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Here's the next story, and finally...we're about to see Steven confront Rose Quartz
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Storm in the Room
In Steven's home
It was getting pretty late, pretty much after the whole Zoo rescue mission. The rest of the gems were out with fixing the town after Variscite's stupid advice with only Bismuth, Lapis, Peridot and Carnelian looking after Connie and Steven.
"Thank you so much for coming to rescue me once again, Steven." Connie said thankfully with a smile. "No problem. I was actually so worried about what would happen, I fought though everything, the humans' obsession, those Amethysts who helped us and even Bloodstone. But at least those Amethyst helped us and now we're back, safe and sound." Steven said while he and Connie sat on the bed. There was a bit of a moment between the two kids as they blushed a little.
The moment was then ruined by Carnelian who appeared out of nowhere. "BANZAI!" She yelled as she bounced on the bed with excitement, causing the two kids to fall off the bed and onto the couch. They could have been angry at their new ally, but they actually laughed it off with the red quartz.
"I hope the other gems didn't have a hard time with rescuing me." Connie said as she looked towards Bismuth who was cleaing the tip of the breaking point. "Nah, nothin's too hard for the Crystal Gems to handle, right Lapis?" The rainbow gem spoke, looking over at Lapis. "But I'm not a Crystal Gem...am I?" Lapis spoke, barely glancing over to Bismuth before looking out the window at the sunset.
Peridot then looked over to her friend with shock. "Lapis...look whatever Holly Blue Agate said to you at the zoo..." She started, but only to be cut off by the blue gem who smiled at her. "It's ok Peri, I'm fine...it's just...it's nothing." Lapis said before eaning a hug from her little green friend. "Well anyways, I hope the gems will come back to see me off." Connie said, undoing her ponytail much to her own regret.
"Well...I think they said it'll take them a while. Didn't you see how many stuff was actually Variscite's fault?" Steven said, recalling all the damage which was caused. "Oh Connie, that reminds me, I managed to recover your clothes. It took a while, but I found em." Peridot said as she handed Connie her phone.
"Thanks Peridot, hmm, I think I'd better call my mom, Just in case she found out I was missing. Also, Garnet called for her come get me after." Connie said after gaining her phone back. She then dialed on her phone and called her mom, hoping she would pick up.
Unfortunately, she was sent through to her mother's voicemail. "You've reached Doctor Priyanka Maheswaran. Please leave a message. And if you're one of my patients, you shouldn't have this number!" The voice mail said, making Connie feel a little curious. "She's not answering." She said before Steven appeared behind.
"Well...Look on the bright side! Now we can hang out a little longer, and I'm sure she'll show up eventually." Steven suggested as everyone in the room apart from Connie agreed. "I don't know...I mean I don't want to impose, I mean, you must have a lot to think about after the space adventure we had. That choosening circle, and all that stuff about the Diamonds, Bloodstone, Drusy Quartz and your mom? I'd understand if you need some space from me...especially since I ignored you back at the palanquin." Connie said, feeling bad for something she couldn't have known about.
"Hey, don't worry about it. Besides, space is the last thing I need right now." Steven said with a smile. "Ok then! What do you guys wanna do?" Connie asked, causing the gems to think for a while.
Hours later
It was dark outside, but the gang didn't mind as they were currently playing a game after so many other games like a 1500 zebra puzzle and a strange one called Cosmic Engagement, but this game seemed strange in Bismuth's opinion, but she went along with it anyway.
"The last word is a noun" Steven said. "Umm, Multi-hulled watercraft." Connie replied with a slight hint of worry. "Ok, here it goes. The wiggly baker baked some new wacky pastries. There were snail puffs, Lawn mower pies, and entrippy muffins, everyone was so fuzzy that they ate everything! Even the cheese caked shaped like a multi-hulled watercraft! " Steven said before laughing with Lapis and Carnelian, Connie still felt a little worried as she kept thinking of her mom but even she thought it was a little funny and laughed.
"You know...it's weird. My mom always answers her phone." Connie stated, just even thinking about it. "Well...if you want, how about I give you a ride home on Lion?" Steven offered. "Or I could fly you home." Lapis suggested with a smile. "It's not getting home I'm worried about! What if she shows up here and we're gone? What if she's out in the world looking for me after I got abducted?!...What am I saying? We should probably stay put until she comes." Connie said with a few nervous thoughts.
"Well, while we're still waiting for her, how about another weird word game?" Steven suggested with a goofy face. "Ok." Connie said in response. "Alright! Let's see what we got here. The first one is an adjective." Steven said, looking at a few blank spaces on the notepad.
"Accidental." Connie said as Steven wrote it down. "And the next one's a noun." He said, awaiting a noun from his friend. "Mishap." She replied nervously as Steven wrote it down. "Adverb?" The young boy asked with a little bit of concern. "Unexpectedly!" Connie replied with a frightened voice, even gaining Bismuth's attention. "Past tense verb?" Steven asked with concern. "Crashed!" Connie said frightfully as Steven continued to write the words down. "Noun?" Steven said slowly. "Explosion!" Connie said frightfully.
Steven finished the whole thing until it said the following:
The Case of the Accidental Mishap
One day a message unexpectedly arrived at my door. When I finished reading it, I just crashed. There was a big explosion causing trouble downtown.
It didn't make sense in a way, but it did tell the gang that Connie was frightened. "You're really worried about your mom, huh kiddo?" Bismuth asked, placing her hand on Connie's shoulder. "Yeah, it's just...she's never late for anything." Connie said before trying to calm down by meditating and taking deep breaths.
"Cool ritual...me and the girls used to do the same thing, well slightly different." Bismuth stated with a smile. This made Connie feel a bit better despite her worry, but then she found her phone missing. "Wait...where's my phone? I could have sworn I..." She started, only to be cut off when she saw Peridot looking at it.
The little green gem was currently looking through all the photos Connie had on her phone before then turning her attention to the contacts. "Hm, ok...let's see who we got here. Mom, heh, she reminds me of Yellow Diamond. Dad, wow...he looks pathetic. Jeff? Oh yeah, that kid Connie accidently beat up. Zach Connors, I thought that guy was with that Bully? Aunt Ina, you never told me you had an aunt Connie. Granny Sonia, my beloved granny. Oh hello...who do we have here?" Peridot said aloud, reading all the contacts and viewing their pictures.
One of the contacts however, gained her interests. "Steven...did you have any other family besides your mother and Greg?" Peridot asked, immediately making Connie get to her feet in fright. "Uh no, why?" Steven asked in confusion. "Well, one of Connie's contacts has a name which has the same last name as y..." But before Peri could finish, Connie snatched her phone back.
"Hey! I was reading that you clod!" Peridot said in annoyance. "Then maybe you should learn not to snoop around other people's things." Connie replied while glaring at Peridot. She then sighed before turning to Steven. "Am I ok to use your shower Steven?" Asking this was a first Connie, but Steven nodded his head and allowed her to use the bathroom.
After what happened, Steven couldn't blame Connie. Neither of them wanted to tell Priyanka about her own daughter being abducted by Aliens and being put in a Zoo. The others looked as she went into the bathroom with concern. "Woah...what's up with her?" Carnelian asked with confusion. "She's...a little worried for her own mother's safety." Bismuth replied.
Hearing the word mother, Steven then looked up at the portrait of his own mother, thinking about all the wonderfuly things about who she was and what she did in the past. But in light of the new info he got from Eyeball, Jasper, Holly Blue and Drusy Quartz, he felt like those wonderful things were now falling apart.
Once inside the bathroom, Connie ran a shower for herself, also taking off the earrings she got from the zoo. "What was I thinking? Going up to Blue Diamond? Maybe Steven's mad at me for doing that." She said to herself sadly before stepping into the shower to wash herself.
A few moments later in the living room, Steven decided to warm up some food for himself and Connie after he changed out of his Zoo outfit. "Thanks again for letting me stay late and for the food, I guess I got a little peckish after the Zoo." Connie said gratefully. "You're welcome." Steven said with a smile.
He then noticed the portrait of his mother again before deciding to go outside with Connie despite the night sky. "Uh...Steven...are you sure you wanna be out here at night?" Peridot asked nervously. "Yeah, we'll be back inside in a few moments." Steven said as he sat at the outside table and prepared to eat.
"Hmm...somthing's bothering him. Lapis, can you do something to get Steven back in here?" Peridot said before turning to Lapis. "Sure." The blue gem said before using a different form of her power, causing it to rain. "Oh no...It's raining." Connie said with a sad voice. "Ah don't worry Connie, it could be worse." Steven said, and right on cue, Lapis snapped her fingers, causing a huge storm to brew up.
The two kids then got frightened and soaked enough to go back inside and eat their food there. "Nice job Lapis." Peridot whispered before secretly hi-fiving Lapis. There was then an awkward silence for a while before Steven sighed after looking at the painting of Rose once more. "You know, sometimes I wonder if it's even you up there, smiling all day and night." Steven said to himself, gaining everyone's attention.
"I just want to know the real you. Not the you that everyone tells me about. I just want to know the truth." Steven spoke with that desire for answers about his mother. Suddenly, Steven's gem started glowing before the temple door activated, opening his mother's room. Feeling like this was an opportunity for the truth, Steven then went over to the temple door along with Connie, Peridot and Lapis.
"Hey Carnelian, why don't you stay here? Entertain yourself but don't break anything, ok?" Bismuth said before catching up with the gang. "Ok...wait. What's break?" Carnelian said to herself in confusion.
In Rose's Room
The gang stepped inside right before the door closed on them from the outside. "Wow...I didn't know Rose had this kind of room." Bismuth said with amazment. "Oh there's a lot of stuff she owned, we'll tell you later." Peridot said before turning to Steven.
"Uh, Hey Room. It's been a while huh? Is that a new cloud?" Steven said, laughing nervously. "Steven...I'm not sure if being here is a good idea. I mean the last time me and you were in here, a crazy clone of me tried to kill...nevermind." Connie said before dismissing what she was about to say.
"Anyways...I suppose you're wondering why I'm here, sure I know nothing in here is real but...I wanna see my Mom." Steven said, explaining his wish. "Uh...I don't think that'll work Steven, mainly because..." Peridot started, but was soon proven wrong when a cloud appeared out of nowhere and formed a familiar figure, Rose Quartz herself. Upon seeing this cloud version of Rose, Steven blushed, and the rest of the gang were shocked that it was possible.
Rose then walked up to Steven before kneeling down to his height. "Hello Steven." Rose said, causing Steven to get a little nervous. "Um...it's nice to finaly meet you." He said, extending his hand to shake Rose's who did the same. "It's nice to meet you too." She said, laughing cheerfully as she shook Steven's hand before turning her attention to the others.
"Hello again Bismuth, it's been a long time, hasn't it?" Rose said to Bismuth before hugging her and catching her off guard. "H..Hey Rose...Yeah, it's been a long time. You still look good." The rainbow gem complemented sheepishly, trying not to mention about their falling out. All the while, Peridot and Lapis looked at each other, concerned about Steven and if something would happen to him in the room.
"Oh, who do we have here?" Rose said, catching the two gems off guard. "Lapis Lazuli, I haven't seen you since you helped to terraform some parts of Earth." She continued, hugging the blue terraformer who felt a little unconfortable being around the rebel leader. "Um...Hi." Lapis said sheepishly.
"And who have we got here? A short Peridot, how cute." Rose said upon noticing Peridot. "I'm actually an Era 2 Peridot, mainly because Homeworld is getting low on resources." The little green gem spoke upon being called cute. Peridot was then stroked on her hair by Rose.
"Hello...I'm Connie Maheswaran, Steven's friend." Connie said when Rose turned in her direction and kneeled down to her. "It's a pleasure to meet you Connie." She said, shaking her hand as Steven sheepishly looked away. "S...Sorry, this is pretty weird for me, well all of us anyway." He said, laughing nervously.
"That's ok, don't worry about it. So, what do you all wanna do first?" Rose said before asking. "Oh, uh...I guess I hadn't thought that far ahead." Steven said with a chuckle. "Obviously." Peridot whispered with a snicker before earning a slap from Bismuth. "Do...you like video games?" Steven asked before a gaming console appeared with two controllers much to the gang's surprise.
The game was called Lonely Arms which involved some form of Arm Wrestling, somewhat amazing Bismuth upon her seeing it. "Wow...if Biggs saw this, I tell ya, she'd be beatin' me into the ground." The Rainbow gem stated with amazment. "So tell me about this game Steven." Rose said with curiosity about the game. "Well... I guess it's an arm wrestling simulator, which is kind of a spinoff of a fighting game. Based on a lonely swordsman that I like. It's kinda weird and hard to explain, but that's why I like it." Steven explained to Rose despite Peridot's grumbling on Camp Pining Hearts being better.
Steven and Rose then played the game with Connie supporting Steven and Bismuth supporting Rose, unfortunately Rose lost the game and Steven won, but that didn't stop her from smiling whatsoever. "Yay, I won!" Steven said with excitement as he and Connie cheered alongside him. "Yay, you won." Rose said as Bismuth groaned with her head litterally in a cloud. "Ugh, 5300 years later and Rose still loses." She said before chuckling a little.
"Hmm, what else do kids do with their parents?" Steven said to himself before the room provided a solution and created a football. Steven grabbed the football as Rose came over and looked Steven in the eye.
After getting an idea, Steven, Rose and the others decided to play a game where they had to catch the football. It was absolutely fun for them and even Lapis admitted she was having fun. When Rose threw the ball to Steven, he single handedly managed to catch it. "Nice catch son." Rose called over as she put her thumb up to him. "Yeah, that was really amazing how you did that." Connie complemented.
"This is fun. Or would baseball be better?" Steven said before throwing the football to his mother as it flew high into the air. "I vote for baseball." Lapis said with a smile. "I'd still go with this...football." Peridot stated sheepishly. ""Steven, Peridot, Lapis, All sports are beautiful. Each one is a unique experience. The adrenaline, the glory. The sheer feats of athleticism, each one of them so complicated. And yet,exactly the same." Rose said while running along the room before catching the football and decended gently towards the ground.
The way Rose spoke ad amazed the gang. "That's what inspired me to join the crystal gems..." Bismuth stated with awe. "Hey Steven!" Rose called over to the young boy as he saw his own mother holding down the football for him to kick. "You know Connie, I always thought there was something strange about my adolescence. So maybe this is what I've been missing." Steven said to himself in realisation. "And what's that Steven?" Connie asked in confusion.
"Football!" Steven said, giving Connie the answer before running towards the football to kick it. However, before he could, Rose lifted it away at the last second, causing the young boy to miss the ball and sent him flying into the air. "Whooa!" He yelped before falling to the ground as everyone laughed with Steven and his mother. "Touchdown!" He said before Connie lay down beside him. "I don't understand this." Peridot said in confusion. "What's there to get? Besides, I've seen the true nature of Rose Quartz in one day." Lapis stated with a smile.
"Everyone." Rose called to the gang before pattng the floor around her for the gang to sit on. The gang then sat down in a circle with her. "I've been...uh thinking about you a lot. More than usual in fact." Steven said sheepishly. "Is that so?" Rose asked with her same smile.
"Yeah, well...for my whole life, I've been hearing stories about you, a lot of them. About how amazing you were. That you were so kind and loving. And every time I'd see the painting hanging of you in the temple, you inspired and reminded of how much I wanted to live up to you." Steven said, telling his own mother everything about his life up to this day.
"It's true, he inspired a lot of us Rose. He managed to inspire Peridot who used to be evil from what I heard off of Pearl, Lapis, who decided to stay on Earth to see it's beauty, a Nephrite Captain who he managed to uncorrupt and help her and her two crew members. Then we also looked after an Imperial Topaz and your old pal Citrine." Bismuth explained, telling Rose about the other events that happend with the gang over the months. "Aw, that's so sweet of you all. Helping lost gems, if only I could see them in person." Rose said, proud of using her inspiration to help others.
"Mainly...it's all thanks to your words of wisdom Rose." Peridot said with an honest smile. "Also...I've even thought about dying my hair pink. More than once." Steven said with a laugh as Rose stroked his hair while laughing. "There's nothing wrong with your hair. It's wonderful just the way it is. Wonderful in every way, Just like you." Rose said once more before Steven lay down across her as she hugged him.
Connie litterally adored the way Rose stroked Steven, it also caused him the young boy to blush in satisfaction. "Wow...this is nice...it's...it's really nice. I...I should have tried this a long time ago." Steven said thinking about all the other times he came into his mother's room as he teared up at the thought.
"But Steven, don't you realise? We've been together this whole time." Rose purred sweetly as Steven looked in her direction. "It's true, if you have the gem, then Rosie's among us." Bismuth said with a smile while the others strangely teared up because of this happy moment between the young boy and his mother. "Oh! Yeah, that's...that's right." He said before sniffling and letting a single tear come down before getting an idea.
"Oh, this is the first time we've hung out together. I gotta capture this moment!" Steven said before taking out his phone as the gang got in position for a selfie, but to Steven's shock however...he saw only himself, Bismuth, Connie, Peridot and Lapis. No signs of Rose or any of the clouds in the photo. "There's nothing here but me and the others. I'm just...talking to myself..." Steven said sadly before getting to his feet.
"Same thing on this phone, maybe there's a glitch in the phones?" Connie said as she checked her phone which held the same results as Steven's phone. "Nothing's wrong with them, that kind of stuff wouldn't work in this room." Peridot stated. "Shame...I would have liked to show the others." Bismuth said.
"You're not my mom." Steven said aloud, shocking the gang upon them hearing those exact words from him. "I'm not?" Rose asked sadly. "No...well you are but...this is how I wanted you to be. But I don't know if this is who you really are." Steven said, not daring to look his own mother in the eye.
"I've learend things about you. A lot of things that you wanted to keep secret." Steven said without his usual happy voice. At that moment, the room suddenly started to grow dark with a hint for fear within. Lapis got a little scared upon seeing this and quickly grabbed Peridot. Bismuth was also nervous as looked around frantically. "Uh...Steven?" Connie said, unsettled by the dark atmosphere of the dark room.
"You locked Bismuth away inside of Lion because she wanted to shatter Gems, and you never told Garnet or Pearl." Steven said, remembering what Bismuth told him that night at the forge. This in turn, made Rose feel sad...terrifyingly sad and it gained Bismuth's attention.
"Oh, but I didn't just disappear, did I?! YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!"
"LIARS! BOTH OF YOU! Don't even start to play games with me, Rose. We were both right HERE. I offered you the secret to victory, and you refused. The Breaking Point would've changed everything."
"It's too late, five thousand and three hundred years to late! I don't believe you anymore! Nor will I ever again!"
"All that talk about how Gems could take control of their own identities, how we'd been convinced to ignore our own potential? That's all it was, wasn't it Rose?! Just talk!"
"You should've listened to me, Rose! I could've taken the war to Homeworld and shatter the Diamonds! I would've liberated...EVERYONE ON HOMEWORLD!"
Remembering all of those exact words she said to Steven made Bismuth feel absolutely guilty and very afraid. "Steven...It's not true...You know I said...I..." Bismuth never got to finish as she choked up in realisation that she couldn't take back what she said, especially when Steven talked over her. "...But then you shattered Pink Diamond! Now all of Homeworld has it out for Earth, and the Crystal Gems and Connie, and me! You put every one us in danger, and then you just...DISAPPEARED!" He said in absolute anger.
In that dark moment, thunder started rumbling and lightning struck different places within the room, thus causing a lot of wind to blow as Rose got to her feet. Everyone else was knocked back because of the force of the wind, Lapis tried flying against it, but she couldn't beat the wind with her wings. "It's too strong, I can't fly against the wind!" Lapis cried out in pain.
"STEVEN! Your emotions are affecting the room! Try to keep...!" Connie Started, making her way towards her Jam-Bud before Bismuth stopped her in her tracks. "No, let me! I think I can get through to him, stay with Lapis and Peridot!" The rainbow gem said before pushing against the storm.
Connie tried to help, but Peridot kept her back just in case. "I finally know the truth! I know what you are! YOUR'E A LIAR! I thought you'd never want to hurt anyone! But you hurt EVERYONE! How could you just leave Garnet, and Amethyst and Pearl and Citrine, a...and Dad?! They don't know what to do without you!" Steven yelled up to Rose as he got to his feet in rage, oblivious to Bismuth coming to him from behind.
"Maybe they didn't matter to you as much as hiding the mess you made! And that's why I'm here, isn't it?! Did you just make me so you just wouldn't have to deal with your mistakes?!" Steeven continued, yelling up towards his own mother. "STEVEN! YOU'RE WRONG!" Bismuth's voice called from behind, causing Steven to angrily turn towards Bismuth.
"If Rose had mistakes, she'd deal with them! There's no way she'd run from them!" The rainbow gem said, but it didn't make a difference. "Oh...so now I'm a liar now right?! Says the hollow-minded gem who nearly killed Connie!" Steven spat venomously at Bismuth who was shocked by his sudden change of language as well as Connie and the others. "Steven...you know I..." Steven harshly cut Bismuth off, losing his mind over the lies of his own mother.
"You know what?! You're not like Rose Quartz, you're no better than her!" He growled as his eyes turned Pink with slit pupil-like diamonds in them. Hearing that insult, Bismuth then became furious. "So that's it huh?! Now we're back to square one, just like that night!" She growled before summoning her mallet. "Guys, the room's playing tricks on us!" Connie yelled, trying to stop the fight as she placed herself in front of Steven. "Stay out of this Connie!" The young boy growled before shoving her out the way and summoned his shield, only something was off...
This wasn't Steven's shield, rather, it was two disk-like shields which had were both pink and had hollyhock symbols on them. "Steven...what's...?" Peridot said to herself as she saw the two disks before the young boy threw one of them at Bismuth, instantly knocking her off her feet before she blocked the second disk.
"Grr! You little pebble! I shoulda BROKE YOU that night at the forge!" Bismuth roared before attacking Steven who had his shield up. All the while, the others were too frightened to interfere with the argument and Rose...she looked down upon the two sadly. "Well f you like shattering so much, then go ahead! Finish what you started!" Steven spat angrily, dropping his defence to allow Bismuth to break his gem.
"Fine! By! Me!" Bismuth yelled, de-summoning her mallet and shapeshifting her hand into an axe before charging towards Steven. "Steven! What are you doing?!" Lapis screamed in shock before attempting to fly over towards her friend, but couldn't because of the wind. Connie then attempted running over to Steven and succeeded. "NOO!" Connie said as she placed herself in front of Bismuth's rampage.
Connie squeezed her eyes shut, expecting to feel Bismuth slice through her...but when she opened her eyes...the rainbow gem didn't, her axe arm was inches away from her stomach and didn't even touch it, in fact, her hand shook over the thought. "Connie...?" Steven said in shock seeing that Bismuth would have hurt Connie if she had continued.
Realising the consequence in horror, Bismuth then shapeshifted her hand back to normal before Connie fell on her knees. Bismuth then looked over at Steven before speaking once more. "Steven...this has gotten outta hand." Bismuth spoke calmly despite her trembling voice.
"So what now?! Are you planning on shattering me?! Then go ahead!" Steven yelled, holding up his shirt to reveal his gem for Bismut. The Rainbow gem looked towards Connie who had tears streaming from her eyes before her attention turned to a very concerned Lapis and an angered Peridot. "No! I won't! This is wrong, and you know it. It's like you said: Nobody deserves this!...Doesn't...doesn't that mean anything to you? What about Connie, or Lapis, or Peridot, or everyone you ever knew or love? Don't they matter?" Bismuth said before asking Steven something important as the storm died down.
Steven then looked at Connie before getting sad. "S...Sorry, I got frustrated..." He said quietly, unable to look anyone in the eye after that outburst. "I...I...am I really here to hide from my mom's mistakes?" He continued as Connie turned towards him, feeling sad that he'd even think that about himself.
At that moment, Rose floated down from the clouds and landed beside Steven and stroked his hair gently. "Steven, you know that isn't true. In the tape I left you, I told you how much I wanted to have you and let you exist. Do you really think what I said in the tape was a lie?" Rose asked, as Steven looked at his mother.
"No...I'm sure, no...I know, you meant it." Steven said sadly as Rose gave him a hug just as it started raining in the room. "And Bismuth...you know I always trusted you. But I didn't lock you away if it wasn't for a good reason. I always knew why you built the breaking point." Rose said, looking over at her friend who looked back at her.
"I get it...You didn't want me dealing with your problems. You're a part of me now. So I've gotta deal with what you left behind." Steven said, hugging his mother tightly, not noticing her tear up despite being a cloud. "I'm so proud of you Steven...I always knew you'd be like me." Rose said before getting closer to his ear and whispering something. "Take care of her for me." She whispered before disappearing into the clouds.
After that, Connie hugged Steven as the rest of the gang came to his side. "Woah...that was pretty scary." Peridot said, clinging to Lapis' arm in fear as the duo got soaked by the rain. "Ugh! I promised myself I wouldn't get blinded by my judgement!" Bismuth growled in frustration.
"B...Bismuth...?" Steven started to ask, only to be cut off by Bismuth who took a deep breath and calmly talked. "The breaking point wasn't for the Diamonds..." She started, gaining everyone's attention. "Wh...what do you mean?" Connie asked in confusion.
"Maybe it's time I told you why I built the breaking point." Bismuth said before sitting on the floor and explaining.
Bismuth's Story
When I still served homeworld all those years ago
We were given an assignment
To create the biggest monument...no, the biggest building, in honor of homeworld's greatest and flawless leaders, the Diamonds.
They expected it to be build by Bismuths, they expected our highest effort for building their legacy...
But we never succeeded with it.
There were 35 of us.
All Bismuth, special ones, created from the Gamma Kintergarten on Homeworld.
But one of us betrayed the entire workforce of Bismuths, ruined the entire build and it came crashing down on top of one of the Diamonds, Pink Diamond to the exact.
It was a setup...
For a place in the authority!
30 Bismuths were given a worser punishment than being shattered, five of us were spared, considering we were the best.
I know the saboteur wasn't me, I would have known otherwise.
So from then on, I abandoned my old life as a builder and flet to Earth to build for the gem elites, became a member of the Crystal Gems once meeting Rose, and after all that, I helped to defend Earth as best as I could.
Even though Rose hid me away, I was still set on using the Breaking point. Not because of my hatered for the Diamonds..Mainly because, I was searching for the other four Bismuths. I built the weapon...because I was set on avenging the others...
One of those four was in Yellow Diamond's court.
End Story
After hearing the whole story, the gang were surprised and started feeling a little sorry for Bismuth in the past. "You mean...all this time, you had that weapon built for some revenge mission?" Peridot asked in shock.
"Yep, I guess you could describe it that way." Bismuth said sadly, looking away in shame. "But do you realise everything you've done in that time? You poofed me, you tried killing Steven and Connie and..." Lapis started angrily but cut off by Steven. "But why would you wanna shatter another Bismuth?" He asked with concern.
Bismuth looked away before answering. "I don't know...I just wanna know why they did it." She said, unsure if it was the right thing to do though. "Well right now...I think we'd better leave." Connie said, feeling like she was going nuts being in the room any longer.
Outside the temple
The gang exited Rose's room sadly before heading over to the couch and sitting on it. "That was pretty intense huh? I mean, I nearly freaked out when I tried hurting you Connie. I promised I wouldn't and..." Bismuth started, but Connie placed her hand upon Bismuth's.
"Don't say that. It was my own fault for getting in the way." Connie said, finally able to smile a little after calming down. Once the gang started Smiling, a red mist emerged from Steven and Bismuth without them even noticing. The mist exited the house and then went to the side of it. "Curses...Rosie's more stronger than I tought...I must report to Black Diamond at once." Bloodstone said, suddenly appearing from the side of the house before flying back to homeworld.
"Hey Steven...I just realised." Connie said as she shook Steven. "What is it?" Steven asked as he looked in her direction. "I think I've gotten over my worries, so the time in your mom's room helped me." Connie said with a smile before hearing something. "Hello?" A female voice said before the gang turned towards the door. "I'm coming in!" Upon opening the door, the voice was revealed to be none other than Connie's mom, Priyanka Maheswaran.
"Mom!" Connie said before running over and hugging her mother. "Mom, what happened? I kept calling but you weren't answering! I was really starting to freak out." Connie admitted worryingly. "The surgery went wrong, and then I had to cover for Dr. Stromberg, again! My phone died, I figured it was one of my patients who stole my charger, I am so sorry Connie." Priyanka explained apologetically. "It's ok Mom. Everything's fine now." Connie said with a smile.
Priyanka then took Connie home as the two kids said their goodbyes to each other before Steven sighed heavily. But at that moment however.
"Hey, Shtoo-ball! Guess who's back from rebuilding the car wash!" A new voice outside said rhetorically before revealing to be Greg as he, Pearl, Garnet, Amethyst, Citrine, Imperia and Jade entered the house. "And guess who also got you a pizza?" He continued as he set the pizza down on the table and hugged his son. "Dad! Amethyst? Citrine? Garnet? Imperia? Jade? And Pearl too?" Steven said with a newborn smile.
"Well who else did you expect?" Bismuth asked before laughing, causing Steven and the whole family to laugh too. "Oh I nearly forgot, they were all out of pepperoni, so I just got you mushroom instead. I hope that's alright." Greg asked as he hoped Steven wasn't going to get annoyed.
"It's perfect." Steven said before eating a slice. "Take care of her for me." He thought from the cloud version of Rose. "Who's her? Well...one day I'll find out who mom wanted me to look after." Steven thought to himself before deciding to enjoy some time with the gems and his dad.
Aaand there we have it
Anyway, the next chapter will be based off the SU Game, Save the Light which could take a while to do, but hopefully it'll be ready
Stay tuned for more chapters and I'll see you soon
Negaboss2000 out ^^
