Blue Diamond had decided to hang out with Rhodonite in Rhodonite's room.
"Are you sure it's safe in here?" Blue asked as she sat on the bed next to Rhodonite.
"Yeah, I think so. Are the others busy?" Rhodonite asked.
"Yes, I'm not sure what they are discussing, but they seemed pretty impressed with your performance with the challenge. How did you do it?" Blue replied.
"One of my past lives was Sodalite, a slave who joined the Crystal Gems. While she was there, she learned to engineer and proved to be pretty good at it. I remember everything she learned and "inherited" her natural aptitude." Rhodonite explained.
"That's amazing!" Blue said in awe. Blue Diamond, however, decided to keep the fact that Sodalite was once her slave a secret. Back then, Blue was so desperate for approval, that not only did she administer the Earth colony, but also whipped and tortured Sodalite.
"Do you think they'll let me go now that I've proved my worth to them?" Rhodonite asked.
"I think so, I don't know what they're going to do." Blue shrugged.
"It's amazing! Outstanding, spectacular! We should've done that test sooner! I know exactly what to do!" Yellow shouted in excitement.
"I already know what you're going to say, sister, and I agree completely!" White smiled.
"We have discovered the next big thing in engineering. Forget those annoying Peridots, no, we'll acquire and duplicate the Gem matter of...what was that fusion's name?" Yellow said.
"Rhodonite, she calls herself. No matter, we need to get our Gemeticists on this right away." White added.
Yellow turned to her Pearl, a smug, dramatic, yet somewhat useful Gem. She sported a pale yellow pixie-cut pointed bob, as well as a bodysuit similar to most Pearls except with puffy, frilly shoulder sleeves. "Pearl!" Yellow called her to attention.
The Yellow Pearl flinched. "Yes, my Diamond?"
"Gather your best gemeticists and reserve Lab V, as well as grab the fusion in her sleep," Yellow ordered.
"Yes, my Diamond." The Yellow Pearl stood with her arms tight to her sides and her legs clenched together. She crossed her arms to make a Diamond symbol as she said this. The Pearl rushed out of the room, the door lightly slamming behind her.
"Will we be taking part in this procedure?" White turned to Yellow and asked.
"Of course we are! Why would we not? You're not starting to become...corrupt, are you?" Yellow responded with a question.
"No, absolutely not. I'm just as excited about this procedure as you are." White said.
"Good. After this is all said and done, we will have a great feast! It'll be fun. Come, let us prepare while the servants get everything ready..." Yellow and White walked out of the throne room, smiling to each other rather devilishly.
The Pearl and the Gemeticists didn't know what to do when they found Rhodonite, for they found Blue Diamond sleeping in her bed as well as Rhodonite. The two Gemeticists who were sent to grab her shrugged to themselves awkwardly and lifted Rhodonite out of bed. So that their Diamond wouldn't wake, they slid a body pillow were Rhodonite had been, and pulled up the covers. They left in silence...
Rhodonite, the next morning, woke up to a blinding white light in her face. She groaned and tried to sit up, but she quickly realized that she was strapped to a dentist's chair tightly. She struggled a bit more, since Gems are strong enough to break out of most bonds. These bonds, however, were made of the same laser as the forcefields of their prisons.
"It's no use, no Gem can escape those bonds." Yellow said coldly, or at least Rhodonite though it was Yellow, her doctor's mask and headscarf were enough to confuse her, as well as the lab coat.
"What do you want with me? Let me out, now! I'm not afraid to kill you..." Rhodonite snarled.
"Oh, but how can you kill me when you can't even move..." Yellow smiled tauntingly and clutched Rhodonite's chin, but pulled it away as Rhodonite gnashed her teeth. There was something about Gems that made them almost beast-like, in their mannerisms, and Rhodonite was no exception to this.
Rhodonite had a tendency to have the simple mindset of an animal too, especially in moments of anger, fear, or both. She had two thoughts buzz through her mind: Escape, and kill. She was already sick of Yellow and White's games, and even if she did go corrupt, that couldn't possibly break through the laser chains. She still struggled, growling at Yellow Diamond.
Rhodonite could see a Fluorite whisper in Yellow's ear. Rhodonite couldn't make it out, but Yellow Diamond grinned and nodded. She felt a sudden pain in her chest, and looked down to see that she had been stabbed by something like an IV, or a needle. There was a long tube trailing away from the needle, and her eyes followed it to a large glass bottle, already filling with a pink and blue swirly liquid, like two dish soaps mixed together. Her eyes widened, but she had no idea what was happening. The whole process confused her, and quite frankly angered her. She didn't think about Blue, she didn't think about anything except what was happening right in that very second.
And boy, did it hurt.
The procedure was the awful combination of ache and burn, like a cramp and as though she was getting her skin burned with acid. She felt herself getting weaker, woozier, the room started to wobble, and her senses began to drop like flies. During those moments, she felt that sense of panic, like the kind when you think you forgot something important, or when you sleep on your arm and it paralyzes it for a few seconds when you wake up.
"What are you doing...to me...?" Rhodonite croaked as she weakly turned to Yellow Diamond.
"Oh, you thought that engineering genius didn't come at a price? Don't worry, my pet, your donation will be cherished for centuries!" Yellow said sinisterly.
"I hear you're a daydreamer...too caught up in that little world up there. Past lives, you say? Well, we just did you a favor, you're back to being exactly how you started." White added.
Rhodonite looked down at her arm, which was pinned to the armrest of the chair. She noticed her holographic form fading, becoming thinner and thinner like a bad quality photo. She looked back up at the Diamonds, her face practically emitting fear...
"Dead," They said in unison.
Rhodonite's eyes closed...and everything was black, the pain was numbed, the noise gone, the strong scents of the chemicals and the cold leather feel of the chair...all gone...
Meanwhile, in the bedroom...
Blue Diamond woke up groggy, rolled over and quietly groaned. "Rhodonite?" Only to realize that a body pillow had taken her place. She sat up abruptly and flipped through the covers frantically, her eyes wide with anxiety.
"Rhodonite!" She cried as she got up and ran through the palace halls. She stopped and asked a Pearl where her sisters were, and she found her way to Lab V, worried out of her mind. She hesitated opening the door, I mean, it may not be Rhodonite in there, right? Blue eventually decided to burst into the door.
"Yellow Diamond!" She shouted angrily as she took in the sight of a fading Rhodonite connected to a bottle of bubbling liquid, the two Diamonds standing over her. "What do you think you're doing?"
"You have no say in this, defect! You knew this was to happen, and yet you grew attached to her anyway. Why can't you understand the greater good? Why can't you naive little mind grasp that this is the right thing?" Yellow retaliated.
"This isn't the right thing, in fact, it is the wrong thing! I am a Diamond, defect or not, which means that I also have a say in our decisions! Fluorites, so help me, take Rhodonite to the hospital wing, and do everything in your power to revive her. Pump that matter back into her, and don't stop until you see her form restored." Blue had some sort of confidence burst, but in her fit of rage, the Fluorites listened and carried Rhodonite out of the room quickly, leaving Blue and her sisters.
"How dare you order my Fluorites around! They are my property, for they bear my colors and my emblems, meaning they listen to my orders!" Yellow shouted.
"They may be yours, but Rhodonite is my friend, and they were the ones conducting the experiment, and now they're going to reverse it," Blue said.
The fusion? Your friend? You can't decide her fate unless-" Yellow began to argue before getting interrupted.
"I claim the fusion Rhodonite, she's my property. I don't wish to refer to her as so, but she will bear my emblem." Blue declared proudly.
Yellow and White looked at each other with uncertainty.
"Which means...you can't do anything to her unless it is an absolute emergency." Blue said smugly, crossing her arms. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go see how my property is doing." Blue strode out of the laboratory confidently, leaving the other two Diamonds to whisper among themselves.
Blue rushed into the hospital wing, and was relieved to see that Rhodonite's holographic form was still partially intact, but still fading...
"Keep working, I won't stop until she's alive!" Blue ordered, watching over Rhodonite with anxiety. She looked at Rhodonite's clothing, a light blue nightgown. She quickly placed a Blue Diamond emblem on the bodice of the nightgown.
"Please wake up..." Blue Diamond prayed, a few quiet tears streaming down her face.
GAH THE SUSPENSE
ISN'T EVERYONE ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS
Doesn't everyone just want to, bombard me with questions to point in which I explode? Shouldn't I just reassure everyone with the truth?
Yeah, no, I'm way more evil than that.
This is clearly not over, so I will have the next chapter up very shortly! (It's one of my favorites.)
(Also: WHOO BLUE YOU GO GIRL)