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In the skies a few hundred feet above Beach City, Topaz watched from the captain's chair. The sky was still clear, she could only see the occasional bit of damage from below and the situation was overall stable going from what she heard her on her communicator. The inside of the Sun Incinerator was tense as everyone remained focused on their stations. Aside from giving regular status checks, Topaz was alone with her thoughts until Rutile spotted something.
"Enemy ships incoming!" both heads said at once.
"How many of them?"
"Well, about ten… Or twenty… Uh oh…"
Topaz did not need to ask for me as she could make out a huge number of black specks appearing over the horizon.
"Fluorite!"
"Yes, Captain?"
"Modulate the power of the Nova Blasters. We are about to engage a massive enemy force."
The caterpillar fusion descended to the lower decks of the ship to keep their weapons on top form while Rhodonite placed her hands in the plasma control grid. She knew this would involve a lot of fancy flying. As the fleet grew closer, Topaz had them open fire as soon as they were in range. Several flyers fell to their surprise attack, but dozens were on them before long. Rhodonite had the ship toss and turn every way imaginable trying to dodge the income fire until a hand-shaped battleship appeared over the horizon.
"What's happening out there?!" asked Alexandrite through Topaz's communicator, "Every ship is flying away!"
"No idea!" the captain replied as the ship narrowly dodged a kamikaze attack, "Has Steven made any progress with The Cluster?"
"I can't get an answer from him! What's going on with you?"
"EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO SHOOT US DOWN!" Padparadscha yelled, clearly trying not to curl into a ball.
"Get here as fast as possible!" the captain said, "I think they're onto us!"
Back down miles beneath the Earth, The Cluster was slowly being broken out of its bubble. In fact, if Steven was looking at it from the surface, he could see holes slowly being burned into it thanks to the Yellow Diamond's lasers simultaneously firing at it from orbit.
What stopped him from seeing thing was him super-jumping himself from place to place trying to bubble any exposed gem cluster he saw. A normal human would have gotten whiplash dozens of times over from how fast he was going, but he refused to slow down. Rose Quartz was right behind him trying to convince him to turn full-gem again. Even as an astral projection, she seemed to match his speed and so it was his constant turning that kept him ahead of her.
The only benefit of the chase was that they were both resealing all the gems they came across, but they were still losing to the drills. Rose kept trying to hammer that fact in and yet Steven just moved faster.
"Dang it, Steven, get back here!" shouted Rose as they all but flew, "We're wasting time!"
"But we must have gotten a few thousand by now!" Steven argued back, "That means we're doing really well!"
"The Cluster might have a few million components, Steven! We'll never make enough headway unless we shut off the drills!"
Steven just kept roaring ahead, pink bubbles popping up in his wake. Rose could spot that a few were coming undone only moments later and that pushed her ahead.
"Steven, those drills are in SPACE! Even if we could reach them, they'd be so heavily guarded that your only ship could never touch them! Your powers are our only option!"
"Not gonna happen!" he insisted. While he could not see Rose roll her eyes, she could feel how exasperated she was and hear her groan about how the other gems worked like this. If she somehow ever saw Greg or the three ever again, Rose promised herself that she would find some way to pay them back for all the years of childcare.
Back on the surface, every copy of Alexandrite was now making a break back towards Beach City. She knew there was no way the entire town would survive if even a small fraction of Homeworld's forces arrived let alone all of them. As the ran at sonic speeds, she proceeded to shoot down as many ships as she could with her energy arrows and her two elemental breaths. Even as the number of ships they all brought down now numbered in the thousands, there never seemed to be a dent in their forces.
As disheartening as it was, the fusion knew she had to keep fighting. No amount of troops and ships was going to let her home, Rose's legacy and most of all Steven from being overwhelmed by a bunch of megalomaniacs.
As they made quick time, the twelve of them arrive from different directions and quickly spotted two main attractions. The first was the Sun Incinerator in the most intense dogfight imaginable as it maneuvered around dozens of smaller ships with every movement and fired enough lasers to light up the afternoon sky. While there was some rubble here and there, the fusion was impressed to see most of it either land on the outskirts of town or into the ocean.
The other thing that drew her seven eyes was a furious fight going on between a monstrously tough-looking silver gem and a four-armed fusion she had never seen before. In only a few seconds of the fight, she watched the new fusion leap into the air as the unknown single gem tried to rush at her. She then tried to fire a weapon mounted on her arm at her opponent, but the other gem just laughed. She then thrusted her hands down causing two blue metal gauntlets to fly down in the shape of fists and plow through the energy blasts and land in the ground with enough force to leave perfect indents in the asphalt.
"Peri and Bismuth… Never thought I'd see the day she finally did it…" Alexandrite smiled to herself before returning her focus on the barrage in the sky. She turned her gaze away from Topaz's ship and looked at the line of new flyers showing up over the horizon. All twelve of them aimed their arrows into the sky and let their bowstrings go at once. A veritable salvo of light arrows flew through the sky and crashed into the ships sending hundreds into the ocean all at once. The display made everyone in town stare and take notice.
"WHOA!" the Off-Colors said in unison while Topaz grinned in delight. Seeing so many of her enemies fall at once reinvigorated her spirits.
"Alright crew, we need to capitalize on this!" she said, the image of confidence, "Now that they're scrambled, we should go on the offensive! Rhodonite, pilot us towards one of the larger frigates over the horizon!"
"Aye-aye!"
"Rutile, keep an eye on the scanners. We need avoid having too many troopers on our tail."
"Yes ma'am!"
"Padparadscha, assist Fluorite down in the engine room. Have her calibrate the Nova Blasters to penetrate the shields around the ship's propulsion systems."
The psychic of the team saluted as she ran below deck. While they engaged their plan, the ground forces were equally as taken aback. The fight between Mercury and Ametrine came to a halt as the Homeworld gem looked up at one copy of Alexandrite.
"Massive new threat detected," she droned although a very slight twinge of fear entered her voice, "I must devote my focus to this."
"And cut our little playdate short?! Like that's happening!" Ametrine protested as she came at the gem again. She shapeshifted her hands and the metal around them into perfect axeblades. Each swing was strong enough to generate a sharp wind that left scratches all along the ground while Mercury frantically dodged as much as she could. Eventually she managed to get in close and sock the fusion in the gut, but that backfired. Ametrine's lower hands pushed outwards and caused Mercury to fly right into the front window of a sporting goods store.
"Yeah, that's fitting. You really need to work on your game!" As Ametrine laughed at her own joke, Mercury stumbled out of the broken glass, a slight scowl formed on her face.
"One of your components displayed ferrokinetic abilities," she analyzed, sounding angry with herself, "And they have been amplified by your fusion. You used the metal inherent in my molecular makeup to attack me."
"Ooh, A+ for figuring out the obvious!" Ametrine clapped sarcastically before grabbing her for by the arm and flinging her into the pavement again. When she let go of her opponent, the gloves of her armor retained its shape and kept her weapon arm pinned as she flew away.
"Chances of winning dropping exponentially," Mercury said once she was free, "Retreat is most viable strategy to ensure success of My Diamond's mission."
"I said you aren't running away!" Ametrine pounced on her again, reattaching her gloves before shaping them into sword blades and slicing like mad forcing Mercury on the defensive. She tried, more out of desperation than anything, to fire the Breaking Point point-blank at Ametrine's face. That gave the fusion the perfect opportunity to shred the weapon to pieces and now left Mercury no chance to counterattack. Slashes began to accumulate on her body much to her own confusion.
"Must be experiencing physical malfunction," she said, "Molecular shifting ability is not responding."
"You can think these little hands of mine for that!" Ametrine revealed, "I've been using them to keep you solid."
"You… This whole time…" Now Mercury's expression finally changed into one of complete dumbfounded shock.
"Don't take it personally. You're a total rookie, right? This is probably your first real fight."
"But… I was designed to be the greatest soldier in Homeworld's forces… How could I miss such a simple error?"
"Take it from me, you'll get there one day." Ametrine said before sticking both her bladed arms into Mercury's chest. With one massive gust of wind, the gem was gone and only a silvery gemstone remained. Once the fight was over, she bubbled the stone and looked up to see Alexandrite watching her.
"Hey! How's the weather up there?"
Alexandrite looked down while shooting an incoming with a fire blast from her hands. "Not bad. I'm guessing the warp pad isn't handled, though."
For the first time in her short life, Ametrine looked embarrassed. "Yeah… Turns out Homeworld hacked our warp pad protector while it was down and that let gems come in. And the house… may be totaled."
"We can rebuild that later, don't worry. Can you help keep things secure here? Some of my clones need to head to where Steven and the others are."
"Would a polycarbonic alloy make a mean battle axe?"
"Good to hear. Get everyone on the ground together to handle any gems that get in. The Sun Incinerator can handle ships that get too close while six of us shoot down the bulk of any new arrivals before they get too close to town."
"Roger that!" Ametrine started running into town before a small but sudden earthquake rocked the area. While there was not too much damage, it made all of the Crystal Gems tense up.
"Steven's running out of time!" Alexandrite said as she and five other copies ran off over towards the former sight of the barn. That left six of them to ready another volley another wave of ships started approaching from the north and the west in addition to east over the ocean.
Back in The Cluster's bubble, Steven and Rose were continuing their cat and mouse game when the earthquake hit. Unlike the others who only felt a small tremor, they felt a massive shake that stopped them both dead in their tracks.
"Oh great, we really are running out of time!" Steven moaned.
"That's what I've been trying to tell you!" snapped Rose before trying to get her composure back, "Sorry… It's been a very long day."
"Tell me about it. Mom… I know this isn't working much but what else am I going to do?"
"Steven, I can feel how terrified you are, but we don't have a choice. That full-gem form of yours is the only thing that can stop this."
"But…" Another tremor cut them off and he watched as the void itself was changing color. In a reverse of when Steven first bubbled The Cluster, the white was giving way to inky blackness as more and more of the shard fusions were freed from their bubbles. The sound of their screaming filled the pair's ears once again.
"ROSE! HELP!" the voices shouted as more and more of them were freed from their shelters.
"Steven, are you ready?"
"I… I think so…"
Rose then placed her arms around her son's neck and hugged him. "Then trust me when I say this: You can change and nothing bad will happen."
"But the last time I…"
"Yes, I know, but this time is different. You're not going after someone for revenge, you're doing this to save everyone! Your powers have always been based off your emotions, no?"
"Well yeah, but…"
"Right now, I can tell you're in a better emotional place than last time. All you could think about the first time was how Jasper hurt Connie and that drove you mad."
"Mom, last time I attacked you! What if I lose control again?!"
"You won't! Because I can feel how you want to protect everyone including me. And even if you do lose yourself again, I'll be right here to bring you back even if I don't think I'll need to."
"Mom… I can't…"
"Steven, I trust you. I know with all my heart you can do it. You just need to feel it too."
The ringing in Steven's ears stopped as he started to do just that. The link they shared let him literally feel the warmth and confidence Rose was projecting and it finally started to work through the unbridled fear clouding his mind. Steven always knew his mother was a fearless leader, but now more than ever he understood it. Someone with so much strength and charisma really could overcome anything and now it was up to him to have that same quality.
As he finally tried to focus on that power he summoned, The Cluster continued to rock as it was more than halfway to being released by Yellow Diamond.
As the latest quake settled, Lapis and Adamite looked up from the hole they were guarding and saw a massive gem battleship approach their position and saw gems start to launch themselves out of the ship.
"Well crud," lamented the former, "Looks like they're onto us."
"No worries," assured Adamite, "We both have plenty of ways to stop them."
As several gems approached the ground, they were shocked to find tendrils made of rock rise up and swat them out of the air. Some managed to wizen up to the new strategy and dodged the stones on to find themselves being trapped in bubbles of water from the former pool Lapis was using for ammunition.
Even with their elemental powers, though, both of them soon heard gems crashing into the ground who managed to avoid their defenses. Adamite sent an stomp through the ground to make a small-scale earthquake but she was clearly struggling focusing on both at once as a pair of amethysts rushed at her.
"Behind you!" Lapis warned as a group of five rubies landed right in front of her and wasted no time fusing into a fifteen-foot tall soldier with a massive knife in her hand.
"LAPIS!" Adamite yelled as she ran to help her comrade, but that meant she was not paying attention to the bombardment still above them. A topaz nearly flattened her until it was caught by a gigantic gloved hand.
"Nice try," said Alexandrite to her tiny captive before throwing her over the horizon. The elemental gems looked up in relief as not one but six of the fusions came to their aid shooting energy arrows at the battleship. Now that it was under fire, it had to move its position in order to avoid the bombardment before its shields gave out. Unfortunately, several smaller jet fighters appeared from different directions and more gems came running up from the ground.
"I'll take care of the ships," the fusion said, "Just keep any of those gems from jumping in the hole after Steven."
Now that they could focus on one front, both gems put their all in holding off the stragglers. Adamite put up walls to slow down those making a dash for the hole and once they crashed through them, assuming they even could, she would tunnel underground and then launch a surprise attack from behind. Any gem that tried attacking her directly would get either a stone-covered fist to the face or simply launched by a rock pillar. Lapis went for the more direct approach flying across the battlefield with watery swords in hand cutting down any hostile gem she came across.
At first they held the advantage with the scope of their powers plus Alexandrite stopping the bulk of their reinforcements, but they held one massive disadvantage. The Crystal Gems had quality, but Homeworld had brought massive quantity with what was supposed to be a planetwide force closing in on one tiny area. As the minutes dragged on, ships and troops just kept arriving and the Alexandrites were swamped keeping the bulk of the ships at bay.
Lapis and Adamite, after several minutes of nonstop combat against hundreds of opponents with hundreds more on the way, were both thoroughly exhausted. Adamite's walls she made were getting thinner and Lapis's hands cramped from holding her swords for so long. She had resorted to using her water supply at many points for projectiles to stop other gems and had to regather it over and over again as the slog continued. As three more gems rushed at her, she was busy holding off a particularly aggressive agate with her blades and could not shift her focus away from the blade struggle she was in.
What did draw her attention was Adamite tunneling up behind the new attackers with a defiant yell and wrapping her thick arms around a topaz's neck. As the larger gem tried to buck her off, Adamite focused her powers and forced the other two to sink into the earth while also keeping the other gem in a headlock. Eventually, though, a jasper crashed in from an airship right behind her and managed to yank her off the yellow tank.
"NO!" Lapis shouted, suddenly kicking the agate between the legs and slashing her when she was distracted. "Adamite, duck!"
The earthbender did as her partner asked as Lapis flew in changing her two swords into one long halberd that stabbed the offending jasper in the chest. With the orange gem poofed, Adamite could kick the topaz in the chest hard enough to send her flying into several rock walls the elemental made to worsen the blow. Before her comrades could retaliate, Lapis made throwing stars out of her water and landed half a dozen into each head poofing their latest attackers.
"Thanks…" wheezed Adamite, "I just wish… That was the last of them."
"You and me both," agreed Lapis, "They just keep coming!"
"Lapis… I've never been the best at communicating."
"Yeah and I'm an awkward klutz, what's your point? If you have a plan to deal with these guys…"
"That's just it. I don't have anything. Unless some miracle comes, we're bound to be overwhelmed in the next few minutes."
"Adamite, don't think like that! I'm the pessimist around here, got it?" Lapis walked over to her comrade and found the earthen gem smiling of all things.
"Maybe now… But I remember how brightly you used to smile in the old days. You'd get so excited over the littlest trivialities."
"What?! I, well, I mean, that's nice but…"
"Just listen! I've never been the best with emotions, but I need to say this. In case we end up failing, no matter how much I wish that could never happen, I need to tell you one thing… In case it's the last."
Another shaking from the ground heralded that The Cluster was on its way, forcing Adamite to use actions instead of words. She wrapped an arm around Lapis's shoulders and brought her lips up to the waterbender's. The flying gem was stunned, but soon the warmth of the kiss robbed her of reason. Lapis wrapped her arms around Adamite and embraced the strong arms and the silky feeling of her hair that she grabbed with her daintier hands.
And then, before either of them could properly say anything, their bodies morphed into light. Their gemstones danced in the white amorphous blob before it grew exponentially and revealed another new face. She stood twenty feet tall, relatively small for most fusions, with a lithe but well-built physique identical to Cinnabar's. Her skin was a pale blue green as if mud had been thrown in with her components' colors. She wore a teal blazer with a darker star emblazoned on the back over a pale green top. Her marathon-ready legs were covered in pale blue jeans that stopped halfway to her ankles above her bare feet. Her light brown hair had a blue and green streak next to each other that ran down from her forehead to her coif's end at her mid-back.
As the new fusion opened her bright blue green eyes for the first time, the battle around her seemed to fade. Even as dozens of gems gawked at her, all she saw was her own body for the first time.
"This is…" she spoke with an incredibly deep voice, "I feel so… natural. I never thought fusion could feel this way…"
"Well how about that," Alexandrite said before shooting more arrows at a flying frigate. The new fusion was on her own as the Homeworld gems snapped out of their stupor.
"Another freak?!" one of them said brandishing her weapon, "These rebels are appalling!"
"Really?" said the new arrival, "I happen to feel wonderful. I even have a name already: Sandstone."
"Who cares?!" declared another enemy, "We'll just split you up and shatter you both!"
Sandstone just chuckled at that. "I doubt that. Lapis and Adamite had incredible powers on their own so let's see what I can do…"
She raised both her arms forward before flinging them to the side. From the spot under her feet, a wave spread throughout the grass and soon all of the ground for a one-mile radius was replaced with murky brown liquid.
"Mud? That's it?!" scoffed someone else, "That's your amazing power?"
"Oh, I'm only getting started," Sandstone promised as she raised both of her arms. All at once, like a single massive geyser going off, all of the mud suddenly shot dozens of feet into air taking dozens of gems with it. Before any of them could even get their bearings, Sandstone took off on a pair of muddy wings sprouting from her back and flew far faster than Lapis despite her much larger size. One by one the invading gems were poofed by surprise blows before the newcomer landed back on the ground to find more gems were still coming though seemed to be staying outside of the mud circle.
"You liked that, hm?" Sandstone asked her audience before all of the mud she made earlier flew out of the ground and surrounded her arms and legs much like Cinnabar did with her flames. She then ran forward and threw out a fist. The Homeworld gems wondered what she was hitting at until the brown sludge around her arm suddenly expanded into a sixty-foot tall fist stretched for several more feet taking almost a hundred gems into the sky. With a stomp of her foot, Sandstone made several giant mud spikes erupt out of the ground and impale many of them before they could even hit the ground while the rest wisely decided they were outmatched and ran away… Before even more troops showed up.
"It looks like they just won't learn," she said to Alexandrite, "But I guess that's for the best. I'm eager to see just how strong I am."
"Don't get too carried away," warned the larger fusion as a jet fighter was shot down by her other mouth's fire breath, "You still have a mission to fulfill."
As if to remind them of that, The Cluster sent out its biggest tremor yet that lasted for a solid thirty seconds. Sandstone's expression tensed as she started liquifying the ground as a new wave approached her.
"No one's getting down that hole in one piece."
Steven's eyes were clenched shut as he tried to block out the constant shaking going on around him, the screams of The Cluster's many unwilling components and his heart try to beat its way out of his chest while Rose flew around the void trying to hold off the impending cataclysm by bubbling gems. Even if she knew it would not be enough to stop the world-breaking fusion, she would do anything to buy her son more time.
"I can't do it!" Steven cried, "I've never tried to change like that before!"
"Hurry Steven!" Rose said, "The Cluster only has a few more minutes!"
"STEVEN!" The Cluster said, "DO IT! SAVE US!"
"I'M TRYING!" he yelled back, "That's all I've been trying to do for the past few months and nothing works!"
"Steven…"
"The Diamonds won't listen and now the whole world's at risk AGAIN!"
"Steven, please!"
"My family's fighting for their lives, all my friends are in danger and now one of them is DEAD! It just makes me want to-"
"Steven, not like that!" Rose said grabbing his arms, "If you change feeling that way then you will go berserk again!"
"Sorry…" Steven said before water started welling up in his eyes, "It's just… So difficult. I'm tired of all this already, Mom. Why can't the Diamonds just let it go?"
"Because they don't think like you, Steven. All three of them are hammers and every problem is a nail to them. They never considered that it's something wrong with them and not everything else."
Rose held her son close as the tension started to melt out of him and she continued talking. "Fighting is difficult, Steven, but do you know what's even harder?"
He shook his head and she answered. "Listening. It's so easy to just insist you're right and ignore someone. It's even easier to just take something different as a threat and just attack it before anything bad can happen. But actually listening to someone? Hearing what they're saying and taking it in? That's a real challenge."
"How? People and gems talk all the time."
"We all speak, and the Diamonds speak constantly, but they only ever talk at someone else. They never tried to actually listen to another point of view because that means they might be wrong. And that thought scares them more than anything… It means all they have to answer to horrific things they've done in their lives instead of just blaming the universe. Pointing the finger and blaming someone else is much easier than looking at yourself and thinking about how you need to change."
"But how is it the universe's fault?"
"By being different. Different means it might change how they might think, act or behave and change is the last thing they want."
"That's… actually really sad. If they're that afraid of everything… I wish I could help them."
Rose chuckled at this as she let go of him to look out at the blackening void around them. "You know, you and The Cluster are alike in a few ways. You have all this power, power that can destroy and hurt so much, but you don't use it for that. You want to find an actual solution instead of just attacking anything that bothers you. Steven, that is what makes you so strong."
"You think so?"
"I may have fought in a war, and it may have been for a good cause, but it broke my heart every day. Crystal Gems being hurt, Homeworld soldiers being treated like pieces in a game and an innocent, wonderful planet that was almost turned into a hollow shell all because the Diamonds can never change, and they never want other gems to change."
"But gems can change! Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet, Bismuth, Lapis, Peridot, Topaz, Adamite, Cinnabar, the Off-Colors, all of them! We can fight, but we can listen to each other and other people too!"
"You can or you could just let that other side take over and destroy the Diamonds. And even after everything they've done to you and them… You still want to reach out and help."
Rose turned around and revealed tears streaming down her face. "And that makes me so proud! You could just let all that pain and loss be an excuse for you to hate them but you don't! It makes me so happy…"
"M-Mom?"
"Steven, I trust you so much because you don't want to cause pain. You want to use your power to protect what you love and only that. You still want to hash out problems and leave everyone better off…"
"Yeah… I do… And I will."
A dazzling light emerged from Steven's gem as his whole body was consumed again by a white glow. Unlike the last time, it was a gentle metamorphosis as his body shifted into something new. When the glow died down, Rose gasped at the sight as Steven merely turned his attention to the countless gems around him. He seemed to vanish, but Rose looked up to see he was bubbling gems faster than she could keep track of. He appeared to be everywhere at once and soon the void around them changed to pink as the components of The Cluster were bubbled faster than the gems were breaking them.
"Steven…" Rose said to herself, "Thank you… Show them what true power can do."
Outside of the massive gem, Steven opened his eyes and saw The Cluster now surrounded by a bright pink bubble. He smiled for a moment before flicking his wrist…
Yellow Diamond's eyes were glued to the holo-screen in front of her. According to her drills, The Cluster was 75% free and soon this sordid conflict over this pathetic planet would finally come to an end. She looked out over the bridge of her ship as her pearl monitored everything, a scowl crossing her face when she saw the blue orb beneath her, and turned her eyes back to her screen…
…And the bar was now at 0%. She stared at the screen for several seconds, her vision spheres refusing to believe what they saw, until she spoked up.
"Pearl?"
"Yes, My Diamond?"
"Where is The Cluster?"
The servant was baffled by the question and so she brought up the progress screen only to be dumbstruck when she saw nothing herself.
"WHAT?!" she exclaimed, "It can't have just vanished! The drills are even still firing!"
"Well shut them off then!" the giant gem ordered, "There's no point to them now!"
As Yellow Pearl frantically shut the machines off, she also started looking through the files to find the cause of this absurd development. Soon her eyes came across the gemstone frequency detector from earlier. There was a massive spike in gem energy a few seconds ago. She passed the recent report up to her master to let her see it for herself.
Yellow Diamond then read that it was the single of a Rose Quartz.
"Pearl…" she said in a whisper that sent chills up her servant's spine.
"Y-Yes?"
"Get off the bridge. Now."
"Very well, My Diamond!"
As the much smaller alien fled, Yellow Diamond watched her leave until the hatch to the rest of the ship closed behind her. Once she was gone, the matriarch let all of the anger roiling about inside her erupt. She screamed at the top of her lungs and electric energy began zapping everything around her including all of the delicate circuits of her ship.
The Diamond did not care. In fact, she sent her enormous fist straight through her own throne as she continued howling but one blow was not nearly enough. She turned her focus on the bridge itself and began wailing on it as her wordless scream changed to something else.
"ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ! ROSE QUARTZ!"
Every time she shouted that name, another fist went through the bridge. The electronics beneath her were pounded into oblivion and then melted into slag by the intense electricity still emanating off of her. She ended up frying the entire ship's power supply and the backup power supply, but she did not care. Pure hatred was still pounding in her head demanding she find Rose herself and rip every individual atom of her stone to pieces.
She ripped the hatch to the ship open and stomped right past her terrified pearl hugging herself in a corner. She barely paid attention to her own staff scrambling to restore power to the ship, even the ones she ended up shattering by stomping on them by accident and made her way to the hanger bay. She marched up to the airlock and simply pried the doors open and floated off into space. Once she was in the vacuum, she calmed her mind long enough to remember the coordinates where Rose's last signal was and positioned herself above that point.
Once she was there, Yellow Diamond rocketed herself downwards towards the planet. She barely felt the effects of atmospheric reentry as her mind was consumed with one thought. Rose Quartz, her rebellion, and this entire planet were dying today even she had to do it herself.
A fan of mine has gotten to asking me about possible voice actor choices for my original characters so I decided to share them with you all here in case anyone was curious.
Adamite: Janet Varney
Cinnabar: Luci Christian
Turquoise: Noel Welles (Suggestion by another reviewer)
Brookite: Meredith McCoy
Moonstone: Christian Potenza
Ametrine: Jessie Flower
Sandstone: Stephanie Young
Mercury: Ingrid Nelson
And with that out of the way, the big finale is approaching! What has Steven become now and can it stop Yellow Diamond's rampage? You'll see for sure next time!
Thank you all so much for reading! Please feel free to leave a review with any comments or questions you have!