"Well, we'll start at the beginning. There was once a time when gems did not exist on this planet. The humans were a primitive species then, much more so than they are now. Around the time of the knights and feudal lords. Kings and Queens. Well, we arrived here, not aware of the organic beings that lived here. When they saw us, it was a difficult time. If we had slipped up, there could have been an all out war on the planet between gems and humans. Luckily, we were able to convince them that they could trust us."

"At first, the expedition was merely to survey the planet. Rose Quartz, or Pink Diamond as she used to be known, was fascinated by the Earth customs. Music, families, and love. She wanted to know more about them. I however was fascinated for a completely different reason. On the home world, I was a medical gem. That is to say, I helped poofed gems by incubating them and keeping them protected, or repairing broken or cracked gems. However, protecting the poofed gems meant that I had to guard them with my life. I was a renowned fighter and trap maker, protecting gems without actually needing to battle was my strength. But I'm getting side tracked."

"Well, as a medical gem, I was fascinated by the biology of the humans and other organic creatures. When we first traveled to Earth, I was sent as the medic to help with any wounds that may have been caused while on the planet. While we were here, I studied the humans and learned how there bodies worked. I was amazed to see such an advanced, and yet hindering system. It worked together perfectly, and if anything was messed up, then it could shut down the rest of the body."

"It was very amusing at first. However, as I studied them more and more, I became attached to them. I had made many human friends, and even had fallen for a woman, even though she was of another species. As our time on earth passed, she continued to age. She would constantly complain about not having children, but she knew that I was unable to give her what she wanted. Eventually I realized that I needed to move on to make her happy. I had set her up with one of our good friends, and the two seemed happy together, even though I was not."

"It seemed like such a short time in comparison to gem life-spans, but they had a child. A daughter. Then a son. As the children grew older, I had been pretty close to an uncle to them... Until one day, their parents had passed. They realized that I had not aged and was still alive, and they grew angry with me. I never spoke to them again after that."

"A few hundred more years had passed after that, and I had heard of a civil war between my own people. When I went to check on the situation, I found Rose Quartz had turned on home world in order to protect the planet Earth. Having spent so much time on Earth, I had grown attached to the humans. I didn't know the full details about the situation, but I knew that other planets home world had invaded had been left almost completely destroyed. I had already learned from my past experience treating the humans that they could not breath without oxygen, and if their planet was destroyed for home worlds purposes, the atmosphere would have been lost, meaning all the humans would have died."

"Naturally, I sided with Rose Quartz. It was strange, going against everything I had ever known before. During the war, I was initially a medic, like I had been for most of my life. However, I had at one point seen Rose Quartz using what looked like the native wildlife to fight for her. However, the animals had abilities similar to gems, along with odd color patterns unlike the animals I had seen thus far. I started spending more time following Rose and watching her. One night, when the battle was at a stand still and everyone was resting and being treated for wounds, I caught Rose sneaking off away from everyone on a pink lion. I used my weapon, which can be used for other things than fighting, to tie myself to the lion at the last second. I was dragged through a portal and found a secret lair that Rose apparently kept from the rest of the gems."

"She caught me, however, and I had to explain why I had followed her. Amused by my intrigue in her creations, she showed me how it was done. She had been using her own life force to give the animals the magical qualities of a gem. I was appalled. I knew the dangers of using your own life force to give life to others. Many gems had turned to dust for exactly the same thing. I remembered that Rose had healing properties from my years of research on home world, and I suggested an alternative method to what she was already doing. That's where my organization started. I began using Rose's tears and injecting them into organic beings. It worked, but not quite how I had anticipated. It was this that created Rose's garden, bringing Rose's to life for her. We used her tears to water them instead of the water from Earth."

"As the years went on, I began developing new ideas for how to accomplish these combinations between organic and geo-organic life. I realized that if we used the minerals needed to create a gem with the process used in kindergartens, and put them into the organic life, we could attempt to create a mixture of the two. However, Rose was not happy about the idea. She banished me from helping her. I continued my experiments, anyway. I had found an engineer who agreed with my ideas, and we left to test the theory on our own."

"First, we began testing it on animals. We tried and tried, but the animals would always die from the results. Then one day, we were left with only an animal skeleton. The engineer suggested that we wait and try again when we found more living creatures, but I had realized why Rose had been against the idea. We had lost so many lives in the process of experimentation, I was becoming discouraged. I didn't want to lose any more lives, so I was determined to use the dead instead. At first, I thought it had failed as well. I was almost to the breaking point, when one of the skeletons began to move. It was only slightly before it broke down and became dust, leaving a few gem shards in it's place. I knew we were on to something. I tried time and time again, but the results were the same. Then I realized, maybe the bones didn't have enough nutrients to support the gem."

"Years after the war, we were still continuing our research. I had begun to create life using dead animals instead of living ones. The gems reanimated the body, and giving the animal magical abilities. I thought I had finally figured it out, so we tested it on a human body. It was difficult to acquire one without directly killing a human. I had spent too many years protecting them for that. Finally, after searching for months for a test subject, we were in old England when we came across the body of a woman who had been dissected severely. She was long past dead, but I knew we could help her. I grabbed her, being careful to not lose any parts of her body. I had to buy a few replacement organs, however. Who or whatever killed her, they had removed her organs. At the time, I had no idea that I had found a victim of the famous Jack the Ripper."

"Back at our lab, I had stitched her up and frozen her body, preserving it. Once the organs had shown up and been put into her, and the equipment was ready for use, we thawed her out and began the procedure. At first, it had no effect. I waited for the same amount of time that we had with our animal test subjects, but it still was not working. I was about to give up and bury the body when my colleague had noticed a accelerated rate of decay in her flesh. We watched as her skin began to dissolve, her body caving in on itself, when all that was left was her bones. At first, we didn't notice anything odd about it, but upon closer inspection, we found that her bones had become crystallized, her ligaments still present. We were in the process of examining what was left of her body when she began to grow a new body, a projection similar to a gems. It was the same color as her bones, the exception being that her hair was a more pure white color and her irises were a gray color."

"She was a completely new person, but she retained all of her human memories. It was fascinating beyond belief."

"So, you created a... Zombie, human-gem hybrid? That's messed up!"

"Well, she was dead and we gave her life, along with creating something completely new. And, she functions perfectly fine."

"Okay. But, I won't hesitate to take her out if I need to." The idea of something that unnatural was disturbing to me.

I was sitting downhill from the others who were still at the barn. I thought about what had happened with Peridot and Yellow Diamond, and how the others had accepted her even though she had tried to harm them so many times. Benny has tried to help them multiple times, and only attacked them once, which wasn't even his fault. And yet, she gets to stay, after making mistake after mistake, and Benny has to leave after one mistake. "Yo, whatcha thinking about, dude?" I turned to see Amethyst walking up to me. She sat beside me and I let out a sigh.

"Well, I don't like the idea of you guys letting Peridot stay. I mean, I understand that you are trying to turn her good, but why does SHE get to stay?!" I threw my hands in the air and fell back against the ground.

"Still bent outta shape about Benny, huh?" She let out a guilty laugh. "Yeah, I don't really like it either. I mean, Sometimes you do stupid stuff. Besides, I thought he was cool. But I understand why they wanted him gone. With Peridot, she's small and weak. We could poof her easily. With Benny, he is strong. he was able to take Garnet in a fight, and he's half human. We don't even know if we can poof him. If he went crazy and hurt someone, we would have to..."

"NO! It won't come to that. I know he's good, he just needs time to work things out. I trust him. And I could stay with him to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone."

"But he already hurt you. Are you sure that you could stop him?"

"I held back before. I didn't want to hurt him then."

"And if you had to hurt him, are you sure you could bring yourself to do it?" She shrugged, and got up. I couldn't think of a response, because I wasn't sure. She walked away and left me to think.

I had finally learned what my dad was doing, and I knew the truth about my mother. It was almost too much information to take in. I made my way down to the road and walked towards It's a Wash, hoping to find Greg. When I got there and he wasn't there, I started asking around town to see if anyone knew where he was. After about half an hour of wandering around town, a boy who, if I remember correctly, is named Onion pointed me towards the hill on the other side of town. I made my way there, not sure why Greg would be there. I started making my way up the hill, still not sure where I was going, when I heard laughter from voices that were familiar to me. I looked around and saw Zina sitting on the ground alone. I walked up beside her as quietly as possible and sat beside her. She was so lost in thought, she didn't even notice me. I moved closer to her and tapped her lightly. Still nothing.

"ZINA!" She jumped, caught off guard by me shouting in her ear. "Hey, what are you thinking about so much that you didn't even notice your best friend sitting beside you?"

"Benny?! You're ba..." Her eyes fell to my right arm and she stopped talking.

"Yeah, I'm back. I found out some info on my dad that I need to relay to the gems. I don't know if they want to see me right now, but it's important." She sat in silence, a horrified look frozen on her face as she starred at my arm. "Hey! Eye's are up here." I said, jokingly before she finally let out a scream. I rolled my eyes.

"What happened to your arm?!" She looked like she was about to puke.

"Heh. I guess, you are what happened to it." I explained to her what happened to me while I was gone. In one day, I had gone through so much. "I mean, I'm not mad that you paralyzed my arms. I would have probably hurt someone more than I did if not. So, thanks. But, now I have the problem of only having one arm."

"Should we take you to the hospital?" She still looked ready to puke.

"I think this is beyond human medical practices. However, Steven may be able to help." I regretted bringing this up, but I knew it was the only way, and that was how I was going to get better. "However, I am really exhausted. I think I'm just gonna sleep for a few days."

"A few days?! Don't you need to eat?" Zina was stunned.

"No, I think I may be more gem than human. I can't really explain much about it, even if I knew about it, because I'm..." I fell over and blacked out. I couldn't even feel the impact from hitting the ground. Maybe Zina caught me. I never really asked.