These deep, dark scary woods are the kind of place that creepy dopplegangers might call to you from in the dark. But no monster could imitate his dad that well. He's just too weird for a monster to nail it so completely.
"Dad! Dad, I'm here!" he calls out. "Also I'm not alone, my friend is a giant cat...thing, don't freak out!"
Because he has no idea if it's normal for Earth cats to be freakishly huge like Elle, because he's never actually seen one. He doesn't want his dad to go aaah because he thinks she'll eat him.
Little Cato darts through some bushes ahead of his companions and sees his dad, running into a glade at the same time. It's getting dark but his blonde hair is pretty visible in the moonlight.
"Dad!"
He runs over and jumps at him, in what would be a tackling hug if he wasn't so pint-sized. He clings.
"After I got teleported away, I couldn't find you," he says and he's not quite crying, but his voice is trembling and his eyes are watering.
Normally, he'd be less scared and more confident about being reunited but...
But things have been bad. Back home before now. And here, in this place, with these monsters dredging up raw memories. After finding out what Avocato did, he's officially down to one parent right now, and definitely has only one person he loves from back home here - they hadn't found any of the other crew in this place. Not that there were many of them left.
The memory thingy flashes again but the view is sort of...faded. Residual. The monsters are pretty far off now.
It's a very simple image, of Little Cato looking at Avocato's helmet in his hands - the one he started wearing after his father died, that his father let him keep wearing when he came back. He places it on tube-like medical pod. It's Gary that's inside the pod, beaten, shot, bandaged, bloody. Barely alive, tubes helping him breathe.
In one fell swoop, he's lost one father (as far as he knows), because he had to shoot the (possessed) man who raised him, and the other father figure is close to death. Little Cato falls to his knees in front of the pod, tears streaming from his eyes, head hanging.
The memory makes it clear what fears have been running in his thoughts since the ruckus started and he got teleported away. He has many reasons to fear losing a father. Again.
The memory fades and he squeezes his father harder.
"I was scared," he admits. "I thought that creepy lady maybe got you."
maybe Gary again, then Catra and Elle?
"Dad! Dad, I'm here!" he calls out. "Also I'm not alone, my friend is a giant cat...thing, don't freak out!"
Because he has no idea if it's normal for Earth cats to be freakishly huge like Elle, because he's never actually seen one. He doesn't want his dad to go aaah because he thinks she'll eat him.
Little Cato darts through some bushes ahead of his companions and sees his dad, running into a glade at the same time. It's getting dark but his blonde hair is pretty visible in the moonlight.
"Dad!"
He runs over and jumps at him, in what would be a tackling hug if he wasn't so pint-sized. He clings.
"After I got teleported away, I couldn't find you," he says and he's not quite crying, but his voice is trembling and his eyes are watering.
Normally, he'd be less scared and more confident about being reunited but...
But things have been bad. Back home before now. And here, in this place, with these monsters dredging up raw memories. After finding out what Avocato did, he's officially down to one parent right now, and definitely has only one person he loves from back home here - they hadn't found any of the other crew in this place. Not that there were many of them left.
The memory thingy flashes again but the view is sort of...faded. Residual. The monsters are pretty far off now.
It's a very simple image, of Little Cato looking at Avocato's helmet in his hands - the one he started wearing after his father died, that his father let him keep wearing when he came back. He places it on tube-like medical pod. It's Gary that's inside the pod, beaten, shot, bandaged, bloody. Barely alive, tubes helping him breathe.
In one fell swoop, he's lost one father (as far as he knows), because he had to shoot the (possessed) man who raised him, and the other father figure is close to death. Little Cato falls to his knees in front of the pod, tears streaming from his eyes, head hanging.
The memory makes it clear what fears have been running in his thoughts since the ruckus started and he got teleported away. He has many reasons to fear losing a father. Again.
The memory fades and he squeezes his father harder.
"I was scared," he admits. "I thought that creepy lady maybe got you."