(Now, feels are not my strong point, but I'll try. And! I chose 'Shattered' because I'm a horrible person and I just love to torture myself! Note the sarcasm. I'm not sure if you all will cry or not, but I'm doing my best okay? This may not live up to its title so be careful. Help me...)

Chapter 4: Feels(Shattered)

I do not own Steven Universe.

A Hand Ship floated over the barn, most of it was destroyed, only a corner or two remained standing, smoke rose from the piles of wood that were scattered everywhere. The Hand Ship pointed its index finger at the barn, a projected scan ran over the rubble then back again, the disappeared from sight and the Hand Ship uncurled its fist. "No survivors detected." the Hand Ship boomed, it then floated upwards and flew to the crops around the barn.

Lapis removed her hand from Peridot's mouth and sighed in relief as Peridot let out a scared sounding exhale she had been holding in, "What are we going to do Lapis?!" Peridot asked, immediatly standing up. "The barn is destroyed! Steven and his gang aren't gonna be here for a long time! And we are only two small gems compared to those in the Hand Ship! And it's been upgraded to be even stronger than the one I piloted!" the green gem ranted, pacing around with a hand over her mouth and another grabbing her head.

Before Lapis could day anything, a loud explosion made her and Peridot jump as the ground shook, the ocean gem peeked over what was left of the corner she was hding behind and gasped when she saw the crops were on fire. The Hand Ship was blasting rays at the crops, trying to look for Peridot and Lapis, Pumpkin's barking cpuld be heard until the Hand Ship shot another ray, the living vegetable stopped barking.

Withdrawing back into hiding, Lapis brought her knees to her chest and hugged them, "We can only hope for that blasted ship to go away." she said with sorrow. Peridot immediately heard the sadness in the ocean gem's voice and felt guilty for not being able to do anything, what would the Crystal Gems do? What would Steven do? What would Connie do?

As Peridot thought of the Crystal Gems, she remembered Garnet, and how she was strong enough to poof her when large boulders couldn't. Then it came to her.

"We need to fuse."

Lapis looked up from the ground and turned to Peridot with surprise written all over her face, "What?" she asked. Peridot walked towards Lapis and stood in front of her, "Let's fuse." Peridot said, when Lapis looked unsure, Peridot continued, "Come on, we were twice Garnet's size and we could control metal and water, or even something that consists of both! I'm sure we can take on those Homeworld clods as Turquoise."

Another explosion caused Peridot and Lapis to flinch, the crackling sounds of crops burning into crisps were loud in their ears, Lapis didn't need any more convincing. Peridot held out her hand to Lapis as the ocean gem stood, her posture proud and strikingly beautiful yet threatening looking. "Let's do it." Lapis said, she placed her hand on Peridot's, and the gems on the two started glowing.

...

The Hand Ship hovered around the burning crop field, the gems inside scanned the area over and over, trying to find Lapis and Peridot. "Ugh, I can't find anything." a jasper said, pressing buttons and gazing at different screens, "The only thing we found was that living orange thing, as noisy as a battlefield."

Another jasper walked up to the one sitting down, while the one sitting had a square-shaped jasper on her right shoulder, the other had a kite-shaped one on her left palm. "Keep searching, those traitorous gems should be aeound here somewhere, our scanners picked up a lapis lazuli and a peridot, they shouldn't be too hard to find." the standing jasper said, glaring out of the ship.

Suddenly, alarms started to blare, the gems in the Hand Ship started to panic, "The ship's not responding to anything!" an amethyst yelled from the opposite side of the two jaspers, "It's like something is holding us in place!"

The standing jasper looked out of the cockpit and glared, growling when her eyes landed upon the gem that had stopped the ship. "Everyone out! A Crystal Gem needs to shatter!" the jasper yelled, running towards the rear of the Hand Ship, the other gems in the cockpit abandoned their seats and followed the jasper out of the cockpit, getting ready to fight.

...

Turquoise glared at the Hand Ship in her control, her water wings flowed like actual feathered wings as a breeze blew by and non-summoned mercury swirled around her in a quick speed, occasionally spiking up to reflect her anger. Turquoise raised a hand, making the ship float upwards. "Get off..." Turquoise growled, she turned and roared as she threw the Hand Ship towards the sea, "OUR FARM!" she screamed.

As the Hand Ship flew towards the sea, several bullet-shaped ships shot out from the 'wrist' of the ship. Turquoise placed her left hand against her visors, she pressed something on the accessory and it zoomed in on the approaching armada. Each ship had one gem piloting it, an array of buttons and levers decorated the control board in front of the gems. The fusion zoomed out to her normal view as the armada got closer, "What in the moons are they?" Turquoise asked herself, "They can't possibly be escape pods."

One of the bullet ships had a panel open up underneath it, a small tube-shaped gun shimmied out of the hole the panel had revealed and aimed itself at Turquoise. It shot a short ray of energy at the fusion, the mercury around Turquoise gathered into one form and shot itself at the laser, its commander standing still all the while. The mercury easily cut through the attack, but the energy only separated into multiple but smaller beams and blasted the area around Turquoise.

The fusion looked behind her with slightly wide eyes, "So that's what Homeworld has been working on." she mumbled as the mercury returned to her and resumed its multiple forms to swirl around her. Looking back to the armada, Turquoise took a deep breath and raised her arms, clenching her fists and crouching with her legs spread slightly while her wings opened to their full extent.

When another Bullet Ship attacked Turquoise, the fusion took flight, dragging water and pieces of metal along as she flew towards the attacking ship. Water blasted Bullet Ships away or sent them spiraling out of control while the metal pieces and mercury punctured holes into other ships and sent them spiraling down.

Turquoise dodged the lasers a Bullet Ship was shooting at them, she yelled as she swept a hand and sent the ship flying sideways, making it crash into another ship. Another laser beam flew pass her, inches away from hitting her face, she glared without turning and the ship that had nearly hit her broke into tiny pieces.

The metal from the destroyed ship flew towards the fusion as she sped towards another ship, the metal formed a gauntlet similiar to Peridot's limb enhancers around Turquoise's right arm, she curled her fingers into a fist and yelled as she punched a hole into a Bullet Ship and sent it spiraling downwards. Turning, Turquoise spread out her four arms and water shot out from below, spraying away Bullet Ships within a small radius around her.

Turquoise heard something blast out and fly towards her at an alarming speed, she turned and called in her mercury just in time to shield herself from a small missile, but as it exploded, Turquoise yelped as she was sent flying backwards for a bit before flipping upright and stopping herself. "Oh no" she mumbled, looking at the ship that had attacked her.

Inside the ship, the jasper with the kite-shaped gem grinned, pressing the communication button, she yelled: "The bombs! Use the bombs!"

Every ship complied, the small laser guns were retracted into the ships and out came a large cannon-like missile launcher. Turquoise looked around her, her eyes wide with fear and shock, "This can't be good." she muttered.

At the same time, the remaining ships shot missiles at the fusion. Turquoise dodged the first three missiles, she flicked a hand at another and sent it flying towards a ship, destroying it. Then, Turquoise summoned her mercury and deflected five more, tucking her wings as far as she could without falling in order to decrease the chance of being blown away. The remaining missiles Turquoise dodged and sent back at each other or the ships.

The sound of something cutting through thin air caught Turquoise's attention, she turned just in time to see a metal dart fly towards her, aiming for Lapis. "NO! LAPIS!" Turquoise exclaimed, she immediately turned out of panic instead of using her mercury, but instead of hitting the fusion in the chest, the dart tipped upwards and hit Peridot instead.

Turquoise drew in breath through gritted teeth, she shakingly lifted a hand and pulled out the dart, she stared at it, motionless.

The jasper with the square-shaped gem laughed from her spot, "Ha! Take that! The new Shattering Dart can detect gems and will accurately pierce one nearby!" she exclaimed, pumping a fist in the air in triumph.

The dart flew from Turquoise's hand, she had her head down, and her eyes were shadowed. The dart broke through the ship's screen, a couple of seconds later, the ship fell. Turquoise looked up, now with tears in her eyes, "Peridot..." she mumbled. Suddenly, Peridot's gem started cracking, light green sparks flying from it.

Turquoise closed her eyes, her water wings went limp, and she fell.

As the fusion fell, she glowed and split into Peridot and Lapis again, both were unconsious and falling head first. Lapis groaned and struggled to open her eyes, she only opened them halfway when she saw Peridot across from her, eyes still closed, and gem cracked.

With a gasp, Lapis snapped to attention, she flipped upright, summoned her water wings, and flew towards Peridot. "PERIDOT!" Lapis cried, she grabbed Peridot from the air and yelped when the remaining Bullet Ships started firing on her. Lapis flew into a field of crops that were still left unharmed, hugging Peridot close to her while she was at it. She came to a small area of ash, were a laser from before must've landed before.

Lapis rid herself of her water wings and knelt down, she rested Peridot's head on her lap and examined the green gem, the crack started from the middle and had spread out slightly from five sides, forming a star. "No no no no... Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay..." Lapis mumbled, she gasped when she heard an explosion not far off and turned, the ships were still looking for her and Peridot.

As Lapis was staring at the patrolling Bullet Ships, Peridot groaned as she came to. Lapis whipped her head around, "Oh my stars! Peridot! Are you okay?!" she asked, leaning over the smaller gem. "I'm fine Lapis... I'm fine..." Peridot said in a weak voice, Lapis had trouble calming herself, she started to do what most humans do when they panic, hyperventilate. "Don't worry, I'll get you out of here, I'll get you to Steven, he can help you with this." Lapis said, hugging Peridot close to her, she felt her eyes water and did her best to keep her tears in.

"No."

Lapis gasped in disbelief, she looked at Peridot, making eye contact with the green gem. "We won't make it in time. Steven... Steven's too far away. I contacted him before I suggested that we fuse, he's nowehere near us." Peridot explained, her voice weak. The crack suddenly spread further, light green 'sparks' flew from the gem, but this time more often.

The ocean gem gasped and only got more worried when Peridot's form started to glitch, "We have to try!" Lapis exclaimed, she got ready to pick Peridot up and fly, but the small gem stopped her. "Don't." Peridot said, she coughed violently as the crack on her gem spread further, the light green substance that the gem was spewing out now came out of Peridot's mouth as she coughed, she wiped away the liquid from her mouth.

"No! Peridot! I'm not just going sit here and let you die whi-" Lapis was cut off when Peridot leaned forward and connected her mouth with Lapis', tears spramg forward in the ocean gem's eyes. The kiss only lasted short while, when Peridot pulled back, she smiled. "I know..." she said, her eyelids started to droop. Lapis choked back a sob, but it escaped anyway. "No. No no no no no no no!" Lapis cried, trying to wipe away her pastel blue tears, but they flowed as free as ever, "I'm not letting you go! Not after everything we've been through together! Not after everything we did!" she said, stuttering on a word or two. Peridot smiled weakly, "I'm sorry Lapis..." she muttered. Lapis openly cried, trying to hold back sobs and hiccups, "NO! PERIDOT PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME!"

Peridot weakly lifted a hand and brushed away Lapis' hair from her eyes, the ocean gem stared at Peridot, letting the smaller gem to fiddle with her hair and brush them out of her eyes. "You're so pretty Lapis..." Peridot mumbled, the crack on the gem spread further, making Lapis gasp. "Don't ever change.." The green gem gave Lapis one last, genuine smile, and suddenly, Lapis was brought back to when she and Peridot played their instruments.

"PERIDOT! NO!" Lapis cried, Peridot's form started to glow, her gem on the brink of cracking. "NO! PLEASE! PERIDOT!" Lapis cried and called, but eventually, Peridot's form disappeared as her gem broke into pieces. All that was left on Lapis' lap was the shattered gem of the ocean gem's barn mate, her friend, her crush.

Bullet Ships hovered over Lapis, surrounding her and bringing out the missile launchers, the cannon-like launchers aimed at her. "Any last words?" the kite-shaped jasper asked, she knew that Lapis can't hear her, but she said it anyway.

Pastel blue tears dropped onto Lapis' palm, splashing against the broken peridot and seeping through the cracks. Lapis looked up and glared at the jasper dead in the eye, making the Homeworld gem flinch, she quickly recovered from the deadly glare and pressed the communication button, "Fire." she said.

As the cannons lit up, Lapis bared her teeth in a frown, looking back down at Peridot's gem, she screamed.

Homeworld gems shrieked and screamed in fear as water suddenly shot out from the ground, every water in the farm came to Lapis' aid, knocking Bullet Ships off course or putting holes thriugh them. But it wasn't on purpose, the streams and puddles of water destroyed ships only to get to Lapis, they swirled around the ocean gem as she stood. Lapis bubbled Peridot, keeping her from losing any pieces of her gem.

The water around Lapis swirled and spiked, reflecting Lapis' anger like how Turquoise's mercury reflected her anger. "DIE!" Lapis screamed, the water around her immediately took shape of a raging chinese dragon, it roared and thrashed at the Bullet Ships, tearing the vehicles and snapping the gems inside.

"What?! No! It wasn't supposed to end like this!" the kite-shaped jasper exclaimed, pressing buttons and pulling levers, she froze when the water-made dragon looked at her. Every ship except for the jasper's were destroyed, now the dragon was going to finish the commander off. The jasper screamed as the dragon took hold of the ship, crushing it slightly in its jaws, but the dragon didn't destroy the ship.

Lapis stood on the dragon's head, the bubbled peridot floating beside her, coated in water. The ocean gem walked along the dragon's snout, the water looked like solid ground under her feet. The jasper scrambled back as far as she could in the cramped ship as Lapis stood on the nose of the Bullet Ship, a large water needle broke the glass at the front of the ship, and Lapis stepped in, not caring that glass shards littered the floor in front of her.

Lapis held an arm out to her side, water flowed along her arm and an ice blade was formed, Lapis grabbed hold of the weapon with a firm grip as she appraoched the jasper with a deadly glare.

"Pl-please! I-I-I surrender! I-I'll do anything you want! I swear!" the jasper cried desperately, Lapis stood in front of the jasper, the blue gem lifted the blade, "I want you to rot in hell."

Headcanon:

1. Peridot's visors can also be used to zoom in and out on views.

2. Gems have blood.

3. The Hand Ship had been upgraded.

4. Bullet Ships are modified escape pods of the Hand Ship.

(UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! Did I at least make you guys sad? No? Okay.)