Hey guys. This is just a short one-shot about the other side of the Crystal Gems.
The smell of smoke lingers over the battlefield.
A single Gem looks around for a place to hide. He had just seen his comrades - and best friends - slaughtered before his eyes in the hideous massacre known as the rebellion.
Broken gems are strewn across the war grounds, different shards and colors indistinguishable from one another. To think they could never support life again...
The Gem is a Jade entity. He was one of the strategists... not a fighter. He cradles one limp arm in his hand, shaking. They're coming.
Both sides had been decimated by this battle. Brothers fighting tooth and nail for what they believed in. It was horrible. The Gem had never thought the rebellion capable of this.
Four sillhouettes appear over a hill, the flames of the war behind them.
Garnet, Amethyst, Rose, and Pearl. The remainder of the rebellion.
Finally, the Jade decides he's not going out without a fight. He pulls a spear out from his left shoulder and readies it.
They charge at him, and he's realized the mistake he's made. Garnet's fist makes solid contact with his face, sending him crashing into a medical facility.
Every part of his body screams in pain, but he has to fight. For his beliefs, and his lost friends.
He stumbles out of the wreckage, only to be met with a sharp jab to the arm.
He grits his teeth and thrusts the spear at his attacker. A pink shield appears in the way for a split second, then a whip wraps itself around him.
The purple spiked coil lifts him into the air, tossing him straight downwards into the ground.
The Jade looks up, barely able to move. "You're monsters. All of you. Killing off your own kind just because you believe in a small species that'll live for another 10 cycles."
If they feel any remorse for the injured Gem, they do not show it.
Garnet brings her fist down on his gem, shattering and instantly destroying his gem and physical body. They were not to be trifled with.