Chapter 2 - "Love like you."
a long time ago, the earth was being colonized by an alien empire, being harvest for its resources, there was one alien that didn't like this though, her name is "Rose Quartz"
she realized how beautiful earth is compared to other planets, how much life it has, she tried to talk to the one in charge, Pink Diamond,
but she refused to listen, continuing the colonization, Rose couldn't stand this...
SO SHE STARTED A REBELLION!
"the end!" Amethyst yawns, "damn, that was a lot of words."
"wait what?" Connie asks, kind of disappointed, "but there's way more! right?"
Amethyst gets up, "duh, of course, but I'm too lazy to list all of em, just go ask Pearl"
Amethyst smirked like an idiot, "she'll GLADLY tell you all of it."
"as if I haven't tried that." Connie mutters, she really did,
"well, it was good talking to you, see you later!" Connie gets up, they both wave at each other, "see ya later, dude!" Amethyst says.
and Connie thinks to herself, where is rose quartz right now?
in a floating island, high above the ground, Rose Quartz was sitting down on the ledge, thinking to herself, "it doesn't make sense, all the others were fine with it, so why did he...",
Pearl came to give her company, sat down with her, "you're still thinking about him?"
Rose turns to face the opposite direction, "N-No.", a moment of silence passes by,
"..."
"yes."
Pearl grows a slight frown, "but why? he's just a human! just like all the others!"
"Yeah, but something about him... he understood me, you know? like, I related to him in a way-"
Pearl got up and tried her best to avoid looking at Rose in the face, "We'll talk when you stop repeating yourself."
Pearl walked over to a crystal-looking platform, she stands on it and closes her eyes, causing the platform to glow a beacon.
Rose sighs, "she'll never understand..."
Pearl warped to a beach shore-looking place, with a giant temple on it, the temple base.
"how'd the talk with your girlfriend go?" Spinel greets her, "not very well, I'm guessing?"
"No, she's still not over him." Pearl sighs, "she's just repeating herself."
"why can't she just get over it, bro?" Amethyst comes in, lies down on a rock.
"doesn't matter right now, I guess." Spinel stretches herself,
"Garnet's expecting us to search for more Gems today, so let's just do that."
"Fine."
Pearl and Spinel head off back to the crystal platform and warp away, while Amethyst is lying down, unsure what to do.
"Ugh, you know what?" she thinks, "I'm gonna go tell Rose myself, I bet Pearl barely said anything."
a moment of silence passes again.
"hey"
Amethyst flinches and turns around in an instant, she never heard a voice like that before
"Is this the crystal gems base?"
Amethyst looks around and sees a person with a gem in their eye, "wh- are you a gem?"
"yes, I am Mystic Quartz. is this the crystal gems base?" Mystic asks again
"You're probably a Homeworld gem!" Amethyst summons her whip from within her gem, "and I ain't tell you nothing!"
Amethyst tries to get a bunch of hits on mystic, but missed most shots.
"why is she attacking me?" the Homeworld-er thinks to herself, "wait, she's a crystal gem."
Mystic lifts her left arm up at the sky, making the rock on her where her left eye would be glow and causing a bunch of crystal-looking vines to grow out of the ground,
they wrap around Amethyst and fling her to the temple's walls.
"where are the others?" Mystic asks, calmly.
Amethyst gets up, shaking her head around to remove the sand in her ears, "you can't just ask a question after hitting me!"
Amethyst tries to bait Mystic into attacking her by rolling around, whipping near her, but she doesn't move an inch
"What is she doing?" Amethyst asks herself before Mystic attacks her again and flings her into the sky.
the crystal platform activates, and Rose walks out of the beam,
"ROSE!" Rose looks down to see Amethyst beaten up, "oh my goodness, what happened?"
"This gem is attacking our BASE!" Amethyst points to Mystic,
"But I'm attacking you, not your base." Mystic corrects her.
"How did she get here?" Rose glares at Amethyst, "look I was gonna go talk to you about s-something, I didn't see her!"
"you go and get the others, okay?"
"right!"
Amethyst attempts to run off, but she's blocked by those vines again,
"you can't just run."
Rose pulls out her sword and starts chopping away the vines, "Stop! what do you want from us?"
"oh wait..." the Mystic Quartz stops using the vines,
"you're right, I've got what I needed. sorry."
"SORRY? YOU'RE SORRY?" Amethyst tries to whip her again, but she sinks into the ground before she could do anything.
Rose puts her sword away, sighing, "shoot, if that was actually a Homeworld gem, we're in big trouble."
"ahhh Garnet is gonna yell at me." Amethyst looks down at the floor, "stupid gem!"
Amethyst and Rose had gone inside the temple & group up with Pearl & Spinel, with Amethyst explaining what happened.
"It doesn't make sense!" Amethyst complains, "she just shows up out of nowhere and asks me if this is our base!"
Pearl's eyes widen, "you didn't actually tell her, did you?"
"n-not directly, no."
Pearl grows a face full of worrisome, "what do you mean 'not directly'?"
"uh..."
Spinel tries to break the silence, "do you have an idea on where she could be?"
Amethyst shrugs, "no, she just went *POP* into the ground!"
"and she's gone, just like that." she added.
Pearl begins scratching her head, "well, what gem was she?"
"Mystic Quartz, she was uh, weird."
"I'll go tell Garnet about this." Rose says, getting up
"Rose, can I talk to you about something, like later?" Amethyst almost hesitated to ask.
"Sure!" Rose heads off to the crystal platform.
the rest are left sitting around with anxiety, though Garnet should solve this, it's just one gem, how bad can it be?
very bad, apparently.
Garnet has a special power, future vision, she can see possible future outcomes, however, it doesn't always work...
"she's evading your future vision?"
"Yes." Garnet replies, "she's too unpredictable."
"I don't understand, how did she find us?"
"she was probably searching for a long time... plus we're not exactly 'hidden'." Garnet adds.
"oh... well yeah, right."
"but she didn't seem that... angry, I don't know." Rose adds, "but we shouldn't let our guard down, you keep an eye on the galaxy warp."
Garnet nods, "will do."
the rest are building a fence around the temple, doesn't seem like it would help against the magical aliens, but it'll do.
"How is this gonna help?" Amethyst asks Pearl, exhausted.
"it's gonna keep the humans out, and then we can use an XYZ axis forcefield, to keep the gem out."
"and... how are we gonna get out?"
"Warp pads."
"but HOW am I gonna get food from that fish stew pizza place and stuff?"
Pearl frowned a bit, a lot more internally, "maybe that'll help with your 'food addiction', you DON'T need to eat!"
"I WANT TO DO IT ANYWAY!" Amethyst fires back.
"well too bad!"
"FINE!" Amethyst gets extra pissed, "I'LL GO FIND OTHER THINGS TO EAT, LIKE GARBAGE!"
Amethyst uses a warp pad to leave, she just needs some time to adjust, pearl told herself.
Spinel places her hand on Pearl's shoulders, "can you remind me why we took the fences down the first time?" Pearl could feel Spinel smiling.
"ugh, because of humans like Greg." Pearl replies with disappointment.
"can you tell me why you don't like em?"
"I will if you don't stop talking about this."
"Okay!"
Spinel prepared herself with popcorn.
"like WHY would you want to talk to a human? they don't know a ton of useful information that is needed for survival, and they mess up a lot, they usually leave out fine details in stories too!"
"and they're boring in general." she continues, while Spinel did the "blah-blah" hand gesture.
"I smell a lot of salt." Spinel cracks out a chuckle, "anyway, I'll talk to you later."
Amethyst kicks a rock out of frustration, "can't do anything with Pearl around these days...", "THESE WEEKS!" she adds.
she notices Rose at the corner of her eye, "Oh right, I wanted to talk."
"Hey, Rose!" she greets with an awkward posture, "do you have time to talk?"
"Hello Amethyst!" she greets back, "yes I do, what it is?"
"It's about Greg..."
"oh." She makes space for Amethyst, she sits down next to her.
"do you... miss him?"
"um, not really?"
"huh?" said Amethyst with a surprised look.
"yeah, I guess I just think about what he said about 'it wasn't meant to be' and 'we're too different', like I know he wanted to say something else."
"you seem to miss him though." Rose adds, "you even based your hair off of him."
"Yeah, 'cause it's cool!" Amethyst says with a bit of disappointment, "I just thought you'd miss him, cause he was ya boyfriend or something?"
"you're right." Rose sighs.
"what?"
"I should probably stop thinking about it so much, the past is the past, there are new things ahead of us."
"um, I didn't say anything about that, but yeah! new things..."
"Sorry, I randomly get thoughts like those." she lets out a big smile.
Amethyst warps back to the temple, preparing for the worst, at least Rose has gotten past relationships out of her head... for now.
Rose grabbed a guitar she hid in her giant pink hair and starts playing it...
if I could
begin to be
half of what
you thought of me
I could do about anything
I could even learn
how to love
like you.
