The scene returns to where we left off last time as some of the gems sat on the couch as the group stood around.
"Let me get this straight. Rose Quartz, leader of the Crystal Gems, Steven's mom, was actually Pink Diamond?!" Amethyst said in surprise and disbelief.
"I know it's hard to believe, but it's true." Bardock confirmed. "She faked her own shattering in order to assume the identity of Rose Quartz."
"Pink Diamond's final command to me was that I could never tell anyone." Pearl added. "But now that the group does, I can finally tell you all everything!"
"Phew. I mean, a pink lion, a pink sword, and now Pink Diamond?! If you told me that Rose had invented cotton candy, I would believe it. Right, Garnet? Uh, Garnet?" Amethyst said as Garnet simply got up, her whole body shaking.
"She-She-! Ugh! Ahh!" Garnet cried out as she glowed before splitting apart into Ruby and Sapphire.
"She lied to us!" Sapphire said.
"Sapphire…" Ruby said.
"She lied to us! About everything!" Sapphire said as the floor was freezing over.
"Whoa!" Eddy yelped as the group avoided the ice.
"She held our hands, looked at us right in the eyes, and told us to never question who we are as Garnet. We never questioned ourselves, or her!" Sapphire yelled.
"We couldn't have known!" Ruby said, trying to calm her down.
"No, you couldn't have known. You never know what's going on. That's what I'm for!" Sapphire said.
"Sapphire…" Ruby said.
"But I never looked into her, I trusted her... I let her make fools of us all!" Sapphire cried out as marched right towards the warp pad.
"Sapphire, wait!" Ruby cried out after her.
"Sapphire, calm down!" Mark called out.
"Please... We can just stay calm a-and talk about this, right? Let's just... talk." Ruby said.
"Talk about what?" Sapphire asked sharply. "How our relationship is based on a lie? What else is there to say…"
With that, Sapphire warped away, Ruby dropping to her knees, the group shocked over what had just transpired.
"Well, we…should go after her." Scarlet said.
"Go after her? What're we supposed to say after that?" Mark asked. "Ugh, I'm no good with these relationship problems, I'd more than likely say the worst thing. We need an expert."
"And just where are we supposed to find someone like that?" Emo asked.
Just then, the front door opened, Nathan poking his head in.
"Hey Gems, your kid's back, and he untied me." Nathan announced as none other than Steven walked into the house.
"Hey, I'm back!" Steven announced.
"What the?! Wait, how are you back? We didn't even plan your rescue yet." Jexi said.
"Well, Lars was there, and he…died…but I was able to bring him back to life, and he turned pink, like Lion!" Steven said. "Now his hair connects to the same dimension Lion's mane does, so I used that to get back."
"Ah, so the rescue mission is still on…" CP noted before shaking his head. "Wait, nevermind. We have a problem, and a revelation. Not in that order."
"Pink Diamond is Rose Quartz, and Garnet broke up." Sonata said. "Is…is that the right order?"
"WHHAATT?! Garnet broke up?!" Steven exclaimed, now seeing Ruby crying at the foot of the Warp Pad. "We have to find Sapphire!"
"Our thoughts exactly." Asgore agreed. "We must start the search immediately."
"Yeah. Pearl, Steven, you're with us." Mark said. "Amethyst…can't believe I'm saying this…you're in charge. And Ruby…you just wait here."
"Okay…" Ruby said.
"As for you…you are staying here. You're still a prisoner." Hayase spoke to Nathan.
"Not like I have anywhere else to go right now." Nathan said. "I'll just…whistle to myself."
"You do that." Mark said as the group entered the Warp Pad and warped away.
The group wound up in front of a fountain with a statue of Rose Quartz in the middle of it. The area had ice and snow piling up, the source being Sapphire, slumped over the fountain's edge.
"Sapphire…it's time to come back." Aelita said.
The answer came in the form of a blast of ice that blocked their path.
"Everything we were running from, she was right there all along... Using us for her... little war...? Smiling at us with those... knowing eyes...? Making me believe in a better future that I couldn't see, because it wasn't real." Sapphire said in grief. "And now here we are, our friends, shattered!... And corrupted!... Of course she was a Diamond. What a long road she took, to torture us all like this…"
"You know that isn't how it goes. She would have never done anything like that on purpose." Steven said.
"I don't know that!" Sapphire cried. "I clearly... don't know anything...!"
"I'm…I'm at a loss here, guys." Mark said. "What are we supposed to say?"
"The truth." Pearl said. "Sapphire, Steven, everyone…you all deserve to know everything. I was given to Pink Diamond a few thousand years before she was given the Earth. I was supposed to make her happy, I just... never could… until one day, when the first Amethyst soldiers were emerging from the Prime Kindergarten. I suggested she shapeshift into a quartz to join them…which she went and did. Though after they left, she went sightseeing with us."
"So…she just wanted to have fun?" Sunset asked.
"That's how it started. But looking at nature and local fauna, she realized what Homeworld really did with planets for their colonies. Taking life and creating new Gems." Pearl said. "She tried to stop the colonization herself, but the Diamonds told her to finish what she started. When she said she wanted to preserve life, they created the Zoo and threw a handful of humans in there. She tried everything but her status as a Diamond meant nothing. So…she took a stand, as someone they couldn't ignore."
"Rose Quartz." Steven realized.
"Yes. Her plan was to scare off every single Gem from the planet. But the plan changed when she saw Garnet's fusion. First, she was just fighting for Earth, but after that she was doing it for Gems. She may have been foolish. And maybe a little selfish. But she was…" Pearl said.
"Following us." Sapphire realized.
"Right…right!" Mark said. "Rose didn't decide to just up and rebel one day. Pearl, after you showed her the Earth, she wanted to fight for it. And when she saw Garnet, she wanted to fight for all Gems. She wasn't leading the charge, she was following the path you made! You all really made an impression on her!"
The group saw the ice and snow melting all around them, a sign of Sapphire's emotions being controlled once more.
"I mean, how could she not after Pearl swept her off her feet." Sapphire said.
"W-what? Me?" Pearl asked.
"Are you kidding? You took her on a whirlwind tour of Earth and then you wanted to live on Earth with you forever." Steven said, causing Pearl to madly blush.
"Right…that's how I felt when I came with…ah! Ruby! Oh all those things I said. We need to get back right now!" Sapphire said.
The group warped back into the beach house, Sapphire racing inside.
"Ruby! I'm so sorry! Where...? Huh?" The gem looked down and saw a letter addressed to her. "Oh no…"
