Development amongst Steven and Connie was interesting yet very strange to see. Connie was learning how to sword fight from Pearl but she was also becoming too serious of a person. It showed how toxic Pearl's teaching was becoming for Connie, although it was very obvious that Connie was also learning something from Pearl. It was strange to see how much Connie was coming out of her shell, she was a good sword fighter but she and Pearl both needed to realize that they need to deepen on the other person when fighting. It seemed that there was more to learn from about the war and Pearl's relationship with Rose Quartz, Steven's mother.
I heard all of them from Steven himself, and also how Pearl accidentally called Steven Rose, but also how Pearl was able to see her own faults from her viewpoint. There was also an investigation/interview from some strange guy called Ronaldo. A guy who was moderately tall with a thick build with a similar complexion to Steven. He had long, blonde, 'fry-like' hair that resembles curly fries. He often wore an apron and underneath it was a burgundy colored shirt with orange and yellow flames covered by his apron, that he left untucked an tan cargo shorts that reached his knees. He also wore gray wrapped around sandals and glasses.
To me he was just a strange guy with strange theories. I only met him a few times, because he kept sneaking around the Beach House but overall I didn't speak to him much.
"We need to track down Peridot. We found her pod and we know she's out there somewhere." Garnet said one day. "She came to Earth with a job to do, and odds are she's still going to try and do it. That's why I've gathered you here."
All of us were folding Steven's shirt together, well Amethyst was looking at a magazine not helping but that's besides the point.
"I thought it was so you can help me fold all this laundry." Steen said folding a shirt quickly and slapping it into another pile.
"That too, the chore we had you do fell apart real fast." Garnet said, still holding a shirt.
"Wasn't me." Amethyst said and we looked at the chore circle. It consisted of Washing Dishes, Drying Dishes, Laundry, Mopping and Dusting. I had washing dishes as my chore, Steven had drying dishes as his chore, Amethyst had laundry as her's, Garnet had mopping as her's and Pearl had dusting. But since Pearl didn't like how any of us did the chores she crossed out our names and wrote her own in blue ink in cursive.
All of us looked over at Pearl as he had a somewhat guilty smile on her face. "I just really enjoy doing all those things."
"It's better if we do them together." Garnet looked over at Amethyst and she rolled her eyes and placed down the magazine.
"Humans should just stop wearing clothes! I'd be a lot funnier." Amethyst said smirking at Steven.
"Hey! I'm a civilized part-human thank you very much. Clothing is a must." Steven hmmed. "This is a lot.. I'd bet this folding would go faster if Ruby and Sapphire were here!"
"I'm sure they'd be glad to see you, but I am not unfusing for laundry." Garnet explained.
"Garnet. You don't think Peridot would come looking for us… do you?" Pearl asked.
"We weren't her priority. She was sent here to do something in the Kindergarten." Garnet stated.
"Well then shouldn't we look there?" I asked. "It makes the most sense, she doesn't know much about Earth as a whole and going back to her mission's location is understandable."
Garnet stood up. "Don't worry we'll stop her." She walked towards the Warp Pod. "Come on Crystal Gems."
"Coming!" Pearl said happily following her.
Amethyst groaned. "As long as we don't have to fold anything." She said as she took out her whip. Neither Steven nor I moved.
"Steven, Suha." Garnet said and we looked towards them.
"Come on! That means you two right?" Amethyst said and we looked at each other and ran forward. Steven stood near Pearl while I took a spot near Garnet. Garnet placed her hands on our heads.
"You're a civilized part-Gem after all." Garnet said smiling.
"Garnet, are you sure we should bring them? This might be dangerous." Pearl asked.
"Peridot's got nothing we can't handle." Garnet said and the warp pad glowed, teleporting us to a different location. All of us jumped off the warp pad and walked around the Kindergarten.
"Well it looks like none of them have been activated." Pearl said, her gem's blue flashlight moving around the large Kindergarten. She ran her finger across the end of the injector. "It doesn't look like anything's budged since the last time we were here."
"You're right." Garnet agreed. "But just because Peridot hasn't been here yet doesn't mean she won't come. Let's do a thorough check of the perimeter. That way we can moditer any future entries."
"Sounds good to me!" Steven moved to a different section and I went the opposite way.
"Log Date 6-5-2." A familiar voice said. I turned around and noticed a square hole in the ground. Peridot moved upward on what seemed to be an all green surface that could change elevation. "This is Peridot updating status: still stuck on miserable planet. The fusion experiments are developing properly. A few have emerged early-" She looked over at me in shock. She looked around nervously. "Are the other ones with you?"
"No." I said, "What fusion experiments are you talking about?"
"Well that's none of your business now is it?" She said with the same monotone voice.
"Well I live on this planet so it is my business." I explained with a hand on my hips. She placed her floating fingers on her forehead.
"Peridot!" Garnet yelled as the other Gems were running forward.
"There she is!" Pearl yelled and Peridot ran away. I moved out of the way as the rest of them followed her. I took a step onto the green surface and watched as it went downward. I didn't even realize it at first, but it was the same elevator that took us to the Prime Kindergarten Control Room before. The lights were all off and there was still damage that was left from the Gems. There were cracks in what seemed to be the lights and long cylinders were scattered across the room. There was a small sound that came from one of them and I moved forward. I touched one of the cylinders and it started to rattle.
I took a step back in fear and felt something drop on my head. I felt tingers touch my eyebrows and nervously touched my head. The moment I touched it I noticed the room faded darker. 'Help..' Two broken voices whispered together. 'Form… Form… Where… form… help… please…' Other things began to fall on the ground and I pulled what was on my head off and stared in horror. There was a hand and a leg stuck together, it was blue and reddish pink in color.
They reached towards me and I tossed it on the ground. I looked around at the rest of the room as other things… stared to move towards me. I stepped backwards until I noticed I had my back on one of the cylinders. There was an explosion that pushed me on the ground and I watched in horror as a white light shot up from the broken cylinder. In the core of this thing were four gem shards stuck together. Four hands shot out together and the bodies of four Gems appeared.
I felt a deep pain in my head as the room lost most of its light besides the broken Gems. There was a scream that came from the white light and I echoes of voices filled my head. "Help! Help!" They repeated over and over again. I covered my eyes and watched in horror as the four gem fusion glitched forming a large white hand. The fingers reached forward towards me showing four arms and one food. The thing landed onto the ground showing its full self. It was comprised entirely of limbs conjoined together in a single hand-and-forearm-shaped body, wrapped in what looks like a dark gray cloth. At its core, the fusion is comprised of four different shattered Gem Shards that are physically fused together. It possesses four large eyes. Its irises and visible Gem Shards are green, yellow, blue and purple.
It walked forward towards me and hovered over. The rest of the limbs of the other gems were surrounding me. I closed myself into a ball as the voices began to grow louder and louder. "Please! Please!"
"Suha!" A voice yelled and saw Garnet and Steven running towards me. Garnet froze looking at the… gems as Steven ran forward. I watched as he poofed some of the gems but every time he did it screams followed. Tears ran down my face as I felt one of the giant gems hand grab my leg.
"Garnet!" Steven yelled. "Why aren't you moving?!" One of the hands grabbed my face and forced me to look at it in it's eyes. Another hand touched my Gem and I felt something inside my snap.
'It's all my fault. How could I let this happen? Why am I so useless?' A voice said in my mind. 'I wish I never-" I pushed the giant hand away and then all of the lights in the room faded. I was able to see the forced fusions' lights fade into gray and all of them poofed onto the ground. The colors of the room returned and all that was left were the shards of the Gems. I placed my hand towards one of the fused shards and watched as they cracked apart and faded into dusts
The looked back at the other gems shards and noticed as they did the same thing. A whisper of a single voice entered my head. 'We wish it didn't have to be this way, but thank you because now that we're dying we're free.'
Tears continued to fall down my eyes as I stared at what used to be the gem shards. In the corner were two hands conjoined together shaking in fear, the only shard that was left was the hand shard's four gems. Garnet walked forward and bubbled the hand-gem's shards and lifted them up.
"So this is what Homeworld thinks of fusion! We couldn't have known they'd would do this...! This is where they've been! All the ones we couldn't find! They've been here the whole time! Rose couldn't have known…! This was punishment for the rebellion! It's not our faults..!"
"Garnet!" Steven yelled and the bubbled shards disappeared.
"S-Steven…" Garnet stuttered.
"Yo! We're back!" Amethyst said running towards us with Pearl in front of her. None of them seemed to notice the lone green and blue conjoined hand on the ground.
"Garnet! We lost Peridot! Her fingers were too fast for us!" The conjoined hands walked up onto Amethyst. Pearl grabbed the hands.
"Um… what are these things?" Pearl asked.
"Put them down!" Garnet yelled, making everyone flinch. Pearl did as she said and the hand landed a few feet from the Garnet. It shook in fear. "We need to poof and bubble all of them! We can't let any escape!" Garnet bent down towards the hands and they ran towards me.
'No! No!' The hands mentally said to me. I already felt exhausted but hearing their voices made me feel even worse. I grabbed the hands and watched as the colors faded, then poof and disintegrate. 'Death, freedom…'
"What-" Pearl and Amethyst said in fear. I looked up at Garnet expecting anger but she had no expression on her face.
"I'm sorry…" I whispered. "They wouldn't leave me alone…" There was an air of silence and I heard feet walk towards me. I looked up and was surprised to see Pearl with her hand reaching out at me.
"Come on…" I placed my hand on hers and she pulled me forward. My hand began to fade gray and trail up to the rest of my body. Pearl released my hand as the rest of them Gems ran over towards me.
"Suha! What's happening to you?!" Steven yelled.
"I…." The gray had already reached my neck. "I don't feel-" I felt myself go numb and fall forward and then it went black.