The Great Gem Escape
A portal appeared as they stepped off of lion. It looked like the hospital that Connie's mom worked at, but not as large. It was late at night. It took them a while with looking for lion, getting prepared, and then comforting each before doing this.
James was really upset. He blamed himself for the kidnapping, and he was scared of disobeying his father. It still took an entire of Steven talk to help him get past facing his dad. He had to do this. He had to help Steven get his moms back. He had to fix everything that he'd done wrong to his friends.
They were gems and Steven was a gem so he had to go. He had to help them this wasn't right. They shouldn't do these things to his friends, they were mean. He had to help the gems.
"Lion stay. If I don't come back you'll need to protect the Earth." he commanded. He didn't want him to get hurt as well. He was going to get them or their gems out with James, and no one else needed to get hurt. It wouldn't be right. James looked at Steven, Steven nodded back signaling that he was ready to do this dangerous mission. He hadn't done anything like this since the incident he liked to call Jailbreak.
"Let's do this." Said James as they both walked over to the building from Lion. It was time. He opened the door that was unlocked. "We keep it open in case someone come in late James." He heard his father explain as they walked in quietly as they could. The tears in his eyes were blinked away. This wasn't right for his dad to do this. They were alive too, just like real humans.
"How do we find them?" whispered Steven to James. The hall was dark with lights on inside the labs that shun slightly through the windows in the doors. Everything was colourless in the night's shading of the vast hallway that they stood in. they walked over to the fist door.
"Climb on my back and see if anyone's in there." James looked at Steven. Steven nodded as James bent over and he stepped on top and looked through the window and squinted. No one was inside. He hoped off of James.
"All clear." he said as James opened the door. They entered the room. A counter full of tools and things that neither if them recognized. It gave both of them the creeps as they both shuttered. There were computers with words on screen and clipboards, papers were scattered all over. The two walked over to the table and looked all over.
A jar caught Steven's attention. Inside a pearl was contained. "Got Pearl!" he grabbed the jar and unscrewed before putting her in his pocket. One down, four to go.
"Let's move to another room." James hoped of a seat he was sitting on to look for them. Steven nodded. The two scurried out of the room and near the next door. James got down, and Steven got up. He jiggled the door handle.
"It's locked." he said.
"Then we move to the next one." James stood up. They headed to the next to find that one also locked. Fortunately the next one wasn't. They ran in with no hesitation. It was clean and neatly organized.
"Let's look for-" they heard the door open again as they both hid in a cupboard underneath the table. Steven looked at James and vice versa. They were both terrified. James saw some tape and quietly trying to make as little noise as possible took a few strips and put them over the line between the two doors. Steven gave him an odd look. James shrugged in response.
A second felt like an hour as time passed slowly. Steven and James had done the magic sausage thing, a silent thumb wrestle, and a bunch of other little things to pass the time. It wasn't enough though. The time passed more quickly though. That part worked.
James felt a sigh of relief come over him as the footstep noises got quiet. He pushed had on the cupboard doors and came crashing out with Steven following him.
"It's Amethyst!" Steven exclaimed. Her gem was next to a computer with wires attached to her gem by suction cups attached to the wires. Steven grabbed her and put it in his pocket. The computer started blinking numbers and stuff, so James grabbed a stack of paper and put the suction thins on it before running out of the room with Steven. They both closed the door and James to the other door and closed it.
"Just in case." he whispered. He ran over to the next door along with Steven. So many of them were locked. Locked door after, locked door. Finally they found one that wasn't locked and they entered swiftly. He saw someone in side and ducked behind the table. He peeked over it as the man was writing thing on papers. He saw a red gem and reached out and grabbed it. He handed it to Steven.
They looked at the guy. He had earbuds in his ears, so he didn't notice them when they took it. In his hands it started glowing. They both looked wide eyed at each other. This couldn't be good. Steven knew Ruby be mad at splitting them up.
She formed as the man looked up and a distressed look on his face formed. He was screwd. He stood up as she finished. She formed facing the man, and he was the first thing that Ruby saw. An angry look came over her face as she growled before jumping over the table. She ran across as her gauntlet formed and punched him right in the face. He flew back onto a wall unconscious.
She looked around. "Sapphire!" she called out. Steven jumped up and slapped his hand over her mouth.
"Shh, we'll find her." he reassured her taking his hand off of her mouth. Ruby looked down at her foot. There it was, it was a sapphire. Ruby picked it up and clutched it close to her chest.
"Good, we have them all, but where's Garnet?" James said.
"I am Garnet!" Ruby snapped jumping off the table. Steven climbed off. "Let's go!" she ran ahead of them. Steven and James both followed Ruby out of the building.
"James!" it was his dad. James turned and looked at him with tears in his eyes, he shook his head then just ran slamming the door behind him. They all jumped on Lion and a portal was formed going back into the house. Ruby held her sapphire even closer to her chest.
"Saffy?" she looked down at the blue gem. Then she glared looking closer, then she gasped. Ruby looked up at Steven and James. She took it over to Steven and shoved it right in his face. "You need to fix this!" she shouted at Steven.
"Fix what?" asked Steven taking the gem and examined it. It seamed normal enough just like a regular gem. Just a regular resting Sapphire, she'd come back to Ruby soon enough, then they'd be back as Garnet. Everything would be back to normal, but what would they do about James.
"It's chipped. They cut a piece off of her gem!" she shouted. Steven actually took the gem and licked it. They all looked at it, Ruby trying to look the closest at her gem.
"Why isn't it working!" she grabbed Steven by the shirt collar as Steven yelped out. James grabbed her arm and started tugging her arm.
"Put him down!" he shouted. Then both of Steven's pockets started glowing and Ruby put him down and he took all the gems out of his pockets as they both started reforming. They came back looking just the same as before.
"Hey Ruby how's it going!" Amethyst smiled, or at least forced a smile. Amethyst starred down at the gem she took back from Steven. "Uh, Ruby?"
"You did this to her!" she ran, grabbed James, pinned him on the wall, then summoned her Gauntlet. Pearl screeched as they all ran to her and tried to pull Ruby away from James.
"Ruby, calm down!" Pearl picked her up as she started screaming and kicking trying to get free from her grasp. "We'll get Sapphire back soon, she just needs to regenerate." she tried to calm her down, but Ruby was angry, angry to the point of not being able to calm down.
"She can't regenerate, a piece in her gem is MISSING!" she shouted. Pearl gasped and dropped Ruby onto the floor. Ruby dropped the sapphire and ran to the door that opened as she cried going into her red room.
She sobbed sitting on the floor up against the door. This couldn't happen to her. This was her laffy Saffy, she let her Saffy get hurt! "Why did I listen to you!" she cried.
Meanwhile someone was sitting on a chair checking out Keep Beach City Weird. Phoenix's-Crystal-LightSaber looked around. "I sense a disturbance in the force." they said. Then they shrugged. "Meh, probably the pizza in the oven."
"Oh Sapphire, why did you make me listen?" she sobbed.
Seeing that they had gotten both Amethyst and Pearls' gems, a bright light had enveloped Garner as Ruby and Sapphire fell to the ground and Ruby grabbed Sapphire's left hand with her right hand. The men got even closer as Ruby held Sapphire even closer to her body. Sapphire put her hand on Ruby's face.
"Ruby, listen to me." she whispered. "We need to surrender, if they have they're hands full with us, then they might forget about Steven." Ruby looked at her and nodded. Sapphire let go as she saw her get dragged away as she felt herself get dragged away.
Then she saw Sapphire decided to retreat back into her gemstone. Ruby decided to do that as well, after all Sapphire was the one with future vision. This would work out, or at least she hopped it that it was a good future for them.
"Sapphire you lied to me!" she shouted. She did it all for Steven, she did it all for all of them."You were the one that got hurt."
Steven looked at the gem. It had been put in a nest of scarves with a warm light. Just like an egg, just like Pearl.
"So what do we do about her gem?" Pearl asked. "Should we go back and find the shard?" they all shrugged. None of them knew what to do about her gem. A shard was missing, none of them knew what to do if a shard was missing from a gem. They had seen cracked gem, Amethyst and Pearl had seen gems shattered, but non of them with a shard missing. Was it even fixable?
"Oh yeah, let's go back to the place where we were trapped in our gems and experimented on." Amethyst said sarcastically. Pearl mumbled something about her under her breath.
"We need to fix Sapphire." Steven added. "Ruby seams really upset." they all looked at the door. Nothing changed about the door, but they all knew that Ruby was in there. James was laying on the couch up in a ball. "James is too."
James wasn't listening to anything that they were saying. He was too wrapped up in his thoughts of guilt. He knew it was all his fault, Ruby should be upset with him. He didn't want to get off of the couch. He just kept on shaking his head. They all looked at him frowning.
"What are we going to do about James. He can't lay on the couch forever." Pearl said.
"Maybe he can sleep here tonight?" Steven looked up at her. Pearl looked at James, she sighed.
"Just for tonight." she looked down at Steven sternly with a finger up. "And besides, I think he won't get off the couch anyway."
"But what am I gonna do about my dad. He saw us escape. I looked him in the eyes." he sighed all curled up. Steven walked over to him and stared patting his back.
"It's okay, we'll figure something out, right?" he looked at the rest of them. They didn't know what to do about this situation. James couldn't go home, not with his dad like this. What would he do to him knowing that he knew the location of them? (which was just the house.) This felt hopeless.
Steven could only imagine how Ruby felt. This was Sapphire though.
Ruby looked up in the bubble room. There they all were. If only she had bubbled Sapphire's gem and transported it to this room, then she'd still be here. Sapphire was basically dead to Ruby. What were the chances of her coming back, to be fair. She had never seen a gem with a chip missing in it, so why should she ever assume that it was fixable?
There would be no more Garnet now. She'd never be the bigger gem, did that make Pearl the leader? That would be a horrible idea. Pearl didn't have the leadership skills that Garnet had while she was still performable.
"I'm so sorry for yelling at you, I really was being stupid." she referred to the Keystone Motel incident. She really was being stupid at then. She never admitted her real feelings to Sapphire about the indecent. She couldn't. She sat there sobbing.
"If I could begin to be,
half of what you think of me,
I could do anything,
I could even learn how to like you,
When I see the way you act,
Wondering when I'm coming back,
I could do about anything,
I could even learn how to love like you,
I always thought that I might be bad,
Now I know that it's true,
C'ause I think you're so good,
And I'm nothing like you." she collapsed down onto the floor crying in many angry sobs. She couldn't look at James right now, she didn't know if she'd ever be able to forgive him at all.
James had managed to get off the couch and was sitting on the beach getting his pants and sneakers soaked. Amethyst had come out multiple time and tried to cheer him up by shape shifting and stuff but it didn't work. He was still absolutely miserable about the whole thing, his mom probably knew about it due to his father coming home, maybe. This didn't seam like a night he would come home, there had been so much research lost due to the incident of the escape.
"Where's James?" Ruby had finally came out of her room, her head was hanging low and you couldn't see her face.
"He's on the beach." Steven replied. She walked outside and saw him sitting on the darkly sunset shore. She sat down beside him and looked up at the not so full moon by the sea. He scooted over, away from Ruby. Ruby looked at him. Her motherly instincts were kicking in form being Garnet with S-you know who, so she got closer. She was trying to not be angry, Sapphire wouldn't want her her to be angry. She'd try to be calm for this one.
"Uh, James," she looked at him. His head popped towards her, there were tears in his eyes. Now Ruby felt down right guilty about almost punching him in the face. At the same time she was glad that Pearl grabbed her. "I'm sorry." Ruby hated seeing people cry, and James was crying. They both turned they're heads looking back at the ocean.
"I wonder what they're saying." Pearl gazed out the window looking out if the window onto the beach. Steven came over to the window and looked out along with her. They were just sitting there. Amethyst sighed then came over right along with the rest of them. Steven looked back at Sapphire's gem in the scarf nest.
"Why don't you go ask them?" Steven asked with out thinking. He was looking at the gem and asked his question without thinking about it. The two gems gave him an odd look. He turned his head back to them, they both looked at him. His head went from side to side as he looked at the gems as they looked at him.
Ruby I'm ready to come back. I'm ready to be Garnet with you once again. I'm ready to regenerate. It's all blue in here, but I want to be out there with you, and Pearl, a-and Amethyst, and Steven. I saw this future within me, I saw me coming back. I feel myself begin to do so, but nothing's forming. Nothing's coming back. Why can't I regenerate!? Why is nothing happening? Did I ignore a possible future when I checked them? How could this happen! Ruby please help me!
James sat by her. She was just gazing into the ocean as he looked at her. She was too deep into a gaze to pay attention. Tears dripped down her face a little bit. He scooted silently closer to her silently on the shore. Ruby then felt a tight grasp around her body. James was hugging her as they both sat there with the rest of gems watching as they both sat there weeping about both of their losses.
"Well gentlemen, we have lost a lot today." Jame's father said. The rest of the men and women gave each other all very worried looks. "Fortunately none of of you have lost any of your jobs, somehow that is." he muttered the very last part of that. Then he reached deep into his pocket then pulled out a large blue gem shard. "That's because we have this."