After only a couple years the cue to fuse began, the sapphires all having the same vision. In each area, the gems formed a circle with the magnet components in the middle. In Pink's garden, Rhodonite was herself for all of ten minutes, having enough time to thank the Pink and Purple Sapphires for the go ahead before everyone started to glow. In the other camps, similar events were occurring, the Peridot was surprisingly calm, with "The Great and Lovable" speaking for the fusion, but her invariably long winded speech was cut short as the Yellows were one of the quickest to start the chain reaction. Actinolite was glad to have at least some of herself back together, and she was very calm as she sat down to let everyone else in Blue's camp come to her.
In White's camp, something strange happened when Tourmaline fused, the normal chain reaction didn't start at all immediately. In fact, the White Sapphires were confused about why nothing was happening. Pearl asked if it would be okay to start with voluntary fusing and see if a larger fusion would be more help. When the sapphires couldn't think of a reason not to, Pearl herself walked up to her friend and held her hand out. Tourmaline accepted the pale hand into her own dark one and pulled her into a hug before they glowed and the gem who emerged introduced herself as Pearlecent Tourmaline. Standing taller now, the difference from Black was subtle, the eye gem being a smaller pupil in a rainbow iris, shoulder pads and slippers were added to the outfit, and the grey-scale now became a dim but vibrant rainbow, as if looking through sunglasses. Not long after this fusion occurred the gems glowed here as well, with a rainbow of light rather than white glows as was expected.
In each of the camps, once the gems combined there wasn't a proper form for the gem for some time, just a ball of light with gems swirling around in the middle. Voices would come from the midst of the light, similar to how Steven heard Terra before she became one mind. In Yellow's camp, the most vocal voices were Peridot and Jasper arguing, but other familiar and unfamiliar voices would drown them out. The ball of light was flashing and crackling like lightning. In Blue's the Lazulis and Sapphires were the most heard voices, and similarly drowned out by other voices, the light roiling and bubbling like boiling water. In Pink's Rhodonite and the Rubies were heard beneath the clamoring sound and the light looked like a rose on fire, calm and still on the bottom and frantic and chaotic towards the top. In White's camp, there was no noise, no loud voices overlapping and vying for the spotlight. This group found cohesion rather quickly and while the voices that did come from the light were distinct, it sounded more like a single person thinking out loud. The light took on a five pointed star, and was still and unmoving. The fusions did not take a true form for over a decade, as the voices gained more cohesion, and soon a distinctiveness of their own. Well, almost their own, the light started to sound eerily similar to their progenitor diamond, even Pink, the sound very much like the Diamond's own, and not even a hint of Rose's differences.
When the light began to form a body, the change was subtle, most so in White's, and slow, but over the course of a few years a person shape of light stood where a ball once was. Slower still was the solidifying until in each camp where hundreds of gems convened, one stood, not just sounding like her diamond, but strangely taking a similar shape as well. The only obvious difference was instead of one gem the body was speckled with lots of gems, looking like human freckles. Innately the four new gems knew to wait just a little longer before contacting earth or each other. They tried working with their powers, knowing the Sapphires inside could still see the future, though not as completely, it took the form of intuition rather than concrete knowledge. The peridots added intellect, Pearls the ability to project holograms, though only now as something they could touch. There was also enough of the Diamond's essence in one spot to partially mimic her powers as well, lightning energy crackled from the Yellow gem's hand and the intuition and intelligence told them it could stabilize and destabilize gem forms. The Blue gem could produce water around her hand, which they also knew carried emotion altering powers. The Pink gem grew plants in her hands though she knew it wasn't fully organic, could set them on fire without burning them up, and also knew that both these gifts could hurt or heal both gem and organic alike, though they also knew it was more helpful on gemkind. The White gem could produce a glow around her hand, that could be shot as a destructive force, take control of another gem (she knew there wasn't enough essence to take over more than one like her diamond) she couldn't take the mind of another gem, though she could take an aspect, such as what they saw or thought.
For centuries, about half the time predicted for pink's return, the four gems worked on their new forms, and powers, finding the little gifts available from their components, and finding the limits to the girfts from the diamonds. They then knew to contact each other and Earth, in a group video call. Terra and an older looking Lars, asked the most important question, "Who are you?" and the four gems responded together " Moissanite"