"You know, a blog! It's a thing in the future that people have in which they document their stuff, and right now I'm documenting you! You will be on my blog! What to ask, though..." As Ronaldo began thinking of what he should really say, he put his hand on the mayor's table, and Rose examined it in more detail. It was a simple table made of dark wood, with mostly paperwork and a name plaque reading "Mayor Dewey" on it in an old-fashioned font. It wasn't anything not familiar to her; the other Dewey children also occasionally had trouble with her and the fact that the Crystal Temple is off-limits for humans, and had invited the Gems for a couple of talks.

Before Rose could pinpoint all the details, though, Ronaldo clicked his fingers with the same hand. "Aha! I should ask you this first: what was the last memory you had before your event?"

"Well," Rose began, as Ronaldo snapped more pictures of her, "the date would be Sunday, August 15th, 2004. Garnet had informed me that this would be what humans call a "due date", i.e. when Steven would be born. Therefore, for my last couple days, I had been laid down on a human bed, placed just outside the Crystal Temple. Greg had taken a day off specifically for that day, and therefore I distinctly remember that he, Amethyst, Pearl and Garnet were looking at me when the pains of labor took over. The pains were coupled with blinding light, too bright to be the sun, to mention nothing of the fact that it was a cloudy day in Beach City. Besides this, I only remember that Pearl screamed my name as my vision had been taken over completely and the pain made me unable to think anything, only feeling as the light constructs were pushing themselves, giving their way for baby Steven."

"M-hm." On his phone, Ronaldo had switched to recording voice, so that he could transcribe the dialogue and post it later. After all, there was no posting it right now, since the power was still out in the entirety of Beach City. "And after the event?"

"To be honest, not that much. Only a few times there were things that were emotional enough for me to briefly come around, like when Steven first summoned his- I mean my shield. And during the last... episode, Pearl was recounting a memory from five thousand years ago, Steven figured out what was going on and we two decided that for the time being, I should complete the unfinished with her."

"Yeeeeeeeeeees." Ronaldo drew out the word. He had no idea what was going on between Pearl and Rose, and therefore the last sentence sounded like white noise to him.

"Now, I get to ask you a question." Rose slightly grinned. "What is a blog and what can I expect from it?"

"I'm glad you asked." Ronaldo began his exposition. "You see, people around you choose to be blind; oblivious to the truth that is right in front of them. Therefore, I have taken it upon myself to spread the truth in the most obvious way possible. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to publish a book and my attempts at creating a television show went slightly awry, but that's where the Internet comes in!"

"The inter... what? Does it have anything to do with interstellar travel?" Rose asked, once again hearing an unfamiliar term.

"Well, the Internet is like... a whole bunch of pages, like those of books, except on a screen! And you navigate it, and I'm pretty sure that if I gave you a working computer right now, you could find my blog! Unfortunately, I ain't got the power for it. Eh?"

"You answered none of the questions that I had, but okay." Rose shrugged.

"Well, I can't explain what the Internet is, but I can... take another picture!" The phone that Ronaldo had flashed once again, before emitting a strange sound. "Oh, wait, I can't, battery's drained."

"I think Steven has a phone, but I'm not willing to run back to the house to get it."

"Where is Steven, anyway?" Ronaldo asked.

Instead of explaining thoroughly, Rose just pointed to the star-shaped hole on her belly, exposing her gem. "Right here."

"What? We know that you are an alien, you didn't need to point that out."

"No, I meant that that's where Steven is. Inside my gem."

"That doesn't even remotely make sense, even by alien standards. It just seems that you're lying to me. You don't want to be lying to me, the pioneer of truth. Isn't that right, Mrs. Universe?" Ronaldo stepped on the mayor's desk and knelt so that he could look straight at Rose's face better.

Rose shivered. Not because she knew that what Ronaldo doing was wrong; the sensation was distinct, and she could just feel that Steven was about to say something. She still didn't know the relation between Steven and every Beach City resident (besides Greg and Connie, of course), and therefore how he reacted was a surprise to her. "Go away."

"What? Who said that?" Ronaldo backed away from Rose, frantically looking around the mayor's office for anything suspicious. This, though, made a few papers slide, and before he knew it, the blogger found himself falling from the table and onto the cold floor. As he hit the floor, he took his time to stand up, before looking around the office some more.

"Take a wild guess." Rose crossed her hands. As much as it was fun to play with Ronaldo, the more she talked to him, the more she realized that he was actually somewhat crazy, and that his search for truth led him farther away from it, rather than closer to it.

"You know, Mrs. Universe," Ronaldo said, as he put the papers that he had taken down from the table back on it, "I have also been investigating science and how it searches for truth. And science has this to say on the matter: whenever something strange happens, it must be repeated for it to be considered truth. Therefore, I demand that you look at me in the eyes again. Just so I know that you're not playing tricks with me." When Ronaldo spoke for longer periods of time, it seemed that he was getting on Rose's nerves more.

But just for the sake of self-exploration and learning more about Steven, Rose agreed. She sat down and folded her legs, so that Ronaldo would be able to study her face again. Once he got close enough, she shivered again, and the voice of Steven returned: "I said go away. I don't want to see someone who kidnapped me so close."

Rose gasped in shock. Ronaldo tried to back away once again, but found that he had been stepping on Rose's multilayered dress and tripped again. After giggling at how humans just cannot handle their bodies, Rose's expression suddenly grew serious. "You kidnapped him? What is going on?"

"Well, he did pretend to be a snake person to me that one time, and s-since I didn't know any better, I went with it and wanted to do a-an investigation on him... until I learned that it was Steven." Ronaldo stumbled on his words at least a couple of times, suddenly being terrified of what Rose had learned and that she might use it again him.

"So, this is what aliens are to you? Mere playthings you can stuff in your laboratory, research and then forget about them?" For the first time in forever, Rose actually felt disgust with a human being. Granted, she didn't talk that much with human beings besides Greg and a couple others who were now long dead, but none of them had made her lose her self-worth more than Ronaldo.

"Well, to be fair, that's what you must think of us! Aliens invading Earth and everything. Playing with us, and so on. It's in every science fiction story! Plain as day, Mrs. Universe." Ronaldo finally thought of a comeback that would pull him out of this situation.

And for a while, it seemed that it worked. Rose fell silent, her eyes going blank, a breeze even covering them with her curls, as she reminisced.


Just outside Planet Earth, Crystal System, 182 After Interstellar Travel...

Pink Diamond glanced outside the window of a spaceship that was fast approaching its target: a planet with blue oceans, green, yellow and white portions of land and white clouds. As an important gem authority, she had been in the pilot's cabin, alongside with a pearl who was doing the actual piloting and a topaz who had already gathered information on the planet prior to the mission.

"We have the report right here, Our Diamond Superior," the topaz began telling in a monotone voice. "The planet has been observed to be hospitable to life, as the different colors of its surface show different densities of life there. With a surface gravity close to that of Homeworld, it will be an ideal playground for growing gems, and we expect the rate of gem production on the planet to be second only to Homeworld itself."

"Do you have any data on the life itself?" Pink Diamond asked. She looked very different back then; her hair was completely straight, her composition was slightly thinner and her clothing consisted of a two-part white costume which showed both her legs, but otherwise was fairly loose on her.

"No, sir, Our Diamond Superior."

"Then I order to land on the planet. Let's start with the yellow areas." The topaz only nodded, and the pearl maneuvered without any response. Pink Diamond could only observe as the faint dot in front of her exploded into a planet just as the topaz described, and soon enough, the gem ship was in the planet's atmosphere. The skies suddenly gained a blue color, getting brighter with each mile descended, until the ship slowed down before hitting the final yellow surface. There were no clouds over this particular part of the planet, and therefore there it was fairly hot. One could simply see that there was no hope for life to ever flourish here.

"Alright. Now, I order to land on the green areas to the north." As much as Pink Diamond was a gem like any other, she couldn't let anyone know. For all intents and purposes, she was as high as one could get in gem society. Therefore, the pearl obliged once again and the ship rose to just barely above the atmosphere, so that it could observe the planet in more detail. The yellow area on the planet was quite large, but eventually it gave its way in to a small sea sandwiched between two continents. The other continent was an example of green areas, and mostly seemed to consist of separated islands, with a few peninsulas here and there. Since Pink Diamond hadn't given directions on where specifically to land, the pearl placed the ship down on the shore of one of the peninsulas, in what appeared to neighbor a mountainous area.

As Pink Diamond predicted, life was flourishing. There were trees with lush green leaves (Homeworld had already eradicated most of them) and similar green grass. There were a few animals grazing the grass as well, but so far nothing more intelligent than a gem shard.

Or at least, not as Pink Diamond saw. Soon, an aquamarine entered the pilot's cabin as well and told, in a voice that could be mistaken for one of the topaz, but which was clearly distinct: "Our Diamond Superior, observers have spotted signs of structures constructed by an extraplanetary intelligence. Would you like for us to take you to them?"

"Yes." Pink Diamond continued to observe nonchalantly, not even having made a single step out of the ship before it rose again and took the gems to a nearby shore, where one could make out a tent in the forest. The main inhabitants of the tent were bipedal, wore leather over their bodies and in a lot of ways, reminded Pink Diamond of gems themselves.

For the first time in what seemed to be an eternal life, Pink Diamond felt something distinct.

It was a deep mixture of feelings towards life on other planets. There was so much to be discovered, from the manner in which they walked to the language which they spoke. But at the same time, there was a slight pity for them. This was a species that could, eventually, develop to have lives as meaningful as those of gems themselves, and given how the conversion projects by Gemkind were going on, the chances of this species would be eliminated.

Even though the topaz and aquamarine had already taken on to exploring the planet, Pink Diamond remained there, with the pearl in the pilot's cabin, thinking that this was all wrong. She couldn't just step up against the other Diamonds, she couldn't just stop the conquest without getting dethroned, but she still knew that something was wrong.

Just then, someone else from the newly discovered intelligent species decided that they liked what they saw and looked inside. The individual dressed rather differently from the rest, their shirt and pants being made from something more advanced than leather and their hair being not as dirty. In fact, they were much closer to a gem in looks. They spoke:

"Oh my gosh, Mom! I can't believe you were a real Pink Diamond!"

Pink Diamond, or "Mom" as the individual referred to her, stepped away. Her first thought was that the individual had no right to be on gem property, but at the same time, reality began falling apart over her. The pearl finally stuck her hands out of the interface of the ship and turned to the two, and reminded: "Actually, that would be the current Pink Diamond, and besides, I'm pretty sure that no gemstone is ever named "Mom". That would be a former rose quartz specimen..."

Rose Quartz.

This name resonated with her much more than "Our Diamond Superior" ever could. As she realized that this particular memory was, in fact, long past, she continued to observe the engagement between the pearl and the individual.

"...and besides, you have no right to be on this ship."

"No way! I'm actually Rose's son, Steven."

"Not only there is no gemstone named "Steven" either, and disregarding the fact that a) you recognize Pink Diamond and b) we cannot be each other's son, I'm pretty sure that you come from the planet side, not the ship side, and therefore are native to the planet, and therefore are to be eliminated at Pink Diamond's order..."

"I am not - eliminating - anything." Pink Diamond, or rather Rose Quartz, said.

"What?" The pearl shouted before its silhouette began to blur. It transformed into a much more familiar one with the ribbon around her waist from the modern day. She also stumbled with her speaking, as if the memories around Rose were being updated live. "But Our Diamond- I mean Rose, don't you think that it's a little risky? The human could- I mean, you don't love Greg that much, do you?"

As Rose began processing where she really was, she could only watch as the ship suddenly melted into liquid that embraced her.


Rose awoke with someone splashing water onto the face. Both Ronaldo and the Dewey child were there, in the mayor's office, looking at her. As they finally saw that she woke up, they looked at each other. Ronaldo spoke first: "She must have been kept down, once I mentioned human experiments, because she is actively being silenced by the diamond authority!"

Rose, though, only lifted her hand and reached for Ronaldo, slapping him. The Dewey child wanted to protest, but knew that none of the Crystal Gems were ever to be questioned, and Ronaldo looked at Rose intensely again, as she stood up and said:

"I was part of the Diamond Authority."

Even though Rose still wasn't feeling all that well - however the huamns would describe it - Ronaldo loudly gasped. "A sensational twist!"

The Dewey child finally took his role. "You see, Mr. Fryman, I believed that you were onto something with your blog, and wanted you to investigate why Rose Quartz had appeared on our town with absolutely no trace of Steven, but it's actually known between me, my ancestors and the Gems that yes, Rose Quartz used to be known as Pink Diamond. Therefore, I now dismiss all of your theories as having no merit, and don't want you investigating this anymore. Out of my office." Ronaldo looked down and reluctantly stepped through the door.

Rose, though, looked around, shocked and with her head hurting. "What time is it? The gems must be missing me!"

Dewey looked at his watch, then opened the window. It appeared to be evening time, as the air was already getting quite chilly. "Don't you worry, Rose Quartz, for you will see your... sisters... in no time. You just need to step outside and I will guide you." Rose jumped out of the window, and Dewey said "I will meet you there." before he closed the window and frantically ran out of his office.

When he reappeared on where Rose was, he began guiding her, more slowly as he realized that she must have been hurt. Since there was still no power, Beach City was only lit up by battery-powered flashlights which people used to navigate. This was a sight unfamiliar to even Rose, as she had been there at the advent of electricity, but she figured that everything would be solved in no time.

And once again, once she passed the "Big Donut" and went to the other side of the beach, there was the house, with a haphazardly "fixed" hole. Must have been Amethyst's doing.

"I'll see you soon, and if Fryman gives you any trouble, I'll kick him in the face." Dewey said as he was about to go back to his office.

"Fryman?" Rose asked.

"Ronaldo." Dewey clarified before he ran off and Rose began walking up the stairs of the house, when she realized that what she originally thought were differently-colored building materials were actually the other Crystal Gems, conversing.


Author's idiotisms: If you ever see a pair of people nicknamed Esahc and weevilo707, tell them I'd love to see them soon.

Also, August 15, 2004 means that Steven is a Leo. See what I did there? Leo? Lion? (Alright, originally it said "the 12th", but then Rebecca said that Steven's birthday is the 15th, so I changed it. Still, amazing how I was wrong by a mere three days.)

Oh, and I never thought that I would be writing anything even remotely related to the Gem War, but it just turned out this way. (still sulking about the fact that the original RQ=PD theory was proved wrong, but now there's a better one and there should be a link to my fic about it on my profile click that)