Opening File: White Diamond
White Diamond is a Homeworld Gem and the leader of the Great Diamond Authority that rules over the Gem race. She holds supreme authority over all Gems, including her fellow Diamonds, and is seen as a being beyond the rest of her kind. Nothing is known about White Diamond's exact past, but she believed she existed to 'make everything better' by imposing a strict system of hierarchies and castes upon the Homeworld empire. Her order persisted unchanged for many thousands of years.
White Diamond owned the most colonies at the time of Earth's colonization. White was once closer to the other Diamonds, even taking part in games that Pink played with them. However, Pink would be locked away in a tower if she were to break one of Homeworld's rules, with White would always be furious with her. When Pink Diamond was given the Earth as her colony White Diamond decided that her Pearl would accompany Pink, believing that Pink's own Pearl was too immature and because White wanted someone close to Pink to report to her on the progress of the colony.
When war broke out on Earth White Diamond remained on Homeworld to supervise the rest of the Empire's colonies, leaving the matters of the Crystal Gems, the Grimm, Earth's warriors and other opposing factions such as the Asgardians and the Accelerons and their drones to Yellow and Blue Diamond. When Blue Diamond was almost killed in battle against the Grimm Yellow Diamond made a proposal that all Diamonds would be given their own personal weapon as assurance in the unlikely event that such a near tragedy happened again. While White Diamond seemingly acted as if she was above the use of a weapon she did not refuse and decided that the weapon she would wield would be an instrument of her perfection. When Blue Diamond proposed the creation of a Space Zoo for holding organic specimens for Pink Diamond White surprisingly stepped in, believing Earth's organics were too dangerous to be held in a Space Zoo and ordered the creation of the Special Zone.
None of the other Diamonds understood White's reasoning for this but as the war progressed White Diamond began to take a more personal role in the conflict, admitting that she had sensed a great power on Earth and believed it would benefit Gemkind. She knew this power was tied to the Earth's organics but could not understand why and thus sought to study them through the specimens collected and brought to the Special Zone. When the Grimm became a more dangerous threat to the Gems on Earth White Diamond personally created a new Gem named Seraphinite meant to fight the Grimm but the single Gem betrayed Homeworld and her Diamond to the Crystal Gems, ending the new line of new of Seraphinites before it had even begun. When Pink Diamond was shattered and Earth was no longer deemed to be a viable colony, White left Homeworld and she participated in the Corrupting Light attack that corrupted every Gem on Earth exposed to the attack.
After that, she returned to Homeworld and stayed for over five thousand years, never leaving her ship or allowing the other Diamonds to speak with her. When her new weapon was forged White Diamond named it Starlight in honor of Pink Diamond. It was also during this time that White Diamond met and supposedly forged an alliance with chaos demon Bill Cipher for unknown reasons but it was possible because Cipher promised to find her the Elementals when the time was right. Five thousand years later White Diamond knew the time was growing near for the Cluster's emergence and ordered her Pearl that was formerly Pink's to bring the Elementals to Homeworld to begin her plans for them.
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Opening File: Yellow Diamond
Yellow Diamond is a Homeworld Gem and a member of the Great Diamond Authority that rules over the Gem race. In particular, she usually commands her military and oversees Gem production on her colonies. By the time Gems came to Earth Yellow Diamond had existed for thousands of years. Over time, she amassed a great amount of respect, colonies, and Gems.
While Gems usually expanded by establishing colonies on planets some of Yellow Diamond's many colonies are asteroid fields which are used as mines. Although she sometimes clashed with Pink Diamond, Yellow Diamond had a very close relationship with her. Along with the other Diamonds, she would attend many of Pink's parties in celebration of the Diamond Authority's achievements. All of the Diamonds would come to her pool area, where Pink would stand underwater and sing, while she, White and Blue attempted to guess the song.
When war broke out on Earth and after Blue Diamond was almost killed by the Grimm Yellow Diamond realized that the war was taking its toll on the Gems and their resources and that she would need a new strategy against their enemies. Seeing as how the Crystal Gems brought over many Gems to their side, teaching them how to fight and wield weapons that they were otherwise originally forbidden to use Yellow had the idea of creating a personal weapon, not only for herself but for all the Diamonds. She called on the best Bismuths in the Gem Empire to create a personal weapon for each Diamond but Yellow still had to choose which weapon would suit her best. She spent days, weeks and perhaps even months deciding which weapon would suit her best and became interested in a specific combat style displayed by the Earth's warriors.
The style revolved around the quick drawing of the sword, responding to a sudden attack, striking or cutting the opponent, removing blood from the blade and then replacing the sword back in the scabbard. It was a deadly form of swordsmanship but Yellow Diamond believed it would suit her best, believing it matched her idea of swift, efficient and brutal to anyone who challenged her. She chose the form of her weapon and upon its completion she would spend any and all personal time training to master this style that the Earth warriors called Iaido. It wasn't until after Pink Diamond was shattered when Yellow Diamond first revealed her new weapon that she had named Galaxy Storm and the skills she had gained from constant training.
The first time she appeared in battle she demonstrated such deadly skill that from then on the mere sight of her caused many enemies, including the Crystal Gems and even the Asgardians to hesitate or even flee from her.
All except for the one Asgardian who became her greatest rival.
When Pink was shattered and Earth was deemed to no longer be a viable colony, Yellow Diamond ordered and authorized the creation of a new Gem-Geo weapon known as the Cluster which was made from the shards of countless broken Gems. During the tests Yellow Diamond would continue to fight, keeping her enemies from learning of her plans until the Cluster was buried deep inside the Earth. Yellow then aided in unleashing the Corrupting Light when combining her powers with White and Blue Diamond at the end of the Rebellion with the intent of obliterating every Gem left on Earth's surface. Over the course of the following thousands of years, Yellow blamed herself for Pink's demise, knowing that she was not ready for a colony of her own but gave in nonetheless.
Five thousand years later Yellow Diamond wished to know the status of the Cluster and assigned Peridot to check its progress.
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Opening File: Blue Diamond
Blue Diamond is a Homeworld Gem and a member of the Great Diamond Authority that rules over the Gem race. Over the course of thousands of years, Blue Diamond amassed a great amount of respect, colonies, and Gems. Her role in the Great Diamond Authority was one of diplomacy, meaning she enforced White Diamond's rules on Homeworld. When Pink Diamond was eventually created, Blue and the other Diamonds grew a close relationship with her.
Blue found Pink's immature personality to be charming at times, but would also tend to be strict on her under specific circumstances. Pink was eventually given charge of her own colony, the planet Earth. She realized the beauty of this world and wished to cease the colonization process. She pleaded with Blue to spare Earth for the sake of the organic life thriving on it, only to be refused.
Blue instead had humans gathered from their families and gave Pink the Special Zone.
When the Grimm rose up, along with Earth's warriors and the Grimm against the colonization Blue Diamond gathered her court and called upon a Sapphire to Earth's Cloud Arena to know what Rose's next move would be. She later thanked Sapphire for receiving her vision that the Crystal Gems would soon attack the Cloud Arena, believing the Rebellion would end that day. When the Crystal Gems eventually showed up, Blue Diamond fled in her palanquin, but later threatened to shatter Ruby when she accidentally fused with Sapphire during the bedlam.
Not long after that, the Grimm suddenly assaulted the Cloud Arena, shattering many Gems and almost shattered Blue Diamond herself if not for the arrival of Yellow Diamond. The two fought off the Grimm together, accidently fusing into Green Diamond and vowing never to speak of the incident again. After the attack on the Cloud Arena Yellow Diamond suggested that all Diamonds be given their own personal weapon to be used against the Grimm and later the other enemies that emerged during the war. Having never had to wield a weapon before Blue Diamond was skeptical about what she should wield, wondering what would suit a Diamond in her position.
On the Moon Base, Blue scolded Pink for continuously coming up with excuses to cease colonization, and reassured her that as long as she maintains positivity, her Gems would reflect that and inevitably end the Rebellion. Immediately after that she and Yellow were suddenly attacked and when they awoke, they found the remains of Pink's shards and came to the conclusion that Rose Quartz had somehow infiltrated the Moon Base and attacked them. It was only after Pink Diamond's shattering was when Blue Diamond decided what her weapon would be.
She had studied up on many of Earth's cultures, given her nature as a diplomat and intelligence gatherer and read about a figure representing death in Earthling culture wielding a staff like weapon with a curved blade called a scythe. She chose this to be the weapon she would wield, seeing the staff as the perfect representation of her diplomat status while at the same time adopting the symbol of the Death to use against the Crystal Gems, vowing to hunt them all down punish each of them personally while saving Rose Quartz for last.
When her weapon was finally forged she held it in her hand and when asked by her Bismuths if she approved she answered: I have become the Shatterer, destroyer of my enemies.
She appeared with Yellow Diamond on the battle field and more than lived up to her claim, becoming so deadly that even Rose Quartz herself became terrified whenever Blue Diamond led Homeworld's armies. Along with the other Diamonds, Blue assisted in unleashing the Corrupting Light with the hopes of wiping out all Gems on Earth but instead caused any Gems exposed to the light to become Corrupted. Pink's death flung Blue Diamond into a deep depression. In addition to taking over Pink's Zoo, Blue becomes obsessed with preserving anything that is related to Pink and remains in a constant state of mourning and regret for thousands of years.
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Opening File: Blue Pearl
Blue Pearl is a Homeworld Gem that belongs to Blue Diamond who she has served for thousands of years, well before Pink Diamond owned Earth. During the war where Blue Diamond nearly died alongside Yellow Diamond, Blue Pearl was protected from Yellow upon witnessing the duo's fusion, keeping it a secret. Blue Pearl had vowed to protect her beloved Diamond and asked her if she could be trained to alongside her against their enemies. The Pearl was ready to be shattered for making such a request of her Diamond who shockingly not only agreed but also gave her a weapon resembling her Diamond's weapon Rainfall despite being a Pearl.
Blue Pearl was then trained to fight with it, her skills almost completely matching her Diamond's in both elegance…and lethality.
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Opening File: Yellow Pearl
Yellow Pearl is a Homeworld Gem that belongs to Yellow Diamond. She has aided Yellow Diamond for thousands of years, well before Pink Diamond owned the Earth. She attended the many parties that Pink would host in celebration of the Diamond Authority's many victories. When Yellow Diamond was given her own weapon and fought many battles during the War on Earth Yellow Pearl was always close by, coordinating the battles but due to the losses the Gems lost along watching her Diamond injured many times in battle against the Grimm and the Asgardian Thor and even almost dying herself when the Grimm would suddenly attack the outposts and bases she was posted Yellow Pearl felt so helpless and useless to her Diamond. Unable to stand it anymore Yellow Pearl gathered her courage one day and fell to her knees before her Diamond, begging her to be trained to fight along her side instead of being useless in the war.
She fully expected herself to be shattered for daring to ask her Diamond of all Gems to train her to fight and when Yellow Diamond looked down at her, she stood up ready to face her end with dignity…
Only to nearly suffer the Gem equivalent of a heart attack when Yellow Diamond agreed.
The Diamond, seeing the losses pilling up and the fact that the Grimm could attack anyone, even Diamonds as she found out the hard way from the Cloud Arena decided that it would not do for her Pearl, an important member of court to be helpless in this war. She ordered the creation of a weapon resembling Galaxy Storm for her Pearl and trained her efficiently to fight to the point that her fighting skills were above almost any other Gem in her court.
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Opening File: The United Stellar Alliance
The United Stellar Alliance, or simply Stellar Alliance is made up of civilizations joined together for mutual peace and protection in the galaxy, one of the superpowers to govern the galaxy and under the leadership of a supreme chairman and the council. The Alliance may have been around for a number of centuries when the galaxy was heavily divided some such as the Galvans, Asgardians, Cybertronians and the N'Kai came together to form a coalition after the war against the Gem Empire thousands of years ago and even allied with a band of rebels known as the Crystal Gems at the time, not just against Gems but also other forces that threatened all life, including the Accela-Drones, or Racing Drones as they were commonly referred to when they turned against their creators. At the time the galaxy was divided with new sentient races emerging, the eldest races decided to create a galactic community for all species to come together, even beyond the rim with the support of the Cybertronians who favor the right for all sentient beings.
The Galvans being one the leading founders and using the knowledge they were given from the Accelerons and the ancient N'kai to pass on to others, putting aside their differences of race, culture and origins in favor of friendship and peace to make much of the universe a better place for all. With the defeat of Vilgax the Alliance took this as a sign of good news for the planets liberated from his reign but alerted the forces to be on the lookout for his whereabouts as one of the most wanted criminals in the galaxy. The United Stellar Alliance formed a friendship with Cybertron before the Empire was in a cold war-state with the Plutark Confederation over their need of resources to expand and waged a war against the Gems invading the galaxy. While the Stellar Alliance is hostile towards the Gem Empire over their disregard towards organic life, they managed to keep the Gems at bay with the aid of the Galvans and Cybertronians to help.
The Alliance's council under the leadership of Fe'ire managed to bring the Plutark Confederacy into signing a peace treaty with Cybertron and cease their expansions with other stellar powers on the rise and for some hoping to pursued the Gems into finding ways to co-exist with other races rather than subjugate or destroy, for all they've done they have made many enemies without realizing it and it was only a matter of time for those threats would start to emerge such as the growing raids on the outer territories.
As a sign of strength and unity, the Alliance commands a combined military force made up of member worlds but also design new ships using combined technologies and resources to establish interspecies relations for scientific explorations and in conflicts to defend the alliance. The Plumbers were established as the galactic law-enforcement organization to protect the planets, both in and outside alliance jurisdictions, even setting up special branches on to protect pre-spacefaring civilizations such as Earth from extraterrestrial threats and keep general public from being aware.
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Opening File: Fe'ire
Fe'ire is the Grand Councilwoman and elected leader of the United Stellar Alliance. The Councilwoman sought to broker a peace treaty between the Cybertronian Empire and the Plutark Confederation to end the long periods of a cold war from both sides in hopes to find a mutual agreement. Fortunately she was supportive by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime who was present to the council and even surprisingly Camembert, the leader of the Plutarkian race.
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Opening File: Captain Gantu
Gantu is a captain of the United Stellar Alliance. He comes from the eighth planet of the Kreplok System. As a captain, he served as the second-in-command to the Grand Councilwoman. Unlike the Grand Councilwoman, however, Gantu is known for being the brute force of the Galactic security forces, holding no sympathy toward criminals or fugitives, and preferring immediate arrest, as opposed to awaiting a chance to see if a criminal in question has some form of good within them. Gantu is a strict, no-nonsense soldier.
He is not evil, however, but follows his orders in an admittedly ruthless manner and tends to take the rules too seriously. As the Grand Councilwoman stated, he has a problem with ethics.
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Opening File: Pink Division
The Pink Division of the Special Zone on the Gem Homeworld focuses on mimicking the court of Pink Diamond, despite her having long been shattered. The Pink Division, modeled after Pink Diamond's court of entertainment and the studying of organic life. Despite the normal disregard for organic life Pink Diamond held a deep fascination for organics to the point she often persuaded the other Diamonds to keep them alive, even if they found it difficult to understand her fascination but indulged her nonetheless. Often new organic samples and specimens are brought to the Special Zone and it is up to the Pink Division to determine their uses.
Pink Diamond would often host grand balls to celebrate the victories of the Diamonds and thus Pink Division would be charged with setting up similar balls and even festivals in the Special Zone, celebrating almost anything they can think of such as birthdays, anniversaries and even visits from the Diamonds themselves, even though it usually only Blue Diamond who might visit them. Members of the Pink Division are often the most laid back and cheerful of the four divisions. They often dress in clothing considered bright and cheerful by the courts and divisions and yet can be considered elegant in their own way. Each division has a single leader who is ranked just below or on par with the Gems who supervise the Special Zone but trust the organics to manage the zone and its population on their own.
The leader of the Pink Division is named Red Action.
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"You are sure about this?"
"There's no doubt about it."
"So if Swayzak is responsible for an entire communications blackout the question would be: is he working alone?" Phil Ken Sebben leaned back in his chair. "It can't be a coincidence that he is disrupting the Gem Empire's network. Not when we are already in a race with Sammael to retrieve the Elementals."
"You think Sammael organized this?" TOM asked.
"If he wanted to knock the Diamonds off balance to give either team the time they needed to find and retrieve the Elementals then yes I do. Earth might not have joined the galactic community but it has its share of characters for him to call on if he wanted to carry out a mission as bold as attacking the entire Gem Empire. We know Swayzak has encountered you before and that he's also done work with a few other old friends." Sebben answered.
"Control Freak and Psycrow." TOM muttered, remembering his own encounters with the former. "One who took over my ship and sent us tumbling through the multiverse and the other one has gained quite the reputation as a bounty hunter."
"They would definitely have the courage and the resources to mount an assault like this." Sebben nodded.
"We are trying to clean through the jamming but its taking a lot of our systems to even contact you. We are still broadcasting; we had that isolated even before the first time Swayzak showed up. As far as we know Swayzak's infested the entire Gem network."
"The question now is that all? Or is there more at work then we know?"
"We'll keep on trying to work our through the jamming. SARA made it a point to upgrade our own anti-viral system last time we ran into Swayzak. We'll have a better time dealing with his tricks."
"Any word on the Titans?"
"Nope. I'm starting to think Swayzak was behind that too. Him and Control Freak really don't want to be found."
"Then we might have to consider dealing with the two of them along with Psycrow before it's too late. If they are working for Sammael now than they are much more dangerous than any of us considered. " Sebben brought his hands together.
"You'll get no argument from me on that one. So how do we take them down?"
"I have an idea for Control Freak. It's just a matter of talking to the right person. You and SARA have the most experience with Swayzak." Sebben pointed out.
"Not exactly my fondest memory but I get what you're saying." TOM conceded.
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The supreme councilwoman entered the command center when receiving news from Captain Gantu that not only concerned Fe'ire but also the Alliance.
"Are you absolute certain of this Captain? Something like this could not have been expected in the Gem Empire." Fe'ire asked the giant alien who remained quiet for the moment until he was permitted to speak.
"VERY certain, one of my agents contacted the Plumbers reported seeing colonies and ships in the frontier in disarray and no one knows what's going on as the entire territories are in silence, leaving them under attack by numerous factions from all sides." Gantu told her of the situation and was concerned about it as she was.
She sighed and couldn't believe something like this could happen in her lifetime. But who or what could have caused such chaos and anarchy to the Gems? It was no doubt those attacks would've been caused by those with a strong desire to see the Gems suffer or perhaps lost their homes to them in the past. Much as any would love to support them, but would also mean something like that could do such a thing would mean a greater threat to the Alliance and allies.
"This could be far serious and no telling if it could happen to us, alert all Plumbers and ships within the borders to be cautious." Giving him her command and needed to know of anything else for that matter. "And in the meantime has there been anything else to report, captain?"
Gantu nodded and received many reports then the attack on the Gem Empire. "Indeed so and more to add, ma'am. Just the other week we captured a band of Limax who came from the planet Earth for... supplies if you will but fortunately no casualties. Strange anomalies detected on Earth and in orbit for the past several months, along with the near fatal incident with the outlawed R.E.G.I.S. has been successfully captured and sent to an artificial black hole." He answered; giving her the details of the events that related to the planet had her most concerned about.
"However onto the previous subject I believe I may have found something related to the Gems' recent activity in our galaxy. Two Gem ships had been spotted entering the system despite being under a protected status. The second was just seen leaving not so long ago"
Her eyes were wide open in surprise by this since the Gems had abandoned that system long ago and the United Stellar Alliance claimed it under their protection, including other planets in the system such as Mars that was recently invaded by Plutark. "Gems you say? But why are they so interested in it so sudden?"
"We'll find out once we capture them." It was not uncommon for many species and cultures that loath and fear the Gems for their lack of empathy towards organics. Gantu was no different, thinking of them as a threat to the peace and yet must follow the law of treating them as sentient beings like the Galvanic Mechamorphs and the Cybertronians that are synthetic life forms but that didn't mean he has to like them. "Whatever is happening in the Empire cannot be ignored; this could be the work of Vilgax or the Plutarkians for their reputation.
"Agreed, much as I know of Lord Chairman Camembert, he would see this as an advantage to rid of his rivals. Best warn Optimus and possible to send a request for a precaution."
Fe'ire wanted to minimize casualties as possible to end one of the major crises. She was determined to find any evidence if it were linked to Plutark or perhaps some group of hostiles that found a way to cause chaos within a powerful government. It was also concerning to hear about Akiridion-5 about a certain rebel group overthrowing the royal family. They could not do anything to help at the time unless finding the remaining survivors.
Perhaps they would find some answers on the very planet that appeared to be connected to all of this. She turned to Gantu with new orders to give. "Captain, I believe it's time we started to know what is happening on that planet. How soon will you be prepared for the assignment?"
He looked at her with a serious expression to give an answer. "Immediately."
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"So this is where the stranger left all of his stuff?"
"There's the TV!"
"Quick, let's see if the nature channel is on, Plank!"
"Jonny-Wood-Boy, we have no time for the entertainment of the light box. We must escape this paradise of lunacy and back to Earth!"
"So where is Nazz then?"
"I am not sure."
Della Duck was the one to lead them to the secret cave of the stranger after rescuing Eddy from the Blue Division's lab. The cave they were in resembled a very old lab with various gadgets scattered across the ground and a very old work table with a TV over thirty years old resting on it. Bonnibel and Eddy were with her when they arrived, meeting up with Monty who was followed by Rolf and Jonny next but no Nazz.
"If there are people on the Gem planet here to rescue the Elementals we'll only have a limited time to meet up with them and escape." Bonnibel stated to Monty, who was sitting next to Nigel and Abby who were both still delirious from using their Elemental powers to remove the crystals meant to keep them powerless. "We might not have enough time go back for her or the other boy."
That's right.
Kevin was still a statue in the White Division tower.
"I don't like the idea of leaving anyone behind." Monty replied. "We should at least try to rescue them."
"That's a bad idea. The divisions will be on lockdown and if we can't get to the Warp Pad and use it you'll never escape anyways." Della walked over to the table and picked up a small round metallic device. "This is what the stranger left behind for anyone who wanted to escape. It's designed to fool the warp network into thinking whoever is holding it and the people near it are Gems. You can use this to escape not only here but escape back to Earth but there is a drawback."
"And that is?" Monty accepted the device.
"It only works twice. So you'll need to warp out of here back into the universe the Gem Home world is in and then use it to warp back to Earth if the network reaches there." Della explained. "I've worked out how to make another one but I never used it because since the warp pad here leads back only to Homeworld and the Gems monitor their warp network closely. I never would have had a chance of escaping on my own."
"So this can help us escape." Monty looked at the device, nodding in gratitude. "Thank you, Miss Duck."
"Thank me when we get out of here. Look, if you guys don't try to escape now then no one will be able to escape." Della explained.
"So we just leave Shovel Chin and Nazz behind?" Eddy asked. "I'm all for leaving Kevin behind but Nazz…"
"That's kind of mean." Jonny agreed.
"Rolf would never leave a friend behind." Rolf declared.
"I don't like this either but for me the priority is getting Nigel and Abby out of here." Monty gestured to the dazed Ice and Candy Elementals. "They are the reasons we are all here in the first place because the Diamonds want something from them. They can't stay here."
"Ed will help his friends." Ed said, standing tall. "I am a fearless space outlaw!"
Eddy rubbed his face. "Ed, come on. We're serious."
"Actually," The group turned around, facing the Elemental Pearls as Slime Pearl spoke. "Perhaps we can assist."
Eddy glared. "Really? How?"
"My counterparts can escort our Elementals to the Warp Pad while I escort my Elemental to the Yellow and White Divisions." Slime Pearl suggested.
"And what's in it for you?" Eddy asked.
"Our duty and purpose is the safety of our Elementals. We cannot allow them to become endangered, even by the Divisions in the Special Zone." Slime Pearl explained, her fellow Pearls nodding.
"Yeah, right-"
"Rolf agrees." Rolf suddenly spoke, his agreement shocking Eddy.
"What?!"
"Rolf sees no deception from Ed-Boy's Pearl. Rolf sees only honestly and loyalty and Rolf respects her vow to protect Elementals." Rolf stood up. "But if three haired Ed-Boy needs proof Rolf has an idea how Slime Pearl can prove it."
"Oh yeah? How?" Eddy asked.
Rolf walked up to Slime Pearl. "Remove long in the neck Ed-boy's crystal."
Slime Pearl's eyes widened at the request. "I can't…"
"You must. If you value Ed-boy's live then free him!" Rolf declared.
Slime Pearl stared at him and then at Ed who offered her only a smile. "…All right. I'll do it."
Ignoring the confused and slightly frightful looks her fellow Pearls gave her Slime Pearl walked up to Ed and placed her hand on the crystal, having no fear of her hand being repelled by its stored energy. She easily grasped it and pulled it off Ed's belt, freeing him from its restriction.
"There. It is done." Slime Pearl said, holding up the crystal and placing it in her gemstone.
"Thank you." Ed said gratefully.
"She just removed it like that?" Eddy asked.
"A Pearl is sworn to do everything in the best interest of her master unless her orders are overridden by a Gem of higher rank, like the Diamonds." Della explained. "They are programmed to literally obey the word of those they are imprinted on without question."
"Okay, I get that but what about me?" Eddy gestured to himself. "What was all this about me not having human DNA? Am I some sort of alien?"
"No, you are human. At least half human." Della answered.
"I looked over the scans they took of you, Eddy. You have a human skeleton, human organs and human blood but there is something else there. A strange additional strand in your DNA that cannot exist in humans." Bonnibel explained. "The Blue Division must have detected it during your sorting."
"This is crazy." Eddy shook his head. "Look, I am not sure what your fancy tech found but I am a hundred percent, human with the bonus of being handsome and good looking."
"We can debate this later. Right now we have to move fast." Monty cut in.
"So what do we do now?" Eddy asked.
"…Plan our escape."
"Oh I know what to do!" Ed said as his eyes started flaring.
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"Man, it's been a long time since anything this exciting has happened."
"Red Action, this is a serious matter."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm focused on it."
"We must lockdown the entire zone at once and have guards posted at the Warp Pad immediately."
"What of the one in your division?"
"She'll be placed through the resetting program immediately."
"It has not been done for thousands for years."
"We have not had new arrivals for thousands of years."
"Very well. In the meantime we must see to the matter of tracking the Elementals. If they escape the Diamonds will be furious with us."
"So where are they?"
An alarm broke out, interrupting the meeting.
"On their way apparently."
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A mass of green glowing slime burst out of ground, morphing and shaping itself into a…
"I AM A MONSTER!" The voice of Ed roared from the monster. "BLLLLAUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRGHHHHHHH!"
It was indeed a giant monster.
It was as tall as the towers in the center of the special, the slime seemingly solidifying and glowing at the same time. Its arms and legs were long, seemingly like tentacles at first and yet were muscular enough to be used as arms and legs as it moved around. It had a draconic head with horns sprouting from its cheeks, two pairs of eyes with one pair large and red while the other resembled human eyes. Spikey dorsal plates traveled down its back, ending at its long powerful tail.
At the end of its arms were not hands but seemingly mouths with sharp teeth that made it look only more intimidating.
Intimidating enough that nearly the entire Zone went into panic at the mere sight of the monster.
The monster smashed its head into the white tower, bashing it several times before stopping suddenly and let out a very human sound. "Ow…"
Then went back to smashing into the tower with its head.
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"Ed's an animal."
That was all Eddy could say about the situation they were now in.
Ed, the Slime Elemental had somehow managed to combine his Semblance Manifestation with his Slime Elemental powers to manifest a new form more powerful than anything he had done before. With Ed at the center of the monster he had created by first calling upon his Slime powers and then using Manifestation to mold and shape it into the form that from this point forward would be known as…Edzilla.
Jonny, Eddy and Rolf were sitting in Edzilla's mouth, watching as he attacked the white tower to rescue Kevin.
"Right on! Isn't this exciting, buddy?" Jonny asked his wooden friend.
"Fool hardy Ed-boy changing into a beast. Never before has Rolf trembled with such fear." Rolf shuddered.
Finally Edzilla smashed open the top of the white tower, spotting the chamber where the members of the White Division resided. Reaching down with his tentacle arm he easily picked out and grabbed the statue form of Kevin, placing it in his mouth with Jonny and Rolf.
"Wow. What did they do to him?" Jonny asked, kneeling over Kevin.
"Those sirens have placed Kevin in a trance." Rolf said with narrowed eyes. "Rolf has heard of such legends before."
"How do we break him out of it?" Jonny asked.
"We can't without destroying the beasts that did this to him." Rolf glared down at the giant crystal in the center of the room. "And Rolf knows what he must do."
"What are you-" Jonny stopped as Rolf jumped out of the mouth of Edzilla, plummeting down into the room. "ROLF WAIT! DON'T BE A HERO!"
Rolf landed in the chamber, listening to the musical melodies coming from the crystal and quickly tore off pieces of his clothing that he then shoved into his ears. "VILE OPERA SINGING! YOU SHALL NOT CORRUPT ROLF THIS DAY!"
He rushed over to the crystal, placing his hand over it to feel for weak spots. "Rolf can see shoddy spot welding from a distance of twenty goats."
He put his tongue on a specific spot on the crystal and pounded it with his fist.
"That's just weird." Jonny watched from Edzilla's mouth.
"He's a freak." Eddy muttered.
Rolf stepped back and smiled. "Behold."
Soon enough the entire crystal began to break and then shattered into pieces. From the remains of the crystal came what appeared to be three women with highly exaggerated proportions. They had peach-colored skin, large eyes and lips, and have long eyelashes. They wore revealing, white, toga-like clothing consisting of a short, sleeveless top with the two sirens on the side wearing short skirts and the one in the middle having a longer one.
They all seemed to be surrounded by a glowing, pinkish aura that made it hard to see their more-distinguished features. The main feature that defined each woman was their hair. The middle one had long, curly, pink hair as well as a mole/beauty mark on her cheeks. The one standing on her right had long, straight, white or possibly blonde hair and large earrings.
The one on her left had long white hair pulled back into a ponytail, but didn't have any other distinct features.
"At last we are free…" The middle woman sang.
"Free from that crystal captivity." The right one sang.
"And now we can exact our revenge." The left one sang.
All three of them turned to Rolf who glared at them. "Release friend Kevin from your spell, foul singers of the cursed opera!"
"Alas, we cannot."
"The enchantment can only be removed by White Diamond or Black Strategy."
"We were used as a test."
"To help them understand."
"And they left us in that crystal."
"But now we will have our revenge."
"And take this place and its people for ourselves."
"BLLLLAUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRGHHHHHHH!" Edzilla roared from above.
"We shall start with him." The sirens grinned evilly, trying to hypnotize Ed's monster form with their singing…
Only to be swatted out of the tower with a giant tentacle arm.
Rolf hopped onto the arm and traveled up to Edzilla's mouth. "Jonny Wood-Boy, Three-Haired Ed-Boy grab Kevin and let's go. We must not distract Ed-boy from vanquishing these enchanted arias."
Jonny and Eddy picked up Kevin's statue self and jumped out Edzilla's mouth as the sirens regrouped, glaring up at the monster.
"You dare to strike us?"
"You shall pay."
"Listen as we sing your swan song!"
There was blast of light and fire as the sirens came together, forming into a monster that was as tall as Edzilla. It was a huge three-headed, serpent-like creature with large, razor-sharp teeth, black and white stripes, glowing, yellow eyes and flaming, blue hair. Edzilla huffed a growl at the demonic creature as it rose up, making itself appear as large as possible as a form of intimidation. Edzilla answered with a roar which the serpent monster replied its own.
The three headed serpent then slithered forward while Edzilla stomped forward, the two monsters colliding and producing a shockwave that shook the entire Zone. The left head collided with Edzilla, only to be caught in his claws and pulled down as Edzilla bit into its neck. The center head tried coiling around Edzilla's neck and bit into his face, nearly missing his upper eyes. Edzilla jerked his head to the left and then to right while the left head broke free from his grip.
Luckily it collided with the middle head as it rose up, loosening its grip on Edzilla's neck and allowing the monster form of the Slime Elemental to pull the middle head's grip off him and then grabbing the left head again so he could slam it into the blue tower with enough force it caused cracks to form and the tower to shake.
"WOW!" Jonny marveled, watching the fight as he and Rolf pulled Kevin away.
Edzilla spun to face the other two heads as they went on the attack with the middle one aiming for his neck and the other aiming for his shoulder. Luckily Edzilla not only grabbed them but bit into them with his hand/mouths, causing them to scream out in pain. The two heads screamed out in pain while the third one recovered from being slammed into the tower. It lashed out and bit into Edzilla's throat, forcing him to release the other two heads.
The central head then head-butted him, causing him to stagger back and fall back, nearly squishing Eddy, Jonny, Rolf and the still statue Kevin as they ran. The three headed serpent cackled but slithered back a bit as Edzilla managed to get back up, roaring defiantly at it.
"Come on, Ed! Bash those heads in!" Eddy shouted, shaking his fist.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!"
The three turned around, spotting Holly Blue along with a group of Amethysts rushing towards them.
"Looks we got trouble, Plank." Jonny said to his wooden buddy.
"This…Is what Rolf has been waiting for." Rolf cracked his fists.
"I can't believe those Divisions allowed such chaos to happen here in the center of the Zone of all places." Holly Blue sighed, rubbing her head. "Goes to show you, if you want something done right you have to do it yourself. Amethysts, arrest those radicals."
The Amethysts stepped forward, surrounding the Earthlings.
"Okay, let's not make it hard." One Amethyst said.
"Just calm down and we can fix this whole mess."
"But Rolf plans to cause to an even bigger mess." Rolf said and ripped his top.
"Look, you can't beat us so calm down and have some fruit." Another Amethyst suggested.
That turned out to be the wrong thing to say to Rolf who had gone without meat for three days.
"YOU HAVE BROKEN THE CELERY STALK ON THE BACK OF A SEA URCHIN!" Rolf howled. "ROLF SHALL UNLEASH HIS RAGE NOW!"
"What'd he say?" An Amethyst asked just before Rolf pounced and attacked them all at once.
"SHAKLAHAM!"
Rolf took them all by surprise, knocking one Amethyst down and sending the other flying with a right hook.
"Get him!" Holly Blue shouted.
The Amethysts rushed him but Rolf pulled off one boot, using it slap an Amethyst in the face and then pulled off his other boot, whacking the Amethysts as they tried to subdue him.
"Get 'em, Rolf!" Jonny cheered but stopped as more Amethysts appeared, along with a scrawny Jasper and a shorter red Gem tried to grab him and Eddy. "Uh…HELP!"
Luckily Rolf was able to help, grabbing an Amethyst and threw her at Jasper that was holding Eddy, knocking her down. Rolf then picked Eddy up by his foot and removed the right white boot.
"I can't believe this. An entire squad of Amethysts brought down by a single organic." Holly Blue smacked herself in the face. Reaching to the back her neck where her gemstone was she summoned her electric whip. "I guess I'll have to show you all how it is done."
"You are the leader, yes?" Rolf stood up, looking different now. "Let Rolf ask you something…Have you ever experienced…THE ALMIGHTY THREE-SHOE BEATING?!"
Rolf held up his white boots in his hands and an extra one he took from Eddy was hanging out of his mouth.
"What in the world is that-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Holly Blue screamed as Rolf leapt at her and started savagely beating her with the three shoes.
The Amethysts along with Jonny and Eddy simply watched Rolf viciously beat down Holly Blue with nothing but footwear.
"Are you seeing this?" Eddy asked. "I'm not the only one seeing this, right?"
"Nope, I see it!" Jonny nodded, grinning. "Look at Rolf go, Plank!"
"Wow, Earthlings are crazy." An Amethyst commented from next to them.
"We sure are!" Jonny agreed…and then held up Plank. "Get'er Plank!"
A massive fist sprouted from Plank and sent the Amethyst flying. The fist uncurled and exchanged a high-five with Jonny before receding back into Plank, leaving no evidence it had ever existed.
"We gotta get out of here, c'mon!" Eddy beckoned and then shouted towards where Edzilla was still locked in combat with the serpentine form of the Sirens. "ED! Quit playing with your food!"
"Okay, Eddy!" Ed replied, his monstrous avatar emulating his words and expressions. "Play time's over!"
Gripping one of the long necks attempting to snake its way around him, Ed squeezed down and wrenched it away, causing the head to howl and snap at him. He repeated this with a second Siren's neck and held them up and apart while stomping a foot down on the third siren's neck. The three of them struggled and snapped their jaws at him as he began to wrench his arms up high…and ripped the two Sirens' heads clean off before tossing them away.
Reaching down, he latched both claws onto the third Siren's head. Panic spread across the Siren's face as she realized what Edzilla intended when his avatar's jaws opened wide…
CRUNCH!
Ed's avatar pretended to chew before spitting the Siren's head out, making it land near her two sisters. All three heads still showed signs of life, but appeared to be either in too much pain or too nauseated by the experience of being in the maw of something straight out of Ed's imagination to consider picking up the fight.
Ed's avatar dissolved mid-way to regrouping with Eddy, leaving the monobrowed Slime Elemental who reached his friend with a massive grin on his face.
"Best. Monster fight. Ever!" He declared.
"Yeah, yeah Lumpy, now let's get out of here." Eddy ushered him along. "We've gotta meet up with the others and blow this fruit stand."
"Where's Rolf?" Ed asked before Holly Blue bounced past, being kicked like a soccer ball by a still frenzied Rolf.
"MAY YOUR NOSE FESTER WITH THE RAGE OF OLIVES!" Rolf roared, chasing after his victim.
"Somebody kill me…" Holly whimpered, her form battered and bruised.
Xxx
In October 1999, the Hunter team known as Mystery Inc. and their Great Dane got lost in the woods in search of a mystery.
This is their story.
("This was supposed to be just another mystery in the woods.")
Footage of the woods is shown.
The gang stopped at a house where an old lady was sweeping her porch.
"Have you heard these woods are haunted?" Velma asked.
The old lady looked at the camera with a crazed look. "You kids stay away! Those woods are cursed! I never go near them!"
"Like I bet she never goes near a dentist either." Shaggy laughed.
"Shaggy!" Daphne admonished.
("We were cocky. Why shouldn't we be?")
"Don't forget it's my turn to pull off the mask." Fred said with a smile. "And Daphne can kill it if it's a Grimm."
("But then we got lost, in over our heads.")
Footage of the woods is shown again, this time at night.
"Wait a minute! I've found a clue! Footprints!" Fred shouted. "Wow! Like this Grimm must have ten legs!"
"No! Those are our footprints! Those are our footprints!" Velma said, now upset.
("Was the curse real?)
Something is shown approaching the tent.
"Will someone go out there for a Scooby-snack? Somebody? Anybody?" Daphne cried, becoming more frightened.
A screeching sound was heard and the camera was pointed back up at the cemetery as a dark figure with glowing red eyes appeared, moving through the cemetery and looking straight at the camera before the camera was spun around.
"Like retreat!" Shaggy scream as he and Scooby bolted out of the cemetery. "Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
(The camera was now pointed at a tearful Velma, crying silently and shaking in terror. "Maybe this time we shouldn't have meddled. We shouldn't have meddled.")
GRIMMFALL: THE SCOOBY DOO PROJECT
The light showed a terrified Shaggy. "I'm so hungry!"
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