Notes.
Before moving on I just want to applaud Missigno50 for guessing the "gems" which will be the main focus of this series, which are obsidians. No let's move to the story.
Alfa Obsidian looked around the last battlefield on this forsaken world which had become a graveyard for thousands upon thousands of them. It was their first deployment as a force, just several cycles after emerging. A force of 120.000 was pitted against a military outpost of terka containing less than a quarter of that. But the organic race proved to be formidable opponents.
The "war" was short, only lasting for several cycles of the planet, but it was incredibly brutal. Terka used everything to their advantage; they would ambush obsidian armies as they traversed the forests and jungles of the planet, mowing them down with their ballistic weapons, while obsidians were only given melee ones. They would lay traps, assault from several sides at once, fortify in caves forcing gems to charge at an easily defendable position, lure angered obsidians into kill zones, and similar tactics never even thought about by homeworld.
She herself only knew about these tactics because apparently a defect, one of several thousand thrown at the enemy to test their ability, had survived and found a document of some sort, which detailed terka defensive plans. It didn't require much intelligence to understand diagrams, and so it sent pictures of it to apparatuses possessed by leadership. How a defect was able to all of that was beyond her, but she had bigger problems.
She looked around the battlefield again. Her and Zetas soldiers were moving around gathering gem shards. She looked around again. Where was Zeta? She was a perfect specimen, just like Alfa herself, so she should be bigger in size than their soldiers, but she was nowhere to be seen. She had to be somewhere here, shouldn't she? Alfa looked around nervously, until one of the soldiers started moving towards her. She focused on the approaching gem, which was holding something in its right hand.
At first she thought it might be Zeta, but the form was clearly not hers, as it was quite unorthodox. It looked like a massive terka soldier rather than the form Zeta had taken. Its skin a mix of grey and light grey, rather than dark grey of other obsidians. Its gem was dark grey rather than black. Alfa at first thought it was a gem of other type, but then she realized.
"You're a defect!" She proclaimed loudly, surprised that any of its kind have survived.
"The defect." The monstrosity dared to correct her.
"How dare you correct me? You are a failed soldier, and I am your authority! I could shatter you instantly if I wanted to!"
"Like terka shattered the other general?" The gem protruded its hand forward and opened its palm. There was a small transparent box filled with black shards, and in the middle of them was a metal bracelet, identical to one that Alfa and other prime obsidians wore.
Alfa gasped. This could not be! How could a defect survive, but Zeta fall? This shouldn't be possible; it must be some sort of deception! A prime specimen could never fall to an organic species, could it?
"Will you take it, or can I just keep it to myself?" The defect asked with slight amusement in its voice.
Alfa wanted to scream at it, to shatter it for insubordination. But what would that accomplish? So she asked one simple question.
"Why aren't you afraid?" The defect seemed caught off-guard.
"What do you mean?"
"Aren't you afraid? You are standing here, a defect, in front of the highest gem authority on this planet, and you show no fear opposing me. Why aren't you afraid?"
"I watched other defects removed from existence in a short notice. I saw obsidians shattered in thousands by terka ballistic weapons. I saw a general shattered in front of my eyes. Why would I afraid now? Because some morganite told you that you are special? Well the same morganites didn't even bother to try to brainwash me, as they said I would be shattered during this mission. But here I am, after slaughtering my way into life and saving this whole conquest. I found terka defense plans and then proved to a bunch of angry obsidians that we can't just march into our shatters, that we need to adapt to win. You think they didn't want to shatter me, but I succeeded. So why I should be afraid?" The gem sounded tired rather than angry.
Alfas eyes widened, she now understood, what the defect meant by saying "The defect". She felt something clicking in her. The gem was right, at least about the last part. Why did they march in perfect shapes, while their enemy had the advantage?
But before she could say anything, her communications device sprang into life. She took it out and opened it. It was Yellow Diamonds Painite.
"Report." The highest commander of Yellow Diamonds forces asked.
"Planet taken, locals slaughtered, gem shards are being gathered, casualties three fourths, Zeta was shattered… Should we gather the enemy's weapons?"
"And why would you do that?" Painite sounded amused.
"To better adapt to fighting them and lose fewer gems…" Alfas argument was cut off by Painite laughing.
"You are amusing me Alfa. Why would you care? Your soldiers are almost as expendable as rubies. There is no need to preserve them; even you yourself are quite expendable when compared to the likes of me. The fact that so many of you survived is interesting on itself!
Now moving on. Anything else?"
"No, nothing." Alfa wanted to report about the defect, but stopped herself. She didn't want to tell Painite about that gem, she didn't know why, but it seemed a wrong course of actions.
"Good, several ships will come down to pick you up after a cycle or two. Also, shatter all the defect if any had survived." The communications device shut down.
Alfa put the device into one of her pockets, and walked to the defect. She only now realized that its form was bigger than hers, which was quite surprising. She took the box from its palm and opened it. She took out the bracelet owned by Omega and put the box away.
"Change your form." She ordered with a soft tone in her voice.
The defect transformed into a form that's similar to hers, but still had wider shoulders and thinner hips. It seemed that it wanted to keep some attributes of terka form.
"Extend your hand." Alfa ordered again.
The defect fallowed. She put the bracelet onto its hand and adjusted it to its hand.
"What is your name prime obsidian?" She asked.
"Are you trying to trick me?" The defect seemed confused.
"What is your name prime obsidian?" Alfa repeated.
"If you are Alfa… "The defect still seemed unsure about this, but after some time uttered a name. "Omega."
"Good. Now would you be so kind to order our troops to gather all of terka ballistic weapons?"
End Notes
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a public announcement. If you want your troops to be absolutely loyal, please spent some time properly brainwashing them, or situations like this will happen.
Next one on Thursday or Friday, next week I will upload one longer one or three short ones.
Hope you like this one too.