Prodigal Gem ch. 7
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
The instant Pearl regenerated, she was grabbed by Garnet.
"Alright Pearl, I think we both know what Dipper's last comment to you meant."
Pearl suddenly felt shame as the memories came pouring back-
…...
A younger Dipper was ecstatic. He shuffled through the cryptograms excitedly.
It had taken him weeks but he was finally on the verge of cracking this!
He just needed to crack this last glyph and-
FWOOM!
Dipper watched in horrified disbelief as his hard work literally went up in flames.
He turned to see that the source of the flames was...
"Pearl?" Asked a tearful Dipper.
Pearl flustered. "Uh...Spider! Yes! Spider! Looked very poisonous!"
Dipper groaned. "Now I'm going to have to start all over-"
"You could do that-" Says Pearl as her eyes quickly darted around the room before seeing one of Mable's-
Ukulele! Shouted Pearl.
Dipper looked confused. "What are you-"
"Your Sister is amazing with music! I bet your just as good, maybe better!"
Dipper only became more confused.
"But I don't really like musical-"
"You won't know until you try!" Interrupts Pearl. "It never hurts to have a hobbie!"
"But I already have a-" But Dippers cries feel on death ears as he was more-or-less dragged from his room...
Pearl flushed with embarrassment. "Okay...so a few times I got a little carried away."
Amethyst scoffed. "A little? Who are you trying to fool?"...
Dipper was examining an amazing specimen under a microscope-
SMASH!
Dipper glared at Pearl. "Uh, Spider!" She shouted. "I'll buy you a new one latter! Right now how would you...Fusion! Would you like to learn fusion?"
Dipper reluctantly admitted he was interested in fusion, which Pearl took as a Que to drag him away.
"-Okay, okay. So I got a lot carried away a few times."
Amethyst snorted again...
…...
SMASH!
Dipper sighed at his now smashed computer. He turned to pearl in a huff.
"let me guess: there was a spider, you'll buy me a new computer(again), and your going to drag me away to do something else." Interrupted a fairly irritated Dipper before Pearl could say anything.
Pearl was Dumbstruck. "Uh...Not necessarily." she said lamely...
…...
Pearl groaned. "Look, the path Stanley went down is what got him and Rose killed! I just wanted Dipper to be safe!" The other gems gave her a reproachful look.
"Oh, don't you judge me! You may not have helped me with this, but you never stopped me either!"
Now it was the other gems turn to feel shame. They really had wanted Dipper to be happy...But no matter how they wanted to deny it...the fact was that deep down...they had agreed with Pearl.
Garnet groaned. "Look, we all dropped the ball here. What we need to focus on is how to fix this-"
"Fix this!?" Exclaimed Pearl. "Garnet, he murdered a human in cold blood!...Bad parenting or not, that's still no excuse!...We have to...you know?...I'm sorry but you know as well as I do how this has to end."
Garnet felt dizzy. Suddenly, she wasn't with the gems anymore. She was many years in the past; holding a baby Dipper in her arms...him saying his first word..."Mommy"...to her...
Again Garnet was in the present, tears in her eyes, deep in thought.
No...we can't do it...Not this...Not to Dipper...there has to be another way-
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
The Gems quickly rushed to the console that was emitting the alarm.
Pearl paled. "The Kindergartens...There coming back online!"
…...Latter...
Garnet was finding it increasingly hard to not come undone. Deathly pale she brought the com-link back up to her mouth. "Are you sure?" Asked Garnet.
On the other end an equally pale Pearl confirmed. All the Kindergartens she and amethyst had checked up on had a forcefield surrounding them...that matched Stanley's design in the journals.
Also, the Durational Spectrometer had shown glimpses of Dipper; not to mention some dried blood that they'd confirmed was Dipper's...There was no denying it...Dipper had reactivated the Kindergartens...and apparently modified them as well!
"Wha-what do we do?" Asked a broken hearted Amethyst, who was practically hyperventilating.
Garnet didn't answer. She'd fallen to pieces. Hearing Sapphire and Ruby's indistinct mumblings only demoralized the gems further...not that they could blame her...they were barely holding on as it is.
Eventually, Garnet was able to pull herself back together. "Come back to Beach City...Dipper will come here for the final journal...well deal with him here...
The other gems said nothing...what else could be said?
And so the Gems began their long walk to Beach City...oblivious to the eyes that watched.
"The Gems come your way...ready the ambush." Said a Blind Eye cultist through his com-link...
…...
TO BE CONTINUED?
Love me, flame me, review me