Author's Notes: Chapter 25 Noice, like always the lines indicate that the event may take place at a different area or time during the story.
Chapter 25: There's No Place Like Home (part 4)
The ship shook with violently with every vibration. Walls fell apart, Ceilings cracked, floors crumbled. It felt like the ship was tearing itself apart. Steven ran dodging obstacles standing in his way. Turning right he was hit with a slate of metal forcing his body backwards. The slate covered his body, his vision hazy he looked down the hall and saw a hulking figure running towards him. "It's all your fault!" it said tossed him down the direction it came from. Steven flew down the hall entering a cell. He opened his eyes to see familiar feet "Pearl" he said in a weak voice. She cradled him in her arms as the hulky figure stood before the cell wall. "So that's how he got out. The destabilizing wall doesn't affect humans." Pearl held him tighter, the only thing that kept her safe was the cell wall. Another quake shook the ship, lights flicked and Pearl lost balance; Jasper stood tall not fazed by the interruption, staring down her prey with the intent to shatter. Seconds that felt like minutes passed by, the instant the wall went down Pearl tried to dash past Jasper.
With quick reflexes Jasper grabbed hold of Pearl's ribbon pulling her body back making her lose hold of Steven. She swung Pearl against a wall, but before she could fall Jasper followed up with the back of her fist plowing her through to the next cell. In the midst of the smoke a purple whip wrapped around Jasper's arm, surprised she was pulled into a fist she met face first. "P!" Amethyst called staring at Pearl who didnt respond. "Don't turn your back on the enemy!" Jasper screamed as she charged at Amethyst . Having the gem on her helmet she broke through multiple walls before finally tossing her to the ground. She huffed before walking away to go shatter the Pearl.
Amethyst saw Jasper's back turned towards her, under her breath she whispered "Don't turn your back on the enemy.". She curled up into a ball and dashed with extreme speed at Jasper. Smacking her with full force she uncurled, pulling two whips from her gem. Wrapping them around Jasper she simultaneously cracked her whips with violet energy.
"Pearl, wake up!" Steven pleaded shaking the gem. Followed by a large explosion, black smoke filled the halls with thick dusty clouds. Down the hallway he saw Amethyst and Jasper duking it out, almost evenly matched. With a heavy gulp he feared Amethyst might lose. A great deal of pain had been relieved, he felt like he had just woken up after a good night sleep. His eyes popped open, He lifted Pearl over his shoulders, her feet dragged along the floor as he ran in search for Mica and Granite.
Streaks of lightning flashed across the lobby and endless barrages of kunais flew. Amber leaped from the wall straight at Garnet. She caught his hands, while using her arms she blocked incoming kicks and crushed Amber's hands. Using his legsto push against Garnet he ripped off his wrists and retreaded from the lobby with Garnet following from behind sending rockets at him as she chased. Slowly regenerating his hands he closed in on Amethyst and Jasper who were in a fierce battle. Jumping over the purple gem he butted in by kicking Amethyst towards Garnet as he headed towards Jasper.
It was a grave mistake as the purple gem flew past her leader Garnet grabbed onto the broken whip and swung Amethyst back at Amber. Quickly turning into Purple Puma she drove her body into the punch she had hit Amber with. Still holding onto the whip she returned the favor and swung Garnet at Jasper who was aiming for her. Locking her fists together she clashed with Jasper's helmet Causing a shockwave that bent the metal around and sent Amethyst and Amber flying. Landing on the ground the two power house gems threw consecutive punches at each other completely countering one another.
Reaching Granites cell Steven put Pearl down, licked his palm and lightly smacked her gem. Soaking up his saliva she woke up. "Steven?" she questioned abit dizzy. "Quick Theres no time we need to help Amethyst" Pearl looked up to see Granted tied to chains inside of his cell with the shock collar still around his neck. The wall was down so it was easy to get to him. Summoning her spear Pearl cut the chains allowing Granites body to fall. "We have to get the collar off of him. he can't move with it on!" Before Pearl sliced the collar it shocked Granite causing him to wail in pain. The shock collar, sliced into two pieces fell to the ground giving Granite sweet release. "Okay now for Mica.".
"Thanks..." Mica mumbled before collapsing. "Now we need to go back and help Amethyst." Pearl said as she and Steven made their way to the fight. Turning past a corner they saw Peridot in front of a glass panel with earth in the back charging a hand blaster. Pearl eyed down Peridot but her face turned from rage to terror and so did Steven's "I expected you to be scared but not this scared." Peridot said, Steven pointed to the glass pane behind her. She turned her head and her blaster stopped charging, her body felt heavy.
"Steven, I'm doing this for you.." Lapis said as she slowly raised her hands.
The 4 gems rampaged at each other the ship shook like never before. causing everyone to lose balance. "What was that?!" Jasper thought as she picked herself up.
It wrapped around the ship like hands completely surrounding it. Lapis reached high up, turned her hands over and slammed them down to the floor.
Everyone on the ship was pushed and trapped against the ceiling unable to move. As the ship moved faster the pressure on their body's grew more intense. The ship began to shake violently, the sounds of metal creaking and bending echoed. Water spilled into the ship filling it with up. Steven, Pearl, Mica and Granite, were inside of Steven's bubble when the ship shrunk and traveled even faster. Hitting a strong force the ship exploded; From the surface a spike in the water appeared shooting out Steven's bubble high into the air. Looking down a wave of water was sent out in all directions. With pieces of the ship shooting out. Erupting from the water below a large arm caught them and tossed them over a great distance. The arm retreated back into the sea from where it returned. A prosthetic leg floated to the surface of the still raging waters.
Screaming in fear Steven and all those inside tumbled around, nearing land the bubbled crashed onto land like a meteorite. Steven laid unconscious on dirt with clothes ripped and burned. The 3 gems looked around trying to figure out where they were. They stared at Steven watching the boy sleep. "So… those were homeworld gems?" Mica asked. Pearl nodded. "And there are more of them?" Pearl repeated her actions once more. Granite and Mica looked at each other finally realizing the trouble that was to come.
A steady clicking noise filled the room. It stopped as the video feed was cut off. " Peridot has failed me... Jasper has failed me… no more games." tapping her foot, a large tube appeared before her. A skinny robot was inside with a smile so wicked it would scare any who stared at it, except for the one it took after. 3 gems were located on the robot. One on the forehead, another on the chest, and finally one on the stomach. The eyes of the robot glowed white as it turned on. Walking closer to the robot her reflection showed, with her hair covering half her face she smiled...
Author's notes: To those of you who have stayed with me and read my chapters. Thank you so much sticking by me, I know I haven't been posting lately and I am sorry about that, but I hope you are all patient and hope that you'd all prefer quality over quantity.