AN: I want to apologize for taking so long to update the story. Things were a bit more hectic and chaotic then I anticipated in RL. Will try to pick up the pace of posting on here. SO here you get two chapters in one day.

Night.

Darkness was better.

During the day it was harder to stay out of view, there were a few gems who saw her briefly during the light time. So the night it was. With a few try and error, she realized that most rooftops were without light options during night time.

That's how she was on a rooftop across her goal, looking down on the gems coming in and out of the archive. None of them looked up… There was no need to look up unless you were looking up at someone…

Renegade blinked, she looked up.

There was only the sky. She stared at it… she could see some of the stars… if she overlaps it with maps she could know which of those are colonies. There were so many more stars than colonies... She didn't do that, maybe another night. For now, Renegade had a goal.

She simply stared at the gems and the archive building.

A slow blink behind her mask, eyes shifting back to finding a way in.

She could not get on the rooftop of the archive, she did spot that the left side was having fewer gems around, as well there were windows. She could… climb into one and use another to leave.

That didn't sound half as bad… it reminded her of another report she read to Pink. Pearl read to pink. Or she read to pink…

Why?

The renegade shifted on her spot, moving her thoughts from that to the task on hand. Doing felt so much easier, one had to think so much less. She can figure out what she is after. Seeing no point in waiting anymore she jumped off.

She landed on a pipe structure, it shocks her legs. A gasp escaping her lips. Her knee giving out for a brief moment. Her knees connecting to the cool gem structure. Her body shivering in the response under the black clothing. For a brief moment, it felt heavy. For a brief moment, it felt restricting. The fear wrapping around her.

The sound of voices made the formless fear take face. The fear of being caught, of ...of getting poof. She stood up, eyes searching lower finding the source. The voices belonging to two Peridots wrapped up in a debate. They didn't notice her. Or didn't care once they saw her gem was a pearl. She walked along the pipe carefully, silently. She didn't want any more gem attention. The feeling was changing, shifting the heaviness was easing up. With each step, it was lighter. She spotted the window she wanted to use. So close now. Slowly, blinking, she lowered herself, fingers touching the pipe. She jumped, pushing herself off the pipe, fingers reaching out.

It...

Felt like dancing.

Fingers gripped onto the edge of the window and using the movement she pushed herself easily of the wall and swinging into the window. The Renegade landed on the tips of her feet inside the archive. A bubble like feeling was inside her, she chuckled, the sound so much like when she made Pink diamond happy. She stopped.

Focus on the goal.

Silent as the shadows. It was dark, the light turned off. That will help her. The statues were not moving. She started going down the hallway staying close to the walls. Simple walls, not the talking ones. That was good. Step after step, left foot, right foot.

She was there, the heart of the archive, countless walls watching out, their eyes trailing across the many banks of data. By each bank a gem operating it, even more, gems bringing the data from every cycle to be stored. Pearl was standing behind a statue, the lighting was low in here. Allowing countless words to shine even brighter.

There was no data bank without an operator gem. No data bank that was not watched by the walls, walls which can sound the alarm the moment someone not allowed touched it... Hm...

She really took the just do it, don't think about it, a bit too explicit... Now she had to think something up. How long would it take to get the information she wanted?

She needed...

What was needed?

First, she needed the walls not to sound the alarm.

She needed the operator off the data bank.

She needed the time to get the info.

She needed to get out. Preferably without ever being spotted.

Sound doable.

It terrified Pearl, that she truly thought that. It shouldn't make her think that it is doable.

It shouldn't feel simple as her feet turned away from the archive heart, Going with the intention to reach the office of the Charoite in charge of the archive. She stopped when she spotted a pearl standing in front of a door. The stance she was upholding was on ready, she was waiting to be called into the office. Her colouration and dress clearly telling on her status. She belonged to Charoite.

Doable.

Pearl summoned one of the small knives she took with her for this. The light of the summoning made the purple pearl shift. Renegade heard the shying step towards her direction. Renegade stayed silent., hoping the black cloths made her melt in the shadow of the wall. Uncertainty.

On whose part?

Renegade stayed put, ready to lash out from around the corner the moment the pearl was in arms reach. The steps stopped coming closer. Renegade shined her pearl once more.

" Who is there?" Purple Pearl asked.

Renegade's fingers twitched around the knife in her hand. If Purple Pearl screams ... if the purple pearl scream it will fail.

"Sorry" Renegade offered to the purple Pearl. "I don't want you to get in trouble, because of me," Renegade spoke still not moving out the shadow, still behind the corner. Waiting., The knife in her hand giving a sensation of security. Comfort.

"It's fine, have you gotten separated from your master?" Purple pearl offered, stepping closer. All Pearls had similar voices. It was easy to assume she was just another Pearl. APealr with her master.

"No," Renegade responded, listening for another step. Purple Pearl was there. Renegade moved out the corner, one hand reaching to the pearl mount, ramming her over and against the wall. Muffling the cry Purple Pearl made, her purple hands grabbing onto her black-gloved one. The pearl gem was on the back of her right hand. The chest is safe. "But you will." The knife stabbed into the chest, swiftly. The pearl eyes grew big, was it the first time she felt pain? Fear, terrified eyes staring at her.

Poof.

Black fingers swiftly caught and curled around the falling purple pearl gem.

She poofed someone.

Someone who didn't fight back...

It was needed.

She committed a crime.

She stole from the ruby armoury.

They gave her the weapons for an inspection... It wasn't per se a crime... just...omitting some facts.

Like there never being an inspection?

Raising the pearl up she stored it in her own Pearl. That way she was sure the gem will not reform.

Summoning some of the leftover clothing, she had from the start of this... whatever this was... just do... she placed them in front of the door. Red and dark yellow pieces of material. Summoning the second knife she started to hit them together.

Clank.

No spark.

Stronger.

Clank.

Spark.

Again.

Clank.

Several sparks and the material started to smoke.

The smoke started to build up.

She took a slow blink, she didn't await the material to create that much smoke. It was good. It was great. She will have to get better prepared in the future. Moving the knives into her gem. She was ready.

She yelped.

"Pearl?" Charoite voice.

"FIRE!" Renegade yelled, moving into the thickest smoke. The door opened and Charoite gasped at the smoke. "Evacuation order!" She yelled, a purple screen appearing in her hands as the order was sent out to all gems in the archive. Pearl was already rushing back into the archive heart. Watching as all operators were leaving their stations in an orderly fashion, followed by all the other gems. The walls were closing their eyes to avoid getting smoke and fire in their eyes. There was no smoke here. There will be no smoke. Renegade rushed to an operator station, shying for just a second before she pushed her hand into the system.

Eyes shined with information flashing through her mind.

The cut numbers.

She demanded from the data bank.

The data was so not protected, so not important to waste security on it. She took it all. It would be strange if that was all she took.

The thin Jasper voice echoed in her memories. Greedy.

The system recognized her as diamonds pearl. No information was held back.

Engineering information, Colony information. Starship plans. Diamond timetables. Planed kindergartens. Injector schematics. Dictionary.

She forced the system to forget her, forget who just took the information.

The system obeyed and forgot.

No traces.

It forgot her.

She pulled away, it was time to move on.

She rushed up the stairs, out the heart of the archive and into the hallways. Left and right and there a window. Even faster.

"What's going on!" Charoite voice stopped her as she was already having one foot on the window. Looking over her shoulder she saw the gem was holding onto the burnt rags. "Who do you belong to! There will be consequences for this!"

To who she belonged? Under the mask, an odd grin spread. There was a perfect answer to that question. Renegade spun as she raised herself to be standing on the window as she made a deep bow, without the diamond salute. The renegade was not a gem of the diamonds.

"The Renegade Pearl to your service. I don't belong to anyone, so any complaints may be directed to my..." Her pearl shined as she was moving out her bow, the sword falling securely in her hand. "Sword. " She pointed the sword directly into the face of the shocked Charoite.

"What.."

"Oh how silly of me, I nearly forgot this." Renegade summoned the purple pearl gem.

"Such an awfully loyal pearl. Had to poof her."

"My pearl!"

"She didn't want to betray you, neither to give any information up. How stupid of her to try and alert you of my presence. Don't you agree? " Renegade throw the pearl into the Charoite who caught her on reflex. That had to protect Purple Pearl from punishment. Maybe as pink diamonds pearls, she can check up on her. She had to. "Don't need her anymore."

"Drop that weapon this instant! I will alert the guards to shatter you."

"Really? You want to explain a PEARL overcome your security and stole precious information from you? It's so tempting to stay and watch you attempt to report that to the diamonds, I bet Yellow diamond will shatter you for the incompetence." Renegade tilted her head looking nonchalant. The Renegade loved doing this. The effect was fascinating, causing the gem to look scared, her fear so different than the pearl fear. Yet... so alike.

The loyal gems greatest weakness.

To disappoint.

"Time flies, so Ta-ta!" With a wave Renegade jumped out the window, rolling as she fell this time. Look at that rolling did help out, Renegade mused to herself.

She looked up at the dark sky and started to run.

She ran, like never before. Never stopping as she was sliding between the building, jumping up and around obstacles in her way. Running were no paths were. Where no trails were meant to ever be. Jumping onto pipes and power lines.

The Renegade Pearl started to see the potential of the Homeworld architecture to her needs. The potential of being where no gem was intended to be. A burst of laughter echoing after her, coming from deep within her very being. The joy was true, and the most powerful motivation the Renegade ever could have had.

The wind rushing in her face, she could feel the information about the two gems she took. Their lives, from the moment out of the kindergarten into their first invasion mission. The battles listed out. Up to the last report recorded about the defect shattering, and their accomplice slipping away after being badly damaged. The deal completed, now it was up to Renegade to become the best with all weapons.

Pearl couldn't hold back the laughter, echoing in the night.