Chapter 8 : Gem meets Metal Part 2
"Two soldiers seem to be approaching!" Quartz shouted, causing Emerald to extend her hand to the taller gem.
"Shall we dance?" She asked unenthusiastically, smirking slightly as Quartz took her hand. Within seconds they had turned to light, molding into the tall and formal Jade.
"I'm on it." She reassured, bowing to her leader with a smile before whipping out her large dual fans and jumping into the air. She soared toward the two ores, glaring as they watched the fusion landed before them. She gave them a cocky smirk before lunging forward, leaving behind two puffs of smoke and ores without bodies. she shot back and used two of her arms to bubble the iron and send it to the cargo bay of the ship.
"Wow, that was easier than I expected" commented Carnelian, watching from a nearby rock with a form of binoculars.
"Oh my god are you kidding me?" The fusion and meched out gems looked around in confusion at the sudden interjection.
"You NEVER say that in a battle. Have you taught them anything?!" Alkaline sat floating right outside of the cave, holding the smaller fusion in his arms, both relaxing in the air and eating some of the popcorn Tigers Eye had stolen from Earth.
"Wha-what the?" Jade stepped back before breaking apart, the laughter by the two was enough to break Emerald's concentration and both were thrown into the bushes of the clearing. Both Alkaline and Tigers Eye were currently laughing at the confused faces of the gems below. Carnelian's eye twitched a little after a moment.
"...I don't need any comments from the peanut how about you help us!?" The orange gem shouted, glaring at the two child like... creatures (She would be damned if she was to call those sadistic weirdos gems) as Alkaline almost fell out of the sky from laughing so hard.
"Hmmmmmmmmm… We'll have to sleep on it." Tigers Eye yawned as Alkaline dropped a few feet, fighting against his own laughter to concentrate hard enough to keep them off the ground.
"You cannot be serious!? Our damn enemy is on our doorstep and you're thinking of NAPPING!?" Carnelian snapped pointing one of the mech's arm at the two to point.
"It's called sarcasm man… get used to it. You'll be gettin' a lot more of it now that I'm on board." Alkaline said, calming down enough to be able to speak correctly. Then Tigers Eye jumped up, landing on Alkaline's waiting hands and then bouncing into the air at the reinforcements coming out from the bridge of the enemy ship, which was still approaching fast. Tigers Eye's hammer flew from her gem into her hand, which used it's new weapon to smash away at two Irons. Alkaline was by her side in seconds, punching the next one into a cloud of smoke and grabbing one by the scruff of his neck.
"This is for callin me a stupid kid!" the silvery body turned to dust in his hands.
"What!? Impossible! Alkaline you traitor!" shouted Bronze from his spot on the cliff. His yellow eyes now filled with fury. He growled a bit as the ore on the back of his left hand then glowed brightly. Within moments a large claw like gauntlet had formed over his upper arm.
"You want something done right, do it yourself!" he yelled while turning running for cliffside in which Emerald and Quartz were still at. The three claws on his gauntlet furiously slashing away at the brush.
"Not good." Carnelian muttered to herself as she directed the mech up the side of the cliff. This metal was stronger than the others, it was best to reach Emerald and Quartz first.
"Uhhhgg.." groaned Quartz, standing up after recovering from the confusion of Jade's split up. Rubbing her head, she looked around for her smaller fusion partner.
"Emerald! Are you there!?" She called out, a bit worried about her friend.
"Uhhgg.. I'm right here don't have to shout at me." Groaned an irritated Emerald sitting up from a bush about 10 feet away. Quartz smiled brightly seeing Emerald was alright.
"Emerald! I'm glad you're-" Quartz stopped mid sentence and her eyes went wide, catching sight of the other side of the clearing just beneath the shade of the trees. It was Bronze. His eyes were glowing and his claw gauntlet lay bared. She whimpered a bit. Emerald was closer to him than she was. Emerald needed to move. Now.
"Run! We need to fuse again now!" She shouted to the shorter gem. Bronze growled angrily and charged forward. Emerald quickly realised what was happening and sprinted for Quartz, Bronze right on her tail. Emerald lept up in the air just as Bronze took a swipe at her. It felt like slow motion from when she had left the ground to the moment she had grabbed Quartz's once the moment came, it was all worth it.
They both expelled rays of light as they returned to their light like states and mixed together. The rays were enough to send Bronze back aways, even sent flying a little. He grunted as he landed the ground. The light from the fusion was so bright he shielded his eyes. The light soon faded, revealing the elegant, formal fusion in their place. A disgusted scowl formed on his face. Raised with homeworld ideals, he found multi-gem fusion disgusting. He rose back to his feet and wiped some dirt from his face.
"So you two have decided to throw away your dignity and fuse into something different, disgusting.." He growls up at the fusion. Jade only offered a soft giggle and smirk in return.
"Then you will never understand what it truly means to a free gem." She replied while facing her new opponent. Bronze lunged forward, his claws glinting as he slashed downward. But instead of meeting the smoke that he was expecting, his talons clashed off of Carnelians mech suit.
"Not so fast. You're gonna need to do more than that to beat us. You will not HARM MY FRIENDS!" The two faced each other, Gem vs Metal, the fate of the Geodes hangs in the balance here on this planet.
Carnelian's mech clenched it's fists and she sneered at the metal before looking at Jade.
"You two, go. We need to defend the base at all costs." Jade hesitated a moment before giving her leader a nod. Turning she ran back into the forest on her way back towards the cliffside. Carnelian turns back to Bronze who was glaring at her with a slight smirk, betraying his angered front. Wat
"BITCHGETTHEFUCKOUTIDONTGIVETOSHITSBOUTYOUYOUFUCKINDEADBITCH!" Tigers Eye interrupted the fight as she ran, bashing her hammer at the tails of 5 Iron soldigers. The two leaders stared after her, both with one eyebrow raised. There was a flash of grey and Alkaline skidded to a halt in between the two.
"Quick update, there are like, 200 soldiers, about, and I don't think we can fight them all so if your gonna fight with us do it now." and then he was gone again, as quickly as he came. The two golden gems looked at each other, still to weirded out to move.
"Uuuuuuuuuuh…"
"Yeah it happens more often than you think." There was another moment of silence. Eye contact had been broken as they wrapped their heads about what happened. Bronze lifted head to resume the fight again. But he ended up just staring at her a little, just something about her… she was different from other gems he had seen. Carnelian then lifted her head.
"Can we fight now?" she asked with a bit of annoyance in her tone. Hearing this snaps Bronze from his trance like state and shook his head a bit.
"Y-yeah..! Back to the matter at hand." both the gem and the metal enter into a fighting stance. Bronze bared his clawed gauntlet, but something was different. It's like his earlier bloodlust had vanished, he didn't know why. He gulped a little. A moment later Carnelian's mech bursts forward for the metal. Bronze's eyes widened and raised his gauntlet defend against the arm of the mech which reached for him. The mech's hand clasps around the gauntlet. The two wrestled to try and push each other away. Bronze grunted a bit as he shoved harshly against the mech. The mech recoiled a bit. Carnelian growled a bit and tightened the grip of the hand.
Suddenly a swarm of Metal soldiers came flying in to save their leader. The mech was knocked to the side, causing Carnillean to change focus. Bronze rubbed his hand, cringing at the pain. Then there was an explosion and the mech flew off to join the other Geodes in the fight. Bronze coughed up the dust and smog that the suit left behind.
He looked up. She was gone. Or so he thought. As the dust began to clear he saw a shadow begin to take shape. It was a beautiful girl, and soon it pulled an axe from her hand. Bronze was hypnotised by the movement, and the figure was approaching, fast. In an orange flash Carnelian burst from the smoke and slashed at a surprised Bronze. He dove out of the way, dodging her next few swipes. The ax worked like a fan, clearing out the dust as Bronze countered, their weapons clashing like thunder. The two dueled, matching each other blow for blow.
Their dance was broken when one of Bronze's warriors was flung into hibreaking into smoke on impact. Then an explosion sounded across the battlefield, along with an infuriated scream from Emerald. The two looked at each other. The battle was over. Neither had won. Both had lost. The Metals, their honor, The Geodes, their sanctuary.
Carnelian sprinted in the direction of the sound, her eyes wide with worry of that had happened. Bronze called out an order to bubble all the metals they could find and retreat. The Mech was ruined. As was ⅓ of Bronze's army. That was the first battle. The rest of them wouldn't be that easy. Both of them swore it wouldn't be.
"Yellow?"
"Yes Blue Diamond?"
"I feel the hybrid has almost come to terms with itself." The diamond smiled at her sister on the throne. The yellow pearl was bowed at the foot of her master's seat. The yellow gem turned her head from the screens before her and looked back her blue sister.
"Is that so? Shall we go to their cell?" She asked as she rose from her chair. The screens wavered before vanishing entirely. Blue Diamond nodded in reply.
"Yes, White Diamond is waiting there for us."
The two diamonds traversed their large palace sitting in the heart of the Gem capital, both their pearls walking next to each other respectively. They descended into the lowest corridors of their home until they reached a well secured door. A panel with a handprint scanner positioned next to it.
"Care to do the honors?" asked Yellow Diamond to her sister. Blue returned a quiet nod to her and set her hand upon the scanner, within seconds screen glows in approval and the door opened, revealing a large chamber with a expansive pit in the center. White Diamond stood upon a balcony overlooking the pit. Her head turned from looking down at the pit to her sisters.
"Welcome my sisters." She greeted as the two entered the chamber, the door closing behind them. White Diamond smirks softly and looked back down in the pit as they approached the railing.
"I believe their personalities are finally fusing." White Diamond commented as distorted screams from what sounded like three different voices echoed from the pit below. Looking down they saw a six armed fusion just about as tall as one of the other diamonds. Her skin was a dark grey and her four eyes were a furious green. Her vibrant purple hair stood out from the darkness of the pit. Positioned upon her head a single gem, a diamond, but it looked distorted like it needed to be melded together. The fusion thrashed around harshly despite being chained down with many chains. It continued to scream out in a mix of sorrow, pain and rage, each emotion unique to one of the three voices. Yellow Diamond smirks a bit.
"I can see some progress has been made. A few hundred years ago it wouldn't stop trying to summon weapons." White Diamond chuckles a bit at her sister's comment.
"Ah yes, I feel like it's finally settling into one consciousness." White Diamond says with a smile setting her hands on the railing.
"Have we settled on a name for when it's ready?" asked Blue Diamond as she observed the thrashing gem.
"Not quite yet, but our working title for her so far is, Black Diamond."
~End Chapter~
