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Zeolite, Hematite, you two go on ahead to Earth." Bloodstone said, standing at the window of the ship, staring out at space from it.

"B-but sir, we can't attack them without our extra forces and especially without yo-" Zeolite was smacked across the face.

"First off, never question me." Bloodstone glared down at Zeolite, who nodded quickly.

"Y-yes, sir..."

"Second off, You are not to fight them all as a whole. Single them out. Divide and Conquer." Bloodstone grinned.

"And if that fails, then don't fight them to the death. Get out of there. You're both important." Bloodstone's grin faded as he looked with mild disappointment at Zeolite.

"Some more than others."


Howlite's eyes slowly opened, and he saw that everyone was staring at him. Again.

"Alright Howlite, on our side or not." Matrix cut to the chase.

"Well lets see, I'm stranded here with no one to help, the one crazy bitch who could get me out of this is literally stuck inside of me, and Yellow Diamond wants my head on a silver platter." Howlite gave Matrix a condescending look. "Yeah, I think I'll go against you guys." He said sarcastically.

"I knew you'd join us!" Steven grabbed Howlite, embracing him. Howlite cringed in the hug, awkwardly patting Steven's head.

"Yeah yeah that's great. Now get off of me." Howlite rolled his eyes, and Steven let go of him.

"See what happens when you give people another chance, guys?" Steven looked at the others. "Now almost all of the Gems that have came here are on our side!"

"Yeah, now we just need the Crazy Twins to join and for Lignite to come back to life." Howlite rolled his eyes, climbing to his feet.

"And I'm not joining your little team of rebels, kid." Howlite said, turning over his shoulder to glare at Steven.

"If Yellow Diamond shows up with her gang of clowns, I'll kill them with you, sure." Howlite shrugged. "The enemy of my enemy, blah blah blah."

"But make no mistake." Howlite turned, leaning in close to the half Gem.

"I'm not your friend." Howlite said, his glare darkening. "I'm not your guardian, I'm not Wolf Dad, and if there's a lethal blast coming at us, and I can either push you aside and take the hit or use you as a meat shield, I'm picking the latter."

Howlite turned, walking away. He looked down at the Blue Diamond jammed into his chest, growling lightly.

"Wow..." Peridot said, watching him walk away.

"Sorry kiddo." Emerald shrugged. "Howlite's kind of an ass."

"I can hear you!" They could hear Howlite yell at them in the distance.

"Don't worry guys, he'll come around." Steven smirked, though they could hear Howlite yell 'No I won't' in the distance.

"So uh..." Steven turned, looking at Lapis. "You alright?"

"I still have a few questions..." Lapis looked at her hands for a moment.

"I'll uh... Meet you guys back at the Temple." Lapis's wings suddenly appeared, and she took off.

"Are we just gonna let her go?" Peridot arched a brow at Matrix, who shrugged.

"If she wants to talk to the albino, let her." Matrix turned, walking back towards the Temple. "I'm tired."


Howlite growled lightly, pulling on the Diamond stuck in his chest. "Crafty bitch had all of this planned..."

"She even had a fail safe for if I lost control..." Howlite snarled, slamming his fist into a boulder.

In the next instant, the boulder had turned to pebbles.

"If I ever get the chance, she's dead..." Howlite grabbed a pebble, turning and throwing it towards the water, watching it skid across the water. Not skip, skid.

"Every time I ever get the chance, she always gets under my skin... But its usually metaphorical..." Howlite grabbed the gem forced into his chest once again, snarling as he pulled on it with both hands, trying desperately to get it out.

"Damn it damn it damn it!" Howlite snarled, roaring as he pulled on the gem, but to no avail.

"Why?! Why does she always get to win?!" Howlite slammed his fist into another boulder, once again destroying it as he snarled, pulling his fist back to smash the Gem.

"You and I both know you really shouldn't do that."

At first, Howlite thought that Blue Diamond was talking to him in his head, but when he turned around, he saw the one he'd put in that mirror standing there.

Howlite growled lightly, running a hand through his hair as he sighed, trying to regain his composure. "How much of that did you see..?"

"Enough to have even more questions for you." Lapis said, looking rather concerned at Howlite, who seemed to be seething with rage.

"And why should I answer any of your questions?" Howlite half glared at her out of the corner of his eye.

"To vent?" Lapis shrugged, and Howlite snarled, kicking a boulder across the beach.

"I don't need to!-" Howlite stopped himself, taking a deep breath. "Alright, fine, ask away."

"Alright, well I have a lot of questions about what goes on between you and Blue Diamond." Lapis said, and Howlite sighed.

"Well I guess I've got a long story to tell you."

{Enter Episode of Howlite here}

"Wow..." Lapis's eyes were wide as she looked to the ground.

"No matter how much I struggle, she always gets me again..." Howlite's hand clenched into a fist. "She's always three steps ahead..."

"I never thought that the one who put me in that mirror would be someone like you..." Lapis said, and Howlite arched a brow at her.

"What do you mean?"

"I always thought it would be someone like Eclipse or one of the Diamonds. A sadist or a psychopath..."

"I'm both of those things."

"No, you're not." This made Howlite look up from the ground at her.

"I eat people, Lapis. I eat them to keep a monster from over taking me..." Howlite's hands clenched into fists.

"But you feel remorse. Or at least you have. And you don't have to eat people anymore, Steven put it back in it's cage, didn't he?"

"But as you saw today, it can still get out..."

"But now it does so on your terms, not on its terms."

Howlite was silent for a moment, before a light laugh was heard, and he stood, turning around and starting to walk away.

"I enjoy your optimism, but I'll be going now." Howlite turned around to look at her as he walked away.

"See you around, I guess."


It had been two weeks since all of the other Homeworld Gems joined the Crystal Gems, having ran out of options.

They all knew what was coming. If they didn't fight when Yellow Diamond came here, they'd all be executed without a fight.

As time went by, Earth, Beach City, and its Inhabitants began to grow on the Homeworld Gems.

Though they'd never admit it, Matrix and Tiger were glad to be on the same side once again.

Steven grew on Amazonite the quickest. As it turned out, she has a soft spot for children.

Emerald enjoyed Greg's style of living like a bum, and decided to help at the car wash in exchange for a bit above minimum wage.

Enough for him to live in a one bedroom, tiny apartment which he admired for being 'simple'. I suppose when you live a life full of incredibly complex, high tech things, simple things like the things on earth are quite pleasant.

Howlite didn't find a home, nor did he stick around with Steven or the others.

Howlite could be found occasionally roaming around the city. Every now and again he'd drop by Emerald's apartment or show up at the Big Donut.

Tiger hit the ground once again, panting as she climbed to her feet.

"Well, you're getting better." Matrix said, shrugging.

"Better isn't good enough!"

Amazonite watched, helping Garnet and Jasper build the two new rooms on the beach apartment.

"Anybody seen Howlite lately?" Amazonite asked the others, lifting a large support beam and placing it.

"We outta keep a closer eye on that psycho." Jasper said, nailing something in place.

"If Steven thinks it's okay to have him roam freely, then I do too." Garnet said, stepping back as they finished one wall.


"Hey, remember when you stabbed me with that Gem Destabalizer?" Emerald brought up as if it was something normal to bring up, helping Greg wash a car.

"Uh..." Greg said awkwardly.

"That was cool." Emerald said blankly, throwing a towel over the car and groaning, stretching as he walked towards the door.

"Well, it's been a good day." and with that, Emerald was out in the night.

As he walked down the empty streets, something didn't feel right.

He felt as though he was being watched.

"Howlite?" He called into the night. "This thing where you watch people is gettin' real creepy."

He saw a white blur flash by, and rolled his eyes. "Howlite I know that it's yo-"

Emerald suddenly felt a piercing pain in his right shoulder, and a blade that was all too familiar shot through his right shoulder.

Emerald's energy blade appeared, and he swung, slicing through the blades as he jumped back, grabbing his shoulder in pain.

In his shoulder were Zeolite's blades, but Zeolite was no where to be seen.

Emerald yanked the blades from his shoulder, growling as he looked around.

"Okay, not Howlite."


"Alright Steven, I've gotta go." Connie said, laying in her bed and staring at the ceiling as she spoke with Steven on the phone.

"But Connie!"

"Steven, it's ten o'clock at night." Connie laughed lightly.

"Fiiinnnneeee..." Steven laughed after his fake pout, and the call was ended.

Connie smiled, putting her phone in her pocket and standing, walking to the window.

She saw something shift in the window's reflection, and she ducked, two katana's going through the window behind her.

"I heard you fight with a sword." Hematite said blandly, and Connie grabbed her sword, rolling to the side and swinging at Hematite, who blocked with ease.


"Gotta find somebody gotta find somebody gotta find somebody!" Emerald ran quickly down the street, hoping for once that Howlite would be watching him.

"There's nobody to help you!" Zeolite shot from a roof top, and Emerald turned quickly, blocking his blades with a wince before Zeolite jumped back, and they stood across from one another in the middle of the road.

"Just my luck..." Emerald groaned, blood from his shoulder running down his arm as he stood ready for Zeolite's attack.

"I'll prove myself to Bloodstone this time!" Zeolite shot off at Emerald, who blocked his blade once again, skidding back slightly as Zeolite continued to slice at him.

Emerald barely managed to block every strike, ducking and dodging before suddenly kicking out at Zeolite, who jumped over it, stabbing down.

The blade went right through Emerald's left shoulder, making him roar with pain as Zeolite jumped up, slamming both feet into his face and making him hit the ground, bounce, and skid.

Emerald groaned as Zeolite lifted his shredder blade over him, preparing to stab down.

As he was about to, however, a boot slammed into his chest, green energy shooting from it like a rocket and throwing him through the air.

Emerald shot into the air, his feet shooting green energy like rocket boots as he floated, smirking down at Zeolite.

"I'm not as much of a push over as you think!" Emerald shot down, slicing at Zeolite, though it was blocked hastily.

Zeolite snarled, Emerald shooting by again.

He ducked under a slice, jabbing upward. His blade sliced through Emerald's side, making his eyes widen in pain.

Emerald fell to the ground, grabbing his side as blood seeped from his clothes. He was writhing in pain, and Zeolite grinned, bringing his blade into the air.

"And that's that."

Stab.


Connie shot back through the door, wincing as Hematite jumped out after her.

She rolled to the side, Hematite's blade sticking into the wall.

She blocked his second blade, wincing as she held it in place.

"What is going on out here?!" Hematite turned, looking blankly at Connie's mother.

He pulled up his swords, slicing through the floor under Connie and him, making them fall down to the first floor of the house!

Connie kicked away from Hematite, rolling and jumping to her feet, blocking both of his blades coming down from above.

Hematite rose one foot, slamming it into her abdomen, throwing her back through the front door of the house.

Connie lay groaning on the ground, and Hematite, sighed, waiting.

"Get up, child." Hematite spun his blades, watching as Connie struggled to her feet. "I won't fight someone who can't fight back."

"Who... Are you..?" Connie struggled to her feet, holding up her blade.

"Just a swordsmen striving to be the best."

Hematite shot forward, stabbing his blade through Connie left shoulder, making her eyes widen in pain as she was kicked to the ground.

As Connie roared in pain, Hematite sighed. "That's that then." Hematite sheathed his blades on his back, raising one foot into the air.

"I was told to poof every gem I fought, but you aren't exactly a gem so... This will due for putting you down." Hematite's foot came down on Connie's right arm.

The snap was followed by a tear filled scream of pain.


"Hey, Steven, have you seen Emerald?" Greg asked his son as he walked by. "He was supposed to show up for work an hour ago."

"No, I can't say I have." Steven said.

Before the conversation could continue, Steven's phone rang, and he answered almost immediately, seeing Connie parents as the contact.

"What's up, Mrs. Maheswaran?" After a moment of speaking from the other side of the phone, Steven's eyes widened.

"Dad! Connie's in the hospital!"


In a flash of light, Emerald found himself sitting in a strangely dark room.

He looked around, seeing he was in some sort of child's room.

He looked in front of him, seeing a short child sitting there, staring at him.

"Aren't you the little sh!t who shot a harpoon at me?"


"Connie, why was that thing after you?! Does this have to do with that Steven boy?" Connie's father asked before the door opened slowly.

"Uh..." Howlite looked around the room as he entered it, seeing Connie laying in a bed with her arm in a cast. There was an X-ray on the wall that showed her arm bone, which was completely snapped in two.

"Howlite..?" Connie arched a brow at Howlite, everyone else taking a step back from him, not recognizing him. "I didn't think you'd be showing up..." Connie smiled weakly.

"Not here for a visit, kid." Howlite pulled up a chair, sitting with the back of the chair in front of him so he could lean on it.

"I want to know who attacked you."


"That's two down." Zeolite smirked lightly.

"Only eleven more to go." Hematite said blandly, looking out over Beach City.

"I can't wait to pick off the next two..." Zeolite grinned, watching as Greg's van drove off towards the hospital, packed full of Gems.

"Don't try to do the psycho thing, Zeolite." Hematite said, and Zeolite's grin faded.

"W-what do you mean?" Zeolite arched a brow at Hematite.

"You're going to try to impress Bloodstone by being a psychopathic, bloodthirsty maniac. But it won't work." Hematite looked at the target going towards the hospital.

"I... I just want him to think of me as more than just a liability!" Zeolite looked down.

"That's pointless."


"I can't believe this happened..." Pearl said, looking sadly at Connie as she sat weakly, her left shoulder wrapped up.

"I never thought they would target you..." Matrix's hands clenched into fists.

"Howlite said it might have been someone named Hematite..." Connie's hand's clenched into fists, but she winced, and they unclenched.

"Hematite?" Amethyst said, clearly surprised.

"One of Bloodstone's henchmen..." Matrix looked down, shaking his head before walking towards the door.

"Bloodstone is testing us." He said, slamming his fist through the wall. "He's got his goons taking us out one by one."

"Well we don't know that." Pearl objected.

"Then tell me, where's Emerald?" Matrix arched a brow at Pearl.

"Well he didn't show up for work..." Greg's eye's widened. "You don't think-"

"I don't think, I know." Matrix opened the door of the room.

"Two of us will stay here with Connie, and the rest of us will spread out and find them." Matrix said, looking back at the others.

"But wouldn't they want us to split up?" Peridot asked.

"Exactly. They'll come right to us, and when they do, get to everyone else as fast as you can."


Pearl and Amethyst walked around the outskirts of Beach City, looking around as they walked, keeping their eyes peeled.

It was beginning to get dark, as they'd all be searching all day. Steven and Garnet had decided to stay with Connie just encase one of them came back, and Howlite was nowhere to be found.

If they had to guess, they'd say Howlite would find Hematite and Zeolite before they found him.

They still hadn't found Emerald, but they guessed that Zeolite and Hematite either had him, or he was...

They didn't hope for the latter.

As Pearl walked, beginning to zone out in thought, something shifted somewhere, The ledge of the ridge above Beach City that they walked on broke, and she began to fall!

"Pearl!" Amethyst exclaimed, reaching out to Pearl as she fell, but she was much to late.

As Pearl fell, the ground that had fallen out from under her broke away against the ridge wall, and she soon hit the wall on her own, tumbling to the ground.

Pearl groaned, sitting up slowly. As she did, a sword was aimed at her face, only about an inch away from her nose.

"Draw your sword, Defective Samurai."

"Pearl, don't worry! "I'm coming!" As Amethyst jumped down, a white blur shot by, slamming its foot into her gut and throwing her back up to the ridge.

Zeolite landed on the ridge, his cloak flapping slightly in the wind as his shredder claws appeared, and Amethyst gulped.

"Let me through you pint sized albino!" Amethyst pulled her whip from her gem, glaring at Zeolite, who said nothing, shooting off the ground at her.

Pearl glared at Hematite, drawing her sword instead of her spear, knowing that Hematite wanted a duel, not a fight.

"Some Homeworld Gems believe you to be quite the inspirational story, you know." Hematite said as they circled one another slowly, each prepared for the other to strike.

"A gem made to be a servant that rose up to be a great swordsmen." Hematite readied his sword.

"Well isn't that nice to know." Pearl smirked lightly.

"But training can only get you so far." Hematite smirked lightly, his lifeless, grey eyes focusing on what he really couldn't see.

"But when you are created to fight with a blade. When you are a prodigy from the moment you are born into this world, given a blade and a will to be the best..." Hematite suddenly shot off the ground at Pearl, pulling back his blade.

"You can't see anything else!"


So Howlite's gone rouge.

And Zeolite and Hematite are Predator-ing it up.

Anyway, expect the updates to be a bit further apart from now on. Sorry, but I'm starting to get back to my life outside of my fanfiction and eeeeeeeeh.

I've planned out a lot more of this ark, such as what's going to happen plot wise, who's going to die (Yes people are going to die. Sorry Randal.), what part what characters will play, and so on.

I've even thought out how the final battle will go with Bloodstone.

And it's gonna be pretty intense.

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