The morning after that movie night with the Donut squad, as Jasper liked to call them, was quiet, the other gems were still in their perspective room while Nora slept in her bed quietly. Jasper did not mind some action but damn peace is so good, to the point a person or a gem would give their lives to preserve it. The perfect quartz stared at the baby in the crib next to her, she remembered that Greg was kind enough to buy Steven that crib and make it as a surprise when they returned from the movie night.

Jasper sighed, she never needed sleep but damn how boring was it to stay awake. She envied how even other gems could tire out and get exhausted doing the thing that would look like nothing but a walk in a park, courtesy of having stamina, considered super even by Gem standards. She could try to get sleep but that would take a while. The super quartz heard Nora yawning, indicating that she woke up.

"Good morning Jasper," Nora said while stretching her arms.

"Good morning to you too, I trust you slept well, Nora," Jasper said

"Yeah I did, man I was so tired after our night out. I'm happy that I got to spend some time with you and you were cool."
"Meh, I'm a good gem once you get to know me but I'm not that cool."

"Oh come on Jasper, don't look down on yourself because you were totally cool there I mean I didn't know you were that good at video games."

"Well I got to hand it to Greg from our reality, ever since Rose and I attended his failed concert organized by that idiot Marty, he quickly fell in love with rose and we became great friends. We used to spend a lot of time together until he decides to get all mushy on Rose, even after spending all that time on earth I still do not get how humans bond but that aside I give them their space. Their bond and love grew stronger and stronger by time until they decided to have a baby, all of us tried to say no but she already made her mind. Nothing in the world not even, the diamonds would stop her, I of all the gems knew that it is impossible for her to conceive one unless she gave up her life for the baby to live. At the time, I was pissed, to the point that if Greg were in front of me I would have punched his brain out of his skull. I eventually like the rest of the team gave up, we honored her wish and we stood out of her way. I do not know how she did get pregnant and I did not want to know, Part of me wished that she would give up and has an abortion but that was selfish of me. Who am I to take an innocent life that did not see the light? That day she gave birth was the hardest; we all said our good bye and poof Steven was born."

"Wow, just wow."
"Funny thing is I told both of them that if the baby was a girl we would name her Nora." The older gem said while ruffling the younger half gem's hair.

"What! That would be awesome." The 15 years old demi gem said.

Jasper mentally kicked herself; she did not know that she dug too deep into detail until Nora expressed her excitement. Jasper did not want to them to share her immense pain, the pain that she kept hidden under those smiles and laughter she had with Nora and Amethyst. The perfect gem sighed, she knew that eventually, she has to let it all out or else she might explode.

"Care for some omelet Jasper?" Nora asked.

"Nah I'm good, but we can hang out later if you want, I still have plenty of stories I haven't told you yet."
"Ok then, I have nothing to do this day since the others are going underwater for a mission." The girl said with a hint of sadness

"Oh don't be like that, if you want we could go out for a walk on the beach and see if we find anything with those metal detector of yours." The older gem suggested.

"Sounds fun let me get ready," Nora said while rushing to get the metal detectors.

"Oh no you don't, you need to eat your breakfast first."

Nora gave Jasper a sheepish grin and then returned to the kitchen, she began eating her omelet and after she finished her food, she drank a cup of orange juice and went to wash her hands.

The rest of the day was fruitful; Nora had the best time in ages. She and Jasper had fun together; in the brief time, they spend with each other Nora learned to appreciate Jasper and Steven's company. The images that home world Jasper left in her mind vanished completely and instead of it is the image of a fun loving and a very motherly Gem.

"Well, that was fun." The young half-breed said

"Yeah, you and me both, we make a pretty good team." The super quartz said to Nora giving her a genuinely warm smile.

As the trio consisting of Steven, Nora and Jasper headed home, Nora's phone rang. Turns out it was Lars, the donut boy as Jasper called him. He told Nora that, there was a gem monster attacking the school he went too and he asked for her help before it kills someone.

"Oh man, the gems are busy and you can't leave Steven alone. The corrupted gem must be stuck inside the school and we can't just go alone."

"Nora calm down, first of all, go get lion and wait for me in front of your house, I am going to give Steven to Greg and then we ride lion to Lars's school so are you with me?"

"Yes!" the small girl said in a very serious tone and then began running at a speed far beyond what her little frame can show.

Lucky for Jasper Greg's car wash was nearby, she ran as fast as she can making baby Steven laugh until she reached her destination. Greg greeted the super quartz with his usual smile.

"Greg, can you take care of Steven for while?" Jasper asked.

"Yeah always count on me, but may I ask why?"

"There was a corrupted gem attack on a school nearby and I'm afraid that if I don't hurry someone might get hurt," Jasper said.

"You don't have to worry about Steven, now go do your thing," Greg said assuring the older gem.

Jasper ran back home, only to find Nora and lion waiting for her. The young half gem looked excited, Jasper knew that she was like that because this is the first time she is going to do it without the other gems worrying about her doing something wrong.

"Alright Nora, are you ready?" The perfect quartz asked.

"You bet I've been waiting for a long time to do this." The demi gem said barely containing her excitement.

"Let's do this," Jasper said, and with those words, the duo along with lion went hunting down the corrupted gem.

Beach city high school

The place was in chaos, most of the students are scared for their lives, and having a giant monster chasing them around the school is not making it that easy on them. Lars is getting more worried by the second, Nora and the Crystal gems should be here soon but they are not.

"What is taking them so long? They need to get here fast." The young donut shop worker said.

Just as he finished those words, the situation has gotten even worse. Two more gem monsters appeared and began destroying the school.

After minutes of wreaking havoc across the school ground, the trio of corrupted gems consisting of two quartz gems and one ruby decided to chase some of the unlucky students. They ran after some students chasing around the school halls destroying everything in their path.

With every student outside the school and the trio of monsters chasing whoever they lay their sight on every one heard a roar, the entire school turned around to see the weirdest thing since they saw what attacked them. It was a pink lion and a woman that made them look like dwarfs and a small girl that looked like she was steaming with excitement. The giant woman looked at the corrupted gems and seemed to tense up a little bit, she inspected the trio of monsters and looked like she was thinking of a plan when she was suddenly interrupted by the corrupted beast deafening roar.

"Alright Nora you take the corrupted ruby and I take the two quartz gems."

"Why, can't we like take them out together."

"Maybe you don't know it but that corrupted Ruby can spit molten magma and your shield is more than enough to protect the people from getting burned to death."
"I did not think of it that way."

"Nora, promise me you will be careful please."

"Don't worry, I got this." The demi gem said.

Summoning her crash helmet, Jasper charged at one of the corrupted quartz gems that cornered a couple of students. The corrupted gem was ready to strike down when something crashed into it with enough force to throw it away, the students were beyond scared at the impact and did not expect to see a seven-foot tall woman with what appeared to be a gem on her face instead of her nose. The giant woman turned to them with a concerned look on her face.

"Are you ok kids? Did anyone get hurt?" the woman asked

"Only a little but other than that we are ok, thank you for saving us."

"Don't worry about it, once we deal with those monsters I will make sure you get healed."

With those words, the mystery woman left leaving the students puzzled and confused, who was that woman and why did she save them?

Every human watching the fight between the giant woman and the monsters were amazed at how agile she was, for someone her size she dodged their attacks pretty well, occasionally blocking their attacks and returning it with her own swift and strong attacks. For them it was mind blowing, seeing how this woman was fighting.

A student who happened to have a camera on him recorded everything, for him this was not something to let go that easy, to not record this badass woman in action is stupid.

Jasper successfully poofed the first quartz, she picked the gem putting it inside a bubble, with a quick tap on the top; it was sent to the temple. The super quartz looked around for the other corrupted quartz only to see with the other corrupted gem attacking Nora who was at the time protecting the teachers with her shield. Lion, on the other hand, was getting students away from the fight by either having them on his back or holding them with his mouth by their clothes and dragging them forcefully.

The perfect quartz joined the Younger demi gem's side behind the safety of her shield and quickly noticing the signs of exhaustion becoming apparent on her small yet muscular frame.

"Nora, how are you holding?" Asked the concerned Jasper

"I'm doing fine but I can't keep holding this forever, any ideas?" The human gem hybrid said.

"There is one last thing we did not do and I think you will like it," Jasper said with a serious tone.

"What is it then?"

"We fuse."

OOOOOOOOOOhhhhh that shameless cliffhanger, don't kill me plz XD. Now I do not really have that much to say other than the next chapter will explain everything.

Nova Quartz out.