Surprised, that would be an understatement. The gems kept their eyes on the 1-year-old infant sleeping peacefully within the pod that crashed Nora's birthday party. They exchanged look between each other, the most intriguing part that the boy had pink hair and held a bubble with a very familiar gem inside it. The gem kept quiet for a couple of minutes before Amethyst broke the silence.
"What going on in here?" Amethyst asked in confusion.
"I don't really know, but right now let's get him out of the pod," The fusion said, gently picking up the baby in her hands trying not to wake him up but she failed. He looked at her and smiled, making the fusion unable to resist returning his innocent smile. The boy started squirming, undoing the buttons of his pajamas, to her surprise, the boy had a Rose quartz gem instead of a belly button.
"Gems come here for a second." The fusion motioned the Crystal gems to get closer and then held the baby in a way that they saw his gem.
"Ok, now this is getting awkward." The purple quartz said
"How in the world does he have Jasper's gem in a bubble?" Pearl said switching on her salty mode.
"It was supposed to be Amethyst's bubble, I saw her bubble it right after Peri drove that scrap metal through her. Don't you think this is weird, a baby with pink hair came crashing into Nora's birthday inside what looks to be a Class 2 starship." Peridot said and right after
"What's a class two starship?" Ronaldo Fryman asked, a self-proclaimed paranormal investigator popped out of nowhere and tried to take a look at the giant crater caused by the fallen escape pod only to be stopped by the crystal gems
"OH come on, can't I take a look? I can really use this to make kbcw famous."
"Sorry Ronaldo but no can do, this is something that should not be taken this lightly."
"Bummer for you dude, now you have nothing to put on that useless blog." The purple quartz said.
"Amethyst be quiet, it's not up to you to say that his blog is bad or not. Now I need your help to get this pod back to the temple." Nora said defending her friend.
"Whatever, I will get it done myself," The purple gem said, shape shifting to her wrestling persona Purple Puma.
"This Party is officially over people," The fusion said, as she finished those words she saw a faint orange glow on the side of her eyes, she turned around to see Jasper out of her bubble and reforming, She looked at Amethyst who pointed at Pearl blaming her. She did not have the time to point fingers, she only has time to fight the threat.
Jasper's P.O.V
I can feel my physical form becoming stronger and then I was there, fully reformed and wait a minute…. Where is baby Steven? I turned around saw a small girl that looked very similar to someone I know running away with him. Like hell, I would let her do that.
Normal P.O.V
Garnet was shocked that Jasper was uncorrupted and chasing Nora like a mad dog. She stood between her and the Nora only to make her even angrier than she was. Bringing out her crash helmet, the quartz soldier charged at the fusion with a powerful head butt only for the fusion to grab her by the helmet and flipping her over the head. Planting her firmly through the ground and then proceeding to deliver a punch so strong that it created a huge crater in the ground beneath her and to her surprise, the quartz gem got up came at her full force. Garnet knew that she wanted the something or else she would not attack her like this.
"What do you want Jasper?" The fusion asked in a menacing tone
"GIVE ME BACK MY STEVEN!" The quartz soldier shouted
"What do you want with that baby? State your purpose or else you will never see him again."
"I'm tired Garnet, Just give me back my baby and I will go my way," The quartz soldier said after dropping her guard
"Give me one good reason why I should do that."
"I've lost everything that mattered to me, the crystal gems that I knew, the earth that I love, and you are asking me to give you an explanation. I am done with an explanation, give me back Steven and let me do my job."
"And what is that? Crush the rebellion and go back to the homeworld, I don't think that I can let you do that."
"Look, let's just calm down before someone could get hurt" And before she finished those words a giant hand made out of water came slamming at Jasper pinning her against the ground.
"Lapis, what did you do?" The fusion nearly screamed as she turned around to see the ocean glaring at Jasper who returned the glare too "Lapis let her go, we need answers and this is not the way we can get them out of her."
"Back off Garnet, this is between me her."
"Listen to me la…"
"No I won't, do you know how it felt being trapped underwater for months with that brute. She nearly drove me insane Garnet," the ocean gem said
"Do I know you?" The incapacitated quartz said only for Lapis to make the grip of the water hand stronger that made jasper groan in pain.
"Shut it, I was waiting for this for a long time and now I will make you pay for what you did to me." And with that, Jasper was thrown into the air, Lapis formed ice shards and launched then at jasper who managed to dodge few, break few more with her punch only for the last one to land a direct hit on the perfect quartz penetrating her chest and poofing her in the process.
Garnet picked up the fallen quartz gem, bubbled it and went back to the temple leaving lapis an Peridot alone at the barn
Meanwhile inside the beach house
"Man, what was wrong with jasper to make her like that?" Conner Maheswaran asked
"It's this baby, she wants the boy so badly that she attacked us with no regard of her own safety and life. The way she tried to get to the baby as if her life depended on it is strange and illogical." Pearl said, trying to find a satisfying explanation when Garnet came inside she showed everyone the bubbled Jasper.
"You did garnet you di…" Nora said before garnet interrupted her
"It was lapis, Jasper tried to stop fighting and explaining the situation to me when lapis barged in and poofed her. Maybe we can find something inside the pod that can help us understand this whole situa…."
"Beat you to it garnet, come check this videotape", Amethyst Said holding the tape in her hand only for Pearl to snatch from her arms.
The tape had written on it; Pearl was shocked to discover that the handwriting belonged to her, whatever this baby and Jasper is there still a lot to understand about them.
"Nora we need Greg's VCR, Conner you go home now because this situation is dangerous and complicated." The fusion said only for the boy to try and protest but all of his efforts went in vain, as the fusion was determined to leave Conner of this.
After preparing everything, Garnet played the videotape. When the video started, it began with static and then Garnet appeared on screen in her old outfit trying to fix the camera.
"Hello Crystal Gems, if you are watching this video then that means that Jasper and Steven made it to your side… I know that things are complicated but I hope you understand this. I am the one that sends jasper along with Steven to you, she wanted to stay with us until the end but I could not allow it. Every future I look into I see Jasper and Steven together and happy, I know that you demand and explanation but I need to keep this short. On our earth, the cluster woke up a year after Steven was born and destroyed half of the world, killed billions of people in the process and then returned to its dormant state. When we found out about your world we took the opportunity and we tried to send Steven there to ensure his survival and you seeing this video means that we did it. Listen I cannot explain more so you have to promise me one thing… Take care of both Steven and Jasper; they need your support… One more thing, there are some memory crystals stored deep within the escape pod that should explain few thing about Steven and Jasper, along with some other tapes recorded by the others, play them when Steven become mature enough to understand why we did all of this… Take care of yourself." with those words the video ended leaving everyone staring at the pinkette and the bubbled Jasper with their mouth wide open.
"Well… that was weird." Amethyst said.
And cut, hope you like reading. I promise you, that future chapters will explain more and more about jasper and Steven. I will show you how her relation with the new or should I say alternate Crystal Gems who met a version of her hell bent on killing them. There will be some familiar faces returning from the original time line of the series and if you focus hard enough you will know who I meant by that.
Goodbye, and have a nice day.