Hundreds of years passed, the war was close to its end, The Diamond Gems Assault squad had the time to help with some changes that Brown Jasper was doing to the Hideout, by making it look like a forge, inspired by her old enemies, where She modified various physical wwapons by using Her Helmet like a forge hammer, in order to make it easy to to capture more Crystal gems than usual, in order to redeem them... But they never got any good result, and in the last years, the group itself was starting to think about a flaw about their methods, and so, they decided to secretly take a break from fighting, in order to find a solution.
At one point, Malachite said with Brown Jasper's voice "Lazuli! I have something to say!" She replied "Sure, but first, We need to unfuse!" and Malachite "Wait, what!? Not again!" but it was too late, the two gems Unfused, under the eyes of the not so surprised members of the team, with the Lazuli that asked with a smile "So... What's the matter?" the Jasper replied "Oh nothing... I just wanted to see you in al of your beauty!" She embraced her friend with both the arms, with the latter that said after snorting "As malachite, We always feel the presence of the other.." "But not your marvelous smile... There are things that you can't do while fused..." "And what are those?!" Jasper started to repeatedly kiss Lazuli, and She said to her "Expressing my love for you!" "Oh you filthy knucklehead! Ahahah...", at one point, Agate, a bit Jealous, said "Can you please stop?! You are a bit exaggerating!", so, the Quartz Soldier replied "Oh okay, I'm sorry! Ah ah... I've never thought to became like this... From a Cold Quartz soldier... I've became a sunny Quartz Blacksmith! You really changed me Lazuli!" "Oh B..." then the Jasper, after a moment of thinking, said with a smile "We have to go to someone!" "Who?!" Asked the Lazuli, while Jasper took Her hand and answered "There is no time!" and the two started to run toward the nearest warp pad, that they used to reach the battlefield.
In a calm spot, after hours of searching, the two gems finally found Red Jasper, to which Brown Jasper yelled "HEY JASPER!", but she replied very coldly "Be quiet! Do you want the Rebels to find us!? Why are you here? And what's with that Blue diamond's Lazuli?!" Brown Jasper replied very happily to that question "You told me to come back to you once I was a Real Quartz! Well, take a look at this!" "Not now... I have an ambush to do... I think you knew what they did to our diamond, by the fact that you are not wearing Her insignia anymore..." Said Jasper, while Brown Jasper asked worried "What happened to her!?" Jasper laughed a bit, and said "You really are something bad... Anyway... Pink Diamond... Was shattered in the last hundreds of years... By Rose Quartz! I don't have time with such an incomplete Quartz... Stay away from me!" "Wait, let me show you how I've become a true Quartz!" She looked at Lazuli with a smile, while the latter was confused, like she was thinking or realizing something... And the two, fused togheter as Malachite.
"What!?" asked Shocked Jasper, while Malachite asked flushed "What do you think!?" but the answer wasn't pleasant "It's a disgrace! Fusion is just cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger! Quite embarrassing for a Quartz soldier like you! You now have to be shattered!" Malachite Unfusedby the hit she took from thatstatement , and Brown Jasper asked desperately "But wait, I've Been fused in order to fight for Homeworld's cause. I've been fighting the rebels for you!" "What you did, is a serious crime... And it doesn't make you different from those rebels... The same rebels that lead to the shattering of OUR DIAMOND! I'LL SHATTER YOU! Jasper started to charge, but Lazuli, even if a bit upset, at the last moment, took her friend away and flew away with her, toward the warp pad, that would led them to the Beta Kindergarten.
At the Hideout, Lazuli asked nervously "Tell me how things are for real! Now!" Agate, Peridot and Dolomite came closer to the Two, where the Jasper answered "I... I just wanted to.." "You used me isn't it?!" that statement used to hit Brown Jasper very hard, and She replied "No, it's not like that... Initially it was like that... But all these years togheter changed me... I've started to grow a real fond friendship with all of you... And especially with you Lazuli!" but Lapis didn't wanted to understand her, and yelled "Don't even try to lie at me! You were so desperate to be complete, that you had to subjugate me, Dolomite, Peridot and Agate... We trusted you... And now I realized that you only needed us for your deeds... Not because We were friends!" the Jasper was felling so bad, she said a last time "Lazuli, please, it's not like that!" but the lazuli replied very aggressively "It's enough... I don't want to Hear anything from you anymore!", the three gems were so shocked, they thought that lazuli would have give at least some chance to Brown Jasper after all those years... But the latter, became aggressive, and said "After hundreds of years togheter... You still don't trust me, isn't it?! Because I'm a Quartz soldier, right?!" She summoned her helmet, and she tried to attack her own friend because of her temper...
The poor Lazuli fortunately avoided the attack, but Her friend yelled at her "What kind of friend doesn't want to Hear the point of view of the other one!?", She attacked again the Lazuli, whose friends came to defend her, with the Jasper that said in all of Her anger" All that talk about friendship you made to me when we fought Biggs, we're just lies to hide your hypocrisy!? I've never thought, and never hoped that you were a Gem worse than me!" She jumped in order to hit the entire squad... But Agate made it possible to hit Jasper with her Staff, and then, Dolomite used Her whip to immobilize Her, A scene that Lapis regretted to see, while Brown Jasper said "I thought that We... Were made for complete each other... I need you... I need you... For feeling complete... Not as malachite... As just us... As friends... Or even more..." the look on Jasper's face shifted from anger to sadness... But then, Peridot stabbed Her with one of the weapons of the Hideout with Her Ferrokinesis, and Jasper started to look at her friends, with pain... Lapis said "I'm sorry B... I think... That We should separate... For now..." and the four gems started to walk Away, while Brown Jasper yelled "Lazuli! Wait... Don't go... Don leave me alo..." and then poofed, leaving the others to finally go away... With a bit of regret, for what happened to the Quartz Soldier.
Some time passed, and then Brown Jasper reformed, only to let her conclude "... Alone..." for then looking around, the emptiness of the hideout... Without Her friends... "They've... Abandoned me..." slowly, she sat to the ground, and started to cry... "Like Jasper when I came out..." Slowly, her tears started to fall on the ground, while she continued to say "I'm alone again... Incomplete... Useless... More useless and worthless than before... Homeworld... Rebels... Who did I belong to now?! I have lost everything... I fought so many years with them... And... I Ruined everything! Why I'd never realized it!? What my existence is worth for now!? My, my very Existence itself, is Shattering myself! Lazuli... I... I did really change... I'm sorry...".
Once outside the Hideout, Agate was there, waiting for Her, and said "B... I have something to say!" "Oh sure... You want to laugh at me right?! Go ahead... Just do it now, or shatter me!" but the Quartz Soldier wanted to say "I do believe... That I have to stay with you!" "Don't make me laugh..." "It is true... We both are Quartz Soldiers... We both are meant to stay togheter and fight togheter... Understood?!" "You... You are... Right... But why?! After all I have done, how can you even talk to me..." "Because... Nevermind... Just... We must go!" concluded flushed Agate, while Brown Jasper walked toward Her, emotionless... Shattered inside Her own world.