Shattered III- Home World (A Steven Universe Fanfic)

Connie's Sword 2

IN REGION Pink, Pearl grunted as she lay unconscious on the ground at Pink Diamond's feet, the goddess eyeing her with a mixture of lust and malice. Connie cut down the last of Pink Diamond's guards that attacked her and she dashed to Pearl's rescue when Pink Diamond blew her back telekinetically with the flick of her wrist, sending her tumbling on the ground.

"Tsk, you lowly mortals never know your place." Pink Diamond said, moving up to Connie.

"I won't let you kill her." Connie said as she pushed herself up, hissing as she'd cut her elbow when she fell.

"I wonder why you Crystal Gems came here in the first place." Pink Diamond said. "Even if you somehow found a way to kill Rose, you cannot fight a Diamond because all gems are under our control. Even stranger is why you'd keep Rose's sword; I thought you were no longer allies."

Connie squinted and looked at Rose's sword, sensing the Gaia Energy flowing through the blade and she considered what Pink Diamond said. "I heard many stories of how Rose risked her life to save countless others with this sword and how she fought Home World so one day all gems could be freed." She clenched Rose's sword and looked to Pink Diamond. "Even if that goal drove her to become a monster, I won't let it die with her. This is my sword now and Rose's dream will live on with me!"

Connie took a stance and faced down Pink Diamond when a bright light suddenly emanated from the sword and vines grew out from its hilt and spread over her arm and dug into her skin. She held up the weapon and watched in awe as Rose's sword merged with her!

PEARL LAUGHED as she sat in the Temple living room with Pink Diamond, Rose, Garnet and Amethyst while Steven sat up in his room nearby. The five women chattered excitedly in the room, not noticing another Pearl who materialized by the entrance of the house and watched them. She looked as the first Pearl spoke to the other Gems and the Diamond, finally piecing together what was happening.

"I never let go of her, did I?" Pearl said, looking at her younger self in the living room. "I broke free from her, but I was still bound to her in my mind." She looked at Rose. "Or I just went from one master to another."

"Is this where you were all this time?" Pink Diamond's voice came as she appeared beside her, only partly standing in the room as the rest of her thirty-foot form phased through the roof above. "What a disgusting place to call home." She said as she stared at Pearl's memories from above, seeing her younger self sitting among the Crystal Gems. "What is this?"

"It's what I wanted back then I guess; to be with the two women I loved and to never have been part of the war in the first place." Pearl said. "I didn't want to accept the truth that you were abusing me, nor did I realize that Rose continued to do the same. I guess I had to see for myself who you truly were."

"How unfortunate." Pink Diamond shrank down until she was ten feet tall, looking around the room. "I didn't even like you all that much, and Rose was more sexually talented than you were."

"Yeah, you can put it like that ..." Pearl said.

"It seems accidentally resetting your gemstone tampered with your Sharingan." Pink Diamond crossed her arms. "I didn't plan on entering your memories."

"You didn't come here by accident." Pearl said. "I brought you here so I could kill you by my own hand."

"Kill me?" Pink Diamond chuckled. "You have no power to do so and I can leave this place any time I want." She snapped her fingers and raised her brow as nothing happened. "What is this?"

"We're not in my memories exactly." Pearl said and turned to her, conjuring her spear. "This is the Mirror Dimension and in here, your power doesn't matter."