"Last time I checked the Whispering Woods wasn't a horde base..." questioning look with a raised eyebrow, there was a story here and he wanted to know it.

"I had a vision of the sword. My sister's covering for me." Sakura's kind of his sister in the same way Chira is, and he recognizes the Rebellion people are more likely to drop their guard if they humanize him.

"Yeah right you had a vision of the sword, this is first one's tech and it was in the Whispering Woods. And you're with the Horde" She scoffs. "If anyone was going to have a vision of this sword it would be a princess."

"Glimmer! be chill, leave being mean to when he's being interrogated back at base." Does an apologetic shrug at Sura. "So what's having a sister like? I guess me and Glimmer are as close as siblings but we are more BFFs you know?"

He shrugs. "I have one left. A bit younger than me. She teases me a lot. My older sister was more protective."

One left implies something...not good. Bow goes all quiet.

Eventually, the group comes across a burn out village, burnt out husks of buildings and Horde blaster scorch marks still visible on the ground and crumbling walls even though it's been long enough for nature to have removed the corpses that must have been here.

Glimmer whimpers when she sees the sight.

He's heard about the aftermath of battles before. He hasn't seen it. He goes sort of very still.

"Destroying peaceful villages, that's what the Horde does." She bends over to pick up a worn children's toy from the ash. wiping it clean with her thumb.

"I'm aware." It's part of why he's privately planning to kill Hordak, eventually.

"AND YET!" And she points an accusing finger at the red Horde uniform he is wearing.

"Defectors and cowards are killed."

"You aren't allowed out of the base you said and are in fact right now out of the base, doesn't that make YOU a defector?" Sneering angrily.

"If I get caught."

"Well, you got caught. By us. You're a heartless destroyer, just like all the rest of your people."

Glimmer teleports off in a huff.

...

And then teleports back looking super panicked. "There's something out there. Something big!!!"

"How big?" And then the ground shakes hard enough to topple them off their feet and a HUGE bug monster crawls out of the ground!

"So, pretty big then."

The bug monster rushes Glimmer and she dodges a swipe of its front leg claw (like a praying mantises claw almost) by teleporting onto its face and blasting its eyes with bright sparkles to blind it.

Sura dodges back. "Untie me so I can help!"

He's been working on the binds and can probably get them loose -

Glimmer ignores Sura and teleports off the bug monsters face, shooting balls of sparkles at it while screaming at the top of her lungs. And then the monster swipes her away and she slams into a tree, hard. Dropping the sword by Sura.

The bug monster rushes after her.

"GLIMMER!" Bow shoots one of his rope arrows around the bugs head horn and holding it taught to try and keep it away from her. struggling to hold back something so much bigger than him.

He darts for the sword, cuts his bindings on its blade, and picks it up, then spins, looking for a weak point.

It's covered in shell and while there are gaps in the joints they are very well protected overall, its eyes are pretty big and exposed but the reflection off of them looks like a hard surface like glass rather than gooey eyeballs.

Eyes should at least distract it - 

He goes for those.

He's never wielded a sword quite this large, but he's trained in how to use them - 

But something - 

The sword's not going to work, not like this.

Instinctively, he thrusts it towards the sky - 

"For the honor of Grayskull!"

His voice is higher, he can see from higher up - 

The sword fits in his hands. Everything else - the skirt he's now apparently wearing included - can fall behind as he fights.

As Sura transforms in a flash of light, he gets a vision of a portal over a field and a babies voice crying.

As soon as Sura finishes transforming into a 7-foot tall Amazonian warrior holding a magic sword. The bug monster's spines retract and it backs away from them, seemingly pacified simply just by Sura's presence.

Sura can still hack it to bits if he wants, but it's not threatening them at all now.