Sup guys. I've been mulling it over since well, honestly I kinda want to change the title of the story. I've gotten a few messages about it and I totally understand it's kinda lame. So this is my warning to you that the title of this story is changing too "Jack of All Trades"
Beach house-Jack Lincoln
You ever wanted a hot alien chick on top of you? I figured out this super easy trick to make it happen!
You just have to threaten her friends life and BAM! Wildest dreams come true.
Alright, alright, lemme explain.
It all started...about five minutes ago.
Beach House- Jack Lincoln (five minutes ago)
"I'M GOING TO F-"Pearl's hand kept covering my mouth as she and Steven tried to hold me back. Garnet was still shaking, lost in her thoughts, while Amethyst tried to shake her out of it.
Me?
I was choking Peridot out.
I was...slightly peeved.
"-ING KILL YOU! I WILL GUT YOU WITH AN HONEST TO GOD SMILE ON MY FACE!"
Slightly more peeved than usual. Then someone decided to cool me down, right? The friggin water girl burst outta nowhere and slapped me. With a water hand.
You ever play Tony Hawk? I basically did a 540 degree kickflip and landed it face first. I could almost here the crowd cheering as I groggily rolled over and tried to stand up. Butt met floor when she came crashing down on my abdomen, about the same time I was mentally screaming at my imaginary girlfriend to activate our powers. My lovely queen was silent as my bones cracked underneath the tiny alien.
They all look so soft and squishy(Except Hat rack, I think she could stab me with her nose. Thank God it was always pointing at the ceiling)that it always surprises me when they feel like a sack of bricks. It never fully registers to me either. "Not so fast babe,"I gritted my teeth through the pain as I gazed up into her piercing blue eyes. "Why don't we start with a little head first?!" I grabbed her shoulders and bashed my forehead into hers.
My best line. My worst decision. She stumbled off of me but I'm pretty sure my skull was cracked. If the fracture wasn't audible, my pain sure was. I yelped a little.
But it was like a manly yelp. Like five hundred percent testosterone I swear. Like, play my man yelp next to the grunt of Arnold Schwarzenegger pumping iron and it basically sounds exactly the same.
I pushed myself off the ground, stumbling around as blood dripped off my forehead. I really have to stop getting into these situations. Today needs to end.
Thankfully, Garnet finally decided that it was time for it to end too. Lapis was about to charge me again when Garnet came up and placed her hand on the Hydro alien's shoulder. "Lapis, stop." It seems the strange giant had stopped moping long enough to save me. Not that I needed it of course.
The hottest girl always have to be the meanest though, I swear. While the water girl was beautiful, she was trying to kill me with her eyes. "Get your hand off of me, he's dangerous." She growled, never breaking eye contact with me. "Lapis, he's afraid. Confused." Garnet spoke softly.
Woman was cray cray, I ain't 'fraid of nothing. Nothing 'cept good safe decisions for my future. Yuck, it gives me shivers just thinking about how responsible I should be. Oh and commitment.
"He's going to hurt someone. He's a loose cannon." The white snobby alien was crossing her arms and giving me the stink eye. Yeah I don't approve of you either hat rack, and I especially don't appreciate having to duck every time you turn.
Then that green little monster peeked her head up, still shaking like a lost puppy. "W-we need to get rid of him, we need t-"
"Enough." Garnet's voice was low, but it felt like it echoed throughout my very soul. She turned towards me and I gulped. Like, she was on my side(I think?) and I was still taken aback. Everything was deathly quiet as she walked up to me and put both her hands on my shoulder, and suddenly her glasses disappeared.
Of course she's a triclops. No that totally didn't scare the ever lasting shit out of me, I swear. Totally knew it. The entire time.
ANYWAYS, she had a blank stare as...euuuugh, all three of her eyes(Still totally not freaked out by them) began to water. "Y-you...must be in so much pain..."
"Uh...It's only a little bu-UMPH"She suddenly wrapped her arms around me and squeezed the hell out of me. More bones-a-popping. I really didn't think a little blood on my forehead would warrant...this.
I looked past her at the other gems, all of them also equally confused. I looked down at Steven, hoping he might have some answers. Thankfully it looked like he might have some of the answer, since Garnet at this moment was crying into my shoulder.
"Jack..."The child began slowly, sadness all over his face. I'm guessing all these aliens do is cry and fight. "Those gems on your stomach...are what we call a cluster."
No shit they're a cluster. None of the shards even looked like the same stone. Like some kid got angry with a jigsaw puzzle so he cut off bits of the pieces to force them to fit. I would have said that. If I could speak. If I had any more air in my lungs.
Thankfully Garnet seemed to realize that she was killing my like the frog wanted, and dropped me. I landed on my hands and knees and tried to get my air back as the other gems started speaking nonsense.
"Ohhh that's why she's acting that way..." Amethyst snapped her fingers as Lapis cocked her head confusedly. "...I don't get it, why'd she drop him? He wasn't really struggling, she could have finished him off..."
Peridot groaned and rolled her eyes, "Tch, of course the Fusion's going to favor HIM..."
Garnet glared back at Peridot but said nothing. Her stare sent the message and Peridot shut right up. The giantess turned back to me and took a deep, shaky breath. Why was she being like this? Taking pity on me?
"...I will do anything I can to help you, Jack." I flinched at her sudden words. This...generosity was strange. "Why...?" I raised my eyebrow at her, confused. She sighed and kneeled down to my level, which felt slightly degrading but I'll take the hit right now.
"...A cluster is when gems are forced to fuse together." She started, "It's unnatural. I know you have to be in pain because..."She hesitated, and then with a sudden flash of light she was gone.
And in her place were two midgets. A blue, regally dressed gem with hair covering her face, and a red gem, who I'm totally sure is stuck in the seventies. From space. Space seventies. I don't think square afro's were a thing on Earth, and honestly I'd appreciate it if it stayed that way. Nevertheless, this caught me off guard so bad I nearly swore in front of the kid for like the hundredth time today. "The f-...fffffudge?" I shot Steven a nervous grin and looked back at the two new aliens.
"Hello, my name is Sapphire." The blue one bowed her head at me.
"I'm Ruby!" The red alien with the kung fu attire grabbed my hand and shook it vigorously, which felt weird until I noticed the gem on it's hand.
Like one of Garnet's gem. Wait...
So if Garnet has that gem...
And Ruby has that gem...
And Garnet disappeared...
And Ruby just appeared...
I snapped my fingers and pointed at Ruby, "I got it! You're Garnet from the past!"
I figured out I was wrong when a resounding face palm echoed throughout the house. "...Kinda..."Sapphire stifled a little giggle and grabbed Ruby's hand, and suddenly they disappeared in another flash of bright light. Garnet appeared in the midst of it. Now I got it!
"...YOU CAN TELEPORT!"
"No you imbecile, they fused!" Peridot screeched as she pulled her hair angrily.
"...The hell?"I was having a little trouble processing this information. My brain is still running on windows XP, kay?
"...One plus one equals two, not a bigger one." I crossed my arms. Garnet raised her eyebrow and smiled at me. "Think of it more like...one plus one equals love."
God I was about to puke. There's a staggering lack of testosterone in this city and it's already bothering me. Next she was going to talk about-
"Our emotions are synced together, as are our bodies. We love as one...We fight as one."
Called it. So fusions basically a relationship. And I'm a cluster, which is a forced relationship.
"You must have so much inner turmoil..."Her hands went on my shoulders again. "But I swear to you Jack. If you let me help you, I promise everything will be okay."
Now she's lying to me, right to my face. "You're going to make everything okay?"I brushed her hands off me, causing her to flinch. "You should be a comedian. Real friggin funny."
Steven started tugging on my sleeve again, "Jack, we can help you."
"Kid, none of you can undo what SHE-"I pointed at Peridot angrily, "-did to me. Only SHE can." I growled at the little gremlin. "SHE, shoved a bunch of dead aliens inside of me. And she will take them out, Right?!" Peridot put her hands up defensively, backing up. Lapis and Pearl immediately got in front of her, guarding her. "I...well..."
"Right!?" I was yelling at her now, and she deserved it. Hell, she deserves so much more than what I could do to her.
"I...I don't know!"She cried out. "Even if I had the equipment it wouldn't help! You've been fused for so long, a process like that could..."She trailed off.
Don't.
Don't you say it you little shit.
You're my only chance at having my family back. My only chance of having my friends, my girlfriend, my job, my dreams, my normal lif-
"...It would kill you."
I could feel my jaw dropping. She was bullshitting me. She had to be bullshitting me. "H-hey, it's not so bad..."The kid started. "You've got...powers and...uh, us...and uh..."I looked down at him, and when he saw my entire world shattering in my face, I think he understood. But I reiterated it, just for him.
"I don't care about little powers." I gritted my teeth through shaky breaths. "I don't care about aliens. I don't care about playing the hero."
I don't like to admit it, but there I was, tearing up like a little girl in front of a bunch of self righteous pricks. I didn't want their pats on the backs, or their hugs, or their little whispers of 'It's going to be okay, don't worry.' They don't understand. I had so much planned, but this alien bullshit threw it all out the damn window. They didn't want me now, some freak of nature. They couldn't love me like this. They didn't. They thought of me as some cheesy monster and chased me out with torches and pitchforks. I was going to come back on my god damn knees, normal and human again, and hope that they would forget.
Has your family ever tried to forget you? Have you ever been threatened by your friends? I felt like a damn dog sent to the pound. I guess that's what happens when you can't control yourself.
I didn't do it on purpose. I didn't mean to hurt anyone. But they don't know that. They would never know what I've been through. And neither will these aliens surrounding me, trying to act like they understand me. No, not the ballerina, the water girl, the midget, the fusion or the hybrid could know what this feels like.
But I'm starting to realize that they're the only ones who'll accept me now. That's all I have, just a merry band of misfits. I don't want that though.
I couldn't help but choke out "...I just want to go home..."
Beach House - Jack Lincoln (Present)
So here I am. Laying down on the couch as the gems all decided to let me rest up. I knew I was tired, but it didn't really hit me until I closed my eyes and I was immediately thrust back into that garden of ashes.
No rest for the wicked, eh? I looked up at the throne, the lovely occupant inside my head sitting there, staring down at me. She didn't look happy, however, as she started to walk down towards me.
'You disappoint me...'"Oh, do I?" I placed my hands on my hips and looked down at her as she approached me. "Didn't know I was supposed to impress, next time I'll do a flip."
She rolled her eyes at me, and suddenly she disappeared into the ground. "The hell..."I looked around for her, but there was no trace. Her voice whispered into my ear though no one was behind me.
'We could do so much more...if you'd let me...'
"Sorry babe, but I'm not going to commit some murder so you can get your jollies." I knew I was an asshole, but there were some lines even I wouldn't cross.
'It's unhealthy to fight...just accept me..."Suddenly I felt her cold, steely arms wrap around my waist from behind,
'Just look at what we could do...'And suddenly this dark, decaying world became colorful and vibrant. What was once a field of ashes soon became a field of strawberry patches. It was beautiful I had to admit, but it honestly looked like it was straight from a kids cartoon. I spun around slowly, trying to find whatever point she was trying to make. I looked up, and the clouds started raining shards down.
"Now I'm not no weatherologist, but I'm pretty sure that's not where those come from..."
'No...we make them that way...'And suddenly I was surrounded by screams in every direction. It sounded like a friggin battle field out here, and as I turned around the rain stopped, and I saw gems fighting each other. Shattering and dying left and right. But as I looked closer I saw that no one was attacking them...
Then I looked down at my body. I was changed, I was covered in gems and my right hand was a spear again. Suddenly, all those shards started rolling towards me, and I braced myself...but nothing happened. I opened my eyes and saw a beautiful woman crying in front of me. She had a mess of pink hair, and a white dress that extended to her ankles. She was giant, like Garnet, but much more human like. Her skin tone was human and everything.
She looked up at me through her hands and whispered, "What have you done?"
I looked back down at my body and the spear was going straight through her gem. I could only look on in horror as I felt the evil presence nuzzle my neck.
'This is what we were made for.'