Chapter 5 : Adventures with space time rips

Pyritic Quartz and her two "prisoners" walked down the gray-black corridors. Pyritic Quartz was using her screen to try to turn on the lights as they walked. She had, thankfully made a flashlight before they entered the massive labrinth-like facility. They navigated the facility, then all of a sudden the lights blasted on, the group reeled in surprise, their eyes adjusting to the new aboundancy of light. Pyritic Quartz spoke, "Okay this just got easier and mysterious, I didn't turn on the lights and lights usually do turn themselves on."

Connie replied, "Who actually lives here in such a low light environment?"

"I bet it was just Argus, he probably detected us entering the facility."

Steven asked,"Is Argus a gem?"

"Oh, no Argus is his own thing, he's not technically a gem but is kind of a gem he blurs the lines really."

"Oh."

"Unlike you though."

"Why?"

Connie was done listening to this exchange, asking "when we were fused, you called us a fusion of three,why?"

Pyritic Quartz responded, "very simple, Contrary to what most would believe, Steven isn't 50-50 human to gem."

"WWWWWWWW HHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAA TTTTTTTTTT!" Steven exclaimed.

"You're better, you're 100-100 human to gem, you're all of both. Objectively superior to any gem or human, by far, well actually by 100%."

The to kids looked at each other in shock.

"And to add on, Steven is nearly immortal, as his chromosomal caps *do* spontaneously regenerate, so ageing past his prime should never be a problem."

Then Pyritic Quartz stopped, they all stood in a massive atrium with a single bubbled gem. Pyritic Quartz waltzed up to it and inspected the the shiny pink bubble as if it were a piece of art. "So this is where he was." she popped the bubble and in a literal flash the gem soared into the air and began with the "framework" of the gem flickered the continued to form. Then the black and white figure dropped down in front of the quartz. The odd figure had the gem in the chest, with a very pale face and hands, with long flowing robes,no,a smooth mist that emanated from the gem's body flowing all the way to the ground. The gem itself was a glossy black sphere with a single white band. He stood up, becoming nearly as tall Garnet, but skinnier and more lanky. His "cloak" if you could call it that, under the black cloak there was an unnaturally pale face with black piercing eyes,the whole eye was black, but a small part in the middle was white.

He looked around, then he spoke in a low,slow gravelly voice, "Where am I?" Pyritic Quartz responded curtly, "Your in the main launch station, after rose quartz "poofed" us she put me in her room, and put you here. It's been five thousand years since the gem war, humans have entered a new age, Homeworld wants to destroy the earth(as usual) and Rose Quartz had a son!" She said pointing to Steven. The mysterious gem looked at Steven, extending an arm, "Hello, I'm Onyx, you must be Rose's son,how are you?"

"Um… I'm, good, I think?"

"Well, that quartz is very nice person if you get to know her, though getting to know her may not be appropriate for all ages."

Steven looked around worriedly, "Are you evil or something, because you look very evil."

Connie nodded in agreement.

"Don't worry I get that a lot, and this," he summoned his weapon, a massive scythe "doesn't help opinions."

Pyritic Quartz interrupted them, "Are you children ready to go?"

They all nodded in agreement, and the quartz walked off with the 3 followers.

They navigated the hallways until she abruptly stopped, in a hanger, the metal walls rusted out to reveal the stone under it. In the middle there was an odd sort of craft, it looked like someone took a private jet, removed the wings and other control surfaces instead, there was a massive jetliner engine attached to the back, the intake looking as if it would eat the rest of the craft, around the end, there were four small fins. Pyritic Quartz looked at it, using her visor, that no one had noticed until now. She turned to talk to Connie and Steven, "You've both used a warp pad before, with no issues, right?"

"Um, yeah." they both replied.

"That's good, this is the fastest vehicle you will ever see, I can guarantee this, no matter how much better tech homeworld has."

Connie asked, "What is even is it?"

"This is warpstreme spallation-craft™(patent pending), vehicle that tears space-time to bypass the cosmic speed limit, and cross the impossibly massive spans of space that is the universe!"

Steven responded, "May I have that english, senior?"

"A. I am not spanish or male, B. It's a like a warp pad, but is not limited by needing two points, you only need a ship."

Steven looked at with a new fascination, "How fast can it go?!"

"So fast, it cannot be described by any current model of the universe."

"Woah." they all said in awe.

"Yeeeep, that's the power of proper use of space-time spallation!"

The door to the interior opened and the *mandatory* mist came out as the door slowly opened. They all got in, and were created by the beautiful interior of the craft. It was as fancy as most private jets, with 4 seats, some windows, seatbelts carpeted floor, and a television. Pyritic Quartz walked to the front, where there was a door, to the cockpit, of course. She opened it, walked though, closing and locking the door behind her.

The other door closed. The two children sat down on the seatbelted recliners. They and the new gem all sat around, and talked, Steven asked first, "The gem said all kinds of bad things about Pyritic Quartz, but never said anything about you, so, what's up with you?"

"Well, you see me, and my friend were sort of like Garnet, they never knew we were a fusion, because we could go forever without unfusing."

"Oh, so, who do you make when you two fuse?"

"Well, you see, when we fuse, we make the Administrator other wise known as Galaxite!"

Connie, who had been silent for a long time asked, "How do you get a male gem? I have never seen a single male gem except for Steven."

"Oh it's simple really," Onyx responded, "you do the exact opposite of how you get a normal gem."

"And, what is that?"

"You take a life-depleted planet, you shatter hundreds of gems, sprinkle them around and finally, you plant an Onyx gemstone into the ground, and out you get an Onyx!"

Steven said, "Wow, that's pretty dark."

"I know! But I'm the only Onyx in the universe, so it wasn't that bad."

"That's cool… I guess?" Connie said timidly.

Then the seats wheeled around to point at the front of the craft, the seat belts snapped into place, and the pilot's voice came over the intercom, "This is your pilot speaking, this will be a routine earth to moon transfer, so keep to yourselves during launch and landing, prepare for angle adjustment and G-forces of 2-3.5 so, please, if anything comes out of your fleshy bodies, please wait until we exit the atmosphere to re-attach them."

Connie said, "Gee thanks"

"IIIIIII heard that!" a sing-songy voice came from the cockpit.

The whole craft turned up, to become perpendicular with the ground. Then the engine started with a whine, then crescendoed to a loud low roar. Then the spacecraft started to fly, the acceleration kicked in first it was bearable at 1.5 g's then it got to 2 g's, it was annoying, 3 g's it was painful. It stopped, they had exited the atmosphere, the black starry expanse of space greeted them, and the earth fell away . Then gravity disappeared, the engine stopped and the pilot's voice came on, "I hope nothing fell out during launch, if so, you may now exit your seat to retrieve it." with that the seatbelts disappeared to where they came from.

The two kids floated away, while Onyx stayed well rooted into the chair as he was a gem, and gems stay rooted to physical objects, like recliners. The cockpit door opened and in floated Pyritic Quartz, the two children looked at her quizzically, because she should be firmly on the floor. She looked at them, "it's a long story, and I came to tell you that it will be about five more minutes until we make the jump to the moon so don't get too comfy floating around." She tried to turn around and go into the cockpit and closed the door. On all the windows a timer for five minutes was displayed. So Steven and Connie made haste back to their seats. Steven asked the now more serious looking Onyx, "Why does she float, she's a gem, right?"

"Well, she was more than just a gem, she was an experiment-"

"In forced fusion! Pearl told me about that part!"

"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, she has many abilities, but, they come at the price of two disadvantages. One, she has no physical form, she must use her light bending powers to make an organic one. Two, she in most cases she has control but under certain conditions one of her separate gems takes control."

"Oh, like when she turned purple!"

"Yes, the amethyst in her took control during the fight."

As if synchronised with the ship, the engine roared to life, but something odd happened. Everything stretched out lengthwise, in a resounding "BOOM" the ship entered a state that looked as though the whole ship was using a warpad. The ship was now -un stretched and travelling fairly slowly, less than a percent of its maximum speed, one hour from the Earth to the Moon. The seatbelts disappeared again, the kids didn't float away this time. The door to cockpit opened, in came the pilot.

AN : sorry if this chapter and previous chapters seem like a wall of text.

PS, why yes I *did* just invent a fictitious way to go really fast.