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The embrace only lasted a moment, but it was enough.
Onyx pulled himself from her grasp, and it was the first chance that any of them could actually take in to account how tattered he looked.
Scars.
So many scars.
Some old and grayed out.
Some still a burning red that looked fresh.
Scars that covered the entirety of his visible body and other wounds that made her insides churn.
He stumbled on himself for a moment, and that was the first time that she was able to see his face enough to make out his features.
What shocked her most about his battered state was that he had red iris.
Red Iris.
With a Black sclera.
Not even in average Kindergarten Gems like Amethyst would have some abnormality like that happen. The only time abnormalities such as this occurred were in botched fusions, usually of the unwilling kind that left one insane.
Words were brought forth, but none formed sans inside her head.
For some one to force a fusion was a crime against All of Gem-Kind.
She reached for his gem, tears, her Healing tears, already leaving sad lines on her beautiful face.
Onyx simply stood there, a despondent look on his face as the hand made contact with the Gem that was his literal version of an Adams apple.
The scars lining across the side of his neck left little to the imagination on how he had been sweeping through the battle field like the humans version of a Grim Reaper.
The tears made contact.
...
Nothing.
The tears that had accelerated gems that had been fatally wounded did absolutely nothing to his Gem, and he opened his eyes in and smiled morosely, as if he knew this was going to happen.
"It won't work."
The voice was not that of the wild berserker she had seen , but that of a truly broken gem.
He turned to the side, clutching at his left arm- and why was his red arm glowing-
Oh
Garnet watched the Onyx break off the embrace with rose, Gauntlets' still out if he dared make a hostile move against their leader.
She watched how he made motions towards Rose.
What shocked her most was that Rose smiled at the Onyx and nodded in a moment when he tensed.
Onyx broke into a long legged stride as he crossed the large fields of the Kindergarten.
Nearly bowling over a fallen pillar, he kept up his pace.
He could hear Rose and her follower's behind him.
They didn't matter at the moment.
He needed to find his Gems.
Now
"How sure are you that there even al-"
"Quiet."
The mental command was short and lace with venom.
The voice didn't even break stride however.
"I've, for all you know they could have perished in the fighting, just another pair of nameless casualties in the-"
This time he grabbed his left arm, loosened the restraints for a single moment.
Then he pulled them so close he could feel the outlines of the sealing markings bite into are skin.
The voice at the back of his head shrunk to a whisper among the noise of his steps.
He did not need her prodding after exiting his battle rage.
He needed to be lucid and he wouldn't let her even have a chance of distracting him.
Where were the others?
It wasn't as if they could make it far off.
His pushed senses senses out further, searching ever corner, every crevice every-
There.
A sense of familiarity.
Morality. Justice. Valor
Everything he wasn't.
It could only be Diopside.
With little hesitation he reared his arm back, Gem becoming lit with black energies that lashed out and warped around his arm in a sense of visual wrongness, his armored Pauldron -Gauntlet weapon and the vents that lined along the arm tilted outward.
From several yards behind him, Garnet was already moving.
She grabbed Amethyst under her left arm and Pearl her right, all while motioning to Rose that it would be best to move as well.
They leapt back moments before Onyx Brought his arm forward, a loud screeching whistle emitted from his arm as it impacted the fallen Gate.
Poor thing didn't stand a chance.
What they had seen out on the battle field was the -Monstrosity of a weapon- being used as a simple piece of armor.
What they were seeing now was a just a hint at how powerful he was.
The gate had simply disintegrated under his punch, debris exploding out with such force that rose had been force to manifest her shield into a bubble.\
"Cough, thanks for that, cough, Onyx. Was getting worried I would be stuck here for a few centuries."
Out stepped a green Gem.
He looked every bit the part of an assistant, Research Corps too.
Garnet would have had her arms around his throat if not for the fact that a Massacre-Choker was wrapped around it already.
Those things were only put on rouge gems as a way to keep tabs on them.
But instead of a leash, it was a leash that would decapitate him before his body could retreat into his gem.
He stood in the open, cleaning his glasses as he took in the sight of the Crystal Gems.
"So you're not trying to murder us, and Onyx hasn't attempted to brutally murder you or at least trying at the moment."
He took a pause to put his glasses back on."
"That can only mean that you're here to rescue us all. Name's Diopside. "
Grinning the only way a mad being could, he spread his arms out as if just seeing friend for the first time in years.
"Let's find Cat then, hmm? I would rather leave here-"
The collar that should be literally impossible to remove since the creator had taken that secret to their early grave clattered to the ground.
Disabled.
Rose stared at it with wide eyes.
Pearl stared at it with wide eyes and an open mouth.
Amethyst just blinked a couple times.
Garnet just stared.
"As little maimed as possible."
He finished with a grand smile.
Onyx nodded his agreement.
