Sorry for not posting for a while, but I have been busy. I'm also sorry that this chapter is not as long as I wanted it to be.
A girl with shoulder length brown hair tied off in to a ponytail walked home with tears in her eyes. "Why do some guys have to be such jerks?" She cursed to herself unlocking the door. She walked up the stairs undisturbed; her parents had gone out for the night. She stepped in to the bathroom and began running water in the shower while she took off her clothes. She stepped inside and let the water wash over her. She was too distracted in her thoughts about what had happened and the sound of the water to hear one of her windows open and five small, red creatures enter the house.
"Humans live in these things. Let's find one." One of them instructed the others who all nodded their heads splitting up to wander the house. Two of them walked in to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. They began throwing food all over the room. "No humans in here!"
Another of them punched the TV and began ripping out components. "No humans in here either!"
The girl stepped out of the shower and dried herself off. She looked in to the mirror to see the brown eyes staring back at her. She sighed returning to her room and changing in to a pair of short shorts and a t-shirt. She heard a loud clanging noise downstairs which made her jump a little as she grabbed the baseball bat from her softball bag. She carefully walked downstairs ready to swing at whatever was down there. "Whoever's down here better get out!"
"Human!" One of the rubies shouted charging at her. She quickly turned around and swung the bat knocking the small creature across the room. "Get her!" Two more of them shouted charging at her. She swung her bat again knocking one of them back. She hit the other one hard enough that the bat was bent as the creature turned in to a gem.
"I've got to get out of here." She dropped the broken bat and ran out of the house in just her pajamas. She ran down the street only turning around occasionally to see the rubies chasing her. They appeared to be growing bigger and fewer in number.
A car pulled up beside her. A boy with black hair and green eyes looked at her panicked expression. She looked at him as he unlocked the door. In her current, distraught state of my mind, she got into the car. "You running from those things too?"
"Yeah." She said letting out a small sigh of relief.
"Five of them broke in to my house."
"Mine too." She said buckling up her seatbelt.
"I'm Colt." He said keeping his eyes focused on the road.
"Jamie." She said looking back to see a much larger ruby chasing after them. The car soon came to a stop. "Why did you stop?"
"Look in front." Colt said pointing to the pair of giant red legs in front of them. "We're cornered." He slammed his head on the steering wheel in frustration. The ruby in the front reached down and flicked the glass shattering the windshield. "My eye!" Colt shouted in pain as blood trickled down his face. He broke out in to a flurry of obscenities and cursing as the car was lifted up and the roof was torn off.
The ruby grabbed the two humans and began walking off. "Humans secured." The two giant rubies chuckled to themselves.
Days later…
Aaron stood at the base of a volcano fully clad in his armor. "This is the place." He reached into the bag on his back and pulled out the blue bubble containing the gem he captured. He walked through a square entrance that was wide open. Inside he could see several old weapons, materials, as well as a few drops of lava dripping into a large vat. He walked around and looked down a large pit to see lava as well as several crushed bits of rock. He walked forward and accidentally bumped a mannequin fully clad in armor. Its arm moved mechanically causing a panel in the wall to open and several lights to flicker on illuminating the once dark hall. Lining the walls were drill tips attached to large mechanisms that appeared to go on the arm. "A great engineer makes a copy. A crazy one builds an arsenal." He picked one off the wall and strapped it to his arm. He aimed it at the air and watched the fast movement of the drill before it retracted. "Time to have my revenge."
He popped the bubble and tossed the gem on to the floor. The gem regained its form and rubbed its eyes. It looked at Aaron who was holding the drill tip to its gem. "Do it." She looked at him coldly. Aaron focused the weapon and watched in the blink of an eye as the gem was reduced to shards. He quickly collected them before tossing them into the lava vat.
"I have to get these things out of here." He walked back through the hall bubbling all of the drill weapons and sending them to his ship. He left the forge and walked up the hill seeing a warp pad. He debated about making the long trip home or walking through the temple. He sighed stepping on to the warp pad. He walked through Steven's house and out the door while everyone simply stared at him.
"Should we be concerned?" Pearl asked.
"Not yet." Garnet said crossing her arms.
Aaron returned to his ship and set to work popping all of the bubbles and packing the weapons into one of his crates that he kept in his room. He put a lock on it for an added layer of security.
Meanwhile…
Jenny and Colt were both sitting in chambers while Peridots assessed their physical states. Two gems were in the chambers adjacent from theirs. The two of them shouted in pain as the Peridots gave them Gem knowledge. "Preparing human female to merge with Amber. Go." One of them said pushing buttons on a panel while Jenny screamed as the gemstone grew on the back of her hand. "Now preparing human male to merge with Chrome Diopside. Go." Colt screamed alongside Jenny as the gemstone filled out his eye socket.
The two hybrids were dragged to the armory where the Bismuth who had dealt with Aaron was waiting. She fit colt in an armor similar to his, but his helmet allowed room for his gem to be seen. Jenny's armor seemed to conform more to her body as opposed to Colt's. Her gem was visible through her gloves.
The two were then sent to the training room. "Show us your power!" A Gem shouted pushing Jenny to the ground. She stood up and punched the Gem to the ground.
"No, your weapon!" Another shouted slamming her to the ground. Colt stood there watching what was happening in disbelief. Jenny calmed herself watching the other Gems pull out weapons of their own. She watched how focused they were. She tried doing the same making a baseball bat materialize in her hand.
"That's a new one." One of the observing Peridots said making notes while the other laughed watching Jenny pummel the other Gems. "Now for the male!" It shouted looking at Colt who was merely observing.
"Jenny, how did you do that?" Colt asked flicking the gem in his eye.
"Focus yourself and stuff happens." She said saving Colt from a charging Gem. Colt took a deep breath and watched as throwing stars materialized in his hands. He began throwing them with a superhuman level of precision. He kept going until the Peridots made him stop.
"Okay, humans, training has to be quick. The Diamonds want you on Earth to shatter the defective one pronto." A door opened which they exited through.
They were led down the hall by Quartz soldiers who led them to a chamber where Yellow Diamond was sitting. She appeared to be analyzing them before she spoke. "Hopefully having two of you will keep the other one out of trouble. Letting an Indigolite go off unsupervised was a poor decision. I have given you two better armor and a better ship. Try not to disappoint me."
"Yes my Diamond." They said in unison. Obedience training was put in to the memory implant after the last experience with Aaron. Jenny and Colt boarded one of the green hand ships. Colt piloted the ship and plotted the course for Earth as the ship left Homeworld.