Chapter 10: Meanwhile
A/N:Disclaimer I do not own Steven Universe in any shape or form. I'm back! And just to so you guys and gals already know this chapter is only about 1,500 words, sorry. But you all have no idea how close I was to abandoning this story, matter of fact, here's the final update I was working on.
I'm sorry to inform everyone that I will NOT be finishing this story. It's not because of anything happening in my life, I've just hit a huge writer's block since the summer. This is do to an OC I want to add to the story, but adding her in seems like a forced way to develop Yellow Moissanite's character.
Yeah, that close. Then I realized, this is my first fan-fiction that will start a pathway to my potential career as writer, and giving up so easily is lazy on my part. So I got rid of everything pertaining to that OC in this chapter on October, 12th. It was a tough decision since I spent so much time looking up information about her Gemstone, choosing her weapon, making her have a past rivalry with Yellow Moissanite, and all that good stuff. But with all that out of the way I can officially say I'm back in action. Please enjoy this small chapter that's a prelude of what's to come :)
"Everyone, please calm down!"
In another level of the Death Crystal, Yellow Moissanite yelled out a plea to a mob of angry Gems in front of a warp room. After Yellow Diamond ordered her to do crowd control, Yellow Moissanite warped to about 213 different levels of the Death Crystal to calm down every single Gem. The Pearl, Peridot, and aristocrat Gems were easy to reason with since they had common sense. The Rubies...well the Rubies were down right idiotic, so calming them down was as easy as blinking. But the Quartz Gems were a totally different story. They were brash, hardheaded, aggressive, and would not take a simple answer after what they saw.
"What do you mean calm down!? Did you not see that Rose Quartz human hybrid!?" a muscular purple Amethyst shouted from the crowd.
This wasn't the Amethyst we all know love, this Amethyst was a loyal Homeworld soldier. With a body physique similar to that of Jasper, a Gem placed on her upper left arm, and a purple version of a Homeworld jumpsuit, anybody could tell the difference.
"Yes, I saw the hybrid Rose Quartz made, and the Diamonds ordered me to keep you all calm!" Yellow Moissanite shouted back to the Amethyst.
"How can we be calm about this? Rose was the leader of the rebellion that betrayed Homeworld, and cost us hundreds upon thousands of Gems lives! That thing is a threat, and should have it's Gem shattered!" a Jasper Gem suggested.
Unlike our Jasper on Earth dubbed "The Ultimate Quartz", this Jasper wasn't as buff, had a round nose, and had a Gem placed in the middle of her chest.
"YEAH!" the crowd roared in agreement.
Yellow Moissanite's patience with the Quartz Gems was beginning to wear thin.
"Listen you long haired brutes, no one is going to shatter that hybrid's Gem without the Diamonds say so! And if any of you even think of disobeying my orders THEN I WILL SHATTER EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!" Yellow Moissanite barked to the Quartz Gems.
This outburst caused all of the Quartz Gems to instantly calm down.
"Now, if you all would ever so kindly get back to your quarters I'll let this whole confrontation slide. Or else I'll hold true to my previous statement of shattering you all, and on top of that, tell the Diamonds of your disobedience. Choose wisely" the golden ponytailed Gem made sure to sound as threatening as possible when saying this.
In a comedic fashion, the Quartz Gems started backing up with their hands in front of their bodies in a defensive manner. Some of them said "Nope, not having any of that", while some said "Y'all ain't shattering me today". Pretty soon Yellow Moissanite found herself to be all alone in the hallway.
"Whew, I thought they would never leave" Yellow Moissanite said with a sigh of relief.
Yellow Diamond's second in command let her shoulders slouch from everything she went through. Dealing with all those Quartz Gems at once would even tire out a Diamond. But they had a point, Rose Quartz needed to be shattered for all her crimes against Homeworld. Cutting her own Gem, renouncing her name as Pink Diamond, turning against her own sisters and Gem kind just to protect one measly planet didn't make any sense to her.
Yellow Moissanite looked at the back of her left hand where her Gem was placed. It was a yellow square with rounded corners and a square facet cut.
The golden Gem remembered back when Jasper, the Ultimate Quartz who came from the disorganized Beta Kindergarten of Earth, got defeated by Rose. It was no surprise that Jasper got beaten, after all Rose was still technically a Diamond. So after Jasper's defeat Yellow Moissanite decided to take care of Rose herself, without Yellow Diamond knowing. The odds of her winning were good since Moissanite Gems are closely related to Diamonds. However, when the day came for their duel Yellow Moissanite lost, badly. On her hands and knees she looked up at Rose as she prepared for the final strike. If it wasn't for Yellow Diamond coming out nowhere to block Rose's final attack then she would've retreated in her Gem.
Her Diamond stood toe with Rose while her katana was summoned. They stared at each other for moment before Yellow Diamond whispered something to her. It was faint, but Yellow Moissanite could clearly make out Yellow Diamond saying "Don't harm her Rose, she attacked you without my consent".
Rose nodded before jumping away, thus escaping. Why did Yellow Diamond do that? Homeworld's greatest enemy was right there in front of her. She could've ended the war by shattering Rose, or at least making her retreat in her Gem right then and there, but no, that pink haired backstabber just jumped away without so much as a single scratch on her. It didn't make any sense to Yellow Moissanite, then afterwards when she questioned Yellow Diamond about why she let Rose escape, her Diamond said "Don't ever bring that up again, or tell anybody what you saw". Not wanting to make Yellow Diamond question her loyalty, she obeyed. Although that reply to Yellow Moissanite's question made her even more skeptical of her Diamond.
Just then Yellow Moissanite's wrist band (located on her right wrist) started glowing white, which meant White Diamond was contacting her.
"Oh great, what does she want?" Yellow Moissanite asked herself. She didn't have anything against White Diamond personally, it's just that every time Yellow Moissanite got contacted by her it was always some sort of errand to go get this, or go get that. Honestly, why doesn't White Diamond have her own second in command to order around?
Using her left index finger Yellow Moissanite tapped the top of her wrist band. This caused a 12 by 8 inch holographic screen to pop up with White Diamond's stern face on it.
"Yellow Moissanite, can you hear me?" White Diamond asked, making sure she could be heard.
"Loud and clear" Yellow Moissanite replied.
"Okay, now this won't be my usual request of asking you to go retrieve an item. Instead, I want you to come back to the Diamond section of the Death Crystal and capture one of the humans"
Yellow Moissanite slightly rose her eyebrows in surprise. For the first time ever White Diamond wasn't asking her to go fetch something, but someone.
"The human is known as Connie, she somehow managed to get past the containment field by using Rose's sword. And if I recall it was you who put the Crystal Gems, and humans in their cells. Thus meaning YOU didn't confiscate Rose's sword from Connie which allowed her to escape" White Diamond explained to Yellow Moissanite and accused her of.
The golden Gem mentally slapped herself.
"Sorry, I thought that since Connie was a human then she wouldn't be able to escape" Yellow Moissanite apologized.
White Diamond huffed in annoyance after hearing Yellow Moissanit's excuse. "Since Connie's escape is your fault, your going to capture her before she lets the Crystal Gems out. With the warp pads deactivated in my section of the Death Crystal you'll have to use the secret Diamond passage in order to come up here".
Yellow Moissanite mentally slapped herself again. Why didn't she tell the Quartz Gems that they couldn't reach the Diamond section of the Death Crystal due to the warp pads being deactivated?
"You do remember how to access the Diamond passage, right?" White Diamond inquired.
"Affirmative" Yellow Moissanite answered.
"Alright, and don't forget to confiscate Rose's sword this time" White Diamond reminded.
Yellow Moissanite mentally scowled at White Diamond. "I won't"
"Good" White Diamond said before the holographic screen disappeared, ending the conversation.
With that mini conference out of the way Yellow Moissanite let out an audible sigh. Looking around the hallway to make sure all the Quartz Gems were gone, Yellow Moissanite entered the warp room. Instead of using the warp pad in the middle of the dome shaped room she walked right over it, and went to the back wall.
"Let's see here, if I remember correctly all I have do is raise my Gem and..." Yellow Moissanite trailed off before raising her Gem to the wall.
Yellow Moissanite's Gem glowed bright yellow and a few seconds later a square with the same shape, size, and color appeared on the wall. Soon a hexagonal doorway opened to a small room with one warp pad. This warp pad had a diamond marking on the main part, and wasn't as big as your typical warp pad.
Taking one final glance behind her to make sure no one was there, Yellow Moissanite stepped onto the warp pad and warped away.
Done! I may or may not have chapter 11 posted next week due to school, but rest assured I won't be gone for three months.