[h1][color=Gold]Mars[/color][/h1]

Aquamarine's intervention, while well intentioned, only made things worse. As Mars lookedup at her, a new wave of emotions, images, and pain rolled through his body. An immense feeling of guilt, anguish, and shame weigh down on his shoulders as he instinctivly flinched away from the blue gem. As Candice tried to calm him down, focus him in the present, he could barely understand her through the roaring tumult of memories he was facing right now. However, when Bloodstone spoke, the rage came back even stromger than before, a white hot fire that pulsed through Mars' core.

As he rose his head, glaring at the Homeworld gem with glowing eyes, his teeth set in a ferocious growl, his right hand curled into a fist. Suddenly, the stripes that criss crossed his frame began to glow intensely as the fist was wrapped in a large sphere of energy. He raised it up, seeming to be about to charge Bloodstone with it, but launched it into the ground. The sphere disappeared into the earth, as Mars' hand had fully pierced the temple floor, before releasing all the energy gathered in one concussive blast. This wpuld send cracks ripping through the floor, as well as causing it to bulge quite suddenly, unbalancing those around him. 

The glowing, the pain, and the lingering fragments of the gem once known as Tiger, they all faded into the background as Mars took control again, closing his eyes as he took a deep breath before standing. A fierce gaze settled on his features as he turned his eyes first towards Bloodstone, then Aquamarine, never dropping the glare as he did so. There was no anger in his gaze, however, only cautionary hostility as he still didn't know what to make of them.

"Explain."

He spoke with a harsh coldness that he hadn't even know himself to be capable of, so detached from emotion, so close to sounding like the voice of that other gem. But one thing set it apart, as while the other side sounded weary, tired, and defeated, he sounded prideful, intimidating, and not even close to giving in to anything.

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