Author's Note:

So, I decided to start this off with a non-requested story, to show you all how it'll go for most of the requests and, in overall, present the AU's beginning (in a literal way). I hope you enjoy this anyhow!


"You deserve to know everything. I was taken by White Diamond thousands of years before she had the Earth on her grasp. I always hoped I could be her friend, maybe even more! But she almost never listened…"

...

In the new base from Planet Earth's moon, Pink Pearl managed a series of holograms showing various locations on Earth, as White Diamond look at them with cold professionalism. Since it was the first time the one-eye only Pearl ever helped a Diamond manage a colony, she did it cheerfully, looking with glee and curiosity with her eye at the holograms.

"Woah! I never imagined a Diamond running a colony is…so cool-looking yet dull!" Pink Pearl said, enthusiastically…only to frown when she realized her Diamond didn't reply at all. "My Diamond, do you want me to…make a joke or, anything?"

"A perfect Pearl never does that." It was the answer White always gave to her, and Pink Pearl got used to. Still, listening to that same six-word sentence after offering to do any informal activity a Pearl wasn't supposed to do, saddened and annoyed her. But she always kept the latter feeling hidden well enough…after all, letting it loose would cost something like her lost eye. "Show me the status of the Prime Kindergarten."

"Yes, my Diamond!" Pink Pearl said, showing a pink hologram through the gem in her belly. However, the hologram only lasted for a few seconds before she lost focus and squeed in pure delight. "The first Quartzes are going to emerge! Can we see that? Please, please-"

"Fine." White Diamond reluctantly agreed with annoyance, rolling her eyes.

They descended to the lower floor with a orb that Pink Pearl activated, projecting the whole Kindergarten around her and White Diamond. For a Pearl that never helped her Diamond's colonization before, it was a brand, whole new experience…but White was so, so much older than her, that watching it was like watching the same magic trick again.

"Look, my Diamond! We are creating life from nothing!" Pink Pearl said, like a child in the middle of a toy store, running to a recently-emerged Amethyst. "Welcome to Earth!"

Sadly, the Amethyst passed by, ignoring the Pearl, to talk to other Amethyst's. After all, it was just a illusion created by a orb.

"Aw…it's just a illusion…" Pink Pearl sadly said, before shortly regaining hope. "Wait, I could warp us both there-"

"NO! Don't do that, or els-" White Diamond suddenly bursted, before breathing, calming down and shifting her tome to something more strict but less angry. "Look, Pearl. A Diamond can't talk so personally with her own court, at least if it's not dire."

"But it's like, so easy! You just chatting…with them. The height difference is a bit of a trouble, though." Pink Pearl argued, projecting a hologram of White Diamond talking happily with the Amethyst's.

"This is not the perfection example I should show to my Gems. That is not me." White Diamond pointed out.

"But it doesn't mean you can't blend in! Look." Pink Pearl said, as the hologram suddenly showed White, changing shape to a smaller form (but still slightly taller than the Quartz gems) with wavy hair, and her gemstone turned around to a front, and talking with them more like equals. "Can you try that and take me along, please?"

"No." "Please?" "No?"

"Pretty please, my Diamond?"

"Fine… But never tell about this to anyone." White Diamond finally agreed, after a ton of begging from her new Pearl's side. Her body glew in white, and the brilliant-cut diamond gem in her forehead rotated until it's circle shaped top was the only visible part. Shaped just like how Pink Pearl "pictured", this new form had wavy hair, with a high frail on the right side, black eyes, a vest-dress outfit, shoulder pads and dark gray sleeves, and three white diamond symbols on her clothes. "This is the worst." White said, swallowing her pride.

"My Diamond! Look! We have to look even closer!" Pink Pearl said, picking the shapeshifted White Diamond's hand and jumping down to the ground with her. "This is amazing-"

"Outta the way!" an Amethyst said, pushing White to the ground.

"…whoops!" Pink Pearl reacted, helping her Diamond back up. "Guess those Amethyst guards aren't the most polite folk. But we're fitting in, with no Diamonds hunting for us and salutes! So, what you say my…Howlite?"

"Howlite?" White Diamond asked, weirded out by the name. Sadly for her, a good chunk of the unexpected day was about to be taken by her having to pose as a ordinary, bossy gem of high rank and be pulled by her new Pearl's ideas.

...

"So you gave her the idea just for you both to have fun?"

"Yes!…it started like that. But…"

...

"Uh… my Diamond? Are you good?" Pink Pearl said, noticing the lingering, troubled expression on White/Howlite's face. "…you know. I never realized what I actually said was the inverse of the truth…we are taking life and leaving a hole. Uh, heeey, Ms. Perfection! Are-"

"Those beings…they're just as perfect as my gems. They might even be as perfect as…me." White said, sadly, as rain began to fall over the two gems.

"Woah… maybe I really should've gave that idea like, a while ago." Pink Pearl awkwardly commented.

...

"So she realized what she did all along was wrong. She realized her empire's ways were wrong."

"So what?! She suddenly began to care about only one colony of hers?! Why she pulled us all into this? Why she didn't stop the colonization at all?"

"It's actually…simple. She thought she had gone too far. She crossed lines trying to implant her perfection across the galaxy; she crossed lines demanding a standard for gem-kind; she even crossed lines making her fellow Diamonds suffer through this. She did everything she could've done wrong as White Diamond, and the damage was already done for her to fix it as herself.

But she still decided to try and make a stand… as someone the Diamonds couldn't predict. She was going to scare all the Gems out of here, but her plans changed when she saw… Your fusion!"

...

After leaving the Cloud Arena, Pink Pearl and Howlite ran through one of Earth's forests, full of white flowers.

"Only on Earth…only on this Planet Earth!" Howlite said, with a wide ray of emotions clasing agains't each other: shocked anger, surprise, amazement, curiosity, wonder… "A cross-gem fusion! Something that is not perfect, and not brilliant! Why a gem would ever-"

"Don't mind if I activate a fusion!" Pink Pearl playfully said, picking both of Howlite's hands.

She attempted to spin, just like how that Ruby and that defective Sapphire did when fusing for the first time, but she stumbled on a rock, interrupting the spin and making them both fall on the ground.

"Aw gee! I thought that if a Ruby and a Sapphire- but you're a Diamond!" Pink Pearl stuttered and blushed.

"And what made you think it was possible? Why you even act unlike a Pearl!?" Howlite demanded, as a blush slowly began to form…a luminous, pink blush.

"I always thought I could be a friend to a Diamond; it was the previous case…but you are so different from me! We are so different! Do you even fully care about my ideas?! Or you'll eventually tell me to stop?" Pink Pearl said, venting out part of her frustration she kept hidden for so long, before being grabbed in the shoulders by Howlite.

"I actually care about you!"

The two madly blushing gems finally managed to fuse… For a short while. Before a body could even form out of the mass of light, it broke apart, dropping the components back to the ground.

"We did empire-prohibited stuff." Pink Pearl pointed out, with no ill feelings.

"That fusion… Sadly, we left her behind with Yellow and her horrible temper-" Howlite was about to say, refusing to admit she was growing pity for the hybrid fusion, before being interrupted with a crash.

It was the fusion. Pink Pearl pulled her battle axe as Howlite watched the scene through the bushes.

"We didn't mean to fuse!… Even thought we did it!" the fusion said. "But I promise we can un-fuse! We-"

"No, no. Please." Howlite softly said, walking towards Pink Pearl and the fusion. "I'm glad I can see you again."