Chapter 6

Blue Diamond's Ship

1800s

Era 2

There was an overall panic in the area as dozens of gems scrambled to repair the ship. A giant hole sucked all the air from inside and spat it out to the vacuum of space. Eventually, the hole was repaired but not before having several ships and gems flung out to empty space. There was fire everywhere with dozens of Lapis Lazuli Gems trying to control it and there were dozens of Agates trying to re-establish order before they could all deduce what had happened.

Then Yellow Diamond's ship appeared in response to the disaster. Aid had arrived with swarms of Peridots, Quartzes and even a couple of Agates rushing into Blue Diamond's ship. Even Yellow Diamond herself rushed in to see what was the problem. Something like this simply never happened.

"Blue, are you alright?" Yellow Diamond asked, while she helped her sister Diamond up.

Blue looked up and nodded, she managed to stand up and looked out the window to seem what sort of chaos was happening. The hole was repaired but the cause wasn't quite addressed yet, now within all the confusion that had happened.

"I think a ship crashed into mine, I don't understand why though." Blue responded and looked, one of the ships don't belong and then she found it. While all of her ships were blue, there was one that was a more greenish colour, "Get me Emerald, she has some explaining to do."

"A Diamond must be perfect, pure and divine, if you're not like that then you're hardly a diamond at all." Pink Diamond would often replay Yellow's messages while on the colony. By then, it seemed that the war had long started and most progress had been postponed until the threat was over.

Pink Diamond remained right in her Palanquin, she didn't have much things to do ever since Yellow and Blue had begun to intervene in the war. Not that she had a problem Pink didn't quite know what to do since the rebellion was the very first of the kind.

"Perfect, pure and divine, if you're not like that then you're hardly a diamond at all." Pink would keep repeating the message, hoping it would sink deep into her soul.

"My Diamond, Blue Diamond wishes to speak to you." A Jasper would inform her. Pink Diamond nodded and sent the message through.

Pink Diamond stood at attention while the video began to develop. There was Blue Diamond, she looked to be somewhat in a better mood, at least compared to the last few days. Seeing Blue's expression made Pink relax just a little bit. She managed to smile.

"Well, good news, we finally managed to push Rose's rebellion back, thanks to the reinforcements.

"That's great, so the Prime Kindergarten's finally safe." Pink replied, her face relaxed a bit, relieved at the news.

"Yes, your ownership of Earth is at risk. Yellow Diamond has been quite persuasive in trying to convince White to give her the Earth once the war is over." Blue said, "she also plans to end all of your added projects in favour of her own."

"But, it's not fair. The cluster project would work, we can't end it before it even starts…" Pink said to Blue, she managed to frown again.

"There was nothing I could do…"

Back Onyx suddenly reformed, right under the rubble of the ship's debris, the Gem looked around at the chaos and then she looked right at the damaged ship. Everything seemed to be getting worse, and worse whenever she was involved. Then, she saw the other Gems, there were Moonstone and Peridot, both had just reformed after the collision and there was Aquamarine who had also just reformed.

"Oh no…" she whispered and began to move deeper into the rubble, to hide from suspecting Gems. She wasn't read to meet the Diamonds, at least not like this. Her managed to slightly shapeshift her facial features and body, making it look less than her formal self.

It didn't matter though, the moment she looked up, an Amethyst picked her up from the rubble and she joined the other Gems. It made no sense to attempt to escape though, the entire ship was at high alert. She continued to walk right behind Moonstones, deeper into the ship until she arrived right at Blue Diamond's personal quarters.

She used to always be right beside Blue, visiting her ship used to be a pleasure but all that changed. Before Black Onyx knew it, there was Yellow Diamond, along with Blue Diamond, and Emerald was shown through the screen.

"My Diamonds, these are Gems responsible for the damage." An Agate said.

"Emerald, do you recognize any of them?" Yellow asked.

"Um yes, that Moonstone, Peridot and Zircon escaped my ship. Oh, and they managed to capture the Black Onyx on their stolen ship." Emerald responded.

"And what about the Aquamarine?" Blue asked.

"I have never seen her before."

The two Diamonds gazed at Black Onyx and looked at her especially closely; their gazed where sharp, almost as if they recognized some long lost in her but the feeling was shrugged off.

"Jaspers, send the insurgents to the dungeons and send the Black Onyx to a heavily watched barracks so they can await out decisions." Yellow Diamond said, then clapped her hand, "That would be all."

Once all of the Gems left the Diamonds looked at each other, as if they both knew what the other was thinking. Blue then proceeded to contact White Diamond, there was something all three of them needed to discuss. White then appeared in the screen, in white robes with a cape, her hair was pointy with a relatively long neck.

"Blue, and Yellow, this is very sudden. What's wrong?" White questioned, though she didn't show much emotion.

"There was an accident, some rebel gems managed to crash in Blue's ship." Yellow answered.

"Oh, that's a first, but I imagined it's being handled well."

"It is, but we just saw a Black Onyx Gem, one specific to your court." Blue replied, "We found something peculiar about your Gem."

White got a little bit more interested at the mention of Black Onyx, and a bit surprised as well, she looked right at the two of them, but kept her calm figure for a little bit.

"Peculiar? How so?"

"We've noticed some interesting similarities between her and Pink Diamond, is there any relation?"

"Relation? When making the first Black Onyx, I used a few other gem designs as a base, including some Quartz and Pink. That's why you saw the similarity." White answered, her response wasn't completely honest though.

"That explains it. Sorry Blue but you got to move on." Yellow Diamond added in an instant.

"Yes, yes. I understand." Blue added.

For a moment there, it almost seemed that Blue felt some sort of connection with Black Onyx, a relatively familiar one at best. Though it was something she couldn't just brush off, she accepted White Diamond's explanation.

"So what are we to do with Black Onyx then?"

"Black Onyx's original mission was to go retrieve a Pearl and bring her to be. Allow her to complete that mission. You can shatter that other Gems if you wish." White Diamond answered right before logging off.

"Pearl? There wasn't any report of a Pearl from the crash," Blue said to Yellow

"She must have sneaked past the Gems, issue an alert."

"We're dead, so very dead." Peridot moaned. Each one of them were in a separate cell.

"Quiet, they didn't shatter us immediately, so there must be something up." Zircon responded, she looked around her own cell. This time, there was no outside help, "Oh Moonstone, maybe you can…"

"I've mapped out every part of the ship," Moonstone said, before she could finish her sentence, "Even if we can get out of the cells, there's too much Gems to sneak through."

Aquamarine then took out her wand, she managed to hide it just long enough so none of the Home World gems would be able to take it. She sighed and looked down at it. Dozens of different plans ran though her head, attempting to find a feasible solution to the problem they were in. There was none…

"I… I don't even know what to do… I always know what to do." Aquamarine said to herself.

"Hey guys." Pearl suddenly popped into the scene.

"Wow, how did you slip past all of the Quartz at the wreckage?" Peridot asked.

"Oh, Pearls usually reform quite slowly even when rushed. When I did, there weren't many guards." She answered, "Questions later, we got to go."

"You might be able to sneak around, but we can't… not together." Aquamarine, "Besides both Blue Diamond's and Yellow Diamond's troops are here, it's locked tight."

"Yeah, how will we ever slip out?" Zircon asked.

"Ooh, I have a suggestion," Peridot said, and everyone turned to her, "Why don't we all poof ourselves, so Aquamarine can carry our gems to an escape pod."

That was the best plan they got. Pearl freed everyone then proceeded to poof them and herself, only leaving Aquamarine to carry them. It didn't take long for an alarm to go out though, and dozens of Quartz soldiers rushed to find the escapees. Luckily, thanks to Aquamarine's small form, and her knowledge in finding her way through the ship, she did manage to avoid getting caught.

Once, she got to the escape pod area however, her luck ran out. There was Black Onyx, just patiently waiting there alone. There weren't any other Gems within the area, just her.

"The Diamonds placed an alert for the Pearl, where is she?" Onyx asked her.

Aquamarine didn't respond, she just took out her wand and aimed the beam right at Onyx. Black Onyx moved to the side though, and just flung a fire ball right at her. It hit Aquamarine directly, she fell over and dropped all of the gems. One by one, each of the Gems reformed, but they were all met with the surprise of being surrounded by Quartz Gems.

"We were so close..." Peridot complained.

From the crowds, a Holly Blue Agate, along with a Sapphire appeared. The Sapphire wore her usually puffy dress, with her hair covering her one eye.

"Looks like you were right Sapphire," Agate said, then she turned to the Quartz, "Take them back to the cells."

So, it was done. One by one each one of the rebel Gems was taken by the Quartz, all except for one. Black Onyx took hold of Pink Pearl, she still intended to finish her mission. White Diamond was waiting and with all that was happening, Pink Pearl's delivery to her was long overdue. So Onyx poofed her, not desiring any sort of resistance. Then, she proceeded to bubble the Gem, then carry it right to one of the ships.

From here, this would be the last time Pink Pearl would see any of her newly made friends.