Once Tourmaline left the temple with Amethyst and Lars, everyone set about to gather all the gems on Earth in Little Homeworld, Terra not included, because she was the Earth. Everyone was given the day off of their human jobs, and helped set up for whatever Steven had in store.

Tourmaline defused and wandered away for a while, her and her components being only a couple days old, she needed to get her bearings.

They found a bench on a pier far away from the hustle and bustle of the preparations, and Jet and Black Pearl sat down to discuss their futures.

Black pearl started, "I wonder how the other pairs are getting along, or are they just fulfilling their purpose... listening to other's problems, finding solutions, not having problems of their own."

Jet continued, "We barely have our own problems, we emerged and brought to earth for a funeral... we haven't even started our real assignment. Every gem here is at least a few hundred years old, we're not even a hundred hours old yet."

"We may not know much about ourselves right now, but there is one thing I know, I prefer being black tourmaline. I'm all brain and heart, I can tell I was never made for anything more than talking. and you are made as not much more than a recorder, you aren't even meant to do anything with the knowledge you gain. But together, we have a purpose, a meaning greater than our individual uses"

"What about the other Tourmalines, are they staying fused, or do they not feel the same way as us?" Jet finished.

Pearl came up behind them, " Maybe you're not supposed to worry about your sisters, just yourselves." They jumped.
"Well, are you only going to be Tour for Steven? Or have you decided to be one and not two"

"Both" they said together, Jet finishing with "there are things we do better alone, and things we need each other for. We were made for each other, quite literally"

"That's what I said about Volleyball. I was a fighter, Knight to Rose, Mother of Steven. She was a lover, a tortured soul, a sister to Pink. When we're together though, we're for each other, sisters, best friends, confidantes. Did you know that she has a real weapon now? A halberd, with ribbons everywhere, and she still uses her dancing wand. For everything. She fits right in when she's here, and sticks out beautifully on Homeworld. She's still working with the Diamond's Pearls, back in Pink's court. Until Paragon's changes anyway."

"I saw that. when we held your hand before you left, " B. Pearl said fiddling with her tie. "I couldn't show you now, but there was a memory of her that stuck out, of your fusion, something that you thought, not said. I'll have to get back to you on that, pearl to pearl, but it resonated with me."

"It's fine sis, I only came by because the preparations are almost done, and figured you two would want to get back to find your place with us. We'll finish talking later."

The gems got up and walked to Little Homeworld, not bothering to take the warp. For some time they walked in silence, until the screen that was being set up came into view. There was a flash of light and Tourmaline stood tall behind Pearl, offering to give her a lift the rest of the way. Pearl asked if she could replay some memories with Steven on the way and Tourmaline obliged, a little hologram in her palm, watching the gems play baseball, (pretty much between Steven and Pearl's memories, they were watching Hit the Diamond)

When they arrived Tourmaline set Pearl down and went to the back of the clearing, trying to find a place that she could project to the whole screen from without being blocked. She found her place and motioned the Crystal Gems over.

"It's almost time for the last memories to be shown. We have a limit on how long we can show anything with accuracy after reading an object, and the longer ago them memory, the less time we have. We still have a few days for this, but we know it's going to be hard to get everyone here, so please hurry and assemble any and all gems Steven's had contact with since realizing he was a Diamond. except Paragon and their pearls. Though I suspect Pink Pearl, the one you call Volleyball, might want to join us if Paragon will allow it."

Peridot piped up," I know how to get a hold of everyone, I have a copy of the communicator station the pearls used for Steven's false start coronation. That should work. Obviously we could end up with a few unsavories showing up, and some people not showing up that we'd like to be here, but that should work out fantastically."
"I'll help you" Pearl replied, "do we need anyone else?"
"No but we might need our secret to be let out..."
"You really ready for everyone to meet her? The only other people who know her are Lapis and Garnet..."
"She's our best scientist, if we need intelligence on this scale we need her"
"You're right, well I guess it's time, everyone we'd like you to meet: Actinolite"

The two gems didn't even dance to sync, they just started walking towards one another. Three steps away their gems glowed and they literally just stepped into each other. There was a flash and then green pixels showered down and there was a four armed, four eyed gem standing about Garnet's height. Her hair was sill in Peri's triangle shape, but stuck out the back into a full pyramid. Her visor rounded and looking like Sardonyx but green. Pearl;s nose jutted out above Peri's lips. She was dressed in a lab coat version of Pearl's jacket, with an alien on the pocket with stars in it's eyes. The jacket was laid over Peridot's leotard, though the colors essentially inverted on her leggings, green stars on black legs. When she moved to the front of the group to speak, swirls of pink played with the light in the coat.

" I'll get to work on the communications" she said, her voice sounding like a lower version of Yellow Pearl's nasal whine, (I had imagined Amy from Big Bang Theory doing a Peridot impression) and pulled a couple tablets out of her pearl and walked away furiously clicking on them.

Garnet cut in "I apologize for her abruptness, those two have hyper focus when together. She'll be done in about 36 hours and after the message it should only take about 24 more for everyone to show up. Peridot is right though before we begin we're going to have a fight on our hands, I've seen any number of our enemies showing up, Tourmaline will you help? Can you help?"

"I guess we'll find out," Tourmaline finished, looking out into the distance...