pointed that out in shock.
"Okay, I'll give you a moment to freak out, and then we need to talk." Swift Wind said, feeling a bit annoyed with a deadpan face.
Bow and Glimmer are gasping at the now talking horse who has called himself Swift Wind while Narc is trying to collect herself from the massive shock that there is a talking horse in the castle, guess this will be one of those new weird normal she will have to deal with in the future.
"-Great! I think Adora needs our help. Since Adora transformed me, I've been able to feel where she is at all times. It's like instinct. But now I feel a pull, as if I'm being summoned to her side." Swift Wind informed.
Bow touch the wings which feels incredible.
"As part of Adora's herd, I need your help. Will you come?" Swift Wind requested them to go help Adora.
"If Adora needs help, then you bet I'm going to be there for her." Narc volunteered to go.
"Of course. Lead the way." Glimmer nodded.
"But, Glimmer, your glitching." Bow pointed out.
"Yeah, I'm not sure if you should be going out there." Narc said.
"But the glitching is what got us into this. Adora left to save me. Now it's time for us to save her. You in?" Glimmer asked Bow, knowing that he wouldn't turn his back on his friends.
"Always. But...I don't think your mom is going to like us leaving so soon after our last mission." Bow mentioned the queen, she might get a little extreme to keep Glimmer safe.
"She doesn't need to know. We'll sneak out and be back before my mom even realizes we're gone." Glimmer said.
But when Glimmer opens the door, Angella was already outside that she was about to knock the door.
"Mom!" Glimmer shouted in shock and glitch at the same time.
"What are you doing here?" Glimmer asked after clearing her throat.
"Coming to see why my guard was escorting a horse into your room." Angella answered, being curious about it.
"I like to think of myself more as a role model for all horse kind." Swift Wind realized that he just gave himself away to the queen as he didn't want to do that just yet.
"…I mean, uh, what talking horse? What's happening?" Swift Wind tried to play it off, but it's already too as Narc facepalm herself.
"You should get going if you want to track down Adora and Jack." Angella said, this surprise Glimmer and the others.
"You're not gonna stop us?" Glimmer asked.
"Glimmer. I told you I regretted giving up after your father died. I will not consign you to the same regrets." Angella explained.
"Commander Glimmer. I order you to continue your mission to find Adora and bring her back home." Angella ordered with the voice of authority but with a calm smile.
"Right away, Your Majesty. ...Come on!" Glimmer said to the others, and they all ran out of the room to go find Adora and Jack.
But then Swift Wind stops for a moment to have a talk with Queen Angella.
"Uh, when we're back, I'd like to talk about freeing all the horses in your stables." Swift Wind said.
"Will you come on, already?" Narc pushed Swift Wind away from Angella.
"Hey! Hey! I'm still talking to the queen!" Swift Wing complained.
"Please be careful." Angella prayed for their safety on their mission.
(Fright Zone)
Catra enters the room where Entrapta has been staying and she can see that she has made herself at home turning this little prison room into her lab.
"Okay, I'm here." Catra announced.
"Catra! You got my note." Entrapta smiled as she came out of the vent.
"The one you dropped on my head from the air vent that says, 'Come to my lab'?" Catra asked sarcastically as she tossed the note away.
"Yes, that's the one. I've made great strides in analyzing the data from the First Ones data crystal you brought me... Look!" Entrapta gestured to the new computer she just made.
"Where did all of this come from?" Catra asked about the equipment.
"Oh, you know. Here and there...rooms..." Entrapta answered, sort of.
"Were there people in these rooms?" Catra asked, feeling a bit worried and angry at the same time.
"Well, not when I went back to take the stuff." Entrapta said.
"Wow, if I wasn't on board with being a spy for Adora and Jack then I would say you would definitely fit right in the Horde Army." Catra chuckled.
"But seriously, you have got to be careful. Most still think you're our prisoner, that may change if Lord Hordak thinks you're worth having around but try to do that too much otherwise you might find yourself on thin ice and next thing you know, you'll be banish to Beast Island." Catra warned whispering softly in her ear
"Oh, that would be bad." Entrapta realized.
"Yep, especially for Jack losing you." Catra added Jack to this.
"No, I have so much more about love to learn!" Entrapta gasped.
"(You and me both.)" Catra thought blushed a little but regained her composure. "So, you wanted to show me something?"
"The data!" Entrapta squealed with excitement as she places the First Ones tech crystal into a slot of the machine, and it came to life.
This got Scorpia excited from seeing this and got to writing on her notepad.
"Look at these readings. It's incredible, this seems to confirm my theories about the techno-organic nature of First Ones machinery resulting in thaumaturlogical compatibility between magic and science!" Entrapta laughed manically with excitement to see more data of the First Ones.
"I'm going to need you to try again, but this time, talk like a normal person." Catra said, not getting anything what Entrapta just said.
"Scorpia seems like she understands." Entrapta pointed at Scorpia still writing on the notepad.
"Scorpia is drawing stick figures holding hands." Catra revealed that Scorpia doesn't understand this too.
"I call it 'Super Pal Trio'! This is me; this is Catra, and I think it's clear, come on. I mean, I'm a bit of an artist." Scorpia showed the stick figures of the three friends holding hands.
Yeah, Entrapta can see that she will need to tone down on the big science talk and tell them what is happening with the new computer the best way so that the others can understand.
"I looked at the rock, which is a crys-tal, and used math...wait, do I have to explain math to you?" Entrapta asked.
"No, no, no math talk. Did the crystal give you enough data to help our friends like weapons?" Catra asked.
"Weapons? HA! This is so much bigger than weapons. This could change everything. Etheria's not just a planet. Whatever the First Ones did to it, it went deep." Entrapta smiled excitedly.
"And what does that mean?" Catra asked curiously.
"You're asking me about my theories? I've waited years for someone to ask me about my theories! Hang on, I made a model!" Entrapta grabbed Catra and Scorpia with her hair to show them the model.
"Oh boy, I hope we don't really have to write all of this down." Catra whispered to herself.
She wonders how Adora is doing with her training right now.
(Crystal Castle with Adora)
"I don't want to be rude, but, um...who are you?" Adora asked, figures that she should get some answers about all of this first before learning how to heal.
"I am Light Hope, Etheria's facilitator. I was created by the First Ones, as you call them." Light Hope answered.
"Okay, quick follow-up...who are the First Ones?" Adora asked another question.
"The First Ones were explorers who journeyed from beyond the stars to settle Etheria. They built this place for you...the Crystal Castle." Light Hope explained.
This amazes Adora as she can see that these First Ones really did such amazing things with their tech like this castle.
"Adora, I've waited so long for you, and now the time has come to show you your destiny." Light Hope said.
"Great, because I actually had a quest—" Adora was about to explain why she's here, but Light Hope cuts her off as she still has more to explain.
"You are She-Ra, Etheria's champion, appointed by the First Ones to protect and unite our planet. There have been many before you, but the line was broken." Light Hope showed hologram silhouettes of other She-Ras in the past and they disappeared.
"You are the first She-Ra in a thousand years." Light Hope revealed which shocks Adora.
(Back in the Fright Zone)
"Behold! Etheria." Entrapta gestured to the model of Etheria that she made.
"The First Ones didn't just settle on the surface of Etheria, their technology runs throughout the planet's core. This whole planet it's-it's all First Ones' tech." Entrapta revealed with a grin.
"What the fuck… The entire planet is tech?!" Catra gasped in shock.
(Back with Adora and Light Hope)
"Everything on Etheria is connected. The princesses are granted power over the elements through their Runestones. As She-Ra, it is your duty to bring the princesses together. Only then can balance be restored to Etheria." Light Hope explained while showing the other Etheria princesses, including Glimmer and Scopria.
"(Guess Jack was right to try recruiting Scorpia into our cause, she seems the nicest one.)" Adora thought commented.
"That sounds great, but the things is—" Adora tried to explain her reason, but she gets cut off again.
"You are correct. It is great." Light Hope said.
(Back at the Fright Zone)
"And what are these supposed to be?" Catra asked about the little green lightbulbs.
"Runestones. From the data I've managed to extract, they regulate the planet through the princesses. They're directly connected to each other and to the planet's power grid in a delicate balance." Entrapta explained.
"Which means?" Catra hoped that she could say a bit more and tell in a more understanding in all of this.
"Which means they're our best access point to hack the planet." Entrapta said with a grin.
(Back in Crystal Castle)
"When the princesses and their elements are in balance, Etheria functions as it should. But the Horde is destroying us in their quest for power. There is no predicting what they will do next." Light Hope explained.
Adora gasps when Light Hope shows her the imagines of the Horde and their destruction all over Etheria. She was all too familiar with what the Horde was doing since she had to find out the hard way.
(Back in Fright Zone)
"Hack the planet?" Catra was shocked to hear something that is impossible to do.
"Hypothetically, but it's not so simple. There's only a handful of Runestones in the whole world." Entrapta mentioned the Runestones.
"Runestone? You mean like the Black Garnet? 'Cause we have the Black Garnet." Scorpia mentioned with a chuckle.
"The Black Garnet? You have a Runestone? The Fright Zone has a Runestone?" Entrapta asked in shock and excited at the same time.
"Uh, duh. It was my family's. But when the Horde landed, we gave it to Hordak, who then gave it to Shadow Weaver, who-you know, you tell a friend, he tells a friend, it's like, it's kind of one of those things." Scorpia explained.
"You mean the things that your family were idiots to give a powerful magic artifact to a bad man who wants to rule everything with an iron fist and destroy everything else?" Entrapta asked bluntly.
"…Yeah, when you put it like that, it sounds really bad since I'm considering switching sides." Scorpia groaned, realizing this more. And suddenly Entrapta latched onto her.
"Where is it?! Can I see it, can I touch it?!" Entrapta requested with a little yelling and her eyes looking like a little madness. She quickly got pulled away by Catra.
"Okay, calm down. What exactly are you planning on doing to the Black Garnet?" Catra asked.
"If we hack the Runestone grid, we could boost the Garnet's power and use it for...well, anything. As a power source, as—"
"A weapon?" Catra guessed.
"Potentially! But if it's like my other experiments, the results will be explosive." Entrapta said.
"I don't think Shadow Weaver will like that." Scorpia worried a little.
"Scorpia's right. Shadow Weaver won't like it. ...So, I will absolutely get you the Black Garnet. Leave it all to me." Catra smirked.
"I think it's about time we show Shadow Weaver that her time in this war is up." Catra declared.
Unknown to the trio spy, there is a little something that is hidden within above them and then crawls through the went making his way to Hordak's throne room where the big man himself is sitting and notice the little imp here.
"What do you have for me, little spy?" Hordak asked.
This Imp looks like a mixture of a toddler and a bat with teal-gray wings and hair, yellow eyes and teal skin. He has pale red fangs, long elf-like ears and a long devil-like tail. He looks quite similar to the failed clone experiments of Hordak, hinting that he may be a failed clone himself. His design is similar to a gargoyle.
Imp open its mouth and plays a recording of Entrapta's voice.
"Catra! I've made great strides in analyzing the data from the First Ones data crystal you brought me... Look!"
(Back with Adora and Light Hope)
"This is all super good information, um, and I can't wait to hear more just one thing, though—" Adora chuckled nervously.
"Is there something you do not understand? I can start again from the beginning, if you would like." Light Hope started to reset herself to explain the whole thing all over again. But Adora didn't have time for that as she walk right through her which also scares her.
"No, no, I got it." Adora said.
"Have I mentioned that you are chosen?" Light Hope asked.
"Can we skip to the part about my powers? I need to learn how to heal my friend." Adora said, growing a little impatient.
"Your… friend?" Light Hope was puzzled by this.
"Yes. Shadow Weaver did something to Glimmer and took her powers away. I need to figure out how to heal her." Adora explained.
"Her connection with her Runestone was disrupted." Light Hope said.
"Can I fix it?" Adora asked.
"You will be able to do many incredible things...with training." Light Hope answered.
"Great. So, uh, how long will this training take-like a day, or—" Adora hoped this training thing won't be too long since she has to get back to Bright Moon and fix Glimmer.
" Years." Light Hope answered.
"Years?! Glimmer doesn't have years. She's hurt because of me, I messed up. I got Glimmer and Bow captured-it's my fault! ...I have to fix it." Adora stated.
"Yes, your mission is to fix the planet." Light Hope said.
"My mission is to help my friends. That's why I came here." Adora exclaimed.
"You are She-Ra. Your purpose is to protect all of Etheria. You cannot help only your friends." Light Hope stated.
"Why can't I do both?" Adora asked.
(With Jack)
Jack is seen doing some sword practice and look down at the sleeping Adora, he hopes that everything is going alright with Adora and this Light Hope.
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While Adora is getting a little history lesson from Light Hope, a certain horse with wings enters the picture to inform the others that Adora may need more help than Jack and Entrapta as discovered more about the First Ones as what they did to the planet.
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