Spoilers for a Single Pale Rose. Whelp, the show reveled that Rose Quartz and Pink Diamond were the same person. I always planned for that to be the cause but the show bet me to the punch. So I'm moving up the reveal to this chapter, at least for the audience. Steven will learn the truth, a little differently than in canon. But that comes later.

Pink Diamond looked at herself in the mirror. She adjusted her shoulder pads and checked her hair. "Pearl, how do I look?"

Her Pearl approached. Like her master, she was all pink. She wore a pink leotard with a hole cut out for her gem which shone brilliantly at the center of her stomach. A sheare dress hung from her hips to the floor. "You shine brighter than all the other gems in the empire."

Pink's grin covered her face. A loud bang rang came from the door. "Oh, they're coming. Pearl, get the rose petals."

"My Diamond, I don't think that would be the best idea. The other Diamonds…" Before she could finish, Pink Diamond blew a raspberry right in her face. Pink Pearl's face was pelited by Pink Diamond's spit. She pulled a handkerchief from her gem and wiped the spit off her face.

"They'll love it. Now get in position."

Pink Pearl sighed. "Very well, My Diamond."

Pink Diamond took her place on her throne. Instead of sitting upright, she laid sprawled out, her feet hanging over the armrest. "Come in," Pink said in her loudest voice. Pink Pearl rained down rose petals on Pink Diamond.

The doors creaked opened. In stepped the grand ruler of Homeworld. "White!" Pink sat up. "I was expecting Blue, maybe Yellow…"

"What is this?" White was not much for chit chat. She was tall, even taller than either Blue or Yellow. So, she towered over Pink. Her gem shined in the center of her forehead. White of course brought her Pearl. Unlike the other Diamond's Pearls who wore simply leotards, White's wore a elegant dress, Pink bottom, yellow center, blue poofy sleeves, and a white collar. Like all Pearls, she shared her owners gem location, her forehead.

"Uhm, my zoo."

White blinked. "What?"

"It's my zoo," Pink said proudly.

"What is is for?"

"Uhm…," White was looking down at the rose petals with clear disguste on her face. Pink Diamond made a cutting motion against her throat. Instead of stopping, Pearl increased the amount of petals. Pink Diamond made the cutting motion faster. Pearl just dumped the basket of her head. Pink removed the basket and with as much dignity said, "It's where I keep the humans I've captured."

"Captured?"

"Yeah, my spoilers of war. I'll show you." Pink lead White out of the throne room into a hall with a large glass wall. On the other side of the glass, there was a tropical beach. Several humans could be seen. "Tada." Pink Diamond shouted.

White was silent for a few moments. "Pink what's the point of this place?"

"It's to keep my humans…"

"But why are the humans still alive? Why are you here instead of the moonbase?"

"They're my spoilers of war. Prisoners I've captured. And that moonbase was so drab…"

"War?" White cut her off aggressively. "We didn't send you to play war with the humans. We sent you to perform pest control."

Pink fell back a bit. "But the humans! They could talk! They could think! They could fight!"

"Fight? They're walking sacks of meat. They can't fight."

"They've built weapons!" Pinked turned to her Pearl. "Pearl, bring the weapon." She left and came back with a long box and handed it to Pink. She opened the box. "Behold!"

White looked down. Her face remained unimpressed. "It's a stick."

"It's a spear."

"A pointy stick." White slammed the box shut. Pink dropped the box with a loud clang. "How close are the quartz's are from emerging?"

"Well you know that Kindergartens ta-take time," Pink stuttered.

White leaned in close enough to Pink to touch her face. "How much more time do you need?"

"Just a few more centuries…" Pink was barely audible, looking down at the floor.

A cold fury was grabbing hold of White. "How long ago did you built them?"

"I uh, haven't technically built them yet," Pink mumbled; putting her index fingers together repeatedly.

"Haven't built them yet." White stood up. Her voice filled with complete contemp.

"But. But, I've have scouted several key locations that would…"

"You have been colonizing the Earth for two hundred years and you haven't even started on the Kindergartens!" White summoned her weapon. A giant sword, half her length. Brilliantly all white. She slammed it into the ground, cracking the floor.

White Diamond was now towering over Pink. "Enough of this nonsense. You begged and pleaded for a chance to run your own colony. And now that you have, you have wasted time on frivolous pursuits." White gustered to the room about them. "You will return to Earth and end this. No more games, no more zoo. Do your damn job."

"Yes White."

"And to make sure that you stick to your duties Pearl will stay and be my eyes and ears."

White Pearl looked up to White Diamond. "Me?"

White Diamonds ignored her. She grabbed the hilt of her sword, which drapperated. "Pink, do not fail me again." And with that, she left.

White Pearl turned to her new Gem. "It will be an honor to severe…"

"Shove it," Pink Diamond hissed. "I don't need a babysitter. White thinks she can just trample all over me. I'll show her. I'll do more than make a kindergarten. I'll... I'll make a new gem. A super gem. Stronger and more powerful than any other gem that came before it."

Stevonnie awoke with a start. They immediately broke apart back into Steven and Connie. Steven looked up at Ronaldo, Amethyst, and Peridot all assembled at the barn. "Steven, are you all right? You were screaming pretty bad there."

"Yeah, it was just Pink throwing a fit," Steven replied. "Why am I seeing Pink Diamond's memories?"

Ronaldo opened his mouth to speak but closed after Amethyst gave him a look and a curt head shake.

"Maybe it's just one of those things," Amethyst told him. "You saw the inside of Blue's head once right?"

"Yeah, but that was because Blue was on Earth. Anyway, than I saw the present. Pink's shattered and I'm seeing the past."

Peridot chipped in. "Maybe her shards are still on Earth. Luck the chest. Any luck opening it?"

Steven shook his head. Part of him was glad that they hadn't been able to open the chest. The last thing in Lion he opened was Bismuth's bubble. And Bismuth tried to kill him.

Pink Pearl was putting on makeup. One had to look her best when on a date. Mr. Stone walked into her room. "Is this whole thing really necessary?"

"I told you, Miss Jane has an on and off relationship with one Ronaldo Fryman, son of a local food proprietor owner and confidant to one Steven Universe. Control her, and we have an in."

"Than why not seduce a girl who actually live in beach city? Like the twins who work at the Pizza shop or that donut girl."

Pearl let herself sigh. "Because the are too close to the temple. They know the renegade by sight. Might set off a few alarm bells in a doppelganger tries to seduce them." She turned back to the mirror. She puffed up her lips and began to apply the lipstick. She was reminded of her old Diamond, Pink. Stupid and childish, Pearl stood by helplessly while she ran a civil war against herself. Her in her "secret" identity Rose Quartz. She laughed when she faked her own death. What an idiot. What did she except the other Diamonds to do. Leave the Earth? The memory made her smile. Pearl was looking forward to having some fun with him.

Douglas was looking at some of Steven's old medical records. Being a human gem hybrid, no one was sure what to expect. So, they had set up a private clinic for Steven. It was a few miles away from Beach enough that Greg could take Steven there easily but secluded enough that it provided them with a nice bit of privacy. They ran blood tests, x-rays, the works on Steven. And even then the doctors couldn't quite figure out how Steven works. The doctors were convinced he wouldn't be able to shapeshift and were shocked to discover he can do so. And that's not getting into their reaction to Stevonnie.

The Crystal Gems were hiding stuff from him. And he did not appreciate that. So, he was digging up anything that gave him an itch. Eventually he found what he was looking for. He called his colleague. "Did you read the report on that human zoo?"

The colleague popped his head in the door. "Yeah."

"Do you remember when Mr. Universe and Steven find that room full of bubbled Rose Quartzs?"

"Yeah."

"How did they describe them?"

"Round with a double sided cut. Much like Amethyst's."

Douglas put a x-ray onto the desk. "Then why does Steven's have a point?"