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Name: Pearl (DATA OMITTED)

Gem type: Pearl (Custom made)

Gem superior: Pink Diamond. (Rose Quartz)

Current Status: Crystal Gem

Observed Fusions: Rainbow Quartz, Opal, Sardonyx, Alexandrite, Obsidian 1.0, Rainbow Quartz 2.0. Obsidian 2.0.

Notes: Second Pearl of Pink Diamond. Presumed missing after Pink Diamonds (false) shattering. Had become a renegade in the war against Homeworld, discovered to be a co-conspirator.

New Analysis Contributor: MD-LJ

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The second Pearl made for Pink Diamond, after the original Pink Pearl was too damaged to function properly.

A Pearl of grace and poise...one who would be the game changer in everything Pink Diamond craved.

Designed for to make one happy.

Tell me Pearl...

Did you succeed?

Did you make Pink happy in the end?

A deep love for your Diamond. A love too deep. Maybe defective? Maybe the grand design?

You know what?

Let's make a painting.

A splash of blue, a splash of yellow, a splash of pink. To surround the blank white spaces on this gigantic canvas.

It's like a cloud in the void. You try and get closer, the cloud disappears.

An illusion of tangibility.

Yes let's put the blue on first, on the top, to represent the sky.

I love art.

I could always paint the clouds on afterwards.

But you see.

They won't be the original clouds...the ones that were never painted there. You can't see the white on the canvas anymore. Only the paint covers it now.

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PEARL GET OUT

You could always get a new canvas I suppose. But it won't be the same. Tear this one apart, start again. Start with a pink canvas.

Let's put some green on there...green's always nice.

Calming, like blue...like the ocean.

I hated painting in humans though, I mean, the colour for them is always hard to mix. What do I use again?

PLEASE LEAVE NOW

Strokes of precision leave form. Let's see who we can make now...

I really like the design of Rainbow Quartz 2.0. He's got such personality to him. Much better than the dull original. I mean, Rose Quartz was beautiful, but Pink Diamond was much more creative.
To identify ones self as a lesser gem definitely threw them off. I don't think I need to go on.

I actually sincerely believe you're the creative one Pearl. You have an amazing imagination. To match your Diamonds. Though I feel the core reason why she never loved you back was because your love was designed. No genuine feeling. Art is created. Love is formed naturally. So I've been told.

PLEASE.

But you know what is the most beautiful? That Curse of Humanity. It's more of a blessing. To me.

Pearl opened her eyes to see the blank world before her as she had been sitting down the entire time. She saw Steven before her, with his eyes closed and his arms by his sides.

"Steven?" She muttered. She had her hand to her mouth; with the constant idea in her mind on how this wasn't right. Her gem then started to cause her pain as she fell to the floor, holding her forehead and crying it out, wanting it to end, erasing all other senses and desires.

The world was the surrounded in four rows of gigantic Pink Diamond shapes that floated around them like a dancing pattern in this alternate realm. The pain had then stopped with her thought trails retracing their steps as Pearl got up to see Steven with his back to her. This was very wrong. Black liquid started to pour in from above the circles of Pink Diamonds, they then trickled down like small waterfalls onto the ground, which trailed towards Steven and circled around in a clockwise fashion, until he stood on a giant circle of it. This was absolutely horrifying to witness.

"I'm sorry Pearl." He answered, voice full of sorrow. His voice didn't seem like his...or it was and it echoed in several, varying tones, like others were speaking in the same chorus.

It was then a colourless Rose Quartz emerged from the liquid itself, donning her classic dress but with no hint of pink in it.

She stared at Pearl for the longest moment, who had found herself covering her mouth with both hands again. There was no need as she shook her head, then she scrunched her hands.

"I took everything from you...and now look what's happened." Rose said in Steven's voice.

Pearl gasped. This wasn't Steven. This couldn't be Steven. It was impossible.

"Steven you don't know what you're talking about." She called out.

"This isn't you."

A hidden blast coming from Steven knocked Pearl over to her knees again, then she noticed each of the Pink Diamonds had started to crack into two. One by one...as their shards remained still in the air. She then looked at Rose, who then turned into Pink Diamond...but again...colourless. She got to her knees to meet up with Pearl. She leaned over to cradle Pearls chin in her hand that made Pearl incredibly anxious and filled with mixed emotions.

"Leave Pearl...please." She whispered, her voiced mixed in with Steven's.

Pearl pulled herself back and pulled out her spear, her face filled with anger and refusal to believe in what was going on.

"Who are you and what have you done with Steven?" Pearl cried out as she clung onto her spear tightly. She had her stance wide and she was prepared to lunge.

Pink Diamond got up and stood back as the shards of the Pink Diamonds broke into tiny pieces, turning them into replicas of Rose's old sword. They promptly fell down and dug themselves in deep into the ground like sharp rain drops, one by one. Pink Diamond herself rested her hands on her chest as she cried out in pain, before bursting into a black liquid that sprayed everywhere, disturbing Pearl to highest degree . Shaking herself off the of the shock, Pearl withdrew her weapon and ran up to Steven, rested her hands on his shoulders, went down on one knee and attempted to get through to him. Her core burned with an intensity that threatened to tear her apart with the darkest, distressing feelings that spread to cleaving the anxiety down her throat.

"Steven please tell me what's going on? Whats wrong with you?" She pleaded as tears fell down her face.

His head fell as he grabbed his shirt. Pearl jumped back as she could see his gem as pure black stone. His face remained without his usual smile...void of anything recognizable of him. This was not Steven, she was sure. No...he was a dark, insulting mimicry. That was his antithesis. This was his disease talking, showing the outcomes of Snow's worst fears come to bite them. Hard. Now they were paying for it...with the one they'd sworn to defend.

"Steven..." She wept as she leaned her forehead against his. She failed. She failed to protect him.

"I am so sorry..."

"I need you to leave..." He muttered to her.

"I'll try and repress as much as the Lillim down here as I can. There's a fight going on right now and it'll hurt less if you can help the others get out too."

He opened his eyes, as hers widened at seeing those spheres of darkness with the white diamond shaped pupils. How he was managing this was beyond Pearls understanding. He wasn't. This couldn't be in his control. Such a decrepit way of fighting a battle you both did and didn't know you were losing. How much was gone and replaced? How much was copied and merged with what one would believe to be true?

"I-i...I don't want to leave you alone here." Pearl cried, as she struggled to maintain her composure.

He then grabbed her hands and clasped them in his own. His face turned serious as he looked in her straight in the eyes, like spikes that speared right through her. She'd never felt this much extremity from him before. He was her son indeed.

"By my order...my first and last order as a Diamo-" He said, until the shocking truth pinged her, which then Pearl forced her hands away as she stood back.

"NO! I cannot let you do that to me again!" She yelled as her words echoed across the realm, until she realized what she said that forced her to refrain.

"Pearl..." He muttered as he took a step towards her, his foot making ripples on the liquid.

Pearl shook her head repeatedly with every moment he edged closer to her, she stood back.

"Pearl...I've been infected. The only way I can save you is if you get out of here. I'm sure you'll find a way to defeat the Lillim. For now, I'll keep on fighting. The force she has on me is strong and I can't keep this up any longer. Please promise me you'll protect Connie."

How...why...he's a Diamond! He couldn't have been infected that easily. Unless his human side made him weaker...that wretched curse of humanity. But then Pearl recalled the gem in Stevonnie. It wasn't the full fusion. She hadn't yet the heart to tell him what was going on with Connie. But now wasn't the time. The swords that formed from the fallen shards melted into a pink liquid that surrounded the dark circle around Steven. Visions of Rainbow Quartz 2.0 came to light, as well as the fun times Pearl and Steven had together as they appeared on the surface of the rose water.

"Rainbow was fun. I'm glad I was able to fuse with you, even if it took us a while to that point... and we only fused for a short snippet. You work so hard."

Pearl refused to accept it. She couldn't let him go. She needed to support him. She was technically his Pearl. Only his. She wasn't going to lose her Diamond again...no...he was her Steven.

She noticed his gem glowing as he fell over in pain as he was left clinging on to his stomach. The black liquid overtook the pink at an extremely fast rate. His cries of agony almost tore Pearl apart.

"PEARL GET OUT!" He cried, his voice layered with an unknown but loud frequency.

"NO STEVEN I WON'T!" Pearl replied as she ran over to him, as the world around them began to shatter with the walls of the realm already starting to fall apart, revealing the dark void behind them. The room shook violently as bits of debris fell everywhere. He grabbed her hands in a swift, sudden movement as he glared at her.

"WHY WON'T YOU LET ME TO DO THIS FOR YOU PEARL?" He screeched.

Another gasp escaped her, as she failed to respond. She didn't even notice the large part of broken debris fall next to her, mere inches from her body.

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A light blinded her vision as a hand came out of it and pulled her into it.

"STEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"

A cry that went into the void left unheard.

PROJECTION SIM ENDED.