The group headed up towards the house where they saw Pearl and Amethyst talking with Pearl holding a phone.
"Okay…you've had that thing for a month and still haven't used it?" Amethyst asked.
"I use it to tell time." Pearl said.
"Here." Amethyst said, grabbing it as she snapped a selfie. "There. New wallpaper. And that message icon is for texts. Just type…well anything."
Pearl paused for a moment, then texted a message out, unseen by the group.
"Okay, good." Amethyst said. "But…you need a phone case."
"Oh, I have one." Pearl said, taking out a suitcase from her gem.
"Uh…I have phone cases in my room. Just don't go smashing your phone against any rocks." Amethyst said going to her room.
"Pearl, can we talk?" Mark asked, getting the Gem's attention.
"Of course. Anything." Pearl said.
"Well…it's about Pink Diamond. I know you said Rose shattered her but…well…is that actually what happened?" Gohan asked.
Pearl looked shocked for a moment. "I…" she started to say before she covered her mouth with her hands, dropping her phone.
"Pearl, what's wrong?" Frisk asked.
"Why won't you talk?" Rainbow asked.
Pearl continued to keep her mouth covered until Amethyst returned.
"Yo. Back with the case for your…phone." Amethyst said.
"Oh yes! The phone. Of course! Of course!" Pearl said before putting her phone and the suitcase into her head before walking off to her room.
"Wait, put the phone in the case and then into your head!" Amethyst called out. "What was that all about?"
"Your guess is as good as ours." SE answered.
"Hmm… she was struggling to move her hands away…" Shirou noted.
"What, are you saying there's some sort of mental block that's making her clamp up?" ZS asked.
"Well, in Gem culture, Pearls are meant to be…unpaid assistants is the nicest way of putting it." Alkal said. "It doesn't seem like Rose would give her an order like that, though…"
"Okay…I think I know what we need to do." Luffy said. "We need…to get some food."
"...eh, I could eat." Eddy agreed.
The group returned to the Galaxy King and went to the dining area.
"Okay…tonight's menu: pizza." Sanji said as he served all present.
"Pizza! Yum." Ed said eagerly.
As the group was starting to eat, Mark felt his phone vibrate. "Ah, that's my phone." Mark said as he wiped his hands and looked at the latest message. "... 'I want to tell you, but I can't'."
"Wait, is that Pearl?" Frisk asked. "What's that mean?"
"Maybe she wants to tell us now. Let's go see her." Izuku said.
After eating, they hurried over to the house where Pearl was.
"Oh…it's you? Did something come up? Is Steven back?" Pearl asked.
"You tell us. You want to tell us but you can't?" Jexi asked, showing her the text.
"What? No, I didn't send that. I haven't even touched my phone since we last talked. Look. I'll pull it out." Pearl said as she retrieved a remote from her gem. "See. I….huh?" she said as she started pulling out a number of items. "This…this makes no sense. How could I…" she said as Mark's phone dinged as a photo of a flower was shown. "Oh…look…you all. I need you to find my phone."
"In your Gem?" Emo asked.
"Yes. There are certain things I can't tell you, but I CAN tell you that I need my phone. Please. I can bring you back out once you find what you're looking for." Pearl said.
"Alright then." Mark said. "Here, you keep my phone, then we can let you know when we find it." he said, handing it to her.
"Yes. Just text me with my phone when you find it." Pearl said as her gem glowed as they were pulled inside.
"Ugh…least warn us before…what the…" Natsu said as they stood inside a clear space as they saw another Pearl organizing some spears.
"Hey guys, check it out! A Pearl inside of Pearl's pearl! Pearl-ception!" Eddy laughed.
"Oh, Eddy!" the inner Pearl noticed the boy, picking him up. "Where should I put you? Certainly not with the spears. Human paraphernalia? Personal items? Let's just go alphabetical. E-d…"
"Hey, put me down! I'm not a file!" Eddy said. "You let us in here to find your phone, remember?!"
"Oh…phone. Let's see…P-h…" Pearl said switching to some papers and old phones. "Not here…oh…it's a cellular phone. I have it in the C section."
"Wow…you're…really organized." Sunset said.
"That's why I'm the surface." the inner Pearl said, before she switched again. "It should be right…here." she said, gesturing to an empty space between a roll of cellophane and a cleaver.
"...I'm sorry, is it invisible?" Emo asked.
"What? But…that's impossible. It should be right there." the inner Pearl said in disbelief.
"Maybe you put it…deeper?" Twilight asked.
"Oh…I can't. It's a mess deeper down." the inner Pearl said.
"Come on, we gotta find that phone." Scarlet insisted.
"Alright." the inner Pearl sighed as her Gem started to glow. "Don't say I didn't warn you."
The group appeared on the Beach in front of the temple. However, they immediately noticed that the beach house was missing.
"This must be the past." Princess Twilight said.
"I don't see any messes here." ZS said. "What do you suppose that other Pearl was talking about?"
"Uh…probably that." Kaminari said, pointing to a Pearl that was crying behind a hand.
"Oh…that kind of mess." Mina said.
The group cautiously approached the crying Pearl.
"Hey… Pearl." Mark said. "What's, ah…what's wrong?"
"She can't leave me. She…she can't just go and have a baby!" the inner Pearl said as she cried.
"Well. This would be mighty awkward if Steven was here." Moltar said.
"I mean…if she makes a baby, she'll be gone. I'll lose her like when I lost…" the inner Pearl said as she tried to think.
"Uh…when you lost your phone?" Fluttershy asked.
"When I lost my phone!" the inner Pearl cried.
"Well, we can find the phone at least. I don't suppose you've seen it?" Bardock asked.
"No, but I think I know where it is. It's probably where I lost everything else." the inner Pearl replied as her Gem started to glow.
"Wait, what're you talking abou-" Mark started to ask.
"-t?" he finished as the group was now standing in a war-torn field, weapons and Gem shards scattered all over.
"Uh…you know…maybe this is one of those situations where Pearl had the phone in her pocket the whole time." Mineta said.
"As opposed to putting it in her repressed war memories?" Emo asked. "This is Pearl we're talking about."
"We lost…everything." they heard the war torn Pearl say. "We thought we won but then that light…and…it's all gone. I should have never gone along with it."
"Gone along with what? What are you talking about?" Ranma asked.
The Pearl turned to them as her gem glowed as they soon appeared in a structure by some flowers.
"Pink flowers…just like the image in the text." Izuku said.
"What the heck is…?" Eddy started to ask before they heard the sounds of battle in front of them. Looking ahead, they saw the image of Rose Quartz in a cloud of pink dust, having swung her sword at whatever was there. Tears then began to stream down her face.
"I…I don't get it! This is Pearl's mind, not hers!" Mark said, walking up to the image of Rose. "Hey you, answer me! What is going on, why would you keep Pearl from-?!"
Mark stopped when Rose opened her eyes, revealing them to be Pearl's as her head tilted up to show her gem.
"So…it was you. You…you killed Pink Diamond." Jexi said.
"It's…more complicated than that." Rose Pearl said as she pulled them into her gem.
The group found themselves inside a massive, pink-colored chamber, the world outside as dark as night. They stood before a massive throne.
"A palanquin. Like Blue Diamond's." Mark realized.
"This must be where Pearl shattered Pink." Emo said.
The group then heard whispers coming from behind the throne. They crept towards the voices to find another Pearl and Rose Quartz talking.
"And then we'll be done. It's going to be easy!" Rose said.
"There's got to be another way. I mean, maybe-" the inner Pearl started.
"Blue and Yellow don't care, they never have. This is Pink Diamond's colony. We can end it all right here, right now." Rose said.
"You know this is crazy, right?" Pearl asked, Rose nodding yes. "Your status, my purpose. None of it will matter anymore. This will change everything."
"I know. Isn't it exciting?!" Rose said with glee.
Pearl just sighed as she blushed. "It is." she said.
"We can leave our old lives behind. If this is really my world, I want to give it to the Crystal Gems. I want to live here with human beings! I wanna live here with you! We'll both finally be free!" Rose said.
"Okay…I'm ready." Pearl nodded.
"Pearl!" Rose said excitedly as she grabbed her hand.
"I can't believe I'm going to do this." Pearl said.
"Well I can't exactly shatter myself." Rose said as her body glowed as she shapeshifted into a taller version of her as her gem shifted to an upside down diamond as she stood tall.
"That…that's Pink Diamond." Sheer said.
Most of the group immediately clapped their hands over their mouths to keep from exclaiming as they watched Pink Diamond walk past them and out of the palanquin, returning with a single pink hibiscus flower and a pile of dirt. She gave the flower to Pearl before she crushed the dirt and blew at it as they became shards.
"Pretty convincing right?" Pink Diamond asked.
"Very much so…my diamond." Pearl said, sounding uncomfortable.
Pink Diamond then swallowed the shards.
"One more thing. No one can ever find out about what we did. So…this will be my final order. Never tell anyone about what really happened here." Pink Diamond said.
Pink Diamond then proceeded towards the curtain as Pearl noticed the group and handed them the phone.
"Sorry to make you come all the way here for this." Pearl said.
"It's okay." Mark said, taking the phone. "I'm just glad we found what we were looking for."
Mark texted back on the phone as the group was soon pulled out of the multiple realms before returning to the house.
"We…we know the truth now." Jexi said.
"...I wanted to tell them…any of them…for so long.' Pearl said as tears streamed down her face.
"Rose Quartz…was Pink Diamond." Mark said.
That broke the dam, as most of the group members immediately exclaimed the same thing Amethyst said behind them:
"WHAAAAAAT?!"
