Planet F78 surface
Outer reaches of the South West Hemisphere
Destablizer mortar rounds could be seen landing in the entrenched rebel forces as they attempted to charge up against the loyalist forces, crackling electricity and displaced dirt erupted from every mortar shot upon the rebels as they charged a fortified barricade. With Citrine's forces, Onyx Quartz gems were manning the large turrets that shot destabilizer rounds unto the charging rebels; working alongside the Onyx gems were Rubies, they were marching to and fro to feed destabilizer rounds into the manned turrets and allow the Onyx Quartz gems manning the large turrets to fire nonstop into the charging rebels.
In the sky was no different in the battle for the SouthWest Hemisphere of planet 78, in the fashion of Robonoids were aircrafts piloted by the opposing sides; the air was filled with destabilizer zaps shots and explosive destabilizer air-to-air missile rounds. The sky was filled with electricity discharges from the air combatants, the loyalist combatants however were steadily winning the airspace over the SouthWest Hemisphere. It was not long until the sight of Citrines Hand Ship could be seen entering the atmosphere with several dozen Sun Incinerators captained by Various Emeralds in each one, groups of Robonoid drone air ships flew alongside the Sun Incinerators and Citrine's Hand Ship to ward of enemy airships and intercept any attempted shots at the ships themselves.
Inside Citrine's Hand Ship and in the Hanger Bay, the staffed Gems were working around the clock to ready the vehicles and building fabrications to install a base of operations within the SouthWest Hemisphere for the Loyalist faction. The Doors to the Hanger Bay opened up with a hiss, earning the attention of a few onlookers while they worked; from out of the doorway walked Citrine and two gems behind her, Citrine in particular was talking with the Peridot behind her while holding up a holopad that projected a live feed of the ongoing battles around planet F78. Of the live feed that was shown, eight different views of the planet were shown; From north to south, east to west, and all in between, Citrine was able to gather ongoing reports from the different Hemispheres of the planet.
Citrine paused in her steps while speaking with the Peridot behind her, while her Pearl stepped in place beside her with her hands clasped behind her back in waiting her next order; Citrine pointed toward the projected view of the Southeastern hemisphere of the planet. "If the North West hemisphere is too hot to push any further at the moment, what are the calculations of the enemies' numbers for a push into the South East of planet F78?" Citrine questioned the Peridot now standing beside her with a holopad of her own to use.
Peridot smiled back in response as she began using her finger digits to key into the holopad of hers, "Well let's see." she began to say while she eyed her holopad with some focus on running the numbers. "Unlike the North Eastern Hemisphere of planet F78, where there are numerous mountains and cave systems for the Rebels to employ the so-called Guerrilla Tactics you named yourself, the South Eastern Hemisphere contains very little mountains but holds a demographic of wide open plains as the major geographical presence across the hemisphere." the Peridot looked up from her holopad and smiled respectively towards her Citrine in command, "By my calculations, a push into the South East Hemisphere is most prudent once we set up a base of operations in the South West hemisphere." Peridot responded to Citrine.
Citrine closed his eyes in quick thought before opening them with a nod of affirmation, "Good, begin relaying your findings to the rest of the Peridots, come back to me once you are finished Peridot Facet 848y cut 517." Peridot saluted her Citrine in response, "By your orders my Citrine!" Peridot responded cheerfully, before she marched herself back through the doorway they came in through.
From Citrine's perspective, Tanya sharpened her eyes as she closed her holopad up and glanced around the cargo hold; the various gems at work were either carrying a few things around or setting up several airships to use once the Hand ship landed, as few gems in particular were idling by a few crates they had just finished hauling into the hanger bay. Tanya eyed the few non working gems with a stare of irritation, she could excuse a break every now and then, but they were in the process of landing her Hand Ship; Tanya needed every gem working, she couldn't afford any slip ups during a battle.
"Amethysts Facet-5 cut-8XG and Amethysts Facet-5 cut 8XJ." Tanya hollered out with a commanding tone to the slacking Amethysts, said Amethysts straightened up with a salute and nervous expression. Tanya marched herself over to the Amethysts with a withering look, and stood before the two with her arms crossed and a displeased look; Her Orange Pearl on the other hand caught up with her Ctrine and stood behind her with a disapproving look directed at the employed Amethysts from Pink Diamond's human zoo.
Tanya glanced between the two nervous Amethysts before she began to scold them with an authoritative tone of voice, "Is this how you repay me for getting you away from the rather uptight Holly Blue?" she questioned them with a pointed look, just as one was about to speak, Tanya shut the Amethyst up with a look directed at her, "Is working under my employ that boring compared to working under Holly Blue?"
Tanya glanced once more and directed her gaze at one of them, "You, speak, why are you two not working? Have you already finished your orders?" she questioned the gem on the left.
While still keeping her salute up, the Amethyst on the left spoke up with a nervous tone. "No my Citrine! We have in fact just finished, there was really nothing else to too till our next orders were given." The Amethyst responded sharply.
Tanya blinked and looked around to see, in fact, the two Amethyst did finish their duties she had personally given them; her cheeks tinted a dark tone of yellow before she coughed into her fist, "Right, very good then." she corrected herself and clasped her hands behind her back as she faced the two Amethysts, "You will have to excuse me, we are on high alert now that we are landing this ship. We can't have anyone slacking in the process." Tanya apologized to the two Amethyst who had surprised looks on their faces.
Tanya's Pearl that stood behind her, coughed into her fist with a pointed look directed at the Amethyst. "You heard My Citrine, what do you have to say now?" she ordered from the two.
Tanya held up her hand for all three to stop speaking, "That will be all Pearl." She said with a turn to look up at her Pearl with a pointed stare, "The error was on my part." She declared before she faced the two Amethysts once more, both had relieved looks on their faces. "8XG and 8XJ." She announced.
"Ma'am!" The two Amethysts chorused, prompting Tanya to continue speaking while she stared up at the two. "Seeing as you two are finished with your prior duties, I'll have you assigned as my personal security detail." she announced with a sharp look directed at the two, "Do you believe you are up to the tasks?" she questioned the two with a smidge of a smirk, while earning a disapproving look from her Orange Pearl.
"Surely you jest ma'am!" Orange Pearl protested with a worried look as she leaned into view, and walked around to face her Citrine while she gestured at the two Amethysts. "They're from the failed colony of 3427h! Pink's colony no less! You can't trust-" Tanya's Pearl was cut off when her Citrine gave her a pointed look of annoyance. "I mean, with all due respect! I must protest against this decision." Orange Pearl corrected herself with a look of shame as Tanya glared up at her.
"I'll ignore the insubordination for now Pearl." Tanya began to say, allowing Pearl to give a grateful look back. "But my operation, my rules. We have pockets of rebellions across various quadrants and sectors, we do not have the luxury to stick to the rules and traditions out here like Homeworld and so many of its inner colonies." Tanya chastised her Pearl, who had the mind to look apologetic while ducking her head a bit.
With a hesitant look and sigh, Orange Pearl calmly saluted her to her Citrine. "By your orders my Citrine." She responded, earning a look of acceptance from her Citrine commander. "I simply wished to express my displeasure of your decisions."
Tanya glared at Pearl, before letting out an irritated sigh. "Yes, well, do see to it you don't speak out of turn in the open. You know as well I do that I can't be seen with a disobedient Pearl."
Orange Pearl grimaced and looked down in shame, "Understood Ma'am." she responded, allowing her Commanding Citrine to continue speaking. "Good, I don't enjoy shattering those under my command, and I'd hate to lose you. You've been quite capable during the last campaign." Tanya complimented her Pearl, causing said gem to have the decency to have her cheeks glow dark orange in response.
"Now." Tanya started to say toward the two Amethyst who went ramrod straight while saluting, Tanya sighed and gestured for the two to relax. "At ease ladies, now follow me if you would. I expect both of you to be attentive as my security detail." she instructed the two, earning both to exclaim 'ma'am' in response.
Just as Tanya turned to begin inspecting the rest of the workers whilst the ship descended out from space and land, she caught something out of the corner of her eyes that prompted her to look out towards the large opening of the hangar bay where the aircraft and gem tanks could dock and exit out from. A large yellow forcefield was all that separated the inside from the outside, and outside an ongoing aerial air fight was taking place that seemed to be approaching the large open hangar bay.
Orange Pearl was the first to speak up amongst them as every Quartz and Rubie within the Hanger Bay began to scramble for any attempts form the Rebels to burst in through. "My Citrine, let's get you out of here!" She fretted while the two Amethysts pulled out their respective hard light swords from out of their gems to prepare for a fight.
As one of the rebel's aircraft managed to break past the few loyalist gem aircrafts, Tanya brushed off Pearl's worry with a gesture of her hand. "I think I should greet them instead if they manage to break in." she refused her Pearl's suggestion while flashing a confident but calm smile, while earning confused looks from the two Amethysts. "But-" Orange Pearl began to try to plead with her Citrine, just before the stray rebel airship managed to blast the power off to the hanger bay with its blasters and crash its way in.
Tanya held her palm up, "Not yet you two." she said when she saw the two Amethyst begin to charge in, causing them to stop in their places with confused looks on their faces while the Gems of the rebel airship jumped out from their wrecked airship to begin launching an attack against the occupants of the hanger bay. "A Jasper, an Onyx, an Ametrine and a Chalcedony." Tanya spoke aloud with an intrigued voice, earning the attention of the four varieties of Quartz gems in particular while they fought off the few.
"That's the one, girls!" Onyx shouted as she used her light hammer to fend off an attack from the combined might of a fused Rubie form. "It's Yellow Diamond's Citrine!" remarked an off color Jasper as she used her hard light helmet to bash her head against an attack from a loyalist Jasper as they butted heads against each other.
"Let's do it!" Shouted the Ametrine as her gem on head began to glow while she used her hard light spear to defend against a gem whip from one of the other Jaspers, the nearby Chalcedony aided the Ametrine to fend off the Jasper while her gem glowed as well.
"Together now!" Chorused the four different Quartz gems as they retreated back to regroup.
Tanya on the other hand began walking towards the rebels while she placed her hand into her gem on her chest, her Pearl on the other hand was about to follow and asked that she stop but Tanya shook her head when she saw Orange Pearl in the corner of her eye. "It'd be rude of me to not greet our guests Pearl." she began to say while she pulled out two yellow diamond encrusted gloves out, it didn't take a genius to figure out who made the gloves and gave them to her. "As the Commander of this ship and forces, it'd be rather rude to leave our guest unattended." Tanya said with a rather austere tone.
As the four quartz gems' forms lit up and combined into one big form, Tanya continued to walk forward while fixing her gloves onto her hands; She gave the gem form an intrigued look as it let out a war cry, "This is your end!" The fused gem form shouted in a deep tone of voice as it began to charge towards Tanya.
With a wave of her hand, Tanya held her hand up in a halting gesture with her fingers splaying out; a pulse of destabilizer energy pulse out from her glove and impacted into the charging fused form of the quartz gem rebels, "No, I don't think it is, not now that is." she said with a crisp tone while the destabilization shockwave from her glove sent at the fused form caused it to halt and release a shout of shock and pain.
"We refuse to work under the Diamond Empire any longer!" The fused gem form howled out as Tanya continued to walk toward it with her hand out directed at the fusion, the form began to warp and shutter until all four quartz gems separated from the fusion. Tanya kept her hand up to keep the four gems held under her glove's destabilization field, "Then you should have just left, instead of rebelled!" She simply said while smirking as she held her other gloved hand up to forcefully levitate the gems up into the air.
"What?" The Onyx gem gritted out as she and the other quartz gems were held aloft within Tanya's destabilization field emitted out from her gloves, in response, Tanya simply scoffed. "Oh nothing." she said while slamming her hands downward, causing all four gems to be forcefully slammed into the floor below. "Just some idle mutterings from a gem high up on her pedestal you rebels enjoy telling me."
"So what." The Chalcedony growled from her position on the floor, "Just shatter us and get over with it you filthy gem loyalist!" She hissed out with disdain.
Tanya allowed herself a smile as she held the gems under her gloves' powers, "No, I have something better in mind." She states with a rather calm but chilling tone, "Pearl, my Gem Rehabilitator please." Tanya hollered out with a menacing smile, "Yes Ma'am!" Orange Pearl hollered back as she rushed over while pulling a cylindrical object from out of her gem on her forehead.
"You wouldn't dare!" The Jasper hissed with gritted teeth, Tanya beamed back at the Jasper with a smile. "Oh I would, and will." Tanya responded while holding out her hand to her Pearl while keeping her other hand out to hold the gems down under her hold. Once Orange Pearl gave said object to Tanya, she glanced between the four. "So who's first?" she questioned the four with a faux smile.
"Get cracked, you loyalist!" Spat the Onyx gem, prompt Tanya to turn her hand and curl her finger to lift said gem up and over to her. "Very well then, you'll be the first." she said with a glare.
From the two Amethyst gems' perspective of 8XJ and 8XG, they winced as they watched their new leader Citrine ignite her gem rehabilitator on, and slash away upon the rebel quartz gems to reset the gems' 'factory' memories. "Beats shattering." 8XJ muttered to her sister gem, "Yeah." muttered 8XG, "But what's with the gloves?" she pondered, 8XJ shook her head in response and winced some more as Citrine slashed through the last rebel gem. "I think it best we not question it, I don't want to be on the business end of it." She muttered back. 8XG nodded in agreement. "Agreed."
Back with Tanya, she stood before four quartz gems, their forms gone after being slashed and were now just their gems; Tanya was in the midst of taking off her gloves after she handed back the device back to her Pearl, "8XJ, 8XG. She hollered out while keeping her eyes on the gems on the ground rebels. "Come here." she ordered while she finished taking off her gloves and put them away into her gem on her chest.
"Ma'am?" Both amethyst chorused as they marched up, Tanya clasped her hands behind her back and faced the two once they reached her. "Bubble these gems and follow me." She ordered, prompting both to do so as they began bubbling the former rebel gems up.
"Do you intend to extract information like last time?" Orange Pearl asked her Citrine as she followed her commander with the amethyst.
As Tanya led the way to the brigs of the ship, she glanced at her pearl while the amethyst behind her followed. "The Data extractor was instrumental in the last campaign, whatever information we can glean from these gems' memories can contribute to the war effort against the rebels."
Orange Pearl nodded in affirmation, while the amethyst gems behind them looked on in confusion while they walked through the hallways of the ship; Tanya glanced over her shoulder as she led the way, "Ah yes, you two are still new, you'll might as well be getting acquainted with the data extractor. Worry not, it's nothing serious as shattering a gem." She then flashed a toothy grin, "The Rehabilitator reset gems to their factory settings, but it doesn't erase their memories, which means we can extract valuable memories unimpeded." Tanya explained to the amethyst gems.
While Citrine faced forward while they continued to walk, both amethyst looked to each other with looks of uncertainty.
