"Can I help with something ma'am?" Blue Quartz repeated the question, making the shorter blond give her an unimpressed look.
"You can help me by getting out of my way; this is my husband's house." The women said in a condescending tone.
The gem was thinking of a way, to end this confrontation as fast as possible and in the gentlest way she can. She closed her eyes, contemplating the words she was about to utter and it was decided.
"I'm sorry but I can't, your ex-husband told me to not allow you in his house. Why don't you return later and solve the problem with him, I'm just doing what he asked me to do." The gem told the human, trying to sound as not threatening as possible.
Her answer did not have the desired effect the eight-foot-tall blue alien wanted. The blond woman's facial features scrunched into what appeared to be pure hate, but her emotions betrayed her. Blue Quartz could sense the fear radiating from the smaller organic, and tried to defuse the tense situation.
"How about I call the police and get them to arrest your sorry blue ass, get out of my way." The human threatened, trying at the same time to push the giantess out of her way but failed to even move her single inch.
"Please there is no need for such language, I'm sorry but I can't let you in." The gem tried to dismiss the human in a gentle way.
The alien did not know what happened, but the woman's emotions seemed to shift between three primary emotions. Anger, fear, and maliciousness with fear being the dominant one.
"Oh that is it you blue bitch, I'm calling the police on your sorry ass and let's see how you deal with that." The blond sneered.
The gem sighed, the only thing she could do right now watches as the woman back away while holding her phone to her head. The quartz could see happiness and satisfaction radiate of the organic, pretty disgusting how malicious it seemed.
It did not take much for a single police car to arrive. Two officers came out of the law enforcement car, from what Blue can see one was female and the other was male. Despite their average height, the gem could tell that they had a muscular build from the way they walked.
The gem could see them tensing up the moment they saw her. The female place her hand on her Taser and her partner did the same.
"What seems to be the problem ma'am?" the female officer asked.
"This woman won't let me in my husband's house; she threatened to break me in half if I didn't leave." The blond informed the duo, faking fear in an attempt to get them on her side.
They looked at each other; they remained like that for a while before the male officer gave his companion a nod and proceeded to talk.
"Why don't we hear her side of the story, just to clear the confusion?" He said; pointing his thumb at the blue giantess.
"Thank you, officer, to answer your question the owner of this house specifically asked me not to allow her in when he left to get his daughter to school. He even showed me a picture of her, just in case she tried to do something." The gem told him.
"He is her husband, why would he do that?" The policeman asked, giving the alien a questioning look.
"The thing that she failed to mention is the fact that they are divorced. That is the only thing Lucas told me, as far as I can tell pretty much everything he told me is true." The behemoth of quartz told him, giving the woman a disappointed look.
"Are you going to believe the bitch's words over me? She threatened to break me in half if I didn't leave." The blond snarled and tried to get closer only the policewoman to restrain her.
"That is not true and you know it, I never moved out of my spot at the door until you showed up and here we are." The gem said as calm as ever.
"If you want to, I can call the owner of the place to tell you everything."
The officer smiled at her, clearly surprised by the giantess's patience at the obvious insults thrown at her. He nodded at the blue woman, who in return turned her back to him and went inside giving him the chance to do the same. She led him to the living room, where she kept the phone number Lucas gave her in case this happened.
The man could only admire the powerful build the woman in front of him has, dear God what the hell did he get himself into? This was supposed to be some domestic disturbance that he thought would be solved quickly. The officer recalled what the blond woman told him, and found that if the blue giant in front threatened to break her in half she would be able to carry out her threat.
The blue individual handed him the phone, he listened carefully to what the man on the other side told him. Having confirmed what the blue alien told him, he gave her an apologetic look.
"Sorry you have to deal with that type of people, we get calls like these once in a while and they usually end up in a mess." He told her, grateful that she did not escalate the confrontation.
"Do not worry about it; I've dealt with humans like this before." The super quartz replied.
The policeman chose to ignore the human comment, instead of that he extended his hand for a handshake which she gratefully accepted.
"My partner and I will get her out of your hair, so you can go back to whatever you were doing."
As soon as he finished saying that sentence, they heard a loud screech that startled both of them. The Blue alien recognized the sound; it was a centipede gem monster.
"What the hell is that sound?" The panicking officer asked.
"A monster that I am going to stop, get your partner and that woman out of here." She ordered.
When the duo got out of the house, they saw the creature spewing its acidic saliva all over the place. It was pure and utter chaos, people running around for their lives while the deadly liquid destroyed the things it landed on.
"This is bad; if I don't stop it soon it might kill someone." The gem thought as she rushed toward the massive beast at full speed.
The gem's eyes and gemstone began glowing, releasing wisp-like energy as she ran toward the center of the chaos. Blue Quartz jumped and curled around herself midair; she began spinning rapidly and the signature flame like blue energy came into being surrounding her as she smashed right into the corrupted gem's head driving it through the ground.
As soon as Blue stood, she felt the pincer at the back of the centipede monster grab her. The next thing the quartz knew she was violently embedded in the doors of a red car.
"Damn it, this thing is stronger than I thought. I have to improvise or else someone might die." She thought, cursing at her own recklessness for allowing the situation to escalate.
She looked around her, hoping to find a source of water to turn into ice. The giantess spotted a water hydrant and ran towards it, and in an impressive show of strength, she knocked it away in a single punch. With water gushing rapidly from the destroyed hydrant, the quartz soldier stuck her hand into it and began freezing it.
It did not take too long for a giant hand to form, it quickly clamped down the giant worm-like creature's maw and. The beast thrashed as its acidic saliva is completely useless in melting the offending object. Resolving to end this once and for all, the gem used her control to firmly pin the head of the creature to the ground. Having it secure, the dimension-hopping gem summoned another ice hand and used it to disable the corrupted monster's pincer.
"Now is my chance, I have to end this." She thought as she approached the beast, still struggling in its bind.
Without hesitation, she summoned her double-edged battle ax enlarging it as much as she can in a short amount of time. The weapon swiftly cut through the gem beast, poofing it instantly leaving a lime green colored spherical Nephrite on the ground.
The gem was safely within the confines of a bubble created by the super quartz. Having put away the bubble in her own pocket dimension, the gem began looking around and assessing the damage caused but the monster's rampage.
"Wait a minute, how did I do that thing with the ice?" Blue thought to herself, abruptly stopping her assessment of the chaos.
"That was fucking awesome." She heard someone shout behind her.
As soon as she turned around, the super quartz saw a group of people standing there staring at her with a shocked expression on their faces. They witnessed a display of something that they only saw in comic books and manga.
"I…Uh… I think I'm going home right now." The quartz said, only to be swarmed by the crowd.
People admired her, well admired her raw power to be precise.
"I really should go you guys, I left the door open and I really promised the owner that I would watch it for him." She told them.
The crowd wouldn't let her go, forcing the gem to jump over them and run back to the house. The quartz closed the door; she took a deep breath despite not needing to and went to sit down.
"Where did that come from?" She asked herself, trying to figure out how that monster was in this world.
The gem remained on the couch for a while, until she heard the home phone ringing.
"Blue, are you okay? What the hell happened there?" He asked her, fear apparent in his frantic tone.
"I'm asking myself the same question, one moment I was dealing with your crazy ex and then I am fighting a giant worm monster. That thing is from my dimension Lucas, and I don't know how it came here." The alien told him.
"I will pick you up at later and we will talk about it, I'm on my way and it will take at least an hour to be there."
After putting down the phone, the gem returned to her book and continued reading. Blue ignored the sound of sirens; it was probably some fire trucks or ambulances that came in trying to see if some got hurt. She sometimes could hear it, people talking about her and what she did fight the corrupted gem monster.
"She is in that house sir; she went in right after she killed the monster." She heard someone say.
Oh no, no freaking way. The quartz hesitated at first as someone knocked on the door, but she decided that she might as well open it and be done with all of this. The saw someone holding a camera and another man in a fancy suit holding a microphone to her face.
"May we have a word with you?" the one in the fancy suit said, giving a bright smile.
Blue did not know what to say to him, but she kept her cool and decided to return the smile. The alien soldier wondered how in the cosmos did they arrive here so fast, but quickly dismissed the question from her mind. Humans are known to be unpredictable and can do a lot of things to get what they wanted.
"Um… I don't know about that." The quartz responded hesitation is clear in her tone.
"Ma'am, the people want to know their hero and it is our job to deliver that right Leo?" the fancy suit said, turning the cameraman who held his thumb up.
"My fight with the centipede mother was only thirty minutes ago, how in the name of the diamonds do people know about it?" She asked.
"It is trending first at every social media network; someone filmed your fight and uploaded it on YouTube and it spread like wildfire."
"Can I ask you a question?" the gem said
"Ask right away a hero."
"What is YouTube?"
That question got the man to stop; he gave her a confused look before turning to his cameraman Leo who gave a shrug with his free shoulder.
"You're kidding, right? You don't know what YouTube is?" He said, the shocked expression and the way he spoke told her everything.
"I'm not joking; we have something called TubeTube where I came from."
The man's eyes lit, a smile appeared on his face as he extended his hand toward the gem.
"I think I landed an interview of a lifetime. I only need to convince her, and she seems nice enough." He thought to himself, his grin nearly threatening to split his face.
The man felt a hand tap his shoulder from behind; he turned around and found himself facing a brown-haired man who was glaring at him.
"Who might you be sir?" He asked, trying to be as polite as possible.
"The owner of the property you are currently standing on," Lucas said, his tone showing that he was unhappy.
"Oh, pardon my intrusion sir I was merely asking for an interview from our hero here only if you allow us to do so." The man said.
"Why are asking me? She's the reason you are here." Lucas said looking at his eight-foot-tall guest.
"If you try to twist her words against her I will be ending this interview." He added and went to the blue woman's side.
"Blue I need you for a moment please." He said as he motioned to the door.
"Jesus, was that the result of your fight with the monster?" Lucas inquired, shocked at the destruction the fight left.
"Yes, it is the centipede mother is pretty dangerous. You guys are lucky she did not begin spawning her children, or else people would have been dead." The super soldier replied, releasing a heavy sigh.
"Oh god, that thing can make others like it?"
"No it cannot, what I meant is that the corrupted gem can make small versions of itself," Blue told him, amused at his reaction.
"You should feel lucky you know, you don't have to deal with lava spewing gorilla or giant wolf-like creatures."
"You know what; I'm not going to ask. After you finish the interview, and Maria finishes school I will take you to some restaurant as a thank you." He said, confusing the alien soldier.
"As a thank you for dealing with my crazy ex."
"What am I going to do Lucas; I'm afraid that someone might get hurt because of me." The gem exclaimed, looking to the ground.
"You fought an acid spitting worm; you saved everyone from being turned into some sort of green goo. The way I see it, you are more than capable of handling this."
"Thanks, Lucas, I guess I needed that." She said, hugging the man.
The only thing the gem heard was a muffled yelp, she looked at Lucas who had his face buried in her rather large breasts.
"Oh my stars, I'm so sorry Lucas. I didn't mean to do that." The alien soldier said, her cheeks growing a darker shade of blue.
"I uh… I think I need to go now." The human told her, he was equally embarrassed.
"Okay fancy suit, how about that interview of yours." The gem said, diverting her attention to the man holding the microphone.
It was rather quick; he asked a few questions and told her he got what we needed. He said that if she ever wanted to have an interview, she could seek him out the local news station.
The alien was relieved that the interview ended, she did not need any more attention. Now that she did this, her life became even more difficult and her hunt for the corrupted gem monster is going to last even longer.
"What am I going to do now? I just made Lucas's life even more difficult than he already needed." The alien soldier said to herself.
"Maybe some TV will get my mind off of this whole deal." The super quartz said as she grabbed the remote and turned the human machine on.
She switched to one channel, right in the middle of the news. One of the few faces has seen in the neighborhood, it took her a moment later to realize that this interview was about her.
"Can you describe what happened?" The man asked, to which the teen responded enthusiastically.
"She was badass, jumped right into that thing's back. She did that thing with water, giant hands and then POW she nailed it with an ax she summoned."
Resisting the urge to facepalm, the quartz did the only thing she could to keep her sanity and shut the machine down.
"Why Does this always happen to me?"
So sorry this update came out late, I do hope you enjoy this chapter though. The poor quartz can't have a moment of peace without being interrupted, either by a psycho of a woman or giant acid spitting alien monster. I think I will give this universe another chapter before I end it there, and start a new one. The next universe Blue will jump in is going to be fun, just so you know the malfunction that got the super quartz into the current universe is not going to be the only malfunction the belt will be suffering from. Thank for reading, I hope you enjoyed my work and what will come next and I wish you a good day.
Nova Quartz out