The hallway seemed endless, Steven was having trouble keeping awake. He felt so hungry, the pain he felt was almost overwhelming. The hallway ended to reveal a small room with a warp pad. Zircon stepped onto the warp pad and waited for Steven.
"Move it war criminal!" yelled the Eyeball Amethyst, Steven was pushed forward by the other Amethyst onto the warp pad. Blue Zircon activated the warp pad, teleporting both of them in a stream of light, leaving the Amethysts behind.
When the pillar of light that surrounded disappeared. They were in a new location. The Blue Zircon and Steven had reappeared in a large dark room. Lights turned on beneath their feet, it was the crest of the three remaining diamonds.
Another gem teleported in. She almost looked like the Blue Zircon, but yellow and with a different helmet style. The Yellow Zircon looked at the Blue Zircon and smirked. "Defending a rebel? Isn't that treason?" she asked with a chuckle.
The Blue Zircon looked at her in anger. "I was assigned to this!" she spat. Then Yellow Zircon was about to speak again, but before she could, Yellow and Blue Diamond's Pearls had arrived.
"All rise for the luminous Yellow Diamond!" announced the Yellow Pearl. "And the lustrous Blue Diamond," the Blue Pearl added softly as two towering figures of the diamonds appeared behind them.
Steven noticed that Blue Diamond was leaning on Yellow Diamond's shoulder. Both of them opened their eyes at the same time. But quickly they looked around confused. They didn't seem to see him.
"Where is the accused?" Blue Diamond asked looking around. Yellow Diamond quickly saw Steven behind the Blue Zircon and narrowed her eyes. "Is that Rose Quartz? Look at the hideous form she's taken," she said in disgust. "Forget the trail, we should shatter her for just looking like that".
"No, I want to hear her make her case," Blue Diamond told Yellow Diamond before turning her face towards Steven.
"I want to know what she thinks what we're going to do to her because I want to do something worse".
Steven gulped nervously. This was it, he was going to pay for the crimes his mother committed. It was time to fix the mistakes his mother had left him.
Yellow Diamond sighed and then summoned her throne as did Blue Diamond. "Fine let's just get on with it".
Both of took their seats. First to start was the Yellow Zircon, she stepped forward in front of Yellow Diamond. "My diamond, my brilliant, opulent, radiant, glimmering...,"
"My diamond will suffice or we'll never get through this," Yellow Diamond said, interrupting Yellow Zircon.
"Yes, my diamond," Yellow Zircon said and then started her statement.
"Rose Quartz committed a crime, so unrepresented that one can't help but wonder why. Exhibit A," she said, snapping her fingers. Lars suddenly appeared beside the Yellow Zircon.
"Lars!" Steven cried out. "Steven, where are we-" Lars was about to continue but was quickly silenced by a bubble that appeared around his head so the rest of his words could not be heard.
"As we can see this specimen, humans are loud. Absolutely hideous creatures that serve no purpose whatsoever. What sort of gem would turn on her own kind for this? I'll tell you a kind, that kind!" she said, pointing her hand at Steven.
"Just let him go, he has nothing to do with this!" Steven said.
"There it is. The passion, the furry! That caused the diabolical Rose Quartz to...shatter her own diamond," said Yellow Zircon in a dramatic pose.
Yellow Diamond rolled her eyes, uninterested in what the Yellow Zircon had to say. Without another word, Yellow Zircon continued.
"But I know what your thinking, this thing doesn't look like a Rose Quartz. And for that, I would like to call up an eyewitness," she said.
Suddenly a pillar rose up in front of the two thrones that the diamonds were sitting on. Steven tried to focus on who it was. By the time the pillar had stopped rising, he saw that it was Eyeball.
"Oh Eyeball!" Steven said, a little surprised that she was at the trail.
"Do not address me, war criminal!" she growled. "Am just glad you're okay...," Steven said and then returned to being quiet as the trail continued.
"I heard it straight from her. She said, I'm the mighty Rose Quartz and I've got her shield and everything," she said, mocking Steven of what he had said the last time they saw each other.
"And then she threw me into space!" she yelled angrily, slamming her hands down ontop the pillar.
"I tried to help you, I healed your gem!" Steven replied. Eyeball narrowed her eyes at Steven. "And who else has the power to heal gems other than the villous Rose Quartz?" Before she could say another word, the pillar lowered towards the floor again.
"And there you have it, Rose Quartz did it. And that is Rose Quartz, I rest my case," said Yellow Zircon. "Uh, she's good," said the Blue Zircon.
"Well, I'm convinced. Time to execute," said Yellow Diamond. Blue Diamond, on the other hand, didn't look very satisfied.
"Not yet, the defense still has to speak," she replied and looked right at Blue Zircon who was starting to look nervous.
"Right...well...uh..., before I...start my very...uh...throughout defense, I'd like to remind the court that Rose Quartz did turn herself in," she said.
"The court remembers, and the court does not care," Yellow Diamond said coldly, making the Blue Zircon even more nervous.
"Uh, of course!" she said, quickly picking up one of her screens trying to find something useful. "Uh, in-innocent! Uh, the word innocent can mean, oh-many different things".
Finally, Steven had enough just waiting for the trial to end. "I did it!" He said loudly and quickly got to his feet.
"Wha-what, what! Stop!" Blue Zircon tried to settle him down. "No," they both turned to see it was Blue Diamond that said it, making them both be silent.
"I want to hear what she has to say," she said and with a wave of her hand, Steven spot he had been sitting on up until now rose until in stopped at the exact height of the diamonds.
"State your name for the record please," Yellow Peral said. Steven, despite having a small sense of fear, he knew he had to pull through.
"I, um... I'm Rose Quartz and I'm guilty," Steven replied and showed his gem to the court. Yellow Diamond looked the most surprised, but Blue Diamond wasn't shaken at all.
"Everything you guys said I did, I did. And I did it by myself. And I'm sorry. I'll accept any punishment you want to give me. Just let him go!" he said pointing down at Lars who was near the base of the pillar," And leave the Earth alone".
"Ha! Sounds like a solid confession to me!" Yellow Diamond said, pretty pleased. Blue Diamond instead still kept her eyes on Steven. "How?" she asked, "How did you do it?"Steven looked at her confused. "Huh?"
"How did you shatter Pink Diamond?" she asked, her eyes narrowing down at Steven.
"Um...well. I did it on Earth, in front of Pink Diamond's palanquin. I was probably like, "Stop!" and she was all like "No!" So we fought-I think".
"And she probably did some cool moves. I probably did some cool moves too, some jump kicks and stuff. But I was most likely deeply conflicted about deciding to shatter her. Definitely crying. I probably had to use the Breaking Point to do it".
"It was a sword!" she cried out and covered her teary-eyed face with her hands.
"You... shattered her... with a sword...," she said and continued to cry into her hands. Yellow Diamond got up from her seat to comfort her.
She then turned to face Steven, quite angry. " That's quite enough testimony from you! We shall take a short recess," she said and then turned to face back to Blue Diamond.
Back in the room where Steven was first brought to Homeworld, Blue Zircon was scolding Steven.
"What are you saying in there!? Maybe this, probably that! Oh, what do you mean, probably?!" she said, trying to talk some sense into Steven.
Steven didn't really seem much interested. " Look I just... I don't actually know how it happened, okay?"
"You don't know?!" she said, shocked to know the truth.
"I...," Steven was quickly cut off when Blue Zircon grabbed him by his shirt. "Don't tumble my rocks! Both our gems are on the line! Did you do this or not?!" she asked.
"It was me, alright!" Steven said and then she finally let go of him. "Rose Quartz did it, and I've got her gem, so I'm the one who's got to pay for this!"
"You don't know how it happened...," she said. Steven nodded in agreement. "I get it. There's a reason they want you to explain how you did it," she said taking out another screen.
"It's because it doesn't make sense!"
Suddenly the door to the room opened up again to reveal that the Eyeball Amethyst and the other guards were ready to take them back to the courtroom.
"Come on, war criminal. I don't have all day," she growled. Blue Zircon was the first one out of the door, Steven followed after with two guards flanking his sides.
This would be it, the end of the trial would determine his fate. This might as well be the last time I'll get to see this room.