Moonstone watched from her ship, as smoke billowed from the burning city below. The invasion had gone much smoother than expected. The human armies had weapons that were quite primitive by gem standards. They were lucky that the gems had never really tried to invade the planet. The belief of the cluster, about to destroy Earth was the only reason why gems never really travelled here. Never bothered to conquered it. But now that the cluster was no longer a threat to Earth, the humans who supposed were the dominant species on the planet had not really made much progress with their tech. . But they couldn't be blamed, they were after all, a young species.

Zircon who was her right hand advisor walked back and forth nervously.

"For a planet that housed Pink Diamond, they don't have much of a denfense," she said.

The sound of marching turned her attention from the destruction below. It was a group of white gem soldiers. Leading them was a white Jasper.

"Reporting in my General," the Jasper said, giving Moonstone a Diamond's salute.

Moonstone nodded.

"All good news? Have the humans decided to surrender" she asked.

"No. They have not. In fact they are just starting to bring out their superweapons," the Jasper said.

"Superweapons?" the general turn to her suddenly. If Zircon was not white, her face would have been ghostly pale.

The white Jasper looked at Moonstone hesitantly.

It was hard to tell what the General felt, because she wore a thick visor on all the time.

"Go, on," the general said calmly.

"They call it a nuclear bomb. Some of our ships have taken major damage after being hit by these things," the Jasper continued.

"If it's nuclear shouldn't our ships have shields to handle that sort of devices?" the General said mildly annoyed.

"Yes we have. But it seems that we have some gem insurgents amongst us who sabotaged our defence system," the Jasper said hoarsely.

Zircon gasped.

"Traitors? Who are they?" she asked.

"Those loyal to White Diamond of course," Moonstone answered coldly.

The Jasper's eyes widen with surprise at the general's spot on intuition.

"We should seek them out immediately, and have them bubbled," Zircon said.

Moonstone turned to face the group of white gems.

"Don't bother Zircon. They are already here,"

The Jasper gave a loud gasped as a sudden blast hit her side. All that was left of her, was a white gem that hit the ground with a bounce.

The gem soldiers behind her had their weapons drawn. One of them removed her own visor.

"A White Quartz," Moonstone said coldly.

White Quartz pointed her weapon at Moonstone.

"Is this mutiny?!" Zircon shouted.

"No. Mutiny is going against the Diamonds will. We are trying to end this madness," White Quartz said, now pointing her gem weapon to Zircon.

With a swift motion, Moonstone became a blurred shadow and disappeared from her place. The next moment, the general was in the middle of the white soldiers.

"Overconfidence is very unbecoming of for a soldier," the general said almost sounding sorrowful.

Before the group could react, half a dozen gems disappeared in a flash of white slashes. Moonstone held a savage looking white scimitar in her hand.

"Open fire!" the White Quartz said to the other rebels.

Immediately the gems fired at the general, who once moved so quickly she was just a flittering blur dodging streaks of white laser lights.

Other gems pulled out their weapons to fight, but were almost immediately poofed in light strike array of scimitar slashes.

Within seconds the Quartz realised that she was left alone.

"It's funny. On this same planet Pink took the form of a Quartz to start a rebellion. And right on this same planet, another Quartz does the same," Moonstone said.

White Quartz pulled out her sword.

"I don't want to fight you General. But what you are doing is against the will of the Diamonds. And my loyalty is with them"

"I somehow doubt that," Moonstone said circling her commander like a hungry lion.

"Why is that," the Quartz commander said moving to match Moonstone's movements.

Moonstone did not answer. Instead she nonchalky switched the way which she held the scimitar, from her right hand to her left.

Then using her left hand she pointed it to Quartz. Something strange happened.

Moonstone's arm that was usually white became a dark colour of grey, and then slowly turned to the colour of the blackest of nights. Her white scimitar followed. Like poison flowing down a dagger, the dark shade of black flown from her arm and consumed the blade right to the tip.

Zircon gasped.

"Moonstone no! Not to another gem,"

The Quartz looked visible afraid and confused.

"What is this ability?! This is not the power of a White gem," she said.

"No, it's not. But it should be familiar to you. After all, it was the signature ability of the court of Black," the general said.

Without warning, Moonstone charged forward. Before the Quartz had time to react, the general was already behind her. Her scimitar now back in it's sheath. Her arm and sword was already turning back to white.

The Quartz eyes widen as she looked down to her own weapon. A black slash mark had cut straight across it. Instead of disappearing in a poof, the sword began to flake from the mark like black ash. Slowly like poison the effect spread across the blade, and the sword dissipated like the charred remains of a flower blown in the wind.

"This can't be! This ability! It's Oblivion!" the Quartz said with a hiss.

It was then that Zircon noticed the Quartz had a forked tongue.

The Quartz eyes suddenly turned into slits and fangs appeared on her mouth.

"You serpentine are getting better and better at deceit," Moonstone said turning around to face the Quartz that slowly transformed into a huge white sneople.

"How did you know?!" the Sneople Quartz hissed.

"Your Quartz. I know every single gem in this court. This Quartz in particular was my most trusted commander. Her platoon went missing in a Serpentine ambush," Moonstone said.

The Serpentine gave a laugh.

"How observant. Yes my parent is that very quartz. And I will use her power to destroy you, Bane of the Sneople,"

"No, you won't," Moonstone said.

The serpentine suddenly looked down at it's own chest and realised that it had been cut too. It's body was disintegrating like the sword.

The serpentine gave an anguish howl and raced towards Moonstone. But before it could even reach her, it collapsed to the ground. Half it's body had been disintegrated.

"You hybrids are extremely hard to kill. You can't be poofed, and if you get cut, you heal almost immediately. Shatter your gem, and you somehow still survive. It's only thanks to Oblivion that we can finally end your scourge. While White gives life. Black Diamond ends it," Moonstone said.

"You filthy.." the Serpentine shouted, but was cut off, as Moonstone chopped the beast head into a thousand pieces.

All that was left was a single quartz gem.

Moonstone crouched down to it. She picked it up and gently held it in her hand.

"Farewell my sister," she said as the gem turned grey, and then pitch black before crumbling like dust in her hand and then vanish as though it had been blown away in the wind.