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"I'm getting a serious case of deja vu..." Steven said, watching as the green hand reached towards the city. Unlike the last ship, this one was a left hand, not a right hand.
His phone rang, and he quickly recognized the number, answering.
"Universe, are we really doing this again?!" The voice of Mayor Dewey rang.
"I'm afraid so, Mayor Dewey..." Steven gulped.
Mayor Dewey sighed. "If the square headed one didn't scare me, I'd have had you guys evicted by now." Dewey sighed. "Want me to evacuate the city again?"
"Yes please..." Steven answered sheepishly. He looked down the beach to see a van coming up on it, pulling over. Greg and Connie jumped out of it.
Dewey sighed, clicking the button and looking out at the distant hand.
"Everything alright, Dad?" Buck asked, walking up behind him.
"Get your friends and everyone else, Buck... We're evacuating again."
"Again?!" Sadie exclaimed in shock.
"I know, right?" Lars said, motioning for Sadie to come through the door of the Big Donut.
Sadie looked down, thinking. "Sadie, what are you doing? Come on, we've gotta go!"
"... No." Sadie said, her hands clenching into fists.
"... What?!"
"I said no!" Sadie said, looking back up at Lars.
"Sadie, are you insane? We've gotta go!" Lars walked forward, grabbing her by the wrist. "Those Gems will kill us!"
"Steven barely got away last time!" Sadie pulled her hand free. "We have to help him!"
"What can we do?!"
"I killed an invisible monster with a spear and brute strength! I think I can take a couple space rocks!" Sadie reached under the desk, pulling out the sharpened stick from her trip with Lars and Steven to the Gem Island.
"... You're gonna get me killed but..." Lars smirked.
"I guess I have to help out Player 2."
Sour Cream ran towards the boat he'd been told to use to get to his father if something like what happened last time occurred. he stopped, someone tugging at his pant leg.
He looked down, seeing Onion. "Huh? What is it?" Sour Cream knelt before his step brother.
Onion pointed towards the boat with a harpoon gun on it.
"What about it?" Sour Cream asked, and Union pointed towards the ship flying from the sky. That hand seemed like despair in a physical form...
"... Union, there is no way-" Union gave some sort of puppy dog eyes, stopping Sour Cream in his tracks.
"... No, Union. It's not happening. If you get hurt Dad'll-"
Union pointed towards Sadie and Lars running towards the beach, Sadie holding her spear. He looked back to Sour Cream, then held out a piece of paper.
Sour Cream took the paper, arching a brow at it. It read the word 'coward'.
"... Dad's going to kill me..." Sour Cream muttered, looking to the boat.
Jenny and Buck drove through the city. "Now where is Sour Cream?" Jenny wondered aloud, and Buck shrugged.
"Maybe he's already out of the city." Buck said, before glancing at the boat moving towards the beach.
With Union manning the harpoon gun.
"I think I might know where he is." Buck pointed, and Jenny's eyes widened.
"Oh we've gotta get in on this."
The ground shook as the green hand came to a stop on the beach, and Steven stood strong before it, Greg and Connie standing behind him. On the porch of the house Lion stood, glaring at the hand.
Connie held her sword up, ready for battle. Greg had a metal baseball bat and a case full of golf clubs on his back.
"S-so this is really it, huh?" Greg asked nervously, glancing at Steven.
"It's not the end, if that's what you're asking. We've just gotta hold them off until the gems are ready." Steven grinned despite the fear welling inside of him.
"Well..." Greg laughed. "I must be crazy for being out here, but I can't just leave some kids to protect the city." His laugh was nervous.
"Steven!"
Steven looked to see Sadie and Lars running down the beach towards them. "Sadie?! Lars?!" Steven exclaimed in shock. Lars was holding a wooden baseball bat that had hastily had nails put through it.
"We came to help! Where are the Gems?" Sadie questioned, and Steven shook his head.
"All of them are currently down and out." Steven laughed nervously, and Lars' eyes widened.
"... We're all gonna die, aren't we?" He asked, his shoulders dropping.
"That depends on you're answers, filthy humans." That voice was way too cheery for that sentence.
They all looked up to see that the palm of the ship had opened, and five gems stood on it. At the front stood Sunstone and Moonstone, and behind them stood a line going Emerald, Amazonite, and Tiger from left to right.
Ruby and Sapphire watched through the window eagerly, seeming to shake as they did.
"I don't care if we're ready or not, we have to fuse now!" Ruby said, looking to Sapphire, who shook her head, looking at the gems on the counter and then to Amethyst and Pearl.
"It will be okay. We can wait exactly four minutes." She said, taking a deep breath to calm herself.
Ruby growled, slamming her fist into the wall.
"Uh... Are those two in the front children?" Greg asked, arching a brow at Steven.
"I'm more concerned with the four armed one in the back." Lars confessed, shaking.
"Aw, look. They made a little defense force to meet us." Tiger grinned.
"Okay before we play the demoralize the meat bags game, let's get the information out of them." Emerald rolled his eyes.
"Now now Emerald..." Moonstone grinned.
"I wanna play with them first!" Sunstone smiled cheerily, holding her hands in front of her at her lap and tilting her head to the side.
"Tell us where the Gems are. All of them." Amazonite said, glaring at the human defense force.
"If you wanna get to them, you have to go through us!" Steven's shield appeared as he spoke, glaring at the Homeworld Gems.
In the next instant, Sunstone had appeared before Steven, making him stumble back slightly. Sunstone giggled.
"You're the one with Rose's Gem!" She smiled, and Moonstone suddenly came from behind her, grinning with his sharp teeth.
"We wanna play with you first." Moonstone spoke before suddenly ducking, a baseball bat swinging over his head.
"That was rude." Moonstone said, suddenly on Greg's back!
Greg jumped with fear, suddenly grabbing at Moonstone, who easily dodged around his hands, pulling out his dagger.
"Bye bye tubby!" Sunstone grinned as Moonstone's dagger came down.
The dagger was stopped however, on Connie's sword. "Not so fast." Connie said, glaring at Moonstone, who's eyes widened with joy as his grin spread.
"Humans are just so..." Moonstone jumped from Greg, landing behind Connie. "Interesting!"
He thrust his dagger forward, but Connie turned, blocking the blade and jumping back. Moonstone shot forward at her, and their blades collided once again.
"Connie!" Steven exclaimed, running towards her. A whistling sound entered his ears, and he quickly held up his shield, blocking the arrow that had been shot at him.
The arrow exploded into flames upon impact, and Steven winced under the heat. Sunstone grinned, pulling back another arrow.
"Ah ah, you shouldn't interrupt Moonstone's fights. He gets real cranky..." Sunstone giggled before suddenly back flipping, Sadie's spear going through the air where she had once stood.
Sunstone grinned, aiming her arrow at the back of Sadie's head as she jumped.
"Sadie! Look out!" Lars slammed his baseball bat into Sunstone's side, groaning as he threw her aside with it!
Sunstone's eyes widened, but her grin remained as she landed on one hand, her bow disappearing as she jumped up, landing on her feet. "Lucky shot, you waste of space." She said cheerily.
"That's a pretty big mouth for such a little girl." Lars wasn't sure why he was smirking, maybe it was because he was the first to land a hit on one of these Gems.
Sadie and Lars stood side by side, ready for Sunstone's next attack. "I'm going to gut you like a fish." Sunstone jumped into the air, coming down at the two with one foot raised.
Lars blocked the foot with his bat, but the sudden force made the sand explode below him, and he was thrown into the ground.
"Lars!" Sadie exclaimed in shock, glaring at Sunstone. Sunstone's grin stretched further across her face, her eyes closed as per usual.
"Come at me, you filthy meat bag."
Ruby looked anxiously at the clock. It had been three minutes. "Come on Sapphire, we've gotta-" She was cut off, a glow coming into the room.
"Oh great!" Ruby exclaimed, Matrix's Gem lifting into the air. Matrix was reformed, landing on his hands and knees.
"Well... That was something. Wait, where the hell am I?" He looked up at Ruby and Sapphire.
Sadie shot at Sunstone, who jumped up, spinning and kicking her in the side!
Sadie shot across the sand, bouncing and skipping across it before eventually coming to a stop, cut up and bruised.
Lion shot from the porch, roaring at Sunstone. she elegantly back flipped away from the blast that the roar sent, landing on her feet as Lion landed, growling at her.
Lion was suddenly thrown back at the house, slamming through the porch.
Lion lifted his head, looking to see Tiger standing on the railing, licking her hand. She seemed to be becoming more tiger-like.
"Show me what you've got, cuddly."
"... I see." Matrix said, looking at the two short gems before him. They had just explained the situation, and Matrix was clearly thinking.
"Tiger is here too, huh? Well..." Matrix cracked his knuckles. "Looks like I've got a bit of catching up to do."
"Wait." Ruby interrupted. "How do we know you're on our side?"
As Matrix was about to answer, a glowing filled the room. "What the?" Matrix ran to the window, seeing the hand lifting into the air and aiming at the humans much like Peridot's ship had.
"I'm done watching." Emerald said, rolling his eyes as the others sighed, jumping back from the fighting.
Tiger had pinned Lion under her foot, and Moonstone had tired Connie out.
"What's it doing..?" Lars winced, helping Sadie stand.
Just as the ship rose into the air, however, a loud bang was heard, and a harpoon shot at Emerald!
Emerald jumped aside, accidentally pressing a button on the pad he held, making the ship fire the charged blast off into the distance.
"Who the hell-" Emerald turned, seeing Union grinning and waving at him from the boat. The harpoon was suddenly violently reeled back into the cannon.
"That little..." Emerald grit his teeth.
Sapphire suddenly grabbed Ruby, pulling her into a dance. The two formed a ball of light, and Garnet was formed once more.
"About time you showed up." Matrix said to Garnet, who smirked.
"I could say the same to you." Garnet crossed her arms, smirking before jumping out the door.
Matrix was about to follow her, when another glow filled the room. He turned, seeing Peridot's gem floating up.
Peridot reformed, landing shakily on her feet. "Whoa... It's been awhile since I had to do that..." She looked around.
"Where are we?"
Amazonite looked like she was about to jump at Sour Cream's boat, when Garnet shot forward, slamming her fist into the other fusion's jaw, throwing her into the water.
"Ah, finally! Someone more fun than these humans." Moonstone grinned, not even looking at Connie as he held back her blade.
"Don't ignore me!" Connie said suddenly, pulling her blade back, stabbing at Moonstone's head.
Moonstone suddenly held her blade in his hand, grinning as blood trickled down the blade. "Aw, so close."
Moonstone pulled back his dagger, grinning as he thrust forward. Steven suddenly shot in the way, blocking with his shield and wincing as he was pushed back, pushing Connie back as well.
The two fell, and Moonstone loomed over them.
The small gem was suddenly hit across the face with a metal baseball bat, flying through the air and landing in the sand.
"Hows that for rude, you little creep?!" Greg said, smirking. That was, until Moonstone sat up.
"It's about time they got here. Come on." Peridot walked towards the door, but Matrix stopped her.
"No, I'm not going back." Matrix said.
"... You're really doing this." Peridot said, crossing her arms.
"Don't you get it, Peridot? They're the bad guys! We shouldn't be helping them."
"These Earthlings have gotten to you, Matrix. A little while on Homeworld and you'll be back to-"
"No. I'm not going back. Now decide, Peridot. Are you going with them?" Matrix crossed his arms.
"Or are you staying here with me and them?"
The Crystal Gems and Humans all stood on one side, the Homeworld Gems standing at the other side. Amazonite had climbed from the water.
All was silent, and before anyone did or said anything, footsteps were heard.
Peridot and Matrix walked slowly down the stair way towards the fight. Matrix stopped, standing next to Garnet. Peridot continued walking, neither of them saying goodbyes as she reached the Homeworld Gem line.
"Matrix, what are you doing?!" Tiger called, and Matrix said nothing.
"He's staying." Peridot said, walking towards the ship. "Let's just go."
Emerald shrugged. "I really don't feel like watching this anyway." Emerald followed her in.
"Alright Matrix, we've had our laughs now get in the ship." Tiger demanded, but Matrix shook his head.
"I'm done being Yellow Diamond's damn pawn. I'm sick of living somewhere that isn't my home. And I'm sick of dealing with people like you every day!" Matrix stepped forward as Tiger did.
"... You know, Matrix... We don't like it when people betray Yellow Diamond." Moonstone grinned, his hair covering his eyes.
"And I don't like that Yellow Bitch in general." Matrix smirked, and Moonstone and Sunstone both looked shocked.
"How... Dare you..?" Sunstone asked, her smile faded.
"HOW DARE YOU DEFILE OUR LEADER'S NAME?!" Moonstone suddenly exploded, shooting at Matrix with Sunstone.
Pearl's eyes slowly opened, and she sat up, stretching and groaning. "What happened..?"
"I think I got stabbed..." Amethyst said, awaking at the same time. An explosion rang outside, and the two jumped up, seeing Garnet and Matrix standing back to back, fighting off Moonstone and Sunstone.
"Oh that's bad..." Amethyst said, eyes wide.
"What happened while we were out?!"
Peridot sat next to Emerald in the control room, sighing. "It feels good to be back in one of my ships..."
"Eyup." Emerald sat back in his chair, looking at the screen. It showed Matrix and Garnet trying to fight Sunstone and Moonstone, blurs of yellow and grey shooting by them.
A grey blur shot by Matrix, and a cut appeared on his cheek. Matrix winced, and Garnet suddenly threw him to the ground, reaching out and catching Moonstone by the face.
She caught Sunstone as well, running towards a boulder, raising them into the air and slamming them into it.
Before Matrix could come to help, Tiger shot forward, slamming into him and flying through the air with him on her claw.
"Matrix has really done it this time." Emerald laughed.
"Yeah, but after they knock some sense into him and we take him back to Homeworld, I'm sure he'll come to his senses." Peridot shrugged.
"Take him back?" Emerald laughed. "After what he said? No way. Moonstone and Sunstone are gonna kill him if Tiger doesn't do it first. Matrix isn't getting out of this alive."
Peridot's eyes widened. "But... He's a lieutenant with Tiger. They wouldn't just kill someone that important..."
"Are you and I talking about the same pair of psycho gems?" Emerald arched a brow at Peridot, who's hands clenched into fists.
"... Damn it, Matrix..." She stood, walking through the door out of the room.
"Hey, Peridot, what are you doing?" Emerald jumped up, following after Peridot.
"Plans have changed. Looks like I'm staying on Earth." Peridot said, walking towards the way out. Emerald suddenly jumped in front of her.
"I don't know what's gotten into you, Peri." A green energy blade suddenly appeared around Emerald's hand. "But I can't let you pass."
"Emerald," She held up her arm, which formed a cannon. "Let me through."
"Now."
Opal and Amazonite collided, their fists slamming into one another. Opal pulled back one leg, sending a kick at Amazonite, who blocked, growling as she pulled a club from one of her gems.
Opal jumped back, summoning her bow as Amazonite charged, holding two large clubs.
Sunstone and Moonstone grinned, standing before Garnet in a line. Moonstone was in front.
"Is it time, Moonstone?" Sunstone asked, and Moonstone nodded.
"Yes. The Solar Eclipse must come." Moonstone grinned, and the two suddenly moved towards each other, the wind shifting and being forced away from them as they morphed together.
But instead of turning into a white ball of energy, they turned black, soon taking form.
It stood about a foot and a half over Garnet, only having two arms and two eyes. One eye was fully black, the other fully white. The gem in it's forehead was not that of Moonstone or Sunstone, it was a whole new gem.
It almost resembled a Solar Eclipse. There was a ring of light around an otherwise pitch black gem. It's body was entirely black, and it didn't seem to have a mouth. It was muscular, and it seemed to be male. It wore no clothes, but it didn't seem like it had anything to cover.
It's face split, a mouth forming as it grinned sadistically.
"I am... Eclipse Onyx."
And so sh!t has begun flying into the fan. This whole thing should take a few more chapters so... Get ready for that. And don't worry, the humans part in the fight isn't quite over yet.
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