Cold. That was all she felt, standing at the edge of the arena, cold. That was before Sapphire froze it. She stared at the spot where it happened. Blue Diamond came, Steven and Sapphire were discovered. Then she attacked Sapphire, but she hit Steven instead. Then his form dissipated. But when Blue looked at the gem, it wasn't a Rose Quartz, it was a Pink Diamond.
She was sure of it. She only saw Pink Diamond a few times, but she knew what her gem looked like.
Sapphire screamed Steven's name. She charged the Diamond to take back the gem, but she was easily swatted across the arena. Blue seemed to decide she didn't care about the Sapphire, but the pink gem. So she and her Pearl immediately went to her palanquin and flew away.
The scenario played through Lapis' mind over and over.
"Steven," Sapphire cried as she ran to the other side of the coliseum. She collapsed onto her knees and cried. The ice around her grew larger.
Lapis, didn't know what to think. Once again, she came back. The fear of the Diamond's made her flee, but the loneliness brought her back. The barn was still on the moon. When she came back, she saw Blue Diamond's ship. Naturally, the first thing she thought was to run, but then she saw Blue Diamond's palanquin leave. Then for some reason, Lapis didn't fly away, she followed. She kept a safe distance, until she reached the cloud coliseum, where it all went wrong.
Lapis looked at the weeping Sapphire, she looked at the clouds were Blue Diamond disappeared into. Were the Diamond's going to attack. She wanted to run… But Steven…
Lapis grew her wings and landed behind the other blue gem, "Sapphire?"
The smaller gem gasped and looked up surprised. She must had been to upset to use her future vision, "Lapis? I thought…"
"Why does Steven's gem look like that?" Lapis asked. Sapphire wiped the single stream of tears from her face.
"Rose… lied to us," she began, "She didn't shatter… Pink Diamond… She was Pink Diamond… she faked her shattering and presumed a new identity."
Lapis felt shock, she was silent for a moment before she asked again, "Why?"
"I don't know anymore…" Sapphire cried. Lapis looked down, then looked back up.
"Will… Steven come back?"
Sapphire stilled. She trembled, then she finally spoke, "I don't know… We never let Steven fight… until he finally got his shield… His form was never dissipated before."
That was not the answer Lapis wanted.
"But," Sapphire began again, "I keep looking into the future, no one reforms from the gem…" Lapis frowned, "I think that means… Steven is still in there… he just doesn't know how to reform on his own… we never told him how."
Lapis continued to frown. How was that better? No one could talk to a gem when they had retreated into their gemstone. It was impossible… Wait.
"When I was fused with Jasper, Steven," Lapis recalled, "He kept coming to me, like he was inside our gems."
"Steven told us before that, when he sleeps, he can somehow enter other people's minds. He entered two humans, and a living watermelon, and… you," Sapphire recalled. Lapis looked down and thought.
"Do you think, it can work the other way?" Lapis asked, "If we fell asleep, we could enter his gem? And then we could tell him how to reform?"
"Maybe, but, we won't be able to do if Blue Diamond takes him to homeworld," Sapphire reminded. Lapis frowned, she knew she was right. She also knew that the only way to take back Steven's gem was to fight Blue Diamond. She would be declaring she was an enemy of homeworld. The Diamond's would hunt her down, and… Steven would be gone forever, she'd be alone forever, alive, but alone.
Lapis looked over the edge towards the planet. She came to like this planet. She could do what she wanted, no one really cared. Plus, it was Steven's home. Lapis sighed.
"How can I summon a weapon?"
"What?" Sapphire asked.
"How can I summon a weapon?" Lapis repeated, "It was theorized once that all gems, not just warrior class, could summon weapons. If Pearl can summon a weapon, I should too."
"It… isn't that simple," Sapphire said, "It's different for every gem. Yes, Pearl can summon a spear, but she couldn't when the rebellion started. It was why she fought with swords at first."
Lapis sighed, she walked over to Sapphire and picked her up and started flying.
"What are you doing?"
"I don't need a weapon to keep Blue Diamond from leaving."
Pink… everything was Pink. It was all Steven could see. Where was he? He was alone. He didn't want to be alone. He was waiting for a long time, but nothing happened. He was scared. He started to cry. What if he was going to be alone forever? He didn't want to be alone. He wanted his Dad. He wanted Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet.
For whatever reason, Steven was an infant. His shirt loosely wiggled around him as he cried. Then a pair of large hands picked him up.
"Its okay," a voice whispered as Steven was cradled, "Its all going to be okay…" Steven began to calm down. He didn't remember where, but he heard this voice before. He looked up to see something pink and fluffy. Maybe it was cotton candy. But he wasn't hungry, he was tired. He closed his eyes and fell asleep in the warm spot he was in. He felt safe as whoever it was that found him held him.