La spada e l'orologio (Parte I) is the first episode of the Season 1 of Ultimate Princesses of Power Alien and it is the first of the two-part. It is also the first episode ever of the A-B10's Saga.
Synopsis[]
Adora, a young cadet living in the Fright Zone, flees to the Whispering Woods following strange visions of a magical sword. However, despite the mysterious weapon actually being found in the woods, Princess Glimmer and Bow want it for the Rebellion. And while the artifact is disputed between both sides, a hero from a distant world and a giant monster from the Woods enters the fray.
Plot[]
Adora, a Horde soldier, is seen preparing for her day. As she dresses, she brushes her teeth while attacking a punching bag with an image of a princess taped to it. The image resembles the queen of Bright Moon evilly looming over innocent people. An intercom calls all cadets for evaluation, and Adora hurries to a platform where she is joined by three other cadets, Lonnie, Kyle, and Rogelio. Noticing Catra is missing, Adora asks where she is, but neither of the three knows. As the evaluation begins, the instructor tells them that they will be traveling through the treacherous Whispering Woods (in a simulation) to reach the heart of the rebel insurgency Bright Moon. Their mission is to defeat the princess queen and liberate Bright Moon in the name of Lord Hordak. The instructor explains that the Whispering Woods is full of princesses ("vicious violent instigators") who will take them out if given the opportunity. He wishes them good luck and lets them into the simulation room, where the mission begins.
Using her simulation glasses, Adora yells out and dives as bots disguised as evil princesses fire upon the team. The team splits and searches for cover, dodging attacks. Adora throws a grenade that embeds itself into the machine, giving the team time to run for cover. But in their pursuit Kyle is hit by a laser. He falls, and when Adora pushes him to his back, a red "X" appears on the upside-down green pentagon in his armor, presumably indicating simulated death.
His fall seems to activate more bots that shoot at the remaining soldiers standing. They run, and the bots give chase, while Kyle continues to lie on the ground as if paralyzed by the X on his chest. A young woman with feline features is watching from the trees, observing the rest as they scramble around. The three remaining soldiers put up their shields, trying to deflect the laser beams coming from above as they run. Suddenly, Adora stops, and a female soldier yells her name as the floor turns red beneath her. A beeping noise sounds, and the hexagon-shaped tiles she has been standing on begin to fall. She jumps to relative safety, but the tiles act as a trigger, awakening a boss bot, the Queen of the Princesses. It fires at them, but Adora takes out a retractable staff and uses it to vault on top of the machine. She destroys most of the bot, and an explosion takes out the rest of it. Adora leaps to distance herself from the carnage. She lands on the ground, confused, and spots a girl in front of her. The girl kicks the machine back down its hole and points at the floor, just in time for Adora to see the tile (now red) engage, causing her to fall into a hole. The girl, Catra, leans over the opening to see Adora, hanging by her staff, over the pit. Catra laughs and offers to help her out of the hole. The intercoms come on and announce that the exercise has been successfully completed.
Catra laughs again at Adora as she puts her things in her locker, exclaiming how her face had looked as she realized that she was falling, and that she had been betrayed. Adora seems annoyed with Catra, telling her that she shouldn't be acting so childish, since they're "senior cadets now.“ She then tricks Catra into thinking there is a mouse and remarks that Catra falls for that trick all the time, yet Catra herself says it was only once. Their laughter is silenced when a sinister masked and cloaked woman (Shadow Weaver) floats into the room. She compliments Adora for completing the course in "record time." When Adora tries to share the credit with Catra, Shadow Weaver's voice grows dull and unamused, refusing to acknowledge her, saying that she's unmotivated and that it's unbelievable that she succeeded. She then angrily yells at Catra for being "flippant" with her. Catra apologizes, and then Shadow Weaver lets it go, choosing to instead invite Adora to walk with her.
While walking, Shadow Weaver tells Adora that she's a prime candidate for Force Captain and that Hordak has elected her to lead a squadron into Thaymor. While she's excited about seeing active duty, when she asks about her team, Shadow Weaver tells her that they are not ready, unlike Adora and that they will only slow her down, so only she will go to Thaymor. Adora tries to explain to Shadow Weaver that her team has been working to see active duty forever and that they should have the same opportunity, but Shadow Weaver responds back to Adora that she raised her to be Force Captain, to lead a squadron, and to liberate the world, as this is what she was raised to do. Shadow Weaver saw her talent from the moment she found her as an orphaned child and took her in. With her, they can crush The Rebellion once and for all.
At a white and gold castle on an island surrounded by aquamarine waters, a curvy girl with sparkly pink hair is sent in. She walks into a throne room where she kneels and greets the woman on the throne, Queen Angella, who is the queen of Bright Moon. The queen tells the young lady besides her, Glimmer, that she was told that she led The Rebellion into danger by staying in the battle when she was ordered to retreat. The queen tells her that she was reckless and put herself and the other rebels in danger.
Glimmer counters that fighting is supposed to be dangerous and that she was just defending Elberon, the village Queen Angella sent her to defend, and that if they keep retreating soon enough they will have nothing left to defend. Queen Angella and Glimmer argue until Glimmer is grounded and sent to her room.
Returning to Adora in the Fright Zone, she pins the Force Captain's pin on her jacket and is standing on a platform outside when Catra approaches her. Catra noticed the pin and is excited about Adora becoming Force Captain. She thinks that since Adora's been promoted, she and her team (including her) will get to see the world, so when Adora tells her that she's not invited, Catra freaks out. She complains that Shadow Weaver has something against her.
Adora brings up the point that Catra is disrespectful, but Catra argues that she shouldn't have to respect her. Shadow Weaver's power comes from Hordak. Then, she calls Adora a "people pleaser" and leaves, upset. Adora finds her after she's been given time to cool off and Catra gives her back the badge (as she had taken it from Adora and had not given it back). Catra explains that she isn't jealous of the rank, but instead just wants the freedom Adora now has due to the rank, saying that she’s never been outside of the Fright Zone, and that wants to know what's out there. Adora shows a metal key to Catra- a key to a Skiff. Catra takes control of the Skiff, and knowing that she (Catra) won't preserve the gas and end up stranded, Adora fights for control and as they fight, they steer the skiff into the Whispering Woods. Not caring about the potential dangers lurking inside, Catra powers the Skiff further into the woods. Going too fast, and unable to properly navigate the strange forest, Adora is knocked off of the skiff and abandoned in the wood.
Adora lands on a bush. When she opens her eyes and gets up, she notices a sword covered in vines. She reaches out and touches the pommel. Upon touching it, a brilliant light erupts from the sword where her hand and sword meet. She hears a female voice. The voice says "Balance must be restored, Etheria must seek a heroes,". Then a figure holds up a strange watch, a female voice calls "Adora," and then the voice is replaced with Catra’s. Adora opens her eyes to see Catra leaning over her. She tells Adora that the skiff was driven into a tree. And who's to take the blame is up for debate. Adora then starts to panic, asking about the sword and the light and wondering aloud where it could have gone. Catra asks her if Adora is brain damaged. She then helps Adora onto the skiff and takes her home.
At the Castle, Glimmer is writing in her diary. Outside a shadow shoots an arrow into her room, and it unravels to be an note to look out her window. Her friend Bow is outside her window. She tells him that she's grounded, but he can't hear her, so she teleports him into her room so they can talk. She starts going on about the fact that her mother keeps trying to protect her from the Horde, stationing her so far out that she barely ever gets attacked, and when she does something for her mother, who gets angry at her for doing something to save the town. She says that her mother doesn't respect or trust her because she's just a princess. Bow tells her if she wants her mother's respect, she's got to prove that she isn't reckless. Then, he shows her his tracker pad, and that it has discovered a piece of Eternian tech is hiding in the Whispering Woods. He says that if she gets it, her mother is bound to be impressed. Of course, then her mother appears at the door to see if Glimmer is in her room. She quickly teleports him out of her room Glimmer told her mother everything is fine. But as her mother asked if someone else in her room because she heard voices. and answers the door, opening it just a smidgen to peak her head through Glimmer told her mother no one is her room when she asked her mother to leave her alone her mother does not like the way Glimmer talked to her and she said that she doesn’t appreciate her tone right now and the argument starts. After a very loud argument that ends in a slamming door, Glimmer teleports to Bow and tells him she's in.
Meanwhile, Adora is in bed, hearing that same voice in her dreams calling her name. She's woken up by the voice and quickly puts her clothes on, not realizing that Catra is awake and watching her. On her way out, Catra catches her and asks her what she's doing. She tells her friend that she's got to go back to the woods to figure something out, electing not to tell her that she's going back to the forest because of the voice in her head. Naturally, Catra is concerned about Adora, as leaving the grounds in the middle of the night for a forest of monsters is not something Adora typically does, so she tries to go with her, but Adora refuses to jeopardize her friend's neck. If someone found out they were gone, they'd both go down for it. So Adora instead asks her to cover for her and tells her that she'll be back before anyone knows she's gone.
Bow and Glimmer are searching for the tech in the Whispering Woods. Bow's tracker pad isn't cooperating and Glimmer is beginning to lose hope. That is until a glow gets noticed from deeper into the forest. Adora, on the other hand, is talking to herself as she walks through the woods. She tells herself that maybe she did get hit on the head a little too hard because what she is doing is crazy, yet she finds the sword. Shortly afterward, Glimmer and Bow reach the sword as well. Surprised, Glimmer yells "Horde Solider!" and Adora charges for the sword. Glimmer teleports to the blade before she can reach it and teleports it away. She throws it to Bow, who runs away with it as she falls onto Adora's back. Yelling, she pulls at Adora's ponytail, but Adora pulls her off of her and uses a Bolas to trip Bow. She goes for the sword, but Glimmer teleports in front of her. Adora tells her she doesn't want to hurt them, but Glimmer doesn't believe her and throws a blast of glitter in her face to distract her. Bow and Glimmer try to pin Adora and Adora tries to reach for the sword. When she touches it, light explodes from the sword, engulfing everything with it.
Adora then appears in a different dimension, a world of technology and crystal. A woman is there and she greets Adora by name. She tells her that she is Light Hope and that she has been waiting a long time for her, but she could not reach Adora until Adora forged a connection with the sword. Light Hope tells her that the Sword is meant for her, that Etheria has need of her, and she asks her if she will answer its call, asking if Adora would fight for the honor of Grayskull. Adora tells her that she doesn't understand, and that she needs more answers, but the woman simply tells her that she will understand eventually in time, and fades back into the light from which she came.
When she wakes up, Adora is tied up with an intruder (Ben Tennyson). Glimmer has the sword and accuses them both of trying to steal something that belongs to the rebellion, the sword. While Adora claims to have found the sword first, Ben claims that he doesn't know how he got there and that he was fighting an evil King on his planet before being sucked into a portal and coming into contact with a strange oracle. Glimmer doesn't believe in alibis and decides to take them to Bright Moon for a proper interrogation. But as they try to exit the Woods, Bow fears that they are lost in a darker side of the forest. Glimmer tells him to trust her and teleports elsewhere. Bow apologizes for Glimmer's dismissiveness, explaining that she's usually really nice, but Adora and Ben don't care. She asks him how he could understand that she is a princess and that princesses are evil monsters, violent creatures who don't know how to control their magical abilities. Bow scolds her for never having met a princess, which she can't exactly deny, and Ben taunts her about Glimmer being an "evil monster."
They come across a ruined village. Caught off guard, Ben asks Glimmer what happened to that place. Glimmer tells him not to be stupid and that he was probably part of the raid group that took part in the demolition. When Adora refuses to believe that the Horde would do something like that, Glimmer takes her to a broken Horde machine, a Horde robot as it had the Horde logo imprinted on the robot. She calls Adora "A heartless destroyer, just like all the rest of your people," but Adora continues to deny the Horde's role in the catastrophe. This remark causes Glimmer to break down and begin shouting that the Horde "has poisoned the land, burned the cities, and destroyed everything in its path." Glimmer then runs away into the woods, away from the ruins. Bow tries to explain to Adora that the Horde is evil, and Ben tells him to face reality. Adora tells him that the Horde she knows saved her as a child, gave her a home, a purpose, and that they are her family, not an enemy.
Suddenly, Glimmer comes running back to them, screaming that some giant monster is chasing her. Bow asks her how big it is, but before she can answer, it breaks through the ground. The monster turns out to be huge and as tall as the trees. Glimmer teleports away before it can stab her with its spider legs. She attacks him with sparks, but it only seems to make the insect monster angrier. Adora stumbles, but with her hands tied she is unable to catch herself and her leg gets trapped in a crack in the ground. Bow jumps in front of her and attacks the bug monster so Ben can free her, shooting it with an arrow that releases a green goo on its claws. Enraged, Glimmer spasmodically attacks him with glitter bombs until he swats her away like an annoying fly. Seeing Glimmer down, the monster crawls towards her, but Bow fires another arrow, this one releasing a rope that holds the monster. While Bow tries to hold back the monster, Adora and Ben manage to free themselves and aim for a counterattack. Bow is pulled forward and crashes into a tree, landing on top of Glimmer. Glimmer tries to hold the monster back with multiple glitter punches, but the monster is not phased by her efforts. With the sword in Adora's hand, Ben summons the insect monster.
The monster catches up to him and Adora raises her sword above her head just in time to block its sharp claw. Upon impact, the sword glows with power. They both hear the woman, Light Hope, ask if they will fight "for the honor of Grayskull" and when the "hero time" will be. Struggling to stop the monster from killing them, Adora shouts "For the honor of Grayskull!" and Ben yells "It's hero time!". The light glows, transforming Adora and Ben into She-Ra and Infinite, a warrior princess and knight in golden armor. The monster then calms down when he sees She-Ra and Infinite and no longer feels provoked.
Noteworthy Events[]
Major Events[]
- Adora finds the Sword of Protection.
- Ben Tennyson approves on Etheria.
- Adora, Ben, Glimmer, and Bow have they first meet.
- Adora and Ben transform into She-Ra and Infinite for the first time.
Character Debuts[]
- Adora
- Ben Tennyson (Ultimate Princesses of Power Alien debut)
- Glimmer
- Bow
- Gwen Tennyson (Ultimate Princesses of Power Alien debut)
- Kevin Levin (Ultimate Princesses of Power Alien debut)
- Queen Angella
- Light Hope
- Shadow Weaver
- Catra
- Kyle
- Rogelio
- Lonnie
- Dr. Viktor
- King Xarion (Ultimate Princesses of Power Alien debut)
Ultimatrix Alien Debuts[]
- Inferno (Ultimate Princesses of Power Alien debut)
Characters[]
- Adora (first appearance)
- Ben Tennyson (first reappearance)
- Glimmer (first appearance)
- Bow (first appearance)
- Gwen Tennyson (first reappearance; flashback)
- Kevin Levin (first reappearance; flashback)
- Queen Angella (first appearance)
- Light Hope (first appearance)
Villains[]
- Hordak (mentioned)
- Shadow Weaver (first appearance)
- Catra (first appearance)
- Kyle (first appearance)
- Rogelio (first appearance)
- Lonnie (first appearance)
- Dr. Viktor (first reappearance; body only; flashback)
- King Xarion (first reappearance; mind only; flashback)
Aliens Used[]
- Inferno (first reappearance; flashback)
Locations[]
- The Fright Zone
- Bright Moon
- The Whispering Woods
- Zarcovia
Naming and Translations[]
Language | Name |
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English | The Sword and the Watch (Part I) |
Trivia[]
- When Adora is training, she has a picture of an evil-looking Angella on her punching bag. She says “Hey, Princess. You looking at me?” to the photo, but Angella is a Queen. However, this may be because she was taught Horde propaganda regarding princesses.
- The Ultimate Alien canon sequence is interrupted near the end of Re Viktor.