The Temps sat on the hill beside the old storage lot, watching the sunrise. Connie sleepily played her violin, laying on Lion, thinking she could stay up. They had worked on the drill all night, and were about to go home. She suddenly heard a prim voice behind her. "Connie, what are you all doing? This isn't very productive."

She turned to Pearl and gave a small smile. "Good morning, Pearl."

"They aren't working on the drill like they need to be. We don't have much time left!"

"We don't know that. Besides, we worked all day, we deserve a tiny break." Connie smiled. Pearl looked sour and adjusted a rose crown on her head that she wore a lot recently. Connie had her violin out and grinned. "Want to help me with some music I'm writing?"

Pearl sighed. "I am familiar with music, but I don't think I'll be any good at Earthen songs."

"Hm, why don't you just try singing with me? Follow along."

Pearl blinked and blushed slightly as Connie started to play.

"Life and death and love and birth and peace and war on the planet Earth. Is thee anything that's worth more than peace and love in the Earth?" Connie sang with a smile and her eyes closed. "Hm, hm, hmm, it is so lonely, so won't you please sing this with me?"

"Connie, please-" Pearl whispered.

"Get the memo, stick with my tempo, and repeat after me!" Connie grinned. "Life and death and love and birth!"

"Life and death and love and birth," Pearl sang with a whisper.

"You have such a pretty voice! Please, don't hide it!" Connie begged. Pearl rolled her eyes before joining Connie in finishing the verse. "And peace, and war on the planet Earth!"

"Incredible!" Connie twirled, and beamed at Pearl. "You should make a song!"

"M-Me?" Pearl asked, glancing around as if she could be talking to someone else.

"Yeah!"

"What would you like it to be about?"

"What would you? It's your song!" Connie said.

"...Hmmm…" Pearl muttered.

Later that morning, Connie, Lapis, Peri, and Jasper sat around a campfire as Pearl sang. "I miss her so much, and she is so so far away… All I can do now, is try to live in this place. And even though I hate you all! ...I suppose you will do. Though I miss her, I will still try to help you!" She finished. Connie clapped. "Perfect!"

"Life and death and love and birth and-" Connie sang.

Lapis pounded on metal with a hammer. "Life and death and love and birth and-"

"Life and death and love and birth and peace and war on the planet Earth." Peridot sang, opening a hatch on a engine.

"Is there anything that's worth more?" Jasper whispered in song.

"Oh, is there anything that's worth more?" Connie sang.

"Is there anything that's worth more, than peace and love on the planet Earth…" Pearl finished.

About a day later, they stood proud in front of the drill. Jasper hit Pearl hard on the back as a sign of trust, but it knocked Pearl to the ground. The thin gem breathed for air while the rest giggled. Connie helped her up with a smile.

"I have to admit, … we may have a chance." Pearl smiled softly.

"Oh! You said we! You consider us a team!" Connie cried.

"I didn't say that." Pearl rolled her eyes and made sure her rose crown was on straight. It was a prized possession of the gem's, but it had started to wilt and dry. "Oh! Oh no, I can't believe I forgot!" She suddenly gasped. "We need the coordinates of the Cluster in order for this to work! Where are we to get those?"

"Hmm… The closest base near us that would have that kind of information would be the long forgotten Diamond Base. However, getting there is near impossible." Peridot said, looking up at the sky.

"A… Diamond base?" Connie said dryly, for once in her life, not feeling ready to go.

"Yes. It is indeed. It has no warp pad and it is on…" Peridot looked up and Connie breathed out in a whisper, "the moon…"

Peridot frowned. "Yes. Why isn't anything clicking with you? Jasper, I told you, humans need to-"

"I'm fine." Connie grunted out. She went over to Lion and sighed. "Um, Lion, we have to go to the moon, would you please make us a warp there?"

Lion gave a moan and stretched, ignoring her.

"Lion, please, we have to. The Cluster will destroy everything! The whole Earth! There will be nothing left. There won't be any more fun times with friends, Lion Lickers, naps-"

Lion then got up with a determined growl, has eyes white with power. Soon, he had all the gems on his back with Connie and Pearl in his mane. He growled and then gave a mighty roar, creating a portal. He leapt in and Connie gave a yell in excitement. "This never gets old!" Next to her, Pearl was screaming. Lion created more portals, increasing speed once he went through. They soon slammed against a solid wall and all got off.

"Ugh! Never again!" Pearl cried, picking off yellow fur from her dress. Connie meanwhile hugged Lion, who was near asleep from all the jumps he had made.

"It's okay, Lion, it's okay. You've earned your naps for the week!" Connie whispered in his ear before kissing his head and walking off. The Temps and Pearl, excluding Connie and Lapis turned on their gems as lights in the dark.

Connie was surprised to find she could breathe here on the moon, either there was concealed oxygen on this base or her gem half was the only thing keeping her from suffocating. "This is the moon…. I never knew a base was up here, of all places!"

Lapis looked around and pressed a random button, a door opened and air sucked out of the base and revealed the surface of the moon. She was quick to close it. "… We're the moon alright."

Connie had started to float up into the air and gasped in surprise. "Look! There truly is zero gravity, even in here! How do you all stay put?"

Peridot gave a squeak in panic. "Connie!" She tried to leap up to get the girl down but landed flat on her face. "Ow."

"Get your face off the floor." Pearl moaned. "Your instincts must've forgotten we are gems? We were made to conquer other planets?" Lapis looked confused. Pearl rolled her eyes. "We adapt to any gravity of any planet."

Connie soon backed into a wall and fell to the ground. The girl looked up at the wall. The girl felt her heart thud. She soon felt a hand on her shoulder and limply got up. She turned to Pearl. "Who is that?"

"That's Pink Diamond." Pearl whispered. Connie looked up at the mural of a small Diamond, holding the Earth in her hand.

The Temps hadn't noticed Connie, they had all grown too distracted.

"If you're her guardians I suggest you…" Pearl stopped speaking and dragging a still mesmerized Connie when she saw what they were looking at. Jasper turned to them, and took Connie's hand, waking the girl up.

"Mom." Connie whispered, looking up at the ginormous woman in the mural. Lapis had flew up and was looking at the face while Peridot had fallen to a sitting position. It was silent for a few moments until a cough interrupted it all.

"This really is old." They turned to Pearl. Connie trotted up to Peri and helped her up while Lapis had shadowy eyes as she landed.

"What do you mean?" Connie asked tentatively.

"All symbolism of Yellow Diamond is gone on Homeworld, we all may have been made to serve our own Diamond, but that all faded away thousands of years ago. Pink Diamond rules all now."

"What?" Connie breathed in surprise.

Peridot tensed and Jasper looked almost… worried. Pearl avoided Jasper and Peri's looks and spoke up, "Look, there's a control panel!"

Connie went after her slowly and Pearl inspected the ground. "Ah… um… ah! Here it is." Pearl touched a certain panel and stairs suddenly came up from the ground, rolling Lion off them.

"Well, come on." Pearl sighed. The others followed. Most walked up the large stairs while Lapis flew beside them. "We are walking in the footsteps of the Diamonds, your mother had to be here at one time, Connie." Connie gave a nod, and kept jumping up the stairs, as if she didn't want to hear it. They entered a room with a mysterious object in the center.

"What is this room?" Connie asked.

"Not important at the moment." Pearl said stiffly and walked on.

Lapis sighed. "This place is kinda freaking me out, can we please hurry?"

They soon reached the top and saw a giant chair, and a giant control panel. Connie stared out the window at space and whispered. "We really are on the moon…"

Pearl and Peri both ran to a smooth white control table and boggled at it.

"It so beautiful…" Pearl whispered. "This is ancient but look at it! It's so elegant, so pure, oh! Isn't it perfect?"

"It's a table." Jasper replied bluntly, crushing the mood.

Connie meanwhile had turned to a huge chair behind the table and for some reason, felt like she should sit there, but why? It wasn't hers… Connie glanced down at her gem and realized. The girl climbed up into the chair and gently placed her palm on a hand switch. The controls lit up suddenly. "Oh! That's how it works I guess!"

"Connie! Why are you sitting there?!" Pearl gasped. "Only the… Oh… right…"

Connie patted beside her on the seat. "Would you like to try it, Pearl?"

"Me?! Sit there? With you?" Pearl gapped, eyes looking starstruck.

"Yes! I, Connie Universe, as the living embodiment of Yellow Diamond, allow you to sit here." Connie beamed. Pearl looked at the others, as if they would stop her, she looked ecspiclly wary of Jasper. When seeing they didn't intend to stop her, she walked up and hestaintly sat in the chair.

Pearl blushed. "I… I can't believe it…. me, a Pearl… sitting here."

"Not to ruin your big moment, but we have a job to do. This base isn't exactly ours." Jasper grunted, eying the doorway.

Pearl nodded in understanding. Connie saw a small little crystal in the arm of the chair, she carefully took it out. "Hm, I've never seen one of these before, not in any of the old gem architectures."

"Put that down!" Pearl snapped. The chair slid up to the controls and the woman searched quickly sifted through the files. "Aha!" She found the file and opened it. The thing made a intersection. "There it is. It's in the Beta kindergarten, where you came from, Jasper."

"Great." Jasper mumbled.

"Where is the Cluster?" Peridot asked.

"It is near the barn, two thousand five hundred units down." Pearl answered firmly. "We just need to feed this information to the drill and we should be able to defeat the Cluster."

"Great job. Now, let's go home!" Peridot announced. Lapis gave a sigh of relief and Pearl hopped down from the chair. Connie looked at them leave and called out, "Wait!... This is a control system, there could be plans from Homeworld on here, shouldn't we look?"

"That… is not a good idea." Jasper said.

"It is too, we have to know Homeworld's strategy!" Connie insisted. "Look, here's a file called Earth." Before the others could ask how she had found it so quickly, she clicked a button and the Earth suddenly hollowed out, holes drilling into it. Connie immediately regretted her choice, feeling guilt as she watched. Homeworld structures were everywhere, not a single home in sight.

"I know this may look grustome to you, but honestly, what use is this planet to Homeworld?" Pearl said matter of factly.

"Tell me who planned this." Connie demanded sharply.

"After Yellow Diamond left, they decided Earth was merely a place for another planet! So many gems could have been made, so many resources used, why would you all protect this place when it was so useful to us?" Pearl laughed, getting too wrapped up to even answer Connie's question.

Connie made her hands into fists but Jasper had already picked Pearl up. "Useful to us? Useful to US?! You're acting as if we are part of Homeworld!"

"Y-you should be, honestly! Your Diamond is gone!" Pearl protested. Lapis' eyes turned dark and water slammed into Pearl, freezing her to the wall.

"She may be, but she wouldn't have wanted this!" Lapis yelled, pointing to the projection.

"You would kill everything! Everything is important here, everything is special here! Yellow Diamond knew that, she knew everything!" Peridot growled. She grew soft and whispered. "You don't know anything."

"She knew everything?" Pearl laughed sharply. "She abandoned her home, her colony! And for what? Just Earth and the four of you! This planet was useful, she was the reason for it's destruction, she made it worthless! Your rebellion was for nothing!" The others all looked at her, furious.

"You're wrong." Connie hissed. Jasper suddenly grabbed Pearl by the neck and lifted her up, shattering the ice.

"Talk like that again, and you're shattered… Got it?" Jasper whispered sharply. Pearl wilted slightly. "WELL?!"

"Jasper, put her down." Connie ordered softly, sliding down from the chair. Jasper looked back at her, fire in her eyes. "Now….She isn't worth shattering. I want go home. Please?" The fire vanished at the crack in the girl's voice and Pearl fell to the ground. Lapis froze the control panel and Jasper smashed it with a swift head butt, shattering it. Peri merely stared at Pearl, anger in her eyes. The rest walked in while Connie helped Pearl up.

"Come on." The girl said somomly. She started to walk away when Pearl spoke up. "Why did they do it? They had no chance to save the Earth."

"Pearl, they did have a chance, and we still do. I actually thought you beleived that." Connie whispered.

"Connie, Pearl, come on!" They heard Jasper yell. Connie walked away and turned when Pearl didn't come. "Pearl?"

"Er, yes, Connie?" Pearl said, nervously.

"C-Come on." Connie said. Pearl ran past and Connie stared at the gleaming crystal hidden in the bow of her dress. The hybrid narrowed her eyes.