As she stopped to catch her breath, she looked back…
As she stopped to catch her breath, she looked back Catra was standing there in the smoke. She had left her best friend behind, Catra had chosen the Horde over her. She had dicovered so much in the space of time of barely a day and now worse than anything she had experience she was leaving Catra behind. Catra had let her get away, looked at her with betrayal in her eyes.
Glimmer and Bow came running up to her with excitement. She-Ra turned back into Adora and Glimmer and Bow wrapped her in their arms. Her new friends of about an hour were excited, while Adora felt like the world was collapsing around her.
"Adora, we did it." Glimmer squealed. Adora responded with a pained nod still staring at the place where Catra had been.
"Adora?" Bow asked
"Yeah, I'm fine. I've done it, I've left the Horde." Adora said weakly trying not to cry as she saw the Horde machines and vehicles turning away from the village they had just saved.
How could Catra not care? Catra had just attacked an innocent villiage, with no regret and then she had left Adora. Adora didn't understand, how could Catra be okay with what the Horde was doing? Adora had though that the Horde was good, that they were saving Etheria from the evil tormenting princesses. But that wasn't true. Glimmer was a princess, and she wasn't terrible she was sweet and chaotic and silly, but differently not evil, plus Adora was also a princess now, technically. How could Adora go and fight against the princess now? She was one.
"Adora. Are you sure you are okay?"
"I'm not sad I left the Horde." Adora said as tears spilt from her eyes. "But Catra is my best friend. And she didn't care that the Horde was evil, we used to believe we could rule the Horde together and save the world. How could she stay knowing what the Horde is doing?"
Glimmer and Bow hugged her as she cried, the loss of her best friend weighting heavily on her. Some much had changed today, everything had changed today. This morning she had believed she was getting everything she wanted, she was becoming a Force Captain, she had her best friend and all her friends in her cohort, she had Shadow Weaver's praise and everything she had been working towards her whole life was coming true she was getting it all. But in the space of the day her dreams had crumbled, she learnt that what she had wanted was not at all like she had imagined, she gained power than she had never believed she could have, she learnt so many things that begged more questions than they answers. And now the final straw was losing her best friend. Adora had no idea who she even was anymore. She could be her own person without the Horde, without SHadow Weaver without her fighting skills even but Catra... Who was Adora without her best friend, her partner in crime, Catra was Adora's future, present and past and now she was just passed. Because in a single day Adora's whole world had been shattered by a archer in a crop top and a princess and a shiny sword.