Steven woke up to Thomas' whistle. He had just been on has island as a watermelon Steven where he saw Malachite fighting with Alexandrite on mask island. Leading to Malachite unfused and the warp pad being destroyed.
"If you're done just lying there, maybe it's about time that we stop the world from ending!" Peridot shouted getting to Thomas' cab before asking "Where are the others?" "They're stuck on Mask Island. We have to drill without them!" Steven said.
"Ugh! Am I the only one who understands the meaning of teamwork?!" Peridot exclaimed. She then went face to face with Steven "Steven, are you ready to drill down into the planet to depths never before reached by your species to stop the Cluster before it forms and save your world?!"
"I don't know!""Don't say that! Say we'll do it together and it's gonna be great!" "We're gonna do it together and it's gonna be great!""Liar!" Peridot then slaped Steven and then the ground then shake violently again. "If you two are done freaking out we have a world to save!" Thomas shouted.
"Your right, we have a mission." Peridot said starting the drill. The drill moved up then sticed down. Taking Thomas down with it "Alright. Bracing for impact." Steven said" "it's actually two more hours to the cluster." Peridot corrected. "Oh. Wish I'd brought some tunes." Peridot turns on some elevator music. "Uh, thanks."
The three are silent for some time as the drill continues to move further down. Steven's eyes are filled with anguish as he watches the layers of rock pass them. He shuts his eyes tightly and shakes his head, he then talks to Peridot as a distraction.
"It's kinda... freaky down here, huh?" Steven said "Why's that?" Peridot asked "It's just dark, and cramped... Ngah, I can't even, gah, stretch out." there then was a small tremor leading to Thomas shaking. "Sorry!" Thomas said.
"How'd you think you were gonna get everyone in here anyway?" Steven asked "I don't know, they'd shrink or something. We didn't have a lot of time to plan." Peridot exclaimed "So... what is the plan? "We have a drill. We're going to drill. Get ready - we're about to penetrate the asthenosphere!" "Whoa, it's all lava!" "Lava is what comes out of volcanoes. That's super-heated peridotite."
"Peridot...ite?" asked steven " Yeah. It's made of the same stuff as peridots." "Well in that case we'd better stop for a trade in." Thomas teesd Peridots gave him a face. "You were made on Homeworld, right?" Steven asked to distract her. "Mmhm.""What was it like?".
"I didn't exist. Then I did. I don't have memories of it, just feelings. I know I can never go back to Homeworld, but it's hard. Not to have some feelings for where you came from."Peridot then faces Steven, revealing a tear welling in the corner of her left eye. She wipes it away."But it's fine! I have something different now."
"What's that?" asked Steven. "You know! You... guys." Steven smiles. Suddenly Banging was heard atop Thomas' cab. Steven fearfully looks up "What's that sound?" Steven looked over to the right to see a red hand push agents the glass.
"A gem mutant!" steven exclaimed "They must've buried some prototypes with the cluster." Peridot exclaimed "They're all over me! They're attacking the drill! What do we do?" asked Thomas. Peridot pressed a button on the panel. A weaponized CCTV camera projects from atop the cockpit, knocking a mutant off. "Pearl didn't think it was necessary." She says handing a controller to Steven. "but I never leave home without a blast cannon."
Live footage of the gem mutants is displayed on the panel as an aiming guide. Steven controls the cannon with the controller, and blasts away the gem mutants. "Something doesn't feel right about this." Steven said sadly "Then use the D-pad." Peridot said. "No, it's just... These things. We can't just leave their gems out there. They're going to form again later. If I could just bubble them, then, they'd be safe." a gem mutant arm, attempting to climb the compartment, loosens its grip and flies off. "C'mon! We've gotta help them."
"There is no helping them. They're too broken. The beings who used to be in those shards are so shattered, they don't know who they are, or what's happening around them. They just seek out other gems, looking for the missing pieces of themselves. Trying to make themselves whole." Peridot said.
A red gem mutant hand reaches out to the camera. Steven then blasts it away. "These early experiments only combine two or three shards. The cluster will be a billion times bigger. An inseparable fusion capable of destroying worlds, starting with this one."
The drill hits a layer of dense rock and starts to shake."We're hitting some denser rock! This is it!" The drill pierces the ceiling of a huge opening, and stops. Peridot looks around with mobile binoculars attached to a flashlight. "Recovery depth achieved. Target found." Peridot said
"Is that…" Steven said trailing of "The cluster." Peridot. Suddenly the cluster and its surroundings tremor. "What's happening?" Steven asked. White matter ripples and surrounds the Cluster. "it's too late! It's taking form!" Peridot exclaimed. The white matter rises up from the cluster to Thomas' drill bit.
"Steven, I'm sorry I couldn't save you or the billions of other lifeforms who matter far, far less to me." peridot say before turning left "And Thomas i'm sorry i called you a filthy war machine. Do you have any last words?!" "I love you, Peridot." Steven says before hugging Peridot. "Wow, thanks."
Thomas then shakes violently. Peridot hugs Steven back. White matter rushes upwards, surrounding the three. The lights flicker, and voices cry out from below. After a moment, the matter shapes into white hands, which brush past the threel and reside back down to their source. Peridot observes the cluster's outstretched arms thought the arms.
"It's still struggling to take its form! This means we still might have time. There's still a chance!" Peridot exclaimed moving the drill bit. "Just a little repositioning." "Peridot, I don't think we should hurt the cluster. I don't think it knows what it's doing." Steven says.
"It doesn't matter if it knows what it's doing. It's still going to do it." Peridot said. Thomas jumps down. White hands reach out from the cluster and surround the three. Steven and Peridot scream as they fall. The drill bit struggles to touch the cluster's surface against the force of the white matter, but eventually makes contact. Steven covers his face, groaning in pain.
"What? Is the increased vibration causing damage to your head holes?" Peridot asked "I don't know!" steven shouted. "We're not even piercing the crust yet!" Thomas exclaimed.
"I need to increase power! Are you going to be okay?" Peridot asked steven. "Yeah, yeah. I think it's just the noise. I think. Keep going." Steven said "Affirmative. Activating double speed!" Peridot shouted the drill bit moved faster.
Steven looks down at the cab floor. He sees flashing hallucinations of ghoulish faces floating up towards him. He gasps in shock. The drill broke began to crack. Steven watches it from the glass. "Uh Peridot." Thomas said.
"Triple speed!" Peridot exclaimed. The drill bit that began to spin faster and faster more cracks appearing until it broke. Thomas then fell on his side knocking him out. Steven looks down the window at the cluster. He sees another ghostly face. Its mouth widens in a groan as it rushes towards him. He screams and is knocked back in shock, crashing into Peridot.
"Steven! We need to get out!" Peridot shouted. "I don't understand what's happening! Argh!" Steven shouted "What's wrong?!" Peridot asked worldly "I don't know!" Steven shouted. His gem began to glow. Steven! Steven!" Peridot shouted. Steven began to sweat and pant heavily. He looks up, and again, sees a vision of ghoulish faces floating up. His seat is suspended among them, Peridot disappeared."Peridot? Peridot?" Steven gem glows and the seat dissipates. He floats into the darkness.
"Steven!" Steven woke up to Thomas in gem mode. "Uncle Thomas!" Steven exclaimed hugging him. Steven then looked around are they were. It looked like a sterile night sky. "Where are we?" he asked Thomas "I have no idea." Thomas responded. Suddenly millions of Voices echo.
"Must... Have to... Want to... Need to... Have to…" The voices said .Thomas and Steven looked around to see tons of gem shards. "Want to... Need to... Want to…" The voices continued. Steven the grabbed a blue gem shards."want to...need to…" the voice from it says
"You... want to? Want to what?" Steven asked. A strong light emits around the two and the voices cry out. "Form!" "Steven screams and covers his ears. "Please! Stop! Steven shouted "You can't form!" another voice shouted! Steven and Thomas look over to see a green figure.
"It's Peridot!" Steven shouted swimming over to the figure. "Steven wait!" Thomas shouted going after him. When they got close the figure did like peridot with her limb enhancers. Only twice as big with a head similar to Thomas' only with a taller funnel. "That's not Peridot." Steven said when he go a closer look "that's…"
"Percy!" Thomas shouted hugging the figure. Percy then started crying "I'm sorry." he said. "What for?" asked. "For putting us in the situation." "What I don't understand-" "Were in the mind of the Cluster! My creation!" Percy shouted "Don't you remember?" he asked. Percy the projected something out of his gem.
"I call it a fusion gems." past Percy says "These gems are going to be made of gem shards from shattered gems to make a completely new gem." "are you sure that's a good idea?" past Thomas ask "These are basically the remains of gems were talking about."
"Well I have to do something! The diamonds want something big for gen 2." Percy said. "Witch I also have this." Percy then holded up a globe of a planet cut in half. "I call this the Cluster. It will incubate in a planet and turn into a mega gem." Thomas just looked concerned.
"Oh!" Thomas said "See now the earth will be destroyed and it's all my fault!" "I'm sure we can-" "not we can't! The cluster is going to form!" the Cluster then shouted "FORM!" again "Have to... Want to... Need to... Must!" "Wait! Please don't take form!" the two gems look back at Steven.
The light returns and the cluster chants aggressively. "Form! Form! Want form! Want Form! Form!" Steven covers his ears. The light and chanting stops. "Maybe instead of forming you could do something else?" he suggested. The light emits again as the gem shards cry and shout. "Form!"
Steven covers his ears again. "Boy, you've sure got the one-trackiest mind I ever met." steven said try to talk to the Cluster. "Need form!" "Agh!" Steven floated back into Thomas "To be whole." "Whole?" Steven asked noticing the shard that floated past him earlier. "Oh!" he then went over to another shard.
"What's he doing?" asked Percy. "He's just being Steven." Thomas said. Steven then said "You're shards. You just wanna find the rest of your gems. But forming won't help you find the rest of yourselves. You'll just destroy the Earth!" "No. No, no. No! No." the Cluster said
"But if you wanna find other gems, there's so many of you right here! Look." he the put the shard next to another. "Shard, meet shard!" The shards started glowing as they speak. "Have to…" the first said "Want to…" the other one said "See? You already have so much to talk about." Steven said The Cluster's voices raise in commotion as they begin to speak to each other. Bubbles of light surround.
"Hi! Oh, hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Oh, hi!" the cluster said. The cluster is soon engulfed in light. "This is great! You don't even need to form. You can just stay here!c steven said Percy started to cry. "Want to stay." the cluster said. Links form between bubbles of light. The light subsides momentarily, then returns. The cluster cries out in anguish.
"Can't stop! Going to form! Can't stop! Going to form! Help! Help! Help!" Steven then thought of something. "It's okay. If I just bubble you, you won't have to come out. It'll keep you safe. Here, look, like this!" he then bubbled a shard.
"I can bubble you! I can bubble you! I can bubble you! Ah. Well, that's five." Thomas then started bubbling shards to "bubble for you,and you,and you,and you and oh." Thomas then realised the thousands of shard. "Steven I don't know if we can do then on are own." The bubbles of light pulsate around the two, pushing them to and fro. They start to float away from the cluster.
"It's too late!" Percy shouted "Tell Garnet I'm sorry." "Wait Percy we can still fix this! Just tell us were your are!" Thomas shouted. "Sorry I can't. Good LUC-" Percy was cut off as light surrounded both of them.
When Steven woke up Peridot was in front of him "Wake up!" she shouted. nce Steven comes to his senses, he sits upright and gasps. "It doesn't wanna form!" Steven shouted "What?" she asked. "We gotta put it in a bubble!" Steven shouted. "Bubble that?! Hah, there's no way!" "No its not look!" Thomas said.
Bubbles start forming on the cluster's surface. Steven gasps. "They're bubbling each other!"
he bends down on one knee and places his hands on Thomas cab floor. "I've got you. You've got this. We've all got each other!" he shouted as a giant pink bubble encases the cluster.
At the barn a cable in the hole was rolling up. When it complete out came Thomas with the remains of his drill modification still on. Steven and Peridot tumble out of his cab. When they get up, Peridot hugs Steven. "You did it!" she exclaimed.
"We did it together. And it was great!" Steven said. The three hear the warp pad, and looks over to it. Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl have returned. Garnet carrying Lapis unconscious in her arms. Steven and Peridot run over to them. "Guys! You're back!" Steven exclaimed then asked "I-is Lapis okay?"
"She'll be fine." Garnet said. "You look happy!, did you destroy the Cluster?" Pearl asked.
"No I talked to it." Steven said "What?" "It doesn't wanna destroy the Earth. It just wants company. And it's got it now. It's like a bajillion people! They'll have lots of time to get to know each other, now that they're in a bubble."
"How on Earth did you bubble that whole thing?!" asked Pearl. "We had a little help." Steven admitted.
"You've been awfully quiet." Garnet said as the rest of the gems coming alone side. It was night time and Thomas was still in train mode. Although all of the parts of his drill modification were off him. "I've just been thinking." He said. "About what dare I ask?" Pearl said "About Percy." He admitted.
"Why you thinking about him?" Amethyst asked. "Well. I've remembered something about him. Something he invented I mean." "What is it?" Thomas sighs "The Cluster." the gems stared at him. "What?" Garnet said
"Percy created the Cluster and the fusions. And we met him in the mind of the Cluster and he tried to stop it but couldn't. And he said he was sorry." "Oh." Garnet said "Now don't the mad at him. He had to do it to appease homeworld."
"I'm not" Garnet said "Your not?" Thomas said. "No i'm not I… understand." Garnet than sat down on Thomas' running board and stared down the hole too. "What are they doing?" Amethyst asked. "There thinking. It's best if we leave them to it." Pearl said. With that Pearl and Amethyst left Thomas and Garnet to think. There were in a trance looking at the hole. Saring not paying attention to anyone else. They almost didn't notice a pair of blue wings soar into the night.