Mika: So that last chapter was all leading up to this: the 0016 twins come
in. Now that you've met everyone, we need to have them fight. You'll see
how I do for my first battle. I bet it'll suck...
009: Mika doesn't own any of the cyborgs under and at 009.
Mika: *kisses 009*
Mika's real boyfriend: stalker.
Mika: I AM NOT A STALKER!!! *tries to kick him*
Boyfriend's friend: *gets kicked instead and jumps around*
~@~@~@~@~
Sapphire saw two streaks coming toward them in the south. It wasn't part of Spinel's storm. They had just finished cleaning that mess up. One streak was black and the other was blue. Francoise saw it, too, and alerted everyone of it.
"So what do we do?" Alex asked. She was panting for breath, since she had been out flying to see if what Sapphire and Francoise was true. Unfortunately, it was. The two streaks turned out to be the 0016 twins on zoom-cam. "They're going to be here in a matter of hours."
"So we suit up and go meet them." Said Albert. Britain nodded in approval. "We fight them and win back those three. Unless you have a different plan."
[I'm going to try contact with them.] Ivan told them. He tried to slip past the firewalls guarding their minds. Ivan couldn't manage it. [It's too strong.]
"Damn." Sapphire said. She walked to the infirmary to see if she could do something. Aquamarine's eyes were still wide open in their blank stare. Then a voice made contact with her.
[Sapphire? Sapphire, is it really you?] it was Zircon's voice. Looking at Zircon, Sapphire saw a faint crown of stars surrounding her head.
[I hear you loud and clear, Zircon. Can you tell me anything about 0016?] Sapphire asked Zircon. The crown of stars became brighter.
[First off, we need a favor. We need you to try and access us alone.] Zircon said.
[Already tried at least five times. We couldn't get in.] Sapphire told her, sounding dismayed. [Tell me why there's a crown of stars around your head.]
[Oh, that. I tried to call upon one of the constellations to pull us out of here. I wonder if I really have magic?] Zircon told Sapphire. Then another voice entered the conversation.
[Has 0016 arrived yet?] an exhausted Aquamarine asked. [Diamond's in here, but her magic is all gone. I tried to call upon the water but I couldn't.]
[They haven't come yet.] Sapphire said. She heard a scream. [Change that. They have.]
~@~@~@~
Mika hovered over the Dolphin. Two new people were there, both who looked like Diamond. But neither was the real Diamond; for the real Diamond was trapped inside her own mind.
She sighed. It would be very soon that there would be fighting, so she got ready. Surrounding herself in a bluish-purplish-pinkish bubble, she folded her wings up and sat down inside the bubble. To the outside world, unless they had her color magic, she was invisible.
~@~@~@~
"Well, what now?" Zircon asked Aquamarine.
"I don't know." Aquamarine told her, sinking to the floor. "I can't do anything more. If this is magic, then mine's all gone. I can't do anything."
"I'll try to summon another constellation." Zircon said, but not with much confidence. The crown of stars on her real head shone. Zircon was actually doing it. "Now I just need to find a way around the system."
~@~@~@~
In the outside world, specifically in space, the constellation Libra was awakened. Retaining her human form, she stretched. It had been a very long, long time since she had been able to move. Libra began to head down to Earth.
~@~@~@~
Both of the 0016 twins had decided on early sabotage. Sapphire had been so alarmed; she had shot a very large beam of energy at Garnet. Garnet, wanting to protect herself, broke through one of the kitchen walls. Joe looked at them curse at one another and shrugged. It wasn't going to do any good if he wasted energy on them.
"Ready, 009?" Peridot asked him sarcastically.
"Yeah, I suppose I am." Joe said. This wasn't going to be very much fun.
Alex kicked Jet hard in the shins. He turned around to kick her back, but she was gone. "Where are you and why'd you do that?" he demanded. A hard hit on his head told him that Alex was on the ceiling. "Oh, very funny."
She sprang down and kept walking, but didn't bother to tell Jet why she'd kicked him. Really, it was because he had been being a jerk to her. Kicking him hard was fun to do, and besides, it would get his anger flowing. Alex began to laugh. She jumped up and out of the Dolphin so she could have a go at 0016.
~@~@~@~
Zircon sat there, stunned with herself. Libra was in the outside world, working to get them out. She had already successfully gotten Aquamarine out, so now she worked on Zircon.
[I've got you. Now let me pull you out, or you'll be trapped in there forever.] Libra told Zircon. With one great surge of energy flowing through Zircon, her eyes snapped open. Libra smiled "Now would you help me with Diamond?" she asked.
"You bet." Said Zircon. Both girls moved over to where Diamond was laying and grabbed one another's hands. In Aquamarine's vision, she saw threads connecting their hands. Libra said some inaudible words, then looked at Zircon. Zircon, who was facing upward, shot a silver jet of something at Diamond.
Diamond woke up, but unlike Zircon, didn't hop up. She lay there, blinking. "I feel... Diamonds?" she asked herself. "0016!" she shouted, realizing what was going on. She tore out of the room, still in her outfit from earlier {you know, the denim skirt, black top, yeah}. Zircon and Aquamarine walked out behind her, Libra following. Libra was ready to return to her home in the skies.
~@~@~@~
"I'M TIRED OF SITTING HERE AND WATCHING ALEX KICK ASS! I HAVE TO KICK SOME TOO!" Topaz yelled, storming outside. Unaware that she had just set a fire in her hair, she climbed up and out. Aquamarine walked in with Zircon and Libra with her.
"What was that all about?" Aquamarine asked.
"She needed to get her share of fighting. You know how her personality is; you're the one who's gotten her to be this way." Emerald said, in a very dry voice that was devoid of all emotion.
"Well, I'm going too." Aquamarine announced. "I'll see you later."
"I suppose if they're going, I will too." Jade said.
"Count me in then." Jet said. "I agree with that Topaz person. It's too hard to sit here and watch."
[We may as well all go out, except 001, 003 and Emerald.] Sapphire said. [Besides, then you don't have to send me all your mental problems. It gets annoying after awhile, you know.]
"See you later then, Zircon." Libra said, walking outside. She closed her eyes and vanished. Zircon watched in amazement. She was that she had actually met a constellation.
~@~@~@~
Outside, Topaz was sending what looked like a flame tornado at a person with blue hair. She cursed as she missed her target. Spinel walked over to her to help. Together, they managed to start a very large tornado, consisting only of fire and heat. The blue-haired person was gone, but Joe met her halfway to her destination.
She quickly sent him flying with a hard whap in the stomach.
Jet found Alex and handed her a pistol. She grinned. "I'm sorry for earlier, 002. I was just in a bad mood because... well, because." She told him, then blushed. Jet became red and flew off.
Aquamarine had caught up with the 0016 twin with black hair. Clenching her fists, she started a tsunami. As she let her fists go, a large barrier grew up around everyone. The 0016 saw the opportunity to escape, and she did with the help of her acceleration switch.
[Aquamarine? Am I seeing double, or are there two 0016s?] Topaz mentally asked Aquamarine.
[They both look like Diamond if you use zoom-cam] Alex told them.
[You're right! I guess Black Ghost made replicas of Diamond.] Aquamarine said.
[It looks that way.] Topaz said, then broke off. Both of them had come back around after trying to penetrate the barrier.
[HOLD THEM OF THAT!] Diamond told everyone. [It's hard enough to maintain it without them trying to break it.]
Alex drew her pistol. It wasn't the one that 002 had given her; it was one that she'd found earlier when she had been exploring the Dolphin. Pointing it at the 0016 with black hair, she shot. It hit her smack in the back of the head.
The 0016 with blue hair flew up to meet Alex. A heated battle began, which ended in Alex dropping at least 100 feet into the ocean. All the 0016 did was laugh. Jet went up in Alex's place, only to meet the same fate.
Sapphire caught him with a psychic bubble. He became very red in a very short amount of time.
[I'll see you later, Jet.] she said, then ran to meet the black-haired 0016. {ok, from now on, I'm calling blue hair 0016b and black hair b0016. So black is before and blue is after.}
~@~@~@~
Mika watched. This was getting to be interesting, but not interesting enough to keep her interested. She pulled out a copy of Harry Potter.
~@~@~@~@~
INTERMISSION [actually, it's because of something I forgot to mention in the last last chapter...]
From chapter 8...
*- Once I finish this story, I'm going to write up my one big huge story. So when Alex says she has a portion of power over the earth, it means she has to share it with a goddess. Not that you won't meet the goddesses. Spinel, too, has to share her power with a goddess, like Jade. I think you can guess that Aquamarine has hardly any power over water, despite what you've seen. The whole fic is based around Poke'mon. Hey, I've been a fan since I was seven. That story also has the gem girls in it, plus Mika... so get ready when it comes!
002: like after spring break?
Mika: *runs after 002 with a chainsaw*
Ticket dude: intermission's over!
~@~@~@~@~
Turquoise was having the time of her life. She and 0016b were engaged in a particularly violent hand-to-hand battle. Turquoise, as usual, was doing her martial arts dance kind of thing. Today, she had added the classical elbow in, plus slapping. By any means necessary was she going to win.
With b0016 were the rest of the cyborg team, minus Jet and Alex. They were lying in a crumpled heap next to the Dolphin. Peridot was now fighting b0016 in acceleration mode. Albert could tell it was over when someone was rammed against the Dolphin and fell into the growing pile of defeated cyborgs. He unhinged his knee and fired a missile. b0016 turned around and caught it. Albert fired the other two, and she managed to catch them both.
[Oh shit. I need help, as in I NEED HELP NOW!!] Turquoise's voice told them all, sounding urgent. Opal raced over to help Turquoise. It wasn't a very pretty picture when she got there. Turquoise's face had a large gash running down the right cheek, one of her ears had been cut almost in two, and her arms and legs had innumerable amounts of cuts and bruises. 0016b was standing over her, laughing.
~@~@~@~
Francoise, too, saw the battered Turquoise. She let out a small scream of terror.
"What's up, 003?" Emerald asked. Her voice was little more than a whisper. There was no need for Francoise to respond.
[Emerald! We need you! Four people are down, and we could use your healing.] Opal told her.
"I'll be back soon, 003." Emerald said, grabbing a pistol. She dashed out, seeing a pile of three people, two being her sisters. Instantly, she healed them. It wasn't like she couldn't do it.
Soon, Opal came dashing over with Turquoise. Turquoise could hardly support herself, let alone fight. Emerald engulfed her with a wave of green flames, and soon, her injuries were things of the past. Turquoise grinned, then ran back to seek revenge. Opal tailed her, and Emerald decided to go with them. She had no clue what in the world 0016 was like.
Emerald and Opal pulled out their pistols. They found places to hide while Turquoise went at 0016b. It was almost worse: after about three minutes, Turquoise was down. Emerald found that it wouldn't be very helpful if she healed Turquoise again. Amethyst came over holding a laser gun.
Sapphire was helping Diamond maintain the solid diamond shield, but it wasn't working very well. Diamond had gotten frustrated and let it down. Focusing her powers elsewhere, a diamond snake came up and out of the ground. Sapphire wandered off to help the three who were fighting 0016b.
b0016 wasn't giving it very much, but she had managed to chase Jet out of the skies again. Albert was giving her every single weapon in his body, but they didn't seem to affect her in any way. Either b0016 would dodge them, catch them, or hurl them right back at him.
[Mind giving me a little help, Alex?] Sapphire asked Alex, who was being chased by b0016. [It'll be easier than what you're doing right now.] she added.
[Be right there. Just let me tell the others.] Alex told her. [I need to go help Sapphire, 004. I'll be back as soon as I can.]
With that, she flew off. As soon as she was gone, it was open season on b0016. Now that they didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting Alex, it was fine to just randomly shoot. They had a new fear, however, when a gigantic diamond snake came out of the ground. It went straight up, aiming for b0016. When Morgan zoomed in on it, she saw Diamond was riding it.
"DON'T SHOOT IT! DIAMOND'S ON IT!" Morgan yelled. She suddenly disappeared and reappeared on the snake with Diamond. Diamond grinned and continued skyward. Unfortunately, b0016 caught sight of them just in time before she was swallowed. Morgan cursed and contacted Coral.
[Coral, I need a gun.] she said. No sooner than she had said it, than there was a rifle in her hand. She aimed at b0016 and fired.
Her shot struck b0016 dead in the head. But b0016 just kept moving. And not in any old direction. It was headed straight for Diamond.
~@~@~@~
Mika saw it. It was now or never, she thought. Calling her magic, she hurled it at b0016. This time, there was no problem with it being defeated.
Only thing, Mika was out cold. It was fine for her, since she didn't need to be home for awhile.
~@~@~@~
"Who did that?" Alex asked, landing. "It certainly wasn't me."
[Beats me,] Sapphire told her; [I'm with Emerald.]
Just then, 0016b launched herself into the sky. Amethyst let the laser beam fly, but missed by a long shot. Aquamarine saw, and danced over to Turquoise.
[Coral, can I have a boom box?] she asked, taking the CD out of Turquoise's portable CD player. It turned out she was listen to Shakira again. The boom box came out of thin air, and Aquamarine wasted no time popping the CD into it.
[Oh boy, now we have Aquamarine and the freak circus.] Sapphire said blankly.
[Shut up, Sapphire. You haven't even seen yet.] Aquamarine told her, sounding ticked. She pressed the 'PLAY' button and backflipped up to the top of the Dolphin. From there, she placed one foot behind the other and held her arms out for balance. The song began to play.
[You're going to fall!] Spinel told her, sounding alarmed.
[That's the idea,] Aquamarine said, then fell. But she didn't begin to drown. Instead, a thing quite the opposite happened.
With her previous stance, Aquamarine was doing something between flying and running. It was very fast, but she wasn't moving her legs. Suddenly, 0016b jumped in front of her. Aquamarine flung her arms up, and a large water bubble came around her. Topaz noticed that Aquamarine had fallen, but she didn't know that she was alright.
Calling upon fire, Topaz sent it into a whirlwind at 0016b. Spinel, too, wanted to help Aquamarine. She called rain, hail, and snow out of the clouds. From in the water, a tsunami was growing.
[Explanation of the wacky weather?] Britain asked, looked confused. All three smiled and continued on.
[They're trying to hog the spotlight.] Ruby said.
[I agree.] Garnet added. [What'd ya say? Go and put Aquamarine straight?]
"Count us in." Joe, G. Junior, Chang, and Pyunma said in unison.
"Then let's go!" Ruby exclaimed, running out to where 0016b was. "We don't have eternity, y'know."
~@~@~@~@~
Mika: that has to be the longest update ever!
009: I see you can't even finish a battle scene....
Mika: I decided to hold off on you and split the chapter up!
009: so this is chapter 10, part one?
Mika: yup! So I'll be seeing you all in chapter ten, part two!
002: or in Mikaspeak, whenever the hell I feel like it.
Mika: *continues to chase 002 with a chainsaw*
009: Mika doesn't own any of the cyborgs under and at 009.
Mika: *kisses 009*
Mika's real boyfriend: stalker.
Mika: I AM NOT A STALKER!!! *tries to kick him*
Boyfriend's friend: *gets kicked instead and jumps around*
~@~@~@~@~
Sapphire saw two streaks coming toward them in the south. It wasn't part of Spinel's storm. They had just finished cleaning that mess up. One streak was black and the other was blue. Francoise saw it, too, and alerted everyone of it.
"So what do we do?" Alex asked. She was panting for breath, since she had been out flying to see if what Sapphire and Francoise was true. Unfortunately, it was. The two streaks turned out to be the 0016 twins on zoom-cam. "They're going to be here in a matter of hours."
"So we suit up and go meet them." Said Albert. Britain nodded in approval. "We fight them and win back those three. Unless you have a different plan."
[I'm going to try contact with them.] Ivan told them. He tried to slip past the firewalls guarding their minds. Ivan couldn't manage it. [It's too strong.]
"Damn." Sapphire said. She walked to the infirmary to see if she could do something. Aquamarine's eyes were still wide open in their blank stare. Then a voice made contact with her.
[Sapphire? Sapphire, is it really you?] it was Zircon's voice. Looking at Zircon, Sapphire saw a faint crown of stars surrounding her head.
[I hear you loud and clear, Zircon. Can you tell me anything about 0016?] Sapphire asked Zircon. The crown of stars became brighter.
[First off, we need a favor. We need you to try and access us alone.] Zircon said.
[Already tried at least five times. We couldn't get in.] Sapphire told her, sounding dismayed. [Tell me why there's a crown of stars around your head.]
[Oh, that. I tried to call upon one of the constellations to pull us out of here. I wonder if I really have magic?] Zircon told Sapphire. Then another voice entered the conversation.
[Has 0016 arrived yet?] an exhausted Aquamarine asked. [Diamond's in here, but her magic is all gone. I tried to call upon the water but I couldn't.]
[They haven't come yet.] Sapphire said. She heard a scream. [Change that. They have.]
~@~@~@~
Mika hovered over the Dolphin. Two new people were there, both who looked like Diamond. But neither was the real Diamond; for the real Diamond was trapped inside her own mind.
She sighed. It would be very soon that there would be fighting, so she got ready. Surrounding herself in a bluish-purplish-pinkish bubble, she folded her wings up and sat down inside the bubble. To the outside world, unless they had her color magic, she was invisible.
~@~@~@~
"Well, what now?" Zircon asked Aquamarine.
"I don't know." Aquamarine told her, sinking to the floor. "I can't do anything more. If this is magic, then mine's all gone. I can't do anything."
"I'll try to summon another constellation." Zircon said, but not with much confidence. The crown of stars on her real head shone. Zircon was actually doing it. "Now I just need to find a way around the system."
~@~@~@~
In the outside world, specifically in space, the constellation Libra was awakened. Retaining her human form, she stretched. It had been a very long, long time since she had been able to move. Libra began to head down to Earth.
~@~@~@~
Both of the 0016 twins had decided on early sabotage. Sapphire had been so alarmed; she had shot a very large beam of energy at Garnet. Garnet, wanting to protect herself, broke through one of the kitchen walls. Joe looked at them curse at one another and shrugged. It wasn't going to do any good if he wasted energy on them.
"Ready, 009?" Peridot asked him sarcastically.
"Yeah, I suppose I am." Joe said. This wasn't going to be very much fun.
Alex kicked Jet hard in the shins. He turned around to kick her back, but she was gone. "Where are you and why'd you do that?" he demanded. A hard hit on his head told him that Alex was on the ceiling. "Oh, very funny."
She sprang down and kept walking, but didn't bother to tell Jet why she'd kicked him. Really, it was because he had been being a jerk to her. Kicking him hard was fun to do, and besides, it would get his anger flowing. Alex began to laugh. She jumped up and out of the Dolphin so she could have a go at 0016.
~@~@~@~
Zircon sat there, stunned with herself. Libra was in the outside world, working to get them out. She had already successfully gotten Aquamarine out, so now she worked on Zircon.
[I've got you. Now let me pull you out, or you'll be trapped in there forever.] Libra told Zircon. With one great surge of energy flowing through Zircon, her eyes snapped open. Libra smiled "Now would you help me with Diamond?" she asked.
"You bet." Said Zircon. Both girls moved over to where Diamond was laying and grabbed one another's hands. In Aquamarine's vision, she saw threads connecting their hands. Libra said some inaudible words, then looked at Zircon. Zircon, who was facing upward, shot a silver jet of something at Diamond.
Diamond woke up, but unlike Zircon, didn't hop up. She lay there, blinking. "I feel... Diamonds?" she asked herself. "0016!" she shouted, realizing what was going on. She tore out of the room, still in her outfit from earlier {you know, the denim skirt, black top, yeah}. Zircon and Aquamarine walked out behind her, Libra following. Libra was ready to return to her home in the skies.
~@~@~@~
"I'M TIRED OF SITTING HERE AND WATCHING ALEX KICK ASS! I HAVE TO KICK SOME TOO!" Topaz yelled, storming outside. Unaware that she had just set a fire in her hair, she climbed up and out. Aquamarine walked in with Zircon and Libra with her.
"What was that all about?" Aquamarine asked.
"She needed to get her share of fighting. You know how her personality is; you're the one who's gotten her to be this way." Emerald said, in a very dry voice that was devoid of all emotion.
"Well, I'm going too." Aquamarine announced. "I'll see you later."
"I suppose if they're going, I will too." Jade said.
"Count me in then." Jet said. "I agree with that Topaz person. It's too hard to sit here and watch."
[We may as well all go out, except 001, 003 and Emerald.] Sapphire said. [Besides, then you don't have to send me all your mental problems. It gets annoying after awhile, you know.]
"See you later then, Zircon." Libra said, walking outside. She closed her eyes and vanished. Zircon watched in amazement. She was that she had actually met a constellation.
~@~@~@~
Outside, Topaz was sending what looked like a flame tornado at a person with blue hair. She cursed as she missed her target. Spinel walked over to her to help. Together, they managed to start a very large tornado, consisting only of fire and heat. The blue-haired person was gone, but Joe met her halfway to her destination.
She quickly sent him flying with a hard whap in the stomach.
Jet found Alex and handed her a pistol. She grinned. "I'm sorry for earlier, 002. I was just in a bad mood because... well, because." She told him, then blushed. Jet became red and flew off.
Aquamarine had caught up with the 0016 twin with black hair. Clenching her fists, she started a tsunami. As she let her fists go, a large barrier grew up around everyone. The 0016 saw the opportunity to escape, and she did with the help of her acceleration switch.
[Aquamarine? Am I seeing double, or are there two 0016s?] Topaz mentally asked Aquamarine.
[They both look like Diamond if you use zoom-cam] Alex told them.
[You're right! I guess Black Ghost made replicas of Diamond.] Aquamarine said.
[It looks that way.] Topaz said, then broke off. Both of them had come back around after trying to penetrate the barrier.
[HOLD THEM OF THAT!] Diamond told everyone. [It's hard enough to maintain it without them trying to break it.]
Alex drew her pistol. It wasn't the one that 002 had given her; it was one that she'd found earlier when she had been exploring the Dolphin. Pointing it at the 0016 with black hair, she shot. It hit her smack in the back of the head.
The 0016 with blue hair flew up to meet Alex. A heated battle began, which ended in Alex dropping at least 100 feet into the ocean. All the 0016 did was laugh. Jet went up in Alex's place, only to meet the same fate.
Sapphire caught him with a psychic bubble. He became very red in a very short amount of time.
[I'll see you later, Jet.] she said, then ran to meet the black-haired 0016. {ok, from now on, I'm calling blue hair 0016b and black hair b0016. So black is before and blue is after.}
~@~@~@~
Mika watched. This was getting to be interesting, but not interesting enough to keep her interested. She pulled out a copy of Harry Potter.
~@~@~@~@~
INTERMISSION [actually, it's because of something I forgot to mention in the last last chapter...]
From chapter 8...
*- Once I finish this story, I'm going to write up my one big huge story. So when Alex says she has a portion of power over the earth, it means she has to share it with a goddess. Not that you won't meet the goddesses. Spinel, too, has to share her power with a goddess, like Jade. I think you can guess that Aquamarine has hardly any power over water, despite what you've seen. The whole fic is based around Poke'mon. Hey, I've been a fan since I was seven. That story also has the gem girls in it, plus Mika... so get ready when it comes!
002: like after spring break?
Mika: *runs after 002 with a chainsaw*
Ticket dude: intermission's over!
~@~@~@~@~
Turquoise was having the time of her life. She and 0016b were engaged in a particularly violent hand-to-hand battle. Turquoise, as usual, was doing her martial arts dance kind of thing. Today, she had added the classical elbow in, plus slapping. By any means necessary was she going to win.
With b0016 were the rest of the cyborg team, minus Jet and Alex. They were lying in a crumpled heap next to the Dolphin. Peridot was now fighting b0016 in acceleration mode. Albert could tell it was over when someone was rammed against the Dolphin and fell into the growing pile of defeated cyborgs. He unhinged his knee and fired a missile. b0016 turned around and caught it. Albert fired the other two, and she managed to catch them both.
[Oh shit. I need help, as in I NEED HELP NOW!!] Turquoise's voice told them all, sounding urgent. Opal raced over to help Turquoise. It wasn't a very pretty picture when she got there. Turquoise's face had a large gash running down the right cheek, one of her ears had been cut almost in two, and her arms and legs had innumerable amounts of cuts and bruises. 0016b was standing over her, laughing.
~@~@~@~
Francoise, too, saw the battered Turquoise. She let out a small scream of terror.
"What's up, 003?" Emerald asked. Her voice was little more than a whisper. There was no need for Francoise to respond.
[Emerald! We need you! Four people are down, and we could use your healing.] Opal told her.
"I'll be back soon, 003." Emerald said, grabbing a pistol. She dashed out, seeing a pile of three people, two being her sisters. Instantly, she healed them. It wasn't like she couldn't do it.
Soon, Opal came dashing over with Turquoise. Turquoise could hardly support herself, let alone fight. Emerald engulfed her with a wave of green flames, and soon, her injuries were things of the past. Turquoise grinned, then ran back to seek revenge. Opal tailed her, and Emerald decided to go with them. She had no clue what in the world 0016 was like.
Emerald and Opal pulled out their pistols. They found places to hide while Turquoise went at 0016b. It was almost worse: after about three minutes, Turquoise was down. Emerald found that it wouldn't be very helpful if she healed Turquoise again. Amethyst came over holding a laser gun.
Sapphire was helping Diamond maintain the solid diamond shield, but it wasn't working very well. Diamond had gotten frustrated and let it down. Focusing her powers elsewhere, a diamond snake came up and out of the ground. Sapphire wandered off to help the three who were fighting 0016b.
b0016 wasn't giving it very much, but she had managed to chase Jet out of the skies again. Albert was giving her every single weapon in his body, but they didn't seem to affect her in any way. Either b0016 would dodge them, catch them, or hurl them right back at him.
[Mind giving me a little help, Alex?] Sapphire asked Alex, who was being chased by b0016. [It'll be easier than what you're doing right now.] she added.
[Be right there. Just let me tell the others.] Alex told her. [I need to go help Sapphire, 004. I'll be back as soon as I can.]
With that, she flew off. As soon as she was gone, it was open season on b0016. Now that they didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting Alex, it was fine to just randomly shoot. They had a new fear, however, when a gigantic diamond snake came out of the ground. It went straight up, aiming for b0016. When Morgan zoomed in on it, she saw Diamond was riding it.
"DON'T SHOOT IT! DIAMOND'S ON IT!" Morgan yelled. She suddenly disappeared and reappeared on the snake with Diamond. Diamond grinned and continued skyward. Unfortunately, b0016 caught sight of them just in time before she was swallowed. Morgan cursed and contacted Coral.
[Coral, I need a gun.] she said. No sooner than she had said it, than there was a rifle in her hand. She aimed at b0016 and fired.
Her shot struck b0016 dead in the head. But b0016 just kept moving. And not in any old direction. It was headed straight for Diamond.
~@~@~@~
Mika saw it. It was now or never, she thought. Calling her magic, she hurled it at b0016. This time, there was no problem with it being defeated.
Only thing, Mika was out cold. It was fine for her, since she didn't need to be home for awhile.
~@~@~@~
"Who did that?" Alex asked, landing. "It certainly wasn't me."
[Beats me,] Sapphire told her; [I'm with Emerald.]
Just then, 0016b launched herself into the sky. Amethyst let the laser beam fly, but missed by a long shot. Aquamarine saw, and danced over to Turquoise.
[Coral, can I have a boom box?] she asked, taking the CD out of Turquoise's portable CD player. It turned out she was listen to Shakira again. The boom box came out of thin air, and Aquamarine wasted no time popping the CD into it.
[Oh boy, now we have Aquamarine and the freak circus.] Sapphire said blankly.
[Shut up, Sapphire. You haven't even seen yet.] Aquamarine told her, sounding ticked. She pressed the 'PLAY' button and backflipped up to the top of the Dolphin. From there, she placed one foot behind the other and held her arms out for balance. The song began to play.
[You're going to fall!] Spinel told her, sounding alarmed.
[That's the idea,] Aquamarine said, then fell. But she didn't begin to drown. Instead, a thing quite the opposite happened.
With her previous stance, Aquamarine was doing something between flying and running. It was very fast, but she wasn't moving her legs. Suddenly, 0016b jumped in front of her. Aquamarine flung her arms up, and a large water bubble came around her. Topaz noticed that Aquamarine had fallen, but she didn't know that she was alright.
Calling upon fire, Topaz sent it into a whirlwind at 0016b. Spinel, too, wanted to help Aquamarine. She called rain, hail, and snow out of the clouds. From in the water, a tsunami was growing.
[Explanation of the wacky weather?] Britain asked, looked confused. All three smiled and continued on.
[They're trying to hog the spotlight.] Ruby said.
[I agree.] Garnet added. [What'd ya say? Go and put Aquamarine straight?]
"Count us in." Joe, G. Junior, Chang, and Pyunma said in unison.
"Then let's go!" Ruby exclaimed, running out to where 0016b was. "We don't have eternity, y'know."
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Mika: that has to be the longest update ever!
009: I see you can't even finish a battle scene....
Mika: I decided to hold off on you and split the chapter up!
009: so this is chapter 10, part one?
Mika: yup! So I'll be seeing you all in chapter ten, part two!
002: or in Mikaspeak, whenever the hell I feel like it.
Mika: *continues to chase 002 with a chainsaw*