Hello everyone! So chapters of this fic will be going up on tumblr now so if you want to follow me at .com then you can get them... at roughly the same time actually. Special thanks to Squish13 who actually read this chapter a head of time to catch my grammar and spelling nonsense. Squish writes the fantastic fic Golden Universe which you should totally check out cause it's awesome.
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"Our most successful chance would be to meet up with the existing rebellion." White said pacing in front of a blackboard. Pink Pearl could see Yellow Diamond rolling her eyes in the back of the room, closest to the door. Yellow Pearl was standing against the wall near her, still tense after the momentary argument earlier. Blue Pearl was sitting next to her on the couch on the other side from Domina who was leaning back into her gently like she used to when she was much younger.
"Getting in contact will be difficult after all this." Blue Pearl said. "Especially as I assume that we're trying to avoid drawing attention from Blue Diamond."
"Uh yeah, no duh." Amethyst said earning a disapproving look from White.
"The lower frequencies should still be safe." Pink said, idly combing her fingers through Domina's hair, she had completely butchered it yet again. "And they do already know to expect transmissions via wailing stones."
"Wailing stones? No ones used those in 5000 years." Domina said turning to look at her.
"Well yeah and us like every couple weeks." Amethyst said.
"We don't check for wailing stone transmissions?" Yellow Diamond asked with a glance at Yellow Pearl.
"Er, no my diamond. You said that time spent scanning for them could be used more productively elsewhere." Yellow Pearl said nervously. Yellow Diamond went temporarily orange and rubbed her temples.
"Right." She said. Amethyst snickered. Domina hid a grin.
"Well there no way The Styx will make it to the Omega Quadrant." Domina said. White frowned.
"It's moved again I assume?"
"It's been moved several times White." Pink said. The warp pad jumped to life and Peridot and Lapis Lazuli appeared.
"Steven informed me that a important Crystal Gem meeting was taking place, why wasn't I told earlier!" the Peridot said folding her arms.
"I was busy taking notes, sorry Peridot!" Steven said. Lapis hopped up to sit on the edge of the loft. White rolled her eyes. Peridot opened her mouth to reply only to realize that Yellow Diamond was glaring daggers from the back.
"Well uh.. That's fine. Do we really need to be here? I'm sure me and Lapis won't be able to provide anything worthwhile to-"
"We're not going anywhere any time soon Peridot." Domina said. "Besides Yellow will behave."
"I do not need to be told to behave, I am not some sort of Agate." Yellow said sharply.
"You're absolutely right." Domina said. "I've never had to tell any of my Agates to behave."
"Oh snap!" Amethyst crowed. Yellow Diamond seethed and Pink Pearl would have laughed if it wasn't for the fact the idea of being stuck on a planet with a pissed of diamond was terrifying. Domina's smug smirk slid off her face at the warning look Pink gave her.
"Sorry. That was rude." Domina apologized, rubbing the ridge on her arm where her cast disturbed the fabric of her shirt. Yellow Diamond seemed startled out of her anger and gave Domina a look Pink couldn't quite read. Yellow Pearl was giving Pink the same look that she had given her millenia ago during Yellow's first meeting with Domina. That look that asked what in star's name was wrong with her Diamond. As always Pink met it with a shrug.
Yellow Diamond added 'Constant reminders that Domina is organic' to her list of reasons to hate the Earth. It was needlessly long and did her no good, but it wasn't like she had anything else to do.
White Diamond wouldn't have apologized, then again she also would have shattered the pearl standing at the front of the room the moment she had laid eyes on her. Steven quickly brought the traitorous Peridot up to speed about they're discussion and finally the Renegade Pearl brought back the conversation that had been interrupted.
"What are the range capabilities of a roaming eye?" She asked.
"Not that far," 5XG said. "The distance between here and homeworld is as far as it would be capable without time to recharge." The pearl rubbed the setting of her gem.
"How much farther is the Omega Quadrant?" Steven asked, why a quartz had any interest in this kind of thing was a mystery to her.
"If your bed was Earth," Domina said "and... where the Styx is, that's Homeworld. Then the Omega quadrant would be roughly where" She paused then looked at the Permafusion. "What's the name of the planet within the asteroid belt outside this solar system?"
"Pluto." the Permafusion supplied.
"Then the Omega quadrant is roughly where Pluto is." She finished. Steven's mouth dropped open. "Can we build a ship?" Domina asked.
Yellow Diamond blinked, she couldn't be serious.
"I suppose it's possible theoretically..." The peridot rubbed her chin.
"We built the drill." The Permafusion said with a shrug.
"There's no way any of you are capable of designing and building a ship that can make that kind of trip." Yellow Diamond said. The Renegade rolled her eyes and continued talking, stars she realized why Pearls were better seen than heard.
"Really the problem we're going to have with anything we build is the strength," Domina said, the Pearl had written down some kind of list in some unreadable script. "I don't suppose there is any chance there's a reformation orb somewhere on this planet is there?"
"Not that we've come across." The Permafusion said.
"Could there be one on the moonbase?" The Lapis Lazuli had taken up an elevated position near the Quartz Hybrid, Yellow Diamond had no doubt she was acting as some kind of guard. What had Blue been thinking, allowing a Lapis anywhere near this planet's quadrant? Especially this Lapis.
"The moonbase is still functional?" Domina asked sitting up from where she had practically been laying on her pearl.
"Not as such the console was... smashed, a little." Peridot 5XG said.
"What?" Yellow Diamond's attention snapped back to the conversation.
"Yeah.. that day P-dot called you a clod, there was a whole thing, I turned into a helicopter for a bit." The Amethyst drawled. It took all of Yellow Diamond's strength not to destabilize the entire room. She could see her Pearl take a long step away from her.
"It's not the worst that's ever happened to one of those things." Domina said, her voice maybe a bit too cheery, she looked at Yellow Diamond with almost a conspiratorial air. "Remember that one on the jungle moon, it's a surprise the whole structure hasn't collapsed yet." It wasn't a shout to 'control herself' but the implication was clear enough. Yellow Diamond just frowned in response and leaned back against the wall, electricity having finally stopped arcing from her fingertips.
"There's not a reformation orb on the moon base." Domina's Pearl said, she would know. "Though the power system might be salvageable."
"That's a good point," The renegade made a note of it.
"A reformation orb is the thing that fixed Domina's ship the last time, right?" Steven asked.
"Yes. Though now that I think about it reprogramming those things is nearly impossible." Domina said with a shake of her head.
"Are they on all Diamond ships?" Steven asked. Domina nodded.
"What about that drop ship, P?" Amethyst asked "Like can we jump it and use that?"
"If you want to make that trip over the course of the next five million years." Peridot said. The Amethyst huffed and swung back around to hang upside down.
The conversation carried on in almost a circular way eventually boiling down to 'let's just collect a bunch of parts that will help and we'll make it up as we go along.' And surprisingly Domina felt ok with that. It was at least some semblance of a plan. They had just decided to make for the moon base the next day when there was the sound of a combustion engine outside.
"Holy Fuuuuc-fudge.. Fudge." A woman's voice said loudly. Domina saw the
Renegade go paler than she thought was possible.
"Steven!" Connie's voice drifted in followed by the thudding of feet coming up the stairs. Connie opened the screen door with her shoulder, still staring outside at the Styx. "Where did that space ship come from?" She asked before turning to look at the room and her mouth dropped open.
"Connie!" Domina said with a grin "You cut your hair!"