#a lot can still change bout this project i'm slowly working through it as I post. I sort of just wanted to share and ramble lol

[snazum]

Project: IYKYK bts for Jackson (The e-boy looking one with the beanie) spoilers below if you care :3

Noah Jackson (referred to as Jackson to differentiate)

The original design for my ME OC, Noah Moreau, back when he was just supposed to be this asshole brother character and before I latched onto him and fleshed him out more. And then named myself after him XD

SONGS: Ful stop by Radiohead and April by The Lumineers The first song is just full of self hatred about the actions he took in past events. These events, once again will vaguely mirror the events of S.L. and Arz. There will be sprinkled in metaphors of his mental state during this time as well. The second song will be an entire metaphor for Jacksons mental state and how he deals with it.

ART STYLE: Very much my sketch art style. Since this is more grounded in reality of relating to me, but also not a fully fleshed person. So the opacity by pressure is turned on to give the lines more of a feathery (?) look. The background is just gradients or solid colours and vibrant lines to represent ideas/objects. You can also faintly see the construction lines.

Fun notes/symbolism:

Designed to look like an edgy teenage boy, cause he is one. Duh, vaguely wanted to replicate the e-boy style of clothing when I was in highschool, but also didn't want to create a complete e-boy.

There's a lot of house burning symbolism in his story to represent a broken mental state. If I pulled this from BRIGHTSIDE no i didn't, also it's sort of a funny coincidence. (I have old drafts of the original story ideas that I never followed through with, he did in fact burn a house down in them)

With the art style I wanted to represent that this is me basically explaining my emotional situation, at the time, with just the stories being fictional for anonymity sake (And even then they're probably gonna end up vaguely resembling my real life)

The background choice though is for ease sake, and the fact that it's more of a inner brain turmoil than what reality reflects.

The fact you can faintly see the construction lines also represents that his journey isn't complete, still being constructed ya know.

He represents facing your reality and all you can feel is torment and despair, viewing the world with jade tinted glasses. Hating yourself and viewing yourself as the enemy once again.

[verobatto]

Learn the lesson Dean

A Hunter Fable 📗📘

Working Traumas 14x04/14x05/14x06 spoiler

Hi my dear fandom! Here i am again! I'm like a cockroach... Hard to kill. 😏

So... What am I doing here...? I want to present all of you... This Hunter Fable.

"Once upon a time there was a boy that has to growth quick, raise his brother and become a strong hunter, bc he was his father's legacy. And this was his flag in life and his purpose... He was the righteous man, as his father was... He made bad decisions that lead him to hell... In there, he begins to make bad decisions again, till one day he was rescued by an angel... And he met this angel in that barn, one day, and since then... His journey to a growth and self acceptance... Slowly begins to shine..."

The journey of the Hunter

Did you notice in this season how each episode is about working one by one Dean's traumas trying to kill this old Dean he has inside? Well I did, and I was thinking, oh well this is like a journey, you know, bc he started with Michael Possession, the monster inside of home trying to figure out what Dean wants... So here I will write this big steps that Dean is making in this journey through the pain.

14x04: Mint Condition: Working the FEARS

As I said before there was a monster in each episode, representing some kind of trauma/issue inside Dean's head, in this episode of interpretate this monster from a HORROR movie was Dean's fears, and is so so interesting how the monster can switch to be John Winchester or AUMichael, or just fears, and toxicity. The fight was so interesting, because Dirk was in the morgue and all of the sudden one of the corpses wake up and is the monster that you thought you left behind and now is inside the room with you 😏 and bc the Monster was drowning Dean just as Michael did.... And he couldn't get rid from him, he needed Sam's help.

So FEARS are so intense for Dean... That red was everywhere here... Danger.

14x05 Nightmare Logic: Working Father issues

I talked extensively about this topic in my others Dean's metas. But basically, we all saw AUBobby mirroring John so so hard. He was judging Sam's actions as a leader. And Dean was all the time defending his brother, and giving him the encouraging words he would love to hear from John. So this is a very huge impediment to Dean's self acceptance. Is a big rock that blocks his path in this journey. That punishing voice is all the time in Dean's head. He is the cause of his guilt and bad management of trauma. And this voice is the cause too for him repressing his feelings. This wrong and toxic idea of what a man should be. But this...

Gif credit @shirtlesssammy

Yes!! He is saying words that he needs to hear and learn. Again. Projecting himself in Sammy and Sasha. This, my dear fandom, is working the traumas. He's learning from himself, in each episode, this Hunter Fable is about learning the teaching from his life...

14x06 Optimism: Accepting True Love in his life ( Castiel)

So, not for nothing this episode was about a library, with pictures of fables in the walls... And like my dear friend @mrsaquaman187 pointed me, there was this picture with this specific legend on it... It said "Live and Learn"

We had too Charlie reading a lot of book showing us that books are necessary for learning...

So obviously this episode was full of books, and a librarian named Harper, that just wanted to be loved, she was mirroring Dean all the way and dressed in red meanwhile she was doing this... "I'll keep alive my first toxic love that should be already dead".

So she delivered to Jack ( mirror of Castiel) the BOOK THAT JACK NEEDED, and that book was in her room.

This is the book...

Gral McCook bibliography. And the episode begins with a take from the camera to Gral. McCook statue, in McCook town.

This honorable man was a righteous military man that fought in the Civil War... Do you remember someone similar to him?? Yes. John Winchester. So... Here we are again... Harper Trying to keep alive this toxic wrong love and loving this book about the Righteous man... OLD DEAN IMPEDIMENTS TO FREELY LOVE CASTIEL!!

But then when Jack and her were running away, Jack put the book on a bank in the street, like letting that thing that was just bothering him. And immediately he took Harper hand and ran into the library. I WANT YOU MAKING ALL THE SYMBOLIC CONNECTION WITH THIS SCENE, bc... He doesn't drop that on the ground, just put the book gently in the bank, with respect for it. I mean... If it's representing JOHN WINCHESTER THE RIGHTEOUS MAN, he is Dean and Sam's s father, even if he is one of the big impediment in Dean's head to finally love Cas without attachment... He's still their father so... This is so meaningful, the book is not dropped, is just left behind on the bank.

Once in the library what happened was symbolic too, bc Harper OPENED THE DOOR TO HIS TOXIC PAST AND THIS ZOMBIE GAVE HER THE BOOK AGAIN! I MEAN!! This is Dean coming back all over again to this big issue, embracing him, not letting go. This toxic idea of what a man should be, this toxic idea about NOT TALKING OF THE L WORD AND NOT FEELING IT FOR A MAN!

And then, Harper take this book in her hands...

The title says "LANCES AND LACES" DO I have to explain myself more?? Bc...

And who is in the portrait??

Sorry for the bad resolution... But even so... THAT'S CAS!!!!! I mean... COME ON!

And is a romantic novel, and in this Chapter was everything about LOVE AND FIRST ENCOUNTER AND DESTIEL and, and...

This story ended like this...

The girl that was all the episode in red... Making the bad choice trying to keep something that was already dead as the love of his life, now in the end is dressed in GREEN, and accepting the real and pure love in her heart.

This... Is a good good mirror and foreshadow for our Dean...

Bc he was talking about the "L" world all the episode with Jack, and remembering Cas all the way. Bc he was teaching Jack about LOVE bc he know EXACTLY WHAT BEING IN LOVE MEANS. BC HE LOVES CAS.

"... And by teaching this young man about love, the hunter was learning about it too and accepting inside of him this love."

Ok... This is the Hunter Fable, and we saw and will see how Dean is changing, he will left behind all toxicities one by one, we saw him in this three episodes doing so well! in the last one I was surprised bc he was talking about the 'L' word so comfortable with it... And His smiles in all of this episodes...

... all these smiles are for Cas...

... and they are telling us that he is trying to heal, he needs to. Bc healing means break up from his emotional prison.

He is opening himself to his brother, slowly, trying to find the way to express him his feelings... His fears... Tryin to talk with him about how he feels bout Cas?? I think so...

And then... We will have this talk with his angel. He wants it. He really wants to do it. But he has some issues to work yet...

In the next episode I sense he will work THE GUILT. That a big big thing he has inside since ever. Maybe taking care of Jack... Or keeping teaching him about being human... That will help him to work all of this guilt.

"Life is a journey, with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy."

I hope you enjoyed this as I enjoyed writing it...

And I hope that this Fable ends with Dean and Cas being together! 😍🤞🙏

Tagging some friends to discuss!

And everyone who wants to share thoughts!!

@emblue-sparks @mrsaquaman187 @magnificent-winged-beast @agusvedder @lovemesomecas94 @cheerstofandomfamily @navajolovesdestiel @lykanyouko @castiellover20 @moimeme-things

Buenos Aires, Novembre 23rd 2018; 12:50 PM

[vipstarlight1990]

Super Junior Reacts

To you getting hurt while they are away

Kim Heechul - Heechul

It felt like time had slowed down as you lost your balance. You hadn't expected the floor to be so wet. You didn't see a sign that warned you. But in an instant your body fell over and you hit your head on a nearby bench.

You didn't cry, you couldn't cry. Because after that moment everything started to go dark. All you could recognize was warped noise that sounded like your name but you weren't sure. The moment everything went dark the pain went away.

The filming had just finished as heechul thanked everyone for a good job. He had turned his ringer off while he was working as to not be rude to his co-host. As he unlocked his phone he noticed multiple text messages and missed calls. Confused he read through one message. Feeling his his heart collapse as he quickly gathered his things.

A few people tried to calm him down see what was wrong but he tried to be polite as he could.

You sat there while the doctor checked your eyes to make sure everything was okay. A bandage covered right above your eyebrow. "Did you feel light headed, or dizzy before you fell?", he asked. "No I slipped.", you said softly as you heard your name being screamed through the halls. "(Y/N)!", you heard a familiar voice echo as his reached your door. "Oh god.", you muttered as the door to your room slammed open. " Jagiya!", he said checking you over. " What happened?", he asked obviously worried. "I fell.", you reluctantly muttered. "You fell?", he asked as you looked away from his judging eyes. "Have you not eaten?", he inquired. "I slipped.", you say under your breath. "But you are okay?" He asked softly. "We are keeping her for observation but yes she should be okay.", the doctors said taking his leave. You looked down as the door closed and heechul turned his focus on you. "Why must you always be so clumsy.", he said kissing over you as you pushed his hand away. "I'm not clumsy the floor was wet.", you say as he helps you sit back. "So blind then...has your eye sight gotten so bad that you couldn't see a bright orange sign?", he teased.

"I'm not listening to this anymore.", you said as he tucked you in. Almost like a captive audience. "Well you either blind or clumsy either way I have to take care of you I just need to know if I have to get a service dog or not.", he teased again. "You can go home now.", you groaned. "Home...not while you are here.", he said fixing a chair next to the bed. You looked over to him and smiled while he started telling you about his day.

I put a lot of shit talking but to me I feel like heechul would check on you first. Once he was certain you were okay he would tease you so you weren't worried to much. This also may be for his benefit since he will worry until your healthy.

Lee Donghae - Donghae

You looked outside you window and saw a light flurry of snow. You had to run to the store for food but it was far to cold to simply walk. Your boyfriend had left you the keys to his car for emergencies. But the more you thought about it, the more driving right down the street seemed insane to you.

Regretting not going shopping after work yesterday you grabbed your jacket and walked downstairs to where your bike was chained up. You could ride it and balance a few light items. No problem you've done this before. You unlocked your bike and carefully rode it to the small family owned convenient store. Making it their without a problem you parked your bike in front of the store and walked in. "Small items.", you muttered to yourself since you only had to last a few days. Grabbing some soup and a half a gallon of milk, you paid for your purchases and walked out the store. Balancing your bike you wished now you had never decided to make a craft project with the basket that use to rest on the front of your handlebars. Lacing one bag on the other you slowly pushed off and gently peddle your way down the street.

Donghae checked his phone to see if you at least saw his message. "Still no answer?", hyukjae asked. "No...I'm worried.", he said about to call but he was signaled by a producer. "Dammit.", he muttered putting his phone down and going towards the stage to perform. He tried to focus only on his performance but a nagging bug sat in the back of his mind. No matter what he did he couldn't relax until you sent him a simple hey or good luck. Anything at this point since he hadn't talked to you all day. After performing their first song the group went backstage to change. Donghae rushed to his phone and was relieved to see you had sent him a message. 'Hey, didn't see your message...good luck talk to you tonight.', he read it once, twice, then a third. He was happy you messaged back but it seemed....off. He shook the thought from his head as he changed and went to perform his second song.

The rest of the tapping lasted a few more hours. It was well past dinner time when he got back to his hotel room. Plugging his phone up he sat back and called you as quickly as he could.

You jumped at the sound of your ringer going off. "Hey.", you said as you answered the phone. "Hi...did you watch me tonight?", he asked you knew he liked sending you little flirts when he performed. Especially if he wad promoting and you weren't going to see him for a few weeks. "Um....No I didn't get a chance to watch.", you said looking down at your bandaged hand and wrist. "Oh...were you busy with work?", he asked as you sighed. You knew how he would react and you really didn't want to tell him. "No I was just preoccupied and that's it.", you hated being vague. Because you knew he wasn't buying. You could hear the wheels turning in his head. "Did something happen?", he asked. "Well....", you stalled. "(Y/N)!", he yelled over the phone. "Okay, okay.....I rode my bike in the snow to get some groceries and hit a slick patch on the way back and got into a little accident.", you spoke quickly. The line went quiet, you knew what he was doing and you were trying to figure out how to phrase the next sentence in a positive light. "Okay....how bad of and accident?", he asked you could hear his tone starting to change. "A car hit my bike.", you mumbled under your breath. "What?", donghae asked. "I said a car hit my bike.", you still muttered just as low as before. "(Y/N) I know you have a louder voice then that.", he said obviously worried, though slightly annoyed. "My bike got hit by a car.", you said still trying to make it sound like nothing bad happened. Then there was that silence again. "I'm coming home.", he said quickly as you tried to calm him down. "Whoa...No you will be home in two days I'm fine.", you said as you heard him fumbling around. "Are you hurt?" He asked in a panicked voice. "A few scratches but I'm fine.", you reassured him. "I still want to come home.", he saidf as you satg back with your eyes closed. "You can't leave...", you said simply as he sighed heavily. "What if you come here.", he asked softly. You looked at your hand shook your head. "I don't think that is a good idea I'll see you on tuesday.", you tried to reassure him but you knew he wasn't having it. "Tuesday...No riding the bike...use the car if you must go out.", he said sternly. "I honestly c ouldnt use the bike if I wanted to.", you muttered under your breath as he popped the phone on his end causing you to laugh a little. "Its not funny (Y/N), you could've been hurt.", he scolded. "I know, I know I'm sorry...I'll be more careful.", you said as he sighed. "Let me go get a shower and then I'll call you back.", his voice was filled with stress. "Okay...", you said softly as the two of you hung up.

Do I have to even explain why an army couldn't keep donghae away from anyone he loves getting hurt. He is an emotionally attached person so he does not play about the people in his life. If you are lucky enough to be in his life then you better prepare for donghae randomly checking up on you. He is not going to hide it, or play down his feelings. If you got seriously injured donghae would already be gone before that conversation ended.

So I've decided that since the request asked for two types of post imma do both. Hopefully this short reaction will be okay for now while I go and watch bout you a few more times.....for research. Since it may take a little bit imma post a few thing in between but know it's coming thank you for the request and I hope you enjoyed the reaction 💖

/The masterlist/

[gammaprimesmw]

All My Worthwhile SMW Hacks - Now on GBATemp

For those who have perhaps wondered where the SMW in my screen name comes from, it comes from my long history in the Super Mario World ROM hacking scene. It's something I originally discovered all the way back in 2006. Back then, I quickly fell in love with the ability to change levels. I could make the most annoying levels of the game a bit more bearable. (Looking at you, Tubular!) Before long, I had joined Acmlm's Board and attempted to pass a collection of blatant level edits off as my first SMW hack, only to be shot down rather quickly. I briefly quit, only to start again. This time, I tried to make my own levels, only to eventually break something in my ROM. I almost gave up yet again before finally producing my first passable (at the time) hack late that year. I intended to follow that up with another hack called Super Mario Bros. 5, but ended up burning out sometime in the following summer. I then left hacking behind until late 2010. That's when what I consider my real SMW hacking journey began.

By late 2010, a lot had changed about the scene. New utilities now existed, and new custom assets could be inserted that the average user wouldn't dare to mess with in 2006. Custom music, blocks, and sprites could be inserted whether or not one knew 65c816 Assembly. Meanwhile, I was getting better at pixel art, allowing me to make my own graphics from scratch. Before long, I had decided to resurrect Super Mario Bros. 5, recreating the whole thing practically from scratch. The result would be Super Mario Bros. 5 Roborn. It wasn't easy to pull the hack off, even with new skills and tools. I'd suffer from bouts of Hacker's Block, which is like a writer's block or artist's block, but it affects the ability to create new levels. I'd also run into technical problems and the inability to find the right resources to do everything I really wanted to do. Learning to make my own custom music helped somewhat, but I would still be dependent on the ASM people to either code what I needed or fix bugs involving whatever custom code had already been inserted. Sadly, requests for custom bosses were seldom, if ever, fulfilled. This fact would eventually kill a sequel to SMB5R known as Mecha-Bowser's Revenge. I wanted custom bosses that didn't exist and lacked the patience to learn the necessary ASM skills to make them myself. After canceling that hack and honing my level design skills a bit, partially thanks to a great tutorial written by AxemJinx. I entered my first Vanilla Level Design Contest in late February of 2012. While my level didn't win or even place in the top 5, it didn't place at the bottom either. A very critical hack reviewer called XKeeper, who I remember being one of the people to lambaste my earliest attempts at SMW hacking, gave the level a 4/5 when he played it during a Twitch stream. The time was fast approaching to try for another full-length hack. I tried my best to manage my ambition with this one. I'd keep the story simple. Bowser kidnapped the Princess (again). Koopalings would be the World bosses, and the existing bosses and boss templates made custom Koopalings feasible. I decided to draw all the foregrounds and backgrounds for this project. Only one thing really posed a threat to this project: Hacker's Block. It would get so bad sometimes that I'd question the morality of ROM hacking, believing the blocks came from God/my conscience trying to stop me from promoting the "sin" of downloading ROMs. Thankfully, friends like imamelia would reassure me that it wasn't. The hack was finished just as 2012 came to a close. This is the oldest hack that I felt worthy of going on GBATemp.

It was game on from there. I'd produce several more hacks. Each one would receive mostly positive reviews. The most frequent complaint I'd receive would be that my hacks all felt the same. I was, and still will be should I return to hacking, a traditionalist hacker. I tried to make my hacks feel like official Mario games. I eschewed the typical ROM hacking practice of making something significantly harder than the base game. I'm the first person to test the levels, and I'm not the greatest at video games. Lost Levels-tier difficulty curves aren't my thing, and Kaizo definitely isn't my thing. The latter fact suited me just fine. Up until about 2015, Kaizo hacks were banned on SMWCentral. That would start changing that year. A little thing called Janked Up Mario Party (AKA JUMP) was released, and it began changing the very culture of SMWC. Kaizo hacks were now permitted, thanks to them being popular with Twitch streamers. I kept going for several more years, even as popular opinion began turning against my "safe, homogenized" hacks, and Streamer Kaizo hacks began taking over the hack database. Let's Plays and streams of my hacks became more and more sparse, and my overall motivation to hack slowly dwindled through 2019. I burned out so back early last year that, for a couple weeks, I became thoroughly convinced that ROM hacking was a sin, regardless of what people like imamelia said. That conviction would bring me to tears every time I thought about everything I had created. I was still proud of it. These hacks were still available. I could've very easily asked a staffer on SMWC to take them all down, along with all the other resources I created. Being seen as crazy, and the fact that I could never truly erase what I'd done, ultimately held me back. Eventually, I gave into temptation, popping into a friend's stream while he was streaming a hack called Return to Dinosaur Land. That night, I also had a chat with Daizo Dee Von, and he finally convinced me that I was wrong about the whole "ROM hacking is a sin" thing. I salvaged some levels from the canceled Chocolate Collection I was working on since late 2019, threw in a few contest entry levels, and built a few new levels to create a much smaller collection hack simply called "Ten." I could've been done there. That could've been my send-off to the world of SMW hacking. Then COVID-19 happened, inspiring me to start another project inspired by the various conspiracy theories surrounding the pandemic. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough inspiration and motivation to see said hack through, and it was canceled. I decided then that I was pretty much done with hacking. I'd been doing it for a decade straight. That was probably the real reason I was burning out, rather than some divine intervention. I was burned out, and SMWC's culture was no longer one that really supported my style of hacks. I was no longer the one whose hacks could generate hype in large swaths of the community. I was now known as someone who just put out a string of very similar hacks. I even wondered if a sufficiently-trained AI algorithm could make hacks like mine. Maybe that thought can go two ways. I could see it as meaning I'm more like a machine than a person when it comes to designing levels, or the hypothetical AI could be seen as passing the ROM hacking equivalent of a Turing Test.

Anyway, here are the rest of the hacks. You will need a Super NES emulator and a Super Mario World ROM to play these. I can't tell you where to get the latter, but I can recommend using snes9x as your emulator of choice.

KAMEK'S ISLAND (2013)

MARIO & LUIGI: KOLA KINGDOM QUEST (2014-2015)

SUPER MARIO WORLD: BOWSER'S CATACLYSMIC TRAP (2014-2015)

SUPER MARIO LAND 3: TATANGA'S RETURN (2015-2016)

MARIO IS MISSING DONE RIGHT (2016)

SUPER MARIO BROS: THE EARLY YEARS (2016-2017)

SUPER LUIGI LAND (2017-2019)

SHORT BUT SWEET This is a collection of 4 mini-hacks I made during this time. These were usually side projects I did to keep my skills sharp and still do some hacking without burning myself out on the larger projects. Often, these would incorporate levels I had made for various hacking contests. One of them, Oiram's Invasion, is actually a contest entry itself, created for the 2013 12 Days Before Christmas contest. It's my highest-ranking contest entry on the site, having made it all the way to 3rd Place.

[blueberryrock]

Here is the next chapter, I really don't know what else to say except enjoy!

(Yellow's pov)

"I'm sorry Yellow, but I can't help anymore, I've done all I've can," Steven Universe says over a diamond communicator "I'd love to keep helping you look for her, but I've got some stuff I need to do on earth, but–" I cut him off.

"No, no, I get it. You've spent a lot of your time helping me look for Blue, I'm very grateful, I'll keep you updated if we find anything" I say exhaustedly.

"Sorry, " he apologizes again " what I was going to say was, after I'm done with the stuff I need to do, I'll come back and help" he determinedly says.

I sadly smile at him, but it quickly vanishes as I say goodbye to him and hang up. I rub my tired eyes, ever since Blue has gone missing, I've been working my ass off trying to find her.

But I've had no hope, we'll expect for all the quartz's Blue Pearl found poofed on the Oasis's moon. But they don't even know where they're keeping her.

And every rotation that I've lost searching is another rotation she could be shattered or worse.

And to make matters worse, she is still pregnant. I groan at that last part. I need to get off my ass and go out and search planets.

But instead of doing that, I am currently sitting on my bed wasting time.  I let out a tired front as I get off of the bed, I summon a yellow screen and I send a message to Yellow Pearl, telling her to get my ship ready.

As soon as Yellow Pearl says it's ready hastily warp to my ship. The huge golden ship is gleaming in the sunlight, I sadly sigh as I glance at Blue's unused ship.

"I will find you" I mutter to myself. I climb up the many flights of stairs to reach the entrance of the ship. I carelessly stomp through the empty golden halls of the ship, only slowing down when I reach the cockpit.

I throw myself into the somewhat comfortable driver's seat, I take a deep breath to prepare myself as my right arm is engulfed by a golden light. I relax once the noise of the engines starts roaring as I leave the ground. The beautiful purple-blue sky of homeworld quickly changes into the inky blackness of space.

I tilt my arm more towards the right to steer the huge ship to an old galaxy the I haven't visited in eons.

(Blues pov)

I groan as I slowly sit up. The bright sunlight that pours in my small cell nearly blinds me for a few seconds. I rub the exhaustion from my eyes, I'm being very careful that I don't move my very injured arm.

It stopped bleeding a while ago, but it still hurts like a bitch whenever I move. Which is why I only move off of the bed to grab food.

Luckily, none of the fusions have visited me yet. After three days they finally gave me another pillow, a nice soft plush one! They probably think that I won't destroy this one, which is true.

I delicately comb my thin hand through my dirty hair, I gingerly put my weaker hand on my big baby belly. I'm now currently seven and a half months pregnant starting today.

I sigh as hunger washes over me, I slowly reach over from the bed to "Padparadscha" a small pink and orange plant.

I slowly grab all the small sour fruits that the plant produces. I quickly shovel all six of them into my mouth, I twitch from the very sour taste.

As soon as I swallow the last of the nasty fruit a large group of gems walks into my cell. With, of course, they're two leaders at the front.

"Finally you're awake!" Black opal says happily "We've, I mean she" Opal nods to the huge pastel fusion standing next to her "thought today would be a great day to run medical scans!"

"Yes, today we will heal your arm" the pastel fusion glares at my still bandaged arm "and check up on the gemlings," she says smoothly.

She ushers the medical gems to bring the equipment forward. "Luckily, since someone gave the command to slice your arm open," she says harshly, the smaller of the two fusions takes a few nervous steps back "we hopefully won't need to restrain you very much"

"I wouldn't say that" I grit through my teeth.

"If you thrash about, you'll only make it worse," the big fusion says gently. She presses a button the lets the medical gems into my small cell "we don't want to hurt you"

"My sliced arm says otherwise" I sneer.

"That was a mistake from someone who was having 'fun' " she glares at Black Opal with all four black eyes.

"W-well I see that I'm not needed" Opal squeaks. She quickly turns around and runs out of the room.

"Thank the stars" I quietly mutter to myself.

The big fusion only shakes her head, her long rainbow locks following her every move "I, won't hurt you. And I'll make sure she won't either"

"Cause that reassures me soo much," I say sarcastically.

"It should. Now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way" her soft voice sends a shiver down my spine.

"Fine, I choose the easy way" I sigh.

"Good, good, there really no reason to put up a fight. In the end, we both want the same thing" she evilly grins.

"We do?"

"In a way, I won't explain it ...but I will say that we both want the gemlings to be nice and healthy" she gestures the gems to bring the scanner forward.

I sit as still as I possibly can while they use a small handheld scanner to scan me and remove the makeshift bandaid around my now stinging arm.

I let out a low hiss as they put some sort of healing paste on it and wrap it back up. "That should clear up rather soon," a small aquamarine with a squeaky voice says.

I weakly smile at her as the other gems work on getting the scanner to work. After a few long minutes of them just pressing buttons and muttering to themselves, the small gems finally get the scanner to work.

"Sorry 'bout that boss, it's an older model so we had to convert it from solar to a fuel system" a dark blue and gold Lapis Lazuli scratches her head.

"Why did you do that?" The tall fusion slightly raises her voice.

"I'm sorry, but it's the only way we could get it to work" the Lapis shrinks back.

"Fine. It's fine. Just hurry it up" the fusion snaps. The Lapis nods and tells the other gems to hurry it up.

And finally, the scanner actually does its job for once and quickly scans me from head to toe. Only beeping when it hits my belly and my arm.

"Alright, here are the results" a Peridot hands a light green screen to the pastel fusion.

"Finally" she quietly mumbles "good news! Aside from your arm being cut open, you're perfectly fine." She shoots me a grin.

"And that means?" I lean forward a bit.

"It means you're fine, and the gemlings are growing just as intended." She hands the screen back to the small Peridot, the fusion signals all the gems to leave.

As soon as she steps past the electric field, it quickly closes, leaving no evidence of its opening.

I gently lay down on my back, careful not to disturb my arm. I close my eyes and wait for the big metal doors to close.

I place my non-injured arm in my baby belly, tracing slow circles on top. "Don't worry, Yellow will come for us soon. You two can count on it" I whisper to the gemlings and myself.

I pull the now clean and soft thin blanket over me. I stare up at the ceiling, the green sunlight from the tiny window dances across the room.

"I hope"

(Yellow's pov)

Useless.

This is utterly useless.

I've been searching planet after planet, moon after moon, but nothing. No trace of any gems, gem ships, or working gem tech.

I angrily drum my fingers on the armrest of my golden throne and sloppily dodge any and all asteroids that are in my way.

And I've searched all asteroid belts and no sign of anything. I don't understand, I should have found her by now.

Their base should've popped up on the radar....Unless.....They're invisible....

Ha! Invisible! That sounds like something that Steven would suggest...Although, I do recall White asking me to stop working on something like that a millennium ago..... Unless someone started working on it again. Damn this just became a thousand times harder.

I jerk my hand off of the steering platform, causing the ship to come to an abrupt halt. I summon a screen and quickly type my theory to both White and Steven.

Even if he won't be searching I told him I'll keep him updated. As soon as that's done, I pull up the star map and locate the nearest planet.

I hastily put my hand back on the steering platform, too impatient to wait for the golden light to consume my arm I jerk my hand forward cause the ship to go as fast as it possibly can.

I slow down when I come to a very familiar area and a very familiar planet. Automatically, my ship pulls up a screen showing information about this planet.

Most of the file has been lost, except for the name of the planet (which was planet 2947). But the planet is large, hollowed out, and red.

I carefully land my ship on the ancient landing pad, it lets out a slight creak as I fully land on it. I turn off the engines and a golden bubble surrounds me.

I don't have much hope for this planet but it never hurts to look. After cycles of wandering around, I decide to go back to the ship and go to the next one.

The second planet I've searched used to be a water planet with purple water and gorgeous blue skies. But now it's once bluegrass is now murky brown mud.

If I remember correctly, this was my second colony. I cautiously cross a dried-up river bed, I kick a small rock across a field of dead grass. This is useless, nothing is out here.

It isn't until a strange, quiet, beeping noise stops me from leaving. I quickly whip around, I start a light jog back through the field until the beeping stops.

Out of the corner of my eye, a small pink object quickly looks up and disappears in the grass. I quickly chase after it, luckily the being is a very bright shade of pink so I easily find it.

I grab the small pink being, it has long fluffy pink hair that covers most of her face, with skin a few shades darker. They're wearing a short pink dress with tons of ruffles.

"Sapphire, how did you get here and what are you doing here?" I ask.

She slightly squirms in my fist, her small hands pound on mine. "Please let me go" her soft voice pleads.

I sigh and release my tight hold on her, she neatly sits in my hands with hers neatly crossed in her lap.

"I know why you're here, but what you're looking for is nowhere near" she calmly says.

"Don't give me that bullshit, if you know where Blue is, then tell me" I say angrily.

"I don't know what planetoid she is on directly, but I do know the galaxy" she tucks some loose strands of her fluffy hair behind her ear.

"Then. Hurry. Up. And. Tell. Me."

The pink sapphire stops to think, she runs her chin with her small involved hand. "You will find her in the Stracks galaxy" she grins.

I look away from the small gem to think "The Stracks..." I mutter to myself, all the anger quickly seeps out of me. My eyes slowly slide back to the still grinning gem "I don't think I've heard of that galaxy"

"It was where White Diamond's first few colonies (besides homeworld) were. Most didn't have any materials, so they were spared" The pink Sapphire says "I suspect that she is on one of those spared planets"

"Thank you. Thank you so much!" I chirp.

"My pleasure" she grins again.

"I do have one question" I set the little sapphire on the ground "why are you here?"

"We both have someone to look for, and I highly suspect that she is here" the pink sapphire brushes any of the dirt off of her dress and floats away.

"Umm, good luck" I quickly say before I turn around and head for the ship.

Don't worry I'm coming Blue.