Chapter XXIV: Retribution or Redemption?

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Yellow Diamond's warship landed on the Jones's backyard. "Do you think there's another one here?" her pearl asked. Her Diamond just shook her head. "I'm only here to scold those who do not hold up on their end of the deal." She said bitterly as her monitor kicked on. "Hessonite, come in, do you have the human males?" she said into the monitor. The monitor just showed static. "Hessonite, this isn't humorous. Do you have the ones I asked you to capture?" The screen was still static. "M-maybe she was..." her pearl stammered. "She was what?" Yellow Diamond boomed angrily.

"Sh-shattered"

Her Diamond narrowed her eyes. "Impossible, the worst any human could do is a surface crack, and even then, that wouldn't be enough to excuse her to be under reformation." Just then, the monitor finally displayed a first-person view of what Hessonite saw. It showed the human to be holding Hessonite at gunpoint. "What's mercy?" he asked in a cold, ruthless tone one would usually hear from a horror movie monster before he pulled the trigger and the monitor went back to static.

Yellow Diamond rolled her eyes "I never liked that pebble anyway" she groaned before stepping outside. Ms. Jones stepped outside and knew immediately what it was about. "Lardna, why does the prophesied one still live?" she asked in a near sarcastic tone. "A-A-Aloysius never-"

"Don't blame this on your husband, he was to never know about this! You were supposed to make sure the only thing he lives for is alcohol so he can kill them both and take the blame for their deaths." Yellow Diamond explained. "Or have you forgotten they're not even your children?" Lardna stayed quiet. "I should end your life now!" Yellow Diamond threatened. "But...Killing you will solve nothing, and so far, it seems to me that if you want to do something right, you have to do it yourself."



Meanwhile...



Robert and Connie were sparring at the Sky Arena with training swords under Pearl's supervision to make sure neither of them were playing dirty nor seriously harming one another. Connie tried jumping over Robert, but he counterattacked and she landed on her side, leaking a red liquid. Robert got worried and placed a hand on where he struck her.

The moment he did, Connie turned around and squirted his shirt with ketchup. Robert was confused as to whether or not he should laugh with her or truly hurt her, but he eventually made a decision. Connie braced herself, and to only be hit with the ketchup she got on his shirt. "Now we're even." Said Robert.

Just then, Pearl looked over the horizon, and saw a large yellow fist heading right for them.

Just then, Michael appeared on the warp pad and fired a charged shot, damaging the ship. Then, as if it were a Robotnik fight, a flying vehicle popped from the wreckage. What was essentially a throne on spider legs floated in front of the flying arena.

"Die!" Yellow diamond yelled before attempting to electrocute Robert. The special badge in Robert's possession reflected the lightning back and hit one of the legs. Yellow Diamond climbed out of the contraption and stomped her foot, missing Robert and firing her lightning at Michael. Robert used his own to stop hers. Robert grinned after she stopped. "Shocking, isn't it?" he said. Michael found that he should aid his brother in the fight, so his arms and legs began to grow like tree limbs, and became a gargantuan oak tree-titan, although it wasn't enough to rival Yellow Diamond's size.

"I get to kill the prophesized human AND his treacherous brother? This is the best day of my life!" Yellow Diamond ridiculed maliciously. Robert pulled out a card from UNO. "I think not!" Robert retorted, flipping it over to reveal it was a Reverse card.

The spider mech fired heat-seeking missiles, which were blocked by Michael's tree shield. Robert jumped off of Michael's body to get close to Yellow Diamond's face, to which he ignited his fist and clocked her in the nose and kicked off her chin to get back on the ground. Michael threw some seeds in the air and made them grow. They grew into shrub monsters that were around the size of Steven, and they all latched onto Yellow Diamond, who used her electricity to burn them to a crisp. "Do you even know why you must perish?" Yellow Diamond asked as if they should already know. "Do you want to be used?" Robert and Michael looked at one another, and Yellow Diamond took the opportunity to electrocute them to near death.



"Any last words?" she asked. The boys stayed silent.




To be continued...

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