Chapter 7

Contains swearing and mild gore

Roughly an hour later.

Peridot hadn't come back, nor did David hear anything from Steven. He was trying to make his mind up whether to stay in the barn or go back to the hotel…he was lying on the floor, using bits of hay to make it semi-comfy but it didn't make any difference. He was close to choosing the hotel…a nice, warm comfy bed with his name on it. The more he thought about it…the easier the decision. He sat up, not making a sound…he turned his head and noticed Lapis was lying on the upper level…not making a sound. David didn't want to wake the blue gem up or cause more trouble, as it seemed the blue gem was still upset with Peridot. David couldn't help but feel sorry for the green gem…but, sleep is what he wanted and decided to check on his clothes and get changed.

A figure walked in…

David noticed this…but he wasn't wearing his glasses, it was just a shadowy blur to him.

A creepy laugh with strange heavy breathing…

David was feeling for his glasses that he had simply put on the floor…he moved his hand so he could find them. The figure was getting nearer.

DAVID: Uh…Peri-whatever you are, is that you?

David finds his glasses and quickly grabs them to put them on, his vision is clearer now, even if it was still dark but the figure wasn't there. David tilted his glasses to see if he could adjust the lenses but nothing was in front of him. He took his glasses off in case it was just his eyes playing tricks…

The figure was now behind David…

David saw a shadowy figure in the reflection of his glasses. The figure was raising something…that looked like a knife in the shadows. David gasped…as the figure brought the item down, heading for David's flesh.

David moved out of the way just in time, as the sharp looking item ripped through the hay.

DAVID: What the fuck?

Ronaldo came into the light, only just about visible. David backed away, his hands up…Ronaldo had a murderous expression on him, breathing heavily and having a strange smile across his face. David quickly picked up one of his boots, as it had metal steel-toe cap in it.

RONALDO: You're the one who got away…

DAVID: Wha…what…?

RONALDO: YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY!

Ronaldo charged at David, with the knife raised high in his hand, screaming his death scream. He slashed at David, the knife just missing him and David took the oppintunity to kick the knife out of Ronaldo's hand…the knife falling onto the floor. Ronaldo gasped but then quickly stopped David's punch…simply grabbing David's hand. He squeezed David's hand and David moaned in pain, falling to his knees but Ronaldo kept hold of him, squeezing even tighter…the gloves didn't do a good job protecting him, luckily not the hand with the fused gem…but still, it hurt.

RONALDO: (Laughs) My mission is complete.

DAVID: What are you…t-talking about…?

RONALDO: My mission, my mission to destroy a defective rough gem!

DAVID:(Grits his teeth) What the fuck is wrong with you? What's your fucking problem?

RONALDO: My problem? (Laughs again) I have no problem. I'm cleansed. I've become a perfect gem.

DAVID: What?

RONALDO: I saw light…then I saw moving colours…they were people but…green, yellow…they gave me this injection and…it created this (Pulls down his collar, revealing a yellow gem) They showed me a path…they showed me a reason why Earth should die. (Squeezes David's hand more, a crunch could he heard. David yelps) I…was the first…

DAVID:The first what…?

RONALDO: The first rough gem to be perfect.

DAVID: You…were kidnapped too.

RONALDO: (Shakes his head) No. I was chosen! They told me!

DAVID:I don't understand…why are you doing this?

RONALDO: We cannot fight against them. Earth will not win; they are pure…they are magnificent…they are flawless. They are doing this to make us join them, to fight what is right. After all, all humans are capable of hatred, all humans are capable of war, but only to yourselves…the perfect rough gems will rise above the weak and take them out…ready for Homeworld to destroy.

DAVID: Why? Why this destruction?

RONALDO: Why should I tell a defective rough gem, like you? You got away!

DAVID: (See's something in the corner of his eye) Uh…um…(Looks at Ronaldo) Well, your gonna kill me anyway…my…uh…m-my last wish is to hear why this is happening? The reasoning behind all this.

RONALDO: (Smiles) Simple. It's revenge.

DAVID: Revenge…?

RONALDO: Yeah. Kill Rose Quartz…and the Crystal Gems, the protectors of the Earth. (Sniggers). They can't protect all of the planet, that's why we've sent more pure gems across the globe…once the signal is activated, Earth will be in chaos…they can either bow down to the diamonds…or die…

DAVID: (Frowns) Rose Quartz? That's it…on person…?

RONALDO: (Looks at David in disbelief) NO! IT'S NOT A PERSON! A GEM! A TRAITOR! A KILLER! …She's…Steven…

DAVID: S-Steven…?

RONALDO: He'll be next. I reported everything about him. Keep Beach City Weird was just a cover up…I've been communicating with Homeworld. The time for destruction is near. I told them you were here. (Laughs again) It's just an excuse to start coming to Earth and carry out their plan and to kill you of course, which, as you know, is my job. My…orders! They'll be here soon. Very soon.

DAVID: Destroying Earth? All this just…for one person…? What a load of bollocks!

RONALDO: (Frowns angrily) You'll…never understand because you never complied…you broke free and escaped. Homeworld doesn't want renegades, Homeworld doesn't want the corrupted…Homeworld…doesn't want mistakes. You…are all three…and anybody fitting in that description…must die!

DAVID: And what do you get out of all of this?

RONALDO: (Smiles) Live forever!

Ronaldo then grabs David's neck and starts to choke him…easily lifting him off the floor as his legs try to kick Ronaldo but made no impact or any difference. David struggled to breath, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't even get a gasp of air, this made him start to panic.

RONALDO: But since there is no Rose Quartz and just that little shit Steven, we'll kill him instead as he's the last known piece of Rose. It's revenge, either way…

David couldn't answer, as he tried to loosen the grip in Ronaldo's hand but it was no use…his vision was about to get blurry as he could hear Ronaldo laughing, sounding like long echo's…just then, there was a squelching sound and a blood curdling sound from Ronaldo…he loosened the grip around David's neck, making him fall on the ground. David took in huge gasps of breath as if it were his last…Ronaldo stepped back, moaning a little. As David was getting his oxygen back, he rubbed his neck but then looked at Ronaldo…and a little surprised to see a long steel pipe through Ronaldo's chest…the blood trickled out from the wound…Ronaldo gagged a little more, looking down at his pipe sticking out of him…tears were dripping down his fat cheek. David looked at him in horror, if slight relief that this had happened but of course, looking with the corner of his eye earlier, he saw Peridot walk slowly into the barn. Peridot had once again, used her powers and made a metal pipe do it's bidding…she controlled it and used her hands for direction, impacting wetly into Ronaldo.

Ronaldo gasped even more as Peridot turned the pipe, the nerves in Ronaldo were still active as the pipe was ripping more flesh. Ronaldo screamed, he then fell to his knees. David got up, the pain throbbing through his hand. Peridot had her hands out, still taking control of the metal pipe.

PERIDOT: What the hell is going on?

David picked up the metal boot he had dropped and with no hesitation, whacked Ronaldo across the face, knocking his glasses off in the process. Ronaldo fell down to the floor, front first…the pipe impaled more as he hit the ground, more blood gushed out and ripping more skin and blood covered chunks of what used to be inside Ronaldo. Peridot was waiting for an answer but David slammed the metal steel-capped boot into Ronaldo's head, hitting the chubby human several times…eventually, the head cracked with the sound of smashed glass and trickles of blood was pushing itself out, soaking into the blonde hair…the only odd thing about this, was what David heard…as the head cracked it made a sound like a tumbler had been dropped. David got his breath back…and strangely looked at Lapis, on the upper floor and the blue gem was still asleep, as she turned over. David was gobsmacked that she didn't hear anything, let alone wake up.

DAVID: (Points to Lapis) How the fuck did she not hear anything? How is she still asleep?

PERIDOT: (Shrugs) She's a heavy sleeper.

DAVID: Yeah, I bet! (Sits on the hay stack and sighs) Fuck me that was intense.

PERIDOT: Do you think you can answer my question now? What is going on?

DAVID: How do I know. I was trying to sleep while this twat was trying to kill me.

PERIDOT: (Chuckles) That's ridiculous

DAVID: (Eyebrows raised. A little shocked from the comment) You just saw him trying to kill me! You gems have perfectly good working eyes, don't you?

PERIDOT: Well, of course we-

DAVID: (Interrupts) That was a rhetorical question! (Gets up and gets a closer look at the body) What a dickhead…

PERIDOT: Who is he?

DAVID: I…saw him earlier. He was shouting out things. End of the world crap, you know…

PERIDOT: Why…did he want you dead?

DAVID: Because…apparently I'm a renegade from Homeworld.

PERIDOT: You…y-you are…?

DAVID: (Groans) But…I don't remember, only…little bits. (Taps Ronaldo's body) I still think I'm dreaming and yet, this guy had…all the answers…(Kicks the lifeless body) Now he's dead!

David goes to kick Ronaldo again but just then the kick was stopped, a hand had grabbed David's foot. David gasped…as the body of Ronaldo was getting up, he pulled David, making him fall over. Peridot panicked a little but was about to use her powers on more metal from the room…Ronaldo got up and shot a fierce red light at Peridot from his eyes, hitting her gem, she screamed as she fell backwards but in mid-air…she was poofed, turning back into a gem but landed softy in the hay.

David rubbed his head…but was looking up at Ronaldo…the back of him. Ronaldo grunted as he grabbed the pipe and pulled it out slowly, ripping more of his insides as yellow and pinks bits of blood covered insides get attached to the pipe…eventually, with one yank, the pipe was out of him but left a gaping hole in the chest that David could see through. Ronaldo dropped the pipe, it clanked while hitting the floor and rolled away. Blood was still streaming out of Ronaldo…but David could notice little sparkles…in the blood. Ronaldo turned his head around…his eyes were wide open and he smiled a toothy grin…David backed away…the skin was then peeling off Ronaldo from his face, then becoming a lump of dead meat. Ronaldo started to laugh…as more bits of flesh and skin was falling off Ronaldo…he had half and half of a face…he continued laughing as teeth were falling out, just then a shard of, what looked like a gem, pieced through his skinless eye socket, pushing the eyeball and ripping the optic nerve, cracking the socket…producing what looked like…another eye, a replacement…and it started to glow. And yet, Ronaldo still kept his smile…while he was transforming as more shards were ripping through his skin.