A/N: Salve, everyone! Welcome back! I'd to welcome our newest follower, grimlock987. I hope you're enjoying the story so far. By the way, just so everyone knows, I kinda have a bad attention span, which means that I have problems remembering things. So, if I make a mistake, go ahead and tell me. So, I wanted to thank Kong for telling my mistake with the Rat King in chapter 17. I went and removed him from the chapter. But nobody needs to go back to read it. It doesn't change the story at all. Thank you and enjoy the new chapter!

Disclaimer: Steven Universe and TMNT belong to Rebecca Sugar and Nickelodeon respectively.

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Chapter 20) Bubble Room & Homeworld

The door of the room closed, leaving no trace of it, making the room closed with no apparent escape.

The room was red with twisting vein-like beams that went up to what appeared to be an endless ceiling. The room was full of gems in bubbles. The bubbles were different colors, being either white, red, purple or pink. The most interesting thing in the room, however, was a large lava pit, near the middle of the room.

"What is this place?" Karai asked. She walked around and touched a few bubbles, which only moved slightly before returning to their original place.

"This is the bubble room," Pearl answered, "As we explained before, when we bubble gems, we send them back here to the temple, so they don't cause any trouble in public."

"So, why would these gems attack people? Aren't they supposed to be like you guys?" the mutant girl asked.

"Well, yes, they're supposed to be," Pearl answered, "And they once were, but after thousands of years of battle against Homeworld, they became corrupted and eventually lost who they were."

"Until we find a way to fix them, this is all we can do for them," Garnet added. "Okay, so where's Peridot?" Mikey asked.

Karai looked around the room and saw a triangle-shaped, green gem with a crack in the middle inside a pink bubble. "Is that her?" she asked, pointing at it. "It is!" Steven said. He ran over to his bubble and grabbed it.

Almost instantly, the bubble popped. Peridot's gem started to glow and take a solid form.

"Uh, what's happening?" Karai asked Steven. "She's taking a new form," replied the gem boy.

The white glow started to take multiple different forms, until it finally settled on a single form. When the light cleared away, Peridot had her normal, green, triangle-shaped hairstyle and light-green visors, but was now wearing a dark green one-piece uniform with a plain green V-neck. Covering her was what appeared to be a lime-green lab coat that reached down to her knees that had two dark-green stars, one on each shoulder and she wore dark gloves that only had fingers on her index and ring fingers, leaving her thumb, middle finger, and pinky open.

"Wow, Peridot," Amethyst said. "What?" the green gem said, "You don't like? I thought it'd be a good look."

"No, we love it," Steven said. "Yeah, it looks good on you," Raph agreed. The others gave her other compliments on her new appearance.

Before anyone could say anything else, Peridot fell to the ground and started to turn into static again. "Oh no!" Lapis said. She ran to Peridot's side and put her hand on her friend's back. "Is this because her gem is cracked?" Donnie asked. Lapis looked to him and nodded. "So how do we fix it?" Leo asked.

S-S-Steven," Peridot stuttered. "Steven?" Casey said, "What can he do?"

Without a word, Steven stepped up to Peridot and licked his hand, covering it in saliva. "Uh, Steven, what are you doing?" Donnie asked. "Just watch," Steven said. He slammed his hand onto Peridot's gem.

The gem started to glow and the crack slowly disappeared and Peridot returned to normal. "What?" Karai said, surprised. "Steven inherited healing powers from Rose Quartz," Peridot said, standing up, "Although, his is a little different from hers, at least that's what they told me."

"Rose had healing tears that flowed from her gem," Garnet said, "She felt love for those around her and felt real sorrow for when they were hurt. These tears had the ability to heal them."

"But Steven's healing powers are a little strange," Pearl said. "I do have healing tears, but only when I'm really sad. Other than that, I have healing spit," Steven laughed, "I used my spit to fix Lapis' gem too."

"And I thought our lives couldn't get stranger," Casey said.

Suddenly, April heard a voice saying, "How could you still follow Rose Quartz after what she did to me, Amber?"

"What?" she said. She followed the voice to a rainbow, concave-like gemstone in a pink bubble. She gently pulled it from its spot and inspected it, "Bismuth?"

The others turned and saw April, looking at the strange gemstone. "Is this…Bismuth?" she asked. "Who?" Karai asked. "Bismuth," Steven answered, "She was kinda the blacksmith of the Crystal Gems."

"And she became corrupted?" Karai asked. "Not exactly," Garnet said, "Many years ago, Rose and Bismuth had a falling out."

"My mom poofed her and hid her gem in Lion's mane," Steven said. "Why would she do that?" Leo said. "Bismuth wanted to purge the Diamonds with a weapon she called the Breaking Point," Garnet explained, "Rose couldn't let that happen. So, she poofed Bismuth, hid her away and made us believe that she was lost during the war."

"We don't blame her for what she did though," Pearl said. April put the bubble back in its place.

As soon as she did, she felt something else from another bubble. She looked over at an orange, diamond-like gemstone in a purple bubble. She grabbed it and said, "This one feels so…angry." They all looked over at the bubbled gem she had.

As soon as Lapis caught a glimpse of the gem inside of the bubble, her eyes widen in fear and she became angry. "Put that down right now!" she said angrily. "Whoa, Lapis!" Mikey said defensively, "Calm down!" Lapis looked around herself and saw them all looking at her in shock. She breathed heavily a few times before sprouting her wings and flying out of the temple.

"Lapis!" Steven called as they all ran out of the house and searched around the beach for her. "Where did she go?" Splinter asked.

Garnet adjusted her visor as she used her future vision. "She's at the barn," she said. "Barn?" Leo asked. "It was a barn that belonged to my great-aunt and uncle," Steven explained. "We did a few a few, let's say, 'projects' there," Pearl said. "My dad's cousin, Andy, let Peridot and Lapis stay there after seeing how much I care about them," Steven said. "Okay, how far away is it?" Karai asked. "Not far," Pearl said, "We have a warp there."

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After warping to a field in small groups, they all followed Peridot along a trail headed to the barn.

They all stopped in their tracks when caught sight of the barn.

The barn had a wall missing and a lop-sided silo, sticking out the side of the barn. Without the wall in the barn, they could see that the inside was an entire mess.

"Whoa, looks like a tornado hit," Raph said. "No, it always looks like this," Peridot said. "Okay," Leo said, "Where's Lapis?" April put her hands to her head and said, "She's on the silo."

"Of course! She always goes up there when she needs to think," Steven said. "Yeah, like when she was trying to stay away from me," Peridot said. "Why would she want to get away fr-" Casey started, before Peridot cut him off, "I don't want to talk about it yet."

"I'll go try to get her down," Steven said. He jumped onto the roof of the barn and used that height to continue onto the top of the tilted silo.

A few minutes later, Steven jumped down from the silo with Lapis by his side.

"Hey, are you okay, Lapis?" Donnie asked. "I'm fine," Lapis said. "Then what was that about back at the temple?" April asked. "It's just that…Jasper's pretty heartless when it comes to the Earth."

"Who is Jasper?" Mikey said. "She was a Homeworld gem that was sent to Earth as my escort, but when the ship crashed, we both got stuck here," Peridot said. "Wait, you're a Homeworld gem?" April asked. "Well, yes, but Steven and the others showed me the beauty of the planet," the green alien answered. "Ship? Wait, is this what you're talking about?" Donnie asked. He pulled his T-phone and pulled up the video of the giant pointed green hand that was headed to the beach.

"Yes, that was our ship," Peridot said, taking the phone and looking at it. She scratched the back of her head and gave a small nervous laugh, "Sorry again, Lapis."

"Eh, it's way in the past," the blue gem said, waving away the comment. "What is she talking about?" Raph asked. "I used to be on Earth, but I made it back to Homeworld. But since I was on Earth for thousands of years, they sent me with Jasper and Peridot on their mission to Earth as their knowledge," she said. "Okay, this is getting confusing," Leo said. He sat on the ground and said, "How about we start from the beginning and make our way from there?"

"Sounds best," was all Splinter said. They all sat together in a circle and the gems prepared to tell their story.

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A/N: I'd like to firstly apologize to Wal Otter. I've never seen Back to the Future, and I tried looking up pictures, but I couldn't figure out a design for Peridot to look like Marty. But I hope everyone likes her new look. I decided to remove the diamond from her form because I felt it represented the Diamonds, and since she's a Crystal Gem now, I wanted to replace the diamond with stars. Let me know what you think and remember to read review and share! I don't think the story will be going on too much longer, but I do have an idea for a short sequel that has to do with the Off Colors and Lars, and I need for Fluorite to be unfused in the story, so if you guys could start throwing their thoughts of which six gems she is, let me know. Anyway, you know what to do. Vale!

-LB20