Things are gonna get crazy people. Fair warning.
Lion runs around the broken pieces of the crashed warship in search for his charge. As he comes upon a peculiar set of rubble, he lets out a roar blast that throws the rubble off its occupants and reveals the pink bubble underneath and its passengers. The bubble disappears and the Crystal Gems plus Steven look out at the wreckage.
"Nice one." Garnet compliments the kid at his quick thinking with the bubble.
"Oh my gosh! I can't believe you're a fusion all the time!" Steven completely ignores the compliment and focuses on the new information he learned when he brought the two Gems together.
"You met Ruby and Sapphire?!" Amethyst asks in surprise. Considering how long they've kept this a secret, her surprise is warranted.
"Oh no! We were going to introduce you. Garnet, your plan!" Pearl replies dejectedly to the fusion. Steven looks up in confusion to the Gem.
"We were waiting for your birthday." Garnet explains.
"We can still do it! I'll just pretend I didn't know!" He offers an alternative for them. However all he does is give them smiles and a chuckle from Amethyst. However his happy demeanor turns to confusion as he remembers one other missing person. "Wait where's Marcus?" He asks while looking around.
"I'm sure he's fine. He's always been a resourceful one in extreme situations." Garnet simply says, not knowing the extent to his condition at the moment.
"Ugh!" A grunt catches their attention as a hand busts through the rubble a little ways away from them.
"Is that him?" Steven innocently asks.
"Auh…" Jasper climbs out of the rubble and tries to walk over to the Gems but she collapses onto her knees. "Don't think you've won."
"Nope." Amethyst pops the 'p' in the word and stands as does the others.
"You only beat me 'cause you're a fusion! If I had someone to fuse with I'd—" Jasper begins to drone on but a slight shift in some more rubble nearby gets hers and everyone's attention. "Huh?"
"Ugh!" Lapis grunts out as she pushes a large piece of stone off of her. She falls to her knees in exhaustion and a stain of blood on her dress. She looks up to see Jasper and everyone else at a standoff before she suddenly remembers. "Oh no!" She gasps out before going back into the rubble and digging. "C'mon c'mon. Where are you? Where are you?!" She frantically says as she begins digging and looking for the person who nearly gave his life for her. As she pulls away another rock, her heart sours as she spots the unconscious face of Marcus. "Oh, Marcus! Don't worry! I'm gonna get you out!" She says as she grabs the large piece of metal overlapping his body and with a grunt of effort, she pulls it off.
Her hands go to her mouth in horror at what she sees. Pearl turns Steven away so he doesn't see.
Marcus lies on the ground with the pipe that impacted his back jutting out his chest, a jagged bent part at the end and the back embedded into the stone behind him. To make matter worse, another piece of metal has lodged itself to the right of his stomach.
He's not moving, nor does it look like his chest is breathing either.
Lapis looks on in horror as she takes a step back.
"Hey!"
"Ah!" She yells out as Jasper grabs her hand.
Everything hurts. It hurts so much I can barely think or move. I can't move and everything is dark.
I can hear voices but I can't tell who they are.
"Ah!"
My eyes shoot open as I hear Lapis's cry of surprise. I try to move but I let out a strangled groan from the pain. My eyes widen as I stare downwards where the source of my pain is. Two piece of metal are jutting out of my chest and stomach and just seeing them there makes the pain flare up even more. The crackling of the fire around me and the pain prevents me from accurately hearing what the others are saying. Jaspers garbled voice makes me angry but it's the picture of seeing her standing next to Lapis with a hand extended to her that makes me confused. When Lapis looks down saddened by something, my ragged breathing hitches as she takes her hand.
'Oh god no… I have to… Fight…' My mind tells me as I try to lift myself off but the pipes in my stomach and chest flare up too much in pain.
The two of them stars moving around and it only takes the first movement for me to recognize a fusion. 'No. Fight…' It gets louder in my head. I grit my teeth as I push forward, more blood coming out.
'Fight!' It almost screams. My teeth grit harder as I slowly crouch up, the pain spiking to new heights with the pipe tearing through my chest.
'FIGHT!' I push forward, the slightly bent part at the front catches me from coming off entirely.
'FIGHT MOTHERFUCKER FIIIIIGHT!'
"RAAAAAAAGHHH!" I scream loudly in both anger and pain as my body comes off the metal. All eyes are instantly turned to me from my voice and go to my feet. Lapis's eyes widen at seeing me stand now. I barely stand on both of my feet from the trauma my body sustained but I push through the excruciating agonizing pain. With firm grunt, I grab the metal in my stomach. "Grah!" I yell as I rip it out. An arterial spray of blood stains the ground in front of me. As I look down at my wounds, I place a hand over my chest as I already feel my failsafe taking effect. However I don't care about myself. "LAPIS!" I yell her name as I look at both Jasper and Lapis together, the both of them are just one move away from completing their fusion. "DON'T… please." I yell first but it then turns to a breathless voice.
"Ma… Marcus." I manage to hear her breathe out my name and it takes me a second to gather myself.
"Don't… don't do this. Please I beg of you please don't do this. Don't go with her." I beg. Fusion isn't my area of expertise, not by a long shot, but I know of its significance. The idea of Lapis and Jasper… "Arrrrr!" I grunt as the last of my wounds start healing. "Just don't!" I yell again and stand firm with my hands clenched. I can feel everyone's eyes on me at seeing my wounds stitch up right before their eyes but I ignore them. "I'm sorry for what I almost did to you on this beach Lapis but please I beg of you! Don't go with her! Please for the love of everything in the universe don't go with her!" I beg of her. Tears are starting to fall from my eyes and everything feels numb. What I became still haunts me and I don't want my actions to be the cause for her to… to leave us. 'She can't… she shouldn't she…'
I can already feel my body starting to shut down.
Lapis stares at me with wide sad eyes. I was something horrible when she came back to earth and now I'm so… broken. She looks down with closed eyes… and I see a trail of tears fall down her face.
She moves close to Jasper and they start glowing.
'Noooo…' My heart breaks at the sight.
My legs start to shake as my body goes limp as I stare at the two of them start changing, molding and mixing together, the sight of it making me feel like hell.
"Marcus!" I barely hear my friends cry out in worry for me as they crowd around me.
"Are you alright?"
"What happened to you?"
"How are you healed?"
The others ask me questions but my mind is focused entirely on the glowing form that's growing bigger and bigger in front of us.
The cackle of laughing diverts their attention from me to the fusion. As the fusion finally solidifies, I'm staring at a tall aqua green creature with six arms, four of which act as legs for the bottom half of her. She stares at us with her four eyes and sneers at us with a twisted smile before she extends her left arm towards the ocean. A large arm of water emerges from the ocean and the fusion smiles at us evilly. 'That's… that's Lapis's power.' I think in anger. I try to clench my fists in anger but their starting to go numb.
"Ha ha ha ha ha- huh?" To everyone's surprise, the water arm summoned out of the water latches onto the fusions arm and turns to a shackle. Another arm of water emerges and grabs her other arm before turning into a shackle as well. "What?" The fusion asks in confusion as to what's going on. Another blast of water hits her in the back and becomes a set of chains that wrap around her chest and neck. "Ughh!" She groans at the resistance as she slowly is dragged towards the ocean. "What are you doing?!" I can make out Jaspers voice in the fusions voice.
"I'm done being everyone's prisoner." My heart is lightly lifted at hearing Lapis's voice. Even more so when I recognize her eyes in the fusions face. "Now you're my prisoner!" She yells defiantly as two more water arms grab the fusions back legs. "And I'm never letting you go!"
The fusion grunts and groans as she is pulled into the ocean by the water until only her upper torso and face are visible. In another moment of defiance by the two, the fusion tries to split but stay rooted together.
"Lapis!" Steven cries out her name.
"Lapis." I breathe out her name weakly as I reach my arm forward for her.
In that moment, the fusion stops struggling and stares at me. Not in the face of Jasper but I can see her. I can see Lapis. "You've saved me once before Marcus… and now you've saved me from the ship crashing. Ngh!" She grunts as Jasper tries to fight but stay firm. "But now I intend to return the favor!" She yells confidently and the two of them are pulled deeper until the fusions face is visible.
'Lapis…'
"Now…" She draws out the word, "Let's stay on this miserable planet… together!" With a final cry, they are sucked underwater. The surface of the water momentarily ripples but turns back to its peaceful state.
We all stare at the spot where our friend and enemy just disappeared too.
"Yikes. They are really bad for each other."
"Huuuaggh!" Garnets offhand comment is followed by me falling to my knees and throwing up in the sand. The others recoil in disgust but it turns to concern as a large chunk of it is stained red.
"Marcus! Are you alright? What's wrong?" Pearl asks in concern.
"C'mon, my joke wasn't that bad."
"I… I will be… alright... soon." I struggle to say as everything begins shutting off. I collapse backwards and the others scramble to make sure I'm alright.
"What do you mean 'soon'?" Amethyst asks as my breathing starts become labored.
"A… day." I manage to breathe out as all feeling in my body disappears and creeps up to my head.
"What?"Steven asks in concern.
"One day… don't worry." I say as my vision begins to blur. "Don't… worry."
My senses all shut down and I'm left in a vast unconscious state.
Wow, sorry people. I went overboard again in terms of this and the last page in comparison. I think I could have chunked them down some of it a bit but… nah. Sorry if the previous chapters a bit much but I guess I just wanted to give this part of the story a hell of way to go out since next is the start of a new season. Right now though I'm also trying to come up with a proper general schedule time for me to work on my chapters and with college work. Already I got the syllabus for all my classes and I'd be lying if I said I'm a little worried about the assignments. It's not about the general content of the assignments that got me worried but more so how much I have to do. Because of that, I'm gonna have to do something I've never done before when it comes to major assignments for my classes:
Do it early.
I am a massive procrastinator when it comes to school work and last semester I had a couple assignments I had all semester to do and I held them off till the very last second. I still did good on them but still. I can't afford to low ball it or be lazy this time around since I was freaking out a majority of the time because of the psychology tests I took. The assignments and projects I would have to do count for a good chunk of my overall grade in the classes so as long as I do good on them, and do alright in the tests, I should pass. That is to say I shouldn't test that theory so I really need to make sure that I don't screw around. I've always given myself needless stress so at this point, I really shouldn't let it. Not with the potential crap I'll have to go through. In that sense, my schedule updates may be in the general time of around a week so that may be the time to expect new chapters.
With that said, I wish you all a good semester of school, and me, luck to you all in general for those of you not in school, and as always,
Have fun reading.
