#ninjagem

[diino8081]

posting this unfinished wip of a ninjago x steven universe infection type comic i made back in around april

no idea if i'll finish it but i was scrolling through ibispaint and decided why not post

(ignore the fuckass car from page 2 lmao i have no idea how cars work anymore and to draw them is the bane of my existance)

the basic concept was that the diamonds were experimenting with a new technology to create gems; they created a species of gem that i called a gembug, but the name probably won't be official.

the gembugs were sent down through injectors and essentially what they do is they come in contact with something living, fusing with it and turning it into a gem

this happens to zane first and his gem replaces his power core. he is still titanium

for the others' gem types they are as follows:

nya is aquamarine

lloyd is malachite

pixal is moonstone

cole is a black sapphire but he also has some orange on him (the pattern is similar to the uncorrupted gems like jasper)

kai is unakite

jay is sodalite

wu is onyx

garmadon is black charoite

skylor is amber because of course

harumi is jade

dareth is boulder opal

(loosely written but becomes more structured near the end)

as for how the story plays out, this is set just before seabound. after zane gets hit by the bug, kai calls the team to warn them to stay away from the injectors. nya answers the call, asking if zane's alright. lloyd says to regroup at base. cole and jay don't pick up.

he and zane return to the monastery. kai has to keep away from physical contact as it's likely infectious (not sure for certain but something along those lines. maybe it's akin to a beacon, you touch an infected and it summons a horde of gembugs)

as for the reason why jay and cole didn't pick up, they were investigating an injector that was too far out for comms. cole ends up infected first and then makes contact with jay, infecting him too. they end up sending pixal closer to their location and in range of comms. she tells them to return to the monastery and look out for the injectors.

when everyone's returned, zane is not doing good. cole and jay seem slightly worse too. i think they put zane in a different room since he's further down the infection, just one of their villain holding cells. pixal is running scans on all of them. while she does this, jay accidentally bumps into nya. nya brushes it off, she'll be fiiiiine.

cole and jay get similarly put into holding cells, pixal investigates further. there isn't really anything obvious except she's detecting faint remnants of gemstones in each of them. as if their flesh is turning into rocks. she doesn't detect anything in zane as he's made out of the same element as his gem

while this happens, lloyd sends out a message to the commissioner to keep people away from the injectors and to isolate if infected, avoiding contact with others.

suddenly zane poofs and the gang freak out. the gem is bubbled and disappears. (the diamonds are about to infodump to patient 0 and the others will likely join them up there soon)

cole poofs now too and jay is panicking. there is a tic tic tic sound as they spot one of the gembugs just kinda standing there.

then all hell breaks loose. there's like a hundred of them that burst through one of the doors. jay stays behind to delay them, insisting he'll be ok as he's already infected anyways. he does hold them off but eventually ends up poofing too.

the 4 (pix, kai, nya and lloyd) run to their escape, using the land bounty to drive away from the monastery. they drive past the city but see people getting infected in droves. they pick up a few survivors along the way.

they drive off to the sea of sands to try to get to the junkyard. the bugs are quite far away. nya feels guilty and admits she may be what's luring the gembugs to them, due to making contact with jay before and not telling anybody.

they all say their goodbyes (contactless of course) and nya leaves the land bounty, the group driving away as she walks closer to the bugs scampering about in the far distance.

a walk. a jog. a sprint. nya summons water around her, forming into a giant tornado of spinjitzu. the gembugs being tossed around in a final blow from the elemental master of water. the tornado carries itself into a completely different direction than the junkyard or the city.

the team see it move over the horizon before it disappears.

they eventually arrive to the junkyard, setting up a camp. ed and edna are uninfected and happy to help. they are sure this spot is safe due to nobody else being infected and it being too far out for the bugs to find any time soon.

meanwhile at homeworld:

zane wakes up confused, looking around him to see 3 giant colour-coded women along with 3 smaller people too. they each have a gem somewhere on their body which is interesting. "oh look, it's a titanium! those are rare" says the blue one

the yellow one looks uninterested but watches anyways. the white one smiles before speaking.

she essentially just infodumps this whole operation they have going here and how the gems work. blue notices psychically that 2 more of them have turned into gems, teleporting them with a bubble. patients 0, 1 and 2. the first 3 to become infected.

they take a little while to form, cole coming out first, followed by jay. both are shocked by their new appearances and how they each only have 1 eye. cole having a large one in the middle of his face while jay has one of them replaced by his gem, similar to an eyepatch.

"a black sapphire and a sodalite! welcome welcome!"

"is that sapphire off colour?" yellow whispers

cole puts a hand on zane's shoulder. "zane! what the fuc-"

he covers his mouth with a hand. "excuse us for a minute"

zane turns them both around and pulls jay out of his space fanboying and into the conversation as well. "don't freak out, but i believe these three entities are equivalent to the first spinjitzu master. the species is some kind of sentient gemstone? these three are diamonds. they were the ones to send down the injectors. as an 'experiment'"

"experiment?" jay questions. "is that why i'm blue? why cole has one eye?"

"i believe so. they were trying to figure out how to create more of their species organically."

"well i'd say it sure worked." cole sighs. "i miss having depth perception already."

and then from that point i'm not really sure what happens

i guess gems and ninjago inhabitants coexist? i mean yes, the new gems will be kinda annoyed about losing their old forms but the gem forms are definitely stronger and more durable.

since the diamonds rule over all gems there would definitely be some independence battles since they were turned unwillingly. a trial maybe

those from ninjago would win the trial and be able to live regularly (albeit with new gem forms and gem tech)

i think earth and the crystal gems would help out too and then era 3 would begin

yeah that would work

ok thanks for reading feel free to add to this

[alena-1987]

Lloyd as style Pink Diamond.

Green Diamond.

[shadespear]

Is the text even readable? I don’t know...

[garfieldbookworm]

ANYONE REMEMBER THESE? Probably not.

Ok, so leaks of both NInjago and SU has inspired me to bring these back.  Lemme include some headcanons too.

Lloyd (Emerald)

Half human like Steven

Father was an Emerald warrior working for Black Diamond

Becomes older later due to some time warp thing

Was raised around gems and now lives with them

Sees Misako every now and then

Weapon isn't really specific, it's kind of an energy power

Firestone (Kai)

Came from Homeworld

Served as a "blacksmith," designed weapons like Bismuth

Weapon is a literal fire sword

Protects humans, but is indifferent to them

Blue Topaz (Jay)

Came from Homeworld

Served as a technician/engineer

Weapon is electrified techy looking nunchuks

Interacts with humans a lot

Wears an eyepatch over gem usually

Really likes to fuse cause he likes feeling like a part of something greater

Onyx (Cole)

Technically a quartz, so he's earthmade

Never served for Homeworld

Weapon is double-sided scythe

Eats a lot of human food

Actually doesn't like being called Cole cause he's not coal

Becomes corrupted later, makes him "ghosty." He's ok. Maybe

Titanium Quartz (Zane)

Specially designed quartz, earthmade

Served Homeworld basically as a computer database

Weapon is only one shuriken now

Incapable of fusing now

Does not remember anything before the last 1,000 years

Due to nature of gem, eyes and gem will reflect a different color depending on the angle of light hitting it

They started calling themselves human names when Lloyd came along, choosing a name for each other.  They're basically fighting to save the earth from Black Diamond.

[garfieldbookworm]

Jay likes fusing cause he feels like he's powerful and part of something great.  He doesn't fuse very often though, so he's sad.   Bonus couple of things in this picture.  Serpentine and similar monsters are just corrupted gems.   Also, the ninja usually refer to the others as their gem names out of habit, but try to use the human names as much as possible around Lloyd, like how parents call each other mom and dad around kids.  Jay tried to get the nickname BT (Blue Topaz) picked up, but the only one who really uses it is Lloyd.

[garfieldbookworm]

*aggressively sings Giant Woman*

There's obviously more fusions than this, but these are the ones that I've designed so far.

Kai + Lloyd= Tourmaline

Toll

Weapon becomes energy sword

Taunts people a LOT

Brave to a fault

Relatively stable fusion

Cole + Jay = Chacedony Agate

Big

Weapon becomes nunchuk-scythes

Smart and strong, but acts kind of like Sugilite

Ready to smash faces

Stable fusion

Zane, unfortunately, can't fuse anymore.  Makes him feel left out, useless, and overall different.

[garfieldbookworm]

Ay I did more of these.

Mahogany Obsidian (Kai+Cole)

BASICALLY SARDONYX

Weapon becomes harpoon looking thing

Acts fancy but will pound the ground with his face

Unstable

Azurite-Malachite (Jay+Lloyd)

REally big nerd

Weapon is nunchucks held together by energy powah

really dorky, doesn't take anything seriously

Relatively stable

Moonstone (Zane+Jay)

Smart and elegant

Weapon is some sort of spinning shuriken on the ends of a chain, like a big double spike yo-yo

Incapable of existing anymore

Stable

[garfieldbookworm]

Why can't Zane fuse?

OH I knew THIS question would come up...

Hehe, oh I’d love to tell you but...

I will either make a comic or fanfiction for NinjaGems at some point, and this will no doubt get explained in A VERY PAINFUL ANGSTY WAY.

So, hehe, you just wait. >:3

[garfieldbookworm]

seeing as the gems don't have "parents", what if jay stumbles across a junkyard and finds ed and edna. and they basically adopt him as their rock son. (for ninjagems)

OH THAT WOULD BE GREAT. Like, after the Gem War, Jay kind of started wandering around trying to get along with the humans he just saved, but they all kind of rejected him because of his appearance. But those two loved him instantly. Like they randomly pop up at the gem base just because they love the blue rock son. I love this idea thank you

[garfieldbookworm]

Me: *has about six side blogs, contest rewards I need to draw, rewards for a group on dA to draw, ninjago avatar references to work on, random requests on tumblr, midterms coming up* Me: should I open a ninjagems blog

[garfieldbookworm]

@carocondrai Ah, i’ve seen that blog before.  I actually follow it.  They reblog a lot of my ninjagems stuff.  I’m not really looking for a collection blog as much as a blog for my au specifically, but thanks for the input.

[alena-1987]

i’m alone who see it?