<OPEN!> Galaxy Warp <OPEN!>

[Amber (Evol)]

At a far enough distance away, the situation between the Beryl, Padparadscha, and the Tourmaline hardly existed. Much rather, a new situation was taking place: a Corrupted Gem hunt conducted by a small Amber. She had been tracking it down for quite some time, following its tracks and the destruction it left behind: snapped trees, footprints in the mud, and holes left behind where it may have gotten into an irritated outrage. It wasn't hard to follow; the only difficulty of it was coming up with a plan to catch the beast.

It was only just ahead: a Jasper corruption clawing anxiously at the ground. Amber lied low, observing the monster a bit before summoning her weapon. Dealing great damage to it would prove to be difficult with a small Gem like her who lacked strength; the Snow Monster's skin was hard like rock to begin with -but she had to try! With this victory, it was one more Gem closer to salvation, and one less wild card in the road.

Drawing back the string of her bow, she aimed carefully. If she could just hit the-

As the three other Gems moved closer to the mountain base, the more their voices echoed. She heard the call of a Tourmaline's voice pleading for a word, his voice bouncing off the rocky walls and cliffs. The Snow Monster rose its head and snarled, its mane bristling threateningly as it began moving towards the source of the voice. Amber widened her eyes and hastily shot her arrow, but the projectile had missed as now the beat broke out into a run, climbing over rocks and leaping to the ledges below near the base of the mountain.

"Oh asteroids!" Amber muttered. A flash of light appeared behind her and a pair of butterfly wings formed, enabling her quick flight to catch up with the monster. She hoped that whoever all was down there wouldn't cross it's path, or for it to cross theirs....

[Tourmaline]

Tourmaline was about to come down from his machine when out of the corner of his eye he saw something charge towards them. He turned and saw a four legged beast with horns come bounding towards them. "What the heck is that?!" he exclaimed. He sat back down in the seat of his machine and charged the thing with a medium amount of electricity to simply let it move. The machine began to move backwards away from the homeworld gems and towards the mountain again. The machine could possibly combat it, but Tourmaline was not sure if the machine itself would be able to last much longer due to the damage it has sustained. Maybe letting it distract the homeworld gems would be better.

[Paddy]

Her eyes narrowed as the technician stopped. She realized that the gem model was a tourmaline, or at least, he very much appeared like one. It was the same model of gem they were meant to rescue in the first place, but it seemed strange that a gem awaiting rescue would run from potential saviors. Then, as the tourmaline spoke, she cast her eyes in the direction he was looking, and her gaze widened as the sight of a corruption barreling toward the group of gems threw her through a loop. Just as she'd spotted the corruption, she spotted something else hovering in the sky not far behind. 

She stumbled a bit-- if she redirected her attention, the runaway could make a break for it. But if she didn't redirect her attention, she could very well be knocked from a mountain by a rampaging monster. As the tourmaline fired up his machine once again, she grit her teeth. "Great!" She seethed, her fists clenched. It was a hard call to make, but she glanced to her partner, and kept her javelin trained on the tourmaline's vehicle. "You're not going anywhere!" She called up to the fugitive as she then focused the other half of her attention on creating more plasma. She tossed it down a few feet in front of her, hoping to snare the corruption before it could get too close.     

[Red Beryl]

It was clear to Red what had happened now, at this range it was unmistakable to a Beryl that the gem in from of them was a Green Tourmaline. The exact same type of gem that they had set out to save at the start of this mission, considering the amount of Pink Diamond's court that had run away to join the Crystal Gems his sudden decision to escape seemed to stem from the fact that their attempt to save him and return to the Moon Base wasn't what he wanted. Which meant that the mission parameters had changed, the gauntlet at the rear of Padparadscha's javelin started to shoot forwards; aimed straight at the gem sitting atop the metal spider.

However, her concentration was broken as the ground started to shake heavily. Turning her head to the side, Red's eyes widened imperceptibley; seeing the corruption coming straight towards them. It was too late to stop their projectile, even if she had decided that the corrupted gem was a more important target. Though the vibrations might have thrown the shot off target just slightly.

[Amber (Evol)]

The Snow Monster yowled, sensing the change in temperature from the Padparadscha's heat. Its main bristled, then, at both the threat of the intense heat and the mechanical sound of the Tourmaline's transportation device. Distracted by that, the Corrupted Gem followed the sound, the mechanical whir hurting its sensitive ears. Unstable, it thrashed about, swiping its claws blindly in any direction.

Amber's eyes widened at the sight. Those Gems were in trouble because of her! She summoned her bow and arrow and tried aiming in front of the Snow Monster to try and herd it in a different direction. However, due to its thrashing, the arrow instead hit its armored arm. It hissed, and did the opposite effect, actually. Amber fluttered down to the other Gems, "I'll help you fight it!" There was an apologetic look in her eyes. "I'm sorry, I was hunting it up in the mountains!" She notched another arrow. "You voices must've echoed off the walls of the mountain." She fluttered up again, trying to aim once more to veer the monster off Tourmaline's course.

[Tourmaline]

Tourmaline's eyes widened when he saw two things come at him. The Giant monster who was clearly disturbed at the noise of his Machine and the Long, Fast, and Very Hot Spear flying towards him. Priorities took over and he noticed the spear angled off course by maybe about 12 degrees. He could do something with this. He Disengaged the right side (the homeworld's left side) legs of the machine they launch gas from the exposed mixture of the fuel and the oxygen in the planets atmosphere and caused a combustion to happen propelling the base and the left side legs of the machine to be shot to the left. He braces for impact as the machine "flies" off of the flat area of the mountain they were on.

[Paddy]

So much had happened in the seconds between the creature's appearance and now that the sapphire found her head spinning. Focused on the manipulation of her ability, it was hard to break away to properly regard the new gem that had arrived on the scene, or to react to the tourmaline attempting to fling himself off of the mountain. She made an effort to attach some of her plasma spear to the hull of his vehicle, so they might be able to track him if he managed to survive his plummet. Padpara had no idea what that gem was thinking, but right now, the threat of being thrown off of the cliff herself was a more pressing matter. 

As the new gem flew into the air and took aim at the beast, the sapphire made an attempt to distract it from below-- she took a few brisk steps forward to bring the thing more into her range, and used what she'd thrown onto the ground before to sweep up under its feet. She hoped to take a hold of it, and trap it still so that either Red or this flying archer or both could get a good hit on it.

[Red Beryl]

Red snarled as the Tourmaline went hurtling off a cliff... well... it honestly wasn't completely lost, she had contemplated throwing the green gem over the edge earlier. Just this way, they weren't in control of how fast he was going. It was still a terrible turn of events, unless he died upon hitting the ground the green gem was doubtlessly going to abandon his vehicle; along with their only way of tracking him. And they now had bigger problems to deal with, namely a strange flying gem and its prey which just happened to be a powerful corrupted gem, which was something Red had managed to avoid during her time on Earth up until this moment.

Looking towards her two companions Red laid out her upcoming actions "I'm going to circle around behind it, stop the corrupted gem from leading us on a long chase. Hopefully throw it off balance as well, you should take that moment to strike" before crouching low to the ground and slinking around until she was behind the colossal, raging beast who was focused on the other two. Jumping forwards and pressing both knuckles against the ground and firing the hammers. With explosive force, the rather thin mountain trail that the monster had run down in order to get to them cracked, then crumbling into a landslide pouring down the mountain side.

[Amber (Evol)]

The beast heaved itself after Tourmaline, but soon got snared in Padparadscha's trap. It struggled, hissing and growling, snapping blindly as if the heavy chomp of its maws could break it free.

Amber watched the rocks crumble down the mountainside, and looked to the others to make sure they would be well out of the way from the rolling boulders. The rocks did its purpose, blocking off a possible escape exit, and some even landed near the monster. One rather large one landed on its back leg. It roared in rage, growling at the three combating it. Then the hammers came, and the entrapped Corrupted couldn't take much more.

"It's getting weaker!" Amber said excitedly, though her thoughts drifted towards the Tourmaline. She couldn't see much of what had happened to him; she knew there had been a blast and a flying sphere, and now he nor the mechanical spider was anywhere to be seen! What if he got damaged?

She called back to the two, "When it rises, try to aim for the Gem! The weakest spots are almost always the ones hardest to get to, but with it thrashing, it'll be difficult to time, but easier to access!" Her mind was racing; one gem was nowhere to be seen, and the other two were... well.. holding their own pretty well.

Guilt still twisted in her chest. They could still be hurt...

She flew to Red Beryl and gently touched her shoulder. A small glow emitted from her Gem. "I'm giving you a small boost. When it rears, throw a hammer -the boost's input will raise the damage output. I'll try to hover above and distract it, like one would a cat and a feather toy." She fluttered away and looked at Paddy, "How long will it hold? Can you try to keep it there for a bit longer?" She cast a wary glance towards the Snow Monster as it struggled more and more.

[Paddy]

(Since tour can't really participate in the fight at this point anyway, I'm going to go ahead and post. By the time he returns we might be ready to continue) 

Her focus was thrown off kilter as the rocks tumbled into place-- it had gone according to plan, but she was use to things going awry very quickly, and had almost expected it to now. Everything about this debacle conjured unpleasant memories for the sapphire, who was never meant for battling anything, much less corruptions. Monster after monster had assaulted her in her time on Earth, each now a haunting echo dredged up from the bottom of her mind by the grating roar of the creature in front of her now. 

But she couldn't let her own inner dilemmas wedge themselves between herself and the success of the group. She couldn't dwell right now. Her grip had slacked for only moments, but it would've been unnoticeable to a creature who didn't have the resources to cope with the current tar-like form of the substance, emanating an intense heat. As she hoped, she came to grips with the passing seconds, and was able to refocus herself before the beast could be given any leeway.

At Amber's question, Padpara gave a solid nod,"I'll be able to hold up, provided things continue to go as planned," Saying it out loud was also a good way to help her keep her nerves down. 

[Red Beryl]

Red watched the cliff collapse; between the combination of its own weight and the strength of the reverberations that she had put into it the rather unsteady and eroded path never stood a chance. A piece of it landing on the monster however was an unexpected boon which served to bring a slight smile to her face. She could only hope that far below this the running gem had found a way to also get hit by the falling rock, or at least added some injury to their previous insult of breaking his machinery.

Her imaginative process was broken by the feeling of a hand being placed on her shoulder from behind, causing her back to tense up and an unsettled scowl to be thrown at the intruder. However, Red relaxed when she felt the energy flow through her, it was clear that whoever this new gem was they shared a similar goal... to not be crushed underneath the massively oversized paws of a rabid snow corruption, it was noble indeed.

So, Red just gave a small nod and "Acknowledged" to the plan being laid out before her, it was helpful to be told to go for the corruptions gem. Not because it wasn't what she planned to do, but years of being carefully regulated for having a dangerous ability meant that mentally it was hard for her to go in for the kill; which meant that a command or even suggestion went a long way. Especially when given by some sort of... corruption hunter... well, she could always ask later. As their mysterious benefactor played the role of cat's tail and Padparadscha kept the corruption in check, Red shot forwards, powerful legs easily propelling her through the air at high speeds. 

Eerie eyes fixated on the point that she needed to hit, not only with regards to body positioning but also punch throwing. With a roar the snow monster rose up on both back legs, leaving its front two sets of claws to take a swipe at the gem flying around its head. It was at that moment that Red chose to strike, dropping into a slide along the rough mountain floor and coming up right underneath the monster's belly, which had been exposed when it went for the attack. With a flick, Red's gauntleted hand slammed into the thing's torso and the hammer dropped with a deafening boom, that sent shockwaves of air out to either side of the creature. In a split second, the previously solid form was missing a huge circular chunk... just a fraction of an inch off from its gem, along with a cracked mountain wall on its other side.

With a pained howl the corruption dropped to all fours, crushing the Red gem, not with power but with sheer weight. As it tried to curl up and protect its damaged body.