(A/N): Mimo-9527 this is for you from yours truly! Your cries for aid have reached me take this chapter my brother in fiction.Oh and this chapter should have been released almost TWO DAYS AGO but Grammarly was playing with me it almost deleted the chapter on accident gave me a heart attack
Have I ever mentioned how nice it is to eat without worrying about calories and getting fat?…..or well having to bay for it.
'I may be getting a Little overboard' I thought as I stared at my thirty or so steak of the day.
'Nah it's probably imagination'
A week has almost passed since the doomsday crashout as I like to call it.
Nothing interesting happened except that a few hours after my return to the watch tower I got hugged by a very apologetic Captain Marvel…
That or he just tried to strangle me to death I'm not so sure because my human self knew that such a hug force was surely enough to pop a human like a balloon.
Now I don't think I'm socially awkward or anything after all you have to learn how to interact with people at any kind of work especially for someone like me if I want to I can be the most cheerful person in existence after all you don't get tips with being rude.
As for dignity?
Well, dignity doesn't place cash in your account sure I would not accept anything illegal or harm others but smiling during the job while some customer insults me like I owe him a kidney? I learned that more often than not to lock my dignity in a closet before going to work.
I needed money and for it I learned to smile and tone things out let anything you don't like enter from one ear and leave from the other ear.
So I was actually pretty good at being social..but from Starfire to Big Blue and now Shazam I have reached my limit of free hugs no more I say no more!
The next man hero or supervillain alien whatever kind of creature that this world has that tries to hug me will get a Gura Gura Mi to the face!
In any case Shazam or more accurately Billy was obviously blaming himself for.…well everything from the watch tower almost crashing from orbit and not to mention me and Flash almost dying.
I didn't blame him I couldn't bring myself to it even if I wanted I had to work to help my family after high school especially due to my father's passing and even then as a legal adult it was overwhelming.
Why would I blame Billy a child for failing to stop Doomsday in comics it was fun but seeing him apologize to me like he owed me something made me unsettled.
No matter how cool it is in the book but Shazam had his arm torn apart as he fought Doomsday and from Superman's words…..He almost died
'If I ever meet that wizard who granted a child these powers?….. He'd better pray that the league are around to stop me from introducing him to what a quake punch feels'
And the worst part is I can do nothing about it….. absolutely nothing! What can I do? Tell the rest of the league he is a kid? So picture me a supposed alien who was only on this planet for a week suddenly discovers a secret that only Billy himself or the bat freak knows?!
Superman was kind to me but kindness doesn't give me a free of jail card especially not with Batman around.
And even if I told them they would probably keep Shazam in the team anyway not like they never brought young children into this hero game before especially Batman he has a serious problem.
And who could possibly tell a young child with a hero complex to stay home?….yeah sure try to stop him when he can fly faster than sound and can use enough magic to make Big Blue think twice.
'In the end, the best I can do is keep an eye out for him….maybe give him a few tears for personal usage or something'
'Although I am quite sure he would end up using it for some innocent civilians rather than himself..... heroes are annoying'
In any case I and Billy became friends after this….It was nice he brought cards for us to play and even let Lion join.
Although he ate one of the cards I am not really sure that he understood the game.
Of course, I wasn't wasting my time when I had nothing to do I did something Pink never did I trained which led to interesting things.
[Mc (Pink Diamond) POV.]
I can float...
I needed a place to train and I thought of using the training room in the watch tower itself but I was willing to bet my diamond that a certain paranoid person would not only watch the camera recordings analyze them repeatedly more than a stalker would do...before adding me to a file that started with contingency and ended up with plans.
I mean was it even a question? The man added the big blue for that list...although injustice did prove it was needed but come on the man was as good as it comes until his wife, child and his city was gone due to a clown that needed to die long ago if that happened to me I would not only start my villain ark trying to hunt that smiling freak I would nuke batman for playing cat and mouse with him for so long so my point stands!
In any case so yeah but no thanks I wasn't going to train somewhere Batman can analyse me from..
I was cut from my thoughts with a smack to the back of my head.
"Hey!"
I turned to the overgrown cat/fluff ball beside me as he gave me a side look.
Lion is a very cute best friend and he is extremely loyal but….But his personality is that of a cat that doesn't want attention but if I talk with others for what he deem too long or ignore him as well for what he deems to long he would start giving me the stink eye…and when I focus on him when he glares at me he just turns his head away as if he is too dignified to ask for game time himself.
Oh and hugs? Yeah, he hates those not me hugging him in fact he likes it but he hates me hugging others he literally all but squeezed himself between us when Shazam hugged me while looking at Shazam with what I assume is his own 'YOU SHALL NOT PASS/THIS WORLD ISN'T ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US' look.
As I was about to berate him a little I looked at his pink mane and then remembered something that made me smile smugly…
And that is how I have been training here inside lion mane/private dimension whatever you wish to call it
A normal human or half-organic like Steven can't use this place because he would well suffocate with no oxygen…But I don't need to breathe so this place was perfect!
'Oh lion! You amazing overgrown cat!'
Of course, I didn't train my devil fruit power here….I would rather not kill lion accidentally and I didn't know if the connection between him and this place is more than just magical nonsense.
And that is how I started training…first on the list was memories I have pink memories that's true but like it or not thousands of years of memories don't just stay….I can remember them all and even dive deeper to experience the memory myself but I have to think of the memory to remember and pin what I want to be in the front of my head from now on.
And after a while, I started remembering/seeing whatever you wish to call it important things.
Firstly the process I had in mind for the injector and well the creation of new gems had a missing piece I almost forgot about.
Gems as a race had an advantage over organic life forms because the moment they bob out from the ground they know who they are what they can do and what they should do…in short they have an identity an understanding of themselves and their powers and of course their purpose/job as basic information
And other information that is deemed necessary on how to operate any tools that the specific gem would need in her duties and of course the most of all is knowledge about the gem race in general and who the diamonds are and royalty to them.
It's like being born with a file telling you who the king is and everything the government deemed important about your life from what you are going to work and etc…
With all the knowledge that you need not to be alien to the world you are born in… from common knowledge and the like.
Now how does this knowledge take place? Simple….I need to program it into them in short I needed to add what I wanted each gem to know from common sense and knowledge and of course their loyalty to me their diamond during their incubation…
'Oh boy….Sigh'
I need to adjust my empire-building plans.
Moving to happier topics I can float….or fall slowly It was a skill that Pink learned as Rose quartz..
Why did I not use it when falling from orbit and being reintroduced to gravity?
Because I'm retarded…..
And most importantly, I need to visit a jewelry store because I can make fake gems and diamonds, just a little dirt and I can turn them into whatever I want from gems or diamonds.
So once I am certain that they actually are well.… real, I can sell as much as I need to make money, then use this money to buy whatever I need for the injector. Who knows? Maybe I can find a greedy magician I am literally willing to make tons of whatever gems or diamonds they desire for some time magic as in books or services.
So that's what I gathered from a week of memories surfing.
'Oh boy, it is happening!' I thought, leaning against the wall drinking from a straw with Lion somehow holding his own cup and using a straw as well looking stupid yet adorable.
The teen heroes of The Young Justice are finally giving their instructors/parent figures to have the talk! And I quote:
'Get in board or get out of the way'
The only difference is that Starfire seemed to have dragged Raven with her to agree to join the team.
So she was there in the standoff.
I already knew the big capes would give in, but it was free entertainment nonetheless.
Or, that's what I'd have said before Starfire's eyes locked into me with what I can only describe as both innocent and malicious intent.
Making me and Lion start sweating as if we did something wrong.
The next second she floated over to my side as she beamed at the big capes saying, "If friend Pink joins our team, then we not worry about injuries much!"
"Eh? Me?"