A/N: Alright, since nobody casted their votes last chapter, I just decided to kill Rodalquilarite anyway. (I know, right?) Well anyway, the next chapter will be the very last one. After this, it's off to Diamonds are Forever and Time of the Season.

Enjoy!

Rodalquilarite could hardly believe what'd just happened to her, but she was determined to hold on until the end... especially for Lemhi and Zoisite. She just managed to pull out her own weapon out of her gem, but with whatever strength was left, it seemed miraculous that she could still even hold it in her hands. Without even thinking, she waved to Lemhi for help.

"Roda?" Lemhi called out when he noticed the cracked gem on her chest. "Roda! Hold on! When this is over, we'll get you out of here!"

"Okay..." she mumbled while trying her damndest not to scream in pain.

Zoisite, meanwhile, did his best to avoid having Garnet curbstomp him into another wall while he shot his eye lasers at Tanzanite and Jade.

"Jade, get behind me!" the blue Gem demanded of the former gladiatress. "I have an idea."

Tanzanite immediately summoned her parasol and told her comrade of the plan to use it as a deflector. Knowing there was no time to argue over whether it would work or not, Jade decided to comply and go along with it. As soon as the next laser came to them, Tanzanite opened her fancy umbrella and began spinning it clockwise while it bounced off the high-energy beams. Suddenly, Carole's sister-in-law Barbra walked in just as the fray was heating up.

"Wha...?" asked the forty-six-year-old skunk-haired Gentile woman while trying to process what was happening in front of her. "I don't even...!"

"Uh, whoever you are," Tanzanite quickly said. "You'll have to leave. We really don't want you to end up murdered."

"Oh no, oh no, I understand completely." Barbra pulled out a handgun and started waving it in front of the Gems. "Alright! You've got thirty seconds before I blow your brains out!" However, when Zoisite glared at her for a brief moment, she retracted her threat and fled for her life.

With that pointless interruption out of the way, Zoisite started speaking again. "I hate this place, this zoo, this prison," he began. "This... world, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the atmosphere if there even is such a thing. I feel drenched by it. I can taste the raw sewage humans leave behind and every time I do, I'm afraid that I've somehow been infected by it again. It's quite disgusting, isn't it?" He smirked at how speechless his opponents were. "I thought so. Now do you want to keep 'fighting the good fight' or do you want to make this quick?"

"Hold on, Zoisite!" Rodalquilarite suddenly cried again. "Maybe you should let me and Lemhi handle this."

"How's that?" he asked as if she'd described a human thing.

"We could fuse together to stop them."

"With a cracked gem like yours? Are you mad?!"

"Far from it, sir. I'd be more than happy to do something spectacular like this."

Lemhi craned his neck to get her full attention. "Are you sure this'll work?" he asked, knowing full well what in all probability could go wrong.

"I have no idea!" Rodalquilarite yelled.

Lemhi shrugged and just went along with it. The two Gems now had their hands interlocked with one another and their visages directly synced in order to make direct eye contact. They began hopping back and forth and chanting some traditional Vivianite song; this went on for three minutes, by the way. Finally, when it was over, they fused together into Fuchsite.

Fuchsite was a bright grayish-green fusion who barely inched over Rose Quartz and possessed four arms; they had an athletic build just like Lemhi except all the sinews and muscles in their body were noticeably smaller than usual. Their nose was tiny but aquiline, their lips thin but still full of collagen, and their eyes were a purplish color with green specks.

"Is that...?" Pearl was about to ask, but she found her too speechless to finish.

"Oh my God..." Rose Quartz muttered, now trembling at this new opponent.

"That's right." Fuchsite giggled menacingly. "Now I'm about to show you what it's like to be struck down on your knees and left to die."

The fusion Gem raised their arms over their head and prepared to summon both of their respective weapons. Before they could do that, however, Amethyst threw her whip around one of their wrists and started tugging them down.

"Do something, Roda!" Lemhi yelled through the fusion.

"Do what?!" Rodalquilarite panicked as Fuchsite was struggling to break free.

"I don't know! Just use your head!"

"Say no more, Lemhi!"

Not long after, Fuchsite smashed Amethyst into the ground with their forehead.

"Amethyst!" Rose yelled. "Are you okay?"

"You put the lime in the coconut and drink a bowl up..." the purple Gem muttered in response before falling unconscious.

"Alright, you bastard," Jade taunted under her breath. "Now you've really done it..."

Jade jumped out from behind Tanzanite and threw her hammer at Fuchsite's face, making them flinch from the pain. While the fusion Gem was still reeling, Garnet and Tanzanite suddenly rammed into them and started whaling on them with their weapons. Fuchsite was not about to take this lying down, however, so they threw them off as though they were just ragdolls. This left Tanzanite feeling exasperated over how powerful Fuchsite really seemed to be; it certainly didn't help matters that one of the component gems was still cracked despite enduring one hell of a beating.

"There's got to be an easier way to do this, but how?" Tanzanite asked herself.

Then it hit her. She could just impale the fusion with her parasol! She immediately acted on that instinct and watched as Fuchsite struggled to grasp what'd just happened. Then, as if wanting to further their suffering, she opened the parasol on them and the spines spread far and wide.

"No!" Fuchsite screamed as they felt their organs being rearranged without consent.

Their torment was so agonizing that it managed to shatter both of their gems simultaneously and within a matter of seconds, they were gone forever.

"Lemhi! Roda!" Zoisite shrieked in anguish. "Why?! Why did you let them destroy them like that?!" He almost felt compelled to weep out for them but he resisted the notion, knowing how futile it was to do that.

With Lemhi and Rodalquilarite now no longer by his side, he now felt such a righteous and furious anger that it was practically impossible for him to ignore it.

"Alright then," he breathed with a rapid hitch. "If we're going to take loved ones away here, I can play too. I think I'll go with... Greg Universe, the precious human lover of Rose Quartz." He'd especially stressed the venomous hatred in his voice when he emphasized the word "human."

"No, I won't let you!" Rose Quartz pleaded.

In the time it took her to say that, he'd already vanished.

A/N: I hope that got you pumped up for the next chapter, because it did me. Anyways, I know it's a little early but I'd like to thank Trollface Mastah once again for sticking with me. I'm certainly going to need him for quite some time because... well, I love him.

I digress. Ciao!