"...FUSION?!" They both shouted at the same time and rose up, still feeling a little warm and fuzzy from what they had just expirienced.

Sapphire looked at her Gem, two single tears falling down from her eye. Ruby looked at her, scared, shocked and surprised. Sapphire gasped and looked back at her. Ruby blushed and shouted:

"GAAAH! I´M SORRY! I DIDN´T MEAN TO, IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, PLEASE, DON´T HATE ME!"

"RUBY! SHUT UP!" Sapphire ordered her. Ruby shivered and became silent. Sapphire sighed. "Let´s just... Not tell anyone, alright?"

Ruby nodded.

"Good."

They went back to the cave and sat down just like they had before the fusion. Ruby looked down and realiced the fire had died so she started it once again. They cleaned all the dirt, mud and water from their physical forms and started feeling better.

"I´ve seen Gems fuse before but I had no idea that´s what it felt like." Sapphire blushed. Ruby raised an eyebrow. "I always thought... I never realiced that fusion..." She held her head down. "That you dissapear like that."

"IT´S NEVER LIKE THAT! Whenever I´ve fused, it´s always been just... Me but bigger and stronger, I... I´ve never had a third eye before."

"I´ve never had more than one! It was nice."

It was Ruby´s turn to blush. "HA! Yeah."

Soon enough, the water stopped falling and the sky was filled with light once again. They decided to get out and continue their search for the Cloud Arena. Ruby offered to carry Sapphire but she refused so they both walked. Eventually, the sun moved once again and the dark came, but this time, the dark was followed by stars. They both sat down to look at them in awe.

"You can see Homeworld´s Galaxy from here." Sapphire realized and pointed at it for emphasis. Ruby just simply nodded.

The sun, the moon and the stars kept moving and so did the two Gems. Time kept passing but none of them ever forgot about that night until Ruby brought it up:

"Um, I just can´t stop thinking about it."

"Of course you can´t, we´ve never lived anything like that before."

"So, you hadn´t fused before?"

"OF COURSE NOT! I´m a Sapphire, remember?"

Ruby looked away, ashamed "I´m so sorry."

"Don´t be."

"But you´re here forever and it´s my fault."

"It´s not your fault,Ruby" She answered,reassuringly "You didn´t cause the ship to fall. Besides, if I´m here, I´m here with you."

They looked at each other, blushed and smiled. They held hands for the rest of the night. Finally, one day, they finally found the Cloud Arena floating above a river. Ruby looked at Sapphire with mixed emotions.

"There it is... Finally." She said, waving her hand which had the Gem on it in it´s general direction.

"Yes." Sapphire sighed. "You´ll never forget me, will you?"

"No, of course not." Ruby shook her head. They knew Blue Diamond would sent them on separate ships this time and they were, for some reason, resistant to it.

Sapphire easily managed to walk on water while Ruby sunck in it. They laughed and went back to shore, unsure how they would get there.

"I´ll never look at Rubys the same way again."

The red Gem couldn´t believe her ears. "W-why?"

Sapphire opened her mouth and was about to respond when she saw something behind Ruby. "DUCK!" She shouted and tackled Ruby to protect her from the creature and everything became white.

They looked up and saw the thing that´d been behind Ruby, a bird, was gone. They looked down and recognized their legs inmediately. They were fused.

"AGAIN?!" The fusion asked herself but there was no one to answer the question. The fusion then came to a conclusión; if Sahpphire could walk on water she could too so she started walking.

The fusion was back, she was someone and she didn´t know who but she felt like she was getting the hang of her strange new form. She stumbled and fell several times but she was on water so it didn´t hurt. She realiced she was very close to the Arena and about to get in when she realiced two things:

One, she was fused so she couldn´t enter the Arena. She had to unfuse.

Two, she didn´t want to unfuse and she now knew she had litterally no reason to come back. Ruby could easily be replaced and Sapphire thought it was better this way.

She looked down at her reflection on the water; she wasn´t a hideous monster, she was the combination of two beautiful Gems and that made her even more.

"Beautiful."

She turned around and started to run away without looking back. Whatever happened to Homeworld she didn´t even care, why be of use to someone if they aren´t of use to you? She understood that now. On Earth, no one would ever keep her from fusing. On Earth, she could slowly learn to discover why she wanted to fuse and stay fused so much in the first place. She could find the answers to a lot of questions and the answers would liberate her rather than put her down. The answer wouldn´t be: "Oh, you can´t possibly want to be... Ugh, fused for longer. What you are feeling is wrong and we should supress it. It doesn´t make any sense and thus, it´s useless and running you down."

No, that was not an answer, it was the exact opposite in fact. She wanted a real answer, she wanted Earth. And she was going to keep it that way for as long as possible. She was going to have her Earth and no one would deny it from her.

She suddenly realiced she was right next to a bush of flowers, She squinted, they kind of looked like Rose Quartz´ hair.

Rose.

Rose had been the leader and starter of the rebellion.

The ideas the fusion was now coming up with weren´t hers, they were Rose´s.

All this time, Rose´d been right. And yet she was now gone because of her. She pulled out one hand and started stroke the petalls of the flowers.

"I´m so sorry, Rose, you were right... You were so right." Water started coming from two of her eyes and the third one closed. Ruby assumed that was one of Sapphire´s powers and Sapphire was puzzled as to why the water was coming out of her eyes. But it didn´t matter, it was a clear sign of sadness and worthless-ness; both of which she felt because she would now be willing to follow Rose´s cause... But that cause didn´t exist anymore. "How can I make it up to you?"

Suddenly, she heard a noise that made her look up.