Hello guys! I do hope you enjoy this chapter, making arguments isn't my strong suit... I think?
Well anyway, here you guys go! Get Set To Get Decked!
Well Steven wasn't lying to himself; He was defiantly screwed, but he didn't think it was this bad.
"And why did you guys think it was a good idea to lock me in inside my own house!?"
Steven saw how everyone seem to either flinch or glare harder at his loud and harsh outburst, but at this point the hybrid didn't care. How dare do they do this to him!? He knew that Garnet and Pearl would be pissed and upset at him for contacting Blue Diamond, but keeping him a prisoner in his own home was way too far. He did what he had to do, and for once he wasn't going to feel guilty about his decision.
After the hybrid brought Pink's ship to the back of the Temple, getting everyone's attention in town, Steven got out and didn't bother to hide his diamond changes from everyone anymore. Pearl and Garnet were the most shocked by the boy's new look, even showing signs of worry as they looked at him for any injuries. Peridot and Bismuth were shocked yes, but they already seen his eyes as lease before. Amethyst was the only one keeping her face blank as she watched the two older gems decide on what to do. They defiantly exploded once the six went into the temple. The very moment the teen stepped inside, it was a trap all it's own. Bismuth had built a thicker wooden door, with locks and everything, replacing Steven's front door. Once they locked him and everyone else inside, Garnet was the one to tell him that he wasn't leaving anytime soon.
"It's for your own good Steven," Pearl frowned deeply, fear and anger in her light blue eyes as her hands were placed on her tiny hips. "What were you thinking!? It's bad enough that you disobeyed an order, but to contact Blue Diamond! Why would you do that!?"
Steven rolled his pink eyes, crossing his arms over his new pink star shirt. "Cause I can, and I should. Why wouldn't I contact Blue or Yellow?"
"They are Shatterers Steven! You are inviting them on Earth to kill us all! They can't be trusted," Garnet snapped, her fist curling in anger as she stood above the much smaller boy.
The hybrid wasn't backing down though, he glared deeply into her shades as he stood tall as well. He maybe short, but he wasn't going to let these two control his life anymore. He snapped, just as loud as them. "That's a bullshitted excuse! Just cause they tried shattering you Ruby, doesn't mean that they can't be trusted! You're just scared to meet your former Diamond, so don't start trying to scare me while you're the one shaking in your boots!"
"Steven!" Neither Pearl nor Garnet could believe this. What had happened to their little boy? They had never had this problem before with him rebelling against his orders. There were times when Steven would disobey them, but never this much or with this much hate in his tone and eyes. It brought rage to the fusion, but more so fear and worry. Ever since the truth was shown about Rose Quartz being a Diamond, was once a murderous leader like the others, the boy had gotten more distance with them. Here he was, shouting and saying things that were against their beliefs and very way of a crystal gem. He was speaking like… like a diamond. Why didn't she foresee this before? Was she failing Rose? Garnet sure felt like she was, but she wasn't going to give up. There was no way that Blue Diamond was getting her hands on Steven. Over her cold shattered shards.
"Watch that tone mister!" Pearl felt more rage than anything else. She hated how much Steven was acting right now. Of all the stupid things he had ever done, this had to be on top of the white gem's list, and the list just kept on growing. She had believed that telling him the truth would also mean that he would show more respect to her and the other gems, but if anything it just got a whole lot worse. He isn't doing anything Rose would have done. Contacting the Diamonds was definitely something Rose would never do, it was the reason why she had hidden the ship in the first place. Now the hybrid was testing and shouting at their leader like a rebellious child. It was shameful and Pearl knew that Rose would look down at her for not raising her son better than this. Then when Steven spoke about the Diamonds being his family, that what threw the gem over the edge. They were his family, not those monsters! She was!
Steven scoffed, rolling his eyes once again as he gave each of the gems a harsh stare down. "I don't think so Pearl, more so that you got Bismuth to lock me inside my house! How the hell do you want me to act like after being locked inside!?"
"You disobeyed an order," Garnet frowned deeply, answering him in a cool but hard tone. "You left the temple and went off into the desert."
"I did what I thought was right! I'm sick and tired and just sitting around and doing nothing!"
"Earth is at peace now, and you are throwing it all away once the Diamonds make it here!"
"YOU CALL THIS PEACE!?" Steven yelled in fury, throwing his arms in the air as his pink eyes glowed brightly in response to his rising fury. Garnet and Pearl backed up from the vibrating power flowing around the boy, the rest shaking and even gasping at how the house just seem to shake under the hybrid's powers. Peridot epped, getting a bit scared as she hid behind Amethyst slightly. The purple gem just stood back, biting her bottom lip as she watched her brother almost start to lost it with the oldest gems. She turned her eyes slightly to see Bismuth holding her hands in fist, a debate going into her eyes in whether to help contain Steven or not. She just kept her head forward, watching a scene she only saw once before unfold in front of her eyes. Her own anger, slowly boiling up.
"How is this peace," Steven snapped once again, his body feeling like it was on fire. "Sitting around and doing NOTHING, while your very own enemies and allies stay trapped inside of bubbles! You guys are trying to live like human beings and forgetting your job to not only Earth, but to gems as well! You make me sick! What happened to Rose fighting for gems, fighting for earth to be at peace. You call this fighting, you call this peace. It isn't! The Diamonds are out there, suffering and have the power to help us finally end all of this and you two are doing NOTHING!"
"That's enough," Pearl snapped, stomping right up to the smaller boy's face, her own showing complete rage. She glared down at him, her hands turning into fist as Steven glared back up at the white gem. "I will not let you speak like this under this roof Steven! Apologies right now young man!"
A cruel and cold tone was her only response, "Make me slave."
That sent Pearl over the edge, but before she could even try and do what she was planning to do, Amethyst raced to get between her and the teen. She put her hand over Steven's chest, stopping him from attacking the white gem while Pearl had gotten the quartz's whip in her face. It made sense really, since the white gem had her spear in both of her hands at the moment. "Don't you dare Pearl."
Garnet wanted to break up all three of them, seeing how this was getting out of hand. She was the leader, and yet she couldn't even seem to control her own group right now. "That's enough guys, back up." She frowned, seeing how Pearl and Amethyst glared at each other for a second before letting the fusion order them to back away. The purple gem however, decided to stand by Steven while Pearl just took a few steps off away from them. She hated this, seeing her team all broken up like this. Was this even her team anymore? She didn't even know what to do right now or even say, so she turned towards Steven and Amethyst, getting back to the task at hand. "When will the Diamonds be here Steven?"
The hybrid was shocked by this question, but didn't let up his glare as he crossed his arms across his chest. "Two days from now. Blue is talking to Yellow and White Diamond about everything that I told her."
Pearl shook, as did Garnet and Bismuth, at the name of White Diamond. Since when did Steven know that name, let alone not tremble under the very thought of such a diamond. The two taller gems have never met the Diamond personally, but they had heard stories. White was the most powerful of the Diamonds, the leader of all Homeworld. The only one who knew more was Pearl, who shook all over and seem to pale rapidly all over. Amethyst, Peridot, and Steven were quick to notice this. The hybrid kept his eyes all on the white gem, shocked that she had turned into a even whiter shade than before. She looked so scared, so terrified that she was having trouble standing over. Why? What else was she hiding here?
"W-Where," Pearl mumbled, her voice so small that the boy almost didn't catch it. Her hand was slightly over her mouth, trembling like she had gotten so much weak. "d-did you hear that name Steven?"
Name? That caused the boy to raise his eyebrow at her, his confusion pushing past his rage. "What? White Diamond?"
Pearl squeaked, and that really peaked the hybrid's interest. What was about White Diamond that caused Pearl to act like this, even Garnet looked slightly confusion as well. If he was being honest, he had a feeling that there was a fourth Diamond back on Homeworld, but he had no idea what White was like. He doesn't even have dreams of her face or anything. He remembered hearing the name be spoken before, but that was it. A name. Pearl has to know the Diamond though, somehow she had to know something. Something wasn't adding up in the boy's head, and he was once again getting a slight headache.
Pearl was Pink's Pearl… right? No, she couldn't be. Steven remembered a dream he had, one with another pearl. She was pink, cheerful, and even sweet. He dreamt of the two playing together, singing and dancing, even hanging out with other little organics he had found on other plants. It was a worm like creature, and it wouldn't stop hugging his pearl's head. His pearl, Pink's pearl. It was the same gem that was in front of him, gem can't change their colors like. The two were very similar in body, but that other Pearl was much more lively. He remembered something else. Her gemstone was on her belly, just like Pink's and his gem. Blue's Pearl had it on her chest, as did the yellow one for her diamond. These placements were important, very important to their Pearls. They had to be prefect, flawless.
The placements weren't the same for Pearl and Rose…
Pink was bottom, and Yellow and Blue were the sides…
The Diamond symbols…
Four Diamonds…
White's gem…
"... You belonged to her." Steven's eyes widen in shock, looking completely at Pearl who frozen at the words that split easily out passed his lips.
Amethyst was confused, but it sure did look like so was everyone else. She looked at her brother, shocked to see him slightly paling himself. His eyes were filled with realization, as if he find out something that made sense but freaked him out all the same. She couldn't help but voice her worry. "Steven?"
Steven didn't listen though, his eyes, his mind, were all on the frozen stone cold Pearl in front of him. "You… you lied to us," His eyes flashed badly, making Pearl flinch. It was like something was cracking underneath them. "You weren't my mom's pearl… You belonged to her, didn't you?"
"S-Steven…" Pearl took her hands from her mouth, terrified that the others would catch on. "S-Stop… D-Don't!"
"You belonged to White Diamond."
Peridot must have been holding her tablet, cause it fell and made a very loud crash. No one moved, no one said a word as all their eyes turned to Pearl and Steven. those two staring at one another as if the world had just ended. To both of them, it did.
Steven was shocked, dumbfounded by his own words pushing pass his lips. It was true, deep down the hybrid knew it was true, and just staring at Pearl, seeing her blue eyes shrink and her body crumple, made his own heart and mind shatter. Just when he thought that things would be different, just when he thought that now the boy could let go of the past, there was something else to stop him. Something else that was so important keeping trapped in the pass that should have nothing to do with him. It hurt, it made his whole body feel like it was on fire, but this time for a whole different reason. He was lied to, again by none other than Pearl. she wasn't Pink's Pearl, not even Rose's Pearl. She was White Diamond's Pearl, sent to Pink as a gift. What happened to her pink pearl? What did all of this mean? Why did this have to happen again!?
"Again…" Steven's body shook, trembling in either rage or pain the boy wasn't sure but it didn't stop his words from coming out in a broken but soft tone. "You lied to me… again… Pearl…"
Pearl didn't look at the others, only at Steven, whose eyes finally seem to fill up with tears. For some reason though, seeing the hybrid about to cry, didn't bring tears into her own hearts. Honestly she didn't feel sad, but she did feel betrayed. He wasn't suppose to know about White, much less her being owned by White Diamond. Not even Pink knew, and it was meant to be that way. She was scared though, scared for what the small but powerful teen might do to her. "It…" She frowned, turning her head away as her posture became tense and rigid. "It doesn't matter Steven."
"Doesn't matter? It matters to me!" Steven shook even harder, his pink eyes becoming harsh again as tears flowed down his cheek. "You lied to me, again! You told me that you served Pink Diamond, but you didn't! You're master was White Diamond! You lied to me! You knew there was another Diamond!"
"What!?" Everyone yelled in shock around the two, but it was Amethyst who was the loudest. Another lie, the purple gem quickly shook in rage as she wanted to tear Pearl a new one. she lied to them again. She belonged to another Diamond, and the purple gem didn't even know there was another. She frowned deeply, her own trust from the white gem going out the window.
Pearl felt all of their eyes on her, but once again, this time she didn't feel afraid. She glared a bit a the boy, her voice tight. "I was a gift to Pink, I didn't serve White anymore at that time."
Steven glared harder, his voice finally cracking under all of his painful emotions. "I don't believe you. I can't believe you! You promised me everything from now on! Over and over again you kept saying you well, and then I found ANOTHER SECRET! I'M SICK OF IT!"
"You rather trust Blue's words than my own!?"
"She never lied to me! YOU HAVE! I'm sick of you lying to me Pearl! Pink is my mom, and that means that her past is my past as well! You promised to tell me everything! How can I trust you if you keep with holding secrets!? I can't trust you, and I don't even know why I ever started trusting you again! You and Garnet keep hiding these secrets and lying to not only me, but to EVERYONE! I don't care if Rose gave you fucking orders, she's gone! You guys shouldn't be hiding anything from me any more!"
Garnet saw this not ending well, she had to step in. "We kept those secrets to protect you Steven. We didn't want it to hurt you."
"Bullshit," Steven snapped at the fusion, turning his glare onto her. "You kept them from me cause Rose gave you orders not to, what kind of mother does that!? You were just as pissed when she kept her secrets from you, yet you still obey her lying clod ass like she's your fucking god! I don't give a shit what your thoughts were on keeping me safe, I still hate you lying to me!"
"It doesn't who I once served Steven," Pearl shook her head, crossing her arms as her glare turned into an authority one. "What matters now is what YOU did. Blue and Yellow Diamond are coming to Earth, and that means we need to keep you safe. Till we deal with them , you are not leaving this temple!"
Both Peridot and Amethyst snapped at Pearl, the green gem coming over to side beside Steven and her best friend. "You can't do that you clod! Keeping him will only anger Blue and Yellow more once they find out!"
"You guys have no right to keep him here like this," Amethyst shouted in rage, stepping in front of Steven as she stood between him and the older gems. "He did nothing wrong, and he is trying to save our friends from corruption! Punishing him like a child won't solve anything."
"Blue Diamond won't heal corruption Amethyst," Garnet shook her head, growling harshly. "She is a shatterer, that's all she knows how to do and what she plans to do. We won't let that happen!"
Steven smiled fondly at his friends for defending him, but it quickly died as he smirked coldly at the two older gems. "And you're a fucking lying ass hypocrite! I rather deal with my fellow Diamonds than stay here trapped with you two!"
Hearing that again caused Pearl to snap, she stomped her foot and shouted, "They aren't your family! You aren't a Diamond!"
The shout should have caused the hybrid to shout back, but instead Steven just stared blankly at the rage filled white Pearl. His pink diamond eyes holding their hard gaze on the another set of ice blue. Silence was inside the locked down temple for a minute longer, and then the boy smirked, the look on his face turning into a deadly playful manner. He crossed his arms over his chest, and looked at Garnet, Pearl and even Bismuth, who seem to have stood but the older gems' side.
He chuckled, though the sound wasn't cheerful. "They are my family, but I guess we'll have to see won't we White Pearl," The title caused the Pearl to flinch. "You got two days to try and stop them, and trust me, you're going to sadly need it."
