Once we're back at the barn I follow Peridot, watching her sneak into the barn by herself. I take out the diamond in my pocket and show it to her. "Hey Peridot, what do you want this for?" I ask her, narrowing my eyes.

"No reason!" She says nervously and eyes the diamond. I toss it up in the air and she screams. "Wait no! I'll tell you!" I catch it and smirk.

"That was easy." I said and walked over to her. She grabs my hand quickly and hids the diamond behind my back. "What're you-"
"Steven!" Peridot says and I turn around to see Steven standing in the barn entrance.

"What are you doing here Steven?" I ask him.

"I need to talk to you. Both of you." He says.

"Uhhh, yeah! Sure!" Peridot says and Peridot gets into the back of the truck while Steven sits in the driver and I in the passenger. Steven closes the door and glares as I place the diamond in my pocket. I give him an annoyed look as Peridot asos "Why are we in this broken-down vehicle?"

"I wanted to ask you…" He pauses staring at my pocket and I cross my arms, he goes to look over at Peridot. "about the Diamonds?"

Peridot visibly relaxes. "Oh! I don't know what the others have told you, but there's a reason they're in charge." She says happily, leaning forward.

"Why's that?" Steven asks, monotone though Peridot doesn't notice.

"They're objectively better than us. Every Gem has their strengths and weaknesses, but not them. They're absolutely totally completely flawless beings! Especially my diamond, Yellow Diamond, the most perfect, the most reasonable, rational, efficient decider ever to exist in the universe!" Peridot says happily, though hearing her talk like that was making me feel sick to my stomach.

"You're really loyal to her, aren't you?" Steven asks sadily.

"How could I not be? We might have our little truce, but I'll never forsake the Gem I was made for!"

"That's good, because... she's right behind you!" Steven grabs my hand as Peridot turns around and pulls us out of the car.

"WHAT?!" Peridot says in shock, he presses the lock and locks her inside. He slams the door as Peridot tries to run out. Peridot whimpers, in a mixture of shock and fear as Steven glares at her.

"Save your strength! You're up against one of the earth's greatest trapping technologies, the child safety lock!" Steven yells at her. Peridot gasps and looks around the car in fear. She cowers in the driver's seat.

"Oh, no! How could you do this to me, the great and lovable Peridot?! I thought we were finally friends like you wanted…" Peridot falls to the ground in defeat as Steven looks away.

"I saw you try to sneak whatever Suha's holding off the Moon Base!" Steven yells. "What is it?!" Peridot's eyes narrow. "Tell me!"

"It's nothing special. And definitely not important at all." Peridot says angrily and I take it out of my pocket.

"Why'd you take that from her?" Steven asks me. "And why didn't you tell me?"

"I was trying to confront her myself." I explain. "And I wasn't sure if you even trusted me not to betray you guys, ever since what happened in the Kindergarten, no one's been treating me the same! All of you look at me like I'm some kind of monster! I didn't ask for these powers, Steven!"

"I never thought you were a monster!" Steven yells. "And you're right I have been treating you differently…" He looks down ashamed. "After seeing what happened to those shards and how your powers work, I couldn't help but feel defensive… And… I lied to you…"

"About what?" I asked, hurt.

"I remember everything, I never forgot! When I tried to get you to meet my Dad and I pushed you too hard and you accidentally used your powers on me!" Steven tells me. "I'm always there when you sing by yourself and you think no one's listening to you… I'm sorry for being afraid of your powers but I can't help it, it doesn't help it that we're not as close as I wish we were. You're my friend and I don't care if you're a hybrid like me, human like Connie or a full Gem, I just wish you wouldn't try to do things by yourself and talk to me first!"

"Steven…" I said and was about to say something else to him but I was interrupted.

"If you guys wanna talk, can you do it somewhere elses?" Peridot asked obviously annoyed and I glared at her. I show her the diamond and start focusing on the item, my gem starts to glow and it slowly starts to fade.

"If you don't want me to destroy this thing, you'd better explain what this thing is Peridot!" I yell.

"Nonononono, wait!" Peridot slams her body into the window to show how frantic she was. "All right, look. I have a plan. Allow me to explain... It's... a communicator. Meant for the express purpose of contacting the Diamonds back on Homeworld."

"You're still trying to contact Homeworld/ the Diamonds?" Steven and I ask, moving closer to the door. She sits back down on the seat.

"Yes, of course! I figured it out. You simple clods keep trying to protect the earth, but you can't do anything right! I let myself get carried away, too... laughing, singing, building our little machine... but don't you see? None of that matters! All that matters is that I'm of use to Yellow Diamond! This planet can be of use to Yellow Diamond! I must contact her, to reveal what I've discovered!" Peridot says.

"Peridot…" I say, a sense of melancholy hitting me watching her speak about the Diamonds with such respect. She almost sounds brainwashed.

"But the Diamonds are bad! They don't care about the earth! They wanted to hollow it out, and now they wanna blow it up with the Cluster!" Steven yells and I take a seat on the tire, feeling extremely tired.

"Yes, yes! That's the point!" Peridot yells happily.

Steven groans."Why do I keep sticking my neck out for you? You're never gonna be on our side! Garnet! Amethyst! Pearl!" He grabs my hand and drags me out of the barn.

"Steven, no! Don't get them. Steven! Release me!" We hear Peridot yell, but Steven closes the door and we leave her behind. Steven and I show the Gems the communicator and Garnet tries to console Steven's sadness. It doesn't take long for Peridot to burst out of the barn and she destroys it with her robot machine from her fight with Pearl. The Crystal Gems run towards Peridot as Steven groans in anger.

"Steven this isn't your fault, just like Garnet said, you tried you best." I told him and he looks up at me happily only for his expression to change to shock.``Why are you-" I felt my body lift up, meters off the ground and scream in fear. I look up and notice that Peridot's robot arms were holding the communicator and me with it. "PERIDOT!" I scream in fear as she runs toward. Amethyst transforms herself into a helicopter and I see everyone inside, as the robot crashes into an electrical line, thanks to Garnet and Pearl, I and the communicator crash away from the rest of them. As I crash landed on the ground, I felt my hands accidentally move the diamond and it glows yellow. The ground around it turns yellow as well and it floats into the sky.

"HIDE!" A voice yells a yellow figure appears.

"This is the Yellow Diamond control room." A voice that sounds a lot like Pearl's say, but more nasally.

I see a clear view of her. She looked a lot like Pearl except all yellow. She wore a beige singlet, with a neckline that was cut into a diamond shape in the middle and exposing her legs. She wore puffy, sheer yellow sleeves, as well as long, pale tangerine stockings and canary yellow flats. She had a yellow pixie haircut that is styled up to a point and very similar to Pearls, with puffy sides and one diamond shaped lock in the middle of her forehead. She had pale yellow skin and her head was oval shaped. Her gemstone was a very pale yellow cabochon pearl, and was located on her chest.

She stares at me confused. "Who authorized you to make this call?" She asked me and I still had nothing to stay, I felt a hand push me back and I followed it. Peridot was standing in front of me.

"No one, b-but it's an emergency!" Peridot says.

"That's no excuse to use the direct Diamond communication channel." She says.

"Pearl." An oddly familiar voice that sent a chill down my spine.

"Yes, my Diamond?" Yellow Pearl says, in fear.

"Why is there someone on the Diamond line?" Yellow Diamond asks.

"I don't know. I was just about to tell them that-" But she was interrupted a dark yellow hand comes into view

"I'll take it from here." I held my breath as I saw Yellow Diamond. She was massive in size, her height dwarfing the Yellow Pearl, even watching her from here was obvious. She had black markings around her eyes, bright yellow eyes with diamond shaped pupils and black eyebrows, and short-helmet like bob yellow hair with two spiked tips. Her gemstone was located on her chest. She wore a yellow and olive bodysuit, a yellow coat with enormous shoulder pads and a cut out for her gemstone, yellow gloves, and olive yellow, high heeled boots. She also wore a long overcoat that hung past her knees. She wasn't looking this way which was good.

"She looks the same…" I voice out in awe, my body saying it before my mind could catch up. Peridot looks at me for a split second but forms her arms in a Diamond, something I couldn't help but also feel some sense of familiarity with.

"My Diamond! Peridot, reporting in." Peridot said.

"Which Peridot?" Yellow Diamond asks, still busy typing away at her control panel to care.

"F-Facet 2-F-5-L, Cut 5-X-G. I'm sorry to contact you this way, but all other forms of communication have been destroyed and-" Yellow Diamond places her hand up and Peridot immediately stops talking.

"This says you're behind schedule on your mission to…" She pauses, staring at a screen detailing Earth and I felt my Gem glow as her head slowly turns to look at Peridot. I noticed my body turn invisible. "How is... the Earth?"

"It's... full of... life." Peridot squeaks in fear, her usual sharp and sarcastic personality all but vanished at the eyes of her Diamond.

"Organic life…" Yellow Diamond says disgusted and looks away, I could feel anger rise in me. "And where is the Jasper I assigned you? And why aren't you calling from the ship?"

"Oh um... The ship was destroyed." Peridot says, shrinking.

"By whom?" Yellow Diamond asks, her voice firm.

"I-I-I-It was destroyed by…" Peridot pauses to look back at Steven's worried head in the distance, hidden away behind the wreckage. " No one! There was... an accident?... While we were landing."

" I'll inform your manager of your incompetence." Yellow Diamond says unamused, Yellow Pearl moves quietly towards the screen and smirks at Peridot, though her smile freezes as she looks around, probably for me. "And what is the status of the Cluster?"

"The Cluster... will emerge shortly." Peridot says.

"Good. We'll finally get some use out of that miserable planet…" Yellow Diamond says and leans back, some stress taken away. "Thank you for your report, Peridot. There'll be a ship heading to your location to take you to your next assignment."

"Wait! ... I-I wouldn't call to waste your time with a report." Peridot says.

"You already have." Yellow Diamond states.

"No, I mean... the reason I called... the real reason is... I believe we should terminate the Cluster." Peridot says bravely and I couldn't believe my ears.

"...Why?" Yellow Diamond asks, her voice like a hissing snake.

"The organic ecosystem creates resources unique to this world, we can't sacrifice all that potential just for one geo-weapon! I'd like to tell you some plans I came up with to utilize the planet without disrupting the local-" Neither Yellow gems were amused by Peridot's rambling.

" I've heard enough! I don't care about potential and resources." Yellow Diamond says, her voice filled with annoyance.

"What?!" Peridot says in shock.

"I want my Cluster, and I want that planet to die. Just make that happen." Yellow Diamond says.

"...No!" Peridot says firmly and Yellow Pearl looks in shock as she gasps. Yellow Pearl looks up at her Diamond.

"Are you questioning my authority?!" Yellow Diamond asks angrily.

"I'm... questioning your objectivity!" Peridot says and forms a diamond quickly. "My Diamond."

"Well!" Yellow Pearl says in shock, only for her to back away in fear out of the camera as Yellow Diamond stands up.

"Peridot…!" I whisper, touching her lightly with my invisible hand. She ignores me.

"You are out of line." Yellow Diamond says, as she moves the screen closer to her face.

"I just think-" Peridot says, her face covered in sweat.

"I'm not interested in the puny thoughts of a Peridot–" Yellow Diamond states.
"But!"

" You have disrespected this channel and my time with your presence and you would do well to-"

"But-"

"Shut your mouth!" Peridot complies. " You have failed at every stage of this mission. Your only chance to redeem yourself is to obey this simple order. You are to leave the Cluster to grow. It will tear apart the Earth, and I will take immense satisfaction in erasing that hideous rock off of our star maps! IS! THAT! CLEAR!?"

"I won't do it! I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting!" Peridot yells at her.

"Apparently more than YOU, you... CLOD!" Peridot screams at her and Yellow Diamond looks on in total anger. I reappear and grab the communicator, I lock eyes with Yellow Diamond for a split second, an expression on her face I was unable to fully express with words and cut the connection.

"That was AMAZING!" Steven yells and hugs Peridot as the rest rush over towards her. I hold the communicator looking down on it with a puzzled expression.

"I can't believe I just did that…" Pearl said.

"I was so wrong about being so wrong about you!" Steven yells happily.

"I can't believe I just did that!..." Peridot says, her voice a mixture of fear and shock.

"You thought you could change her mind." Garnet said, her voice rather happy.

"Yellow D got torn down by the Peri-dactyl!" Amethyst says. Peridot sighs and looks at the communicator in my hand.

"You might not want to hold onto that." Peridot says.

"Why?" I ask.

"Because it can be remotely detonated." She states and I toss it on the ground. We wait for a good couple of minutes. "That's strange." I grab the communicator from the ground.

"A keepsake, for this important moment." I say.

"I thought I could reason with her…" Peridot says, collapsing on the ground.

"Yeah. You really made her mad." Amethyst says.

"And then you insulted her to her face." Pearl says.

"Do you know what this means?!" Steven asks Peridot.

"That I'm a traitor to my home world?" Peridot says in pain.

"You're a Crystal Gem!" Steven says happily and hugs Peridot.

"Whether you like it or not." Garnet says, Peridot groans loudly and I take a seat on the ground. I looked at the communicator. I rotated it around and looked at the other colors, feeling an intense headache and a tense of loss.

"Yellow… Diamond.. Huh?" I say and place the communicator in my pocket.