Southwest Hemisphere
Front lines

The scene opens in the sky of the battlefield, several gem aircrafts are flown in from the direction of Citrine's Hand Ship after restocking their depleted destabilizer energy rounds; in what looked looked to be the a similar structure of a human aircraft of a Hind-D, but without the propellers and fashioned into a hexagonal like gem body with a wingspan, the aircraft was flying in using thrusterless gem technology. Two Nephrites are in the front cockpits in each of the Loyalist owned aircrafts as they are piloted towards the frontlines, while under the wingspans of the aircrafts are turret spheres manned by Rubies on both sides.

As the aircrafts are flown in towards the frontlines in a V formation, they begin splitting off from each other to fly over the battlefield in a less easier way to be picked off in a group. The scene pans in on the aircraft at the center that stayed on course in the meanwhile, before following with the aircraft as it dips down and flies over the opposing side. As several shots from energy shots ping off its hull, the Rubies in the sphere turrets unleash their payload with their destabilizer gun turrets; the sound made by the turrets are light high pitched whirs of lasers going off as they fire into the rebel gem below.

Several times the Nephrites piloting the gem aircraft would make swerves and tilts to evade enemy fire from below, especially from the light-cannons station out all the way at the Rebel's base where they'd be fired off and the laser shots would come careening towards them. After a few misses of close encounters of being shot down by cannon fire, one stray mortar shell from the rebels would impact the side of the aircraft just as it made another dodge from cannon fire.

"We're hit!" One of the Nephrites urgently reports into their headsets, while both aid each other to pilot the soon to be fiery wreck to the ground. "Please make way in sector 9 dash 4 , we're coming down." The other Nephrite reported into her headset. Not long after, within the ranks of their allies of the loyalist, there was a large opening spot made way for the Nephrites to try and pilot the aircraft down to. With an abrupt and hard crash, they managed to steer the gem aircraft down while its top was on fire from the mortar shell impacting it.

While the loyalist gems that made a clearing for the Nephrites to crash down to began hustling in to aid the gems to get out of the aircraft and to safety, the sky continued to be filled with the same sort of battle as aircrafts were in heated contest to evade the incoming fire from the rebels all the while unleashing their payload into the rebel gems below.

At the frontlines in the meanwhile, the scene is brought back down to where Tanya was as she fights alongside her gems under her command. Orange Pearl is seen finally reaching her as she herself deftly parries aside a gem gloved punch from a Brookite gem, just as said gem was about to punch again with an uppercut directed at Tanya, Pearl is seen rushing up and leaping over Tanya's shoulder and bounding off from her shoulder to gain more air; Just as Tanya deftly leaned back from the uppercut from the Brookite and her Pearl was in hangtime, the rebel gem glanced up and realized her folly as Pearl came down with her spear aimed down to stab the gem through the head. Unable to move in time, the Brookite had her head impaled, shortly before popping and poofing away to leave only her gemstone remaining.

Meanwhile With Tanya and Orange Pearl, they continued to work off one another in tandem, centuries worth of combat experience between the two allowed Tanya to rest easy knowing her Pearl had her back. As the two turned around to face their backs to one another, Tanya brought her arm around to the back of her, "Pearl, grab on!" she hollered out through the war cries of the gems fighting each other. While the rebel gems rushed into to try and overwhelm the two, Pearl quickly reached behind her to grab onto Tanya's hand while keeping her other hand on her spear.

With a heave from Tanya, tossed Pearl up into the air, before reaching up with her hand to catch her pearl by the leg and swing her around. With the extended reach granted by Orange Pearl while wielding out her spear, and Tanya's own weapon transform back to her rifle form, the two became a deadly spin-top of a wide arc spear being extended out while Tanya's rifle is fired off into the masses that couldn't be reach from the two working together to extend their reach via Pearl's spear and being held straighten out by her leg and swung around.

Several poofs later, and Tanya releasing her hold on her Pearl by tossing her up after finishing their combo move together, A rebel gem fusion of more than just two came lunging out of the air toward Tanya with her fist held above her head in a overhead hammer smash move. While Tanya took to dodging away from the attempted overhead double fisted slam, Pearl was front flipping in the air as she descended down with her spear held tight in her grasp. In real time, Orange Pearl's form looked like a spinning ball of razor sharp edges with Pearl's spear as the razor edge.

The fusion of four gems had one pair of their eyes witness Pearl descend down towards them, with their forearms brought up to block the blow, the fusion succeeded in protecting themselves from sustaining any damage. Meanwhile with Tanya While her Pearl leapt away from an attempted grab at her from the fusion, several thoughts ran through her analytical mind as she thought of how to bring down the gem fusion. Quickly glancing behind her, she took quick notice of the Jasper that took to fighting on the frontlines against rebel forces with a passion. "Jasper, with me!" she commanded with a loud voice, bringing the attention of said Jasper to glance her way and eagerly rush over to aid.

As Tanya rushed in with Jasper behind her, the fusion took notice of Tanya first as she leapt up to block their vision of Jasper behind her. With her saber raised above her head, Tanya slashed down at the gem fusion, only to have it blocked by two forearms. Just as the fusion that that was it, Jasper came in as a rolling body roll and cannonballed herself into the stomach of the fusion. As Jasper continued her spinning razer-like body against the torso of the fusion, said gem fusion brought their other others down to grab Jasper's body and throw her off with a pain yell.

While Tanya leapt off from clashing her saber against the forearms of the fusion, Orange Pearl came in from behind and stabbed her spear into the back of the gem fusion. The Rebel fusion released a pain yelled while Tanya took the initiative of the lapse in the fusions attention, and dashed in to let off yellow sparks from her saber and cut twice at the legs of the gem fusion. The damage caused from Tanya's attacks caused the fusion to have circuit-like lines run through their body from the origin of the cuts, in an effort to finish off Tanya and Pearl working together to take down the fusion, Jasper came in like a cannonball once more by hurling her spinning body into the belly of the rebel fusion.

With a loud boom pop, the gem fusion unfused leaving the gems that made up the fusion to fall to the ground; Tanya in the meanwhile bent at her knees while holding her saber in a sheathing stance, before leaping up to slash at the four gems in quick lightning fast succession. Once Tanya landed back down with her back turned to the falling rebel gems, once said gems landed, their bodies poofed away with yellow sparks dancing off their gemstones.

Orange Pearl was the first to rush to Tanya in the lull of battle, only to be given a sharp look from her Citrine and was gestured to keep going. "Don't worry about me, Pearl, keep going." Tanya shouted over the loud cacophony of the battlefield to be heard. Orange Pearl held her spear close to her chest and nodded in understanding, before she went off to fight the nearest Rebel gem.

Tanya then turned to glance over at Jasper who glanced back at her as well, "Well done, keep up the effort, Jasper." she thanked her fellow loyalist gem, who flashed her a smirk in response. "Any time, My Citrine." she hollered over the loud cacophony of gems fighting each other, before rushing off to fight the nearest rebel gem as well.

Glancing around her, Tanya cursed under her breath as she watched how many rebel gems were deceived on the false hopes of Pyrope's words. She knew for a fact the aristocrat gem had no sympathy for the lower classes of the caste system, which begged Tanya to question what the Pyrope gem's game was and what she had to gain on falsely leading a rebellion against the Diamond authority. Something wasn't matching up, and she swore to get to the bottom of it.


Homeworld
Blue Diamond's work office

In a large room with a wide range of blue colors to signify who owned the domicile, up on a raised platform with water streaming down at the corners of it, Yellow Diamond was seen worked at Blue's work desk that had several holo-screens the fed in streaming info of her colonies and sol systems claimed by her and her forces. The room's walls were lined with rushing waterfalls, with some gems hoisted up upon the walls singing out melodic tunes.

Yellow let out a tired sigh as she glanced around her and at the Gemstones crafted to be Blue's atmospheric melodies to listen to while she worked, or at least when she used to work before…well…Pink shattering. Yellow leaned up from Blue's desk and glared up at the gems designed to sing, before standing up and pulling a holo-tablet from out of the blue desk that she worked at. "I can't work like this." she groaned as she continued to work on managing Blue's colonies via the holo-tablet she pulled out of the desk she worked at.

As Yellow Diamond strode down from the platform and out from Blue Diamond's work space, her Yellow Pearl was quick on her feet just to catch up with her as she held her own tablet of sorts that had data streaming on for her compile and organize for her Diamond to later analyze and review. While the two exited out of the room, Yellow Pearl's tablet rang off as a sign of an important message was incoming.

While her pearl was going over who had sent her a message, Yellow Diamond paused in her walking to focus on the incoming data of a few of Blue's planets in need of their yearly inspection. An idea brought on by her Citrine in a proposal of keeping their colonies in check, rather than the former bicentennial inspections, as many things can change in a single cycle. "Hmm, I'd send my Citrine, but…" Yellow diamond spoke to herself in thought, "She's already busy dealing with planet F78…plus." Yellow mused with a small tap of her boot on the floor, "It's been well over a hundred cycles since she's been back on homeworld, it's about time she came back home and reported back to me directly."

"Pardon me, My diamond." Her pearl's voice brought her out of her musings, and directed her attention down to her pearl. "Yes? What is it?" Yellow Diamond inquired of her Pearl with an indifferent tone as she directed her attention down to where her pearl stood by her boot.

Yellow Pearl offered her diamond a troubled look, "I've just received a message from Citrine, that is to say, your highest ranking Citrine that is." she corrected herself at the end, and held her dataslate out to transmit her message to her Diamond. "Here, she sent these memories from a few rebel gems she caught."

As Yellow Diamond received the incoming data from her Pearl's dataslate remotely, she held up the holo-tablet in her hand to watch what was sent to her. With a raised eyebrow of interest shown as she skimmed through the sent memories, she paused one of the memories that showed a clear picture of a Pyrope Gem. "What. is. This?" Yellow Diamond bit out with fury and a heated look at what was going on in front of her as she held up the holo-tablet to view the recordings.

It was one thing for a low class gem like a rose quartz to raise a banner against them, but for an aristocrat gem to be playing the same act was a crime of the highest order on her list. The upper ranks are meant to rule and lead by example, and yet here was a Pyrope gem whipping up gems into a rebelling frenzy. With a thought in mind, Yellow diamond bent down and lowered her hand down, "Pearl, come." she bit out, with said pearl immediately hopping on before Yellow brought her up to sit on her shoulder while she stormed off.

While Yellow Diamond stormed off through the halls of Blue's workspaces, Yellow Pearl continued to skim through the continuous data stream in on her dataslate that was being fed from incoming messages from Citrine's campaign on planet F78. She'd ask where her Diamond intended to go, but she elected to keep silent as she watched her diamond head in the direction of the Aristocrat gem district of Blue Diamond's court. Yellow pearl couldn't imagine what her Diamond had in store for the gems of blue court.

"I've told her, time and time again, Blue needs to reign in her court, and now we have a rogue aristocrat acting out of line and beyond treason." Yellow grounded out, pearl however could only gulp in fear and hope Blue Diamond would soon cease wallowing in grief. It's been well over a thousand cycles, they couldn't keep working like this.


Rebel Gem Base (Formerly an Aristocrat Gem's Temple)
South West Hemisphere


Groups of gems from small to large are seen rushing to an fro as their repurposed base is desperately holding up against incoming mortar shots of destabilizing bombs; in a repurposed auditorium ment for the aristocrats to host their parties, gems were working around the clock as the sounds of their repurposed base was being weathered down by incoming mortar shells. In one spot, several era 2 peridots with and without their limb enhancers are seen working together with various Carnelions to heft with them repurposed gem technology for later use. They were all making a desperate escape from the compromised base to head to one of the other sectors of the planet to regroup and rethink their situation.

The front lines are being pushed in the loyalist favor, as Citrine leads her forces against the dwindling amount of forces available for the Southwest hemisphere. Rebel gems are being poofed left and right as Citrine pushes with her forces deep into enemy lines. From above in the air, gem aircrafts are being flown in by Nephrites with Rubies manning turret laser destabilizer guns on the sides. The noise the laser guns make are like clapping thunder as they unleash their powerload into the throes of the rebel gems. Pock marks and indents are left in the ground from the velocity of the rounds unleash into the enemy forces, leaving trails of gemstones from gems having their bodies destabilized and poofed away,

Elsewhere within the large room were huddled up gem servants, unsure how to proceed with so much going on; A couple of Carnelian and Ametrine Quartz gems are seen rushing over to move the gems out to a safer room, or at the very least to an escapable exit route. "Come on!" one of the Carnelian gems urged the gem servants as they moved them in the right direction of the escape route. "Who knows how long the temple will stand!" an Ametrine gem exclaimed as they all helped aid the gem servant escape the soon to be crumbling repurpose Temple, once owned by the aristocrat gems of the planet, out of the room.

A gem is run through by a spear, as Orange Pearl stabs the gem from the front after she parried the gem's attempt at attacking with their own weapons; Jasper is seen holding up two rebels by their throats, before slamming the gems into each other and with an audible pop from the gems' body impacting into each other at such force. In the far distance, the fusion of Topaz gems is seen stomping and slamming their feet and fists into the retreating forces of rebel gems around her.

Lining the many wall that faced out towards the front lines of the battle were broken out windows, now all retro-fitted with light-cannons that periodically fired off from the gems manning the 'consoles that controlled the cannons placed within the large open windows; Every once in a while however, a stray enemy cannon fire would make its way through the openings and exploded into the cannon with gems being caught in the blast with a poof of their body and their gem falling to the ground below afterwards.

Lapis gems are seen flying with their water wings aiding them to fly, they would work in pairs and form water from the clouds in the sky to form buzz saws and send them flying to the rebel gem below; several gems are seen bisecting either horizontally, vertically or diagonally before their bodies poof or pop away, leaving only the rebel gems gemstone to clatter to the ground below. Elsewhere on another part of the battlefield, Lapis and Larimar gems would work in conjunction with Amethyst gems. The Lapis gem would cause a rush of water to flow through the battlefield, the Larimar would freeze the gems in place that the water covered over, and the Amethysts would roll their bodies into the frozen bodies and shatter them to pieces, leaving only their gemstones behind.

As the front lines could be seen being pushed back ever closer to the repurposed base of the rebel gems, gem bodies could be seen poofing at an accelerating rate as the loyalists continue to push their way forward to the base. From inside the base, gems are seen fleeing to the back in fear as the ceiling and structure of the repurposed base begins to crumble from the bombardment of so many mortar shells from the enemy fire. On the rebel's side, large bodied gems are seen evacuating the base out the back while carrying smaller gems in their arm to aid the little ones in the escape. Gem crafts are seen attempting to flee as well into space from the repurposed base. only to be either shot out of the sky by their enemies or by Lapis gems working in tandem to conjure up razer thin whips as they fly in and slice the aircrafts out of the air.

Citrine is seen bounding off from a large gem body that she had poofed from her stabbing her saber into the back of said gem, and landing atop a fleeing gem's back the next; with a swipe of her saber as the gem stumbles forward from the abrupt weight on her back, Citrine decapitated the gem before it ever hit the ground. With a loud pop, the gem's body poofs away, leaving only its gem that was on her forehead to clatter to the ground. Were one to look closer to Citrine's eyes, one would see a conflicted look, only for it to swiftly disappear.r

Bright blue magical fires erupt from the collapsing repurposed base as mortar shells continue to rain down on it, all the while the remaining occupants are either struggling to get out in time or are seen pulling their allies out before the loyalist army reaches the base. One gem is seen able to pull their ally out from beneath a large slab piece from the crumbling base and escape from the area, how, not all others are lucky as another group of gems are seen tried to pull their allies out from a burning piece of blue rubble; with a loud whistle of something falling out of the air, a destabilizer mortar shell falls out of the air and impacts the area they are in. Several poofs later, the rebel gems trying to rescue their allies all pop away leaving only their gemstones to clatter to the ground.

In the midst of all the chaos of the battlefield, Citrine is seen receiving a package from a Monticellite gem; as her army of gems around her continue to march on around her, she looks down with an unreadable expression towards the bomb gift to her to use. Dismissing the Monticellite back to base and bidding her a job well done, Citrine grasps the packaged bomb in her palm with a sigh escaping her lips.

Crowds of gems could still be seen fleeing the collapsing temple turned rebel gem base, the tall large spires that surrounded it as part of it decoration is seen losing their structural integrity from so many mortar shots; one stray mortar blast sends one spire tilting over until it finally collapse down towards the fleeing rebels on the other end of the temple. With a loud boom and crash followed by several pops of bodies being poofed, the quake caused a ripple effect to occur for the rest of the spires as they all began falling like dominos.

"They've reached the base!" One gem shouted as she fled with her fellow gems while taking caution to avoid the path of the falling massive spires behind them.

One small bodied pearl gem is seen tripping on her own feet, before trying desperately to get back up. Said gem looked up with fright when she heard incoming enemy ships of the loyalist, and just as she thought her luck was up, one of the Tiger's eye gems among the rebels ran her way and picked her up and placed her over their shoulder. "Hold on!" The Tiger's eye gem yelled as she fled with the gem on her shoulder. "We're not leaving anyone behind!" she desperately told the small gem she carried with her.

The Pearl in the meanwhile could only watch on in horror as she witnessed their base be demolished by a large destabilizing blast. From around the base, thousands of loyalist gems are seen chasing after them, taking caution to steer clear of the leftover destabilization field left by whatever bomb caused the large explosion.

The stampede-like army of loyalist gems could be seen bulldozing their way towards them breaking everything in their way to chase every single gem down. Some of the gems would part ways around the fallen spires, while the bulk of them would blast their way past the fallen spires and pour out like a rapid stream. leaping over and standing atop one of the fallen spires, Citrine is seen directing her army with her saber in hand pointed out at the fleeing gems. "Get them all! Let none escape!" She echoes her voice out in a commanding tone, prompting the loyalist gems under her command to chase after the fleeing rebels ever faster with a respectful fervor toward their Citrine commander.

From Citrine's perspective, or more specifically, Tanya's, she watched on with a pang in her heart as she watched gems were being popped left and right by the soldiers under her command. Her face twitched, swiftly checking herself of showing not a smidge of remorse when she saw in the distance a pearl get carried away by a Tiger's Eye gem; A part of her want to see at least some of the rebel gems escape to safety, but she knew she had to be thorough in commanding her forces to hunt down every rebel gem and bring them back to heel under the Diamond Authority.

As Tanya watched from standing atop the falling spire, the tiger's eye gem and pearl on her shoulder were well and far ahead, only for one of her Rubies from the aircrafts to be flown in above to crack off a shot and pierce both in one shot with a sniper destabilizer round. Reflecting from her Citrine gem eyes, Tayna watched as the two's bodies electrified from the destabilization shot and poofed soon after; as the remaining pockets of rebels gem around the area were being hunted down to the letter by her forces, Tanya dissipated her weapon away into her gem with a tired soft silent sigh for no one to hear but her.

"Damn you Pyrope." Tanya mumbled out with some heat in her words as she watched the dwindling numbers of rebel gems drop from her forces chasing down every last one in sight. "I'll make sure you'll pay for this…you and your silver tongue will pay." she cursed under her breath at the aristocrat gem. She could understand the plight of the lower caste of gems, to always live beneath the foot of a society that allowed no upward mobility.

'I know I have no room to speak, but it doesn't mean I enjoy my station.' Tanya groused to herself in her thoughts as she watched the last remaining rebel gems in the distance be chased down and be popped by her Rubies in gem aircrafts shooting them down with their laser destabilizer guns. Tanya said as she hopped off the spire and reconvened with her Pearl, the battle was won, but the war on Planet F78 had just begun. Hopefully in her mind, it didn't drag out too long.