oof where to start... So this is like super late, even for me but the chapter fought me the entire time and then I learned we were getting new episodes the 2nd and I actually had stuff to do at work today... it was just all around kind of a crapshoot. Unfortunately I will NOT be haveing a chapter on friday, and I would love to say thats the last break I will be taking but it's defintiely not. hopefully I will remember to remind you ahead of time. if you ever have any questions about that though you can always check the blog where I usually post whether there will be a chapter or not.

I do hope you enjoy this chapter, despite the wait and the fact that it's not really beta'd. feel free to yell at me in the comments if you don't like it, lol.

see you guys next week!

A diamond bowing to a fusion? A fusion with a pearl nonetheless! Sodalite's Pearl couldn't quite believe this. White Diamond may have been strange, an unfortunate byproduct of her hybrid form, but this was almost unacceptable.

"Blue," The pearl fusion said. "This seems to be the opportune time to proceed." Blue Diamond's Pearl nodded hesitantly.

"Yes, of course." She said before turning to address White Diamond directly, arms at her side and hands clenched nervously. "Domina, What you said... back at the drop ship." White Diamond smiled instead of ordering the irreverent Pearl shattered.

"Oh good, I was getting worried we were never going to get to talk. I assume you will want me and Yellow, er.. Yellow Diamond?" White Diamond asked. Blue Diamond's Pearl looked away, not to ask for Yellow Diamond directly, but to look at the pearl who was standing next to Sodalite's Pearl. Sodalite's Pearl glanced at Yellow Diamond's Pearl, who looked at her diamond then seemed to think for a moment before nodding at Blue Diamonds Pearl.

"Yes," Blue Diamond's Pearl said.

"Excellent," White Diamond said. "Lead the way."

"Should we uh..." the Renegade looked between the two diamonds and the ruby and sapphire fusion, who shook her head.

"No, this part doesn't involve us." She said. Sodalites Pearl turned to look around at the rest of the hanger. Gems just milling around without purpose, this was madness.


"So, this might not exactly be the right time to ask this," Domina said as they moved through the hallways to the meeting room. Yellow was just behind her, radiating a general kind of uncomfortableness that practically forced everyone else to leave her to the rear. "But what happened to the gems that were supposed to be stationed here?"

"They're in the atrium." Feldspar said cheerily. Domina was really trying to figure out exactly how this undercooked feldspar had fallen in with this group of pearls but she supposed it made as much sense as a group of pearls taking over an empire scouting outpost. She felt the bulla around her next thud against her chest as the gravity fluctuated.

"And I suppose that you didn't order for maintenance at any point." Domina glanced at Pink who went a shade darker and shook her head.

"We uh... thought it was best to avoid arousing any suspicion." Red said. Domina beat her to the door pad and opened the door without saying anything, just shaking her head.

"Next time any of you think of 'borrowing' a remote outpost at least let me know so that scheduled maintenance can stay uninterrupted." Domina said as the bulla began to float yet again.

"Domina!" Yellow hissed.

"It was a joke!" Domina said rolling her eyes. "Mostly, It's hard to make new stations we have to take care of the ones we have." she could see a smile break through the serious expression on Blue Pearls face.

"Next time you will be the first to know Wh- Domina." She said and opened the door to the meeting room. It had been stripped of any trappings that would mark it as being part of the loyal part of the gem empire but still had the chairs and table, though the table had to be cleared of what looked like kindergarten reports. Domina took a seat across from Blue and Yellow Diamond sat next to her. The remaining four sat on Blue's side and for a long tense moment no one said anything.

"So, what was that about a jet?" Domina asked in an attempt to break the silence. Red chuckled nervously, and took the stack of holofische Feldspar slid over to her.

"Jet is a pearl, Domina." Peal said, also smiling from the sudden break in tension.

"What?" Yellow asked baffled.

"Jet, belongs- er belonged I suppose, to a Jet from Blue Diamonds court." Blue said softly.

"Yeah, definitely 'belonged' in past tense." Feldspar said.

"What happened?" Domina asked, she thought she remembered the pearl they were talking about. Her gem had been over her eye. The Jet she belonged to was absent minded but had been a wealth of information when it came to domestic law.

"She uh..." Red glanced at Blue then at Yellow Diamond, who sighed.

"Go on."

"...Blew up her Jet's spire after escaping from a processing facility." Domina's jaw dropped. Yellow Diamond nodded.

"Thats... fair I suppose." She said. Domina stared at Yellow Diamond for a moment, not quite believing what she had heard that come out of Yellow's mouth.

"So from what we can tell," Red said projecting an image of homeworld with locations noted. "She has been taking out the gems Blue Diamond has installed as district heads, probably in an attempt to further cause chaos."

"She also might just be mad." Feldspar said, "we're pretty sure a lot of this is just because she's mad."

"Understandable." Domina said, though part of her had gone cold. 'Gems that Blue Diamond had installed as district heads? What had happened to the old ones?

"And... it's just her?" Yellow Diamond said. Since when was she interested, what in the star's name had happened? Pink and Blue look equally confused, but Red continued.

"At first yes, there were eleven other gems, 6 pearls, a peridot, a citrine, two kunzites and a haleite. But they all were... captured." Red said, her face going grim. Domina thought back to day in the Diamond authority's citadel.

"And really Blue" Yellow had said. "You're going to believe one desperate gem's attempts to save her shards from being scattered across the floor?"

"No not one, twelve." Blue had been seething. "Twelve separate gems, all found to be members of this 'New Rebellion', all have implied that you know something."

And then after... after she had sent Pink away there had been the message about a jet that was relinquishing her...

"Oh shards." Domina muttered. The eyes in the room turned towards her and she took a deep breath. "I... Jet her-" Mauve spoke up for the first time since they had sat.

"The time for blame is long past White Diamond." Mauve said, Domina flinched slightly but calmed when she saw Mauves 3 eyes staring back at her from slightly parted bangs. "Events have been pushed into motion and the only way is forward."

"Do you always speak so dramatically?" Yellow Diamond said dryly.

"Yes." Mauve said with a smile, leaning back into her chair.

"...Anyway, we think that Jet has managed to recruit at least 5 other gems, that would be the only way she would be able to pull of these levels of plans." Red finished awkwardly. Blue nodded.

"Is there any kind of count on how many gems have been lost in...the last 6 months I suppose?" Domina asked.

"There was some kind of purge on homeworld, I think what happened is Blue Diamond tightened the acceptability standards for gems." Feldspar said.

"Of course she did." Yellow Diamond muttered rubbing her hand against her temples.

"Yes so reports are... not good." Red said.

"So we have no clue who is going to be left." Pink said frowning. Feldspar nodded.

"Anyone visibly defected was harvested or shattered, and the same to anyone who remained openly loyal to you two." She said. Domina nodded solemnly, she needed to find the gems who made it from the fleet, there had to be more out there. Yellow Diamond next to her pursed her lips and looked away.

"Well, it's not like we weren't already in a resource crisis." She said, then folded her arms and looked at Domina.

"So, it looks like you've got us in a good position to negotiate." Domina said forcing down her anger and sadness. "What ideas do you have?" Domina could see the other 4 turn to blue who was looking much more nervous than she had moments before.

"We..." Blue Pearl said staring at the floor, she looked up, to a spot at Yellow Diamonds right. Where Yellow Pearl always stood. Then she took another breath and began again.

"We started this rebellion because we saw... the truth that the Crystal Gems had led with." Blue Pearl said, she wasn't staring at the table anymore, now she was looking at both of them. Domina smiled encouragingly, she had heard a little about the New Rebellion before but this sounded more like a full story. "That we could become more than the purpose we had been programmed with. That the caste system hurt the Diamonds as much as it did Pearls." Yellow Diamond snorted and Domina elbowed her. That much was true even if Yellow wouldn't agree.

"And we thought that if we moved carefully that it could be settled without an entire planet being wiped out." Blue Pearl said, she smiled ruefully "Of course, this isn't exactly the situation I thought would happen but..."

"But, it will do." Pearl said.

"And I don't think we're going to get a better time." Domina said encouragingly, she then glanced at Yellow with a smile. "Unless of course Yellow's planning a secret coup behind my and Blue's back." Yellow looked at her unamused.

"I've been too busy." She said.

"Something we will have to talk about at some point." Domina said, she turned back to blue. "So what are your ideas?"

"Well, what you said yourself, to me and to Yellow." Blue said. "Pearls are the same as any other gem, they are capable of doing tasks they haven't been created for. Pink say's that in your section of the fleet there were many occasions of gems working outside their intended roles."

"And you want to do that with all gems?" Yellow said. "Just throw everything out the nearest airlock and let everyone do what they want?" Domina frowned at her.

"Don't over react. There's already qualifying tests for peridots who want to become kindergarteners. We just... expand that." She said.

"Well it's not going to be over night!" Yellow said.

"It doesn't have to be." Red said quickly "After all the caste system wasn't always this way." Yellow paused and after a long moment looked at Red.

"Who told you that? You're far too young to remember before... the empire." She said. Red blushed and muttered something about doing a lot of reading.

"It won't be done overnight." Domina agreed, "And there's a lot of existing laws that will need rewritten, or thrown out and replaced but..." She smiled and looked at them collectively. "I assume you all will want a part in that."

"We thought you'd never ask." Feldspar said. Domina chuckled and looked at Blue, relieved and now visibly, elated, at Yellow, nervous but determined, and then at Pink, relaxed and proud.

"I'd hate to do it alone."

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