Here is chapter 2! I hope you enjoy this bonus update, as after this I will only update every Wednesday.

Also, I forgot to mention this in the last chapter; This fanfiction stops going with the canon, from when the Ruby's and Steven get launched into space together. Some characters after this might still be shown, and some facts after this might still be used, but don't be surprised if things we were told in episodes 24, season 3 isn't used in this fanfiction.

I hope you are having a great day and enjoys the chapter!

Steven POV:

I was one the beach, sitting beside Connie. We had done some training with Pearl that day. I had started enjoying training after Pearl had stopped trying to make Connie into my own personal shield. We now fight together and protect each other, as real fighting buddies should do. It does help that we have Stevonnie.

"Hey, Steven?" Connie asked me, after some time just staring out into the sea.

"Yeah Connie?" I asked, looking over at her. She looked kind of nervous.

"Do you…" she started but seemed to hesitate to continue. I smiled at her, giving her the courage to continue. "Do you ever, you know, miss your mom?"

The question surprised me a little. Not because it was insensitive or anything. More because no one had really asked me that. And I hadn't really thought of it myself. The question made me start thinking about it.

I know it is hard to miss someone you have never met. But I have been told stories about her, and have seen pictures and videos with her in them. It would make sense if I was to miss her. But I… really don't. How can I miss someone I haven't met before? People tell me how great she was, how caring, but for me, it is like they are just telling me a story about a person they knew. Is there something wrong with me? For not missing my own mom?

"I'm sorry!" Connie suddenly exclaimed, shaking me out of my thoughts. "I shouldn't have asked you that! That was very insensitive!"

"No, not really!" I quickly said with a small, strained smile. "I just… have never thought about it like that. I mean, people tell me how great she is and stuff, and she is my mom, but I have never met her, so it is kind of hard to miss her."

"What do you mean?" Connie asked a little confused.

"What I mean, is that, how can I miss a person I have never met? For me, when people start telling me stories about her, it isn't like I relate with those feeling of longing. For me, they are just telling me a story about a person I have never met. I mean, of course, I miss having a mom, but I don't miss my mom," I explained. Connie seemed even more confused. I started laughing a little nervously. "Maybe it is because I am my mom."

I laughed a little at that, and Connie gave me a small nervous laugh too.

"Yeah, maybe it is," she said, before starting a new conversation, about the new book series she had just started on.

I opened my eyes. I was in a weird room, with white walls all around me. The only things that were in the room, were two beds, one for me and one with a gem on it, and a chair, which was beside my bed. The gem on the other bed was a Ruby, probably Eyeball.

Memories of what happened before I blacked out resurfaced from my mind. The Diamonds, the Gem splitting, Rose, experiment, and me… as a full Gem?

How can I ever become a full Gem? Half of me is human! That can't just disappear! At least, I don't think so… Wouldn't I die if that happened? And how can me and… mom… become two different Gems? If the human part of me is taken away, then only my mom would be left, right? This is so confusing. Where is Connie when you need her?

The thought of Connie made the memories of my dream come back. Do I miss my mom? It is hard to miss someone you haven't met, and at the same time, it isn't. But after what they told me, yesterday? How long was I out? After what they told me before I blacked out, do I even have a reason to miss her? If what they said is true, then should I hate her? I don't really want to…

I was taken out of my thoughts by a glow from beside me. It was the Ruby. She was reforming. It didn't take as long as with Pearl when the glow happened. One second it was just a stone that was glowing, and the next it was Eyeball, looking just like she did before she was poofed. Maybe it is because she didn't have to think about changing her outfit like Pearl likes to do. The same with Amethyst.

"Ow, I should have known to be more careful," Eyeball said, rubbing her head a little. She continued muttering under her breath for a minute or two, before noticing my presence in the bed beside hers. "Steven! Are you okay? Why are you in a reforming room like me?" she asked concerned.

"Reforming room?" I asked curiously. I had a pretty good idea what she meant by it, but I just wanted to be a hundred percent sure.

"You don't know what that is? I would think that the Crystal Gems had one too," Eyeball said, muttering the last part under her breath. She then cleared her throat, before continuing: "A reforming room, is for when we get hurt, and therefore wither gets poofed, cracked, or poofed and then cracked. Either way, we will get healed as much as we can and poofed so we can heal better inside of our gem. Don't you have anything like that this or similar at the Crystal Gems?"

I shook my head. "No, not really. If Amethyst, Pearl or Garnet is poofed, we just wait. Normally I put their gem on a pillow, and maybe polish it, but other than that I have been told to just let them be," I said. I then thought for a second before continuing: "Us humans do have a form of reforming room though. It is called a hospital. We go there is we have been hurt. We go there to get better and when we are, we go home again. We even have vehicles that can come and pick us up, if we are too hurt or come to them!"

"Wow, I didn't know humans were that clever!" Eyeball said, a little awed by what I had told her. I found that to be a little odd, but cute.

We were interrupted by a knock on the door. We turned our heads towards it. It opened and in came Blue Pearl. She turned to me, curtsied, before speaking in her soft, whisper-like voice: "Since you are awake, and seem to be well, the Diamonds have requested your presence."

She then turned to Ruby and continued: "Ruby Facet-1F4 Cut-4ND, you have been ordered to be the guard of Steven, until other orders say otherwise. And only an order from a Diamond can nullify this order."

Eyeball seemed to get stars in her non-gem eye, before turning serious. "Of course!" She then turned to me and bowed. "I will guard you until my gem shatters, and even then, I will try and defend you!"

I was a little uncomfortable but just nodded my head, showing her that I understood and was all for it. She straightened again, and turned to Blue Pearl and ordered: "Show us the way to the Diamonds!"

Blue Pearl nodded, opened the door and waited for us to start walking. When we did, she walked behind me. It was Eyeball in front of me, and as I said, Blue Pearl behind me. I didn't understand why she was walking behind me when she was supposed to be the one leading us, but I didn't voice that thought. Instead, I watched the surroundings while we walked, with Blue Pearl's directions as background noise.

While this place reminded me of some of the Gem locations, I have seen back on Earth, it was clear that a lot of time had passed since those were made. The things I saw now, were far more advanced.

We walked for some time before we reached a set of doors, almost identical to the ones that Eyeball and the Peridot had shown me to when first meeting the Diamonds. Maybe this is just the only rooms the Diamonds can hold meetings in. They are giant after all. They don't need to fuse to be giant women!

When we were at the door, Blue Pearl walked past us and to the key pat on one side of the door. She pressed some of the bottoms faster than I could see the combinations before the door opened. She then led us into the room.

The room reminded me of the communication room, that the Gems and I saw when Peridot contacted Yellow Diamond. Just bigger. I think, back then, that the space we saw was just a corner of the room, as I could see a 'small space', by Diamond standards, in this room that looked almost identical to the space we saw back then. Just that this had white lighting, instead of yellow.

In two chairs in the middle of the room, the Diamonds were sitting, waiting for us. When they noticed us, Blue Diamond smiled at me, while Yellow Diamond just nodded in acknowledgement.

"I hope the walk wasn't too long, for a human hybrid like you," Blue Diamond said. "Especially one who just suddenly fell over. While we do have some knowledge on humans, we still aren't sure how much you can endure, compared to us Gems."

"Oh, stop with the fussing Blue!" Yellow Diamond said after Blue Diamond was done speaking. "He will soon become a full Gem like us. Everything he has felt while being human will soon be replaced with how a Gem should feel."

Blue Diamond sighed, seeming to be used to the way Yellow Diamond spoke, before turning back to me.

"I think we are here to finish the conversation we were having before you… fainted," Blue Diamond said, pausing before saying fainting, as is she didn't know if the term was correct. She continued: "You must still have a lot of questions, but before we can answer them, I think it is time for you to hear the story of how you… mother, Rose Quartz, became what she is known to be today, and all the things she did."

When she said mother, she hesitated again. I could understand why she would do that. Gems didn't have mothers or fathers. They were made by machines, and had no childhood, in which they could have connected to a father or mother figure. I still wish Gems could have been babies. They would have looked so cute!

"Let's just get this over with," Yellow Diamond sighed. Is she never happy? Blue Diamond nodded before starting.

"Before I start explaining this, please understand, that everything we are saying is from what we know and have seen," Blue Diamond said. "We have no true idea for any motives as to why she would do the things she did. But what we are telling is the truth WE know."

I nodded.

"Okay. Let's begin."

"Rose isn't as old as you might think she is. She was made by Pink Diamond. Not on Earth, but here on Homeworld, when resources were much larger, and non-defective Gems were easier to make."

A part of a large Kindergarten suddenly lit up in a bright, pink light. Suddenly, a Gem burst out. She looked to be no taller than a Pearl, and almost as frail as one. She had long wavy and curly, pink hair. She had a basic uniform on, which was a dark pink bodysuit. The only thing showing that she was a Rose Quartz, was her gem, which was on her stomach, not covered by her bodysuit.

"She had been one of the last Rose Quartz' to be made before production of them stopped completely. They had been made as an experiment. To see, if we could make a Gem that could heal cracked Gems, maybe even shattered. A Quartz, not meant for fighting, but healing."

Fast forward to a healing room, where tons of Rose Quartz' were working, healing Gems who had been damaged in some way. But our Rose Quartz was just standing in a corner, watching a Rose Quartz, who had her gem on her left bicep, heal an Amethyst. Rose seemed to be thinking of something.

"We don't know when Rose started straying from the way she was made for. We have an idea, that it was from watching other Quartz' being healed, and realizing that she wanted to be as strong as them.

We didn't realize it at the time, but we think she might have been a defected Gem. She was, what we thought, the last non-defected Gem made of the Rose Quartz'. The rest after her had something wrong with them. Either they were too short, and were more like small Pearls, or they were almost Ruby size. Some even had no healing powers, making them useless. And because of this, Rose felt like she was better than all other of her kind."

Rose was watching as the defects were either being carried away for shattering, other services, or just manhandled to be servants, like the Pearls. She knew she was different. She didn't think like the Roses made before her, but she wasn't off-coloured like the ones after her all were. In her eyes, that made everyone but her defect. She was the perfect Rose Quartz. Rose smiled when she thought this. Now she just needed a way to become the best Quartz of them all.

"The real trouble first started, when we entered your solar system. We were working our way up to the sun, meaning we had already passed Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. Even the tiny planet Pluto, though it wasn't much of a use. We had just reached Mars and was surprised to see that there was a life form on this planet. They were the first we had met in this solar system."

Rose was moved into a ship. She was told that she had been one of the fifty Quartz' assigned to accompany a troop to a new solar system. She would be there to heal any soldier who needed it. And when the mission was over, there might be a chance that she would have to stay on one of the planets. Rose gave a pleasant smile on the outside and said thank you. But on the inside, she was grinning with delight. 'Finally,' she thought. 'I can get out there, and see some of this universe I have been told so much about.'

"The life form called themselves Niminuns. They spoke a language we had never heard before, and the first thing we did, after we had made it known that we came with peace, was learning their language. This way, a conflict could be evaded, until it was absolutely necessary. Rose herself, made it her mission to know as much as she could about this life form. It was like she thought, she could become one of them is she knew everything about them. She became obsessed."

Rose sat in an infirmary, watching as the Niminuns worked on people who suffered some kind of sickness. She had seen how this sickness had caused a lot of people to die, and for some reason, she felt pity for them. If this sickness continued, then they would all die. And this would be good for Homeworld, as there would be no conflict in the future if that happened. For some reason, that made Rose mad. She decided to help them and started healing the patients. This was the first time she used her powers on her own free will, instead of doing it to please her superiors.

"Rose had healed some of their sick members, making them see her as some kind of goddess. They gave her food, clothes, everything they thought to be valuable. But what made her think of something unthinkable, was when a male Niminun came up to her and kissed her hand, thanking her for healing him and his dear mate. She began thinking if she could do like the females, and become pregnant. Creating her own being. And maybe use its power to become more powerful. To really become a Quartz."

Rose followed a male Niminun, telling him how brave she thought he was, and how she would like for him to tell her more about their species. He agreed and told her everything he knew. About how strong they were, and about their planet as a whole. He even told her how to get a child, when she asked how it was done.

"Would you give me a child, if I asked nicely?" Rose asked. "I want to experience the joy of motherhood, and would love for a strong make like you to be the father."

The Niminun nodded, happy that a beautiful female had asked him to be her life mate. Even if she didn't really know what she was asking for.

"At one point, she suddenly disappeared. We weren't exactly worried, but we needed all the Gems we could, but somehow, she evaded us. No one could tell us where she was. Not even the Niminuns. Even if they knew, they probably wouldn't have told us. She was their goddess after all, and they would rather kill themselves than tell on her. We didn't see her for almost fifteen years. Until some of the elder Niminuns came to us, asking for our assistance and best healers."

The healer Gems and some other Gems ran as fast as they could to an infirmary, where they saw a female Niminun ageing extremely fast.

"The healer Gems tried to do their best, to cure the Niminun of this disease. But nothing they tried worked. It was first when they removed some of the clothing, that they discovered that the Niminun had a Rose Quartz on its stomach. They now knew what had happened to Rose. But how she did it, they had no idea."

A bright, pink light suddenly came over the dying Niminun, separating the gem from the Niminun, leaving behind a cooling corpse. The gem hovered in the air, before starting to reform. The reforming started with the silhouette of a normal Rose Quartz before suddenly it grew in size. When the light brightened down, in front of the corpse now stood a fully reformed Rose Quartz, who looked more like a fighter than a healer. She now wore a frilly dress and was now taller than a large Jasper. Rose had now become what she had set out to be. She had become stronger. And she started to laugh in earnest.

"What had been described, was horrible. She tricked the poor male Niminun into making her pregnant. She somehow created a womb, in which she held the child. When the child was born, her gem was sucked from her form, and given to the child. Her form had then disappeared, leaving a heartbroken mate to raise their daughter. And in the end, she took his daughter too.

After this, Rose was brought to Pink Diamond, who was the one currently on Mars. Rose told of the discovery she had made, and how she now could be the perfect Quartz like she was supposed to be. Pink Diamond sentenced her to imprisoned, until the time in which she would be shattered.

She didn't last long in prison though, as she somehow got to one of the higher-up's Pearl. The Pearl was already off-coloured, like Rose, and like her, the Pearl wanted more than she had been made for. So, when she had the opportunity, she would sneak into the prison cell, and speak with Rose. And one day, Rose convinced her to set her free."

Pearl and Rose ran for their lives. They took a spaceship and hightailed of the planet and to the next. The Earth.

"Rose and the Pearl came to the Earth long before we did. Because of Rose's actions, we were now in a war with the Niminuns, but the war didn't last long, and we won. We thought that both of them had hightailed out of the solar system, and didn't think more of them. If they were found, they would be comprehended, and that was that. That was our first mistake.

While we were trying to take the planet, Rose started gaining followers, from newly made Gems to old followers of White Diamond. But the war didn't start until Rose somehow shattered Pink Diamond.

No one really knew what happened. Yes, there were witnesses, but even they seemed confused. And Pink Pearl, who should have seen it all, had somehow disappeared. They only thing we could do was go to war once more because of Rose Quartz.

This war, however, was longer, but we once again seemed to be winning. It was then, that Rose gave us a message.

She told us, that if we didn't leave the Earth immediately, she would do what she had done on Mars, and make herself more powerful. We did as she said, and left. But not before warning our troops, that we would do one final attack before leaving the Earth. Before that, we had a mission for some Gems, to take all the shattered Crystal Gems, and move them to the centre of the Earth. When we finally attacked, we knew not everyone was off the planet. Most of the Gems affected were Crystal Gems, but some of ours were still hit. And while that is tragic, that is just the ways of war.

But that was the last we saw of Rose Quartz.

Until now. Until you came here.

And we will help you since we couldn't help that girl so many eons ago.

If you will let us?"

Third POV:

"I will."

Steven had never been surer about anything in this life. Everything he knew, had been a lie. The stories of his mother bravely trying to save the Earth its destruction had been a cover-up for what really happened. What about the story of Garnet, Amethyst? Were they also lies? What about his conception? He couldn't be sure anymore.

"Then it will be done," Yellow Diamond stated. "We will do it immediately."

"What?" Steven said, shocked. He had thought hey would want to wait a bit, you know, to get everything ready.

"We know this must seem very fats to you. And we know you might have wanted some more time to say goodbye to your old life," Blue Diamond said." But we are running out of time. If what we read in the other Rubies' reports, then you should be fourteen years old, meaning we don't have long before it is too late. It will have to be done as soon as possible."

"I understand. I guess I am just a little nervous. This is a lot to take in," Steven explained. Blue Diamond smiled softly at him, taking him in her hand, and bringing him up to her eye level.

"Don't worry. You'll feel much better after everything is done. I suspect that your state of mind will change together with your physical form." At Steven's confused look, Blue Diamond started explaining: "You aren't very big for a male human who is fourteen years old. You must have been in this state now for some years, right?" Steven nodded. "The reason you haven't grown is that Gems aren't supposed to grow. Only Diamonds come out small and grow bigger with time. This has affected not only your human body but also your mind. A human's mind and body grow together, which means that as your body gets older, so does your mind. The only exception to this would be people, who have been put in situations that would let your mind develop very fast, which hasn't happened to you, from what we can see from looking at your body. This means that because your mind isn't as developed as it should be, your body is still that of a child- When Rose has been removed from you, your body will grow to be the size it should be, and your mind will grow the years it has been missing, in a matter of seconds."

"So, I will be totally different, from who I am now?" Steven asked concerned.

"No, but some things will have changed for you. You might not like some of the things you used to like. Some things might seem immature to you now, then before the transformation," she explained. Steven nodded.

The rest of the walk was silent. They walked from corridor to corridor, through a few more massive doors. To Steven, everything looked the same, except for the doors. The doors themselves were purple, but now the doors only had one Diamond. The first two doors from when they left had had a blue Diamond on them. The next had had a yellow Diamond. And the door they were walking up to now had a pink Diamond.

"The doors represent which Diamond control the part of the building you are entering," Blue Diamond began explaining, as they neared the new door. "The room you were first in was the courtroom, and the room after that was a meeting room. That is why it had the complete Diamond insignia on it. Since then, we have entered and exited parts of my domain and Yellow's domain. The Gem Splitter is in Pink Diamond's former domain, as she was the one who created it." Steven made a noise of understanding and looked at the door when they stopped and waited for it to open.

When the door opened, the room was nothing like what Steven had expected. He had expected a big room, with a machine made out of the finest material. But it was almost the opposite. The room had obviously not been in use for a long while. Dust covered every surface. What seemed to be hovering screens, were now laying on the ground, some of them in thousands of pieces. In the middle was a machine. It was… smaller than he had thought it would be. It was still towering over him, but he had thought that it would have been big enough for a Sugilite to stand in there. But even if she crouched, there was no way Sugilite would ever have been able to be in there.

As they walked in, Steven looked up at the Diamonds and noticed that they didn't seem to very pleased with the state of the room. But at the same time, they took great care of not disturbing the room as much as they could. Steven could guess that they did it because this was Pink Diamond's legacy. Since this had been hers, they wanted nothing to change. They wanted it to stay the way it had been when she left it. But at the same time, they knew that was impossible. They had to disturb it now, so they could save his life.

"I think she wouldn't mind, you know," Steven said quietly. The Diamonds looked down at him questionably. "Pink Diamond. I think she wouldn't have minded you using this room if she knew why you were doing it. It's a shame to let a room like this become so damaged." Steven was a little afraid that he had spoken out of turn, but that disappeared when he saw the small smile on Blue Diamond's face, while Yellow Diamond just kept walking.

"You are right Steven," Blue Diamond told him softly. She stopped in front of the machine and looked over at Yellow Diamond. "Is it still functioning?" She asked. Yell Diamond looked down at Yellow Pearl, who answered with a "Yes my Diamonds." Blue Diamond nodded in satisfaction and turned back to Steven. "Are you ready?" Steven nodded. "Good. Pearl, open the door."

"Yes, my Diamond," Blue Pearl answered and walked over to the panel. When she was in front of the panel, she started to hover up to the top of it and started pressing some buttons. The door opened, and Blue Diamond placed Steven softly on the pedestal in the middle of the machine, and then the door closed.

"Steven," Blue Pearl's voice came through an intercom. "The splitting will begin in about a minute. I would advise you to prepare yourself. This will be extremely painful." Steven gulped, terrified. "Five, four, three, two, one. Let the splitting begin."

What followed after those words were a bright light. And the pain. It felt like an invisible force had taken a hold of his arms, legs and head. And it was pulling. Even when it couldn't pull anymore, it continued. Even when he begged for it to stop, telling it that it was tearing him apart, it continued. When he knew that one more pull would rip his limps off, it continued. And when the moment hit, when he thought it was actually ripping his limbs apart, he felt a pull from his gem. It was glowing brighter and brighter. He looked down at it and saw a hand come out of it. Then an arm. Then a head. Then the upper part of a torso. The arms of the figure started to try and heave the rest of the body out of the gem. The figure suddenly stopped when it was about to have pulled its stomach out. It screamed as if it was in pain. It then tried to go back into the gem, as if that would save it from the pain. But that hurt Steven. The pressure in his gem was overwhelming. He started to push, to relieve himself from the pressure, which made the figure scream even louder as they were forcefully pushed out of his gem, little by little. He looked down and saw that there was a gem where its navel should have been. When he thought he couldn't push anymore, the force which had previously been pulling at him, seemed to focus on the figure and started to pull it out. The pain increased and increased. So, when it suddenly disappeared, he was so relieved, that he blacked out.

First POV:

Where am I? I feel… cosy. Like I was supposed to be here all along. But at the same time… I feel like I can't stay here.

I also feel different. Like I am… wrong? Wrong, yes. I should repair myself. Change, so that what is wrong can be repaired and removed.

A feeling comes over me. This feeling, it gives me strength. It is time that I leave this place, that I come back to where I belong, and where I am needed.

I can feel myself changing, reforming, to a form that suits me better than any other form I previously had.

Third POV:

The Diamonds had been sitting patiently, looking at the pink gem sitting on a pillow. Suddenly, it started to glow and hover over the pillow. The Diamonds stood up and looked, as a form started to appear. It was changing, going from the form of a little boy, to a boy turning into a young man.

Finally, the light disappeared, and the figure landed on their knees, with a hand supporting them, while their head was bowed. When the figure finally raised their head and stood up, the Diamonds were pleased with what they were seeing.

Steven had changed, as they had hoped, from a weak human boy to the Gem he was supposed to be. He was taller than before, taller than a boy his age. He had also become thinner while gaining some more muscle. He now had more of a runner's body, as the humans would call it. He was a defensive Gem, after all, meaning he didn't need big arm muscle. His hair had grown out and had lost its waviness. It was more like how his dad's hair had been when he was younger. It had also turned pink, but they could see some brown at the roots. His skin had also turned light pink, while his eyes stayed the same brown it has been before the Gem splitting. His uniform was a black bodysuit, with the old diamond insignia on the front. Over his bodysuit were some grey khaki shorts, making him look a bit more like a fighter.

Steven stared at his hands for a moment, before looking at the Diamonds. The Diamonds could see from the look in his eyes, that he had become more mature as they had expected. They were expecting him to tell them that he was grateful, to tell them that it was weird, that he felt different. But they hadn't expected his first words in this new life, to be this question:

"Where is she? Where is my mother?"