"What can we do?" Those words rang through Azurite's ears. He sighed as he started to think what they could do in this situation. He knew that this day will come. He's been waiting for it for over twenty years. And this day has finally come, and he had no idea what to do.

He sighed as, he looked around himself for a moment and saw that everyone had their eyes on him, "If I'm honest with myself, and all of you. There ain't much we can do now. At the moment we speak now, he already has two stones which already makes him one of the most powerful if not the powerful beings in the universe.''

Steven stared up at Azurite as he put his hand on his arm, "Azurite, you know more about Thanos than any of us. Tell us everything that the Guardians told you, and then we'll figure something out."

Azurite nodded his head as he started telling them everything he knew, "The Guardians said that they're going to split up and head in two directions. Quill, Gamora, Drax and Mantis are going to Knowhere to retrieve the Reality Stone from the Collector, while Rocket and Groot are going to to different place along with this guy from the Avengers. Thor is his name."

"Thor?" Steven asked, wanting to be sure if he didn't misheard it. 

"Yes." Azurite confirmed with a nod.

"Where did they met him?" Steven raised his brow. How did Azurite's friends come across one of the Earth Mightiest Heroes?

"They saved him. Thanos got the Space Stone from him after he attacked their refugee ship, killing so many of his people in the process, including his brother Loki." Azurite explained.

The last part got quite a reaction from the crowd. Loki Odinson, the man that attacked the Earth all those years ago was dead? 

"And he got the Power Stone a week ago, when he decimated Xandar." Azurite added, ignoring the expressions that appeared on their faces.

"Death follows him like a shadow." Shi'ra added, standing by Azurite's side, doing a good job at hiding the shock at the news that Xandar was gone.

"Gamora told me that we have two options. Quill, Gamora, Drax and Mantis went to Knowhere to retrieve the Reality Stone from the Collector..." Azurite continued to tell them everything Gamora told him about Thanos.

"The Collector? Ain't that the person that made you come here because he wanted you to bring him a Pearl so she could serve him?" Pearl asked him. She wanted to ask about him since Azurite mentioned him a few moments earlier, but then Steven asked Azurite about Thor.

"Yes. That's the same guy." Azurite confirmed with a nod of his head.

"And you're telling us that he had one of those stones for this whole time?" Amethyst asked.

"Yes. I have no idea who was that stupid to give it to him." Azurite stated, shaking his head.

"What about Rocket and Groot? You said that they're going to a different place with Thor." Spinel spoke up.

"They went to a planet called Nidavellir." Azurite told Spinel what this place was, not excepting anyone to know about it, but much to his suprise one of them spoke up.

"Wait... Nidavellir? This place is real?" Bismuth spoke up, clearly suprised by the news.

"You've heard about it, Bismuth?" Pearl asked her, turning her attention along with many other gems to her. They never head her mention this place.

"All Bismuths did. This place is a legend among us. It was used to make the most powerful weapons in the universe." Bismuth explained what Nidavellir was to them.

"So, I guess you may know why they're going there." Azurite said.

"To create a weapon that will be able to kill Thanos?" Bismuth answered.

"Yes. This weapon may be the only thing to kill him at this point, without having to remove the stones from him." Azurite stated, with his eyes on Bismuth, "It is decided then. You're going to be one of those that will go to Nidavellir to met up with Rocket, Groot and Thor. I'll go there as well." He said, finally deciding where is he going to go. Someone who knew Rocket and Groot had to go there, and if Gamora told him is true, and where the stones are on Earth, he may take him straight to them.

"Then I'm coming with you." Spinel said, not really suprising anyone that she was going with him.

"Make it four. You're my brother, and siblings should stick together." Shi'ra spoke up.

"Steven should go with us too." Spinel said, turning towards Steven, "You have your healing spit. If this Thor guy has any injures, you could heal him."

"Good point, Spinel. I'll go with you." Steven agreed with her.

"That makes us five. I think it's enough." Shi'ra stated.

"You're right. It leaves us Knowhere. Most of the Guardians are going there. Someone who knows has to go there." Azurite said, glancing over at Jasper, "Jasper. You don't know them as much as I and Shi'ra do, but you talked with them on numerous occasions.''

"Say no more. I'll go there." Jasper said, immediately agreeing to go to Knowhere.

"Going there alone will be too dangerous. Lapis and Peridot will come with you." Steven said, looking over at Peridot and Lapis. Peridot immediately nodded her to that, while it took the latter one a few seconds to nod her head. She wasn't a fan of the idea of going along with Jasper, but she knew that there was no time to complain about that.

"Take my ship." Shi'ra said to them, "With the upgrade I installed along with Azurite when I came here for the first time, it shouldn't take you so long to get there."

"I'll make sure that your ship comes back in all pieces." Jasper assured her.

"Don't promise. I said that I'm going to be okay with my ship getting destroyed on certain occasions. This is one of them." Shi'ra said back.

"All three of you. You better be prepared for Knowhere." Azurite said as the three gems who were going to go to this planet looked at him, "If any of you ever thought that Earth was disgusting, then Knowhere is going bring you a new meaning to this word."

"What about us?" Amethyst asked, gesturing towards herself, Garnet and Pearl. They haven't been mentioned in their plan, yet.

"Some gems have to stay here and help the others prepare for the fight. If Thor wants to create a weapon able to kill Thanos, then he may take us straight to one of the stones, or even to Thanos and his army. We need everyone prepared for the fight.'' Azurite answered.

"Good point." Garnet agreed with him. Thanos may sent his army to retrieve one of the Infinity Stones, and they needed to be ready to fight with them in case if he did sent his army.

"Speaking of the Infinity Stones. You said that he has two, and one of them is on Knowhere. Where are the other three? I assume that he knows about the location of at least of one of them is there is a chance that he may take you to one of them." Pearl wanted to know.

"Gamora told me that he said that there are two stones on this planet, that's why I'm certain that he is going to take us straight to at least one of them. As for the third one, I don't know." Azurite answered, shaking his head as he said the part about the last Infinity Stone.

"If there are two stones on this planet, then he may sent the Black Order to get them." Shi'ra spoke up.

"You're right. There is a possibility of it." Azurite agreed with her. The Black Order were the people that he was worrying about the most from Thanos' army. He knew that all of them were going to be pretty hard to defeat if they will come across him. However there was one thing he was sure about it. If he was going to come across Proxima Midnight, he was going to kill her. He knew that it wasn't going to be easy, but he felt like he had to do it. For Aleena, and for himself.

"But if Thor is really going to end up taking you to one of the Infinity Stones. How are we going to know your location, then?" one of the gems from the crowd spoke up with a lot of gem agreeing with her. It was Crazy Lace Agate.

Azurite and Shi'ra shared a look together, before Shi'ra took her device off her hand and handed it to Garnet, "We're going to sent you the cordinates in a massage."

Garnet nodded her head as she took the device and placed it on her arm. Shi'ra showed her and other curious gems about how it worked, so she knew in some way how this device worked, "I'll wait for it.''

"So we have us to Nidavellir." Spinel said, gesturing to the everyone who was assigned to go to Nidavellir, "Them to Knowhere." She gestured to Jasper, Lapis and Peridot, "And we know what the rest is going to do here. It just leaves..."

"The Diamonds." Azurite finished. The Diamonds knew about Thanos probably much longer than he did, and they must've know that the day like this was going to come sooner or later, but the question was. Were they going to join the fight?

"Do you think they're going to join?" Steven raised her brow at the three Pearls from Homeworld, as he turned his attention them.

The three Pearls shared a look with each other, before Blue Pearl answered, saying the answer that was one the mind of three Pearls, "We don't know, but we can try."

"They're going to join us. I'm sure about it." Garnet stated, with a quick nod of her head.

"I guess, there's one way to find out." Amethyst stated with a shrug of her shoulders.

"We'll check in a a moment. But at first, we should get these three to Knowhere." Shi'ra said, gesturing towards Jasper, Lapis and Peridot.

Everyone that was gathered in Little Homeworld's center agreed with the Kratai. She along with Azurite, Steven, Spinel, Jasper, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Bismuth, Lapis, Peridot, Orange Pearl and Centi made her way to the place where Azurite's and her ships were placed since their arrival on this planet. They barely had used it since then, but they always stood there in ready, in case if something happened. The group split up in two smaller groups. The first one was saying their goodbyes to Lapis and Peridot, while the other one was saying their goodbyes to Jasper.

"You won't have a problem with getting to Knowhere. I've been visiting this planet from time to time. It'll be one the first planets I have marked on my computer." Shi'ra assured her roommate.

"I'll remember about it." Jasper said with a nod of understanding.

"Jasper. There's one more thing I want you to do once you'll reach Knowhere." Azurite said.

"What is this?" Jasper raised her brow.

"When you're going to see The Collector,  punch him in the face from me." Azurite explained.

Jasper chuckled as she nodded her head, "I will.''

"And one more thing. Do what you must to get that Infinity Stone." Shi'ra added.

"I will." Jasper nodded her head in understanding. She knew how serious this situation was and how situation would get from bad to worse if Thanos got another Infinity Stone.

"Jasper. We mean it." Spinel was the last one to add something.

"Don't worry. I'll do my best to get this stone. You know me." Jasper assured them.

"Jasper!" Peridot's voice came from behind, and all six of them saw the small green flying into Shi'ra ship on her disc, with Lapis walking before her.

"I should get going." Jasper said as she began to head into Shi'ra ship, and when she on the hatch, she heard one of them call her name.

"Jasper!" Orange Pearl was the one who called over to her. Jasper turned to her, Azurite, Spinel, Shi'ra and Centi, and heard her add, "Good luck."

Jasper nodded her head as she shared one last look with them, before she walked into the ship. The hatch started to raise up, until it completely closed the entrance to Shi'ra ship. Not long after that, the ship began to raise up as well, and a minute or two later, Shi'ra and the rest watched her ship disappeared in a fraction of a second from their view.

As the three gems headed off to their mission, the group began to walk back to the center of Little Homeworld, where they were going to warp themselves to Homeworld.

"So, you're going to go to Homeworld, now?" Orange Pearl asked her friends, as they walked along the sidewalk. She wanted to have one last conversation with Azurite, Spinel and Shi'ra before they leave to Nidavellir.

"Yes. If there's a chance that more gem will join us, then it's worth a try." Azurite answered. 

"Do you want us two to go with you to Homeworld?" Orange Pearl asked another question.

"No. You two should stay here and help the others prepare." Azurite replied.

"Then, I'll hope we'll see each other as soon as possible." Centi said.

"We're going to see each other soon, Centi. You don't have to worry about it." Spinel gave her an assuring smile, extending her hand up to give the former corrupted gem a pat on the shoulder.

Centi returned the smile, "I'm sorry that I'm worried about my friends, then."

"As said, you don't have to worry about us. We all are going to make it out of it alive. I'm certain about it." Spinel said, extending her arms more until they were wrapped around Azurite, Shi'ra, Centi and Orange Pearl. I

"If you say so, Spinel. I'm going to stay here and prepare myself and my crew." Centi said.

"When you're saying that, then I'm sure that they will be prepared for what is going to happen." Shi'ra stated.

"Oh, believe me, friend, they're going to prepared like they never were before. I'll make sure about it." Centi assured her.

"What about you Orange? We're going to see if my lessons paid off after all these months." Azurite said, glancing at the said Pearl.

"I certainly hope so. I've been getting better with my training during all those months we trained together." Orange Pearl said.

"You will do well, Orange. I'm sure about it." Azurite assured her, with a smile. While Orange Pearl wasn't the best at it in their first training sessions, she got a lot of better as the time passed. There were still things that she had to learn, but she was ready for something like this.

It was the last thing they said to each other as the group finally made their way to the warp. Steven and his friends were the first to get themselves there, which was followed by Yellow Pearl, Pink Pearl and Blue Pearl who were waiting for them to come back by the warp the entire time. Shi'ra and Azurite joined them at the warp the moment after, and looked at Spinel, who was about to join them, but before that she gave Orange Pearl and Centi both a bone crushing hug, before joining the rest on the warp.

They thought they were going to warp themselves to Homeworld a second after Spinel walked in, but before that happened, they heard Garnet speak up to the crowd of gems around them, "If you're planning to join the fight, then you should start preparing. This may be the fight of our lives. A fight that we have to win, otherwise, the universe is not going to be same." 

Those were the last words the gems in Little Homeworld heard before the warp shined and everyone that stood on it disappeared.

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Azurite, Spinel, Shi'ra, Steven, Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Bismuth, Blue Pearl, Pink Pearl and Yellow Pearl warped themselves straight to the throne room of the Diamonds. They all looked up at the thrones of the three Diamonds to see all three of them growing happy to see certain hybrid and gem paying them a visit, unaware of the true reason behind their visit, yet.

"Steven! Spinel! How good it is to see you again!" Blue Diamond was the first one to greet them, before noticing that they didn't came here alone.

"It's nice to see you too, Steven's gem friends!" White Diamond said after her.

Yellow Diamond was the last to say something out of these three, "And Azurite and his Kratai friend... we weren't excepting to see you two with them."

"I have a name, you know..." Shi'ra thought to herself, rolling her eyes. She, just like Azurite wasn't fond of these three, but she had one good memory about them. That memory was when they paid Steven a visit on the Earth, and they found out that Spinel was seeing the gem they banished a long time ago for being different. Their reaction made her day.

"Believe me, If there wasn't a good reason to come here, I wouldn't." Azurite said with Shi'ra nodding her head in agreement. Azurite still wasn't a fan of the Diamonds and he doubted that he'll ever warm up to them.

"What do you mean by that?" Yellow Diamond raised her brow. Assuming that something must've happen from the tone of his voice.

"Something has happened, Steven?" Blue Diamond asked.

"Azurite here, got a message from his Gamora of the Guardians of the Galaxy. She told him that Thanos is collecting the Infinity Stones." Steven asked, as he turned to Azurite, "He'll tell you everything we know."

Azurite sighed as he looked up at the Diamonds, who's welcoming expressions quickly faded at the news about Thanos, "As Steven here said, Thanos is finally ready to collect the Infinity Stones to do what he was planning to do for as long as I knew about his existance. He already has two of them. He got the Power Stone after decimating Xandar, and the Space Stone after attacking the Asgardians. We came here, because we want to try to stop him, and we need your help."

"What do you want us to do?" White Diamond asked him.

"We want you make a broadcast across all of the colonies. Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst are gathering our forces against Thanos in Little Homeworld, and we want as many gems as it is possible to join." Spinel explained.

"What about you, Steven?" Yellow Diamond wanted to know.

"I'm, along with Bismuth, Spinel, Azurite and Shi'ra, going to met up with Thor Odinson,  who you remember as one the Avengers I showed you back on Earth on the internet, and Groot and Rocket, two of the Guardians of the Galaxy. There is a chance that he may take us to one of the Infinity Stones. We already sent Jasper, Peridot and Lapis where they along with other Guardians of the Galaxy are going to retrieve the Reality Stone from the Collector." Steven answered.

"So, our questions is. Are you going to help us?" Spinel asked, looking up at them with a very hopeful look. Back when she used to live on Homeworld, right after the attack, she just had to use these eyes if she wanted something from them. She hoped it would work this time as well.

The Diamonds stared at the group before them for a moment. They've known about Thanos existance and his goal for a very long time now. They knew that this day may finally come, and even thought it seemed pretty much pointless to them to join the fight, because of Thanos already having two Infinity Stones which made him practically unstoppable at this moment, but this is what Pink would want from them. If she was there with them, she'd join the fight against the Mad Titan without any second thoughts.

"...We will help you." White Diamond answered.

Steven smiled at three as he could feel relief across his body, "Thank you."

"It's what Pink would want us to do." Yellow Diamond stated, as she looked down at her pearl, and other two pearls, "Pearl, get everything ready."

"Yes, my Diamond." Yellow Pearl said.

Several minutes had to pass, but eventually, everyone got everything ready for the broadcast. It has started with White Diamond, Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond sitting on their thrones, as the camera focused itself on the first one from the three.

"...Greetings our loyal subjects! I know this is far earlier than most of our weekly adresses, so far, but Steven and one gem have something important to share with all of you!" She explained.

Then the camera lowered itself down at Steven and Azurite, who were standing side by side.

"Are we broadcasting across all of the colonies?" Steven asked, glancing up at the Diamonds who nodded their heads at him.

Steven nodded his head to that, before glancing over to Azurite who stood at his side. They shared a quick look together, before Azurite began to inform all of the gems that they needed their help. He had been replaying what was he going to say in his head since they started preparing for this transmission, so he didn't had much trouble in coming up what to say.

"Who I am is not important. What is important is that is there are some dark days ahead of us! You see, my fellow gems, his name is Thanos! The power he wields is that of the very universe itself! At this moment, he has two Infinity Stones, and if he acquires more of them... he can be that much closer to achieve his destiny of wiping out half of all living creatures in the entire universe! Half of everything we know... we love... everything and everyone! We need your help to stop him!" He declared.

Steven took his place, arms behind his back as he added, "Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl are gathering our forces on the Earth in Little Homeworld! If you will decide to help us, go there! In the meantime I and Azurite here and along with few other gems to a place where Thor Odinson, one of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes along with Rocket and Groot, two members of the Guardians of the Galaxy headed. We're going to met up with them which may take us straight to one of the Infinity Stones, which also may lead us straight to Thanos' army, or maybe even Thanos himself... I hope as many of you will join, please, we need your help more than ever."

With that, a rather quick transmission was over, and every camera was turned off by Yellow Pearl, Blue Pearl and Pink Pearl.

"I think that went well." Steven stated, after making sure that they were not broadcasted anymore.

"I certainly hope so, kid." Azurite said back, "How many of them are going to join?"

"Let's hope that as many as possible." Steven told him.

Azurite nodded his head as he looked up the Diamonds, "With the brodcast thing done, now. There's one more thing we want to ask you."

"What is it?" Blue Diamond asked them.

"We're going to need the fastest ship Homeworld has." Azurite replied.

"For what?" Yellow Diamond wanted to know.

"Because as Steven said, we're going to met up with Thor, Rocket and Groot which may take us to one of the Infinity Stones but he didn't say on which planet it is going to be. It is going to be on Nidavellir, where we're going to get a weapon." Spinel explained, she and Shi'ra were now standing by Azurite's side, with her grabbing his hand.

"What kind of a weapon?" White Diamond wanted to know.

"The Thanos killing kind. A weapon that will be able to kill him even with the Infinity Stones." Shi'ra answered.

They didn't had to say more. The Diamonds immediately told Yellow Pearl, Blue Pearl and Pink Pearl to escort them to the fastest ship Homeworld had in it's stock. But before they took them to it, they said their goodbyes and good lucks to Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl as the first the gems who decided to join them in their fight againt The Mad Titan walked through the entrance to the throne room of the Diamonds.

When the finally made their way to the ship, they got themselves into it and boarded from Homeworld and headed towards Nidavellir.

They had to hurry.

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Three chapters in one week. I'm starting to spoil you :)

Funfact: At the early stages of this story, I was planning for Bismuth to go Knowhere along with Jasper, Peridot and Lapis, but at the end she ended up going to Nidavellir, because it would make sense for her to go there.

The Diamonds in this chapter after finding out about Thanos being after the stones, and they have a very slight chance of stopping him by now: