Yellow paced once more in the throne room, her high heels sounding like horse hooves. White stood and pondered to herself, her thoughts almost exactly the same as Yellow's. Blue sat and watched the two, not uttering a word, knowing that it was probably about Rhodonite. Instead she tried her hardest to cover her face in the shadow of the hood of her cloak.

"Why are we even keeping her? She's a horrible soldier, and she is a total wreck, a waste of our efforts!" White shouted.

Yellow stopped. "I know there is use for her, we just have to find it. Look, I don't have the mindset for this. You two come up with an idea, I have to devise a new plan for...Earth."

"Earth? What happened?" Blue asked.

"The annoying little Peridot, your informant, and the Jasper I sent are all useless. Lapis Lazuli and the Jasper are missing, and the Peridot just reported only to tell me that she is making an effort to stop the Cluster...she even had the nerve to question my authority and insult me! Can you believe?" Yellow explained.

"Reminds me of Rose Quartz." White mumbled.

"Rose Quartz? Ha, not even close! That Peridot clearly doesn't see the uselessness of Earth, and she will die with it." Yellow said. "Just do as I say and I will check on your progress when I get back."

Yellow Diamond walked out of the throne room, slamming the door behind her. White and Blue Diamond looked at each other.

"Any ideas?" Blue asked.

"Well, let's see. What jobs do we give Gems here that could actually be useful to us? There is no way I'm doing all this work for a Pearl gem." White replied.

"What about engineering? What if Rhodonite is like a Peridot or a Fluorite?" Blue suggested before realizing that she may have just accidentally lead her friend to more torture.

"That's a fine idea. We'll inform Yellow Diamond and try it out tomorrow. I'm glad you are finally starting to think straight." White said.

Blue blushed. She practically lived for the approval of her sisters. It was like lust almost. The praise was food for her self-esteem, and her ego was always hungry, if not starving, like a ravenous, desperate beggar.

"But stop calling that thing it's name! It's the test subject, the fusion, the abomination, the thing. Not Rhodonite. Do you understand me?" White added sternly.

Blue nodded.

"Rho, wake up." Rhodonite could hear the solemn voice of Blue Diamond, and she was standing over her bed.

Rhodonite groaned sleepily and sat up. "Must be pretty important if you came to tell me yourself. What's up?" Rhodonite rubbed her eyes.

"No time. Get dressed, I'll help you." Blue ordered.

"Okay, okay, geez." Rhodonite slid out of bed. Blue Diamond led her to the wardrobe.

"I'll take it from here. And if you would be so kind as to look away." Rhodonite said as she dug around in the wardrobe.

"Grumpy, I see." Blue mumbled as she turned away.

"Not necessarily grumpy. If you get to act out to impress someone, then I guess I have to play along too, right?" Rhodonite added as she zipped up an olive green jumpsuit.

Blue's eyes widened.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm smarter than you thought, now lead to this so called important thing that you hurried me out of bed for." Rhodonite walked out the door, Blue followed, a look of awe on her face. However, she quickly changed it back to a stern, straight expression as the two reached the training lab.

"Aw shoot. Another one? Am I gonna get thrown across the room or something?" Rhodonite groaned.

"No. This is way different." Blue replied.

"We'll take it from here." Yellow and White approached them, grabbed Rhodonite and dragged her into the plain white room. "Meet us in the observation deck, Blue."

In the lab, it was plain white like last time, but in the center of the room was a purple box on a pedestal and a box of tools. Rhodonite tilted her head sideways and cocked an eyebrow quizzically. "What the heck is this supposed to be?"

"What the heck are you supposed to be?" Yellow replied smugly.

"You have a point, go on." Rhodonite said quietly.

"This is a test we give to all of our Peridots and Fluorites. Although they go through years of training before this, all up-to-standard technicians should have a natural talent strong enough to crack the case with the tools given. If not, then they are considered defective and they have no business with us." Yellow Diamond explained.

"Well, what does the box even do?" Rhodonite asked.

"All techinicans are supposed to receive the same results from this test in order to pass. The only time someone got an unrecognizable response was 300 years ago, but let's not go into that. The goal is...to make it levitate seamlessly. No propellers, jets, anything. Good luck." Yellow Diamond left Rhodonite to her business and met up with White and Blue in the observation deck.

Rhodonite chewed her lip and immediately began thinking. Luckily, there was a pen in the toolbox, but no paper. She decided to draw her formulas, equations, blueprints, and measurements on the white floor, which caused Yellow to grumble. After the planning stage, which took a matter of five minutes, Rhodonite got to work on modifying the inside of the box to give it levitating capabilites while humming "Haven't You Noticed I'm A Star", a song she heard Steven singing in the shower.

"I know she will fail, the fusion is unstable, demented, crazy, and I'm surprised it even has sentient. I don't even know why you came up with this idea, Blue." Yellow growled impatiently.

Blue buried herself in her cloak, but still had a firm gaze on Rhodonite. Rhodonite added a few finishing touches on the box, then backed away as it began to levitate.

"Done! Do you guys have a harder challenge for me?" Rhodonite looked up at the observation deck, twirling her electric drill in her hands.

"I guess crazy is a synonym for genius." Blue said. She looked down at her sisters, who both had sparks of inspiration in their eyes. She could see ideas brewing, and she knew they weren't good.

Oh no. I put Rho in danger, and it's all my fault. Blue's mind was racing.

The Fluorite who was manning the controls and soundbooth in the observation deck looked over at the Diamonds. "My Diamonds, the test subject has completed the task in less time than our best technicians."

"I am aware, Fluorite. Send in two Rubies to take her back to her room." Yellow replied. She then turned to the other Diamonds. "Sisters, meet me in the throne room...I have a new plan."

What have I done? Blue thought.

UGH HOW SHORT

I am so sorry for not updating often. I've had a bit of writer's block. And also, canon has seemingly been repeatedly kicking me in the gut if you know what I mean. During the Stevenbomb, when it came to fanfiction, the sudden jumps of fate left me...frozen.

HOWEVER. I have come to the conclusion, that this story will not be perfect, and that I knew from the beginning that if I took this risk, that I would likely be wrong. I have spent too much time developing these characters this way, and I will not abandon them. Instead, I will continue with my plans and write this story, because even though this a fanfiction, this is my story, and I care about it, and I will not only complete it for the satisfaction of bringing it to completion, but also because this story is meaningful to me, and I can't just give it up. I think the moments I've had with this story are what fills me with such...determination. (*cue undertale music*)

So please, canon may faze me for a short period of time, but I have perseverance, and I hope you decide to stay loyal and supportive of this no matter what.

-AmethystGalaxy999