I have an entire project due in two days and I haven't even started. I gotta go do that now but I don't wanna so here's a chapter instead :)

Y/n's POV

Roe, Glimmer and I ran out onto the boarding dock. Bow wasn't in his space suit, so he stayed behind the door to control the ramp from the inside. Or maybe he had some thing else in mind. I didn't really know, and I didn't really care. All I was concerned about was making sure our friends were gonna be okay.

"I see them!" Glimmer said just as I finished attaching a rope to her harness. I clipped myself to the latch connected to the ship, then linked a line between me and Glimmer just before the ramp lowered. Without the pull towards the vortex, we were able to maintain our ground on the boarding dock.

Glimmer headed out into space to catch the three figures hurling towards us. I stayed on the dock so that I could pull her in once she had our friends. I saw her grab onto them, and once it looked like the four of them were holding onto each other, I began reeling them in. Once we had everyone on the dock, Bow closed the ramp, and we all took off our helmets.

"Are you guys okay?" I asked, worry heavy in my tone.

"Yeah," Adora breathed, after panting a few times. "Well, I mean, kinda."

"Speak for yourself," Catra groaned, holding one hand over her stomach and the other over her mouth. A few moments later, she puked onto the floor. After unhooking all the ropes, Roe and I rushed over to the group.

"Mom?" Glimmer whispered, poking the lifeless figure on the floor.

"Is she breathing?" Roe asked.

Adora leaned over the woman—who I assumed was Angella—and checked her vitals. After a moment, she sat back on her knees and shook her head no.

"Well, do CPR, then!" I chirped.

"What?" Catra croaked.

"Shove over," I ordered, and positioned the former queen so I could start doing chest compressions. "Glimmer, when I get to thirty, tilt her chin back, pinch her nose, and give her two breaths."

"You're breaking her!" Bow's voice cracked as I pressed down on her ribs. I didn't even noticed that he had walked over to join us. "Adora, heal her!"

Adora, still transformed as She-Ra, pushed me away—literally. I fell over into my elbows—and took Angella in her arms. She hugged her close, and the tall, pink-haired woman's skin started glowing. The light faded, and Angella coughed. She wasn't awake, but at least she wasn't dead.

"You're alive!" Glimmer gasped, tears in her eyes.

"Guys, get into the control room!" Entrapta said over the loud speaker. She didn't say why, but none of us were going to argue with a literal genius. Adora carried Angella, and I put Catra's arm around my shoulder to help her walk, since she seemed pretty weak. It might've been from being exposed to the high pressure of space for too long or maybe she ran oxygen just before being pulled aboard, but either way, she wasn't looking so good.

"What's going on?" I asked as we joined Entrapta in the main room.

"According to my readings, the vortex is becoming unstable," she explained, flicking a few swtiches on the arm of her chair.

"So... what does that mean?" Adora asked.

"Hold on tight!" she responded--which wasn't really an answer but okay--then drove the ship forward at an extremely high speed. I lost my balance as Darla shot through space, and tumbled onto the ground. Without my suport, Catra fell over too, then she curled up into a ball and covered her head. I was really starting to worry about her health.

"You could have warned them before you put Darla into overdrive!" Bow accused. The lucky bastard was still standing, using the side of the captain's chair for support.

"I did! I told them to hold on tight!"

"Yeah, but you didn't give us time to do that!" Glimmer groaned, pushing herself up off the floor.

I crawled over to the side of the ship and peered out the window, looking back at the vortex. Entrapta was right; it didn't look very stable. The edges of it were moving in an irregular pattern.

"What's happening?" I asked.

"Without a structured center, the whole thing will collapse," Entrapta explained. "Anything within a close radius will disintegrate into space along with it."

"What's causing it?" Glimmer wondered.

"Out of all the possible scenarios, the most likely one is that something disrupted the centre of the vortex."

"Adora, what did you do to it?" Glimmer accused.

"Why are you blaming me??"

"You're the only one dumb enough to cause something like this to happen!"

"She's got a point," Catra mumbled, attempting to sit up. Adora set Angella down with Glimmer, then went over to help her girfriend. Priorities, I guess.

"We're not in the clear yet, but we still have about fifteen minutes before we'll be caught up in the compromise," Entrapta said, then she checked something on her tracker pad. "Uh, oh."

"What is it?" Roe asked.

"Hordak. He sent me a message." She used her hair to toss the tracker pad to me. "Here, read it."

I stared at the glitching screen. Once the text became clear, I read it out loud. "Entrapta. Return immediatley. Etheria expreiencing relapse of portal effects."

"What?" Adora breathed, her eyes wide.

Another message appeared on the device. Where are you?

"He's asking where we are," I said. "What do I say?"

Entrapta's hair reached over and typed out something.

Nothing to worry about, everything's under control. The issue should resolve iteslf in the next ten minues or so. I'll explain later.

"It doesn't seem like everything's under control," I mumbled.

"Bow," Catra called out hoarsly. She was looking out the front window. "Check the readings for that planet up ahead."

"I'm pretty sure whether or not that place is magical should be the least of our worries right now!" Bow replied.

"Ugh, not for that! Check if it's inhabited, genius."

"Uh, okay," he said, then checked the control board just as we passed the planet in question. "Signs of life... positive."

"Entrapta, turn around," Catra ordered.

"What? Why?"

"We can't just leave the people there to die! Turn around!"

"Are you crazy?!" Glimmer yelled. "If we don't get out of here before the vortex blows up, we'll all be killed!"

"Then drop me off and if I don't bring anyone onto the ship in time, fly off without me! I'm not about to let a bunch of innocent people die on my hands again."

"Catra, it's not your fau—" Adora started.

"Who created the portal in the first place, huh?" Catra snapped. "Entrapta, please."

"Alright, but you only have eleven minutes and twenty-two seconds."

With a grimace, Catra got up onto her feet. She staggered over to the door, and was shaking all over by the time she reached it.

"I'm coming with you," Adora said.

"I'll go too," I said.

"No," Catra shook her head. "If something goes wrong while I'm down there, I don't want either of you to be in danger."

"Argh, Catra! Why do you always do this?!" Adora complained. "Stop trying to sacrifice yourself for everyone!"

"Here we go again," I sighed, sensing another argument.

"Why? You do it all the time!" Catra yelled. "The only difference is, I'm not worth anything! Not to mention the fact that I deserve to be punished for everything I did."

"Geez, she's angsty," Roe muttered. I glanced over to her, and she was jerking her head to the side every few seconds and knocking her fist against her leg. I was about to ask if she was okay, but then I realized these were just tics. They got worse whenever she was nervous or excited, so I walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder in an attempt to calm her down. It didn't really work.

"... this is not the way to do that!" Adora continued to argue. "If you want to make amends, then you have to be alive! Catra, what if you die out there?"

"Nine minutes," Entrapta called as the ship descended onto the planet.

"Wow, she is a lot better at this than you," Glimmer said to Bow. If Bow was responsible for the crash landing back on earth, then I'd have to agree.

"Adora, I love you, but I have to do this," Catra said, putting her helmet on. "Doing just one good thing in my life isn't enough."