Yes, I here with my chapter for the week. I'll try to get another one in, and focus on Universe vs Butterfly next week. And Just know, my momswap poll will close tomorrow at noon, so here's your last chance to get a vote in. I own nothing.

"Steven? I-Is that you?" The startled voice of Pearl said.

Before the three crystalline heroines was Steven, or rather, a version of Steven that was grown up, and prepared to fight them. A Steven, from the looks of it, that was loyal to homeworld. Garnet herself cringed at the sight of the blue on his clothes. The color that belonged to the diamonds, her diamond, Blue Diamond, the one that threated to shattered Ruby.

Rhodonite, however, was looking at them quite intensely. This were clearly crystal Gems; how else would that Ruby hybrid fusion exist without being shattered on sight. But why did they look so familiar?

"Don't you remember us Ste-man?" The Amethyst quietly said as she slowly started to walk up to him. "It's us, the Gems. Your half Human, your mother gave up her form to bring you into the world."

What!?

This news caused Rhodonite to step back a little. No one but B.P, Blue diamond, and Carnelian new he was only half Gem. And that last line, that was something he hasn't heard in a long time. And why did this Amethyst insist that he knew them? Although, now that he thought about it, a vague picture was starting to form in his mind. Not much of a picture, as more along the lines of a son….

"You used to sing a little song you made for us, because you loved us. We would listen to it as we and your father built your house." The Fusion voiced in with a calm and soothing voice."

"My father!" He thought. "I haven't thought about my father in years! How could they know all of this? And what song? I know tons of songs! In fact, the first song I sang was…..

His eyes, suddenly burst wide at the realization.

These were the Gems that raised him on earth.

Before he lost them.

Before he met Blue Diamond.

Pearl, seeing this, smiled and pressed on. "Yes, that song, you would always improve on it it, and we would always clap to it, even singing the parts you made for us." She motions the other Gems, who understood what she was getting at.

Garnet: We.

Amethyst/pearl: Are the Crystal

ALL gems: Gems! We'll always save the day.

Rhodonite eyes just filled with tears. All this time, he looked for them. He searched every star, every planet, every system that homeworld had. He would always be on the look out for the Gems that raised him as a baby.

The Gems that gave him his first taste of family.

Seeing as how they were singing his song, he decided to chime in.

Rhodonite: And if you think we can't…

He quickly looks back on the Gems, who's smiles couldn't be bigger, and whose tears couldn't be any more watery. They continues.

All Gems: We'll always find away!

Garnet: That's why the people

Amethsyt/pearl: Believe in

Garnet

Amethyst

And Pearl….

And STEVEN!

Rhodonite, no, Steven, smiled as he began to step forward.

"Is it really you guys? The ones who raised me?" He nervously ask.

All of the them confirm this with a simple nod, to which Steven decided to respond with a hug, and not just any hug, a hug full of all the love and care and feeling that he has spent years holding on to, for his first family. He ended up picking them all up with his tremendous strength.

"I can't tell you how much I've missed you."

The three rebel Gems were surprised to say the least, but none of them dared not to speak, for this was too precious of a moment to interrupt. However, after about five minutes of loving embrace, Amethyst decided to break the silence with her concern.

"Whoa dude, Amethyst said, half happy, half pleasantly shocked, "shouldn't be us picking you up?"

"Amethyst is right, even at your top peak, any human child at your size would strain your body with our combined mass and weight." Pearl said with equal concern and disbelief, despite Steven proving her wrong with said hug.

"Well, that's what happens when you train to be the top of all the Quartzes in the authority." Steven says as he puts them down.

"Authority?" Garnet questioned, starting to get an uneasy feeling about this. "Steven, what are you talking about. Homeworld has been off world for thousands of years."

"I know that silly" Steven says with a small chuckle, "I've been taught that history by homeworld's finest for years now."

All three of the Gems gasp once again.

"WHattttttttt!" Squealed Pearl. "Are you saying that you've been on homeworld for the last 8 years?"

"B-but, that's, like impossible." Amethyst shouted as she begain to hyperventilate. "Aren't all the ships and pads, like, smashed and completely unsable?" She looks up to Garnet, who just nods before speaking again.

"Steven, what happened when you left?"

"Oh, now that's something I haven't really thought about in a while." Steven closes his eyes as he tries to remember. "Well, after we were separated, I ended up in a bush somewhere, but than I was spotted by Blue Diamond and…..

"Whattttttttt?!." Garnet shouted as she came up even closer to Steven. He could tell, despite her visor, that this was very disconcerting to her, She was on the verge of falling The other two seemed equally terrified at that thought as well.

A Diamond,

on earth,

after the War? "

"Steven, what was she doing here!? If say harmed you in anyway, I'll….

"Garnet, relax. She didn't harm me. She was crying."

"Steven, the Diamonds are not one for sympathy. I highly doubt that you saw one of them crying." Pearl seriously said, hoping that Steven hadn't been swayed into their brainwashing.

"Pearl, you weren't there. I saw her. No, more than that, I felt her sadness. Every sorrow, every regret, every hope, every tear she shed, I felt personally. She wanted to see Pink Diamond again. She wanted this world to be preserved for her legacy to live on. I spoke to her, and told her how she is never gone as long as she remembers her fondly."

The Gems were just taken back at that. Had Roses son, had their little Steven, confront, comfort, and relate to a Diamond?

Steven continued. "She felt better. So, in return, she took me to homeworld"

"Wait, so she took you, off planet!?" Amethyst screamed.

"Yeah, it was no big deal, I got to see a whole new world beyond earth. I met people, I added them to my universe, just like you guys." He finished with a fond smile.

The Gems, however, where far from okay after what they just learned.

"Steven, that was not okay, this is far from fine! She took you away from us, from your home, and for what?! So, she could feel better about herself?!" Garnet angrily steamed.

Steven was taken back, and angered at that outburst. "Garnet, stop talking about her like that! She is kind, and sweet! She is caring and loving! She kept me safe, she protected me from the other Gems, she made sure I had a future up there in her court. She made me who I am!" Steven pauses to see the looks on their faces.

They were shocked, yet again. Never had they thought that their little Steven would ever be angry ant anything, let alone be angry at them.

"I am Rhodonite, Loyal soldier and son of Blue Diamond!"

Pearl became flabbergasted. "What do you mean son? Gems don't have families."

Steven took a deep breath before speaking again, hoping to avoid any more angry outbursts. "That's what I've been trying to explain to your guys. They might not have the traditions Humans have, but they aren't any more capable of being a family, or the love that comes with it. Tell me, did you think you were capable of those emotions when you rebelled. Or when I was born.

The two former homeworlders really took that to heart. They realized that once, they thought exactly like that. Never before did ever think they would be doing what they did today. And never before did they think that they would come to care for Steven as their own.

They both turned their head away, staying silent, realizing that he was right.

"See, other Gems aren't incapable of feeling the way you guys do. I've come face to face with all three of the Diamonds, and all of them are just as emotional as any human can be. I've made my only family with three specific ge….. ahhhh," He screams, "I almost forgot about Carnelian!" Steven ran past them, to the unconscious red Quartz that was still knocked out.

"Carney, wake up, I have people I need you to meet."

At the very sound of his voice, Carnelian shot up, as he backed up as she spoke.

"Rhodonite, It's the crystal Gems, they're messing with everything, they some how know you and they, they, they are right here and not ….attacking?" Carnelian said in confusion as she stared at her would-be poofers.

"Carnelian, these are the Gems that raised me before Blue Diamond. They're my first family."

Carnelian only had one response to that.

"Cool"

Ha, I hope that was enjoyable. Please leave reviews and questions.

Next, The Gems learn More about Homeworld and Steven while Peridot and Jasper draw near.