"What are they doing?" Peridot asked looking at the screens she had set up in the roaming eye. She had placed small devices on Jasper, Amethyst, and Steven in order to keep track of where they were during the mission at all times.

"Lapis," Peridot said speaking into a headset she was wearing. "this is Peridot. Do you copy? Over."

"Hey, Peridot," Lapis said through a small microphone hooked up on her head. "This is Lapis. I read you loud and clear. Over."

"How are things looking out there?" Peridot asked. "Have taken out that red eye yet? Over."

"No," Lapis responded. "It's hard to get near it without it sensing me. Over."

"What are we supposed to do?" Pearl asked from behind Peridot.

"Roaming eyes can be easily distracted," Peridot said. "In order for Lapis to take it out, we have to create some kind of interference for it to focus on."

"We've got this," Garnet said defusing into Ruby and Sapphire.

"What's the plan?" Pearl asked.

"Ruby and I will create interferences in the facility's structure," Sapphire said. "This should hopefully buy Lapis enough time to get close enough to make it unresponsive.

"Oh my stars!" Peridot suddenly exclaimed when she looked back over at her screens.

"What?" Pearl asked.

"They're in Pink Diamond's chambers!" Peridot exclaimed.

"What?" Pearl said looking over Peridot's shoulder and taking a peak at the screens.

"I'm calling in on them," Peridot said as she pressed a few buttons. "Pearl, take this headset and explain the plan to Lapis." Peridot handed Pearl a headset, and Pearl sat down in another chair. Ruby and Sapphire quickly headed out of the roaming eye and hurried to make some damage to the facility.

"Steven," Peridot said speaking into her headset again. "this is Peridot. Do you copy? Over."

"Hey, Peridot," Steven responded in a quiet whisper. "We can hear you, but you need to keep it down. We're in the same room as all three of the Diamonds. Over."

"Why are you in there anyway?" Peridot asked in a quieter tone.

"Holly Blue wanted the Diamonds to know that Jasper had come back from Earth," Amethyst said. "Over."

"Don't worry," Peridot said. "Ruby and Sapphire are going to make a distraction soon. It's likely that everyone's attention will be averted. You and Amethyst should take that time to slip out of Jasper's hair and get to the containment area."

"What?" Amethyst said. "I'm not leaving my sis alone with the Diamonds."

"It's the only way for you to get to the humans without being discovered," Peridot said.

As all this was happening, Jasper was doing her best to try and stay out of sight. None of the Diamonds noticed either her or Holly come in. They were all discussing something, and Jasper knew that Holly would never interrupt them.

Blue Diamond suddenly turned her head, and she instantly made eye contact with Jasper. Jasper could see deep pain and sorrow in Blue Diamond's eyes. Emotions that she knew all too well.

"Yellow. White," Blue said lightly touching the other Diamonds' shoulders. "She's here." The other two Diamonds turned their heads and made eye contact with Jasper.

"My Diamonds," Holly said bowing. Before Holly could finish, loud booms were heard.

"What's that?" the Diamonds asked as they looked around.

"Oh," Holly said. "I'll go take care of it." She turned in her heels and opened the door.

"Go now," Jasper whispered. Steven quickly slipped out of Jasper's hair, dragging Amethyst along with him.

"I'm not leaving you behind," Amethyst said.

"Just go," Jasper said. "I'll be fine.

Steven pulled on Amethyst's arm, and the two quickly hurried out out of the open door, leaving Jasper alone with the Diamonds.

"You," Blue Diamond said pointing to Jasper. "Come here." Jasper reluctantly walked towards the blue giant.

Once Jasper was in front of Blue Diamond, she looked down at the quartz for a few seconds. Blue Diamond placed her giant hand next to Jasper. Jasper knew what the Diamond meant. She sat in the palm of Blue Diamond's hand.

Blue Diamond lifted Jasper up to the level of her eyes. Jasper noticed some tears were falling down the Diamond's face. Blue just stared at her for a minute or two.

Suddenly, Blue brought Jasper close to her chest and held onto her tightly. Well, this was… new.

"Blue," Yellow Diamond said. "why are you hugging my quartz soldier?"

"Your quartz soldier?" Blue asked. "Last I checked, this Jasper beyond to Pink Diamond."

"Yes," Yellow said. "But there was no sense in leaving a fully-functional quartz here to waste away."

"But she was her's," Blue said. "Shouldn't she stay here like the others?"

"No," White Diamond said. "Yellow is right. There is no sense in leaving such a well-made quartz here in this broken down facility."

"But," Blue said.

"Hand her over," Yellow said outstretching her hand. Blue only held onto Jasper tighter, like a little girl would hang onto her favorite doll. Jasper was being squeezed so tight that she was sure if she needed to breathe, she would be suffocation right now.

"She's a piece of her," Blue said looking down at Jasper with tears still in her eyes.

"We've been over this," White said. "We're all upset about Pink being shattered, but we can't just hang onto everything that belonged to her like this. Now hand that Jasper to Yellow."

Meanwhile, Holly Blue Agate was running down the hallways, trying to figure out what all the commotion was about. She suddenly crashed right into someone and landed on the floor.

"Holly Blue Agate!" the Amethyst with a chipped tooth exclaimed.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Holly yelled getting up and dusting herself off.

"I-I-I-I'm sorry," the Amethyst stuttered. "We were just.."

"Shut up!" Holly yelled and smacked the Amethyst clear across the face.

"But she just trying to tell you…" the Amethyst accompanying the one with the chipped tooth tried to say.

"That goes for you, too!" Holly yelled as she smacked the other Amethyst's face as well.

"We were just inspecting the area," the Amethyst with the chipped tooth in a soft, almost whimpering, tone as she rubbed her cheek.

"Well, don't just stand there, you useless chunks of earth!" Holly yelled. "Get moving!"

Holly started to walk away, but she suddenly stopped right next to the Amethyst with the chipped tooth. "And what have I told you about your posture?!" Holly yelled. "Backs straight!" Holly slapped the chipped toothed Amethyst with all her might on her back.

The chipped toothed Amethyst grunted and put her hand on her back. Once Holly was out of sight, the chipped toothed Amethyst turned to the other Amethyst accompanying her. "I miss Jasper." was all she managed to say as they walked down the hallways.

LaetusLupus requested that I added in those two Amethysts a little more so there you go.

I'm glad you guys are actually liking this story. It's been a while since I've written anything, and I was worried that I would be rather rusty.

I thought you guys were possibly wondering where everyone else was, so I included that info in this chapter.

If there is anything that you guys would like me to include in this story, feel free to ask so in the reviews section.

I don't know when I'll release the next chapter of Friend Or Foe, but I'll work on it.

Thanks,

~Stevidot4ever