After the Gems got back to the Temple, Garnet put the Peridot and Rose Quartz gems on Steven's bed. There was something odd about them though: they hadn't returned to their natural color. The Gems, however were too distraught to notice and just stood there.

"How long before they come back?" Amethyst asked quietly, saying what was on every Gem's mind. "I...don't know..." Garnet said wiping a tear from under her visor. "I can't see them..."

Pearl looked the most torn up. "We should've been more careful...we should've-"

"Pearl."Garnet said putting a hand on her shoulder. "Calm down. It wasn't your fault. You didn't know what would happen. Even I couldn't see this..." "Soo...what do we do?" Amethyst asked, trying to break the tension. "We wait." said Garnet. "We don't know how long it will be until they come back, so we need to be patient."

The Gems glanced at the two stones laying on the bed. After a while they all went back into their respective rooms.

Two weeks later, neither Steven nor Peridot had regenerated. Garnet still couldn't see them in the future and Pearl hadn't been out of her room for a week. Amethyst would occasionally just sit next to them and talk. Today was one such occasion.

"I dunno if you guys can hear me, but...we miss you...Pearl's having a mental breakdown and I'm...talking to rocks." Amethyst said with a sigh.

"I guess that's not too unusual, but still, hurry guys." She said before leaving.

That night, Pearl came out to check on the Gems. She stayed for an hour and, just as she was about to go into her room, the Gems emitted a bright light. They hovered in the air for a moment, and then the Peridot Gem aligned itself above the Rose Quartz Gem, and started to form...something. To Pearl, it looked like each Gem was regenerating half of someone. The halves then connected, and Tourmaline fell onto the bed.

"Ergh...my head..." She said.

She looked around and saw Pearl standing there with tears in her eyes.

"Did I miss something?" Tourmaline asked slowly.

"H-how?" Pearl stammered. "How what?" Tourmaline asked confused. "Y-you were poofed...a-and you still..." Pearl continued on mumbling incoherently. Garnet warped in moments later. She saw Tourmaline and sprinted over, giving her a hug. Amethyst came out of her room, saw Tourmaline and did the same.

After a moment, Tourmaline spoke. "As much as I love the attention," she said. "Why are you guys acting like I've been gone for a year?" "You mean you don't know?" Pearl asked in shock. "Should I?" Tourmaline asked. "You were poofed dude!" Amethyst said. "I was? How?!" "You don't remember the fight with the fusion experiments? You were hit by the one I was fighting and then you poofed!"

"But I thought that was just a dream!" Tourmaline said astounded. "I mean, don't Gems regenerate their own bodies when their forms are destroyed in a fusion?"

"We thought so too. But apparently that's not the case with you." Pearl said. "Would you happen to know why?"

"W-well...uh...you see..." Tourmaline stammered. "Tourmaline, you can tell them." Garnet said reassuringly. Tourmaline sighed and took a breath. "When Steven and Peridot drilled to stop the Cluster, they formed me. After I bubbled it, I tried to unfuse. It didn't work. I kept trying, but nothing happened. That's when I realized that I couldn't hear their voices anymore."

"What?!" Pearl asked terrified. "B-but-how?!" "I...don't know. The closest I've come to hearing them again was in this strange dream I had the first night I stayed here." Tourmaline responded.

"I was hoping Garnet would know what to do, but I didn't have the courage to tell anyone." She said sheepishly. Garnet put a hand on Tourmaline's shoulder. "We'll figure it out. For now, rest. You need it." She said kissing Tourmaline's forehead.

Garnet walked back into her room with Amethyst and Pearl close behind.

Amethyst stopped at the door and looked to Tourmaline. "Good to have ya back dude." She said smiling before going into her room.

Tourmaline lay down, thinking. Within moments, she was asleep. A week later, she started having weird dreams again. This time though, she was looking at something...big and...pink? She knew what it was, after all, Peridot had seen them before.

"A palanquin?" She thought. "But why is it so...broken?" Then she realized. Pink. Pink Diamond. No wonder it was in ruin. Pink Diamond was shattered thousands of years ago. "That must've been what Jasper was referring to..." She thought.

With a start, she woke up. She put a hand on her cheek and felt...tears? "Why am I crying?" She wondered.

Tourmaline decided not to question it and went back to sleep. In the morning, she knew she had to go there. "But how?" She thought. "I have no idea where it is!" Her visor lit up. It began searching all known data banks on Earth for it. Within a second, a map from an old adventurer's journal popped up.

The location was marked as being somewhere in Korea. She decided against going to the Gems and instead went to find Lion.

After a minute of searching, she found him lounging in the sun next to the lighthouse. "Hey Lion!" Tourmaline said. "Do you think you could take me here?" She asked, projecting the image from her visor to the ground.

Lion looked at it, yawned and rolled over. "What if you get Lion Lickers when you get back?" Tourmaline asked mischievously.

Lion opened his eyes and stood up. He roared and a portal appeared. Tourmaline climbed onto his back.

"Thanks Lion!" She said. The portal put them just outside a fence that had the words "Keep Out" written on it, with a small cursive "please" underneath. Tourmaline easily jumped them fence and walked up the hill. A blue palanquin stood hovering in front of her.

"This can't be it. It's too new, and the color is wrong..." She thought.

Tourmaline stood wondering, when she thought she heard someone talking. She walked carefully toward it and crouched behind some bushes.

There, in front of the palanquin she'd seen in her dream, was Blue Diamond and her Pearl. Tourmaline gasped audibly. The Pearl glanced up, and Tourmaline crouched down again. "What are you doing over there?" She heard Blue Diamond ask.

"Oh, no..." Tourmaline thought.

Author's Note and Responses:

Shodaime Gahukage: Well, she's stuck. A normal fusion would've fallen apart, but Tourmaline literally can't.

Savannah9137: Woah there! Calm down! The next chapter will be up before you know it! Unfortunately, I don't have all chapters pre-written, just a general idea, so I couldn't post 'em all even if I wanted to.

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Now we get into the Steven Bomb. Sorry for cutting it off where I did, I hate cliffhangers too, but I kinda felt this was a perfect place to end. If you have any questions or comments or just want to say you liked it, leave a review. Thanks for reading!

-TheFireGamerHD