The seafloor cracked and split as Godzilla smashed Malachite underneath his massive body.
Everything went black for Malachite as she felt the crushing weight overwhelm her. She shut her eyes as she braced for the inevitable.

"I don't wanna die like this!" Malachite screamed as she held her hands out above her.

"Then let me drive!" the Lapis side of Malachite shouted as she overpowered Jasper.

I the blink of an eye, a large bubble of water surrounded the fusion and cushioned the impact of the angered king's fury.
It was enough to keep her from being destroyed, but not by much. When the mighty kaiju lifted his head to admire his work, he was surprised to find the the tiny fusion was still intact. She was smashed deep into the seafloor like a tiny pebble sunk into thick mud.
Her eyes were wide with shock and terror as she painfully pulled herself out of the Malachite shaped crevasse.

"You...haven't beaten me yet!" Malachite hissed as Jasper took back control of the fusion.

Godzilla let out a snort of amusement. He admired her tenacity, but not her strength or her intelligence.
But, then again, he never really expected the fusion to be much of a challenge. She was just another young upstart starting fights that she couldn't finish.
Godzilla was feeling unusually forgiving that day, and with a low, dismissive growl, he began to swim away.
But the arrogant gem Jasper wanted none of his forgiveness.

"Don't you turn your spiny back on me!" she roared as she raised her arms in front of her.

The ocean water began to swirl around her hands at an increasing rate. Her initial fears had made her forget that she had the power of the ocean at her command. Malachite slammed her hands together and unleashed a powerful current of water that struck the monster in the back of his head.
The attack hit Godzilla with the force of a torpedo. This was followed by several more attacks that struck him all along his back and shoulders.
Each attack whipped up large clouds of silt as they rocketed towards their massive target.

"Jasper, stop it!" Lapis cried out as she tugged on her mental shackles. "That's not going to work!"

"Shut up!" Jasper shouted as she yanked back on the shackles. "Nothing could survive that amount of punishment!"

The cloud of silt and sand was too thick to see through. Malachite couldn't tell what had become of the giant saurian.
Slowly the silt cloud thinned out, and revealed that the mighty creature was still alive and unscathed.

"No, that's impossible!" Jasper shouted at this terrifying revelation.

Godzilla's eyes were filled with a burning fury as he glared down at the fusion.
With a loud roar, the mighty kaiju charged at Malachite with his teeth bared and his clawed hands curled into fists.

How dare that little insect attack him with his back turned! Such a cowardly attack could not go unpunished.
He was going to let them off with a warning. But they had the audacity to decline his mercy!
They should have been thanking him.
They should have taken his mercy and left him in peace.
Their petty little attacks had only angered him further.
It was insulting to attack him with such weakness!
And Godzilla had no patience for weaklings!

"No! No stay back!" Jasper screamed as she raised her hands defensively.

Shackles and chains of water began to form and lock around the mighty saurian's body.

"Jasper, I can't hold him for very long!" Lapis shouted as she strained to keep the shackles together. "We need to escape! We aren't strong enough to stop him!"

Godzilla let out a surprised snort as the water shackles clamped down on his hands and feet. He felt massive chains of water coil tightly over his dorsal spines.
If Godzilla could, he would have laughed. He underestimated the tiny rock creature.
Hydrokinesis might have been useful against him, had he been some other giant monster.
While the ocean might have lent it's power to the tiny rock creature, one fact rendered that advantage null.
The ocean had adopted the rock creature; Godzilla was born into it. His body was designed to dominate the land and the deep sea.
With a mighty thrash of his tail, Godzilla shattered the chains that bound him like they were nothing.
One by one, the shackles snapped as Godzilla charged Malachite.

"Lapis, do something!" Jasper screamed as the titan built up speed.

"It's no use! He's too strong!" Lapis cried as she summoned more and more chains only to have then snap uselessly.

Jasper gazed helplessly as Godzilla drew closer. She was paralyzed with fear. She was an insect in the presence of a god.

"Yellow Diamond...save me..."

Godzilla suddenly thrashed to the side and smashed his massive tail against the fusion.
With an earth shattering clap, Malachite was struck with the full brunt of Godzilla's power.
She rocketed up through the water at breakneck speeds with the ocean offering no resistance.
With a plume of white sea foam, Malachite burst out of the ocean and flew into the horizon.

Godzilla was still seething as he unleashed a roar of victory. His blood was far too boiling to go back to sleep now.
The fight had ended so suddenly, and was still ready for more! In a moment of clarity, Godzilla caught a scent in the now angry waters.
The scent was off of Malachite, but he also smelt four other scents. He growled bitterly as the memories came flooding back to him.
Malachite was what they called a Crystal Gem. A race of alien invaders from the dark void of space.
Godzilla remembered when they tried to take his domain from him thousands of years ago. He scorched the land of many of the foreign parasites.
Their presence alone was enough to throw the balance of nature off to the brink of collapse.
Godzilla had thought that they were all destroyed or driven off thousands of years ago. But now he could sense more of these "Gems".
He could sense four more gems, more intruders. Nature needed to remain balanced, and he was the enforcer of that balance.
With a new motive, the King of the Monsters began to swim towards the source of the scents.
He should have known that a nap was too much to ask for.

Garnet was meditating in her room. She was busy trying to determine where Peridot was hiding when her vision was suddenly flooded with frightening images. Through the images of fire and ruin, Garnet heard a thunderous roar split through her mind.

Garnet's eyes snapped open as she jumped to her feet.

"He's coming," Garnet said aloud as she rushed to the temple gateway. "And Rose isn't here to help this time."