time for more Gem Legion fics!
(prompt: Gem Legion AU: Kara and Clark fusing for the first time.)
"Hey, Clark?"
Kara had pulled him aside, outside the barn where Kell and Peri, hopefully, couldn't hear them.
"What is it, Kara?"
Kara blushed slightly, taking his hand. "I've been thinking, since we were made in the same place, and meant to be part of one team… you and I would fuse pretty well."
Clark stepped back, hair igniting as he stared at her. It made sense to him, what she was proposing. And if she was right… it'd be the best fusion he'd be a part of, so far.
He put out the fire in his hair, then smiled.
"Alright."
"Great!" Kara exclaimed. "But…don't mention this to Alex. She'd think it's weird."
"I won't."
(prompt: Red Phantom Quartz's reaction to fusing for the first time.)
(note: Spessartine is the Clark/Alunite (Lightning Lad) fusion. It did not go well)
The first thing either of them notices, once they can see again, is the smell of burning, close to them. And, oddly enough, it doesn't hurt.
They lift themselves, shakily, off the ground with all 4 of their arms, as their hair continues to smolder. Clark's used to being tall, but nothing like this- he and Howlite are now easily twice his size, shirt shrunken down to a crop top, skirt equally short.
"How do you feel?" Howlite asks, in a now-unfamiliar voice.
"I… I feel… incredible!"
"Much better than Spessartine, right?"
"Oh, yeah."
"Alright then. Let's have some fun."
(prompt: Gem Legion + Crackling Flames)
(Red Phantom Quartz: the Clark and Howlite (Phantom Girl) fusion)
Of all of Clark's fusions, it's Red Phantom who has the most of himself in it. The most fire, in their hair and their attitude, as they dance on the beach as one, lighting up the night.
Clark had wanted to fuse with Peri first, and wished that Peri's first would be him too. But things didn't quite work out like that.
Peri loved him, but Clark respected his space. Clark, though, needed to belong- fusion was the best way for him to get that. And as Red Phantom laughed, voice an active fire, hugging themselves, he knew he had.
(prompt: Any AU + Pounding Heart)
(aka, in which Clark has a dream about the asteroid he was created on being destroyed with him on it)
Clark knew he didn't have a real heart.
But he felt like he did, as his Gem pounded like one, reverberating in his chest each time he felt the ground shake below his feet.
He was at the bottom of a canyon- his canyon, he wanted to think, as it was almost familiar to him, but not quite. There were no other Gems there, nothing that could help him. And if he didn't leave…
Fire bubbled up through the surface, fountains that didn't hurt Clark, but still somehow did.
This is the end of your world, he thought, and as the world turned red and then black around him, all he could do was cry.
(prompt: Fingers Entwined + Gem Legion)
(in which Kara, Kell, Peri, and Alex are on a spaceship in space together because reasons)
Alex sat down next to her sister (the captain-leader of their group, she still couldn't believe it, but she was so proud of Kara nonetheless), who looked out the window of the ship with no clear emotions on her face.
"Kara?" she said, taking her hand, making theirs interlock with one another. "Is there something you want to talk about?"
"I'm sorry, Alex." Kara answered. "It's just… we're a long way from home. And I miss Clark, and the Legion. And… um. I hope they're doing okay without us."
"They're strong, they can handle themselves." Alex said. "But I have a feeling those aren't all the people you miss."
Kara gave her a small smile, fiddling with the flight ring Peri had given her. "Yeah, there's one more. My girlfriend."
Alex looked at her in surprise, lightly hitting her arm. "You never told me you had a girlfriend! These things are kind of important. Come on, spill. What's her name?"
"Lena." Kara said. "She's so pretty, and cool… We met at this concert, and we actually didn't talk to each other at first- but now, I can't imagine not having her in my life."
"You really like her, huh?"
"Yeah."
"And I bet it was hard to leave her behind."
"The hardest."
Alex hugged her, holding her tightly and resting her head on Kara's shoulder for a moment.
"So, are you seeing anyone?" Kara asked.
Alex smiled dreamily. "Funny you should ask. Her name's Maggie…"
(prompt: Peri getting to meet Garnet, during one of the few moments they're not in a rampage.)
(Garnet: the Clark/Kell fusion)
He can see how difficult it is, for them to keep together. But he somehow gets the feeling they're together because of him.
"A-are you… going to hurt me?" Peri asks, reaching out tentatively toward one of his hands.
Garnet laughs, and Peri can't recognize it as coming from Clark. They scoop him up, with their lower hands, and though it takes some effort, they still smile at him.
"Oh, Peri." They say. "We still love you."
Peri can't believe the fusion's words, but as he's still stunned, trying to process his statement, the fusion nearly kisses his head off.
(prompt: Gem Legion + "You're special to me")
"You're special to me, Lena." Kara held one of her hands in her own, stroking her hair with the other.
Lena closed her eyes, looking away from the Gem. "What makes you think that way?" she said. "I'm just a human, your friends have told me as much themselves. I'll never save the universe like you."
Kara stopped stroking Lena's hair, instead holding her face with the same hand. "I love you because you're human. You're…you're incredible. You have a unique experience shared by nobody else, I could've never imagined anything like that on Homeworld."
(prompt: Gem AU Kara/Lena + shy kiss)
Lena knew, some way or another, that their relationship was doomed.
For one, Kara's…everything was a mystery to her. She had no idea where Kara came from, how many more there were of her. She didn't even know how she had a human name, when the others she'd seen all kept the names of gemstones.
Then she considered her family, who'd hate her if they found out. It was not pleasant to imagine, by any means.
So it was with hesitation that she kissed Kara for the first time. She enjoyed, however, that Kara more than made up for that.
"…I love you too, Kara."
(prompt: Gem AU: Clark practicing shapeshifting with Howlite, where he tries shapeshifting into a dog.)
(see also: Pesky's Gem Legion fic)
"Come on, Clark." Howlite urged, as Clark stood on all fours on the ground. "You can get this. I promise. Just… try one more time?"
Clark looked up at her, defeated. "I can't." he said, collapsing. "I'm era 2, aren't I? I can't shapeshift."
"That is what we thought, yes." She answered. "However, you were created to be stronger than any Ruby before you, so perhaps…"
"I don't need you to cheer me up." Clark admitted. "Say it. I can't do it, because I'm stupid and good at nothing, as usual."
"That isn't…"
"Ayla. Mahogany. Alunite. Should I go on?"
(prompt: Gem Legion AU + " You're a monster. ")
"You are a monster." Peri says, summoning Clark's courage, Kell's determination, Kara's endurance, as he and Yellow Agate circle each other. He has his limb enhancers on, she's got her whip-sword, and Peri suddenly forgets he's dueling her to the death- all he's concentrating on is getting his revenge.
"Oh? And how so?" she asks flippantly. "You forget, you aligned yourself with the force that murdered Pink Diamond in cold blood, forsaking the one who gave you your ill-deserved intelligence. Your Gem Legion caused chaos, disrupted the Diamonds' perfect civilization."
"Your Diamonds nearly destroyed Earth." Peri counters, firing at her.
