Inspired by a post by soggywarmpockets on tumblr: post/148319671519/but-holy-fuck-if-she-attempts-to-fuse-with-those
I'm planning to write more as I see how the Summer of Steven continues!
Jasper didn't know what the other Gems were, or what they used to be. She didn't care. They were Gems, Gems that weren't going to run, to fight back, to say no.
Finally, Gems she could fuse with.
She missed the power of being Malachite, had missed it ever since she'd woken up deep below the earth's crust. Even chained at the bottom of their collective mind, held down by Lazuli, barely conscious, she'd been able to feel Malachite's power, her incredible abilities. She was the best of Jasper and Lazuli together.
It ate at her core in a way nothing had before, not even the fury of being shown up by the dirty earth fusion—
But that wasn't how she saw fusion anymore. It was more than a tool for a job, it was strength, it was power, power greater than she'd ever had before. Power to rival the Diamonds, even, and if that was a traitorous thought, well, it was true too.
And now she had one Gem in each of her hands, clutched tight as a human lifeline.
They couldn't think, that was for sure. They lacked guidance, guidance she could provide! Unlike Malachite, whose power she could feel but barely got the chance to use, she would be the one in charge of this fusion.
Jasper couldn't help the wild, manic grin on her face. The stoicism trained into her by centuries of service to Homeworld was forgotten, thrown to the side like trash at the first glimpse of hope, of fusion.
Was it even possible, with corrupted Gems? It didn't matter. Jasper would make it possible, would make it happen.
She could feel the Gems in her palms heat up, beginning to glow as they started to reform their physical bodies. It was almost simultaneous—if the similarities in their forms hadn't proven to Jasper that these two were close, this certainly did. Hopefully it would make fusion with the two of them easier.
Jasper let go of the Gems, watching them hover in midair as pure light bodies sprung out around them, for a second looking just as they should, uncorrupted.
Jasper sprung forward, grabbing the still-forming arms of the two other Gems. Their Gems were glowing with the effort of recreating physical forms, and Jasper's own Gem was glowing, too, ready to fuse. She twirled the other Gems, dipped them in sync, and finally felt the familiar buzz of fusion creeping across her form as it destabilized, melted into the other two still-forming Gems.
A fusion with no name set its feet in the snow for the first time and howled.