(Skull City, Earth) - KRILL WARZONE...
The authorities were patrolling the city for any remaining hive that may have been hiding.
Suddenly the warp pad activated, and Alan came running, shooting his boomer gun at the tank that was slowly driving.
The tank sustained significant damage.
Alan shot three more blasts at the turret, destroying it.
The soldier driving the tank opened the hatch, and started firing his auto rifle.
Alan casted a barricade shield, and shot a blast at him, creating a bloody mess.
The other soldiers ran to the tank, and started shooting at Alan.
Alan rolled an incendiary grenade at their feet. It exploded, killing two of the four soldiers.
The remaining two soldiers retreated, Alan gave chase to them. He killed them with ease, just by his boomer.
The other soldiers in the city started fighting back.
Alan grabbed the auto rifle from one of the soldiers, and started shooting at the soldiers with incredible accuracy, killing each soldier with ease.
Then another tank rolled by. It shot a blast at Alan, sending him flying to a building, hurt. He hit the wall with a thud.
Alan ran from the battlefield, from the tank that chased him.
He went inside the building.
"(UNKNOWN LANGUAGE) Quick! Over here!" An Acolyte said, leading him to a hallway..
Alan ran to the Acolyte, following him.
Then several soldiers ran in, each holding their auto rifles close, ready to fire.
They searched the front lobby for any hive.
[MUNCH SOUNDS]
[Men screaming]
[GUNFIRE]
Alan grabbed a grenade from one of the soldiers, and tossed it to the front lobby.
[EXPLOSION!]
The tank was there, ready to fire again.
Alan shot his boomer gun at the cannon, destroying it.
Suddenly a storm struck the tank, electrocuting the soldier inside.
Alan looked up, and saw Jarek's clone hovering above the ground.
"Impossible." Alan spoke.
"(In English) KILL HIM!" An Acolyte said.
"Wait. He rescued us." Alan said.
"(shaking letters) Kill him, or we'll kill you." The Acolyte said.
Jarek's clone watched them as they spoke.
Alan turned, and punched the Acolyte in the face. He shot his boomer at him, splitting his body into pieces.
The other hive were alerted, and attacked him, with Thrall leading first.
Jarek's clone summoned his scythe, and ran to the Thrall.
[SLICE SOUNDS]
[death roars]
Alan panted, watching the remaining hive be slaughtered. He ran again, panicking.
Jarek's clone saw him evading, and flew with great speed.
Alan was stopped in his tracks.
"Where do you think you're going?" Jarek's clone said.
"What do you want from me?" Alan said.
"Calm down. I saw you take down those soldiers. Now tell me, where are you going?" Jarek's clone said.
"That's need to know." Alan said.
"You could have listened to those hive and tried to kill me, but you attacked them instead. Why?" Jarek's clone asked.
"Because it was the right thing to do. Now let me go." Alan said.
"Suit yourself. I was gonna say if you needed some help, then I would be happy to." Jarek's clone said.
"Help? How?" Alan said.
"By bringing you to a safe place." Jarek's clone said.
Alan shook his head.
"I don't know who you are. How do I know this isn't a trick?" Alan said.
"Why would I save your life just to kill you right away?" Jarek's clone said.
Alan thought for a minute.
"Where is this place?" He asked.
Jarek's clone led him to the warp pad, but rerouted it to an unknown space.
(Confined Space)
"Now this confined exists within Jarek's phone, linked to Orange Diamond and her gem."
Jarek's clone, and Alan appeared in a garden like world, where there stood a house that was made of stone bricks, exactly like Jarek's original green house.
(Ren - You mean green house gasses?
Jarek - No, totally different. It's just painted green.
Ren - (censor noises) #&%! W&$#! T%# F%$#?! Did you censor me?!
Jarek - *laughs hysterically*)
"What is this place?" Alan asked.
"My safe house. It cannot be entered by conventional means. Just by me, and a significant other." Jarek's clone said.
"Significant other? What are you?" Alan asked.
"An alien. A human alien." Jarek's clone said.
Alan scratched his head.
(Homeworld, Far space) - 5:44 A.M
Jarek was sitting on Blue Diamond's arm chair, texting
"Is everything okay? Are you hurt?" - Holly
"I'm fine." - Jarek
"Has Steven spoken to White Diamond yet?" - Holly
"Not sure. But Blue says he's fine. I have to ask where he is." - Jarek
Jarek looked over at the hall, and saw Blue Diamond, in a robe. She appeared to have just woken up.
"Good morning, Blue Diamond. Did you sleep well?" Jarek asked.
"(Yawn!) Yes, for the first time in 6000 years. What about you?" Blue Diamond said, walking to the kitchen counter.
"I don't know. I didn't really sleep much. I'm too afraid to sleep." Jarek said.
"How come?" Blue Diamond asked.
"Because if I sleep for too long, Steven might get into something he can't escape from. And without me, he has no choice of winning a serious fight." Jarek said.
"Were you always there in his battles on earth?" Blue Diamond asked.
"The majority of them, at least the ones I was a part of." Jarek said.
"Did these battles involve creatures like the one that poor Nephrite turned into?" She asked.
"Yes. But they were all different. And I met more diamonds, ones I didn't think existed. Her name was Oceanus Diamond, protector of the marine life on earth." Jarek said.
Blue Diamond's eyes lit up.
"Where did you find her?" She asked.
"On Tallon IV, she was in a containment pod, infected with phazon. Steve, and I freed her, using organic milk." Jarek said.
"Milk? How is that possible?" She asked.
"I don't know. The way I remember it all happening is, as soon as I splashed it all over her body, the phazon started to explode in bubbles. It was gross." Jarek said.
Blue Pearl entered the room.
"My diamond, we found Victoria." Blue Pearl spoke, bowing to Blue Diamond.
"Bring her here." Blue Diamond said, her eyes were lit up again.
Just then, Victoria, and Hunter were both brought in, by two Topaz guards.
"Blue Diamond." Hunter said.
"Victoria, what are you doing with this organic?" Blue Diamond asked.
"This organic, is my boyfriend." Victoria said.
"Boy-friend?" Blue Diamond asked, her eye twitching.
"Blue, remember what we talked about." Jarek said.
"I don't understand. Where did he come from?" She said.
"I was waiting for her to meet with me while you and Yellow were fighting that hive." Hunter said.
"Wait, what hive? Was it an Acolyte?" Jarek asked.
"Yes. But she got away when Yellow proved to be too strong for her." Hunter said.
"Oh my god." Jarek said.
"(Sigh)" Blue Diamond sighed.
"My diamond, may I dispose of this human?" Blue Pearl said.
"No." Blue Diamond reluctantly said, agitated that she was allowing an outsider to be with her own daughter. "What made you come back? You ran off again."
"Hunter talked me into coming back. He said that you, and Yellow had seen the tape that depicted our demise, and were just trying to protect him." Victoria said.
Blue Diamond looked at him, who shrugged.
"So you knew?" She said to Hunter.
"Yes. There isn't much time. White is going to make Steven soon." Hunter said.
"Did you see him anywhere?" Jarek asked.
"Last time I saw him, he was in Pink Diamond's old room, with his gems." Hunter said.
"Thank you." Jarek said. He headed straight for the front door and exited.
"Does he always run?" Victoria asked.
"Yes." Hunter said. He followed after him.
(Alleyway, Homeworld Grounds)
There were gem-cats roaming about, just living their lives. Some were sitting, one was chasing another.
Jarek was walking along the concrete path, ignoring the gem-nimals. Hunter caught up to him.
"It's been a long time, Hunter. How did you meet Victoria?" Jarek asked.
"We were fighting a worm in the asteroid belt a few months ago after I left you and Greg on earth. We joined forces together and haven't separated since." Hunter said.
"Oh, makes sense. Guardian down." Jarek said. He shoved him to a nearby sinkhole, and ran away.
(THUD!)
Jarek was panting.
Then Hunter respawned from his ghost, and chased after him.
He jumped up, and tackled Jarek.
Jarek laughed at him.
"What the hell was that?!" Hunter said.
"You said the same thing to me." Jarek said.
"But I didn't kill you!" Hunter said.
"You pulled the trigger and it clicked." Jarek said.
"Exactly!" Hunter said.
"Um..Sorrey?" Jarek asked.
"It's fine. Don't do it again." Hunter said.
"Sorry. It was so funny the last time you did it though. I mean, at the time it was scary sort of, but now that I thought more about it, it was really stupid." Jarek said.
"That was the point." Hunter said.
"Soo.. why are there gem-cats here? Homeworld wasn't depicted to have animals." Jarek said.
"They don't. This is Pink Diamond's doing. A long time ago, during one of her adventures with the diamonds, she cloned a feline from another planet, and made it into a gem. She caused a scene when Yellow tried to take it down, and a whole bunch of gem cats were cloned, and let loose. Homeworld never got them all, and they never will it seems." Hunter explained.
"Oh. So like this tiger right here." Jarek said, pointing to a resting gem-tiger.
"Yes. Don't wake it up." Hunter said.
"Yeah, sorry. So if I remember correctly, Pink's palace should be just up ahead." Jarek said.
Then the same portal from a chapter ago opened, and pulled Jarek, AND Hunter in, by skeletal hand.
"AIE!" Jarek exclaimed.
(Pink Diamond's Palace)
The portal tossed Jarek, and Hunter through by the same skeletal hand.
"OOF!" Jarek exclaimed. "Thanks Shinnok!"
The portal closed.
"Eh, he's fine." Jarek said.
"Why are you friends with a fallen elder god?" Hunter asked.
"I did him a favor, and now he's stuck in my realm. Basically." Jarek said.
"What was the favor?" Hunter asked.
"Revenge on his elder gods, and when he was finished, he just.. stayed bound to me. So if he dies, I lose half my power." Jarek said.
"That's pretty awful. And dumb." Hunter commented.
"Well, it is what it is." Jarek said.
The two entered the room, into a hall-like room.
Jarek grabbed his phone and checked the screen. It had 2% energy left. His eyes widened entirely.
"I have to charge my phone." He looked around for an outlet.
Hunter walked to the door on the left side of the hall.
Jarek followed Hunter, and opened the door.
Steven was sleeping, with Connie laying beside him on a bed the pebbles had made for Steven.
Amethyst was laughing, bouncing on the trampoline the pebbles had also made.
"What the F?" Jarek said.
"Oh hey Jarek! WHOA!" Amethyst fell off the trampoline. She hit the floor with a thud.
"OH MY GOD." Jarek said, about to laugh. He helped Amethyst get up. "Who's that?"
"Hunter." Jarek said. Hunter gave her a silent nod.
Steven, and Connie awoke to hearing them come in.
"Jarek? You're okay!" Steven said. He ran to, and hugged him.
"Okay okay, Steven." Jarek said, patting his back.
"What happened out there?" Steven asked.
"I nearly turned into a girl." Jarek said.
"WHAT?" Amethyst said.
"Huh?" Pearl asked, confused as hell.
"It's true. I saw the whole thing." Hunter said.
"Wait, what do you mean by that?" Connie asked.
"I was transforming into a b-word." Jarek said.
"B-word?" Connie said.
"Wait you don't mean?" Steven said.
"Yes, I had a fat ass and a set of big-" Jarek was cut off.
"Aah! Lalalalalalala!" Steven covered his ears, trying to block Jarek's gross words.
Jarek chuckled.
"Yeah, it was horrible. Steve nearly peed his pants." Jarek said.
"Not true!" Steve said, in the background.
"Wait, Steve?" Jarek said, looking in the room for him.
Michelle was holding a large hand fan, fanning Steve. He was laying on a bean bag. Michael was sitting beside him, drinking a soda pop.
"Hey man." Steve said.
"Where the H did you go? I left for one minute, and then you're gone when I came back." Jarek said.
"You were gone for a real long time, friend. I went back to Yellow's palace, to be with my kids. Then I brought them here because I wanted to be with Steven." Steve said. He took a bite out of a pink pan dulce (sweet bread).
"Is that pan dulce? Are there anymore?" Jarek asked.
"Yeah, over there." Steve said, pointing to a table full of sweets.
"Ha-ha yeah!" Jarek said, running to the table. Hunter silently followed.
Jarek grabbed one, and bit into it. He enjoyed the sweet bread as he ate one. Hunter grabbed one, and lifted his mask partially, not revealing his face.
"Oi, you can remove your mask." Jarek said.
"(Munching) (Gulp!) I prefer not to." Hunter said.
"Cool." Jarek said.
"So where were you all this time?" Steven asked him.
"At Blue Diamond's mansion. I see you made a bedroom here." Jarek said, checking out the room.
"Yeah. You don't look like you got a lot of sleep." Steven said, noticing dark circles around Jarek's eyes. "Oh gawd! really?" He checked the mirror that was there, and saw the dark circles on his eyes.
"Is it a curse?" Jarek said, questioning himself.
"Of course it isn't!" They heard Orange Diamond say. She entered the room.
"Orange!" Jarek said, running to her.
She was met with a tight hug.
"Orange!" Steven said, giving her a hug.
"I'm here. I'm here." Orange Diamond said.
(Shinnok's Palace, Netherrealm)
Shinnok watched events.
"Things seem to be calming down now." Cetrion said.
"The calm before the storm. They still have to get through to White." Shinnok said.
"Even if they do succeed, what then? The hive are still going to attack earth." Cetrion said.
"I have faith he can handle that himself." Shinnok said.
"You must really trust him." Cetrion said.
"With the powers mother gave him, he will be more than capable of destroying whatever invades his home." Shinnok said.
Cetrion looked back at the hourglass.
"I hope you're right. He's been through too much." She said.
...
