Chapter 3
Update: Fixed it!
Onyx pov
After I got my new weapon I spent the remaining time on Homeworld training and fighting with it in the arena, I had to fuse my arms so I only had two so I could give my opponents a somewhat fair fight. I also decided to keep them fused for a while, I needed to get use to the feeling of only having two arms. I mastered fighting with my weapon along with using my own powers and the ones that the weapon granted me. Soon enough it was time to head to earth, I made my way towards my personal ship while Peridot filled me in on what was going to happen.
Peridot and I made our way to a large hanger with multiple ships waiting to launch, the first one was a large green shaped hand which was a usual shape for a gem ship these days. My ship however was a different story, my ship was metallic black and resembled something similar to a large M, only the sides resembled blades while several boosters were on the ship, and was as large as one of the Diamonds and was is the same class as a warship. Once we get close enough all the gems present stand in two lines and salute to me, "My Prince!" They all said simultaneously.I grin at the sight of all my generals in one place, Peridot heads to her ship to wait for Jasper and the Lapis to arrive, I order my generals to board my ship and prepare for take off.
No pov
Onyx sat in the captains chair as his ship traveled at near light speed towards earth, his generals were at their posts or preparing themselves for what was to come. All of the generals were dressed in a full body black armor that covered their whole body aside from their hair, they each had their own weapon that was part gem destabilizer and actual weapon if that didn't work. Their armor was also capable of generating a black force field to protect them if in danger. Every Gem on the ship would die for their Prince and would kill anyone who would try to hurt him in a heart beat. That being said, the ship was filled with a psychotic glee of repaying the Crystal Gems for the pain they caused their Prince.
Once the ship came out of near light speed, it followed close behind Peridots ship. As the ships descended an alert appeared on the screens, a large energy beam was heading straight for us. For Onyx's ship it was no concern, but Peridot's ship had to activate the shield to prevent it from taking damage. After that the ship wasn't attacked again till it was closer to the ground by what appeared to be more arrows than anyone could count.
Once the ships landed, Onyx's ship opened and his generals surrounded the Crystal Gems and pointed their weapons at them. The Crystal Gems were confused at who they were but tried not to show fear. A large green orb rolled onto the pointer finger of the ship before it opened to reveal Jasper, Peridot, and Lapis. Onyx jumped from his ship and landed next to them, his blade over his shoulder and was glaring at the Crystal Gems.
"That's them alright." Said Peridot. "There the ones that keep breaking my machines."
"This is it?" Asked Jasper in an annoyed tone.
"Jasper!" Peridot said very annoyed, "They keep interfering with my work!"
Jasper sighs, "Looks like another waste of my time."
"I was expecting more of them." Onyx said as he looked down at the Gems.
Jasper looked behind her and grabbed Lapis, "Hey, get over here." She pulled Lapis to look at the Crystal Gems, she let go and Lapis glared at her. Lapis then looked at Steven and she looked more concerned than angry. It went unnoticed to most. "This is their base?"
"Yes." Lapis spoke while looking away.
Onyx pov
"You need to leave immediately!" Yelled the Garnet.
"Yah step off!" Yelled the small Amethyst.
"This is not a Gem controlled planet." Spoke the Pearl, seriously why do I feel like I know her from somewhere?
I remembered these three from before, I know Jasper might want to fight them so I won't tell Cherry the Garnet was responsible for hurting me before, for now. The four of us jump down, "Neither of you see Rose Quartz?" I tighten my grip on on weapon causing Peridot to jump, "Oh what a shame, I hoped to meet her. I was looking forward to beating her into the ground." My Generals cheered in response. "But this is all that's left of her army? Some lost defective Pearl? A puny overcooked runt? And this shameless display?" She then noticed the human who's name was Steven if I believe. "What is that?" She pointed at him, which caused the Crystal Gems to seem more on edge. Why are they so concerned with a human?
"It calls itself, The Steven." Peridot informed her.
"He's just a human!" Lapis interjected suddenly, "He isn't a threat at all, he's not one of them!"
"I know what a human is. You don't need me for this." Jasper started to walk back to her ship, "Just blast them with the ship."
"Ugh, fine." Replied Peridot who activated the ships weapons system, while she did that I made a hand signal for my generals to activate their shield to trap the gems from escaping and to protect themselves. "Fireing."
The beam shot directly at the Crystal Gems but I watched the human jumped right in front of the beam. The resulting explosion caused a massive cloud of smoke, but once it cleared my eyes widened in shock. "That shield, that symbol!" Jasper sounded just as surprised. "You, you have the power of Rose Quartz!"
"Now do you believe I needed an escort?" Peridot asked.
"Fire a garage wide spread." A beam shot out from the ship and caused another explosion and cover the area in smoke again. Jasper and I walked over to Steven/Rose while he/she was down. "Rose, why do you look like that? Why are you so weak?"
"Don't hurt him!" Lapis yelled.
"You knew about this!?" I yell at her before trying to keep my emotions in control.
"It wasn't relevant to the mission!"
"Forget about the mission."
"What!?" Peridot exclaimed annoyed.
"The Diamonds need to see this . . . thing." Rose/Steven started to look scared but the Garnet erupted from the sand and looked like she was about to punch me, I smirked and moved out of the way and Jasper intercepted the hit causing everyone to get knocked back. The Garnet told Rose/Steven to run before charging again, "Private Gem destabilizer." Jasper pulls out the destabilizer and charges as well before hitting the Garnet in the chest, her body was covered in electricity before it literally started to fall apart. After a moment she exploded in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a Ruby and a Sapphire gem. Steven/Rose looked horrified, "I was there you know. At the first war for this garbage planet. I fought against your armies, I respected your tactics. But this." She grabs him by his shirt, "This is sick."
"Unhand him!" Yelled the Pearl.
"I don't get what your planning Rose, but look. Your base is taken, your armies are ruined. You have failed!" She tossed Steven/Rose away from her and they landed at my feet. I look up at the Amethyst and Pearl, I make a fist and two Generals rush over and poof them in an instant. I look down at the one who killed my mother.
"Hello Rose, I thought I might never get a chance to repay you for what you did to me." They started to crawl away from me in fear, "I still plan on bringing you to Homeworld, but that doesn't mean this won't be satisfying." I raise my scythe and bring it down to strike them, but instead something crashes into me and I crash into the ground in front of the Crystal Gems base. I pull myself up and look back at where I was, all of my generals were in shock, Peridot looked horrified and Jasper looked pissed. What had hit me was a large hand made of water, by Lapis. I stand up and my generals all pull out their weapons but I decided to speak up, "STOP!" They all froze and looked at me. "Lapis, if you can give me a good reason why you prevented me from getting my revenge by hitting me with a giant water hand, I might let you off the hook."
"I won't just stand by while you hurt my friend!" She yelled and floated in the air with her wings.
"Okay then, lets do this." I motion for everyone to move back and my general activate a barrier for protection. Lapis raised her hands and two large water hands rose from the ocean. she then made a clapping motion causing the hands to move in a similar way. I smirk and raise my scythe, the sand beneath me started to swirl and then form into a large shield made of sand. The water collides with the shield and both explode everywhere, I look up at Lapis and smirk, "I'm not the best fighter on Homeworld for nothing." I spin my scythe and use my powers to make my own hands made of sand to attack Lapis who was surprised to see my powers. She barely manages to dodge them but the arms then exploded into hundreds of small spears which knocked her to the ground.
She stood back up and I started to walk towards her, she summons multiple arms to try and stop me but I simply waved my scythe around to have the earth create just as many to stop her. Then she started to get desperate, she raised both her hands and a massive wave started heading towards me, I grin before I raise my weapon. Immediately it's engulfed in fire, I swing the blade and a wave of fire heads straight for the water. The moment they make contact the water turns to steam while the fire heads straight for Lapis. She was to shocked to avoid all of it causing her to fall to the ground.
I stand over her as she was close to passing out, she looks at me weakly, "If it makes you feel any better, Ro-Steven won't be harmed till we get to Homeworld." She seemed to relax a little before I swing my scythe and poof her. I pick up her Gem and head back to Peridots ship, I decided I'm taking her ship back, several of my generals also board the ship. Cherry and Jade being two of them.
Once everyone is on board we head for the planets upper atmosphere, once there the ships waited while we decide what to do. I was originally here to help Peridot but Rose Quartz . . . .
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I couldn't take part in the decision making because I didn't want my emotions to cloud my judgment. I was currently walking around the ship waiting for a decision on what we were gonna be doing. I was currently standing in front of the Sapphire that made the garnet fusion for the Crystal Gems, she had been singing non stop since she came out of her Gem. That is until I walked in front of her cell.
"Any reason you stopped singing?" I ask her.
". . . . "
"Why did you defect from Homeworld?"
". . . ."
"Are you going to respond or should I just leave?"
" . . . ."
My generals didn't seem to like her ignoring me, the one on my left, that being a fully armored Amethyst, pounded against the edge of the cell. "You were asked a question!" She yelled, the Sapphire didn't even flinch.
I watch her for a moment before smiling, "Leave her be for now, besides, Cherry won't be happy if you mess with her future victim. She'll be so happy to know that the one who hurt me when I was controlling that Robinoid is on board, she was so sad when she couldn't kill Peridot. I can't wait to tell her." I couldn't see it but I could tell my generals were grinning. We start walking away and back towards the front of the ship.
While walking I find a large room with the symbols of the Diamonds on the floor, my black hexagon was in the center while each side had one of the Diamonds court symbols on it. I looked at the symbols sadly, I wish my mother could have seen Homeworld today, all the things I've done, and every thing I've ever made. Tears started to role down my cheeks. Rose Quartz, she took what valued most to me.
We walk back towards the front of the ship but on the way we pass by the other two active cells, only to find they were empty! "Sound the alarms, we have prisoners loose on the ship." My generals nod and run off, I was about to do the same but I heard singing and fighting coming from nearby. "Dammit Jasper." I run as fast as I could towards the fighting till I come across a large hole in the floor.
I jump down and fall towards the engine room, I stop myself just before I fall out of the hole. I watch the fight with mild interest, I've seen Garnet fusions fight before and I could tell these two spent a LOT of time fused together. I decided to intervene when Jasper was about to collide with the ships engine, can't have the ship plummet back to the Earth now can I. I put a finger on Jaspers Gem causing it to glow and knock her out, I move her out of the way so she doesn't get caught in the fight. I turn back to the fusion and smirk, "Gotta say, not many can say they fought Jasper and won, congratulations." I give a few claps.
"I wouldn't act so calm if I were you." Replied the Garnet.
"Oh? And why is that?"
"Because I'm about to knock you right back to Homeworld." She said with a smile.
"You mean try." Both of us raise our weapons but a strange noise causes us to look at a nearby wall. It sounded like screaming, before either of us could react the wall exploded.
2 minutes earlier
"Man I almost feel bad for the Garnet." An Amethyst general said to a Malachite general. Both were watching a screen with Onyx, Jasper, and Garnet on it.
"I know, but I kinda feel bad for general Cherry, she'll be pretty upset when she finds out."
"When I find out what?" Both generals freeze, they slowly turn around to find Cherry Quartz standing behind them with a confused look no her face.
"O-oh General Cherry, I didn't-"
"When. I. Find. Out. What?" She ask with a smile, but she was starting to get annoyed.
"Prince Onyx informed us that you were disappointed when you found out you couldn't kill who was responsible for causing him harm from attacking his Robinoid. He wanted to tell you that the Sapphire was part of the fusion responsible for harming him." The Malachite points towards the screen, "The fusion currently about to fight the Prince."
Cherry looked at the screen before her eyes narrowed she then seemed to fly down the hallway towards her Prince. She let out a shout as she charged at a wall.
Onyx pov
I blink a few times before I realize Cherry had busted through a wall to get here, "Nobody hurts the Prince!" She yells at Garnet. Cherry pulls out her weapon, it was two small red scythes with pink blades connected be a chain, on the opposite side of the blade was a smaller one that seemed to be upside down. She was about to charge but I spoke up.
"Cherry." She stopped dead in her tracks and looked at me with a calm expression, "I think we should fight her together." I could see realization dawn on her face before she smiled with glee. The Garnet also seemed to realize what I meant so I had all the debris surround her to buy me and Cherry a few moments. Cherry and I look at one another and nod, she slightly raises her dress and starts to slowly spin towards me, I did a more simple dance towards her. Both our gems start to glow are respective colors as we get closer, once she's close enough she jumps into my arms and I pull her close before our bodies start to glow.
No pov
Garnet breaks away the last piece of rubble and looks over at the two fusing gems. Once the light died down a single gem stood there with a grin, she stood as tall as an Opal and her skin was similar to a humans. Her hair was wild and midnight black with stripes of red in it, it reached down to her legs. Her outfit was a black skintight outfit usually found on gems but with a few differences. She had longs loose sleeves that ended at her wrists, and there were dark red designs on certain parts of the outfit. She had four arms and each of them were hold Onyx's scythe, her two eyes looked Right at Garnet, each a different color.
She starts to stretch and drag her hands over herself, "Oh it feels so good to be me again." She said in loving tone. "It's been so long since I've been myself, and this new toy looks like it will be fun to use." She looked at Garnet again, "So, your the one who hurt my Onyx huh?" Her eyes looked Garnet up and down, "Gotta say, you don't look like much compared to me."
"And who are you?" Garnet asked.
"I am Black Quartz, Prince Onyx's top general."
Garnet was shocked when she heard 'Prince Onyx', she had heard that name before when Ruby and Sapphire still lived on Homeworld. It had been announced that a new Gem created by Pink Diamond who had created 3 new Diamonds. Garnet was a bit concerned at the revelation at who she was fighting, but was more confused as to why a Royal of Homeworld would fuse with another Gem. "I thought the fusion of two different gems on Homeworld was forbidden?"
Black Quartz blinked a few time before laughing like crazy, once she regained her breath she wipes away a tear, "Oh man I needed that. Now." She grins wickedly and grabs the scythe with all four hands the weapon starts to glow with black light before separating into 4 different scythes that look exactly like the original. The black magma started to glow before blades seemingly made from black light extend from the scythes actual blades, "Let's do this."
Black Quartz charges at Garnet and swings two of her scythes to cut Garnet but the red fusion jumped back barley avoiding the blade. While she was in the air Black Quartz hit her with the blunt side of the scythes and sent her flying into the wall. Garnet tried to get out of the wall but Black Quartz kicked her through it and several more behind her, "Wow you really aren't worth my time are you? I figured one of Rose's soldiers would have put up more of a fight, but this." She pins both of Garnet's arms by her wrists with the scythes and hold the other two above each gem on Garnets hands. "This is just pathetic."
She raised the weapons and was about to bring them down but the ship violently leans to the left causing her to lose balance and pull her weapons with her. Black Quartz looked away and angrily spoke, "Peridot what in Homeworld is going on!?" Garnet used the momentary distraction to hit Black Quartz as she turned back around with all her strength sending her flying away and trough a wall. She let out a sigh and was about to leave but heard a laugh. "Your gonna have to a lot better than that." She raised her weapons again but she only had three this time and it didn't go unnoticed by the Gems, both of them heard the sound of electricity and turned towards the engine. The engine that currently had a scythe embedded in it, "Oh, that's not-"BOOM
The engine exploded and the ship shook again, Garnet ran to find her friends while Black Quartz retrieved the fourth blade and pressed a button that called Onyx's ship to come pick them up. She then made her way towards the back of the ship with the other generals, Onyx and Cherry unfused as the transport arrived at the back of the ship, all the generals made it on board but cracks started to appear and seemed like it was about to rip apart the ship. Onyx quickly got on and returned to his ship, once he was back on the bridge he looked at a screen with the broken Galaxy Warp. "Send a remote warp to the surface, where ever there isn't a domestic warp. Just in case we need to come back." A Aquamarine nods and presses a few buttons to launch a pod to the surface.
Jade looked up at him, "Are you going to finish them off?" She asked.
"I doubt they could survive the crash, and I feel no remorse for the Lapis. But if the Crystal Gems, or Peridot and Jasper survived then we will come back." He went and sat back in his seat, "For now we go back to Homeworld, that Garnet hit me harder than I-" He suddenly froze and his body glitches for a moment, a sickening noise echoed throughout the room similar to glass cracking. He looked down in shock and his generals looked down as well in horror.
Onyx's gem was cracked, right down the middle.