The Dark gem Chronicles
Chapter One:
The Sword of Time
Disclaimer: Most of the characters in this story are the property of Rebecca Sugar, and Cartoon Network, I don't own them. This is just for fun. Also, this is my first time writing a fanfic, so don't judge me. No rude comments please . If you still leave a fowl comment, than F.U. jerks. Thank you, and enjoy my story! :D
Part One: Steven
"Ready you two?" Pearl asked Connie, and Steven. Steven turned to her and said,"As ready as we'll ever be!".As it turned out, he did feel a little scared. This was him and Connie's first corrupt gem. Pearl said they were doing outstandingly as sword fighters. She said they almost reached the level of strength of …, Pearl had stopped herself mid sentence as if what she would have said would cause her to burst out into tears. Steven had tried to figure out what she would have said, but couldn't think of anything reasonable. But then again, magic rock aliens who can shape shift is not the most reasonable fact there is.
Pearl said that this particular corrupt gem is extremely powerful, and wild compared to anything they had this reason, all the others were there. Amethyst was eating a bag of popcorn yelling annoying encouragement, Garnet was sitting there watching with a lazy gaze, the only one who was watching with a serious tone was Tektite, the gem who destroyed jasper(long story involving a sword, The qurdesign trio, and a couple kiloliters of napalm. Let's just say that after that battle, the set of cannons will be out of order for a couple decades.). As the two got into fighting stance, pearl popped the bubble in her hand, and let it drop to the floor to reform. As the gem began to reform everyone watched in shock as the silhouette of a boy formed in white around a blue gem on its left shoulder. As the light faded a cloak formed on the gem, covering it's face. The only thing you could see under the cloak was a pair of glowing grey blue eyes that darted across the room from gem to gem,until landing on pearl standing with Steven and his gem, Steve saw roman numerals in the way they would appear on a clock.
Steven watched in horror as the gem move five times faster than normal for a gem, move towards the three gems on the sidelines,particularly Amethyst. Before she could even do anything, the gem had her pinned. from his gem he pulled out what appeared to be a katana. The only reason he could try to name it was because Pearl also taught him about the different weapons of the world. He yelled,"Die evil kindergarten scum!", and as he was about stab her, Tektite body slammed him off. As the gem got up he and Tektite had a stare off so intense, steven could feel tension from across the arena. As the two kept going, the mood in the arena dropped to grim. Then the cloaked gem begin to laugh, with that Tektite began to laugh too, but in a creeped out way. "What? You don't remember me? Maybe this will jolt your memory!" With that, he pulled his hood down, and revealed his dark blue face, and his mess of navy blue hair. Pearl, Garnet, and Obsidian stared in shock. Pearl was the most shocked as she said with a quivering lip," Cobalt?". He smiled, and saluted. He said in a way you would see a soldier would," Good to see you again, Commander Pearl.". Then his face scrunched up in pain as he fell forward with Amethyst behind him. With an angry frown on her face she said,"That's what you get for almost having me reform, you clod".
Part two: Cobalt
"Look! He's coming to!" a voice of a young human adolescents said. Cobalt blinked a few times to let his eyes adjust to bright light of the outside world. He tried to remembered what happened. All he could think of was reforming, almost defeating a kindergarten gem, being body slammed, seeing his old teacher and partner, and being hit in the back hard. As his eyes adjusted to the light he saw five beings over him, the kindergarten gem, two humans( one male with a gem in the middle of his abdomen like general Rose Quartz, and a female with HER SWORD), Pearl-his former teacher, Tektite-His old partner, and the fusion Garnet. Commander Pearl said to him in disbelief," Is it really you,Cobalt?".
He looked at her with confusion. "Of course It's me. Who'd you think I was, Donald Trump?" he said in the most ticked of voice he could pull. Then he got up, and strained into a salute. He said in a military chant, "Sorry for the joke commander, I was just pulling your gem." "At ease, lieutenant. I'm surprised you would be the one to make that joke, seeing as you were bubbled, believed you were corrupt" pearl replied.
He's shoulders slacked with relief, one more second of standing at attention and he would have collapsed from exhaustion. "Well, I could see major events in history well I was bubbled, The rise of empires, their glory days, and then their down falls. I could see technology advance, I could see the battles you fought during that time I was bubbled." His eyes moved towards Tektite, who was the envy of all the members of the league. He then move his attention to the two humans. "And who are you?" he said. The Male replied," I'm Steven, and this is my friend Connie. I'm the first gem/human to exist." Cobalt started in shock at Steven. "You mean that you are the son of general Rose!?" He was so surprised to be in the presence of the child of Rose Quartz. "Is this true commander?" Pearl nodded, and said "Yes, and you don't need to call me commander anymore, the army is no more.".He smiled, and said "Ok ...Pearl.". It felt weird to not say commander, but it felt right on his lips.
It had been about five hours since he woke up, and cobalt already had explained that he only looked fast when he attacked amethyst, he just used his power to slow down time. "This is whey I also have roman numerals on my gem, and I didn't actually pass out due to her hitting me. That was because my weakness is the more powerful effect I use, The greater the toll is on my body." he said. He also learned what all he had to about Steven, his life, the fact he can fuse with humans( that had almost made cobalt choke on the water he was drinking), recent history(this meant the past 30 years.), and what had changed about the world. he learn that humans found his sketch book full of ideas, and they believed was done by one of the famous artists. Cobalt could never remember the artist's name, Pizarro, Leonardo da vinci , or something like that. But what was most interesting thing was the television, an invention he had seen well in the bubble, but what amazes him how stupid most modern shows were. They have no storyline to them. He learn this from watching with steven, most of what they watch was this stupid show called "Under The Knife", that was nothing to do with being a doctor, but then a strange disturbance appeared on the screen. Steven called all the other gems to see. When they all were there, a image appeared. It was a green gem with a kite-shaped head who was sneering evilly, he guessed this was the infamous was in a cave with glowstone in it. She laughed confidently,and said" Hello again you clods! Long time no see." All the gems and connie yell" Peridot!" " Ya, thats me. Anyways, just sending a message to you to tell you that in the morning I'm bring an army to destroy you." Pearl's eye widened as she said," You what? But, how? We beat the homeworld gem army a millenia ago!?" "You heard me, and no it 's not an army of GEMS! HaHaHa! I mean an army of drones I made called METALS." All of them gasped in horror at this news. "Oh there's more" said Peridot. "I have found an ancient technology you may know, Blue!". Cobalt gritted his teeth, he hated being called blue. That's why he tried so hard to be the best he could be. So he could be remembered as Cobalt, as that is who he is. "What tech are you talking about!?" he said. She had a sick grin on her face," Oh, I don't know, maybe a gem deposit!" Cobalt's eyes widened, and steven asked," What's a gem deposit?" Cobalt explained to him that a gem deposit is a armor nexus that is like fusion but one requires one gem. The armor increases your agility, strength, reflexes, and physical attributes. Cobalt noted two major thing about it, it is only usable by solo gems, meaning no fusion can use it, and that each one can only be used by one gem ever because it bonds to them. Only two units survived the final battle, Marks one and ten. Those two units were able to use fusion, and one was stolen by home world during the war, and the other was lost in his lab, which is now only accessible to two gems, him and lapiz. But not knowing where lapiz is means he is the only who can access his lab in the beach. "Not like it will help! Later you clods!", Peridot said. With that the t.v. screen returned to normal. Pearl stared dumbfounded. Amethyst was running in circles screaming, Garnet was hyperventilating, show she was on the verge of defusing, all while steve and connie were both saying no in sync. The only ones who seemed calm were Cobalt and Tektite. Well everyone else was running around in panic, Cobalt yell,"Shut Up!" After that everyone calmed down, and looked at him. He then explained that each gem deposit had a special ability, Mark one didn't bond till it's third use, and Mark Ten increased mental attributes like intelligence, common sense, and quick thinking. "I have a plan! But it will take some help." Cobalt said. But where are we going to get help, the C.I.A!?" Amethyst cried. "No, they would not be able to help", He said," What i need to get help is to get my lab for weapons and defences,and to know where in the bubbled gem room is.".
Part Three: Connie
Connie was so nervous about the army that she didn't realize how much time had passed until it was dawn. All the events of the night came back to her quickly, First, Cobalt released two corrupt gems from their bubbles. As it turns out, They were his team members of a task force called the league of crystals(a group of gems who fought for earth rather than homeworld. Their names were Citrine, and Calcite. Cobalt explained that the league consisted of five gems, Citrine, Calcite, Lapis Lazuli, Tektite, and himself. The group followed them to spot on the hill above the temple. At this spot was a blue rock with a hand on it. Cobalt placed his hand on it within the lines and made his gem glow an eerie blue. Everyone but, the league members stared at the beach as a huge hole appeared in the beach edge. They all walk to it's edge, and noticed a set of stairs on the sides leading into a pitch black pit. All the league members made their gems glow, causing the hole to release a burst of white light. as they all had their eyes adjust they saw at the bottom of the pit was a quartz cube radiating the white light. They all walked down the stairs to the cube. When they get to the bottom they find an opening, and they went in. It was full of weapons, turrets, Something under a tarp, a small box on a workbench, a small pond that looked very deep, and a large table in the middle with a holoprojector displaying a globe of earth. And sitting at the table was a gem with water coming out of her back in the shape of wings. Steven,and Cobalt chanted at the same time," Lapiz!". Connie had heard many things about lapiz, but she had never met her before. She was exactly as steven described. But that's not important right now, she thought. As they all said hello,and Cobalt hugging her(Connie guessed they had romantic history judging by the way he hugged her.), and they got down to business. Cobalt show them how every canon had a button that caused it to fire. There were so many different ones. Ones that shot fire, ice, and even had a laser light cannon. They set them up on the hill, and the beach to counter enemy long ranged weapons. they set up barbed wires that were electrified. By the time dawn was upon them, the beach looked like a war zone. As they all got to their positions, Connie about crapped herself. Coming at them was a horde of thousands, no, millions of drones coming over the ridge. In the lead was A green-colored warrior in roman armor,and a bigger drone than the rest. Connie guessed that was peridot and a what looked like a platinum drone. As Peridot, and her forces reached the barbed wire they stopped. She laughed at the defences,and yell an order to the front line. Connie thought her hearing must have been off because she thought she heard peridot tell her front five lines to charge the wire, but sure enough they did. They screamed like a horde of manatees, and ran through it without even flinching. All them destroyed the wire, but only got two feet before short circuiting. Peridot ordered her next tens lines of drones to their firing positions, these ones had huge cannons on the right arm. As they were all ready, she ordered them to fire. Connie watched as the sky filled with fireballs the size of boulders. She heard a tough course voice yell fire from behind her, she knew this was calcite. She watched the sky full with frost shots to counter the fire ones. Unfortunately, not all of them were neutralized. As they came with in two hundred feet, connie ducked for cover. But instead of hearing a boom, she heard a sound that sound like hail bouncing of a roof. She looked up to see a force field covering the beach to the edge of peridot's front line. All the drones ran except the front ten lines, who were latched to the ground to support their shots. She watched the fire balls bounce of the field, and land on them. They exploded in a flash of red, and orange. Connie noticed the field retreat to Citrine, who was running in yelling the phrase "Leroy Jenkins!". Connie was feeling hope because they had destroyed half of the army, but that feeling was gone quickly as she saw the rest of the them charging towards the front line of defensive gems, she saw they had swords the sizes of tree branches,and clubs with spikes the size of whole cactuses. In the lead was peridot with her gun hand ready, and firing. Her lacky, platinum ran next to her with a scythe in hand. As they approached, a horn blow from the temple across the beach and it happened so fast she almost didn't notice most of it. All the gems ran into the middle of the fight, and except steven and pearl, who were manning the laser light cannon. As it reached full charge, they fired a blast at the center of the horde, causing all of the drone to scatter. As the majority army reached one hundred feet away from where connie was, half the remaining drones were swept into the ocean, and short circuited. Unfortunately, it missed peridot and her lackey. As the got within fifty feet, they were confronted by Cobalt and Tektite. Cobalt squared off against Peridot by the lab pit, and Tektite on the other side with platinum. Connie watched as Tektite, dodged behind him as he swung his scythe causing it to get turned to Tektite, and gave him a sheepish grin. Tektite stared daggers to him. Tektite summoned his weapon, a pair of short ranged lances about as big as his arms. Platinum seemed to be offended by this, as his arms produced a pair of cutlasses, and charged him. Tektite dodged, ran his lances through him, and tore him in two. But as she felt happy about that, she watch in horror as Cobalt ran up to Peridot super fast and almost sliced her head off, but she dodged, and fired a barrage of shots at him. He dodged each one, and came in for the kill. Peridot started to look worried, but then began to grin. she yelled" Hey Blue, You can't fight for squat you clod. Cobalt stopped. He stared at her with the rage of a thousand cursed souls. He let loose a sound that reminded connie of a bear being shot five times in a leg that it just got caught in a trap. He made his roman numeral for six glow, and he charged her at the speed of a bullet. He ran at her so fast that he couldn't stop himself before it was too late. He ran past her as she jumped out of the way. He stopped himself at the edge of the pit. He turned to find her right behind him. Before he could run away, she stopped him, and pushed him into the pit. The only sound was her laughing, and Cobalt screaming in terror as he fell into the pitch black pit. Peridot move her attention to the defences, and started firing of rounds. one by one they were all destroyed until all that was left was the laser light cannon. She looked at it as it reached full charge,and laughed. As they fired it she dodged,and ran to the cannon. Steven and pearl bolted from it as peridot shot at it causing it to explode in a laser light show of red, pink, and white. Pearl made a mad dash to the hole, but was stopped by peridot. She knocked pearl down and faced her gun at pearl. Connie watched as steven ran up and attacked peridot with his shield. She knocked him away, and was about to fire at him instead, when a loud thump rang out behind her. A familiar voice said, " Thanks for the distraction Steven, Go fuse with connie and show those drones what stevonnie is made of, I got this!" Steven smiled, and said" Ok, Cobalt." he ran to her and fused. The last thing she remembered before fusing was cobalt and peridot squaring off once again. This time the odds were on their side, with cobalt, the gem deposit creator, in samurai armor.
Section Four; Pearl
Pearl had always wanted to see a gem deposit in action. But not like this. She watched her best students fight, and thought how far all three had come. Stevonnie was tearing through drones like they were tissue paper well the others were making sure they stayed dead, and occasionally Lapiz would send a big wave to help. Well that was going on, She watched her other student face off against Peridot, and he wasn't buying any of her crap today. The gem deposit made him gain two feet in height, so he was no six-eleven. The helmet was like an average samaira style. Every shot she fired, he bounced back at her. Every move she made, he was two steps ahead. Every time he got in close, the twos weapons would clash, and cobalt would send peridot back ten feet. When he reached the middle of the beach, she charged for a final shot. He took the opportunity as he knocked her legs out from under her, jumped up sword in hand, and fell so fast he look like a bullet. His blade landed right on peridot's gem, splitting it in two. As peridot's body disappeared her armor became a simple chestplate. He picked it up,and ran to join the fight as had the others. Pearl Looked at the two halve gems, and almost swore she saw a set of wires in it. She shook her head, and recovered from her daze just in time to join the fight to. The fight ended quick because the drones short circuited. Her guess was that they couldn't function without peridot. Lapiz used waves to pull the parts into the sea. When she finished she walked over to cobalt. He came in for a hug but she came into a kiss. Cobalt's eyes widened, and his cheeks blushed, but eventually that stopped and he kissed her back. When they broke up, their eyes met. Everyone smiled, and pearl almost cried. "l wish that were me instead of Lapis." she whispered under her breath saddly.