The mechanical voice rang across the room. The words were cold and calculating, with no emotion, like most computer-generated voices. ”My memory banks recall you visited this location before. You were with a woman who called herself Rose, and with Maura, the previous She-Ra. Why have you come here today?”

Pearl was surprised by the question, as she did not think Light Hope would ask her anything. Nevertheless, she attempted to answer it to the best of her ability. She did so in hopes that Adora would learn more about her past, meaning that her answer was more about helping someone else rather than assisting herself. ”Well, ma’am, I came here by accident. I didn’t recall this place or planet. It’s so different from the last time I was here.”

Light Hope apologized for the circumstances they were under. Still, she stated that what Pearl and those with her had witnessed was not at all related to Adora. She saw Pearl as basically irrelevant and not important, a non-entity, even though she was anything but that. She turned herself to Adora and demanded answers for why she had entered the Crystal Castle. ”So why did you really come here? This is a sacred place and I don’t want to get involved in petty issues such as this. You need to…”

She stopped. It seemed like she was going to mouth the word ”leave” but the whole word didn’t come out. Almost like she was possessed, Light Hope’s eyes turned blood red, a bit like Adora’s when she was corrupted, and she shouted one word: ”DIE!”

Bow was unsure what was happening, even though he suspected that Entrapta might be involved. While Peri did not know, like Bow did, the whole background of Entrapta and the history of her previous role in the Rebellion, and now the Horde, she had a theory about what had happened. ”She is hacked somehow. She wasn’t supposed to say that.”

Pearl looked in terror as huge red-eyed spiders entered the room, surrounding them all. There seemed to be no chance to escape. They seemed trapped, doomed to be poofed, shattered, or killed outright, depending on what kind of beings they were. Contemplating this, she shrieked with shock. ”Never mind that, we need to get out of here!”