Sorry for not updating for a while, dear readers, I've been kinda lazy lately. Anyway, this time, I tried to be a little longer than the last ones, but since I tend to have like a bajillion ideas in my head, it might take a while-months even-before I continue this story. But I won't let this story die for nothing!
Also, thank you guys for making this my most viewed and reviewed story here in fanfiction dot net! You're awesome!
Steven and Jasper walked into a giant area that is covered in particularly overgrown, pink plant-like matter, and a few machines are walking around, either making holes in the ground or walls or fixing the mentioned holes.
"Here we are!" Jasper exclaimed in joy. "Steven, this is the Kindergarten, the place where I came from! Rather neat, wouldn't you say?"
"Uh... Sure, It's neat." Steven nervously replied.
"Of course it is, otherwise I would avoid saying I come from here!" Jasper hastily explained before grabbing Steven's arm. "Come on, let me show you some of the highlights!"
Jasper dragged Steven across the kindergarten and as they walked and looked around, Steven got the feeling something was wrong. "So, this is the place you were..."born"?" Steven asked.
"Pretty much!"
"But don't Gems come from space?"
"Your mother, Peridot and Lapis did come from space, but I was created here on Earth, like you, only without the need of a mothher."
"Hey, check this out!" Jasper exclaimed as she dragged Steven to a huge rock with a crack on it. "Oh, man. It's been a long time since I saw this rock. It's the rock I used to punch when I felt particularly angry or agitated."
"Uh, hello rock!"
Then Jasper pointed to a smaller rock and went to it. "And over hhere- That's the rock I used to sit on when I was told to sit down. I call him sitting rock." Jasper continued to talk as she got on the rock and looked around while Steven went to the Gem. "And that was the one rock the Gem junk mistook for a Gem, only to crack it when they discovered they were wrong!"
"So, how long did you live here?" Steven asked.
"For a while, I guess, but to be honest, I never really bothered to count the milleniums I was her until I met your mom and the others." Jasper responded as she got off the rock.
Then Steven noticed one of the machines walking right past them. "Jasper, what is that thing?"
"That's the gem junk I mentioned before. They've been active for a while now, opening and fixing holes at random." Jasper responded with a dismissive wave. "Quite honestly, I don't know why they even do that anymore."
"Are they the reason the place has so much plant-matter?"
"No, I actualy have no idea how that happened."
And then, just as Steven pondered about something, Jasper screamed and ran to a hole in the wall shaped like a miniature person. "Oh my gosh! Hey, Steven, look!" Jasper exclaimed. "Here's the hole I came from!"
"Wait, what?"
"It's my hole, sweet hole."
"It looks a bit too small for you to fit in."
Jasper scratched her chin, got an idea and crashed into the hole, breaking it into her current shape until she reached the end of it. "Not anymore!" Jasper proudly exclaimed.
"Okay, problem solved, I guess." Steven remarked. "So, you came from this hole?"
"Yep, this is where I was made, Steven. One day I just... popped... Right out of this hole, only smaller than I currently am."
Steven then glanced up to see a bunch more holes up in the cliffside. At least, the ones that hadn't been closed yet thanks to the Gem-junk-things. "So, did other Gems come out of those holes too?"
However, right before she could answer, the warp pard was heard whirring and Peridot arrived at the scene. "So this is where you've been!" Peridot remarked as she walked to the duo.
"Excellent, just what we needed." Jasper sarcastically uttered as she came out of her hole.
"I consulted my heat signature scanner, and it told me that you two were here." Peridot quickly explained before exchanging angry looks with Jasper. "Jasper, what were you thinking bringing Steven to this place!?"
"What can I say? We just so happened to reach this place." Jasper answered as she kicked a pebble.
"Peridot? Was Jasper made here?" Steven asked without warning.
Peridot at first looked shock, but then frowned as she turned to the muscular Gem and questioned, "How many beans did you spill?" pausing before turning back to Steven and awkwardly asking. "Am I saying it right?"
"Spill the beans? About what? The bad thing? That bad thing you don't want Steven to know?" Jasper sarcastically replied. "Which is the fact that this place is where homeworld Gems came to grow soldier Gems? Is that what you're talking about? Are those the beans I'm not supposed to spill?"
"So more Gems other than Jasper were made here?!"
"Jasper, shut up!" Peridot chided. "Steven's not ready to learn that!"
"Why should I? Steven's got nothing to worry about!" Jasper replied with a rather...fake smile. "Everything's fine now."
The muscular Gem then walked past Peridot and went to Steven. "Jasper."
"It all worked out, just as planned." Jasper added. "Yellow Diamond won!"
"Stop it!"
Then, as she continued, Jasper grabbed Steven's shoulders and gave him a forced smile. "And she shut this place down so the Earth would be safe from monsters like me!"
Peridot grabbed the Gem and pulled her away from Steven, giving her a defiant look as Jasper growled and she stated, "Jasper! You've said too much!"
"Peridot?" Steven uttered.
Hearing the boy's words, Peridot frowned and turned to him. "Steven, I'm so sorry that I wasn't able of stoping you from finding this place." Peridot sincerely apologized. "I never wanted you to learn more about the homeworld before you were ready."
"Then leave us alone!"
Jasper summoned her crash helmet and rushed to Peridot, who managed to form a shield that just barely managed to hold back the bigger Gem's attack. "Admit it." Jasper muttered before breaking through the shield and grabbing Peridot. "I'm nothing more than a mistake to you!"
And then she threw Peridot to one of the machines. "Jasper, calm down!" Steven exclaimed, only to be pushed away by the Gem.
Peridot regained control of herself, got on the machine and jumped off as Jasper ran towards her. She then summoned some robonoids and sent them after Jasper as she said, "I have no reason to fight you!"
"Then you have no reason to defend yourself!" Jasper snarled.
The Gem simply punched the robonoids away and curled into a ball, dashing to Peridot, who jumped away and formed a blaster with her hands as Jasper got on the machine, turned back to normal and lifted it. She threw it, and Peridot managed to shot an energy ball at it, causing it to explode in two and both halves to fall near the Gem.
Steven managed to return to the field to see Jasper about to rush to Peridot again. "Guys, stop it!" Steven pleaded.
Hearing his words, Jasper stopped, quickly went to Steven, grabbed him and said "This isn't your business!" before tossing him away.
Jasper then ran for Peridot, who formed a shield that was broken by Jasper's headbutt, and she dodged some kicks and punches from the Gem before shooting an energy ball directly at her, causing Jasper to slid a few feet away, though with very little damage.
"Jasper, stop this nonsense!" Peridot stated. "You know you can't beat me!"
"If I don't act serious, that is!" Jasper snarled as her helmet was instantly fixed. "But I will go all out, if only to get you to stop mentioning all I hate about myself!"
Jasper turned into a ball and then dashed to Peridot, who formed a shield big enough to contain Jasper's ball, only for Jasper to increase her power up until she shattered Peridot's shield and hit her with enough strength to send her flying to one of the machines, which got a Peridot-shapped crater as Peridot fell down. Jasper, upon returning to normal, walked to Peridot, who was too weak to get up.
"Do you think I asked it to be this way?" Jasper whined as she started to cry. "I never wanted to be created!"
"Jasper..."
Steven then interrupted the fight, standing in the middle and holding out his arms as he pleaded, "Jasper, please, stop fighting! I know you're angry, but I can't just stand and watch you two hurt each other."
Then some creaking and rattling is heard, so they look up to see the machine about to fall on top of them. However, while Steven created a pyramid-shaped shield to protect himself and Peridot, Jasper quickly left, looked around and ran away as Steven called her name. And then the machine fell on top of them, with everything going silent.
Shortly after that, Steven and Peridot came out of the rubble and the shield disappeared shortly afterwards. After helping the cyberorganic Gem get up, Steven cried a bit and looked around for Jasper, with very little success. "Jasper! Where did you go?!"
And then, he remember the Gem's hole, so he ran to it with Peridot and they saw Jasper was inside it, curled up in a fetal position. "Jasper!" Steven exclaimed in joy.
"Leave me alone!" Jasper suddenly shouted. "I'm evil, and you must avoid me."
"Huh? D-Don't be ridiculous." Steven replied. "Look, I don't know understand any of this, but I'm sure-"
"That's true, you don't, 'Cause if you did, you wouldn't be talking to me."
Considering what the Gem said, Steven turned to Peridot and requested her, "Peridot, go in. You need to help me."
"What? But-"
"You two need to talk."
Peridot went in and slid close to Jasper, who stood put in her fetal position. "Jasper... Jasper, I didn't think you would get so upset about this-"
And this made Jasper respond, "What?! You didn't think that!? This is pretty much my whole existence! And you want to pretend that this never even existed! You think I'm a mistake!
"No, no. Jasper, you're not the mistake. You're just the creation of a... mistake." and Jasper went back to the fetal position. "No, that's not- I... I just never thought of this as as you, Jasper. You''re not the one to blame for this. You didn't make this place. I-I'm sorry, Jasper. I hope you can forgive me. In my opinion, you're the one good thing that came out of this mess. I always thought you were proud of that fact."
Getting the Gem's attention, Peridot extended her "hand" to her and, after a while, Jasper grabbed it. So once they got out of the hole, Jasper embraced Peridot in a tight hug, the smaller Gem looking shocked before returning it as they walk back to the warp pad.
"Crystal Diamonds forever!" Steven enthusiastically exclaimed. "Now let's go home, so we can finally relax!"
And then they warped out. The instant they left, though, one of the covered holes started to shake, and it continued shaking and shaking until it was broken. And from there, a small Gem came out and, with her eyes set on the pad, smiled as she walked to it, getting the attention of the machines in the process.
