The Missing Diamond

Chapter 30 Change your mind

I woke up and saw the door open blue walked in "I cannot believe you making a scene like that" "we weren't trying to make a scene we were just dancing" "what did you do with iris" then I looked down right we're still fused "what have I done? What have you done you're the one who wanted to keep those organics and I'm the fool that let you" "what?" "Now your little pets are chasing the pearls around the halls" she turned around to face us "what were you thinking? Letting them lose in the ball room they could be anywhere" a rainbow caterpillar crawled on her face "ah eep" she smacked it off her face it landed in my arms "piiink" the thing hugged me "aah please get rid of it" I put it at a crack in a wall and it crawled out "ah, pink white is very in happy with you if this keeps up she's going to take away your pearl" I closed my eyes and looked down "I know I'm sorry" I opened my eyes and saw I looked like mom or aunt pink "huh"  "why do you always do this pink" i felt dizzy then I switched from my form to rose's to pinks "aaah make it stop" I woke up in a cold sweat then the door opened blue walked in "I cannot believe you two making a scene like that you're lucky white wasn't there" "woah déjà vu" she looked at me "and you're still fused how long does this normally last" "umm well the longest was two months" she looked angry "unfuse right now or I won't let you out until you apologize for fusing at the ball and unfuse right now" we unfused "good now apologize" we looked at her "no" steven said I looked at him "what" "iris and I fuse all the time even the crystal gems it's totally fine" "oh in what universe could this possibly be fine" "this universe mom you gotta tell us where their gems are they didn't do anything wrong" I said "oh pink iris your time on earth has warped your thoughts of rights and wrong" "yeah maybe it has" Steven shouted at her "we finally have you back and you're worse than ever" she let out her aura making him cry "this isn't normal how many times did you lock her in here, how many times did you make her cry" her eyes widened "I didn't I" her aura went away she went to the wall and leaned on it "and I'm doing it again aren't I" steven and I jumped up to her "and this is why you left isn't it?" She looked out the window "you were right to leave I always thought you were failing this world but if you were both happier on earth I guess this world was failing you" she whipped her tears "let's get you in your legs and back home" mom brought us to pinks room and put us down "food!" Steven and I said we started eating mom looked disgusted steven and I changed into our normal clothing I stood up and that's when I realized I could walk again "mom I can walk" she smiled and picked us up "let's go get you're family" is she going to grab the crystal gems and send steven and I back to earth but what about them does she not want me to be with her and mum anymore we went to mums quarters she opened the door and put steven and I down the lights turned on mum was sitting on her chair "what are you doing?" "We're here to take back our friends!" I stated she looked at mom "what are you doing blue?" She stared at her "have, have you just been sitting here in the dark this entire time?" "I... don't need to answer that but you need to take these two back to the tower now!"  She stared at her "I won't" she reached for us "then I'll do it my self" mom slapped mum's hand she looked at her "blue?" Mom gasped then threw a blue ball at her mum slid backwards and charged at her they fought as we jumped to get the gems mum reached for us but steven summoned his bubble mum grabbed us mom grabbed her wrist "when we thought pink was shattered when iris was taken away from us I alone was there for you and you would use your power against me!" She shouted she pushed mom against the wall and broke it causing us to fall mom landed on the bridge on her back both my parents stood at their full hight the bubble around the gems popped "come on guys reform you guys are out now" I said "you'd hurt a fellow diamond" mum said "didn't we hurt pink she was suffering in silence for so long just like our gems just like me and I know you're suffering in silence too" mum looked like she was about to cry when she shocked mom and pushed her to the ground "yellow?" Mum shocked her mom was screaming steven hit mum's hand with his shield she looked at her hand then him I went over to mom "are you okay?" I asked she didn't respond to me she only looked at me "yellow why are you doing this?" Steven asked "because this is for the sake of our perfect empire" "does this look perfect to you!" I shouted mum immediately looked at mom she collapsed on the ground "stop stop it blue and iris stop using your powers on me" we looked at each other than at mom "we're not" mom said before walking over to her after a while we went to the ship "Steven iris get on the ship with your family before white find's out" "b-but what about you you're coming too right?" I asked with tears in my eyes "no we have to stay here" "b-b-but I don't want to leave you" before they could answer whites pearl came over "you're not going anywhere" then white's ship came over and went on top of the legs it bent down "you've made a grave mistake go to your rooms!" "Which rooms do we go to?" "Blue don't make her even angrier than she already it!" Mum shouted at her "we're busted" Steven said the ships eyes opened and looked at us "amethyst pearl garnet we really need you right now" then we saw a blue and a yellow dot it was my parent's ships "What the heck is that!" Steven shouted the ships punched whites ships face "mom mum did you have a hand in this?" I asked "no way" "white that wasn't us!" Mum shouted "we swear" "then who's that?" Steven asked "who did we ask for help steven" the ships knocked the ship to whites ships spot my parents were shocked "who's responsible for this?" Mum asked the ships put out their hands bismuth Came out of mum's ship "I always wanted to upper cut an upper crust" "bismuth!" Steven and I went over to her "you came" "heck yeah we did" "we?" I asked "of course" lapis and peridot came out "you thought we wouldn't be here at a time like this" peridot said "lapis lazuli and peridot" I said they came over to us "that felt great" lapis said "wasn't that cool guys look at the awesome job we did at fixing those hand ships!" Peridot shouted the thumb on mums ship blew off "eh who needs a thumb?" "Very cute glad to see we're having fun" grandma's pearl floated over to her ship "however white diamond has certain issues with your conduct that will need to be addressed before we move forward" she floated in between my parents "steven iris quickly use one of our ships to get home" mum said "huh?" "Yes you have another chance take my arm to earth yellow and I will keep white distracted" "mom, mum..." "don't worry iris we understand now" mum sighed "this way of living must have been like torture for you just go hurry she's getting up" "no we won't go pink diamond ran away from rose quartz my mom started a war with you iris was taken away from you but we don't want to run we don't want to fight we want to talk we've come so far to get white diamond's attention now we finally have it if we can fix our family we can fix everything" steven said as grandma's ship got up "but in order to fix it we'd have to admit that it's broken" "she'll never wanna hear it" I looked up "well we have to try" "what do you say yellow do you think white will have to listen to us?" "It's worth a try, lend me a hand will you blue?" Mom nodded "okay" they lifted their ships up "the ships!" peridot shouted "steven take a knee" "okay" steven went over to them and bent down "white please all we want you to do is listen" the ship bent down as well "that's it Steven come on blue" my parents attached their ships to whites they made the ships palms lay flat so we can go on them "come on everybody" steven said I jumped up and sat on mom's shoulder she and mum smiled and went on then they made the ship rise to meet the ships face level "hey white I know iris and I were in there for a few seconds but we barley got to talk to you at all there are so many gems that are hurting right now even blue and yellow are hurting you should hear what they have to say" he looked at them the were both nervous I jumped down from mom's shoulder and went desire steven "this is it" I said mum walked forward "we... we need to talk about us i concord so many worlds for the sake of the empire I do every thing you ask and I do it all perfectly but your very high standards put us all under a lot of pressure a gem could crack under so much pressure we diamonds may be hard but we're also brittle" mom walked up to mum and looked at her "white we used to be close don't you remember when pink would make us laugh all those silly things she did for no reason there was a reason so we could be happy together but we weren't we're still not I know my purpose isn't to be happy but I find it harder and harder to indorse your rules when they make me so miserable make us all miserable" "grandma please why don't you let us all into your head we could come up with a plan to help everyone you could start by helping my moms" they looked at me and smiled then looked at grandma's ship the eyes glowed and shot a beam at them they both screamed in pain they were turning black and white "MOM MUM!" I shouted they both smiled and were in a t-pose they were engulfed in a white bubble and brought to grandmas ship the ships started moving and dropped us lapis grabbed bismuth but steven and I were falling down a purple thing peridot floated over to us "Steven iris grab on" steven and I grabbed on but the gems fell out of our arms we let go "steven iris!" There were purple poles we had to dodge Steven summoned his shield we slid down them we jumped and grabbed amethyst's gem "amethyst! Please reform" "we need you" I said "amethyst can you hear us in there everyone is falling we can save them together" the three of us fused "don't worry I'm here! Uh what just happened?" We hummed "holy smokes I'm Smokey steven iris you beautiful gems you pulled amethyst from her gem through fusion" we saw pearl "pearl gotta throw steven and iris" "don't worry about me" she turned into an owl "owl be fine" Steven and I went to pearl next "come on pearl dance with us" I said we spun and fused with pearl "we'll what do you know it's rainbow 2.0. With an extra someone I see"we was floating with an umbrella "we'll this is a fine mess we're in" We gasped "well this won't due" We closed my umbrella and fell faster "rainbow diamond powers activate" we sat on the umbrella and grabbed ruby and sapphire I landed safely "ah yes now that's two stones with one bird" We unfused "wow nice form pearl" amethyst said "oh thank you I'm particularly exited about the jacket" pearl's eyes widened "ah steven iris we fused" she hugged us bismuth peridot an lapis came down "are you guys okay?" Peridot asked "almost garnet we're up against a giant robot we need your help please come out we're here we love you" Steven and I hugged their gems we fused but were stepped on by the ship but we lifted it "aw yeah! You betta step off" We pushed off the leg ship "relax my dudes your rocking pal sun stone is holdin it down "wow" "oh boy" "unbelievable" peridot said oh you better believe it" "okay" "sun stone what are we going to do white diamond is never going to listen and she's never going to let us leave" pearl asked "if she won't listen we'll make her listen" "and how are we going to do that?" "I know she's in there we'll bust into her head and change her mind" they all nodded "let's take that bully down!" I grabbed pearl and amethyst "come on" I ran for the ship and started to climb with suction cups "bungacowa" the arm of blue's ship lit up "oh no" it smacked us off we hit the ground and unfused "we need to be bigger" garnet said "let's fuse all five of us it's the only way we can get up there" "I'm in" "me too" "then it's decided let's form obsidian" the others backed away from us we danced together and fused we shouted and stood up "they"re huuuge!" We jumped up onto the shop and started to climb we jumped from one leg to the other when blue's ship crashes down "we gotta do something to keep the hands off of them" lapis said "let's show white diamond we mean bismuth "time to take this thing apart" "wet your eyes on me homeworld I peridot have returned not as your surfer but as your saviour" the ship was going after the others but then the hands went for us again we summoned our weapons and turned them into a lava sword we sliced the hands off then jumped up to the head we made it fall face first into a large pillar we unfused and then inside the eye we slid in and landed "white diamond" Steven said "oh starlight what are you doing crawling in here you want your legs back you want your planet back and little flowers parents back surely you understand why I can't lee you leave look what you did to your self last time and because of this blue and yellow had a child together" "white diamond my name is steven universe I'm here to" grandma's pearl went in front of him "my my we've been causing quite a scene haven't we?" "What have you done to them they're" I asked "shhhhh poor yellow her impurities absorb all the blue in her light she's so strong but so weak when it comes to blue" both my parents were doing what she did and saying what she said "ah and blue impurities soak up all of the warmth in her spectrum she thinks she needs you two and for me I'm certain I don't need you after all I'm every colour in the light but you're apart of me a part I have to suppress" "what?" Steven asked amethyst walked up to us "fuse what is she even talking about? This is nonsense" "oh hello there" we looked at white "your new friends are so funny is that what they're supposed to be funny?" She shot amethyst "hey white dirtwad that all you got!" Her gem was black and white and it went through her entire body "oh no" "leave her alone!" Garnet shouted before getting zapped "garnet!" She shot pearl as well "it's a pity how you bring out the worst in others she how you encourage their  deficiencies it's written all over their gems insecure, dependant, obsessed" "no no guys come on please" steven and I tried to wake them up "please stop helping them you'll only make things worse that's what you do I make things better here" she snapped their fingers and they all stood up "thank you white diamond we feel so much better there we are I removed their flaws now they are brilliant now they are perfect now they are me!" She said and glowed more "you're wrong please just listen to us" I said "our friends don't need to be fixed they're fine just how they are flaws and all" "there you both go again do you understand why you defend their flaws? I know why pink you like surrounding your self with defective gems including little flower who)s also defective so you can be the best of the worst" I looked down "I'm defective" I thought "that's not true and even if it was you're talking about my mom you're not talking about me" she laughed "your mom" she laughed more and made mom pick me up squeezing me in her hand steven went to run to me but garnet amethyst and pearl grabbed him they brought him over to her "white please stop you're hurting him" she laughed "she's doing this to herself" moms grip on me tightened "you like doing this pink to fell better don't you pink you became rose quartz to desire your pathetic friends and now a defective diamond I'm ashamed blue and yellow even created her" "no you're wrong iris is not defective and I'm not deceiving myself  these gems respect iris and I for who we are because we're perf the way we are and I'm not my mom!" He shouted "but don't you know things about her that you couldn't possibly know" "I i've Just been connecting with her my powers they help me connect to others" steven was holding his head he was seeing what he saw when he was his mom "I'm not her I'm just feeling her feelings" he looked up at her "isn't it obvious even though you embedded yourself within that human child your light can't help shining through you know you're in there you've known it all along stop cowering inside your gem you can hide from yourself but you can't hide from me pink" "don't listen steven she's just trying to mess with you" mom squeezed me tighter I squealed she went and reached for steven "steven!" I shouted trying to get out of mom's grip she lifted up his shirt and pulled out his gem "nooo!" She dropped him on the ground I teleported out of moms grip and went to steven "steven wake up please" I said crying he opened his eyes "steven he lifted up is shirt "what? No but where's my! We looked up to see white holding his gem it glowed it switched from pinks form to roses to Stevens and landed on the ground pink steven looked at us I helped steven up "what's this where's pink" pink Steven looked at her "she's gone" "what did you say? Answer me!" "She's GOOOOOOOOOOONE!" Pink steven shouted and made the room shake pink steven walked over to us "where do you thin you're going?" I helped steven go over to pink steven "hold on" "don't you dare take one kore step" pink steven ignored her "that's enough" she shout at him but he his shield "aah you little" She shot again he was in a bubble this time "don't you raise your shield at me I only want what's best for you and if you can't do that i'll do it for you!" She and the others shot at pink steven he made the bubble pop and forced white backwards and made my parents and the gems fall "no stop you're hurting them" steven said white fell forwards I carried him to pink steven "here" pink steven held him they danced together in front of white "what are you doing pink why are you laughing" I smiled steven and punk steven fused back together "steven!' I ran to him and hugged him "no you are pink diamond" white hit the ground with her fist making us jump "that is pink diamonds gem" she keeps hitting the ground "you do not look like this you do not sound like this you are not half human you're just acting like a child" we looked at each other "I am a child" he said "what's your excuse?"I asked she blushed "what's this why are they turning pink" she looked down "something's wrong with me!" She turned them back to themselves steven ran to the gems and I ran to my parents "mom mum" they looked at me "oh iris you're okay" I nodded mom picked me up "what is this I feel ridiculous yellow blue" she reached for my moms the gasped and looked away "she's off colour" Steven went over to her "this can't be happening I can't have a flaw I'm supposed to be flawless then who am I if you're not pink then who are you who who is anyone" he looked up at her "you know if you just let everyone be who ever they are maybe you can let yourself be whoever you are too" She looked at steven then me "but I'm not supposed to be like this I'm supposed to know better I'm supposed to know better I supposed to make everything better" "you can but first you're going to have to leave your own head" we went to earth and landed where sadie was singing the hand let us down "Steven!" Greg soured and came over to us "dad" he jumped down and hugged him "welcome home" we went to the abandoned ship and let out the centipedes then mom subjected we all have a bath that way we can heal them the gems and I all brought the cropped gems to roses fountain where they all got healed white joined us in the water steven and I swam over to them mum made a joke and mom laughed even though it was a pretty bad one just means they love each other white looked at steven and smiled a while later my parents and my grandmother got on the ships and detached from the legs mum made a peace sign then we left the earth I'm going to miss everyone I laid on my parents I smiled I can't wait to go home 

to be continued in A New Home