Chapter 21: The First Wave
After 3 days as Area 51, Grant and the Diamonds were brought to the spot in the desert. They were shocked to see how many soldiers and vehicles surrounding a red cross on the desert floor. Grant was in his nerdy armor and his weapons, the Diamonds were behind him. General Pilgrim came over "We have the spot surrounded, hopefully this should be enough to deter them." He then turned to the sisters and pulled out two handguns. "I know that you don't want to hurt your own kind, but if they don't know that it's you, you need to defend yourself." They nervously accepted the weapons and looked frightened.
Meanwhile across the dimensional plane, the Quartz battalion was ready. White Diamond smiled evilly and activated the portal frame, suddenly it activated and the army charged! On the other side, they met a large force of Humans, they had all sorts of vehicles. There was one Human in front of the others, he was wearing some weird armor. He yelled to them "Go home! This land is not yours! If you leave with peace we will not attack. But if you try to fight you will be destroyed!" A second passed, two, then the Quartz soldiers laughed and attacked!
The battle was terrifying to say the least, the Diamonds were in the far back and couldn't see. But they could hear screaming, but surprisingly not only from Humans, but Gems as well. On the front lines however Grant was about to experience his first ever kill, in fact it was he who killed the first Gem there. He was nervous sure, but he had a somewhat familiar feeling in him, probably from his family's history of war. First he pulled out his STG44 and decided to fix his sights on a smaller Quartz, he aimed and pulled the trigger. He fired out a single round into the Gems arm, her arm jumped back from the force of the shot but it seemed not to affect her, then the explosive kicked in. Less than a second after the bullet punctured her arm, it exploded and red fragments flew out of her arm, like flesh. The small Quartz stopped and looked and her now horribly deformed arm with a shocked face. Grant then aimed and fired again, this time at her head. Shortly after the bullet exploded, her body gave out and with a loud POOF, disappeared. All that was left was a large red gemstone, a carnelian, he quickly ran over to it and crushed it with his boot!
Meanwhile the other soldiers weren't having as much luck. The other Quartzes were large and were able to easily rip Humans in half easily. They were also able to resist multiple shots from guns. However they had now answer to tank shells, they would blow through the quartzes with ease. Their anti-tank guns were also effective, the Gems were shot through and poofed. However when the Gems were able to reach the tanks, they were able to crush them and rip them apart. However they were few in number, while the Humans were many, the Gems were starting to worry. These were not the Humans they had last seen 5,000 years ago. While this was happening, White Diamond was shocked, these Humans were killing Quartz Gems! More so ever, they were starting to loose!
Grant was now in the fray, shooting Gems with his Colt 1911 and was now testing out his new explosive knives. He jabbed one into the neck of a burly purple one, it beeped and exploded, blowing apart her leg. She screamed in pain and fell down, he put a few Kurtz rounds into her head. At this point, he had lost any feeling of regret, these aliens were trying to take his friends, and his world. He didn't care that they were taller and stronger than him, he just wanted to stop them. Even though they were stronger, his armor seemed stronger. When a giant orange Gem with red stripes smashed into him with her strange helmet, he flew back and slowly got up "Ouch." he said, he was bruised for sure but he was fine. There was a small dent, but it was almost unnoticeable, Grant smiled in his helmet and began to fight again.
Soon however, the tanks were destroyed so the artillery began to fire up near the portal. The Gems on the other side were having to retreat aways from the portal as the blasts from the alternate Earth were passing through. White was getting nervous, her forces were falling now at a rapid pace. She was realizing that they had to retreat, these Humans were going to wipe their forces out! She then gave the solemn command "To all soldiers, retreat, we have to fight another day!" Beyond the interdimensional plane the soldiers heard this order and the Gems began to retreat back. While this was happening the Humans began to cheer and shout as they chased after them. Soon the Gems were back home and the portal was quickly shut off. White Diamond was screaming in frustration, she had lost! But this was just the beginning, next time she would take care of them, herself.
Grant and the Humans were cheering! Grant ran to the Sisters and gave them giant hugs, Blue gave him a kiss on the lips. They walked back to the battlefield and observed the carnage. There were bloody bodies and crushed gemstones all around, the carnage was unreal. He took off his helmet and gave a solemn face to the field, it was horrible. He turned to the Diamonds and saw that they were crying, he gave them a huge hug. Grant walked helped them walk back to the car, they along with many wounded soldiers, were going back to Area 51. He looked around and grabbed a black sharpie and began to mark his helmet with tallies, the Sisters looked at him with a confused look on their faces. "These marks represent my kills, the Gems I, shattered." They looked on in shocked as he marked his helm with 23 tallies. As they drove back, Grant was nervous, he knew that this wasn't the end.