-Disclaimer: I do not own Steven Universe; I do own my OCs Kunzite, Hiddenite, and it looks like this new character as well...-
The gem sisters emerged from the cave, the entire time on their toes in case of visit from more black creatures or worse. And just like before, Hiddenite walked in front with Kunzite bringing up the rear. But when they walked back outside, they felt something. A deep rumble beneath their feet in the ice ground.
Not only that but there was a sound as well; a sort of explosion. The two looked out, and saw what looked like an explosion of ice far on the distant horizon.
"What's that?" Hiddenite asked.
"It could have been a stray space rock or small asteroid," Kunzite said, then shook her head, "Come on, let's return to the hut; I would like to experiment on those shards."
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The black figure rose off of its knee within the newly-made crater and onto its feet. The snow that fell on it melted fast and ran down its body without leaving any marks. It looked around, surveying all of its surroundings.
It then looked down at the ground; in its own arrival it had left a massively impressive crater. Within it though were two smaller craters.
"So this is where my Spawns landed," the figure spoke with a female voice, "their tracks look fairly recent..."
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Finally returning to their safe-hut, rather than join her sister, Hiddenite chose to remain close to the door with her thoughts. Her sister wasn't half bad at exploring outside, and was even good at this discovery business.
That last thought just made her frown again; why had she been walking around outside for so long? Was she really trying to look for something, or was it mainly just to clear thoughts and stay fit? While the latter was definitely true, she had never found anything... until now. Maybe there was merit to Kunzite's reasoning; a brains and a brawn did sound better than just one of them alone.
She thought about their encounter with the black creatures. In truth, that fight could have ended a lot more horribly, with one of them being seriously hurt or worse- retreating into their gem to heal. She was thankful that neither of them had ever had to or needed to before. She was never sure how long a gem would take as they regenerated, but Kunzite's collected tomes suggested it could take as long as three weeks.
"HIDDENITE, HIDDENITE!" her thoughts were so suddenly interrupted when Kunzite came running up to her, "It's a miracle! I can hardly believe it!"
"What? What's a miracle?"
"Those two shards we brought back?" she asked, "I examined them more closely, and it turns out there is something special about them!"
"Yeah," Hiddenite said with narrowed eyes.
"So I thought I'd use them on the warp pad, just to see if anything would happen..."
"Kunzite," the green gem said slowly, starting to realize where this was going.
"It's unbelievable, I can barely contain my excitement!" Kunzite said, then grabbed her sister's hand, "Come, you just have to see it for yourself!"
Leading her into her small work room, she brought Hiddenite down so she could look closer at the bottom of the pad. A small panel was open showing various colorful wires. The majority of them connected to a small, sort of receiver plate. Kunzite held the two shards in her hands before them.
"Alright, do you see how they glow and give off the tiniest of vibrations?" she said, handing them to her sister. Hiddenite held them in her palms; sure enough, there was vibration but very faint. She may have missed it if she wasn't feeling for them.
"Yeah I feel it," Hiddenite said, and handed them back to Kunzite, "But I don't see what this is-"
"Patience Hiddenite, you'll soon see!" Kunzite interrupted, "Anyway, I'll just place them both on the receptacle..." She carefully placed them next to each other making sure that they were perfectly centered. She then brought her hands back and closed the entire panel lid. Holding out her hands towards the top of the pad, but first turned towards her sister with a grin.
"Are you ready for this?"
Hiddenite nodded, and Kunzite's forearm gems began to glow. From her fingertips came forth tiny bolts of electricity flowing into the warp pad base. Her face was calm at first, but gradually became more determined, which Hiddenite took notice of.
Suddenly, the top of the warp pad began to glow. Hiddenite's eyes widened in almost complete disbelief. Kunzite still concentrated her arms a few seconds longer until the warp pad whirred to life completely and illuminated the entire room. She finally put her hands down and the two gems looked at each other; Hiddenite mouth's agape and Kunzite with a smirk.
"I... I... can't believe it," the green gem said, "Kunzite, you actually did it...!"
"Yes Hiddenite, I really did," she said, and was embraced hard by her sister.
Hiddenite could slowly feel the weight of a heavy burden lift. They now had a means to leave such a desolate icy wasteland and see the whole universe... could they really do that now?
"So uh, where will this warp pad take us?" she asked, separating herself from her sister.
"Actually, I'm not quite sure," Kunzite said, "I mean my history tome suggests that interplanetary warp pads actually connect with each other."
"Really?"
"It sounds like speculation though, but even if they don't, this pad will take us SOME-where! Isn't that exciting in itself?!"
"Well I can't argue with that," Hiddenite agreed, "So when can we use it?"
"We'll need to use it soon, actually; even with two of those crystal gem shards doubling the power strength, that maybe gives it about twenty minutes until it shuts down. And worse still, with this being such an early model warp pad, it's doubtful that it's a two-way teleporter!"
"Well then there's no time!" Hiddenite said, turning around to prepare for packing, "let's pack up our stuff and leave finally!"
"Of course, we should pack up our tomes," Kunzite smirked as she joined her, "You never know when you might need them!"
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Just outside of the hut, the tall, dark figure shadowed over it thanks to the light of the gas giant. On both sides its massive wings dripped a thick black substance on the white snow. Through its visor it looked right at the small rising in the snow, and its mouth twisted in a snarl.
It raised its hands over its shoulders and around to its back, and in them materialized a massive battleaxe of at least ten feet tall. On the pommel between the two wedges was a gemstone; a seven edged jet black gemstone on both sides.
The battleaxe was poised in that position, potential energy building...
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The gem sisters finally stood in front of the warp pad, Kunzite bearing a long strap knapsack holding all four of her collected tomes, the crystal wall sample, and the Moon Beetle. They looked at each other.
"Are you ready?"
"Yes, though a little nervous," Hiddenite admitted.
"Don't worry, we're in this together," Kunzite said.
"... Alright, on three."
"One,"
"Two-"
Suddenly there was another massive rumbling, but not from the ground this time. Rather the entire hut itself began to shake violently. The support beams themselves creaked hard and the two alarmed gems looked around frantically.
"What's going on?!" Hiddenite said, "Another asteroid?"
"Hiddenite, look!" Kunzite pointed, towards the entrance room. They both saw it, or at least what was left of it, as it looked like the entire roof of that room was destroyed, caved in by something. The walls themselves in that room lost their support as the beams gave away. With no walls left, the snow winds whipped in freely.
But what caused the intense damage however was certainly no asteroid. Instead it was what looked like a massive double wedge ax, buried deep into the ground. The stave itself was held by a massive figure, nearly ten feet tall and black as night. The blackness of the figure stood out more prominently as it contrasted the white snow. It wore some sort of armor with shoulder pads, cylinders over each sections of its arms with its hands exposed, and armored pants with combat boots. The body of the figure was a bit of a lighter shade of black than its armor, about a mix of black and grey.
Kunzite's face was a look of shock and almost terror, while Hiddenite's was a look of determination and anger. The green gem motioned to her sister, and the two of them slowly walked to the edge of their new exterior.
"It was only a matter of time," the gems heard the figure spoke in a female's voice, " when I would find you ag-" the figure stopped mid-sentence. It looked clearly at who it was talking two, which was certainly not whom it was expecting.
"What? You aren't the one I seek!" it said, angrily, "Who are you two?!"
"Hey! We should ask YOU that!" Hiddenite shouted in her own angry tone, "Who do you think you are?! Why'd you destroy our hut and try and kill us?"
"I am Jet, and you two aren't the one I sent my Spawns after," the figure, now called Jet replied in a somewhat annoyed tone.
"Spawns?" Kunzite said. She then took notice of the figure's back, which held two large wing-shaped blobs of black liquid, similar to what the black enemies were made of, "What a minute, those black creatures that attacked us earlier- YOU sent them after us?"
"What?" Hiddenite gritted her teeth at that realization. She brought her clenched hands to her chest and materialized her green silver brawler knuckles on them.
"Wrong," Jet said sharply, "I didn't send them after you two. I sent them after one; one gem in particular who I've been trying to find for a long time."
"One, as in one of us?" Hiddenite indicated between her and her sister, "Well tough luck you, 'cause neither of us is giving up the other without someone's destruction!"
"That's right!" Kunzite added, and summoned her tonfas as well, "We may not match you in physical height at least, but what myself and Hiddenite lack in experience, we more than make up for in our courage and teamwork!"
Jet regarded them slightly, "Hmmm, you have quite a mouth on you, green gem," looking at Hiddenite, then turning to Kunzite, "and you, the way you speak so eloquently, why I'm almost certain it reminds me of..." Jet paused for a moment.
With her free hand, she pushed something on the side of her helm, and her visor flipped up inside to reveal her eyes: bright white glowing eyes with solid black pupils. They both looked between the gem sisters back and forth, studying both carefully. Hiddenite and Kunzite were puzzled by this, but still didn't let down their guard.
Jet's eyes narrowed, and her mouth twisted into a smirk and she replaced her visor.
"Very clever, Spodumene," she said, "I must admit, this isn't at all what I would've expected. Not in my eons of existence!"
"What are you talking about? What is this 'Spodumene'?" Kunzite asked.
"Wait, are you seriously saying you two have no idea who you are?" Jet asked, in a lighter tone for once.
"What do you mean 'who we are'?" Hiddenite said "We're Hiddenite and Kunzite, crystal gems! We've been on this ice moon for as long as we can remember!" At this, Jet then chuckled to herself.
"I suppose it won't really matter in the end," she said, gripping her battleaxe with both hands, "because destroying you two as you are will be easier!"
"Hey! I'm no easy opponent!" Hiddenite said, and charged forward. Jet swung her massive ax horizontally, but the green gem jumped back and bent her stomach slightly to avoid a massive slash. She then was able to get closer, but Jet forced the blunt end of her ax at her. Hiddenite knocked it away with her right hand knuckle, dodged to the side as Jet swung a right cross, and ducked quickly as Jet used that same arm in a back-smack.
Jet then brought her knee up into Hiddenite's midsection and knocked her back a few inches. Just as quickly. She then thrusted her ax forward in a spear stab towards her. This time however Kunzite jumped in front and crossed her tonfas in front of her. The two weapons clashed and held. Kunzite herself kept her arms pushed forward and braced her feet into the ground.
"Hiddenite! I've got a firm grip!" Kunzite said through her teeth.
"Thanks sis!" Hiddenite jumped towards the unguarded section of Jet's midsection and prepared to punch hard. She saw Jet smirk however, and quickly the two liquid wings crossed themselves in front of the spot where the silver knuckle would've hit. Hiddenite's hand was now caught in the liquid and tried to force herself free.
Kunzite saw this and forced Jet's battleaxe into the ground. She stepped one foot on the staff, propped herself into the air, and kicked Jet in the chest that forced her to step back and drop the ax.
Regaining her balance, Jet spread her wings outward effectively tossing Hiddenite backwards at least back into the undamaged room. The green gem hit the ground and had a little of wind knocked out of her. Kunzite quickly ran over to her side to help her up.
"Rrgh, thanks sis," Hiddenite said, regaining her feet, "Though I think this one is a little more than I expected." Kunzite suddenly looked behind her, at the warp pad.
"But Hiddenite, the warp pad! We're running out of time!" she said.
"I can take her though!" Hiddenite insisted, "she was just warming me up!"
"No we've got to use it now," Kunzite said, turning her sister to face her, "or we may never get a chance to leave again!"
"You have a warp pad here?" Jet said, looking onward inside the undamaged room, "I never thought any of this system's moons had any."
"Hiddenite, we're leaving now!" Kunzite said and pulled her sister's arm. Hiddenite gave one last look at their black foe, and finally went along with her sister.
"NO!" Jet cried out as the two stood atop it with some bag in their possession, "You'll not deny me my vengeance!" She grabbed her battleaxe with both hands and threw it spinning hard towards them. The two gems saw it coming, held each other, and braced...
Until a beam of light erupted from the warp pad top in a straight column. The two looked around as they were surrounded by an encompassing light. They felt themselves be lifted and move fast upward by an unseen force.
Back on the ground, the battleaxe spun and destroyed no gems, but the warp pad itself. Unfortunately for Jet, she saw that her now two foes were gone and there were no sign of them. She let out a scream, grabbed her ax, dislodged it from the wrecked warp pad, and in the upswing destroyed the roof of the other room of the hut.
Jet then just stood there, quietly contemplating. Her moment of vengeance she had so long sought had been taken from her! Now she would have to figure out where her now two targets had gone. She spread her wings, flapped hard, and propelled herself back into space to search again for the lost gems.
-And there you have it! My first Steven Universe fanfic! I'll be honest I was aiming more for making this a one-shot, but then some creative ideas kept flowing in such as starring two gems instead of one and having this villain who I now love writing about. Rest assured, I'm leaving this cliffhanger as a prologue to some bigger stuff to be happening later on. But I'll see you then!-