Steven watched as the sun disappeared over the horizon from the Moon Base.

"And how is your little pet project going?" Yellow asked, resting her chin on her hand and watching him.

Steven rolled his eyes, "You know exactly how it's going, Yellow, don't act like you haven't been keeping track. The Cluster drill should be ready any day now, and then we go to Homeworld."

"And what a time that would be, four Diamonds working towards expansion. I've been dragging us forward alone for thousands of years now."

"You mean your systematic extinction of organic life?"

"Exactly." Yellow said, her sharp smile glinting down at him.

"It's horrifying how matter of fact you say that. Our species has been nothing but a scourge on the universe at large." He responded, looking out towards the space beyond Earth.

"We are the most advanced empire to ever exist, it's our right to expand." Yellow declared, sweeping her arms out to make her point.

"You're wrong," he said, turning to her.

Her hands formed into fists, cracking the armrests as she leaned forward.

"What did you say?"

"I said, you're wrong, you have no right to destroy life." The ground under his feet cracked as he glared up at her.

"Organic life," she said, waving off his concern.

"You're a monster, and yet I feel bad for you because you think you're in the right."

"I don't appreciate your tone."

"You better get used to my tone, cause there's not a damn thing you can do about it."

"I could drag you back to Homeworld, and end this whole charade."

"It would end with one of us shattered. We keep having variations of this same conversation."

"If only you could see reason."

"Oh shut up, we're both Diamonds, what makes you think that I have to listen to you?"

"I am your elder, I have the most colonies in our empire." Yellow said, her arms sweeping outward.

"We are functionally immortal, in a few thousand years age won't even matter." He waved her argument off and sat down against the window, resting his head against it.

"There's so much wrong with our empire, and it's so deep rooted I'm not entirely sure it can be rooted out. The optimism I once had is buried with what was left of my human body."

"I don't understand half of the things you say."

"I had an organic body at one point, and now I'm made of hard light, just like you. But my organic body is still technically around."

Yellow sneered in disgust, "That's disgusting."

"It really was. Dead bodies tend to leak," Steven said, shrugging.

"Organics," she muttered, "Our creators understood that we were better."

"Our what?" He asked, turning to face her in shock.

"The lower gems refer to her as the 'Moon Goddess'. We do not know her actual name and only White ever met her. She made White, White made us, and we make the gems."

"So White is older than the empire, and you and blue are second and third."

"Exactly right, and you'd know that if you're programming wasn't off."

"My programming is fine, I just adapt better."

"If you say so," she said. Her eyes narrowed as she continued to stare down at him.

"You seem to look the same, but there's differences too. You've gotten taller."

An alarm went off in Steven's pocket and he stood, his tall height being dwarfed by Yellow's.

"Time's up," he paused. "I truly hope that I'm able to get through to you and Blue. We're family and I'd like for us to act like it."

Not waiting for a response, he left the room.


Steven landed his ship on the beach and walked out in his shortened form. He headed towards the boardwalk, he wanted one last pizza before he had to give up eating.

"Jasper guard the ship, keep Ronaldo away." She nodded, knowing that Ronaldo worried her Diamond for some strange reason.

Steven and Skinny arrived at the strip of shops and opened the door to Fish Stew Pizza.

"Go away!" Kofi yelled, pointing at the door.

"Daddy, it's just Steven," Jenny chided him, rolling her eyes. "Hey, Steven, what are you ordering?"

"Two pizzas, I'm leaving soon and I wanted a last meal before I go."

"Last meal!? Are you okay?"

"I need to leave Earth for a while. I took care of the gem issues here but I need to go to the source, which is Homeworld."

"Oh, how long do you think you'll be gone?" She asked, sad at the fact that he would be leaving.

"Unfortunately I have no idea, the other Diamonds are just as stubborn as I am. But I will be leaving someone to watch over the Earth. It will always be protected."

"And, let me guess, phones don't work in space?"

"No, they don't." He thought for a moment before reaching into his pocket and pulling out his personal tablet built by Peridot.

"This works across the universe," Steven opened it up, an image appearing with the four Diamond symbol.

"Press the pink one and I'll be able to respond." He instructed, before he handed it over to her.

"Ooh fancy! I'll go put your order in and then I'll take my break." She pushed the tablet into her apron's giant pockets before walking over to the register and putting in Steven's order.

"Peridot isn't going to like that." Skinny told him under her breath.

"Peridot only likes Lapis. Let's get a booth." The teen turned and sat down in a nearby booth, where Skinny sat across from him. They sat in silence for a moment as Skinny watched him pick at a napkin and think.

"I'll be asking all of the Quartzes this, but, when I leave, would you like to stay on Earth?" Steven questioned her, breaking the moment. Skinny looked as if he had struck her.

"Has... has my work been unsatisfactory?"

"No, it's been perfect, but I'm trying to give you a choice. If you want to stay on Earth you can, but if you want to keep accompanying me then you can do that."

"I want to keep accompanying you." She said, completely sure of her decision.

"Okay then, you can keep accompanying me." Steven assured her and she grinned. Shortly after, Jenny slid into the booth, pushing Skinny over.

"I can't read this language," she said in frustration, showing him the gem glyph on the tablet.

"No, you can't, but you can see the symbols," he responded and she glared at him while Skinny snorted.

"You can find these symbols inside of the pyramids. If I taught it to you, you could change the world."

"Steven, did you break into the pyramids?"

"One of those stones is looser than the others, it's like Jenga." The younger boy said, deadpanned, and Jenny wasn't one hundred percent sure he wasn't lying.

"How are you not on some watchlist, Steven?" She asked, leaning back, and he shrugged noncommittally.

"I own the planet," Steven answered and she sat up, eyes widening.

"You what?!" Jenny exclaimed in surprise and a little disbelief.

"The Earth is a Pink Diamond colony, and I'm the current Pink Diamond." He explained, briefly gesturing at his pink form.

"Wow, so why aren't you on the news all the time?"

"Well, you are one of the two humans who know I own the planet."

"Wow, that's a lot."

They heard a bell ring but Steven didn't bother to turn around, hearing the sound of soft footsteps approach them.

"Hello, Steven," a familiar voice greeted. He looked over and saw Connie, her arm wrapped in bandages leading all the way up to her neck and onto her cheek.

"Hello, Connie." He responded, moving over so Connie could slide in beside him.

"Thank you." She told him as a starting point.

"You made another friend, Steven? Good for you." Jenny grinned at him from across the table, genuinely proud.

"This is Connie Maheswaran, she's very smart."

"Oh, you know my full name?" Connie asked, surprised. She couldn't remember having told him.

"I saw it when I read your paper on the Kindergarten, it was really well written."

"So that's where the computer went," she said, looking thoughtful for a moment before turning back to him. "I saw you outside my hotel."

"That was months ago. How's the arm?" He asked, curious.

"Oh, it's great! My mother really wants to meet you."

"Steven, what did you do to this girl that made her mother want to meet you?" Jenny asked in concern, giving him a look.

"Stop that." Steven admonished her, while Skinny watched the trio in confusion. Connie blushed at the implication Jenny made.

"No! She wants to try to understand Steven's healing abilities." Connie explained, waving her hands in the air.

"You have healing abilities?" Jenny questioned.

"I do, I don't get to use them on humans often, but they work-"

"They do more than work, they healed my arm, and even fixed my eyes!" The bandaged girl praised, pointing to where her glasses used to sit on her nose.

"Oh, that's really cool! But why is your arm bandaged?" Jenny asked, peering at said arm.

"It turned pink." She admitted, pulling it down a bit to show her.

"Ok, that's really cool. Steven why didn't you tell me you can give people alien makeovers?"

"I didn't know I could until I met Connie."

"Well, I am glad we met, you saved my life."

"You're strong, you'd have pulled through," he assured her.

"If you hadn't helped my arm, it would have taken years of surgery and physical therapy to even get it to function again, if it hadn't needed amputation."

"Wow, she is smart." Jenny said, agreeing with his previous statement.

"The Peridots would love her," Skinny told Steven, a small smile on her face.

"They would pester her with question after question and then insult her when she didn't know the answer."

"True." Skinny agreed, knowing he was right.

"What are the Peridots?" Connie asked, always curious.

"Short, green geniuses. Jenny, can I borrow that tablet?"

She handed it over and he pulled up a data sheet for the acceptable parameters of an Era 2 Peridot, before setting it on the table with a hologram appearing from it.

"This is a Peridot." He told her, as both humans looked at the hologram in awe.

"Oh, are they like you?" Connie asked, causing Skinny to snort. "Something funny?"

"Peridots are technicians, just above a Pearl."

Steven sighed, pinching his brow, "Here we go, Skinny we talked about this."

"And where does Steven fit into this class system?" Connie asked, looking intrigued.

"He is a Diamond, every one of us was made to serve them."

"Made? Is that what the holes in the Kindergarten are from?"

"Exactly. Those giant machines put gems into the ground, they suck up all of the nutrients, leaving a dead patch of land." Steven explained.

"That's awful." Connie said, staring at the screen before looking back up. Jenny grabbed the tablet and swiped, another type of gem appearing on it, letting Steven and Connie have their moment.

"You said that that thing was an alien? Are you aliens?" Connie guessed, putting it together.

"We are, Gems would be what you refer to us as."

"And you're planet killers? That's how your species expands."

"It was, I'm working on it."

"Yeah, Steven's all about revolution, he's great." Jenny added in, pumping a fist.

"He's the most interesting Gem I've met." Skinny chimed.

"You're like Lisa!" Connie stared at him with stars in her eyes.

"The Spirit Morph Saga's protagonist, fun read." Steven told her, nodding.

"You read the Spirit Morph Saga?!" She asked, pleasantly surprised.

"I've read most of the books in the library, they have two of the Spirit Morph books."

"Which ones?" She asked, suddenly very serious.

"The second and fourth, I liked the wedding.'' Connie looked like what he had said had physically hurt her.

"You need to read them, Steven."

"Yeah, Steven, read the girl's books.'' Jenny said, grinning as she leaned forward and rested her chin on her hands, tablet forgone to watch the two interact.

"I'll get around to it if you're sure. How far is your mother from Beach City?"

"We actually live about 20 minutes from here." Connie responded quickly to the topic change.

"I'll meet your mother and help explain your arm, but I can't promise I'll get the two books in a legal way."

"Please, don't steal books." Connie all but begged.

"Fine, I won't, since you said please. I'll have to spend more time searching the beach for coins."

"Is that why Lars complains you always trade change in at the Big Donut?" Jenny asked, grinning at the new information.

"It makes him so mad." Skinny said with a laugh, having been with Steven when he handed Lars a bag of sandy metal disks.

"I don't have a birth certificate, so it's the easiest way to find money." Steven said with a shrug.

"I could lend you my reading copies.'' Connie suddenly said, brightening up.

"That would be kind of you, thanks. I could borrow them when I meet your mother."

"Oh, that's very practical." She said, nodding in agreement with the idea.

"Do you have a phone?" Steven asked her and Connie said she did.

"We'll swap numbers," the pink teenager said, pulling out his phone.

"Wait, if you can't get a job, how'd you get that phone Steven?" Jenny asked, something not adding up.

"Beach loot." He replied with a shrug, handing his phone over to Connie to put her number in.

"Whose phone is that Steven?" Jenny asked, looking at it.

"No one in beach city." He told her, watching as Connie handed over her phone for Steven to put in his number.

"Here's your pizza, Universe." Kofi announced, setting two pizzas down on the table along with a bill before returning to the back. Skinny reached out and grabbed a slice, not bothered by the heat. Steven handed Connie her phone back and she handed his back, which he slipped back into his pocket.

"You have a digestive system?" Connie asked, curious about their biology. Gemology?

"If we want, most gems have the ability to shapeshift."

"Yeah, Steven's a giant." Jenny said, grabbing a slice of pizza too.

"Really?" Connie had stars in her eyes again at learning about more of his powers.

"When I'm not focusing on this form I'm about 18 feet tall, it seems to be my base height."

"Wow, that's amazing!" She exclaimed in amazement.

"Want a slice of pizza?" He asked her and she looked unsure.

"My mom says pizzas aren't good for you."

"You're a woman with a magic pink arm, I don't think a little grease will hurt." The bandaged teen stared at him in consideration before hesitantly reaching out for the pizza and taking a cautious bite. She chewed for a moment before her eyes widened.

"This is great!"

"Eh, it's okay." Jenny said with a shrug. She heard her father drop something in the kitchen.

"Shush!" Kofi yelled at his daughter.

"Pizza is one of the three best foods in the world.'' Steven told her seriously and Skinny nodded.

"Peedee hates you." Jenny said matter-of-factly.

"He's just small minded." Steven responded, picking up his own slice. The quartet started eating and talking about their favorite foods.

Steven, Connie, and Skinny walked out of Fish Stew Pizza and made their way down the boardwalk.

"So, why is there a pink pair of legs on the beach?"

"It's my spaceship, supposedly it's part of a giant mech," Steven answered.

"Your life is amazing." Connie said, looking wistful.

"Sometimes, other times it's learning one awful thing after another."

"Can I see what you look like as a giant?" Connie asked, turning her head to look at him.

"Can I see your arm?" He asked in return. She thought for a moment before answering.

"Okay," she finally agreed.

"We can do it on my ship. Would you like a look around?" Steven asked, knowing her answer already.

"More than anything!" Connie replied excitedly to him as they neared one of the ship's large, pink heels. Jasper snapped to attention when she caught sight of the trio, saluting her Diamond.

"Hello Jasper, this is Connie." He introduces her, prepared to protect her if things went south.

"Oh, do Jaspers have a large range of body types?" She asked curiously, observing the ten-foot-tall buff Jasper as opposed to the 9-foot-tall Skinny.

"These are both rare Jaspers, both are great in their own ways," the gem hybrid said to her. "You two can guard the door. I'll be giving Connie a tour." He walked past them, prompting Skinny to fall into line next to Jasper. The doors shut and the elevator rose up, leading them into the main chamber. The doors opened and Connie walked out, marveling up at the two giant thrones.

"Wow."

"Thrones for the other Diamonds." He told her, nodding up at them. He allowed himself to grow to his full height, towering over her.

"Your turn." Steven said, sitting down in front of her.

"I suppose it's only fair." She responded. The younger teen started to unravel the bandages, revealing dark pink skin like Steven's own, light pink scars ran up the length, marking where the gem had torn her flesh apart. The scars started on her fingers and ran up her arm to the side of her neck, where it even reached her cheek.

"I'm sorry you got dragged into this." He told her remorsefully. She held out her arm for him and Steven ran a finger up it feeling the scarred flesh, causing Connie to shiver at the contact.

"Does it work properly?"

"It's stronger than it has any right to be, and my reaction time has improved. Also, you fixed my eyesight when you healed me."

"That's good to hear, have you made any friends?" He asked, remembering what she had sobbed into his chest.

"No, my mother hasn't really let me leave the house since the attack."

"Well, I'll be your friend, but I don't make very good company," he warned her.

"I don't believe that, today's been one of the best days of my life."

"We can make it better, we can take a quick jump up to the moon and you can take a new profile picture, that will be a great conversation starter."

"We can go into space right now?!"

"This thing can warp reality, we could leave the Milky Way and be back in half an hour."

"I think the moon would be far enough." Connie replied, worried about what those speeds would do to her.

"If you're sure," Steven said, standing and walking up the platform. Connie followed after him, stopping at the edge of the interface as pink pants appeared on him.

"Jaspers, hurry inside." He prompted through the speakers, the Jaspers hurried into the heel and took the elevator up, rushing into the main room and seeing Steven.

"I'm taking Connie on a quick trip out of the atmosphere." Their Diamond informed them. He set himself into a running start to launch up in a way that put the least amount of stress on Connie's mostly human body. They passed the moon and gently floated back down onto it, taking a knee to give her the closest view he could of the lunar surface, the Moon Base in the distance.

"This is... amazing." She breathed out.

"It really is." He turned to give Connie a view of the earth, one of Steven's favorite sights.


An hour later Steven touched back down onto the beach. The two teenagers walked out of the heel, Steven in his humanoid form.

"I could have dropped you off closer," he offered her.

"No, you've done more than enough for me Steven. Thank you for today,"

"If you want me to meet your mother we'll need to do it soon, I'll be leaving the planet for some time."

"Oh, Where are you going? Anywhere I've heard of?"

"I'm going to the Gem homeworld, creatively called Homeworld. The best way for me to deal with my species systematic extinction campaign is to go to the source." Steven answered seriously.

"I know you can do it." She assured him, looking unsure for a moment before rushing forward and hugging him.

"Bye, Steven." Connie said to him, before turning and starting her walk home.

"Goodbye." He called out to her, waiting until she was out of sight, before turning and walking back into his ship.