Hey guys, to introduce Lapis Lazuli, and all the home world gems mentioned and not mentioned in the series I'm gonna be doing a special very long chapter, this is gonna take so long to write.. But hope you enjoy anyways!

"That's the 5th message this week!" Amethyst complained as the message completed. "And none of them make any sense their all loud static!" The sun had just risen and it was 4:00 AM in Beach city. The gems had just woken up to find another message.

"There has got to be a meaning to all of this!" Pearl cried, putting her hands over her ears, the ringing in her ears wouldn't quit.

"We've got no way of knowing what it means like this, we have to investigate further, but first." Garnet poked at her food on the table. "We have to retrieve Steven's memories. Before Lapis Lazuli and her army come to Earth." She sat up.

"I guess you're right, but how do we get his memories back when Rose's fountain is broken and Steven doesn't have his healing... magic." Pearl restrained herself from saying healing spit.

"I'm worried for Steven.. What happens if he decides to fight?" Amethyst asked.

"I don't know.." Pearl said honestly.

Steven sat up on the tip of the cliff, staring into the ocean, Connie had gone home for the day, it was 9:00 PM now and he felt like he was going to fall asleep. He thought all about what had happened that day~~~:

"Hey Amethyst you're back- where are the others..?" Steven had asked upon seeing only Amethyst come out of the warp pad. She lowered her face, it darkened her features so he couldn't see the hot tears rolling down her purple cheeks. She had her hands behind her back. She quickly shoved 3 stones into her pocket, it was so swift Steven couldn't tell what they were. "What are those stones?" He asked curiously. He walked up to the purple gem cautiously, as if expecting her to lash out at him at any moment. He then saw when she moved her head from him, and her shirt, just for a moment, uncovered her gem just enough so he could see a giant dent in the center. "A-A-Amethyst what happened?!" He cried in alarm at the dent. She lifted her head, showing long tear stains down her cheeks, she had a forced smile covering her face.

"We lost.." She whimpered, her voice was cracking and breaking, and it was shaky. He could see the pain and fear in her eyes, but mostly depression.

"W-w-where are Pearl and Garnet!?" He asked trying to sound calm at first, but ended up shouting in alarm. She turned her face from him again, leaving a guilt filled frown as the only thing he could see. "Amethyst you have to tell me-" He watched in horror as she threw one of the stones at the ground in front of him. He suddenly knew where they were. "No..." He said quietly.

"I told you we lost!" She cried as tears escaped from her eyes. Her eyes were shaking like crazy trying to stay open, but she just had to close them and let more tears fall. She fell too her knees.

"S-shes n-not dead r-r-right Amethyst!" He cried. Amethyst looked up at him.

"It doesn't matter! Shes not dead, but that means shes going to be! We failed on our mission!" Amethyst cried showing him the large dent. She threw down a red and a blue gem down.

"Wheres Garnets?" He asked. He looked at them.

"Those are Garnet, sorry to break it to you, Garnets a fusion." She said. "Even a fusion didn't stand a chance against home worlds technology.." She said to herself.

"What happened!?" Steven asked.

"We had just gotten to the Kindergarten, a place where bad gems created more bad gems-" She started. "-gems like.. me, and we went to investigate, we saw a bunch of machinery go through the warps a few days back, they were obviously home world tech. and well, it turns out its from Lapis's army, we stood up against the machinery when it attack us and-" Amethyst broke into tears again. "-W-w-we l-lost.." She said. "'We're so dead!' I had said, I was so right too.." Amethyst admitted. "Don't you see we don't stand a chance! Pearl and Garnet should heal soon, but in the meantime we need to flee! Do something! We can't stay here!" Amethyst said.

Steven snapped out of his thoughts. 'It can't be..' He thought to himself. How could they loose? Their the Crystal gems.. Maybe if Steven hadn't been so stupid and actually had his memories they'd have won... now their gonna die thanks to him. There has too be someway that he could help.. but how? He had a cracked gem. It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize he couldn't win. He suddenly looked up to see something breath taking.

'NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!' Steven thought as he saw the form materialize. It couldn't be, another gem? Was it from home world?! He saw the figure was beautiful. It had come from a glowing blue tear drop looking gem. She had maroon blue hair with a blue dress that flowed beautifully at the bottom, tied to a ribbon at the waist. She was barefoot. She looked behind her too see Steven, she looked at him intently, with deep dark blue irises. She stood up.

"Steven I know you're up there!" She cried. Steven backed away from the cliff, he didn't wanna see her, he wanted to run inside and find the gems. The girl groaned, he heard her groan loudly and the sound of water. Then.. the sound of.. flapping wings? The girl had materialized wings out of water. "Steven!" She cried, she looked mad.

"H-how do you know my name! W-who are you?!" He asked. The girl seemed hurt by this. Then she saw for the briefest moment his gem was cracked.

"My name is Lapis Lazuli!" Lapis cried. She saw a flicker of light in his eyes.

"Lapis..? Y-you're the one who wants to hurt my friends..!?" He asked stepping back. She cried in alarm something she should've said before she introduced herself,

"Steven you're gem is cracked!" She burst it out, she didn't know if he'd known.

"I-I know." He said, he was tempted to tell her he had no memories, but that'd give her an advantage, he couldn't allow that.

"That's right.. you can't heal your gem if its cracked.." Lapis said, sounding concerned.

"Why are you so concerned?!" He asked.

"Because you healed my gem, someone like you doesn't deserve to have to deal with the crystal gems!" Lapis blurted out. "Steven, you have to know I'm doing this for your own good, don't struggle, it will only make things worse for you and you're 'family' or so you call those traitors." Lapis said in disgust. She got her wings ready to fly off. "Oh I wanted to warn you." She started turning around. "Peridot and Jasper are ruthless, so you best stay on your guard when they arrive, I'll try to protect you so only the crystal gems are punished.." Lapis looked as if she was going to say something else, but only flew away.

"Steven!" The gems cried, Amethyst lashed out her whip and caught Lapis's ankle.

"Let me go! You can't keep me trapped here again!" Lapis said, assuming they'd keep her here if she didn't escape.

"Amethyst bring her closer!" Pearl commanded.

"I'm doing the best I can!" She cried. She didn't want to be what happened earlier to happen again, they couldn't let Lapis win. Lapis hurled a blade of solid water at Amethyst. She just barely dodged, leaving a few strands of hair being cut off. She jumped up, and yanked Lapis towards her, as she fell down Lapis could feel the force of gravity taking Lapis farther down, Amethyst looped the whip around in her hands so Lapis couldn't get farther. Pearl summoned her spear and jumped up, holding the spear behind herself. she fell down, with tremendous strength the gem pierced Lapis in two catching the ocean gem by surprise.

"Lapis!" Steven cried in sympathy, looking away from the stomach churning attack that pierced Lapis in half. Lapis retreated to her gem in Pearls hands. She landed gracefully on the water, she held the gem close to her face, examining it as she let go of it, letting Amethyst reel it in with her whip.

"W-we won!" Amethyst cheered. She lifted Lapis's gem up like a trophy. Steven thought hurting another gem wasn't like the winning he wanted to be apart of. These strange gems seemed so cruel, too cruel to be the good guys. Even though Steven didn't have his memories he was certain these guys had no intent of keeping any home world gems alive after this, and he had no intent to go along with it.

"T-that's horrible.." Steven murmured under his breath watching Amethyst dance around in victory, even after she had nearly killed her own kind. He thought he was going to be sick after an event like this. Were these gems really this cruel, to treat Lapis like a object, not another person that they should mourn over the near death, and not be relieved that she survived, no they wanted her dead, that was just too cruel, too heartbreaking, or maybe Steven was too ignorant to realize this was good, but what was good about death? Was there even a 'good guy' anymore? Steven had too look away before he would throw up at the awful event.

"Steven, why do you look so down, we won!" Amethyst said almost tauntingly. Like she was just trying to make him feel disgust in her. "Steven...?" Amethyst called, now concerned.

"Something wrong Steven?" Pearl asked, obviously in a motherly tone.

"N-nothing." Steven lied.

"We haven't won yet." Garnet put in. "More gems are coming, I can sense them coming this way, fast." She said.

"Is it true you're a fusion?!" Steven suddenly burst, he suddenly remembered his chat with Amethyst.

"How did you find out?!" She asked alarmingly.

"Amethyst told me." He said cheekily. Amethyst gave a shrug.

"He was gonna find out eventually, plus it was when you, retreated into your gems, and split apart." Amethyst sat down on a stump.

"It doesn't matter whether or not Garnets a fusion! Home world gems are coming, what do we do?!" Pearl asked.

"Pearl, there's nothing we can do!" Amethyst yelled, "We just have to run!"

"No! We have to stay and fight!" Steven insisted.

"What would you know!" Pearl cried, "You don't even remember your name!" She covered her hand over her mouth realizing she'd said something bad. Steven gave her a glare, one she'd never seen on him before, he ran off to the home. "Steven!" Pearl called after him, Garnet put her hand on Pearls shoulder. She shook her head.

"He'll be back." Garnet simply stated, then sat on the edge of the cliff. Pearl stayed where she was, not even turning around, she just stared at the door.

"He better.." Pearl said under her breath.

Steven threw himself on the couch. Taking in a fresh breath of air. 'It's not my fault I fell..' He thought to himself. If only there was a way to fix it. He hopped off the couch and stared at the warp pad. There had to be some place he could go that would help him, he'd just have to look right? He looked at the warp pad temptingly, 'Whats the worst that could happen?' He thought, with that he jump on the machine. It was cold and hard, but immediately when he stepped on it, it warmed up, his gem glowed faintly, the warp pad had little sparks illuminating it, and several pixels floated in the air about it.

"Steven!" Garnet yelled as she saw him activating the warp pad. She saw him through the screen door while she was on the beach, she saw the light pour out the windows and onto the sand and ocean. She ran over to the door and saw as he pixelated, and dissolved away. "Pearl, Amethyst!" Garnet called them over. They immediately ran over to her.

"Whats wrong Garnet-" Amethyst cut off seeing the warp pad still had pixels dancing around it. "Oh..." She muttered breathlessly.

"Did Steven-" Pearl cut herself off and put her hand over her mouth in fear of he might've gone to the Kindergarten.

"He wouldn't do something that extreme." Garnet assured them.

"You don't know that, he was angry, and he doesn't remember the risks.. o-or the dangers!" Pearl stammered.

"Stay calm, we need to follow him!" Garnet headed toward the warp pad, the two gems followed after her.

Steven watched the particles dance around him and transform to a beam, he saw Garnet in the door just before he was washed away into the crazy array of lights. He felt no gravity within the beam, and suddenly wondered if anything was outside. He poked his head around, unable to breathe hardly for the extreme cold. He saw several different beams, he didn't dare go outside the warp stream. He suddenly saw something pass through another stream, was it one of Lapis's machines from home world? Had she sent machines after him already?! He poked his head back in, and before he could do anything, two hands grabbed him by the shoulders and tugged him down.

Pearl and Amethyst and Garnet had all split up, Pearl waited for the warp stream to end an take her too Steven.. hopefully. The stream grew o a bright light that blinded Pearl for a second, making her vision grow dark. She blinked a few times, for she had mastered how to get rid of the blindness and scanned her surroundings for any traces of Steven. She had spawned in the desert first, no Steven, but several ruins were out of place, she noticed something off. She decided to further look into the area, anything could happen at this time, if it were one of the home world gems that had come here, that would be something she needed her attention on. Steven could wait. If he was traveling within warp streams, Pearl doubted a homeworld gem would find him, if they did... Pearl didn't want to think about it. Pearl found a separate warp pad out in the desert, several round green machines with unattached legs surrounded it, spitting a blue liquid on it and repairing that warp pad. Pearl hid behind a ruin, unsure whether it was a threat, no if they were a threat, there were hundreds around the large machine! She stuck her head out just enough to see another gem come through the warp stream.

She had long white hair, a black choker around her neck, that looked like a simple ribbon, with a yellow diamond in the left corner, a Velcro white vest, a grey under shirt, and grey jeans, she had white knee high boots with black laces going all the way up, they were heels and she had black gloves, with the part that covers her fingers and thumb, cut off. It had a large hexagon shape cut out in the middle of her glove, leaving her pale palm exposed, she had narrow eyes and a single grey hair clip clipping her bangs to the side, she looked beautifully threatening, Pearl hid behind the ruins once again hopping the gem didn't see her. The girl flipped her hair behind her shoulder and glanced at the ruins suspiciously. She sat down on the warp pad and took out a sphere, it continuously changed colors in her hands and she set it down, underneath it, a large pole formed, and stood it up like a artifact at a museum. It opened up a screen, and behind it a small hole appeared and scanned the area with a green beam. The gem stood, smirking just a bit and her eyes narrowing. As the beam passed through it stopped at a ruin across from Pearl. The beam narrowed down until it was no more than particles, the screen lit up and said all the data of the ruin. She glanced at the machines on the ground that had finished their job and sneered.

"Peridot was here.." She groaned in a smooth light voice. It was sweet and nonthreatening. She looked at the machine, and bent down. She tugged at her choker and revealed a pale white gem. Pearl couldn't tell what it was when she took a few glances at the enemy when she was turned to the machine. The young gem brushed her fingers along the gem and summoned a large chain, with a white spear head on the end, it was twisted into a spiral at the end giving it a nice futuristic look, and the spiral curled around a small grey sphere. She connected the chains so it looked like a spear, and it omitted dust from it, the dust cleared and the chain was now a single pole with a tipped end, with a white wire curled around it, similar to pearls, except it still the tip was very large, easily distinguishing it from Pearls spear, matching her agile nature. The gem pierced the machine in half, watching it explode into goo. The weapon glowed as if the defeat gave it power, in fact a tiny bar was implanted in the side saying, 22% full in bright blue neon numbers. She put it away in a sheath the she had recently materialized on her back, it was also white, made of silk and had a yellow diamond on the front, very simple. She turned around to the ruin Pearl was and sighed, "You stink at hiding, I found you ages ago, why didn't you flee?" She questioned, "You humans can be so-" She stopped seeing Pearl stand up in front of her. The pale gem grinned. "Another gem I see." She drew her spear and got in fighting position, "Let's see if your as tough as you look."

Amethyst stuck her head out of the warp stream, her 3rd fail and was wondering if Pearl had found Steven and not alerted her, it'd be typical for Pearl to leave her out. Amethyst took in a breath of cold air and stuck her head back into the warp stream. If Garnet had found Steven she'd sure alert Amethyst and Pearl, but Amethyst bet Pearl wouldn't alert Amethyst. There was a disc they all kept in their pockets, that would alert them if one of them found Steven, Amethyst's was a drum sound, Pearl had picked out the different options obviously, and chose wind chimes. Garnet had stuck with a guitar, being the first option, and didn't want to waste time unlike the other two. Amethyst pressed a random button on the disc, allowing the drum to go off, she played with it, making a joke and them played the drum sound until the warp stream took her somewhere.

She arrived at a small island, several bits of machinery littered the place. She groaned, no Steven in sight, she had to scan the place to see if he was there anyway, even though Amethyst was certain he wouldn't be here. But, if he was and Garnet found out she'd not checks the place right, it'd be a drama house, or a punishment for a typical 1,000 years, no TV, no video games, something in that area, Garnet almost went to 'no food' once, which was reasonable since gems didn't need to eat, but nonetheless decided on no traveling within the warp streams unattended for 1 year, it was when Rose was in the group, and decided to go easy on her.

Amethyst searched within the piles of junk and found a picture. It was of a gem with white hair and a black choker with a yellow diamond in the corner, only showing her face, on the right. Another gem was in the background. She had dark, dark purple short hair, she wore a bright blue headband and had a mark on her left cheek, it was a yellow diamond painted on her cheek, it was very small and hardly visible. She wore a light purple dress with a ribbon tied just below her chest, unlike most others that are tied around their waist. She wore elbow length gloves that had the fingers cut off as well as the previous new gem. She wore simple sandles and purple nail polish. Her gem was located underneath a ribbon, just barely visible in the picture from the way it drooped down, on her knee. She had bright cheery eyes, that were a bright pink with purple around the edges giving her a menacing look, just barely.

Amethyst dropped the picture as it gave off a couple of sparks. She stared in horror as the sparks grew to lightning bolts, they scattered around the island, Amethyst headed for the warp pad, the sparks got here first and the warp pad shut down. She dropped down to her knees. Bolts traveled up her leggings and she felt her flesh burning, water- no electricity conducts water! She sat on the ground watching her flesh burn, the picture was turned upside down revealing a gem, the same gem that belonged to the purple haired woman in the picture, the crescent shaped gem gave off several more sparks and Amethyst knew she needed a way off this island fast.

Garnet was getting tired of this, it had been two hours she had searched, she eventually decided, the others most likely went on home, and she decided to as well. If none of them had still found Steven he was probably at home. Asleep. Garnet redirected the warp stream to their home. She hoped Steven was there, and the gems had gone home, maybe their discs had broken and ended up in the same place? It was a long shot but it was the only thing Garnet had to go by.

She arrived at the home to find it completely trashed, drawers pulled out, books strewn across the floor, the door was dented, and holes were all in the walls, Garnet examined the mess, every piece of metal seemed to have been taken out, besides the copper wires, some left on the fridge, and other hard to get materials, the mirror Garnet had left when they'd split up was gone, and glass all over the floor, several rose petals, bits of lightning, and particles were in the air, along with trash debree blowing in the wind along with flames. Garnet stared at the mess and shook her head, if this were the other two gems, they had a lot of explaining to do. She saw a picture frame on the ground, she picked it up, the corners were singed and the picture had burnt spots on it, it was a picture of Rose Quarts, Stevens mother, Garnet knew those two wouldn't do something like this, she knew the homeworld gems had arrived on Earth, at least some have, how many, she didn't know? How many to come, didn't know, but they were all in trouble.

A figure came through the door, Garnet turned her attention to the figure in the doorway, not moving, she knew if she did anything, she would lose the fight, it wasn't worth risking her life. "You're Garnet, leader of the Crystal gems correct?" A voice asked from inside the shadows. Garnet nodded. The figure stepped forward, she had blood red hair tied in a ponytail, her canines looked like fangs and her clothes were a black top with no sleeves, a blood red jacket covering it, red jeans, and black sneakers, her gem was on her shoulder where the jacket had a large tear in it where the gem sat. It was blood stone, the gem resembling "Healing", or "Justice". This didn't match her attire. "I am blood stone, gem of healing, I have come to warn you about the homeworld gems." She stated. Blood stone put her hair behind her shoulder and smirked, "You shall ready your armies, we are coming with advanced technology and have no intent to spare your lives." Blood stone turned around, she threw back her head and looked toward Garnet, a evil smirk played on her lips, "Good luck... You're gonna need it." She then vanished, her body unraveled and spun around itself, then turned to dust. Garnet stood in shock at what she'd just witnessed, she knew her friends were in trouble, she had to find them. Suddenly someone grabbed her hand and pulled her back, they whispered in her ear a echoed voice that mocked her, "Don't leave so soon~!"

Well that's all for this chapter, I'd like to point out though, the gem Pearl was fighting was the gem of 'seeking' that's why I gave her the device that scanned the area and acted like she was seeking information, her gem name will come up soon along with the others they faced in the chapter, hope you enjoyed this took all day to write!

Bonus teaser

Steven looked up toward the sky, rose petals swarmed the air. A single figure stood in front of him. "Steven, take care of them okay?" The lady asked in a soft tone. The world swayed around him and turned dark. Her shadow turned white and looked as if it was reaching toward him. "Please... keep them safe."