Welcome to "Broken". I hope you will enjoy this story, as I have many stories planned for the future! Also FireGire96, you have inspired me to do this, and pondis-dant, your drawing inspired me! This is a mostly Peridot chapter, I know, but this story is about Lapis.
Chapter 1 – Homeworld: Part 1
Lapis Lazuli stood next to Peridot. Peridot was finishing up her log for Yellow Diamond and had planned to keep her as her prisoner in the ship. One Peridot finished the log, she turned over to Lapis. "Your prison schedule begins now. You will only leave the cell if you are told. Once we get back to Homeworld, they are going to decide what to do with you, you understand? We are not leaving until we have got all the Crystal Gems shattered by the Diamonds. Got it?" Lapis ignored the dreadful feeling growing in her body and nodded. Peridot installed an anti-gem force field over the prison cell, so Lapis couldn't escape. When Peridot left, Lapis hung her head and sat all bunched up in the corner. If she tried to escape, she'd get shocked. She had to leave somehow. After all those years in a mirror, why would she return to be trapped once again? Tears began to roll down her face, and she hung her head even more in grief as she heard a Topaz grunt in frustration. Lapis just stayed silently in her cell. There was no water around, and her gem only had a certain amount of water in it. Why waste it when Earth was the only planet with infinite water, whilst Homeworld had almost none at all? There was no purpose. No purpose at all. It made her mad.
Lapis summoned her wings and flew up to the ceiling, holding out her fist. It did nothing. Not even a crack was on the ceiling. Not even a small mark. Unfortunately, it had seemed as if they had made the cells out of unbreakable material! There was no use. It wasn't worth trying. "I'm kidding myself," she said silently, and buried her head behind her knees. There was no purpose of living if all you were going to be doing was be trapped. There was no purpose in being alive. Why? Why was her life so miserable? All she wanted was to be free, but first the mirror and now this. It angered her to think about the very short periods to be free. Why was she being so selfish? It was very selfish of her to be complaining over small periods of freedom, when some gems and humans weren't free at all. She began to sob, and the other trapped gems heard her. They longed to free her. All they had to do was be half human. HALF HUMAN.
But the only half gem half human being creature that was known to live was Steven.
Peridot was checking the status of the prison cells on her ship. Jasper was torturing a small blue gem who had been singing a lovely melody. It had been a month since Peridot made a cell for Lapis. The Crystal Gems had been caught, but Steven's cell statuses wouldn't load and had an error. "Stupid archaic Gem tech," Peridot muttered to herself and closed out of the app. "Those red and blue clods will tell me if they saw the Steven." She reopened of the prison status checker and searched up the codes for Blue Sapphire 32456 and Ruby 393827261930. Their numbers along with the password to disable the force field popped up. Peridot closed the app so Jasper could not read what she had searched, left the controls, and walked over to Ruby's cell.
Right as she arrived, Ruby had regenerated. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" she screamed. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH SAPPHIRE AND THE OTHERS?!" "SHUT UP, CLOD!" Peridot yelled. "And don't worry about it. I need to ask you: where is the Steven?" "I dunno," Ruby muttered in a teasing but annoyed and angry tone. "Maybe YOU should know, because YOU were the one who trapped us!" Ruby growled. "I hate you!" she muttered, and went to the corner of the cell where Peridot couldn't see to start pouting. "Fine," Peridot replied in a smoothly annoyed tone, and left to find Jasper.
Jasper punched the cell next to Sapphire. "STOP SINGING," she growled for the hundredth time. "You're STILL doing this?" Peridot asked. "Look. I need to ask the Sapphire something about the Steven." "The Steven doesn't matter right now," Jasper sneered. "But I guess you can ask her." She went to the controls, where Peridot had been recently. "Sapphire," Peridot started, "where is the Steven?" Sapphire shook in fear. There is no way in heck she would tell Peridot where her precious cinnamon bun was. "I am not going to tell you," Sapphire replied calmly. "I'll have your gem shattered if you don't tell," Peridot said. Sapphire paused for a moment. "Erhm, he's in cell 409-2658," she finally said. It was a lie. "Okay," Peridot said. "If you're lying, Jasper will come back and torture you."
Peridot headed to some other cells, reading the markings. "Cell 409-2655, cell 409-2657….AHA! CELL 409-2658!" When she checked the cell, there was a Nephrite crouched in fear. "GAAH!" Peridot grumbled. "I knew the Steven wasn't here!" "Huh?" the Nephrite squeaked nervously. "I k-know where he is…" she said. "WHERE IS HE?!" Peridot said, grunting in frustration. "I'll tell you if you free me and take me to White Diamond's court…" "I don't even know if she is still alive," Peridot groaned. "But fine, I'll do it. Just tell me where he is." The Nephrite nodded in delight. "Cell 875-2549!" she said without hesitation. Peridot punched in the password, gave her a note written in gem writing, and said, "Give Jasper this…she'll take you. If you are lying I will have Yellow Diamond shatter you!" But then she realized nobody was at the controls. She heard Jasper yelling at the Sapphire. "She's at the cell 423-9786…" Peridot needed to find Steven, and fast, so she could go back to the controls.
Peridot, once again, headed over to a different section of cells. Once she found the sloppy and faded coding, Cell 875-2549, she sighed but then smiled. She had found the target. She looked into the cell to see a small boy with poofy brown hair crouched into a ball. "Target found," Peridot dully noted, and went back to the controls.
At least she had found Steven.
