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"Choose your template" the voice demanded.
Catra stared at the menagerie of strange shadowy colored images that lay in front of her in this white, empty void. Many of the shadows were in groups of the same color.
Most were bipedal.
Some had wings.
Some spikes.
One looked like the green silhouette of a snake, paired with an identically companion that was a humanoid torso connected to a long slithering tail
But there was one assembly, a group of quadrupeds all a pink color, that caught her eye.
She got closer to it. One of them pacing restlessly seemed to notice her approach the silhouette started to grow features, become less solid in color and more solid in shape. Eventually it was a detailed outline of an animal she'd never seen or heard of.
It carried itself with power, confidence. The tail looked like her own. Another of its companions had a mane almost as grand as hers.
She knelt down, surprised how safe she felt. The beast bowed. She scratched its head as she smiled to herself.
“I should choose the dragon if I’m smart, I know. But it's my dream, I'll go with what I like."
The voice returns upon that comment.
"Feline form module: Upgrade potential likely limited. Most forms on file extinct or never imported to Etheria, hindering use as a disguise."
"Don't tell me what to do" , Catra snidely replied with confidence.
"I don't know what you're offering, but I want these guys." she demanded
"Warning: once chosen settings can only be reset at *garbeld static* locations" the voice stated in its matter-of-fact tone.
"Who cares?" Catra was getting impatient. She wanted to see where this dream was heading before she had to wake up.
"Module Selection Confirmed. Configuring now."
The world fell away.
Catra screamed. She felt her eyes changing. She landed on the ground on all fours.
"Uplink established.
Emergency message detected.
'999+ years have passed.
Urgent Mission.
Administrator is Missing.
Find She-Ra!'"
The dream was making sense now. She had to use this power to find something.
She smiled with a face unfamiliar to her. A face of an extinct beast that had perished on Etheria long ago.
The hunt was on.