Fusion Redemption: An SU fanfic

Chapter Ten: Amazonite

Steven found himself standing in a dark, hard place, almost like a jail cell. Upon gaining full consciousness, he realized he was standing up, and the cell was freezing. He let out a shiver and reached his arms towards his stomach, before wrapping his arms around his chest to keep himself warm.

Steven looked around. The room was rather bland. It had a few spots and diamond patterns on the walls, but besides this, there was virtually no diversity between the various parts of the space. Steven stepped forward, then to the side, only for his foot to promptly land on a square-shaped panel. He looked down on it, but a slit opened from the ceiling. Steven was alerted to the presence of a small, hovering projector being lowered out of the slit by a buzzing sound of what Steven presumed to be the projectors motors. The projector's camera extended forward, and it projected a video of Peridot onto the wall.

'So that's why the walls are so blank' thought Steven. 'So the video can appear clearly'.

As Steven thought this, two things occurred: first, another slit opened, this time from the ground, and a metal pillar extended out of it, clutching a pink diamond with its two claws firmly in its grip. Steven instantly recognized this from his adventures with Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl 14 months ago after Garnet had her fight with Pearl and they chased Peridot to a Homeworld Gem. This pink diamond was used by Peridot to communicate with and trap the other gems.

The second thing that occurred was far more surreal; on the video, Peridot pulled out a tape recorder and began speaking into it.

"Log Date 7 15 2", Peridot said into the recorder.

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Steven woke up with a start. He was relived to find he was back in his room, in the Crystal Temple, in Beach City, and not in the ship of his nightmare. Steven instantly heard arguing, and he jumped down from his bed onto the cold wooden tiles of his floor. He looked downwards to the living room, where the arguing was occurring. "All I'm saying," said Peridot, "is that we might be able to salvage some equipment from the ship."

"Why would that help us at all?" questioned Garnet, who stood a menacing six inches taller then the green gem, even with her limb enhancers.

"To enforce security," said Pearl, defending Peridot. "If we efficiently use some of the electrical netting and lasers that Peridot originally used against us, we could prevent any more rogue gems from escaping."

"This is stupid," stated Lapis Lazuli, who was drinking her morning coffee in the corner. "Pearl and Amethyst released some of the Gem shards from a Rose Quartz bubble all those months ago," she said while pointing an accusing finger at the slender white Gem, "and we wouldn't be here having this conversation is Peridot's grand 'Laser Light Cannon Replacement' didn't malfunction."

"She does have a point there," said Garnet.

"Come on," said Amethyst, while she accusingly turned towards the Crystal Gem leader standing to her left and opposite Peridot, "Pearl was the one that popped that bubble."

"For the last time, Amethyst," said Pearl with annoyance and exhaustion in her voice, "we've been over this; we both had a part to play in popping that bubble."

"No matter who deems who blame worthy," said Garnet while she removed her visor, "we all had a part to play in this, big or small. The important thing is that we don't cause unnecessary danger to Steven or anyone else in this family."

Everyone unanimously agreed that no risks that would affect Steven would be taken as long as they caused him harm, but the purple Quartz Gem proposed a differnet alternative. "Why don't we just vote on it?"