//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Princesses of Power // by BronyBoy98 //------------------------------// Darla, the First One spaceship was moving across the cosmos with The Best Friend Squad inside of the ship. After defeating Horde Prime as She-Ra, Adora decided explore more of the universe and bring magic to places that had lost it. Adora's friends joined her, they would never let her go alone to places unknown. Bow and Glimmer were on the Command Deck talking. Bow was in the captain's chair piloting the ship while Glimmer stood beside his chair. "How long can Adora sleep for?" said Bow looking at the Command Deck exit door. Bow was a young man with dark skin and short black hair. He wore gold and white armor on his upper body with blue pants. Bow was a skilled archer and had developed unique arrows that did different things. "I don't think she's even sleeping." Said Glimmer. Glimmer was the Queen of Bright Moon. She was also skilled with magic, she could teleport and create blasts of energy that could incapacitate someone or just light up a room. Glimmer and Bow had been friends for a long time and recently decided to be something more. "Maybe Adora is having one of her She-Ra visions." said Bow shrugging. "After we kicked Horde Prime's butt, I don't think so." said Glimmer. "Come to think of it," said Bow, "I don't think I've seen anybody up at all." "It's too quiet in here, I wonder if Darla can play music." said Glimmer. "I do not recognize the word "music", please define." said Darla. Darla was what Entrapta, another one of Adora's friends had named the spaceship. Over the times they had used the ship, Entrapta had made upgrades to make the ship more sophisticated. The doors leading outside the Command Deck opened and a big lady with pincers and a scorpion tail entered with a horse with a horn and wings. "Hey Scorpia, hey Swift Wind." said Glimmer with with a wave. "Morning guys." said the horse named Swift Wind. "Hey Y'all" said Scorpia, the lady with pincers returning the wave. "Is Adora still asleep?" asked Swift Wind. "Yea, it's weird, she normally doesn't sleep for this long, and we're in space." said Glimmer throwing her hands up. "I knocked on Catra's door and didn't get any reply, she must be too sound asleep to hear anything." said Scorpia. Scorpia was a big strong woman with short white hair and wore red armor. She also had big pincers for hands and a scorpion's tail that was used to incapacitate people. She looked intimidating and used to be a member of the evil Horde, an empire bent on conquering different lands; but she was actually the biggest sweetheart. She was nice to everybody and was hardly mean. "Maybe she's having a She-Ra vision or somethin' " said Swift Wind. "Told you." said Bow with a smile. "We don't know for sure if she's having a vision" said Glimmer. Swift Wind was Adora's horse, even though he always said he's his own horse. He used to be a normal horse until Adora accidentally transformed him with her magic into a big tall stallion with a horn and big colorful wings. Suddenly a loud blaring filled the deck while a red light flashed. "What's going on?" said Glimmer. "The ship's getting a bad reading. I can't tell what it is." said Bow. "If this alarm doesn't wake Adora up, I don't know what will." said Glimmer annoyingly. Adora looked around the area she was in. It appeared she was in a dark cave. "Hello?" Adora called out, nobody replied. Adora got chills from the cave, it didn't seem cold but she couldn't help but feel anxious. Suddenly she heard what seemed to be laughter. Adora looked around the cave wondering where the laugh came from, and then she heard it again. Adora then reached a big room in the cave where she saw a big stone chest in the center. "Adora" a voice called out. "Hello? Who's there?" Adora responded. "Adora. Adora." the voice repeated and then Adora found herself in her room. Adora had been asleep. She looked around and she was indeed in her room. It was a big metal room with posters on the wall and two doors, one that was the exit and another that was for the bathroom. Adora looked over on her bed and saw Catra was awake staring at her while she sat on her bed. Catra was Adora's closest friend and recently, Adora and Catra decided to become more than friends. They had been best friends ever since they were little. Catra also used to be a member of the evil Horde. Despite the years they had been fighting, Adora forgave Catra for all that she had done; but lately Adora felt like Catra was keeping something from her. "Are you ever gonna have a nice nap?" said Catra yawning. "Oh sorry," Adora said, "Did I toss and turn?" "You were kicking me" said Catra taking a pillow and hitting Adora with it. "Hey, I'm sorry, ok?" said Adora, "I just had a weird dream." Catra stopped hitting Adora with the pillow and looked at her. "What kind of dream?" Catra asked. "I'm not sure, I was in a dark cave and someone was laughing at me." "Are you sure you weren't just reminiscing all those times I beat you, I definitely remember laughing at you, a lot." said Catra. "No, and you didn't beat me." Adora said before Catra stuck her tongue out at Adora. "Well, do you think it has anything to do with your big sister?" asked Catra. Of course Adora knew exactly what Catra meant by that. Adora was able to turn into She-Ra, the Princess of Power. Adora had once wielded a sword that gave her the power to turn into She-Ra, but now she got to do it without the sword. "Maybe" Adora said thinking about it. Catra moved over next to Adora and leaned on her side. "Well if it's anything serious, I'm sure you can handle it; and you know I will always have your back." said Catra Adora smiled and kissed her cheek, "Thanks" she said with Catra smiling back. An alarm began blaring with red lights flashing. "Uh oh," said Adora, "Looks like that's for us." "Race you to the Command Deck." said Catra running out of the door with Adora following "Doesn't seem like they're coming." said Swift Wind looking at the door. "Adora is the laziest princess I have ever seen." complained Glimmer. "They have to be awake by now." said Bow. And at that moment, Adora and Catra entered the loud and flashing Command Deck where all of their friends were. "What's going on?" Adora yelled so her voice can be heard over the alarm blaring. "Darla's sensors detected an anomaly dead ahead!'' yelled Entrapta who had arrived in the Command Deck before Catra and Adora did. Entrapta was princess with big lilac magical hair that moved just like normal limbs including tentacles. She was also a former member of The Horde. Besides what she could do with her hair, Entrapta didn't have any magical powers. She had always been committed to science and technology, and she was an incredible inventor. "Well now that we know that the alarms aren't going off for no reason, can you please turn them off!" yelled Catra. "Oh sure," Entrapta replied, "Darla! Alarms off!" The loud blaring and lights switched off. "Uhh, Darla, identify anomaly." said Bow trying to act like a captain. A small screen appeared in front of Bow. The screen showed a massive swirling vortex that the ship was getting closer to. "Looks like a wormhole." said Glimmer. "Ahhh!" exclaimed Entrapta happily, "A wormhole, we have to go inside it." "You want to go inside a deadly looking hole in space, why am I not surprised?" said Catra folding her arms. "Yea, normally I like exploring new places, but that does not look like a place I wanna go." said Scorpia. "Sorry, but we appear to be getting pulled into the wormhole." said Entrapta. "What?" exclaimed Adora, "Why aren't the alarms going off?" "I shut them off after Catra told me to." replied Entrapta with a smile. "Ow!" exclaimed Swift Wind. "What is it?" asked Adora. "I'm sensing something really bad in that portal, it's giving me a stinging feeling." said Swift Wind. "Hang on! We're getting pulled through!" yelled Bow. As the ship dragged along the portal, all Adora could see was rainbow colored light all over the room and then complete darkness. In Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia sat on her throne with her sister, Princess Luna. Celestia was staring across the throne room at the castle doors in front of her; when her horn began to glow. "What?" Celestia thought. "Do you feel that?" Princess Luna asked. "Yes, something has arrived, no," Celestia paused and then spoke, "Will arrive, something will arrive and very soon." "Pray tell." said Luna. "Something powerful is close to touching down on Equestria, I just don't know what it is." said Celestia.