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Abandoned Crystal System Colony Planet Earth - Friday, Fandom Time

Oct 07, 2016 07:52

It had all started with the Crystal Gems taking a break. A break! In building the drill! To save the planet! The work was so tantalizingly close to being done that Peridot had complained to Steven, vehemently. It had involved waving a little power drill in the air for emphasis. Which had, as most things around here seemed to do, inspired Steven to ( Read more... )

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angry_pie_slice October 7 2016, 21:58:02 UTC

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studyingfear October 24 2016, 16:30:05 UTC

Rufus was definitely not kind enough to do that. Sorry, Peridot.

"Alright," Rufus said, studying the controls. "If that's what you want, then hold on tight."

kenselvren October 25 2016, 01:35:54 UTC

Jalian glared back at Rufus and offered Peridot a...well, a foot up, something to grab onto so she could right herself.

"They're screaming," she said. "All the pieces."

angry_pie_slice October 25 2016, 01:41:44 UTC

Peridot grimaced as she kind of hauled herself up, arm-over-arm, using Jalian's leg as leverage.

"... Of course they are," she said, frowning. "They're all fragmented pieces of broken minds, forced into one form. They're also about to destroy the planet."

She frowned as she surfaced from under the dashboard and peered out at the Cluster, which didn't seem to be taking any substantial sort of damage from the drill.

"Try the triple-tip penetration setting!"

... Peridot wasn't allowed to name things.

studyingfear October 25 2016, 01:46:32 UTC

"As you wish, Captain," he said lightly, tweaking the controls until the triple-tip penetration setting started up.

The smoothness of Rufus' voice betrayed the fact that, yeah, he was totally still having a damn good time.

This was terrifying, exhilarating, and he felt alive.

angry_pie_slice October 25 2016, 11:35:12 UTC

The drill shifted, then, until one drilling end piece was joined by two more, which doubled-down on the massive crystalline structure below them. Peridot would have been pleased herself, either by being called 'Captain' or by the creation that she and Pearl had built being put to such good used, if not for one fact.

They still weren't making much progress.

Meanwhile, the millions of fractured minds below continued to scream in silence, their voices rising up in a cacophonous mental roar.

Must... Have to... Want to... Need to... Have to...

kenselvren October 26 2016, 01:05:55 UTC

"Can you hear them?" Jalian asked Peridot, wincing at all the minds.

angry_pie_slice October 26 2016, 01:23:18 UTC

"Hear them... what? Are they still screaming?" Peridot looked at Jalian, something between curiosity and confusion on her face.

Apparently, no, she couldn't hear anything at all.

The Cluster continued to chant though, as shapes struggled to take form below them.

Want to... Need to... Want to... want to... need to...

studyingfear October 26 2016, 12:43:47 UTC

"The only thing I hear is the two of you nattering," Rufus said 'helpfully'.

He was more interested in a) controlling the drill and b) doing his best to film what was going on around them.

Priorities!

kenselvren October 26 2016, 22:18:07 UTC

"They want. They need," Jalian said. "I don't know what."

angry_pie_slice October 27 2016, 00:21:47 UTC

As if in reply, all of the voices rose up at once, in a blinding cacophony of noise, all with one thing in mind.

Form!

It was a desperate compulsion to be whole, five millennia in the making.

kenselvren October 27 2016, 13:26:34 UTC

"To be whole, to have a form!" Jalian winced. "They are very loud."

angry_pie_slice October 27 2016, 14:23:31 UTC

"Well, tell them they can't have it," Peridot demanded, trying to scoot in beside Rufus to help man the controls. One of the three drill ends buckled and snapped off, leaving them to try to balance on two spinning points. "If they form, they'll take us and the entire planet with them!"

kenselvren October 29 2016, 20:43:29 UTC

No! Jalian spoke back to the voices. Form is dangerous! Do not form!

"I don't know if they'll listen," she warned Peridot.

angry_pie_slice October 30 2016, 09:53:50 UTC

Form! Form! Form! Form! Want form! Want form! Form!!

The Cluster seemed to be rather in agreement with this warning. The glowing white surface of the struggling shape rippled, and then reached up and around the drill again, though the scant damage they were doing to the crystalline surface meant that the hard-light body it was trying to create was actively avoiding contact with it, now.

To be whole.

kenselvren October 30 2016, 14:49:32 UTC

"They want to be whole," Jalian said. "They aren't listening!"

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