Chapter 57: Treason

At Gien's ship, all the humans and Crystal Gems were all inprisoned in their own cells. Gems were one side of the room in their special destabalizer cells with Garnet unfused again and Ruby and Sapphire in their own separate cells. The humans were right across from them in regular ones. Revenger was the only one not in the prison room as he was already confined in the lab. Gien watched as he first talks to Aquamarine and Leozack.

Gien: Excellent work you two. After many failed attempts we finally have them in the palm of our hands.

Aquamarine: I told you I'd get the job done. I'm the highest rank in Yellow Diamond's court for a reason.

Leozack: Yes, but I was the one who beat them all one by one.

Aquamarine: ( clears her throat) Ahem.

Leozack: Well uh... she helped of course.

Gien: Nonetheless you have made me proud Leozack. You shall be rewarded soon.

Leozack: Thank you my lord. Anything for you.

Gien smirks and walks into the jail room. He walked by each gem one by one.

Gien: How is everyone here. Comfortable?

Ruby: Not really.

Gien: Good, good. Tell me, how does it feel to finally lose?

Amethyst: You should know.

Gien: Not this time. You gems have really annoyed me and I can't believe it took me this long to capture.

Gien turns to the humans and walked by each one. He stopped when he first saw Connie.

Gien: I couldn't be more disappointed in my life Bomber. You lost to her?

Bomber: Hey, she only beat me because my guard was down. But now that we have her.

Bomber draws out his sabre.

Bomber: Allow me to deliver you her head in a silver platter.

Steven: No don't, leave her out of this.

Gien: You will get your chance Bomber, during our own trial.

Bomber: ( chuckles) Oh I love those.

Gien walked up to another cell and saw Greg, the former was now looking mad.

Gien: Are you this boy's father?

Greg: I am.

Gien: And you were with Pink Diamond?

Greg: I was.

Gien: GRAUGH! I don't believe this, after everything she and I went through, how we connected, she fell for this...this...low life form!?

Greg: I take it you knew Pink?

Gien: I always despised the Diamonds, but Pink was the only one I ever respected. She was the only one who saw my work to be worth while. What did she see in you that I didn't have?

Greg: Look, I don't even know why she loved me either. I'm a rockstar failure and live in a van. But for some odd reason she, she just wanted to be with me. She wanted to have Steven even if it costed her life.

Gien slammed his fist against the wall, startling him.

Gien: ( red eyes open) What have you all done to her? First this pearl manipulates her into saving this rock and you are responsible for her demise?! I am more than tempted to open this cell and kill you myself!

But Gien steps back a bit and breaths as his eyes slanted again.

Gien: But I must calm down. It will be fun though, now I get three on my hit list. Don't think I didn't forget about you Peridot.

Gien walks over to Peridot's cell.

Gien: I don't understand you Peridot. I gave you life and purpose. I treated you as a apprentice and my own daughter. Why? Just why after everything I've done for you, you betrayed me.

Peridot: Gien, we would still have been allies if you hadn't lied and tried to have me betray my friends. I learned about why Earth was important just like Acha and Kocha.

Gien: What?

Suddenly Viggo enters with Acha and Kocha behind them.

Viggo: My lord.

Gien turns and see's them.

Gien: Acha, Kocha. You're alive.

Viggo: My lord, a word with you.

Viggo walks up to Gien as they spoke privately about what the duo were doing. Gien was taken back and called them.

Gien: Acha, Kocha. Come here.

The duo were nervous as they approached their master.

Gien: Is it true? Have you been befriending the enemy?

Acha: My lord we can explain. We were just on our mission when they attacked and the gartronium explosion caught us.

Kocha: Bomber saw us stuck and didn't bother to help us out.

Gien turns to Bomber.

Bomber: I uh...they were closing in on us. I know it was wrong, but it wasn't anthing personal. I assumed you could have teleported back.

Gien: That's the first truthful thing I heard you say in a while Bomber. But we will discuss your punishment later. ( to Acha and Kocha) So they captured you.

Acha: Well no, we tried teleporting back, but our teleportation commands tooks us to random places and then broke.

Kocha: We also couldn't call for help.

Acha: But once we found their home city, we learned how humans acted and realized what we were doing was wrong.

Gien: Wrong?

Kocha: They're not low lifeforms that need to be terminated. They're actually helpful, intelligent, and strong in their own way. Well except for that Onion right there, but then we wanted to know more about humans and the Earth.

Acha: Steven found us and the Crystal Gems actually gave us a chance, they're actually good people, we learned how to plant, their hobbies, making meep morps and...

Gien: I'll except that you were stranded and couldn't call for help, but going as low as making friends with the enemy is another.

Acha: Master, they're not our enemies. This is their home and we're invading it. If we continue stealing this planet's resources for our fuel, then this planet will die and they will have nothing to protect. If this is what Pink Diamond truly wanted than we should respect her wishes and help them.

Gien: No one knows what Pink Diamond wanted more than I! Listen to yourselves. You're acting just like Peridot now.

Acha: Because she realized the same mistake we made. Master, we have done so much for you. We ask in return for you to listen to us.

Gien: You have overstepped your authority. I am the leader, you are to follow my lead, not yours. They will be executed for their crimes.

Kocha: What? No you can't kill them.

Acha: I won't let you do this.

Acha ran past him and was heading towards the control panel to their prison cells. However Bomber fires his laser cannon at their path, causing them to stop as he points his gun at them.

Bomber: Who are you to offer safety to our enemies?

Acha: But...

Gien: That's enough! You two head back into your rooms and think about what you did. That is an order.

Acha and Kocha: ( sounding defeated) Y-Yes my lord.

Acha and Kocha leave the area. Gien made his way to Steven.

Gien: What have you done to them Steven? First you ruined Peridot, now my servents.

Steven: I didn't ruin anything. They wanted to learn from us and you brushed them off.

Gien: No, this Earth is a plague. Everyone who enters here, suddenly want to act differently. But now that I have you all, I will take great pleasure in destroying and stealing all of it's energy resources.

Steven: We won't let you do that!

Gien: You won't let me, you were the one who caused all of this.

Steven: What?

Gien: Do you even know why we captured these people here. Do you remember the list you made...Peridot.

Peridot was confused at first, but then remembered what he was refering to.

Steven: Peridot, what is he talking about?

Gien: Perhaps this will ring a bell.

Viggo shows him a holographic recording of Peridot's logs of his first encounter with her.

Peridot: So tell me, have the Stevens replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth?

Steven: Oh no theres lots of humans. There's my dad, Connie, Lars and Sadie, the mailman, Onion... I think?

Steven gasped now remembering this, Peridot couldn't see his face since they were side by side, but could only imagine his reaction.

Steven: The list... I gave them the names...

Gien: ( silent chuckles) You did a fine job Peridot. Even after your betrayel, you still helped me with our plan.

Peridot: No...no those were supposed to be private. Steven I swear I didn't know this would happen. I had nothing to do with his plan.

Gien: But too bad you don't intend of rejoining us. You're a traitor to both your kind. I'll will return for a proper punishment for you. ( turns to Steven) As for you Steven...

Steven was on his knees, just blaming himself for this whole mess.

Steven: This is all my fault...you're all here because of me...

Gien: Experimentation will begin shortly.

Connie: Experimentation?

Pearl: No, you can't. Not on him!

Gien: Guards!

Two Gara Soldiers enter the room.

Gien: Take him to the lab and prepare him on the operation table.

They nodded and one of them opened up the cell. The other placed the restraint collar on his neck forced him up and grabbed him by his arm as the other grabbed his other arm and pulled him out of the room as everyone watched in horror.

Sapphire: No stop!

Bismuth: I am gonna break you all if you don't put him down right now!

Lapis: Stop it! Leave him alone!

Greg: He's just a kid!

Connie: Don't you dare. Steven!

The only one not saying anything was Peridot. She just curled up with tears in her eyes. She thought this was her fault. She was the one who made the logs and had to put every little detail on it. Steven is now about to be experimented on because of her. It was all her fault she thought.

Meanwhile, Acha and Kocha were still walking to their rooms.

Kocha: Well that worked well.

Acha: I thought he would listen.

Kocha: Well he didn't. We really were being delusional.

Acha stopped in his tracks.

Acha: What did you say?

Kocha: He was right. We were wrong about all of this. We just paniced and thought we were done for. Now that we're back here, we can put it behind us and just move on. It was just a phase.

Acha: A phase...a phase!? You call everything we just learned and witnessed, the new friends we made who accepted us for us just a phase!?

Kocha: Yes, exactly that.

Acha: How can you say that?

Kocha: How can I not say that?

Acha: We were abandoned by our own kind. We had no way back and we could have ended up in stasis forever if our Gartronium supply ran out. I've come to realize that Steven and those Crystal Gems are not bad.

Kocha: What makes you think that?

Acha: If they wanted to scrap us, they would have done so to begin with. But they actually gave us a chance to learn and have us realize what we did was wrong. Steven and I both like Crying Breakfast Friends. Pearl supported me and offered me to train with her. Garnet told us about why she like to stay fused and what it meant to her. You liked being with Amethyst and Peridot told us how much she likes her new life here.

Kocha: And look where that got her? Imprisoned and set for execution. Why can't you snap out of it?

Acha: Because I never belonged here.

Kocha was taken back from what he said.

Kocha: What?

Acha: I never belonged here, with Gara Droids or Homeworld. We're considered to be the most inferior of the race. The losers! The elites look down on us, gems look down at us.

Kocha: You think you belong on this rock living with these gems?

Acha: Don't you?

Kocha: Of course not. I always belonged here, with the Gara Droids serving Gien.

Acha: Do you or are you just scared of being executed?

Kocha: Says the one who is constantly afraid.

Acha: I've always been afraid all my life. Still am today. We might be sparred now if we do as told and go back serving him, but I can't live with the burden knowing we coulnd't save our friends.

Kocha: The're not our friends. We serve only Gien.

Acha: I don't even think our lord doesn't respect us. You don't even respect me.

Kocha: Well that's what I do because of what you did?

Acha: What are you talking?

Kocha: When we were built, Gien showed us off to the Diamonds and you had to give a bad first impression with you being a cowardly, annoying cluts. Because of you, they guessed I would be like that too so the Diamonds disapproved for us... for me to be mass produced and I'm considered one of the losers of the Gara Droids.

Acha: Is that why you're so harsh on me?

Kocha calms down and looks away, but doesn't answer.

Acha: Kocha... I'm sorry that I ruined your chances to be great. I never intended to upset you. We've been partners for years and I always stayed by your side because...because that's what friends do. They forgive each other. But we have to do something. Gien won't listen to reason and we have to...

Kocha: Stop right there... there's no we anymore alright. It's just you. I'm not going to get scrapped over something you think you belong with. I'm staying here where I belong.

Kocha looks away with her back turned.

Acha: ( sighs) Fine. Alright. If this is what you truly want Kocha, I won't force you into anything. I hope you're happy.

Acha walks away from her and stops one last time to look back.

Acha: I'm sorry you had to be around me.

Acha finally leaves. Kocha looks back and see's he's gone as a frown forms on her face.

Five minutes later.

Before Gien and his troops were about to leave, he heard Acha call for him.

Gien: Acha, glad you are here.

Acha: My lord I really need you to listen.

Gien: I will, after you do something for me. ( to Viggo) Take the pearl out.

Viggo goes to Pearl's cell, brings her out and has her arms cuffed.

Gien: Acha, you're loyalty has been shaken with your words a little while back. However, because you've always been a trusted servent and spie to me I shall be generous.

Acha: My lord?

Gien takes out a gun and gives it to him.

Gien: You will have the honor in shattering this pearl.

Acha looked at him surprised and looked at Pearl. She had worried look on her face. She knew Acha was treated poorly, but would he really kill her just to gain respect.

Gien: Think about it. The great Acha who shattered one of the top members of the Crystal Gems. Think of all the praise you'll get.

Acha: But, I'm a servent. Not an executioner.

Gien: I am your superior. I order you to terminate her.

Acha stared at Pearl, but he couldn't bring himself to even pointing the gun at her and throws it away.

Acha: No! I will not. They have done no wrong.

Gien: But you have...traitor!

Gien using his limb enhancer laser shoot Acha as the projectile pierced through his chest.

Acha: My lord...

Acha falls back as the lights in his eyes started to flicker and finally went black. Everyone was shocked seeing this while Pearl had her hands covering her mouth.

Gien: You were really were a traitor, weren't you Acha?

Pearl: How dare you...

Gien: Hm?

Pearl: How dare you? He was your most loyal follower and this is how you repaid him! All he wanted from you is to listen to what he thought and you refused!

Gien: He broke the Gara Droid rule. No droid is to show signs of love or sentimental emotions. He was weak and was deemed unfit for this. Take her back to her cell.

Viggo puts Pearl back into her cell.

Gien: Come let us move on to the lab.

Viggo: What about Acha?

Gien: Bring his body. He'll atleast be good for spare parts. Guards!

Two Black Knight droids enter.

Gien: Guard the prisoners. Let no one set them free unless they have my approval.

They nodded and stood guard as the Gien and the others left to the lab to begin their experiments, but not before taking Acha's body with them. Little did they know was that Kocha witnessed the whole thing. Her body shook and her hands covered her mouth.

Kocha: Acha...no...

In the lab

Steven was strapped to an operating table. He saw all sorts of tools and chemicals all over the place. Next to him was a needle connected to a blood package. Then he saw Revenger on the other side of the room, strapped to another table. His body was completely confined.

Steven: Revenger?

Revenger: Steven? Why are you here? I thought he only wanted me.

Steven: I thought he only wanted me.

Gien and Viggo enters the lab.

Gien: How are my test subjects doing?

Gien placed Acha's body at the corner. Steven and Revenger's eyes widened.

Steven: Acha? What did you do to him?

Gien: I hope you're happy Steven. Because of you, you ruined my servent. He refused to kill that pearl and I was forced to kill him for it.

Revenger: You...you miserable machine! This is what you enjoy doing isn't it! That droid was always praising you and you kill him for not following your orders, just like you did to the fallen.

Gien: Ah Revenger. I was at first hoping you stayed dead, but now I'm glad you are alive. I want to know how is it that a group of Gara Droid life sparks managed to create a new being? Plus how is it that you a droid fused with a gem?

Revenger: I don't even know how it happened. I tried to dance with her to fight against your elite and it didn't work.

Gien: Tried?

Viggo: This defies all logic.

Gien: It does, unlese maybe...maybe it was the power of the life sparks.

Viggo: Of course! Our metallic bodies are blocking a connection between the spark and the gem. When we implanted the mind control device on him it was linked directly to his life spark. When the Lapis Lazuli tried to pull it out, she released the energy from his spark and absorbed her.

Gien: Thus creating a new gem and robot fusion. It's a theory, but we will do further tests on you Revenger later. Right now, Steven must come first.

Gien approached him.

Gien: Now don't be afraid Steven. I don't intend on killing you, or atleast not yet. I need you to bring a couple friends of mine.

Steven: My mom?

Gien: Her and Huntress.

Steven and Revenger's eyes widened.

Revenger: Huntress?

Steven: But she was shattered. You can't bring shattered gems back.

Gien: There is nothing I can't do.

Steven: But I don't think my powers can do that. I can't even cure corruption.

Gien: Well then let's find out together.

Steven: No, No!

Steven tried struggling out, but he is restraint again by Viggo as he straps his neck down. They began the experiment as Gien sticks a needle into Steven's arm and collects his blood in a blood package. Steven began to feel dizzy from the loss of blood.

Viggo: Here it is, his blood.

Gien: Let's begin the experiment.

The used the same healing formula that they used to heal cracked gems, but mixed it with Steven's blood, causing it to shake a bit, but then settled down.

Viggo: It's done.

Gien: I hope this works, bring her in.

Gien took out Huntresse's gem shards and Viggo nods and brings in a new robotic body for Huntress and has seen a change. Her hunting uniform was now red and her boots were black. She still had her metallic arm now attached with a double barreled cannon. She still had the same hair and face, but no monocole this time.

Gien: It's time Huntress.

Gien adds a few drops of the new formula on her shard. It started to shake and glow as they pieces rose up, bit by bit they started to connect to each other again and finally, her gem was whole again. Steven and Revenger's eyes widened of what they witnessed.

Gien: By the stars... it worked.

Viggo: But is she living?

Gien: Place her in her body and see.

Gien placed her gem into her new body, but Revenger... he couldn't let her live again knowing what she is like.

Revenger: NOOOO!

Revenger with his might breaks out of his restraints. Gien and Viggo turned and tried to stop him. But he pushed them away and formed his wrist blade and was about to destroy Huntress before she can wake. But when he tried, her arm rose up and grabbed his arm. Revenger's eyes widened and froze. Huntress rose up as her eyes opened looking at him as she smirked.

Huntress: Hello Revenger.

Huntress punched him in the stomach and then the face. He tried to fight back and tried to slash her. Her new metallic arm was now liquid metal and formed into a blade and blocked his attack. She jumped over him and her arm cannon shot out a beam, paralyzing him. Huntress causually walked up to him and kicked tree times and stomping her foot onto his head.

Huntress: That's for shattering me.

Huntress turned over to Gien and Viggo.

Viggo: This is unbelievable.

Gien: ( silent chuckles) But it is. Welcome back Huntress, I have brought you back.

Huntress smiles to him.

Huntress: I am here to serve you once again darling.

Two Gara Soldiers entered and took Revenger placed him in what appeared to be an iron maiden, making sure he doesnt get out. Huntress approached them as she noticed Steven on the operating table. She approached him first.

Steven: Huntress...

Huntress: Steven Universe. Did you miss me? ( squeezes his cheeks) You've gotten so much cuter since I last saw you. And here you are now.

Bomber and Leozack enters.

Bomber: What's all the noise in...Huntress?!

Leozack: You're alive!

Gien: Fellow Gara Droids, our commrad has returned from the dead.

Huntress: I'm back and I'll be staying this time.

Viggo: My lord, we might have to hold off on the surgury of Steven's gem. Considering the boy has lost some blood from the extraction, this could effect his gem if we are to remove it properly and carefully.

Gien: Very well, Bomber, put Steven in his special cell and give him some water. I need him in good shape. Leozack, get the Gartronium ready. We will celebrate our victory at last.

The other Gara Droids exit doing as they are told.

Viggo: I shall leave you two alone.

Viggo leaves as Huntress was smiling big to Gien, placing her hands on his chest.

Huntress: Oh darling, you went through all this just to bring me back. You truly do love me. Now that we feel the same way, we can...

Gien: No... we can't.

Huntress: ( frowns) What?

Gien: Huntress, I never treated you the way you hoped I would. Ever since I thought I lost Pink, I often viewed love as a weakness. I always saw you from a servent to my assasin, body guard and luitenant, but when you were shatterd, a part of me died feeling I lost someone I truly did care about next to Pink. I never realized how I felt about you until it was too late.

Huntress: But I'm back now. If what you say is true than you and I can be together now.

Gien: Maybe so. But some, mainly Bomber were onto me. He tried to over throw me thinking I have gone weak. I have let noticable signs of love out. If others realized that too, they will try and overthrow me. I need to be strong. I can't let anyone else take control of this army unless it's someone I trust.

Huntress: But Viggo trusts you and so does Acha and Kocha.

Gien: While Viggo did help me with your return and I think he knows, Acha on the other hand is dead.

Gien motioned towards Acha's body.

Gien: He is a traitor to our kind now. He's been defending our enemy and refused to kill one of them when I ordered him to.

Huntress: What about Kocha?

Gien: I will test her soon. But the point is, you and I must keep this a secret for now. Until I become the most powerful being that no one dares to oppose me, you must act only as my assasin and hunter.

Huntress: I...I understand my lord, but can I at least do one thing?

Gien: That is?

Much to his surprise, Huntress wrapped her arms around him and kissed him. Gien was going to push her off, but fell for her kiss as he held onto her and accepted her kiss.

Huntress: I'll won't let anyone take you down and if they try, they need to get through me first.

Gien: Just don't get shattered again.

Huntress: Of course darling. Anything for you.

To be continued...

Author's Note: That's it for this chapter. Huntress was meant to be a temporary character, but due to her popularity from some, I brought her back. This is also my attempt on expanding Steven's healing powers how if altered can restore shattered gems ( which wasn't done or atleast not yet in the show) and trying to find a way to cure the corrupted gems since I dind't want to do the whole four Diamonds needed to cure it. Also this was my explanation on how Revenger and Lapis fused. Because I never inteneded for the Gara Droids to fuse until the idea of Pyrite came, I needed to create my own explanation. It may seem far fetched but I had to give some explanation. This chapter was meant to go on more for the escape and another fight. But I thought it would have dragged for too long and it would have seemed rushed so this will be divided into two. Special Thanks to Lady Shadow92 for help on Huntress's return. I hope you enjoyed and please review. Thank you and until next time.