Hands of creation (A steven universe x original male diamond character story)

Loss

"That's because it isn't debris, they're boarding crafts!" the sudden crackling of one of the other cruisers in the fleet cried out in response as she extended her gaze out and noticed the cruisers start to send a salvo of fire out towards the visible debris, noticeable explosions lighting up the assault as Fern straightened herself and barked out orders into the comms line.

"-!!" Fern suddenly turned as one of the crafts collided against her flagship, the technicians scrambling to straighten themselves as they activated the ship's weaponry and started relaying information to each other. But they all were stopped and suddenly silenced by the deafening sound of crunching and bending metal that filled the interior of the ship. Her eyes narrowed and she suddenly turned over to her side to where a group of techs was looking up and around themselves before a deep whirring sound caused her to shoot one hand to the sidearm on her hip and the other out as she shouted.

"Get away from that side of the shi-!!" but the words were suddenly interrupted as a very sharp metallic point penetrated through the side of the ship and gave no time to react before it roughly expanded in a circular fashion. Seemingly sawing through the metal and causing the technicians to let out sounds of shock and panic before scrambling to get out of the way, two were unlucky enough to get hit by the wall that used to be attached to the side as it was shot outwards. Poofing them instantly from the force.

"Scramble the troops and tell them we need help in the bridge! Get the starfighters up and out of the ship! We're being ambushed!" Fern shouted as she hopped over her chair and aimed her sidearm up and at the darkened hole left in the wall. The technicians that hadn't pulled out their own sidearms and aimed out at the hole along with her were frantically giving out orders to the personnel deeper in the ship.

She focused back in and narrowed her eyes as multiple glowing red-eye lights glowed in the darkness of the hole before crouching down and stepping out into the light, revealing themselves to be the towering forms of the chaos legion troops. Their heavily armored forms and gruesome visage caused her to falter for a moment before she tightened the grip on her gun and immediately started firing it at the enemy. She grits her teeth as manic laughter started pouring into the bridge as more and more of them shuffled out of the hole and towards her and her group.

Between the three of them with weapons, Fern is able to only down two of the troops before they crossed the threshold, uprooting the consoles and chairs between them and rushing at them. And the other two technicians are only able to down one or two before they were rushed and poofed by the troops, their shocked faces only increasing the maniacal laughter of the Legion's soldiers as they swung and shot their weapons at Fern and the rest of the technicians.

She rolled out of the way of a trooper swinging their chain sword down at her, being given no room to breathe as their movements were rapid and erratic, her only being able to fire measly amounts of bullets into its bulky armor before finally being able to use the increased strength given to her by her armor to block its chain sword with her gauntlet. Before she stuck her gun into the part where the helmet met the chest plate and rapidly fired, causing its laughter to suddenly stop as its body went limp. It threatened to crush her before she quickly rolled out of the way and narrowly dodged a swing from another soldier, and she had no time to react as bullets started flying her way again.

But as the alarms and the laughter and the shouts drowned out her own thoughts, she was still able to manage to keep herself alive for the moment as she was backed into a corner, having picked up a piece of broken wall and using it to shield herself from the bullets and in turn shooting back at the enclosing soldiers.

But she was given some reprieve as the soldiers were suddenly blown away by a sudden rocket shot behind them, Fern glanced up and noticed that the Gem soldiers below had finally gotten up to the bridge. But much to her shock, there was only a single gem soldier barely standing on her feet, her armor riddled with bullets and broken pieces as she dropped the discarded rocket launcher she was holding and quickly crossed the threshold. Fern shook her head and dropped the metal shield down and quickly moved to meet her in the middle, stepping over and past the downed legion soldiers blown to pieces by the launcher.