Summary:
All family, good and bad
He watched as the two Butterfly children landed after a micro eternity. "... I hate everything about this!" Star shouted.
"First you barge in without permission, then you make fun of my room? Where are your manners." Glossaryck tisked.
"They got blasted out of me along with my bond and magic back on homeworld." Star retorted. "Now I'm just an angry teenage girl whose lid is barely being contained because every use of black magic hurts me more and more." She showed off the black veins on her arms.
"Yikes, that's not looking good." He glanced at the arm. "I would just say wash it off, but Dark Magic has been out of sorts lately, especially with Eclipsa's spell running around."
"Are you just trying to get Star to destroy all magic by this point?" Steven raised an eyebrow.
"It's kinda been my end goal ever since I was born." Glossaryck gestured to the halls and pictures. "Trying to guide the queens of Mewni to the only path … some got it more than others."
"Nice try, but these pics are empty." Star pointed to the white spots.
"That's because this is my domain." He answered. "They're actually quite excited to meet you."
"Wait…they?" Steven blinked, looking around as a light fog filled the room. "Who…who else is here?"
"Think of this as a bit of a family reunion." The voice of one of his better prospects announced as the Butterfly siblings turned around. "I've heard that the two of you were pretty big fans of mine."
"What the…Skywyne?!" Star almost fell back on her backside as she stumbled to keep herself steady. "Is this actually happening or am I going through magic madness again?"
"No, I see the ghost queen too." Steven said quietly. "Um … hello there." The boy awkwardly waved.
"Hello Steven." She giggled. "I'm just here to greet you, the rest are all gazing at the new tapestries." She gestured. "Come on, it's finally finished."
"My tapestry's finished?" Star walked as they followed the former Queen. "But I didn't do anything."
"As a master of time, I can tell you it's quite relative." She answered as they went past empty pictures. "Sure it can flow in many ways, but sometimes it all coalesces into a single point of inevitability … a thing that is destined beyond all others to happen."
"I've been riding it for minutes." The specter of Rhina floated by, laughing. "Everyone finally got my riddle."
"Rhina the Riddled is here too?" Star looked at all the incoming ghosts of all the queens. "Is everyone coming for this?"
"Everyone from Skywyne forward, yes." Jushtin answered. "Gotta say, nice to not be the only male here for once … the only one not being an asshole that is."
"Yeah … I can't imagine Glossaryck being the only other guy to share something with." Steven said bluntly.
"Again, my domain, pretty rude." He chided. "And here I am nice enough to let you stay here rent free."
"You have me make all your pudding." Comet answered with an eye roll.
"Everyone has you make your food for them. Is anyone going to argue against that?" The silence that followed proved that he was right, like always.
"Wait, Comet, as in grandma Comet?!" Star's eyes lit up as the children rushed to see her. "Wow, I had no idea just how cathartic it is to see you in person … relatively speaking."
"Hello there my grandchildren." She gave a warm smile. "It's so lovely to meet you both."
They finally entered the room in question. At the edge of the wall was Dirhhennia, who was always a loner compared to the rest of the group, and Solaria, who looked completely out of place and tried to hide it under a solid exterior. "Wow, this is so freaky." Steven looked around. "Reading the entries is one thing, but seeing it all … there's so much I want to ask."
"I know, like, all of our family is here." Star went on. "Skywane, Festiva, Celena, Estrella-" Star stopped, looking at a single corner, which held a figure that immediately sent the children on edge. Rose Quartz … who simply moved away into another room through the hole next to her, probably trying to avoid how awkward and terrible that was going to be.
"Don't be too harsh on her, she's had to witness every mistake unfold before her since coming here." Celena brought up. "On more than one occasion, she's tried to fight her way out of the afterlife in an attempt to help."
"The time Steven got his soul sucked out was her closet attempt." Justin laughed. "But the Chairman only allows us so much freedom in the current state we're in."
"It's ironic when she wanted to come back considering her moral standpoint on reviving the dead and not moving forward in life." Glossaryck chuckled.
"Oh, so that's her excuse for not reviving my mother?" Solaria scoffed.
"I wouldn't have wanted to, sweetie, it'd just place more of the Mewman's misguided reliance on me." Skywyne reassured. "Coming back from the dead would make them worship me like a god, and then they would truly never learn a thing."
"Could we maybe stop for a second, we're being hit with a lot." Steven tried to calm down the situation. "Every past queen is here, my mom is here, and Glossaryck agrees with Star's stupid plan of destroying magic."
"Not that stupid, check out my tapestry note." Rhina gestured to the kids over to her Tapestry.
Star looked it over. "Seven came before Rhina, if you subtract the boy. Add four more reigns to her domain, what gets destroyed?" She gave an exclamation of success. "I was right!"
"Don't be happy about this! This is a bad thing!" Steven exclaimed. "Do you know how many people would DIE if magic is gone?!"
"Fourteen quadrillion, including myself." Glossaryck said off handedly.
"Steven, we're running low on options here!" Star shouted back. "We're being forced into a corner while a maniac is trying to take over the multiverse and slaughter probably more than that quadrillion mentioned! What other choice do we have!?"
"A tale as old as time." Dirhennia rolled her eyes. "Magic being used for the wrong reasons because a species just thinks violence is the solution … it's like a ball that keeps going around and around because there's always going to be those that take advantage of a good thing."
"So what, people can't be trusted with anything ever!?" Steven shouted.
"Well if your remove their ability to feel negative emotions, but that's another thing entirely." Glossaryck deadpanned. "Anyway, your tapestries are over there on the wall."
"Wait, as in more than one?" Star questioned as the children turned. "Steven, you have one!" She shook her brother, pointing to a picture of him looking up, with everyone from Beach Creek behind him.
"Steven the Understanding." The boy read the stone tablet outloud. "While not by blood, this Butterfly son always risked life and limb. A cheerful bud who always seeks peace, even if the light is dim. With the help of Star, his light reached far, so now all can share his grin."
"I wrote that one." Celena raised her hand. "I've inherited some of my mother's prophetic powers, so I've been expecting you two to come along for quite a while."
"Nice." Star grinned as she turned to her own tapestry, one that showed her on Mewni with her family. "See, this is perfect!" Star shouted. "Everyone is happy, peaceful and … and …" She paused. "Why aren't we shown on each other's tapestries?" She asked. "I…I don't see Steven or Marco on mine."
"And where's Kelly ?" Steven added on, looking confused with a hint of worry.
"When the power to move things where they're not meant to be is gone, everything goes back to where it's meant to be." Glosseryck nodded. "You'll be put back where you belong."
"No…NO…NO!" Star shouted in panic. "This…this can't happen! The firstborn put Marco and Kelly in a lint catcher and put my Mom in a space zoo! Magic doesn't know what it's doing!"
"She placed your friends where they needed to be, otherwise you wouldn't have learned about Jasper otherwise until it was too late." Solaria said firmly.
"As for Moon…well you needed to go to space to save your dad." Glossaryck added on. "It decided to kill two birds with one stone, and without that trip, you wouldn't have learned to eventually empathize with the Diamonds. It all happens for a reason."
"I knew it, this was a stupid idea!" Steven shouted. "We'll find another way, we won't destroy magic, there's always another way!"
"We tried to find that other way … map it out …" Estrella said quietly. "But the fact that magic gets destroyed is absolute …"
"Well fuck th at!" Oh boy, dark magic was starting to take over again. " Fate is like wet paper around me! Destiny is bullshit!"
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Solaria held many regrets in her life, so many, too many to count. Watching all the hardship her own daughter went through and experienced due to her arrogance while she could do nothing but watch was the cruelest type of hell she could imagine. Seeing her frozen in that crystal, denied even the chance to meet her again in the after made practically everyday agonizing to stand through.
She'd watch the generations go on, seeing this new Butterfly family struggle and stumble their way, doing their best to deal with the mess she left behind, only to experience the same hardships over and over again. It was like Dirhennia said, it was an endless cycle.
And now her entire family was under attack from the forces she brought unto the world, the one she thought would help Mewni and her family … no such luck there. Maybe that need for atonement was why she was willing to walk forward and interact with the crazed Star. "I am going to blow Omni sky high, and make it so they can never get off of Mewni, and then I'll think of some way to end this misery!! I'm not leaving Steven!"
"And then what? Continue to let the darkness consume your soul as you become a dark hollow shell of yourself?" Solaria approached with a firm and neutral expression on her face.
"Oh, I am not going to hear this from the Monster Carver herself!" Star's pupils formed literal daggers that threatened to be thrown at her. "Everything bad that's ever happened on Mewni is all because of you!"
"I know. Because of me, my daughter and her family were locked away and separated. Because of me, Rose lost faith in the Butterflies and let Seth and his army rise to power. Because of me, Mina continued to go mad and led to the state she's in today."
"Actually I'm pretty sure the loss of faith was the Commission's fault." Festiva spoke. "I think Rose would have been fine if she had been allowed to raise Meteora …"
"Wait, Mom knew about the coverup?!" Steven looked surprised.
"Well I didn't learn about it myself until I chatted with everyone here, but yeah." Festiva continued. "She tried to beg for Eclispa's freedom, tried to stop Globgor from eating Shastican, saying there was a way to find his daughter, who I kinda hope I can call sis one day, and when she tried to find Meteora herself they just froze her.'' The boy listened intently.
"We're just lucky Iconvinced her to come back." Everyone rolled their eyes as Crescenta.
"Pretty sure that was me." Dirhennia raised a slow hand up. "I was queen before you, she only stuck around for you because I asked her to."
"You couldn't let me have that, could you?" Crescenta scowled.
"So even in the afterlife family argument is still a thing." Star sighed.
"When the mistakes you make stockpile to the next generation, yes." Crescenta sighed. "I thought we could try making the monsters peaceful by putting the Avaricious family in charge … which led to Ludo."
"Well, to be fair, he was just a lonely egomaniac. He was only dangerous when he was being manipulated by Toffee." Steven shrugged. "So all of you are on board with destroying magic?"
"Not all of us. " Celena stepped forward along with Solaria's mom, her brother Justin, Crescenta, and Comet. " Like we've said, we've been watching you two accomplish so much in so little time. We're not completely convinced everything is set in stone when you've defied fate before."
"But some of us view it with more practicality." Solaria stepped in. "Magic doesn't corrupt, but power does. It causes those without it to rely on those that do, and those that do push themselves so far they snap under their own problems." She didn't blame Rose for ending her … she tried her best to help Eclipsa.
"Even when we have the best intentions, it can bring devastating results." Rhina continued on. "After all, that's how the road to hell is paved."
"But we've seen people do good with Magic." Steven spoke up. "The Miraculous holders, the Ninja, Gwen, Luz and her friends, all of them have done great things with the power they've been given!"
"Hawkmoth, the Sorcerer, Hex, Charmcaster, Belos, the Collector." Estrella listed off.
"Face it Steven." Star finally calmed down, but the black veins were still present. "We can't trust people with magic because the bad people are always gonna outway the good." She walked to a picture of her mother. "I…I…"
"NO!" Steven called out, his body glowing pink. "Don't you dare say it!"
"I think …" She hesitated. "... Toffee was right."
"Surprise! " They all jumped back from the grinning picture … oh dear, this wouldn't end well.
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His sister was deadset on being stupid, his whole family tree wasn't any help at all, and now the man who some might considered the origin of every terrible thing they've been through in the past few years was now talking to them through a painting inside the head of one of the worst people Steven knew personally.
"Why is Toffee in here?" Star asked, backing up as the painting began to shift more. "He wasn't magical at all."
"He's not … the man upstairs just needs a vessel." Glossaryck said with a minor glare.
"The…man upstairs?" Steven questioned.
"What, am I not invited to the family meeting?" Toffee's voice came out, but it was a lot less restrained and malicious than it was whenever he spoke to the vile person. "I give life to magic and the diamonds and I'm not even given a welcome?"
"You're … you're the Koala." Steven realized with a bit of shock.
"Okay no, going to stop you right there." They looked at him with disdain. "As someone who was called a gem and organic for the last two years, you understand right now how I feel about people calling me that. My name is God. G, O, D, but Yaweyh gets cocky and takes the name for himself, not to mention other deities."
"Okay….God…" Star slowly and hesitantly approached. "What the heck are you doing here?"
"Oh, just here to see it all go down. " The Koala(it was easier to remember who this one was with all the higher beings out there) said with a shrug. "I never expected this day to come in all honesty, it just feels too good to be true."
"Right." Steven glared. "Because you created the Diamonds to remove magic yourself because they're 'oh so perfect' in your image." Suddenly remembering the majority of their problems came from this guy, he felt a lot more confident arguing back.
The Koala in Toffee's body pointed to him. "And you removed their entire mission, so we'll call it even, Steven." The Koala sighed. "Really to be honest, out of all the Diamonds I created, I never expected Pink's, the gem itself, not the person just fyi, to accomplish all my goals. But you've surprised me. I never expected this to be the worst gem in the bunch THIS badly."
"So, what, you're going to help us now?" Skywane asked skeptically, standing next to him with a wand raised.
"Actually it's a win win in my book." They shrugged. "Either magic is destroyed and everything goes to it's own dimension, or Omnitraxus wins and instills order on you mortal morons." The Koala turned to Glossaryck. "He really was one of your best pieces of work."
"Of course you'd think that." For once the little blue man was more annoyed with someone else than Steven's seen before. "Arrogance and ignorance in full force."
"Discrimination breeds stability." And just like that, any chance of Steven even coming close to liking this guy came to a stop abruptly and burned to cinders.
"So what, you're on the prejudice's side?" Star asked with a glare.
"I gave you all free will. As long as you all keep to your lanes you're free to do with it as you see fit." They rolled their eyes. "This entire multiverse is a mess of constant travel between worlds and time …."
"So what?" Steven growled. "We travel, we make friends, we have fun. There is nothing that'll convince me that doing that is wrong."
They stared at him for a moment, a curious glint in their eyes. "Everyone claims you have empathy … 'Empathy Empathy, what happens to you, happens to me'." The Koala sarcastically sang.
"Oh shut up-" Steven was cut off as they stretched out their hand and touched his head … and everything was wrong!Atoms where they shouldn't be, time warped and twisted, lines blurring into circles, it was all messed up and chaotic and needed something to fix-Steven was back, panting.
"Steven!" Star ran to him and hugged him tight. "What did you do to him!?"
"He's the empathetic one, I just gave him my point of view and my feelings." They shrugged as if they did nothing wrong. "I inhabit your bodies and deal with all the disgusting things they have to understand you, but nobody even tries to see things my way …"
"The universe…it's constantly in flux…constantly moving…every single universe is like a cog…every multiverse….it's all a part of each other…all a part of the same Omniverse." Steven's eye's spun in circles.
"And when you mess with those cogs just enough, they start to crack, and the cracks grow and grow … until dimensions and timelines have no meaning." They answered. "Sure, a minor bit here and there is acceptable, such as one person moving about every thousand years. But eventually even the deities themselves won't be able to fix every problem."
"Maybe if you weren't so content with not doing anything your entire life…" Steven's mind began to clear up…he got a taste of what the Koala experienced, and it only reinforced what Steven believed in.
"Not doing anything is a bit of an overstatement. Majority of my time is ment to balance out the other two and stop them from ruining existence … Believe it or not, the Snake was actually easier to manage than Black Hat." Steven would question that later. "But no matter what you believe, you know for a fact now magic is only going to continue causing problems…"
"I don't care if magic causes problems!" Steven shouted as his voice began booming in the air. "I don't care if it gets just a little harder to live each day with each new threat! Because I know for a fact we're going to overcome each problem we face! It's better than just letting everything stand still, where we just go in an endless circle and experience the same problem in the exact same way!"
"Even if it meant finally having a day to breathe without fear?" The Kola stared him down
"Life's an uphill battle! With every problem, we take another step forward!" Steven ranted on. "And I'd rather spend a million years moving a rock one inch upwards than stand in one place forever going nowhere! Because that is what I call changing, that's what I call growing and improving, that's what I call living!"
Toffee's body stared at him emotionlessly. "You're as flawed as your mother." For the first time in his life he'd take that as a compliment. "Well, I got all I wanted to say … oh, one more thing actually." They looked at him. "You know how I said I was fine with either option, right?"
"Yeah?" Steven glared.
"Well in the scenario where magic still runs rampant and nobody keeps it in check … that's it." They stated bluntly. "I'll give up on this multiverse and let the Axolotl and Black Hat do as they please with it." And with that ominous message, the Koala disappeared into the painting.
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"Steven … I think you just pissed off God." Star said with a painicked look.
"Good. Hope he stays mad." Steven growled spitefully. "Now do you see why we can't? Destroying magic just means being that jerk's tool."
"Honestly, true … but not doing it would also make you his tool." Glossaryck stated. "Omnitraxus is immortal as long as magic exists, and he doesn't kill anyone. That's how it is for all the Commission."
"We can't out live the threat, we can't out run it, and our only solution for an easy fix results in billions dying anyways and being separated from my brother and boyfriend." Was it wrong that she was more concerned about losing her family than all the deaths? "If we don't make a move, people are going to die either way."
"The universe would be better off if my soldiers disappeared." Solaria muttered with her head held down. "Mina's too ruthless and unstable to be left unchecked."
" Death's too easy of an answer." Skywyne added. " Death has been the cause for so much suffering in our lives, adding more to the pile won't make things any better."
"I say we try and pull a Diamond redemption on Omnitraxus. It'll probably be easier than trying to pull it on Mina." Festiva suggested.
"What about getting one of the diamonds on Mewni? Blue sucks it all out of the solarians, yellow destroys the armors, and white purges their brains of it." Rhina brought up.
"Can we not get the Diamonds involved? I'd rather not get dragged into that stuff again, and I highly doubt they'll stop at just one army if that's the case." Steven rolled his eyes.
" They do seem like the type to go overboard in this situation, probably make the situation worse." Crescenta pointed out.
"There is another Diamond we know." Star said with a bit of realization.
"Oh yeah, Rose." Celena nodded. "She was the first of any of us to use the magic well, and she was there when the solarians were created."
"As much as it pains me to admit it, she is the most likely to see any chink in Mina's strength." Solaria grumbled. "Good luck trying to get her to say anything though, she's barely said a word about it in the last fourteen years.
"Okay then Steven, let's go get her mouth open." Star stood up, hoping Rose's actions would actually work out for a change.
"You should probably go alone." Skywane told her. "She figures Steven wouldn't want to see her himself."
"It's fine, I can barely muster the strength to be mad at her anymore after the homeworld thing." Steven waved off.
"Even though you spent the last two years doing it?" Jushtin asked.
"Yeah. Because people can change their minds." Steven answered. "If I spent all that time and energy trying to convince the Diamonds to do it, I'd be a hypocrite if I couldn't do the same."
"Your funeral." Dirhennia shrugged as the two of them made their way into the other room.
"That's pretty ironic coming from a ghost." Star snorted.
"Or cryptic." Steven grinned. "Given how technically we've already died."
"Ah, reminds me of the good old days, right Solaria?" Jushtin elbowed his sister playfully.
" Yes, except I don't remember you ever being funny enough to make me laugh, unless you count your failed attempts at flirting." So the most violent woman in her family tree was sassy, who knew?
They moved through the other room, finding a dark corner where Rose Quartz gazed out of a window. "Hello there … Steven." She said quietly and more reserved than the last time Star talked with her.
"Hey…Mom." Steven closed his eyes and slowly managed to breathe it out. "So I finally met your side of the family…they were…suffocating to say the least."
"You were never supposed to see them …" She took a breath. "I hoped they finally left earth alone after six thousand years of nothing … I guess I was wrong there too." The gem let out a humorless chuckle.
"That's just the theme of today, right?" Star joined in with a hollow laugh. "That no matter what we do, something comes up wrong one way or another?"
"More like the theme of the last three centuries." Steven sighed. "You know, even before I knew you were my mom, I wanted nothing more than to meet you, to meet the kind but strong hero of Mewni."
For the first time since they arrived, Pink Diamond … the Rose Guard … Rose Quartz, turned to her son, looking at him with tears in her eyes. "... I'm sorry I couldn't live up to that ideal." She apologized.
"Ideals are that…ideals. They're unreachable goals that we lay out for ourselves." Steven looked up with a teary look himself. "Despite everything, that ideal of you is why I wanted to be a good person growing up…I'm thankful for that."
The woman looked like she was on the verge of taking her brother and smothering the life out of him from pure maternal instinct. "Okay, not that I want to interrupt the sap fest here, but we're kind of on a time clock with the Multiverse about to be destroyed."
She sighed. "I'm sorry, I can't offer much advice about the situation … it's true the Commission and Mina can't be destroyed … trust me when I say I've tried ." She clenched her hand with a hint of violence. "The closest I got in theory was the concept of empathizing with them and boosting their magic to such a high degree their form couldn't compute and self-destruct."
"Yeah, definitely can't do that with Omni, since we hate each other's guts." Steven sighed. "We don't need to kill them, we just need to cut them off from their magic, but we can't do that without killing everyone else with magic."
"Ugh, how was this easier when Toffee destroyed the well." Star slapped her head.
"Because Toffee cared for no living thing other than the Septari and his own kind, so he could do it, consequences be damned." Rose rolled her eyes. "Trust me when I say I tried to hurt him hard after he killed Comet."
"And that's why I can never truly hate you." Star nodded as she rubbed her chin. "I just wish I could turn the magic off and on, that way the threat gets dealt with but we don't end up separated."
"Well, how did you save the well last time?" Steven asked her.
"I grabbed onto the last piece of magic and used my bond with you to kickstart it." Star recalled. "I'm not sure we can use the same trick twice."
Rose's eyes seemed to widen in realization. "Maybe you can. You two wouldn't happen to know the origin of the wand, do you?"
"Yeah, you had Bismuth craft it for the Mewmans to use." Steven nodded.
"That is most of the story, but not all of it." Rose continued. "The crystal inside of it is a piece of solidified magic that I was able to shape from the well."
"Wait…you were able to shape the magic like that?" Star questioned.
"I'm the Diamond that enhances magic, it can do some strange things when I'm around." Rose smirked. "When I tried to redirect my colonization efforts to Mewni, I had difficulty trying to mine the raw form of Magic directly. The most I could manage was shaping it into a single solid chunk." Rose/Pink told them with a small smile. "In essence, you can call it a seed ready to plant a brand new tree."
"... Are you telling me we can … plant an entire DIMENSION?!" She shouted.
"Well I wouldn't say …. I mean technically …" Rose looked contemplative. "... Maybe??" She looked over her hands. "I never actually did anything on that scale before, but if Glossaryck was right about 'one fourth omnipotence' then …"
"Then if we destroy the magic dimension, we can create a brand new one!" Steven said elatedly. "Nobody will have to die! We can keep magic beings alive while taking away Mina's source, and Star won't become a genocidal monster!" Okay…that hurt way more than it should've.
"Do keep in mind that this is mostly theoretical..." Rose tried to add in.
"We've gone off on less information before and still won, this is the best news we've been given all day." Star cut off. "This is what we do. If there's one spark of hope for things to go right, we dedicate everything we have to light that flame."
"Glad to see your hope hasn't died out." Rose gave Star a small smile.
"Thank this little guy for it." She squeezed her brother tight with a side hug. "So, exactly where can we find this seed?"
"If I remember correctly … I placed it in a chest inside of Lion's mane." Rose recalled.
"Oh thank Corn." Steven wiped some non existent sweat off his face. "For a second I thought you kept something crazy in there like Toffee's decapitated head."
"Nononono …" She waved it off. "I kept that inside of my legs."
"...Note to self, burn anything suspicious I find in the space ship." He looked up at his mother. "Thanks…I can't exactly forgive you yet…but I can stop hating you."
"It never really mattered to me if you hated or forgave me …" She smiled, gazing down at him. "As long as you love yourself, that's all that matters."
"Trust me, lady, I'm going to be there the entire time making sure he does." Star laughed as she made her way out, running into the grandmas. "We got what we were looking for…so I guess this is goodbye." She looked across the room. "You all know this family is completely nuts, right?"
"Between the psychos." Crecenta admitted.
"Between the nobodies." Dirhennia agreed.
"Between the ones that did it with Rose." Jushtin commented.
"Washing out my brain now…" Steven covered his eyes.
"Between the hardworking and the lazy." Skywyne spoke up.
"Yep, just one giant bag of mixed nuts." Star couldn't help but smile. She thought she would hate her family tree if she got to know them…but they seemed like regular people she could have a conversation with…they felt like a family that cared for each other. "But I'm a nut too…so no matter what happens…I'm happy that I'm a Butterfly."
" I'm glad you are too, Star the Underestimated and Steven the Understanding." Skywyne nodded to them as everyone waved them off.
"Heck yeah, awesome name!" Star grinned. "Nobody's gonna see this coming."
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Omnitraxus Prime sighed as he took another bite of pizza. Sure, this was absolutely necessary … but not having Hekapoo and Rhombulus here really put a hamper on the mood. They were delusional and stupid, not evil.
He couldn't tell where they went wrong. Sure Rhombulous liked that brat Steven, but he never let that get in the way of the job before. Heckapoo was even more baffling. Far as he recalled, she really never gave a damn about anybody not her family until that Diaz human came along. Maybe humanity in of itself just made superior beings more moronic.
"Thanks for the meal, big guy." Mina stole a slice of pizza. "Rose managing to break out was baffling, but not unexpected." She complained as she took a bite. "We'll get her eventually."
"Yeah, we sure will." As long as she was motivated, there was no need to try and correct her on the details. And to be honest, he was rather content if he never saw the human-diamond hybrid again. Just getting away from the Butterfly family in general would save him so many headaches in the future.
"And then we'll finally shatter the freaky little-" They paused, turning with a strange look in their eye. "Hello, Omnitraxus Prime." She spoke in a much less fanatical tone than usual … which was in itself a major red flag.
The was a sudden thickness in the air that he felt, an instinctual fear that crawled into the back of his head, and there was only one being in the universe that gave him that. "Hello … God."
"Good, usually takes a bit to notice, nice instincts." They casually commented. "Although pallet could use some work … anchovies?"
"Stressful week, and it's a celebration. Might as well cut loose a little." He shrugged.
"You may need to cut the celebration short and the loose a little further." They said, looking out of a window. "After all, now both sides are interesting to watch."
That was another giant red flag. "Both sides?"
"Yeah, becuase right now we're at a crossroads of fate where I legitimately can't tell what will happen, only that I'm most likely going to come out satisfied in the end." The being smiled. "And to think I almost regretted creating Pink Diamond."
They … "I'm sorry, you're siding with the headache?" He thought he knew the thing.
"Not exactly, but with you driving his family into a corner, you've forced his sister to accept her destiny and destroy all magic."
"Destroying … MAGIC!?" Are they insane!? The consequences alone were astronomical!
" I'm kind of mixed on how to feel." The all powerful monster that was his boss said skeptically. "Yeah, they're not exactly on my side, but the end result will eliminate so many headaches, then again, if you win, you'll eliminate quite a few headaches too…tough to choose what I prefer here."
"But you created magic, it had to have been for a purpose right!?" He begged.
"A trump card of raw power to pull on deities, to be used as Glossaryck saw fit … we both know how THAT turned out." They rolled their eyes. "Not to mention how you've manipulated space time for your advantage and plan on continuing to do so to complete your little cleansing spree." This could not be happening. This just couldn't. "Just figured you should be aware, even Steven and all that." With a chuckle, Mina blinked. "Why am I standing near a window?"
He was about to die and his boss, the whole reason why he existed and worked so hard to keep everything stable…couldn't give a damn. Omnitrackis was truly all alone…with nothing more than a will to live, and a desire for revenge."Get ready Mina … I know where Rose will be next."