I woke up to the sound of someone singing very close to my location. I found myself laying on the ground in cell. In the exit of the cell I could see an electric, yellow force field. I decided I wanted to check if I could get through the field and slowly moved towards it. The moment I touched the yellow light my Gem began to glow it the yellow force field faded dark gray. I took a step out of the now gray force field and once I had the rest of my body through it, it went back to the yellow light it had before. I was reminded of what happened with the Gem Destabilizer, how it turned a dark gray and how it was because of me.
I felt a sharp pain hit making me almost collapse to the ground but I forced myself to stand on my feet. Jasper… she did this… I closed my eyes trying to ignore the pain and followed the sound of someone singing. I noticed that around the room there were cells exactly the same as mine. I passed through one of the automatic doors and walked onward. It didn't take long for me to find Lapis Lazuli sitting on her knees with her back turned to me. I could see her Gemstone in the same spot as mine.
"Hey you're Lapis Lazuli right?" I asked and she turned her head in shock.
"You..!" She said. "You're that Gem that broke the Destablizier!"
"I don't think I broke it…" I said and moved my hand towards the cell she was in.
"Stop!" She yelled and I stared at her. "I don't want your help! Things are bad enough as it is! I already made too much trouble! Once we get back to Homeworld, they're going to decide what to do with us. So whatever you're doing just stop.. If we just listen to what they say, they might go easy on us…"
"Well I don't care much about Homeworld." I told her and placed my hand through the field making it fade dark gray. "All I see is someone trapped in a cell, alone. Steven told me a bit about you and I'm not going to pretend that I know what you're going through or your whole life. But what I do know is that being alone, whether that be alone in a cell or trapped in a mirror, isn't a healthy place to stay. I'm going to get you out of here, Lapis Lazuli. Are you going to sit here letting yourself be trapped? Or are you going to come with me and have however much time to be free?"
She looked down at my hand, waiting for her to take it. Tears began to roll down her cheeks as she went into a mental battle against herself. I could see so much fear in her eyes and a lack of trust but she took my hand. I placed my other hand high above the other so Lapis could walk through. Once she did, I released my hold on the field and it turned back to its normal color. I noticed that Lapis was still holding my hand, and once she saw where my eyes were looking she took her hand away with a blush on her face.
I gave her a small smile and we continued walking noticed two unfamiliar Gems and Steven with a black eye, were standing in a hallway. The first Gem was slender and slightly taller than the red Gem. She had blue skin, prominent lips and pale blue; wavy hair with bangs that covered the top half of her face. She reminded me a bit of Garnet in the face. She wore a floor length gown with white, rounded, puffy sleeves, a navy top with a blue pinafore, and a blue skirt with several frilly layers in several blue shapes. She also wore white elbow length evening gloves. I assumed that her feet were hidden underneath her dress.
The other Gem had bright scarlet skin, burgundy irises and dark burgundy, dark red eyes and square shaped hair. She was a little taller than Steven and had a thick build. She wore a maroon and brown tank top with a matching maroon hitai-ate tied around her hair. She also wore mid thigh burgundy shorts, and short, pointed maroon boots like Amethyst's.
"Ruby!" The blue Gem yelled and ran over to hug the red Gem. It took a split second for me to realize who they were and I noticed that they had a Gemstone on their left and right hand respectively. Steven followed the blue Gem over as Lapis and I watched.
"Did they hurt you?" Ruby asked placing her hand on the blue Gem's face.
"No no, I'm okay." The blue Gem said placing her smaller hand on Ruby's hand. "Did they hurt you?"
"Who cares?!" Ruby said happily tears forming in her eyes.
"I do!" The blue Gem said and leaned forward to kiss Ruby's eye. The two Gems laughed and twirled each other until they began to glow a white light. Garnet appeared without her visor and a large smile on her face. She landed on the ground near Steven.
"Steven!" Garnet said happily, her three eyes looking at him. "Thank you!"
"Garnet!" Steven said happily. "You're a fusion?!"
"I'm sorry." Garnet said. "We didn't want you meeting us here like this."
"Well did I make a good first impression?' Steven asked nervously.
"Aw Steven, we already love you." Garnet said placing a hand on Steven's face. I walked over to Steven and Garnet with Lapis trailing a bit behind. Garnet gave me a big hug.
'Who was the other Gem? The blue one?' I asked Garnet mentally.
'Sapphire.' Garnet said smiling as Steven went over to talk to Lapis.
"Where is she?!"Jasper's voice yelled angrily
"It's Jasper!" Garnet said in alarm. "Steven! Suha! Go find the others!"
"But we don't know where they are!" Steven yelled and Garnet placed a kiss on both of our foreheads. I felt as though a movie was going through my head, I could see exactly where the others were. "Future vision! Wait are you going to be able to beat her on your own?"
"It's okay Steven." Garnet said. "I'm never alone." Steven and I grabbed Lapis' hand and ran forward hearing Jasper's loud footsteps coming closer. I could hear Garnet singing as we grabbed Pearl and Amethyst. We didn't spend any time talking but just ran over to where we knew Peridot would be. Peridot grabbed the Gem Destablizier but Steven ran forward nullifying its effects. Amethyst sung her whip around Peridot so that she fell to the ground and was unable to move.
"Don't touch that! You clogs don't know what you're doing!" Peridot yelled as Pearl took a seat at the control seat.
"You got this Pearl!" Amethyst cheered.
"Okay ship! Turn us around!" Pearl said and placed her hands in the green water like liquid. We could see on the small monitor that Garnet was fighting Jasper while somehow singing, which was pretty amazing. The impact of Garnet throwing Jasper into the main core caused a shockwave making all of us fall to the floor and Amethyst lose control over Peridot. Peridot moved like a worm and touched the ground making an escape pod appear and shoot her out into Earth as Amethyst tried to grab her.
"Garnet!" We yelled as she appeared in the doorway.
"This ship is going down!" All of us fell to the ground and I made a move to grab Lapis' hand before the explosion but there wasn't enough time. There was a bright flash of green light and Garnet hugged us trying to protect us. There was a loud roar and I noticed that Steven protected us with his bubble.
"Nice one." Garnet said as the bubble released.
"Oh my gosh.." Steven said and looked up at Garnet with stars in his eyes. "I can't believe you're a fusion all the time!"
"You met Ruby and Sapphire?!" Amethyst said shocked.
"Oh no! We were going to introduce you…" Pearl said. "Garnet your plan."
"We were waiting for your birthday." She explained.
"We can still do it!' Steven said happily as we stood up. "I'll just pretend I didn't know!" There was a loud crash and a familiar orange hand pushed away the debris. Jasper fell to her hands and knees, exasperated.
"Don't think you've one!" Jasper said. "You only beat me cause you're a fusion! If I had someone to fuse with I- Huh?" Lapis pushed away large piece of the ship and fell to the ground. She looked over and noticed Jasper was close to her and formed her water wings and tried to fly away but Jasper grabbed her foot. "Come here brat!" She flipped Lapis over and grabbed her hand, lifting her above the ground. "Aw don't fly off so soon!"
"Lapis!" Steven and I yelled and tried to move towards her but Amethyst and Pearl held back Steven while Garnet did the same to me.
"Lapis listen!" Jasper said. "Fuse with me!"
"What?" Lapis said in shock staring at her.
"How long did they keep you trapped here on this miserable hunk of rock?" Jasper asked grabbing her face and releasing her arm making Lapis fall to the ground. Lapis looked over at us. "These Gems, they're traitors to their Homeworld! They kept you prisoner! They used you! This is your chance to take revenge! Come on… just say yes."
"Lapis don't do it." Steven said. There was a moment of silence until Lapis stuck her hand out towards Jasper. Jasper smiled and grabbed her hand. "No!" Jasper twirled Lapis and looked over at us with a hideous smile on her fake. They began to glow and turned into one of the biggest and scariest fusions I had ever seen.
This new Gem was a colossal and had six arms, the lower four functioned as legs. She had four eyes with light green berries and pointed teeth. Her first set of eyes functioned like eyebrows and her eyes changed shape depending on who was controlling her. When her eyes were small and catlike, they were Jasper's and when they were larger, rounder shaped they were Lapis. She had wavy pale green hair that was titled lin a star, that was in a short bob similar to Lapis but wild and Frizzy like Jasper's. Her skin was turquoise with dark green stripes and in a pattern similar to Jasper's. She had two torsos joined like a Centaur, her upper torso and arms were much longer and slender while her lower torso had four limbs that were muscular.
The upper half of her outfit was a deep-green and greenish-black stitched halter top with pattern like Lapis' suit and a necklike like Jasper's. While the lower half was a greenish-black uniform like Jasper's with a V neck color that connected to form a yellow diamond insignia, making it look like a waistband for her upper torso.
All of us cowered in fear as the fusion laughed and began to summon water into a large hand even bigger than her body. But the water hand grabbed her left arm and formed into a chain making her gasp in confusion. While another water arm came from behind and formed a different chain. "Huh? What?" She asked and a different hand went around her and formed into an X styled chain. The fusion tried to move forward but was stopped. "What are you doing?!" A Jasper like voice asked. "I'm done being everyone's prisoner." A Lapis like voice said. "Now you're my prisoner! And I'm never letting you go!" Two water hands came from behind the fusion's back legs and formed into chains pulling her to the ground. She tried to unfuse but was unable to.
"Lapis! Steven yelled as she was being dragged into the sea. All of us ran over towards the water watching what was going on in horror.
"Let's say on this miserable planet… forever!" The Lapis voice yelled and pulled her down into the ocean, making her disappear.
"Yikes…" Garnet said. "They are really bad for each other…" Steven's phone began to ring and I hugged Garnet's arm, not entirely sure how to feel.
"Uh…hello?" Pearl leaned onto Garnet's arm and Garnet placed a hand on my head.
"Steven are you okay?! What's going on?!" Connie's voice yelled through the phone. "Steven?"