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First there was the smooth sound of drilling, then there was light. When she emerged she saw a peridot and one pearl "That Peridot must be very important to have a pearl huh."

-What is your gemstone specification, warrior?
-Obsidian.
-And your facet?
-What's a facet? My gem doesn't have one.
The Peridot then proceeded to write something on the computer attached to her forearm.
-Come with me, Pink Diamond wants to see you.
The three gems began walking through the kindergarten. Obsidian noticed various quartz soldiers, Jaspers, Tangerine quartzes and many more, but she noticed that there were no others like her "Well that's weird...". After walking a little bit more, they arrived at a massive door. The Peridot then entered a code on its front, revealing two gems, one was huge, having pink hair and a body that made her feel quite small. The other one, she deduced, was her bodyguard, she was around her size, but had battle gear on, and a pentagon carved into her pink gem."I haven't seen anyone like her in the kindergarten...".
-My diamond,-said Peridot-the experiment emerged a little early, and I brought her here as you ordered.
-Very good...- she spoke in a very deep and menacing voice- let's take her to the cloud arena and see what she's capable of.
-But she's just emerged! She might not even know about her weapon, given the small amount of time she took to emerge!...My diamond.-"What's a gem weapon?", wondered Obsidian.
-I don't care, we'll see what she can do NOW, do you understand?
-Yes, my diamond.-said Peridot, defeated.
After the conversation was over, she noticed that the pearl was behind the pink gem. They were whispering something, but she couldn't listen.
Immediately after the talking ended, all gems there started to walk toward a blue circle a little elevated from the ground. "I think this is what a warp pad is." They then stood inside it and, suddenly, they were in the middle of a blue tunnel, only to be taken to another circle that was exactly identical to the first. "And this is what they do, huh".
The Peridot approached her and said:
-You are going to be tested in the battlefield, you're going against another gem.
-Cool.
-Your opponent is not gonna be easy, there will be 3 Jaspers waiting for you there.
-Seriously, 3 JASPERS?!
-Yep.
That Peridot then went to stand at Pink diamond's side
-Peridot, you are the chief kindergartener, correct?
-Yes, my diamond?
-I want to know what exactly are your expectations for this gem. We did spend much effort finding the materials to create her.
-Well, my diamond, since she emerged early, I wouldn't expect her to know her full capabilities yet. It might be possible that she has the power but doesn't know how to use it. We made her from Obsidian, the material I mentioned we found early this century. Exclusive to earth as far as we know. It can be sharpened to an extent we had never seen before, it broke in the molecular level and made microscopic fractures on itself, hence the quantity we had to amass. We think she might be uns...
-I know about that, just tell what you think she is capable of in a fight.
-I'm sorry, my diamond. I think she might have been able to stand her ground against the Rose quartz gem you use as your bodyguard, but she came out earlier so... Well, there are 2 possibilities. One is that she didn't have time to really absorb all the power she was supposed to and came out less powerful than expected. the other, well the other is less likely, but...
-Tell me, what is the other?
-She might have come out with more raw power than we thought, but if that's the case, she'll have to refine it, and that may take a while.
After waiting for nearly one hour, Obsidian began wondering when it was gonna start. She was then pulled in an arena."It's more beautiful than I expected...". The arena was clearly shaped after the diamonds, with the diamond authority symbol carved on the center of it. She quickly stopped admiring the arena when a punch came close to hitting her on the face. The fight began.
Even Obsidian herself was curious to see her limits. She then started running around without any real reason other than knowing what she could do. The Jaspers felt insulted that the new gem wasn't even thinking of them as a threat. They wanted to make that change, one of them swiftly punched her in the face, she was sent flying across the room, but noticed she didn't feel that much pain. The next step was to see how strong she was, and what better way than hit that Jasper back in the guts. Before she realized it, she was already in front of the yellow gem and punched her, sending her flying across the room, everyone looking at them was clearly surprised. Even Obsidian wondered what happened."Well, it looks like I'm not in control right now, I'll have to fix that later, I've got a fight to win.". The rest of the fight was much more intense. The Jaspers started to take the fight seriously, they started attacking in combos, Obsidian had no idea on how to defend herself, but apparently, her body did. Although with some apparent effort, she managed to dodge the attacks but she didn't land any hits. But the yellow gems made a mistake, they summoned their weapons, one helmet, one leg blade "Well that's weird. A blade attached to the leg, it must be pretty hard to walk with that", and one dagger. "Well, if they can do that, so can I.", she started to focus on the gem in her palm. It started glowing "C'mon, c'mon, I know you can do this.". A sword started forming , Obsidian was sweating and it looked like she wasn't gonna make it, the image started to shake, and the Jaspers stopped to take a laugh. She was ready to give up when a sword popped out of her hand, it had various dents "This is pretty 's see what this baby can do". But when the Jaspers noticed the weapon in her hand, they advanced to poof the gem. But they didn't, they couldn't move, even though they were a warrior race that was supposed to adjust to gravity instantly, they were so heavy they didn't have strength enough to walk. They then turned their head to the black gem and saw her with a raised hand, and in that hand, there was a black gem with an octagon shape, not a circle, something they had never witnessed before.
That gem was very different, she knew that. After the sword formed, she had a sudden realization of what she could do and who she was supposed to serve, her mind was being bombarded with impressions of her doing some stuff she didn't know she should do. "Well, it was pretty hard to understand anything, but I think I got something. I can make gems feel like they are under a very strong gravity by raising my hand apparently, that's awesome. Let's try it out.". Her hand rose in the air and the gems before her fell "Dude, this is awesome.". But that didn't last much. After a little while, around 10 seconds, they were up again and were coming to end the battle, without much control, she managed to hit the first ones, but the other 2 were unscathed and managed to hit her, the first on in the chest and the second head butted her. She realized that she was now controlling her own body and that she could get much more power off of her punches. She had finally understood what she could do, she was quite strong for a gem, being able to take one of the Jaspers out when the gem wasn't looking, she apparently decided that Obsidian wasn't worth her time "Big mistake". The other two quickly reacted to what had happened. They used their dash attacks and were hitting that gem quite hard, until she was able to grab the first and hit her with the sword she remembered was in her palm. It destabilized the gem.
-It seems that her sword is doing what it was supposed to do, my diamond.
-And what is it supposed to do?
-We designed it so that it would penetrate the physical form of a gem and rip the particles apart, making the one in contact with it unstable and forcing them to retreat to their gemstone.
-It seems like our little experiment worked out. Now go back to your station and get ready to make another 5 batches of this gem.
-That is bound to take a while, my diamond, the material we used to make her can be sharpened to extreme extents, but it is very fragile, due to its breaking in order to be sharp, we needed to gather roughly one metric ton of it and put it in the mantle of the plane just to form this one gem!
-You have as long as you need. Now go and stop questioning my orders, or you will be broken for indiscipline.
-Yes, my diamond.
-No you don't!- screamed the bodyguard standing quietly beside the giant being while she was jumping to block the exit. The pearl next to her followed.
-What is the meaning of this?!
-You are not going to wither this planet any further Pink Diamond, leave this planet now. I don't want to fight you.
-Ha, like you could do that. I'm calling the Ruby guards.- said Pink Diamond while writing something on her computer.
Obsidian didn't feel good after that, she couldn't feel herself. She was fading. She was poofed without being hit by anything, it's just that her gem called her back, it was weird, that wasn't supposed to happen...
Rose, Pearl, Peridot and Pink Diamond were still in an argument when the rubies arrived. There were 10 of them, all of them had their gemstones in different location, leg, arm, shin, eyeball. But they weren't the only ones going there, one Jasper had been called as well.
The ruby squad didn't even notice Pearl when they saw Rose, a very big gem, she was magnificent, curly pink hair and they could see a shield coming out of her gem. They couldn't stop staring at her, when 5 of them were poofed. The one with the gem on her eyeball realized they had to do something, but it was too late, she saw a straight saber that she hadn't noticed before. That saber struck the Peridot, destabilizing her, but what took her attention was the same saber PIERCING THROUGH HER DIAMOND. Just the shock from seeing that made her want to get out of there, but that wasn't necessary. She was poofed by a pearl. A PEARL. And her diamond wasn't there anymore, but the last thing she saw was a Jasper punching that rebel quartz in the face. She was glad there was someone stronger than her to put things into order.
After the fight, Rose saw a black octagon in the middle of the arena blow her. She was curious to see what would emerge from it, so she just jumped down and tried to grab it. Her hand was cut immediately. She decided to bubble that gem for some time, at least until they were safe, the young rebellion wouldn't have a chance against Pink Diamond's hole army.
When they got to the base, Bismuth was waiting anxiously.
-So did you guys do it?
-Unfortunately, yes...-said pearl.
Bismuth noticed that Rose had a bubble with her.
-Who is that, Rose?
-I don't know, I wanted to find that out.
As soon as she retreated back to her gemstone, Obsidian saw everything that had flashed against her eyes previously, but with more clarity she understood why she was unstable, and that her gem would call her back after using too much of her powers."I shouldn't have tried all those things out against those Jaspers.", but there was one thing more, it pictured her waving her hands like she was punching and using her powers against something, but there was nothing there. It was starting to form a word."Trai".Time stopped. She wasn't there anymore. And she instantaneously got back to her original form.
-Where am I?
-You are in the new quarters, soldier, state your gem specs.
-I am Obsidian. I really don't know why I'm here, could you explain it to me?
-I've never heard of an Obsidian before-said Bismuth.
-Neither do we, right Rose?
-No, neither do we. Well, you are here because I saw your gem in the arena and started to get curious of who you are.
-Well, I think I'm the most unstable gem to have ever existed, I can't even think about something for too long, I'm strong, don't get me wrong, I was designed to be, but I don't know if I really can. I don't even understand what I was supposed to do, they thought that just saying: "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SERVE PINK DIAMOND AND ASSIST HER IN ANY WAY YOU CAN" was enough. I don't know, I just don't know. I really need to get stronger before saying anything else- She didn't mean physically of course, but the multi-coloured gem didn't notice that."It might be that my gem was telling me to train"
-Well, didn't you say you were designed to be strong?
-That's not what she meant Bismuth.-said Rose with a tone of pity in her voice- I think we should just leave her alone for a while.
-Well now, we don't have a choice, she's already gone.
Both, the pink and the innie gem looked at the pearl and didn't see anything beside her, where there should be a slim, black gem, there was nothing. The Obsidian was already on top of the hill close to where they were, throwing punches to the air and throwing rock in the ocean in an enraged state. She was crying."I'm not even worth the rock I was made of. I shouldn't be here". She was trying to summon her weapon again, but she noticed it wasn't coming, instead a hologram came out. Not a hologram of herself though, it was just a projection of a place, a chaotic battlefield. Various gems trying to kill each other and among those, there she was fighting along those rebel gems. She refused to believe it, but the holo soon faded when she noticed Bismuth was approaching.
-Not feeling good?
-Why would I?
-Nothing, nothing… You looked like you were training a little, mind if I join in?
-Sure, why not. You want to spar or something?
-Yeah, that'd be perfect.
The black gem thought it would be easy to take the blacksmith down, I mean, a warrior against a Bismuth, pfff… But that wasn't the case."Wow, a Bismuth isn't supposed to be this strong, is it?".She felt like the opposing gem might have passed through what she had, she wasn't as strong as she was supposed to be,she didn't have the control over herself like she was supposed to have. But that didn't stop Bismuth, she just fought on and eventually made it out of her demons."Maybe I can do that too." She felt some kind of warmth coming from the renegades. Maybe the vision wasn't so bad after the fight, they felt a bond growing between them, not one of pity, no, one of friendship.
-You hit pretty hard.
-Well, my scissors aren't as sharp as your sword though.
-Sharp enough to throw me off-balance. This is probably the best fight I've had so far.
-Well, pleasure doing Bismuth with you.
Obsidian allowed herself to let out a gem was pretty funny, she wanted to talk more, but that damn gemstone didn't let her. She was inside her little word again.
Bismuth didn't know what happened, she saw the gem before her retreat to her gem, she didn't do anything. Her hand tried to grab the hexagon shaped rock, but it cut her. A mere gemstone cut her. She just left it on the ground, she wondered why that happened, it might be that Obi, the new nickname she had just gave her, didn't want her company anymore, but she wasn't going to give up any time soon. She would stay there for as long as she needed. She sat down. She didn't think she would spend much time there.
Inside the gem's core, Obsidian was having a hard time. She was trying to get back to the physical world. She didn't have anything to do in there, no visions, anything would be enough for her, she didn't think she deserved that much. She decided to stop focusing in getting out of the stone and just think about her new friend. "She ain't bad at all, it would be nice to know her a little bit better. I would be doing that if it wasn't for this cursed piece of rock in my palm. Well, I think she did more than enough for me. She showed me I could get better. I'm not just what the diamonds wanted, I'm much more." She didn't notice that she spent around 3 hours thinking about it, but she was already crying. She knew she needed to be stronger, but she didn't have to do it alone, she had Bismuth."BISMUTH!".Remembering that the innie gem might be still there, she turned her attention to getting out and thanking her.
She thought wrong. She saw the sun go down while she was there, 3 whole hours had passed since Obi 'passed out', she was ready to give up, but she changed her mind when it started glowing. Not like anything was coming out, much more likely, something was trying to escape. It didn't stop flashing for roughly 15 minutes, but when it was all over, she got just up to see the black gem crying. She didn't even have time to react, she was already by her side and she wouldn't stop saying:
-Thank you.