Blue diamond drops to her knees hands over her mouth and tears streaming down her cheeks, a blue aura spread out in every direction blanketing the building and the ones next to it.
"Oh my stars!" emerald exclaims staring at the pink gemstone. Yellow stares at it frozen she had blamed herself for pinks death for so long that seeing her gemstone felt like a weight had been lifted. But now grief had given way to confusion, why would pink rebel and leave her position, why would she fake her shattering and put them through this.
"PINK DIAMOND!" she hears the emerald exclaim and she turns on her and the topazes throwing her hand out yellow energy slamming into them poofing them.
"Blue.." she calls out tentatively walking over and crouching down on her toes placing a hand on blues shoulder.
"You couldn't have known." she says wiping tears from her eyes.
"No one but pink knew, she asked for this.
"But her cries yellow." blue lets out a sob.
"She was in so much pain, I hurt her blue. I enjoyed hurting her. What if she doesn't reform… what if i killed her?" she says sobbing.
Steven finds himself floating in a pink expanse"Am i dead?"he asks the void
"No Steven you just poofed." a very familiar voice says and he turns seeing his mother.
"Pink diamond." he gasps and a wall forms between them pink looking at it eyes wide,
"Are you afraid of me?" she asks tearing up
"You hurt so many people." he says shakily. "Pearl, garnet, the rubies ,centipeedle ,every gem on earth, all of your loyal subjects. And even the diamonds, your own sisters how could you do that?!"
"It was the only way."she says sadly.
"NO! It wasn't you're such a liar you cant even tell yourself the truth! Out of everyone, I deserve to be told the truth!" the entire world shakes around them "You left and now i'm stuck taking care of the mess you made, healing the damage you've caused to thousands!"
"I..i never meant for my problems to fall to you steven." she hangs her head. "I should have told the gems, should have told the diamonds too." tears run down her cheeks dropping into the abyss.
" I want to go back." "as a diamond you should be able to reform almost instantly, but you should take the time to change. You're going to have to prove you're place amongst the diamonds or they'll keep you locked up in their palace."
"so i can reform." he says softly relieved.
"Of course you can." she says snifeling. "This is your gem, and one day when you're done maturing.. I'll be purged and you'll be the only one in here."
"You'll be dead?"
"I'm already dead, just a ghost who hasn't passed yet. But from what i've seen in your short existence i know that you'll be so much more than I ever could have hoped to be." she exclaims wiping the tears from her eyes. "But pearl never taught you about homeworld did she?" steven shakes his head. Curious about what she was getting at. "Ok, sit i'll give you a crash course if you're willing?" she looks at him .
" Greg taught me that phrase." she chuckles, "ill share my programing, and a few of my memories with you to make your time on homeworld easier ok?" steven nods hesitantly sitting on the other side of the wall. His eyes flashing pink as new memories and information fills his mind.
"I've already given you a few bits and pieces, nut anymore would have revealed who I am." she sniffles tearing up again. "You look so much like me, stars i wish i could have been around to raise you." she wipes her eyes again
"it's time for you to go, it would be selfish of me to try to keep you here any longer."
Blue sits kneeling on the floor holding stevens gem. "Oh pink, i'm so sorry please reform. I promise no one will ever hurt you again."
yellow sits on her throne her head resting on her hand watching them 'please reform!' she thinks to herself. ' please let her be ok' she gasps sitting up as the gem starts to glow floating out of blues hand into the air
"yellow!" blue calls out standing up. "Yes blue, i see it." she says walking over and watching steven start to reform he lands in a crouch, much taller than he was before 15 feet tall with his curlier hair pink, an angular face like his mother only more masculin, wearing a pink sleeveless top with a black star on it, a pair of black pants with pink thread on the seams and a black and pink cloak . He looks up with eyes befitting of his status, pink diamond eyes to match blue and yellows wincing at the influx of stimuli to his new eyes.
"Oh pink!" blue exclaims reaching out to hug him when a symboless shield forms between them. "Blue, yellow. We have a lot to talk about." he says standing up and dispersing his shield.
"Youre so different." yellow says staring at him. "Why did you fake your shattering, What's with this new form, and why are you doing a voice?!"
"Look, i'm not the pink diamond you knew." Blue stairs at him. "I'd know that gem anywhere."
"No. pink diamond became rose quartz. And then rose quartz gave up her gem to create something new. Me" tears pool in the corners of blues eyes.
"I.. I don't." she breaks down crying steven wiping his eyes. "Say we believe you, say any of this is true why would you come back now." yellow asks the tears running down her cheeks mostly blues. "Why turn yourself over than? Why come here?"
"Because pink was one of you,you deserve to know the truth, she shouldn't have hurt you like she did." yellow walks over to blue wrapping her arms around her shoulders as she cries.
Hours later after blue had calmed herself down and was sitting in her throne staring at Steven. "Do you..do you have any of her memories pin… Steven?"
"Some of them, whatever she decided to share with me." she leans forward
"so she's still in their?" she ask hopeful and steven groans
"Her mind still resides inside of my gem, but mine is the prominent one." 'best not to tell her pinks mind is fading. It might break her.'
Yellow looks at blue and she presses a button.
"Send in an agate." she removes her finger "Pink." she speaks up. "Can you return to your room and give us a moment?" steven nods and a pink agate walks into the room, eyes widening at the sight of steven. She salutes him. "My diamond." the pink agate says voice shaky.
"Agate, please lead pink to her room."
"Of course." she says bowing .
"You will need to lead her." she adds sounding annoyed "She wont know the way."
"Yes my diamond." she turns to pink. "If.. if you would follow me, my diamond?"
"Lead the way." she straightens up wrestling her hands by her side walking towards the door slowly,
"We will be speaking soon i hope." he tells the diamonds before turning to follow the agate out of the room and into a hallway.
"My diamond there's a warpad at the end of this hallway should be able to take to your portion of the palace." she tells him happily "We've all been keeping your palace in tip top condition in your honor but now you're back, and with a brand new form too." she smiles again turning to walk backwards. "The future looks brighter than it has in thousands of years." her eyes widen. "Not that yellow diamond blue diamond ,and white diamond are incompitant but you will always hold my loyalty." steven stays quiet feeling extremely awkward towards this gem he towered over. They reach the warpad and steven steps onto it after herentering the warpstreme reaching the palace.
"That was faster than the warp pads on earth."
"Oh yes, warpad technology has been updated and improved many times over the last five thousand years, along with all of homeworlds technology."
"Pink agat can yo…" he pauses. "No, you will bring me a gem capable of bringing me up to date on homeworlds technological advancements preferably a peridot from facet-2f5l cut 8xh or 8xf if you can find them." pink agate grins at him acting like a proper diamond.
"I can find the way from here you can start at once." he tells her and she nods warping away as soon as he steps off of the warpad he follows the hallway the room opening up to reveal a large pink throne at the end of the massive room.
"Pinks court?" he murmurs walking over and sitting against the side of the throne resting his head against it staring at the roof.
"Pinks crash course really helped." he says softly tears forming in the corners of his eyes. "The first time I actually get to meet my mother and im to scared to actually do anything." he slammed his fist into the side cracking the throne. Not needing to hold back his strength when alone "Why does this all have to be so complicated, the diamonds are a family how could she have done that." he slammed his fist against it again pink energy blowing the arm off of the throne he closes his eyes tight. He always put everyone first, sacrificing himself to help the diamonds, hiding how much this all hurt him. Maybe this is how he broke crushed by his emotions alone on a planet that wasn't his home.