Okay! This is going to be one fun chapter to write! I hope you like it! MWAHAHA! I'm not giving much away, just read. I do not own Steven Universe or its characters, ideas, ect. If you have a criticism or critique, please leave a review. Special thanks to Dante Watterson, LexBoss and BlissfulBloom for submitting their OCs. And man, I'm going to have some fun with BlissfulBloom's OC. Have fun reading!

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Onyx

"Guys, I'm here! What'd I mi…" Soren remarked as he turns the corner into the room to see everyone except Steven and Connie poofed and the new character in the room standing over the fusion. Stevonnie looks over to see Soren's face pale with an expression of terror, and the gem looks over to see him to. The giant grey gem gets a sadistic grin on his face. Soren pulls his swords and shoots a stream of fire at Onyx, who is propelled back into the equipment behind him. Soren leaps over Stevonnie and lands in front of her, assuming a fighting stance. "Get the gems and run! I'll try not to let Onyx not get too close to them! Where's Blue Diamond?"

"H-he ate her!" Stevonnie croaks. Soren swears. The gem, Onyx, rises and summons a weapon. A black crossbow adorned with a skull appears, projecting mist into the air around them, and he aims it at Soren, firing a rapid stream of bolts. Stevonnie thinks to herself 'we need to unfuse. Now!' They fall apart into Steven and Connie and run around getting the gems. Steven already has Amethyst and he runs to get Ruby and Jewel. Connie ran to pick up Sapphire and Pearl. Once they have the gems, Steven and Connie run to get out of the room, but Steven freezes up. He looks back at the fight. Soren is trying desperately to keep Onyx at bay, who is easily overpowering him. Steven turns to try and help Soren but Connie grabs his arm.

"Come on, we need to go!" Connie yells, tugging roughly at Steven's arm. Steven has tears in his eyes.

"But…"

"I don't want to leave him either," Connie says. "But what would he want? Him or them?" Steven looks down at Ruby, Amethyst and Jewel's gems. He bites back tears and looks back at the fight. Soren doesn't look like he can do much more. Steven turns and runs back with Connie. Outside, they are confronted by three gem soldiers who are talking while they sprint.

"Obsidian's gone, we're checking on Blue Di-ah," a soldier says, as they meet Steven and Connie. "Hold it! We're taking you two to the Diamonds!" Steven summons his shield, holding it in one hand and the gems in the other. The soldiers aim their weapons. Connie waves her arms in a panicked manner.

"Wait," She shouts. "Onyx is loose! If we want to survive we have to leave!"

"Yeah, sure," the soldier says. "Like Onyx would escape. How do you even know about On…" An explosion happens right behind Steven and Connie that staggers them and sends them on their stomachs. Steven looks behind him to see a beaten up Soren fly backward and right in front of the soldiers. He turns backward and glares at the soldiers. Onyx sprints out of the door and aims his crossbow at them. Soren deflects the torrent of bolts sent at him, shouting at the soldiers.

"What are you standing there for, clods," Soren shouts. "If you don't kill this thing, we'll all be shattered!" The soldiers run forward and mindlessly blast at Onyx without hesitation. While Onyx diverts his attention, Soren puts away his swords and grabs Steven and Connie, sprinting away from the fight. Other soldiers run past them, ignoring them. They must know about Onyx now.

"Soren, what is that thing," Steven asks. "Onyx? Who is he?" Soren looks back, then forward, his eyes shifty but tired.

"Onyx is a failed gem experiment to make a super soldier," Soren says. "It was a disaster and now he's a monstrosity that only craves the power of other gems. Blue Diamond was using him to power her ship with the energy he produced already. Now that he's loose, he won't stop until he's a god. And if he ate a Diamond, he's a third of the way there."

"He just eats the gem and gets their power?" Connie asks, mortified. Soren shakes his head.

"More than that," He says, solemnly. "He gets their skills, their weapons, their abilities, even their damned intelligence. He harnesses the very essence of their being and uses it against everyone else."

"Is there a way to get those gems back?" Steven asks, catching on.

"You poof him," Soren says. "His body his unstable, absorbing power that's readily available. But his gem isn't. It's very stable and functional, so his body only acts like a bubble. A place to keep the gems in while his gem funnels the energy into itself. Problem is last time he was loose, it took the power of Yellow and Blue Diamond to poof him. One is gone and half of the other two isn't even in this galaxy."

"What do we do?" Connie asks. Soren looks down at her, his face stoic and scared.

"Pray."

They run past even more soldiers running to try and defeat Onyx and Soren stops at the hole where they entered the ship, covered up by the sheet of metal Jewel used to block them away from the battle. Soren swears. "We can't get out of here without Jewel," Soren says. "How do we get out of here?!" The three hear an explosion a little bit back. Soren looks at Obsidian's gem on the ground, contemplating. He runs over, grabs the gem and runs back. "We don't have time," Soren says, starting to throw fire at the sheet. "If Onyx catches up to us, everyone will die!" Steven and Connie wait anxiously while they hear the sounds of explosions, screams and the sounds of gems getting poofed in the distance rapidly approaching. In about two minutes, Soren has barely broken through the sheet of metal and gem soldiers are already backpedaling into the room, firing into Onyx a bit down the hall. Within time, Onyx charges at a solider and stabs at him with a saber. The gem poofs and he summons a scythe to poof another gem. And then a whip. And then a shank. And then a baton. And then a crash helmet. And then Blue Diamond's revolvers. He rounds up all the gems and eats them all in one gulp.

Steven and Connie step back while Soren turns around and glares at Onyx, who stares at the three of them, his weapons constantly shifting into different weapons. "An elemental will be a nice addition to my profile, don't you think?" The gem says callously. Soren summons two swords, Onyx roaring out in laughter. "If it's a sword fight you want, it's a sword fight you'll get." Onyx says, summoning a broadsword out of thin air. Soren charges forward, clashing blades with Onyx fiercely. Soren attempts to hit any open spot he can as fast as possible, as opposed to Onyx's stationary and solid defensive with a few clashes and shoves. Steven looks at Connie and then the wall, wondering what to do. Connie begins tearing up, obviously thinking they are about to die.

"Steven, I just wanted to say…" Connie begins. Steven grabs her shoulders, staring her in the eyes and responding firmly.

"Tell me after we get out of here." Steven says. He shoves himself at the wall of metal as hard as he can and it doesn't budge. Looking behind him, he sees Soren deflect a sword strike and back up, starting to run out of breath. Steven pulls out Jewel's gem from his pocket and taps it against the metal. It doesn't budge. "Hand me Pearl." Steven says, and Connie does as told, not able to move her eyes from Soren and Onyx's fight. Steven then taps Pearl's gem against the metal. Still nothing. He looks back at the fight. Soren's attacks are slowing and Onyx is getting more aggressive. "I don't get it," Steven says, having an idea growing in his head. "What was causing those explosions?" Connie gasps.

"I know what," She says, looking between Onyx and the sheet of metal. "It's the mist that's emanating from Onyx's weapons! It must be reactive with heat! He must have been blocking Soren's fire and the gems' laser weapons and that would have been causing the explosions!" Soren's ears perked up like he heard all of this and flipped back, hurling a string of fire at Onyx. The gem blocks it with his blade and sure enough, an impressive explosion detonates in the air. Steven winces and Connie covers her ears.

"Get back guys!" Soren yells, charging back into Onyx. Steven and Connie get out of the way of the metal and Soren starts flinging his blades into Onyx's broadsword. Eventually, Soren manages to catch Onyx's blade in between his two and lower them onto the floor. Then, he grabs Onyx's arm and flips the massive gem over his shoulder and into the sheet of metal. Soren shoots a stream of fire at Onyx, who summons something that looks like a massive shield to block the flames. A titanic explosion occurs, and Steven and Connie cover their ears as Onyx is flung backward and the metal rips from the hole from the force of the splatter of flames. "Excellent idea, Connie!" Soren says, smirking at the two kids with a look of awe in his eyes. They run out of the hole into the firefight, still occurring with the UN managing to push the still fighting gems further back near the ship.

"We're not out just yet," Steven says as they run through the fight. "We need to get out of here." Soren throws Obsidian's gem away somewhere in the fight, looking back to see Onyx, barely shaken by the fire he just took to the face, already up. Poofing and eating more gems. He even kills a few UN and gets confused on why they didn't poof. The three get back to the UN army, who are firing at Onyx as well as every single gem soldier on the battlefield. McKreavey stays back, shouting orders to the soldiers as they back up and watch the gems get slaughtered.

"The hell is that thing?!" McKreavey yells at them. Onyx is beginning to force his way through the fight faster than the UN can back away locked in battle.

"Something we can't fight," Soren says. "We need to move! Retreat! Get out and regroup!" McKreavey shakes his head.

"We can't get away from that thing fast enough," He says, looking at Onyx now slaughter the UN brutally. "We need to keep that thing back!" Soren summons his sword and glares at Onyx.

"I'll fight him for long enough you to pull back," Soren says. "You need to keep him back and if you can, push him back. Don't try to stop me." He glares at Steven, knowing what he would do if he could. Steven's eyes well with tears, looking as Soren charges at Onyx and fights with him once more. McKreavey puts his hand on Steven's shoulder and pull the kids away from the scene.

"Everyone retreat, the battle is won," McKreavey calls out into his radio. "Get those RPGs in here!" Steven looks back as the soldiers run away and dive back into the forest. He looks back to see Soren desperately fight Onyx and not seem to win. There is a clash of blades so fast Steven barely sees what happens. But what he does know what happens is that Onyx finds an opening and takes it. Onyx bashes the hilt of the broadsword into Soren's head and swings his sword into his body.

And Soren poofs.

Steven watches in horror as Onyx scoops Soren's gem out of the air. And eat it. Immediately after, a barrage of RPGs hits Onyx and consumes him in fire. And McKreavey grabs Steven and runs away while the soldiers handling the RPGs attempt to turn Onyx into glass, with little effect. Steven can only watch and wonders…

How do you fight that? How do you win against that?

Yup. That just happened. Sorry Dante.