Author's Note: This is it! The penultimate chapter! The chapter right before the final chapter where everything gets explained! Are you guys excited?
"Do you know what the definition of insanity is?" Jimmy asked Pearl as she stood in front of him in a battle stance, holding her spear so that it faced towards the man who was standing in front of a small wooden shack.
The shack was located near the barn that was owned by Andy Demayo, and the owner of the barn was now hanging from a noose tied to a tree a few feet away from him. The other empty nooses hung beside the man, and Pearl wondered if the other nooses were waiting to be filled with her friends.
"Doing something more than once and expecting different results," Pearl said with a smirk. Jimmy sighed heavily as he unsheathed his katana from where it was stored in his jacket.
"You are a stupid bitch, you don't see what's really going on? None of you do, and it's so obvious it hurts me that you don't get it," Jimmy grinned as he pointed his katana towards Pearl.
"Tell me, do I look familiar to you?" Jimmy asked, and Pearl nodded her head.
"You look like the same man I met years ago after Greg met Rose, you look like the same man who-"
"-Pearl, I'm you. Or at least, I'm half of you."
Pearl froze and stared at the man in front of her, lowering her weapon as she did so. Jimmy grinned and lowered his katana as he started walking towards the gem.
"I come from a future that I created where you and Navy fused to create me. The only reason you'll fuse with Navy is because you're literally the only two sentient beings left in the entire universe, but you still become a perma-fusion nonetheless. You still become me," Jimmy raised his katana and Pearl winced as she prepared herself for whatever the crazed man planned to do.
"Funny thing about time, it's like a fucking endless loop, always going in a big circle. I remember this exact moment, I remember feeling everything that you're feeling right now, and I remember being just as confused and full of hatred as you are right now. I remember everything," Jimmy started circling the gem in front of him, tracing shapes into the air with his katana.
"We fuse! That's so awesome!" Navy yelled, while doing a little dance and pumping her fist into the air for a few seconds, before receiving a slap from Lapis Lazuli.
"She should have fused with me," Lapis muttered. Jimmy turned to face the blue gem and smiled.
"You know something, you're right," In an instant Jimmy was standing in front of Navy with his katana pointed directly at the red gem on Navy's navel.
"Let's see what happens if we do fuse," Jimmy thrust his katana into the red gem, shattering it immediately while the other gems watched in horror. The gem died in front of them, but most of the gems focused on the other major spectacle in front of them.
Jimmy turned to face Steven and grinned as he grew taller, his muscles grew bigger, and his skin transformed from a peach colour to a dark blue. To everyone's surprise, Steven's skin turned just as blue as Jimmy's skin, and his gem moved to his forehead.
"Isn't this wonderful? I can change my form simply by choosing the gem who I want Pearl to fuse with! This why I love going to this point in time, seeing who I could be if I change the timeline is absolutely fantastic! The only gem I haven't tried this with is Steven, but maybe next time I can give it a shot. Imagine it! The first incest fusion!" Jimmy cackled as he stroked the gem on Steven's forehead
"But, all of your fusions have one constant variable, me. Why is that?" Pearl asked the cackling man.
"Well, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's because you're evil or something? Maybe that's why I'm so evil," Jimmy grinned at Pearl as the gem nodded her head.
"Then I know what I must do," Pearl whispered to herself as she pointed her spear tip at her gem and thrusted the spear into the gem.
"Don't you fucking dare," Jimmy said as he grabbed Pearl's hands and prevented them from moving the tip any closer to the gem.
"You're going to become me, and you're going to fucking like it. I need to exist because Steven needs a mother to raise him, he needs a father to give birth to him, and this universe needs a destroyer,"
"You fucking clod! You're going to ruin everything!" Jimmy flinched as soon as he heard the shrieking gem, and Pearl seized Jimmy's brief moment of distraction to thrust the tip of the spear into her gem. Jimmy's eyes widened as he watched the gem on Pearl's head as it shattered.
"Dammit Peridot," Jimmy whispered to himself as he looked down at his hands and watched as they started to fade from existence.