This chapter won't have the song "Giant Woman", as Connie wouldn't be likely to make up that same song.
Characters created by: Rebecca Sugar
Chapter 10: Giant Woman
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Outside Of Crystal Gem Temple
On the beach near the temple was Connie sitting, watching a game of checkers between Amethyst and Pearl. Amethyst jumped her black checker over one of Pearl's red checker.
"Hah! Take that!" said Amethyst.
"Wow. Amethyst, I'm impressed." said Pearl.
"Nice move, Amethyst." said Connie.
"Have fun being a loser." said Amethyst.
"I'm not a loser, because I just won the game." said Pearl.
Pearl then rapidly jumped her red checker over everyone of Amethyst's black checkers in one move.
"Waaah? Well, it's not always so bad to lose I guess." said Amethyst.
"Ehem. I certainly hope that's not the attitude you have during battle." said Pearl.
"Ugh, you're no fun anymore." said Amethyst, "This is why we never form Opal."
"We don't form Opal because you're difficult and a mess." said Pearl.
Amethyst then got into Pearl's face with rage.
"We don't form Opal because you're uptight and-"
Connie then got between Amethyst and Pearl to break up their fight.
"Guys! Guys!" said Connie, "One: Calm down! Two: What is Opal?"
"Oh, it's the two of us mashed together." said Amethyst while crossing her hands.
Pearl interrupted.
"Is water just Hydrogen and Oxygen "mashed together"?" said Pearl.
"Well, sort of, but there's more to it than just that." said Connie.
Pearl then moved the checkerboard to make space.
"Look here, Connie." said Pearl while creating tiny forms of Amethyst and herself in sand, "When we synchronize our forms, we can combine into a powerful fusion Gem named Opal."
Amethyst then stomped on the sand forms.
"Except I don't dance like that." said Amethyst.
"Amethyst…" said Pearl.
Connie interrupted.
"Wooow, that's so cool." said Connie, "but tell me more about Opal."
"Well, Connie," said Amethyst, "she's an ultra powerful stone cold Betty, that part's me. And she's like..kinda tall, that part's Pearl."
"What Amethyst is attempting to say is, Opal is an amalgam of our combined magical and physical attributes fused into a single entity." said Pearl.
"Wow! Can you do it right now?! Come on, form Opal!" said Connie all excited about Gem fusion.
Amethyst just crossed her arms.
"We only form Opal when it's absolutely necessary." said Pearl.
Just then, the warp pad inside the temple could be heard.
"Garnet's back!" said Connie.
As Garnet was walking off the war pad, Connie, Amethyst and Pearl ran in.
"Hey Garnet!" said Connie.
Pearl walked up to Garnet.
"So, was your mission a success?" said Pearl.
"I've located the Geode beetles of Heaven and Earth, we should split up to retrieve them." said Garnet.
"Well I'm going with not Pearl." said Amethyst.
"That's perfect, because I don't want to go with grammatically incorrect people anyway." said Pearl.
"You three go together, I go alone." said Garnet.
Both Pearl and Amethyst said simultaneously "What?! Why?!".
"The Earth Beetle is at the bottom of the boiling lava lake, and only I can swim in lava." answered Garnet as she summoned goggles over her shades, "You'll find the Heaven Beetle at the top of the Sky Spire, it's safer."
"You mean boringer." said Amethyst.
"You mean more boring." said Pearl at Amethyst's grammatical error.
"So you agree with me?" said Amethyst.
"Ugh, come on you two, let's go." said Pearl while walking over to the warp pad.
Connie, Amethyst and Pearl ran to the warp pad.
"Connie, be sure to keep the harmony." said Garnet.
"You got it!" said Connie.
The warp pad glowed and warped the three.
Bottom Of The Sky Spire-Present Time
The three were now at the bottom of the Sky Spire.
"Woah." said Connie in amazement, "Is this where the Heaven Beetle is?"
"Apparently." said Pearl.
"All the way at the top." said Amethyst.
"So, when you fuse, do you turn into a really giant woman, or just a regular sized giant woman?" said Connie.
"Ugh." said Amethyst.
"Does one of you control the right arm and the other control the left arm?" said Connie.
"Come on, Connie." said Pearl.
"Wait, I have a lot of questions." said Connie, "This fusion thing sounds so interesting."
"We're on a mission, no time to talk about all that." said Pearl.
"Well, okay…" said Connie.
The three then walked up a long stairway. At the top of the stairway, the three stopped, with Pearl looking up to the top of the spire. Just then, rustling could be heard at a nearby bush. Pearl and Amethyst summoned their weapons. From the bush emerged a mountain goat.
"Ugh, let's continue." said Pearl.
The three continued their journey, with the mountain goat following. Along the way, the three climbed up a long ladder up the spire. Along the way up the ladder, dirt fell from under Pearl's foot and onto Amethyst, to which she looked up to Pearl in annoyance. Pearl just smirked. Pearl was now navigating over rocks on a stream. Suddenly, Amethyst, in the form of a shark, sprung up from the water and scared Pearl, causing Pearl to fall into the water. Amethyst regained her original form and laughed at Pearl. The three and the goat were now walking over a wooden bridge between two cliffs. The three then stopped. The mountain goat ran forward and jumped one by one over floating ground to an entrance that goes up to the top of the spire.
"I'm not sure if Connie can make those jumps." said Pearl.
"I have an idea!" said Amethyst, who then lifted up Connie.
Amethyst then threw Connie onto a floating piece of Earth. Pearl's face turned to complete fear. After Connie landed, Amethyst jumped onto the same one.
"Ugh!" screamed Pearl.
"It's okay Pearl, I'm safe." said Connie.
Amethyst then jumped up and hit the floating piece of Earth, shaking it. Connie lost her balance and fell off the floating piece of Earth.
"Ah!" screamed Connie.
Amethyst then looked to Pearl, who screamed. Amethyst summoned her whips and wrapped them around Pearl. Pearl then jumped down towards the falling Connie. Pearl grabbed Connie and held her tight. Amethyst held onto her whips and pulled Pearl and Connie back up.
"That was so great how you worked together." said Connie, "Why don't you do that all the time?"
A few minutes later, the three made it to the top of the Sky Spire. Connie was exhausted from the long walk.
"I can't feel my legs anymore." said Connie, exhausted, "Hey, look at that!"
Connie ran over to a tiny little house.
"It's a tiny temple!" said Connie.
"It's just where Garnet said it would be." said Pearl, "The Heaven Beetle should be inside."
While Pearl was talking, Amethyst displayed a face of nonchalance while crossing her arms and slouching.
"Hahaha. Check it out! It's even got a little Beetle bedroom, and little Beetle bongos, and a little Beetle book!"
Pearl peeked in through the tiny window.
"But, where's the Beetle?" said Pearl, "It's supposed to be here. The Heaven Beetle wouldn't leave, would it? Oh, it could be anywhere!"
"Hah, maybe you should freak out some more, that's really gonna help us find it." said Amethyst from nearby.
"I can't believe your attitude, Amethyst! And now you're just slouching over here doing nothing!" said Pearl.
"Heeey, it's not my fault the Beetle isn't there! Why do you have to make things worse by squawking at me?!" said Amethyst.
"I don't squawk!" said Pearl.
The two started to have a heated argument. The mountain goat started making noises of distress. Suddenly from the water emerged a giant bird. Connie ran over to Amethyst and Pearl. The giant bird then grabbed the mountain goat in its jaws. Pearl summoned her spear and threw it in the direction of the giant bird, but the bird opened its mouth and swallowed the spear.
"Oh no!" said Connie.
"In here guys!" said Amethyst.
The three ran in as the giant bird jabbed its mouth into the opening.
"It swallowed my spear!" said Pearl, "We have no choice, we need to form Opal!"
"Ugh, alright…" said Amethyst.
Connie sat down as she watched as Amethyst and Pearl took a bow. Then, both of their gems started glowing. While Pearl was doing her organized style of dancing, she saw Amethyst doing an immature and unorganized dance. Pearl just decided to roll with it. Amethyst took Pearl's hand, but Pearl hit her head on the floor. Then, the two glowed white, and the white light became bigger, but then it started to shake. Then, the two separated and fell to the floor.
"So you wanna try that again, with less hitting me in the face this time?" said Amethyst.
"Well, it would have worked if your movements weren't so erratic and formless." said Pearl.
"So it was all my fault?" said Amethyst, "Hoho, you totally weren't even trying to synch with my dancing! You should know how I dance by now!"
Pearl then shoved Amethyst.
"Stop!" screamed Connie, "Come on guys, please stop fighting! If you can't get along with each other, I might get eaten by a giant bird!"
Just then, the large beak of the giant bird broke through the ceiling and swallowed Connie. Amethyst and Pearl gasped.
"Connie!" screamed Amethyst and Pearl simultaneously.
Connie fell into the stomach of the giant bird. Inside the giant bird were gems in bubble like pods everywhere around her. Connie then saw the mountain goat. Connie saw something the goat was chewing on. It looked like a golden beetle.
"*gasp* Hey, is that the Heaven Beetle?" said Connie, "Let me see it."
Connie took hold of the Heaven Beetle, but the goat held a tighter grip with its teeth on it.
"Hey! Be a good goat and give me the magic bug!" said Connie.
The two fell from the pile of junk that the mountain goat was on.
"I got it!" said Connie.
The goat went over to Connie.
"No! Bad goat!" said Connie.
Suddenly, an arm emerged from behind them. Both Connie and the goat screamed. Then another arm emerged, then two more.
"What's going on?!" said Connie.
One of the arms grabbed the goat, and another grabbed Connie. The arm pulled both Connie and the goat out of the belly of the giant bird. The giant bird glowed a golden aura and disintegrated. The figure holding Connie and the goat landed at the top of the Sky Spire. The figure had pale white skin, long white hair, two white gemstones on its chest and forehead, a green shirt and reddish pants. The figure was even taller than Garnet and had four arms.
"Opal?" said Connie.
The figure said nothing and just looked up at where the bird disintegrated. The hundreds of shards from the giant bird morphed into tinier versions of the bird. The tiny versions swooped down at the figure, still holding Connie and the mountain goat. The figure dodged the tiny versions, and slid down the spiraling entrance to the top of the spire, and leaped over all the floating pieces of Earth.
"Stay low." said Opal.
Opal summoned both Pearl's spear and Amethyst's whip, and combined them to form a bow. Opal pulled back the bowstring, and created from light was an arrow. A ball of white energy surrounded Opal as she charged up her bow. Opal let go of the string, shooting the arrow forward to the remnants of the giant bird. The arrow hit the flock of the remnants, causing each one to glow and be bubbled and disappear.
Opal turned around to Connie. She walked over to Connie, who was looking in amazement, and let out her hand. Connie looked up to Opal.
"Uhhhhhh. Do you..know who I am?" said Connie.
Opal laughed.
"Yes…you're Connie, and I'm Opal, a giant woman…"
Connie smiled.
Crystal Gem Temple-A Few Minutes Later
In the temple was Garnet with a towel over her hair. Just then, the warp pad glowed, and Connie and Opal were there.
"We're back!" said Connie.
"The Heaven Beetle." said Garnet.
Opal suddenly realized she didn't have the beetle.
"*gasp* I don't have it." said Opal.
Just then, Opal glowed, and separated. Pearl blew up at Amethyst in rage.
"Amethyst, you got distracted!" said Pearl.
"Hey, you were the one getting carried away with all those fancy backflips!" said Amethyst.
"Wait a sec!" said Connie as she reached in her pocket, "I've got the beetle!"
Garnet took the Heaven Beetle.
"Good job Connie." said Garnet.
Garnet place the Heaven Beetle in a little insect case with the Earth Beetle inside as well and then bubbled it.
"I also see you helped your teammates fuse." said Garnet.
Pearl looked to Amethyst, which Amethyst did the same.
"And all I had to do was get eaten by a bird!" said Connie.
"Nice work, you'll be great at fusing one day." said Garnet.
Connie smiled.
"Yeah...Wait, I can do that too?!"