And Jewel, we love you."
Suddenly Jewel jolts awake and stumbles as the ground begins to violently shake and crack, as from this the chalkboard previously used by Peridot falls on top of her as she pushes it open seeing words on it which read, 'Cluster Emerges bye bye Earth' seeing this she looked around before spotting Peridot and Anaya as Peridot said calmly before sounding terrified.
"If you're done sleeping Jewel, maybe it's about time that we stop the world from ending!" Jewel nods to her as while going towards them to the Drill Anaya asks. "Where are the others?" They begin to climb the ladder to the drill when Jewel told them. "They're stuck on Mask Island. We have to drill without them!"
"Okay then, it's then up to just the three of us." She then asks. "Jewel, Anaya, are you ready to drill down into the planet to depths never before reached by human species to stop the Cluster before it forms and save our world?!"
When finished, Jewel and Anaya looked at each other as Anaya gave a nod, which Jewel smiled at before looking at Peridot as she said. "We're ready." Peridot smiled saying. "That's great to-" Before she could finish the ground continues to shake, causing them to scamper into the drill's cockpit in a hurry.
Meanwhile inside the Drill
"Ready or not, we have a mission."
After saying that Peridot starts up the drill and shouts. "Increasing speed!" As the Drill digs deep into the ground Anaya says. "Alright. Bracing for impact." Jewel and Peridot look at her as Jewel explains. "It's actually two more hours to the Cluster."
"Oh." Anaya said as she looked out at the window of the Drill and said. "Wish I'd brought some tunes for us to hear." Peridot smiles and turns on some elevator music. "We had that prepared just in case."
Anaya smiled. "Thanks." The three then began to stay silent for some time as the Drill continues to move further down, as while going down they began to watch the layers of rock pass them, while watching Jewel soon shuts her eyes tightly and shakes her head, then talks to Peridot and Anaya.
"It's kinda...Freaky down here." Anaya asks curiously. "Why's that?" Peridot tells her. "It's just dark and a bit spooky." While continuing down the Earth's crust to reach the Cluster, the three began to look around in worry. "How'd you think you were gonna get everyone in here anyway?" When Anaya asked curiously Peridot told her. "We, don't know, they'd shrink or something. We didn't have a lot of time to plan." After telling her she then said. "Oh...So...What is the plan?"
When she asked Jewel told her. "We have a drill. We're going to drill." Soon Peridot shout. "Get ready, we're about to penetrate the asthenosphere!" After saying that they began to drill through the asthenosphere as they were surrounded by this molten looking material, as while going through it Anaya and Jewel looked in amazement.
"Whoa, it's all lava!"
Anaya said before Peridot told her. "Lava is what comes out of volcanoes. That's super-heated Peridotite." Jewel looked curious and asked. "Peridot...ite?" She nodded to her. "Yeah. It's made of the same stuff as Peridots."
"You were made on Homeworld, right?" When Jewel asked her she nodded as Anaya asked curiously. "What was it like?" Peridot soon told her. "I didn't exist. Then I did. I don't have memories of it, just feelings. I know I can never go back to Homeworld, but it's hard. Not to have some feelings for where you came from...But it's fine! I have something different now.
Jewel asks. "What's that?" Peridot then told her. "You know! Being there for you, Jewel...And the others." When she said that Jewel smiled at her with a blush, which Peridot began to blush too before the sound of banging is heard atop the compartment, causing them to stop and look up as Anaya asked.
"What's that sound?" A red hand then pushes against the glass, causing her to back away in shock and gasps. "A gem mutant!" Peridot realized and told them. "They must've buried some prototypes with the Cluster."
Jewel began to look around hearing more sounds. "They're all over us! They're attacking the drill! What do we do?" Peridot acts quickly and presses a button on the panel, as a weaponized CCTV camera projects from atop the cockpit, knocking a mutant off.
"Pearl didn't think it was necessary."
She then hands a Nintendo 64 controller to Anaya and Jewel as she continued. "But I never leave home without a blast cannon." Soon live footage of the gem mutants is displayed on the panel as an aiming guide, as both Jewel and Anaya control the cannon with the N64 controller, and blasts away the gem mutants, while they were blasting them away Jewel said. "Something doesn't feel right about this."
Peridot asks worriedly. "What do you mean Jewel?" She tells her. "It's just...These things. We can't just leave their gems out there. They're going to form again later. If I could just bubble them, then, they'd be safe." Just then a gem mutant arm, attempting to climb the compartment, loosens its grip and flies off.
"We've gotta help them." When Anaya said that Peridot shook her head and told her. "I'm sorry, there is no helping them. They're too broken. The beings who used to be in those shards are so shattered, they don't know who they are, or what's happening around them. They just seek out other gems, looking for the missing pieces of themselves. Trying to make themselves whole."
As she said that, a red gem mutant hand reaches out to the camera, before being blasted it away by the two controlling the cannon, after that Peridot tells them. "These early experiments only combine two or three shards. The cluster will be a billion times bigger. An inseparable fusion capable of destroying worlds, starting with this one." The drill then hits a layer of dense rock and starts to shake.
"We're hitting some denser rock! This is it!"
When announced, the drill pierces the ceiling of a huge opening and stops, the three began to look around with mobile binoculars attached to a flashlight, as they look Peridot told them. "Recovery depth achieved. Target found." They gasped when they spotted what they were looking for. "Is that..."
"The Cluster."
They looked at the Cluster and its surroundings tremor, as when it started to quake again the three shout in panic. "What's happening?" Jewel asked as the white matter ripples and surrounds the Cluster. "It's too late! It's taking form!" Anaya told them as the white matter rises up from the cluster to the drill.
"Jewel, Anaya, I'm sorry we couldn't save each other, our friends and family and the billions of other lifeforms. Do you have any last words?!" When she asked Jewel hugged her. "I love you, Peridot." She then hugs Jewel. "I love you too Jewel." Anaya then joined the hug as she said. "I love both Blue and Violet Pearl." When she began to cry the Drill began to shake violently, as the white matter rushes upwards, surrounding the Drill, causing the lights to flicker, and voices cry out from below, but then After a moment, the matter shapes into white hands, which brush past the Drill and reside back down to their source.
The three stopped what they were doing and looked down as Peridot observes the Cluster's outstretched arms on the screen making her tell the two. "It's still struggling to take its form! This means we still might have time. There's still a chance!" They smiled as Peridot reaches for the panel and presses some buttons and then grasps the steering handles.
"Just a little repositioning."
She soon pushes the steering handles, making the Drill's mechanical legs climb through the hole in the ceiling, suspending the Drill above the Cluster as Anaya said. "Peridot, I don't think we should hurt the Cluster. I don't think it knows what it's doing." Peridot told her.
"I know. But if it knows what it's doing. It's still going to do it." She then presses a button on the steering handle, making the Drill spin up and its legs jump down, as when it did that white hands reach out from the Cluster and surround the contraption, causing the three to scream as they fall.
The Drill then struggles to touch the cluster's surface against the force of the white matter, but eventually makes contact, as Jewel began to cover her face, groaning in pain Peridot looked over at her worried and asked worriedly. "What? Is the increased vibration causing damage to your head holes?" When she asked with Anaya looking worried Jewel told her as she holds her head.
"I don't know!" Peridot then told her as the Drill continues Drilling. "We're not even piercing the crust yet! I need to increase power! Are you going to be okay?" Jewel nodded telling her as Anaya nodded too. "Yeah. I think it's just the noise. I think. Keep going."
She nodded to them. "Affirmative. Activating triple tip penetration mode!" Just then the three drills separate in a triangular formation as the Cluster's outreached arms retreat, when it did that Jewel looks down at the cockpit floor and sees flashing hallucinations of ghoulish faces floating up towards her, she gasps in shock, as one of the drills breaks off, Jewel watching it from the glass and shouts.
"Runaway drill!"
Peridot then balances the contraption on its two remaining drills. "There! Just, gotta, keep balance!" When she said that Anaya then said. "Okay." When she said that Jewel looks out the window at the Cluster, with a nauseated expression on her face as she sees another ghostly face, its mouth widens in a groan as it rushes towards her as she screams and is knocked back, causing A second drill to break off as the machine spins around in unbalance.
"I don't know if it's going to hold!" Peridot shouts as she continues to Drill as the force of the spinning machine throws the three of them against their seats as Jewel grips her head and stomach, gritting her teeth in pain as she shout. "I don't understand what's happening!"
Peridot became more worried and asked. "What's wrong?!" Jewel tells her. "I don't know!" Her gem begins to glow as she sits upright in pain, panting heavily as Peridot rushes over to face her as she asked worriedly. "Jewel? Jewel?!" Jewel continued to sweat and pant heavily in pain, she then looks up and sees a vision of ghoulish faces floating up, her seat suspends above them as both Peridot and Anaya vanish, which Jewel noticed.
"Peridot? Anaya?"
Her gem continues to glows while the seat dissipates, when it did she floats into the darkness before soon finding herself suspended in what appears to be a starry sky as voices echo around her saying at the same time. "Must...Have to...Want to...Need to...Have to..." Jewel soon realizes that the gem shards are floating around her are the Cluster itself as they said.
"Want to...Need to...Want to..." A gem shard floats past her as a small broken voice can be heard from it as its glows saying. "Want to...Need to..." This made Jewel became curious and asked. "You...Want to? Want to what?"
A strong light emits around her and the voices cry out. "Form!" This made her cover her ears from the shouts as she asked. "Please! Stop!" The light dims and the voices calm as she said to herself with a nod. "Yep, it's the Cluster." She then asked.
"I'm talking to the Cluster?!"
Some of the voices began telling her in whispers as she asked. "But...How did I get inside your brain? Brains?" The Cluster only said. "Have to...Want to...Need to...Must!" Jewel gasps, knowing what they're or it's about to say. "Wait! Please don't take form!" The light returns as the Cluster chants aggressively after she told them. "Form! Form! Form! Form! Want form! Want form! Form!" Jewel covers her ears as the light and chanting stops.
"Maybe instead of forming you could do something else?" When she asked the light emits from the Cluster while gem shards cry and shout. "Form!" After covering her ears before telling them. "You've sure got the one-trackiest mind I ever met."
The Cluster said to her in a harmonized voice from the Gem Shards. "Need form!" Jewel covered the sides of her head where her ears would be before The Cluster told her. "To be whole."
"Whole?" Jewel asked as she began to notice the gem shard that floated past her earlier as it said. "Have to..." She soon told them. "You're shards. You just wanna find the rest of your gems. But forming won't help you find the rest of yourselves. You'll just destroy the Earth!"
The Cluster heard her and began saying, "No. No, no. No! No." Jewel soon told the Cluster. "But if you wanna find other gems, there's so many of you right here! Look." Jewel then pushes a gem shard near another saying. "Shard, meet Shard!" The shards glow as they speak to one another. "Have to..."
"Want to..."
She began to smile seeing them talk to one another as she said. "See? You already have so much to talk about." The Cluster's voices raise in commotion as they begin to speak to each other, while the bubbles of light surround her as she watches hearing them say to one another. "Hi! Oh, hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Oh, hi!" The cluster is soon engulfed in light from this as Jewel continued to smile.
"This is great! You don't even need to form. You can just stay here!" The Cluster says, now sounding calm and happy. "Want to stay." Links form between bubbles of light, as the light subsides momentarily, then returns, soon the Cluster cries out in anguish. "Can't stop! Going to form! Can't stop! Going to form! Help! Help! Help!"
Jewel now showing a worried expression says as she desperately tries to help the Cluster. "It's okay. If I just bubble you, you won't have to come out. It'll keep you safe. Here, look, like this!" She then bubbles the shards near her saying.
"I can bubble you! I can bubble you! I can bubble you! Ah. Well, that's five. Out of...Oh...I'm sorry! I can't do it alone!"
After telling them, the bubbles of light pulsate around her, pushing her as she starts to float away from the Cluster, as she grunts, reaching out to the light, as when she wakes up, Peridot is in front of her with Anaya behind her as she asked worriedly. "Jewel! Wake up!" Once Jewel comes to her senses, she sits upright and gasps.
"It doesn't wanna form!" After shouting Anaya became confused and asked. "What?" Jewel them told them. "We gotta put it in a bubble!" After telling them Peridot asked. "Bubble that?! But, there's no way-"
Before finishing, bubbles are then seen forming on the Cluster's surface, making them gasp as they watched, while watching Anaya said in surprise. "They're bubbling each other!" Soon as she said that Jewel began to bend down on one knee and places her hands on the cockpit floor as she said smiling.
"I've got you. You've got this. We've all got each other!" As she says that she encases the Cluster in a huge shiny bubble while it bubbled itself till it was completely bubbled, making it look like a giant rainbow bubble as the Drill began to reform its mechanical arms and climb out of its hole.
Minutes Later
After a little while the Drill soon made it to the top and reached out of the hole near the barn, when it made it up the contraption soon falls as Jewel, Peridot, and Anaya tumble out of the cockpit When they get up, Peridot hugs Jewel as Anaya hugged her too.
"You did it!"
When Peridot and Anaya told Jewel, she smiled and told them. "No...We did it together. And it was great!" Soon they hear the Warp Pad and look over at it, seeing Pearl, Yellow Pearl, Onyx, Soren, Amethyst, Pink Pearl, Garnet, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl and Steven have returned with Lapis who was being carried by Steven, unconscious in his arms as the three run over and hugged them with Jewel saying happily.
"Guys! You're back!" After breaking the hug she then noticed Lapis and asked. "Is Lapis okay?" When she asked Steven and the others look down at her as Steven said with a small smile. "She'll be fine." Pearl soon noticed the three smiling. "You three look happy! Did you destroy the Cluster?" When she asked Jewel shook her head. "No, I talked to it."
Her parents and the others looked confused, minus Peridot and Anaya, as Onyx said confused. "What?" Jewel then told them. "It didn't want to destroy the Earth. It just wanted company. And it's got it now. It's like a infinite of Gem Shards! They'll have lots of time to get to know each other, now that they're in a bubble."
"What?! How on Earth did you bubble that whole thing?!"
When Yellow Pearl asked surprised and shocked Jewel, Peridot and Anaya looked at each other before smiling as Jewel said. "We had a little help." As she said that she looked over at the hole as thousands of feet under the Cluster was there, now contained in the large bubble made by itself and Jewel as well.