Chapter 7: Unable to Adapt!
Flashback: A few minutes ago...
Eyeball walked out of the spaceship's bar and headed straight for elevator.
"I hope for Lincoln's sake that "The Kindergarten Quartz That Could" is here." She muttered to herself, taking her knife out and rubbing her two fingers against the sharp red blade. "Cause if this is another Earth trick, I'm going to gouge out both of his vision spheres!" She then made a few thrusting motions with her knife to emphasize her point before making her knife disappear.
The elevator opened up and Eyeball stepped out of the way so that the other slaves could go to the bar.
Eyeball was looking on they were heading there for drinks. "Why do most of the slaves go to that place?" She thought to herself as the little gem soldier entered the elevator and press the descend button.
As the elevator descended down to the combat coliseum, Eyeball began to talk to herself.
"Okay Ruby, pull yourself together. If Jasper is here, then that's good. But even so, wha-what do I say? Oh stars." Eyeball then lost her grip on reality a little as she fell back, hitting the wall.
She took a moment to breath as she felt her face heat up from the excitement of possibly meeting the one who inspires her.
But that wasn't the only thing that was heated up.
Looking down, she saw that she saw the smoke and the burn marks at her feet.
Blushing profusely now, the Ruby took a moment to calm down and breathe a little. "Okay Ruby, calm yourself. This is just your idol you're meeting, not your Diamond. You'll know what to say when the time is right."
As she took a long, deep breath and took the time to think about things, the elevator came to a stop and opened up its doors. With a deep breath, the small Ruby exited the elevator and began her walk towards the stadium entrance.
Placing a hand on the handle, Eyeball stopped briefly. "Well, here's goes."
With that, she opened the door and stepped inside, the door closing behind her.
It didn't take too long for Eyeball to get to the arena within the coliseum, at best maybe a couple of minutes. When she finally got the arena, her eyes grew wide as her non existent heart stopped as she saw Jasper training herself for her first fight.
Aside from the weird blue markings the Quartz had, everything else about her check out in Eyeball's mind:
Unkempt beige hair?
Check.
Red stripes across her face and arms?
Check.
Strong physique?
Check.
Golden intense vision spheres filled with a lust for battle?
Check.
Gem where her sense sponge would be?
Double Check!
"Hey!" Jasper's voice called out to the pint sized gem as she finally locked eyes with her. "Are you going to just stand there or say something?!"
"Oh, um r-right?" Eyeball said nervously. "A-Are you t-the Ultimate J-Jasper from the Beta Kindergarten on E-Earth?"
"Yeah, what of it?" Jasper said, glaring down at the Ruby with an intense glare as she continued. "Come to mock me because of it or are you here to fight me? Either way then I suggest you get lost. I don't have time for the likes of you. Especially since your cut of gem is disposable like the rest of us." She then a punched a wall in her frustration, spooking the tiny gem.
"NO! Of course not!" Eyeball said desperately. "It's just that I... am... your... biggest fan!" The square afroed gem forced out truthfully.
"Oh stars, really?" Jasper groaned in annoyance. "Out of all the other "fans" I've been on missions with, what makes you any different?"
"Well, I fought in the war for Earth on Homeworld's s-side." Eyeball squeaked out.
"Lots of gems fought on Homeworld's side during that time." The Quartz said bluntly. "Again, what makes you any different?"
Eyeball thought about this for a few minutes before responding.
"I was there when Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond!" Eyeball yelled out.
Hearing her former Diamond's false fate made Jasper cringed. Normally when she was reminded of that, she would lash out at whoever said anything about it, out of ignorance or with the intention of enraging her where she would make mistakes. Instead, her reaction was a look of confusion.
"Wait, you mean you don't know?!" Jasper asked Eyeball in shock.
"Know what?" The little soldier asked, equally confused.
The two stared at each other in silence for the next five minutes. Jasper was shocked that this Ruby didn't know the truth about what really happened.
She decided to ask her a question before she revealed anything. "How long how you've been on this ship?"
Surprised by the Quartz's rather calm tone, Eyeball answered. "For a while, my crew and I were on a mission when the Emperor abducted us. So were Aquamarine, Emerald, Holly Blue, those two Zircons and that Topaz fusion. What about you?"
"Just about a few hours." Jasper answered. "I've been shipped here with a bunch of weak humans and an alien. By some of the Crystal Gems, no surprise."
"On Rose's orders, I take it?" Eyeball wondered.
"Actually no," Jasper answered. "From the holographic message I received upon reforming, it turns out that "Rose"..." She air quoted with her fingers. "Didn't know about this. At all. Neither did that defective Amethyst or that worthless Peridot."
"Ok, I understand that Rose and those other two didn't do it." Eyeball said, nodding as she understood. "If you don't mind me asking, t-then who did it?" The one eyed Ruby asked.
"That abominable fusion, that defective Pearl and that traitorous Lazuli." Jasper answered with a bit... no a LOT of disgust at mentioning their names.
"Oh my stars. I-I'm s-sorry that happened to you." Eyeball said.
"Oh for star's sake, don't apologize runt..." Jasper groaned. "That's what weaklings do. And it reminds me of someone I really don't like."
"O-Of course." Eyeball squeaked out.
"Back on topic, you seriously don't know, do you?" The Quartz asked.
"Know what?!" The Ruby asked, wanting to know.
"My Diamond, you really don't." Jasper commented in shock. She took a deep breath and knelt down to the little gem before placing a hand on her shoulder. "Alright runt, since it's obvious that you don't know what really happened. I tell you what really happened."
"W-What really happened?" Eyeball asked nervously, blushing at the fact that Jasper was touching her shoulder. "About what?"
"About what really happened to Pink Diamond." Jasper said.
Hearing this made Eyeball's one eye widen in shock and confusion. "Huh? What really happened? What do you mean?"
Letting out a deep sigh, The Kindergarten Quartz that Could began. "To cut straight to the point, Rose didn't shatter Pink Diamond."
"What, really?! Oh stars, the Diamonds must know about this!" Eyeball squeaked in excitement.
"The Diamonds already know, now shut up so I can finish." Jasper stated bluntly, to which the Ruby nodded. "This next part is crazy so you better just accept it at face value."
"S-Sure, I'll try to." Eyeball said, nodding like crazy.
Taking a deep breath, Jasper revealed the truth. "As the Diamonds told me and everyone else at "Rose's" fountain, it was true that Rose didn't shatter Pink Diamond... Rose and Pink Diamond were the same gem all along."
Hearing this revelation made the one-eyed Ruby's other eye widen in shock and made her jaw drop in absolute shock. "WHAT?!"
"Yeah, that was my reaction when I found out." Jasper said sadly, taking her hand off the red gem's shoulder and standing up. "Anyway, as it turns out she was the one who started the war first place all because she wanted to run away from her fellow Diamonds as well as her responsibilities," Her voice slowly began to grow in volume and rage as she continued her explanation. "Lied to everyone, even the Diamonds, about who she was, forced both sides that technically served HER to go to war against each other, put us all through the pain and suffering with her deception," Jasper's voice was starting to be filled with a good amount of resentment. "fabricated her own shattering," Jasper then roared her last point. "AND RUINED OUR LIVES!" She then punched the wall next to them, making Eyeball back away from her idol a little.
Jasper then wiped away a couple of tears from her eyes before calming herself down.
"I can't believe that she did such a thing..." Eyeball said after taking a moment to try and process the truth.
"Yeah and get this." Jasper continued. "That human that's always with the Crystal Gems was never Rose Quartz or Pink Diamond. He's a hybrid of a Diamond and a human. So that means that our mission to get revenge for her was pointless to begin with!" Jasper said as she clenched her fists tightly. "And what's worse is the human with Pink's gem and those Crystal Gems established peace across the universe where gems and other lifeforms are... equal, the colonies are free now, the weapons we've been using to fight and colonize with are turned over and the worst part: The Diamonds no longer have authority!" She said in absolute disgust before letting out a sigh of defeat. "At least that's what I was told from the other Diamonds when I was healed."
"Oh stars, I nearly tore his gem out!" Eyeball yelled out in response. "And I stood against him during his trial for that traitorous clod's staged shattering!"
"You think that's bad? I've basically went to war with him!" Jasper revealed to the tiny gem.
The two gems stood in silence for a few minutes as they began to process the universe shattering (pun not intended) truth being out in the open.
They just couldn't believe that they, along with many if their fellow, loyal soldiers and even the other three leaders were essentially played by the Diamond they swore to protect...
The Diamond who they swore vengeance for the rest of their immortal lives...
The Diamond who was their mortal enemy who took the Earth's colonizer away from them.
And it was all...
One...
Big...
Janking…
LIE!
Just then Eyeball broke the silence. "So, now that there's no war to fight and no one left to fight for and serve, what are you going to do now?"
"Training," Jasper said flatly. "It's pretty much the only thing I can do now. When the other contestants get down here and the stadium cheers me on, I'll be putting it to good use." Jasper then let out a deep sigh. "I just hope they're at least worthy to fight me otherwise it would be a waste of my time."
"I hear ya." Eyeball commented. "Is is o-okay if fight alongside y-you?" She then looked away blushing.
"You can but look out for yourself and more importantly, stay out of my way." Jasper said with her intense glare returning. "Got it?!"
"Y-Yes." Eyeball squeaked nervously.
"Good." Jasper said, turning around and walking away.
"Wait!" Eyeball yelled, making the Quartz stop but she didn't turn around, indicating that she had her attention.
"What is it?" Jasper said in an uninterested tone.
"if you mind me asking, what are those weird marks on your physical form?" Eyeball asked closing her eyes in fear.
Instead, she hear a deep sigh as her idol speak. "Just some of the results of my former Diamond's lies.
"Through fusion?" Eyeball spilled out.
"Of course through fusion, what do you think?!" Jasper began to rant. "Ever since I returned on that garbage planet, fusion has been nothing but a poison to me! Whether I was fighting the Crystal Gems when they were using fusion or I tried out fusion only for it to backfire on me because of my partners!" She clenched her fist in anger as she remembered everything that happened to her after her failed mission. "After that Ruby/Sapphire fusion managed to beat me and the other Crystal Gems crashed my warship on the beach, I was alone, outnumbered and injured and was sure that I was going to be shattered, until I saw Lapis emerged from the wreckage. Seeing the opportunity, I gave Lapis a choice: Fuse with me and destroy the Crystal Gems or run away like a coward. She chose to fuse but that prove to be my biggest mistake as when we fused into Malachite she used her water manipulation to chain us both to Mask Island's shoreline for several months!" She then punched the ground, nearly making the Ruby fall on her posterior. "And when we finally managed to separate and I found her again, I realized that I needed that and if anything or anyone got in my way, I would crush them easily. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for me because Lapis said no when I wanted to fuse with her again and when I tried to shatter the hybrid over it, she punched me back into the ocean. "
"What'd you do next?" Eyeball asked.
"I figured that if I couldn't win against the Crystal Gems on my own I've resorted to recruiting the corrupted gems to fight for me."
"Corrupted gems, what're those?" Eyeball asked.
"Are you janking serious?! No one else knew about them but the Crystal Gems?!" Jasper asked sarcastically as she facepalmed herself before calming down. "Long story short, the Corrupted Gems were the consequence of Pink faking her shattering. The other three Diamonds did that by combining their powers. Any gem that was caught in the blast turned into giant, feral freaks who lost their sense of reality." The Quartz briefly explained in a nutshell. "Anyway, getting back to my point, I gathered as many corrupted gems as I could in order to overwhelm the Crystal Gems and get my revenge that way, unfortunately just my other plans, it failed because of fusion, fusion, fusion!" Jasper rose her voice. Every time I attacked them, fusion was what drove me off in some way, shape or form! I just couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't take getting beaten over and over again so in my desperation I..." Jasper deeply sighed in regret. "I chose to fuse with a corrupted gem and I don't think I need to tell you happened next." Jasper concluded, walking away to train in order to take her mind off the pain.
Nodding in understanding, Eyeball went back to the elevator and pressed the ascend button.
Back to the present...
"And that's everything that happened." Eyeball concluded her story. Everyone was surprised by the information they were given.
"Wow, I can't believe you gems went through so much." Lincoln said in shock.
"You said it." Milo said in agreement.
Dan didn't say anything as he looked to side.
"Just us Era 1 gems." Eyeball said.
"I can't believe that human wasn't Rose Quartz!" The Blue Zircon exclaimed in utter shock before sighing in relief. "It's good thing that I defended during the Rose shattered Pink Diamond trial."
"I'll say!" The Yellow Zircon exclaimed in equal shock. "I can't believe that I prosecuted him during the Pink Diamond shatter trial!"
"You think that's bad!" Topaz spoke up, nearly splitting up because of the shocking revelation. "Aquamarine, myself, and I nearly killed his friends and brought him and one of his friends to Homeworld to face Blue and Yellow's judgement!"
"I shot him out of space and he and his friend crashed on the Jungle Moon!" Emerald revealed in shock.
As the gems were freaking out over the truth about one of their leaders. Aquamarine spoke up.
"Will you clods just shut up for a minute?!" The tiny gem commanded, causing the other gems to zip their lips and look down at her. "Look gems, I understand that Pink's lifelong deception has rocked you all to your core and the ramifications that befell them onto all of us. Believe me, I'm just as shocked as the rest of you, but freaking out about it is not helping. So calm down before all do something you'll regret."
Aquamarine's words helped calm the gems down... to some extent.
"But Aqua-" Holly began to say but the tiny gem cut her off.
"But nothing!" The small blue gem yelled out. "Right now, we need to focus on getting the jank off this ship."
"She's right." Milo said, making the group of gems look at him. "If you're all willing to work with us we can escape together." He then confidently at them.
"Yeah, you have a point Milo." Lincoln said before he jumped onto the gems' table and looking at the gems. "There's a saying on Earth, and that there's strength in numbers so what do ya say
The gems looked at each other, before they (sans Topaz, Leggy, and the blue Zircon) all busted out laughing, confusing the two boys.
"What's so funny?" Milo asked.
"You humans." Yellow Zircon, wiping a tear from her eye before she continued. "You think just because the Diamonds say that equality across the universe is law now, we'll just do it without question?"
"I agree!" Emerald exclaimed as she slammed her hand on the table while laughing before she calmed down. "That has to be the most hysterical thing, I've ever heard!"
"I hear that!" Army said, wrapping an arm around the still laughing Doc and Navy. "Just how stupid can you humans really be?!"
Milo felt a little crestfallen and Lincoln felt a little embarrassed at the gem's stinging words, but Sara, not wanting her little bro and her fellow human mocked for his innocent obliviousness, and a bit nettled at those rock heads for mocking their now equal status, put a hand his shoulder as she walked forward and spoke up.
"Oh, we're stupid! You self-serving, prideful, incompetent rock heads aren't ones to talk considering that you're also got captured by Zing just like the rest of us!"
Hearing this made the gems stopped laughing as they looked at the blond Murphy in disbelief.
"Excuse you?!" Holly said, she silent began to rise.
"Yeah, if I had to guess, your incompetence is what got you here to begin with." Sara said smirking a little.
"You better watch your mouth girl." Emerald said.
"Yeah, we might rough you up if you continue to disrespect us." Doc said, ponding her fists together.
Taking another step forward, the young Murphy continued to verbally roast the gems. "Outside of your former jobs, you're lost scared and confused in this now peaceful era. You don't know how to proceed or how to handle yourselves."
As she continued marching, it felt like Sara was setting the ground on fire with every step and every word she spoke.
To Lincoln and the others, it felt inspiring... even Dan felt a little impressed at Sara's boldness.
To Aquamarine and the other gems felt like utter blasphemy to hear this from a weakling... and a human at that.
To Leggy, Topaz and Blue Zircon, they were rather surprised that a human, a weak, filthy human is actually hard enough to chew out Aquamarine of all gems. Maybe humans aren't so cowardly after all.
To the crowd surrounding the two groups, it felt amazing that the rather fascistic gems were getting knocked down a peg. With some of the customers smirking and others snickering to full blown laughing.
"So in order to cover up that lost and confused self, you hide it behind your ego like a wall." Sara continued.
"Shut up! Just stop talking!" Yellow Zircon said, shutting her eyes and shoving her hands into her non existent ears.
"And as we all know, all walls eventually crack, which begs the question: How long until your prideful walls eventually crack and break and be cooperative with us "equal lifeforms" as you would say?" Sara concluded.
Having had enough, Aquamarine let out a groan. "Oh will you shut up already? I've heard all I can take from human!" She then took her bow off her head and straighten it into a wand, which she then shot out a beam of blue light from the tip, freezing Sara in place.
"Sara!" Milo, Martin and Bridgette yelled out as the latter two immediately ran up to their daughter, only to be stopped when Holly slashed her whip at their feet.
"I'd stayed right there if I were you." The agate threatened.
"Let our daughter go, you little brat!" Bridgette demanded, beginning to get angry.
"Oh, is this upsetting you?" Aquamarine teased, only ticking the two Murphys off even more. "Well, she should've kept her mouth shut otherwise I wouldn't have taken off my bow."
"Oh please, if it wasn't me, it would've been Dan!" Sara said.
"Hey! I resent that remark" Dan yelled.
"Actually Dan, she has a point." Chris said.
Dan growled a little before he calmed down and didn't say anything else.
Just then, Eyeball jumped onto the frozen Sara's back and pressed her chisel knife to her throat.
"If you want your precious "Sara" unharmed, you'll stay right there and listen to what we have to say." Eyeball demanded.
Not wanting to press their luck, the parents relented.
"Fine, what is it?" Martin said in a controlled angered tone.
"If you want a gem's respect, you'll have to earn it." The ruby said, jumping off her back.
"That's it?" Bridgette said.
"Yeah!" Eyeball and the other gems said, the latter then made knife disappear.
Aquamarine refused to release Sara however. Instead, she used her wand to throw Milo's sister all over the place while laughing manically. The rest of the Exiles felt like they couldn't do anything as they didn't know the effectiveness of Aquamarine's weapon as for all they knew, it might freeze all of them at once. and they were scare that if they tried anything, Aquamarine might order one of the gems to do something to Sara or freeze one of them and succumb them to what she was doing to Sara at this moment.
But despite being thrown around like a god dang ragdoll, Sara didn't look scared. Not. One. Bit.
The Murphy parents tried to get past Holly but couldn't when suddenly...
"Stop!" Milo yelled as he stomped on the ground.
However, when his foot made contact with the ground. Something strange happened.
A wave of bright purple kinetic energy burst out from the stomp as it tore up the ground, caused a miniature sized earthquake that nearly knocked over everything and knocked everyone off their feet as it spread out towards the gems as they either jumped back and were sent flying back. As was the case for Holly Blue Agate, most of the Ruby Squad and the Topaz fusion did the former while the two different colored Zircons, Emerald, Leggy, and Aquamarine were victims of the latter.
Speaking of the little blue devil, she was sent flying into the far back of the bar and her back making a painful impact, she was forced to drop her wand in the process as she slid to the ground, making the freeze beam from said wand vanish off of Sara. Milo and the others immediately to her side. Lincoln didn't join them however as he noticed that Aquamarine had dropped her wand and not wanting her to use it again, he immediately ran up to the wand and grabbed it before the little blue brat could get her on it again.
"Hey! Give that back!" The little gem said in tone akin a child throwing a temper tantrum.
She summoned her water wings and flew straight the Royal Woods' white haired planner, intent on getting her tool back no matter what, but the eleven year old simply stepped to right side.
"You forgot to say "please"." Lincoln taunted.
Aquamarine's face began to turn blue from embarrassment and rage as she couldn't believe what was happening to her right now. She, a high ranking gem, was getting humiliated by a human.
A child at that!
She wasn't going to let this human win the day.
She could almost hear and see Topaz snickering at her. because of her being owned.
"Give that back to me right now human! You don't even know how to use it properly!" Aquamarine yelled out in her still childish tantrum like voice.
Lincoln chuckled a bit as a feeling of nostalgia ran threw his body as his chuckling then exploded into full on laughter as Aquamarine's whiny and demanding yet childish and selfish behavior reminded him of some... no, all of his sisters...
And even reminded the Loud boy of himself in that regard.
Oh, how he missed his family which each second he was on this ship.
Curse his wimpy, spineless, selfishness that got him into this situation in the first place.
And he wasn't the only one laughing either as Dan, Topaz, Leggy, and even the two Zircons were also joining in mocking the "elite" little brat.
"Oh, they think this is funny, do they?!" The tiny gem thought to herself. "How dare they laugh at an elite?! If my wand wasn't in "Lincoln's" ignorant, filthy, touch stumps. I'd show them funny!" After wiping a tear from his eye from laughing so hard, Lincoln stopped to catch his breath, the ones that were laughing also stopped, the boy responded.
"I may not know how to use this thing," He pointed out. "but I do know that such a weapon this powerful should belong to more capable hands. Not in the hands of a baby throwing a temper tantrum!"
"I'M NOT A BABY!" Aquamarine exploded in his face, her face fully dark blue from total embarrassment and humiliation.
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that." Dan said, cutting into the conversation and making it clear that was obviously enjoying this little prick get her comeuppance. "By the way, Aquamarine. I have to know something."
"What?!" The blue brat asked.
"Is it pass your bedtime?" Dan asked, mockingly. "You'll get cranky if you don't get enough sleep."
Dan turned to the other gems behind Aquamarine. "Are you gems for real? This little brat is supposed to be a high rank?" He then let out a scoff. "Ha! High rank my butt."
Her eye twitching with irritation and having had enough of Lincoln and Dan taunting and mockery, Aquamarine yelled out. "Topaz! As your former superior, I order you to retrieve my wand from that "Lincoln" for me!" She demanded, pointing a finger at the Loud boy.
Topaz began to think this over in her fused head.
"Aw, how cute. Little Aqua thinks she has authority over us now." Her left side taunted her former superior.
"You thinking what I'm thinking Topaz?" Her right side asked, getting all excited and giddy like a kid in a candy store.
"Rock yeah. Let's do that to really stick it this condescending clod!" Her left side said, making her face on the outside crack a smile.
Hearing the small gem shout her name again. The bulky yellow gem fusion got moving. Running up to the boy snatching it from Lincoln's hand with lightning fast speed.
"Oh, good job Topaz!" Aquamarine complimented, clapping like crazy. "I knew you were dependable. Now return me my wand." She demanded, holding her hand with a smug look on her face.
Topaz looked at the wand in her hand then at her former superior. She then looked back at the wand then at Aquamarine.
She did this three times, much to the little devil's impatience.
She finally spoke up in a stoic tone.
"According to the rules of Era 3, it's said that gems must give up all weapons of war. Right?!"
Instead of waiting for an answer, Topaz grabbed the two sides of the wand and, like a twig, easily snapped the overpowered movement freezing device in half with her burly hands before she dropped the remains on the floor, much to Aquamarine's shock and Topaz's satisfying relief.
Before Aquamarine could scream out in anger, suddenly her collar along with Topaz's, the other gems in the bar, Lincoln, his exiled friends began to beep...
They all knew what that means.
Suddenly, the collars began to shock them for ten seconds as the others were on their knees recovering.
"That's quite enough of that."
The two groups as well as the other universal slaves looked over and saw that Foster was standing the entrance... along with 30 guards.
"If you guys are going to fight, take it down to the coliseum." Foster suggested. "Guards!" He then snapped his fingers, gesturing the guards to take them.
"Hey!" Lincoln complained as the guards forced his arms behind his back.
"Stop!" Chris demanded as the guards pointed their weapons at him.
"Let us go!" Milo yelled as he struggled to get out of the guards' grip.
"Get your touch stumps off me!" Eyeball said as she was pinned to the ground.
"I'm not a fighter, I'm a lawyer!" The Zircons exclaimed as they rose their hands up in surrender.
"Unhand me, you jerk faces!" Dan demanded as he tried headbutting a guard, which obviously didn't work out for him.
"Those gems started it!" Martin pointed out as he was forced to the ground.
Despite all their protests and strength, the two groups were restrained and taken to the elevator.
Making it to the coliseum door's, Foster stopped the escorts to speak.
"Once you enter the door, the fight with whatever's in there will begin. It will end in two ways: Either you survive or you're ripped apart." Foster explained, making most of the group shiver. "Any questions?"
"Is there anyway we can get out of this without fighting?" Milo asked.
"No." Foster said flatly.
"Is this the only thing we have to do?" Globgor asked.
"Yes, then you can go back to the bar." Foster said.
Just then, the doors opened up. Walking into it, they heard the roar of a cheering crowd as they then look and saw Jasper again, who was giving them a scowl of indifference.
Foster began to talk into a small microphone to address his emperor's citizens.
"Hello, my fellow citizens of the Zing empire. Today, you're going to witness a bloodbath! Are you ready to see some intense action?!"
The crowd began to cheer even louder as the barricaded doors on the other side of the arena was banging intensely from the other side.
"Well, well, well, it looks like the creature is raring to go. Guards! Open the doors!" Foster said to the two guards, who quickly unblocked and opened the doors.
Once the doors were opened, who or rather what was behind it finally revealed itself much to nearly everyone's horror.
What they facing was a massive, black creature that was rather skeletal in its appearance with its four arms on both sides with razor sharp claws on the end of its hands, six spiny but razor sharp tipped tails that were slamming all over the place, a hunched back, two elongated, cylindrical heads, razor sharp teeth in both mouths and no eyes whatsoever.
And it had a collar on its neck, but it was much bigger then the other seen thus far.
"Man! I hope this is a dream!" Martin said horrified at what he was seeing.
"Sadly, it's not Martin!" Dan said, raising his fists in self defense. "It's really, really NOT!"
"What is that thing?!" Chris exclaimed as he immediately stepped back as Lincoln cowered behind Leggy, who looked determined to protect him.
"Something that's big, dangerous, and needs to be dealt with." Jasper declared, summoning her helmet and pounding her fists with a cocky smile on her face.
"Okay, and begin!" Foster declared.
With those words out, the large black monstrosity charged at the miniature army, ready to do what it does best.
What exactly is this creature that the group is facing, and will the Exiles and the Gems be able to work together in order to survive this? Find out next on The Exiles!
AN: I apologize for not updating this story sooner but with all other stories I'm currently writing, it's becoming more and more difficult for me to figure out what to write next you know. I feel like that every author's problem (at least in my opinion): Figuring out what to write next. Eventually, that will lead to the author losing interest and giving up on the story he or she is writing.
Not that I'll do it or anything, I'm just saying it's becoming hard for me to write.
So if any of you guys have any methods you would like for me to try out in order to avoid this problem with procrastination and losing interest in writing my stories, please let me when you review this chapter.
Sorry, I just had to get that out there.
AN 2: Just something I want to clear up before I go, Lincoln and Aquamarine are NOT dating. There simply getting to know each other. That's all, and I apologize if you guys thought that was the case. My mistake.
AN 3: Another thing, In case you guys are wondering what's happening to Lincoln Milo and the others, don't worry, I will be diving more into the powers that the Exiles are manifesting within themselves... as best as I can anyway.
Mostly the humans on that front.
With all that, this is the Reality Shredder and I'll see you next time.