4,500 B.S.U.
Human zoo
Prior to Blue Diamond receiving news from Yellow Diamond.
Blue Diamond
From the outside of the Human Zoo, the facility appeared to be a pink dagger with a large blade and a small hilt that is surrounded by a ring. A large blue arm and hand ship owned by Blue Diamond could be seen floating beside the facility, with several Red Eyes around the Human Zoo acting as sentries that watch those who travel toward the facility. Inside the human zoo, and through several large hallways, we see Blue Diamond calmly walking through the hallways until she reaches a certain room, and as her Blue Pearl hurries forward to open the large door for her, Blue continues onward once the large doors open up; Within the dimli lit room one can see dozens of bubbled Rose quartz gems, floating close to the ceiling. There are many pedestals, two stairways, a large pillow, and two exits; the large exit is no doubt for the Diamonds, and the other is a smaller one for regular gems.
As Blue Diamond walked in and kneeled to sit on the large pillow, she sadly spoke out as she lifted her shawl off of her head, "Pearl, close the door." she commands as she looks up at the many bubbled rose quartz gems. Blue Diamond looked up with tears on the edges of her eyes as she looked at what remained of Pink Diamond's legacy. "Oh Pink." Blue murmured as she looked up, "You can't fathom how much I mourn for you." she said to herself, while the soft sound of the room's doorway shut close, leaving her and her pearl to themselves within the room.
While Blue Diamond grieved in peace, her moment alone with her pearl silently off to the side was soon ruined by the sight and sound of Yellow Diamond personal holo-screen popping up within the vicinity of Blue as she sat on her massive pillow. "You have got to be joking with me." Yellow gritted out with an annoyed and angered tone, before slamming her hands down on her console desk on her end of the call. "Blue! You have got to move on! We've already lost Pink, and I can't keep picking up the slack from your absence to your colonies!" she berated her fellow Diamond.
With her back facing the holo-screen, Blue did her best to cease her crying, and dry her tears away with her finger. "It's….it's only been a few centuries Yellow!" Blue Diamond groused in sorrow as she turned to face the holo-screen with Yellow on the other end of the call. "Can't you let me grieve in peace for a little while longer!? It's too soon, Yellow!"
"Yes, sure, why not?" Yellow Diamond sarcastically replied ion veiled anger, "And while your at it, your own court in falling into shambles, your colonies are in dire need of your presence, and several high ranking aristocrats of your court have been in cahoots with a Pyrope on Planet F78 in starting a rebellion!" she seethed out.
Blue Diamond's eyes went from shock, then to anger, as she began to come to terms with what he just heard. "What…" She asked in listless anger as her grieving aura receded into her, causing the room to longer be bathed in a slight shade of blue. From her Blue Pearl's point of view, she began to feel the urge to clench her fist in anger, she understood what was going on, thus she tried to refrain from showing any outwards effects her Diamond had on her until it was appropriate and it was on full display from her diamond.
Yellow Diamond frowned in distaste as she leaned back in a chair of her on her end of the call, "Yes, while in the prior centuries, it's been one thing after another of low caste gems trying to raise their own banner of rebellion in the fashion of the traitorous Rose quartz, but with you gone for so long from your own court, it seems several of your aristocrats have saw fit to think they can get away with quite the same thing."
As Blue began to come to terms with what she was hearing, he eyes quivered in anger, "That's…that's…" she tried to make sense of the situation in seething anger, a dark crimson red hue began to emit from her body, before a dark midnight blue aura exploded out from her body, "That's impossible!" She roared in anger, as the room around her shook and cracked from the pressure of her aura exploding outwards from her. "What would get into the minds of those…those…" The room continued to shake as Blue's emotions created a distortion within the room she was in, before it settled down as she began to reign in on her powers before she accidentally destroyed the room she was in and the bubbled Rose Quartz gems.
Meanwhile with her Blue Pearl, said pearl couldn't help but gritted her teeth in seething anger as she felt the full brunt of her Diamond's aura, and sent her into an emotional mess that was anger.
Yellow raised an eyebrow at the change in attitude of Blue, "Oh yes, I even have recorded memories extracted from a few rebel gems on that planet that my personal Citrine gem is now on." she smirked in triumph as she began to play the footage of what was sent to her.
From Blue diamond's point of view, she watched the footage and wracked her mind of what Yellow said about a personal Citrine Gem; she never met the gem personally, but she's heard the occasional gossip from the Amethysts and Jaspers she lent the gem whenever she put forward the occasional request to put some of the Prime and beta Kindergarten gems to actual use. Far be it from her to let Pink's gems remain stuck on the human zoo and do nothing, as a matter of fact, she was sure Pink would have liked to see her gems see other planets…afterall, she did have quite the loyal court and was always admired in contrast to Blue's own court of gems. Pink treated her gems with a modicum of kindness, thus in Pink's memory, Blue supposed she'd let the Citrine gem take a few of Pink's gems on the occasional campaign to conquer a planet.
"Pause the footage!" Blue yelled out in seething anger, and looked at the freeze frame footage of a Pyrope gem working up a crowd of gems into a haze of rebellion. Blue Diamond's eyes dilated in anger, as she began to come to grip with what was going on. The Guilty Pyrope in question was from Blue Colony 2, one of her very first planets she colonized; Blue pulled up a side screen to the one, and began typing in a few commands, before a profile image of the Pyrope in question. "You…" Blue seethed out, the image she looked at was of Pyrope Facet 4m817 cut 1ou5, as the details the image showed to her.
With a wave of her hand, Blue willed the screen away, and allowed the two way call of her and Yellow to resume, judging by the expression of Yellow, she was still waiting on the other end of the call as she leaned her cheek against her fist in waiting for Blue's response. "So you believe me now-" Was all Yellow Diamond got to say in a chiding tone, before Blue angrily slammed the screen aside and caused it to smash into the nearby wall and cracked it to pieces.
From Yellow Diamond's point of view on the other end of the ended call, she had to momentarily blink at the sheer anger that Blue showed before she slammed the monitor aside and caused it to shatter and thus end the call abruptly. Yellow sat up in her chair in a rather shocked look on her face, her hands not both placed on the arm rests of her chair she sat on, "Well now…" Yellow mused while blinking in mild amusement at Blue's change in attitude. "I suppose I don't need to be the one to go instead of her." she quipped.
Meanwhile with Blue Diamond, she began to clench her hands into her hair as she seethed in anger at the thought of finding out that one of her court gem members dared to raise a flag of rebellion against the Diamond Authority, made worse by the fact that it mirrored how Pink's own Quartz gem raised her own flag of rebellion against her own Diamond. As Blue Diamond stood up with fury evident on her face, her hair became like tendrils as her anger influenced the space around her.
Without another word, Blue stormed off and headed towards the doorway; so angered was she that she didn't even bother to issue an order of her pearl to open the door for her, and just as so, as with her bare hands, Blue pried the doorways open from the middle and slammed it open before storming off towards the control center where the piloting controls were. So furious was she, that Blue diamond wanted to get to the planet in question in an instant and not even bother using her own ship to get to the planet. Blue Diamond's mind was red with rage as she stormed through the hallways in a hurry, eager to get to the planet of F78 and see to it the end of the Rebellion herself, rather than stand idly by like…like she did with Earth, until it was too late.
Blue Pearl
As fast as her legs could take her, Pearl did her best to keep up with her Blue Diamond as she stormed off in the direction of the control center for the Human Zoo; Oh sure, she would try her best to calm her Diamond down and think rationally, but in all reality, it's not her place as a pearl to suggest such a thing. Thus, Blue Pearl is faced with the fact that she has to keep up with Blue Diamond while she storms through the hallways in a fit of rage.
In a bid to not Trip over herself from her blue dress, Pearl's Blue Diamond parted some of her blue dress in the front while pinching the edges to lift her dress up to allow her the freedom of making long strides in her rush towards the control center. Blue Pearl however had to take a few teleportation shortcuts to catch up with her Blue Diamond, not all nodes were connected to each other, and not a single one led her to the control center for obvious reasons.
As Blue Pearl used another teleportation node on the human zoo station to keep up with her Diamond, she was able to keep up and catch the tail end of seeing the Holly Blue Agate in charge of the facility to halt and step aside and try to greet her Diamond with honeyed words. "My-oof!" Was all Holly Blue got out to say as her Blue diamond brushed/kicked the gem aside into the wall. "Silence! Out of my way!" Her Blue Diamond yelled in incessant fury as she stormed towards the control room that was finally in view of the hallway they rushed through.
While her Blue Diamond continued onward towards the control room, Pearl paused and quickly bowed before the Holly Blue Agate, "Pardon my Diamond." Pearl softly spoke, as that was all she managed to offer, before rushing off to catch up with her Diamond as she approached the doorway of the control room and pried it open like the last doors she did.
Carnelian
It was a rare time as any to be involved in guard duty for an off-color such as her, well, that is, she's not exactly off color, just shorter than the average Carnelian like on Homeworld; it did mean she liked the job either, as it was a bore to just stand around by the doors and do nothing for a period of her shift.
Carnelian and the other Amethyst that was on guard duty with her and stood opposite of her of the doorway that led to the hallways of the human zoo station, both of them were abruptly surprised as the doorways shook violently, followed by her and everyone else in the room feeling the urge to be extremely angry. Everyone including Carnelian fell over themself when a large pair of hands pried the doorway open, and in came Blue Diamond in a fury haze as she stormed in and began using the controls of the human zoo herself.
Any of the available Nephrites or era 2 Peridots on duty would have said something, but everyone was so affected by Blue Diamond's emotional aura, they could only collapse to their knees in anger from the effects of Blue Diamond's powers. "RRRGGG!" Blue Diamond let out a sound of fury as she slid a few screens aside and put in a set coordinates for the Human zoo to instantaneously teleport to. "Not from my Court! That Cracked clod of a gem will regret ever crossing me!" Blue Diamond shrieked in fury.
A moment later, Carnelian and everyone else watched with shock as their Diamond had essentially hijacked the human zoo for her personal use and used it to take her to a different location, rather than her own ship. As Carnelian tried to calm herself from the anger she felt from Blue Diamond's aura washing over them all, She couldn't help but wonder who dared to even try to anger a diamond in such a way.
Present
Planet F78
North Western Hemisphere
Unlike the rest of the planet, the majority of the North Western Hemisphere is nothing but an ocean of Mercury, with the occasional island chain or two; it is here on one of the islands where a certain Pyrope is in a private room with herself, she wrung her hands together in worry as she sent out an encrypted called to a group of recipients known only to the highest of echelons within the caste of the Diamond Authority.
From a lone diamond-like gem within the center of the room, whilst Pyrope stood away from it, nine separate holo screens came into existence with silhouettes within three of them at the moment. Pyrope however remembers when there was a time there would have been twelve screens, but that was before Pink Diamond was shattered; the group she was calling, would have been the council of twelve, but with Pink Diamond gone, and her court in question in shambles, all that was left was the council of nine, just like it had been before Pink Diamond came into the picture.
Pyrope continued to wring her hands in nervousness as the silhouettes of the three available gems came into view. A Yellow Morganite from Yellow Diamond's Court, a Blue Demontoid from Blue Diamond's court, and finally, a gray and white Sapphire from White Diamond's court. Pyrope would swear she'd sweat if she had the ability to like an organic in her given situation, but at the moment, all she can do is gulp down her nervousness.
"I - " Pyrope began to say, only for the Sapphire to calmly raise her hand up, and halt her from speaking any further.
"Pyrope…" The Sapphire spoke in an airy tone, "you failed…" she simply said, "I warned you of Yellow Diamond's Citrine, and now you are faced with the consequences of your choices." she calmly spoke with an edge to her tone.
Pyrope bit her lower lip in anger, before replying back, "You're wrong! If it wasn't for-" She tried to defend herself, only for the Demantoid to cut her off with a scathing look.
"The Hessonite you used to occupy Yellow's Citrine gem was obviously unfit to stall for time!" She yelled in fury towards the Pyrope's choice of gem to distract a certain Commander's time while Pyrope could enact a false flag operation on her planet against a collective number of cabochon gems, "Because of your poor choice of gem, we had to send in a team and shatter a high ranking official, an era one no less!" the Demantoid seethed, "If it weren't for that Citrine's new creation she had her Peridots create, we'd have simply let the matter slide and allow the Hessonite to lie through her teeth!"
From the Morganite in the other screen, she fluffed her hair a bit before commenting on the matter, "Don't forget, Demantoid, Yellow Diamond has one now too, and she almost found us out if we didn't do enough quick thinking to stall a few of our council members from getting the message on time and head back to homeworld." she mused in a bored tone, with a sly look. "My Carnelian gems within the new Arbities regiment, stated that Yellow practically tore the lesser aristocrats a new one, turns out, a few had their own plots to try and ruin the Citrine's favor in the eyes of Yellow Diamond."
Pyrope sputtered a bit, before she tried to form a sentence, "Please! Just give me more time" the gem then face the Grey and White Sapphire of White's court, "Surely you must see a future, anything! Anything for me to use to win this debacle I'm in!"
"I'm afraid not…Pyrope…and this is where we end this trial run of your position within the council…you have failed." The Grey and White Sapphire said with a dangerous edge to her tone.
"Please, just give me some more time, help me out here! Anything to get rid of those eyesores of cabochon gems! They are an affront to the perfection of the Diamond Authority!" The Pyrope pleaded with her arms out in a begging manner, "It's bad enough that, that upstart Citrine is so successful. It's worse that she's able to get off colors and cabochon gems to work with the perfection that is facet gems!"
While neither of the three other gems said another word, Pyrope took that as a chance to continue speaking, "She's been breaking tradition after tradition! All in a span of a mere thousand cycles! Help me destroy this Citrine, before she gets out of control! Yellow Diamond has become too lenient with her personally made Citrine gem! It's madness I tell you!" Pyrope began to shriek at the end.
It was then the gray and white Sapphire spoke up, "The matter of Yellow Diamond's newest Citrine, is no longer of your concern, this is goodbye, Pyrope. You shall no longer remember us or anything about the council." she worded out, before a bright white flash filled the room.
As the room finally darkened back to its normal color, Pyrope stood listlessly as she blinked and tried to remember why she was in the room she was in. Then she remembered she had come to this room to figure out how to beat Yellow Diamond's most successful Citrine gem, shaking her head, Pyrope exited out of the room, keen on scrounging up whatever forces she had together and see about sending an assassination squad to take out the Citrine gem. Whatever she had to do, she had to make sure that the Citrine gem was finally rid of, and the Diamond Authority can finally return to how it once was. Surely the Diamonds could understand!? She was doing this for the good of the Empire! Surely they'd see reason why she had to lure the Citrine gem here, and take her out before she changes any more traditions.
Tanya
Within the assembly hall of her ship, Tanya stood with her diamond salute up while her pearl behind her did the same. "Blue Diamond..." She began to say with a cautious tone, hoping she didn't earn the ire in any way from Blue Diamond. She could feel the seething rage boil within her from the effects of the gem matriarch's aura powers, and as evident, most of the gems under her command as well within the assembly hall that stood at the sides were affected as well.
Everyone looked to be trying to keep in the foreign effect of being angered from being in the radius of Blue Diamond's emotional aura.
While Blue Diamond's pearl could be seen standing beside her blue chair, Blue Diamond sat with air of authority with tears of rage threatening to spill from her eyes; any other time, she'd be inside her palanquin, but in her rage filled hasty choice, Blue Diamond had left her palanquin aboard her personal ship arm and hand ship, thus she was stuck with using an impromptu throne chair that was built by Tanya's Bishmuths under her command for the sole purpose of building new war machines.
"...Greetings…Blue Diamond…" Tanya cautiously spoke out, knowing that she wasn't supposed to say 'my diamond' seeing as how she was not owned or created by Blue diamond, thus she had to address Blue Diamond in a different respectful manner, "Your Lustrous-" Tanya was about to try and give a few honey sickle words to welcome the Diamond to the planet, only for Blue Diamond to hold her hand up to cease her from speaking any further.
Blue narrowed her eyes down at the Citrine before her, "Tell me, how short in a time span can you end this…petty rebellion?" she questioned Tanya with a raised eyebrow of suspicion towards her.
'Okay, keep calm, I'm sure she can understand things take time…' Tanya thought to herself, before answering, "Your Luscious Blue Diamond, depending on the logistics-"
"I care not for that, how long will it take to corner the pebble clod that is the Pyrope that started this, this, this treasonous act!" Blue diamond yelled in fury, before slamming her fist down, cracking the armrest of the impromptu throne chair she sat on, "Give me a time frame!" she bit out in seething anger with tears of fury threatening to spill from her eyes.
Tanya gulped her nervousness down, hoping she'd not anger the Diamond too much with what she said next. "Your lusciousness, If you can offer me three more Hessonites, and five more emeralds…I can end this conflict within half a cycle's time." she tried to reason with the diamond, as she ran the numbers in her head. If she played her cards right, she could try out the Blitzkrieg method with more forces under her command.
With a 180 spin on her attitude, Blue Diamond smiled maliciously. "I'll double it, and you make it a quarter of a cycle! I want that Pyrope standing before me in shackles post haste!" she snapped out with seething teeth of fury.
Tanya blinked numbly, never before had she worked with such a large number of gems under her command, that practically numbered close to half a million numbers strong. "I'll…I'll get right on it." She spoke with a face of awe at how many gems Blue Diamond was willing to throw to finish such a small rebellion.
Blue Diamond smiled demurely down at the Citrine before her, "Good, see to it that I see that Pyrope dragged by her feet before me when you are done." she smirked with a smug look, happy to see things getting done.
An; Due to a certain introduction of a certain group in this chapters, I'd like to know what you guys think of it as a behind the scenes antigonists for Tanya to struggle/fight against.
