She paused and continued. ”As prisoners!”

They were quickly escorted out of the room, into a separate area of the castle, before they could process this shocking turn of events and fight back against this brazen declaration. Angella tasked Adora, Bow, and Glimmer with the interrogation of the Crystal Gems.

Adora asked them what they knew, Glimmer threatened them with her magic, and Bow readied his bow and arrows, including a sonic arrow and an arrow with a grappling hook. No one wanted to answer them. Steven stepped forward. ”Don’t do this. We just want to go home and came here by accident. We don’t want to cause you any trouble.”

Bow, taken in by this sympathy, realized the Crystal Gems didn’t want conflict, but Adora and Glimmer were not convinced. Seeing the Gems as a threat, the cry of ”For the Honor of Greyskull!” echoed across the room. Like she had time and time again in the past, Adora transformed into an eight-foot-tall warrior named She-Ra. The Crystal Gems were ready for anything Adora or Glimmer would throw at them. Adora went on the attack with the Sword of Protection. Energy blasts were fired across the room, most of which Steven blocked with his shield and others that hit the wall behind the Crystal Gems. Garnet fought back, able to block the sword’s blows with her gauntlets, with Pearl at her side, using her pearlescent spear to jab at Adora. At the same time, Amethyst, easily tied up Glimmer with her whip, so she couldn’t attack them with magic, while Lapis used her ability to control water to throw Glimmer against the hard stone wall, making her dizzy with confusion. Peri, with her power of levitation, ferrokinesis to be precise, trapped Bow under his metallic bow, moving him up the ceiling, where she held him. Connie joined in, fighting beside Pearl and Garnet, thrusting at She-Ra, overwhelming the eight-foot-tall warrior.

While the Crystal Gems were clearly winning, this fight dismayed Steven. His loud, and commanding, voice, resonated across the room. ”Everyone, stop fighting! This isn’t right! We need to understand and accept one another, not try and hurt each other. Let’s be friends.”

The other Crystal Gems listened, withdrawing their weapons, with Bow gently let down to the floor by Peri, Glimmer out of the grip of Amethyst’s whip, and Adora putting away her sword, reverting out of the She-Ra form, while Connie put her sword, which had a golden pommel, purple hilt, a gold star emblem at the base of the crystalline pink blade, into its scabbard. Lapis, of all people, tried to lighten the mood.