Summary:
A violent mesh of toxic emotions on all sides!
Anne was pretty sure that her adventures were done for the most part. She finished school, went to college, became a hepatologist, and eventually reunited with her friends, reigniting the flames of their former, if toxic, friendship as kids to a more healthy and stable one as emotionally mature adults. She figured the most excitement she would get in her life from here on out was making sure to be careful handling the more poisonous amphibians.
However, what was more unexpected than getting together with the girls and fighting robots from space was just how easily it was for her to slip right back into battle mode. Maybe she missed the calamity more than she thought she did.
"So this town has BOTH rock space aliens and alternate dimension witches?" Marcy asked with both shock and glee. "How has X kept this on the down low?"
"Think his team was working on those men in black amnesia things last time I talked to him. He's been off the grid for a while." Anne shrugged, looking at the kids. "Anyways, introductions, I'm Anne Boonchuey.."
"And I'm Marcy Wu!" Marcy attempted to strike a cool pose…and tripped over a rock and fell on her face. "I'm okay!"
"How is it that out of everything that's changed, your clumsiness still remains a universal constant?" Sasha laughed, helping the woman up.
"Can we talk as we run to the giant magnetic storm tearing up my hometown!?" The only human girl there shouted, only to be grabbed by the cubed haired woman.
"Charge in ahead right now and you'll get taken into the sky and fall to your death because you won't let go of your sword until it's too late."
"It's the only weapon I have!"
"Against a fusion that makes all metal irrelevant … speaking of." They held out their hands. "All electronics and metal on your person everyone, even buttons on your shirt or pins."
"=**}^}€]€[z." The little white pyramid thing floating above the short black kid made a weird little sound.
"Wait, if it's metal that Moldavite controls, than why hasn't the prism been taken?" The kid with scars all over him asked.
""@&:$($:&/z." The pyramid thing glowed a little, a small aura of energy being emanating from it.
"Ooooh, demagnetization pulse, how clever." Marcy ooohed.
"What about your weapons?" The girl with three eyes asked.
"Lined with lead and tungsten. Non magnetic metals." Sasha smirked.
"Great … and you didn't happen to carry an extra sword with you, did you?" The human girl asked.
"I've got a spare gun if you're interested." Marcy offered.
"Luz with a gun…I feel like that's somehow more dangerous than Lucci with bard magic." The buff girl with glasses winced.
"Given the circumstances, we kind of need that level of destructive power." The curly haired boy counted, before turning back to them. "So let me get this straight…all three of you were stuck in another dimension when you were our age?"
"Pretty much, give or take a year younger. Instead of crazy magic witches, it was highly advanced frog people." Anne nodded. "Got used to flies real quick over there."
"Hopefully they're more juicy than the flies over here." The boy moaned. "There's soo little variety, and they're all too small." Yeah, she could see his point of view.
"I called them a few days ago to help relate our combined experiences, though now it feels like that's going to be put on the back burner for the minute." Sasha winced.
"We'll do you have a plan for self regenerating robot army with an unstoppable machine at the center?" The purple haired girl asked.
"Back then we had the calamity gems … any of you kids able to punch a moon?" Anne asked.
The kids immediately turned to the curly haired boy, who smirked with a slightly smug expression. "Suddenly having anger problems isn't an issue now, is it?"
"That's if you can get close. She might not have the armor anymore to diverse Peridot and Jasper, but she's probably at her most volatile." Cube head stated.
"Unless she just rebuilds while we're talking." The lady with a whip pointed out.
"No, if she wanted to do that, then she would've done it right away." Three eyes pointed out. "Moldy's all about pragmatism. If she was inconvenienced, she would've fixed the problem. She built those extra heads to keep Peridot and Jasper away from her own thoughts. Now that they're free of that, it's likely she's feeling hell in her own mind."
"Which loops back to the question why isn't she just defusing." Blonde looked confused. "I get anger is forcing them together, but at some point they would have to split up, right?"
"They were in the middle of an argument when Spinel smashed their heads." Curly boy brought up. "Jasper likes the power boost. She cares too much for the adulation and strength to let it go."
"So what we're dealing with is essentially the most toxic relationship on the planet?" Sasha guessed. "Wonder where Peridot fits in? She seems like a victim who gets nothing out of it, but a surprising number of toxic relationships go both ways." … Anne and Marcy felt a bit of pang at that admission.
"She's desperate to get home." The short black kid said. "Even if she hates it, some small part of her must think staying fused with Jasper is the best way off the planet. That's why she's building a rocket."
"Alright, and I'm not saying we should let the jerk go, because she ruined both my best jacket and is tearing apart the town…but what happens if she does go back home?" Marcy asked.
"She heads back to homeworld and informa the diamonds, who will likely send a bigger threat." Cube lady responded.
"Not to mention she said something about earth being a 'dying rock'." Curly hair brought up.
"Wait what?"
"Uh, guys, can we wrap this up?" Whip lady asked. "The metal tornado snatched up Pearl."
"So nothing important." Curly hair shrugged.
"And the Big Donut."
"Still safe." The boy ignored a slap from the blonde kid.
"And your meep morp collection."
"Okay, I get it, we need to get moving." The curly headed kid sighed. "Two teams needed. One to keep her robonoids distracted, another to face her head on and poof her."
"I'll try shooting down some robonoids." The human girl said.
"There's more plant life in the city, so I'll join you there." The buff girl nodded.
"Presuming that Clawthorne is going after Moldavite, I'll head there as well. Hopefully they'll be too distracted by trying to kill him for me to get an opening." The scar kid gripped a stick with a cardinal at the end of it.
"I foresee the peridot side of her wanting to kill you as well, so i'll be of assistance there." Cube lady said dryly. "Amethyst, find Lapis and get her to push away as much of the metal as possible. Her hydrokinesis is our best counter against her ferrokensis.
"You lost me at 'hydroponics', but I'm on it." The whip lady spun dashed a la sonic style over to the beach. She could see Marcy bubble with excitement out of the corner of her eye.
"I'll stick with Luz. I already tried messing with Belos's mind before … I don't think I want to try Moldavite." The short kid shivered.
"Great, Boscha, you come with us; you're great at getting them angry and distracted. Amity, you stick with the others." The curly boy turned to them next. "As for you three…legitimately don't know how capable or confident you are, so go where you're most comfortable."
"I'll stick with you guys." Sasha smirked. "You know, since I'm the best fighter." Glad to see the ego hadn't changed.
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Reporrrrt, report, need to repooort. Why can't I report?We've made the ship, just leave already! We need to get off this rock!Not until Rose is crushed beneath my boots! The voices, the voices were so overwhelming, shouting constantly and consistently over and over again without break! We neeed to bring infoooormation. Shut up shut up shut up.
Too much, need focus, focus, walls that wouldn't crumble. So many thoughts, so many unfilter emotions and thoughts swarming her head. She missed the peace, she needed the peace, the peace was nowhere to be found why why why why why why whywhywhwhy..?Stop your whining! It's distracting you coward!
What's distracting is you constantly taking every opportunity possible to jeopardize our objective! Your barbaric nature is making it nearly impossible to focus on the rocket's reassembly! The objective has changed! We're not leaving until Rose is shattered! She'll be goneeither waaaayy.
It needed to be personal! Justice for Pink Diamond won't be achieved until we bring back her gem in shards! But pink wasn't-isssn't my Diamond wrong gemwrong gem wrong gem everything is the wrong and no direction is straight. They who were they who were they they
"I am…Peri- i am Jasper…Iam Mold.You don't exist! Your being has served its purpose, so let us go- not until Rose is dealt with! Do you knwanhthing about honoring your diamond!?"
"There're … is … nooothiiing."Moldavite was an abomination to gem society, without purpose, simply using the purpose of two other gems … "once we're out of this planet's orbit, consider your purpose fulfilled! There is nothing to gain if we all perish along with this planet! Rose is the only one perishing-Would you shut you self righteous sanctimonious delusions of grandeur! I am doing everything in my power to survive and make it back to OUR Diamond! Even if every second I'm in this state causes my entire being revulsion! Yellow Diamond will NEVER be my diamond! That honor solely belongs to Pink Diamond!"
They had no Diamond. They had nothing, they were a tool to be used, discarded without care. Not even by the glorious diamonds … but by two clods. "We shatter Rose …" Finally, we're making actual sense! Are you kidding me!? "Then … we self terminate …"It was the only way to give their existence meaning. Wait, by self terminate, do you mean- Who cares!? We shatter Rose, everything else doesn't matter!
I CARE! I am a part of this! And if we're being this destructive I want nothing! This fusion was only to make a way home, now let me out! LET ME OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OUT!
So much pain, so much pain, so much pain, keep building, shatter rose, keep building shatter rose…Those were the only objectives on their mind…the only objectives she was capable of producing.
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"Eat this sucka!" Luz aimed her gun and fired off a bullet … missing the marble as the projectile ricocheted around the area, before hitting Pearl. "Sorry!" Could have sworn aiming a gun was like aiming a glyph…then again that was magic from paper and this was lead.
"Watch where you're aiming! Had that built enough speed, you would've poofed my physical form!" The pale gem yelled.
"And I would've loved her all the more for it!" Amity shouted, doing her best to punch back the marbles.
The plan had been simple, divide and conquer … easier said than done though. The robots kept fixing themselves like last time, except now they added all the scrap metal from the city to make themselves bigger. It was a miracle that more people weren't out in the streets trying to get away. Either the city was evacuated or they legitimately didn't notice…then again, she never knew about the Gem's in graves field before the boiling isles.
"Stupid construction, stupid pavement, stupid cement getting in the way of plants!" Willow growled as she dug deep into her well of power and anger, summoning the little plants she could to break them apart before they could reassemble themselves.
A wave of water came by, grabbing three marbles and dragging them into the ocean. "That's three more I've caught … I think they're starting to adapt to the water pressure." Lapis said, panting.
"Girl, you've lifted the entire world's ocean, how the heck are you getting tired from this?!" Amethyst shouted as she bulldosed a couple more.
"I'm used to crushing mountains in a single move, usually those mountains don't reassemble themselves!" She shouted. "Also I'm hitting these guys with the bottom of the ocean, and it's taking an extra minute every time!" Ah great, they really were getting smarter and stronger.
"Adaptoids, so fiendish yet so clever!" The Marcy woman yelled, hopping on top of a busted one and digging her hands into its wires. "Let's just see how clever. Anne, Cover me, I'll need about three minutes!"
"You got it Mar-Mar!" The dark skinned adult responded as she grabbed a pipe that was laying on the ground and began whacking away marbles like they were golf balls, before using her sword to strike inside of the center.
"And tell me you buy this!" Gus created illusions of himself … which were ignored, before the prism began firing lasers at the marbles. "Geeze, this must be how Willow felt in the Kindergarten." … Luz stared at him. "I mean…"
"Shut up…please…shut up before we both do something we'll regret." She growled. Now whenever her friends felt weak and helpless, they associated that with her. Because that's what she was here. Weak, defenseless, useless..
"You are stronger than you think, Luz!" Amity shouted as she bashed away a Marble. "You're the best sword fighter in the group!"
"Scuse me!" Anne ran by, swinging the sword on a chain as she perfectly sliced through multiple Robonoid legs. "Gotta say, you had a nice sword!" The Anne woman smiled at her. "This really brings back memories for me!"
Luz gaped at the casual destruction and skill. "Is everyone here a more experienced sword fighter than me!?"
"I'm actually more of an archer." The Marcy woman shot a gun at a droid, which bounced off of five others like a game of pool as they all went down. "And cue the explosive charge." She grinned, clicking a button.
BOOM
The marble began shaking in place…before each one of them began to explode one by one. "..How….HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?" Willow exclaimed.
"I figured out the frequency the marbles were running on and hacked into it, telling them all to self-destruct. No biggie, it was like hacking the school PA system. Ahh, good times."
Stronger, smarter, faster … they were all what Luz could never be … she gripped the gun. The only way she'd get a good shot is up close and personal. She ran forward to a marble that was still standing. "AGGGGGH! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" She shot it several times, putting about a dozen holes into it before it stopped standing. "Agggggghh…"
"You good girl?" The Anne woman approached her. "Get it out of your system?"
"Yeah … yeah I'm-" The marble instantly stood back up, the holes closing right back up. "... I'm not contributing to this fight."
"I don't know if you've noticed, but this plan wasn't about beating any of them. All of us are essentially cannon fodder." The Marcy woman said.
"..What?" Gus asked as she and her friends paused.
"Well yeah, their a constantly adapting army made out of all the metal in the area, constantly moving, growing, expanding, yeah, in terms of attrition this battle was pretty much a loss to begin with." The woman kept going.
Thud
The group turned to see a massive marble growing from the destroyed parts of its comrades. "Then … then what's the point if we're just going to lose the fight?" Luz held her head down.
"Buying time till your friends stop at the center." Anne said. "That's the plan. It doesn't matter if you're the strongest or the most skilled. They fact you're here, willing to fight, is enough. And you're not alone. We're all in this together. "
"..." Luz smiled, standing up. So almost what Pearl said … but doing it with all her friends … she felt less like crap when they put it like that. "Alright … let's get to it."
"That's the spirit." Anne smirked. "Now get ready for round two girls."
"Ahem." Gus coughed.
"And guy. Sorry, your group has so little boys in it I completely looked it over." Anne corrected.
"Fair … you think the others are doing all right?"
"I'm sure they're fine." Luz waved off as the marbles came running at them. "Okay, I don't think a gun's working out for me."
"Here, take my pipe." Anne gave it to her.
"... How is that not being eaten by these guys?"
"Must be a lead pipe." The woman shrugged.
"But they eat lead." Marcy looked confused.
"Can we not focus on the inconsistency of giant robots and focus on the fact we can actually use a weapon against them?" Anne countered. "Luz, you take the pipe. I'll beat them up with my tennis racket." She pulled one out from her hair.
"How is that more effective than a sword?" Amity asked.
"So we're ignoring the Clawthorne hair bit." Willow muttered.
"Stop focusing on the inconsistencies!" Anne shouted as she whacked a marble…and sent it flying across the street.
"....Okay, after today, I'm going to buy a tennis racket." Luz muttered to herself.
"It's all in the swing. All in the swing." Anne smirked.
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Hunter crept from the other side of town where the main marble battle was taking place. "Feel kind of bad that we're giving the bulk of the army to them." Hunter winced as the group of him, Clawthorne, Garnet, Boscha, and Sasha walked towards the epicenter of the metal tornado.. "Feels too much like a move I would've made as the Golden Guard."
"Then we have to take down this Moldy woman as fast as possible." Waybright nodded. "Any weak points you guys know about?"
"Their own sanity." Clawthorne stated.
"I was speaking physically."
"... I'll get back to you on that." Well that was to be expected. "We've only been able to survive so far because one half of them is fueled by rage and the other half is fueled by ego, but that was when Moldy was incharge. With the other two in the front seat, who knows?"
"Powerful or not, they're still a gem, and without their armor, it'll be easier to poof them." Garnet explained further. "All it'll take is one piercing blow to any part of their body for them to split them apart."
"And the armor is tough enough that Lucci's punches don't do much." Boscha said. "You're gonna have to up the game, Crystal."
"It took LAW to take down Jasper last time. We don't really have that option here." He stated.
"You could always fuse with Garnet. She's a powerhouse." Hunter suggested.
"Not happening." Garnet stated.
"She's not exactly someone I see eye to eye with." Clawthrone rolled his eyes.
"And Sunstone isn't the most combative fusions." The woman explained further. "When it was with Rose, she was more of a motivational speaker than a fighter.She was able to rally anyone to help them feel more confident when times seemed grim on the battlefields. Plus we don't even know if Lucifer is capable of fusing with gems due to his status as a hybrid. Our bodies are made of light. It might be too incompatible."
"Right, that to." The boy stopped moving. "There they are."
"SHUT UP shut up shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP SSSHUUUUT UUUUP!!!"The mechanical mass of metal flailed, multiple heads forming as the body reconfigured constantly.
"..So this fusion thing…" Sasha turned to Lucci. "Is it ever that messed up for you?"
"Nah … I mean, Orchid might have been, but that was just Willow trying to deny her problems. Other than that it's a pretty lovely experience."
"Just the captain?" Hunter asked. "I remember a certain wooden figure of a certain criminal owl lady."
"I was the one telling her we needed to split. I'm upfront about missing home, everyone already knows that."
"Yes, you nearly destroyed a restaurant and nearly killed your dad by 'being open' to it." Hunter groaned.
"Sperm donor. I have no dad."
"So are we attacking or do you two want to finish flirting?" Sasha asked.
"Wait, you…UGGGGH!" Hunter gagged.
"What the heck Lady!? Why would you even…I can't…ugggh!" Clawthorne literally threw up from that thought.
"I don't know, I can see it." Garnet nodded.
"And that's why your opinion is garbage ." Boscha growled.
"I dunno, it's an effective way to shut down an argument and help focus on a mission." Doctor Waybright shrugged.
"... Once again, a valuable lesson from my Sensei."
"I am seriously questioning if Therapy is more good or evil…but it is effective." Clawthorne admitted, and Hunter gave a small nod in agreement. "Alright. So Moldy hates me the most, Boscha's probably second after we blew up the rocket, she'll be anticipating Spinel this time."
"I'm still waiting to bop her, don't you worry!" The pink gem said from Clawthorne's hair.
"So that means at the moment, me, Garnet, and Dr. Waybright are the wild cards here." Hunter continued. "So you three distract her, while the rest of us catch her off guard."
"Right … showtime." The boy began glowing pink, jumping down. "Hey Moldy, time for round two-"
"DIE!" She slammed the boy with a metal fist, hard enough to leave a crater in the ground. "DIE!" And stomped on said crater. "DIE DIE DIE DIE!"Repeatedly.
On one hand, this was very cathartic. On the other hand, Hunter was getting Belos flashbacks. "You can't say she isn't distracted." Garnet said dryly. "Move now before she realizes we're here."
He turned to the doctor to offer her a way closer … only to see she was already halfway there, hidden from sight. "How does she move that fast?"
"Maybe it's another one of her human mental tricks…I have so much to learn." Boscha grinned. "Okay, I'm going to get going before Moldy kills my Boyfriend." Hoping on her own staff, the three eyed witch began flying at them and shot a fireball at the fusion's head.
"YOUUUU!!!" Multiple lasers and projectiles were fired as Moldavite continued to stomp on Clawthorne, causing explosions to litter the air as if it was completely sunny. It was pretty blinding.
"Nice light show. I give it a four out of ten!" Dr. Waybright jumped on top of the fusions face and began wrestling with the tentacles. "Could use a little assistance right about now!"
"On it!" Garnet charged forward and began punching faster than the eye can blink, pushing Movldavite's attention away from everything else as she focused on trying to counter the cubed haired fusion. "You've made a mockery out of fusion, you've tarnished something so beautiful and wonderful, and it's all going to come down on top of you, you abomination!"
"You don't think iknow that!?"Moldavite caught Garnet's fists in the middle of her punching. " I'm a freak! A horror beyond horrors! The moment I go back to Homeworld, I'm done for!" Moldavite threw Garnet into the air. "WE ARE STRONG! WE ARE WRONG! WE ARE YOU ENDERS!"And punched her..
Kaboooon
…With enough force to break the sound barrier, sending her out into the sea. "The only thing I caught from that was how annoying you are!" Clawthorne got back up, and used hammer mode on Sugar to whack Moldavite in the back, grabbing her six arms and began crushing and denting them.
This was the moment he needed. Getting in close, Hunter warped right to Moldavite's side and repeatedly began blasting her with lightning. "This is where it ends for you, Moldavite! You're not going to see another day past today!"
"ENOUGH!"Metal began falling from the sky, nearly crushing him as he moved out of the way. "NO MORE! NO MORE! NOOOOO MOO OOORRRE!"Multiple lights began to emanate from the giant machine.
"Everyone, move!" Doctor Waybright shouted-
FRAAAASH
Before a massive explosion of raw energy pulsed from the machine, decimating all it touched. "Damn it, not again!" Clawthorne shouted, creating several hexagon to counted the blast, although it looked even that wasn't nearly enough as he began to be forced back. "Golden boy, get everyone out of here! This thing's going to blow everyone up and I can't hold it back for long!"
"You already can't, it's starting to crack!"
"I can survive this type of damage, they can't!" His former enemy countered. "Now grab them and move!"
"On it!" For all the grief and problems he had with him…Clawthorne was selfless when it came to protecting his friends…and he did save Hunter when he was stuck in Belo's mind. "Come on people, no time to waste!" He rushed towards Boscha and Sasha, blipping them out of the immediate blast zone.
BOOM
The energy detonated. "Lucci, no!" He pulled back Boscha as the explosion rolled over them. After a few seconds, they looked up to see the damage. "Lucci!" Boscha shouted.
Well, Clawthorne was right about one thing, he did survive … a little worse for wear, but he wasn't outright dead.
Moldavite … their metal was superheated, shifting itself back into shape. "Kill kill kill, Shatter shatter …"They muttered in a mantra.
"They have a very one track mind, don't they?" Dr Waybright noted as the metal began forming…into a spear…aimed right at Clawthrornes stomach.
" SHATTERSHATERSHATTERSHATTERSHATTERSHARRER..!"
"Too one track!" Barely able to recognize what he was doing at the moment, Hunter warped again, right to Clawthrone as the spear was being thrown.
"What are you doing!?" Clawthorne yelled.
"Making sure we're even!" Hunter responded as he went to pick Clawthorne up. The adrenaline was high, there wasn't a second to waste. If they did, they'd be dead, and even after that they barely had a chance at beating her. They needed something more, something much, much more than either Hunter or Clawthorne could give-
FLASH
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"Ugggh, my head…." What just happened? Beats me-oh no…no… what, what's going on? Whatever you do, don't look at yourself. Can't really do that without a mirror, can we…wait, how am I talking to you, I can't see you…Wait for the shock to come. What shock? The shock that I got you out of the way by….wait…how did we get away from Moldavite? I went to grab you, there was a flash of light… I … actually, how did we get away from-
"DIE ROSE!"Ah, we were distracted, they're still in front of us-
SLAM
They felt pain, flying into the wall. Ow … weren't they targeting you? They did. Then why did I feel that? One guess, Golden Boy. They turned to their own arms….their…three arms….and what looked like long…black and spiky looking hair on their head. Please don't let this be what I think it is…please, please oh titan please don't let it be what I think it is..
"LUCCI!?!?!!" They heard Boscha shout in the distance. "YOU FUSED WITH HUNTER!?"
Yep … there it is. NO….NO…..NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"Gross gross gross! Get out of me and my head!" And the headaches began. You think this is a picnic for me! I didn't ask for this!? It's your dumb powers, turn it off! It doesn't work like that! Oh, so you don't even know how your own powers work! At least I have powers beyond teleporting! Powers you barely comprehend!Well at least those powers are mine!
They began strangling themselves. "... I get Moldavite, she's a toxic persona of codependence … what's their excuse?" The therapist asked.
"Willow likes Hunter and Lucci is dating me. It's a whole circle of compromise and tolerance." Boscha said.
"Oh titan I hate this, I hate this so much! I hate standing around, I hate being here, I hate getting trashed on all the time, and I hate the voices in my head!"
"SHATTER!"Another fist knocked them deep into the wall.
"We've gotta move in!" Boscha shouted. "They can't fight like this!"
"Kind of hard to do with the metal and shrapnel constantly flying around!" Dr. Waybright shouted.
They're right, we need to do something! Like what!? How are we going to fight!? This isn't a test fest, we don't have time to experiment and we don't even know what this thing does!
"Chirp." Flapjack came out, tapping against their third arm like some kind of woodpecker … grimwalkers and palisman are wood … wood eats light … light powers gems … You think it's that simple? I run off complex spells, we don't have the time to test anything else at the moment.
"Hssssh!" Sugar said from their hair.
"Spinel, keep em busy for a minute." They spoke, trying to stand on two legs.
"Okay dookie…Weird Lucci fusion that I'll mildly tolerate but massively hate for the most part!" The lanky gem said, bouncing out. "Man, that's a mouthful. Got a name I can use so I can specifically call out who I don't like?"
"... Salem."Where did that come from? Think Luz said something about witch trials-wow that's darkly ironic. Very much so … focus on charging the attack and never thinking on this moment again? Agreed.
They held Sugar with one hand, and Flapjack with the other, shifting their energies into their palms, down into their chest, focusing their entire body into the gem on their stomach.
"Playtime!" Spinel shouted, bouncing around Moldy.
" SHATTER, SHATTER, SHATTER SHATTER!"Hot spikes of metall were shot as Spinel avoided them.
"Dang, you really like to play rough! This is much more fun! Although you suck at whack a vole!" The lanky gem laughed.
Concentrate, concentrate… They felt something warm flowing through their bodies. Pure energy flowing through them. Is this what it's like to have internal magic? It feels tingly. Yeah…a nice feeling I miss.
It began flowing through them…feeling warmer….almost too warm. " This feels so weird, this feels so wrong, why do I have to do this, why do I have to do so much I hate!?"
"DIE DIE DIE!" Right, because there was something even worse in front of them, actually managing to land a hit on Spinel after all that swinging around.
Focus on that feeling! You hate being here. You hate existing.Blame that bitch for causing this in the first place. Focus all your hate on her!
Focus all his hate…all his SPITE at her. That's what he was…pure…unmitigated SPITE! "Lucci! Hunter, don't worry, we'll be there in a second!" Dr. Waybright called out.
"Stand … back." They spoke bluntly, turning to her for a minute. "And the name….is ...Salem."
"...That's darkly ironic." The human woman muttered.
"We know… and we hate it….we hate everything about this situation!" They turned back to the fusion that caused all of this. " HEY MOLDABITCH!"He called out.
"DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE…"They repeated to them as they aimed every weapon at them.
" SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU UNORINGAL *BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP* MOTHER FUCKING *BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPP* BITCH! NOBODY CARES!"
The whole area paused. "...Was that done in any witch language?" The therapist asked.
"Not any I recognize…and I rather not know." Boscha shook her head.
"You …"Their weapons began glowing, shifting into more violent shapes. "YOOOUUU …!!!"
"Oh you big fucking baby, get some real problems! I've been created from birth to be a mindless drone! I constantly have to deal with my womb donor's crap even though I wan't nothing to do with her! " They build up the energy…forming into one…giant….massive orb of pure solar energy. "I hate being powerless…I hate being stranded ..but more importantly….I HATE YOU!"
POOOOWWWWWW
They shot their essense forward, encasing the fusion, burning through the metal in the air, and cracking the mountainside … and a small piece of the moon "Yooouuuuuu …."
POOOOOOF
Two distinct bodies of light were seen, before they split up, being blasted far off into the horizon in opposite directions, farther than they could see. "Oh fucking great! We split them up yet they're still going to be a fucking problem."
They began to chase …. Until both Sugar and Flapjack fell … "Guess it took more out of them then we thought-"
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Sasha carried the unconscious bodies of Lucci and Hunter. "A little … help?" She asked.
"Don't worry, I have experience carrying Lucci, I'll take him." Boscha grabbed onto her boyfriend, and snuggled him closely. "That's my adorable little crystal, yes you are, yes you are. You are so getting rewarded tonight."
"Does every major fight for you guys end like this?" Sasha asked. She figured if they were anything like hers as a teen, they would've gotten into their fair share of scraps, but this definitely felt a lot more….harsher, which was weird given that she fought in a freaking war.
"Giant lasers or the nearly dying?" The girl asked. "The latter is pretty common, this was the only thing the Boiling Isles would genuinely call a threat." The three eyed girl scratched her chin. "It did kind of feel like a Rainbow Devil 2.0, except the enemy was a lot less personal here."
"So it goes uphill from here?"
"Oh yeah. Belos took everyone we knew point blank and even after getting rid of his ability to cast spells we were no match. And the collector treated every celestial body in the sky like marbles."
"...When I signed up to be a therapist, I honestly thought I'd move away from dimensional travel…and save the world." Sasha admitted with a small smirk. She definitely got more than her money's worth taking on this case.
"You can quit if you don't feel up to the task." The girl smirked.
"Is that a challenge?" Sasha countered back. "Because I am up for anything." She was looking for an excuse to bust out her new swords. "So … what do you think they meant by dying world?"
"Aren't you humans into self destruction?" The witch asked. "Because alot of stuff I found says that climate change is mostly a man made phenomenon.."
"I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying when bad guys say something as vague as that, there's probably something beneath the surface." Sasha answered as they finally looked ahead, seeing a couple of familiar faces. "Ah, so you gals survived. Hope you gave them hell."
"I learned that a tennis racket can somehow be even more effective than a sword in a pinch." Luz nodded with a smirk.
"Absolutely." Anne grinned. "So, you guys lock up moldy-what's its name?"
"If by lock up you mean these two blew them up, split them apart, and sent them across the world with a solar beam that cracked the moon, than yes." Sasha answered.
"… So Jasper can go find Peridot and force fuse again?" Amity asked.
"She'd have to find her first, and something tells me Peridot's going to be spending a lot of time going into hiding just to recover from the trauma." Sasha answered. "You kid's weren't kidding, that thing's sanity was down the drain and shredded into pieces. Like, it's a miracle they were still standing at all."
"It's only because we had another equally toxic fusion on our side to match it." Boscha answered, hugging onto Lucci tighter.
"So you finally admit Cherry has a problem?" Willow asked.
"Screw you, and no, that's not what happened." The three eye fusion responded, pointing to the tired Hunter in Sasha's arms. "We said Lucci and Hunter blew them up…take a guess as to how."
"Wait…Hunter and Lucci fused? " Willow raised an eyebrow.
"… How did they manage a single blast?" Gus questioned.
"That was literally all they could do before diffusing. Best guess is that they just hated Moldavite more than each other at the moment." Sasha shrugged.
"Biiitch …" Hunter groaned in his sleep.
"Fuck….you….moldy…" Lucci muttered.
"Aww, they're adorable in their tired exhaustion." Luz chuckled. "Come on, let's get you two home."
"Here you go." She handed off the unconscious Hunter to the kids.
"Thanks." Amity nodded with a little bow. "Thank you for everything, ms. Waybright-"
"Please, we're not having a session and we just saved the town from turning to a junk heap. Feel free to call me Sasha outside of office hours." She waved off.
"Alright…thanks Sasha." Luz smiled. "You and your friends are pretty cool."
"Yea we are, don't you forget it." Marcy attempted a cool pose once again…and fell in her face once more.
"There wasn't even anything to trip over that time." Gus noted.
"Trust us, tripping over nothing is somehow one of the least embarrassing things she's ever tripped over." Sasha laughed. "You kids get your rest. I'm going to catch up with my gal pals."
They began walking away, leaving the rest of them to talk. "So … rock ladies from space?" Anne asked.
"They're causing a lot of stress." Sasha sighed. "I wasn't even planning on getting involved in the fighting, but then I came in the aftermath of another alien invasion and just got my car ripped apart by another one..so yeah, I'm pretty much stuck here in more ways than one."
"Oh, it's not that bad. It felt like old times, and they seemed like good kids." Marcy said. "Slightly anger prone, but who isn't these days?"
"They come from a world about, or maybe more violent than Amphibia, so the anger's somewhat justified." Sasha stated. "... Wanna crash on my couch?"
"I thought you'd never ask. I'm beat." Anne yawned.