If anyone told Steven what it might be like to get hit by a train, or being a pillow to a full blown elephant, he would say it this. The first thing he was able to fully think of as he slowly came back to consciousness was how dizzy he felt. He couldn't even open his eyes at first over how dizzy he was. His arms and legs felt so sore, and yet numb at the same time, weighing almost close to a ton each. He could hear his own heart beat even which was slowly coming back to normal pace.

Steven groaned, forcing his eyes to protest and open through the throbbing of his head. His eyelids quickly snapped shut due to the brightness of the sun light. Shouldn't he be inside his house right now? Why of all places to sleep did he choose to take a nap outside?

Just as those questions kept flowing into his mind, a massive piece of reality and memories came rushing back like a flash flood. First came conversation he had with Bismuth, then Blue, then the house arrest followed by the Diamonds showing up. The Diamonds! Soon the memories of getting drugged came rushing in, the weird astral plane, and Lapis showing up. Peridot was shot at by Yellow's power. Her bloody chilling screams. After that he blacked out, flashes of seeing only red then pink, then blue before lights out. The hybrid gasped, quickly sitting up though his body protested. His headache hammered at the front of his skull, and his spine gave him a sharp jab of pain as well, but he ignored it, looking around the area to see what had happened. He was quick to realize that the Diamonds arrived last night, seeing that it was mid day now was a bit of a shocker.

Steven looked around, seeing that he was on a ruined beach. The hybrid gasped as his vision fully cleared so he can see the details of what happened. Their were massive holes and foot pits all around him, small hills of sands and rocks were scattered around as well with a few puddles of water from either the ocean or Lapis he wasn't sure. As he got up to his feet, though struggled to keep his footing, the teen turned around and gasped at the remains of the temple. The house was completely destroyed. There wasn't much of it left but for the base and his side of the house that had his bed. The arms of the lady temple were even damaged, charred black and losing fingers. His pink eyes widened at the memory that flowing back, a small glimpse of the temple exploding before his vision became to blurry to fully make out.

"Did… Did I do this?" Steven mumbled, taking a step back as a small chill shivered down his spine.

"Steven!"

The hybrid turned back around to the sound of the voice, gasping to only catching a glimpse of purple hair before he was tackled down to the ground. Sure enough, the person on top of him was indeed Amethyst. The purple quartz was smiling from ear to ear and her hair messy from the fall. Steven groaned in pain, though his headache was fading away at the sight of his sister alright from the blast. She was alright, and that was causing the young teen to smile along with her.

As they got back up, Steven spoke. "Amethyst, I'm so glad you are okay."

"Aw come on bro," Amethyst smirked, nudging his arm as she chuckled. "You didn't think that Connie could beat me did you?"

"No, not even Connie could do something like that," Thinking of that sword fighting traitor, the hybrid frowned and looked around once more. "What did happen to her anyhow? Garnet, Pearl, and the others as well?"

Amethyst seem to have flinched, her smile failing as she looked into the hybrid's confused and slightly worried pink eyes. Without answering, she grabs his hand and pulls him over to the looked to be Blue and Yellow's ship, or st least what was left of them. Steven gasped, looking at the remains of the hand ships in the ocean. He also noticed the remains of the barn on top of Blue's ship, which was mostly remained in the water. Flashes of what happened last night when Lapis came pushed forward, and the boy frowned deeply. She threw the barn on top of Blue's ship, most likely hitting the diamond as well. His anger grew, but he shook his head and settled down before looking at Yellow's ship, seeing how it was just crumbled and crushed in the water. This had confused him. What caused the ship to look like that? It also looked like another hand crushed it like a soda can.

Steven turned towards Amethyst, the purple gem seeing the question in his eyes as she answered gently. "When the Diamonds finally got to you…" She sighs. " Lapis used the last of her strength to crush Yellow's ship with the water, stopping them from taking you."

The teen frowned even more, anger showing clearly in his eyes. "Why was I left near the temple then?"

"After Blue calmed you down last night, for some reason we couldn't touch you," Amethyst looked down at her feet, looking ashamed. "We tried, even your dad, but your body would shock us. It was like your gem was protecting you."

His gem? Steven tipped his head, thinking deeply about this. They couldn't touch him, not even the Diamonds. What happened to him last night? He must have lost it or something if Blue had to calm him down for some odd reason. Did she cry and spread her aura out to him, bring his rage to a halt? The hybrid did remember getting very angry and upset, but the only reason he did was because of Perid-

His mind came to a screeching halt, not realizing that the two made it to the others. "Peridot! Where's Peridot!"

"Steven," Greg shot up from his spot by the Diamonds, forgetting his conversation with them as he raced to his son to give him a big bear hug. "My little man you're okay!"

"Dad?" Steven groaned, the bear hug surprisingly crushing his ribs which felt a bit sore.

The others, being gems at first, came rushing to Steven to see if he was okay. Garnet and Pearl, both supporting scratches and even little bruising, stood a bit further back. Lapis did as well, but she had a look on her face to hug the boy so badly. The water witch would have came closer, but Lion growled and kept the gem back. Bismuth came over, calm and holding something in her hand. Connie, supporting a bruise on her cheek, came rushing over to try and hug the boy no problem, though after Greg let go of his son, Steven pushed the skinny girl away.

"What happened to Peridot," He looked among the gems and his dad, completely focused and worried about her. "Please, where is she!? She was poofed wasn't she?"

The boy looked close to having a panic, but Bismuth came over and grabbed his shoulder, a bit shocked that he didn't push away but smiled none of the less. "Chill it little dude, here." She showed him the small green gemstone in her hand, completely protected and looking like any other stone. "It fell out of your pocket after you knocked out and Blue let you go. Decided to protect the little gem for ya."

Steven smiled, shocked but relieved that Bismuth took her gem before the others could get her. He thanked the massive grey gem and took the stone away from her. Peridot was inside. Her gemstone was so smooth and soft in his hand, humming with a beat of heat he never noticed before. He smiled and stoked the gemstone with his finger, knowing that she was okay inside. With a soft sigh, Steven held Peridot's gem in both of his hands, looking over at Yellow Diamond. He knew that she did it, and from the looks of the tall massive leader just sitting quite far away from the gems, he could tell that she didn't mean it. Though the Diamond looked to not cared for a slight bit. Somehow Steven could just tell though that she felt a bit bad about hitting Peridot. he knew she was aiming for Lapis, who was attacking.

Speaking of Lapis, memories of last night came flooding back again and the hybrid glared quickly at her and the others who caused all of this. Lapis saw the glaring pink eyes and looked down at her bare blue feet, looking a bit scared and ashamed over everything. Maybe she was feeling a bit guilty, but that didn't excused the water witch for everything that she did. she randomly came back, after months of leaving Steven and Peridot behind, and just decided to believe Pearl and Garnet about the Diamonds attacking him. Then letting Peridot take the hit for her when she had done nothing wrong, just thought of her as a spare. It angered the teen, but now seeing the gem like this, maybe she can earn his forgiveness. Though it maybe a bit harder for her.

As for the others, Garnet, Pearl and even Connie,Steven was pretty much sure that his trust for them just left the building. Garnet looked upset, but just kept her arms crossed, looking at the ground and not even trying to get close to Steven. Though when their eyes did make contact, hers looked the same look she had when she asked him to not go to the palanquin. When the boy's glare didn't change, she broke the gaze. The fact that she risked his life like that and forced him to stay in the temple by knocking him out cold. Pearl just turned away completely from Steven and the rest, looking down at her feet as it looked like she was trembling, whether out of fear, shock, or rage the boy wasn't sure or cared. Connie just looked at him confused, even a bit hurt that he didn't hug her. Why would he!? As far as the hybrid was sure of, he never wanted to touch the girl again. Not only did she stab him, but lied to Lion and her father about him being drugged, showing that she was in on it.

He wanted nothing to do with them, and as far a he knew he no longer saw them as family.

Turning over to the Diamonds, his real family, Steven's glare dissolved and smiled brightly up at them. Ignoring the hateful looks of the Connie, Lapis, and Garnet, he raced over to Yellow and Blue. The Diamonds looked down at the smaller hybrid in fondness, more so from Blue. Yellow looked more curious and even worried of what might happened. When Steven came up closer to them, he felt his gem glowing and humming, like his aura was singing out the the other familiar diamonds in front of him. He saw their own gems glow slightly, but it dimmed as Blue smiled fondly at the small boy and slowly placed her hand down to him. He wasted no time to jump on her giant hand, holding on as she lifted up up to their faces.

"Steven!" Garnet called out, growling as she curled her fist. She wanted to go up and save her boy, but Bismuth and Amethyst held her back. Lion doing the same to both Lapis and Connie as they looked worried and upset as well. Pearl just stood there, watching as her eyes held a nasty glare.

Blue and Yellow ignored the others below them, looking solely at the young organic diamond in front of them. Both of them were intrigued by this little creature, who Blue had told the other was named Steven. An odd title yes, but Yellow realized that humans have very odd cultures much different from their own. As the young diamond smiled up at them with such wonder and awe, the much other ones couldn't help but smile in return. Even Yellow gave the thing a little smile which was something she rarely did.

Blue was the first to speak, being more comfortable to talk to the organic than Yellow did. "Hello Steven. I'm happy to finally meet Pink's little creation."

Steven blushed, chuckling as he nodded. "I-It's nice to meet you too Blue, and you Yellow."

"Oh you are such a small little one," Blue chuckled sweetly, cupping the boy in both of her hands and cuddled him up to her cheek. "So precious and small."

Amethyst and the other gems, even Greg, were shocked by this show of affection coming from the so called 'Shatterer'. It was obvious that Steven was most likely feeling crushed, but he just smiled as best as he could and took it. The purple gem chuckled, finding it so funny that her brother was being cuddled by his massive Aunt. Bismuth smiled a bit, knowing full well that the diamonds wouldn't hurt the kid now. They believe him to be a diamond just like them, one of their own. If the craftsman gem knew anything about gems, is that none really like hurting their own kind. The rarer the gem, the deeper the bond they have, and the Diamonds have the closer bond she had seen as a family one. Lapis was shocked as well, but really just uneasy. She loved Steven, and cared deeply for her friend, but was it a good idea to keep Steven so close to the Diamonds.

Greg honestly felt like a little weight was coming off his heart. A guilt weight, for not giving his only son a closer bond to his blood family. The old man felt bad about not being close to his family after he ditched them and left to be a rock-star. After Uncle Andy showed up a few months ago, he felt a guilt for not giving Steven a closer knit to his human family. Sure his son was a powerful and strong gem, but he was human too, and honestly the man was just scared to go back to see if his family was okay. His parents were either dead or very old, then his cousins and even sister he left behind. He felt bad yes, but at least his son was getting closer to his gem family. His son was right about the Diamonds being family by gem, a diamond and even prince of a whole new world out there. It was scary at first, fearing that he might lose his son, but now, he was just happy that if Greg ever left his son, he wouldn't be lost and alone.

Yellow, getting a bit impatient, placed her hand on Blue's shoulder. "Blue would you please remove the hybrid away from your face. We do need to have a talk with him remember?"

"Oh, sorry," Blue chuckled, pulling away from the slightly gasping boy as he shook his head. His smile still on his face.

"Thank you Blue. Now… Steven, we would like to have a word with you," Yellow quickly became formal. "First off would be how Pink made you, what really happened in the war, and why were we ambushed by the rest of Rose's rebellion?"

Damn, did waste anytime at getting to the point. Not that Steven didn't really mind. He smiled and nodded at Yellow, taking a sit on Blue's knees as he looked up at them. "Of course Yellow. I'll be happy to explain. To everyone," He looked down at the gems, Connie, and Greg, wanting them to hear this too.

Yellow nodded. "Very well. Please start… Steven."

The young hybrid sighed, closing his eyes as he looked down at Peridot's gem, still in his hands. He smiled, seeing it gleam at him before he looked back up at the Diamonds, and opened his mouth to speak.

Not gonna repeat the explaining a third time here people. Just gonna skip this part. Hope you enjoyed this small chapter.

Untill next time!

Bye! ;)