Earth really was a beautiful place. Stunning views, gorgeous colours and relaxing sounds, but there wasn't anything that was worth protecting, thought Obsidian "Then, what were these guys doing here? I should ask Bismuth later.". She was seated on the edge of the hill above the base, over the head of who she thought was the leader, Rose Quartz. Of course Rose noticed the black gem watching over them like a hawk, she wasn't even trying to conceal her presence, looking straight at her. There were around 10 other gems there, all of them new recruits, their numbers had grown a lot since the attack on Pink Diamond, they probably thought that to do that, they needed a big army, well that was not the case, before the attack, they had around 63 gems, that was less than the number of Peridots in Alpha kindergarten alone. Those numbers had more than tripled, and not only did servant gems like pearls enter, but warriors had also joined the group, there were Jaspers, Amethysts, Ametrines and Tourmalines had joined, all from the quartz division of fighters who wanted to take part in the growing rebellion.
Bismuth was working extremely hard to outfit all of those who had joined, but she was managing to make the best weapons for any gem that came to her. Unfortunately, no other blacksmiths were there to help her. Homeworld was afraid that, if they sent more Bismuths to earth, they could potentially help the Diamond shattering rebellion create bigger and better arsenals. But Bismuth wasn't the only hard-working gem around. Since Obsidian joined the crystal gems, a class of elite gems within the rebellion, she had been training non-stop. She would often retreat to her gemstone for no apparent reason, but that was starting to fade away, she became a strong gem after all, she had been getting stronger for around 3 years. That created a mask around her, she was different, not like anything they had ever seen, she was unique. Gems treated her differently, they were afraid of her, even Rose feared what she could do if she went back to her roots and betrayed the rebels, although with their new numbers would suppress her more quickly than before, she could immobilise them during battle with her "illusion gravity" ability.
"We haven't had a battle in a long time, we should spar a little before the others start to think we're just some quiet group that just sits around.", thought Bismuth, "We should organise something like a battle royale soon, I'll talk to Rose about that later, right now, I need to focus on forging." She was making some tweaking in a sword, not as sharp as the black colored gem's one, but good enough, she just sharpened it a little and added a better guard and it voi'la, it was done.
-Pleasure doing Bismuth with you.-"I really should go see Obi"
-Sure- said the Ametrine that had received the new and better version of her weapon.
After working on a few other weapons, roughly 10, she went to chat with her friend.
-So, are you working hard or hardly working?- asked Bismuth to the dark gem.
-Very funny, but I think I've managed to get around the random poofing problem, I'll have to do something that I don't think you guys would be very fond of.
-Really? Tell me, what is it?
-Well, I popped out ofthe ground earlier than I was supposed to, so that means that I didn't absorb as much energy as I needed to. I got to absorb more, or I'll continue doing this.
-That's no good, you would only harm the Earth even more, Rose would never allow it.
-I didn't say it needed to be on Earth, if we managed to hijack a ship from all of those gems coming to Earth, we could fly to the nearest planet and I wouldn't harm anyone, we've already confirmed that there isn't any other planets with life in this solar system, haven't we?
-You talk about hijacking a ship from Yellow, Blue or even White Diamond's ship like it was easy. Don't you know those things are filled with soldiers?
-Actually, I don't, I'm only around 50 years old, don't you remember, I was made in the same day you attacked Pink Diamond.
-Oh yeah, forgot 'bout that. If you really need to that, we'll need a distraction, we should probably talk with Rose to see what she can do.
-That's probably a good idea.- She didn't really want to talk with the pink gem, she knew that Rose was afraid that she would turn on them. "But this might be a good way to prove that I won't do that. Yeah, I think it's for the best"- Ok, let's go.
She was just a jump below them, literally. When they landed, they quickly noticed a few new faces. Staring straight at them."Why are they doing this?" Bismuth was about to shout at them, but she realized, they weren't staring at her, they were staring at Obsidian. She was going to go and punch one of them in the face, but she felt a hand landing on her shoulder, she looked back to see Obsidian defeated, she didn't have the will to react, she seemed to be depressed, that cold stare coming from all those gems would explain why she never opened up in front of them, in fact she didn't even appear to the casual reunions very often. Only when it was for the Crystal gems, which were about 7 gems, the original creators of the group, Rose, Bismuth, Biggs, Crazy Lace and Snowflake. And the exception, Obsidian. She was only there so that she wouldn't turn on the group, but the innie gem knew she wouldn't do it. Not everyone agreed with her. Not even Rose, the gem that always said that they could be something else.
-Hey there Bismuth, I need to talk to you for a little bit.
-Yeah, we need to do that too, let's go somewhere more private.
-First I need to talk to you, Bismuth. Now.
-Just wait a little, OK?
-Sure…-"I really don't think that's a good idea."
After the only two gems that didn't treat her with outright disgust gone, she was alone among all of the new recruits that had just finished taking up arms against the Diamonds. None of them even tried to approach her, none of them knew anything about her, but they didn't want her to exist. She thought that way the first time she felt useless, but it wasn't like that anymore… Everyone was useless, they weren't doing anything to hit Homeworld, the only thing that was different was that they could choose what to do. Some of them, like Rose and Bismuth, were doing something. Rose was planning an offensive on the soon to arrive Blue Diamond, and Bismuth was outfitting the people who would fight the battle. She wasn't doing anything.
-So Rose, what's going on?
-Well, Bismuth, I need to talk to you about Blue Diamond. If she gets here now, we won't be able to fight her AND Yellow Diamond at the same time. Not without major numbers of gems joining us.
-Just be glad that White Diamond can't be bothered with this yet.
-Well, do you have any ideas to help?
-We could wait until our numbers are high enough.
-That won't do, the gems here are getting tired of waiting.
-'Bout that, we could make a sparring session, it could help them get better at fighting, we could even do a I doubt they would be more bored than they already are.
-That's actually a good idea. We should do that, but what did you have to say back there?
-Well, Obi had an idea on how to fix that problem, when she just goes back into her gemstone.
-How?
-We could put her back into the ground so she absorbs more energy, she told me she came out earlier than she was supposed to, it could help her.
-NO, doesn't she know that the earth is damaged when we do that.
-Calm down Rose, she know what she's doing. She came up with a way of doing it without harming THIS planet. We could steal one of the ships coming here as soon as they land, the ones that are already here are already in secure locations we don't even know about.
-Like that would be easy.
-That's why we were going to talk to you, we'll need a distraction.
-I think we could do that.-"Blue Diamond is coming, and an attack could bring even more people to our side, we don't have anything to lose if we do this right"-But I don't think we can give you more than two minutes.
-That's all we'll need.
When she came back to the main part of the base, she couldn't see Obsidian, she wasn't there. She started to worry for the black gem.
-Obi! Where are you?! OBI!
-Up here!
-Oh there you are…-"Damn, I was already freaking out."- I think Rose is gonna plan the attack.
-Great, and you two couldn't even take me with you.
She was right, they didn't talk about anything dangerous. Isn't it suspicious that the one gem that started a rebellion against the whole gem empire wouldn't want to talk in front of one of the first warriors to join her?Why was she so scared?
Blue Diamond was coming to the planet very soon. Rose needed to think of something quick."A large scale attack wouldn't be very good for us. It's better that we just take the Crystal Gems. Bismuth and Obsidian take the ship they want while we distract them. Well, Biggs, Snowflake and Crazy Lace are the best at infiltration, but I don't think they can really fight that well. But what if they take me and pearl in our stones and then release us. That is a good idea I'll have to think it in more now, I think we should do that spar Bismuth mentioned.". Rose needed to call all the others over to make the fight, but it only took around 3 hours to do so.
-Well, guys, this is gonna be the first battle royale in the history of the rebellion. We're going to turn this into something that will happen frequently in the future everyone, no problem if you don't know how to fight. There will be no rules, just give your all.
Of course Obsidian didn't think it was a good idea, she still didn't know how to control her powers, she honed them, but it was too much for her. Before anyone could say no, the fight started, it was everyone vs. everyone. Obsidian didn't think many gems could be that strong, strong enough to fight her. She turned out to be right. No one even approached her to fight, she was about to go away when someone landed in front of her.
-Going away so soon? I was really excited to see what you can do now.
-Well, I didn't think you were even gonna ask for it Bis...ROSE?!
-What, expecting someone else?
-Kinda, but this might be more fun.
Obsidian always saw Rose as calm and collected, not ever showing any weakness."Well, it isn't just me who can't suppress the warrior inside, huh." Rose clearly thought she had the upper hand, just the expression on her face showed that. She had her sword drawn, but what she didn't notice was that the black gem had a shield on her back, Bismuth made it for her. It wasn't as perfect as Rose's sword, but it was made out of a material that resembled the composition of a rock that the earthlings called Granite, a mixture of quartz and the feldspar found on earth."A decent shield, but I don't think it's gonna hold back my sword.". Obsidian was quick to make the first move, what surprised the pink gem, she saw the hexagon-shaped rock as a waiter, someone that just reacted to what happened, she expected her to be quick. She was surprised after the opponent's offensive. The strike was powerful enough to send her a few feet back, but she wasn't gonna let that slide. As soon as she landed, she jumped in the direction of the dark one."Let's see what that shield can do.". The sword hit with astounding force, but it didn't even chip the rock. Obsidian asked Bismuth to make it out of Granite with that in mind. Although it wasn't her first idea, Bismuth thought it would turn out to be more resistant with that mix of rocks. Obsidian was strong, but Rose… Rose was brutal, she almost threw her out of balance, but her 'wild' side took over. It just deflected the hit off to the side and countered with one fast strike, passing very close to the other's gemstone. She wasn't poofed, oh no, Rose wasn't gonna let that happen in front of everyone. She had to win. She didn't have much time to think about that. Her opponent came back stronger and quicker than before. She threw her sword like a spear, Rose, instinctively tried to grab it, cutting her hand in the process. What happened next was very unexpected for anyone around seeing the duel. Too much smoke. Both gems were out. Only Bismuth, who stopped fighting as soon as she saw her friend pick a fight with the strongest gem she knew. She saw two blades passing through two bodies. Rose defeated Obi and Obi defeated Rose."I've got a bad feeling about this.".