A few weeks had passed and there were a few things that were new, such as Steven accidentally ending up in Lar's body. Lars was a lanky, slim and somewhat tall resident of Beach City who looked a little older than high school age. He wore tunnels in his stretched earlobes and he had curly, orange brown hair that was styled in a sort of mohawk. He wore a white-gray, long sleeved shirt with a green shirt sporting a snake design over it with a pair of ripped, dark blue jeans. He also wore mint and dark green high top sneakers. I only found out about it because he smacked Steven in the face to get him to wake up.

Steven and Connie apparently fused into Stevonnie and ran into someone named Kevin. They beat him in a car race. Then Steven accidentally reignited an old feud between restaurant owners Mr. Fryman and Kofi Pizza. So all of us had to make a new restaurant so that the feud would end. Then Steven helped Kiki with her nightmares by using his astral projection ability and found out that the only reason she was having nightmares was because she was overworked at Fish Stew Pizza while her sister, Jenny skipped.

"Oh no! MC Bear-Bear, you've got a tear-tear!" Steven said one day while we were hanging out in our shared room. "I should have been more careful. We've lost too many good bears. Don't worry. You're hurt, but I'll look after you. Mwah!" Steven kisses the bear on the forehead and it starts to sparkle diamonds and the tear puts itself back to better.

"Woah." I said. I hadn't seen Steven's healing powers in action before.

"Guys? Guys?!" Steven yells joyfully and runs down the stairs and sees the Gems in the kitchen.

"What's up, little Ste-cup?" Amethyst asked.

"We were just about to put away the dishes." Pearl said holding a plate, Steven takes it away from her and holds it up in the air.

"Look what I can do!" Steven yelled happily and smashed the plate on the ground. Pearl had a face of absolute shock while Amethyst looked ecstatic.

"All right! It's a Ste-party!" Amethyst cheered happily.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Pearl asked, still confused and shocked.

"My healing spit is back!" Steven said happily showing his hand and then pointing towards our room. "I fixed a rip on MC Bear-Bear! Here, I'll show you!" Steven licked his hand and aimed his hand towards the broken plate but Pearl's hands stopped him.

"Fine, fine, I believe you. I don't want you touching a broken plate. I'll find a broom." Pearl said looking away.

"I'll find some other stuff to break!" Amethyst cheers and runs off with Pearl following her in a panic.

"No, Amethyst!" I walked over to join Steven who was standing near Garnet.

"Now that my healing spit is back... maybe I can finally-" Steven trails off looking towards the Temple Door.

"No." Garnet said firmly.

"What? But, I didn't even ask anything yet." He whines.

"With my future vision, I can see you're going to ask if you could use your power to heal one of the monsters in the bubble room." Garnet said, placing her hand on her visor.

"Can you see if I can get you to change your mind?" Steven asked, bringing his hands together in a begging motion. He gives her the puppy dog eyes. Garnet's gemstones open the door and all of us head to the room.

"This is the Bubble Room?" I asked. "Wait, I just realized something, I've never been inside the Temple before!" The room had a lava pit in the center and had thousands of Gemstones floating around in the ceiling.

"It's actually called The Burning Room." Garnet explained, helping me down. "The room is deep in the Temple's basement and is connected to the Crystal Heart." She points to a huge, red, crystal structure. "This is where all the Corrupted Gems and some Cluster Gems are stored."

"Why did you agree to this?" Pearl asked after her explanation.

"I lost a battle of will." Garnet said and I couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Here it is!" Steven yelled and jumped high above and placed his hands around a pink bubble. The gem was circular in shape and colored light green with dark green contour lines surrounding the center of the gem, connecting to a circular shape. "Gotcha!"

"Is that.." Pearl trailed off, her face filled with sadness and regret.

"It's Centipeetle. If I can help any of them, I want to help her first." Steven said and Amethyst walks over to him with her whip in hand and pulls a bubbled Chaaaaps to her.

"Don't forget these! She said and Steven gasped.

"Chaaaaps! They're her favorite!" Steven said and looked over to us. I walk over and stare at the gemstone.

"That's a Nephrite right?" I asked no one in particular.

"Ne-" Steven accidentally releases the bubble and a white light with a green outline glows. There was a form of a giant centipede-like creature with the gemstone in what seemed to be on the head as the eye. She screeches and I cover my ears.

'Why was I unbubbled?!' A voice yelled in my head and I felt tears run down my eyes. Amethyst pulls me away as I continue to stare in shock.

"Come on dude, do your thing!" Amethyst yelled as we reached Pearl and Garnet.

"Be careful!" Garnet yelled and the Centipeedle drops to the ground and hisses at Steven.

'Go away!' She yelled and Steven licks his hand the slaps it on her gem. A bright white light blinded my eyes for a split second and the gemstone's eye opened and blinked and everyone gasped. Nephrite reappears in a more humanoid form. Her eye was no longer inside of her mouth and her posterior had an insect-like abdomen, which tipped with claw-like cerci. She wore a torn-up light gray midriff that tapers off of her right shoulder, brown gloves and boots that reach her mid-calf and a black bodysuit with green accents. Her hair was wild and white in the shape of a mane.

"Is it working?" Peridot asked. Nephrite turns around in shock and screeches 'Where am I?!'

"It worked!" Steven cheered, pumping his fist into the air and grabbing the bubbled Chaaaaps. He walks over to her.

"Uh, Steven?" Pearl asked. Nephrite falls on the floor in confusion.

"Centi, you're back!" Steven cheered and she hisses at him, making him stop in his place. 'Go away!'.

"Whoa! What's the matter? Don't you want some Chaaaaps?" He asked, showing her the bubbled bag.

'Why won't you listen to me?!' She yelled. Amethyst sighs.

"I don't think she remembers them." She said.

"Forget the Chaaaaps" Steven said, pushing the bubble into the air, making Nephrite watch it float upwards. "You remember me, don't you?" She tilts her head in confusion.

"I have a bad feeling this didn't work how I wanted it to work." Steven said looking at us and I walked forward. Nephrite yells at me.

'Go away!' and I stop a few feet behind Steven.

"Hmm, possibly not. Oh! Don't go closer!" Pearl yelled as Steven walked up to Nephrite, who had green liquid acid pouring from her mouth.

"Maybe she just needs a little extra love!" Steven said and kissed her gemstone. Nephrite blinks in pain.

'What?' She whines in pain and moves her arm rubbing her eye. 'Why would he kiss my eye?!' She backs away further and yells at Steven. 'Hey!'

"Steven, you shouldn't just kiss someone's eye." I said and he laughs nervously.

"Uh, oops?" He said as Nephrite narrows her eyes at him.

"Hmm. This is the best we've ever seen it work." Garnet said to Pearl.

"But it didn't work. I guess it'll take more than a kiss to heal damage from the Diamonds." Pearl said sadly.

"But why? My healing powers are back. I-I should be able to do this." Steven asked, walking towards them though I walk towards Nephrite while they're talking to each other. She glares at me.

'What do you want?' She screeched angrily.

"Your name is Nephrite right?" I ask her.

'Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12.' She said. 'Do you know where my squadron is?'

"Squadron?" I asked.

'I was the caption of a squadron that served Pink Diamond and our commander Hessonite. We were sent in a ship to colonize Earth, though unfortunately we were trapped on Earth during the Rebellion.' She then hides behind me in fear and I turn around to see Amethyst walking forward with her whips.

"No! Leave Nephrite alone!" I yell protectively.

"It's time to let her rest again." Garnet said and I glared back.

"No! We can get answers from her!" I said and looked back at the Semi-corrupted Gem. "Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12, that's what she told me."

"What?"

"Impossible."

"No way."
"You can understand her?" Steven asked and I nodded.

"Can't you guys too?" I asked and they shook their heads no.

"I forgot." Garnet said, making everyone look at her. "Suha, this is your first time seeing a Corrupted Gem." I nod.

"I could understand her before Steven healed her and after." I explained. "Can we at least let her stay until she's too far gone?"

"Fine." Garnet said and walked to the exit.

"What are we going to do with her? Let her move in?" Pearl asked.

"Aw yeah! Corrupted roommate!" Amethyst cheered.

"Oh Amethyst, be sensitive." Pearl said and Steven gasped.

"She can stay on the couch!" Steven cheered.

"Uh, we're…. Really doing this?" Pearl asked nervously.

"She can stay un-bubbled. But you have to understand. Some Gems are beyond our help." Pearl said to us. The Gems walked away and Steven led her towards the exit.

"I'll be there soon." I said looking up at the bubbles. The more I stared up at them the more I felt a deep sense of mourning.

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Let's go in the garden

You'll find something waiting

Right there where you left it lying upside down

When you finally find it, you'll see how it's faded

The underside is lighter when you turn it around

Everything stays right where you left it

Everything stays

But it still changes

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

In little ways, when everything stays

Go down to the ocean

The crystal tide is rising

The waters' gotten higher as the shore washes out

Keep your eyes wide open, even when the sun is blazin'

The moon controls the tide, it can cause you to drown

Everything stays, right where you've left it

Everything stays, but it still changes

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

In little ways

When everything stays

By the time I reached Steven and Nephrite Nephrite was using a dark green crayon to speak to Steven. I took a seat and noticed Nephrite had written her name in Gem Glyph, though her handwriting was messy and she had written it in cursive. I looked at some of the other pages and noticed that they were all written in the language. Why can I read this? And how did I know that she was Nephrite? It seemed that the questions I had for myself just seemed to grow.

"Do you remember anything from before you- I-I mean, from long ago?" Nephrite pauses and draws a spaceship. "It's you in... some kind of spaceship? Is that how you came to Earth?" She adds onto her drawing."What are you drawing now?" A couple other Nephrites. "Huh. They look kind of like you. Was that... your crew?"

'Yep.' Nephrite squaked and Steven gasped.

"You were a captain? That's so cool! I'm sorry, that's so cool, sir!" He gets up and salutes to her. "Oh, yeah, you guys don't salute like that. You go like... Mm." He tried to do the Diamond salute but failed. "Ow, ow! Oh, this looked so easy when Peridot did it." Nephrite and I do the salute at the same time at the same time and Steven asped. "Yeah! Like that!" I release my arms.

"It's not that hard to do Steven." I said. "Maybe it's because your arms are too short?" He starts to laugh but pauses as Nephrite repeats the salute a couple times.

"My Diamond.." She said in realization and started drawing again.

"It's you... saluting... You're saluting someone... Your commander? She gave you an order... You and your crew... and your ship. Woah, lots of ships. You flew through space. Towards Earth. You landed and started building stuff. But then... the Gem war...! You joined the fight…" She draws a line on her figures.

"They were shattered." I said as Steven looked on in horror.

'Yes.' Nephrite said. 'It was horrible.' She continues on.

"You and your crew kept going." Steven said and she ripped the drawing so that she is away from her crew. "You got separated, but you were still fighting. Then, new orders from your commander... to retreat. Everyone's running, but from what? You don't know. Where's your crew? Where's your ship?! You stopped. You heard something. From the sky, a sound. A song? And then…" Nephrite cries in sadness and breaks her crayon in half. "That light. Where did it come from?" She continues drawing and after she finishes, The Great Diamond Authority symbol appeared on the white-out drawing.

"How could they?" I asked though I paused looking at the missing Diamond at the bottom. "Where's Pink?" I felt tears run down my face and Nephrite collapsed to the ground, coughing and spitting up acid, making the floor disintegrate.

"Are you okay?!" Steven yelled as her left arm mutated back into its corrupted form.

'Steven!' Nephrite yelled in pain.

"You're reverting. Here, I'll heal you again!" He yells and licks his hand and touches Nephrite's arm. Her arm glitches for a split second but it remains corrupted.

"'Why isn't it working?! How can I help you!?'" The two of them yell at the same time. Nephrite scrambles to the ground and picks up a piece of paper.

"How can we help you?!" Steven and I yelled and she showed us the Diamond symbol.

"I don't understand!" Steven yelled back.

'Ship! Ship!' She yelled at me.

"Steven! Are there any ships left?!" I asked.

"Yeah! Where Pearl and Garnet made up!" He yelled and I pulled Nephrite along towards the Warp Pad. Steven ran towards up and activated it. Tears fall from Nephrite's eyes as she runs forward.

'It's here!' She yelled and ran forward.

"Hey! Wait for us!" We yelled and followed her.

'Steven!' Nephrite called out. 'No, not yet!' We paused in horror as she fell to the ground and the white light reappeared.

"Oh no!" Steven yelled. Nephrite's original form had appeared. She had roughly thirteen visible dark-green segments that each had one pair of similarly colored legs. The final segment didn't have legs, but instead a pair of claw-like cerci. Each of the segments were covered on the top side with a solid crystal covering. Her head was a large pair of jaws/mandibles with a gem in the back of the "mouth". There was also a green crystal protuberance on the base of the head that formed a broken horn-like structure. She had a flowing, light-cream colored mane immediately behind her head.

"Nephrite…" I said in pain. She ran forward towards a large ship that looked like a flying saucer. It was made out of a dull gray, stone like material with three legs. The pink paint had completely eroded away apart from a small amount on the rim of the far edges. Nephrite ripped through the vines and I noticed the hand scan from before that was too small for Nephrite to reach. I moved my hand through the vines and a door opened with dust clouds floating out of it. We followed Nephrite forward. The interior was mostly a dull, stony gray, with salmon-pink crystals and consoles that were overgrown with mushrooms and other vegetation for what seemed to be thousands of years.

"We're in! What now?" Steven asked and we looked up at the ceiling to see two other Nephrites that were turned into Centipeetles. "Other Centipeetles?" Nephrite crawled up the wall and joined the other Nephrites.

'You're back!' One of the Nephrites said, her voice slightly higher.

'We missed you.' The other said.

'It's good to be back.' Nephrite said happily.

"Hey now! This is my style!" Amethyst appeared behind us and shapeshifted herself into a corrupted Nephrite.

"Can I hang with you, dudes?" Amethyst asked, her voice lower.

"Amethyst, don't make fun!" Pearl scolded with Garnet right behind her.

"I'm not! Ugh!" Amethyst whined back and returned herself to normal.

"You guys were right after all. I couldn't help Centipeetle." Steven said, defeated.

"You brought the Centipeetle back to her ship. You brought her back to her crew. They've been waiting here for her. They didn't want to leave her behind." Garnet said softly.

"Wait... how did you know any of that?" Steven asked, confused. Garnet pulled a stack of paper forward.

"She told us." Garnet explained, Pearl and Amethyst looking at the paper happily. Garnet passes Steven the stack.

"Her drawings?" He asked.

"Her writing." Garnet and I said.

"It's actually decently legible!" Pearl said happily.

"Wait, you understand it too?" Steven asked and I felt eyes on me.

"Yes…." I said. "Don't ask me how?"

"You're so cool!" Steven said and I smiled at him. Nephrite crawls over toward us and nuzzles us happily. I smile at her.

"Congratulates Nephrite, I hope you and your crew are happy." I told her.

'Thank you.' She said. 'And Steven too. What's your name?'

"Suha."

'Suha and Steven, a good pair.' I blush and look away.

"You look so happy here. Can we let the Centipeetles stay?" Steven shows them his puppy dog eyes.

"You can put those puppy dog eyes away, Steven. This ship, it's their bubble now." We leave the ship and I take one last look at the Nephrites, looking at them happy with their company. I close the door and we walk towards the warp pad.

"Pearl! Pearl! Pearl!" Steven said happily. "Will you teach me to write in Gem?"

"Oh, Steven, it's very complicated. And you won't have much use for it." Pearl explained. Steven looks through the drawings.

"Oh, just a few things, like, "Hi, how are you?", "Where's the bathroom?", and…" He paused on the Diamonds symbol and looked over at me. The look of sorrow on his face was easy to place.

"And "I'm sorry."" We said.