And now the conclusion...

With that ominous prediction out in the open, the nine Crystal Gems rushed forward and entered the fray. While none of them ever imagined they would be actively fighting Steven instead of merely sparring with him, they all knew they could not go through with this.

As the supercharged hybrid's massacre of his orange foe continued, he was briefly overwhelmed by the charge. The gems bombarded him from every angle to the point where even his heightened reflexes were pushed to their limits. When one of them did manage to land a hit, though, they quickly found that the crystalline look of his body was not for show. The blows barely fazed him as if they were genuinely hitting a wall. The downside was that this wall could then throw up bubble shields to force them back and truly make hitting him impossible.

"What the?!" gasped Jasper as she saw Garnet and Bismuth try to push Steven back, "Why are you-?!"

She was quickly answered, though, by Pearl striking her several times with her spear and forcing her to put up her defenses again.

"We are not your allies now. We are only doing this because we know Steven can't stomach the thought of taking a life. Mark my words, I will personally make you suffer for crippling Connie like that, you disgraceful piece of schist."

With her venomous tone leaving no room for doubt, the Kindergarten was filled with a three-way brawl between Jasper trying to escape back to the warp pad, the transformed Steven looking to avenge his best friend and the other Crystal Gems trying to both hold off the latter while also downing the former.

Steven, much to his family's chagrin, was putting all their training to excellent use as he wove in and out of fights. While he was definitely at a numbers disadvantage, the versatility and spontaneity of his multiple weapons combined with his drastically heightened abilities made him a walking force of nature. Everything from throwing the Crystal Gems into each other, switching weapons on a dime to catch them off-guard or simply leaping over them so he could once again attack Jasper.

The sole Homeworld gem in the fray was not defenseless, though, as her being suddenly healed by Steven meant all her previous injuries were gone. Combined with the life-or-death stakes of the fight, Jasper knew she had no choice but to retreat back to the Diamonds where there would be several million lightyears between her and the now-murderous leader of the Crystal Gems. The only problem was the ten foes standing between her and her goal with all of them wanting her head on a pike.

The Off-Colors, meanwhile, were no longer keeping an eye on the radar for any invading vessels. The idea of this being the beginning of some larger plan was all but written-off. Instead, all four of them were watching the anarchy that was going on beneath them as the massive brawl raged on.

"This is getting insane! What are they all doing down there?!" shouted Rhodonite as she watched Steven fling Amethyst into the air like a ragdoll.

"It looks like they all want to beat Jasper…" speculated Rutile's left head.

"…But Steven's fighting everyone, too!" finished her right head.

"Duck, Captain Topaz!" warned Padparadscha, futilely hoping her predictions would somehow help.

"They need us," stated Fluorite, "Before this gets worse."

"But…Captain Topaz said-" warned Rhodonite, but the much larger fusion cut her off.

"We know this isn't a trap. They'd have sprung it by now."

"She's got a point. Why would they let Jasper get clobbered like that before?" added Rutile's right head.

"But none of us know how to fight hand-to-hand except…" spoke the left head as she looked towards the sweating Rhodonite.

"O-Oh boy…"

"Don't worry, we'll be fine up here. But they need you more," Fluorite spoke with all the confidence she could muster. The four-armed fighter felt her knees shake, but also knew she was the only viable option. Before she could fully question her sanity, she slammed the button on the bridge to open up the bay doors and leapt out into the roaring winds to the battle below.

Peridot and Bismuth tried to double team Steven, the former using some metal plundered from the desolate machines around her while the latter launched a direct attack, but almost everything they tried was dodged. Everything else was actually redirected back at one of the other gems around them. This meant Amethyst got a face-full of metal plating as she was trying to hold off an oncoming Jasper meaning now she took a spin-dash with her guard down.

"Watch where you put that stuff, Peri!" admonished her partner, "The last thing you want is to give him an advantage!"

"Not like I have much of a choice! His reflexes are unreal!"

"We just have to dogpile him!" said Topaz as she charged in. The wild hybrid saw their attack a mile away and summoned his shield to intercept. Before they clashed, though, the yellow tank split into her two components and ran alongside him before laying into him, each wielding a smaller but crushing mace. The strategy seemed to work at first as their dual attack put him on edge, quickly trying to dissect this new tactic.

It was the perfect opportunity for an ambush and Pearl saw to use it. Moving with a lethal silence developed after centuries of training, she lunged right at her pupil with her spear poised to strike his heart. The maneuver worked, albeit with less definite results. What should have been a fatal blow to almost any other opponent only succeeded in mildly annoying him as her weapon clanged against Steven's rock-hard body. With a crushing backhand Pearl was sent flying right into, conveniently enough, Jasper making her umpteenth attempt at a bid for freedom.

After recovering from the hit, she bolted past Lapis trying to knock her down with her aquatic fists, only to find Garnet lobbing fireballs at her. While gems could not suffer the same internal damage from burns as humans, any one of those projectiles would still hurt enough for her to almost wish to be poofed again. Jasper danced backwards, trying to keep an eye out for any potential threats besides the enraged fusion, until the warp pad was only thirty feet away. With freedom in her grasp, she turned her back as she made one final sprint towards her goal.

That changed, however, when one half of Topaz slammed into her from the side like a ton of bricks after being thrown by Steven. The bulky gems tried to regain their footing, only to be paralyzed as they saw Steven conjure a pink whip in one hand and a matching spear in the air. In a literal flash he brought the two together and formed a five-foot tall bow with an energy arrow materializing on the string. Both gems scrambled out of the way as he let the shot go, the arrow quickly turning into ten that made several small craters in the ground.

The other half of Topaz tried to blindside him with a blow to the head, but instead he separated the weapons in an instant and lashed her arm with the whip while tripping her legs with the spear. The defensive gem lost her weapon and was face-first on the ground in one fell swoop. Steven then knelt down and grabbed Topaz by the scruff of her neck, her match charging forward in a frenzy to save her…

…Before Rhodonite, to the complete surprise of everyone, fell right on top of Steven with her sword drawn! With all the momentum of her fall behind her, the four-armed fighter managed a direct hit with enough force to not only free Topaz, but also make Steven show the first real injury in the fight. Her sword was embedded straight in his back with several cracks surrounding it. The seemingly invulnerable fighter let out a hoarse scream as pain racked his new body for the first time and fell to the ground with the blade comically sticking out of him.

As he laid there, the Kindergarten was silent save for the occasional breeze. Rhodonite approached him, her old anxiety quickly rising back to the surface as she stared at his fallen form.

"I-I-I-I-Is h-h-he… D-D-D-Did I-I…"

"Relax, Rhodonite," advised Garnet as she walked up next to her with her shades off, "He'll be fine. He's taken worse hits than that before he was like this."

"Granted, since this form is something we've never seen before, we'll have to keep him under constant observation to monitor his condition," warned Peridot, "But at the very least, this whole debacle is finally over."

"Yeah… It's a shame he went berserk like that, though," sighed Amethyst.

"What do you mean?" asked Lapis.

"If he could do that anytime, imagine what he'd be like against Homeworld! He would be the biggest butt-kicker ever!"

"There's no doubt about that," agreed Pearl, "But for now, we need to get him home and wait for him to recover."

"Plus, I'm not sure I ever wanna see him like that again," grumbled Bismuth, "Sure, he's an amazing fighter like this, but he went completely insane from it! I spent several thousand years in a bubble for acting the same way!"

"He almost shot Topaz!" screeched the left-gemmed half of the fusion as she cradled her partner in her arms, "He is NEVER doing this again! Never!"

"Now there's just one last thing to take care of…" muttered Lapis as she and the other Crystal Gems circled Jasper, cornering her against the canyon wall. The once-fearsome bruiser was literally backed into a corner, desperately scanning for a way out.

As they closed in, Rhodonite moved to reclaim her sabre from Steven's body. She removed it in one quick pull, but freeing her weapon was not the only effect. The cracks in Steven's form instantly began to heal and in only seconds, the damage was completely gone. The transformed boy leapt high into the sky and summoned a bubble around him.

"What the heck?!" shouted Cinnabar, clearly taken aback by his recovery.

"Everybody run!" panicked Bismuth as Steven rocketed himself downward right towards Jasper. The trained soldier, though, quickly took the opportunity his distraction gave him and made a beeline for the warp pad. Steven missed her by several feet, but the massive shockwave he made was enough to send her face-first into the dirt.

"Wonderful," droned Adamite, "His healing factor has also been enhanced. At this rate, nothing short of a weapon of mass destruction could stop him."

"Wait, that's it!" realized Pearl, "The Sun Incinerator, couldn't its blasters take him out?"

"Doubtful," admitted the now-fused Topaz, "With a shield like that around him, he'd just shrug off whatever we use on him and then knock the ship of the sky!"

"Alright, we need to be a unified team here," ordered Garnet, "There are nine gems here and only two of them. Five of us need to corral Steven before he gets out of hand while the rest work on bubbling Jasper. We can't let her get away or else she'll just stay on Homeworld where we can't touch her."

As the unofficial meeting ended, the gems dashed to where they felt they were needed most. Topaz and Pearl joined Amethyst, Lapis and Bismuth in stopping Steven. That left Adamite and Garnet to help Cinnabar and Rhodonite in taking down Jasper.

The former group took Garnet's strategy in stride by not giving the raging Steven a moment to breathe, constantly throwing something new in his way so he would have to put all his effort into stopping them instead of finding a route to Jasper. Since he had trained in this exact same scenario several times before, though, they found he was able to keep up disturbingly well with their bombardment. Lapis tried divebombing him from above, Bismuth would constantly switch up the shape of her hands, Topaz continually split up and re-fused to throw him off, Amethyst made liberal use of her super speed to trip him up and Pearl even tried a more direct fighting style emphasizing thrusts over swings. Even with all this on top of the numbers advantage, Steven's already impressive defenses with his shield and bubbles combined with his ludicrously enhanced strength and dexterity meant he was far from overwhelmed.

Thankfully, the other group was having more luck with Jasper. While she may have been fully healed from her first thrashing from Steven, exhaustion was once again setting in and now she had four hostile opponents now with the sole focus of defeating her. Between Adamite's cunning use of terrakinesis, Cinnabar's endless supply of flames, Garnet's already impressive hand-to-hand skills and Rhodonite's swordplay she was in a precarious position. It took every ounce of her inherent warrior instinct, her top-notch reflexes and the occasional bout of luck for her to stay alive.

The fights were not mutually exclusive, though, as the Crystal Gems had to often switch places in order to keep the two apart. A particularly hard hit from Steven sent Amethyst flying, but Garnet jumped in before the rampaging hybrid could get closer to Jasper. A nasty blow from the Homeworld gem, though, briefly knocked Peridot unconscious and thus Lapis had to pick up the slack.

As time wore on, however, Steven never seemed to slow down as he pushed the Gems harder and harder until even they were now struggling to even remotely stand up to him. Little by little, he grew closer to Jasper, the exact thing the Crystal Gems were looking to avoid for the boy's sake, when Garnet came up with a risky idea. After managing to actually knock Steven down with a kick below the belt, she pulled Amethyst and Pearl aside.

"We need to fuse, now!"

"What?!" gasped Pearl, "Isn't that too extreme?"

"Dude is it that serious?" gawked Amethyst.

"I wouldn't suggest it if we had another choice, but right now we don't!"

"Guys, we need help!" exclaimed Lapis as she had to resort to grabbing Jasper by the arms and flinging her away to keep both her and Steven occupied.

"Quick, now's our chance!"

Realizing they were getting nowhere with their current approach, the main trio formed a loose triangle and went through their fusion dance as quickly as physically possible. The three turned into amorphous blobs of light recognizable only by their stones until they began to reshape themselves and grow exponentially. Their plan worked as Steven finally turned his attention away from Jasper and onto the massive six-armed fusion of his three childhood guardians.

"Steven, that's enough," spoke Alexandrite. Her voice may have been a whisper, but it carried more power than a hurricane. Even still, Steven was not intimidated and turned his back to her. He was forced to look at her again, though, as she suddenly appeared in front of him thanks to Amethyst's super speed. His expression finally changed, a slight show of surprise, but his serious demeanor returned when the titanic woman threw all three of her right hands in one punch.

The boy was literally sent flying halfway across the Kindergarten with what sounded like a sonic boom, the other Crystal Gems having to dodge his rocketing form, until he finally regained his footing. Steven was unperturbed, however, and leapt over the shorter canyon walls around him to leap up to high ground. With such an opponent, he felt he would need as much space as possible.

Alexandrite, again much to his surprise, had already beaten him to the punch and stood there with none other than Jasper held tight in one of her hands.

"If you want her, then you fight me."

With a simple squeeze of the fusion's hand, Jasper was poofed once again and her gemstone was placed in the safety of her massive head of green hair. Steven's stalwart expression remained as he charged headfirst at his new, utterly massive opponent with his signature shield drawn. Alexandrite merely stood there as the incensed boy leapt at her, waiting until he was a foot away before swatting him away with a backhand. She missed, however, as Steven suddenly leapt in mid-air and dodged several more strikes until he was staring the colossus in the eye. He launched himself forward with another floating jump and tried to ram two shields right in her face. Instead, her second mouth suddenly opened and let out a massive stream of flames.

Even with his crystalline body ensuring he would not be roasted to cinders, he still felt searing pain from the blast and was forced to return to ground level with a protective bubble around him. Alexandrite took the opportunity to charge, every step of hers causing small tremors in the ground, and summoned Sardonyx's hammer. She sent it slamming not into Steven himself, but into the ground near him so he would be catapulted skyward. The plan worked and the boy launched several feet by the massive quake, but then countered by summoning a whip and latching onto Alexandrite's foot. He used the momentum of the swing around her legs and try tying her up, but he was stopped when her bottom-right hand summoned a spear and smacked him away.

Steven barely got a moment to breathe, however, when Alexandrite dashed over and punched him hard enough to leave a several-foot long trench in the ground.

"That's enough!" yelled Alexandrite with more force.

"MAKE ME!" roared Steven with inhuman ferocity, his already deepened voice a guttural growl.

With a whip in one hand and his shield in another, he plowed straight into her with enough velocity behind him to push the fusion back a few inches. He then seamlessly merged his weapons into a yo-yo and proceeded to deflect every blow Alexandrite sent at him. Despite her having six arms and far greater physical strength than any of his individual opponents, he managed to block every single swing she sent using the massive toy on one arm and his trademark shield on the other. She only managed to gain the upper hand when a massive blast of cold from all three of her right hands and forced him to dodge or be frozen solid.

With more space between them, Alexandrite went on the offensive by copying Amethyst's strategy of using super speed to circle around her and slashing at him over and over again with whips. Instead of one weapon, however, she conjured three and put up a lashing so severe even Steven's body gained visible scratches. It only stopped when he finally summoned a bubble around himself and gave himself enough time to heal. It also gave Alexandrite time to literally pick up the bubble and press against it with all her might, causing her aching opponent inside to strain his powers to the limit to avoid it popping.

As the game of keeping each other outwitted continued, Alexandrite suddenly stopped pressing and instead chucked Steven and his bubble away like tossing a ball. The second she released, the shield came down and the hybrid recovered quickly as he dodged Sugilite's flail being suddenly swung at him by pushing himself downwards. He hit the ground literally running as he and Alexandrite readied for another clash. The former readied a spear in each hand while the latter brought out a pair of gauntlets on her middle set of hands. The two met with enough force to cause a crater underneath them to form as their weapons struggled against each other. Neither one gained much ground as the remaining Crystal Gems watched the ensuing feud from the other side of the Kindergarten.

"Holy cow…" gaped Lapis, awestruck and horrified by the scale of the battle.

"It's a genuine shame," lamented Adamite, "Steven wields such incredible power in that form, but his mental state is so unstable that it's eroded all sense of reason. If only he could access it without losing himself."

"As much as I agree with that statement," admitted Peridot, "I would also accept this being a one-time thing. I'd rather not have a rampaging half-gem capable of effortlessly demolishing our entire force running loose the next time he loses his temper."

"Agreed," grumbled Topaz, "That's not the Steven I ever want to see again."

"Have you considered that you are taking this affair a bit too personally?" asked Adamite. She immediately regretted that as the stocky gem gave a glare so harsh it could cut through solid stone.

"Guys, what can we do?" asked Cinnabar, "There's gotta be some way to get Steven to back down!"

"W-Well…" stuttered Rhodonite, "I'd like to help here, but…"

"I get it," finished Bismuth, "You know you'd just get in the way. I can't stand that feeling either, but I've learned you've gotta back off at some point. If you don't…You might do something really stupid."

With that somber thought on their minds, they turned back to the fight. Alexandrite managed to knock Steven away, but the boy immediately recovered and made another leap straight for the fusion's face. She sent a pair of fists hurtling at him, but he managed to use the limbs as steppingstones to propel himself higher and actually got above her. That did not last long, though, as Alexandrite took a single leap and propelled herself several hundred feet into the sky. She then summoned Opal's bow and readied an enormous energy arrow.

"This ends now!" she proclaimed as she fired, only for Steven to resolutely summon a bubble in order to protect himself from the barrage. What he could not stop, however, was Alexandrite catapulting herself right towards him like a massive meteorite. The crater made from her landing made the last one look pitiful by comparison at over thirty feet deep and twenty feet around. Alexandrite was unharmed, but Steven was clearly dazed from the blow as he was groaning while being held down by all six of his opponent's hands to ensure he could not get away in case he got a third wind.

Steven tried to struggle, tried to think of any way out of the situation, but he drew blanks. He could summon a bubble to break her grip, but fatigue was finally catching up with him. He had no idea how long he had been battling for, but even his newfound power had a limit. Combine that with the fact that Alexandrite seemed more stable than ever and he realized he had no choice but to concede. This caused another swell of hatred and loathing to surge through him.

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" he screamed in absolute fury, "WHY ARE YOU PROTECTING HER?! CONNIE COULD BE DEAD!"

The shock of hearing this new Steven finally speak multiple sentences subsided quickly, though, and Alexandrite answered.

"We know, Steven. What Jasper did was inexcusable, and we will deal with her. But Garnet saw what you would do. You were planning on shattering her."

"AND THAT'S A BAD THING?!"

"Yes, Steven. We agree that Jasper must face the consequences of her crimes, but you shouldn't have to dirty your hands for it."

"I'M A CRYSTAL GEM TOO! I SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN ALL THIS!"

"True, but you didn't give your say. You went straight for shattering and when we tried to handle the matter differently, you attacked us. We all understand you're upset and angry, but that doesn't give you the right to annihilate anyone you feel like in a frenzy!"

With that cutting remark, Steven's retort died in his throat. He stopped his futile struggling and his eyes closed, his crystalline form looking remarkably peaceful compared to his earlier outrage. With her foe finally defeated, Alexandrite quickly defused back into the main trio of Crystal Gems who looked at the fallen Steven with a mix of confusion, anxiety and relief.

"Man… That was nuts," breathed Amethyst in between breaths, "He really… Knows what he's doin'…"

"Understatement of the millennia," griped Pearl, "I'm still baffled where he learned half of these things!"

"Either way, it's over now. We'll bubble Jasper so she won't cause any more trouble, then take Steven home."

"Guys?" asked Lapis, flying over them, "Is it finally over? How's Steven?"

"He's more than likely unconscious," answered Pearl, "And we have no idea how long he'll be in this…gem-form for, but at the very least he's finally stopped going berserk. It's safe now."

Lapis flew off to tell the others the news. In a few minutes, the other remaining Crystal Gems gathered around the unconscious boy. They stared at him in mostly shock, but also a touch of awe.

"Incredible…" mumbled Peridot, "His body seems to be entirely made of his gemstone. It could take me months to fully comprehend his physiology now, but this is something unreal."

"Can you bring him back to normal?" asked Topaz.

"It's a mystery. I'm literally dealing with a one-of-a-kind specimen with no chance of being replicated. It's obvious the transformation was triggered by emotional trauma, but that's all I have to go on from this point."

"If only he could retain his rationale like this," pondered Adamite with a hand on her chin, "Then he would easily be able to handle anything Homeworld throws at him shy of an interplanetary weapon of mass destruction."

"I think I'd rather have the old Steven back…" moped Cinnabar, "I mean I thought I was crazy, but at least I know who my friends are."

"He was just emotionally overwrought, that's all," assured Garnet, "After all, he was capable of reasoning once he saw there was no way to fight his way out."

Amethyst casually reached into her hair to find the Jasper's gem tangled inside. She stared at the lifeless orange stone for a moment, pitying her distant "sister" and how she refused to let go of her grudge. How she could have become an ally if she only made the right choices…

…Until the unconscious Steven sent a glob of saliva right at the gemstone before any of them, even Garnet, could react. Jasper's stone began to glow as her body was once again forced to reform and Steven stood up, right as rain and his face still set in a cold grimace. Once Jasper was restored, a look of genuine terror quickly appearing when she realized what had happened, she immediately leapt out of the crater and ran for the hills.

She got twenty feet away before Steven leapt out of the crater with enough force to scatter the other gems and slammed her into the ground. He summoned a gauntlet on one hand while the other gripped her neck, clearly aiming for a killing blow to her gem.

"STEVEN, STOP!" shouted Lapis as she rocketed towards him on her wings with enough speed to catch him off-guard. The two tumbled for a bit in the grass before coming to a stop. Seeing an ample opportunity, Garnet shot a beam of ice from her hand straight at Jasper. She was frozen instantly and rendered completely immobile.

Steven saw this and got back up, the gauntlet still around his hand, and glared right at his frozen foe. Lapis, however, stood between them with her arms spread.

"Steven, please listen to me!" she begged, "You don't have to do this! You don't have to be like her!"

That statement confused him, though the only sign was his fist lowering slightly.

"I know exactly what Jasper would do in this situation, Steven. She'd shatter anyone who stops her mission with no hesitation, even if they did nothing wrong. I spent months fused with her as Malachite. I know her better than anyone, and I know you never want to be like her."

Now Steven's fist was down at his side and his guard seemed to be lowering.

"All that time she only thought about revenge. She blamed you and the Crystal Gems for separating her from Homeworld, every day struggling to break out of the ocean and destroy you. And all that time, all I could do was push back and stop her. I tried reasoning with her at first, but she just beat revenge into my head even harder until I finally gave up. She never changed, Steven. Isn't that sad?"

Lapis started to hover closer to him as she continued. "You wanna know the really scary part, Steven? I actually agreed with her at the end. I blamed the other Crystal Gems for putting me in that stupid mirror, and eventually I started to think like she did. I realized just how strong Malachite was and how I could finally be free like that… Even if it meant hurting you."

Now she was only a few inches from him, staring right into his glassy eyes.

"You were the one who never gave up on me, Steven. Even after I stole the entire ocean, you knew I wasn't bad. Even when I accidentally ratted you out to Homeworld and brought Jasper here to begin with, you still wanted to save me. Even when I literally attacked you as Malachite, you wanted to make sure I was safe once I was back to normal. That's the Steven I know and love, the kid who showed me nothing but kindness even when I royally screwed up. You don't have to be violent and cruel like Jasper."

She placed her arms around his shoulders, shocked by how cold and callous his crystalline body felt. "Please Steven, we understand how you feel. We know you're scared for your friend and you want to make sure Jasper doesn't hurt her or anyone else ever again… But there are ways of doing it that don't involve sinking to her level or turning against us. You've done your best to help everyone you've met so far. Why stop now?"

Steven finally reciprocated the hug as he felt a few tears drip down his chest. He just now realized he was several feet taller than Lapis now, having to look down at her to see her watery eyes. She smiled at him, clearly relieved that he had finally calmed down…

…Before Steven suddenly pushed her aside into the dirt. With only a few steps he reached the frozen Jasper and, just as the rest of Crystal Gems climbed out of the crater, he summoned a gauntlet and aimed right for Jasper's gem. The ice gave way like paper under the blow and barely slowed him down until he reached his target. With a deafening crack, Jasper's gem split into multiple pieces. The rest of the ice still stood, but the gem within blinked out of existence.

Steven stood there, a malicious, triumphant smile on his face until he noticed something. His hand was shaking. He was briefly puzzled, having barely felt a thing from the impact, before his mind caught up with him. All he could think about before now was seeing Connie brutally injured before him, but now he finally grasped everything that happened. Him attacking Jasper, forcing her to reform once she was beaten, then beating up the other Crystal Gems when they tried to stop him. They even had to use Alexandrite to stop him, but even that failed since he lied to and manipulated them all so he could keep fighting! And now he looked down at the pile of orange shards, now fallen to the bottom of the ice block thanks to the sudden unoccupied space, and felt his whole body convulse.

The Crystal Gems watched how he was once again consumed with pink light, only the process went in reverse as his body shrunk back to its original size before the brightness receded back into his gem. The boy that had only a few minutes ago was utterly destroying them in combat was now curled into a ball sobbing his eyes out. Pearl simply picked him up and cradled him in her arms like a mother holding her child as he continued crying. He tried to mutter apologies as best as he could through his hysteria, but the gem merely shushed him and told him to relax. Garnet fished the remains of Jasper out of the ice and bubbled them, somehow feeling responsible for disposing of the mess. The rest of them merely walked back to the warp pad, completely silent despite the plethora of things they needed to discuss now.

Annnnnd...Done. Hope you all enjoyed reading that as much as I loved creating it! Almost two years in the making and now it's reality! Next time, though, it's time to start unpacking all of this.

Thank you all so much for reading! Please feel free to leave a review!