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8. Steven Universe

The four found themselves at least a mile above a beach. The shoreline was being swamped by waves.

"Looks like we're here." Soy announced. They all began to float downwards toward the ground. Meanwhile, the Crystal Gems were hanging around. Amethyst was busying herself by shapeshifting, Garnet was enjoying a silent sunbathing in a beach chair, and Pearl was studying the recently-poofed Peridot and her limb enhancers. Steven was trying his best to help out.

"Uh… Maybe it goes here!" He moved one of the limb enhancer's "fingers" into a position on the arm.

"Steven, don't you remember that they were floating and not attached?" Pearl asked.

"Yeah, but they have to be able to connect somehow!"

Garnet began to sense a disturbance. She shot up from her beach chair, removing her pair of sunglasses, revealing her normal visor under. "A possibility I considered so low has become a reality… and there's two of these events happening at the same time…" She stood up from her chair and dashed over to Amethyst, grabbing her by the shirt, and finally dashed back to Steven and Pearl. "Everyone. We have a situation on our hands."

"What kind? The cool kind? Or is it boring, like Pearl's "situations"?" Amethyst joked.

"This isn't the time." Garnet took on a more serious tone. "Quickly, we have to-"

Finally, four people had landed on the beach, dangerously close to base. "Were those guys… flying?" Steven asked to no one in particular.

"Gems. Weapons. I don't know if they mean harm or not." Garnet's gauntlets materialized over her hands, Pearl drew her spear from her gem, and Amethyst drew her twin-tail whip from her chest.

"Aw, they can't be that dangerous, look, one of them is pink!" Steven pointed to the Pink creature.

"Hello!" The tall man called out. "Hey! Uh, don't worry, we won't do anything terrible to you!"

"Rush, you suck at this!" Ara whispered.

"Just be quiet." He responded.

"Do you mean harm or not?" Garnet called back.

"No harm!" Rush returned.

"Wait…" Pearl looked over to see that Steven was missing from his original spot. Instead, he was running towards the four new people. "STEVEN!" Pearl yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Hey!" Steven waved towards Moonstone. He continued closing in.

"Greetings." He responded.

"Whoa!" Steven had gone in close enough to see that Moonstone was another gem. "Another gem!" He turned back to the Crystal Gems, two of which were looking onward in horror. "Guys! One of them is a gem!" He called.

"Oh, that does it!" Pearl dashed forward, and began closing in on Moonstone. "Homeworld is NOT welcome here! Hyah!" She threw her spear at full force, hoping to make contact with the Moonstone's gem. But she was incredibly surprised when it caught her spear, inches from its face, and crushed the handle.

"Moonstone!" The pink creature responded. "What the hell?"

Pearl gasped. "Language!"

"Ahh! Sorry!" The pink creature responded.

"What?" Amethyst looked onwards, shocked. One of the strangers was following Pearl's suggestions. "I think these guys are on our side."

"Hey, why are you Pink?" Steven asked Soy

"Oh, I'm actually not a human." Soy responded. "Call me Soy. I'm a Majin!" He held out his hand, which Steven gleefully shook.

"What's a Majin?" Steven inquired.

"Well, we're human-like, but we've got more stamina! Watch!" He looked at Rush. "Rush, I want you to blow a hole in my chest!"

"Alright." And without questioning it, Rush threw a punch strong enough to pierce the Majin's body, leaving a gaping hole.

Pearl screamed and fainted, Amethyst just said "Whoa!", and Garnet was grinding her teeth.

Steven looked onwards, with no idea what was happening. "WHAT THE?!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy! Check this out. Hup!" Soy pushed his flesh so that it filled up the hole and recreated his clothes on top. "See? Not a scratch on me."

"AWESOME!" Steven practically screamed.

"Thanks!" Soy responded, he then looked towards Rush, with a more serious look on his face. "So Rush, where's the error, what are we here to do?"

"Well, the error…" Rush pointed towards the sky. "Is there." Where Rush was pointing, there was a Red Eye, and three Gem ships. The three ships were getting dangerously close to earth. They were massive hands, as large as the carving that was etched into the mountain above the Crystal Gems' temple.

"Oh, well then. How much trouble do you think those will be?" questioned Soy, as the ships closed in.

"Honestly, not too much, if we play our cards right." Rush looked over to Ara. "Alright, the plan is to take these things out one by one. Ara can take that one," Rush pointed to a blue ship, "Soy can get that one," He pointed to a pink ship, "And I'll take this one." Rush pointed to a red ship. "Moonstone, could you take out the Red Eye?"

"Of course." He lifted one of his hands up, and stuck his index and middle finger out, and put them on his forehead, much like instant transmission. A purple-yellow glow began to emanate from his fingers. Closing his eyes, he focused the charging energy more.

"What's he doing?" Steven asked.

"Give it a moment." Ara told him.

A few more moments passed, and Moonstone finally opened his eyes. "It's ready." He threw out his hand with two fingers out so that they pointed directly at the Red Eye. "Special Beam Cannon!" A yellow, concentrated drill-like beam shot out from his hands and quickly made its way towards the scouting ship. It landed a direct hit through the open orifice that served like a pupil, successfully boring a hole through the ship. A few seconds passed, and the Red Eye exploded into bits and pieces of debris.

The Gems and Steven looked on with open mouths. This Moonstone gem had destroyed it by firing a laser out of his hand. Who was this guy? Was this his gem's specialty?

"Uh… Oh my…" Pearl managed. "Can… all of you do that?"

"Yes, ma'am." Moonstone replied, still in his pose. He returned to a normal standing position and addressed Rush. "The other ships, please."

"You got it. Everyone, prepare your attacks!" Rush took the Galick Gun pose, Soy took a T-pose, and Ara moved both of her hands into the Kamehameha pose. "Remember, these ships are in the shapes of a hand! So they can come up with multiple strategies to counter us!" Rush informed them. They all nodded. "Alright! Charge your energy! Haaa…" A bright purple glow emanated from Rush's hands, a yellowish glow from Soy's, and a light blue glow from Ara's. "Ready…" They all tensed. "Aim…" They took their targets. "Now! Let's go! Galick Gun…" The purple glow became a large purple ball concentrated in Rush's hand. "FIRE!" He pushed both of his hands towards his intended target, firing a colossal purple wave.

"Final…" Soy moved his arms from the T-pose to a new pose where he pushed both his hands together, and outwards to his front. He moved his now connected hands to his hip. "KAMEHAMEHA!" Soy thrust his hands towards the pink gem ship, firing a blue energy beam surrounded by yellow sparks.

"Ka...me…" The space between Ara's hands began to glow more intensely. "Ha...Me…" A blue orb of energy from her hands began to light up the area. "HAAAAA!" She thrust her hands forward, and a pure blue beam of energy shot out towards the light blue gem ship. Each individual beam was traveling at different rates.

The Galick Gun hit first, critically damaging the red ship. The second ship responded by making a fist and creating a powerful energy field that was meant to protect the ship from anything. Inside the ship, however, the many gems stationed there were panicking.

"That beam is too strong! We won't be able to hold our position!" A Peridot yelled from the control room.

"Damn! We're going to have to retreat back to Yellow Diamond and report the new threat!" A tall, bulky Amethyst strategized.

"Everyone, brace for impact!" The Peridot cried.

The shield then collapsed, and the Final Kamehameha landed a direct hit on the craft. A huge explosion followed the hit, sending the ship miles back, and into a far-off mountain. Soy had managed to destroy the ship's powertrain.

The third ship's crew noticed the second's destruction, and made the hand-ship move into a position that imitated a gun, the index finger pointing towards the Super Kamehameha, and the thumb upwards, the three other fingers closed into the hand.

The Peridot of the third ship was preparing for a full-power shot. "Alright! All power is ready! And…" The aiming control was in the index finger, with a Jasper getting the beam into the ship's sights.

"It's all good! Fire!" The Jasper yelled into her communication device.

"Firing!" The Peridot issued the command to fire, and the ship shot an equally large beam from the index finger, which collided with the Kamehameha.

Back on the ground, Ara wasn't having much trouble. "Well, they're persistent, I'll give them that! YAAAAAH!" She raised her power and the wave's power, which then overpowered the ship's cannon and cut through the opposing beam. The third ship was cut right through the middle, completely destroying its core, and causing it to blow up. "Heh, easy." scoffed Ara.

"Wait, where's the other one?" Soy was searching the sky for the red ship. It was on a direct crash course with the quartet. "Oh, great."

"Alright, new plan. We've gotta make this thing land gently, or else the impact will take the whole beach with it!" Moonstone started to fly towards the ship. It was curled into a fist. Moonstone managed to push against the middle finger, while Rush moved in with Soy to push the index and ring finger, and finally, Ara came up to assist with the pinkie.

"Gh… This thing's pretty heavy!" Ara was pushing her physical limits.

"Don't give up just yet!" Soy was easily keeping the ship from destroying the ground.

The ship slowly made its way half to the ground, and the four moved away, and the ship opened itself into an open palm and flipped over, so that it landed on its backside. It was massive, as when it had its fingers spread out, it took up the whole beach.

"Guys…" Moonstone was able to feel where other gems were. He had this ability and he was able to detect the entire fleet in space. "There's way more of them… and there's an entire battalion in the ship." Moonstone could feel how many. At least twenty Rubies, thirty Amethysts, a few Peridots, and some Bloodstones. "Wait, Rush! I feel Bloodstone gems in there!"

The palm exploded open, and all of the gems waiting inside bursted out.

"Wait what's a Bloodstone, and why is it important?" Asked Soy.

"My mother was a Bloodstone." The battalion was getting in position, and the 20 Rubies were fusing into four giant Rubies. "Why I exist now, and she exists at the same time, is because she used the Dragon Balls in the main area of the Universe Patrol to duplicate herself, both body and mind."

Soy remained silent. Rush focused. "That doesn't matter now. Just get into the fight, NOW!" Ara yelled out. The entire battalion was charging at them. "I want dibs on the Peridots!" Ara lunged towards the group of green, triangle-haired gems. "I'm your opponent now!" The Peridots prepared their arm enhancers and shifted them into the ranged weapon mode.

"I'll take the Amethysts, Rush, take the Bloodstones!" Shouted Soy as he rushed towards the larger Gem warriors.

"Guess that leaves me with the Rubies. Good luck, Rush." Said Moonstone indifferently as he ran towards the giant Rubies.

"Does this mean we seriously have to sit back and do nothing?!" Amethyst indignantly yelled. "I'm getting involved anyways!" She began to impersonate Sonic's spin dash and rushed into the fight.

"Alright." Rush put on a cautious stance. "I think I can do this…" The Bloodstones appeared. One was thin and tall, with incredibly long hair. Another was bulkier, but slightly shorter, and the last one was both tall and bulky, the leader of the trio. "None of them are my mother…" Rush had seen her leftover file in the main part of the Academy. Gems didn't age, so it would be much easier to find her, and to confirm it was her. He snapped out of his daydream from a hard strike to his cheek. He stumbled a little, as he was caught off guard. The thinner one was attacking first. "Fine, have it your way." He directed his comment at his attacker. He used rapid movement to appear behind her and gave her a spin kick that threw her back into the ship, making a dent. Rush continued his assault and moved in to attack, but the two other Bloodstones noticed the imminent danger and had leapt into action. The strongest one knocked Rush back to the ground, and the shorter one grabbed him by the arm and threw him away from the wounded Bloodstone. He halted his path of flight mid-air, and teleported back to the Bloodstones. He landed a powerful punch to the short one's face, and threw a kick at the strongest one, which blocked the kick with difficulty.

"Not strong enough, huh?" Rush taunted. He spun the opposite direction so that his free leg kicked the Bloodstone into the ocean. The splash was lengthy, as the Gem had traveled on the water's surface before sinking. "I better end this fight right now." He remembered Nalma's attack, and created two ki swords on his arms. "Have this!" He flew towards the now upright thin Bloodstone, who was impaled by his ki sword. She instantly exploded into smoke, leaving her Gem behind. He moved onto the shorter one by firing a sharpened ki blast from his other sword arm, which cut the Gem's body in half. The short Bloodstone poofed, and Rush flew up above the area where the other Bloodstone had landed. He fired a barrage of ki blasts into the ocean, hopefully hitting the intended target. After twenty shots he stopped and looked towards the sky. An entire fleet of Gem warships were closing in now, and in the middle of all of them was a giant yellow arm, with a hand at the end. That was Yellow Diamond's ship.

Soy was having an easy time fighting off the Amethysts. They hadn't gone under much training, and were dropping like flies. Quickly reacting, he did a sweep kick, knocking an Amethyst over, and grabbed her by the foot and threw her into another group of Amethysts.

"Ha ha!" He dodged another sluggish punch. "Can't touch this!" He kicked the Amethyst hard enough to poof her. Dodging two more punches, he fired two concentrated ki blasts at the oppressors, each poofing simultaneously. Only five Amethysts remained.

"Guys! We have to fuse!" One of them yelled.

"You got it!" The others responded. They ran into each other, their five bodies began to glow, and their gems began to move. The glowing body fluctuated and grew until it was as tall as the Gem ship was wide. Finally, the glow wore off, revealing a giant Amethyst. "What now, little guy?"

"What I understand is that you think size matters." Soy quickly moved under the gap between her legs. "Well, you're wrong, mostly." He moved behind the giant, and prepared a powerful attack. "This is from Moonstone! Special Beam Cannon!" He fired the attack so that it perfectly pierced the Amethyst's chest, poofing all five at the same time.

Meanwhile, Moonstone was easily beating the giant Rubies. He just had to do a sweep kick and follow up with a punch to the falling Ruby's face, and they just poofed. However, one was being more persistent that the others.

"We'll crush you! Yah!" It charged at Moonstone.

"If you use the correct strategy, then you will have a more likely possibility of defeating me!" He took his Turtle fighting pose.

The Ruby tried to tackle Moonstone, who dodged the lumbering gem with ease. He turned towards the Ruby and thrust his hand out towards it, firing a weak ki blast that exploded on its back and knocked the giant over. Moonstone moved his arm to his right hip, where his gem was, and began to draw his weapon out. It was a singular katar. He moved his other hand towards his gem and pulled out another katar, so that both his arms were equipped with the weapons. He raised both his arms above his head and performed a downward strike to the back of the Ruby, with the edges of the katars out. He cut through the Ruby's body with ease, and the entire giant poofed into five separate gems. "That's done. What about the others?" Moonstone looked to the sky, and he sees the gem ships coming. "Oh, dear." he flew over to Rush "Is that not Yellow Diamond's spacecraft?" He pointed to the sky.

"Damn it… It sure is." Rush was worried. How would they fare against Yellow Diamond and her more elite gems?

Ara was finishing off the Peridots by ripping off their limb enhancers and impaling them with her arm. "What's going on now?" She removed her arm from a Peridot's torso, and the gem poofed as soon as she had freed her arm. "Something about Yellow Diamond?" She flew over to Rush and Moonstone. Soy soon followed suit.

"Looks like they really wanted to crush the Crystal Gems' rebellion." Soy observed. There were at least 20 other normal ships and Yellow Diamond's in the center of it all.

"Considering how quickly we were able to render these other gems inoperable, the ones in the basic hand ships shall be easily dealt with, but Yellow Diamond's ship and her personal battalion might be a problem." Moonstone was reading the power of the gems in each ship. "Soy and Rush have the capability of defeating Yellow Diamond, but they will need to transform."

"Alright!" The two high fived. They were already much stronger than the most powerful gem that was currently known.

"However… If those Bloodstones in her ship have their limiters removed, they will be able to overpower Soy easily, but Rush would barely be able to deal with all of them at once. We need to work as a single force to defeat all of these elite gems."

"We still had better play our cards right…" Rush prepared for an attack. Suddenly, a bright white glow began to emanate from something behind him, and a giant arrow was fired directly at a gem ship, piercing its defenses, completely destroying it. Rush and the others turned around to see an extremely tall 6-armed woman standing with a bow drawn. She had sunglasses on, and the mouth of a dog was behind the face. Her hair was almost as long as her body was tall. She was panting, and had three arms holding the bow's main part, and three free arms, which all were used to extend the string.

"We've all got to destroy the singular ships!" The giant woman yelled. "Use those attacks from earlier, and give me some assistance!" She loaded another arrow and fired it, successfully destroying another gem ship.

"Galick Gun! Fire!" Rush fired a purple beam from his hands, destroying another ship.

"Kamehameha!" Ara fired a powerful Kamehameha wave at another ship, destroying it.

"I suppose so!" Moonstone charged his energy. "Take this! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He rapidly shot multiple ki blasts all around the ships. They halted their course, the Peridot pilots inside observing the situation. Moonstone kept firing.

"Are you TRYING to miss them? What is wrong with you?!" The woman yelled out of her other mouth, the animal-like one.

"Give it a moment." Rush instructed.

Soon enough, Moonstone ceased his assault, and there were now multiple glowing orbs of ki surrounding each smaller ship. Moonstone spread out his limbs so that he looked like an X, and flew upwards.

"HELLZONE GRENADE!" He threw both his arms downwards. All of the ki orbs dashed towards their intended targets, landing multiple critical hits and destroying many of the ships instantly. Massive explosions rocked the sky and ground, and the giant woman began to glow, and her body began to lose solidity and morphed into three smaller bodies. The Crystal Gems soon appeared. They had fused into Alexandrite to aid the Universe Patrollers in their assault.

"Incredible…" Pearl gazed into the sky. The mere explosions were enough to light up the night.

"Amazing…" Garnet was equally as shocked, as she had her mouth open and took off her visor.

"Awesome!" Amethyst's eyes lit up both because of the explosions and her wonder at the newfound destructive powers she was witnessing.

The smoke cleared, and the fleet was gone, except for a spotless yellow arm. The blasts weren't strong enough to damage Yellow Diamond's ship. The ship curled into a fist, and straightened its arm.

"Guys… I think they want to punch us!" Steven called out exasperatedly.

"STEVEN?!" The three gems turned around.

"Soy, I'll get the kid out of here, you take care of the ship's punch with Ara and Moonstone!" Rush grabbed Steven's shoulder, put his two fingers up against his own forehead, and used instant transmission to teleport to Connie's house.

"Got it Rush. HRRAAAAAAH!" He transformed into his Super Buu form and powered up to 100%. "Alright let's do this! Big Bang…" a large blue orb formed in front of him, creating ripples in the air, " KAMEHAMEHA!" The giant Blue wave struck the Arm, forcing it to slow its descent.

Inside the arm ship, Yellow Diamond was in full control.

"What a pain." She raised the throttle to a next level, so that the engine acted in a WEP mode. The arm began to push the beam back.

"What the?!" Soy wouldn't be able to hold it back. "Gh… Damn it!"

Just then, another voice rang out next to him. "Ka...me...ha...me…" Ara prepared for a full power blast. "HAAAAAAAA!" She fired the light blue attack at the ship, so that it fused with Soy's Big Bang Kamehameha. "Grrr… Don't forget about us!"

"She is correct, you know." Soy turned to see Moonstone charging an attack of his own. "Special Beam Cannon!" He threw his fingers out so that the piercing beam cut through the finger of the ship, damaging the engine. But, the velocity the ship had picked up from the WEP was still too much to stop it from colliding with the ground.

"Damn it!" Soy turned his head to the side, and searched for the gems. "You guys had better clear out! This thing's going into the ground and we can't stop it!"

The three nodded and ran back to the temple. "Alright, on three we clear out as well!" Ara was struggling to keep up her power. "One…" Their muscles tensed, preparing to get out of the way. "Two…" They stopped firing their attacks, and prepared to use their full power to get them out of the way. "Three!" The three patrollers dashed from in front of the arm to the side, allowing it to crash at a quarter of its original force into the beach, kicking up tons of sand, half-burying Beach City.

"Holy crap, we just barely dodged that one!" Ara called out from the starboard side of the ship.

"No time to waste! Everyone, full power!" Soy called out to Ara and Moonstone. They were still hiding some of their energy. "Now it's time to see if this will really work…" Soy began to charge his energy, and he began to shorten. His head tentacle followed suit, until he was as tall as his base form, but was in the next stage of a Majin's power: the Kid form. "Grrrrhhhhhh…" He held his head in his hands. "Grrrruuuaaah…" He dropped his hands, and finally lifted up his head, his pupils returning to their natural blue color, with the rest of his eye being black.

Just as Soy finished transforming, Rush had returned on his own, having successfully transported Steven to Connie. "Is this really going to be that hard of a fight?" He asked Soy.

"You never know." Soy's voice had become slightly raspy. "It's good to play it safe when you're on a patrol, anyways."

"Well, I'll take care of the other Bloodstones, then." Rush prepared himself, transforming to his Psychotic form. He wanted to get this over with.

"I'm sensing a Holly Blue Agate. They're like the commanders of the smaller groups of Amethysts and Jaspers. And yes, there are a few of those types of gems in the ship." Moonstone reported.

"Then this should be over quickly." Ara responded.

At this point the Crystal Gems were going to watch from a distance. "Honestly, it's a good show when you think about it." Amethyst had somehow found a smoothie and was drinking it.

"I have to agree." Pearl stretched. "It's good to have a break after that drama with the Homeworld gems."

Garnet, however, remained silent, simply observing the scene. The hand of the Diamond ship exploded open, and the 30 Bloodstones poured out. A Holly Blue Agate followed, with 5 Jaspers and Amethysts behind her. Finally, another giant woman made her way out of the ship. She wasn't as tall as Alexandrite, but almost came up to Sugilite's level.

"Yellow Diamond." Soy began to fly up to her eye level. "So you listened to that Peridot, huh?" He grinned. "Well, you're gonna regret showing up here. I'll make you run home crying. Like a... Little. Bitch."

"Hmph. I have no time for you humans." She pulled from her gem a longsword, and swung with a fraction of her might, cutting Soy in half. "See? Easy. Now, about the others. And the rebellion…" She turned her attention towards the Crystal Gems.

Meanwhile, whilst she was distracted, Soy had reformed himself so that he was good as new. He quickly fired a weak ki blast which struck Yellow Diamond's back, making her stagger. "Ah-ah-ah!" He waggled a finger when she began to look at him. "Let's not forget about me." He grinned.

"Pest!" She swung her sword again, this time with more power, but Soy just stuck out his hand and caught it with ease. "What in the-?!"

"Haaah!" Soy threw the sword to the side and rushed in to land a right hook to her face, sending her into her own ship, severely damaging the hull.

"Urrh!" She got up and threw a punch, then a kick. Soy easily dodged both attacks and moved in to kick Yellow Diamond into the ground, and succeeded in doing so. The impact kicked up sand and smoke, blinding the other gems and patrollers.

"Scram already, will you?" Soy landed a powerful punch to Yellow's abdomen. "It's not like you can keep up in this fight!" He threw another attack directed at the same area.

Whilst Soy was enjoying his "fight", Rush was busy dealing with the multiple Bloodstones. He had already taken care of half the force, and was currently ending two more of the Bloodstones, poofing them. "These guys really don't know when to stop." He kicked a Bloodstone hard enough to poof her, and threw her gem like a shuriken to poof another. "Eleven more." He rushed into one that was charging him and gave her a powerful uppercut, then stabbed her through her stomach with a ki sword, instantly poofing her.

Meanwhile, Ara and Moonstone had completely taken care of the other battalion, and the Holly Blue Agate was retreating back into the ship.

"That's a win in my book." Ara said, holding up a victory handsign.

"Victory, indeed. Now, we must assist Rush with the other Bloodstones." Moonstone took off in the direction of Rush, with Ara in tow.

"Hey, I really don't think that he needs help." Ara was observing the "fight" that was occurring. Rush was having very little trouble with the bloodstones. Three of them tried to dogpile him, and he just flared his aura and threw them all off.

"These guys are already throwing tactics out the window." He laughed, and finished off one final Bloodstone. Now only 1 remained. "Heh, ready to follow your friends?" The bloodstone glared.

"Hey I could use some help here!" The Bloodstone called out. Rush saw the crashed ship move, the hand opening up to reveal a familiar Bloodstone.

She took one look at Rush and said to her fellow Bloodstone, "Come here, we are retreating!" She grabbed the Bloodstone's hand, and pulled it back onto the ship. Just as she said this, Yellow Diamond was thrown to the ground yet again and barked an order at the remaining gems, an order of retreat. All the gems retreated onto the ship, except for that familiar Bloodstone. Rush was concentrating hard, and thinking equally so. Why did this one have such a high level of ki? Gems of this universe lacked that. He memorized the energy reading, keeping his eyes on the Bloodstone. Soy had reverted back to his base form.

"And stay out!" Soy yelled from Rush's side. "Hey, we did pretty good!" He looked at Rush with concern. "You alright, buddy?" He waved his hand in front of his face.

"That's…" Rush stared at the Bloodstone on the finger of the ship.

"That can't be…" The Bloodstone was evaluating the human. Suddenly, she saw a sparkle come from the human's forehead. "Is that?"

A distinct memory ran through Rush's mind. A gray-skinned woman holding his hands, his vision barely coming to the woman's knees. It was all blurry. He tried to remember, and finally, a clear picture came up. In his memory, he fell to the ground. He was crying, like a toddler would. What happened next sealed his next move. The woman had picked him up, and was looking into his eyes with genuine concern. She gave him a small peck on the cheek and hugged him closely, instantly ending his sorrow. Suddenly, the memory cleared, the face becoming completely identifiable, and tears began to well in Rush's eyes. "Mother…"

"What are you doing?! We've gotta get out of here!" The Bloodstone that the gem Rush called "mother" had helped earlier was peeping out of the hand. "Hurry! Or we're all doomed!"

"Alright, I'm coming in." She responded. She began to walk into the ship, but paused. She looked back towards Rush. They locked eyes for a moment. Rush's eyes were shining for once.

"Is it really her?" He was astounded. He reached out with a hand. However, "mother" had a different plan. She turned back towards the ship, and continued her path.

"I'm sorry…" She whispered under her breath, and retreated back into the ship, a single tear streaming from her eye. The hand slammed shut, and the ship began to lift into the air.

"Mother?" Soy questioned. "Then, go after her! We'll take care of things back at the main base!"

"He's right. You should go there this instant." Moonstone hinted.

"O-onto the ship?" Rush asked again.

"I'll go with you. It's good to have backup, anyways." Ara had ran over to Rush and grabbed his arm.

"N-no. I'm sorry, but this is for me." Rush lightly released his kiai to push Ara and the others back. "Soy, keep feeling for my energy. If you can feel me from all the way out there in the cosmos, you better make everyone here raise their power to 100%, forms and all. Otherwise, I won't be able to go back home." He put his fingers to his head and searched for his mother's energy. "I'm coming, mom." And he disappeared.

Sorry it's been so long since my last update. The first mission after that long fight is complete! But who is Rush's mother, and will he find her? Find out next time!

Next Chapter : Chapter 9 - Pushing Limits and Boundaries