The capsule door opened into a huge, dimly lit room. It seemed to be featureless but for the huge, diamond shaped gem floating in the center of the room. It was motionless, but its very being seemed to radiate power.

"Ah, Obsidian and Moonstone. I was hoping you'd come." The gem didn't speak, but the trio knew they heard the gem speaking to them inside their minds.

"Ah, Black Diamond," Moonstone said. "We have a very curious case to discuss with you. It pertains to the human right here."

"You may dispense with the pleasantries, gentlemen. I know why you've come. You think you can shatter me. Break me, and thereby break the Homeworld Empire."

"That's right," Obsidian proclaimed. "We are here to put a stop to you and everything you have done. Your conquests, your lies, your unnecessary destruction of innocent gems."

"Unnecessary? Oh, it's hardly unnecessary. Those gems keep me alive. How else would you expect me to remain a diamond for this long? Three billion years I have existed. I have seen empires rise and fall. Not much longer and I would become a simple block of graphite. The gem sacrifices are necessary to keep me, and the Homeworld Empire, in our prime."

"Enough talk!" Obsidian and Moonstone suddenly fused, transforming into an enormous, four-armed humanoid. "I WILL accomplish what I came to do!" Wurtzite reached into both of its gemstones, pulling out first an enormous battle-axe and then a six-bitted pickaxe. "You will die, and the Homeworld Empire will no longer be a threat to the universe!"

"Ah. You really are naïve, my boy." The air around Black Diamond seemed to pulsate, and twenty identical, featureless, completely black warriors armed with Bec de Corbins appeared in front of it.

"Diamond shards, slay the traitors."

Half of the shards disappeared. The other half charged Wurtzite. He swung his axe at their legs, easily poofing them. Suddenly, the first half appeared behind him and went for Steven, who easily blocked their blows with his shield. Wurtzite swung around and poofed the shards. Wheeling around to face Black Diamond, he saw that another forty shards had appeared. This time, Steven threw his shield, which took out a number of them. Wurtzite disposed of the rest easily, only to see that yet more shards had appeared.

"Heh. You can't go on like this."

"Black Diamond's right," shouted Steven. "More are just going to keep forming. We won't be able to stop fighting them!"

Wurtzite could hardly hear Steven, as his body was now nearly covered with shards.

"Oh, and you don't have to worry about your friends on Earth, either." Wurzite and Steven could almost see Black Diamond smiling in their heads. "I've already sent three of my best fleets to eliminate them and that filthy planet the human calls home."

At that moment, something in Wurtzite snapped. Or rather, something in Obsidian snapped. He knew he couldn't fight the shards forever. But Black Diamond had just given the order to destroy everything on Earth. The planet that had given him refuge. The planet that, briefly, he had called home. The Crystal Gems, the only gems that hadn't treated him like a means to an end…they and everyone else on Earth would be wiped from existence, and there wasn't anything he could do about it.

No. He could do something about it. He would destroy Black Diamond, and end all of this. With a shout, he threw the shards off of his body and rushed at Black Diamond with his pickaxe. He could feel it penetrate the enormous gem before he saw it, and an enormous crack appeared on its unblemished surface.

"Hah…hah…" The voice in his head laughed weakly. "You…"

The diamond exploded into hundreds of fragments.

"You are truly naïve."

Six other huge diamonds appeared out of the shadows. Wurtzite looked up and saw the true Black Diamond high above his head. It was attatched to countless tubes and wires, all connected to what appeared to be glass capsules. The capsules each contained a gemstone, each of which seemed to be having its power siphoned off.

"Did you really think I would let myself be vulnerable to even a fusion? I know you would try to shatter me in your Wurtzite form, so I simply inserted a decoy of myself. Now, you seem to have fallen into my trap."

The six diamonds surrounding Wurtzite began to glow. Orbs of light formed in front of them and started growing. Wurtzite tried to move, but the platform he was standing on was somehow restraining his legs.

"Goodbye, Obsidian and Moonstone."

The glowing orbs in front of the diamonds disappeared suddenly. A large crack appeared on the diamond closest to the entrance, and it split in half, revealing a Sardonyx holding a huge drill. Steven and an amethyst were standing next to it.

"Crystal Gems? What are you doing here?" asked Wurtzite in shock.

"Well, you can't just go saving the galaxy without us, can you?" the Sardonyx laughed.

"How did you even get past the diamonds?"

"We didn't," Amethyst said in her casual way. "The diamonds were out overseeing something, so we just busted our way in."

"It doesn't matter how you got in!" The voice seemed to be shouting in everyone's heads. "What matters is that you're not getting out!"

The five remaining diamonds split into fragments. These, and the fragments from the diamond Sardonyx had shattered, turned into at least two hundred shards. The shards charged at the group like a swarm of ants, nearly burying them in their masses.

Black Diamond floated above the chaos, taking it all in. Suddenly, a pickaxe and a drill flew from out of the black mass of shards and towards it. However, rather than hitting it, they went to either side of it.

"Ha. You missed, like I predicted."

"Did we?"

The pickaxe and drill impacted the glass capsules on either side of Black Diamond, shattering them and causing the gems to fall out.

"No! NO! This wasn't supposed to happen!" Black diamond began to deteriorate, chunks of it started to fall off and hit the floor. The shards all started to disappear.

Wurtzite and Sardonyx shook the remaining shards off of them. "Get back!" Wurtzite shouted as an enormous chunk of diamond landed right where Steven had been standing. As the group watched, the great diamond began to glow and, before their eyes, it exploded into nothingness.