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Peridot     Beads of sweat poured down Peridot's face. She had been outside the pod for hours, fixing some of the broken robonoids that had been sent in as part of the first wave. She muttered incoherently as she worked. Primarily how flimsy the machines were, how useless they had proven after the first wave of the plan had succeeded, but once left to their own devices they always failed! Miserable bots.

    She had put the call out to Jasper hours ago. She knew the orange gem would come, but it was a long drive for a pod, and the warship had to stay with kindergarten. Peridot also had to periodically check the warp, she wasn't sure how smart the beast was, but it had much more wits about it (it had after all set a trap for them) it would follow through by destroying the warp pad. But so far it had remained functional. "It better destroy the warp pad if it knows whats good for it. It's gonna WISH it destroyed it once I'm finish..." Peridot growled while clamping one of her finer tools between her teeth, working with one hand was no easy task, even for a genius of her caliber.
Jasper      Jasper arrives like a comet. Like everything else she does, her arrival isn't subtle. The pod slams into the ground and Jasper emerges, cape on. It billows in the wind and Jasper's heavy footsteps churn up ash and dirt. Still, amidst all the ash and fire of the Volcanian Plains, somehow this seems like Jasper's element.

     In one hand, she holds Peridot's new arm. In the other, a Gem destabiliser. She hasn't summoned up her helmet, her white hair blowing free, but she could have it on her head at a moment's notice. Her eyes are peeled for any sign of what mauled Peridot and took Lapis out of action. Not that she particularly cares about either of them, however, it'd be fairly counter-productive to lose either of them at this time.

     "Peridot," Jasper barks, making her way over. "Status report!"
Peridot     Peridot doesn't look up. She doesn't need to, as characteristic as the entry was. It could only be one person. "She sacrificed herself, Jasper!" Peridot growled out loud. "It had us both, and she used her water to get me out of there!" It was only then, that she looked up to expose the pained expression on her face. Peridot raised her right arm, rather what was left of it. Apparently it was meant to be a gesture of some sort. Only a second later did she seem to realize there was nothing -there- to gesture with.

    She then raised her other arm and pointed at the warp pad. "This.. big monster. It's a cat, with nine tails. But it's huge. There were a bunch of them, but they were smaller. We'd taken them all out then.." She gestured at her arm. "We didn't know there was a big one and it got us." She walks over and takes her arm from Jasper. She turns side ways from the orange gem to have a little privacy as she detached the mangled wreck that was left of her old arm, and attaches the new one. A few electrical sparks flying from her finger tips as she does a little quick soldering.

    She then turns back around and raises the new arm.  Pixelated blocks raise from her palm, glowing. Until they formed her five fingers once more. She gave them a quick test flex. "It ate her." She continued, peering at Jasper. "She saved me and then it ate her gem after it crushed her."
Jasper      Jasper's face betrays absolutely zero emotion as Peridot relays Lapis' fate to her. "How unfortunate," she says blandly. A soldier is used to death and, even so, Jasper's history with Lapis prevents her from really caring.

     "Her gem might be broken beyond repair," Jasper comments idly, like she's discussing the weather. "Might not be much point in hunting down that monster," she adds, "Although, I'd be up for the challenge." Her eyes twitch left and right, as if she'll be able to catch a glimpse of the nine-tailed cat beast. "What were you even doing out here?"
Sanary Rondel      Forneus did not look happy. Sure, it was pretty hard to tell just by looking at the flying manta ray demon whether it was happy or not, but it couldn't have been that pleased to have a human riding on its back. Thankfully, it didn't fly like birds did or under any semblance of physics, or else it and Sanary would have plummeted into the volcano quite a while back. The human's decked out in chunky green armor, too, which probably isn't making the flight any easier.

     In fact, by the time the gems are visible, the demon is already losing altitude. "Uh... You know what I'll take it from here GET IN." As it starts to fade from existence, the healer jumps off the creature and continues descending at a steady pace while rocketting towards the two, landing fairly close to them via crashing right into the ground next to them face-first.

     "... H-hey there. Am I late?"
Peridot     "S... scientific expedition." Peridot stammered. "I found a warp pad and came to investigate. I found it lead to an abandoned gem temple... well, abandoned save for the cats." She points over to the warp pad amidst the volcanic stone, her finger shaking a little. "Lots of gem history from the pre-war era... artifacts that we can recover.. who knows what else. We didn't get to explore the whole thing. All very fascinating up until we got destroyed"

    As Sanary made her similar grand entrance. Peridot looks to her briefly with a squint. Her disdain for humanity wasn't entirely unknown. If she accepted the help of a human, she must be desperate.

    At the notion that Lapis's gem might be cracked. "It might be... It really did a number on us." Peridot grabbed her hair as she looked to the side. This last for a moment until Peridot picked up on her lackadaisical tone. And her expression snapped from one of worry to that of frustration, and anger. "You could be a little more concerned -Jasper-." She jabs her finger into her arm.  "I know what she did to you... and it makes me angry too. But, there is not a lot of Homeworlders to spare!"
Jasper      "Hmm," Jasper says from the back of her throat as Peridot talks. She glances to Sanary as she arrives, choosing to say nothing, and then returns to keeping watch for any sign of the aforementioned monster. When Peridot jabs her with a finger, Jasper - very deliberately - turns her eyes at the smaller, greener Gem.

     "I'd be very careful with that. You just got one arm back - it'd be a shame to lose one again so soon. We had one to spare, now we don't. Fine, Peridot - if it makes you happy, we can try a rescue mission."

     She glances towards the volcanic ground. "Maybe it left tracks." Frankly, if Jasper had a nose, one could easily see her sniffing the air to try and pick up the scent.
Sanary Rondel      Prying her face out of the ground, Sanary takes a moment to compose herself before looking over at each of the Gems present. Jasper's familiar enough from that one job that didn't go quite as planned, but Peridot's definitely a new one. Still, first things first.

     "A cat... Temple?" Sanary's face pales slightly. "You didn't take anything out of there, did you? No... Dead cats or anything? Because a cat curse was a problem for one of our allies a while back." She pauses for a moment, then shakes her head. "Well, if you're not hearing cats now, it's probably fine."

     Looking from Peridot to Jasper, she furrows her brow slightly before offering the green Gem a reassuring grin. "Easy now. We just need to focus on the mission, right? We'll get... Er. Whoever she is out of... Wherever. Speaking of. Tell me if I should stop." The healer takes a deep breath and claps her hands together, taking a moment to focus before starting to channel magical energy from herself towards Peridot's arms in a faint green light. It worked on computerized beings before, so maybe it'd even work this time around.
Peridot     Her lips purse in that uniquely disgruntled way that only she can do, before her fingers curl up into tight fist. At the very least, she took them off Jasper. She wasn't eager to potentially lose another arm and she wasn't brave enough to see if she was bluffing or not. She continued to adjust her new arm for a bit, forming a holopad, forming a blaster.. before letting her hand return to normal. Everything seemed to be in working order. "I hope you remembered to change the passcode after I was forced to broadcast it."

    She turned her attention to Sanary. Letting her work her magic. Peridot was a little banged up all over, though the bulk of the damage had been done to her mechanical limbs. "They are not cursed. They are corrupted gems." She started, her tone becoming more even. She enjoyed lecturing people. "They were once like us. Intelligent.. sentient.. but something has corrupted them, robbed them of everything that once made them.. gems. Now they are mindless beast who can't take humanoid form. They are monsters."
    
    She walked over onto the warp pad. "Now, come stand here." She said to Sanary; She knew after all that Jasper already knew how a warp pad worked. "Don't step out of the light once It's turned on."
Jasper      "Of course I did," Jasper retorts, stepping on the warp pad. "If the beast is still there," she says, "Just leave it to me." She looms behind Peridot on the warp pad, ready for battle.
Sanary Rondel      Sanary's eye widens as Peridot's arm seemingly changes shape in front of her, looking rather impressed by the display even as she's channelling that energy at a steady pace. She nods slowly as the green Gem speaks, her brow furrowing after a moment. "That sucks. Hn. Any chance of fixing them? Or, if not... Controlling them, at least?" She doesn't elaborate on just what kind of control that would entail, glancing at Peridot to try and gauge her reaction to that suggestion.

     Following the two onto the warp pad, she checks her gear to make sure it's all in place before bracing herself for whatever it is that mgiht happen on the device. "Understood. I'll focus on keeping your reserves up, then. Stay on guard, but don't be afraid to go all out."
Peridot     "We think it may be possible to save them. However no one has ever been able to in several thousand years. We've taken to destroying their physical form, and storing their gems in a bubble. If they can be healed, they will eventually be able to return to humanoid shape. Perhaps get their intelligence back. Imprisoning them is the best we can do for now. Weaponizing them is also an option, however we don't currently have the resources to investigate it. Perhaps one day."

    As they all stepped onto the pad. Peridot activates it, and the three momentarily are lifted into the air. A beam of light shines down upon them as the sensation of flying takes over them. They are moved halfway across the world in the blink of an eye, and when the light dissipates they are standing within a dimly lit cave. Scattered on the ground around them are destroyed robonoids. Peridot steps off the pad. "We sent a forward scout to poof some of the smaller cats. We'd cleared most of them, even bubbled and sent them back to a statis field on our warship."
    
    Peridot walked forward. There were tracks all over the place, left by the smaller ones during the battle. Peridot walks towards an upward sloping ramp. She points up to it, her hand forming its blaster shape. "It ambushed us at the top of this incline, from the ceiling."
Jasper      Jasper looks down at Peridot's shattered robonoids and follows the scientist down off the warp pad. Her eyes follow the tracks for a moment - there were obviously a fair few of the little ones around. Nodding to Peridot's retelling of events, Jasper heads up the incline. And then, she looks directly upwards. Let's see if it follows a pattern.
Sanary Rondel      "Good to hear. You'll come up with something, I'm sure." Offering another slight smile, Sanary's expression actually remains mostly the same once that beam of light comes down. She does let out the occasional laugh, but the healer remains on her best behavior and resists the urge to peek outside of that beam.

     "So the cats are some of your people, too? Huh... Interesting." She shrugs again, keeping one hand on the handle of her axe while keeping the other free just in case she'd need it for something else. That hand goes for the kite shield on her back once Peridot directs her attention to the ramp, although she doesn't take it off her back just yet. "A jumper, then... Hn. Stick behind us if it pops out again, then. Jasper's tough, and I got all this." She raps a knuckle against her armor, then takes that shield off her back. Better safe than sorry!
Peridot     The path leading up shows the markings of a battle. Scorch marks on the pavement where Peridot fired her blaster. Lashes where Lapis's water mimics had struck at the smaller cat-o-9-tails. It does not take long however for a fourth presence to make itself known. A gentle rumbling growl is heard in distinctively from the shadows. The cavern was big, and there was no easy way to pin the source down as the grumble echoed off the walls surrounding the three. It knew they were there, and it was stalking them. Hungry for more gem-snacks.

    It seems the warp pad took them directly to the beast's very den. No wonder the two gems had struggled without their resident muscle.

    "It's here." Peridot says in an uneasy tone looking around rapidly. "What do we do?" She asked, looking up to Jasper.
Jasper      "It's here," Jasper echoes in a primal, excited tone. "But where exactly? You two," Jasper commands, "Lure it out!"

    Then, Jasper reaches up and tugs her cape free, tossing it back towards the warp pad. She begins to pace around the den, carefully listening for any sign of the beast. It's dark and the caverns are quite cavernous - she can't see the walls in some directions, just the infinite flat blackness of the waiting dark. Her quarry is here and while it's no warrior, the beast might just be a worthy opponent. Some part of Jasper is eager for the fight.

     "Come out, come out wherever you are," Jasper says into the darkness.
Sanary Rondel      Grunting lightly at the sound of the presumably massive beast tailing them, Sanary draws her gunaxe as well before starting to look around slowly. "Doubt it'll let us out without fight. Hm... Stick close, then." Even she's grinning at the prospect of fighting whatever it is, although there's still some apprehension visible on the healer's face. Checking her gunaxe to make sure it's loaded with ice shells, she starts beating the side of her weapon into the shield to try and draw the creature out with the noise. "Come on... Uh.. You thing! We know you're there, so don't keep us waiting!"
Peridot     Peridot grimaced. "I'm not 100% in love with this plan." She mentions uneasily.  Taking a step forward. She raises her metal arms and clangs them together. "Come on out! Have another taste, you over cooked clod! Look! I have another arm! You want to give that one a bite as well?"

    The creature seems to take the bait.. somewhat. It was smart. Too smart to head into an even fight with three armed elites. Perhaps it wasn't too far gone on the sentience scale. It eventually makes its move, as a long-snake like tail slithers through the shadows. In an attempted sneak attack, it tries to wrap itself around Sanary's leg to pull her into a grapple! The tail itself is extremely long, leading to the shadows and connecting to the larger beast in the dark.
    
Jasper      "There!" Jasper snarls, pleased. At the sight of the tail grappling for Sanary, Jasper's helmet appears on her head in a golden flash of light. Sure, she can't hit the beast just yet, but the tail will have to lead to it - and while it's trying to grapple Sanary, it's going to be a simple task to follow it to the beast itself.

     Jasper charges off, like a rampaging bull. "Just keep that tail busy!" she shouts over her shoulder.
Sanary Rondel      Yeah, well..." Sanary pauses, then shrugs and flashes Peridot another grin. "It'll be fine. Between the three of us, we've got a pretty good team already. We just need to keep our guards up, and-"

     Well, that didn't take long. Even without her armor, Sanary's not the most agile of fighters. No, her style is much more straightforward than that. Alas, that doesn't help her avoid getting grabbed by that tail, but at least the beast has made its presence known! She brings her axe up to strike at that tail even as she's yanked right off her feet, but holds it back upon hearing Jasper's order.

     "Geh.. O-on it!" Instead of slashing at that tail, she channels some magical energy into her axe to activate the ice shell inside. It's only then that she brings the handguard/barrel to point at the tail, firing blasts of ice at it to try and freeze the appendage.
Peridot     "There!" Peridot pointed in the general direction of the tail. But, it was a cat o nine tails. Which meant there were eight of them unaccounted for. As Peridot ran toward Sanary's aid she was completely unaware of the second tail the snaked up behind her. Quickly it wrapped itself around her mid section and yanked her into the air. "Auugh! Help!"

    Meanwhile the tail that had Sanary increased its vice like grip. A tail just like this one had crushed Lapis Lazuli so hard it destroyed her physical form and gems were fairly durable compared to humans. She managed to freeze the tail with a measure of success, which halts it from crushing her to death. However, she is now locked in a ring of ice of her own creation!

    Jasper can barely make out the creature behind a copse of stone. As she dashes towards it, three tails whip in from all sides in an attempt to tangle her legs up, to slow her charge.
Jasper      Jasper puts her shoulder down and bursts through a collection of stalagmites, sending rock flying in all directions. The big orange gem continues her charge, leaping into the air as she spies the tail coming in. Correction: tails - as some come whipping in from behind and her sides. If there's a weakness of Jasper's fighting style, using her helmet to ram and crush, it's that it can't /cut/. She could bludgeon the tails, sure, but they'd just come back.

     So, as Jasper hits the apex of her leap, she bursts outward with a corona of flaming golden energy. Like a burning comet, she streaks towards the creature - she'll go straight through the copse of stone - intent on delivering one hell of a headbutt, trusting in her burning aura to prevent the tails from snaring her! "Rrraaaarrrgh!"
Sanary Rondel      More tails? Hearing Peridot's shout from behind her, Sanary's having quite a bit of trouble handling the one tail already on her. Even with the armor keeping her from getting smeared outright, the pressure from that massive tail is still enough to draw a pained cry from her. Thankfully, it freezes quickly enough that she can circulate that healing magic inside herself, although there's still the minor issue of the other eight tails.

     "So that's how it's gonna be... F-fine then!" Sanary brings the gunaxe up, then starts alternating between hacking at the tail already around her and firing freezing blasts at the one grabbing Peridot. She's not taking as much time as she normally would in firing those shots, however, opting instead for a quantity over quality approach to try and free the gem in its grasp. It's a big-ish target, after all!
Peridot     Jasper manages to leap over the trio of tails that had shot across the ground in an attempt to snare her, and for a moment. It seemed as though her attack was going to be successful. Possibly ending the encounter right then and there!

    But as she is midair she feels two tails whip around and catch her ankles. It seemed this crafty old beastess had opted to save the bulk of her tails for dealing with the biggest most aggressive of the three. Once it had her, it used her momentum and flicked her upwards into the air to send her crashing through more stone and stalagmite. A cloud of dust and rock rising into the air. The beast takes the opportunity to dash away, recalling the five tails used on Jasper.
    "Ruh.. ruh ruh ruh ruh..." Did it just laugh at Jasper?

    Sanary manages to hack through the tail, and it falls from rest. As the thick tail end hits ground it poofs into a cloud of smoke. Perhaps that's why Peridot used the term poof to describe a destroyed gem body. That tail, now free of Sanary whips through the air, following the owner as she darted away. Peridot however appears to still be in peril. As the freezing shots go wide, the green gem is whipped into the air and slammed onto the ground. Then dragged into the darkness as the beast moved hiding spots.

    Peridot meanwhile seemed unhappy with this turn of events. Her disconnected floating fingers trying to dig into the rock ground. "Clooooooods!" she yelled helplessly.
Jasper      Jasper snarls as she's whipped into the roof of the cavern. When she hits the ground again, she's covered by stone and rocks. She pushes herself off, kicks a boulder aside, and rises to her feet. So, it has more than one tail. That explains the name.

     Something sparks in her grip. Jasper glances down and finds her destabiliser broken. She tosses the wrecked thing aside. Well, there goes the easy way.

     "Yeah," Jasper says, "Keep running! You'll just die tired!" And, with that, she's off in pursuit, following the sound of the creature's footfalls as it dashes away into the darkness!
Sanary Rondel      Gasping for air, Sanary finally gets why it's called poofing at all! She can't really celebrate, though, what with the creature still on the loose and one of the gems getting dragged along with it. "Son of a... Jasper! It's got Peridot!" Even without much time for her to catch her breath, Sanary's already refocusing her magic into her anklets. After a short bout of clumsy floating and flailing, she manages to hover in the air properly!

     And then she rockets off in the same direction Jasper's headed. Her control over her flight definitely isn't on the level of anyone with real flight experience, of course, and she bounces off the walls several times in her flight path. That's not going to stop her from trying to catch up with the creature, though. IF she does catch sight of it, she'll even try to take a few more icy shots at whatever she can see.
Peridot     Jaspers relentless pursuit soon pays off. The tangle of nine tails makes it difficult to track exactly where the beast is. They're so long, and the caverns so dark that they darted in and out of shadows every which way. However, soon the  problem solves itself. It seems the beast is satisfied that Jaspers two smaller 'helpers' were busy.

    It leaps from the ceiling, where it had been latched onto with some of the larger spikes on its back. The momma cat is massive in size. More comparable to a rhinoceros. It has no eyes, instead of a face it bears just a massive gaping maw of beak-like teeth and slobber. A long searching tongue and a roar like no natural beast on earth. It attempts to grapple with Jasper, while trying to deliver a series of painful bites- any of which may be strong enough to poof the orange gem if they landed.

    Sanary arrives just in time to see the two lock themselves in combat.
Jasper      When it leaps down from the ceiling, roaring a challenge, Jasper answers without hesitation. She leaps at it, colliding in mid-air, and the pair - Gem and Gem-creature - fall back towards the ground, a tangled mess of limbs and tails.

     Jasper rises quickly. Despite her size, she's quite agile with millenia of honed combat reflexes. The massive fanged maw snaps shut only inches from her, and the force of it blows Jasper's hair back. That thing has a nice set of teeth and even Jasper isn't sure if she could weather a hit from it and still fight.

     She grapples it for a few moments, putting all of her strength into the maneuver. She grunts under the strain but she's not going to let some corrupted beast prove to be stronger than her! She abruptly lets go of one hand, letting the beast surge forwards as she steps around and goes to slam it to the ground from behind. Sure, the spikes on its back are painful, but as Jasper grips the top and bottom of the jaw of the creature in each of her hands, putting her weight on the creature's back and shoulder to keep it grounded, well... it seems like she's going to demonstrate what she considers to be truly painful!
Sanary Rondel      The good news: It doesn't take too long for Sanary to catch up! The bad news: Giant monster cat thing that she's still hurtling towards. She swings herself around in mid-flight to narrowly avoid crashing right into it, spinning just a bit before righting herself not too far from Jasper. She's able to conserve some energy by lowering herself back to the ground, focusing all of that instead on directing it in a greenish light towards Jasper directly. Instead of being focused solely on healing, however, the magic this time is instead aimed at supercharging the orange gem's natural regeneration and stamina recovery.

     Oddly enough, Sanary's also grinning slightly. It's not as if she disapproves of this method. Why try to finesse their way through this obstacle when they can just smash through it?
Peridot     The surge of energy and strength from the combined efforts of Jasper and Sanary prove to be a worthy opponent indeed for the massive creature. It appears as smart as it was, and as clever as it appeared to be-- it was up against magic and strength the likes of which it had never encountered in the few thousands of years it had slept and lived in this cave. It seems unification brings surprises even to monsters.

    As Jasper gets onto its back it's driven over and over into the ground. It gives a few loud whimpers of anguish. It appears that it's done laughing. It tries to buck Jasper off its back.

    Meanwhile, Peridot was being flung wildly in the air screaming. Being smashed against rocks and stalagmites. Unlike Jasper, Peridot was not made of the same sturdy stuff. "Gahhhh! Poof it! Poof it! Hurry!"
Jasper      Jasper is breathing heavily, teeth gritted, pitting her arms and shoulders against the jaws of the creature. Sanary's magical surge gives her just that little bit of strength to go from holding steady to /winning/ the struggle. The moment she feels the creature's jaw give, Jasper howls in triumph - and yanks the jaw as wide as she can pull it! It won't be biting anything any time soon as Jasper's brutal, effective blow seems to be quite intent on disarming the beast of its most powerful weapon.

     She lets the beast have a few seconds of whimpering anguish. "The only one who's going to threaten that brat is /me/!" She draws her head back as she stands above it, tensing her neck and shoulders. "You!" Jasper shouts, "Lose!"

     And she swings her head down, letting the prow of her huge helmet meet the top of the creature's head. With luck, it'll be enough to poof the thing.
Sanary Rondel      The impromptu not-really-a-plan was working, it looked like! Even with the beast thrashing about, Sanary circles around it slowly while trying to get closer to Jasper and keeping a steady flow of energy flowing into the orange gem. Upon hearing Peridot screaming and being introduced to the pointier bits of the cavern, the healer stomps her feet and digs in deep! Figuratively, in that she's drawing on the last of her reserves to try and boost Jasper as much as she can while also directing some of that energy towards Peridot to try and keep her alive. Or solid or not-poofed or.. However that all works. She's not quite sure yet. Literally, in the sense that her armored boots and digging into the ground as she's struggling just to keep herself standing from all this.
Peridot     The creatures give one finally distinguished yell before Jaspers helmet crashes down onto it's head. The bony fleshy holo-matter giving way with a sickening crunch. The unnatural bestial roar gives way to something far less majestic. The gurgling cry of a dying animal with a collapsed skull. It seemed to be fighting losing its physical form with all its might. Its night tails all thrashing simultaneously. They wrapped around them all. Jasper and Sanary find their field of view completely obscured as they are draped in panicked tails. It was suffocating, and dark.

    But then, seemingly all at once. The creature can hold on no longer, and the room is suddenly filled with smoke.  Jasper falls a few few as the creature disappears underneath her. Peridot is flung to the ground with a thunk. A little bruised, her visor cracked. A few scrapes on the parts of her that looked biological oozed a lime green liquid.

    Two gems clattered to the ground in front of Jasper. One of them yellow, the size of a lemon. That was perhaps the beast's gem. The other blue and familiar to them. Lapis Lazuli was free once more. Rescued by Team Homeworld.

    "Oof..." Peridot sat up, and rubbed her arm. "...about time."
Jasper      "Target demolished," Jasper remarks, glancing down at the two gems. "Say, there's Lapis." She bends down and scoops the blue gem up in one big hand. "What d'ya want done with the other one?" she asks Peridot, nudging the yellow gem with her foot.
Sanary Rondel      Sanary's barely able to stand by the time the tail goes around her, although she's not about to go down without a fight! She ppushes forward as much as she can with her shield and axe, trying tobreak through the surface of the tails. Just as she's about to lose consciousness, however, she...

     Falls flat on her face when it ceases to physically exist. Grunting from the impact, she hastily pulls herself back up before holding her hands up. "I'm good! Ah... Whoa. We did it?" She glances around a few times, then breaks into a cheer. "ell yeah! We did it!" Good work, team." She lets out a relieved sigh before heading back over to Peridot, focusing the last bit of magic in her reserves to try and patch up her face before her eye flickers, the flow of magic stops, and her exposed eye goes blank.

     "... Might've overdid that a little. Uh. Either of you mind guiding me when we're heading out?"
Peridot     Peridot walked over with a slight limp. She knelt down, taking the opportunity to rest, but also to pick up both the blue and yellow gems. It seemed like these things were so rare now a days. Like holding two members of an endangered species. A species she was desperately trying to keep on the worlds stage. With a single hand she holds up Lapis's gem. It was a unique opportunity for Sanary to see a gem in truest form. Without a body, they looked like.. well simple unassuming gems. Jasper bore her true form on her nose. Peridot's in her forehead.
    With a flick of her hand she bubbled Lapis's gem and a second later it vanished from sight.

    "I've sent Lapis to the ship... we'll pop her bubble when we get back." Peridot went on investigating the corrupted gemstone in her other hand. The one that had previously been bitten off.

    "Sanary. The gem empire thanks you for your efforts. We may not be fond of earthlings, but we don't easily over look favors. Jasper, can you lead our ally back to the pod? I have a log entry I would like to make in private."
Jasper      Jasper nods to Peridot. "Understood," she replies, looking to Sanary and pointing the way with her chin. "It's this way. Come. If you're going to collapse," she says to Sanary, "Don't. Otherwise I'll be dragging you back."
Sanary Rondel      Even without her eye functioning, Sanary still manages to look (mostly) in the direction of the two physically present gems with a relaxed laugh. "All part of the job. Besides, you're both Confederates now. We take good care of our own, I... Think." She doesn't sound quite as sure at that last part. "... Usually. But... Yeah, let's get outta here. Thanks, Jasper." And then she's got one hand on the larger gem's arm, her gaze completely unfocused on anything around her without any magical energy left to keep the eye powered.
Peridot Waiting until they left back in the direction of the warp pad. Peridot looked down at her hand. She was alone with the corrupted gem. Her glare was cold and calculating. Her lips pressed together in a tight grimace as she picked the stone up and held it in front of her face. Inspecting it. Studying it. She had a lot of thoughts running through her head. She didn't know if the corrupted gem could hear her, but she had things she wanted to get off her chest. She had lied, after all. This was not going in any log book.

    "You've put  me in a strange position." She started, tilting her head down. "I don't blame you for that in particular. You've taught me something about myself, something I didn't know before... and I do treasure knowledge. For that much I am actually grateful. You see, I was made to work. I've always had orders to follow... to delegate. So it should be no surprise to you, that I've never had friends before. This is all new territory to me. This whole mission is off the rails and it's pushing the limits of what I'm capable of."

     She dropped the gem on the floor with a clatter, watching it roll to a stop with casual disinterest. Her hands interlocking in the small of her back. "Before I became stuck here. I took my subordinates for granted. My teams were interchangeable. I was interchangeable. But now.. all three of us are irreplaceable. Jasper... Lapis... For the duration of my stay on this planet, they are my entire world. It's very frightening, for me to have to rely on them like this. I am finding friendship.. no, reliance in general to be a very terrifying... ill fitting thing. But here I am, wearing the mantle... despising how vulnerable it makes me but too scared to shuck it off."

    "This has caused me to be assaulted by new and difficult emotions.. for example when you hurt Lapis...  You'll want to pay attention-- this part concerns you." She sneered, her voice lowering to a hiss. "I discovered that I am a vengeful gem." She raised her foot and placed it on the corrupted gems hull. "You were just a little too fierce... you got just a little too close to breaking my world." She grit her teeth and began applying more and more pressure. A single crack appearing on the smooth stone. Her brows furrowed in concentrated anger. It began to glow as the gem inside felt its impending doom and fought to give itself form once more. Any form. Something so it could escape.

    "You did something very..." She shifted more weight. "...very..." and more pressure down on the gem. "...stupid." She finished speaking through her teeth and applies the last bit of pressure she needed. The gem shattering into small splintered amber shards and lost its glow forever as her foot hit pavement. She let out a breath, a single strand of her normally perfect hair falling over her face. The emotional charge left her winded. But the deed was done. The gem was dead.  

    She pushed the strand of hair back into place. She knelt down and wordlessly bubbled the shards for later experimentation. She was vengeful, but she wasn't wasteful. She sent them to her laboratory. Then calmly collecting herself, she walked onto the ship and looked to Jasper. Her expression tired, but satisfied. She held her thumb up, a gesture she had learned while on earth. "Let's go home."

    Home sounded nice about now.