Chapter 27, good news everyone! My story was found and the Crewniverse is going to make episodes based on my story!

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Chapter 27: Acknowledgement

If was only a matter of time…

Pink eyed the console's communicator function.

About ten seconds out now…

Four.

Three.

Two.

The communicator went off. "Right on time." Pink muttered to herself. She accessed it and the smug smile of her sister appeared before her which immediately caught Pink's attention. Yellow didn't smile unless something had really pleased her. Given she often just called to lecture Pink about how to move troops and organize attacks and such, this was a surprise.

"Well hello, Pink." Yellow said, her voice mirroring the unusual upbeat attitude she currently seemed to be demonstrating. Frankly, it was putting Pink on edge.

"Yellow you seem… cheery." Pink said, choosing the word carefully.

"Ah yes, and why shouldn't I be?" She asked.

Pink shrugged. "The rebellion on Earth? How it's still going on perhaps?"

"Actually, the reason I'm so happy has to do with that," Pink eyed her carefully and Yellow went on. "We've been developing something… special you see."

"Like those mirrors from before?" Pink asked. She hadn't actually been around them much herself, much less use them, but she heard stories. None of them good.

"Something like that. I want you to come and see. It's here on Homeworld." Yellow said.

Pink gave her sister a quizzical look. "You want me to leave my post here and come to Homeworld? Shouldn't I stay here so I can lead?" Pink asked.

"It's not like you've been making much of a difference lately, I doubt things will radically alter while you're away for a small time." Yellow replied.

Pink might have been offended at the obvious jab had the situation not been exactly how she intended it, so instead she simply nodded her head. "I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Good. Yellow Diamond, Out." She finished as the transmission cut out.

"What do you think it is?" Pearl asked from the side.

Pink looked down to her and frowned. "I don't know. But I have a bad feeling about this."


Pink Diamond landed on Homeworld to the sight of kneeling gems. She saw Blue Diamond standing at the far end of the platform, her own pearl in tow. Her face spoke of a mix of happiness and anxiety. "Blue? What are you doing here?"

Her sister seemed apprehensive to speak, something very out of character for the Diamond. The bad feeling Pink had been having was growing as she neared. "Pink… it's good to see you." Blue replied. "Yellow asked me to meet you here so that we could go together."

Pink frowned. "This is going to be something I'm not going to like, isn't it?"

Blue mirrored her frown for a moment before managing to force a small, strained, smile and extending her hand. "Come, she's waiting for us." Pink took the hand and Blue lead her into her palanquin, making room for the both of them and their respective pearls before they flew off.

The ride wasn't long, but Pink could feel unease well up within her, and while she knew she was nervous, she didn't think it would be this bad. It was almost like-

"We're here." Blue said interrupting Pink's thoughts.

The four exited the palanquin and the youngest Diamond looked up at her elder sister's spire. It was a dull yellow, imposing and militaristic, just like it's owner. It had far fewer any of the aesthetic features of any of the other diamond towers. Pink never liked being here very much, but now she felt a sense of dread as she neared it. And the anxiety seemed to be spiking the closer she got.

Pink turned to her sister, wanting some sort of reassurance from her, but Blue had already begun walking toward the main entrance of the structure. Pink trotted to catch up and managed to do so just as they walked through to the main hall, silent salutes greeting them as they passed. It had been a long time since Pink had been in Yellow's spire, but as she looked around nothing had changed, something that struck her as completely unsurprising. The spire and its inhabitants were rigid, calculating, machines in one form or another, something that made Pink feel as though the whole place was watching her, the one thing disturbing the millennia spanning clockwork.

The four stepped upon the main elevator and began to descend into the depths of the tower. Pink felt the unease again, and now it was stronger, much stronger. She turned to look at her sister again but Blue seemed to be avoiding her gaze looking off to the side. Pink, however, did catch something as her sister looked around, she seemed to have the same anxiety that Pink had been feeling and something else… shame?

"Pink…" Blue started, catching her sister off guard at the sudden animation. "There's something…" she began and stopped, searching for the right words and refusing to make any sort of eye contact. "There's something that you should know."

The dread had now encompassed Pink's entire being and the combination of being sent into the dark underground of Homeworld and her sister's sudden words weren't exactly helping.

"Yellow and I, we've been thinking that perhaps…. perhaps it's time to stop trying to take back Earth."

This caught Pink off-guard, could she really have heard that right? She glanced down to Pearl for a split second, a look of surprise on her face as well. "Really?"

Blue nodded solemnly. "It's just that Yellow and I have gone over the numbers, and we've spent more time and resources on that planet than it's worth. More than any planet before it."

"So, Earth is no longer going to be a colony?" Pink was attempting to keep the hope out of her voice but after five hundred years, having the sudden news that all her work was about to pay off, it was difficult to say the least.

Blue shook her head. "No."

A sense of relief and happiness washed over Pink, her plan had worked. Earth was going to be abandoned and she could finally begin the task of working with her sisters to try and reform their segmented empire. And yet, even as the positive emotions began to swirl within, the bad ones remained, in fact the anxiety hadn't faded at all. But why?

"So, when are we pulling out from Earth?" Pink asked.

"We aren't." Blue replied.

The dread was blotting out the relief. "What? What do you mean? You just said we are not going to use Earth for a colony."

"I know. And we aren't." Blue confirmed.

Pink gave her sister a confused look, the elder Diamond still refusing direct eye contact. "Then why are we not-"

"Yellow will explain." Blue cut off right as they reached the level the elevator had been going down to. The doors opened up to a large room where gems, mostly olivines, were working hard. Pink had never been down here but she recognized it instantly.

It was Yellow's R&D center.

Blue led the way past the gems, many of whom didn't even look up to salute. Pink eyed the creations as she passed, most of them were clearly weapons, but every fifth or sixth device she landed her eyes on would seem benign enough. Or maybe that's simply what Yellow wanted it to look like.

Blue led her sister all the way to the back of the room where a large door greeted them. She accessed the panel and it opened slowly with a hiss of air.

The four entered the room inside, set up much in the way the outer room was, except smaller, panels and consoles lining the walls with their respective gems working on each. But Pink's eyes were immediately drawn to the figure directly opposite the room from them, back to the wall facing out of some sort of large observatory window. Yellow turned and smiled that smug smile, beckoning them forward. The two pearls walked over to Yellow's pearl who stood off to the side and joined her quietly, standing out of the way.

As they neared, Yellow greeted them proper, turning to Blue first. "Thank you for escorting her, Blue." She said, putting a single hand on her shoulder.

Blue smiled, albeit weakly. "It was my pleasure."

Yellow then turned to the youngest Diamond. "Pink, how long has it been since we last saw each other face to face like this?"

"Five hundred years, give or take." Pink answered. "You're looking… well." She said, looking for some sort of compliment for her sister.

Yellow beckoned her closer and Pink complied. Yellow then reached out and pulled her into an embrace. The younger Diamond stiffened at the sudden contact but returned it after a few moments, unsure of what else she should do.

Her sister broke the embrace, addressing Pink. "So, I assume Blue has informed you of the news?"

"Yes, she said you were cancelling the colony plans for Earth." Pink said, the words coming out of her mouth as confusing and alien as they'd ever been.

"And she was correct." Yellow confirmed.

Pink couldn't believe it, those words coming from Yellow, she had seriously doubted she'd ever hear them, yet here she was, saying them. Unlike before though, when Blue had been the one to do so, Pink felt not once iota of relief. This wasn't like Yellow to just give up, not after so long and not so easily.

The question Pink wanted to blurt out was "What are you up to?" instead she settled for "So what happens to Earth now?"

"We're leaving it. But not without leaving something behind first." Yellow replied.

And there it was. Yellow was working some sort of angle, question was, what was it? "Come, there's something I want you to see." Yellow said motioning to the window. Pink stepped up closer and saw that the observation window overlooked a large white room. Far below she saw gems, but her eyes widened as she saw which gems they were.

They were Rose Quartzes, each and every one of them.

Pink turned to Yellow a mix of confusion and anger on her face. "What is the meaning of this?!"

The smug smile faded, leaving only the thin ambivalent glare that Pink had gotten far too used to seeing. "It occurs to me that this rebellion only started because you created the Rose Quartzes, Pink. At first I was fine with leaving them be, so long as they stayed far from Earth where the first one had turned, but then a thought occurred to me. What if there was something wrong with the entire cut of gems? What if they started their own rebellions across the stars and our empire tore itself apart? So, I came to a simply conclusion."

"You're going to shatter them." Pink said quietly in disbelief. A realization dawned on Pink just then, she had been feeling their anxiety. The Rose Quartzes must have been aware of the rebellion on Earth, and to be called in such a manner… they must have thought they were going to be punished for the crimes of the gem-sister.

Yellow nodded. "Yes, I am. And that's not all." Yellow walked over to a large square holotable in the middle of the room and pressed a button. The room darkened as the hologram of a giant blue sphere appeared.

"What is that?" Pink asked, her voice in disbelief.

"We call it 'The Cluster'." Blue answered stepping up to stand beside Yellow. "it's a giant amalgamation of shattered gems."

In the last few hours there was a number of things Pink had not expected to hear, not ever. But this news was blowing them all out of the water. "What?!"

"It'll be the largest geo-weapon we've ever made, and we're going to use the Earth to gestate it." Yellow explained. "Just imagine it, we pull off of Earth and the rebellion think it's won the war, then only a few hundred years later, in a blink of an eye, the Earth is gone, the rebellion is destroyed and on top of it all we have a new weapon, so powerful none dare question our authority ever again."

Pink was stunned into silence. Yellow was efficient, cunning, ruthless, these were things she knew about her for years, but to go to this extent… it was beyond words.

Well, not quite beyond words.

"Are you out of your MINDS?!" Pink said incredulously. Blue frowned while Yellow's thin ambivalent look turned to one of annoyance. "You going to destroy my Rose Quartzes for crimes they didn't commit and use their shards to add to this… this ABOMINATION?!"

Blue took a step towards her. "Pink, please calm down."

Pink turned her gaze to her. "And you! Blue! You supported this?!"

Blue looked away to the ground. "Pink… the rebellion has cost us so much as it is, this just seemed like-"

"Enough Blue." Yellow said cutting her off. "It's this kind of coddling that got us into this situation in the first place." Yellow then turned her gaze back to Pink. "You've had over half a millennium to fix this mistake of yours and so far, have only proven that you cannot solve it on your own. This takes care of many of our problems at once and ensure they never happen again." Yellow then narrowed her eyes even further. "Or perhaps it's not that at all." Pink relented a bit at that. "Maybe it's how you've been dividing you focus between the rebellion and that space station you had built."

Pink's eyes widened at that. "How-"

"Did you really think you could hide that obscene thing from me?" Yellow asked. "Or how you filled it with those… organics." Yellow said spitting out the last word with disgust. "Your obsession with them is as disturbing as ever."

"And your dismissal of them is as short-sighted as ever." Pink countered.

Yellow sighed, shaking her head and stepping forward, closing the gap between her and Pink. "I've given you a lot of leniency Pink. Allowed much that, I see now, I never should have the first place." She stopped right in front of Pink, looking her in the eye. "This is going to happen. This is the plan, and you will follow it to the letter. Do I make myself clear?"

Pink was silent, matching glares with her sister in silence while the pearls and Blue looked on, waiting for something to happen. Then pink uttered a single word to shatter the silence. "No."

Yellow's gaze did not shift, but a single brow raised. "What did you say?"

"I said 'No.'" Pink repeated. "Earth is my world, I will do as I see fit upon it and you have no right to tell me otherwise."

Yellow's gaze of ice turned subzero. "Listen carefully, Pink. I'm going to give you one chance to take back what you've said, and do as you're told." She allowed another silence to pass between them. "Will you follow the plan? Will you do as you've been told?"

Pink looked her dead in the eye, matching her gaze's intensity. "No, I will not."

SMACK

Blue's hands shot up to her face and Pearl gasped as Pink reeled with a step back as Yellow's hand came across her face, quick as lightning. "Twenty thousand years and you haven't changed a bit. If you only had the valor to do what needs to be done, the rebellion would have ended long ago. But you're still too naïve, Pink, and still too soft." Yellow said, shaking her head.

WHAM

Yellow flew across the room, smashing into the holotable and crushing it. Blue looked with horror from Yellow who laid in the debris to Pink, her fist outstretched. "Sorry Yellow, was that too soft?"

The elder Diamond rose from the wreckage, anger in her eyes. "You dare-?"

Pink pointed an accusing finger to her. "Yes, I do. And now, it's my turn to talk, so listen close. I am not your lackey. I am not you subordinate. I am your sister and your equal, Earth is mine, not yours."

Yellow scowled deeply, her voice heavy with pent up rage. "Are you challenging my authority?"

"Yes I am. I challenge you Yellow. If I win you leave my planet, my station, my gems and myself alone to deal with as I see fit." Pink said, finger still pointing.

"And if you lose, you will do as you're told, no questions asked now and forever." Yellow countered. Pink nodded and Yellow did as well. "Follow me."


The two Diamonds soon found themselves on opposite sides of an observation room, much like the one they'd just left. Blue Diamond stood off to the side, behind a force-field and the exit, watching with the three pearls, all four having looks of concern or confusion.

"Stop this, both of you! Before this goes any further!" Blue pleaded to the both of them.

Yellow and Pink had mirrored scowls. "It's time our youngest sister learned some respect for her elders, Blue."

The two slowly began to circle one another, watching the other closely as they did so. Yellow then sent out a blast of electricity like a shot from her index finger. Pink dived out of the way and started to run as Yellow unleased bolts with rapid fire succession. Pink was managing to doge but only barely as she closed the distance.

Pink threw a punch which Yellow dodged with ease and began a swift combination of punches and kicks that Yellow expertly maneuvered around. Seeing an opening, Yellow gave lightning-fast jabs to the stomach before sweeping Pink from her feet and attempting to shock her once more.

The younger Diamond locked her legs around Yellow and cause the elder to lose her balance, firing off a blast into the ceiling. Pink quickly got up but soon found her movement speed sluggish as she neared the walls or the floor. As if her arms were pulling her towards them.

"You feel it, don't you?" Yellow asked. "It's a bit of magnetism I put on you when I hit you with my palms, it won't last that long… but it won't need to." Electricity began to build up within Yellow's fists, making them glow with yellow light. Yellow aimed the blast at Pink who began to reach up into her hair. Yellow fired and an explosion blasted off where Pink stood.

The dust began to clear, revealing a large wall of burnt wood in the way. "What?!" Yellow exclaimed.

The wood parted, showing Pink unscathed. "That's your problem Yellow, always underestimating what comes from but a single seed."

Yellow fired again but Pink dodged out of the way and the wood around Pink shifted, covering her legs and arms like wooden boots and gauntlets. Pink jumped high into the air and stuck her feet into the ceiling, the wood digging into the spaces between the tiles. Yellow continued to fire, but Pink ran along the ceiling until she was right above Yellow, dive bombing her and causing Yellow to dodge out of the way, making a metal crater where Pink now stood.

Yellow summoned her blade with a flash of electricity and charged. The blade bit into the wood but not all the way, giving Pink an opening to kick her away. Yellow flew through the air but flipped through the air and landed on her feet.

Pink's wooden gauntlets began to crumble away, revealing a pink glow beneath. More of the wood began to crumble away before falling off completely. Two matching pink shields shown on Pink Diamond, they covered her forearm, rounded and square.

"It's been a long time since I've seen those." Yellow said.

"Why don't you take a closer look?" Pink replied, jumping into the air and smashing the ground as Yellow dodged out of the way. The two clashed and locked together. Yellow began getting the upper hand, her electricity surging and pushing Yellow back and down.

Suddenly, vines began to sprout from the cracks in the ground. They whipped around, wrapping around Yellow's legs and breaking her balance. Pink took the opening and backed off. She tapped into her power as much as she could, forcing the plants to grow faster and faster as Yellow struggled against them.

Soon, wood encased Yellow in her entirety, growing thicker and stronger. Soon a giant wood tree, if it could still be called that, stood where Yellow had once been. Pink gave a victorious smirk. "You done yet?!" she called out. She heard nothing in response and was about to dismiss the plant, before she saw that the tree was beginning to glow from the inside. Cracks of openings began to light up brighter and brighter and the wood was beginning to shake. The young Diamond put her shield-arms together and they joined, extending out into a large tower shield just as the gnarled planet exploded outwards in a rain of splinters and smoking wood.

Pink was blown away, but safe thanks to her shield. She looked over to Yellow her face twisted with anger. She charged Pink as the younger Diamond separated her tower shield into its two component parts and once again engaged in fighting.

This time was different however, Yellow's attacks were fiercer, her blade glowing with powerful electric current. Yellow found an opening and kneed Pink in the chest before knocking her away with a kick. The younger Diamond skipped off the ground and rolled.

Pink picked herself up in time to see Yellow holding out her sword in front of her, the energy charging within it and making the blade grow ever brighter. Realizing what was coming Pink transformed her shield back into its single form. The elder Diamond fired her massive blast of electricity right at Pink. The younger Diamond blocked it with her shield, sending energy scattering to the sides and behind her but the energy did not relent as Yellow continued to fire. Pink began to step forward, closer and closer towards the blast's source, the energy only getting stronger as she neared. Yellow gritted her teeth as she summoned as much energy as she could to push Pink back, but she held on. Closer and closer she crept, gaining ground bit by bit. Then just as her shield touched the tip of the blade a giant explosion encompassed them both.

Yellow was send flying into the wall behind and Pink was sent tumbling at high speeds in the opposite direction. Blue looked from one sister to the other very nervously, neither were moving an inch. Then Yellow picked herself off from the wall, panting as she did so. She slowly made her way toward Pink, who lay motionless, dragging her sword on the ground behind her.

Once Yellow had closed the distance she looked over her younger sister. Scorch marks marred her in several places, her pink jumpsuit looking tattered and torn. She then looked down towards herself, she looked much the same.

Pink weakly opened her eyes and attempted to sit up, though it was very difficult to do so. She reached with one hand over her gem. The belt was intact, at least there was that. She then looked up to Yellow who was towering over her, looking down at herself before noticing Pink's eyes and meeting them. Yellow held out her blade. "You've lost Pink, yield."

The younger Diamond could barely move a single finger but weakly shook her head.

Yellow could barely make words without huffing them out. "You can't even stand, you've lost this little sister."

Pink managed to gather enough energy to sit up. "I… do not… yield…"

Yellow let the sword's tip drop to the ground. "Such a stubborn thing you are."

Pink managed a weak smile. "I guess… we're alike… in one aspect…" Pink managed to breath out, chuckling weakly.

"That's enough from both of you." Blue said stepping in.

"Don't interfere, Blue." Yellow said turning to her.

Blue merely reached out and pushed on Yellow, sending her to the ground with minimal effort. "Look at you two, too tired to stand, too stubborn to give in." She looked towards Pink. "Pink, Yellow is right. You're too soft on your subordinates, and you don't respect the hierarchy which in part lead to the rebellion." She then turned to her elder sister. "Yellow, Pink is also right. She's a Diamond, one of us, and even though she may not always act like it, that does hold meaning. When White put you in charge it was because she wanted you to lead us, not boss us around and give us orders like any other gem. If Pink says she can handle the situation, then we should trust her to do so."

The two sisters looked to Blue then to each other. Yellow stood up, dismissing her weapon. "Fine, I suppose since you've proven you have some strength, so I'll not implement the Cluster plan, not yet." She held out her hand, her fingers extended. "Five hundred years, that's what it's taken you so far, and how long you have left. If you don't put the rebellion down by then, we do things my way. And concerning that deep space station of yours… keep it. But from now on you are to focus on the rebellion, I'll be making sure you don't have any further contact with it, not until the war is over. And lastly, the Rose Quartzes will have their physical forms destroyed and their gems bubbled." Pink looked like she was about to object but Yellow held up a hand. "I will not destroy them Pink, but they are a liability all the same. We can talk about their future in our empire after the war is over." She was about to turn to leave but stopped, turning back to Pink. "One other thing, Blue?" she caught her sister's attention as she addressed her. "You're going to Earth with Pink to help her put down this rebellion once and for all." Blue nodded and Yellow returned the nod, and with that finally walked away, slowly and in pain, leaving Blue and Pink alone with their respective pearls.

Pearl ran to Pink's side. "My Diamond! Are you alright?!" She asked, great concern on her features.

Blue bent down allowing Pink to sling one of her arms over her. "Don't worry Pearl, I'll be fine in a few hours."

Blue smiled softly. "That was quite the display."

Pink smiled back through the pain. "I know, it's been a long time since I had to exert myself like that."

"So, I guess we'll be working together now." Blue said.

"Seems so." Pink acknowledged.

Blue gave her a confident smile. "I'm sure with us working together the rebellion won't stand a chance."

Pink returned the smile, significantly weaker. "Yeah, they'll never see us coming."


HA! No, not really, but could you imagine?

-Savannah9137- Sorry dear, I still have no idea what you're going on about. Pink's mission right now is to put down the rebellion, so…

More questions though, please