Post by CMPunkCMPunk on Jan 28, 2019 4:30:32 GMT -5
Site of the Tower
”Steven, let's do a HALO-style jump! We'll jump out of the bubble as we move off this tower, descend as fast as we can with the forces of gravity, and as we're descending to an appropriate height, we'll fuse into Herkimer Diamond, float, and give them a taste of what a Gem Fusion can do.”
Steven's eyes welled up with his signature stylized stars. “Yes!” He fist pumped and pulled out his phone. “I got even more Jamiroquai music after we fused to the Canned Heat song! But can we stay in the bubble? It'd be way easier to dance.”
“What's the resistance like?”
“Pretty... good? I think. Pearl tried to explain magic physics to me but I was a little young.”
“It's cool! Let's hit it!” They high fived and the younger guy started searching through his playlists.
“What am I, chopped liver?” asked Lapis, who hadn't been mentioned in the plan.
“Stay safe and make good decisions. I don't think this is your fight. Keep the pillar up and stable for now!” Logan saw her move her mouth, but he was already rolling off and Steven had made his choice.
Logan smiled at the young man. “By the way, you know what happens if we can't become one?”
“We fall and die?”
“Yep. No pressure.” The two took a deep breath and fell.
Nearly Down
Having fallen for a while, they were approaching the ground. From where they were, the amount of water Lapis had taken didn't even look that bad – the majority of the world's oceans seemed totally intact. She'd only taken a slice, and that reassured the Ambassador. Less reassuring was the fact that the Wonderchild's chest was aglow, and Megas had revealed a few telescoping rocket launchers from its back, while the familiar unfamiliar units had drawn ballistic-looking weapons of their own.
“Wonder what they're saying. Probably threats and shit,” the adult mused with little concern for swearing in front of a kid.
“Maybe they're giving peace a chance! And not giving hate a chance!” Steven grinned and clicked his phone.
The two chubby bois nodded at one another during the intro, a sly smile taking up their faces. Once the verse kicked in, Logan began to work the small space they had in the bubble, shuffling in a bit of a clockwise pattern. Steve was totally ready to accommodate this, and he maintained a position roughly across from his dance partner, swinging his hips and pumping his arms forward. The two easily synced up to the song's timing, and as Jay Kay's pre-recorded voice sang of the wind carrying every dove away, they really started getting into it. They still had time, and continued their simple combined step.
“Freedom is not so far away, if you know you wanna rise up,” Logan sang along, closing the distance between him and Steven.
“We can make this hate stop!” Steven did the same, smiling widely as they traded off lines.
“Now don't you wanna rise up!” Logan reached out and clasped hands firmly with Steven, and in that moment, exactly what they wanted happened. The last thing the Ambassador saw before conking out was his own skin glowing as gray as his hair.
Herkimer Diamond Finishes the Descent
Four round gray eyes opened, and a pair of arms felt around awkwardly. They were attached to a fairly tall humanoid that had just gotten its second chance at life, and it was instantly excited to do so! Herkimer Diamond, the fusion between Steven Universe and Logan practically rolled around in the bubble, adrenaline rushing through its body from the terminal velocity fall. There were so many things to do! So many things to try! Like talking, that was fun!
“Yes! I'm so hype! We did it! We're them! We're me! We're... her?” Herk thought about it, then said, “We're him! Yeah, that works!” They even felt atop their head and around their body with his new hands, and he was pleasantly surprised at what they felt – it was a headdress! A big badass feathery fucker that looked like a slightly oversized quaff of gelled up hair! And a set of gray jorts with matching t shirt, which all four of his eyes confirmed had a big old trio of linked forearms together! “This even has the UA logo, damn I'm the coolest!”
But this self-examination had cost Herk the leeway they'd wanted, and he gasped upon seeing how close to the ground he was. Three hands smacked the bubble with magical energy to dispel it, and the other put Steven's phone away. Just in reasonable time to stay airborne, Herkimer Diamond slowed his descent with that mystical floating excellence. Thankfully, nobody'd shot yet, but the sitch was a mess.
“Listen, motherfucker! I told you, I -am- the new Ambassador, and we WILL decloak if you fire a single shot!” Sonya was yelling with the Wonderchild's main speakers.
“Yeah!” yelled Coop through a megaphone that Megas apparently had somewhere in there.
“That applies to you too! I'll go postal if I see a single rocket fly!”
“What wonderful teammates you have! So intelligent!” A throaty voice derided the mission team, which was certainly surrounded now if they weren't before.
Herk assessed the situation before they were noticed. Though Logan would have thought about little but the fight, It was really impressive and gave one hell of a sense of scale to see that Lapis's tower was still overall thicker than even the ring of oversized units that now seemed almost certain to belong to the Glorft. He wondered why Lazuli might have made it like so, but that thought disappeared when the voice Sonya had been speaking to kept talking.
“But it doesn't take any intelligence to use your eyes! We saw the Ambassador leave his unit! Now give us one reason why we shouldn't take advantage of him being swapped out for an unknown human female! This is an ambush after all, 'motherfuck'!” He was probably quite satisfied with having somewhat mirrored her word back.
Choice Time!
>”Because I'm here! My name is Herkimer Diamond, and I've got everthing the Ambassador's got! Anything you have to say to him, you can say to me!”
>”Because I'm kinda here? Ambassador Logan of the UA here. Sorry, trying out a new look.” Maybe they won't notice.
>Form a shield and charge the talking unit. Take out this scum and hope the team follows your lead.
>Since he still hasn't been noticed, Herk tries his best to stealthily disable what he assumes is the primary enemy unit.
>Either of the previous two, but against some of the lesser-looking robots.
”Steven, let's do a HALO-style jump! We'll jump out of the bubble as we move off this tower, descend as fast as we can with the forces of gravity, and as we're descending to an appropriate height, we'll fuse into Herkimer Diamond, float, and give them a taste of what a Gem Fusion can do.”
Steven's eyes welled up with his signature stylized stars. “Yes!” He fist pumped and pulled out his phone. “I got even more Jamiroquai music after we fused to the Canned Heat song! But can we stay in the bubble? It'd be way easier to dance.”
“What's the resistance like?”
“Pretty... good? I think. Pearl tried to explain magic physics to me but I was a little young.”
“It's cool! Let's hit it!” They high fived and the younger guy started searching through his playlists.
“What am I, chopped liver?” asked Lapis, who hadn't been mentioned in the plan.
“Stay safe and make good decisions. I don't think this is your fight. Keep the pillar up and stable for now!” Logan saw her move her mouth, but he was already rolling off and Steven had made his choice.
Logan smiled at the young man. “By the way, you know what happens if we can't become one?”
“We fall and die?”
“Yep. No pressure.” The two took a deep breath and fell.
Nearly Down
Having fallen for a while, they were approaching the ground. From where they were, the amount of water Lapis had taken didn't even look that bad – the majority of the world's oceans seemed totally intact. She'd only taken a slice, and that reassured the Ambassador. Less reassuring was the fact that the Wonderchild's chest was aglow, and Megas had revealed a few telescoping rocket launchers from its back, while the familiar unfamiliar units had drawn ballistic-looking weapons of their own.
“Wonder what they're saying. Probably threats and shit,” the adult mused with little concern for swearing in front of a kid.
“Maybe they're giving peace a chance! And not giving hate a chance!” Steven grinned and clicked his phone.
The two chubby bois nodded at one another during the intro, a sly smile taking up their faces. Once the verse kicked in, Logan began to work the small space they had in the bubble, shuffling in a bit of a clockwise pattern. Steve was totally ready to accommodate this, and he maintained a position roughly across from his dance partner, swinging his hips and pumping his arms forward. The two easily synced up to the song's timing, and as Jay Kay's pre-recorded voice sang of the wind carrying every dove away, they really started getting into it. They still had time, and continued their simple combined step.
“Freedom is not so far away, if you know you wanna rise up,” Logan sang along, closing the distance between him and Steven.
“We can make this hate stop!” Steven did the same, smiling widely as they traded off lines.
“Now don't you wanna rise up!” Logan reached out and clasped hands firmly with Steven, and in that moment, exactly what they wanted happened. The last thing the Ambassador saw before conking out was his own skin glowing as gray as his hair.
Herkimer Diamond Finishes the Descent
Four round gray eyes opened, and a pair of arms felt around awkwardly. They were attached to a fairly tall humanoid that had just gotten its second chance at life, and it was instantly excited to do so! Herkimer Diamond, the fusion between Steven Universe and Logan practically rolled around in the bubble, adrenaline rushing through its body from the terminal velocity fall. There were so many things to do! So many things to try! Like talking, that was fun!
“Yes! I'm so hype! We did it! We're them! We're me! We're... her?” Herk thought about it, then said, “We're him! Yeah, that works!” They even felt atop their head and around their body with his new hands, and he was pleasantly surprised at what they felt – it was a headdress! A big badass feathery fucker that looked like a slightly oversized quaff of gelled up hair! And a set of gray jorts with matching t shirt, which all four of his eyes confirmed had a big old trio of linked forearms together! “This even has the UA logo, damn I'm the coolest!”
But this self-examination had cost Herk the leeway they'd wanted, and he gasped upon seeing how close to the ground he was. Three hands smacked the bubble with magical energy to dispel it, and the other put Steven's phone away. Just in reasonable time to stay airborne, Herkimer Diamond slowed his descent with that mystical floating excellence. Thankfully, nobody'd shot yet, but the sitch was a mess.
“Listen, motherfucker! I told you, I -am- the new Ambassador, and we WILL decloak if you fire a single shot!” Sonya was yelling with the Wonderchild's main speakers.
“Yeah!” yelled Coop through a megaphone that Megas apparently had somewhere in there.
“That applies to you too! I'll go postal if I see a single rocket fly!”
“What wonderful teammates you have! So intelligent!” A throaty voice derided the mission team, which was certainly surrounded now if they weren't before.
Herk assessed the situation before they were noticed. Though Logan would have thought about little but the fight, It was really impressive and gave one hell of a sense of scale to see that Lapis's tower was still overall thicker than even the ring of oversized units that now seemed almost certain to belong to the Glorft. He wondered why Lazuli might have made it like so, but that thought disappeared when the voice Sonya had been speaking to kept talking.
“But it doesn't take any intelligence to use your eyes! We saw the Ambassador leave his unit! Now give us one reason why we shouldn't take advantage of him being swapped out for an unknown human female! This is an ambush after all, 'motherfuck'!” He was probably quite satisfied with having somewhat mirrored her word back.
Choice Time!
>”Because I'm here! My name is Herkimer Diamond, and I've got everthing the Ambassador's got! Anything you have to say to him, you can say to me!”
>”Because I'm kinda here? Ambassador Logan of the UA here. Sorry, trying out a new look.” Maybe they won't notice.
>Form a shield and charge the talking unit. Take out this scum and hope the team follows your lead.
>Since he still hasn't been noticed, Herk tries his best to stealthily disable what he assumes is the primary enemy unit.
>Either of the previous two, but against some of the lesser-looking robots.
