A/N OK, so anyone who is up to date with the show has probably seen the episodes 'Earthlings', 'Back to the moon', and 'Bubbled' and know that a dew of the theories I was using for this story have been disproven. But after some thought I decided to continue this as an AU story, also a lot of fan theorist believe there is still more to the story of Pink Diamond then the show has shown so far, so some of the theories I'm using still have a chance. But most of all I've put a good amount of thought into this fic and I would like to finish it either way.
P.S. I may use fact reviled in the show that don't debunk the theories to add depth.
Also I have re-edited the disruption of Pink Diamond Clothes from the first chapter, feel free to go back to re-read that scene.
Chapter 2: The Frilly and Famous General
Pink Diamond's shuttle touched down on a landing paid, supported by a series of hard stone columns, with large a amount of greenery growing on them, that was build in mountain range on one of Earth's least human inhabited continents, one that was flanked by the planet's two largest oceans.
Disembarking, Pink Diamond was ushered out of her ship by the same party of Amethysts as they bowed to her leaving like they did to her arriving.
Once she was off her ship Pink Diamond was flanked, on her right side by her Pearl, and on her left side of her Amethyst bodyguard.
The three Gems made their way to a warp paid that was on a separate platform connected to the landing paid by a narrow walk way. There they were greeted by two Gems, who crossed their arms in the usual salute in higher ranking Gems.
Getting on to the warp paid Pink Diamond, Pink Pearl and the Amethyst activated it and was warped away from the lading paid.
They arrived at a warp paid set in a much grander site. This warp paid was inside an almost temple like structure, with a series of stone columns baring Pink Diamond's symbol, forming a semi-circle around the warp paid, and columns of green vines growing on them.
The area in front of the warp paid was guarded by two Green Quartzes, which looked like any other Quartzes, tall, brad shouldered, long flowing hair, very strong looking, only their skin had a very green tint to it. One of these Green Quartzes had her Gem stone in the front of her neck and her partner had hers in the side of her right leg. They both had Pink Diamond symbols on the front of their uniforms.
The two Green Quartz guards folded their arms in salute, as the two Gems from the other Warp paid did, as they said, in unison. "Welcome back to your base, our Diamond."
Stepping off the warp paid, the three Gems made their way down a stone path that lead to the front entrench a grand castle like structure. The outer most of it was a large light pink wall that had waterfalls falling from the top of it that feed into a moat around the whole wall, there could also be seen brightly colored flowers at the top and claiming vines of versus other flowers all over the outside of the wall.
As Pink Diamond and the other two Gems walked up to the grand entrench, a beautifully carved Arch way, with the emblem of the four Diamonds above it, that had hanging vines of flowers over the opening and a waterfall falling directly on to the zenith of it were the water fall split in two and fell in to the moat, they crossed over a small bridge over the moat that had flowers on either side of it.
As Pink Diamond, her loyal servant, and her loyal bodyguard passed over the bridge the flowers twitched and moved in their direction as they walked by, as if they were reacting to their presence, the flowers over the entrench reacted the same way.
The inside of this walled structure was mostly a large and lush garden, with many stone walkways and statues and water fountains that doted the trees and flower beds and arrangements that made up the garden itself.
Pink Diamond was not alone there. The aristocratic members of her court, as well as their assorted friends, and the occasional Quartz guards or servant Pearls were their as well. The non-aristocratic Gems did their respective jobs while drawing as little attention to themselves as possible. The Pearls standing by their owners and the Quartzes walked thought out the garden making sure that the aristocratic Gems felt as safe as they could. Not that there was much of any threat on this plaint at the time, but where ever one had so many important Gems one must also have security.
Due to her height and unique appearance, Pink Diamond did not go unnoticed in the crowd, but the aristocratic court members were only obligated to formerly acknowledge Pink Diamond when they spoke to her directly. 'If we had to salute and say 'My Diamond' every time we saw her we would hardly say anything else at all.' A Diamond court member may say to a less important friend.
Pink Diamond walked a straight path from the front entrench towards the center of the castle like base, a area on the other side a two more dividing walls, among the versus other facilities that her Head quarters held.
Halfway though the outer garden Pink Diamond stopped, as did her Pearl and Amethyst, as she noticed an odd gathering in a court yard just off her path.
Walking over to the large gathering of court members Pink Diamond saw that they were all witnessing a sparring match between a few members of Pink Diamond's military.
The Gems involved were an Amethyst, a close member of her personal bodyguard regiment Pink Diamond recognized by my her right eye gem placement, two Green Quartzes with their gems on either of their shoulders, four Rudy's, the leader of which had a forehead gem and a Pink tinted visor over her eyes, and an Ametrine, yellow and purple, about the same height as any Quartz, but slimmer and with no hair, with her Gem on the back of her left hand. But what was most notable of this group was who they were all fighting.
There, in the center of the court yard, waiting for the fighting to begin, was Pink Diamond's famed Quartz general, Rose Quarts. Standing at eight feet tall she dwarfed even her fellow quartz type Gems, her long flowing hair going down her back in neat curled ringlets were other's would simply go back in a wild looking main, a layered pick and white dress that bared no Pink Diamond symbol, were as others would wear more standard Gem Military type uniforms. Pink Diamond didn't see the point in having Rose dress like any other soldier, she was famous enough that any Gem who counted that saw he would know right away who she was, and all the Diamond's customized their most closest Gems and Pink Diamond was known for having the best appreciation for style among the Diamonds, though Blue Diamond did some close.
Rose's eight opponents flanked her on all sides waiting for the fight to start, as the higher classed onlookers waited to see what would be a great display of the famous skills of Rose Quartz.
This however was delayed once everyone caught side of Pink Diamond walking up to them. Seeing a Diamond walking around was part of being a member of her court or military, but to have her walking directly up to you for no obvious reason would be enough to make any Gem feel put out, unless you're one of their most closest Gems, like Rose was.
The audience were the first to notice her, Then the Ametrine, who was standing on the opposite side of the yard from where Pink Diamond was approaching saw her and got nervous, this tipped off the Amethyst, who simply grunted in surprise, and Rubies, none of whom know what to make of Pink Diamond's sudden appearance, or everyone's nervous reactions to her, and the two Green Quartzes acutely backed away from their end of the yard once they noticed their Diamond walking so close to them.
Rose, with her back to the detraction Pink Diamond was approaching in, was the last one to notice her. Rose only turned to see her Diamond once she saw everyone else's reactions, but when she saw Pink Diamond, instead of feeling worried or nervousness, Rose showed a pleasant smile and said. "Hello my Diamond, we weren't expecting you back so soon."
"Yes, my meeting with my fellow Diamonds went much faster than I expected. They are very pleased to hear about the progress we are making on this planet by the way, although they feel we might be able to go faster, I told them the humans have been a bit more trouble than we thought, but we're handling them aren't we Rose?"
"We certainly are my Diamond, these Rubies just came back from escorting a surveyor party in one of this planet's denser jungle reigns, this Amethyst and Ametrine have cleared more areas that you can now visit without fear of humans disturbing you, and these Green Quartzes have just reported about the movements of the humans migrating south on this continent."
"All good to hear, and you have chosen to take a break from all your hard work to train with your fellow soldiers?" Pink Diamond lightheartedly asked, though everyone else seemed to take what she said to mean she was disappointed by her soldier's actions.
"Yes we are, you are always saying that we should take every chance we get to hone our fighting skills." Rose happily said back.
"That I do, and I am glad to see that you are." Pink Diamond said, and at her words everyone nearby stopped being nervous. "The rest of you," Pink Diamond addressed the other soldier Gems, "Do not hold back, fight Rose with everything you can throw at her."
At Pink Diamond's orders Rose's opponents regained their composer and regained their fighting stances after saying, in unison, "Yes my Diamond." No matter how nervous Pink Diamond's sudden presents made them, once they we given a direct order from such a high ranking Gem every bit of their core programming told them to obey.
The Ametrine was the first to move on Rose.
Rushing head first at Rose's front, Ametrine summoned her weapon and pulled a purple and yellow rapier from the back of her left land and lunged at Rose.
Rose waited until the last second for dramatic affect and summoned her shield. The purple and yellow rapier clashed with the nearly transparent shield and a vibrating sound was heard admitting from the collision. Ametrine continued her attack, being leaner then most other Quartzes she was able to deliver a quick series of thrusts against Rose's shield, even using her centrifugal force powers to move above or beside Rose and try and get her from a different angle. Even getting desperate enough to summon a second rapier and grab it with her other hand.
Ametrine's fast paced attacks didn't even make Rose flinch. Rose never lost a beat, and her shield easily expanded to block the attacks from the second sword.
After Ametrine try one last centrifugal movement to build up momentum she trusted at Rose only to be stop by the shield and then be thrown back to the other side of the court yard by a blast from the Rose's weapon. But instead of giving up Ametrine spun herself up one more time, building up even more power then hurled herself at Rose with both rapiers pointed forward.
In response Rose tossed her shield so that it went right between the two blades and hit Ametrine squire in the face. Ametrine was thrown back, she hit the side of the court yard with a cloud of dust, and her rapiers disappeared upon hitting the ground.
Once Ametrine was down the Rubies began their attack. All four of them ran at Rose. Their screaming alerted her faster then she needed it. Rose quickly summoned a new shield and used to stop the lead ruby, and then she leaped into the air as the other three Rubies jumped at her from other angles.
The lead Ruby fell off Rose's shield as she flipped back in midair to land farther away from the Rubies. The four Rubies tried attacking her at once only to have Rose expand her weapon to black all four of them at once and then push them back to their end of the yard while they screamed like when they first attacked her.
Once the Rubies were done, the two Green Quartzes went at Rose, attacking almost fast enough to catch Rose before she could react. Rose moved her shield just in time to stop the battle axe summed by the left shoulder gemmed Quartz. Rose jumped back to have more room to throw her shield again but was stopped when the other Green Quartz came at her with her own shield. The two defensive weapons collided as the second Green Quartzes bared down on Rose. The result was a loud vibrating sound as the two shields replied each other back. Rose, having a tougher shield, and being stronger herself, was only thrown back a few feet, were as the right shoulder gemmed Green Quartzes had to be caught by her partner.
The two Green Quartzes ran at Rose at the same time with both their weapons. The shield welding one had a shield that was shaped like an upside down triangle, so the point at the bottom made it a good weapon. Rose summoned a second shield and stepped back as her two current opponents cut and jabbed at her with their green colored weapons. Rose blocked their attacks with her shield as she stepped back along the court yard. Then Rose leaped into the air above the other Quartzes, catching them off guard and crushing them into each other with her two shields.
Her opponents temporarily disabled Rose floated back to the ground where she merged her shields into one large shield that she trusted it at the Green Quartzes, causing them to be thrown back against their edge of the court yard.
As Rose was enjoying that small victory, above her a spinning purple object cast a shadow over her. Rose looked up just in time to see the eye gemmed Amethyst lung down at her with a purple axe. Rose moved her shield in the Amethyst's path just time to stop the attack, the sheer force behind it though was enough to almost push Rose down on to the ground. Fortunately for Rose the stronger the force against her shield the stronger she could push back, so the Amethysts was hurled back just as powerfully as when she came at Rose.
Landing on her feet just a few feet away from Rose, the Amethyst went at Rose again. Though the Amethyst's brad axe was not as big as the Green Quartz's battle axe, the Amethysts proved to be stronger then the Ametrine, and her moves were more patient and deliberate then the Green Quartzes or the Rubies. Rose could tell that she had chosen to be the last opponent Rose would face so that maybe Rose may have been more tired and easier to beat, and Rose knew this particular Amethyst well enough to know what would be the kind of thing she would try. Rose also knew that in a contest of who had more energy for fighting this Amethyst was a worthily opponent, and that she had enough strength and power to keep from being knocked back by simple shield thrusts while her guard was up.
Figuring what to do quickly Rose waited for the Amethyst to swing her axe in a downward motion while her feet were on the ground. Rose swung her lag out and kicked the Amethyst's lag out from under her.
Her footing gone and her stance broken the Amethyst tripped into midair not knowing what was happening for a split second. In that split second Rose Jumped into the air above the Amethyst and trusted her shield on to her so that she hit the ground with a loud vibrating noise and a puff of dust and possible a dent made in the stone bricks of the court yard. Landing a couple of feet next the her, Rose trusted her shield one last time at the still slightly confused Amethyst, hurling her back to her end of the court yard.
Her last challenger defeated Rose felt she had won, until she noticed a flash of red light, and a flash of green coming from behind her.
Turning around Rose saw that the Rubies and Green Quartzes made formed two fusions that wore coming at her at the same time. The four Ruby fusion pulled a large hammer out of her forehead Gem and summoned a set of red brass knuckles out of the Gem in he left palm, the Green Quartz fusion welding both battle axe and shield.
Their attacks were powerful but predicable as Rose easily avoided being crushed by the hammer and brass knuckles as well being cut by the axe or sharp shield.
As both fusions closed in on her from both sides, Rose jumped into the air between them. The two fusions, being about the same height tried to hit Rose at the same time, but Rose jumped up faster than they could stick and the Ruby fusion ended up hitting the Green Quartz fusion in the face with her brass knuckle, and the Green Quartz fusion ended up impaling the Ruby fusion through the chest with her shield.
The two fusions stayed like that for a second, while Rose floated down on the center of the court yard where she was at the start of the match. As she touched down the Rubies and Green Quartzes de-fused, leaving behind two tired looking Green Quartzes and four exhausted looking Rubies.
Rose stood perfectly still as her eight challengers picked him selves up, all too tired to fight, especially the Rubies and Green Quartzes, having used the last bit their energy to form their fusions.
Rose stood still, her eyes closed in the solemn dignity anyone would expect from a member of a Diamond's inner circle. Once it was clear to the entire audience that the fight was over, they all began to clap and cheer, even Rose's defeated opponents begin to clap, once they were back then their feet. Win or lose, they still felt it was an honor to spar with the famous Rose Quartz and be treated as a serious fighter.
Turing about and looking at Pink Diamond Rose asked. "Did we please you my Diamond?"
Pink Diamond answered. "Yes, every bit as impressive as I've come to expect from you, and form the rest of your comrades here. Good to see they are also keeping up with their training."
"Well in all fairness, the human have proven to be decent practice for combat, if you can find a strong enough one."
"So the human are good at fight Gems after all then?" Pink Diamond said in a joking voice.
"Not for us my Diamond, whenever humans mess with us, we crush them so fast, you wouldn't believe it!" The lead Ruby said with all the simple bravado one would expect form a Ruby.
"I don't know it kind of hurt when that big human dropped a bolder on me." A Ruby with a Gem in her ankle said.
"No one asked you, and that's what you get for letting yourself get separated from your group and backed into a corner during a raid like that!" The lead Ruby berated her subordinate.
No one paid any more mind to this as then would have done with the usual squabbles Rubies sometimes had with each other.
At this time Rose was hit by a strange sensation that she was familiar with. Getting Pink Diamond's attention she said. "My Diamond there is a disturbance at the western quadrant of the outer wall."
"Are you sure?" Pink Diamond asked.
"Yes"
Acting quickly, Pink Diamond stepped into the court yard herself and got the attention of the other soldiers there. "All of you come with me and Rose." Pink Diamond commanded.
All of Rose's fallen opponents suddenly got their strength back at Pink Diamond's orders. Gathering around Pink Diamond, they left the space in front of her open, knowing what was going to happen.
Concentrating on the location Rose mentioned Pink Diamond's Gem, and then her star shaped hair began to glow. A pulse of light and a roaring sound came from her Diamond in her abdomen and formed into a Diamond shaped portal in front of her.
Quickly Ametrine, the Rubies, the Green Quartzes, The Amethysts, Rose, and finally Pink Diamond, and her Pearl jumped through the portal and came out on top of the western part of the castle like base's protective wall.
All the soldiers looked around for the source of the disturbance, but is was Pink Pearl who saw it and brought it to everyone's attention. "Look down!" She called to everyone else, fining this was an appropriate time to speak.
Looking down the other Gems saw that half a dozen humans had found their way to the bottom of the wall and had tried to climb up the vines that grow from the top of it, only to be ensnared by the plans that Rose had imbued with sentience and sent to guard the outside of the base.
The soldier Gems looked at the humans and found it funny that any of them thought there was a serious treat for a bit.
"Stupid humans, don't you know that there's no Gem structure without security to keep you out!" One of the Rubies called out.
"Are those some of the humans you were tracking?" The eye gemmed Amethyst asked the Green Quartzes.
"Ah, they're not the exact same ones, but they are probably part of the same migration." One of the Green Quartzes nervously answered.
"Don't feel too bad, Humans are a stubborn species, they almost seem determined to define anything that tries to govern their lives. It's likely that whatever was put in place to keep them away is the very thing that attracted them there." Ametrine said.
"Stupid humans, learn to listen when something tells you to do something!" Another Ruby shouted, not being able to comprehend why any being would choose to define so many things that told them the same thing, being a simple minded soldier who only knew how to take orders.
"Should we take care of them for you my Diamond?" The lead Ruby said, summoning her hammer, this lead to the rest her team summoning their weapons as well. The red brass knuckles from the left palm gemmed ruby, a mace from a Ruby with her gem on her back, and a dagger from the Ruby with gem in her ankle.
The other soldiers were about to do the same thing when Pink Diamond said. "No," the solder Gems stopped moving their hand toward their glowing gem stones. Looking down at the humans, feudally fighting against Rose's plant centuries with wooden clubs and crude spears, Pink Diamond said. "Humans scarcely travel in groups this small, these are probably a hunting party from a larger community, if they don't return the rest of them may come looking them and we'll have an even bigger problem.
"Rose have your plants drop over into that sallow stream that goes away from the base, if they tell the others they failed they may get the massage." Pink Diamond orders Rose.
"Yes, My Diamond." Rose simply said as moved her arms and the humans where moved over above a small river that flowed out of the base's moat and into a wooded area nearby.
The primitive hunters were dropped into the water. They were carried away, shouting in their primitive luggage.
"Are you sure that was wise, My Diamond?" The chest gemmed Amethyst asked Pink Diamond. "There is a chance they may come back with more help."
"I am aware of that, and that is way Ametrine will re-gather her team and do surveillance of the immediate area for signs of their encampment, and the Green Quartzes shall do surveillance on the larger surrounding are to check for more signs of the humans." Pink Diamond ordered three of the nine Gems with her.
At her orders the motioned Gems saluted and said, "Yes my Diamond" as one, and sate off to do their assigned tasks.
"What shall you have Us do, My Diamond?" The lead Ruby asked while saluting.
"Go to your commanding officer, and await you next assignment." Pink Diamond simply said, that being the default or any soldier without an assigned task at the time.
"Understood" The lead Ruby said, then she and her team matched off away from Pink Diamond.
"The rest of us shall return to my throne for the time being, after we inform the members of my court that there is no danger at this time." With that Pink Diamond turned around and faced the inside of her castle like base. Concentrating on the place they left from Pink Diamond opened up another portal that Rose, Pink Pearl, The Amethysts, and herself stepped though.
Emerging in the same court yard that they left from, Pink Diamond got the attention of her court and told all the members present that there was no threat, that it was just a small group of humans.
At the mention of humans the aristocratic Gems stated to laugh at the idea that a Diamond ended having to deal with such a small issue.
Pink Diamond didn't pay this any mind and resumed her walk towards her throne, now with Rose and an additional Amethyst.
As Pink Diamond walked from the outer circle of the base to the middle circle, she noticed a few maintenance Bismuths going to fix the damages done by Rose's fight.
Walking thought the middle ring of the base was nothing really. It was a lot smaller the the outer one, and right now mainly served as the work places for Gem architects who designed the buildings and the Gem scientist who right did simple research regarding Earth, thought there wasn't much else left for Gems to figure out about the planet, for the most part the Earth was like many other planets and there wasn't much anything new most Gems would consider interesting.
The inner ring of the base was where the great thinkers in Pink Diamond's court spent most of their time talking amount themselves in the towers around the center. In the center was Pink Diamond's throne.
Pink Diamond's throne was Pink, the same size as the chair from the moon base, and elegant carvings of beautiful plants and flowers that didn't seem to be native to Earth on its sides and up its back, and large star shape at the top like the shape of Pink Diamond's hair.
The Throne was sate in a small altar with a Pink vale around it, with vines of flowers growing up and down the columns of it, the altar was surrounded with a small version of the moat from outside and four small streams fade clear water into the other parts of the base.
Stepping over the water, the two Amethysts took their place on either side of the front entrench to the throne's altar. Pink Diamond, Pink Pearl and Rose fallowed behind them, but went into the altar themselves.
Once inside Pink Diamond took a set on her throne, her pearl stood to her left and Rose stood right in front of Pink Diamond.
"So Rose, do you have the reports from the other solder Gems you were just sparing with?"
"Yes my Diamond, I have them right her." Rose said as she reached into the folds of her dress and pulled out what seemed smooth shiny peace of stone.
Knowing what this was Pink Pearl pushed a large device that seemed to be a smaller version of the moon base's console in between Rose and Pink Diamond.
Rose slide the object into an opening in the device and a series of holograms appear in arm's reach of Pink Diamond.
Pink Diamond begins to flip thought the holographic images as she studies them. They are the most recent reports from the security groups and surveying parties all over the planet. They matched what she heard from Rose earlier. Reports about mineral deposit in densely wooden areas on a forested ridden part of Earth, a few more locations cleared for safe travel of higher ranking Gems, and the migratory patterns of the large groups of humans moving south on the continent Pink choose to build her main base on.
"Rose?" Pink Diamond started.
"Yes, my Diamond." Rose answered.
"What do you make of the humans?"
A little surprised by this question Rose took a moment to answer. "Well, they seem to be a lot tougher then they looked at the beginning. Sure we can still drive them away pretty easily, but it does take some work to keep them away. And they can take more than their forms would lead you to believe, I heard from a scientist Gem that these migrating humans actually came from the continent to the west of this one and they crossed over a massive ice bridge in one of the coldest parts of the planet, at a time when this planet was a lot colder, there seems to be a lot more to them then most Gems give them credit for." Rose honestly said.
"Brilliantly said Rose, and good to see that you have the right mind set to complement your rank and status." Pink Diamond said as she shut off the holograms.
"Also, you handled you shield weapon greatly out there earlier." Pink Diamond added.
"Thank you my Diamond, most Gems can't believe all the abilities I have with such a simple looking defensive weapon."
"Never forget to keep training with it, you have yet to use the shield to its full potential." Pink Diamond said to Rose like she said to her many times before.
"I won't, my Diamond." Rose answered back like she always did.
At this time a wailing stone, in the corner of the altar, activated.
"This is the Peridot from the prime Kindergarten, I am trying to reach Pink Diamond with an important massage."
"Pearl, hand me the waling stone." Pink Diamond ordered Pink Pearl.
Pink Pearl handed Pink Diamond a wailing stone about the size of her own body, and with a pink flower pattern on it.
Holding the stone in her hand, Pink pressed the button on the top of it and spoke. "This is Pink Diamond, what is it Peridot?"
"I have…completed the simulations you ordered, and I have them ready for you to look over at your convenience, My Diamond."
"Good to hear Peridot, I will be with you soon then." Pink Diamond said.
"Understood, I look forward to speaking with you my Diamond. "Peridot out"
With that the communication was ended.
In small darkly lit room the Peridot Pink Diamond was just speaking to was moving her long slim arms to the side and she used her metallokinesis to move her smaller, green wailing stone to the side.
Once the stone was in place she signed as she walked over to a hand shaped interface device that she placed her hand on, as she did this and series of holograms appeared, each showing three gem shapes, two next to each other, and one below the other two.
Looking at the data connected to each image the Peridot sighed again, she knew that she had to obey her Diamond no matter what, but she still had dome misgivings about is particular idea.
A/N For clarity the Peridot in that last scene is an 'area one' Peridot, so she is average human height and is meant to have metallokinesis (control of metal).
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