Fusion Redemption: An SU fanfic

Chapter Two: Jade

Peridot and Garnet were assessing the situation inside The Burning Room. The serpent monster's burrowing combined with the EMP Cannons malfunction caused the room to partially collapse.

Garnet began removing the rubble gathered outside the Room. She assigned Peridot to help her because she was indirectly responsible, but she didn't care if she handled the majority of the work; she just wanted some company. Despite this, she sensed a disturbance in Peridot.

"Peridot, somethings wrong." It wasn't a question; it was a statement.

"It's nothing relevant to the current situation," said Peridot flatly. Garnet wouldn't have it. She turned her whole body towards Peridot and walked towards her. She sat down on a piece of rubble next to the one Peridot was sitting on and looked at her. "Peridot, what's on your mind?"

Peridot sighed and looked up at the ceiling. "I'm rather envious of Lazuli and Pearl. Their friendship has expanded since last night, and their bond is closer now that they have the co-existing relationship of Moonstone." It was silent until Peridot repeated, "I'm envious."

Garnet placed a comforting hand on her shoulder and spoke in a calm, soothing voice. "Not every fusion is a representation of a friendship. Every fusion is personal in some way. Take Amethyst and I: our fusion, Sugilite, is a combination of her recklessness and my brashness, so she is destructive and rampaging and we have effectively benched her for this reason. But since Pearl has helped Amethyst work through the sadness of Amethysts Kindergarten origins, their fusion, Opal, is more natural and a stronger fusion."

Garnet and Peridot sat in silence, both contemplating Garnets words and the others reaction. Finally, Peridot asked an important question: "Does your offer still stand?"

Garnet looked puzzled. "What offer?" she asked. Peridot's voice seemed more timid: "From one earth year ago. The offer of fusing with me."

Garnet had a smile on her lips as she replied "Well, I suppose if it bothers you so much, we could show you fusion."

Garnet and Peridot stood in the space between the Warp Pad and the door. They bowed to one another as their gems glowed red and green respectively, and the dance had begun. Steven watched from the wooden chair in the corner.

Garnet had the first motion, placing her hands in front of her, shuffling her feet, extending her hands, turning around, and moving her hands left and right. Peridot shuffled her feet in a similar motion to Garnet, turned 90 degrees and side-stepped towards Garnet. Garnet took Peridot's extended hand and put her free hand on Peridot's hip as Peridot put her free hand on Garnet's shoulder. They shuffled left, right, forwards and backwards before Garnet spun Peridot around her, wrapped her arm around her, and released her. They were consumed in a green and white light that shrunk down until it was the size of a softball.

Steven stood up from his seat and approached the orb of light, worried that something had gone wrong during the fusion. Suddenly, their fusion leaped out of the tiny orb of light, turned around multiple times in midair in a flipping motion, and she turned backwards multiple times in the air, all while shouting in enthusiastic glee. She landed on the ground with two of her four fists on the ground, her free legs extended to her left, one knee on the ground, and her other leg behind her in a crouched position.

Steven looked at the fusion in awe, eyes wide with stars. "What's your name."

The fusion looked at him with a smile on her face. "I am Jade," she said with a grin of delight. Jade was a remarkable fusion: she was taller than Garnet by about four feet, roughly the height of Opal, and she was extremely muscular. She wore a green armor-like suit made up of metallic panels that appeared like a combination of Garnet's outfit and Peridot's technologically advanced limb-enhancers. She had four arms and two green eyes. She wore a clear triangular visor similar to Sardonyx's circular one, and her weapon was four gauntlets, one for each hand, with technological modifications on them similar to Peridot's limb-enhancers that allowed her to fire projectiles. Her entire outfit was dark green with black and light green highlights.

Jade looked down at the gauntlets on her hands, amazed at the detail on them. She finally spoke, her voice booming with delight: "It's been so long since I've felt so...so...powerful!!"

Jade looked back at Steven, whose face was consumed by a massive grin of delight that two of his moms had fused for the first time ever, and not even 24 hours after Moonstone appeared for the first time. Jade compared the power of this fusion to the power of Garnet fusing with Pearl to make Sardonyx, and of Peridot's authoritative personality back on Homeworld.

Jade closed her eyes and realized how the quality of life as improved so much since those times, and allowed her components to defuse. This was an experience neither Peridot nor Garnet would forget anytime soon.