Interstellar War-Part 3
(Downtown Clash)
When we last saw the Crystal Gems, they were crashing at a glorious mansion, until their precious slumber was disturbed by an attempted kidnapping by strange looking robots. The noble magical heroes fight them off, only to storm out to the backyard and run into a whole battalion of these bots, set to capture them by any means necessary. They were even led by an unknown male Gem with powerful weapons, deadly combat skills, and an attitude to match, and was so skilled, he was able to take them all down without even really trying. Luckily, fate was on their side as two members of the hi tech legends, known as Big Hero 6, were there to give them a hand and were able to fend off their abductors, followed by the remaining four members arriving a bit too late for any action. Before that, the Gems were shocked to learn that the group of fellow teens and their inflatable robot friend they met and befriended, was in fact Big Hero 6 themselves! Now both Big Hero 6 and the Crystal Gems travel together to a place where they can easily analyze one of the dead robots that attacked them, hoping to learn more about their attempted kidnapping. But they'll find they'll have much bigger problems in the city than they had thought, and what they'll encounter, will be the calm before the storm.
While Baymax flew in the right direction, with Hiro on his back, despite having their own form of travel, the rest of Big Hero 6 went for a ride in the Universe van alongside the Gems, who got dressed out of their sleepwear, except Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Lapis changed into their original outfits(but Pearl goes with the outfit she was given after the stabby incident she had with Holo-Pearl), given those four decided they'd better wear those original outfits when there's a very serious situation in progress. While driving through the streets of San Fransokyo, Connie had finally woken up from her little geek-out back at the mansion and was brought up to speed like Greg, but was still filled with a little excitement.
"This is so cool! We're riding the van with most of Big Hero 6 with us!", shouted Connie, but was able to get a hold of herself or risk fainting again.
"I know! It's not every day your kid's new friends are secretly a team of amazing superheroes!", shouted Greg.
"I gotta get them to sign my baseball cap", whispered Amethyst to Lapis as she pulled out her baseball cap.
"I gotta get them to sign my dress", whispered Lapis as she slightly tugged on her dress.
"I gotta get them to sign my suit", whispered FredZilla to Wasabi as he pointed at his own suit, while everyone else were feeling awkward as they could hear it all.
"Hate to break up geek-time, but you should pay attention to the road, Mr. Universe", said GoGo, making sure everyone kept their head in the game.
"Sorry, sorry, and anyway where are we going anyway? This route seems familiar for some reason", wondered Greg as he regained his full focus and tried to figure out where exactly they're headed, until Honey Lemon pops up in between Greg and Garnet from behind with excitement.
"Oh oh oh! We're hhheeerrrreee!", shouted Honey Lemon as she pointed at their destination, and the Gems, Connie and Greg were surprised to see it was the Tadashi Hamada building again, the very same place they had paid a visit to earlier.
"Are you kidding me?! We drove all the way back to this nerd lab?! No offense", said Amethyst, feeling frustrated about something like this, as the van parks just in front of the building and everyone exits, followed by Baymax as he lands close by and Hiro jumps off his back.
"None taken. Anyway, we said we'd go somewhere where we'd have those things checked for any info they're carrying, and luckily, THIS is the place", said Wasabi as Garnet came over with the dead half-wrecked marble robot slung over her shoulder and the deactivated marble spy-bot in her other hand.
"The Tadashi Hamada building offers some remarkable tech, but I doubt that this place has what we need to analyze these machines", said Pearl, until Hiro walked up to her with a smirk on his face.
"That's because you guys are only seeing this place, from topside", said Hiro, leaving a confused look on the Gems' faces as he leads them inside. Inside, Hiro leads the rest of his team and the Crystal Gems through the same places they've seen earlier, until a few minutes later when they step through one particular door, and there wasn't much except for a fairly large memoriam dedicated to Tadashi himself. The Gems, Connie and Greg followed Big Hero 6's lead as they all pay their respects to this guy who was a great brother/genius, and a better friend, but were still confused as to why Hiro led them to this room out of all the others in the whole building.
"Hey dude, it's cool you wanna show us this thing about tour brother and all, but aren't we gonna do something else?", asked Amethyst with Pearl almost wanting to elbow her slightly, to show some respect but has to agree that they need to analyze those two dead bot as soon as possible. Hiro simply smirked again as he reached for the memoriam and tapped some secret switch, and a minute later, the memoriam transforms into a secret entrance Batman-style leading to a fairly large elevator, leaving the Gems, Connie and Greg very surprised.
"Follow me", said Hiro as he walked through the entrance with everyone else behind, then enter the elevator and made their descent, a couple minutes later, the elevator stopped and they all exited and walked a few forward, but the place was dark. The place must has some kind of built-in sensor as the whole room lit up, all the lights and equipment came on, and the Gems were blown away by what there were seeing, "Welcome to the Big Hero 6 Headquarters!"
"NO WAAAAAYYYY!", yelled Steven and Connie in unison with excitement so loud it echoed all over the place. What the group from Beach City was seeing was incredible, the part of the base they were in was no doubt the main hub, as there was a very large monitor with a control panel not too far from their left, along with a few advanced data servers on their right. The whole place seemed to have a futuristic sort of look to it (no surprise), and most of the place was in the same red and purple color scheme as Baymax's armor. There were at least five or six other fancy doors in separate parts of the main hub, which no doubt led to other equally awesome rooms of this mega-cool headquarters.
This is one for the books", said Lapis while expressing her sheer excitement for this place in the same look Steven, Connie and Amethyst all had.
"This is unbelievable! How were you able to accomplish all of THIS so easily?!", demanded Pearl while no doubt expressing the same excitement a majority of the group had for this place.
"Believe it, and yeah, it's amazing how much you can pull together in a whole year", said Wasabi.
"Like building our own headquarters underneath the building. And as for all this equipment, you pull off enough super heroics, especially around the whole world, you'll draw attention from plenty of big time science and tech officials who design and give us this kind of tech to help us get more organized while doing our job", said GoGo, followed by making a bubble with her gum and popping it.
"This is quite the set-up you've got here", said Garnet.
"I know, right? All of this has been helping make us even better heroes than wew already were a year ago", said Honey Lemon.
"It is sick", said Baymax, which drew a couple of confused looks toward him, "It is just an expression".
"*chuckles* Yeah, yeah it was, Baymax, thank you", said Lapis as she fist bumped Baymax on his arm without putting a lot of force so she doesn't bust her hand.
"Plus, like you guys, all superheroes need to have a wicked cool HQ!", shouted FredZilla, followed by a very loud beeping sound, "*gasps* NOOOO!"
"What the heck is that?! Some kind of emergency?!", demanded Greg as he started to feel all panicked, then FredZilla runs to the other side of the hub toward a small break table with a microwave hanging over it.
"Worse: My microwavable burrito's all overcooked! Now it's a hot mess! Literally!", shouted FredZilla as he pulled down his suit's top to expose his head and brings the hot gooey mess that was once a burrito closer to his face. He's feeling down at first, but then turns that frown upside down, "Nah! I'll still eat it!"
"Good to know. Anyway, as remarkable as all this is, we should get back to the task at hand. Can you show us where we can have these droids analyzed?", asked Pearl.
"I'm glad you asked, follow me", said Hiro.
"WHAAAATT? Can't we get a private tour at least?", asked Steven in disappointment. He and Connie really wanted to explore every in of that place, get to see so much of what these great heroes kept in her humble abode, but time was short.
"I'm sorry, Steven, but we really don't have the time for that right now", said Pearl.
"She's right, you guys were almost kidnapped, not to mention you guys got swarmed by a battalion of robots, and at Fred's place, when they could've attacked you anyplace else. The answers must be in these bots, especially the spy-bot. We'll have to save the tour for later, for now, we need to get ourselves some answers", said Hiro as he led everyone to one of the five doors, except FredZilla, who stayed behind finishing up his mess of a burrito, which was extremely gooey and very hot, and then he pulls the top back on and follows the others. The one door they all step through reveals some kind of research station, at the far end of the room, is a weird looking lab table surrounded by a small monitor and various kinds of tools. As the two teams walk over to the lab table, they look over to their right and notice a bunch of old gadgets and spare tools laying around, along with some stuff that looked a little recent, including plans focused around each of Big Hero 6's specialties and tech.
"What's all that for?", asked Steven.
"Oh, well you probably heard about some cool stuff we can do now right? Well after the Tadashi Hamada building opened up, I started tinkering with our tech some more, make ourselves better than when we started, we even worked to learn karate too, and yeah, crazy enough, trained to make ourselves all agile too", explained Hiro to the Gems, "You no doubt saw for yourselves earlier some stuff you didn't think Fred could do".
"True, now I'm a karate monster master, who breathes fire!", shouted FredZilla as he fires a shot of fire breath in the air.
"Think you can show us around, show us how this stuff works?", asked Lapis.
"We'd love to, but like with that tour, we're gonna have to put that on hold, for now, let's focus on what we came here to do", said Hiro as they approached the lab table, followed by Garnet laying both bots on said table, "Alright, let's see just what we can find on these things".
"When these humanoid droids appeared at the mansion, the ones that tried to abduct us didn't put up much of a fight, and we can safely assume they were programmed to focus on abducting only us Gems, since they completely ignored Connie and Greg", said Pearl as Hiro pulled out some advanced looking screwdriver while Pearl helped with grabbing a futuristic portable microscope lying close-by, where Hiro uses the screwdriver with built-in laser to open up the majority of the bot's chest that wasn't trashed while Pearl uses the microscope to better examine its inner workings.
"Notice anything else when you fought these things?", asked GoGo, chewing on her gum.
"The bots that Fred fought off outside before we arrived were acting far more aggressive than the one we faced inside the mansion. They wielded lethal weaponry mainly made up of energy swords and gattlin' laser hands", said Garnet.
"Weird thing is, when I found a bunch of those bots outside my house, they didn't really do anything at all, no shooting or stabbing", said FredZilla as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Did you attack them first?", asked Pearl as she turned to FredZilla for a moment and arched her eyebrow.
"No! Maybe, yes. Superhero law says, for better or worse, always strike first", said FredZilla as Pearl arched her eyebrow a little more and then turns back to the dead bot.
"Hey, I do the same thing too!", shouted Amethyst, followed by a slight groan of annoyance by Pearl.
"That explains a lot, I don't seem to recognize most of these parts, but I think I've seen this sensor before. This is used to trigger some sort of aggressive programming in these droids unless provoked", said Pearl as she used the microscope to zoom in on a square-shaped piece with a non-glowing red light in the center and Hiro uses the laser-screwdriver to carefully remove it from the bot without damage.
"Makes sense, have these bots focus on nothing but their job unless something attacks them, forcing them to switch to their offensive programming to take out whatever's attacking them, namely Fred here", said Hiro as he turned to FredZilla and arched his eyebrow as well, in which FredZilla's response was shrugging his shoulders again, then Hiro pulls down an advanced X-ray machine closer over the dead bot and activates the device as it performs a full scan. A minute later, and the tables own little monitor projects the entirety of the bot's inner working, not just the torso.
"This bot was very well designed by the looks of it. Like I said, I don't recognize most of these parts but a few. Modified actuators almost similar to those of Baymax are built into the arms, enabling these droids to lift over a thousand pounds actually. The circuits and wiring are all immensely water-proofed, should even the slightest amount of water ended up inside and could cause significant damage to the droids' most sensitive wiring", explained Pearl, then Hiro joins in on this geek talk as well.
"This shows the bot's optic sensors are equipped with powerful X-ray capabilities, letting it see any target through any material, even lead. And special night-vision features that could let it see anything from up to 200 feet in the dark. Even some kind of sensor that's almost similar to the one found in the chest", explained Hiro, "but since this one's hooked up the optic sensors, I would guess these bots were all fitted with these special sensors that allow them to track down a Gem's life signature".
"That explains how these things knew where to find us in the mansion, that place is like a maze", said Steven.
"Thanks, my parents wanted to make our house like a fun house maze in case I get bored", said FredZilla.
"There's one other thing that's bugging me: Wulfenite. That guy seemed like he wanted to capture us himself, but he stood back and had his own bots try to tear us apart", said Lapis.
"Obviously, he wanted to see what we were capable of, no doubt saw how we faired against the battalion that Fred was fighting, and it seems we didn't disappoint him. He knew just how to deal with us, to immobilize us for an easy capture, and when we made a move he didn't expect, he improvised in no time", said Garnet.
"And he totally got what was coming to him when Baymax showed up and gave him a pounding! Man, wish I could've seen it", said Amethyst.
"Fortunately, my scanner was able to record my duel with patient designation: Wulfenite", said Baymax as he projected the fight, from his point of view, with Wulfenite. Amethyst and FredZilla ran up to Baymax to savor this footage of Wulfenite's beating.
"Whoa, that's a class five Palm Hill Strike, and a classic right jab", said FredZilla.
"Ha ha, dude totally took a rocket fist to the gut!", shouted Amethyst.
"Wait, you scanned the guy?", asked Greg.
"I am programmed to assess anyone's healthcare needs. I am simply saving my scan analysis of patient Wulfenite for his next check-up", said Baymax before he ends the footage and the holo-screen disappears.
"I don't see why Wulfenite wanted us captured, we don't even know him. What could he possibly want with us?", asked Pearl as she tapped her chin with her finger, then she and the others turn their gaze toward the dead spy-bot.
"Maybe THOSE answers, are on this spy-bot's hard-drive. Let's take a look", said Hiro as he uses the X-ray device to figure out where on this little bot can they find something that resembled a USB port, once he finally finds it, Hiro uses the laser to cut away a big enough piece of the outer shell to get at the port, where he pulls out a USB cord from the side of the table, plugs in, and tries to project the bot's footage on the tables monitor, only to find the footage blocked, which can only mean one thing.
"*sighs* Figures it wouldn't be that easy. The bot's hard drive is encrypted should anyone manage to get their hands on this bot and do the exact same thing we're doing", said Hiro in slight frustration.
"Can't you hack it?", asked Connie.
"I could, even though this is some serious alien tech we got here, but from the looks of it, this thing's got some really tough firewalls, it could take all night for me get through, or even find another way around", said Hiro before Pearl steps up to him.
"What if you didn't have to do this on your own? This is Gem technology after all, it shouldn't be hard for me to help", said Pearl as Hiro nods in agreement, reveals a hidden control panel/keyboard and right away, the two geeks get to work. For Pearl and Hiro, this was really tiring, putting their combined intelligence together as they furiously decrypt as much of the data as they can to show the bot's footage, all while trying not to let the firewalls slow them down. Almost everyone else were feeling tense as those two typed away. It seemed like this would never end, until those two made a breakthrough.
"YES!", shouted Pearl and Hiro in unison as those two lovable geeks doubled high-fived each other and the others felt relieved.
"Now let's see what you've been watching, little guy", said Hiro as he pulls up the spy-footage once again, and although it appears a little fuzzy, they got the full picture. The first few minutes of the footage show the Gems, Connie and Greg back at the Gem Temple in Beach City, as they finish packing up the Universe van and head out.
"This was when we were just heading out for our trip your city, just about a week ago", said Pearl to Hiro with concern, "This would suggest this spy-bot was following us since we first left for our trip, it didn't find us just now".
"Guys, look", said Amethyst as she pointed to the monitor again, and the Gems were feeling slightly disturbed with what they were seeing: footage of them during the day before when they had just arrived in the city and all the stuff they were doing, from the park rides to their lunch time.
"That's some serious stalking fever there", said Wasabi, "I don't know if I should feel creeped out, or interested".
"Definitely creeped out", said Honey Lemon.
"You'd be creeped out too if you had an alien spy-bot follow you wherever you go and watches almost everything you do", said GoGo, then Hiro fasts forwards the footage a little more, then they end up seeing the aftermath of the fight in the backyard, but a minute later, Garnet shows up and dishes out a punch, then the screen goes all fuzzy.
"And THAT would be the last bit of footage the bot recorded before getting smashed", said Hiro.
"I don't like being followed", said Garnet as she cracks her knuckles.
"No one likes being followed, Garnet", said GoGo, "Is there anything from earlier, like BEFORE that thing started following you guys here?"
"No, there's nothing, it seems this bot was sent straight from space and remained inactive until moments before we finished packing the van", said Pearl as she sorted through the footage a little more extensively but then turns her gaze back on the spy-bot, "*grunts* I just wish we could remember where exactly have we seen these bots! I know we've seen them somewhere!"
"WAIT! I remember now! We saw a bunch of these things at the Galaxy Warp! A while before Lapis came back, and they all belonged to Peridot!", shouted Steven as that one thing was all it took to get Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Lapis feeling a little scared while Lion simply growled at the sound of that name.
"Man, not her", said Amethyst in fear yet annoyance.
"What's the big deal? Who's Peridot?", asked GoGo.
"Another Gem, from what we know about her, she's a remarkable Gem technician, she's the creator of an army of Flask Robonoids, warp pad repair robots with similar designs like this spy-bot here, but all seem to show some signs of life", said Pearl with some concern.
"Wow", said FredZilla in awe.
"She's also very cold and calculating, we saw this when a damaged Flask Robonoid desperately wanted repairs, but instead, Peridot slowly crushed it beneath her foot, indicating she doesn't tolerate that sort of behavior from her creations", said Garnet with a slightly more stern tone than usual.
"Bummer", said FredZilla in disappointment.
"So what do Peridot and Wulfenite want with you guys anyway?", asked Wasabi.
"We don't know, it seems more of mystery as to why those two would ever work together", said Pearl.
"Well, back at the mansion, when Baymax came in and helped save us, Wulfenite shouted something about the Diamond Authority", said Steven.
"Who are they, high-class Gems?", asked Honey Lemon.
"Exactly, the highest ranked Gems back on our home-world, led by the greatest Gem known as Diamond", said Pearl.
"Doesn't really explain why they wanted you all captured", said Wasabi.
"Obviously, they wanted to bring us back to the home-world, not only to punish us for stopping their previous invasion of Earth years ago, but most likely, to prepare for another invasion", said Garnet.
"Yeah, those guys REALLY know how to hold a grudge", said Amethyst.
"But why would your fellow Gems invade Earth?", asked Baymax.
"It's a long story, Baymax, one we don't have time to tell right now", said Pearl.
"Hold up, Peridot sent this spy-bot to keep an eye on you guys, so they'll know when to send in their little capture force of these "Flask Android Soldiers". Speaking of which, would accompany Wulfenite to bring you in. Once you guys were out of the way, then they'd send in their invasion force", said Hiro.
"How come they didn't send their robots to snatch us?", asked FredZilla.
"Because THEY know the Crystal Gems are the only ones who would stand a chance against another invasion, but they probably didn't consider us a REAL threat, just because we're earthlings. But they know now no doubt, after seeing through the spy-bot how two of us could help them take on a whole battalion of their toughest robots AND a high-ranking Gem, that we're too dangerous for them to ignore, but since they were trying to catch them so they could punish them for what they did years ago, I'm pretty sure they'll just have us killed on the spot", said Hiro grimly, followed by brief silence by everyone else.
"Sorry I asked, huge mistake", said FredZilla.
"Ya think?", asked GoGo, a little annoyed.
"The only real question that remains is: how did they send those robots and Wulfenite here in the first place? We severed the warp connection between Earth and the home-world by destroying the entire Galaxy Warp", said Pearl, then turning to Hiro, "it's the main hub that includes warp pads linked to various Gem-controlled planets, including the home-world"
"Wait, it sounds like that kinda place is really huge, how did you destroy the place?", asked Wasabi.
"We blew it up with a shooting star", said Amethyst jokingly, until GoGo stepped in to get a real answer.
"No seriously, HOW did you guys destroy the Galaxy Warp?", asked GoGo.
"Amethyst is correct, we worked to utilize a powerful Gem artifact, known as the Shooting Star, to wipe out the Galaxy Warp in its entirety", said Garnet, "hoping that would slow them for a long time, but not enough as it seems".
"That still doesn't explain how they got here so quickly, the Galaxy Warp was destroyed, there's no way they'd show up so fast. Unless, maybe *gasps*….oh no", said Pearl, covering her moth with both hands, in complete fear, and just when someone was gonna ask her what she'd thought of, a very loud alarm went off.
"What is that?!", yelled Connie.
"It is the Danger Notification System, which has activated, indicating a dire situation is unfolding in San Fransokyo", said Baymax, followed by a confused look on Connie AND Steven's face until Hiro cleared things up.
"It's the alarm, it goes off, there's gotta be something happening in the city!", shouted Hiro as he ran off back into the main hub with the others in tow. Hiro then switches on the hub's prime monitor to figure out which alarm is sounding off.
"It appears the Danger Notification System has alerted us to an ominous event taking place in quadrant 7, section A9", said Baymax.
"Where's that?", asked Greg.
"It's in town square, the heart of Downtown San Fransokyo, let me pull up the live security footage, see what's going on over there", answered Hiro as he punched a few keys and the screen showing Town Square pops up, but a nearby explosion happens, followed by the screen going dark.
"Hiro, what just happened?", asked GoGo.
"That explosion took out our camera, we're blind", said Hiro in frustration.
"None of appear to be exhibiting signs of blindness", said Baymax.
"It's just an expression, buddy. Hang on, let's see if there are any new crews on the scene, maybe we can see what's happening through a live news broadcast instead", said Hiro as he searched and, luck would have it, he found one news crew that was broadcasting.
"Nice one, egg-head", said Amethyst jokingly, followed by a fist bump exchanged between her and Hiro. Then Hiro expands the screen as both groups get a better view of what's going on, and a moment later the first thing they see is a guy with a blonde mustache in a slightly torn up black suit with a microphone and a slightly crazed look in his eye.
"This is Conan "Handsome" Jones of Channel 9 news, reporting live from Downtown San Fransokyo! We're in the town square area, where it's absolute madness as an army of some kind of human sized robots, all of which seem to be made of marble or something, have appeared out of nowhere and started opening fire on random vehicles, stands and buildings, leaving a majority of Town Square in ruins!", yelled Jones as he runs for cover behind a wrecked car with the camera following, the camera then turns to the right, getting a better view of the chaos. As Jones described, most of Town Square is in shambles, as the police force is seen giving everything they've got to fight off Flask Android Soldiers, the very same bots that the Gems fought earlier. A few downed bots pales in comparison to about a dozen police officers lying on the ground all beaten up. The camera then points to Jones again for a moment, "So far, there have been no civilian casualties, as the police had cleared out Town Square not long after the robots started firing, but there are definitely heavy casualties among these brave officers, who are nonetheless determined to hold down the fort until our city's greatest protectors, Big Hero 6, arrive to put an end to this horrific nightmare! Man, I'm sweating bullets here!"
"Well, least it didn't get any worse", said Amethyst, followed by a much bigger explosion from the monitor.
"Oh no, it's totally getting worse!", shouted Jones, followed by a majority of the two groups staring at Amethyst in anger for a moment, which left the wild-child very embarrassed.
"AND you jinxed us, great job", said GoGo, then everyone turns their attention back to the monitor to see what else is going on.
"I'm now seeing, what appears to be, a squad of bulky ten feet tall marble robots arriving on the scene, looking to cause much more devastation, no doubt! And there's something human sized hiding from behind their massive legs, the figure steps out and walks a few feet forward, and it appears to be, a pink-skinned teenage girl?!", shouted Jones as the camera focuses on the four massive hulking Flask troopers, each looking as if one's enough to take out the whole city. The camera then turns to the teenage girl, who's pink-skinned, looks to be as if she were Pearl's height, a yellow one-piece outfit where the lower half are shorts and the upper half, when she's turned around, reveals the two straps are made in an X-shape, with a majority of her upper back exposed minus a couple of thin dark pink straps. Wears a utility belt with a yellow buckle and two dark pink pouches on each side, wears arm-gloves that end half-way above the elbow like Garnet's, but yellow, and yellow and partly dark pink gloves exposing most of her palms and her fingers minus the pinky. Yellow socks that end just below the knees, with boots matching the color of her gloves. A haircut where the front covers half of the forehead with short hair, and with a little triangle opening in the middle and a dark pink hairband, where looking from behind, the hair reaches at the neck and goes into a curve shape revealing a light pink pony tail. A small yellow diamond shaped tattoo on her chest just below her throat, one on her right cheek, and a dark pink patch that holds the two yellow straps of her outfit in place, and a pink square shaped gem on the back of her neck.
"Who is that?", asked Pearl to herself out loud.
"You don't recognize this Gem?", asked Hiro.
"Not at all", answered Lapis.
"Then she's gotta be a member of the Diamond Authority, too", said Hiro as the broadcast continued.
"This child clearly seems to be the leader of these diabolical monstrosities, seeing as how they aren't laying a single finger on her. Five officers slowly approach the girl, no doubt attempting to bring her into custody, but wait, what's this? The young lady, seen with a smirk on her face, seems to be reaching for the back of her neck for a small pink crystal, and, oh goodness gracious, it appears that out of nowhere, she's pulled out a stun baton that matches her outfit. One of the officers attempt to pounce her, only for the kid to calmly extend her arm, and allows the officer to blindly run into the stun baton! He appears to be in a world of hurt as the stun baton is no doubt unleashing a wave of painful electricity on the officer, followed by the officer falling to the ground unconscious! One down, four more to go as the kid is still outnumbered! But wait, rather than take her time and let them come to her, she sprints right at them and gives the officers a first class ticket to Pain-Ville!", yelled Jones as the Gem dashes toward one officer, leaps over him and shocks him with the stun baton, followed by kicking another officer from right under his feet, making him hit the ground. The other two officers work together to bring the girl down by charging at her at once, big mistake. The kid tosses her stun baton in the air, runs toward the two officers herself, dodges their reach, gets past them, turns around and quickly knocks their heads together, then catches her stun baton just as the two officers fall to the ground knocked out.
"She's clearly just as skilled as Wulfenite, but not as vicious as he was", said Pearl.
"Lucky us, then", said Lapis.
"Can I get a stun baton?", asked FredZilla, obviously geeked ouy by what the Gem just did with that stun baton she's got.
"That monster suit's enough for you Fred, I'm sure you'll be fine", said GoGo.
"Darn", said FredZilla in slight disappointment, "*whispers* Note to self: Get a stun baton".
"It's unbelievable, folks! A strange yet impressive looking teenage girl, just took down five highly trained police officers all on her own without even trying! And to make matters worse: the onslaught by her mighty marble robot army appears to know no bounds as they continue to leave a trail of pure mayhem all over this place! On behalf of the rest of San Fransokyo, I only hope Big Hero 6 will make it in time to save our beloved city from total destruction!", yelled Jones before the Gem took notice of him and the camera guy as she points her stun baton at them, and fires a powerful blast of electricity at them, knocking away the wrecked car they were hiding behind, scaring Jones and the camera guy enough to make them run off, with the camera guy dropping the camera, and as the camera films those two running away, the Gem walks over to the camera, picks it up and has it filming her. She still keeps that smirk on her face as she sends a message.
"Hey Crystal Gems! The name's Ametrine. I know you're here, and I know you're with those Big Hero 6 guys. I heard Wulfenite had a tough time with you guys, figures you should never send a hot-headed boy like him to do a real tough-girl's job. You can show up with your super-duper backup, doesn't really bug me, but I just want you guys to understand something: you're totally gonna get creamed, and I'll be bringing you to the rest of the Diamond Authority all nice and wrapped up with a bow on top. Get here soon, and don't keep me waiting", said the Gem known as Ametrine as she waves goodbye and tosses the camera to her right, and it catches a quick glimpse of a Flask Android Soldier before it fires a laser and the screen goes all fuzzy.
"Ha, did you guys see the look on that reporter guy's face when that car just blew away?", asked Amethyst.
"No time for jokes, we need to get over there and stop Ametrine, fast!", shouted Hiro, who then turns to Greg and Connie, "You two are gonna have to stay here".
"What? No way, we wanna help!", shouted Connie.
"You'll help by staying put", said Hiro as he donned his helmet, then Steven walks over beside him and faces Connie and his dad.
"Guys, trust me, it's for the best", said Steven, and then a moment of silence resulted in both Greg and Connie giving Steven a brief hug.
"Watch your back out there, kiddo", said Greg.
"Go kick some butt", said Connie jokingly, then Steven and the others rush to the elevator head back toward the surface, leaving Greg and Connie in the base. Once the two teams make it outside the Tadashi Hamada building, they can already see some of the smoke coming from downtown.
"Alright, we'll need to find some mode of transportation to get ourselves to Town Square fast", said Pearl before turning to the Universe van, "Something OTHER than the van".
"Well, I got my water wings", said Lapis as she used her gem to activate her ever-so gracious water wings.
"Awesome", said FredZilla.
"I can ride over there on Lion!", shouted Steven as he hopped onto his ever loyal yet powerful feline companion, who responded with a roar.
"I will allow Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl to accompany me on my flight", said Baymax as he allowed for those three Gems to climb onto his back before he unfolds his wings and starts up his feet thrusters.
"Wait, what about you guys?", asked Amethyst as it seemed the remaining majority of Big Hero 6 seem to be without a ride.
"Don't worry, we'll manage", said Hiro as he pulled out a microbot, activated it and had it replicate itself into enough for him to uses as a mini wave and starts "surfing" his way to Town Square, followed by GoGo going for her magne-disc roller blades and takes off crazy fast, Honey Lemon uses her Chem-Purse to pop out a few chem-balls, tosses one in front of her, which gets all bouncy, jumps on and is sent way up in the air, and throws another ball at the ground, creating another big bouncy colorful lump and launches off of that one, and repeats the process. FredZilla simply utilizes his monster suit's super jump capabilities and starts jumping in that direction, but even higher than he should, and shatters the ground every time he lands. Wasabi activates his laser blades, and points them both at the ground as they unleash dual powerful streams of electric plasma with enough force to launch him into the air and acts as a form of flight for him. The others then follow suit with Steven heading for Town Square while riding Lion, Lapis takes flight with the aid of her water wings, but in a very fast manner, while Baymax joins in as he switches to full thrust and flies over there with Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl riding on his back. By the time the two groups are no longer in sight, Greg and Connie rush outside the building and briefly notice the heroes were about half way there.
"I don't care HOW dangerous it is over there, that's MY SON!", shouted Greg.
"We'll find some way to help, I know we can! Let's go", said Connie as she and Greg rushed for the van and were on their way, but as Pearl suspected, even at its fastest, the van isn't making the same amount of distance the heroes did.
"*groans* The one time I rely on my sweet van the most, she doesn't make enough effort", said Greg, but was nonetheless determined to get himself and Connie over to Town Square and help the heroes. The scene then shifts over to Town Square, now an even bigger wreck, and that's when the Crystal Gems and Big Hero 6 already approach the "war zone", then land on a skyscraper rooftop and quickly took notice of the destruction that's been made.
"Whoa, far out", said Amethyst, in which earned her a quick glance of anger from Pearl and Garnet.
"Alright guys, you know the old saying: divide and conquer. Take out these bots as best and as fast as you can before Ametrine sends them around the rest of the city", said Hiro.
"And what about Ametrine?", asked Lapis.
"Try to take care of her if you can. Besides, one Gem can wait, an army of powerful droids, different story", said Hiro as the Gems readied their weapons, along with Big Hero 6 with their gear.
"Let's do it", said Garnet firmly as she leaps off the rooftop and plummets down to the street, and uses on of her gauntlets to pull off a devastating ground pound, knocking away a few droids while causing some others to lose their balance for a moment. And so the others follow Garnet's lead as Steven lands on the street with Lion as the pink beast rushes by, claws at a few bots and blows some more into a building with a mighty sonic roar, while Steven jumps off and pulls his sword from Lion's head before he brings up his shield to defend against a flurry of lasers from a squad of bots, then charges right into them and shield bashes two of them before he slices the head off the other two, followed by slicing the two bashed bots in half, then another group of bots come up from behind Steven and were about to open fire until Hiro showed up, flip-kicked one of the bots, then takes them all out at once by using his microbots and has them shift into dual pressing plates and flattened the bots like pancakes. Pearl joins up with Wasabi as they're back to back against three squadrons of droids, first, they seem to be in complete sync as they dodge various attacks from the droids and slice up multiple droids, then when the remaining droids switch to laser hands and start firing at Pearl and Wasabi, those two return the favor with a barrage of projectile shots from Pearl's spear and Wasabi's laser blades, leaving those last bots as nothing but a pile of shot-up scrap.
"Nice form", complimented Pearl.
"Back at ya", said Wasabi as those two exchanged a fist bump. Amethyst pairs up with FredZilla as those two confront a couple squads of bots. Amethyst gets her whip around a few bots, swings them around then up into the air as FredZilla fires a concentrated blast of fire-breath at those bots with enough force to blow them up. FredZilla leaps over and takes out a few more bots before leaping out of the way in time for Amethyst to pull out a second whip, uses both to restrain one of the remaining bots and blow them all sky high using her flame whip technique. Garnet's just going all out as she constantly moves throughout the battlefield and punches, kicks, and trashes every bot she sees, while GoGo zooms by and backs her up with using her forearm magne-discs to cut up at least half a dozen bots before she turns fast and launches the discs at blazing speeds, fast enough to split some more bots in half. Honey Lemon spins kicks a few bots, then leaps back to toss a few chem-balls that freeze a squad of bots in their place before she tosses a fourth ball that blows them sky high, then freezes some more bots, but before she could dispense another exploding chem-ball, Lion shows up and blows those frozen bots away with a heavy sonic roar.
"Good kitty", said Honey Lemon in an adorable manner as she rubbed Lion by the chin.
"RAAWWRR", roared Lion in response before Honey Lemon hops on his back, and those two speed through the battlefield, Honey Lemon riding Lion as she tosses freezing chem-balls at bots left and right, while Lion finishes them off either clawing them apart or dishing out a sonic roar or two. Baymax flies over to a couple squads of bots, in which unleash a barrage of lasers at the red and purple guardian, only for them to bounce off his armor without leaving a scratch. The bots actually seemed stunned for a moment while Baymax just hovers there, doing nothing, until this happens.
"I believe, a hand-out is required to manage this situation", said Baymax as he launches his rocket fists in opposite directions and they fly past each other crisscross taking out the two bot squads, until there's nothing left but a bunch of bashed up parts before the rocket fists fly back to Baymax.
"Hand-out successful", said Baymax as he lands to inspect the wrecked bots, but then out of nowhere, one of the four house-sized hulking Flask Bruisers swats Baymax into a hot dog stand a few feet behind him. Baymax sits right up among the wreckage of the former hot dog stand just before he stares upward facing the faceless Flask Bruiser, Baymax can be fortunate his new armor is purely indestructible along with the fact he can't feel pain, but sadly, that won't stop that hulking bot from trying to ruthlessly crack that metal shell and go after the nut inside.
"A violent action like that indicates you are, distressed or cranky", said Baymax before the bruiser instantly starts beating on the red and purple guardian, one punch after the other, mindlessly determined to break through that armor. Lapis, still in flight mode with her water wings, quickly takes notice of the trouble Baymax is in, and makes her way to pull off a rescue. Lapis flies over to Baymax with great speed, all while using her double bladed bow to slice and slash a few bots and fire some arrows at a bunch of others along the way. Once in range, Lapis fires an exploding arrow at the bruiser's right arm just as it was about to throw another punch, and it's blown clean off. Baymax detects this is an opening, so he gets up quickly, grabs the bruiser's left arm, flips over and slams it into the ground in front of him, then finishes it by pulling its head clean off.
"Thank you for your assistance, Lapis", said Baymax.
"Anytime, big guy", said Lapis as Baymax drops the bruiser's head and they exchange Baymax's trademark fist-bump. Then those two are faced with the other three Flask Bruisers, so they nod in agreement to take them together. Meanwhile, Steven had just finished off another bot, when Ametrine deals out a flying kick out of nowhere, sending Steven to the other side of the street.
"So, you're Rose Quartz's kid, right? I recognize that sword and shield of hers a mile away", said Ametrine as she just stands there while Steven gets back on his feet.
"That's me alright, I'm a lot like my mom, everyone says", said Steven.
"From what I could tell, that's in more ways than one", said Ametrine, but as much as Steven would want to socialize with Ametrine, he was quickly reminded of the mayhem going on around him.
"Listen, you have to call these things off, please. People are gonna get hurt if you don't stop", said Steven firmly, but Ametrine wasn't budging.
"Well then, it's a good thing no one's hurt, except for a bunch of those cops who are really gonna feel those beatings I gave them in the morning, "Guess I outta be glad you guys trashed the only spy-bot we sent, otherwise I'd have to put up with doing every single thing the rest of the Diamond Authority would want me to do".
"But it doesn't have to be this way", said Steven.
"Sorry squirt, I actually don't like it either, actually a few other members of the D.A. side with me, but this is what we've been doing for centuries", said Ametrine.
"If you knew my mom too, then you know I can't let this happen", said Steven as he tightened the grip on his sword and readied his shield.
"Well, don't say I didn't warn you", said Ametrine as she pulls a second stun baton from her gem, and she and Steven exchange a quick glare at each other before they charge for each other. Ametrine makes her move first as she swings both stun batons at Steven, who intercepts by bringing up his shield. Steven can feel a little bit of the powerful surge of electricity through the shield, meaning while Ametrine really doesn't feel proud of this, she's not holding anything back. Steven then swings his sword at Ametrine, but the nimble Gem blocks the attack with the stun batons, then pushes Steven back and spin kicks him to the right. Steven gets back up, and throws his shield against the side of a building which, in turn, bounces off and flies straight for Ametrine, only for her to use one of her batons to send it flying back to Steven, who catches it just before he tries to elbow Ametrine, but she blocks that and flip kicks Steven a couple feet back. Steven gets up again, and he and Ametrine continue to trade attacks, sword and shield clashing with stun batons, but Ametrine lands plenty of kicks on Steven. Steven gets up again, very out of breath, while Ametrine stands there with a smirk on her face. Steven's been putting up a good fight, but as skilled as he is, Ametrine's too nimble for his to find a good opening. Ametrine then holds her stun batons up high, as they exchange an even more powerful surge of electricity, and then she fires an incredible blast of electricity at Steven, who activates his protective bubble in response, it holds up well, but the blast was powerful enough to send Steven flying a block away. Ametrine figures Steven will be back for a round two, so she just walks over to a still intact car, hops on top, and sits on the hood cross-legged and resting her chin in her hands as she watches the other Crystal Gems and Big Hero 6 fend off the rest of her army.
"This, is totally the most fun I've had in a millennia", said Ametrine to herself. Meanwhile, a block away, Steven, who was knocked unconscious when he hit the ground hard, gets up slightly dazed and deactivates his bubble, and that's when he notices the Universe van pull up behind him, with his dad and Connie running up to him.
"Steven! Geez, are you okay son?!", yelled Greg as he hugged him and checked him for any serious injuries besides a few bruises, "We were just pulling up, then we spot you in your bubble, flying right at us!"
"Steven! I'm glad you're alright!", yelled Connie as she hugged Steven as well.
"I'm fine, thanks you two", said Steven before something came back to him, "But what are you guys doing here?! It's way too dangerous for you!"
"Well we couldn't stay and do nothing, we had to come", said Connie.
"She's right kiddo, so what can we do?", asked Greg, and Steven knew it would be pointless to tell them to leave, so he just gives them a quick low-down.
"I don't know, I tried to fight Ametrine, but she's way to fast and nimble for me. If I could just find some way to be nimble like her", said Steven, until he looked at Connie for a moment, and then it hit him.
That's it! That's it! I know how to beat Ametrine!
"Connie, we have to fuse again!", shouted Steven, and that caught Greg and Connie by surprise, mostly Greg since he's never seen their fusion.
"Is there something I don't know?", asked Greg.
"But Steven, that's crazy. We haven't done that since that night a long time ago, when Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl first started teaching you, and not to mention the whole fusion thing was an accident", said Connie.
"Seriously, can someone let me in on the loop?", asked Greg, even more confused about what's going on.
"We have to, if we fuse, we'll be a match for Ametrine! Come on Connie, you said you wanted to help, this is your chance", said Steven, followed by a moment before Connie nods in agreement.
"Dad, give us some room please", said Steven firmly, and simply wanting to trust him, Greg listens to his son and takes a few steps back.
"You ready?", asked Steven.
"No, but it'll be like it was yesterday", said Connie before she and Steven take off their sandals and toss them aside, and Steven leaves his sword and shield there as well, then Steven pulls out his smartphone, starts up the same song he played on that night and laid it on the hood of the van, and walks back over to Connie. They grab hands as the two barefooted besties manage to mimic the exact same dance they did on that night, all while being able to enjoy every bit of it. And as their dance concludes with Connie catching Steven from falling, Steven's gem glows extremely bright, and for Greg, it was like looking at the sun. By the time the glow fades away, Greg was able to see again, and was blown away by what he was seeing, and this marked the return of the unique gender-mixed fusion known as Stevonnie. Still creeped out, Greg walks over to the fusion.
"Son? Connie? Are you two still there?", asked Greg nervously.
"It's cool, Mr. Universe, just call me Stevonnie", said the fusion. They remarkably look almost the same as the first and last time they showed up. They had the height of Garnet, had the same jean-shorts, also barefooted, hence why Steven and Connie remembered to ditch their sandals before fusing, had Steven's new pink sleeved and white shirt, but the pink long sleeves end half way at the forearm, and Connie's green shirt is now a green tank-top.
"Okay, Stevonnie? You sure you got this?", asked Greg, followed by Stevonnie walking over to pick up the sword and shield.
"Don't worry, it'll be fun. Be right back!", shouted Stevonnie as they, with the weapons in hand, left Greg standing where he was, still in awe, and rushes toward the battlefield.
"Mind. Blown. We did a good job with this one, Rose. We sure did", said Greg to himself, no longer confused, now proud. Stevonnie reaches the battlefield at last, and sees the fight was nearly over. There aren't as many Flask bots now as there were before the two teams ever reached Town Square. Stevonnie then looks to their right and sees Ametrine, who hadn't left her spot on that car, enjoying every last bit of the show. Ametrine senses a presence, and looks to her left, and was a tad bit surprised to see someone besides Steven, and as she hops off her spot and summons her stun batons again, and with that smirk on her face still there, it didn't take her long to put two and two together.
"Well, a fusion, haven't seen one of those in a while. I'm guessing Steven, being that he's a hybrid of human and Gem, fused with his little friend with the short black hair we saw through the spy-bot. Fight nimbleness WITH nimbleness, smart squirts. But we'll see how this goes, buddy", said Ametrine.
"Oh we'll see alright. And it's Stevonnie, I'm NOT your buddy", said Stevonnie as the fusion and the Gem both got into battle stances, and dash toward each other. Stevonnie clashes their sword with Ametrine's stun batons, then Stevonnie quickly shoves Ametrine to their left, and pulls off a spinning left shield swing right into Ametrine's face. The Gem was a bit stunned for a minute, seeing that had she still fought Steven alone, she would have no problem. But since Steven and Connie are fused, it seems Ametrine had lost her edge.
"Not bad, you managed to lay a hit on me! But watch yourself, Stevonnie, I'm just getting started!", shouted Ametrine not in anger, but in confidence.
"Same here!", shouted Stevonnie, and those two dash for each over again, Stevonnie and Ametrine trade various attacks but Stevonnie's been able to land some blows on Ametrine as well. But the fight slightly took a turn for the worse as Stevonnie made one little slip-up, and Ametrine was able to mop the floor with them, dealing multiple electric blows to them with the stun batons, and landing even more devastating kicks than what she dished out to Steven. Stevonnie looks to be at their wit's end, as they lied on the ground exhausted, littered in bruises and small scorch marks from the end of the stun batons, and with their weapons lying a few feet next to them, out of their reach. Ametrine stands over Stevonnie, eager to gloat.
"Guess I didn't lose my edge after all", said Ametrine mockingly, but Stevonnie was able to fight the pain enough to trip Ametrine, toss her high into the air and leap after her, and deals out a powerful kick, sending Ametrine straight back to the ground. When Stevonnie returns to the ground, she walks over to Ametrine, struggling to sit up straight in the little crater she made when she hit the ground.
"Guess you took a beating after all", said Stevonnie mockingly, "So I gotta know, how did you and Wulfenite get here so fast?"
"That's for ME to know, and YOU to find out", said Ametrine with her usual smirk, before she quickly re-summons her stun batons, and use them to activate a strong flash of light, keeping Stevonnie from opening their eyes. Then Ametrine knees Stevonnie in the gut and flip kicks them across the street. By the time Stevonnie's sight had recovered and had gotten up from that surprise attack, Ametrine was nowhere to be found. By coincidence, the others had finished off the last of Ametrine's army, and had gathered up to rejoin Stevonnie, and Greg came over there as well.
"Glad to see you pulled through", said Greg.
"Dude! It's one of those fusions Gems can do! I read about one of them on Keep Beach City Weird too!", shouted FredZilla, but that bit made Pearl upset.
"*groans* Can't Ronaldo just stop blogging about our missions?!", shouted Pearl.
"Hey, which fusion did he write about?", asked Amethyst eagerly.
"That huge one with the flail!", shouted FredZilla.
"That would be Sugilite", said Garnet.
"YEA-YUH! That's me and Garnet fused! Boom!", shouted Amethyst.
"So I'm guessing This is Steven's fusion, but with who?", asked GoGo.
"It's Steven and Connie, but like this, you can call me Stevonnie", said Stevonnie as they adjusted their hair as if it was messy.
"Greetings, Stevonnie", said Baymax.
"I have to say, I'm surprised to see Steven fused with a human. Then again, I'm sure that's a thing because he's half Gem, half human", said Hiro.
"I'm more surprised Stevonnie is formed after all this time. I didn't think the situation called for it", said Lapis.
"This was the only way to beat Ametrine. Steven tried to take her down by himself, but it didn't go so well", said Stevonnie.
"I see, use her attributes in your favor, great strategy", said Pearl, very impressed someone besides her thought of something that strategic.
"Look like you really took a beating from Ametrine, but you no doubt did the same to her", said Wasabi.
"So, where's Ametrine", asked Honey Lemon, while Lion walks over to Stevonnie and rubs his head against them while they pet him.
"It worked like Steven hoped it would, I had a tough time, but I won. Downside, she gave me the slip, and I didn't see where she went", said Stevonnie before Hiro noticed something strange.
"I think I have an idea for that. Look over there", said Hiro as he pointed to something in the distance, and noticed faint footprints.
"Footprints?", asked Amethyst.
"Yep, she must've stepped in some of that blue liquid that serves as some form of oil for the robots", said Hiro.
"So what, we follow them or something? Please", said Amethyst.
"I'm with Amethyst on this one. That trail's really faint, looks like they only go about as far as a city block. There's no way we'd be able to follow where else Ametrine ran off to", said Lapis.
"I believe I can be of some assistance. My scanner has been outfitted to detect the chemical residue left by any form of matter", said Baymax.
"Ya lost me, big guy", said Amethyst.
"Baymax can use his scanner to follow the faint trail left by that blue liquid where we can't even see it with our own eyes. This way we'll track down Ametrine", said Hiro.
"Sounds like a plan, let's go" said Stevonnie as they split back into Steven and Connie. Luckily, it was Stevonnie who received damage in battle, not Steven and Connie, as those two were intact.
"I'm glad we fused again", said Steven with a smile.
"Yeah, I loved every second of it", said Connie with a smile as well. Then Steven went to retrieve his weapons and discard them for now, and he and Connie went back to the van to retrieve their sandals, then hopped in the van along with the other Gems and most of Big Hero 6 while Greg jumps in the driver seat. Baymax guides the van as he scans the footprints, then locks onto the faint chemical trail that normally can't be seen be human or Gem eyes. They spend about an hour or two following Baymax, who was following the invisible trail to their target. By the time Baymax had reached the end of the trail, they were all on the very edge of the city, where they stumble upon a giant stone all covered in moss.
"Seriously?! We spent all this time following some weird trail, and all we get is a rock?!", demanded Amethyst as she and everyone else exited the van, and Hiro and Pearl inspect it a little closer.
"Baymax, you sure the trail ends here? There doesn't look like there's nothing here", said Hiro.
"Ya think?", asked Amethyst.
"Correct. My scans led us to this location, where the faint chemical trail appears to go no further", said Baymax.
"Well, terrible idea here, but, maybe there's some hidden cave entrance", said Greg, which drew a few confused looks at him.
"Yeah, I don't think so", said Amethyst.
"Same here, actually", said GoGo.
"Geez, I said it was terrible", said Greg disappointed, until Garnet helps reassure him in a way.
"Maybe not", said Garnet as she walks over to the stone herself, and studies it for a moment. That's when she summons her gauntlets and has Baymax help her push the stone to the side. That action reveals a rather large secret stairway, no doubt to some underground cavern.
"Are we really gonna walk down some hidden stairway, to something really risky?", asked Wasabi.
"Well, we didn't come all this way for nothing, let's go", said Hiro as he led the way while everyone else followed. The stairway seemed to go down forever, but after ten minutes of walking, they made it to a rather large room that lit up all green, and all empty except for one single thing at the far end, something that caught the Gems by surprise.
"A…warp pad?", asked Pearl nervously.
"Aw come on! We spent days driving to this city when we could've taken the easy way?!", demanded Amethyst.
"That's not the real problem, Amethyst. I'm surprised THIS was here the whole time. Who knows how long it's even been here?", asked Lapis.
"Don't know, but this explains how Wulfenite, Ametrine and those robots got here so quickly", said Hiro.
"But, that can only mean one thing", said Lapis nervously as she, Pearl, Steven, Lion, Amethyst and Garnet exchange a nervous glance at one another.
"Only one way to find out I guess", said Steven as he and everyone else stepped onto the warp pad, which was conveniently large enough to hold more than a dozen people, and the warp pad activates and they were gone in a flash. A moment later, they were all standing in a place the Gems were surprised to see again: The Galaxy Warp.
"No. No No NO. It can't be", said Pearl in a state of fear and denial as she and the others saw it with their own eyes. The Galaxy Warp looks to remain intact, as if the Shooting Star never decimated the place, "How is it STILL in one piece?! We sent the Shooting Star here safely, THIS WHOLE PLACE shouldn't still be here!"
"Peridot must've realized the Galaxy Warp was down for good, so she must've sent those massive Plug Robonoids to repair this place at a faster rate than what the usual Flask Robonoids would be able to accomplish", said Garnet, as she and the others step off the warp pad they arrived on and explored the Galaxy Warp, but then Pearl starts acting a little nuts.
"Then let's trash this place again! Come on! We can't let this place remain intact, they're coming back to finish what they started all those years ago!", shouted Pearl as she desperately tried to tug Baymax or Lion or Wasabi to various warp pads to try to have them start smashing.
"Pearl! Stop! Just chill out!", shouted Amethyst before Pearl ran up to her, grabbed her shoulders and started shaking.
"Chill out?! I can't chill out! How can I chill out when the psychopathic leaders of our home-world are trying to resume the terrible chaos they started years ago, and hunt us down, and make us watch as they wipe out every last living creature on this planet?!", yelled Pearl, who then hugs Amethyst tightly before breaking down in tears. This ate Steven up inside, from what was shared with him, it was practically a living nightmare for Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Rose, his mom, when the Diamond Authority tried to decimate Earth many years ago, and he hated seeing Pearl break down in sadness like this. This made everyone else feel upset as well, until Hiro stepped up to Pearl, still weeping while hugging Amethyst, who tried to comfort her by hugging back.
"Pearl, I'm sorry for what you guys went through back then, I really am. But, now's not the time to let fear get the best of us. I think there's only one thing we should do now: Go pay your home-world a visit", said Hiro, which made the atmosphere a little electric among the others.
"Are you crazy?!", yelled Amethyst, then Pearl, with tears still pouring down her face, shot an angry glare at Hiro, which creeped him out a bit.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT! I refuse to go back there! After what they tried to do to us, to this planet, to Rose…I just can't!", yelled Pearl, and Hiro could see it all in Pearl's face, so full of sadness and hatred toward the leaders of her home-world, which was how he felt a long time ago after what happened to his brother, Tadashi.
"Isn't there a way to just, convince them to leave Earth the way it is?", asked Honey Lemon.
"Rose tried that the first time, they wouldn't listen. They simply saw it as Rose being naïve and foolish, just because she saw Earth as beauty, the same won't apply for them", said Garnet. Hearing this, Hiro hesitated a bit, but he went on.
"Look, if we don't do something soon, this might never end! We destroy this place like you guys did a while ago, so what? They'll just fix this place right up! We could fight them here, but they'll just keep coming, we won't stand a chance. If we hide, they'll never stop, they aren't gonna rest until they get what they want, and that's Earth. We HAVE to do this", said Hiro. Pearl was a little calm now, but was still crying, that's when the other Gems each rest a hand, and paw, on Pearl's shoulders.
"Pearl, Hiro's right. We can't sit around and let those guys try to take away everything and everyone we love. We have to go", said Steven, and Garnet, Amethyst, and Lapis, while she seemed a little nervous herself, nod in agreement, while Lion roars in response. Pearl takes a moment to collect her thoughts as she wiped away her tears and took a few deep breathes, then she gets her serious face on and gets back on her feet and stands tall.
"You're right, Steven", said Pearl, "We're done running and hiding. It's time to give them a piece of our mind", said Pearl, which made Hiro proud of this, then turns to his team.
"Well, you guys wanna do this?", asked Hiro.
"You are all my patients, and my friends, I will do whatever I can to ensure you are satisfied with your care", said Baymax in his usual healthcare manner.
"Yeah, we'd follow you anywhere", said GoGo.
"I'll always help my friends too", said Honey Lemon.
"This is totally nuts, but what the heck, I'm in", said Wasabi.
"Going to a whole other planet?! That's like every fan-boy's dream! I'm in all the way, little buddy!", shouted FredZilla.
"Thanks guys", said Hiro with pride.
"I hope you guys aren't gonna make us stay", said Connie.
"Yeah, you're not going anywhere without me, kiddo", said Greg, and Steven, out of everyone else there, knew it'd be pointless to talk those two out of it, so he makes the best decision he can think of.
"Alright, you can come too", said Steven before he and everyone else stepped onto the Home-world warp pad.
"Let's warp", said Garnet as the warp pad flashed brightly along with the usual beam of energy, and they were gone. A moment later, on another planet light-years away from Earth, a warp pad light up, with Big Hero 6 and the Crystal Gems appearing. They find themselves in a rather large chamber, with teal colored walls, and around them, was a set of warp pads in the same manner as the Galaxy Warp, but with a whole lot more Gem architecture than Steven has ever seen before. Everyone was in awe, while Garnet, Pearl and Lapis seemed to be taking it in the most.
"We're…we're actually-", said Steven, but was cut off due to loss of words
"Home", said Lapis in great awe.
Well, this is something isn't it? They're finally able to set foot on the Gem Homeworld! First off, I'm glad many who read this story deeply enjoyed part three, made up of some mystery, suspense, a boat load of action, and in response to a comment left for me, I hope they enjoy the fact that Stevonnie made their appearance at last, and in a battle against OC Gem Ametrine, who I hope you all enjoyed as well, not to mention I did the creator of this OC proud by incorporating her here like with Wulfenite in part two. Second, better be ready for the epic conclusion to this remarkable story, I won't reveal much, except there's gonna be plenty of other great OC characters, made by other great people, making a story debut like this, not to mention a hurricane of action, danger and emotion! Along with a very big surprise around the end of part four! Get ready, this is the last stand, so you better Believe in Steven!
-MarioDeleon59