38. Now were only falling apart

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Steven and Pearl explain the latest revelation to Turquoise, Amethyst, and Garnet. Turquoise breathing deeply exhaling an icy mist

"Let me get this straight. Rose Quartz, leader of the Crystal Gems, Steven's mom, was actually Pink Diamond?!" Amethyst asks, shocked

"She faked her own shattering and reformed to be Rose all the time." Steven explains

Turquoise stands up, not saying a word and walks with heavy footsteps to the warp, leaving frozen footprints as the rest of the Gems watch uneasy

"Turquoise?" Pearl asks

Turquoise looks at Pearl angrily. "Don't follow me."

Turquoise warps away

"Pink Diamond's final command to me was that no one could know. But now that Steven does, I can finally tell you all everything!" Pearl explains

"Phew! I mean, a pink lion, a pink sword, and now Pink Diamond?! Huh, if you told me Rose invented cotton candy, I'd believe it. Right, Garnet? Uh, Garnet?" Amethyst says

Garnet is seen shaking in her seat as she slowly gets up and walks towards the Warp Pad.

"Rose... She... She...! Ughh... Ahh...!"

Garnet struggles to stay together as a single tear drips from her eye but unfuses back into Ruby and Sapphire.

"Sapphire-" Ruby starts

"She lied to us! She lied about everything!" Sapphire freezes the floor in her fury."She held our hands, looked at us right in the eyes, and told us never to question who we were as Garnet. We never questioned ourselves or her!"

"We couldn't have known!" Ruby pleads

"No, you couldn't have known. You never know what's going on. That's what I'm for!" Sapphire argues

"Sapphire..."

"But I never looked into her, I trusted her... I let her make fools of us all!" Sapphire stomps off to the Warp Pad

"Sapphire, wait!" Ruby chases after Sapphire

"Guys!" Steven tries to run after the pair but slips and falls on the ice Sapphire caused.

"Please... We can just stay calm and talk about this, right? Let's just... talk." Ruby pleads with Sapphire

"Talk about what? How is our relationship based on a lie? What else is there to say..."

Sapphire turns to Pearl, "And what are you going to do about Turquoise?! You lied about his entire existence!" Sapphire yells as Pearl looks visibly uncomfortable

Sapphire warps away, and Ruby drops to her knees.

"Steven, watch over Ruby... I have to sort things with Turquoise," Pearl says in an orderly tone, and Steven nods and takes Ruby's hand

Pearl stands on the Warp pad and things where Turquoise could have gone

"The Arctic..." Pearl says to herself as she warps away

Moments later, Pearl arrives at the Arctic to see giant spikes of ice everywhere

"What happened here...?" Pearl thought as she shielded her face from the wind and started walking

After a while of walking, Pearl arrives at the Arctic Kindergarten facility to see the doors caved in and completely destroyed

"Turquoise!?" Pearl yells out after walking into the facility

Pearl peaks their head into a room. "Nope..."

"Turquoise?!" She calls out again as she enters the main room to see Turquoise standing over the console they had uncovered the last time they had been there

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