"White's Darkest Secret" - A Steven Universe Short Story!

So this is one of those post-Era 3 stories. If you haven't seen past Season 4 of Steven Universe (including the Movie and Steven Universe Future), do not read this blog.

Excerpt from the Chapter: "A Fabled Meeting" (not yet released), from Onyx's story. Enjoy!

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Pyrope's words finally broke Moonstone. Her two halves tried desperately to stay together but the fusion collapsed as Pearl was flung back away from Onyx, who collapsed on the sands in front of Fire Opal and Pyrope.

"Onyx..!" she tried to get back up to protect her, but Demantoid kept her from standing thanks to her modified limb enhancers.

"Oh, Prisms..!~" Pyrope called in her irritable singsong voice. Techno and Prissy responded to her call gleefully, lifting Onyx's body off the beach.

"L-Leave her alone..!" Pearl shouted.

Fire Opal didn't speak when Onyx was lifted by the Prisms' magnetic force. She simply nodded to the third Prism who floated beside her, the one Steven and the others didn't recognize. Without warning, the new Prism fired a weak laser at Onyx's gem, making the girl shrill in agony. If there was one thing Onyx couldn't handle, it was a third degree burn from a laser, but the excruciating pain didn't poof her. In fact, she didn't feel her form dissipate or glitch even a little.

"Get your hands off her!" Steven yelled, trying to summon his Shield, but his Gem powers weren't working. He felt his energy drain fast when he tried to, like when Spinel had struck him so long ago with her Rejuvenator.

"We're done here," Fire Opal stated after the new Prism burned Onyx straight to unconscious, "Leave the Crystal Gems and bring the Onyx to my ship."

"Yes, ma'am..." Pyrope replied, begrudgingly. She hated taking orders from another Gem.

The two Garnets made their way back over to the ship that had brought them to Earth, while Fire Opal stared down at Pearl. The two seemed to know each other a bit, but Pearl wouldn't clarify how.

"Y-You CAN'T take her..." Pearl grovelled, "This isn't one of your planets... You can't just do what you want here..!"

"Oh? Then perhaps you should change your little ments for your Little Homeschool." Fire Opal remarked, "We were told Earth was a free, independent planet, where all gems were welcome."

The tall, orange gem backed away as the Crystal Gems helplessly watched their ships engine recharge and blast them far off into space, holding Onyx captive inside.

"ONYYYYYX!!!!!!!"

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Onyx sat within her confinement after having woken up. Her sleep was a restless one, as the burning pain came back to haunt her and she quickly realized her predicament. She was sitting inside of an enemy ship, being taken to who knows where.

"Ah, I see our little friend has woken from her precious nap." Onyx knew that voice all too well. The eccentric giggles that followed didn't help matters whatsoever, "Comfy? Not that I care either way."

"You..." Onyx tried to summon her knuckle claws out of her gem, but the excruciating pain from before came back to haunt her, "W-What did you do to my gem...?"

"We just burned it a little," Fire Opal responded, "If you are to have an audience with our Diamonds, you can't be allowed to use your gem powers, knowledgeable or not about them."

Okay, now that was a low blow. Coming from a Gem who didn't even know her. Wait a second... Diamonds..?

"What do you mean 'your' Diamonds..?" Onyx asked.

"My Diamonds instructed me to take you to our Homeworld." Fire answered, "They heard a great deal about you and wished to meet you in person."

"So kidnapping me was your answer!?" she spat coldly to her captors in response.

Fire Opal narrowed her eyes at Onyx, "It was you and your 'friends' who attacked us first. We merely took the necessary action to accomplish our mission. I do hope you realize that this WAS meant to be a PEACEFUL mission."

"Peaceful?!" Onyx barked, "YOU invaded our planet! You attacked my friends! You insulted AND assaulted Pearl! You threatened to ENSLAVE Lapis!"

Pyrope laughed at the last part, "The look on your face was absolutely priceless, dear..!"

"Say another word and I'll break BOTH OF YOU traitors with my bare ha..-"

Before Onyx could finish her sentence, when she tried to punch the wall of the Light Barrier that kept her trapped, a sudden jolt of pain rose up through her arm, making her yelp. This caught Pyrope, Demantoid, and even Fire Opal by surprise.

"What was that about..?" Demantoid asked, "Since when can YOU not touch something that was made by a Prism..?"

Onyx remained quiet despite wondering the same herself, crossing her arms and glancing away from the other gems, mustering the most annoyed scowl she could possibly make.

Fire Opal sighed, "Pyrope, Demantoid, leave the prisoner to me and head to the bridge."

Pyrope's eyes shot open, pouting like a spoiled princess, "What..?! Aww, but she's so fun to watch when she gets all angry..."

"If you want some entertainment, Pyrope, go look in the mirror and pretend someone just called you hideous." Onyx remarked.

Pyrope gasped with shock and shook her fists angrily, "Ooh, this is why I can't stand you! You're a disgrace to all of Gemkind!"

Onyx turned towards Pyrope with a chilling glare, "You're not exactly a peach yourself, Pyrope. Sorry that I HAVE standards."

Onyx's comeback actually cracked a slight smile from Demantoid, which surprisingly didn't go unnoticed by her friend as Pyrope glared at her, "Demantoid! I saw that!" she whirled on Onyx, "You tiny, pitiful excuse for a..-"

"Enough..." Fire Opal broke up the argument, "I gave you both an order, and so long as you're in MY ship, you will do as I say."

Pyrope scoffed and took one final glance at Onyx before snapping her fingers to get Prissy to follow her along with Techno and Demantoid, leaving Blitz and Fire Opal with their hostage.

"Look, I don't want any trouble," Fire Opal explained gently, "I will get you back home as soon as Purple Diamond and Red Diamond allow it, but all they want is to meet you. I swear it."

Onyx refused to respond to Fire Opal. Even if she was being nice now, that didn't change the fact that she was a prisoner again, right back to square one, where she had started: without any or friends, without her powers, and being the prisoner of Diamonds.

We'll just see if I even trust them to begin with...

She felt the ship begin to slow to a halt. They had most likely arrived at their destination.

"Stay close to me, and you won't have any trouble," Fire Opal recommended, "Blitz..?"

The third Prism from before floated over and retracted the Light Barrier for Onyx to be released as Fire Opal reached for her hand, but Onyx slapped hers away.

"I can walk myself, thank you," she hissed, "I'm not some dog on a leash."

Fire Opal looked at Onyx with bewilderment. Her sudden shift in attitude greatly puzzled her, but to be honest, it was confusing Onyx just as much. Perhaps she was just all nerves because of the burn on her Gem, or perhaps it was because Pyrope and Demantoid turned traitor... Or perhaps, it was something else entirely.

As they exited the ship, Onyx looked around. The planet was like a split between Earth and Homeworld. The nearby Agates gave their commander a firm and formal salute. Sure enough, this planet was Gem controlled, and under the command of whoever these new Diamonds were. It was disgusting; how could anyone live a life of servitude?

"Woah, is that the Onyx gem..?" asked one of the Gems in the crowd.

"She looks so... dull." said another.

"Is something wrong with her? She keeps glaring at everyone..." observed a third.

Fire Opal gently ushered the Gems to clear a path, leading the way into the Diamonds' palace. Pyrope and Demantoid marched a pace behind their prisoner as Onyx looked around.

"Beautiful, isn't it..?" Pyrope asked, noticing Onyx's curiosity getting the best of her, despite even her own Prism thinking it was a bad idea to torment Onyx at this time, "This is what YOUR Homeworld should've been, but then YOU came along."

Onyx stomped her foot against the floor, "ZIP IT BEFORE YOU GET YOURSELF AN UNRULY PRISONER, YOU BLASTED PEBBLE!!"

Instead of trying to subdue Onyx, Fire Opal took note of how the third, larger eye on her forehead was open, and surprisingly changed color, forcing her natural pair of eyes to change color with them.

"Fire, aren't you going to do anything?! She's threatening me!" Pyrope exclaimed.

"You're the one provoking her..." the commander replied.

That strange third eye... She's no fusion, so why does she have it..? And why does it reflect her emotions the way it does.

"Well well well, if it isn't our old friend, Onyx..." a snotty voice suddenly broke through the tense air as Aquamarine flew by with Eyeball Ruby beside her, "Missing her wittle friends to protect her... Or more importantly her pwecious mummy."

Onyx growled as if she was a savage beast, "Bite that tongue and choke on it."

Aquamarine cackled, "In case you haven't noticed, Onyx; though I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't, we're GEMS... You may subject yourself to such an identity crisis, but we don't partake in those silly little organic rituals."

"At least the organics you despise have twice the superior taste and thrice the brains of you traitors all put together!" she shouted.

"Oh..! My poor feewings..!" Aquamarine's exaggeration and sarcasm was making Eyeball Ruby laugh hysterically, but making Onyx fume with rage.

Fire Opal, on the other hand, had just about lost her patience and snatched Onyx by the arm as she continued down the hallways, followed by Demantoid and Pyrope. Onyx kept trying to wiggle her arm out of Fire's grasp, but her grip was tighter than Hessonite's. When they got to the throne room, Fire Opal let go of Onyx's arm and gave her Diamonds a formal salute.

The throne room looked very similar to the one in White's palace. There were three thrones in this one, two of them being occupied by a Red Diamond and a Purple Diamond. The third throne sat on Purple's right side, empty at the moment, but was a green throne. A Green Diamond..?

"My Diamonds... I brought the Onyx as you requested..." Fire Opal announced.

"Ah, perfect timing!" Purple Diamond cheered, "Well done, Fire Opal."

Onyx watched as Pyrope skipped over to Red Diamond and was scooped up into her hands adoringly.

"They didn't hurt you, did they, my sweet Pyrope?" she asked.

"Not a scratch, my Diamond," Pyrope replied, "but that Onyx has such a foul mouth... She threatened me on numerous occasions."

Onyx muttered angrily, "Because you don't know when to shut your mouth already..."

Red gasped with shock and horror, "She did..?! Oh how awful... To think anyone could be so cold and cruel to my sweet Pyrope."

"SWEET?!?" Onyx barked, "If she's sweet, then I wanna know what you Gems deem FORGIVABLE around here!"

"Onyx..!" Fire Opal tried to settle her prisoner down before things got out of hand, but Onyx continued raising her voice.

"What gives you the right to just come to our planet and attack innocent people just because someone won't agree to follow two traitors and a stranger she's never even met before to some untold place!?"

Before she could continue, another gem dashed forward and struck Onyx in the stomach with brass knuckles, forcing her to fall on her knees.

"Thank you, Tanzanite..." Purple acknowledged, "though, perhaps you could've been a bit gentler... That look like it really hurt her."

"I gave her only what she deserved for speaking to you in such a cruel manner, my Diamond." Tanzanite replied, saluting Purple Diamond.

Purple looked at her Gem commander a bit scoldingly before reaching over to pick up Onyx, who would've fought back if she literally wasn't just punched in the stomach. After hanging around Steven and Amethyst too much, she quickly got adjusted to how humans feel pain and where they feel the most pain.

"So... You're Onyx..." Purple said, smiling, "I must say, you're quite the small surprise. I expected you to be a bit... Shyer than you were walking in here. You had no issues with voicing your opinion, did you..?"

"..."

"Won't speak to me, now, will you..?" Purple continued to smile and speak softly, even stroking Onyx's head with her finger gently, "That's alright. I didn't expect you to trust me right away... White DID tell you about me though, didn't she..?"

".... I never saw you or heard about you before in my whole existence..." Onyx said quietly, making Purple gasp with shock.

"She's never even said a word?!" the look on her face showed discontentment as Purple sighed dishearteningly, "Oh dear... And here I was hoping to get the chance to catch up with you for all the time I missed spending with you. All the presents I missed giving you..."

Onyx weakly glanced up at Purple, "W... What do you mean..?"

At this point, Onyx's shock with Purple Diamond's patience had ran out, but was quickly replaced by an important bit of information that Purple Diamond dumped on her like a sudden avalanche.

"Well, you see Onyx... White Diamond and I used to be very close, until we had a terrible disagreement. Oh, it was awful; we said some terribly bad things, the both of us. She made me comply with an agreement to never infiltrate her Star Systems and she wouldn't declare war on my colonies, but you see, with this wonderful little Era 3 you came up with, we had the chance to send some gems to Earth... I just had to meet you, I hope you do understand that I..-"

"Purple, I don't think she's going to understand unless you just tell her already and stop dragging this on..." Red intervened.

"Ah, yes. Of course..."

"What are you saying..?!"

".... Your Mother, White Diamond is my sister. Onyx, dear, I'm your Auntie, Purple Diamond..."

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Would you believe that's not the end of the Chapter? Seriously though, can Onyx ever catch a break and stop being victimized? She needs to take a MASSIVE vacation from the Diamonds.

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(Purple Diamond, Fire Opal, Red Diamond, Tanzanite, and Blitz were all designed and created by my this Amino but hasn't posted anything yet. She also drew the picture of her OC, Purple Diamond that's in the background.)