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Day 1 of Samurai Jack in Etheria

1. Samurai Jack meets Adora, Bow, and Glimmer in the Crimson Waste; note: he arrives there by accident as he was trying to go back in time
2. Jack play fights with Adora
3. They find a message at the Crimson Waste temple which mentions Adora's parents, but the system detects unauthorized access
4. They still get records from the temple before it closes down on them
5. Jack tells Adora, Bow, and Glimmer his story and that of Aku
6. Jack talks to Angella, there is a mention of portals, Entrapta, and Hordak
7. Jack agrees to help fight the Horde (ultimately he reneges on this)
8. Jack, Adora, Bow, and Glimmer sleep soundly in the Bright Moon Castle

Note: Day 1 events occur in "Jack and the Crimson Waste."

Day 2 of Samurai Jack in Etheria

1. Jack, Adora, Bow, and Glimmer (herein called JABG) go to the Crystal Castle
2. Adora talks to Light Hope
3. Light Hope gives them some clues on their message, provides more questions than answers, JABG, especially Adora, leaves the Crystal Castle in annoyance
4. Adora has an emotional breakdown about all her responsibilities, Bow and Glimmer calm her down; she turns her magic sword into a magical sewing needle, allowing Jack to repair his damaged kimono
5. JABG are en-route to the library to learn more about this message
6. JABG go to library run by Bow’s dads in Whispering Woods, greeted warmly by George and Lance; they want to learn more about what they saw on their tracker pad
7. Adora learns her full name is Adora Eros, she was born on Eternia, but her parents were NOT First Ones; implying waves of settlement of Etheria
8. Value of the library not only to the Horde but to the Rebellion is clear; Glimmer is annoyed by not getting answers; Jack reads a book about dimensional travel
9. They find out what M.A.R.A. means, the Memory Adapter & Realtime Array, with the Crimson Waste Temple and Crystal Castle as parts of this computer system, and Light Hope as only one manifestation of it; Entrapta has some knowledge of this history
10. They leave, with some of their answers satisfied

Note: Day 2 events [no. 1-4] occur within "A Light of Disappointment," while other events [no. 5-10] occur within "The Library of the Whispering Woods."

Day 3 of Samurai Jack in Etheria

1. After resting the night in the Whispering Woods, JABG get up early and continue walking through
2. Jack runs to the Fright Zone; Adora, Bow, and Glimmer (herein ABG) try to stop him but to no avail
3. Jack meets Entrapta who asks him about himself, he defends her from criticism by ABG, she refuses to operate it, but feels obligated to help him
4. The portal activates but malfunctions, sending Jack not through time but across dimensions, tapping into an inter-dimensional channel between Etheria and Homeworld; he is thrown into the courtroom of the Diamond overlords
5. Steven gets instructions from the Diamonds about Jack, ignores them, keeps the communicator in his pocket
6. The Diamonds look into their archives, find out about Etheria and mind control/manipulate Jack
7. The Diamonds realize they need to destroy the Horde fleet with their Diamond fleet; they implant a memory into Lion so he will warp to Etheria next
8. Entrapta agrees to declare the test of the portal for Jack to be a failure
9. Hordak praises her on her progress
10. ABG go back to Bright Moon
11. Angella is worried sick about Glimmer, angry she has gone into the Fright Zone again
12. The war council meeting in Bright Moon is about to start, with the imminent arrival of the Crystal Gems, although they don't know that, yet

Note: Day 3 events occur within "Jack and the Magical Portal."

Day 1 of the CG on Etheria:

1. Crystal Gems (herein CG) come to Bright Moon by accident, due to a manipulation of Lion by the Diamonds for their own purposes (CG do not know that)
2. Princesses want to hurt CG, Perfuma stands up for them
3. Angella imprisons CG, to be interrogated by ABG...but CG beat them pretty handily...Steven stops the fighting...everyone hugs each other, makes up
4. Glimmer shows the CG to all the other princesses, with everyone having someone else to talk to, Mermista is impressed by Lapis, who steals the show
5. Peri and Bow start to become more of friends and there is a spark of friendship between Pearl and Adora
6. Amethyst pranks Glimmer by transforming into Angella
7. Connie, Steven, Lapis, and Garnet get a history tour of the Bright Moon Castle with Angella; they receive a book that mentions Rose, Pearl, and Crystal Castle

Note: The above events, which is also the third day Samurai Jack was in Etheria, occur within "The Crystal Gems Warp to Bright Moon."

Next day [Day 2 of the CG on Etheria]:

1. Amethyst and Peri wake up everyone in Bright Moon, annoying Adora, Glimmer, while Bow, Steven, and Connie observe
2. Pearl is awakened, Lapis is snoring, and Garnet is asleep
3. After everyone has awoken, they ate breakfast together
4. Glimmer decides all of them will be going to Mystacor
5. Everyone relaxes in the steam grotto
6. Peri takes off her glasses while Steven and Connie accidentally fuse
7. Lapis and Peri try a fusion (later called Amazonite), it doesn't work out...later Lapis fuses with Stevonnie creating Stevolinnie
8. Adora and Pearl begin training together; it is revealed their friendship is deepening and flirt with each other
9. Everyone later relaxes on the cloud beaches
10. Stevonnie confronts Pearl with a book showing her at the Crystal Castle with Rose, she realizes she has been on the planet before
11. Amethyst transforms into a purple tiger and eats all the food
12. ABG, Lapis, Peri, Stevonnie, Garnet, and Amethyst arrive at the Crystal Castle, wanting to know more about Pearl's appearance there in the past
13. Light Hope gets annoyed and was hacked by Entrapta
14. Spiders attack them, while Lapis and Peri fuse into Amazonite
15. They escape the Crystal Castle before it collapses with Amethyst getting them out of the way by transforming into a helicopter
16. Bow proposes they go to Plumeria
17. Perfuma welcomes them all to Plumeria
18. Adora is very protective of her "relationship" with Pearl
19. Bow realizes they were "terrible" but Adora is glad she is around supportive friends
20. Perfuma feels glad to properly meet Pearl
21. Everyone participates in a party in Plumeria, as a way to wind down
22. Hordak praises Entrapta on her progress, seeing her as more reliable
23. Pearl and Adora, when everyone is sleeping, travel out to a rock outcropping, Adora wanting something more romantic, while Pearl just wants them to be friends; they embrace each other in the moonlight; people are surprised by their chumminess the following morning

Note: The above events occur within "The Tranquility of Mystacor" [no. 1-11], "Pearl's Mystery, Light Hope, and Adora's New Friend" [no. 12-23]

Next day [Day 3 of the CG on Etheria]:

1. ABG and Gems ambush Catra and Horde bots, plant a listening device on her
2. Bow tries to confront Entrapta but this is not successful
3. They plan to go to Salineas to bring in more into their final plan to defeat the Horde
4. ABG, Amethyst, Pearl, Garnet, Stevonnie, and Amazonite, meeting Mermista and Frosta in Salineas, showing off their powers to each other
5. Steven and Connie explain their Stevonnie fusion, Lapis and Peri explain their fusion, have a tender embrace, more open about their relationship
6. Mermista brings the Bow, Glimmer, Gems, Frosta, and others so Adora can see Sea-Horses...they stumble upon an underwater archive because of Frosta's impulsiveness, Amazonite readies herself to save them
7. Those in the underwater archive discover more about She-Ra, Pink Diamond, Maura, and more, finding out that Pink wanted to make the planet into a colony
8. Amazonite saves those in the underwater archive; luckily Bow backs up the data, saving it to his tracker pad, allowing it to be saved as the archive explodes
9. Bow listens to messages they had recorded of Catra, which gives them the idea of a coup d'etat with Amethyst transformed into Catra
10. They all arrive in Bright Moon, with Spinnerella and Netossa, agreeing to help them in their offensive
11. They later arrive Plumeria, surprising Perfuma
12. All the Princesses, Gems, and others get to the Fright Zone
13. Catra is captured by Bow and Glimmer, Adora taunts her inside her cage
14. Amethyst-as-Catra, has the Horde tanks fire onto the Fright Zone after telling them of Hordak's "betrayal"
15. Scorpia runs through the Fright Zone to save Catra...she is struck in the back with the blast from a Horde tank from Amethyst-as-Catra, stunning her
16. Horde soldiers face Hordak in his sanctum, he throws them aside, but the princesses and Gems sneak behind him, striking him in the back, causing his armor to fall off
17. Another legion of Horde soldiers, seeing their dead comrades across the room fire upon Hordak, killing him
18. Kyle, Lonnie, and Rogelio led a legion of Horde soldiers, they are taken out of the way by Mermista and Frosta, pushed outside Fright Zone walls to extreme injury or even death
19. Entrapta is stunned by Adora, with the Gems and others confronting her, surrounding her in a semi-circle
20. Awaking from her daze, Entrapta is confronted by Adora, Mermista, Perfuma, Spinnerella, Netossa, Frosta, Pearl, Amazonite, and Stevonnie
21. Entapta tries to leave Etheria via a portal and join Malevolent, head of the Horde...she deactivates it...but not before a Diamond Communicator goes through and ends up near the Horde fleet near Horde Prime, giving the location to the Great Diamond Armada (GDA)
22. The massive GDA warps out from Homeworld to Horde Prime, led by Samurai Jack, now known as Admiral Jack (mind-controlled by the Diamonds)
23. The GDA, despite some losses, survives almost completely intact...the Horde fleet is absolutely crushed, partially due to the EMP from the Diamond communicator and superior ships
24. Malevolent pilots his damaged ship into Horde Prime which kills himself
25. Entrapta realizes her errors and admits that she made errors in what she did; Perfuma accepts this, but no other Princess do, wanting her to pay for what she did
26. Catra, who has captured Glimmer and Bow, tries to fight Adora but is defeated by Amethyst, who changed herself from her Catra form to a huge rat
27. Catra is disoriented and captured, as are others

Note: The above events occur within "Pearl's Mystery, Light Hope, and Adora's New Friend" [no. 1-3], "Mysteries of Salineas and Hordak's Folly" [no. 4-19], "For the Honor of Etheria?: Adora's Choice and Jack's Bold Move" [no. 20-27]

Three days later [Day 6 of CG on Etheria]:

1. Dehordification begins with Fright Zone destroyed, Horde symbols were systematically obliterated apart from battle sites
2. There's the establishment of Archives of Etheria (AOE) on top of the former location of the Fright Zone...storing records with care unlike in the past
3. Peri and Lapis unfuse
4. Bow and Peri create inter-dimensional video recorders so they can talk to each other
5. Stevonnie gives the diary, The tale of Rainbow Quartz and Pink Diamond, back to Angella, who gifts it to the AOE
6. Plans to bring former Horde members to trial
7. Measures are put in place so these members can never hold positions of power on the planet again
8. Horde members are sent to schools for re-education so they can become productive members of society, and some courts are created to deal with this issue
9. Gems prepare for their departure, princesses wish them well, Adora feels attached to Pearl, even more than Bow and Glimmer
10. Bow reveals Light Hope was a genocidal monster and Adora decides to give up her role as She-Ra...and leave to Earth
11. Gems (Pearl, Garnet, Amethyst, Lapis, and Peri), and Adora arrive in Beach City, Steven meeting his dad and Connie her mom and dad
12. Bismuth meets Adora
13. Adora and Pearl have an intimate moment on the beach together

Note: The above events occur within "For the Honor of Etheria?: Adora's Choice and Jack's Bold Move" [no. 1-13]