*CLINK* the last piece snapped into place and the warp pad activated. Instead of the blue-white light that accompanied Gem pads, this light was yellow, and when it faded, four beings stood on the shiny surface.
They could have been mistaken for humans, if they weren't so big, each one the height and build of a Diamond, with their hair being a color match, except for Pink's counterpart, their hair was flame red, and being taller and stockier as well. They had looks of confusion when they saw the two pink gems in front of them, and there were murmurs between them, in no language anyone else understood. They fiddled with a pin on their clothing and soon they were able to be understood.
They explained that eons ago, they created self replicating photonic nanites. Placed in a shell of matter, the first swarm was planted in a star to create the first gem, White Diamond. She emerged with the knowledge to not only create other forms of gems, but other diamonds as well, with a program in place to create three more to spread out over the galaxy and beyond. By now the Gem empire was to have reached the creators home world, not a planet anymore but a large generational ship on the edge of the galaxy. When there was no return within a thousand years of the projected return, the creators sent the heirs to the gem project to find out what was wrong. A quick scan of the Diamonds and Moissanites saw the flaws in the original programming, including the production error that caused the Pink malformations. it was at this point that the beings decided the experiment was a wash and proposed destruction of the present gems, as a galactic sweep found no other coherent gems, Terra's signature being written off as a glitch. With no further explanation, the creators put in codes in a device on their wrists and the ship started making a noise, four lights on the bottom lit up and had a glow very similar to the corruption blast, but they had all four this time, which could mean utter destruction.
Pink put up a Diamond bubble around the eight gems, reinforced with White's bubble, Yellow and Blue found they could not create the same defenses, but Yellow added an electric field to the bubble, and Blue bolstered the Gems emotionally, filling them with pride and joy. The Moissanites also added their own defenses, Pink with fire, Yellow with more electricity, Blue with water, and White with pure light, the hope being that radiation would hurt the organic creators. As protected as they could be, they waited for the blast.
It hit, shattering the bubble, but bouncing away and hitting the warp pad the creators were still standing on. The pad blew up, throwing the creators, frying their devices. This sent the ship careening out of control, and it fell into Homeoworld's core, slowly melting in the plasma like lava. The creators picked themselves off the ground and pulled weapons. White, had a tower shield and lance-like weapon, which fired a light based projectile. Yellow, a set of sai, resembling destablilizers, and wrist mounted tasers. Blue had a device on their hand that shown various lights, when it was tested the gem's emotions went haywire, in the other hand was a whip that they could control the length of. Red, like White had a shield, this one more like Rose's but it changed shape, they also had a sword like Rose's, but along the spine of the blade was a barrel, a flamethrower.
They fought, the creators charging the gems, and engaged the Moissanites first, clearly assuming they had the upper hand. Without weapons, the fight was difficult at first, the gems merely avoiding the attacks as they could, but soon a plan was formed for offence. Pink wrapped the closest enemy in her vines, the thorns immobilizing their victim, and being half photonic, mostly immune to the organic weapons. Blue put her enemy in a bubble, like Lapis would do, giving them enough air to survive, but making it difficult. Yellow stunned her opponent, the electricity freezing the muscles and rendering them unconscious, she picked up the limp giant and threw them into Blue's bubble. White unfortunately, did not have much more than brute strength to use against an organic foe, and so all she did was punch them until they stopped moving, Pink M confirming they were still alive, and bringing them into the fold of her vines.
The diamonds stepped forward, and when all the foes were awake again, questioned what to do next. Yellow and Blue wanted to destroy them, as they we going to be destroyed. But Pink stepped in, she knew shattering gems was wrong, as was destroying organics, at least in the brutal way her sisters were describing. She looked to the Gem matriarch for support, then asked the prisoners, about their age and lifespan. With the information, she proposed keeping them, rather like pets, or cattle. They would die, of old age. White had a similar idea, and hers would be quicker than Pink's but slower than the other. Like Jet, who was formed in with organic components, so shall they make four new gems, and have them incubate in the creators. Yellow M proposed that this was actually an efficient solution, as her Peridot components, and there were a lot, calculated that it wouldn't harm them, just age them faster. The Diamond released a drop of fluid apiece, and shape shifted a finger into an injector. They placed the essence next to the heart of their creator counterparts, and then placed the creators in a cell to be Kept until their gems emerged.