(Netherrealm)

"You can't go. It's not safe out there in earth realm!" Ibarra said.

"How did it get to this? He lost against a Topaz. This isn't good. He's in danger, and I must help him." Shinnok said.

"I know you love him, but this is suicidal! Going against earth gems with little power?! You need to generate more!" Ibarra said.

"He saved my life, as I will save his. That is all, my dear." Shinnok said.

Then he vanished in flames.

Ibarra sighed.

"I hope he comes back. I can't handle anymore losses." She said, looking down in sadness.


(Park)

Jarek awoke, now stuck inside of the Topaz fusion.

"Huh?" Jarek said, regaining consciousness.

"Jarek! Help us!" Sadie panicked.

"I can't! If I use my power, you'll all be burned alive!" Jarek said.

"That's right, you can't do anything! Now I'm the one with your gun!" Aquamarine said, pointing his mythoclast at him.

"Good luck trying to shoot me with that thing, it's fingerprint modified." Jarek said.

Then Aquamarine pulled the trigger.

(Click!)

"Darn it!" She said.

"Like I said, good luck!" Jarek said.

"This darn thing!" She said, throwing the fusion rifle to a nearby trashcan.

"Stop right there!" Garnet said, coming into sight, with Pearl, Steven, Amethyst, and Holly.

"Holly, go!" Jarek said, trying to break free.

"Let them go now!" Holly said, summoning her whip from behind her head.

" ~ Oh no! You found us! ~ " Aquamarine said, making a smug smile at the gems.

"Help! Help!" Jamie exclaimed.

"Give it up, Aquamarine! There's nowhere else to run!" Steven said.

"I don't need to run anywhere else!" Aquamarine said, frowning at him.

"Steven, save yourself.. after you save us!" Jamie said.

"Shut up, dude!" Jarek said.

"Huh. [Pulls out wand] You know, now that I think about it, this Steven does seem to know everyone on our list. The list did come from a Steven after all. Maybe you can help us." Aquamarine suggested.

"Where are you going to take these humans?!" Jarek said.

"That's none of your business!" Aquamarine said, looking at him.

"Just let the humans go!" Garnet said.

"Uhh, no! (To Topaz) Who are these dullards?" Aquamarine asked Topaz, who remained silent, but alert with a stern expression.

"We're the Crystal Gems, you chump!" Amethyst said.

"Yeah yeah, Rose Quartz' old lackeys. That was in the report too, but we're not here for any of you rogue gems." Aquamarine said.

"If you're not here for us, then let these innocent humans go, little girl!" Jarek said.

Aquamarine gasped, she was appalled.

"(Gasp!) Did you say little girl, Mr. Jarek? It might be a surprise to you, but I'm 2006 years old!" Aquamarine said, holding her hands for added effect.

"So you're just another overcooked gem? An experiment for the diamonds?" Jarek asked, intrigued.

"Surely you're not referring to the fused gem experiments like the cluster they put into this rock? I am an Aquamarine, the best of homeworld, made during Era 2, the very era that my diamond was forced to begin during her time of great distress!" Aquamarine said.

"Mom... " Jarek muttered.

"As I was saying before you so rudely interrupted me, we'll leave you totally alone... IF you tell us where we can find my dad!" Aquamarine said, frowning at Steven, pointing at him with her wand.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Steven said.

Let's see, Yellow Diamond asked for, uh, my dad, a Connie, a Lars, a Sadie, a mailman, and an Onion. I think I might be missing another one. Oh, that's right! A Mr. Harold Smiley. Six human variations specified in a report by Peridot 5XG." Aquamarine said, smiling evilly at him.

Steven gasped.

"The List! I gave them the list." He said, dropping to his knees in hopelessness.

"What are you talking about?" Pearl asked.

"Aquamarine doesn't have a dad, she's just looking for somebody named my dad! This is all my fault!" Steven continued.

"Don't worry about that now, our objective's still the same : beat the gems." Garnet said.

"And save our friends!" Steven said.

"Hey Topaz, look! They want to lose another fight!" Aquamarine said.

"Hey Aquamarine!" Jarek said.

"Shush shush!" Aquamarine said.

"Hey fuck head!" Jarek said.

"Why you-" She said, turning to him.

Then Jarek's eyes flickered, causing her's to flicker.

"(Gasp!) The zoo is gone? How?!" Aquamarine said, shocked.

"Everyone, I'm going to use my positive hamón to protect you all. Hold on tight." Jarek thought, transferring his telepathy to Jamie, Mr. Smiley, Connie, Lars, Sadie, and Onion.

Then he growled.

"AaaaauHHH! AaaaaaaaaauHHH!" Topaz screamed suddenly.

"(Concerned) Topaz, what's wrong?!" Aquamarine said, shocked at her sudden cry.

"Get him off of me! Get him off of me! Help! Please! He's getting inside of my thoughts! I can't shake him! He's tearing me apart!" Topaz cried, clutching her head in pain.

"Jarek, what's happening?!" Steven said, alarmed.

Then Jarek growled, and grabbed onto Topaz' right arm.

"YAH!" Jarek yelled.

(POP!)

She suddenly burst into flames, and became crisp, forcing her to immediately unfuse.

Jamie, Mr. Smiley, Lars, Sadie, Connie, and Onion ran landed on the floor, unscathed from the attack.

The Topazes fell on the floor, writhing in pain as their burnt bodies took a massive toll on their gemstones.

"Run away!" Jarek commanded.

They ran from the scene, except for Connie.

"How dare you!" Aquamarine said, zapping him with her wand.

(ZAP!)

"Hey!" Jarek said, clutching his right bicep in pain from the sudden sting.

(ZAP!)

(ZAP!)

(ZAP!)

"OW! Stop that!" Jarek said, fleeing.

"Hah! i got you now!" Aquamarine said, chasing him.

"Ahem." Garnet's voice said.

"Huh?" Aquamarine said, turning to her.

(PUNCH!)

Aquamarine flew to a nearby muddy ground.

"Iugh!" She said, shaking off the mud that was now all over her clothes.

Jarek got up, and ran to her.

"Give it up, Aquamarine!" Garnet said, dashing to her with her fists ready to pummel her.

"Huh?" Aquamarine said, then she fell forward and dodged the incoming punch.

She grabbed her wand, and zapped Garnet with it, taking hold of her. Then she threw her to the sky.

"Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!" She laughed like a maniac.

Holly swung her whip at Aquamarine, who caught it with her glove and zapped her next, throwing her to the spaceship, causing her to hit it with a thud.

"Holly!" Jarek said, then he picked up his mythoclast and began blasting at Aquamarine.

Aquamarine jumped up, and threw Jarek's knife at him.

He saw the incoming weapon and blocked with his rifle, causing the knife to impale through.

"God damnit!" He said, throwing it to the ground, hearing buzz sounds coming from the chamber.

"That's nasty!" Amethyst said, also running to her with her whip.

"That's enough!" Pearl said, throwing her spear at Aquamarine.

Aquamarine sighed.

"Are you serious? This is how you fight?" She said, kicking the spear into the sky with ease, and then jumping and flying away from Amethyst.

"Get back here!" Amethyst said.

"Hee hee hee hee hee hee!" Aquamarine laughed.

"Si'faH!" Jarek said, summoning a thunder storm to hit her, and missing three times.

"Thunder?! Really?!" Aquamarine said.

Then Holly lassoed her with her whip, and electrocuted her.

"Aaaaahh!" Aquamarine screamed, then she grabbed the whip, and reversed the attack to Holly, shocking her instead.

She broke free of the whip and flew to Jarek.

Jarek held up his fists, preparing to fight.

"You've ruined my mission! I was to bring them to Pink Diamond's Zoo, but now I can't since you destroyed it! You ruined this for me!" She said.

"I am did a great deed for the prisoners and the amethysts that were trapped there." Jarek said, charging his negative hamón.

Then he looked up and saw Garnet about to land on top of him.

He jumped up and caught her, and set her on her feet.

"Get Steven out of here." Jarek said.

"Got it." She said.

"No! Just stop this! They want me!" Steven said.

"Steven?!" Connie said.

"You can't, Steven! It's not time!" Jarek warned.

"It's me you want! I'm Rose Quartz!" Steven said.

"What is he talking about?!" Garnet said to Steven.


"(Mask voice) Haaaauah!" Purple Diamond said, running into sight, on fire.

A Fire Agate General was chasing her, using her signature flamethrower weapon and blasting at her.

She jumped into the nearby barrel of water, dismissing the burning effect.

Fire Agate ran to the barrel and blew fire at it, burning the wood, releasing the water.

"I can do this all day, Purple!" Fire Agate said.

Then she was jump kicked on her back, knocking her into the broken barrel pieces and water.

Purple Diamond summoned three thunder strikes, hitting her with significant damage.

Fire Agate screamed in agony as the thunder nearly took most of her health.

She let out a death-like groan, losing consciousness.

Purple Diamond raised her hands to the skies.

(DISTANT THUNDER NOISES)

Rain started falling everywhere.


BACK TO STEVEN

"What's that?" Aquamarine said, feeling the rain hitting her.

"Purple Diamond.. she's here." Jarek said.

His skin started to sizzle, with steam clouding around him.

He lost consciousness.

"Ugh, whatever!" Aquamarine said, dismissing him.

"Aquamarine! It's me they want! You don't want those humans! The zoo is gone, he blew it up! I'm Rose Quartz, my mother! The leader of the Crystal Gems! The one the diamonds want more than anything!" Steven said.

"Really? Somehow I don't believe that." Aquamarine said, not convinced.

"Steven, what are you saying?!" Amethyst said.

"They're gonna take you away! They'll kill you!" Pearl said.

"Think about what you're doing." Garnet said.

"No! I won't let them take you!" Holly said, limping her way to the gems.

Aquamarine growled at her, and grabbed Jarek, but dropped him right away.

"AAAH!" She exclaimed, her hands being burned by hand to arm contact.

Holly kicked her in the stomach, and grabbed her with both hands, choking her.

"That's it!.. Come on!" Aquamarine struggled to say.

Holly growled, gritting her teeth as she squeezed harder.

"Holly, let go of her! I have to do this! " Steven said, pushing Holly away from her.

"You're going to sacrifice yourself for no reason! Jarek told me everything! Even if you hand yourself over, they'll still come to take the cluster from the earth! Think about this before you do it!" Holly warned.

"Steven! They're right! This isn't gonna solve anything!" Connie said.

"But they'll leave you all alone. It'll stop the fighting once and for all. I have to pay for what my mother did." Steven said.

"Steven, no! I won't let you!" Amethyst said.

Garnet held her back as she tried to run to him.

"Hah! That sounds like something a snitch would say!" Aquamarine said, before zapping Steven and rendering him unconscious.

Then she lifted the carnival wheel with her wand weapon and threw it at the gems, making them run away frantically.

"Poor Topaz." She said, as she poofed them mercilessly, and took their gems.

Once the gems were away, she summoned her homeworld space ship and wand-lifted Jarek inside. She threw him to the floor, causing him to slide. She did the same for Steven and Lars, who apparently fainted upon escaping. Aquamarine piloted the ship, closing the door.

She ran to the turret blaster.

On the screen, she saw Alexandrite, but bluer and bigger than before.

"What?" She said, weirded out.

(A/N - Holly joined in fusing with Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst. Don't know what the fusion name is, that will be decided through review or I'll come up with a name.)

Alexandrite lassoed their whip, and caught the space ship before it could get away.

Aquamarine switched the power of the turrets to 'Golden,' and fired them at Alexandrite.

(POOF!)

The gems fell into the ocean.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha! That was too funny! I almost feel bad for them!" Aquamarine said.

The space ship flew away, into space.


To be continued...