Thanks go to Howlite, Randal435, TennisCat, F#ck No, and kidscience22.
I'm just gonna start putting Fun Facts about character and the story randomly in the Authors Notes every now and again because...
Well I wanna.
Fun Fact: Howlite's theme is the song Shadows by Tragedy Machine.
Disclaimer: I do not own Steven Universe
Steven stared at Howlite with wide eyes as the enemy gem pleaded.
"Please..." Howlite fell to the side, going unconscious.
Without a second thought, Matrix rose his spear into the air, looking to stab Howlite.
"No!" Steven's bubble appeared, shielding Howlite and Blue Diamond.
"Kid you cannot be serious." Matrix said, and Steven shook his head.
"He needs help! They all need help!" Steven said, licking his hand.
"Steven that is Blue Diamond!" Peridot said.
"One of the Diamond Authority!" Jasper said.
"She's the reason for hundreds of deaths for Humans and Gems alike in the Gem Wars!" Lapis said.
Steven stopped, turning to look at them."Everyone deserves a second chance, right?" He smiled.
He pressed his hand to Blue Diamond's gem, everyone's eyes widening as the crack in it sealed.
"Damn it kid!" Matrix slammed his fist into the bubble.
Steven then turned his attention to Howlite, seeing his gem at the roof of his mouth from his mouth hanging open.
He noticed the scratches running across it, and licked his hand, opening Howlite's jaws. They stretched unnaturally far open, so it was rather easy for Steven to reach into his mouth.
As his hand touched Howlite's gem, however, it glowed Blue, and the Diamond drawn on it so long ago seemed to fade away.
"Huh..?" Howlite's eyes opened slowly to find that dark abyss he'd seen so many times before. But this time he could hear something yelling.
"Damn it damn it damn it!" Chains struck out, wrapping around the wolf as he was dragged back into his cage.
"Howlite, let me out!" It demanded, but Howlite only smirked lightly.
"Well well, would you look at that." Howlite stood, walking towards the cage and grabbing its door, slamming it shut on the monster.
"Sorry Wolfy, looks like I'm calling the shots from now on." Howlite turned, walking from the cage.
"Howlite! Howlite don't you dare walk away from me!" It roared as Howlite left.
"Howlite! I will devour you!"
Howlite's eyes snapped open, and he found himself on a strange, cushy object.
He sat up slowly, looking around. He found himself in the house of Steven Universe, all of the gems watching him.
"Uh..." Howlite looked around at all of them, watching as they all drew their weapons. "Well don't I feel welcome."
"Cut the crap!" Lapis suddenly snapped, her wings appearing and sharpening, aiming under Howlite's throat.
"Uh... Is this because of the Mirror thing?" Howlite remained calm as he asked, arching a brow at Lapis.
The sharpened wings suddenly formed hands, wrapping around Howlite's throat.
"Gah!" Howlite exclaimed, choking as he grabbed the water hands.
"Take a guess!" She said, pulling back one fist.
"Lapis! Stop!" Garnet grabbed Lapis, pulling her off of Howlite.
"He put me in there! He put me in that damn mirror!" Lapis struggled, everyone looking in shock at Howlite.
"She's right. I did do that." Howlite stood calmly, placing his hands in his pockets.
"Do you have any idea what it's like? Being stuck in such a horrible prison?!" Lapis asked, Garnet barely able to hold her.
"Metaphorically?" Howlite glanced over at the unconscious Blue Diamond. "Yeah, I do."
That seemed to be the breaking point.
Lapis's wing shot out, jabbing at Garnet, who was forced to drop her.
Lapis shot off at Howlite, grabbing him and shooting through the screen window behind him, hitting the beach and skidding across it.
"You know nothing!" Lapis said, slamming her fists into Howlite's face again and again. He just sat there. Letting the attacks come.
"Lapis, stop!" Steven said, running towards her. "Give him another chance! Please!"
Lapis sat motionless. "Give him... Another chance..?" Lapis turned suddenly, her eyes so hate filled that it made Steven stop.
Everyone else had ran out onto the beach, watching the scene unfold.
"Not everyone is allowed a second chance, Steven..." Lapis said, her wing rising and sharpening once again as it loomed over Howlite.
"Go ahead then." Howlite said calmly. "It's not like I don't deserve it."
"Stop that!" Lapis snapped, her wing coming down. "Stop not caring!"
In an instant, Lapis was blown aside, Blue Diamond standing next to Howlite with a smirk.
"You were right, these earthlings are pathetic." Blue Diamond raised a glowing palm to Lapis, who struggled, trying to climb to her feet.
Steven was about to jump in the way with his shield, when Howlite pushed Blue Diamond's hand down.
"Lets just go." Howlite said, an ice path forming on the water.
"But-" Blue Diamond was cut off.
"Now. We need to find a place to hide from Bloodstone."
All of the other gems went cold hearing that name.
And soon enough, Howlite and Blue Diamond were gone, everyone being stopped by the sheer fear that name caused.
"D-damn them..." Lapis struggled to stand, stumbling slightly.
"Lapis!" Steven ran to Lapis, licking his hand. "Let me heal you-"
Steven was suddenly smacked aside by a water wing, eyes wide.
"Leave me alone!" Lapis snapped, wings forming as she took flight.
"Steven!" Pearl helped Steven up, Steven rubbing his cheek. He just sat there, dumbstruck.
"Lapis..." Steven muttered, watching as she flew after Howlite and Blue Diamond.
"Did they just leave us here?!" Emerald screamed quietly, watching as the two walked off.
"Looks like it..." Amazonite muttered, looking to the door. "We need to get out of here."
"You said it..." Tiger crept towards the door, which suddenly flung open, Matrix standing in the doorway.
"Oh come on, it had to be this one?!" Emerald said, backing up slowly.
"Please! I can take hi-" Tiger was cut off, Matrix's knee ramming into her chest.
"You were saying?" Matrix smirked as she fell to her hands and knees, coughing.
"Now then," Matrix cracked his knuckles.
"I haven't interrogated anyone in awhile, so bare with me here."
"I- I don't wanna do this!"
"Come on Howlite, don't tell me you've gone soft. Just the other day you destroyed that entire Kindergarten and all of the people on that planet."
"N-no! That wasn't me..." Howlite shook his head, tears forming in his eyes. "Please, don't make me do this to her!" Howlite grabbed onto Blue Diamond's dress as he pleaded, looking up at her with those innocent eyes.
Blue Diamond gritted her teeth, pulling back one hand and smacking Howlite upside the head, throwing him to the ground, making him look up at her in shock.
"I grow tired of you newborn Gems always being so... Touchy feely." Blue Diamond cracked her knuckles. "I guess I'll just have to show you what happens when you don't follow orders."
Howlite winced, hearing the sounds of being smacked and hit inside of his head. He never thought those days would come back to haunt him...
"You know, I keep trying to figure out where I saw that pathetic blue gem before..." Blue Diamond broke the silence, and Howlite looked over at her, trying not to glare.
"She's the one I put in that Mirror as my first real order, Blue Diamond..." Howlite said, and she looked as though she'd remembered something.
"Oh, that's right! Those were the days, huh Howlite? Back then you were just a sniveling little brat." Blue Diamond grinned.
"Yes, that's right..." Howlite said, his hands clenching into fists.
"What's wrong? Don't tell me you still feel bad about that, Howlite." Blue Diamond rolled her eyes as they reached a cave.
"I don't feel anything anymore, miss Diamond..."
Emerald's head slammed into the counter, his nose breaking as he was thrown to the ground.
"Holy sh!t..." Emerald groaned, laying on the ground. "Y-know there's supposed to be a first and second degree before the third, right?"
"That wasn't even the interrogation." Matrix crossed his arms. "You just have a very... Slam-into-a-counter-able face."
"Well you can never hear that enough..." Emerald said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
They were now in Matrix's apartment, Jasper and Garnet standing at the door to make sure that nothing went wrong. They didn't want Steven to see this.
"You could have just asked me the question, you ass!" Emerald said, struggling to his feet and holding his face. "I'm not the best at withholding information."
"Emerald, don't tell him anything!" Tiger said.
"It doesn't matter, Tiger. We don't exactly work for Yellow Diamond anymore." Amazonite rolled her eyes.
Peridot flew over the ocean, looking around. "No sign of Lapis, Blue Diamond, or Howlite."
"Same here." Amethyst's voice said over a communicator in Peridot's ear. She was walking around one of the coasts that they could have landed on.
"Nothing out here, either." Steven said, sitting on the blow up boat that he had in his back pack what felt like so long ago with Pearl.
Peridot sighed, looking off at the setting sun. They'd been searching all day...
Lapis landed on the roof of the cave that Blue Diamond and Howlite were staying in.
She stood there, thinking. She needed to get past Blue Diamond to dispose of Howlite...
Something kept bothering her, though.
She'd attacked Howlite, and he hadn't fought back. He'd admitted to putting her in the mirror without any pride or manic glee. He'd claimed that he deserved to be killed...
What was wrong with him? Did he have a death wish?
Well she'd be happy to help him with that...
"Can I help you with something?"
Lapis's eyes widened, and she turned slowly to see Blue Diamond standing behind her. She was grinning.
"Howlite isn't here to save you this time."
Lapis roared, shooting off the ground at Blue Diamond. "Don't get in my way! I'm going to kill him!" Lapis said, her sharpened wings swinging by Blue Diamond as she dodged around them.
"You're a lot more vengeful than I would have thought, Lapis Lazuli." Blue Diamond said, stepping back as Lapis's wings stabbed down in an X in front of her, her wings turning to blades as they swung at her.
"Shut up!" Lapis demanded, swinging at Blue Diamond's head. She ducked under it, jabbing Lapis in the chest with her palm, throwing her from the roof of the cave.
As Lapis was thrown back, her water wings splattered from the force of the hit. Blue Diamond jumped up, slamming both feet into Lapis's chest and throwing her down from the cave into the beach below, sending her smashing into the sand, throwing plums of it into the air.
Howlite sat against the cave wall with his eyes closed. That was, until he heard the thumping on top of the roof. It sounded like someone was yelling, and two people seemed to be walking on the roof.
Howlite looked around, realizing Blue Diamond was gone. "Oh no..." Howlite stood, looking around.
It was then that Lapis shot by the mouth of the cave, slamming into the ground with great force and throwing dust into the air.
Without a second thought, Howlite ran to the mouth of the cave, jumping from it and down towards the ground.
"So Bloodstone was sent to get rid of Blue Diamond?" Matrix arched a brow at Emerald, who nodded.
"Yes, and now that she's here..." Emerald trailed off.
"But why would Yellow Diamond care about Blue Diamond now?" Matrix arched a brow at Emerald, who shrugged.
"If I had to guess, it'd be so she didn't have anything unexpected in the invasion."
Matrix's eyes widened, Garnet's and Jasper's widening as well. "I-Invasion?"
"Oh, right. I suppose you all wouldn't know about that, would you?" Emerald said, and Matrix shook his head.
"Well, I suggest you all just give up now." Emerald looked down. "Armies are coming. The planet will fall... Yellow Diamond will have her revenge..."
"So I'm assuming she got away." Yellow Diamond said over the communicator.
"Yes, she did." Bloodstone said. "What's worse, she's gone to Earth..."
"I suppose it can't be helped now..." Yellow Diamond sighed. "I'll send a few small forces to back you up, Bloodstone." Yellow Diamond grinned.
"Lets test these pathetic traitors."
Lapis was kicked aside, skidding across the sand and panting.
"You're a fool to think that you could challenge me." Blue Diamond slammed one foot onto Lapis's chest, making her cough blood.
"Let her go!"
Blue Diamond caught a purple whip, turning with a bored expression to Amethyst, who was slightly surprised to see that look on her face.
"Oh great, another one." Blue Diamond pulled Amethyst into the air, taking aim on her with an open palm, firing a blast of blue at the runt gem.
The beam was hit with a green blast, throwing it aside.
"That was such a bad idea..." Peridot gulped as Blue Diamond turned to look at her.
Suddenly, Pearl came down from above Blue Diamond, stabbing at her. Blue Diamond reached up, catching the spear and Pearl with it, making the smaller gem gasp.
Blue Diamond rose one foot, slamming it into Pearl's stomach and throwing her across the beach, sending her skidding into the water.
"Pearl!" Amethyst pulled Pearl form the water, and Pearl coughed up water, gasping for breath.
"Where'd she go?!" Peridot said frantically, looking around with her cannon aimed and ready.
As she turned, she gulped, seeing Blue Diamond standing directly behind her.
She was about to blast, when her cannon was grabbed, and she could feel it being crushed.
She jumped back, pulling her hand from the glove as it was crushed.
As she fell from the cliff face, she aimed her remaining cannon at Blue Diamond, who disappeared just as the blast was fired.
"Son of a bi-" Peridot was cut off, feeling Blue Diamond's leg slam into her side, throwing her across the air and into the mountain, cracks spreading through the rocks as she collided with it.
Cracks were heard from Peridot's side as the kick landed, and she felt her ribs breaking under the force. She landed on the ground, coughing blood.
Amethyst dropped down at Blue Diamond, now in the form of Purple Puma.
Blue Diamond shot forward, grabbing Amethyst by the throat and stopping her drop, shooting into the air.
Blue Diamond reached a high point in the air, turning and pulling Amethyst back, throwing her towards the ground at lightning speed.
Amethyst crashed into the ground, throwing dust into the air. Blue Diamond waved one hand, and the dust was thrown aside.
There, in the dirt, Amethyst laid, her arm bent the wrong way.
Pearl stumbled towards Amethyst, going to try to help her. That was until Blue Diamond appeared before her, grabbing her by the throat.
"You're all so pathetic..." Blue Diamond pulled back one hand, jabbing through Pearl's stomach and making her eyes widen, her pupils shrinking.
Blue Diamond dropped Pearl, feeling something hit her in the back. She turned, seeing Peridot standing again, holding her side as she blasted with her one remaining cannon. Blue Diamond grinned.
In an instant, she stood before Peridot, slamming one foot into her remaining cannon, smashing it against the rock wall and breaking Peridot's arm in one fell swoop.
Peridot's eyes widened in pain, and she fell to the ground, grabbing her arm in silent agony.
Blue Diamond grinned, grabbing Peridot and picking her up by her throat, opening one palm in her face.
"Any last words, traitor?"
Peridot smirked, blood on her teeth. She muttered something.
"What?" Blue Diamond leaned forward slightly, and Peridot muttered again, so she leaned forward further.
Peridot suddenly pulled back her head, slamming her face into Blue Diamond's, breaking her nose!
"Gah!" Blue Diamond dropped Peridot, who landed on her hands and knees, panting.
"I said: you're a clod." Peridot grinned, spitting blood to the side as she attempted to stand.
Blue Diamond glared at Peridot, holding her nose. "I never expected a move like that out of you, Peridot. Maybe Matrix, but not you."
"I guess that one eyed idiot is starting to rub off on me..." Blood dripped from Peridot's forehead.
As Blue Diamond was about to blast Peridot, she ducked, Lapis flying over her head with one sharp wing forward.
Blue Diamond fired the blast into Lapis instead, throwing her across the beach once again.
Blue Diamond walked across the beach towards Lapis, who lay motionless in the sand.
But as she walked towards Lapis, something slammed into her face, throwing her back across the sand.
Howlite back flipped, landing on his feet. He'd slammed both feet into Blue Diamond's face.
Howlite stood calm, hands in his pockets as Blue Diamond glared at him.
"Howlite..." She looked sick with rage.
"How dare you?!"
I know, the chapter was shorter than usual, but I wanted to reserve Howlite vs Blue Diamond for next chapter.
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