Yellow tried for the twelfth time to get her ship to respond to her. But like the other times it shuttered before losing another piece into the sea.

Her frustration's reaching their peak she screamed letting her powers loose destroying one of her ship's fingers. As the dust settled she tried to calm down but found it impossible. For one Blue had all but disappeared into the human city some hours ago and while she knew that there was nothing the humans could do to hurt them she was still faintly worried. Her other major problem was the blow her pride had suffered from all this. It had been her idea to come here and finish things. She'd even told Blue that they would be enough instead of taking a fleet or even their pearls.

"This was supposed to be a simple mission. Fly to this gem forsaken colony, get our geo weapon and finally be rid of the pathetic stain on our history. But now both of our ships are completely destroyed and we're stranded here."

She wanted to complain more and keep her mind focused away from the major issue she's been trying desperately to ignore.

"Pink is alive." As the words slipped out part of her anger faded. She looked over at the gem stronghold and tried to fight the urge to march over and rip pink from inside and yell at her for hiding here for eons. For throwing the colony she begged for into chaos. For making the diamond supremacy look weak.

But besides that, she wanted to feel the aura again. To have her shapeshift out of that ridiculous form so that she could see that pink haired little runt again.

After a fierce mental debate, she marched over and was about to rip the roof off when Pink and her Pearl came out.

"There you are Pink; do you have any idea how much trouble your in for causing all this!? Thousands of years of war for what!? One backwater! If you had just waited until you were deemed ready you could have had dozens just like this."

Her aura flared at sparks shot off in violent streaks turning the sand to glass.

Steven knew he had to say something, but he was trying to figure out what. He didn't know much about the diamonds but from his past interactions knew that yellow was dangerous, as he'd just saw from her angry words. He looked at Peal hoping for some direction, but she was in her protective mode and trying to shield him.

Yellow seeing this easily pushed Peal out of the way and picked him up and held him in her hand.

"Now stop aggravating me and change back already. If I'm going to yell at you I'd prefer to do it at the real you."

"Actually, this is my real form and I can explain as long as you promise not to get any angrier."

"Pink I doubt there's anything you can say at this point that will aggravate me anymore."

"Okay well you see I'm only half pink diamond. My mom kind of gave up her physical from a few years ago to bring me into the world. I have her gem and her abilities but not her memories."

Her eyes narrowed as he lifted his shirt to show her his gem. With her free hand she touched its familiar edges feeling the gem for the first time in eons. Not quite believing him she sent a gentle shock through her finger, just enough to poof her and hopefully see her true form as she reformed. But instead of proofing Steven jumped a couple of feet before clutching his gem.

"Ow!"

If she had to sum up her emotions in one word disappointed would be it. "So, she really is gone, isn't she?"

Steven saw the sadness in her eyes and wanted to help her. "Well I know it's not much, but I can remember stuff when I visit locations she was at. Like when I was at the jungle moon I relived the conversation you two had. Everything from you commanding the ships to her getting angry and punching the wall."

Jungle moon? Ah yes from colony xy-3-b that happened right before she returned to homeworld and truly started begging for her colony. If only I'd stopped working and focused on her, given her the respect she needed instead of the colony she wanted then maybe I could have talked her down.

"Well I know I'm not my mom but maybe I can make it up to you."

"And just how could do that?"

He thought for a moment before he got a probably stupid idea. "Shapeshifting! Since I have her gem maybe I can turn into her."

Pearl immediately panicked hearing this. "Steven don't you dare! You remember what happened last time."

"But Peal I've been practicing."

"Growing taller at will doesn't mean you are a master at it." But she could already tell that he wouldn't listen. Yellow could tell from the Pearl that this probably wouldn't work but she still wanted him to at least try.

"Go ahead if your going to do it." She said trying not to get hopeful as he closed his eyes and focused on the image of Pink diamond he'd seen in Peal's memoires. Her Pink skin and pinker hair as well as her diamond. He tried to remember how she'd turned from Rose back into Pink. He even thought about how he'd watched Lars change from human to being a human with gem properties.

He felt his body reactto his determination and started to tingle. He heard faint gasps coming from Peal and Yellow as he felt a tugging feeling in his gut before becoming a sharp pain and forcing him to stop. As he opened his eyes he saw Yellow had brought him closer and was a step away from crying.

"Did I mess up?" When she didn't say anything, he searched his body hoping he wasn't shorter or old again. The first thing he did was check to see if he still had hair. He was young and still greatly cared about having it unlike his dad. Reaching up he felt the familiar puff of hair on his head and relaxed, but as he pulled his hand away he saw a few strands of pink hair instead of his usual black. The second thing he found was that his gem had turned around and was now showing its true upside-down diamond.

"Well at least I'm not a baby again."

Yellow for the first time in centuries touched Pinks diamond again. "I'd thought I'd never get to do this again."

Gently putting him down she shrunk to quartz size, so she could touch him without harming him. Doing this simple thing brought back memories of when she first emerged and she and Blue had been assuaged to watch over her. In the early days when Yellow had tried to teach her she'd always fall asleep after trying to hard and Yellow would rub her gem. Steven could only stand there as she touched his hair and gem for a few somewhat awkward minutes before stepping back. Once she was done Pearl rushed forward and began overacting while crying as she switched from panic to joy.

"Steven what were you thinking?! You could have hurt yourself but look at your beautiful pink hair. You look so much like her, but seriously what were you thinking you know you still need practice to use your powers."

"Pearl…"

"Don't you Pearl me mister, your lucky this worked out, but you've never done this. Do you think you'll stay like this? I love your black hair of course but I can't say I'd hate seeing this pink fluff again. And your gem! While it's good to see the true diamond again it'll be weird not to see the rose quartz sticking out every day."

Seeing this sight Yellow at least understood that Pink might still be in her gem somewhere.

"This is touching and all but that still leaves us with this mess. Stuck on this planted with no way to contact Homeworld."

Steven barely managing to break free from Peal spoke up. "Does that mean your going to stay here?"

Yellow shuddered as she tried to find an alternative. "For the time being but I'm sure our Pearls will eventually send someone when we don't check in. But we can figure that out later right now I only want to know if your Pearl can shed some light into this mess."

Peal didn't want to get into a fight so fighting the urge to yell at yellow thought about her words before she spoke. "I can only tell you what she told me and what I saw. If necessary I can show you my memories directly."

"That will do for now I suppose. When Blue returns the four of us will have a long overdue conversation." She walked away returning to her original size not quite satisfied with their conversation but at least partially content. She looked back one more time seeing Peal once again fussing over the small gem hybrid and couldn't help but smile remembering when Pink had done the same when she'd finally gotten a Pearl.

She's alive at least. Whatever anger you have can wait, for now just take a page from Blue and enjoy knowing that she's still here in one form or the other. For when Blue comes back the true conversation takes place.