Welcome to my Steven Universe fanfic. Just so you know, this story is going to be Lars centric for obvious reasons, and the total length of it will be based on the feedback received. Obviously you can point out everything that you like as well as what you don't, don't be afraid to let me know.

And if my writing seems off sometimes, it may be because this is the first time that I try to write something as huge as a fanfic in English. For enduring it with me, thank you.


Pink nails, pink hands, pink wrists. Man, everything was pink now.

Lars looked up breaking the trance that he was in. Pink wasn't the important thing about this.

He had died not an hour ago and up until now that fact has not even been acknowledged by him. Damn is he dumb.

His death was cut short, but death nonetheless. And now, he was alive again, all thanks to Steven. That kid is not only the bravest, nicest person that he knows, but also can bring people back from the dead. He had brought HIM from the dead. Him, as, in Lars.

Stupid, mean, coward Lars.

Lars, who thought that he had no friends and had the two most caring people that he knows help him fit in someone else's group just to ditch them and get kidnaped.

Damn is he dumb or not?

But that was the old Lars. Like, two hours ago Lars. Not pink Lars.

Pink Lars understood something when he took a knee in front of Steven. That heart to heart conversation with Steven in the ship of that mean gem made him realize that Steven was not that carefree kid that comes every day for his daily dosis of donuts, not even that positive kid that tried to help him make new friends or puts up with his temper. Steven is scared, just like him, but he chooses to do something about those things that make him scared.

Steven has purpose, and now he does as well.

Lars has a new life to thank Steven for, so, this time, he is going to make him proud.

He doesn't dwell on this much longer before he is on his feet and walking across the dimlite cavern to where Fluorite and Rhodonite stand.

"Hey, excuse me."

Rhodonite turned her head abruptly to him like he just gave her the scare of her life.

"For my diamond! Don't creep on people like that Lars."

"Come, come, Rhodonite, don't snap at the poor human. What can we aid you with little one?" Fluorite was enormous and creeped Lars a little if he was being honest, but he could clearly see that she was kind and caring.

"Um, I was just wondering if you could, you know, like, teach me a little about this place or something."

"But of course Lars, it is the least that we can do for you" The big caterpillar being closed the distance between Lars and her smoothly and made a signal to the rest of the off colors to get closer as well. "This is a kindergarten, where us gems are born. Usually, the type of ground determines the kind of gem that can be nurtured so we are born with many others like us at the same time".

"Not like us, us." Said Rhodonite making a face. "We are errors."

Lars frowned at that.

"I've heard you say something like that early, but i still don't get it. You are made, like, to be the same exact way as the rest of your kind of gem?"

The Rutile twins looked upon each other with a sad look.

"Something along that line."

"We are meant for a purpose, if we can't fulfill our role we have no place among others."

Fluorite turned and motioned to one of the walls full of humanoid looking holes.

"In Homeworld being equal to our kind is what is meant to be. Sometimes we are looked down upon because we are born less that we are meant to be." Both twins and Padparadscha looked at their feet. "Sometimes we are looked down because we choose to be more than we are" Fluorite motioned to herself and Rhodonite.

"I still don't get it, you might be 'errors', whatever that means, but it is not necessarily something bad." The rest of the gems shared a confused look and Lars felt the necessity to explain himself. "I mean, look, is just that you are still people, or gems or whatever. You are living things, being different between each other should not matter that much. Not to the point of killing you being normal."

They all looked confused.

"Sorry, it is really not my place to say thing like this. It's just that is weird for me." Lars was somewhat embarrassed about the whole thing.

Fluorite let her face come closer to Lars' own.

"You seem to be a caring being Lars. I can't help but wonder if it is something that comes with being an earthling, your friend Steven seems to be as well."

"Oh, I'm not caring" Said Lars with a scowl on his face. "You are right about Steven tho. He is not even human, not like me I mean, but he is really the best person that I know." He sat down harshly on a rock, dropping his shoulders and sighing. "I knew he was half gem, but it never kicked in until now. He says that his mom was a quartz of some kind and that your planet was trying to make him pay for her crimes." He clenched his hands turning his knuckles a pale pink. Huh, that was new. "I really don't know anything about that whole thing, and it's killing me right now because if I don't understand I won't be able to help him."

The off colors shared a look.

"You say that his mother was a quartz and Homeworld wants him?" Said Rhodonite with a fearful tone.

Lars looked up and catched both Fluorite and Rhodonite with an alarmed look. It was short, but Lars saw it.

"You know something about it?" He jumped off the rock with a frantic look on his face. "Please, if you know tell me, I need to know. Steven is always trying to keep me and everyone else out of this kind of stuff, but I am too deep now. I died not two hours ago and he brought me back. I owe him to at least comprehend what is he dealing with."

There was a long pause. A long, long pause.

Lars began to think that after all, they wouldn't be able to fill him about Steven's Mom, but then Padparadscha spoke for the first time in the whole ordeal.

"Young Lars seems to be confused about the role of Steven on this world and will fill us in with a piece of relevant information. Steven's 'mom' is Rose Quartz, leader of the Crystal Gems. What he doesn't seem to know is that this was a terrorist group that rebel against the desires of our magnificent Diamonds to colonise the earth. But even this action is nothing compared about her true crime. The assassination of Pink Diamond."

Lars was about to say something when the Rutile twins made a signal to stay quiet.

"Diamonds are everything to a gem. They are indestructible leaders, they are providers, they are the reason we are. So, when Pink Diamond was shattered, a small conflict like the earth rebellion turned into an open war. Earth was destroyed and the Crystal Gems with it."

Lars was dumbstruck. What, the, hell.

Rebellion? Assassination? War? Earth destroyed?

Man, this was bigger than him. He wasn't even sure that he was hearing clearly.

Padparadscha seemed to have ended with her speech, and Fluorite turned to Lars.

"With this information in mind, Lars, are you really saying that Earth is whole, and the Crystal Gems active?"

He gulped and scratched his nape.

"Well, yeah, I was there not a day ago. Steven is there right now, and he lives with the Crystal Gems on this temple on the beach. But Steven didn't do any of that stuff, and his mother didn't either! He just had that weird looking trial with that big ladies and they said that a Quartz couldn't possible shatter a Diamond! It was super sketchy! I didn't understand half of what was going on but the yellow and blue ladies, they seemed pissed off with each other about something that Steven's attorney said." The tension between the off colors was palpable and Lars felt it was his fault. "Is that bad?"

"No, Lars, is not bad." Said Rhodonite while trembling. "What you are saying is terrifying. Because if what you say is true, Homeworld will cease to exist as we know it."