After retrieving the cluster shards, Bloodstone quickly raced to a warp pad and brought himself to his spaceship. [color=ed1c24]"Dammit, I have to get the unstable shards to my lab before they reconnect and return to their cluster state."[/color] Before he could reach his lab though, the shards started glowing and re-fused with each other. Blood dipped the shards into a beaker full of chemicals and prayed for the shards to come undone so he could fix his mistake. Instead of coming undone, the shards took a turn for the worst and started forming a huge amount of crystalline spikes that pierced Bloodstone's body, barely missing his gem's center and leaving a crack in it. Before poofing, Blood sent one final message over the communicators. [color=ed1c24]"Aqua, gods I hope you get this, something went wrong at the ship and I don't know what's to come next. Please, get here as fast as pos...."[/color] Then he was gone from the broadcast.

In his mind, Bloodstone's memories were flooded with flashbacks to the war. [color=9e0b0f]"Bismuth, Chromite, Talc, Sunstone, .......Aqua. Gods, how did I let this happen. Bismuth, I've separated myself from you to protect you. Chromite, I brought you back into this mess. Talc, I have done nothing but fail you. Sunstone, I don't even know where you are anymore. And Aqua, what even happened between us? Where did it go wrong? Why have all my plans gone to shit? I fought for everyone else's happy ending by sacrificing my own, and now everyone sees me as the villian. I have my own sins to bear."[/color]