Author's Note: As it turns out, I CAN post chapters from my switch, but they are of immensely low quality.
Arya and her parents followed Connie through a seemingly endless maze of corridors.
"Help!" she heard call out from behind the Barracks.
"Amethyst! I'm coming!" Connie yelled before busting down the door. Arya peered in to see her second family, dubbed by her the "Famethyst" playing with the one she saw Robert with when he was fighting Holo-Pearl.
"You should have seen the look on your face" she laughed. Steven was inside as well. Arya suddenly felt guilty.
"Arya, what are you doing out?" one of them asked.
"We're busting outta here, Jay! We're not being executed." she said boldly.
"You know her?" Steven asked.
"Yeah, we known her since we brought 'em in." another explained. "At first, she was cold to us, but overtime, Arya and Kalinka and Percy came through."
"Who's Kalinka?" Connie asked. Arya's mother waved and smiled. There was silence for a few minutes.
"I-I'll miss you guys..." Arya sniffed, holding back tears. Suddenly, she and her parents took Steven and Connie and hid them behind the hulking figures of the Famethyst. As if on cue, the door opened. Holly Blue was not pleased, "The humans in detention block AA-23 have escaped and there is some-" She was cut off with Michael's arm cannon hitting Holly across the face. "Get him you degenerates! Show your Diamond some appreciation! Especially you Beta Off-color scum!" she yelled as Michael charged his Michael-Buster.
"Don't try it!" he yelled as he winked at them. Holly tried hitting him with an electric shock, binding Michael. He grinned and snickered.
"What is so funny? You have lost!" Holly taunted as she charged the electricity in the whip.
"Not quite." said Michael. Holly released the electric shock, but it reflected back at Holly, striking her down. Michael used his scythe to cut the rope.
"I never lose!" he said as he cut Holly across the neck with his scythe, poofing her. Michael picked up the gem.
"Yes...this will do wonders for my collection." said Michael, in a soft, unsettling tone. The Famethyst were in shock.
"I am not my brother...I'm better!" he growled to himself, gripping it hard. He turned to the Famethyst.
"Did you want to stay under her rule?" Michael asked. "I know how you feel...I used to live the same way."
"H-how? How could you know what it's like?" Arya asked. Michael turned solemn.
"I lived with Lardna Jones. She brainwashed us into believing she was our mother" said Michael. Kalinka looked heartbroken.
"She abused us far more than this fagate ever could. Every kick, every insult, every beating, every whip, every electric shock, every torture device, every single time she traumatized us, every run through her obstacle course, with live snakes, bear traps, scorpions, barbed wire on nearly everything, and what we got for completing it? Another run. We only got to eat only once every other day, and sometimes, we didn't eat for weeks, only so Aloysius, her boyfriend for fifteen years now, could get another case of beer! When Child Protective Services came, she locked us in the basement and put a bookshelf over the door! The worst part is she abused Robert worse than anyone. She tried to poison him at least once a month, good thing he found out how to avoid it!" explained Michael. "She forced him to see The Emoji Movie...TEN TIMES!!! I only had to watch it once! We had to sit through Action 52, and it caused our house to burn down, and she blamed him, so I hatched a plan to get him outta there, and it worked, but now I was the primary target for her abuse. I then tried to convince her to ship me out just the same, and I almost ended up at Boot Camp, until Yellow Diamond showed up, I wasn't really thinking about the consequences, just getting outta there was all I wanted. I hope you'll forgive me." said Michael. There was silence from the Famethyst, the Lights, Steven, and Connie, before Connie spoke up.
"Come on, let's go, guys." said Connie, wiping away the tears glazing her eyes, as she, Michael, Steven, and the Lights ran to the Roaming Eye parking lot. When they got there, Garnet, Pearl, and Peridot were waiting. Michael paused as he held out Holly's gem. "Here," Michael said, handing Jay the gem. "Don't ever let her live this down. Tell her she's lucky I didn't shatter her... If you're going to let her live, of course" said Michael, entering the ship.
Arya waved goodbye, tears streaming down her face. "See if you can come to Earth sometime!" she cried.
"We will! I promise!" Carnelian yelled.
On the trip back, the Gems, Connie, Percy, and Kalinka were all looking at Michael, staring out the window, it looked like something serious was on his mind.
"What's wrong?" Connie asked, putting a hand on him.
"Promise not to tell anyone?" he asked. Connie nodded.
"I feel like I'm always in my brother's shadow. Don't get me wrong, he's a cool guy, I just feel like I'm always second fiddle to him. I just want to not be only known as 'Robert's little brother' or 'Robert's Sidekick" he said. Connie looked at him in the eyes. "It's okay. Things will get better, I promise!" she said. "And Michael?"
"Yeah?" he asked.
Connie put a small kiss on his cheek. "I think you're the superior brother." she said. Michael blushed, as he had never recieved a kiss that wasn't from Kalinka.
To be continued...
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Fanfiction(READ THE FIRST PART BEFORE READING THIS ONE!!!) As Robert and Michael, and their psychic sister Arya continue their quest to learn the eight parts of the sacred song and fulfill the prophecy, new challenges await them. Secrets are uncovered, risks...
