Onto what happened in the episodes (kind of). I'll be mixing in my own parts obviously but including what happened in the cartoon as well. This will be the Beta and Earthlings slammed together. Sorry it took a couple days too by the way.
Over the few days after Lapis and Peridot got together Amethyst became a little gloomy and started moping around. Even with the mountains of food Amy was making her she didn't even seem interested. Steven tried to explain that it wasn't actually Amy who caused the problem but Jasper's words did. Amy even asked Peridot what was wrong but Peridot couldn't really explain why Amethyst was acting the way she was.
Then one day Steven and Amethyst came back covered in scratches but Amy didn't ask anything since they were smiling and laughing together. Garnet smiled but it had faded quickly when she saw the lonely look on Amy's face but Amy said nothing. She could see Amy was lonely and she didn't have anyone. Pearl noticed it too and invited to make cupcakes and Amy quietly accepted the offer.
For some reason lately she couldn't see Amy's future like it had been blurred by some unknown force.
"So Amy... how you thought about wanting to do anything in Beach City?" Pearl asked smiling.
"I don't belong here."
Garnet and Pearl stared.
"I don't understand Amethyst's feeling and I don't know why I can't understand. Explain it to me."
"Well to be honest you would be the one to understand Amethyst the most but you came from a planet where you were alone. You've been alone and have no idea how to process the complex emotions that comes with living here. It's not your fault and don't worry, it does take time. Amethyst was alone for a while before we met her."
"I think Amethyst is Amethyst just the way she is. I have no idea what any other amethyst looks like to know but I like her a lot. I don't think I love her as a girlfriend but as a friend I love her."
Garnet and Pearl smiled.
"When the time is right... tell her," Pearl said, "She'll need to hear it when the time is right."
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The next day Steven woke Amy up by jumping up and down on the couch and she looked up at him smiling tiredly. They got up and Steven taught her how to use the shower because she tries messing with the other day.
"Because our skin gets dirty and so does our hair we take baths or showers. You can wash off with different things that smell good. There's wash for your hair, your body and your face. I have some bubble stuff if you wanna give it a try."
"I would but I can't wait to visit Peridot and Lapis," Amy said smiling.
"Let me take a bath really fast! I can't wait either!"
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Amethyst, Steven and Amy walked up to the barn seeing that Peridot and Lapis cuddled up in the truck bed watching Camp Pining Hearts together. Amethyst looked unamused and started messing with her whips.
"Peridot! Lapis!" Steven called and the couple jumped.
"Oh- um hi Steven! You didn't message us," Lapis said smiling sheepishly.
"We did before I took a bath."
Peridot and Lapis looked at each other lost.
"It's where humans wash off if they get dirty and they also can 'shower'. I guess there's other ways to get clean too according to Steven," Amy said smiling, proud she knew something they didn't.
"Oh," they said in unison.
"Can we go and do something else?" Amethyst ask looking annoyed.
"What's your problem?" Peridot asked looking surprised.
Amethyst rolled her eyes and walked away leaving Amy and Steven with Peridot. Steven leaned over and started whispering to Peridot and Peridot starting nodding. Amethyst glared at then and stomped back over staring at them but only Steven averted his eyes. Amethyst stared into Peridot's terrified green eyes.
"What did he tell you?" she whispered.
"Um... um Amethyst! You don't need to be anything like Jasper! Your kindergarten is clearly a lot better than Jasper's! At least all the holes in yours was straight and correct! I mean it doesn't matter if you're smaller in size- you possibly could be just as powerful!"
Peridot was shaking like a leaf but Lapis was paying no attention to what was going on down on the ground.
"You really think that?" Amethyst asked.
"Of course I do!" Peridot said smiling.
Amy looked over at Amethyst who smiled a little at the thought.
"If you want I can take us to the Beta Kindergarten right now!" the little gem squeaked.
Steven looked at Amy who just shrugged. Maybe that would be better for Amethyst to see where Jasper came from and she would feel better.
"Lapis! I'll be back in a little bit!" Peridot called and Lapis looked down.
"Ok! Stay safe!" she called back and blew her a kiss. Peridot blushed and waved to her.
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They reached the Beta Kindergarten within minutes. There was red sandstone everywhere; it was bright with the sun over head but it was pretty but Steven didn't want to say anything. Amy looked around and wondered if that's why Jasper had the red orangish markings on her skin like she did. She wasn't sure why the place looked more empty than filled with holes like Peridot had explained how a kindergarten should be.
"At the time they needed more soldiers for the rebellion and they literally dropped injectors anywhere at this point. This place wasn't even thought through- I mean some of the actual stone on Earth is kind of useless. This stuff looks brittle and not well put together like your kindergarten, Amethyst. Since Amy doesn't really know much about this stuff because she was made in a storm on her planet, this will be a learning lesson for her too," Peridot said.
"Am I extremely underwhelmed? It's super bright!" Steven said still trying to look at the stone.
"So this stone has no minerals in it?" Amy asked.
"It does and it doesn't. When read all the files the kindergartner that looked at this found out half the stone in here was useless and it was a lot of hit and misses. When we get further down you'll see what I'm talking about. I had read about this place and how the best place to place injectors would be in the downward position but for some reason they couldn't do that due to the 'weather conditions' on this planet."
They began walking through and all the holes there were sideways and the walls were curved not straight like they should be. Amethyst and Steven could see the big difference between this one and Amethyst's place of birth. Amy looked inside some of the holes checking it out but for her she felt... weird. To see where gems came from and how... she felt strange but she couldn't place the feeling.
"See! The walls should be straight and not misshaped like this! The holes are too curved to side and nothing was really done correctly. It would be a big waste of time to even make warriors here even in the middle of war. There would be no guarantee that the gems born here would come out functioning at all. It really makes you appreciate the hole you came out of huh Amethyst?" Peridot asked.
"I guess it does," she said looking around.
They started walking further.
"See none of the holes are straight and deep enough. None of them look like they have frictional rock melt like they should- well to you guys it would be glass. Even at the time of war they should have thought about it better. If I was here I would have done a better job- no offense Steven but you understand what I mean right?" Peridot ask and Steven nodded.
"What happens after the gems emerge?" Amy asked.
"Well technically after the gem emerges it already knows what to do. It take some time for them to grow and everything. Some gem types take longer than some and if they stay in the ground too long they come out a little shorter which is nothing to be ashamed of Amethyst. The stone surrounding the gems are sucked off the minerals that help make them grow. When there are enough kindergartens it drains the planet dry and it dies."
Amy touched one of the curved holes and it came to her.
"Wait! That's why they came to my planet! They were stealing the gas and materials that made my planet and me to replace what the kindergartens took so they could keep reusing the rock here on Earth!" Amy cried, her eyes filling with tears.
Peridot looked shocked, "I've never even heard of that before."
"My home may not even be there when I get back! They could have been stealing from there even before I was born and that's why I never saw any other gems!" she yelled rattling the tiny gem.
Amethyst looked st Steven.
"Amy it's ok! Your planet may still be there!" Steven said trying to calm her down.
"How can anyone be sure?! I've been away so long!"
"WOW!"
Everyone turned to see Amethyst pointing at a giant hole. Jasper's hole. Amy just stared at it. She didn't seem to see how special it was. Peridot jumped up trying to climb the sandstone to no avail. She looked over at Steven and he smiled at her.
"Help me! I need a little help!"
Steven picked her up and threw her into the air. She landed on the ledge.
"Thanks," she grumbled.
She walked in touching the walls.
"We already knew she was big so that is no surprise..." she said her voice becoming distant.
"Well?" Amethyst asked.
Peridot started talking to herself even though it was making no sense to anyone else. Peridot reemerged.
"Sorry Amethyst... her hole is perfect... most gems barely make frictional rock melt and she has it in hers."
Amethyst groaned.
"It doesn't matter! You don't need to be anything like Jasper! Be yourself!" Steven said grabbing her shoulders.
"Yea! Be who you wanna be!" Peridot said throwing a fist into the air.
"Yea! You're right! I am gonna be the gem that beat Jasper!" Amethyst yelled.
"Huh?"
Amy crouched down by a misshaped hole touching the entrance.
"No! Don't go against me- are you crazy?!" Peridot yelled.
"I'm going to do it for all the gems that came out wrong! Like that one! And that one over there and even skinny up there! Even this big one!" Amethyst cried pointing to the one Amy was checking out.
"Um... Get away from there!" Peridot yelled pulling them both back, "That's no entrance hole- it was recently made! Someone has been here!"
"QUIET!"
All three of them stopped moving- it was Jasper's voice.
They all crept around the other corner to see her with a whole bunch of corrupted gems in hand made jail cells. Amy frowned- she was so drawn to them; she wanted to fix them like she had the last one Garnet had bubble up. She laid against the red sandstone and slid down until she sat on the ground. Steven looked at her knowing she was struggling against that urge to heal the corrupted gems calling her.
"It is Jasper! We better get the Crystal Gems! Right Amethyst?" Steven said, but as they turned she was already gone.
"Shit! Is she stupid?!" Peridot hissed.
Amy put her head down and hugged her knees against her body.
"I will never allow this planet to corrupt me like it did you. You all are an embarrassment to Homeworld. I hate that I had to recruit you fucking freaks to help with what I need. You got what you deserved; we all get what we deserve- isn't that right? Amethyst?" Jasper said and turned around scaring Amethyst as she was trying to get the upper hand.
Amethyst fell onto the ground and Steven rushed to her side.
" Rose! Of course you would be here! You all deserve to perish! You all were made for one purpose and it was to serve the Diamonds. If you come out misshaped or reform yourself to look different from your original purpose- YOU ARE TRASH! You will be shattered! Protecting this piece of rock is a disgrace!" Jasper screamed.
"It's not all bad!" Peridot squeaked from behind the rock.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!"
"I'm uh... I'm a Crystal Gem now!" she cried sounding brave.
Jasper summoned her crash helmet and Steven summoned his shield.
"I'm not afraid of you! I have metal powers!" Peridot yelled and then tried showing she did but it didn't work to well.
"Oh geez," Amethyst murmured looking annoyed.
"DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY!?" Jasper yelled looking annoyed as she threw her hands up into the air.
"No it's just us!" Steven said holding up his shield.
"ARGH!" Amethyst yelled and picked Steven up and threw him behind her, "Stay out of this! It's just you and me Jasper! One on one!"
Amethyst cracked her first whip against Jasper's face and then pulled her second one out of her gem. Her whips hit Jasper in the chest throwing her into the red sandstone. Steven and Peridot both looked surprised.
"Go Amethyst!"
"You ready for more!" Amethyst yelled and went at it again but she was barely making an effect on Jasper as she got back out of the wall looking unamused by the pathetic display.
Amethyst growled and her whips lit up with a purple fire and she began her Whiplash Spin Dash and headed for Jasper. When she made direct contact Amethyst's attack exploded leaving dust flying around in the air. When it cleared Jasper was untouched looking bored by Amethyst's attack.
"Seriously!" the small purple yelled and Jasper kicked her back. Amethyst landed on the ground at Steven's feet.
Amy was trying to watch but she was trying her best to ignore the corrupted gems calling to her. Amethyst got up staring at the ground. She was upset- she was too weak to fight Jasper and if she did she would lose. Always lose. Steven looked up and summoned his shield, throwing it at an injector just as Jasper came to close to the upset gem. It slammed into the ground between them.
"No matter what I do! Nothing I can do will help me win because she came out right and I came out wrong!' Amethyst cried.
"Stop it then! You are nothing like Jasper! You can never be Jasper because you are you Amethyst! No matter what anyone else thinks, you're perfect the way you are! Jasper can think you should be like her but you're not! You're like me!" Steven cried.
"What?!"
"We aren't like anyone else and yea it really does suck! We are very different and we don't fit in with anyone else but that's ok! You have me and that's what matters! So stop leaving me out of this because I'm part of it too because we are the same!"
Amethyst looked so touched, she had tears in her eyes.
Behind the rock Amy covered her mouth because her eyes began to water. Even though Steven was talking to Amethyst... it was true for her too.
Jasper lifted the injector and threw it to the side glaring at them.
"It's because us worse gems stick together, right?" Amethyst said smiling.
"It's because we are the best," Steven said softly holding out his hand and she took it.
Amethyst took it and jumped up. She hugged Steven tightly then suddenly a bright light happened and they exploded throwing dust and smoke everywhere. Amy came out from behind the rock scared that Jasper had done something strange to them but then she saw the look on Peridot's face. The expression was unreadable.
When the dust cleared there was Amethyst and Steven's fusion. Amy covered her mouth in shock seeing as this was her first time seeing fusion. Peridot just stared in shock at the new fusion never thinking that Steven could fuse with a gem considering he was a hybrid. Jasper was the only who looked angry.
The fusion had dark purple hair and smoky purple skin. It was as tall as if Steven was on Amethyst shoulders and it had Steven's clothes with Amethyst's legging. The fusion had freckles on it's chubby face and it had three arms. It stretched.
"What a beautiful day!"
"WHO ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE?!" Jasper yelled.
"Who cares! You have a fight to win!" Peridot yelled pointing at Jasper.
"Yea... Who am I? I feel like an Amethyst... but I'm a rose quartz too. Hmmm," she said as she summoned a shield and threw it into the air and then pulled out her whip.
The whip attached to the shield creating a yo-yo. She used her three hands to holding the spinning toy shaped weapon.
"My name is Smoky Quartz," she said with stars in her eyes.
"Is that all you Crystal Gems know how to do is fuse?!" Jasper yelled angrily.
"No... I have another one... have you heard of "Sink the Dink"?" Smoky Quartz asked as she threw her yo-yo out.
The yo-yo hit Jasper into the stomach and in the face sending her flying backward. Peridot started laughing at her making Jasper even more pissed than she already was. Amy was completely fascinated by the scene before her. Smoky Quartz continued to attack Jasper making her angrier every second. She began using her spin dash but Smoky Quartz jumped out of the way and Jasper hit the red sandstone breaking down the wall holding her corrupted army in place.
"NO! My army!"
Smoky Quartz didn't give her a chance to recover as she started attacking again. Jasper jumped out of the way and looked behind her to see one of her monsters was left and started smiling. She dodged the yo-yo again and headed for the last corrupted gem within that small area. The fusion landed another hit on Jasper before she reached the corrupted gem chewing on the metal bar.
"I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY ANOTHER FUSION!" she yelled and she placed her hands on the blue and pink spotted gem.
Jasper and the corrupted gem fused.
"NO! DON'T DO THAT!" Amy screamed scaring Peridot.
"What? Why- Peridot started but was distracted by the monster fusion Jasper had created.
Jasper and Smoky Quartz started fighting but Jasper didn't get anywhere. Smoky Quartz started spinning her yo-yo creating a fan and Jasper was doing her best to stay anchored to the ground while Smoky kept up her jokes and wise cracks. Jasper tried to swipe at her but she pulled out two more yo-yos and made fans out of those to creating a dust tornado sending Jasper into the airing forcing the fusion apart.
"We can do this if we stay together!" Jasper yelled.
Amy covered her face watching as Jasper attempted to fuse again but it failed and they fell into the ground with the gem monster landing on top of Jasper. Peridot was jumping up and done since Smoky was victorious. The corrupted monster ran off leaving Jasper there with a sad look on her face. No one saw it but Amy did.
"No one I ever fuse with, wants to stay," she said and hung her head.
Suddenly Jasper's arm broke out in corruption.
"EW! THAT"S DISGUSTING!" Peridot yelled.
"Corruption-" Smoky Quartz said and she unfused throwing Steven and Amethyst onto the ground.
"Jasper!" Steven cried staring at.
"Steven be careful!" Amethyst said as Steven got up and mad his way towards her.
"I can try and heal her! It's not that bad this time!"
"I don't want your help!" Jasper yelled scaring everyone and and swiped at Steven cut his shirt some.
"Jasper-
"I see how you do it Rose... You take gems after they're useless... Because when you use you'll side with anyone to make it feel like you didn't fail. I see what you did to all those idiot Crystal Gems. And... and that one! You stripped her everything- she has nothing left!"
"Hey now!"
"How can you side with Rose Quartz?!" Jasper yelled hitting the ground with her fist.
"Because there is much more to this planet than you think. There is so much life living here! It would be a waste to destroy it... I'm living here! I live here and I fell in love with Lapis. We here together and it's wonderful! I learn new things about myself all the time! I can make metal do my bidding!" she said throwing her arms into the air and the metal bar she had tried pulling out earlier fell down.
"Are you dense?!" the quartz solider yelled.
"Earth can set you free," Peridot said smiling.
Amy came up walking behind Peridot. Could this planet set her free?
"You're wrong!" Jasper yelled and the corruption went up her other arm, spikes showing up.
"Second hand corruption," Amy said staring at Jasper.
"This is because of you! Everything happened because of you! The second I broke free of the Earth's crust because of what you did to my colony, what you did to my planet and WHAT YOU DID TO MY DIAMOND!" she yelled with hurt in her eyes.
"Yellow Diamond?" Steven asked scared.
"What?! MY DIAMOND! YOUR DIAMOND! PINK DIAMOND!" Jasper screamed and Amy stared at Steven.
The corruption overtook Jasper and she roared. Amethyst pulled Steven out the way. Without warning Peridot threw her hands up and the metal bar went flying for Jasper's chest but Amy caught it in mid air. The three just stared at her as she threw the bar to the side and jumped at Jasper. Suddenly there was a black ball where Jasper and Amy use to be and it started to expand.
"Amy!" Steven yelled.
"Peridot what's going on?!" Amethyst yelled grabbing their hands and started running.
"I don't know! Maybe Jasper's corruption was too much for Amy to handle!" Peridot screamed.
They waited for an hour was the black sphere contracted and expanded. Peridot was more pissed than anything claiming if she had her screen maybe she could figure out what was going on with Jasper and Amy. Steven was scared... Jasper would try and force a fusion on Amy- that would be worse considering the fusion between Jasper and Lapis was scary. Amethyst looked more upset than them both; Jasper was almost like a half sister and Amy was the only (possible is she was) amethyst she knew.
"How long are they gonna stay like that?" Steven asked after another half an hour.
"I wish I knew," Amethyst said.
"When Amy comes out, you should talk to her. She missed you a lot lately when you were obsessing over Jasper," Steven said.
"I know... but I was so mad..."
Suddenly the air began to feel heavy and the black sphere exploded blasting dust everywhere. They covered their faces and they were knocked over by the force. Peridot was first to look to see Jasper sitting there uncorrupted holding Amy's gem. It was covered in the blue and orange corruption that once was on Jasper.
They were unsure what to do but they were almost afraid that with any sudden moves Jasper would shatter Amy in her hands. Since knowing Amy's ability was fairly new, it was unsure whether or not she was ok. They had never seen a black sphere like that before or that she took so long to fix the corruption. What if Amy corrupted herself through second hand corruption?
"Jasper! Amy was trying to help- please give me her gem stone," Steven said softly inching toward her holding out his hand.
"NO! She stays with me! I will protect her until she reforms!" Jasper said glaring at Steven.
"Well, she has to go back home to my house. Let's get on the warp pad and go to my house. If you want you can sit on the ocean and wait for her; she loves the ocean a lot."
Jasper's mouth twitched but she nodded. She would take Amy to the ocean.
Alright :) Now to the more interesting parts. I didn't wanna get too into details because I'm sure all of you already now how Beta and Earthlings went. I'll start working on the next chapter as soon as I can and I got my laptop so I hopefully will be able to update faster now :)