Aquamarine shifted in her bonds. The bright light glared down at her.

"Tell me again why you did not bring the assigned humans like I asked?" boomed a large voice.

"Because- because Rose Quartz was more important," stammered Aquamarine.

"And you could not take the humans as well?"

"No! I couldn't. They were running around all over the place. They escaped from Topaz. I didn't even know that was possible. One of them was even armed."

"You were afraid of a puny human weapon?!"

Aquamarine shrieked as a charge ran through her gem, "It wasn't a human weapon. It was Gem fashioned and the human who wielded it shouted 'Let's fuse,' to Rose Quartz. I couldn't let her fuse so I agreed to release them and bring you Rose Quartz."

"Aquamarine, I expected you to follow orders no more and no less. However good your intentions were you disobeyed my orders," stated Blue Diamond.

With a signal she ordered the Agate to execute. Aquamarine screamed as her body glowed and poofed. When it was over Blue Diamond leaned over and picked up her gem.

"Hmm still functioning. Agate, install her in a mirror I'll question her further."

With that Blue Diamond stepped into her palanquin. As Blue Diamond rode her Palanquin back to her castle she brooded about what to do. So the Crystal Gems had trained and armed humans? Blue initially dismissed humans but their large numbers more than made up for their fragility. And now the Crystal Gems were training and arming humans – again. That with Aquamarine's claim of them being able to fuse made them a threat to be reckoned with. It was time to do something.

"Greeting my Diamond," said one of her Pearls bowing.

"Pearl get me my chief Xenobiologist. It's time we dealt with the Crystal Gems once and for all" ordered Blue Diamond.

Ronaldo was doing his beach patrol when he saw something blue and shiny. Since this was clearly alien tech Ronaldo ran over and started digging. A few minutes later Ronaldo was the proud owner an otherworldly blue orb.

"I did it. All those years of people laughing at me. Now I have proof. I'm gonna be famous," shouted Ronaldo as he held the orb over his head.

The orb shot out some sort of mist into his face. Coughing Ronaldo dropped it. The orb broke open like an egg.

"Fuck! Just my luck, who wants a broken artifact? Ugh, I don't feel so good." Ronaldo staggered back to his home and bed empty handed.