Connie was fast asleep, snuggled up in her blanket and gently snoring. Her head rested on a open book and her bedroom light hadn't been turned on when the shadowy figure entered the room.
"Hey, kid, wake up." Jasper hissed. Connie gave a mumble and slept on. "Kid? Kid!"
"Mmm… Jasper?" Connie whispered, her eyes opening slowly. "Is it morning?"
"Nope! It's midnight!" Jasper said cheerfully. "Happy Birthday, kiddo!"
"Thanks Jasper." Connie beamed. "Why did you wake me up so early though? I need eight hours of sleep, you know. If I don't get those hours, I'll be much less efficient in battles and conver-"
"I came to tell you more about me, and about Homeworld, like I should have before Garnet and her team came." Jasper said. Connie blinked in surprise.
"Wait, are you serious?" Connie gasped, diamonds in her eyes.
"Yeah, you want to know how I joined your mom and the Temps?"
"Of course I do!" Connie cried, wondering if it would be anything like the fanfics she had secretly wrote.
Jasper smirked and sat down on the bed, the thing sagged and Connie slid right onto her. Connie grinned and Jasper gave a cough, "So… it all began about… 5,000 years ago, when Pink Diamond was watching over the Earth, her planet… I was there, as her guard, along with a Agate."
In Connie imagination, the stage came. They were in a cloud area, surrounded by gems of all kinds. And there, in all her mighty power was Pink Diamond, sitting in her palanquin. Outside, stood Jasper, her Jasper, and beside her stood another. They fiercely guarded the Diamond. "I… um… was kinda despised for being over-cooked, but Pink Diamond found me useful, placing me as a guard alongside the Agates."
Jasper was waiting and turned to see a small blue figure approach. "Pink Diamond was expecting a Sapphire, a rare gem, to tell her the future. Of course, that was the Sapphire that would eventually make Garnet. I saw behind her were three Ruby guards, all nervous." Jasper nodded to them and two acknowledged the gesture while the one on the end was too distracted by staring at the beautiful Sapphire. Jasper heard Sapphire and Pink Diamond speaking to each other, about how they should flee, for the rebels were coming, and how Saphire's, along with two of her Ruby guards and most of the gems present's physical form would be destroyed, and she taken to be shattered. Jasper turned to see Saphire walk out.
Sapphire stood next to her Ruby guard and smiled. "I truly do wish I could be helpful to this fight, and my Diamond."
"You are being helpful." Ruby said, glancing at her.
"No, no, I mean-" Saphire was interrupted by a sudden booming voice.
"PINK! STOP THIS MADNESS, NOW. WE DID NOT AGREE TO HARM THIS PLANET!" Yellow Diamond yelled, stepping out from the clouds and growing to her full height. Beside her, stood her Peridot. Ruby stepped protectivly in front of Sapphire and Jasper made her helmet.
"Yellow?" Jasper turned and was shocked to see her Diamond look torn at after hearing her sister's voice.
"Pink…" Yellow sighed. "I can't let you hurt this place, you need to leave, do you hear me?!"
"Go, go my Diamond!" Jasper yelled. Pink Diamond gave a sad sigh and retreated, leaving Jasper to fight. The Peridot lunged at her, using her metal powers to slam Jasper to the ground before snapping her head to Saphire. The other rubies had fused with rhe one protecting her and gave a moan when Peridot sliced through them, poofing two. The last and lone Ruby looked at Sapphire, frightened by the destabilizing of gems around her. Jasper struggled, trying to get up. A Peridot, beating her!
Sapphire turned to Ruby and whispered, "I suppose this is the end. Goodbye."
Ruby watched Yellow Diamond walk up with a sollom face, her hand glowing. "NO!" Ruby yelled, and she ran to Sapphire, pushing her away. Jasper watched open mouthed as a new gem appeated. She was a woman with poofy pink and blue hair, and the same colors went along her mix-match clothes. The gems that were left gasped and Peridot's metal weaked in shock. Jasper lunged out, making Peridot fall back in fear. Yellow Diamond looked almost disgusted but her exsprsion softened when Pink Diamond approached. Pink glanced at Yellow with a suprised exspresion. The new fusion, Garnet, suddenly turned to Peridot and smirked.
"Guess I can be useful." Garnet grinned. "Thank you, Ruby." Jasper then saw the fusion lunged at Peridot and poofed her. Jasper gave a start in shock and was… almost… angry at the fusion. She had hurt a gen who was protecting who she was made for.
"HEY!" Jasper growled and then covered her mouth when all eyes looked at her. Garnet narrowed her eyes while Yellow's looked distrustful, but surprised.
Yellow gave a growl and her hand glowed. She suddenly destabilized Garnet before the crowd's eyes, then nearly all the crowd, besides the lone Jasper and Pink Diamond. The leader scooped up her ally. She gave one last look at Pink before leaping away. Jasper felt the urge to follow them but just then, Ruby and Sapphire reformed.
"Sapphire, you… you didn't tell me you could do this." Pink started. "You were so powerful."
"I didn't know." Sapphire said smoothly. Ruby looked between the two.
"Yellow has fled… and I need you to hunt her down." Pink Diamond demanded. Ruby and Sapphire glanced at each other with amazment. Pink Diamond had seen their power, togther, and hadn't despised it. "You, go with this Ruby and Sapphire, and find the rebellion." Pink Diamond was looking straight at Jasper when she said, "And if you try to do otherwise then hunt it down, I'm sorry to say, you will be punished."
Jasper gulped in fear, sensing all the gems looking at her.
Later, Ruby, Sapphire and Jasper were searching for the rebellion on Earth. Jasper felt at home, while Ruby and Sapphire, who were being protected by the Quartz, were looking amazed at their surroundings.
"I sure hope we can do that again, or Pink Diamond will be upset." Ruby said.
Sapphire gave a nod. "I never got a chance to thank you, Ruby."
"Oh, er, uh…" Ruby blushed and Jasper smirked a smile at her, "Oh ho ho! Someone wants to fuse again!" Ruby blushed harder and ran up to Jasper, and playfully punched her. Sapphire smiled, lifting her skirts away from the fire on the ground.
"So. How… did you two do that?" Jasper whispered. Ruby glanced at Sapphire.
"I-I don't know. I just couldn't let that Peridot hurt Sapphire, so I acted." Ruby shrugged.
Sapphire looked away from the two and said, "I didn't foresee it coming. You changed the track of fate, Ruby." She looked back at Jasper and frowned slightly. "But why did you get upset when we… she poofed the Peridot?"
"Um… I just saw that look in her eyes, she was scared, and I have seen millions of Peridots get scared, but that fear wasn't for her own well being, I could tell it was for Yellow Diamond." Jasper explained. "I've never seen a selfless Peridot before."
"Neither have I…" Sapphire said in a sigh. "It's because they don't exist." She then said sharply. Jasper glanced down at the little gem who had a neutral face. "Jasper… she'll say no."
"Who will? To what?"
But Sapphire said no more.
Later, they soon found a cave to stay in. They all sat down and Jasper felt rather awkward as she was much taller than the others.
"So… er, have you two ever fused before?" Jasper whispered.
Sapphire shook her head. "I've never fused before. Certainly not with a Ruby."
Ruby sighed softly and surprisingly said: "I've never had a third eye before."
Sapphire smiled with a laugh and showed her own one eye, that was happy. "I've never had more than one!"
"Can you two even fight without each other?" Jasper smirked. Ruby made a small gauntlet while Sapphire suddenly froze Jasper's feet to the ground. Ruby grinned and ran up, leaping to Jasper's head and pounding it. Jasper grabbed Ruby by her right arm and Sapphire by her left. The two looked at each other like they were partners in crime.
"Easy, pipsqueaks." Jasper smirked, making Ruby laugh a gruff laugh and attempted to punch her again. "I gotta admit, for two short, weak gems, that's pretty cool. I mean, you can stop a lot of strong gems, together."
She put them down and glanced between them, "Will you… er, can you fuse again?"
Ruby and Sapphire looked surprised and glanced at each other.
"We can try." Ruby smiled sheepishly.
Jasper watched with a smile as Ruby took Sapphire's hand and led her outside. The gem softly started to sing: "It was quite strange, I'd never have thought, for them to be the victory Homeworld sought. She looked so bold, yet tender and taunt, she is the victory that Homeworld has sought."
Meanwhile, Ruby and Sapphire were laying on the grass, and Jasper soon joined them, they were all stargazing.
"Oh...um. Well I just can't stop thinking." Ruby softly sang.
"So...um. Did you say I was different?" Sapphire sang with a blush.
Jasper glanced at the two and saw they were both blushing while looking at each other.
"And you hadn't before?" Ruby sang.
"Of course not." Sapphire looked up at her. "When would I have ever?"
"This is so wrong," Ruby started.
"No, you're right with me." Sapphire sang.
"But we shouldn't be together!" Ruby sang with tears in her eyes.
"What about her?" Jasper interrupted. The two gems looked at her and sang together, "What about who?"
"That person you made, that person will last forever…" Jasper sang.
Sapphire suddenly started humming a beautiful tune. Jasper tilted her head. What a pretty song, She thought.
Ruby started to hum too and they hesitantly took hands. Then, they danced. With each twirl they grew happier and soon, Garnet was made. Jasper wrapped her arm around the fusion and smirked, "Nice to see you, pipsqueaks."
"It's Garnet now. We-I don't appreciate you teasing me." Garnet smiled back,
"Okay, okay." Jasper grinned, she then made her helmet. "Now show me what you can really do."
"Gladly!" Garnet smirked.
"I trained with Garnet all day, and we became friends, then again, we already were before." Jasper narrated over.
Garnet then pushed Jasper to the ground and smiled, "I am stronger than you!"
"Someday, G, I'm gonna say that to you…" Jasper smirked. "But for now…" she kicked her leg into Garnet's making the gem lose her balance. The fusion gave a cry, rolling down a hill of cherry blossoms. Jasper laughed and then realized Garnet hadn't come up to mash her to the ground. "Hey G, you okay?"
"Get away from her-me!" She heard Garnet yell. Jasper made her helmet and slid down the hill, quickly. She gave a growl when the Peridot held her pole to her gem.
"Peridot, wait." They all heard and a smaller Yellow Diamond walked out. She was slightly taller than Jasper at the moment. The Diamond looked at Jasper, then at Garnet. "I've never seen a two-kind fusion… You could be useful, you both could be useful to our cause." Yellow said. Peridot glanced between them as if she couldn't tell which massive stranger she hated most.
Garnet unfused, Ruby and Sapphire holding hands in her place.
"We don't work with rebels!" Ruby growled. "Were here to capture you!"
Yellow Diamond smirked and whispered coldy, "I'd love to see you two try."
Sapphire meanwhile was firm and she gripped Ruby's hand harder. "Leave us out of your rebellion. We wish to be together."
"And you can be." Yellow Diamond said.
The two small gems glanced at each other and Sapphire suddenly gave a sigh, "You truly don't know what things will happen to you…." She suddenly grabbed Ruby's hand and they fused. Garnet looked at Jasper and gave a gentle wave, "We'll meet again, I'm sure."
Jasper looked at her dumbfounded. "Garnet, you can't leave!"
"I can and will." Garnet replied. "Homeworld needs me, I'll win this war for my Diamond, not her. Will you?"
Jasper stuttered when Yellow gave a growl. Her hands shot out destabilizing powers, but Garnet leapt up into a tree. The woman glanced down at Jasper and smiled, "Sapphire told you'd I'd say no." She leapt away.
Jasper attempted to run after her, to plead for her to stay, but Peri grabbed her arm.
"The fusion is gone. Will you join the Temps? You're free here, I promise you as a once servent myself." Peridot smiled.
Jasper looked at her, then at Yellow Diamond. "But Garnet, she's my friend-"
"That's not how it works around this planet. She made her choice." Yellow Diamond snapped sharply and then softened. "Now make yours…"
Connie lay in bed, eyes wide. "And…?" She whispered.
"What do you think I chose, rascal?" Jasper chuckled, ruffling her head.
Connie giggled and then sighed softly. "I wish… I wish Garnet would've joined, maybe things would be different."
"She made her choice…." Jasper muttered. She had stopped smiling. "But… part of me wishes she had stayed too."