As steven was warping, his surroundings began to change. The blue magic wall that normally surrounded him was fading away. The wall started to change almost as if it was turning into glass. Steven had no idea where he was at or where he was going. Outside of the glass was a lab of some sort. Thoughts raced in stevens head as he was trying to figure out what this place was. Soon the whole wall faded And Steven was laying on the warp pad. He got up and looked around at his surroundings. The room he was in was consisted of four plain white walls that almost seemed to glow. The floor was a black and white checkered tile that made steven feel dizzy looking at it. There was a large steel door on the other side of the room. Carefully, Steven got up and started making his way toward the door. Before he could reach the handle, the door opened on its own. Steven felt a chill go down his spine as he proceeded to go onwards. Inside the next room was a narrow hallway. There were glass walls on either side of him. Steven looked into the walls and saw there were people?, animals? Something on the floors. They all seemed motionless and steven presumed they were dead. As Steven walked toward the other end of the hallway, one thing caught his attention. He saw a figure on the floor that was laying on its side. The figure had black skin and dark gray hair. The figure wore a faded red ribbon that was wrapped around the upper part of its body. The figure also had a light gray skirt on which had a slit in the side. The most prominent feature was the brownish red gemstone with white streaks. the figure had near the top of its thigh.

"Is this a gem?" Steven thought to himself.

He quickly made his way to the other door and grabbed the handle. As Steven hurried into the next room all he could hear was screaming. Steven looked foward and saw a group of people wearing lab coats surrounding a table. Steven tried to see what was going on but there were just too many people. Suddenly someone went flying and hit the wall. The person had golden brown skin and blue hair. Steven ran over to the person to try and help them.

"Are you OK?" Steven asked holding his hand out.

The person proceeded to ignore him and just stood up. Steven ran over to where the person was standing. Steven gasped in shock at what he was seeing. The thing on the table was the same gem he saw earlier. Upon closer glance Steven could see that this gem was slightly different. The gem had completely black eyes and sharp teeth. One of its arms had pure white bumps rising from its skin in different sizes. The gem was screaming and kicking its legs. As Steven was staring at the gem a million thoughts raced through his mind. Who was this and what was happening? Suddenly Steven felt his body begin to float. He turned his head and saw the girl from earlier picking him up.

"You can watch from out here." The girl took Steven and threw him through the window he didn't see before.

Steven got up and saw there was someone else watching the whole situation. She had purple skin and light purple hair. Steven felt like he had seen the girl before but couldn't remember where.

"Thats it we must begin the removal now." Steven felt like he has heard this before but his mind is all messed up.

Steven saw the purple haired girl's eyes widen. Steven looked through the window and saw the blue haired girl from earlier pull out a large needle. She then proceeded to stab the gem on the table. Steven covered his ears to block out the screams that came from the room.

"Why?" The purple haired girl said before fading away.

Steven looked around trying to figure out where the girl could of gone. Suddenly another door appeared at the other end of the hallway. Determined to get away from all this screaming, Steven ran out the door without thinking of what could be next. As soon as Steven entered the next room everything got really dark. Steven could hear someone or something breathing heavily. Unfortunately it was too dark for Steven to see what was going on. Steven then heard the sound of a monster or something. Steven heard another noise of something metallic hitting something. This went on for a good five minutes before Steven heard the metallic object fall and then he heard a noise as if something fell into water?

"Please no." a femine voice pleaded.

Steven heard the monster growl and then heard it hit something. Steven heard the voice screaming, slowly decreasing in volume.

"Was she falling off a cliff or something?" Steven wondered.

Steven heard something falling into a liquid again. Before Steven couldn't comprehend what was going on, He felt his body being flung in the air. As he was flying through the air, Steven could see a glowing red word in the distance. As he got closer he could see what the word said. The word said the number

"Ten, I wonder what that means." Steven thought to himself.

Soon everything went white and Steven closed his eyes. Steven didn't know how much time passed by but soon he felt his body fall on something hard. Steven opened his eyes and saw he was in the house again.

"Oh no I hope topaz isn't here." Steven thought.

He tried to warp on the warp pad again but it wouldn't work at all. Steven felt his heartbeat begin to rise as he was afraid topaz would come out any second now. Steven saw it was sunny outside and ran toward the front door. He opened it and was actually surprised at what he was seeing. The sun was shining and it was hot outside. Steven took a baby step outside to see if the wind would stop him. To his surprise nothing happened. Steven took more steps and soon enough his whole body was outside.

"Now I just have to figure out where I am." Steven mumbled to himself.

"Oh pearl you are just too funny." Steven heard a familiar voice say.

Steven looked down at the beach and saw topaz with other gems.

"Gems...gems..The crystal gems." Steven finally remembered.

"Garnet, Amethyst, and pearl." Steven felt tears forming in his eyes as he began to remember the crystal gems.

"Why was topaz there though?" Steven thought to himself.

He wanted to go down to figure out but he was afraid.

"what if this is all fake and topaz is just pretending?" Steven had a million thoughts racing through his mind.

Steven clenched his fists at his side.

"I wont know until I try." Steven walked down the stairs toward the others.

"Hey guys." Steven said.

Nobody said anything or moved at all.

"Cant you guys see me?" Steven asked.

Topaz and pearl only continued their conversation as if Steven wasn't there.

"Hey topaz I heard reports of a large worm like creature spotted near the black lake in dark cavern." Pearl said.

This caught Steven's attention. He remembered how awhile ago the crystal gems told him about how topaz fell into the black lake.

"Will I be able to see what happened?" Steven thought.

Will I be able to understand why topaz said the crystal gems were evil?" Steven had so many questions with so little answers.

"Are you sure you want to bring her along to such a dangerous place?" Amethyst hissed.

"Amethyst I don't know what your problem is but yes. The more people we have the faster and easier this mission can go." Pearl was clearly agitated.

"You can stay here if you have such a problem with it then." Pearl added.

Amethyst thought for a second but then shook her head.

"Fine Ill go along." But I might not do anything." Amethyst mumbled under her breath.

. "I heard that." Pearl yelled before walking up the stairs.

Steven followed them as they all stepped on the warp pad.

"Oh I hope I teleport with them." Steven whispered under his breath as he crossed his fingers.

Soon the blue wall of light surrounded them and steven felt himself teleporting with them. Soon they arrived at the black lake and Steven was breathless. For a cavern that is supposed to be the deadliest place to gems ever found, it was breathtaking. There were stalactites of different color gems hanging down from the top of the cavern. They were standing at the top part of the cavern. Steven could see a stream with some sort of black substance going throughout the ground. When steven followed the stream it led to an enormous waterfall. Steven was truly taken away by the beauty of the waterfall. He looked down over the cliff and saw a huge lake at the bottom.

"Be careful now everyone. This substance will cause gem corruption almost immediately." Pearl warned.

"So where is this monster?" topaz asked.

"I have no idea but I think it will show up soon." Pearl said.

"Garnet do you see anything in the future?" Pearl asked.

"No...my future vision doesn't seem to work here for some reason." Garnet replied.

Soon steven could hear a noise coming from the lake at the bottom of the cliff.

"Hey guys." Steven called out, forgetting they cant hear him.

Steven watched as something began to emerge from the lake. Steven could see two large eyes made out red gemstones. The eyes were glowing red as they were rising closer toward him. Soon a foot or hand of some sort reached up and grabbed the edge of the cliff where steven was standing. Steven slowly backed up as another hand grabbed another side of the cliff.

"Woah what is that?" Topaz asked taken aback by the creatures large size.

The creature was completely covered in the black substance except it's eyes which were glowing, lighting the dark cavern in a red glow.

"That must be the creature that was reported."

The monster looked at the crystal gems and opened its mouth. Black substance began to pour out of its mouth.

"Be careful thats the stuff that will cause gem corruption." Garnet warned.

Pearl jumped up just barely missing the black substance on her. She throw her spear into the creature's left eye. The gem cracked and topaz jumped after her. Topaz swung her two handed sword and broke one of the creatures eyes.

"Guys aim for the hands. This wont kill it but it will make it fall back down into the lake." Garnet said.

Topaz, Garnet, and pearl all attacked the hands and the creature let go and started falling down toward the lake.

"Be careful everyone." Garnet said. "The back splash might get you." Garnet added.

Steven saw as topaz was standing at the edge watching as the creature fell into the lake. Steven watched closely as topaz was just standing at the edge. Suddenly Steven's vision went black and he couldn't see anything. This lasted for a few moments. When steven's vision returned he could hear topaz screaming as she was falling.

"Amethyst come quickly. Grab topaz." Pearl screamed.

Amethyst quickly used her whip to grab topaz but not before she fell into the lake.

"Pearl was holding topaz's body using some rocks Garnet smashed earlier.

"Topaz are you ok?" Pearl asked.

"Topaz wake up." Pearl screamed.

Topaz only looked at Pearl and blinked a few times.

"She is still alive." Pearl was smiling.

"Theres something I..." Steven watched as topaz's body went limp.

Steven saw as Garnet and Amethyst had to pull pearl away from Topaz's dead body. As they were crying, Steven saw topaz's head turn to face him. Her eyes opened and instead of the usual brown color they were now glowing red. Topaz smiled and mouthed to steven

"found you." She then closed her eyes and her body faded away.

"Hey where did her body go?" Pearl asked.

"I dont know that is creepy." Amethyst said.

"Come on guys lets go home." Garnet said as they walked toward the warp pad.

Steven ran toward them and got on the warp pad as well.

"Is this their memories?" Steven wondered to himself.

Soon Steven arrived at the house but this time it was different.

"Wait am i back in the..."

"Well its good to see you came back."

Steven hesitantly turned around at the sound of the famililar voice. Topaz was sitting on the couch with her arms crossed and her head looking down.

"Please dont hurt me." Steven plead.

"So I see you saw a portion of my memories." Topaz said.

"Steven's eyes widened at that.

"You mean all that I just saw were your memories?" Steven was shocked at this news.

"Well both of us but yeah mostly topaz's. Its truly a shame what happened to me isn't it?" Topaz asked.

"Actually how did you fall? My vision went black just before you fell."

Steven jumped back as topaz's expression changed dramatically. She went from cool and soft spoken to loud and screaming.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDNT SEE me FALL?" Topaz asked.

"I just said my vision went black." Steven answered.

Topaz just sat back down and screamed into a pillow.

"Hey topaz are you..?" "It was her who pushed me down." Topaz whispered just loud enough that steven could hear.

"Who?" Steven asked.

Topaz looked up and steven saw her eyes turn red.

"Amethyst."

A/N

School and finals got me like (inset dead corpse here)

To be honest I kinda rushed this chapter a bit (Ive been typing this story for 6 hours)

Seriously Ive been so busy with school that i don't have enough time to write this

luckily summer vacation is right around the corner

anyways things are getting pretty serious

I wonder why topaz would say amethyst pushed her down

well only time will tell

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