Blue Diamond was inside the atrium of the Human Zoo, waiting for the Amethysts and Jaspers to retrieve the humans she had asked to see. Her Pearl was, as always, standing beside her, completely still and seemingly indifferent to the whole situation. There was something rather off about Pearl, though. It was something not that many Gems have ever seen Blue Diamond's Pearl do before. It was something that Blue Diamond herself couldn't even believe. In fact, even Pearl herself thought what she was doing was too good to be true: She was smiling. For the first time in who knows how long, she was filled with an emotion that wasn't sadness or fear. For once in her long, long life, Pearl felt happiness. And she was happy because, after being by her side for so long, Blue Diamond had finally acknowledged her and asked her for her advice. A Gem as great and powerful as a Diamond consulting a Gem as small and powerless as a Pearl was completely unheard of…and Blue Diamond's Pearl was proud to have made such a mark. But alas, mere happiness isn't enough to get her and her Diamond out of the jam they were in.

Yellow Diamond still gave her a rather explosive offer, and Blue Diamond still had a choice to make: Shatter an entire cut of her own Quartz soldiers, un-bubble Pink Diamond's Gems so they can be recruited back into the Homeworld Army, and dispose of the humans in the zoo so that the structure may be destroyed and recreated into a horrible weapon; and if she didn't agree to do this…Yellow Diamond would request their Diamond to do it. Pearl gave her master all the advice she could, and she was very happy to be of service to her Diamond, but in the end Pearl is still nothing more than a Pearl. And compared to a Diamond, she was absolutely nothing. Blue Diamond kept her servant's advice firmly in mind, though, for she believed it would prove rather helpful in making her choice.

"Pearl," Blue Diamond said, "are you certain this will work?"

Pearl nodded, her tiny mouth still firmly curled into a smile.

"Yes, I do... After all," Pearl said as her smile slowly turned back into a frown, "there's only one other alternative…"

She pointed down at the insignia of the Diamonds emblazoned on the floor of the atrium. Blue Diamond once again stared intensely at the glistening white triangle, and the sad yet beautiful look on her face quickly turned to one of fear and despair. To the average human it was just a simple white-colored, inverted triangle that was a part of a much bigger symbol, but to Gems it was much bigger than just a shape or a symbol. It was a reminder; a reminder that, no matter where they might be, there was always someone out there watching over them. And to Blue Diamond, it was a reminder that, despite how powerful and revered she was, there was somebody out there far more powerful than her…and that somebody could snuff her out like it's nothing if they wanted to.

"Here they come, my Diamond," Pearl said.

Holly Blue Agate entered the atrium, followed by all the Amethysts and Jaspers—and a diminutive Carnelian—who were struggling with the human that they just retrieved from the zoo. Holly Blue Agate crossed her arms, forming the same strange diamond formation like before, and the Quartz soldiers behind her did the same thing. The humans behind them, however, stared in awe at the giant Diamond.

"What is with the massive blue woman, purple one?" a human said, poking the back of one of the Amethysts. "Is she…a goddess?"

"S-Something like that…," the Amethyst answered.

"I see," the human said. "And what about the yellow one with the pointy hair? Is she a goddess, too?"

The Gems who overheard this gave each other looks of both worry and confusion, but that's when they saw her: Yellow Diamond, appearing from the door behind Blue Diamond, walking up to them with a look of complete disgust on her face. The Amethyst and Jaspers were taken completely aback by this, and began to exchange all sorts of questions with each other:

"What the heck is she doing here!?"

"Agate didn't say anything about this!"

"Is Blue Diamond giving us up to her or something?"

"I hope not—I've seen what she does to her Pearl."

"But what about the humans? What does she—"

"Shut up! She's looking at us…"

Yellow Diamond looked hard at the Amethysts and Jaspers, who were staring back, but couldn't find themselves keeping eye contact with the giant Diamond at all. Perhaps Yellow Diamond was just that menacing? In any case, Yellow Diamond gave her blue counterpart a nice, big part on the back. Blue Diamond didn't bother to look at her ugly yellow colleague, and instead looked down at her pretty blue Pearl, who was being bothered by Yellow Diamond's Pearl, who was patting her on the back in the same way her giant counterpart was doing.

"I am glad you've finally seen the light, Blue," Yellow Diamond said.

Blue Diamond remained silent, and continued to look away.

"…You'll understand someday," Yellow said.

"O-Oh, my!" Agate yelped. "I-I had no idea you were going to join us, as well, my Diamond… I-I mean… I mean, you're not my Diamond! Blue Diamond's my D-Diamond, of course! It's j-just that, well…I didn't really e-expect you to—"

"Shut up, Agate," Yellow Diamond said, "your Diamond has something to say."

Blue Diamond finally looked at Yellow Diamond, and she gave her a wicked glance that genuinely made her flinch for a bit. Blue looked at Agate and the Amethysts and Jaspers, all of whom were had absolutely no idea what was going on. She looked at the humans, who were absolutely puzzled, and whose awe and amazedness as the spectacle soon turned to confusion and fear. She looked at her Pearl, her diminutive servant, and Pearl looked back and gave her a small but sweet little smile. Blue Diamond smiled back, and that was when she finally knew what she had to do.

"Everyone," Blue Diamond said in a volume loud enough for everyone to hear, but low enough so that the eardrums of the little creatures before her wouldn't pop, "I understand you may be confused as to why I asked you all to come here."

The Amethysts, Jaspers, and humans all exchanged bewildered glances.

"The truth of the matter is that…," Blue said, "earlier, Yellow Diamond came to me with a rather interesting offer regarding all of you and the zoo itself."

"What is the blue goddess speaking about?" a human asked.

"Something about a…'zoo'?" another human answered.

"Does she mean our home? Is that what it is called?"

"But what about the yellow one? Why is she here?"

"Yellow Diamond has told me that the best thing for me to do is to move on from the past," Blue Diamond said, "leave it behind, and resume my duties as your ruler. But…"

"Holly! What's going on?" a Jasper asked under her breath.

"I… I don't know," Agate said. "M-My Diamond, if you don't mind me asking, is there something that—"

"She hasn't finished speaking, Agate," Yellow Diamond said sternly. "Go ahead, Blue…say it. Believe me—they'll understand."

"…B-But," Blue stuttered.

"But what?" Yellow asked.

"…I can't. And I never will."

"What? Blue, I told you—"

"TO HELL WITH WHAT YOU TOLD ME!"

Blue Diamond gave Yellow Diamond a swift but powerful punch to the chest, right where her Gem was located, and in an instant the giant yellow Gem was on the floor. Yellow Diamond's Pearl, Agate, the Amethysts and Jaspers, and even the humans all gasped in astonishment…but the blue Pearl was smiling more than ever. Yellow Diamond then started to shiver, as if she was terribly cold, but she was shivering for a different reason. She touched the Gem in her chest, and that's when she noticed something…

Little yellow shards of her Gem were in her palm.

"M-My Diamond!?" Agate cried. "W-What have you done!? What is—"

With a quick motioning of her hand, Blue Diamond encased Agate, the Quartzes, and the humans inside a giant blue bubble. The diminutive specimens couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on at all, but Blue Diamond knew what she was doing, and that's all that mattered to her at the moment.

"W-What…are you d-doing?" Yellow Diamond asked, shivering on the ground. "What h-have you…d-done to me?"

"It's fine—you're just cracked," Blue Diamond said, coughing. "And so…a-am I."

She took her hand off her chest, and in her palm were shall shards of her own beautiful Gem.

"B-Blue…you s-stupid, stupid e-excuse…for a G-G-Gem," Yellow Diamond said, still shivering uncontrollably. "Y-You will regret this… I…w-will not forget this."

Blue Diamond grabbed hold of Yellow Diamond's Gem in her chest.

"Y-Yes…," Blue Diamond said, "you will."