Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Onyx and the Pearl. Enjoy the 2100-word episode. I don't own Steven Universe, Cartoon Network and Rebecca Sugar do.

(Takes place during 'Cry for Help')

"So… Obsidian?" Onyx asked as he and his sister stood by the communications hub as Peridot took scans with both the Robonoids and her datapad.

"Most likely, I doubt Jasper would be able to do this in her…. Shall we agree on the word 'occupied'?" She asked as Onyx nodded, he knew his sister was like this when it came to Gem technology, he also knew the steps of Steven, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl running on the sand as they ran towards the hub.

"Before you ask, we just got here, I would think Obsidian would construct the Communication hub…. You know, somewhere secure and away from us?" Onyx asked as he was unaware of the hub's destruction from before as he turned around as Mantle formed his armor once more.

"So, we need to wreck it all again?" Steven asked as he turned to Amethyst.

"Why don't you guys form Sugilite!" Steven asked.

Onyx quickly ran through how said fusion could be formed, considered Pearl's nature and figured Amethyst and Garnet had to be the ones who formed it.

His guess was confirmed when Amethyst asked Garnet if they should destroy the tower together only for Garnet to refuse.

"I would ask what happened last time you two 'fused' but I can guess based on Amethyst's reaction." Onyx said before turning back to the tower.

"Ok, I finished my scans, you can destroy it…. As wasteful a use of Gem technology like this would be." Onyx rolled his eyes at his sister's words.

"I can be brash, Amethyst is reckless at times…" Garnet said as she took off her visor, Onyx could swear he knew half of the fusion due to her eye color but couldn't place where he knew it from.

"Pearl, lets fuse." Onyx turned to see the Gem tearing up.

"You know, I could easily destroy it with my rifle or the Limestone's canons." Onyx said, taking his rifle off his back and twirling it as Garnet shook her head.

"A Moon Shard blaster would cause more damage than we need." Onyx nodded, sighed and put the weapon on his back as he tied it back up.

"Then by all means, I haven't witnessed fusion before…. Like my sister tried to point out." Onyx said, glaring at his sister before turning his eyes back to watch.

"He really hasn't seen fusion before?" Amethyst asked as Peridot turned her head, she didn't need to turn to see Onyx was watching everything from the glowing Gems to the dance that caused said transformation.

"He's a soldier Gem, their supposed to guard their Diamond and fight their Diamond's wars…. So, no." Onyx's helmet lenses darkened upon the flash of flight.

It was his reaction to behavior that surprised Peridot before she burst out laughing as Onyx rolled his eyes.

"Well, this is off to a great start." Onyx grumbled under his breath as the fusion spoke.

"HELLO THERE, THIS IS THE LOVELY SARDONYX!" Onyx wanted to slam his head into the rock he was sitting on as Sardonyx slashed the beam of light into a curtain and a few dragon flies as Onyx turned his head back.

"Giant lady!" Sardonyx turned her head towards Steven and Onyx as she walked over to both Gems.

"Oh, my stars, you must be Steven, and you must be Onyx!" Onyx turned towards his sister before activating his rockets to fly up to the communication hub.

"Someone's shy." The fusion teased as Onyx smiled and landed on a pillar.

"No, just curious." Onyx said as he watched the fusion speak to Steven, he didn't need advanced hearing to know that Sardonyx was going to smash the tower as he leaped down and landed on the rock to watch.

"You seem as unimpressed as I am and you haven't even seen Pearl and Garnet fuse before." Amethyst said as Onyx finally turned towards the Quartz gem and let his armor morph back into Mantle. His face was one of shock as Onyx barely was able to see Sardonyx form a hammer with Pearl and Garnet's weapons before walking over towards the tower.

"It's because of her attitude, I have never seen Pearl THAT giddy and peppy and its honestly kind of freighting." Onyx allowed her sister to record Sardonyx destroying the tower as he shook his head.

"You can also add egotistical to those phrases." Onyx muttered under his breath as Sardonyx unfused and turned towards Steven before speaking as she defused.

"Ok, now that was…. A thing…" Onyx said before turning to his sister.

"We have much to look up while on the Limestone, my brother will be back if there is more trouble." Peridot stated as she and her brother flew into the air.

"Yeah, call us if something crazy happens!" Onyx said as the sibling Gems flew back to their warship/home.

(Limestone command bridge, 2 hours later.)

Your reaction to the fusion was humorful." Onyx rolled his eyes as he turned back to the engineer gem.

"Yeah, well, now we have the ship back to normal, we need to keep looking for Lapis and Obsidian before either cause trouble." Onyx said, looking at a monitor which was connected to the Robonoids.

"I still don't get why your so attached to the Pearl within their ranks, she's one of hundreds." Onyx turned to her.

"You don't know how I was during the rebellion, sis, she and Rose Quartz showed me caring and compassion, something only you and Bl-…"

He was cut off by Steven looking at the Robonoid.

"Sorry, I was just trying to see if you guys needed us!" Onyx said, tapping a button on a console to allow the machine to use his voice.

"Oh, hi Onyx! We are just coming to see who was fixing the communication hub!" Onyx was hooked on as soon as he heard this and said one last sentence.

"If you're doing simple recon, let me help, I'll be right there."

(5 minutes later.)

Onyx gently set down by Steven and Amethyst.

"You know, if Obsidian was behind this, she wouldn't make it so obvious she was doing this." Onyx said as Amethyst shrugged.

"Maybe it's your sister, she was checking out the tower when we got there." Onyx's eyes flared with anger.

"Don't… accuse… My sister…." Onyx hissed.

"She may be arrogant and tech crazy but she isn't a traitor to Earth." Onyx growled out activated his armor's scanners, trying to see what was fixing the hub.

"I see a sausage." Steven said as Amethyst took her turn to try and look through the microscope to try and see the sausage before Steven pointed it out by moving some of her hair aside.

"Hey, don't…. oh." Onyx rolled his eyes as they joked about it before Steven returned to the telescope.

"I see something…." Onyx said as Steven nodded and focused on the object.

"Peridot's escape pod?" Steven asked as Onyx was about to ask a question when Amethyst beat him to it.

"Don't we have that?" Onyx glared at her, he wouldn't let his sister be accused of something he knew she wouldn't willing do without a good reason. Onyx watched with Amethyst and Steven as the pod used a tractor beam to fix the hub before it landed on top of the hub.

"That's not my sister…." Onyx said as Steven pointed it out.

"Pearl?" Amethyst moved to the telescope.

"Let me…. Oh, no." She said as Onyx stomped downstairs.

"Onyx!" Steven said as Amethyst and Steven followed Onyx downstairs.

"Maybe she was just fixing it so she could study it?" Steven asked as Amethyst shook her head.

"No, that's not it." Steven hummed as Onyx paced back and forth, to Amethyst, it seemed more like stomping.

"Maybe she wants more channels?" Steven said as he turned on the tv only to see static.

"We need to tell Garnet." Onyx stopped pacing.

"No." They turned to him.

"We have to, she's not doing this for a good reason." Onyx's eyes locked onto Amethyst.

"Then tell her yourself…. And tell her I refused to tell her." Before either could respond, Onyx had already unlocked the door and flew towards a cliff by the hub.

"Why did he fly off?" Steven asked as Pearl came out from another room.

(Cliffside, 3 minutes later)

Onyx refused to admit that Pearl had done something like this, she was the gem he trusted since he had joined the Crystal Gems, he trusted her as much as he trusted Rose.

He was sure it had to be a Pearl working for Yellow or someone else, it had to be… He couldn't believe it otherwise.

He was pulled from his thoughts by the Gems arriving at the tower once more. He used his armor thrusters to land on the same rock from before.

"STOP!" Amethyst shouted as Garnet and Pearl were about to fuse.

"Amethyst…. What's wrong?" Pearl asked as Onyx continued to stay silent.

"You can't…" She said as Steven joined in.

"We saw you, Pearl…. Onyx was the only one who didn't want to say anything.

"What?" Pearl said as she looked between Onyx and Steven and Amethyst. Onyx met her look before Garnet spoke up, confused.

"I don't understand." Pearl confessed at this moment.

"I'm sorry…. I… It's just so much fun being Sardonyx with you." Garnet dropped Pearl and Onyx released Mantle from his body before jumping over behind Pearl as Garnet continued to speak up.

"That's why I couldn't see us finding Peridot." Pearl began to backpedal with her words.

"Wait, I can explain!" Onyx was about to interject when Garnet cut him off.

"You've been fixing the hub!" Onyx hauled Pearl to her feet and stepped to her side.

"You tricked me, and you let her!" Garnet said, looking back from both Onyx and Pearl before Pearl cut in.

"No, No, No, no, no! we just needed a reason to fuse I wanted to share a few more victories!" Garnet shook her head.

"Those aren't victories!" Amethyst cut in.

"Wait, Garnet, you know all of us besides Onyx possibly are weaker then you! Fusing is like our one chance to be stronger!"

Onyx stepped in, having heard enough

"It isn't her fault." Garnet whirled on him.

"You let her trick us, why didn't you tell me!" Onyx took off his shades, his blood red eyes blaring with rage.

"Because I refuse to believe for even a second that the Gem I worked with for thousands of years could have done this, I worked with Pearl before she came to Earth and I'll stand by her now!"

Garnet was close to punching the Gem as Pearl looked at Onyx with shock.

"We will talk about this later." Onyx turned on his heel.

"No, we won't…" Onyx turned and let Mantle form his armor.

"Onyx, wait!" Steven said as Onyx turned.

"No, I am leaving until I can process all this…. But I will never believe Pearl did this without good reason." Onyx powered up the jets on his armor and flew into the air.

"Onyx, wait!" Onyx turned the jets of his armor on full after burner as he cast on look of hate back.

But it wasn't at Pearl, it was at Garnet and Steven had a feeling he was the only one that knew why as the shockwave from Onyx knocked most of the Gems to the floor.

"Onyx…." Pearl said, still in shock from what Onyx had said and how he had taken her actions.

Although she was unsure why he still trusted her.

Onyx flew under the waves, shaking his head as he refused to believe that the one Gem he trusted when he joined the Gems besides Rose, had done something this selfish. He landed on the Limestone, confused and angered.

Author notes

Phew, this chapter was a lot longer than I thought it would be… Btw, I am not trying to push Onyx and Pearl together this early, that's still some chapters away for them, but I am trying to show how much he trusts and respects her, he didn't defend her out of so much love as he did out of trust. Next chapter will be tomorrow or Saturday so until then, review, like and enjoy. Until then Lighting Wolf out!

Ps, these are the next five chapters I will be posting and I will do this every chapter to let you guys know.

Historical fiction (2000 words)

When it Rains (1000 words)

Steven's birthday (2000 words)

It could have been great (1000 words)

Message received (2000 words)