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purrrnicious) wrote2019-05-04 01:02 pm
purrrnicious) wrote2019-05-04 01:02 pm
memory: Dying of Boredom / Grand Theft Skiff [ep 1]
[Another Fright Zone memory! This one is outside, though. Kohime has scaled to a high platform and is sitting perched on a railing overlooking the area, morose. It's smoggy and nasty and there's a giant orange moon hanging in the sky -- notably, there are no stars. Adora (Cap) approaches from behind her, using a grappling hook to get up. Because she's not a cool cat who can just jump ridiculous heights.]
Adora: . . . Look. I'm sorry. I didn't even think you wanted to be a Force Captain.
Catra: I don't. Here, take your stupid badge.
[Kohime tosses a badge over her shoulder to Adora, who catches it. After that, she pulls her knees to her chest and curls her tail around herself, obviously upset despite her denial.]
Adora: C'mon, Catra. This is what I've been working for my entire life. I was hoping you could be––I don't know, happy for me?
[Kohime flops over on the railing so she's lying on her back, arms and legs dangling off either side.]
Catra: . . .Ugh, whatever. It's not like I even care. I just wanna get out of this dump at some point before I die of boredom. I wonder what's even outside the Fright Zone, anyway?
Adora: Why don't we go find out?
[Adora holds up a key, mischievous.
The girls sneak down to one of the vehicle bays and take a small hover skiff, just big enough for the two of them. Kohime is psyched, she tells Adora she takes it all back and Adora is awesome, and that she's always wanted to drive one of the skiffs. She shoves Adora off the control stick and takes over, gunning it, prompting Adora to try to be the responsible skiff thief and tell her to slow down and conserve fuel. Kohime says that's a problem for "future Adora and Catra".
This devolves into a grappling match over the controls as the skiff careens over rocky badlands, until they reach the beginning of a fairytale-looking forest and finally pull the brakes, awed by what they're seeing.]
Catra: What is it?
Adora: I think this must be the Whispering Woods. They say there are strange old monsters in there, and––and the trees move when you're not looking. Every Horde squadron they've sent in there has never come out again.
Catra: . . .Let's go in!
[Kohime guns the engines again and steers them recklessly through the trees, skimming branches and glancing off trunks as she goes. Adora tries to tell her to slow down, then finally takes the controls when she thinks Kohime is going to hit a tree -- of course, she promptly gets hit by a branch, knocking her right off the skiff. Kohime gets it under control and brings it around, looking for Adora -- finally finding her unconscious on the forest floor. So she sits on Adora and shakes her, calling her name. Probably best not to trust her with emergency first aid!
Adora eventually comes to.]
Catra: Hey, Adora! Adora!
Adora: Catra? Wh––what happened?
Catra: You fell out of the skiff after you drove it into a tree.
Adora: [Shoving Kohime off her, hard.] No, YOU drove it into a tree!
Catra: Uuuup for debate. C'mon, let's go.
Adora: Wait, where is it, where'd it go?
Catra: What?
Adora: Th––there was a sword! It was right here! I tried to touch it, but it got really bright...
Catra: Are you brain damaged? Don't be brain damaged! Oh, Shadow Weaver's gonna kill me!
[She grabs onto Adora's face and twists her to get a better look -- because, again, clearly what you do when someone may have a head injury.]
Adora: I'm not brain damaged, it was here! I saw it...
Catra: Well, there's nothing here now, so come on, let's go.
[Kohime grabs Adora by her ponytail and drags her back to the skiff before taking off, piloting it back to the Fright Zone while Adora stares back at the woods.]
Adora: . . . Look. I'm sorry. I didn't even think you wanted to be a Force Captain.
Catra: I don't. Here, take your stupid badge.
[Kohime tosses a badge over her shoulder to Adora, who catches it. After that, she pulls her knees to her chest and curls her tail around herself, obviously upset despite her denial.]
Adora: C'mon, Catra. This is what I've been working for my entire life. I was hoping you could be––I don't know, happy for me?
[Kohime flops over on the railing so she's lying on her back, arms and legs dangling off either side.]
Catra: . . .Ugh, whatever. It's not like I even care. I just wanna get out of this dump at some point before I die of boredom. I wonder what's even outside the Fright Zone, anyway?
Adora: Why don't we go find out?
[Adora holds up a key, mischievous.
The girls sneak down to one of the vehicle bays and take a small hover skiff, just big enough for the two of them. Kohime is psyched, she tells Adora she takes it all back and Adora is awesome, and that she's always wanted to drive one of the skiffs. She shoves Adora off the control stick and takes over, gunning it, prompting Adora to try to be the responsible skiff thief and tell her to slow down and conserve fuel. Kohime says that's a problem for "future Adora and Catra".
This devolves into a grappling match over the controls as the skiff careens over rocky badlands, until they reach the beginning of a fairytale-looking forest and finally pull the brakes, awed by what they're seeing.]
Catra: What is it?
Adora: I think this must be the Whispering Woods. They say there are strange old monsters in there, and––and the trees move when you're not looking. Every Horde squadron they've sent in there has never come out again.
Catra: . . .Let's go in!
[Kohime guns the engines again and steers them recklessly through the trees, skimming branches and glancing off trunks as she goes. Adora tries to tell her to slow down, then finally takes the controls when she thinks Kohime is going to hit a tree -- of course, she promptly gets hit by a branch, knocking her right off the skiff. Kohime gets it under control and brings it around, looking for Adora -- finally finding her unconscious on the forest floor. So she sits on Adora and shakes her, calling her name. Probably best not to trust her with emergency first aid!
Adora eventually comes to.]
Catra: Hey, Adora! Adora!
Adora: Catra? Wh––what happened?
Catra: You fell out of the skiff after you drove it into a tree.
Adora: [Shoving Kohime off her, hard.] No, YOU drove it into a tree!
Catra: Uuuup for debate. C'mon, let's go.
Adora: Wait, where is it, where'd it go?
Catra: What?
Adora: Th––there was a sword! It was right here! I tried to touch it, but it got really bright...
Catra: Are you brain damaged? Don't be brain damaged! Oh, Shadow Weaver's gonna kill me!
[She grabs onto Adora's face and twists her to get a better look -- because, again, clearly what you do when someone may have a head injury.]
Adora: I'm not brain damaged, it was here! I saw it...
Catra: Well, there's nothing here now, so come on, let's go.
[Kohime grabs Adora by her ponytail and drags her back to the skiff before taking off, piloting it back to the Fright Zone while Adora stares back at the woods.]