Chapter 8: Confrontation #3

Diopside reported in, telling Benitoite everything that happened, how Phospho and Taaffeite were captured and Ivory's treason and the stowaways.

"Are you serious?" Benitoite asked.

"'fraid so." Diopside replied, Benitoite went on a tantrum and knocked everything off her desk, including her console.

"Beni! Calm down!" the director next to Benitoite shouted at her.

"What's going on over there?" the gem was definitely a Diamond, and the Diamond in charge of this quadrant was the Yellow Diamond, the silhouette of her body overcast to the console.

"I've had enough of this!" Benitoite shouted and revolted against the Diamond yelling at her. "Screw Homeworld and this job!" Benitoite lost it, two other figures removed her from the circular room though sounds of a struggle continued for a few seconds after. Benitoite was sure to get a punishment, however it was unknown as to what it would be currently. The emitting end of the transmission, crashed. Diopside knew that the escort was still coming, and that her partners' jobs needed to be taken care of; being in combat with the Crystal Gems was enough to file a rough draft of a report to the replacement director. Diopside started writing each and every word in her mind as if her entire being was a computer. The next, was to reactivate the kindergarten, which would be easy as she's already there, hiding one of the holes. And then the last was to capture Ivory, and return with her. However, she'd have to exceed further to gain her reputation back. She knew where to start, the Temple must've had hundreds, thousands of gems in there. Artifacts, objects, corrupted, or damaged. She knew they could be healed, and that if she could make it that far in, she could gain a whole new level of authority, and be even closer to the Diamonds.


The crystal gems ran into the kindergarten, someone was attempting to activate it. Despite how much they looked around, they couldn't find any gem, nevertheless Diopside, that could've activated it. There was literally no sign of life anywhere, other than themselves. Ivory continued looking around, trying to find Diopside, she was the most concerned about her than anyone.

"Ivory, she's not here. Let's just go back." Amethyst groaned, Garnet didn't say anything, but it was evident that she didn't want to be here any longer than necessary.

"I still don't understand what is going on." Pearl said returning to the Warp Pad with everyone, it was a little crowded, but she was glad that all the newcomers weren't screwing things up. Everything was turned off now, there was no point staying there. The light brought all of them back to the Temple to find everything calm except one thing. The Temple door was opened for a moment, it was another Garnet. Garnet ran up to the door and opened it, the imitation Garnet punched the real Garnet. Ammolite slipped past the two Garnets as she was tiny enough to, the door was opened to the bubble room, where all the bad gems were bubbled.

"Ammolite! Wait!"Diopside was looking among the gems, she popped one and then another. Jasper and Peridot were now freed and reforming. Ammolite pushed Diopside back from the two, attempting to keep her from popping anymore bubbles. Peridot was instantly looking around and was debating on popping everything, or just reporting it and coming back later. Peridot looked at one in particular, the centipeedle. It had a seal, but she popped it anyway. Jasper however looked among them and had no interest whatsoever.

"Wait, you're the one that can break corrupted seals..." Diopside held Ammolite by the throat.

"There's a gem that can do that?" Peridot said, holding the corrupted gem. Peridot looked at Ammolite and handed the corrupted gem to her. "Fix it." Normally, Peridot didn't care if something was broken, but if they could fix corrupted gems, they wouldn't need anyone else to take care of this planet; All the assistance they need would already be there. Ammolite held the gem gently within her hands, waiting for someone to come. Jasper smack Ammolite into the ground, cracking the pavement.

"You were given an order." Jasper reminded her. Ammolite took a deep breath, took one more look behind her, and rubbed the gem quickly between her palms as the seal fell off. The gem light up but Ammolite hesitated on throwing it up, but if she held it for too long, then… Ammolite threw the gem into the air and Hambergite made it past the Gilson Garnet and ran to Ammolite, but was sufficiently blocked by Jasper. The gem light up and the form started to appear but instantly went back into it's gem, knowing that a "bad" gem was around. The gem fell to the floor

"Take her." Peridot said, Diopside picked up Ammolite, throwing Ammolite over her shoulder. "Let's get out of here." Peridot added, after picking up the recently un-corrupted gem.

"I need to find the ones who came with me." Diopside replied.

"Forget them." Peridot didn't care about them, "We go back to Homeworld."

"Can't." Diopside spoke immediately.

"Why not?" Peridot snapped at Diopside.

"No ship, no warp to home."

"Hey! Am I interrupting?!" Hambergite shoved Jasper down and walked up to Diopside. "How about you hand over my girl right about now?!" Hambergite shouted. Peridot shot at Hambergite, and an explosion went off at impact.

"We need to leave." Diopside said.

"I'm not running away like a coward." Jasper said.

"You are a coward, Jasper. Now get over yourself and fight another day so you can actually be victorious for once." Diopside said, Peridot's jaw dropped, but Jasper had nothing to say. Apparently Jasper and Diopside knew each other. The Homeworld gems ran to the warp pad, past everyone. The two Garnets continued fighting, Pearl kept her eyes on Peridot but couldn't reach her. Jasper glared at Lapis, almost swearing that she'd kill her another day, the feeling was mutual. Hambergite ran after them, only because they had Ammolite. Amethyst was trying to help Garnet, and Ivory was protecting Steven. One of the Garnets got up and joined the Homeworld gems on the warp pad as they vanished. The chaos stopped as the trace of the enemy left, Pearl looked at Garnet, trying to understand what happened. Garnet got up and punched the wall.

"Whoa! Garnet… c-calm down." Amethyst said, "You almost hit m…!" Garnet punched Amethyst and continued hitting her. Pearl held Garnet back, but Garnet hit her too.

"That's not the real Garnet." Ivory claimed, "The gauntlets, never had spiked tips." Ivory pulled a scarf out of thin air and used it to pull the Gilson Garnet back from Amethyst. The imitation eventually poofed. "The replicator is going to be an endless amount of grief for me."

"So, the real Garnet is with them?"

"Oh my gosh, she is brilliant." Pearl chuckled.

"So… we just wait for her to come back?" Lapis asked.

"NO!" Hambergite shouted in reply. "They… they're going to use Ammolite to un-corrupt all those gems… She, she wont' be able to take it!" Hambergite stormed back and forth.

"Garnet can handle them." Steven cheered.

"No, she can't… she can hardly handle Diopside, nevertheless Jasper, a-a-and Peridot. And Jade, and the two that are coming. Garnet can't handle that many enemies at once…!" Hambergite screamed. Ivory placed a hand on Hambergite's shoulder.

"We'll have to give them a minute anyway." Ivory said.

"I can track them, they used the warp pad, so it'll tell us exactly where they went." Pearl explained, "After that we can apprehend them, without showing any mercy. They won't get away with invading the temple, and stealing Ammolite, right?"

"Right!" Steven shouted in glee, but no one was feeling the energy he was. Hambergite was pissed, Lapis and Ivory felt lost inside, Amethyst felt obsolete, and Pearl was oblivious to all of this. Ivory checked her watch.

60 HOURS REMAIN


/Short chapter again, but this was, straight into the action so I wanted to keep it short this time. Thanks for reading!