Opening File: Peridot Log Two-Seven-Zero
Upon receiving orders from Yellow Diamond to observe the status of the Cluster, a geo-fusion weapon left in the center of the planet Earth I immediately memorized all information regarding Earth in the history files from the beginning of the colony supervised by Pink and Blue Diamonds to the end of the Rebellion where all rebel Gems were destroyed. Following procedure I began by sending a Red-Eye to observe the planet's surface for possible surviving Gems but the Red-Eye never reported any surviving Gems. I then proceeded to the next phase by sending robonoids to the planet surface programmed to repair the warp pads that had been inactive since the Rebellion. At first the mission was running smoothly as I accessed the Homeworld Warp Pad and arrived on Earth, testing it and seeing it was still functional.
With the Warp Pads activated I would have proceeded to the Prime Kindergarten and accessed Facet-5 control room where the fusion experiments were conducted and supervised. However upon finding a bizarre logo on the Homeworld Pad I quickly retreated and left an EMP bomb to destroy the robonoids I left behind to ensure they would not fall into enemy hands if the Warp Pad site had been compromised. Once I made my report I was ordered back to Earth with upgraded robonoids for escort but the Homeworld Warp Pad has again been disabled by unknown means, forcing me to send the robonoids to Earth manually but for an unknown reason their signals were quickly disabled. After two mega-cycles a robonoid finally reached the Prime Kindergarten and accessed the control room in Facet-Five, allowing me to remotely access the control room's systems.
What happened next was truly unexpected.
I was interrupted by an unknown creature calling itself the 'Steven' and a group of three rebel Gems composed of a Pearl, an obviously defective Amethyst and an unknown fusion that quickly smashed the power source, terminating my link to the control room. I immediately reported to Yellow Diamond who then assigned me a ship and an escort, a Jasper from the Beta-Kindergarten on Earth along with a Lapis Lazuli from Blue Diamond's court to act as an informant and a human from the Special Zone to observe any remaining native settlements on the planet. The journey to the planet only lasted a mega-cycle and following my informant's information we traced the rebels to their base, resembling a Gem-Temple that I have only seen in historic records. Upon landing we were immediately confronted by the rebel Gems which my escort was initially dismissive of before the 'Steven' revealed a surprising ability to summon the shield used by the criminal leader Rose Quartz.
Jasper immediately used a Gem-Destabilizer to neutralize the fusion but before the other rebels could be captured we were confronted by what appeared to be a human, possibly from Earth's warrior caste. I am now left to watch as Jasper confronts this human and hopefully defeats her quickly.
I still have a mission to complete.
End Log
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"So are you a fan of musicals? Nothing to be ashamed about. Music is just another form of communication that can carry just about anything, considering just how many types of music are out there." TOM said as he closed the file showing Peridot's log. "Classic, country, pop, rock and so much more. And they can all be used to invoke powerful feelings and deliver powerful messages that can change everything."
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Nyx led Dipper and Mabel to a Tambry's house and as soon as they walked up to the door it opened, revealing Tambry with a box of hot steaming pizza.
"Happy birthday little sis." Tambry said with a smiled.
"Sis?!" Dipper and Mabel exclaimed.
Nyx smiled innocently. "What? It's not like you guys asked."
Mabel laughed a bit as Tambry invited them in. Wendy was there with a few of their friends, including Soos, Robbie, Lee, Nate and Thompson.
Dipper smiled when he saw Wendy and quickly sat down next to her as Tambry put the pizza on the table.
"I see you two met my little sister." Tambry said as she opened the pizza box.
"Yeah." Dipper nodded. "I didn't know you had a sister."
Tambry shrugged. "You never asked."
"Don't pay attention to her. My big sis is too much of a cell phone addict to talk about me." Nyx waved it off.
"She said forgetting that I actually remembered enough to pick up dinner for her." Tambry softly retorted but was smiling. "Status: trapped in house with my insane micro-midget sister and her birdie."
Pericles fluttered a bit as Nyx petted him. "For the record I'm only twelve but I'll be taller than you yet. And Pericles is an owl."
"Oh, forgive me for my impudence." Tambry rolled her eyes.
Dipper and Mabel could not help but snicker as the two sister exchanged wit while everyone picked up a slice of pizza.
"So, got a movie to watch." Tambry said as she switched on the TV.
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Jasper grinned as she tore off her cape and slowly approached Vidalia who held her ground, the light sticks in her hands flashing slightly. "I was here when the first war started. I fought against Rose's armies, the Grimm and Earth's warriors. I respected them because they could fight and even defeat Homeworld's soldiers. I hoped you survived the Grimm even if everyone else thought it impossible and now I have the chance to fight an actual warrior from this planet in five thousand years."
"I'll try not to disappoint you." Vidalia simply said.
Jasper led out a roar and shot off towards Vidalia who quickly raised her light sticks and a series of bright bolts blasted from their tips. They collided with Jasper, the Fire-Dust rounds scorching her body but she ignored them as she moved to launch a fist straight at Vidalia. The woman smirked as her eyes flashed, unleashing a bright maelstrom of colors that blinded Jasper who screamed out in frustration as she shot past Vidalia who spun out of the way and slammed into the ground. Jasper grunted as she stood back up and spun around, only to be greeted with a shell coated with Ice Dust that slammed into her and froze her face.
Vidalia charged forward and jumped, spinning through the air and delivering a kick to Jasper's chest, knocking her down.
"Amazing." Connie whispered, watching how a single Earth woman was able to fight against a Quartz Gem like Jasper.
Jasper shattered the ice around her face and stood back up, grinning wildly now. "This is what I've been waiting for!"
She shot at Vidalia again like a rocket. Narrowing her eyes Vidalia fell back, utilizing a strange dance that allowed her to dodge Jasper's fists as they rained down on her. Gracefully spinning, ducking and somersaulting to avoid blows powerful enough that would have likely shattered her skill even with her Aura protecting her. Vidalia quickly pointed her light sticks to the ground and fired more Dust shards causing explosions of sand to shoot up between her and Jasper.
The Quartz Gem grunted as she was temporarily blinded by the sand and that gave Vidalia time to gain breathing room and to bring out her trump card. She brought her two light sticks together, channeling her Aura into them and they connected with each other before extending out to form a staff that Vidalia spun in her hand. The staff had multiple colored lines running down it with the ends flashing yellow or purple.
"Rainbow Graffiti." Vidalia said, proudly announcing the name of her weapon.
This was her prized weapon that she made when she was younger when she put herself through Huntress training. Beach City may not have much Grimm attacks but she wasn't stupid. She knew that the land this small town was built on was not normal and she actually found Huntress training to be fun and didn't mind the occasional fight.
"Wow." Connie whispered, marveling at human's weapon.
"Intriguing. The 'Vidalia' appears to have great engineering skills to create a weapon that can be modified to combine and transform itself." Peridot said, using her screen to record the battle and update her logs on Earth's warrior caste.
An organic capable of fighting a Gem was extremely rare, especially since the Rebellion was over five thousand years ago.
"I got to help her." Amethyst said, not willing to let her old friend take on that orange bully all by herself.
"Amethyst wait-" Pearl tried to stop her but Amethyst leapt into the battle as the sandy dust cleared, revealing Jasper who looked to attack.
The orange Gem narrowed her eyes as she spotted Amethyst lash her whip out which Jasper easily caught with one hand. "Stay out of my way, runt! I am here to fight Rose and the human warriors."
"You think you can just show up here and start picking fights? Why don't you get a life?!" Amethyst shouted.
"Fighting is my life!" Jasper pulled on the whip, sending Amethyst flying towards her. "It's what you were made for too, runt!"
"Whah!"Amethyst shouted as Jasper kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying back into the sand. "Oof!"
Jasper curled into a ball, using the same spin dash technique Amethyst used and ran Amethyst over eight times before finally stopping. She towered over the beaten Amethyst who was on her hands and knees. "You're not even trying! Is it because you know you're already a failure?"
Amethyst looked up at her, her face showing desperation.
"You're a Quartz soldier, just like me." Jasper's expression turned to anger and disgust. "But you're not like me, are you?"
"Amethyst!" Pearl shouted, wanting to help but didn't want to leave Steven's side.
"Is Rose really that desperate for troops? That she'd keep a defect like you?" Jasper asked, condescendingly.
Amethyst managed to stand back up. "Rose said... I'm perfect... the way I am!"
"Then she had low standards!"
Enraged, Amethyst charged at Jasper with her spin dash.
"You could've been me!" Jasper kicked Amethyst into the air, and as she fell back past Jasper the two stared into each other's eyes, Jasper staring confidently into Amethyst's shocked and wide eyes. "And what are you instead?"
Amethyst slammed into the ground and looked back at Jasper with a shocked face.
"Just a joke." Jasper head-butted Amethyst, destroying her form and knocking her gem into the air.
"Amethyst!" Pearl screamed.
Just as Jasper was about to pick up Amethyst's gem her vision was blinded by another blast of multi-colored light that happened as she spotted Vidalia moving to attack her and made eye-contact with the human. Vidalia then kicked her in the chest, causing her to stumble back.
Looking down at the ground Vidalia picked up Amethyst's gem and tossed it to Pearl. "Here, look after her and Steven."
Pearl glanced down at the gem before looking back to Vidalia as she calmly watched Jasper who rubbed her eyes as her vision cleared.
"By the way you've been doing that I guess that's the special power you've got." Jasper grunted, glaring at Vidalia. "I remember so many of your kind having different kinds of powers."
Vidalia smirked. "You mean my Semblance? Pretty handy huh? It allows me to blind anyone I make eye contact with, kind of like how onions made eyes tear up when they are too close."
It was something she always proud of considering all the losers that she blinded with her Semblance, temporarily that is, over the years.
"Well, you'll need a lot more than that to stop me!" Jasper declared, charging at Vidalia with her crash helmet.
Vidalia spun her Rainbow Graffiti as Jasper charged and twisted it, causing one hand to light before a beam of pure electricity blasted from the end that Jasper crashed into. The orange Gem felt the electricity coursing through her body that blasted her back.
"Should we help?" Connie asked.
"I agree. The mission cannot wait." Peridot answered.
Jasper grunted as she stood back up. "It's been so long since I faced someone who could actually fight back."
Peridot ran a finger across her screen and the ship fired another blast at Vidalia who jumped back, dodging the blast.
"Hey!" Jasper shouted, glaring at Peridot. "Don't interfere!"
"You are taking too long! We have a mission to complete!" Peridot argued as she prepared another shot.
Vidalia plunged her staff into the ground, utilizing the Earth Dust to send a tremor through the ground and causing the ground underneath Peridot to explode, sending her flying through the air which earned a scream from her while Connie and Lapis were knocked down. Peridot landed in the water with a loud splash. Behind Vidalia Amethyst's Gem started to glow, regenerating her form slowly but eventually she completely regenerated. Her purple top was removed, showing her black undershirt with black stars on her pants.
At the same time the two Gems on the ground where Garnet was glowed and two small Gem forms emerged.
"Where's Jasper?!" The red one exclaimed, looking around frantically.
"How's Vidalia?!" Amethyst exclaimed, looking around and saw Vidalia facing Jasper.
"She's alive and she's still fighting Jasper." Pearl answered quickly, still holding Steven close to her.
"Let's fuse and take her out!" The red Gem said to the blue one who nodded.
"Great." Jasper grunted as the red one took the blue one in an embrace and in a flash of light Garnet was reformed.
Like Amethyst Garnet's appearance changed, her body suit was now more colorful. Her right half was covered in a vivid blue-violet stocking and her left was covered in a deep orchid/eggplant stocking. Her skin tone has also changed, now cerise rather than pinkish-brown. When she summoned her weapons they were ow a dark reddish-cerise color.
However, there was a ring of black on the outside closest to her arms and instead of a gold star on the end facing her arms, they were just plain orange. The star on her top's color also changed - instead of a pink star with a magenta outline, it was now an amaranth-colored star with a soft-pink outline. Her hair was now also no longer black, but dark-indigo and is also shorter and smaller than before.
Her shades, instead of pale-orange and white, were now a soft-pink and pale-blue. Her shoulder pads were also oval-like instead of cube-like, and both were a dark orchid/eggplant color as well as her arms and gloves.
"So you are fused again? Why?" Jasper asked, staring at Garnet with disgust. "Fusion's nothing but a cheap tactic to make weaker Gems stronger. Quit embarrassing yourself! I've seen what you really are!"
"No…" Garnet smirked as she and other Crystal Gems along with Vidalia prepared to fight. "I don't think you have."
"We should help." Connie said to Lapis who looked surprised and hesitant. "We have to help her!"
Lapis gulped. "R-Right."
She didn't actually want to help Jasper but she knew if she didn't she would be punished. She raised her hand and created orbs of water out of the ocean behind her and launched them at the Crystal Gems. Garnet punched through the orb sent at her while Amethyst sliced hers in half with her whip. In the meanwhile Vidalia fired a Fire Dust shell from her staff, turning her water orb into steam and Pearl sliced through the one meant for her with her spear.
Jasper grunted, narrowing her eyes at Lapis but said nothing as she pulled out the Gem Destabilizer and lunged at Garnet.
Peridot finally crawled out of the water, shaking her wet body as she stood up. "Okay that's it! I'm taking these clods out!"
She brought out her finger screen and activated the ship's firing mechanisms, pointing the index finger at the Crystal Gems.
"Stand down runt!" Jasper shouted. "I don't need help to take these rebels out!"
Peridot froze, glancing fearfully at Jasper for a second. "We don't have time for this!"
"I have all the time!" Jasper shouted, her voice becoming louder. "I don't care about your mission! I only came here to finish off Rose Quartz! If I have to stay on this dust ball until it explodes that's fine with me! At the very least I'll make sure Pink Diamond was avenged!"
The Crystals Gems, specifically Pearl and Garnet stiffened as Jasper faced them, glaring hatefully at Steven. "Those looks on your faces tell me you understand. I didn't come back here just because Yellow and Blue Diamonds ordered us here. I'm here because of what you leader did to my planet. What she did to my colony. What she did to my DIAMOND!"
Connie stared at Jasper in shock as did Lapis and even the Crystal Gems. She knew about the history of the failed Gem Colony on Earth so she knew about Pink Diamond. But she had no idea that Jasper was formerly from Pink Diamond's court.
But it did make sense.
After she was shattered Pink Diamond's surviving Gems were placed under the supervision of Blue and Yellow Diamonds. Blue Diamond took control of the Special Zone and the majority of Gems who were created in the Prime Kindergarten, even going as far as to store the Rose Quartz Gems in bubbles that Pink Diamond personally created in a special chamber. Yellow Diamond on the other hand took over the remains of her armies, specifically Gems like Jasper who was perhaps the perfect Quartz and the one non-defective Gem to emerge from the Beta-Kindergarten.
But even after all of this time none of them had forgotten Pink Diamond nor the ones who destroyed her.
Jasper roared as she curled up into a ball and shot at the Crystal Gems in her Spin Dash form, targeting Garnet first. Garnet jumped to the side, dodging Jasper and watching as she spun around and shot at the fusion again. Vidalia adjusted her weapon and fired shell coated with Ice Dust that slammed into Jasper, knocking her to the ground. Jasper growled as she easily shattered the ice and stood up, spotting Garnet who tried to attack her while she was distracted.
The two started trading powerful blows, kicking up sand as they fought.
"What do we do?" Connie asked.
"We continue the mission." Peridot answered, drawing a finger across her screen. "Jasper made it clear she's going against the Diamonds and their orders. She is no longer fit to give orders."
She brought her finger across the screen and the ship fired another beam across the beach, interrupting the fight between Garnet and Jasper.
"I said back off!" Jasper roared.
Peridot ignored Jasper and fired another beam across the beach, knocking the Crystal Gems back.
"Lazuli, capture them with your water powers!" Peridot said, aiming another shot at the Gems.
Lapis hesitantly raised a hand, creating more water bubbles and shot them at the Gems while Peridot scattered them with another blast, kicking up sand that blinded them. This time the bubbles captured them and Vidalia, preventing them from fighting back.
"Enemies captured." Peridot said but readied herself as Jasper marched through the dusty clouds with an infuriated look on her face.
"What part of 'back off' did you not seem to get?!" Jasper looked ready to shatter Peridot.
"You went against orders from Yellow and Blue Diamonds. We're here to check on the Cluster." Peridot argued, stepping back. "We cannot abandon the mission."
Jasper growled and gritted her teeth so hard it looked like they would crack but she turned from Peridot, looking at Lapis and Connie who both flinched. "Don't just stand there! Get them onto the ship!"
Lapis raised her hand, causing the water bubbles to float up to the ship.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Jasper asked.
"Wha-"
Jasper grunted in disgust as she pointed to Steven. "Rose Quartz!"
Lapis stepped back, flinching in fear as Jasper turned away and walked over to Steven, picking him up like a sack of potatoes.
"We're bringing Rose back to Homeworld to put her on trial for her crimes." Jasper said, bringing Steven with her as the transport orb floated down to bring them back up to the ship.
"And the human?" Peridot asked, gesturing to Vidalia who was now holding her breath in the water bubble as they were brought onto the ship.
Jasper waved a hand. "Bring her along. We can dump her in the Special Zone."
"And the remaining settlements?" Lapis asked. "We were supposed to look for other Earthling settlements."
"Hmph!" Jasper growled as the water orbs were placed in cells. "We can handle that later! Rose Quarts is the priority here. And as for you." She glared at Lapis who flinched. "You are going to tell us everything."
She brought out her Dem Destabilizer as Peridot walked up, standing in front of Lapis with her touch screen. Lapis trembled and bowed her head as she began explaining everything about her encounter with the Crystal Gems. When she was done Jasper grabbed Lapis and dragged her down the hall to another cell, pushing her inside and activating the barriers.
"Is this necessary?" Connie asked quietly.
"She did keep vital information from us and nearly compromised the mission." Peridot replied stoically but was annoyed all the same.
"Get us off this planet." Jasper said once Lapis was in the cell. "We're taking these traitors back to Homeworld."
"But we can't leave yet!" Peridot protested, moving out of Jasper's path and quickly followed after her. "Our mission was to check on the Cluster!"
"I told you, Rose Quartz is the priority." Jasper turned around, glaring at Peridot who flinched. "Get back up to the bridge and set a course for Homeworld."
Peridot could only stare at frustration as Jasper walked down the hall to her quarters before turning to the bridge. "'Go to Earth' they said. 'It'll be easy' they said."
Connie followed after Peridot once Jasper was out of sight. "What about Blue Diamond's orders? She wanted to know the status of the Earthlings."
"Given that one came out and fought Jasper I'd say that they are still alive." Peridot said as they walked onto the bridge.
"But that won't be enough." Connie said as Peridot sat down in the pilot chair. "Can't we at least scan the surrounding area?"
"Hm…" Peridot considered Connie's proposal.
Normally she wouldn't but Connie was right about Blue Diamond's orders and if she couldn't check on the Cluster she should probably do as best as she could to see all mission objectives were complete as best as possible to avoid annoying the Diamonds.
"Very well." Peridot placed a hand on the console. "Scanning local continent."
Connie looked at the image on screen, showing the local landmass.
"Given the size of the local settlement I estimate it held fifty to a hundred Earth natives in this small area. The number of moving objects leaving the city suggests they are evacuating to a safe location to avoid the conflict. A logical approach." Peridot said, looking over the data.
"So is it the only one or can there be more?" Connie asked.
"Logically there should be a lot more. The sophistication of the human's weapon was enough to suggest that they have reached an advanced stage in their development. While nothing compared to Gem technology it is something to consider study." Peridot said, saving the data. "This will be included in your report to Blue Diamond. Perhaps she will be merciful on Lazuli if she is pleased with the report."
"Thank you, Peridot." Connie bowed. "I know Blue Diamond will be pleased."
Peridot considered Connie's statement, finding it…satisfying. "Yes. I am glad she will."
Connie nodded and left the bridge.
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Deciding to check on the prisoners Connie wanted to see these Crystal Gems up close, knowing them as the murderers of Pink Diamond from the history logs and even see the so-called Rose Quartz who looked like a regular Human boy. There had to be more than just what Lapis had told them when Jasper and Peridot interrogated her.
So as she walked into the holding cells she was greeted with an unexpected sight.
The boy who was supposed to be Rose Quartz was out with the Crystal Gems and the Warrior-Human, all of them staring at her with widened eyes that mirrored her own shocked expression.
All of them out of their cells.
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"What the clump?!"
"Watch your language!" Pearl couldn't help but say.
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(Character Skills)
Name: Vidalia
Aura: Pale Yellow
Semblance: Visual Blindness
Description: Upon making contact with an opponent Vidalia can induce temporary blindness that causes her targets to see nothing but bright colors for several minutes. This Semblance can work on Grimm and even Gems, giving Vidalia a huge advantage in battle.
Weapon: Rainbow Graffiti
Description: Inspired by her love of painting Vidalia's weapon in split into two smaller light sticks that she can use as long projectile weapons. When needed to fight seriously she can combine them into her weapon's true form, a staff with multiple colored lines that she uses with great proficiency.