Hello ladies and gentlemen. Crow here and welcome to chapter 4 of Unstable Energies! Okay guys this is were it gets real. This is chapter has the first fight scene of the story and I ether did really good or I screwed it up horribly wrong. Guess I'll wait for you guys to tell me. Don't for get to leave a review and tap that love button with your beak. Wait I'm the only one with a beak? I thought all birds had beaks. Oh, I'm the only bird here. Well... like/love/follow the story anyways(I don't know what it is called on this website).
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Chapter 4 "An Encounter of the Salty Kind"
"Did either of you find anything?"
"Nope. Sorry G-squad, but we got nothin'."
The Crystal Gems had been searching for Peridot for three hours in three different locations: the old abandoned Homeworld gem base, the Kindergarten, and the galaxy warp. The three gems have met up at the Strawberry Battlefield to share what they found.
"What Amethyst meant to say is, we haven't found Peridot but we've noticed a bunch of old parts and machines were missing from all three locations."
"Hhmm..."
"Hey G stop worrying about it. It's probably nothing, just a few passersbys taking the parts to melt down and sell to some big corporation place."
"Hhmm... yeah, you're probably right, Amethyst. Now, let's get back to searching."
"Oh come on, Garnet. We've been searching for two days straight. Let's take a break."
"I agree with Amethyst, Garnet. We have been searching for a while now, and Steven really wants us to show up for his beach party."
"*Sigh*... Fine let's go"
With Garnet now on board, all three gems head to the warp pad to go home for Steven's beach party.
It's around three now, and people are starting to arrive at Steven's party. He greets each of them with his signature energy-filled greeting.
"Lars! Sadie! You guys made it! Steven runs up to his two friends.
"Hey Steven, we wouldn't miss one of your parties. Well I wouldn't, Lars might." She motions towards Lars who's standing next to her trying hard not to look even slightly interested in anything.
"Hmph, this party better not be lame, Steven."
"Well, that wasn't very nice."
Lars visibly flinches at the sudden statement. After he recovers, he looks around to see who said it, only to notice a tall man with orange tinted skin walking towards the small group.
"Hey Spessartine, come meet Lars and Sadie."
"Okay, Steven." Spessartine chuckles a little while finishing his statement.
Once he arrives in front of the group, he holds up his hand in a small wave. "Hey, I'm Spessartine."
"Nice to meet you Spessartine, I'm Sadie and this is Lars," She gestures towards the boy standing next to her, who instantly looks away.
"Whatever."
Sadie punches Lars in the arm, "Lars! Be nice."
"Hey! Uhg whatever." With that, Sadie and Lars start arguing quietly.
Visibly perplexed by this, Spessartine looks at the two. Frowning, before something clicks in his head and a big grin instantly forms on his face. "Oh, I see."
"Huh, see what!? There's nothing to see here man!"
"No, it's okay. I get see exactly what's going on between you two."
Steven as confused as usual asks "What's going on between them?"
"Nothing!" Lars and Sadie both respond in unison failing to suppress a shared blush.
Spessartine starts holding his hand over his mouth to cover his laughter, while also accidentally hiding a few sparks that were flashing on his teeth and in his hair, which no one noticed because Lars and Sadie were trying to avoid eye contact, Steven was staring at them confused, and no one else was looking at him.
Sadie and Lars walk away from the gem and half-gem, and join the group of people that were already at the party, which wasn't many since most of the people haven't arrived yet. Steven turns to the orange gem asking, "So how's everyone doing?"
"Well Umbalite is talking with the 'cool kids', Connie's trying to keep that Ronaldo kid, who I swear looks familiar, from chasing after me for an interview or something for his website... or is it a blog? Anyways, the other Fryman's are talking with Mr. Smiley and Greg, and Sadie and Lars just got here."
"Okay. So the rest of the people will probably arrive later. All that leaves are the gems." Just as Steven finishes his statement, a blue light comes from inside the house indicating that the warp pad has activated, as well as catching amazed glances and an audible "oooh" from the few people who were present. "They're home!"
A few minutes after the light from the warp pad dimmed down, the gems walk out of the house. First Pearl calling, "Hello Steven", then Amethyst, who just goes with a less formal, "S'up Steve-O", and last Garnet, who says nothing but instead steps out of the house, looks down towards the group, an instant angry look forming on her face as she summons her gauntlets and jumps down to the beach, landing a few feet from Spessartine and Umbalite, who had joined Spessartine and Steven while waiting for the gems.
"Steven get away from them." Everyone watching Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, both of which had joined Garnet with there weapons summoned once they saw Spessartine and Umbalite.
"Why? They aren't trying to hurt anyone. They-" Steven's statement was cut off by one of Pearl's spears flying straight at Spessartine's face, only to be blocked by Umbalite, who had summoned a sword from his gem the second he saw Pearl throw the spear.
"You won't hurt my friend," Venom practically dripping from Umbalite's words as he finishes his statement.
"Whoa, Umbalite how did you summon a sword," Spessartine questions his friend, seemingly unfased by Pearl's attempt to poof him.
"Who are you and which world do you belong to?" Garnet's voice was a mixture of anger and authority.
Spessartine was the one to answer. "Well I'm Spessartine and this is Umbalite. Nice to meet you."
"Spess! They just tried to kill you!"
"Come on, Umbalite. They just don't know us yet."
"Enough of this! Which world do you side with: Earth or Homeworld?" Pearl's voice is less authoritative than Garnet's but even more enraged.
Both Spessartine and Umbalite asked in unison, "Homeworld?" trying to ask what it was. But Pearl, taking it as an answer, responds, "Then you will be defeated!"
"Wait! Guys you don't understand!" Steven begins running at the gems trying to stop them, only to be picked up by Pearl and thrown toward Greg.
"Greg, get Steven out of here!"
"Okay," Greg responds while pulling a struggling Steven to the van away from the other spectators.
The Crystal Gems stood across from Spessartine and Umbalite, weapons drawn, watching as Umbalite holds his sword up ready to fight, while Spessartine walks in front of Umbalite, garbing his shoulders. "Umbalite, calm down. We don't need to fight. They probably misheard us. We can work this out." As Spessartine finishes his statement, Umbalite grabs his shoulder, pulling him down, causing another spear that Pearl had thrown before she began charging towards them to miss.
"Spess, seriously, they are trying to kill us. We have to fight," Umbalite finishes his statement by running to meet Pearl, where the two began dueling, Umbalite with a sword and Pearl with a spear.
Spessartine, too preoccupied with watching Umbalite and Pearl dual, gets hit in the back by Garnet, who had jumped behind him while he was distracted, using her gauntlets and sending him into the side of the cliff.
"Nice one Garnet! Now let's-" Amethyst is cut off by Spessartine flying out from the dust cloud faster than the eye can follow, with electricity flowing around his body, all hesitation having left his mind, Spessartine delivers a sharp kick to Garnet's stomach, sending her flying back several feet before she catches herself.
"Ugh, why can't anything ever be easy?" Amethyst finishes her statement by running toward Spessartine, throwing her whip at him only for him to catch it and send bolts of electricity down the whip, shocking Amethyst, causing her to let go of her wip and recoil, only to be saved from a electrified punch to the face by Garnet meeting Spessartine's fist with a punch of her own, sending off a shock wave from the impact. Garnet and Spessartine then begin brawling: Spess ducks a punch, sends one of his own electrified fist back at Garnet, Garnet catches the punch holding his fist so she can give a kick to his chest, Spess gets sent into the air a little by the kick but recovers, grabbing the arm Garnet is using to hold his hand, turns around, swiping her feet out from under her, pulling her arm over his shoulder sending her flying in a flip over his back, Garnet hits the ground but springs back throwing a punch at Spess's face. Spess blocks the punch, throwing one of his own covered in electricity. Garnet side-steps the punch, throwing a quick series of jabs and crosses, hitting Spess in the shoulder and stomach, finishing with an uppercut to the jaw, sending Spessartine flying into the only to get slammed into the ground by Amethyst jumping up and changing into a spinning white ball (her sonic attack) before plowing him deeper into the ground and standing on top of him with a triumphant pose.
"Haha that was easy, anyways let's, Whooaaaaaa," Amethyst is cut off by Spessartine grabbing one of her legs, standing up, and throwing her into the air before he launches up, encased in electricity, slams her down into the ground making a crater, lands on top of her plowing her deeper into the ground before jumping up to continue brawling with Garnet but this time taking a more careful approach focusing on dodging as much as attacking.
Pearl and Umbalite continued their dual: a thrust from Pearl. Umbalite parries the thrust, swiping his sword at Pearls waist. Pearl dodges backwards and twirls, hitting Umbalite in the face, leaving an opening which she thrusts for, impailing Umbalite on her spear. "Ha, you were no match for m-" Pearl's statement is cut short as she just barely lets go of her spear and jumps to the side in time to get a large cut along her cheek as apposed to the full blow of the sword thrust by Umbalite that was aimed for her face. She watches in horror as Umbalite pulls her spear out from his chest and throws it to the side while the large wound in his chest heals in a matter of seconds, but leaves a cut in his clothes where the wound was. She instantly summons another spear and takes up a fighting stance. They begin dueling once more.
Pearl is a much more skilled fighter than him, and she would have poofed him several times over if it hadn't been for his regeneration ability. But he couldn't stop fighting no matter how strong she was. She didn't show any sign of letting up or slowing down. She was a machine. A swipe to his side, he blocked, she instantly spins around with another swing to his other side giving him just enough time to parry it and thrust at her heart, only to be blocked, causing his sword to miss her heart and just barely hitting her shoulder. She flew around him the whole time they were dueling, jumping, flipping, thrusting, sliding, moving around like a pro. Umbalite only started gaining ground once he stopped fighting like a dueler. Instead of parrying every attack, he side-stepped some. Instead of using his sword to attack every opening, he would grab, kick, and punch her: Pearl thrust at Umbalite. He side-steps, grabbing her arm and delivers a kick to her stomach, sending her into the side of the cliff. She jumps out of the dust cloud and swings at Umbalite's chest, he narrowly avoids, getting a gash along his chest for his efforts. Umbalite grabs her passing arm, spins around, hitting her in the back of the head with the pommel of his sword and kicking her in the back, sending her flying on her face as he bring his sword down where she was laying, missing as she rolls out of the way of his sword.
The fight continues for about thirty minutes as the crowd of people watching gets larger and larger. Spess was brawling with Garnet once more and punched her with a fist encased in electricity, sending her flying towards the cliff, plowing into it's side and sending boulders launching towards the crowd. "Umbalite!" Umbalite breaks away from his battle with Pearl to look at Spessartine, who was now pointing at the boulders flying towards the crowd of now horrified people. Umbalite gives a nod, making his sword large enough to cover all the people, as Spess got below the sword on the side opposite of Umbalite. Both of the gems walk the huge sword over, using it as a shield to cover the boardies from the falling rubble as the Crystal Gems watch on in befuddlement.
As the last of the falling boulders fall and bounce off of the sword which Umbalite dispelled afterwards. Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl walk over to Spessartine and Umbalite. Pearl, most bewildered of all, asks, "Why did you save those people?! You work for Homeworld!"
"No, we freaking don't! We don't even-"
"Calm down Umbalite. He was trying to say that we don't know what 'Homeworld' is."
"B-but I asked you and you said-" Pearl's words were stopped in her throat by Garnet putting one of her hands in front of Pearl's face.
"Sorry. There seems to have been some... communication problems on our end. We hope you can forgive us."
"It's fine. You know, water under the bridge." Spessartine emphasis his statement with a small wave of his hand.
At that moment, Steven came running up to the gems, apparently having escaped Greg, "Wait guys don't...*coughing and wheezing*... fight."
"Don't worry Steven. We worked it out." Garnet looks back at Umbalite and Spessartine before looking back at Steven. "So are we gonna party or what?"
Stars appear in Steven's eyes as he responding with, "Yeah!"