Yellow Pearl took in a deep breath before telling Steven the story of his mother.
"Thousands of years ago..." Yellow Pearl started off. "...there was a planet called Earth. Homeworld went to the planet hoping to find new resources to further our economy.
During this time, we were ruled by the great Diamond Authority just like today. It consisted of White Diamond, Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, and Pink Diamond.
When we had all arrived on Earth, we thought we had had a break-through on our search. However, it didn't take long to disxover that there was other life already existing on Earth. The life there called itself "humans."
As soon as it was realized that this life excisted, the Diamond Authority discussed for days on what to do. Yellow Diamond said that the Earth wouldn't stand a chance at surviving if Homeworld stayed. Blue Diamond included in that the humans were organic life. White Diamond also mentioned that the humans wouldn't be able to withstand without any of the resources. She included that the humans didn't have gems on their bodies to give them the energy they needed to survive. Pink Diamknd mentioned that the colony being built on Earth would be unfair to the life that already lived ln the Earth. The Diamond Authority all agreed that they would have to leave Earth, and they would leave at sunrise the very next day.
It wasn't a very long wait until the sun rose in the clear skies, but it felt like waiting for centuries for Pink Diamond. She feared that every second Homeworld was on Earth, they were putting all the life in danger. But once sunrise came, the Diamonds didn't waste any time trying to start the ships and leave the Earth. But something went wrong. All the ships malfunctioned, taking away all possiblities of going back home.
Pink Pearl offered to go in and take a look at the technology. When she finally came back, she said that it had all been sabotaged, and it seemed that the only gem able to do the job would have been a quartz. But all the quartzes were in their positions the night before.
The Diamonds thought there might have just been some kind of accident, so they decided to ignore it. However, many days went by, and the Diamonds were always stopped from leaving the Earth and going back home.
White Diamond's Pearl had been acting very strange and secretive. It made many gems feel very suspicious, especially Pink Diamond. Pink Diamlnd had worried that the human species that she had found to be so nice was in great danger.
She often liked to watch the humans from a safe distance, so she could observe them without being spotted. One day, however, there was something called a concert being shown on a beach. Pink Diamond was able to sneak away to see it.
She thought the place would be full of humans, but when she arrived, she was the only one there. Once the show was over, she had met the star, Greg Universe. He went to his van for only a few seconds to meet his manager, but when he turned around, Pink Diamond had already realized she had been gone for to long and had to get back to the camp.
Greg eventually found out where the strange woman from the show had gone. When he first showed up at the camp, the other gems were about to get rid of him, when Pink Diamond told them to let Greg go. After that night, Greg came to see Pink Diamond and the Homeworld gems nearly every day.
He had started to fall for her, but she didn't really know. One day, he saw Pink Diamond discussing with the other Diamonds about the ships and going back to Homeworld. It was then that he realized that Pink Diamond wanted to leave Earth. He, of coarse, didn't want such a thing to happen, so every time he came, he tried to convince Pink Diamond to stay. She knew he wanted her to stay, but she knew she couldn't.
Eventually, the day came that the ships were finished and we would finally be able to go home. When we were about to get on the ships, a powerful gem stepped in front of us. The gem was none other than Rose Quartz, our best quartz general. Right beside Rose was White Diamond's Pearl. Rose said that Homeworld had to stay on Earth if they wanted the colony to thrive. Blue Diamond stepped forward and tried to reason with Rose by telling her the planet would die if they stsyed on Earth.
But Rose wouldn't listen to reason and called war on Homeworld. At first it seemed like Rose was just using threats and would never be sble to attack, but as soon as she called war, tons of gems from our own armies stepped forward and joined Rose and the Pearl. It was on that day that the rebellion had begun. The war lasted for many years. We kept feeling like we would never stand a chance against Rose's great rebellion army. When Rose created a fusion larger than any of the Diamonds, it was clear that Homeworld was in a war they could not win.
But Yellow Diamond had a plan on how to save as many gems and humans as possible. She told Pink Diamond to gather every human in the area and load them on to the ships. Pink Diamond did as she was told, and among the humans she saved was Greg. Once all the humans were out of harms way, the Diamonds went to get their secret weapon. They had hoped they would never have to use it. Especially on their own kind, but it was the only way to wipe out the rebellion. Yellow Diamond reluctantly launched the launched the weapon. A bright light was seen just before a sonic boom was heard. We knew it was our time to leave.
We looked back once the dust had cleared, and to our dismay, Rose Quartz had used her shield to save a hand-full of her rebellious friends. All that mattered though was that we had still saved every human we coukd from the area.
When we arrived back on Homeworld, we instantly tried to set up a suitable place for the humans to live. Once they were safe and back where they could thrive, we were all in peace once more.
As time passed Pink Diamond and Greg had gotten even more close than they already were. Eventually, Pink Dimond figured out that she was with child. She knew though that she would have to give up her physical form in order to give birth to the child. The Diamonds at first objected to her going through with it, but after weeks of trying to convice her, they realized two things: It was too late, and there was no way to change her mind anyway.
The day evtually came and she was gone. However, even thoigh we had lost Pink Diamond, we had also gained something great," Yellow Pearl paused for a second. "It gave us you, Steven," she said with a small grin. "And that is the story of your mother."
Steven just stood there in silence for a little bit. This new information was alot to take in. Just as he had gathered himself together and was about to thank Yellow Pearl, her gem started to glow a bright yellow. A beam shot from the gem to the space right in front of them.
It was a holo-message sent by... Yellow Diamond. In the hologram Yellow Pearl and Steven saw Yellow Diamond look like she was a little nervous about something.
"Pearl," Yellow Diamond started off calmly. "I need you bring Steven to the Yellow Diamond Control Room as soon as possible," Yellow Diamond finished with a sad look on her face.
As soon as the message was over, the hologram disappeared and Yellow Pearl's gem stopped glowing.
"Pearl," Steven started, "am I in trouble?" he asked almost scared.
"I don't know, Steven," Yellow Pearl said more lost than ever.