It didn't take long for Jasper to realize that walking for any length of time on eight legs was a lot harder than it looked. Their legs kept getting tangled, catching on each other as the fusion ran as if they weren't meant to be positioned together.
And of course, they weren't.
This fusion was nowhere near the perfection of Homeworld fusions, bigger versions of the gems who made them and perfectly formed. It was messy and slipshod and broken in so many ways. It was a fusion that bore the marks of Earth's influence.
Jasper knew where the Crystal Gems lived, had seen their temple, seen the human and the runt and Rose on the beach nearby. She could get there, by water at least. She'd memorized the landmarks and the steps she'd taken to reach this frozen land. But everything would look different in this body. She could end up wandering around on the ocean floor, lost, if she missed even one of the subtle signs telling her where she was.
Besides, the ocean had been Malachite's domain. This fusion was something new. They would do things in a new way.
So across the land it was. Awkward body aside, they were extremely fast, making excellent time as Jasper urged their shared body south. The planet was still big, though, and the sun set before they had made it out of the snow, rendering the fusion's weak eyes useless.
The corrupted began to protest Jasper's hold, slowing the fusion's feet as Jasper tried to continue running blind. They didn't have Jasper's dedication, her composure. It couldn't be helped, she supposed. Earth had stolen away whatever dignity these Gems had once had, and they were weak in so many ways now.
She decided to let them have their way, in hopes that a little generosity would be repaid later, that the corrupted would cooperate when they got to the important things.
She stopped their legs from running. The corrupted bent them, left their body lying on the ground. It was a surprisingly comfortable position, and Jasper supposed that waiting for the sun to rise again wouldn't be altogether unpleasant waiting like this.
But before she could catch them, the corrupted were dragging their shared body into sleep.