(Pink Diamond Docking pad, Central Homeworld)
There were gems cheering for the arrival of Pink Diamond's palanquin, each in their designated groups.
The pink sphere emerged from the legs' ship, and opened, revealing Steven and the gang. Blue Diamond, and Yellow Diamond were now giant again.
"Whoa! Maybe this won't be so bad after all!" Steven said.
"Mom, what's going to happen exactly?" Victoria asked.
"Yellow, and I are going to speak to White about what Pink did, and hopefully not make her too upset." Blue Diamond said.
"Not exactly." White Diamond's voice said.
They saw a white bubble float towards them, and land on the pad, in front of them.
The white orb opened, and revealed Purple Diamond, in a gray tint, now under White Diamond's complete control.
"Purple!" Steven exclaimed.
"(WD voice) Pink Diamond, your presence is required." Purple Diamond said.
"Purple, what happened to you?" Jarek said, alarmed.
Then Purple Diamond grabbed Steven, and sealed him in her white bubble, and flew away.
"Steven!" The gems, and Connie said.
"Blue, what is this?!" Jarek said, looking at her.
Blue Diamond looked to her side, as if in reluctance.
"Mom?" Victoria said.
"I'm sorry for this." Blue Diamond said.
She grabbed Victoria, and Jarek.
"Hey! Let me go!" Jarek said.
"Mom, what the hell are you doing?!" Victoria said.
Yellow Diamond grabbed Orange Diamond.
"Yellow, put us down this instant!" Orange Diamond said.
"I think we should take them elsewhere." Yellow Diamond said.
"Agreed." Blue Diamond said.
The two diamonds walked away from the gems.
(Yellow Diamond's Castle)
(Ren - She got a castle too?
Me - Yeah, the diamonds have big homes.. So it's kinda fitting that I have a castle, AND a house on earth. Heritage, man.
Ren - You mean the shotgun?
Me - No, stupid. I mean through Diamond Lineage. Nevermind, you're stupid.)
"Blue, you better tell us what this is all about, or you will leave me no choice!" Jarek said, summoning a stasis orb in his right hand.
"Or what? You'll freeze me like you froze your friend? Have you thought about how others feel about the things you do?" Blue Diamond asked. "Do you ever think about what you do before you do them?"
"You can't be serious." He said.
"I am. This game has gone on long enough." Blue Diamond said.
Jarek backed away in fear, he had heard this before.
"You can't do this!" Jarek said.
"We already have." Blue Diamond said.
"This wasn't what we agreed to! What I agreed to!" Jarek said.
"What you agreed to, was to bring Orange back to me, and to stop running from us. That's what you did." Blue Diamond said.
"It's for the better, Jarek. You've been harboring her long enough. And if you run again, we'll just keep capturing you until you stop. So don't even think about it." Yellow Diamond said.
"You bastards!" Jarek said.
"If anyone is such, it's you." Yellow Diamond said.
"Mother, what has gotten into you?! So you're going back on everything you said?!" Orange Diamond said, afraid, shocked, and enraged.
"Frankly, Orange, you had no business running off and starting another family without us. You should have known this was coming. I am so disappointed in you for the mess you made." Blue Diamond said.
"No, you're disappointed that you didn't get to leave too!" Orange Diamond pointed out.
"Victoria, get behind me." Jarek said, Victoria listened and stood behind him, afraid.
"(Hand up in halt) Enough. You're going to spend the rest of the day in my room, with my pearl. If you try to leave, you will be restrained, and later thrown in the tower." Blue Diamond said.
"DON'T MAKE DO IT!" Jarek said, intensifying the energy in his stasis orb.
"Your little ice powers won't stop me this time." Yellow Diamond said with lowered eyelids.
"That's strong words coming out of someone who lost to me TWICE." Jarek said.
Yellow Diamond frowned and blasted him once with electricity.
Jarek held out his amulet in defense, absorbing her attack.
"That's enough, Jarek." Blue Diamond said, stepping in between him, and Yellow Diamond.
"This isn't fair." He said.
"Fair? Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Fair?! What makes you think we were going to be fair?" Yellow Diamond laughed.
"Because we went out of our way to make amends with family that made us run off in the first place." Jarek said.
"Let this be a lesson to you. We're being awfully generous, letting you rant on about this." Yellow Diamond said.
"Rant? You're one to talk, you wanted Orange to come back, just for this. I can see why Orange would want to leave, why Pink Diamond would want to leave." Jarek said.
"You leave Pink out of it." Yellow Diamond said.
"Why? Does it bother you? It should. Pink ran away from her evil parents!" Jarek continued.
Yellow Diamond pushed Blue Diamond aside, and punched Jarek.
Right before the punch, Jarek shoved Victoria aside, sending her sliding on the floor so she wouldn't get hit too.
(PUNCH!)
(ICE SHROUD!)
Yellow Diamond's body was stuck in an ice crystal, completely frozen. She grunted as she couldn't move.
"Jarek, stop!" Blue Diamond said.
"Shut up, mother!" Orange Diamond said.
Jarek quickly holstered his amulet, and summoned his glaive, with the intent to decapitate her head.
"I said to STOP!" Blue Diamond said, shooting a blue & white ball of power at him.
Jarek was struck by it, being pushed into a wall. He fell to his knees, suffering from the impact he took.
He trembled, unable to stand.
Orange Diamond shoved Blue Diamond back.
(ICE SHATTER!)
Victoria vanished in smoke, and fled.
Yellow Diamond broke free from her ice crystal, and grabbed Orange Diamond, restraining her.
"You hurt my grandson! You both hurt my grandson!" Orange Diamond said.
"He got what he deserved! Off to the tower with you!" Yellow Diamond said.
Jarek's left eye flickered.
(Outside Yellow Diamond's Fortress)
(Outside view)
[EXPLOSION!]
(Ruins)
Jarek was crawling, badly hurt. He struggled to breathe, as he reached for the floor in front of him.
"(Cough!) (Cough!) Jarek!" Orange Diamond said, running, and looking for Jarek through the cloud of dirt, and rubble.
Jarek saw her in the cloud, and tried to get up.
Yellow Diamond walked through the cloud, seeing the two perfectly. She was also back to human size again. She was at this point, what many people would call PISSED.
She blasted a stream of electricity at Orange Diamond, catching her by surprise.
"AAAAAAAH! AAAGAH!" Orange shouted.
(POOF!)
Jarek gritted his teeth, seeing he was beaten at this point.
"Great job, using a self destruct move, Jarek. Now you're doomed again." He said to himself.
(Or as James Cagney once said..) -
"I ain't so tough." He lost consciousness after that sentence.
"Orange.." Blue Diamond said, picking up Orange Diamond's gem. She too was human sized.
The two diamonds looked over at Jarek.
"Yellow. What do we do now? Are we really going to throw him in the tower?" Blue Diamond said.
"No, we'll put him in a maximum the security unit. This way even an explosion won't help him." Yellow Diamond said.
"(Sigh) How long do we have to do this? He thinks we're his enemies again." Blue Diamond said.
"Until Pink gets through to White, just like Jarek's tape showed. Just a little while longer." Yellow Diamond said.
"FREEZE!" They heard Acolyte say, they turned to see her, holding her auto rifle, ready to fire.
"What are you supposed to be?" Yellow Diamond said.
"I am a Crystal Gem! An Acolyte! And I heard everything you said! Put Orange's gem down at once!" Acolyte said.
"Who do you think you are, stepping up to us like this?" Yellow Diamond said.
Acolyte felt like her heart would burst out of her chest. She was beyond scared, so she squeezed the trigger, and hit Yellow Diamond.
The bullets were proving to be ineffective to her.
Yellow Diamond blasted her with electricity.
"OW! OW! THAT HURTS!" Acolyte said, somehow resisting being poofed.
(POOF!)
Acolyte's gem laid on the ground, as well as the auto rifle.
Blue Diamond grabbed her gem, and sealed it in a bubble.
(SCREECH!)
The gem was fogging the bubble immediately, making the bubble shake.
"Blue! Let go of it!" Yellow Diamond said, yanking the bubble away from her.
(POP!)
Acolyte's gem reformed almost instantly, bringing her back.
"H-Help!" She said, running away.
Yellow Diamond grabbed her by her chitin collar.
Then Acolyte's three eyes glowed green, and she grabbed Yellow Diamond's free wrist, and sunk her teeth in it.
"AAOW!" Yellow Diamond said, yanking her wrist away, and slapping her once.
Acolyte was restrained by Blue Diamond.
"(INCANTATION)"
Suddenly the two diamonds were detained in circular bubbles.
"KIRRA-RAU-KAH!" Acolyte said.
Yellow Diamond stomped on the center of her trap, disabling it instantly.
She punched Acolyte, and grabbed onto her gemstone with the intent of removing it.
Suddenly Yellow Diamond heard something in her mind.
"(UNTELLIGBLE WHISPER)"
(PUNCH!)
"Yellow! Help!" Blue Diamond said.
Jarek was groaning, barely waking up. He almost awakened, but passed out again.
Acolyte opened her mouth, and bit her on the neck, hurting her significantly.
Blue Diamond did the same thing Yellow did to her trap, and escaped from it. She threw an arrow of her energy at the Acolyte, successfully impaling her through her left shoulder, where her non-existent lung would be.
Acolyte shrieked in pain, stepping back.
Yellow Diamond clenched her hand again, and her teeth, and her hand crushed the gem partially, forming cracks in it.
"(UNTELLIGBLE SHRIEK)"
Acolyte fell back, beaten. She suddenly vanished in deterioration, as if she withered away.
"What was that thing?" Yellow Diamond said, panting.
Blue Diamond lifted Jarek in her hands.
"I don't know." She said.
(Homeworld Prison Maximum Security Unit)
Jarek awoke, and saw he was in a room, with no doors, but with transparent walls, which showed a bigger room outside.
"No doors.. reminds of me back home." He said. "Heh, yeah. Just imagine." He pulled out his blues harmonica.
"Don't tell me you're going to start playing that obnoxious song again!" Steve said.
Right before Steve said that, Jarek had put his lips on the instrument, and moved it away right as he heard it.
Steve was there, outside the walls.
"Oh it's you. So that's your game? What was it for? Revenge for our little duke it out on earth?" Jarek said.
"It wasn't my idea. Let me explain what happened. You see, I showed Blue, and Yellow the tape your copy had, and they were horrified by what they saw. You die. Like for real this time, and your amulet gets crushed, preventing your resurrection even by Shinnok." Steve said.
"You mean they lied to us again, just to put me in here?" Jarek said.
"It's for your own good. Good news is, you have me as your guard." Steve said.
"And what about Michael, and Michelle? You must be dad of the year." Jarek said.
"They're still with Yellow." Steve said.
"Don't think for a second I'm going to forget what you and her did. After today, our friendship is over." Jarek said.
"No, come on! I'm only doing as I'm told! I thought you were that type of person at some point." Steve said.
"Before I realized that I needed to take matters into my own hands, and do something to save myself!" Jarek said.
"You mean Ouroboros?" Steve said.
"I mean when I had to choose between joining them, or dying with a genocidal company." Jarek said.
"What exactly was this company?" Steve asked.
"Oh please, I feel like phil leotardo, 20 years in the can, every time he shows up." Jarek said.
Steve nodded. "Life is such a movie, isn't it?" He laughed.
Jarek shook his head.
"What would my mom think of all this?" He said.
"You mean Blue?" Steve asked.
"No, I mean my real mom." Jarek said.
"Your real mom? I don't know, I didn't get to meet her. You said she was dead." Steve said.
"I know what I said. And yes you didn't get to meet her. I feel like she'd ground me forever if she found out I made gems that I left behind." Jarek said.
"Oh, well you left them on earth with Holly, and Black Diamond so they could be safe. So you didn't really leave them behind." Steve said.
"But the fact that I even kept them." Jarek said.
"She'd be proud of you for that. Who gets rid of their own kids? Bad parents." Steve said.
"Exactly what you're looking at!" Jarek said.
"But you didn't though." Steve said.
"I was thinking of it! What kind of father does that?" Jarek said.
"I'm sure every father has had those thoughts. I did at a time when I thought I wasn't good enough. But that was before White did her thing to me." Steve said.
Jarek sighed.
"Look, you may have thought about it, but you didn't do it. I heard what you and your copy said to Tundra. That takes real guts to say all that and mean it. You got your daughter back, man. She was about to run away into space, and you prevented that. You mom would be really proud of you for that." Steve said.
"Why?" Jarek asked.
"Because you showed you're stopping the cycle of your family always running from each other, and because you were being responsible." Steve said.
Jarek listened to him, and thought about his words for a minute.
"Yeah?" He said.
"Trust me, bro." Steve said. "I know things get out of hand, but we always make it through them."
"Yeah I know." Jarek said.
"Also, why Holly? You like fat girls?" Steve said.
"She's not that fat. Why giant girls?" Jarek asked.
"Well it wasn't like you think. It was a war." Steve said.
"We all got our reasons. There's nothing wrong with Holly. And Black Diamond." Jarek said.
"Didn't say there was, just Holly's fat." Steve said.
"And that's the way I like her." Jarek said.
Steve put his hand to his mouth. "Cool bro."
The two continued talking with each other for the hour.
(Earth, Skull Beach)
There were Hive remains all over the sand, and a defeated Knight laying on the sand, panting heavily, as well as a dead worm severed in pieces.
Acolyte was feasting on the remains of a poor wizard, draining her energy.
Her gem started to restore the cracks, slowly.
She shrieked loudly after finishing her feed, going into a frenzy.
She ran to the knight, and lunged at him.
He grabbed her tongue once her mouth opened, preventing her from feeding. She shrieked in alarm, trying to sink her hands in wrist.
The knight roared, yanking.
(FATALITY CHANCE!)
Acolyte panicked, trying to get him to let go.
(Start)
The knight yanked again, and swung his blade, chopped the tongue off of her, making her shriek in pain, stepping back.
He swung his blade, slicing her in half from her waist.
Then he aimed his boomer, and fired a charged blast, destroying her gem, into pieces. Then he fired another one, obliterating her form.
(FATALITY)
ALAN WINS
(Ren - Wait, Alan?
Me - Yeah, that's just his name.)
The knight, Alan, walked away from the sight, tired.
"Trippy." A human said, having witnessed the whole thing from afar.
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