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[runningjoke]

CHARACTERS: Peridot, Pearl, and OPEN!

DATE: After Oska-sim, before the Team-Bonding tasks event

WARNINGS: Robotic dismemberment, maybe.

SUMMARY: Robot fights??? Robot fights.

• BEFORE THE FIGHT •

[Now that Oska has been "fixed"… it's about time to mess it up again. At least in a contained way that doesn't involve any "false realities." Two large, pilot-able robots stand opposite each other in a large ring, circled off with linked rope and poles.

One robot is a bright green color, diamond shaped with claw-like hands, and shorter than the other robot. The second robot is tall, smoother looking, with longer "legs" and pastel colored.

Both are unoccupied… for now, but outside of the ring is a crudely, and almost lazily painted sign with the words: ]

BUY TICKETS HERE

[…Someone's selling tickets to this??

Maybe someone else is nearby who can answer some questions… Or maybe also has no idea what's about to happen, but hey, feel free to look around anyway. ]

• THE FIGHT •

[A. - Closed to Peridot and Pearl]

[Now that the tickets have been sold, both Gems arrive at the arena.

After inspecting the area marked for their fight, and then inspecting her own robot to make sure Pearl hadn't tried to CHEAT while she was away, Peridot climbs into her own robot, testing the controls. It works just as well as it did when she first assembled it, so everything seems fine. As Pearl climbs into her own robot, Peridot calls out a taunt.]

I HOPE YOU'RE READY TO PRACTICE BOWING AGAIN, RENEGADE SCUM!!

[B. - Open To All]

[Oh, so that's why those giant robots were there. An old fashioned showdown, This Town Isn't Big Enough For The Both Of Us-style... But no guns and quick drawing, and with robots instead? Seems like it. Feel free to watch, and maybe wind up dodging some torn up dirt as the fight processes.]

Comments

[unoradinary]

Of course I was!

[Hope Peridot's ready because rather than a hug she's going for a full on victory lift!!]

You were really something out there, Perri! I'm proud of you dude!

[runningjoke]

UGHHH, WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS?!

[THE VILE WRAPPING OF ARMS AROUND HER BODY CONTINUES!!! ]

[unoradinary]

This is an Earth custom! It's what we do for winners!

[Doesn't Peridot like being tall anyway......

Well, whatever. She puts her down.]

Anyway, you really did great out there! I mean it. You must be pretty happy right now, huh?

[runningjoke]

[SHE IS PLENTY TALL AS SHE IS, YOU KNOW! WITH HER LIMB EXTENDERS WHICH SHE HAS NOT LOST yet. Whatever, at least Ran put her down.]

...

I might have been. Before.

[unoradinary]

...what do you mean?

[talk it out pal]

[runningjoke]

This was a fight to determine if she was worthy of my respect. Originally, I would have used this to establish myself as the superior Gem. That's how things are done on Homeworld. I might have been proud of winning, knowing that it meant I would be the one respected and obeyed.

Now...

[ ... ]

[unoradinary]

...you're starting to see her in a better light even though she didn't beat you, right?

[runningjoke]

...

Now I know how badly she'll do against a real Homeworld threat! She won't last five minutes if a Jasper or another Quartz shows up! If her only tactics involve being fast and jumping around, she's as good as shattered.

Don't take this the wrong way! I don't care if she DOES get shattered!

...

Steven would though.

[unoradinary]

[peridot...]

That so...are you sure he's the only one who'd care though?

[But who could she mean...this is a trap]

[runningjoke]

I guess her shitty pet would care too.

[ DOES SHE MEAN THE BIRD OR GILGAMESH???

both. ]

[unoradinary]

[not as planned......oh well.]

I guess...

Anyway, so what's that mean? You gonna do something about it?

[runningjoke]

I'm going to teach her how to build a better robot. If Yellow Diamond's troops come here, she's going to need more than that little spear of hers.

[ For a multitude of reasons. One being that... if anyone from YD's court shows up...

Well. That's where the truce ends, isn't it? ]

[unoradinary]

[Yeah, to be entirely honest here the first thought that hits her is, if any of these bad gems ever show up, it's not like it'll be just Pearl they'd have to deal with. Secondly, she's...fairly confident it wouldn't be an issue, either. Everyone here is really strong...

But, well.

It doesn't seem like a good idea, so.]

Hey...[She sits down on the ground, legs crossed. Cause she's expecting this is gonna be a Whole Thing.] So who's Yellow Diamond?

[runningjoke]

[Maybe it won't just be Pearl who will have to deal with them. But Pearl WILL be their first target.]

You want to know about Yellow Diamond?? Well!

[Has Peridot ever seemed excited before? She has now.]

Yellow Diamond is the most perfect Gem! Diamonds are our leaders, but Yellow Diamond is the best of the best!

[unoradinary]

[Well...point.]

Oh yeah? What makes 'em so great?

[runningjoke]

Gems all have their flaws. Quartz' are strong, but dumb. Pearls are scrawny and weak. But Diamonds are perfect. They're strong, the strongest really- and smart, and all knowing!! The perfect leaders!

[unoradinary]

...oi, don't that make everyone else a little redundant?

Err, unless they're like...lazy?

[runningjoke]

You can't run an empire with just a few people. All Gems serve their Diamond as workers.

[unoradinary]

I guess...

[She doesn't sound convinced.]

So if I've got this right...basically everyone's just born to do these specific tasks based on what they are, all for the sake of these diamond dudes, and that's basically...it?

[runningjoke]

Yes, exactly! Everyone has their job and purpose. Everything is in order, and everything is for a reason!

[unoradinary]

Well, that's all well and good an' all, but...it's no good if someone decides they wanna do somethin' different than what they're supposed to.

Like Pearl, even.

[runningjoke]

They don't. It's not allowed. You'd have to be stupid to not want to do what you're best at. Why do something other than what you're meant to do? You'd just be worse at it than the people already doing it, and get in the way.

[unoradinary]

There's nothing wrong with wanting to know what else you're good at aside from what you're best at.

I mean, what if someone who was meant to be really strong was smarter than they were stronger, but didn't even know it cause noone gave them the chance?

[runningjoke]

It's not their job to think. It's just not how things are done!

1/2

[unoradinary]

...

Yeah? Well...