*BOOOOOOOMMMMM!*
With massive explosion, the two pieces of heavy ordinance impact the ground and shower the entire area where the two gems were standing in fire, shrapnel and rocks as a massive cloud of smoke kicks up.
The only noise is the sound of the six Iron King gang members coughing from the smoke and the environment trying to settle after the destruction. "*Coughing*… ugh. Man, the boss isn't gonna like this." One of the guys asks after he manages to regain his breathing.
"Let him be." One of the rocket guys says angrily. "That kid was way too dangerous to transport to him." He says firmly.
"I guess." The first one agrees albeit a bit reluctantly. After staring at the smoke cloud in front for a bit, he turns his attention to the chasm he is standing in. "What is this place?" He asks out loud.
"Who cares!" Another proclaims loudly and obviously pissed. "Let's get the hell out of here and get back home! I'm sure a lot of our boys wanted payback for that punk!" He snarls.
"He's right." Another concludes and starts walking away. "What's done is done. Now we should get back and report in." He says without looking back.
"I'm with you." Soon, the rest of the gang members start filing in behind their friend to get out of this eerie death-trap of a place. To them all, no one could have survived that sort of explosion.
"Wooooo ha ha!"
At least, no normal human could.
The group tenses up at the cheery new voice and stop in their place. Looking to where they heard it, some of them are confused to see that the voice came from the smoke cloud that had erupted from the rocket blasts. To their surprise, a figures silhouette is seen through the thick smoke.
"Phew! That was crazy!" The figure says in a peppy happy female voice and stretches her arm out as the cloud finally dissipates, giving everyone a clear view of who it is that managed to survive the blast. She stands tall, as tall as Garnet and her skin is a bit pale but with a light green color-hue to it. For a shirt, she wears a black t-shirt under a aqua-blue tunic-leotard that has a small gold star on the center of it along with a thin sash that has a lighter gold color to it around her slender waist that's used as a belt for her dark amber colored jeans. She is wearing a black jacket but her arms aren't in the sleeves, instead the jacket is being held around her neck by a simple button clip on the collar, allowing the rest of the clothing to flow around her free and clear. For footwear, she has a pair of black thick ballet slippers on with boot treads on the bottom. When she finished stretching her arms, she swishes her head left and right to stretch the muscles in her neck, which makes her short black with pink streaks hair that goes to her shoulders bristle in the wind and the movement. She stares at the people with blue eyes and a curious expression as they look at her with shock. "What? Is there something on my face?" She asks confused as she wipes her face with one of her hands, the limb brushing against the Pearl gem on her forehead and revealing the Jade gem on her shoulders as well.
"Who are you?!" One of the strange men to her asks in surprise and anger.
"Who am I?" She asks genuinely confused. Then she looks at her arm and can't help but stare at the limb. "Woooaaaaahh…" She says in awe as she examines the rest of herself. "Hahahahaaaa! Wow! Is this—! Oh my god!" She exclaims loudly in surprise and happiness as she runs her hand all over her body. "So this all that you've guys been bragging about! Man, this is awesome! I look good and… okay stop there." She says to herself with a blush as her hands almost went to more… personal areas.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" She stops her examination at the loud temper the guy seems to be having right now. He looks ready to burst with anger.
"Who am I?" She asks herself again with a hand to her chin. "Hmmmm," She thinks as she taps her chin and feel the thoughts going through her head. "Well, I feel like Marcus…" She pulls out one of Marcus's green katana from one of her Jade shoulder gems, making them men aim their weapons at her, "But also like Pearl too…" She then pulls out Pearl's spear from her Pearl gem on her forehead.
"But I can't be called one or the other… so I think you can call me," she brings the katana close to the blade of the spear, where the blade fuses with the handle. Soon the rest of the spear transforms as well, the shaft and handle of the spear becoming a deep dark Viridian green and the blade is a pale turquoise and has effectively doubled than from before in both length and width. Once it finishes forming, she twirls it around herself a few times before grabbing it with both hands and getting into a combat ready stance. "Serpentine!" She declares her name to the whole world with a smile as she grips her Glaive with both hands. "Now…" She swipes the spear the through the air until the shaft of it lay against her back. "Shall we dance?" She says in a cocky manner.
"Grrrr…" The guy growls as he grits his teeth in anger. He looks around at his allies before pointing at the new player. "Well what are we waiting for?! Kill her!" He yells and opens fire at her. The rest of them fire as well in tandem.
But to everyone's surprise, she moves in a flash a few feet to her right, dodging the first wave of bullets because of it. The gang members are surprised at the speed but they shift fire to her new position but the same thing happens again, she dodges the bullet fire again and again as the routine repeats itself. They try to shoot her but each time she dashes in the blink of an eye, faster than their firing could hit her, and each time she manages to get closer and closer to them.
Until she's right on top of them.
"Hey." She says casually as she appears again in front of one of the guys whose reloading.
"Ah! What the—!" The guy freaks out the sudden intrusion and steps back, along with the other members because of how quick the fusion moved.
"Now that wasn't very nice, you know?" She says with a playful pout.
"Why you—!"
*Crink*
One of them who was reloading his shotgun swings it around and grabs it by the barrel before swinging it like a bat at the back of the fusions head. The weapons wooden stock however breaks off easily and the receiver part bends slightly, but however slightly bent it is, it's enough to jam any shells trying to be loaded to fire. He stares dumfounded at the useless weapon in his hand now. Serpentine doesn't really acknowledge the hit and she simply looks back at her attacker. She gives him a slow nod that says 'No'…
*SMACK*
… Then kicks him, hard. With dexterous movement, she sends her leg right into the guys chest, effectively breaking his ribs and sending him flying towards the rock wall and embedding him into it, killing him instantly. The rest of the gang members look on in shock at the move before staring at her. She calmly pulls her leg back down and grips her Glaive with one hand tightly. "Hm." She smirks before twirling around on one foot in a ballets pirouette and slicing in a circle. Two guys are cut down easily but the rest move back in time, saving themselves but only for a moment. She dashes to another and slashes him across the chest. He goes down with a groan and doesn't get back up before she moves onto the others. The last two stand side-by-side and try to pull out their sidearm's to fire but she moves in the blink of an eye and sends her feet into the left ones face and slicing at the other at the same time. The both of them are thrown to the ground into heaps and she reorients herself gracefully onto her feet. After taking a moment to calm down, she looks down at the bodies around her and purses her lips, "Hmmm… that can't be all of them." She questions out loud. Looking back to where everyone was coming from the entrance of the Kindergarten, she deftly jumps up the collapsed rock pile until she makes it to the very top of the rock slide. "Ahh, there we go." She smiles as she stares at the squads of gang members making their way to where she just was moments ago. Over a dozen of them move along the canyons floor to her and several small squads make their way along the top of the walls in support and overwatch positions. "Alright then," She jerks her head to the side pops some of her bones before she plants her Glaive in front of her. "Now, who do I start with?"
*CHING!*
Very subtly, she moves the blade of her Glaive to the side in front of her face and deflects a bullet from hitting her. The .338 Lapua Magnum bullet stops dead against the thick blades side and clinks to the ground, the blade itself only jerking back a little. Slowly, she looks down at the flattened round before looking in the direction it came from and smiling.
Then she disappears.
"Wha…?" The sniper says in confusion from his prone position as he sees the sparks fly off the blade of the target but it looks like she's unfazed.
"How did she—?" His spotter asks in confusion as well. Apparently he can't believe it either that somehow this mysterious woman just stopped the bullet from his rifle.
"IIIII… don't know. How did she…?" The sniper trails off in asking as he looks to partner.
"I have no idea. Probably just luck." The spotter replies and glances to his partner before going back to his binoculars. "No matter, just fire more rounds at her. She can't be that lucky or skilled."
"Right." He aims down the scope and looks for his target. "Wait, where did she go?"
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, boys."
Both men twitch in surprise at the new voice right behind them. They turn onto their backs and stare at the tall woman standing above and right behind them. She's tapping her Glaive against her shoulder and gives them a curt smile. "I'm pretty skilled wouldn't you know it?" She says. Her smile turns to a frown when she talks again. "But still, shooting me was kind of rude, you know?"
"Uhhhhh…" They both say in utter confusion, minds completely blank as to how this woman somehow got from across the way to them in only a few seconds.
"But… oh well." She says with a smile and slices down before they can react.
"AAAAAHHHH!"
"Huh?" One of squad leaders on the ground in the back looks up in confusion at loud sound. To his and his men's surprise, their sniper teams body's start rolling down the rock wall for some reason. "Wha—"
*Bang*Bang*Bang*
Before anyone can react, three shots are heard in quick succession and three guys go down easily with perfectly placed shots to the hea. He looks up to where the snipers were but that's the last thing he sees ever.
*Bang*
Another body falls to the ground with a slump. "Wow, this is nice." Serpentine comments on the KIVAARI semi-auto sniper rifle in her hands. After she threw the guys off the cliff, she stomped on the stocks edge of the rifle, sending the weapon flying into the air and into her hands, where she immediately opened fire on the backup squad at the base of the cliff she's standing on. After dispatching the group, she reloads and stares at the group's running back towards her now. After she opened fire, the forward attacking groups then realized that their target wasn't in front but somehow got behind them. "Let's do this." She says to herself and proceeds to open fire on the remaining men running to her. With precise accuracy, she shifts fire easily from the bottom of the ravine, to the top right of the walls, then the left, and repeating the order again and again after she hits one person from each group. Soon, each squad of men start to take cover as they find more and more of their own fall to the ground and not getting back up. "This is too easy." Serpentine comments to herself as she drops the empty magazine and loads in a new one. "Woah!" She yelps as she twists herself around and collapses to the ground into a prone firing position, narrowly missing a slew of bullets aimed right at her. She brings her rifle up to bear and opens fire on more unsuspecting gang members, those who peak their heads out don't have time to regret the decision.
*Bang*Bang*Bang*Click*
"Hm." She grunts as she releases the empty magazine and goes to grab another, only to find that she's out. "Aw man." She says in a disappointing tone and lays the gun on the ground. After a few seconds of not shooting, the rock wall she's laying on gets lit up with continuous fire from down below and the sides. Carefully and calmly, she peaks her head up and examines her enemies and sees a dozen men on the ground and the few or more running and shooting towards her on the sides. "Hmmmmm," She thinks for a second about the precarious situation she has herself in before she crawls back and turns over onto her back, staring into the sky, not perturbed whatsoever about the projectiles pelting her position. "… I'm gonna need some help with this." In one fell swoop, Serpentine pushes her legs onto the ground and goes into a handstand before letting the rest of herself slide down the rock wall. She pulls out her Glaive mid flip and jams the blade halfway into the rock to somewhat slow and control her descent as the men fire on her, their shots missing her by inches and centimeters. When she's a few from the ground, she plants her feet on the wall and pushes back, creating a dent and crack in the rock while also tearing her spear out. As she flies back and is about the hit the ground, she does a series of back flips all the way to a nearby boulder that she uses as cover.
"She went back there! Move in!" One of the remaining squad leaders orders what little of their men is left. They begin to converge around the rock until they see a glow appear from behind the rock.
"Wait what was—?" One of the grunts begins to question the light but is cut short as their target jumps over the rock and lands with now two Glaives in her possession. She smiles at them for a second, admiring the temporarily stunned looks on their faces but when they aim at her, she begins her dodging maneuvers. Like before, they try to shoot her but she dashes left and right in the blink of an eye, dodging the shower of bullets and pellets that pepper her previous positions. Soon, she appears in the middle of their group. The men freak out at the sudden appearance of her right next to them and turn to shoot at her. Now, being a few feet from her, you'd think a near point blank shot would be enough to prevent her from being able to dodge the bullets right?
Wrong.
As the guys are bringing their guns up to fire and with graceful movements, she leans back till she hits the ground flat on her back.
They fire.
"Aaaaahhh!" Multiple guys scream out at the same time as less than half the last dozen of men attacking her all shoot each other instead. The remainder people freeze at the sudden friendly they sustained, giving Serpentine the opportunity to retaliate. Swinging her legs around, she does the Wushu Spin up maneuver to push herself back onto her feet. When she lands on her feet, she twirls herself around and brings her right leg high up into the air before slamming it into the ground just as her opponents finally come out of their surprised state. When her foot slams onto the ground, a kinetic area-of-effect attack happens, cracking the ground under and around her using an earthquake-like effect. She remains firmly standing but her enemy's are pushed back and launched off their feet, throwing them to the ground in a daze.
'Now that these guys are stunned…' She thinks and turns her head to the top of the walls where the remainder of the attack force takes aim. 'Time to take you out.' She thinks and starts sprinting towards the face of the wall.
"There! Fire!" The guys at the top finally see her moving towards them and open fire. Because of her speed, their shots miss and impact the ground around her. As soon as she makes it to the wall, she doesn't stop… she keeps going. She stabs both her Glaives into the wall and pushes herself up along it. Keeping with the momentum, she runs up the wall straight towards where her enemies are. They continue to fire at her so she moves her Glaives in front of her, where the bullets deflect off the blades. They quickly reload their guns but as she makes it to the top, she does a flip off it, slicing at two more guys before landing on her feet and pressing the attack. She stabs one person through the chest before twisting herself around and slicing at another with her second spear. The remaining couple tries to shoot at her but she uses the body she stabbed as a shield before throwing it at them, knocking them to the ground. She slides to them as they try to get up but ends them before they could do anything else. Taking her spear back she stabs both of them into the ground before kicking a rifle into her hands and aiming at the opposite wall. Three try to shoot her but she quickly dispatches them before they can fire. Dropping the weapon to the ground, she runs to the edge of the cliff, retrieving her spears along the way, and jumps off far and high into the air.
"What… the…?" One of the men on the ground questions as they stare at the silhouette against the sun. For a second, they can't see anything at the all except the blinding sun.
*Shick*
The men freak out as a spear flies from the sky and embeds one of them to the ground.
*Shick*
Another is taken down as a dark figure finally appears from the sky.
"Open fire!" Without another word, they open fire on the figure as it careens towards them. It looks like their shots aren't doing anything so one of them tries to run. This proves fatal as the figure slams into the ground like a rock, crushing the man. The others try to aim at the target now that it isn't in the air but she moves forward and starts some CQC combat. Dashing, she punches one person in the face before flipping around and kicking another in the head. She gut punches one before bringing her knee up to hit him in the face. Turning around, she kicks a MP5 gun out of one's hands before grabbing the weapon in mid-air and hitting him upside the head with it. With one hand, she holds the trigger down as she swishes the weapon in a wide-arc around her, hitting a couple guys and injuring some others. After dropping the weapon, she rolls to one of her spears and pulls it out before swinging it around by the end, cutting down a couple more before hitting one of them in the face with the shaft and roundhouse kicking him. She throws her spear and ends another before grabbing her other spear.
The last man standing quickly aims his Mossberg 500 shotgun loaded with slugs at the targets back and fires. When he begins to depress the trigger, Serpentine grabs her second Glaive and pulls it up and out in an overhead arc. When the trigger is pressed, the slug leaves the barrel and heads straight for its intended target.
*SHIINNNNGGGG!*
In one fell swoop, the blade comes down on the slug and slices it right in half. The blade embeds itself in the ground from the force of it coming down.
The world goes silent at the action. Serpentine breathes deeply at the amount of exertion on her body but the remaining guy is a mess. He is visibly shaking in his shoes and his gun is jerking and jumping all over the place from a complete feeling of fear. Here is a woman, an inhuman woman that took out dozens of men that came here to capture some kid… and now he is the only one left.
Very carefully and slowly, the fusion, stands to her full height, freaking out the man even more as he finally gouges just how much taller his opponent really is. He can't even bring himself to pull the trigger as she slowly walks up to him. All the while, he's still shaking as she was walking to him. When she's pressed up against the barrel of his shotgun, she leans down stares directly into the mans eyes, his eyes shrinking to pinpricks from fear.
"Boo."
Because of the voice in front of him, he drops his gun and takes a step back but falls back. In a desperate attempt, he begins to crawl away as he hyperventilates. After crawling several feet away from this monster in front of him, he tries to get to his feet but he trips a few times before finally sprinting away.
Serpentine stares at the fleeing human for a minute at his desperate attempt to get away, running, crawling, and climbing his way up to get away from her. When he finally makes it to the entrance of the Kindergarten and out of sight, she closes her eyes and breathes in and out deeply a few times before spreading her arms out.
She begins to glow and break apart.
"Ah!" I gasp out as I collapse onto my back and breathe in an attempt to calm myself. 'What… the hell… was that?' I think as I blink rapidly steady my vision.
"Marcus!" Pearl pops up into my vision with a bit of worry lasing her voice. She grabs my shoulders and looks at me with a bit of panic about her. Her panicked state lessens when she sees nothing is serious about me. "Are you alright?" She asks quietly.
"Mmm…" I groan and she helps me sit up. "Yep, yeah I'm good." I say and grab my shoulder. My wounds from before are still apparent but they aren't as serious or hurt as much as before. "Nothing too bad."
"That's good." She says in relief. "Here, let me help you up."
"Alright… Ow."
"Easy."
Carefully, Pearl grabs my arm and helps pull me to my feet. My sore body has been worked ragged through this whole ordeal but at least it's over. When I make it to my feet, I relax. "Ahhhh… Thank you Pearl." I thank her for the assistance.
"Your welcome." She nods and after it looks like I'm not gonna collapse, she looks around. "Woooow, we sure did a number on this place." She comments.
I can't help but look around as well. Body's litter the whole area around us, along with small holes, cracks and divots in the ground where all the fighting took place, even the avalanche of rocks from earlier would be hard to miss. "Yeah… yeah we did." I agree with her on the subject. There is a moment of silence between us before I break it. "Sooo… that was fusing?" I ask her somewhat awkwardly.
"Yes, it was." She says firmly. She then turns to me with a smile. "Marcus, I still can't believe you… you fused." She says in almost disbelief.
"Yeah, I can't believe it either. It was just a… spur of the moment thing, you know?" I try to explain to her about the whole fusion thin but even now, I'm still a little bewildered by it.
"But how did you—"
"I… have no idea." I quickly say. "I know you said it would take a synchronizing dance routine in order to fuse in the first place, but when those RPG's were coming right at us, all I wanted was to protect you and make sure nothing bad happened. I was going to tackle you away and use my body to try to shield you from the explosions… but I guess fate decided otherwise." I say the last part with a smile. This wasn't what I intended for my first ever fusion, or fusing in general, but at least we managed to come out of this somewhat unscathed.
"Yes, I believe it did." She agrees with a smile. She may have been a bit weirded out when Steven first fused with Connie, but nonetheless she was still proud of him afterwards. Now… with me no less? I have no idea. Thankfully, I had a sort of different view when it comes to fusing because at first I thought it was a melded consciousness to fuse, but instead I still felt somewhat myself even when we fused, and to add to that, I didn't see into her mind, memories or anything of that nature so I should be safe of her seeing anything… unsavory I did or went through in the past. "How was it?"
"Hm?" I murmur as a question.
"The fusing… how was it?" She asks me, almost embarrassing or awkwardly because she's rubbing her left arm with her right hand and looking away.
'How was it?' I think as I stare at her. I continue to stare at her for a moment, trying to think of how exactly I felt about the whole experience. I look away, "I felt… strong… fast… powerful." I try to explain but the whole thing was… wow.
"Really?"
"Oh yeah." I say with a smile. "The whole ordeal was… exhilarating. Crazy being combined and all but… damn was it something. It's hard to put into words really." I look at her. "What about you?"
"Well, I have fused before with Garnet and Amethyst, even both of them at the same time." She reminds me.
"Yeah, I remember your fusions. To be honest, Opal and Alexandrite were a whole lot better than Sugilite." I comment. 'Way better. Sugilite really sucked. She was supposed to do one job and instead almost killed Pearl and I. I do not want to see her again any time soon.'
"Yeah, she was a bit… eccentric." She chuckles.
"A bit?" I ask sarcastically with a raised eyebrow.
"Okay, more than a bit." She corrects herself and I nod. "However," She continues, "I do remember one other fusion I became… and fusing with you reminded me of her a bit." She says somberly.
"Who was it?" I ask. She doesn't answer right away but looks away from me.
"It was—"
"Shhh!" I quickly shush her as I hear the sound of an engine turning on.
The last survivor runs as fast as he can from the canyon and away from that… that monster. He finishes crawling out of the canyon and sprints to where one of the vans are parked that he and all his friends rode in to get here. "Fuckfuckfuckfuck." He curses repeatedly as he trips a few times before slamming into the driver side door and trying to open it. He tries to open the door but it's locked. He quickly pats his pockets for the keys. "Shit!" He curses loudly as he remembers he wasn't the one driving. "Haa… Rah!" He yells as he slams his elbow into the window, breaking the glass and allowing him to reach in and open the door. He quickly climbs in, closes the door and starts pulling out wires from under the steering wheel before he starts connecting and sparking wires together to get the engine to start. "C'monc'monc'mon…" He repeatedly hopes again and again that the wires will start the vehicle, his only hope of getting out of here.
*Vrrrroooooomm!*
"YES!" He triumphantly yells and quickly sets the vehicle into gear before stepping on the gas. The tires peel out and he takes off down the dirt road before coming onto the paved highway and heading to anywhere that's not where he just was. 'Okay… okay… Got to get out of here… that… thing it just… Oh god…' He wipes his brow from the sweat beginning to form before he continues to think. 'Got to get back… tell the boss, the others… we need more. A lot more if we want to take him… her… Whatever! Do—' His train of thought is forever cut.
*Bang*
A distant gunshot can be heard following the round that passed through the vehicle.
The body slumps forward, taking its foot off the pedal and forcing the wheel to turn to the side, bringing the van to a stop on the side of the road.
"Target down."
"Nice shot."
I nod at Pearls comment and stand up from the top of the van before jumping down. I take out the magazine and pull the bolt handle back on the Barrett XM107 SASR .50 Cal. Sniper rifle in my hands, ejecting the round in the chamber before slinging it on my back. "I'm gonna have to destroy all this. Destroy any trace anyone was here in case anyone goes snooping, and to make sure scavengers don't attract unwanted attention." I know vultures tend to circle their feeding ground from high up in the air that could be seen from miles away. From the amount of bodies here, coyotes, vultures and who knows what else could garner unwanted attention from the road if they stay long enough. I turn to her, "Can you go get that van and bring it back here?" I ask her.
"Sure. Hu!" She agrees and jumps off, soaring far away from me to where the van stopped. Once she's far enough away, I begin to check the inside of the rest of the vans for any gear I may be able to salvage. Theirs over half a dozen vans and trucks here and most of them are completely empty, most likely for transporting the amount of people we fought, while some of the vans must have been used for carrying their weapons because I'm seeing various shell casing litter the floor of the back of them. Nothing is in the weapon trucks because it looks like they took everything from them so they could use them against me. "Damn, talk about overkill." After closing the doors, I look back at the Kindergarten and shake my head. "But I guess that doesn't count in this case." I comment and walk over to the last van. "Alright," I grab the doors and swing them open. "Let's see what's in… here." My sentence trails off as I see that this van doesn't look like it was meant to hold a full load of men or weapons. What gets my attention however, is the cork board on the side of one of the walls. I crawl in sit in front of it… and my breath hitches. At the top of the board, their is a picture of me stuck against it by a knife through my face.
But that's not what makes me freeze and my eyes widen. Right under that are several other pictures of people.
People I know. There is one picture each of some of the people I know in Beach City. Sadie, Lars, Buck, Sour Cream, and even Jenny. "Oh my…" I don't finish as the rest of the pictures make me gulp in fear. Pictures of Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Connie, Steven, even his dad Greg, are here as well. All of them are pinned to the board with a tack and colored twine is used to connect some pictures to others. All of them however, lead back to me. "My god." I breathe out breathlessly. I lean back and let my back hit the opposite wall as I process what this means. 'I was too much trouble for them. He wasn't kidding about who they knew… they're getting leverage on me… on my… family.' "No no no no no." I repeatedly say as I grab my head with my hands at the threat I've put everyone through. 'God dammit! Who the hell did I originally piss off?!' With a bout of anger, I punch the wall of the van next to board. The punch leaves a small dent and lightly shakes the vehicle but I also ignore the pain in my hand as I deathly stare at the board.
I hear the sound of a vehicle approaching. It doesn't take a genius to know that its Pearl returning. "Crap." Thinking quickly, I rip off the pictures of the crystal gems and stuff them in my pockets.
"Marcus?" I stop as I'm about to grab the others pictures but Pearls voice stops me. "What are you doing?"
I look back to see her leaning into the view of the doors. Slowly, I rub my fingers against the picture of the Jenny and lean back. "They know Pearl." I grimly tell her.
"Know what?" She asks curiously. I wave my hand forward to gesture to the board. She crawls in next to me and looks at the board. "What's this?"
"This… is some sort of… list." I try to come up with a name for this but that's the best I got. "As you can see, they know about me, obviously. But it seems… their keeping tabs on others I know." I gesture to the pictures of everyone else on the board. Sadie, Lars, Buck, Sour Cream, Jenny and Connie are still on the board. "They want me. I don't know why… but they do." I say in a sad tone.
"Oh my…" She breathes out similar to me earlier at the revelation as she brings her hand to her mouth. "What about us?"
"I'm sorry?"
"What about me?" She asks frantically as she leans in closer to me. "And Amethyst, Garnet, Greg?" Her eyes widen and she grabs my shoulder, fear etched on her face. "Steven? Do they know about him?" She asks fearfully.
I stare at her with surprise. This is probably the first time I've seen her with genuine fear on her face and she looks ready to break down. They do know about her and everyone else at the temple and I know how much Steven is important for her and the others. I can tell her but… she'll be scared, fearful of what might happen… but she'll know.
My hand carefully moves over my pocket, where I have the photos.
"No… They don't."
…
Okay, I may have gone a bit overboard, I think. Sorry if this was a bit long for a fight people but after spending the last month focusing on tests and essays, I guess I just wanted to go crazy for my own enjoyment. That being said, I finished all my tests and now I am effectively done with this semester of college so expect some faster updates from here one out.
… Maybe…
I'm sorry guys. I'm replaying the Dead Island series because I grabbed the deal on Xbox Live when the collection was only $20 so that's eating my time. I'm also playing Gears of War 4 (Awesome story) and I'm going to be playing Dishonored 2 to see how it is as well eventually.
Still, I hope this chapter was good for you guys as it was for me and really opened up a lot of things for your guys. I was debating pretty hard on what type of gem was going to be used for my first ever fusion and Serpentine just stuck. I hope what I did was good for you all and I hope you like her. If you guys got ideas for more fusions in the future, don't be shy to suggest. Sorry coldblue that I didn't use much of your suggestions when it came to fusion with Pearl but this kind of stuck with me more. Some of you also suggested multiple arms when it comes to fusing but personally, I felt the whole more than two arm bit a little played out. I don't know if it's because the show had many fusion characters have multiple arms, or it's that I don't have much experience writing characters with multiple arms, or what but I still hope you guys like it.
I also wanted to give her a cheery attitude because it kind of brings out the moments of where both Marcus and Pearl are usually happy people. There are moments where Pearl is extremely happy about something and Marcus isn't always a gloomy character.
And if she seems a bit OP… well, it's mostly the situation at hand that determines how good a character is. Case in point: Remember Smoky people? One second Amethyst is getting a beat down and barely doing anything against Jasper… next thing we know, a fusion appears and she's pulling out some slick yoyo combat action, completely wrecking. Plus you guys know how good both Pearl and Marcus are separately. Pearls field of combat from what I can tell are not brute strength but rather speed, intelligence and grace. Marcus is quick movement, tactical cunning and precise striking to either debilitate his opponent or take them out in one hit. I figured these traits for both of them lead up to this special fusion who's both very powerful, very fast and who's mind can process things a lot faster than nearly anyone, AKA, the bullet deflections.
Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and wish you all a good Christmas as well.
As always, have fun reading.
