Chapter 8: A "Really" Reluctant Team-Up!
The massive creature jumped into air while it screeched its lungs out.
"Scatter!' Jasper yelled out as everyone immediately did that.
The creature landed with a stomp that nearly knocked the groups off their feet. It then lashed out its 6 tails all over the place with the intent of impaling or slicing up its opponents.
Dan immediately jumped to the side in order to avoid a tail from the creature as it stabbed into the ground where previously was.
"C'mon, ya freak of nature! Is that the best you can do?!" Dan as he then blew a raspberry at giant alien.
"Dan, don't antagonize it!" Chris (in his bear form) said as he clawed at one of the beast's tails away from himself and his best friend, at best, scratching it.
The Topaz fusion was doing her best to defend herself with her double sided mace. But because of the speed the tails were going at, it was becoming difficult for her to block the strikes despite her power. She grazed a few times but she held on. She looked over to her right and saw that Bridgette and Martin got separated from Milo and Sara. She saw that Martin was going to be impaled by the creature and Bridgette then got smacked away by another tail. Wanting to save them both at once, she came to a decision.
Her form dissipated as she spilt in her components, they were basically her fused form but with her gems on the left and right sides of their heads.
The left side blitz over to Martin and summoned her one sided rhombus-shaped mace, knocking the tail back.
"Thanks?" Martin said, confused that the buff gem saved him.
The gem flashed him a kind smile to which he returned. "It's the least I can do. Especially since we're now equal."
The right side meanwhile sped over to Bridgette and caught her before she could hit the wall.
"You... saved me?" Bridgette asked in a confused tone.
"I don't know why but, I couldn't just let you get hurt." Topaz said, also equally confused.
Bridgette simply smiled at this act of kindness but this moment of friendship was cut short as the two headed beast let out an ear deafening screech of annoyance, which caused everyone in stadium to cover their ears to avoid going deaf. After a few seconds later, it stopped as looked as best it could in Aquamarine's direction due to its lack of eyes.
It fired a massive pile of molten lava at the blue gem out of one of its two mouths as she, along with Holly and Emerald, quickly got out of the way to avoid getting melted from intense heat.
"Watch out you dullards, it has lava spit!" Aquamarine exclaimed.
"Yeah, we kinda noticed!" Jasper noted annoyed as she punched a tail away.
Once it sensed Lincoln and the two Zircons cowering away from the action, it raised one of its tails and fired began to charge up a green energy within its tip. Realizing that the tip of the tail was going to fire at them, the three immediately ran away in different directions, thus making it difficult to target all three of three. So it decided to target the slower of the three...
Which was Yellow Zircon.
Blue Zircon noticed that it was going to fire at her yellow counterpart.
"Zircon, it's targeting you!" The blue lawyer yelled out. "Move out of the way!"
Yellow Zircon hearing this, turned around and saw that the creature was indeed targeting her. But despite having the ability to move, her fear was preventing her from doing so.
At last, the beam shot out from the tip of the beast's tail right at the petrified gem.
"Zircon!" Blue Zircon yelled in concern.
Seeing the yellow Zircon about to be hurt something strange came to light for Lincoln.
"NO!" Lincoln yelled out as he reached out towards the frozen gem.
When he did, his whole body began to turn as white as a ghost and then something even stranger happened...
A huge, long, fiery, skeletal arm and hand appeared along the young boy's arm which quickly intercepted the acidic beam and took the hit instead. disintegrating the hand but saving Yellow Zircon in the process.
With the Zircon saved, the arm that Lincoln was using fell to his side all numb as he clutched onto it by the shoulder. His white aura also vanished as a result of the boy's exhaustion. He looked up and saw that the giant creature was about to fire another acid beam. This time it was aimed directly at aim at him! He didn't have enough time to move when the beam was fired as fast as a bullet. Lincoln shut his eyes and waited for the beam to disintegrate him when Milo tackled him to the ground as the beam passed over the older boy's hair as it exploded upon impact with the wall behind them.
"Are you alright Lincoln?" Milo said worried.
Lincoln opened his eyes and saw his savior was Milo, who had a worried look on his face.
"Yeah, I'm... fine." Lincoln said exhausted. "But it looks like whatever I just to save the Zircon took... a lot... out of me."
Milo then looked up and saw the creature was about to spit lava at the two boys. Not having enough time to jump out of the way and needing to think of a plan and fast, Milo stomped on the ground as hard as he could. As he expected, his stomp created a fissure large enough that it manifested under the creature's left foot, causing the gigantic creature to get its leg stuck into it.
"Alright, go job boys!" Sara said ruffling the two boys hair once she, the two Topazes (who now re-fused) and Milo's parents got to him.
"Don't celebrate just yet." Chris pointed out to the group a few feet away from him and Dan. "It won't be long until it gets out of there."
Just then, Chris got blindsided by a tail and was smacked into a wall. Upon making impact, he knocked out with ease, turning him back to his human... much to Dan's horror.
"Chris!" Dan yelled out in an uncharacteristically worried tone for his "minion" as he rushed to his side.
"Chris? Chris?! C'mon, wake up!" He yelled frantically as he tried to shake him awake.
When he realized that didn't work, he tried something else. He turned the man onto his side as he pressed an ear to his chest to hear something even remotely resembling a heartbeat...
Which after a few seconds, was able to hear.
Upon hearing this, Dan let out a sigh of relief his buddy at least so that was good.
Lincoln, Topaz, the Murphy family, and the Zircons ran over the two.
"Dan! Is Chris okay?" Lincoln said, worried over the large man.
"Well, he's out cold but at least he's alive." Dan said through the gritted teeth as he started to seethe with pure, unadulterated rage.
His face turned red with rage, his teeth were gritting at a fast pace and steam blow out of his ears. When you wrong him, you're going pay. No matter what!
"ALLLLLLIIIIIIEEEEEEN!" Dan yelled out in a blind rage.
He was about to charge at the beast when something happened.
Suddenly, Dan's hands turned into two cannon-sized flamethrowers... and they were surprisingly very light despite the rather misleading appearance of them being rather heavy.
"Flamethrowers?" The jerk asked, inspecting his arms a bit before confirming that his arms were indeed flamethrowers before he looked at the still stick in the floor monster with a rather sadistic looking grin on his face. "Oh, you are soooo screwed alien. I've watched your films multiple times!"
With a scream of determination, Dan aimed his flamethrower hands and let loose a massive stream of fire at giant beast, engulfing it in a massive ass wall of fire.
Just then Sara remembered something.
"Dan, stop! Globgor, Eclipsa, and the Rubies are still over there!" She yelled out, hoping that he would stop for a bit.
But... he didn't and kept unleashing his flames of destruction on the beast, regardless of the consequences.
He finally stopped when he collapsed to his knees in total exhaustion.
"I think you got it." Milo said in awe.
Before they could celebrate their supposed victory, a tail came out from the fire and smoke and smacked Dan backwards, causing Milo and Sara to catch him before he could crash into them.
The creature then let out another screech but it wasn't as loud as the first one as it finally managed to get out of the fissure that Milo created. It then aimed all six tails at the the group as it smacked away the gems as well, making them join up with Lincoln and the others.
Before it could do anything, Eclipsa yelled out. "Midnight Shriek!"
Just then, a powerful blast of purple, dark magic shot out of Eclipsa's parasol from behind the creature, making it shriek out in pain. As it turned around, it was faced with a very, very, very, angry Eclipsa.
And to emphasized on how anger she is. She's in her butterfly form with its six arms and light purple butterfly wings and same colored antennas and same colored garb.
"Get. Away. From. Them. You. Bitch!" She demanded as the beast let out a screech at the insult.
The beast made the first move by lashing out one of its tails but before it impale her with it, Globgor managed to grab a hold of it.
"I don't think so fellow creature!" Globgor said, holding onto the tail. "No one impales my wife, but me!"
The creature then lashed out the rest of its tails, but before it could kill the two. The Ruby grabbed a hold of the other five tails.
"Go thinking Globgor." Leggy said, struggling to hold the tail down.
"Impressive tactic." Doc said, also struggling to hold the other tail down.
"So what do we do now?" Eyeball said, trying her best to hold the tail down.
"I think we should-" Navy began to say before she was cut off.
Before Navy could finish, the creature let out a screech as it finally pushed the group off of its tails, sending them flying in front of the rest of the group. Luckily, thanks to the strength of her Butterfly form gives her, Eclipsa was able to grab a hold of her monster husband and gently lower them both to the ground as the Rubies managed to land on their feet... with the exception of Leggy, who landed on her face. With them on the ground, the queen revert back to normal.
As Aquamarine slowed her descent using her wings, she landed on the ground and made her wings disappear. She then turned around to face the creature before she asked out loud. "How are are we supposed to beat this thing?"
Lincoln then proposed an idea. "Well, I have a plan. But I'm going to need you guys to work with us for it to work."
"No." Aquamarine denied.
"Not happening!" Holly said.
"I'd rather of be shattered!" Navy said.
"You can forget it human!" Eyeball said.
"You weaklings will just get in the way!" Jasper stated.
Lincoln kept his composure but he clenched his fist before letting out a growl of irritation at the gems' refusal to cooperate.
"You can growl at us as much as you want, but we're not going to be working with feeble minded, incompetent fools like you." Emerald said.
"I agree." Army said. "The idea of working with humans and other creatures is laughable!"
Just then, the creature spit out lava and then began to blast the group with acid beams with all 6 tails. Before it could hit them, Eclipsa quickly put up a purple forcefield using her parasol, protecting the two groups for the time being.
"You might want to rethink that option, I don't know how long I can hold this forcefield up!" She said, struggling to focus on maintaining said forcefield.
"You're wasting your time magic user." Emerald said scornfully. "You're wasting your time with a lost cause."
"Hey! You don't talk to my wife like that." Globgor said in a angered tone.
"I can talk to like that with whoever I please monster." Emerald said smugly.
"Why you little-" Globgor began to before he felt a hand on his shoulder.
Turning to his right, he saw that Chris has just woken up and had a concerned look on his face.
"Calm down Globgor, you getting mad is not going to help." Chris said. "Especially now."
Realizing that he was right, the monster took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"You're gonna have to scrap you plan." Aquamarine said to Lincoln. "I'm sure there's another way."
"I doubt that there is another way. Look, you don't have to like us! Just fight alongside us!" Lincoln demanded.
"Why should we?" Jasper said, getting tired of Lincoln's persistence. "What could we possibly have to gain from working with you weaklings. Answer me that?!"
"Yeah!" The other gems said.
Finally at this point, Lincoln has had enough and decides to tell it to them straight.
"Imma bout to end this gem's whole career!" He thought to himself before laughing inwardly in his mind at the irony of that meme.
"What could be gained?" He began in a quiet tone. "WHAT COULD BE GAINED?!" He shouted in a angry tone, shocking everyone, even making the gems step back a little. "We can survive this, you stupid rock heads! Believe me, if I didn't think my plan will you without you guys, I would've have included you guys in it!" He then took a deep breath to calm down. "Look, I get it. You gems have always looked on us humans, and I can understand why. With the technology and might you had at your disposal." Lincoln admitted before he quickly regained his anger. "But it's Era 3 now so no matter how much you deny it. Humans, Gems and other creatures like Globgor here and that thing surprisingly, we're all equal now and as your equal, you should take the time to listen to what I have to say."
"We're not-" Aquamarine began to say.
"But nothing! Just. Listen. Will you?!" Lincoln yelled at the gem before calming down. "Zircons," He addressed the two lawyers. "Do you two have any abilities that'll help us? Anything at all?"
Suddenly, they heard someone laughing. Turning to the source, they saw that Holly Blue laughing her butt off.
"Them? Those middle rank Zircons?" Holly said while laughing. "You simply cannot be serious human? What can possibly have to bring to the table?"
"Well..." Blue Zircon began to say, ignoring the manager's taunting. "We can manifest documents out of our monocles like this..." She then summoned a multitude of circular documents with some weird gem writing on it from the oval monocle on her right eye. "But I don't see how it will help in this situation."
Lincoln took a second to think about this before getting an idea. "Can I see them?"
"Sure?" Blue Zircon said in a confused tone, handing the boy one of the documents.
Upon inspecting it up close, the man with a plan noticed its flat surface. Perhaps something they can bounce off of.
"Milo, can you hold this like a food tray for a sec?" He asked the Murphy.
Getting a feeling as to why Lincoln would ask him to do that, Milo grabbed a hold of the circle before Lincoln jumped onto it.
He then bounce up and down on it a few times to test its stability. Which turned out to be pretty durable for a holographic document.
Next, he threw into the wall, which became embedded into after throwing it hard enough.
"Yeah, this can definitely be useful." Lincoln said before turning to the group of gems. "Okay, now if you're going to listen, I'll explain my plan. Are you going to listen?" The boy asked.
The gems stood in silence, wondering if they actually should listen to the boy's so called "plan".
A few minutes of thinking on of later, to the surprise of the gems, Topaz walked over and placed a hand on the boy's shoulder, smiling down at him.
"I'm interested. Please tell me more." The yellow fusion said kindly, making him return the smile.
A few seconds later, Leggy went and placed a hand on his other shoulder. The ruby also smiled kindly at him, to which he returned with an equally kind smile of his own.
"I'm in too. W-What would need me to do?" She stuttered, blushing.
"Depends, can you fuse?" Lincoln asked.
"Y-Yes." The ruby said. "With the other rubies."
Just then, the two Zircons laid their hands on Lincoln's head as the blue Zircon smiled down at him while the yellow Zircon was looking away a little.
"If it'll save our lives, I'll take anything to survive." Blue Zircon said, while blushing a little.
"Well, you did save my life L-Lincoln. It's the least I can do. C-Consider this my thanks to you." Yellow Zircon said while blushing a little.
Lincoln smiled at them, then turned to the rest of them. "Well gems? You gonna throw your pride to the side for a bit and work with us?" He said, holding out his hand.
Aquamarine, Holly Blue, Emerald, the other Rubies and Jasper thought about for a few minutes. They could go on and on about how ridiculous this was but by the Eclipsa's barrier was starting to crack they know that they were just be wasting their time.
And time was of the essence after all...
With a sigh, Aquamarine then asked. "Just answer me this: How do we know your plan will actually work?"
"I don't know if it'll work 100%. But that doesn't mean that we should try it out. I'm aware of the stakes but still." Lincoln explained, still holding out his hand. " It's all I got though at the moment though, unless you have something better that is."
She didn't.
With a really frustrated sigh, Aquamarine grabbed a hold of Lincoln's hand and shook it vigorously. "Fine. If it'll get us out of here!"
Lincoln nodded, but before he could thank you to her, she then added. "But don't think that this'll change anything, as soon as we're outta here, we go our separate ways. Alright!"
"If it'll get you to cooperate with us then fine. Once we're out of here, we'll leave you to your own devices." Lincoln said.
The rubies, Holly, and Emerald just nodded, indicating that they'll help if it meant getting out here.
But there was one gem who haven't agreed yet.
"Jasper?" Lincoln asked. "You gonna help us?"
Jasper snorted before replying. "Why should I huh? Why should even work with you pathetic runts when you even earn it?"
"Wake up already!" Lincoln shouted at her. "We're not your enemy here, Jasper?" He then pointed at the beast still continuing to crack through the barrier. "That thing is! I'm pretty sure you know that!"
"Of course I know that!" Jasper countered. "But I ask again: Why? Why should I waste my time working with a race that'll eventually die out? Answer me that."
Lincoln, though a little disturbed at Jasper's brutal honesty, answered as best he could. "It's cause you don't know have much of a choice. It's either work with us or you can get shattered. Your choice."
"I'd rather be shattered than work with humans." Jasper said. "So give me a reason for why I prolong it."
"Jasper... there's a saying on Earth. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Lincoln referenced.
"Touching. But I haven't earned my respect for me to say the same to you." Jasper said. "Also, I'm pretty sure that goes both ways somehow."
"True, but just this once, push aside that foolish ego to help us win. Cause you're going to die with us if you don't." Lincoln said.
Jasper thought about this long and hard for a few minutes before coming a decision.
"Fine... I'll at least listen to what you have to say before deciding to work with you weaklings." Jasper stated.
"Thank you." Lincoln thanked the quartz before turning to everyone inside the barrier. "Alright. Here's my plan. Eclipsa, once you get rid of the forcefield, use whatever magic you can to tie up the alien."
"Right!" Eclipsa said, struggling to keep the forcefield up.
"Rubies, I need you guys to fuse like Topaz did." Lincoln commanded.
"Got it." Doc said. "Rubies combine!"
Doc jumped onto the leg Ruby's shoulders before she held the hands of Navy and the arm Ruby as Eyeball jumped on Doc's head crossing her arms. Seconds later, their gemstones glow in a flash of bright red light. Once the light subsided, what stood in its place was a giant Ruby who had the gems of its components in the right places.
"Whoa." Lincoln said in awe before regaining his focus. "Ahem, Milo, once the beast is restricted, creature a fissure as deep as you can."
"On it." Milo said, getting ready.
"Zircons, I need you to throw the documents at the walls on the sides and behind that thing." Lincoln demanded.
"Alright." Blue Zircon said.
"Of course." Yellow Zircon agreed.
"Globgor, I know that power dampener might suppress your powers to an extent but if that thing tries to attack us with its I need you to grow your body as big as you can get in order to hold as many of them back as you can. The Rubies will assist you." Lincoln said to the king of monsters.
"I'll try my best Lincoln." The monster said as he began to focus his energy on his shape-shifting abilities. He began to grow slowly.
"Dan, if you can make your arms into a weapons like before, try the sharpest blade you can think of." Lincoln said. "You can will be focus on slicing those tails off."
"I'll try." Dan said, before he focus his thoughts when his arms turned into blades of pure, plasma-like energy that had the energy output as the crystal in the guards staffs. "Oh yeah, freaking awesome!"
"You can count on me, Lincoln." Chris assured him.
Lincoln nodded before turning to the agate. "Holly, I need you to electrocute the alien with your whip just in case it tries to escape the fissure or Eclipsa's magical restrictions."
"Fine." Holly Blue groaned out, summoning her whip.
"Aquamarine, Jasper, you're with me." Lincoln before turning to the rest of the group. "The rest of you, once you've done what you can. Distract the beast as best as you can."
"Alright." Emerald said.
"We'll try." Both the Zircons said in unison.
"Understood." Topaz said, nodding.
"You got it." Milo and his family said in unison.
"Acknowledged." The Ruby fusion said.
"Of course." Chris said.
"I'll try to remember that." Dan said, receiving a elbow to the ribs courtesy of Chris.
"Getting back to you two..." Lincoln addressed Aquamarine and Jasper. "We'll be the ones to defeat the monster." He began to explain what they need to do. "Aquamarine, I need you to fly me up as he as you can get me. Once you do that, I need you to drop me onto one's of the alien's heads." Lincoln instructed the little gem before turning to the big brute. "Jasper, if you have any moves that you can use in the air, you'll use it to take down the other head." Lincoln revealed to her.
"Fine, whatever you dullard." Aquamarine said dryly.
"Hmm, I see where you're going with this. I'm rather surprised at the tactic your implying that we use." Jasper admitted, impressed at Lincoln's analytical mind, especially in this situation.
"Alright team. Operation-Crazy-One-Time-Working-Together-Between-Two-Different-Races-To-Beat-This-Thing-And-Hopefully-Get-Out-Of-Here-And-Think-Of-A-Shorter-Name-For-This-Operation into action!" Lincoln declared. "Eclipsa, drop the forcefield."
Mewini's dark queen nodded before she forced the creature back a little by popping the forcefield like a balloon. As the creature steadied itself and began to charge at the now united force, the parasol user quickly yelled out, "Time-Slowing Eclipsing Chains!"
A powerful, magical blast erupted from the eye on the top of the parasol, it swirled around the beast's body before exploding into a dark flash of light, which didn't make the group not cover their eyes.
As soon the light died down, it revealed that the beast was trapped from head to toe in massive, black, magically infused chains. It was moving not as fast as before because of its time slowing effects.
"Milo! Now!" Eclipsa yelled out.
"Right!" Milo as he stomped the ground, causing it to crack and break apart from the kinetic energy.
When it reached the beast, the ground fell apart from beneath it, the hole was so deep that you see the bottom.
"Alright Zircons, you're up!" Martin commanded.
"Of course." Blue Zircon said as she used her strength to a bunch of documents as hard as could into the walls on the sides of the alien.
"On it!" Yellow Zircon as she also threw a bunch of documents behind the wall of the monster.
Once they were implanted, the two headed beast lashed its tails at a moderately fast pace.
"Monster, now!" Yellow Zircon said.
"You too, Rubies!" Blue Zircon said.
"It's Globgor." The monster corrected but grabbed onto four of the six tails. "Chris, now!"
"Let's go!" The ruby fusion hollered as she grabbed the remaining two tails. "Alright soldier, you're up!" She said to Dan.
"I'm no one's soldier but my own, you red square!" Dan stated in anger but sliced off four of the six tails regardless after jumping off the circular document.
"I'm on it!" Chris said as he jumped off the oval document.
But as he was about to chop of the two tails, something surprising happened.
The claws of the man's bear form as the rest of his body began to extend as well as become as sharper then any blade he's ever seen before when he was on Earth.
Must be dependent on the opponent...
Chris didn't even noticed until after he sliced of the tails.
"Woah. This is new!" Chris thought to himself as he landed on another document, his claws turning back to their normal length. He didn't even hear the alien's screech of pain from being basically amputated. That's how lost in thought he was.
Dan's voice brought him out of his thoughts.
"Lincoln, Aquamarine, Jasper! Finish this now!" Dan yelled out the three.
"Don't order me around!" Jasper yelled back to him.
"Got it! Aquamarine, let's do this!" Lincoln said to his "partner".
"Let's just get this over with." The gem said as she grabbed Lincoln by his shoulders before summoning her wings once more.
Jasper ran at a fast pace as Aquamarine and Lincoln flew over her at a just as quick speed. The Kindergarten Quartz that Could ran around the fissure that Milo created to avoid falling in. After making it behind the now tail less monstrosity, she jumped up as high as she could, getting implanted into the ceiling.
As aquamarine flew Lincoln past the beast, it managed to bite through one of Eclipsa's magical chains and spat lava out of one of its mouth, though the two managed to avoid the object melting, orange and red, molten, mouth liquid.
"This plan of yours better work Lincoln!" Aquamarine said.
"I'm sure it will work." Lincoln assured her.
As Aquamarine was flying Lincoln, she looked down at the white haired boy. She couldn't help but think was rather...
Nice?
A little?
Smart?
Maybe considering the plan he formed?
Cute?
By humans standards, I guess.
Maybe even... something a bit more? Even more so than her former Diamond.
No! That's impossible, she couldn't feel this way. It was taboo. She, an elite gem, feeling anything other then indifference towards other races.
Certainly a gem of status can't feel this way towards anything or anyone else?
Right?
Aquamarine quickly shook her head to keep herself focus. she didn't want to drop the kid after all.
Once Aquamarine and Lincoln were at the ceiling, the latter over to Jasper. "You ready Jasper?"
The Quartz didn't say anything to him, she instead nodded.
"Alright Aquamarine, throw me!" Lincoln demanded.
"What are you? Insane?!" Aquamarine asked in a uncharacteristically concerned tone of voice.
"Just trust me." Lincoln countered.
"Fine, it's your death sentence!" Aquamarine said as she threw the boy at one of the beast's heads.
Once Lincoln was thrown, Jasper quickly rolled up into a ball before lunging straight at the beast's other head, summoning her bladed helmet for added offense.
But the beast wasn't going to just stand there and get defeated, oh no it wasn't. Turning its two heads upwards as best as it could, it vomited a waterfall's amount of lava at the speed of a volcanic eruption.
"Oh no, I totally forgot about that!" Lincoln thought as he put up his guard and braced for the heat of the lava to hit him at full force.
Suddenly, his mind sense the distress and registered what the boy needs to protect himself. His body glowed white once more as it manifested two giant, long, skeletal arms but there's also another twist: It also manifested giant ribcage that completely covered the young boy with its bones.
But before the lava could hit the two attackers, all a sudden it let a screech of pain as it was electrocuted, making the lava fall onto its heads making it screech out in even more pain from its own saliva.
It was Holly Blue Agate who was the one doing it when she wrapped her whip around the beast's midsection.
It began to struggle in its attempt to break free from its restraints.
Holly nearly lost her grip on her weapon when to her surprise, Milo, Sara, Bridgette and Martin grabbed a hold of her and her weapon.
"Why are you humans helping me?" She asked.
"We're equals now? That's why?" Martin said.
"Also we can tell that you were about to lose your grip on this whip." Bridgette said.
"And before you ask, no, we're not doing this in hopes of gaining something in return..." Sara began.
"We're doing this because, despite everything you did and said before, we still care about you." Milo finished.
Holly was surprised at this human family act of genuine kindness. For so long that she's been made, she's been a terrifying manager to lower gems with using violence to get them to submit or face the consequences if they refused to heed her orders. To feel something this felt... alien to her. (If you'll forgive the non intended pun). Smiling a little at this gesture, she pulled her whip as she could, with the Murphys assisting her in such a task.
Raising his arms over his head (with his aura's arms doing the same), and with a yell. Lincoln thought to himself. "Please let this work!" He slammed them down onto the giant alien's first head as at the same time Jasper smashed into the beast's second head, simultaneously knocking the beast out at last.
With the beast out cold, Eclipsa dispelled the chains and Holly Blue made her whip vanish into thin air as the beast fell into the fissure. 10 seconds later, there was a loud THUD as the beast finally landed as the ground briefly shook to indicate the beast's defeat.
After his white aura disappeared, Lincoln was about to fall into the fissure too but Chris caught him in his arms before he could.
"Woah, I got ya Lincoln." Chris said, after catching him and putting him down onto the ground safely.
"Thanks Chris." Lincoln thanking the bear/human hybrid.
"We won?" Blue Zircon said in disbelief.
"Yeah Zircon, I believe we did." Yellow Zircon said.
"YEAH!" Army said as she embraced Navy, who was blushing from the physical contact from her brutish counterpart.
Foster spoke into his microphone to address the crowd.
"That was amazing! Such awesome teamwork! Who knew that a common enemy brought force them to work together. Let's give a round of applause for the EXILES!"
The crowd cheered loudly as they shouted words of praise and excitement as well as their names as well as their team name.
As Lincoln, Milo, the rest of the Exiles and the rest of the gems were celebrating their victory, Jasper was looking over to them, more specifically Lincoln.
"Hmm, I'll admit that the runt is a rather "okay" straightest given the situation, but that white aura of his. That's rather interesting. Is this what that mist did to him? If so, impressive. I wonder just how far his potential will go, not just his though but the rest these "exiles" of course." Jasper thought to herself. "Maybe this weaklings can prove themselves as worthy for my time and recognition... I doubt that of but only time will tell."
But the Kindergarten Quartz Who Could wasn't they only one watching the Exiles (and more specifically the Loud boy) with a look of great interest...
Up in his throne room, the emperor was sitting in his throne and he was watching his TV as he saw the whole thing in front of his eyes... and he too looked at the exiled Loud boy with interest as he paused the television for a brief moment.
"That boy. Interesting." Zing said with an evil glare in his eyes.
Just then the door slid open, shining a bright light in the room, forcing the emperor cover his eyes in order to avoid the blinding light.
"Halt! Who dares enter my throne room unannounced! Reveal your name before you enter!" Zing demanded.
"Pardon my unannounced intrusion sire, but I've come to inform you that the group from Earth and those gems we've captured have survived the match against the two-headed Xenomorph queen." Foster said as he walked into the throne room, with the door closing behind him, shrouding the room into illuminated purple darkness once more.
"I've already seen it Foster, but thanks for the info." Zing said before turning back to the TV. "Before you go, can you please come over here for a sec, Foster. I want to show you something." Zing commanded.
Foster went over to his emperor and saw that TV was paused onto a group shot of the Exiles and the gems standing in celebrating.
"You've noticed how that boy and his teammates were during the battle?" The emperor asked.
"Yes, it was rather surprising that Lincoln was able to coordinate and I was really surprised that those gems were able to help the Exiles defeat that queen." Foster revealed.
"I too am rather surprised, but that's not what concerns me." The emperor said before he continued. "It's the white haired one."
"Jasper?" Foster wondered.
"No, Lincoln." Zing admitted.
Bursting out with laughter briefly, Foster talked as he wiped away a tear from his left eye. "F-Forgive my laughter Emperor, but I fail to see how he concerns. He's a child!"
"He maybe a child Foster, a smart one." Zing countered. "With what we've seen of him, his planning capabilities as well as those strange powers we've seen him used, he and his allies could be a potential threat towards our empire. So you best not underestimate the young one, him or his friends."
"Of course, sire. What you you have me do?" The head of Zing's elite guard asked, ready to do anything his emperor asked of him.
"I want the guards to keep an eye on the Exiles from the shadows and get any information on them as much as they can. Then report back to me." Zing commanded to him before turning back to the TV. "Especially, these two Foster." He said, pointing his two fingers on his right hand at Lincoln and Jasper's appearances. "I consider them the most of threats."
"Of course sire, patching into their earpieces now." Foster said before pressing two of his fingers to a device on the left side of his head.
Unbeknownst to the two, Roger, who was sporting a right black eye, a bruised midsection, had some of his purple blood dripping from his mouth, had some of his teeth knocked out, had his legs pinned down by having two guards spears stabbed through the kneecaps and had his other eye gouged out. His arms was also in some of special chains that seem to be cutting off his regenerative abilities, thus making this pain absolute hell for him.
And he overheard the entire conversation between the two maniacs.
Just as all the guards were doing their daily patrolling around the mall ship, suddenly their devices on the left sides of their heads beeped as a voice called out using them.
"Guards, this is your general Foster speaking, come in." Foster said.
In the space bar, a guard spoke to him. "Sir, I hear you."
Good, all of you come to the throne at once, I have a new mission for you."
"Yes sir." The guards all said.
"Good, I wait for you to attend."
The guard all marched to the throne. As the lone guard began to walk out of the bar, Dan began to look at him in suspicion.
"Hmm, hey guys. Don't you think that was a little suspicious?" The sociopath said.
"Yes, now that you mention it, that is a little strange." Globgor said.
"Hmm, I'm going to find out what Zing's planning. You guys stay here." Dan said, getting up from his chair.
"Wait Dan, I wanna come with you." Leggy insisted.
"Fine, now let's go." Dan said as the two ran out of the bar.
Quickly, silently, but being sure to hide in case they were going to be found out, Dan and Leggy managed to catch up to the guard that walked out of the bar as he and the other guards went into the elevator and the door to it closed.
"Great, how are we supposed to find out what the emperor is planning now?" Leggy whined in failure.
Looking at the elevator cable, Dan got an idea.
"Quick, grab onto the elevator cable!" Dan said, running up to and grabbing the elevator's cable.
Leggy did the same thing just as the elevator began to go up.
50 floors later, the elevator made it to the throne as the doors opened and the guards piled out and entered the throne room with Dan and Leggy just barely making it as they hid behind a few potted plants as the doors closed behind them. Looking around, Dan and Leggy saw that Foster and the emperor were talking to the chained bound Roger, who Dan and Leggy were surprised by the condition he was in. The sight of him nearly made Dan puke his guts out and almost made Leggy dissipate her form from the shock of seeing him in such a state.
"Tell me Roger, how was your "mission" to Earth?" Foster said curiously yet mockingly at the same time.
Roger glared at his former commander with his remaining, swollen, blacken eye before spitting his purple blood in his face.
"Go... to hell... you... (bleep)… bastard! The injured Roger said, coughing up some blood. "I know you... sent me to Earth... as a... crash test dummy!"
Wiping the alien's blood off his face, Foster glared a little before he smiled. "Ah yes, so you finally know about that?"
"Yeah, and just what you guys did, I was banished from there too." Roger said, justifiably pissed off.
"Well, I'm pretty this is what you deserved for screwing them over like you did to the Emperor." Foster said, spitefully.
"Then by that logic, I bet you deserved to be smoothened." Roger said with a smirk.
Foster was about seconds away from stabbing his other eye out when the Emperor Zing stopped him with his scepter.
"Calm down Foster, he's just trying to mess with you." Zing said as the general stood down. Turning over to Roger, he continued. "You best watch your mouth traitor, because perhaps you've forgotten what power I have at my disposal. I can have you executed right now if I wanted, and with this special chains, your immortality will end at last."
"We'll see about about that, now won't we?" Roger with a still smug smirk.
Turning over to the now assembled guards, the two higher ups saw that they have all arrived. With all of his guards present and counted for, the general began to talk.
"Men! We have a new mission from Emperor Zing himself. It'll take a while to complete though so if any of you wish to not take part, please leave now."
"Get to the point, will ya?" Dan whispered, irritably.
Leggy just shushed him as Foster spoke again.
"Good, good, I see that you've proven your loyalty. Now here's the mission: "Slip into the shadows and gather any information you can find on these individuals." He said as he then pulled out remote and pressed a button, making a holographic screen appeared...
What they saw nearly made the two gasp out loud.
It was a picture of Lincoln, Dan, Chris, Milo, Sara, Martin, Bridgette, Globgor, Eclipsa, Jasper, and the others gems just minutes after defeating the Xenomorph queen, celebrating over it.
"Especially, these two." Foster said, pointing at Lincoln. "This emperor see those two and his allies as a potential threat to the empire."
This made Dan and Leggy gasp, but not to loud as to alert the guards.
"First taking Roger into custody, next forcing us to fight that thing, and now they're after Lincoln!" He whispered silently, his rage beginning. "Bastards!"
"My Lincoln... Targeted by them!" Leggy whispered to herself, her rage also beginning to show. "And Jasper, too?"
"Come on Leggy, we have to warn them and Lincoln and Jasper too." Dan whispered, as they quietly as possible, began to sneak out of the throne room.
However as they were sneaking Leggy accidently bumped her shoulder into a potted plant, causing it to fall and break apart.
"Leggy!" Dan whispered angrily.
"Whoops!" Leggy whispered embarrassed.
"Hey! Who goes there!" A random guard said.
"Screw it! Just run!" Dan said as he and Leggy scrambled to their feet and immediately got the heck out of there.
"After them!" Foster commanded his subordinates.
The guards were about to go after when...
"Stand down guards. There's no need." Zing said.
The guards stopped began to talk amongst themselves as Foster turned to the emperor in confusion.
"Sire, they could-" Foster said, only to be cut off.
"Even if they do alert their allies, it won't help them, we have the home field advantage. We also have the shock buttons for their collars." He gestured to the remote in Foster's hand. "We also have that thing," He pointed down to the lower levels. "So there's no need to worry Foster, I have another plan." He then turned back to his army of guards. "Guards, I want at least 20 of you to guard the escape pods, 10 of you to find the information on Lincoln and his allies while the rest of continue doing your patrol. Is this clear?"
"Of course sir, we won't fail you!" The guards assured him, saluting their emperor.
"Good, now get to it!" Zing commanded, making the guards march out of the room.
As the guards left his throne room, Zing began to laugh maniacally. His laughter echoing all over the room and into the hallway.
Unbeknownst to everyone else, back in the room where exiles first were brought in, the rocket that they were on was manifesting onboard. After some time, it fully manifested into the roofless rocket ship.
Uh oh! Looks like Lincoln's becoming quite popular with all the attention he's been getting. First from Aquamarine, now Emperor Zing, Foster, and his guards.
Speaking of Aquamarine, looks like she's not the only one who's "feeling things" for the Loud boy. As someone once said: "There is another."
And what is up with Jasper? What sort of "potential" is she looking for in her "fellow" Exiles?...
Speaking of Jasper, looks like she's on the Emperor's wanted list alongside the white haired boy...
Will the Exiles be to rescue Roger and escape from the Emperor's sinister clutches?...
And what's the deal the Exiles rocket ship being brought aboard? A call for reinforcements or a bad omen?
Find out next time on The Exiles!
AN: If you're wondering, no you did not hear wrong. What the Exiles and the gems were forced to team up against, fought and defeated was a two headed Xenomorph Queen. So no OmegaDelta, it wasn't a Grimm from RWBY. So I thought I should clear that up.
AN 2: I can already see the comments of how the Lincoln/Aquamarine/Leggy love triangle is a bit contrived, confusing, and cliché and a bit annoying and can totally the tone of the story, and I can totally see why. Almost as confusing and annoying as another certain "love square" in another cartoon fandom that shall remain nameless and in infamy until that reaches it's inventible conclusion.
AN 3: Here's a little a challenge for you guy, I've put multiple references in this chapter. If you can count how many and tell me what there references of what, you can a prize. I'm not going to say what it is, so you'll just have to wait and see.
AN 3: Here's a list of powers that most of the Exiles currently have as of this chapter:
Lincoln: Healing possibly to the point of immortality and white fiery aura and fiery avatar that fights for and protects him and his friends if his minds is focused enough. It also depends on who he's fighting
Dan: Shape shifting his arms into any weapon he wants if he focuses hard enough. Also, it depends on the enemy his vengeance is on at the time.
Chris: His bear claws grow longer and sharper based on his opponent.
Sara: The ability to inspire people by stomping on the ground and cheer them up. They can range from destroying part of a room like in the last chapter or reducing an entire building to rubble, and yes, it depends on the enemy
Milo: Control over his Murphy's Law and the ability to destroy anything if you make him feel distressed enough.
The only ones unaffected are the ones who already have powers like Globgor, Jasper, Eclipsa and Meteora.
It's all about adaptability and emotions that's where these powers come to the surface for those that have the switch to activate them like Milo stopping Aquamarine or the fight against the Xenomorph Queen..
Don't worry, I'll get to Bridgette and Martin soon as soon as I can figure out what powers to give them that's based on their personality. If you have any suggestions, leave them in your review or PM me.
This is the Reality Shredder and I'll see you all next time.