Here's Chapter 3, Sorry if It took so long

Bismuth part 3 (Battle in the Volcano)

It was a really intense moment for Steven and Connie, at first it seemed like things were fine for them all. But now, things had gotten horrible, they saw what a weapon that Bismuth made was capable of which frightened them both and Bismuth had somehow captured Lapis. However, Peridot wasn't with her, this made Steven wonder about what happened to her.

''Aw yeah, now, that is a powerful weapon for the gems. Go on then, give it a test run? cos this gem has got your names on it kids.'' Bismuth said which snapped Steven back to reality. Bismuth had then taken the liberty of dragging Lapis over to one of the rock dummies, she then tied the blue gem to it tightly and chained her feet up to it. The two kids then stepped forward towards Lapis who was struggling to get free of her the chains that bound her. ''Oh wait, hang on a second, let me get out of your way.'' Bismuth said before jumping onto the platform behind her.

Steven then pointed the Breaking point at Lapis whom was still tied to the dummy, Connie had put both her hands to her mouth as tears had started to form in her eyes. Lapis was looking at Steven in pure frozen fear, ''STHHVHN, PLMHFM FTMP!'' Lapis pleaded, tears had started to stream down her face as she thought that Steven was going to actually shatter her. Not knowing what was going to happen, Lapis shut her eyes tightly.

This was bad, of all the things that was bad in the past like the cluster fusions, Rose's room or Frybo, they were nothing compared to the breaking point's power. It had all come down to this for Steven, he had two choices:

1. Use the breaking point, killing Lapis in the process and impress Bismuth, but lose the trust of his dear friend Connie.

2. Don't use the breaking point, sparing Lapis and keeping Connie happy, but losing Bismuth's coolness.

It was really hard for Steven to decide, this only made things worse.

Meanwhile somewhere outside of beach city.

Peridot was running all the way through forests and nature while trying desperatly to get to the nearest warp pad. The only other warp pad that she knew that could take her anywhere other than the barn house warp pad was the crystal gem's warp pad.

She had been trying to catch up to the huge gem who took her old time gemfriend Lapis.

(Flashback:)

Peridot had woken up, with groggly eyes. She saw that she and Lapis were both tied up to an old oak tree in the middle of the forest.

The huge gem was staring at them in their faces when they looked forward. This gave them both a fright when this happened, ''Well, well, well. Look what we got here. A couple of homeworld assassins.'' The gem said menacingly.

The two helpless gems were absolutely frozen with fear because of the way that the gem had mentioned about the two of them being ''Homeworld assassins''.

Having being scared enough to make them both cry, Peridot and Lapis tried to get free but no matter how hard they had tried, they could not escape from the chains. ''Ohoh no you don't, these chains are made from the strongest metals on homeworld so there is no way for you two to escape.'' The gem said evily. Peridot held Lapis' hand in fright as she had tried to wake up and think that this was all a very bad dream, but it wasn't.

''I'll be needing the blue one as a training dummy.'' The gem had said as she took Lapis from the chains and started to drag her over towards the edge of a clearing in the woods.

''NO PLEASE STOP, LEMME GO PLEASE. I'LL DO ANYTHING STEVEN, PERI, ANYONE HEEEEEL-MMMMP MMMMM!'' Lapis screamed in fear before she was muffled. The huge gem had then tied the helpless blue gem up and had shoved her in a sack that she had brought with her.

''And you...I'll be back for you.'' The gem said as she stared at Peridot whilst tying the knot on the sack. ''So don't even think about going anywhere.

Then with Lapis tied up in the sack, the huge gem was walking towards beach city for unknown reasons while she left the poor green little gem tied up to a tree, all alone in the dark and dangerous forest.

(Flashback Ends)

Ever since then as soon as she got free from her bonds, Peridot had been running as fast as she could to the gem's warp pad in Steven's home. Despite the fact that the huge gem didn't tell were she was taking Lapis, she recognised the gem shape and knew immediantly where to go. Since the gemshape looked like a Bismuth, Peridot thought that there had to be a forge around earth somewhere, it was her luck that she remembered a place that was built for her kind of gem back when she was still with homeworld.

When she reached Beach city, Peridot kept on running even though she had felt a little tired, she ended up bumping into a few people on the way to the temple. One of the people had wondered if someone was trying to pull a prank on someone.

At Steven's house, the gems were just doing what they would usually do. Pearl was reading a book, Garnet was looking out towards the sea and Amethyst was just chilling out on the stairs which lead up to Steven's bed. Everything was nice and quite, suddenly, someone had barged through the door and had broken it in the process. This made the gems jump at first, until they saw that it was Peridot which had made Pearl very annoyed at this but before she could start to tell one of her lectures to her, she was interupted.

''SorryaboutthemessyouguysI'llcleanituplaterbutrightnowIneedtouseyourwarppadforanimportantreasonandI'llexplainlateralright?,okbye!'' Peridot said as she rushed towards the gem's warp pad and warped to the place where she needed to go.

After she was gone, the gems looked at each other in confusion. ''Er...what was all that about?'' Pearl asked in confusion. Amethyst was the only one to respond by shrugging at her.

Back at the forge

Steven was still deciding what to do, this was all too much for him, shattering gems and killing them in the process. This wasn't his style, this wasn't him, he wasn't a killer and he didn't want to Shatter Lapis. It was at this moment that Steven had made up his mind about what he wanted to do.

''Sigh', Bismuth, I can't use this.'' Steven regretfully said which made Connie sigh in relief and making Lapis open one her eyes just a crack. This in turn had also shocked Bismuth a lot.

''Wh...What? Why not?'' Bismuth asked sounding a little strange in Connie's opinion.

Steven then walked backwards towards Connie as regretfully thought about what would happen if he used the breaking point on all the homeworld gems, even the ones that had come to earth. ''Sh-Shattering Gems...wouldn't that make us the same as Homeworld?'' Connie asked as she looked a little frightened again. This made Bismuth feel a little fustrated from the way that things were going.

''Of course not! We'd be shattering them for the sake of our cause, to protect our own allies, friends and to free all Gems from Homeworld's tyranny! (mutters: Or should I say the Diamond's tyranny?!'' Bismuth said explaining the possible use for the breaking point, ''MMMT?'' Lapis muffled in confusion, she thought that things weren't bad enough, but using the breaking point to free all of homeworld's tyranny? this was a little too intense for her...especially because of the fact that she was probably going to have her gem shattered for good.

''I know...(sighs)..I know, but...it's just, it... It's not what a Crystal Gem would do...'' Steven answered, Connie agreed with him as well, she had never seen a gem being shattered before and she had hoped never to see one ever get shattered. ''He's right, I think it would be too painful for other gems and...and I've never seen a gem get shattered to tiny pieces. (Sighs) It wouldn't be what a crystal gem would do, even if it means trying to save the earth.'' As she spoke, Connie had a couple of tears rolling down her cheeks.

Bismuth then appears in front of the two kids which made them both jump, especially with the slightly angry look on her face. ''Don't you dare tell ME what a Crystal Gem would do. Nobody is more Crystal Gem than I am (To herself: Unlike Crazy Lace and Emerald of course). Anyways, if neither of you aren't gonna use the weapon, wel then I guess that I'll just use the thing myself.'' Bismuth said as she was then trying to take her weapon off Steven so that she could use it on Lapis.

Lapis had started to scream in terror when Bismuth had laid her hand upon the Breaking Point. However when this happened, Steven jerk his hand away from Bismuth's, ''NO! Nobody is using this thing!'' Steven immediantly said as he took the straps off of the weapon and threw it away. ''I'm sorry, Bismuth I really am but...it's not right.'' Steven said firmly as tears had formed in his eyes, Connie had calmed down after seeing what he had done and had even smiled a little. Lapis then smiled back at the pure-hearted boy, She had now seen that he really did care about her even if it meant making the hardest of decisions at times.

The same could not be said for Bismuth who looked at the two kids getting a little shocked, she then starts to make a fist. ''That's exactly what she said...'' Bismuth growled slightly causing the three others in the basement to look up at her in confusion. ''Huh?'' Steven and Lapis had accidently said at the same time.

''That's exactly what YOU said.'' Bismuth said as she struck an intimidating glare upon Steven.

This made Connie feel really uneasy and it had started to scare Steven a little bit, ''I...Um, uhh...'' just hearing him stutter like that had made Lapis struggle with all her might on trying to break free from the chains that had bound her. ''Its really is you, isn't it, Rose?'' Bismuth had said sounding really serious.

''Wai...Wait, Wh...Wha...What are you talking to me abo...?!'' Steven had begun to ask only to be cut off by a really furious Bismuth, all the while Connie had begun to get terrified at the rainbow gem as she had seen her darkest side, even darker than Jasper.

''Don't you dare lie to me! You're seriously not expecting me to believe you now, after you lied about everything? You're lying about this new form, just like the way that you lied to the others about ME!'' Bismuth yelled furiously as she grabbed Steven by his shirt and yanked him off the ground towards her face. ''Steven!'' Connie yelped as she saw what was happening and even Lapis was still trying to break out of the chains.

''Oh, But I didn't just disappear, did I? YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!'' Bismuth Screamed angrilly in Steven's face, ''And you...I've seen your reaction from the second I shattered that rock dummy.'' She said coldly towards Connie who had tried to deny it, but the rainbow haired gem had immediantly dismissed it with disgust. ''You're a discrase to both homeworld and the crystal gems. I'LL BREAK BOTH OF YOU!'' As she heard those screams, Lapis had tried her best and had nearly gotten free from her bonds but she still could not. But then she had an idea...untill...

Just before the rainbow haired gem turned back to him and in order to avoid getting hurt, Steven created his bubble shield which helped him escape from Bismuth's grasp. ''WAIT, PLEASE! Bismuth! I'm sure that this is all a big misunderstanding! Steven said as he tried to calm Bismuth down

''LIARS, BOTH OF YOU! Don't even start to play games with me, Rose. We were both right HERE. I had offered you the secret to victory and yet you refused to use it. The Breaking Point could've changed everything.'' Bismuth yelled as she started to shapeshift her fist into her usual smithing hammer.

''I really didn't wanna fight you, but you had left me no CHOICE!'' Bismuth yelled as she had tried to crush Steven, but Connie had then yanked him out the way when this happened. The two kids then run away and hid behind on of the training dummies that was forged from the lava. ''Connie, get Lapis free and then get out of here while you can.'' Steven said even though he didn't know what he was saying, Connie was shocked at what her own friend was saying while Bismuth was searching for the two of them. ''What kind of leader refuses give her own army the ultimate chance to WIN?!'' Bismuth yelled as she shapeshifted her Hammer hand into one of her axes and used it to slice through the statue that the two kids were hiding behind before jumping on it and crushing it in the process. ''Steven no! I won't leave you here.'' Connie begged Steven, he immediantly shoved her away from him when Bismuth had come closer to him.

''How could you have even valued the gems of our very enemies more than ours?'' Bismuth bellowed as she started advancing towards Steven as Connie had tried to find Lapis, but oddly enough, she found out that she was missing. ''...Yet look what you've done without me, without my help, without the Breaking Point!'' She said as she tried to Steven's gem in half, only to see that he had blocked all of his attacks with his shield. ''YOU'VE! ALL! LOST!'' And after Steven had blocked more attacks, Bismuth struck one more which destroyed his shield.

Steven had was really starting to run out of options for calming down the rainbow haired gem at this point, Bismuth was about to use her axe to probably...''N-No, W-Wait! I'm not my mom! I really don't know what she had done, but I'm positive that she had never wanted to hurt you.'' He said nervously hoping it would do some good...

...But it didn't.

''It's too late, five thousand and three hunderd years too late. I don't believe you anymore! Nor will I ever again!'' Bismuth said as she advanced towards the poor boy until he creates a spiked bubble shield which made Bismuth jump backwards to the middle platform. ''All of that talk about how any Gems could take control of their own identities, how we'd all had been convinced to ignore our own potential...?'' Bismuth started as Steven's shield faded away, Steven had then falling onto his knees and then took his hands off of the floor after feeling the heat of the floor. ''Ah! Hot!'' He yelped in pain. ''That's all it was, wasn't it Rose ?! JUST. TALK!'' Bismuth screamed as she summoned her hammer again, she then doing a giant frontflip in attempts to smash Steven.

''Steven, Look out!'' Connie yelled as Steven was about to get crushed. Bismuth had then smashed her hammer onto the platform...but at that very moment, something had zoomed past Steven, grabbing him in the process and jumping out of the damage path of the hammer.

''What?!'' Bismuth yelled in rage as she looked at where Steven was. He was on another platform behind a blue gem, it was Lapis Lazuli who had somehow managed to get free of her own bonds because of the molten lava. that spat out of the cracks in the floor. ''L-Lapis, H-how did yo...'' Steven said to the blue gem who gave Bismuth a dark look. He then covered his mouth because of what he had said.

''Lapis?'' Bismuth said as she glanced at the two of them. ''So...you've finally gone and done it. You've betrayed me, your friends, the crystal gems and EARTH!'' Steven had realised what the huge gem was talking about, Bismuth was thinking that Rose Quartz had sided with the homeworld gems, but she had it all wrong. ''N-no, Bismuth please. This isn't what it seems.'' Steven had tried to explain. ''I! DON'T! CARE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGH!'' Bismuth Screamed as she charged towards the blue gem, sending her flying towards the back wall before grabbing her leg and slamming her into the middle platform. ''LAPIS!'' The two kids screamed. Steven had started to get frightened, what if was really hurt? why wasn't she summoning her wings? Scared of something bad happening to her, Steven and Connie both ran to the middle platform to defend the blue gem from Bismuth's hammer.

''Lapis, hang on. We're gonna get you out of here.'' Steven said to his beach summer fun buddy while Connie was working on carrying her to safety, Lapis however just jerked away from Connie before the she could even get her blue arm over her shoulders. ''No! Can't you see that things are really bad down here?! Don't you understand? I don't want your help.'' Just hearing what Lapis said made Steven think back to the time when he was on the homeword ship and when he entered Malachite's mind, as it circled over and over again, Steven had thought about all of this. ''Stop saying that Lapis!'' Steven had yelled at the blue gem harshly, ''I've heard you saying that three times now, I know my Lapis, she's kind, sweet and caring. This isn't you.'' Connie had agreed with Steven and was about to lend Connie Rose's Sword, but having getting distracted from blocking Bismuth's attacks, Steven was them smashed off the ground and sent flying. Luckily his floating ability kicked in and prevented him from falling into the Lava, However, one of his flip-flops had fallen off his foot and into the molten lava below and melting in the process. Steven was scared at this, but not as scared as what was about to come next.

''You should have listened to me, Rose! I could have taken the war all the way back towards Homeworld and I could have SHATTERED the rest of the Diamonds! I could have liberated... EVERYONE ON HOMEWORLD!'' Bismuth screamed while she picked up one of her training dummies before throwing it at the poor boy and injured him.

''STEVEN!'' Connie and Lapis Screamed in union. When Bismuth thought that Steven(/Rose) was shattered, Bismuth walked back over to where the breaking point was thrown before looking over at the two helpless girls. ''As for you two...'' Bismuth had started, unknown to her, Steven was still alive and was trying to break free from where the dummy had trapped him. All the while, Bismuth stomped over towards where Connie and Lapis were. ''Come on, Miss Connie. We've gotta go...oh no!'' Lapis said as Connie begged her to get Steven. However, it was long before something wrong with Lapis' wings. As soon as she summoned her wings, they had started to steam up and even started to disappear. ''What's wrong, can't you fly?'' Connie asked Lapis before she started to panic. ''I'm not able to summon my wings fast enough, they're evaporating too fast.'' Lapis said, this meant only one thing: Lapis wasn't able to use her wings properly and that was when Bismuth had roared at the two of them, causing them to fall on hot floor which burned Connie's hands a little.

''Please, don't hurt us! We didn't do anything to you.'' Lapis pleaded, only to be met by Bismuth's furious face in her own. ''Oh but you DID, You! turned Rose against her own rebelion, You! tried to shatter me all those years ago! YOU! WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT THE DIAMONDS HAD DONE TO MY FRIENDS! Bismuth yelled as she prepared to slice the two girls with her axe arm. ''STEVEN!'' The two girls cried as they closed their eyes in preparing for what would come next when...

Nothing had happened.

Lapis had opened her eyes to see that Bismuth was struggling to move her axe arm as it looked as if she was stuck in mid air somehow. ''You'll not hurt my friends, you METAL CLOD!'' A voice said harshly to Bismuth, somehow that saying 'Clod' had made Lapis look to the source of the voice. Above the celing, a familiar green gem with a triangular gemstone on her forhead was hanging from a metal rope that she had weled together with the different bits of weapons.

It was the cute and lovable Peridot, she was using her metal powers to prevent Bismuth from hurting Lapis and Connie. ''Peridot.'' Lapis cried in joy, ''You know that gem?'' Connie asked the ocean gem. Before she could even answer anything, Bismuth had yanked her axe arm which caused Peridot to fall from the celing and flat on her face in the middle platform. Bismuth had then decided to shatter the two ex-homeworld gems with the breaking point herself, so without hesitating, she dragged Lapis over to the middle platform.

''Didn't I say not to move from that tree?'' Bismuth scolded, but Peridot could only insult her. At this moment when everything had gone wrong, Steven had managed to get free of the statue and with his powers he used the statue and threw it at Bismuth ''Unh! Ah! Errggghhhh, Bismuth, DON'T! HURT! THEM!'' He yelled as he launched the statue at the rainbow haired gem, when it reached Bismuth, it exploded into bits and thus injured her in the process. The breaking point then falls out of Bismuth's hands and rolls over to Steven until it reached him.

After picking up the weapon and due to his sandle melting in the lava, Steven had to hop on one foot over towards Bismuth and the others, ''You guys ok?'' He asked, ''(Sigh), yeah, we're fine.'' Peridot answered as she helped Lapis up onto her feet. She then used her metal powers to hold Bismuth down, as she did this Steven had looked the rainbow gem in the eyes. ''Bismuth, this has got to stop. It's getting none of us anywhere.'' He said as Connie and Lapis agreed with him, Lapis had been absolutely exhausted from trying to fight as well as trying to summon her wings. Connie was already upset, she had tears streaming down her own face from what had happened tonight. ''So what are you uppercrusts gonna do to me huh, shatter me?!'' Bismuth spoke as she even grabbed the tip of the breaking point and aimed it at her own gem, before anyone could even say anything. ''Then go ahead! ...JUST. DO IT!'' She screamed.

Steven was absolutely shocked at this, if Bismuth couldn't use the breaking point, then she wanted to use it on her own gem, destroying her forever. Looking at Peridot, Lapis and Connie, they didn't look like they wanted to see their own friend Steven shatter a gem. If he did shatter Bismuth, Connie would start to fear him for the rest of her life, Lapis and Peridot would most likely turn against him. Who knows what the other gems would do if he had shattered Bismuth. But no, this was not what Steven wanted.

''No, I won't! Even if we all don't agree, nobody deserves this...ever!'' Steven cried, as he said those words, the others slightly smiled at him, Bismuth however didn't. At first she looked unamused, but then she became even more enraged, the worst came when Bismuth angrilly yanked the breaking point out of Steven's hands and had attempted to shoot it at him and Lapis. This had also caused Peridot to stumble backwards at first until she regained her balance.

As Steven stepped back, he stopped at his mom's sword, he then drew it with his own eyes locked on the breaking point. ''Not this time Rose!'' Bismuth said as she fired the breaking point at the sword, knocking it out of Steven's hand, causing it to slice deep into one of the remaining training dummies. Defenceless, Steven stepped backwards again and nearly fell into the molten lava until Connie caught him. ''Mercy's not gonna save you this time Rosie. Nor will it ever help your friends!'' Bismuth said as she grabbed Lapis from behind and aimed the breaking point at Lapis' gem. Lapis was trying to squirm away from the weapon's tip while Bismuth held onto her tightly.

''Please! Don't do this, I'm not worth your troubles!'' Lapis pleaded, but Bismuth had ignored Lapis and had prepared the breaking point to shatter her gem at the speed of light, However Bismuth had gotten distracted at something that she'd never thought that she'd ever seen for a very long time...

Steven was glaring up angrilly at the Rainbow gem while Connie was actually crying as she looked at her in horror. All of those words and voices that she had yelled to the kids had made her think about the most horrible moments before she was somehow bubbled:

(Bismuth's Flashback parts:)

''I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ANYMORE OF THIS BIGGS, THIS HAS TO BE DONE NO MATTER WHAT!''

''I'VE GROWN STRONGER THAN YOU YOU ZIPPING INSECT!''

''This weapon can't be used, Bismuth. If we use it then we'll become just like the homeworld gems.''

''What's happened to you Bis? I thought there was some good in you?''

''You know what I've always loved about you Bis? You were always a good warrior amoungst us, who knew that you'd turned into such a jerk.''

''I'M SORRY BISMUTH, THIS ISN'T RIGHT.''

''Please, don't do this. I'm not fighting with the homeworld gems!''

''Bring back the Bismuth that we all know and love, I know you're in there somewhere. I don't like the different you.''

(Flashback ends)

Thinking all those things that she had to her teammates had made brought her back to her own senses, she then realised why Rose had bubbled her away. It was because not only because of Homeworld's final attack nor was it about protecting her, but it was also about what would happen if she had used the breaking point. Rose had cared about a lot of gems on homeworld that never really attacked earth. She would have been feared by all gems throughout the galaxy.

''She's right, they...they were all right. I've become a monster. What have I done?'' Bismuth thought to herself, she then looked at Lapis and thought about what she was going to do to her.

''Please Don't!'' Lapis pleaded, suddenly she had fallen to the floor, she then opened her eyes to see that the breaking point was dropped beside her. As she looked around for any signs of the rainbow gem in case she attacked again.

But what she saw made was nothing that she did 5,300 years ago. Bismuth had hid behind the last training dummy and from the strange sounds going on, it had sounded like crying. As the group stood up, they all looked in the direction of the crying gem, while some of them thought it could have been an opportunity to get out the rest of them thought that it would be a good idea to try and comfort Bismuth. ''This could be our chance to get out of here, I'll turn the key on this thing and...'' Peridot started only to be cut off by Lapis' harsh stare.

Then, without hesitation, Steven slowly walking towards Bismuth. Connie and Lapis tried to stop him, but he dismissed their warnings all together and continued to walk towards Bismuth. ''B..B..Bismuth?'' Steven said to the rainbow gem, only to be responded to the gem turning her back to him. ''Come..Come on, Bismuth. Look I didn't want any...'' ''Leave me alone!'' The rainbow gem harshly said as she choked up on some of her words, even the others were scared of her voice.

Steven then extends his arm and touches Bismuth's, but as soon as he did she yanked her arm away from his. ''Just go away Steven. I've become a monster, you nor your friends should not be around me!'' Bismuth yelled. Steven flinched a little at this before deciding to leave. ''I'm sorry for this Bismuth. I...I really had no idea about all of this.'' Steven said before walking over to the middle platform to join the others, as soon as the rainbow gem heard what he had said she shapeshifted her hand and smashed the final statue. She then stormed over to Steven and glared at him right in his face. ''WHAT?! YOU REALLY HAD NO IDEA ABOUT ALL OF THIS?! YOU THINK I'VE BECOME LIKE THE HOMEWORLD GEMS?! YOU THINK I'M EVIL?! IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?!'' Bismuth Screamed as she frightened Connie one last time, Peridot and Lapis had nearly been motivated to fuse. ''No...No no, that's not what I meant.'' Steven Panicked as he tried to think about what to say. ''Look, you're not evil. You're...sighs, I never thought that you had a furious hatred for homeworld, I thought that you were just a cheerful gem like Lapis was when she met me.'' Steven confessed sincerely.

Bismuth then turned around and sat on the edge of the platform as she decided to soak her feet in the lava pool in trying to block out her problems. Steven had decided to join her along with Lapis who kept their feet out of the lava. ''My hatred, goes back before the gem war. Before I left homeworld for earth.'' Bismuth muttered loudly enough for the two younger ones to hear. ''I...I...I..I..I watched as Yellow Diamond did the most cruelest thing that any gem would have ever seen. She shattered my whole village after the leader of the Diamonds had chosen me as her builder. It...i...it was a horrible moment in gem history for all gems and...I could hardly deny what had happened.'' Bismuth had confessed to Steven and Lapis.

''During the gem war, I saw Lapis on the battlefield and attacked her. She looked to be escaping and I saw her pleading me, begging me to spare her own gem. She also said some things that I didn't understand and I started to listen until I accidently poofed her.'' Lapis heard this and looked down in sadness. ''I now realised that she was only trying to help me, to show me that not all gems on homeworld are evil like I thought before. And I...refused to listen.'' Steven then understood what Bismuth had been angry at homeworld for. ''But...5,300 years ago...sniff...You know what should have happened tonight Rose...You should have shattered me all those years ago...only then to me, if I had been shattered, I wouldn't even wanna to know how little that I mattered to you...you didn't even tell them..Crazy Lace, Biggs, Snowflake, Cobalt, Emerald nor Purity or the others. You just bubbled me away and you didn't ever tell your friends..my...our friends.'' Bismuth cried emotionally.

Lapis had then known the truth about this gem, even Connie Steven and Peridot were surprised at this. Steven then knew what he had to do. ''We're going to tell them! We're all are gonna tell them everything, that's happened her tonight and what happened in the past, together. I promise.'' Bismuth was shocked at this and she even thought it was another lie, but when she turned to face the others they had nodded in agreement. As tears streamed down her face, Bismuth then realised that Steven was telling the truth, it even proved that he had the heart of her. ''Heheheheh... Then you really are like her. Just like Lil'Pure.'' Bismuth said, getting up onto her feet and walking towards the others. Without warning, the huge gem had pulled everyone into a big hug. ''Thank you, all of you. I hope there is something that I can do to make things up to you all.'' Bismuth said before releasing the hug. Peridot then looked at the breaking point and thought about the functions of it. ''Well...here's a kind of strange request for a weapon but...'' Peridot said as she whispered the rest of her words to Bismuth.

Back at Steven's house

The gems were still relaxing and doing their stuff when the warp pad lit up and beamed in Steven, Connie, Lapis, Peridot and Bismuth. This had gotten the attention of the gems as soon as they heard the warp pad going off. ''Steven, Connie.'' Pearl said as she looked up from her book. ''Aw, hey guys.'' Amethyst said. However, they noticed all the injuries on the gang and had even noticed Steven's limping and Bismuth's sad expression.

Worried about what had happened, the gems rushed over towards the gang and asked what happened. ''There's somthing that I, or rather...We have to tell you guys.'' Steven said sadly, even Lapis was even starting to tear up for the first time that the Crystal gems had known her.

In the burning room/Garnet's Room

Bismuth had just finished explaining what had happend at the Barn and in her forge. In return, the gems showed her what had happened to the rest of the Crystal gems. ''So that's what homeworld did to them.'' Bismuth said as she gazed up at some of the familiar gems that were bubbled up. ''Even Larimar who somehow sneaked into Amethyst's room.'' Amethyst nodded to what the rainbow gem had said.

''So anyways...you created a gem shattering weapon called the breaking point?'' Garnet asked her commrade firmly. ''...Yeah. The reason was, the homeworld uppercrusts weren't fighting fair. So I built the weapon and presented it to Rose until she denied my request.'' Bismuth explained, ''She had also explained that not all homeworld gems aren't evil. But I refused to listen because of the hatred that fueled me, to take my revenge on Yellow Diamond after what she had done.''

The gems were heartbroken at the thought of what Bismuth had explained. Pearl had asked her where the Breaking Point was and she said it was dismantled and used for something else before she had got back. ''Biggs, Phantom, Cobalt, Emerald, Paddi, Ammolite...'' Bismuth said as she looked up at the Orange Monster's gem, the Invisible Monster's gem, the Worm Monster's gem, The Rainbow Cloud Monster's gem and the hand cluster's cluster. ''I wish I'd stayed to defend you guys.'' Bismuth said as she took the bubbles down from her and hugged them.

''It's alright, Bismuth. No one could have predicted what could have happened.'' Garnet said as she comforted the rainbow haired gem. This had made her feel a lot better after she released the bubbles. ''Besides, it wouldn't have mattered, you would have ended up corrupted or shattered.'' Pearl said sadly, Garnet nodded her head in agreement and had a sudden urge to defuse until Amethyst held onto her hand. ''But what about Snowflake? Purity? Topaz? Where are the others?'' Bismuth asked until she decided to forget about it. ''More importantly, where's Steven?'' Amethyst asked.

Outside on the Steven's house

Steven and Connie were looking up at the stars in the night sky on the balcony. Peridot and Lapis were right beside them doing the same thing. Neither of them said anything to each other after what had happened in the forge, except for Peridot who looked a little pleased. She then walked over to Steven and put her hand on his shoulder. ''Steven, are you ok?'' She asked, Steven responded only by turning his head slowly towards hers, ''I'll never forget what happened in the forge Peri...Never.'' He said as he looked back up towards the sky.

Afterwards, the rest of the gems had come onto the balcony to comfort him. ''You'll never have to worry about that stupid weapon ever again, one day we'll be able to save the good homeworld gems from the evil tyranny of the diamonds. And...Rose...I don't know if you can hear me but, I'll find a way to take the Diamonds down without shattering them. I promise.'' Bismuth said. She had now decided to take the path of peace. ''And now that I've seen the true face of homeworld, I'm gonna help you guys.'' Lapis said as she lifted Connie up onto her back to give her a good view of the stars.

''Well welcome aboard then Lazuli, you too Peri.'' Bismuth said as she grabbed the gems by surprise and squeezed them in a warm and lovable hug. ''Wooooo yeah, Homeworld Roommates.'' Amethyst cheered as she jumped on top of Pearl who tried to throw her off again.

''But won't they need weapons?'' Steven asked Bismuth, she responed with a wink and a click of her tounge. ''It's already taken care of, it was actually one of the greatest weapons that I made. No gem used it though, I was gonna disamantle it, but now I'm glad that I didn't.'' The gems were a little curious about this new weapon that Bismuth was talking about until Peridot showed them.

As Peridot's gem glowed, she used her usual homeworld salute before pulling out the weapon. Everyone gasped at what the appearence of the weapon. ''Peridot...SUPER SLINGSHOT!'' Steven yelled happily. It was a green slingshot, the top of it was in the shape of a nearly full circle and had a star shape in the center. ''I know right? Bismuth said that this is one of the best gem weapons in the galaxy that was never actually used.'' Even Lapis was amazed at this, she pushed the five strings back on the weapon before it slipped out of her hand. At the same time, a powerful green ball of energy had blasted out of the cup. Everyone had to duck out of the way as the green plasma fired straight up towards the skies before it exploded a few seconds afterwards.

''Yup, that's the best weapon in the galaxy like Peri said.'' Bismuth explained, ''It is able to wipe out any gem within the plasma's path, destroying the body but not the gem. Just like rose's sword. The strings on it carries limitless amounts of plasma energy, so you're able to shoot without having to reload anything.'' Amazed by this, Peridot had used it on a couple of rocks that were blasted all the way out towards the ocean.

The gems were all having a good time outside with Peridot's new weapon, Lapis however, had decided to keep her's a surprise for the right moment.

''This is great, with two new members of the crystal gems, I'm sure that we're able to take on any incoming gem now everything is fine. I would also and that the worst is behind us all.'' Steven had said as the everyone else agreed with him. ''Aw right, Steven! Come on everyone. Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeets PARTY!''

And so after a everything that had happened that night, Steven and the others went back inside to party. However, none of them noticed a dark crimson aurora going across the skies of beach city rumbling as it was heading for one of the gem buildings.

Something bad was coming, but what?

The End

Well, that's this episode over with. More parts of the fanfic will come soon, so stay tuned.