A/N: Pearl/Peridot fusion! Thank you, DJKitten07, for requesting this. This takes place not that long after Too Far. The fusion's name is Olivine and since Peridot may lack a weapon for all we know, Olivine's weapon is simply a stronger, high-tech version of Pearl's spear that matches her theme (similar to how Garnet's gauntlets are larger, stronger versions of Ruby's gauntlets). Let's get into it!


"Log date 7345," Peridot added onto her tape recorder. "Progress on the drill has been well. I still do not understand how the rogue Pearl displays an overwhelming amount of technological proficiency and emotional sensitivity . . ."

"Are you just going to pretend I can't hear you?" Pearl interrupted.

Peridot awkwardly switched off the recorder and said, "Still not used to a Gem like you ordering me around."

Pearl, Peridot, and Steven were working on the Cluster drill late at night at the barn.

Steven let out a loud yawn as he organized the scrap metal his father donated to the drill's construction.

"If you're that tired, Steven," Pearl said, "you can just go back to the Temple."

"No!" Steven insisted. "I'm fine."

"So," Peridot began. "Why did you abstain from your duties as a Pearl?"

"What are you talking about?" Pearl asked.

"Did you come out of the factory as a defect or did something trigger it?" Peridot asked.

Pearl struggled not to lash out at her. How dare Peridot treat her as a mistake? She was proud that she was different than the other Pearls.

"In fact," Pearl answered. "I always believed mistreating a Gem based on their caste was immoral. Luckily, someone helped me escape my duties."

"Who would help a Pearl rebel?" Peridot asked.

"Rose Quartz," Pearl snapped. "She wanted me to experience being a real Gem so she trained me how to fight and engineer. She, unlike most of my superiors, didn't want to condemn me to a life of slavery and mistreatment."

"Sounds like a waste of a good Pearl," Peridot muttered.

Pearl's grip on her blowtorch tightened. Couldn't Peridot see that she wasn't that much different from her? What did she do before arriving on Earth? She was worked to death by the Gem elite, just like Pearl, just like all of the lower-caste Gems the Diamonds believed was subordinates. To Pearl, everyone on Homeworld were simply silent servants to the Diamond Authority.

Steven watched Pearl and Peridot work in silence. While Steven never saw Homeworld, the way Pearl described it, it sounded like a corrupt dystopia. But the way Peridot described it, it sounded like a paradise. He didn't know what to believe about Homeworld. Both arguments about it sounded promising. He could even say that about the Gem War, both sides had their reasons and losses. Sometimes, Steven wondered who the good side was.

He glanced out the barn window, bored out of his mind. A full moon, stars, endless stretches of grass and trees, the beach in the far distance, a group of multi-limbed Gem mutants staggering toward the door . . . wait what?

"Pearl, Peridot!" Steven screamed. "We have a little company!"

Peridot shrieked and ducked behind Steven when she heard the warped, distorted screams of the fusions. Pearl shoved a pile of scrap metal equipment in front of the barn door as a barricade.

"What do we do?" Steven said as he summoned his shield. Countless fusions began to shove against the door, screaming unintelligent noises. The barricade shook and weakened.

"We don't have time!" Pearl panicked. "Peridot, fuse with me!"

"What?" Peridot screeched. "I'm not fusing with a clod like you!"

"It's either with me or with Steven!" Pearl squawked.

Peridot glanced at the chubby Gem-human hybrid and said, "Okay, let's do it!" without any hesitation.

Steven threw himself against the door, pushing his shield towards the mutants. "Hurry up!"

After a lot of struggling with the dancing, the two Gems warped into a fusion. An eight-foot-tall Gem with two pairs of arms stood in their place. Pearl and Peridot's gems were side-by-side on her forehead, Pearl on the top, Peridot on the bottom. The fusion possessed four eyes, the top pair pale blue and the bottom pair dark green. Her pale green hair stood up in short spikes, accentuating her gray-green skin. A name registered into the fusion's mind: Olivine.

"Giant woman," Steven whispered, his eyes glowing like stars. Suddenly, he was thrown back, the door bursting open and the hideous Gem mutants clawing their way into the barn.

"Steven!" Olivine shouted as Steven fell on his back.

"I'm okay!" Steven reassured and he summoned another shield. "Let's do this!"

Olivine summoned her weapon: a glowing gray-green spear with twice as much power as Pearl's and began to fight. Steven threw his shield as a projectile, knocking down mutants and allowing Olivine to take a final strike with her spear. With a single twirl of her spear, a blast of electricity was unleashed, taking down several monsters. After a long battle, a pile of cluster gems was scattered on the floor.

"That was amazing!" Steven congratulated Olivine as he bubbled the mutants.

"Thank you," Olivine said proudly.

"I didn't know Pearl and Peridot would make such a good team," Steven said.

"I didn't know it either," Olivine replied, touching the two gems nestled on her forehead.