Steven thought Peridot what exactly singing was and also showed that he had perfect pitch. Everyone sang a beautiful song about the important things in life and soon enough the drill was finished. We stared up at the drill in awe. Garnet pats Peridot on the back making her freak out. "Nice work Peridot." The Gems laugh at Peridot's reaction and it seemed like everyone was finally used to her. Steven hugs Peridot as she looks down at the ground.
"We really did it huh?" Peridot says in shock and Steven gasps.
"We?" He asks happily and Peridot freezes and moves away from Steven.
"Oh wait!" She runs over and climbs into the drill. "I need to check something!"
"She's come so far, it feels like yesterday she was trying to kill us." Steven says happily.

"No no that was several weeks ago." Pearl explains.

"Where are the coordinates?!" Peridot asks, sticking her head out of the opening. "We still need the Cluster's exact coordinates in order to drill!"

"There's a Diamond base that may hold that information…" Pearl says. "But getting there is going to be difficult."
"How come?" Steven and I ask.

"Because it's not accessible by warp pad. And it's on…!" She puts her hand on her forehead and looks up. All of us look up at the moon.

"The moon!" Steven says happily.

"Yes Steven the moon." Pearl says and we watch as Steven asks Lion to get us to the moon. Lion's eyes glow pink and all of us get on top of the Lion. Garnet was in the rear holding Pearl, who was holding me, I was holding Amethyst, Amethyst was holding Steven and Steven was holding Peridot. Both Steven and Peridot were inside Lion's mane. Lion runs down a hill and roars opening up a pink portal.

"Pretty cool right?!" Steven yells and Peridot screams. Lion roars three times, each roar increasing the speed that we were traveling at. All of us scream as we enter a dark room and Lion hits the back wall. Steven checks on Lion while Peridot hurries off Lion. Pearl and Garnet use their gems as flashlights and all of us look around the Moon Base. "It doesn't look like the moon."

"Hey look over here I think it's a door!" Amethyst runs over and presses her hand on a scanner which had four diamonds on it. A large gush of wind hits us room as we see the Earth far away in the distance.
"We're definitely on the moon." I say.

"Amethyst please!"Pearl yells. "Don't blow us into space!" Steven laughs and Pearl aims her gem flashlight at him, he was floating up into the air near a large yellow mural. The room that we were in was on the lowest level, there were four diamond symbols on the floor with each color directed towards a mural. The Mural showed a tall figure with what seemed to be spiky hair with a very sharp body. The eye was visible was yellow and there was a yellow diamond on her chest. She was wearing a dress and had a lot of planets around her upper body which were all painted yellow.

Steven laughs happily. "Whoa, look at me! I'm a-" He jumps very high into the air. "Moon boy!" Amethyst runs over to Steven and tries to be a moon boy as well but it didn't work. Steven jumps up into the air again near a different statue. "Moon boy quadruple backflip!" The other mural was blue and she had nine planets around her. She reminded me a bit of a ghost and had blue hair that went down to her waist. She had a blue diamond on her chest and her eyes were blue as well. She wore a long, flowy dress that had a missing sleeve. Her body was almost as pointed as the other one.

Peridot walks over towards Amethyst. "Hey, why can't I be a moon boy?" Amethyst whines.

"We're Gems? We're a space-faring race designed to conquer other worlds. Our physical forms adjust automatically to the gravity of any planetoid." Peridot explained. Steven jumps over and hits the wall and collapses to the ground.

"Hey Peridot! Who is this supposed to be?!" Steven asks and I walked over towards him, my body remained the same weight as it did on Earth. I notice the Gems stare at me in shock but I ignore them. Peridot runs over to Steven and gasps.
"It's Blue Diamond!" She says happily and turns around. "Wait! Are they all here?! Ah yes there she is!" Peridot runs over to the yellow figure.

"Who?" Steven asks.

"Behold! Yellow Diamond! Isn't she magnificent?!" Steven and I follow Peridot.

"Wow... so who are the Diamonds anyway? They seem like a big deal." Steven asks. Peridot looks over in shock and starts smiling.

"Are you joking me?! The Diamonds are the Gem matriarchs! Together they make up the Great Diamond Authority that governs Homeworld and all the outlying colonies! We live to serve them!" Garnet walks over and clears her throat, making Peridot freeze and her gem flashlight disappear. Peridot laughs nervously. "I mean, we were all made to serve them, even though some of us... don't anymore…" She pauses and looks to the side of the room. "Hey, I think that's a control service over there!" She points and walks over. "Let's take a look."

There were two other murals that I wanted to take a look at. One was pink and had a pink diamond on her stomach right where Steven had his. Her appearance was very spiky and she had large and jagged hair that spiked in different directions. She had two planets in her hand, one much bigger and the other much smaller. She had pink eyes as well as her entire body being all pink. I guessed that she was Pink Diamond, after all there were four different diamond symbols on the ground.

The next mural was all white and had a white diamond centered on her forehead. Her body was white and so were her eyes. She had spiky hair that spiked upwards and a complicated dress on with spiky shoulder pads. Her hands were centered around one planet although she had the most planets around her head than the rest of the Diamonds She must be White Diamond then, the planets formed around Yellow, Blue and White Diamonds heads like a halo.

There was a soft high pitched sound and I felt myself being raised high above the ground. I clung onto the ground and noticed they formed into stairs. "Peridot!" I yelled angrily, noticing how much higher I was than them.

"It wasn't on purpose!" She yelled and Stevens started jumping up the stairs with Peridot behind him then Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl. Pearl kept her gem light on making sure they focused on Steven. "This is so incredible. Only the most elite of the elite can enter these sanctums. We are literally walking in the footsteps of the diamonds!"

I walked forward passing the tall White Diamond statue on the way up with Steven walking close behind me. We reached a room that had patterns of circles on the wall. They looked like star maps and there was an orb in the middle of the room. The orb was levitating above the ground and had blue light around it. I walked forward towards the orb and was about to touch it when Garnet called my name.

"Sorry." I said and Steven and I followed behind them. Once we reached the top of the stairs we entered a mostly white room that had a central computer in the walls were clear and were in the shape of diamonds. There were pink and blue stairs that led up to a pointed throne of a chair with a long block of white rock. The room was covered by a geodesic dome that allowed for a scenic view of the Earth. I follow after Peridot and Garnet and take a seat on the chair. The back of the chair had diamonds on it. Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Peridot huttle over the computer and Steven takes a seat by me.

"Oh my goodness! This looks like it could be brand new! I mean it's a relic by today's standards, but, golly! It's so elegant, so simple, so perfect!" Peridot says happily.

"So how do you turn it on?" Amethyst asks.

"... I have no idea." I look over to Steven and notice him placing his hand on the hand scanner while on the other hand was what seemed to be a diamond. It lights up with Steven's hand and everyone stares at it in shock.

"Hey, it's got one of those glowy hand dealies." Steven says happily.

"YOU CAN'T SIT THERE!" Peridot yells at us.

"Why not?' I ask.

"That chair is only for the most elite Gems, you can't go around sitting where an elite would sit." She explains and I scoot over to the left hand side and Steven scoots over to the right hand side. Steven and I smile at Peridot and pat the open seat.

"Well they aren't here now, right?" Stevens says and she glances around and sits in the middle, snickering to herself. I grab the white diamond and twirl it around.

"Put that back!" Peridot yells at me and I roll my eyes and do as she says. Peridot places her hand on the hand scanner and scans her finger across four squares making the chair move forward.

"There we go. This is a really old system." She says and puts on a screen on the control panel, shocking seven files that are all diamond shaped. "Gotta find the right file... aha! Cluster, Cluster where are you, Cluster? Aha! There's the insertion point. Looks like the Beta Kindergarten in Facet Nine. It's the smaller of the two, not nearly as impressive as yours, Amethyst."

"Uh… thanks?" Amethyst says.

"But where is the Cluster now?" Pearl asks, losing her patience.

"Hang on... there it is! It's embedded deep into the mantle, relative to the barn its roughly two thousand five hundred units down. All we need to do is feed this data to the drill and we should be all set." Peridot explains.

"That's it then! Mission accomplished!" Pearl says happily and Steven cheers in agreement.

"Great…" Amethyst says and the Crystal Gems start walking away. "Let's get out of here…"

"Hold on!" Steven says ato Peridot. "Does this thing have any games on it?"

"No no no no, this wasn't used for 'games'. '' Peridot said.

"What was it used for?" I asked.

"It was used for planning a colony. Here, look." Peridot pulls the map of Earth up on screen. The Gems pause and look up. "So here is a map of all structures that were originally built on Earth. All told, this probably only accounts for maybe, five percent of what was originally planned." She showed the Lunar Sea Spire, Ancient Sky Arena, Sea Shrine, Sky Spire, Communication Hub, Galaxy Warp and two other structures that I didn't recognize.

"What was the plan?" Steven asked.

"Well, let's take a look." She holds down a button and the Earth hollows out, showing rings and Gem structures around the planet.
"Wow…" I say in a mixture of awe, shock and horror.

"Ta-da! A finished Earth colony. Wow, look at this! Eighty-nine kindergartens, sixty-seven spires, a Galaxy Warp in each facet, efficient use of all available materials. What were you thinking, shutting this operation down? It could've been great!" Peridot says happily.

"No you're wrong!" Garnet yells at all of them stare at Peridot angrily.

"What do you mean? It's perfect! Look at it!" Peridot explains confused.

"Peridot.." I whisper hoping she'll stop talking, this was going from bad to worse in a matter of seconds.

"We are looking at it."Pearl says angrily.

"Yeah, this plan stinks!" Amethyst yells, folding her arms.

"Completing this colony would have meant the extinction of all life on Earth!" Garnet yells angrily.

"But think of the good it would have done. The Gems that would have been made, our Empire expanded." Peridot explained. I could understand both points of the argument. The Crystal Gems which meant saving the Earth and Homeworld's which meant creating new life. I couldn't help but wonder what kind of Gem's would've been created if Homeworld's plan came true, but I probably wouldn't be here either. Neither would Steven.

"Rose Quartz believed all life was precious, and worth protecting." Pearl said sharply.

"Well if she wanted to protect it, she did a lousy job! There'd be no Cluster if the Earth had stayed a colony. Now there's no colony, and there's gonna be no Earth, so thank you, Rose Quartz! You doomed the planet!" Peridot yelled angrily, standing up on the chair glaring at them. The Crystal Gems glared at Peridot agrily. Peridot folds her arms not budging from their looks.

Steven laughs nervously and stands near Peridot. "Is there anything that's worth more than- '' But Garnet stands in front of Peridot, her shadow looming ominously over the three of us. Garnet grabs Peridot by her shirt and lifts her up the ground. Peridot tenses in fear as Garnet glares at her. I follow Peridot in fear.

"Garnet, stop!" Steven yells lifting his hands up in the air. "Please! It's not worth 're done here, let's just... go home." Garnet aggressively drops Peridot on the chair and brings her left gauntlet together above her head and smashes the control panel. The hologram disappears, showing the normal Earth instead. The Gems walk away not looking back and Steven gets off the chair and stares at them as they reach the stairs. He sighs.

"What did I say?" Peridot asked confused, following Steven. " I'm just stating a fact. The Rebellion didn't really save Earth, it just delayed the inevitable."

"That's not the way they see it." Steven said. "They've spent thousands of years trying to protect the Earth. I thought maybe, you finally understood why." Steven walks down the stairs and Peridot puts her hands on her hips. She turns around and notices that I'm still sitting on the chair. I grab the diamond and place it in my pocket. Feeling a strange sense of nostalgia and urgency hit me.

"Hey-"

"Peridot Suha!" Steven yells and I stick my tongue out at Peridot and climb down the stairs.

"What? I'm coming." Peridot says and climbs down the stairs after me.
"Let's go, you three." Garnet says and I notice Steven stare at me and frown. Peridot follows right behind.