There was a momentary pause between us. The wind blew hard on the rooftop as we looked at each other in the eyes. I didn't know what to do, and I couldn't read her mind for some reason. I knew for sure that she was one of the most dangerous people according to Black Diamond and Bloodstone, so I instantly caught my breath and reached for my two guns, but before I could pull them out, there was a dagger at my neck and another at my stomach. She stared at me with a blank glare as I moved my hands away from my guns. She made her daggers disappear and looked at me oddly.

"I am not who you think I am, Michael" She stated.

"You can turn invisible and summon two daggers" I responded, "That's trademarked to Fluorite, or Florence, I believe"

"She is my mother, a part of me, but not me" She said, "I doubt you would understand"

"I don't-" I said before I felt a presence of someone else. "Someone's-"

She grabbed me again as she covered my mouth and we both became invisible. Another gem landed on the roof with a black Raven on her shoulder. It was none other than the cold-blooded samurai gem in her black and purple kimono, Black Diamond. She looked around with her katana held with both of her hands, ready to fight. I stopped breathing and so did the woman with me.

Black Diamond turned rapidly in different directions with her eyes looking left and right swiftly as she looked around. She closed her eyes, and her raven's eyes began to glow. The Raven looked directly at me even though I was invisible. Through its eyes, it saw both me and the woman, and it looked like I was a hostage. Black Diamond opened her eyes that glowed along with the raven's and was able to see me as well as the woman. Black Diamond dashed towards me and swung her sword diagonally in a way that would almost hit me and would definitely hit the woman.

The woman dodged it simply by leaning her head to the right. She pushed me away from her and reappeared as she crossed her arms and faced Black Diamond. Black Diamond smiled, made her Raven fly away, and continued to swing at her with multiple strikes. Black Diamond's swings were faster than the time that she fought me, so fast that I could only foresee the strikes but not actually see them, but her speed didn't matter. The woman dodged every strike without effort, simply turning her body or leaning left and right. When Black Diamond tried to stab the woman through her stomach, the woman caught it by clapping her hands. The woman pulled it out of Black Diamonds hands and tossed it to the far side of the rooftop.

"Huh, skilled as ever," Black Diamond complimented, "I have gotten better throughout the years as well!"

"You talk as if you know me…" The woman responded.

Black Diamond made her sword disappear from over there and reappear to her hand. She swung it three more times until the woman caught the back of the katana with her hand. She stared at Black Diamond with one normal eye and a gray colored eye. Reading Black Diamond's mind, I could tell she was confused because she thought that the woman would have had two gray eyes.

"I'm not who you're talking about, only her half human child" The woman said, "Her half-human/half-gem fusion child"

"Wait, that is possible?" Black Diamond's smile turned into a shocked expression.

While Black Diamond was off guard, the woman raised her leg and kicked Black Diamond across her face and grabbed the katana out of Black Diamond's hands. The woman continued to kick Black Diamond like a professional martial artist, spinning for a better impact as she kicked, and every kick made a loud crashing kind of sound because they were strong hits. Black Diamond was turned around by one of the kicks, so while Black Diamond's back was turned, the woman kicked the back of Black Diamond's knees and then roundhouse kicked the side of her head. Black Diamond crashed into the ground of the roof next to her, and she slowly tried to get up. The woman waited for her impatiently and seemed very annoyed at her.

Black Diamond got up from the ground, but she didn't seem like she was in any condition to fight for a while. BD was having a hard time trying to look at the woman, and she couldn't stand straight. The woman swept Black Diamond off of her feet with a kick aimed for her legs and stepped on her chest. She pointed Black Diamond's blade at Black Diamond herself and then thrusted through her chest. Black Diamond vanished as well as her sword and turned into her gem. The woman picked up the gem and tossed it to me. She didn't look satisfied with the fight at all.

"If this is all you and the Gem Knights have, then your chances against invading gems are going to be slim to none, Michael" The woman said as she walked off, "Some of them were sort of dealt with by Garnet and two or three others from a disbanded army, but there's another wave coming to a different location to change the tide. They will land somewhere around here in Lakeside town to start the invasion and continue their plans"

And after she said that, she vanished. I could hear her running off the roof and then jumping very high, but then I couldn't hear her anymore. I picked up the black diamond and was about to put it in my pocket until Black Diamond popped out of it again. She had her hand over her face in disappointment, probably because of her failure to win. I sat down from where I was and waited for her to say something.

"So Beryl was right after all," Black Diamond said, "She really did have a half-breed child"

"Beryl? Is she back?" I asked.

"Yes, since this morning after you left on your date with Brea" Black Diamond answered.

"That wasn't a date-"

She ignored me completely. "She left recently to call on some 'old friends' of hers to help her fight off an invasion, but I do not know who they are, and she will be gone for a while. Again"

"What invasion?"

Black Diamond's raven landed on her shoulder and spread its wings wide open. The raven projected a hologram of a gigantic hand. The hand looked like it wasn't ever attached to a whole arm, and it looked mechanical, more like a ship instead.

"What does a hand have to do with an invasion?" I asked.

"This hand you see is actually a large and mechanically advanced ship that could destroy quite a bit of land and is heavily resilient to your earthly weapons" Black Diamond. "Two of them were deployed: One near Beach City a while ago, and the other one has yet to be found. The invasion starting in Beach City failed because our former sisters-in-arms, other gems, had prevailed after boarding the ship; however, if they were to attack us here, more lives would be at stake, and even if the Gem Knights could fight them off, the untrusting humans would attack us for being like them, bringing us into a battle that would inadvertently break our agreement of protecting you with our lives"

Black Diamond began to rant about the war and possibilities of the war, and I was able to semi-understand it all. So people from another planet who are like us but are better than all of us in a physical aspect but are genderless/female are invading, and the chances are that we're screwed, no matter if the government gets involved. Honestly, I could expect something like that happening due to recent events. As if my life wasn't going to get any weirder than it already was…

"How large of an invasion?" I asked, trying to get the only details I can, "How many people are invading?"

"On our end, only two" She answered, "I cannot tell who else"

"Two?" At first, I thought she was being sarcastic, but then I remembered that people like them don't really need so many to take over a planet with their abilities. "You, Bloodstone, and Beryl outnumber them"

"Beryl has left and won't be back for who knows how long, and I know the two people that are coming after us; they're two of the strongest 50 people that I have seen wander our homeworld" She answered, "However, she doesn't have her left arm thanks to that fight you both went through against Star Quartz, dammit"

Black Diamond began to pace back and forth while she was thinking about what to do. I could feel the fear that came from her and could see her moving her shoulders uncomfortably. Her thoughts only included words like 'What to do, what to do'. She stopped pacing and faced me with her head down, and honestly, seeing her like this was a bit annoying, so I walked up to her and placed my hand on her shoulder.

"B.D?" I called.

She looked up to me with tears down her eyes, unsure about what to do about the invasion. I had never seen this side of her before, never. In response, I patted her shoulder twice and then flicked her forehead. She bounced back in shock and covered her forehead while waiting for an explanation, but all I did was shrug and look back at her. She was speechless afterwards.

"What the hell was that for?" She shouted through tears.

"Because this isn't what you should do, never mind that that's not even you" I answered. "If you need to prepare, then prepare, but no one's ready for what's to come, not even me. The scar on my eye proves it"

She stopped crying, but she still looked like she was in distraught of some kind. "How can I prepare?" She asked, "I do not know where to even start"

"Honestly, I don't know" I said as I looked down on the people of the busy streets of the town, "But if you cry and panic your way through it, you'll never be prepared for what comes next, you know? That's how the people who walk on the streets now progress into whatever comes next, whether it's a promotion, a job, deaths, or even if it's just a new friend. I'm not a gem or anything, but doesn't that same kind of rule apply to your kind as well?"

"I...screw self pity" Black Diamond said as she wiped the tears off of her face, "You are right, I will see if there is anything I can do to prevent the invasion from becoming large-scale or if I can stop it entirely" She walked away towards the edge of the roof. "Arigato gozaimasu"

Black Diamond jumped off of the building and landed on her two feet without pain. She blended into the crowd easily despite her appearance and continued to proceed towards the warehouse to regroup with Bloodstone. I sat down and layed my back onto the flat roof. I felt pretty exhausted after that whole half-hour, and I honestly didn't feel like getting up again for a while, especially after rapid changes in altitude. I received a phone call from Brea.

"Hello?" I asked as I answered.

"Um...did someone...die?" She asked without any energy in her voice.

"Unfortunately, and I didn't do it this time" I answered.

"Okay, that's a relief I guess, knowing your combat skills" Brea said as she took a deep breath, but then I heard her gasp again through the phone again, "'This time'?"

"Hold on, I have to go" I said as I hung up the phone.

I proceeded to the edge of the building where I wouldn't see flashing red and blue lights surrounding a crime area and looked down. There was another empty alley that only had a trashcan aligned to the wall and a dark cat that slept on it. I turned around and jumped backwards, and I then grabbed onto the ledge of a boarded window to make sure I didn't fall to my death. I then let go of the ledge and landed on my feet and finally proceeded into blending into the crowd. I held my hand over my jaw and continued to walk, wondering if I was going to be mentioned by the gang members at all.

My phone rang again from an unknown number this time.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Michael, this is Beryl" She responded, "I'll be back soon. I just tried to get help from some of the gems that aren't corrupted and are on our side, but it failed"

"You heard about the invasion as well?"

"Yes, the invasion" She answered with a little bit of hesitation, "I won't lie. You might not survive this. These two people invading are Chrysoprase and Tanzanite, professional fighting gems that I can't beat alone. Not only that, but they will be accompanied by other gems"

"What are they like?"

"One uses a mace, and the other uses a large battleaxe" She answered, "And if we're lucky enough, they won't ask for purple tanzanite's help as well"

"Is she the one with that spiked hammer?" I asked, "Has that gem on her shoulder?"

I heard her gasp through the phone, meaning I was right. "How did you know!?" She shouted as she began to run and talk.

"She was in a friend's memory, and she was looking for me, saying my full name and everything" I answered, "I'm screwed again, aren't I"

"More or less, you are" She answered, "She's a mercenary on homeworld, and if she's asking for your name, you are either a dead person or a person who at least knows something and will be taken in for capture. If you do not know anything, she… she might take your life in exchange"

"Figures"

"Wait, was this a memory of months before you returned?" She asked, "If you're lucky, she had probably left a while ago"

"I could tell that the memory was actually a week or two before I returned, so probably not" I answered, "I just hope no one says my full name until then"

"Okay then, I will see you around, but there was one thing I wanted to say to you before I end this call" She said, it sounded important.

"What was it?" I asked.

"I...on that island, islet, whatever you want to call it, I was only cold because I didn't know if you would be useful or not," She said regretfully, "I was mistaken, so I'm… I'm sorry"

"Not really. I'm still human, weak and all" I answered as a walked, "Am I not?"

She chuckled for 2 seconds, the longest I've ever heard her happy at all. "I'm beginning to doubt even that" She said as she hung up.

I continued to walk with my hand over my jaw, sure that it was broken. As I walked, I looked up news articles on my phone of things that had happened while I was away, and it seemed like nothing important had happened. Only a new building was made and that a new gang had started to form in Lakeside, but I know that the gang won't be doing too much now because of their lost member. At least I hope that's the case, but even if that is, I know that I still have to prepare for the upcoming invasion.

This invasion better be like how invasions are in my games where humans survive and there are minimal damage, but it's not going to be anything like that, is it? Hell…

Authors here!

Mike: Hello, everyone. To those who follow this story, it has been a while, and we apologize.

Damon: Yup, sorry, it's kind of hard to write this story, study for school, and talk to each other from other states to continue this, you know? Especially since Khan left... But we can still do this though because we have to stay determined!

Mike: ...Why was determined underlined?

Damon: I guess it's because we haven't written in a while and also that we don't want people reading this to have a bad time?

Mike: I don't get it, but whatever. Anyway...

KEEP ON WRITING!

P.S, author's notes by us are written by a recording of us after talking, and then we add stuff for fun, get rid of unneeded stuff, etc. Someone asked, so we're answering. -Damon