A bright light awoke Peridot from her stasis, she had no need for sleep, but preferred it over doing nothing. She looked over to the pillow where she had lain the gem, and, just as she was expecting, it was glowing, and beginning to rise, slowly at first, but gradually faster, from the pillow. First the torso sprouted out, but the limbs and head followed quickly after. The being cycled through a few used forms before choosing one to her liking, a slim, baby blue body, with a dark blue crop top and long skirt, and bright blue hair. She staggered under her weight, her legs not used to holding her up. The other one couldn't stifle her gasp

The blue one turned around sharply,

"Peridot..." she whispered quietly as her eyes opened wider, terrified. She summoned wings of water from the teardrop gem set in her upper back, and prepared to take off, to run, to escape possible imprisonment at the hands of Homeworld.

"Lapis, wait." Peridot stated sharply and stood up quickly. "I'm not here to put you away. I'm a rogue now too, me capturing you wouldn't change that."

"A rogue? What do you mean?" She asked through gritted teeth, still ready to take off at a moments notice.

"I failed. My job was to check on the cluster, to make sure all the kindergartens were functional, and to deal with the renegade gems here on earth." Peridot responded coolly, but lapis could detect the sadness underneath, the betrayal, now she understood why it hurt lapis so much when the homeworld imprisoned her because she might have been working with the crystal gems, her first prison wardens. "When I called to be rescued, Yellow Diamond decided that I wasn't useful enough to risk anymore ships trying to save. So now I'm just like you, against both homeworld and the crystal gems."

"So what, there gonna come back you know, they aren't just gonna leave the rogues who killed two of the fi-four diamonds! They won't stop until they shatter every gem on this planet, and they won't spare us." She let her wings dissipate back into her gem and slunk down, leaning on the wall. "Why would they."

"Lapis, we've got a good year before Yellow Diamond has her forces mobilized, if w-they even have any good fighters grown by then." Peridot explained coldly, "Given how far that defective pearl got with stone age propulsion based space travel, and how many of the parts I salvaged from my escape pod, I'd give us decent chances of making it out of here before Yellow Diamond gets here."

"You don't really believe that, do you." Lapis said, closing her eyes and tilting her head towards the floor. "Not even Rose Diamond with her army of renegades could defeat blue diamonds scout mission without the majority of them dieing. That group you fought on the ship? That's all of them. Just those four, no, five gems. Yellow Diamond, if she brings an army, will search the entire system, the entire cluster, until she finds us." Tears began filling the corners of Lapis's eyes.

"Lapis Lazuli, it doesn't have to be this way. Jasper was the last gem in years to be able to summon a weapon, we have grown so reliant of the hard-light-destabilizers that most of us can't fight at all without them, and Rose's new human form is immune to them. Not only that, but it has Rose's shield too, so even regular hard light weapons won't work." Peridot explained, moving closer to Lapis. "Rose was making considerable progress in the field of restoring corrupted gem forms, and she still has the ability to heal cracked gems like yours was." Lapis glanced towards her gem, and cringed. "If Rose could restore even a 10% of the corrupt gem forms on earth than that would be enough to defeat Yellow Diamond. I never sent the report about Rose's human form into Yellow Diamond, she'll be sending gems proficient, not in hard light weaponry, but destabilizer weaponry. If we go now, we may be able to convince them to let us join them, if the odds are in our favor."

"How can you say that!?" Lapis shouted at Peridot, "They kept me in a mirror for over 5,000 years, and they killed blue diamond!"

"Lapis, you were never loyal to the diamond authority, especially with blue diamond. You never wanted to come here, and if we can beat yellow diamond we will be able to leave. We won't have to be prisoners anymore."

"Don't talk to me about imprisonment! I've been imprisoned by everyone I ever knew. The crystal gems, homeworld, and you! And what did I do to them, nothing."

"Please Lapis, be reasonable. You're just upset because Jasper could escape and you couldn't, and you didn't even consider that she was a specially trained warrior and you were just a terraformer. You did so well, most gems who want to fuse can't keep it up for more than a day, unless it's fueled by intense love, and you kept it up for two years! you can't fault yourself for that." Peridots face crept into a slight smile.

Lapis's sobs gradually slowed and a slow decrescendo indicated that she had calmed considerably. "Y-you're right, Peri. Let's get going, I'd rather die fighting than as a prisoner of my own sorrow."

Peridot walked over to Lapis, and helped her up. Lapis pulled Peridot into a hug as she stood. "Thank you, Peri." She whispered, and they began walking.

Meanwhile, on the coast of Europe, an orange gem washed onto shore.