Images flashed before the gems' eyes, as they relived every sight, thought and emotion Pink, Rose and Steven ever had. and even some times they didn't remember as the gem itself had memories the form never kept. Thousands of years passed for the enraptured beings as only minutes passed in real time. Unfortunately, Black Tourmaline couldn't control what she showed at this point, so even the secret lives came to light. Pink cracking Vollyball's eye, every secret she kept from Pearl, every intimate moment with Greg, and in Steven's life, intimate moments with Connie. Everything was shown, every message, even the ones show specifically to each gem at the funeral, all the way up to jet handing the gem to the diamonds, the hologram fading away as the gem left her hands.
As everyone's eyes came back into focus, a hush fell over those assembled. Tourmaline unfused and the gems fell to the ground. B. Pearl throwing one last message before passing out. Steven's image hung in the air, "I love you all, even if at times you didn't return it. Please be at peace when I'm gone, and know that the new Pink Diamond will hold these memories even if she can't access them. The gems who brought you my message have one more mission, but not for some time. When my gem reforms, she is to be the one to show Pink who she was, who I was, and who my mother was."
Nobody moved for what felt like ages. then slowly the sounds of gem weapons poofing were heard, and the groans of the two incapacitated gems as they awoke, until there were just two sets of gems staring at each other. Jet looked at her companion and held her hand. They tried to fuse, but could not meld their forms at all. B. Pearl tried to form a hologram to make an announcement but gone were her full color projections and instead a black and white image hung in the air. "Gems, do not worry, the vast majority of the memories you have seen will fade, but it was something you all needed to see. This should not be a place of fighting it should be a place to remember our temporarily departed Diamond, our Friend, our Family. But if you must let out frustrations, then let the day pass and what you have seen sink in. At dawn we will make our final decisions. Neither myself or Jet can tell the future, but there is a possibility that there are side effects to what just happened that we will need to address before then." The hologram faded into a four pointed star, and blinked out.
Hours passed with hardly any movement, though the groups joined tighter around each other to converse better. On the Crystal gem's side, Pearl, Garnet, amethyst, the Temps and the off colors gathered around tourmaline's components to find out just what B. Pearl meant by side effects.
"I'm not sure" said Jet, "we tried to fuse, and we could not, we tried to use our powers, and those were muted. Even now, I cannot see more than two days into the past on anything, but the time is getting longer each time I try."
Pearl chimed in, "I didn't dismiss my weapon either, it just went away, and I saw the faces on some of the other side when theirs poofed, they didn't either."
"This is bad, I can't see anything definitive in the future either, but I'm afraid to unfuse to see if Sapphire would have any luck. Any time I look into the future where I try unfusing I don't see it working when I try to come back." Garnet added. "Oh no, I'm too late," she continued, staring horrified at the off colors, specifically Flourite. A soft light surrounded to very large fusion, and as it got brighter the glow began in Garnet and Rhodonite as well. In fact soft lights were glowing across both camps, as fusions began to glow, the older or more complex a fusion was the brighter they glowed. After a few seconds pops were heard as the lights split and many gems fell, and soon in front of the crystal gems, where three gems stood, now lay ten. Ruby and Sapphire stood up first, clinging to each other trying to join back, with no success. Next up on their feet was Rhodonite, or well, her pearl and ruby components, dressed in very homeworld appearing outfits, but where diamonds would be were pink lion's mane stars. Red pearl was hiding behind her Ruby companion, or trying to, but with her red being so dark and her being twice the size of her partner, it wasn't working so well. After everyone got their bearing, they looked around trying to determine where Flourite's components were, the remaining six gems blending into the crowd.
One by one they stepped forward, interestingly led by a shy violet pearl, her gem in her chest, "Let me introduce ourselves," she began "we are, ahem were, Flourite, as you can see fusion isn't working, so we're about as together as we can be, I'm obviously a Pearl, Previously in Blue's court, I belonged to a very sweet but firm handed purple sapphire. I was sent on an errand to Yellow's court and met a very inquisitive peridot, not much unlike your own, 6YT. Frequently I would find reasons to go to Yellow's court to meet with my friend, and we became closer than friends, eventually resulting in our first fusion, culminating in a more focus and proper version of your fusion Ms Pearl"
6YT, with her gem in her forehead, piped up, "Her sapphire knew what had happened and dismissed pearl, abandoning her as a mercy instead of having her shattered. I was poofed as a result of my actions and Pearl stole my gem, we were so lucky we weren't rejuvenated. That's when we first started hiding in the kindergarten. There we found our missing pieces. Beryl, the uh, short one over there,"pointed to a brown figure with a gem in her navel "turned out she was an earth type gem like aquamarines, obviously moving dirt and rocks instead of water. She kept us grounded" giggles " in such a dark time, we Fused with her and became Goshenite."
"After I joined," Beryl we ran into the other two Peridots, off color themselves, and T just couldn't leave them behind, they joined us at the same time and Flourite was born." The other Peridots came out from behind her, one was blue instead of green, and the other looked more like a Pearl with an Afro.
"Now what are we going to do, like this?" V. Pearl asked. The other unfused gems murmured in agreement.
Jet replied "We wait."