Soon enough, our heroes found themselves in Pink Diamond's old ship flying to Homeworld. The trip seemed to go by with silence until Blue Diamond decided to break it.

"So...Michael, was it? Why do you call yourself 'Light'? Is it a rank?" she asked. Michael didn't respond with words, only giving her the finger.

"It's a surname." Robert replied, impatience clear in his voice. "It's the name of our family...something you wouldn't understand..."

"There wasn't any need for that." Yellow Diamond replied.

"There also wasn't any need to ruin our lives, and yet you did it." Michael replied.

"Robert, Michael and Arya, could you come with me?" Kalinka asked, poking her head out from the back room. "In private?" The kids followed her to the back room, where she had a circle drawn with some sort of black powder.

"Did you remember your weapons?" she asked.

Robert placed his sword and the shield Bismuth made him in the circle. Kalinka smiled. Michael put his now roboticized left hand in Buster mode and took it off, which in turn took off half of his arm, with Michael feeling no pain. Arya put her scythe in the circle with the buster.

"Now, we begin the ritual. This is to make it so your weapons cannot be inhabited by Darkness anymore, as well as make them indestructable!" she said. She dipped the tip of her staff in a gold liquid and tapped the black powder. All at once, the powder glowed a healthy white, and the weapons within levitated facing upright. Any stains, wear and tear peeled off as if it were dead skin.

When the glow finally faded, the three children of Light took their respective weapons. They felt a new power surge through them. Robert, now with the full Sacred Song as well as his sword, Robert could now unleash devastating blows at a speed many swordighters consider impossible. Michael, now equipped with the full song and Buster, now could tear a hole through even the strongest walls and foes with a laser.

Arya, with her psychic prowess, could now unleash a deadly psychokinetic wave to make mincemeat out of even the largest of threats.

"What about Steven and Amethyst?" Arya asked after she took her scythe.

"I believe the Sacred Song will give them something more than a lowly shield and whip." Kalinka replied, genuinely concerned about Arya's feelings towards Steven.

Just then, speak of the devil, Steven and Amethyst came in the room. "Guess I'll be leaving then," Kalinka said as she walked past them.

"Hey, we're approaching Homeworld, you need anything before we land?" Steven asked.

"Actually, yes. There's something we need to give you" Robert said. He looked to Michael and Arya, who nodded in agreement.

"Take a melody,

Simple as can be,

Give it some words and,

Sweet harmony

Raise your voices,

All day long now,

Love grows strong now,

sing a melody of love,

Oh love.

Love is the power,

Love is the glory,

Love is the beauty and the joy of spring,

Love is the magic,

Love is the story,

Love is the melody we all can sing!"

They sang it loud and proud for them to hear.

Amethyst gained a large amount of resistance, as well as her spin dash now becoming virtually unstoppable. Steven, on the other hand, now had the power to shake off the stars, making a Star Storm.

They landed, as Kalinka, both Diamonds, Garnet, and Pearl waited patiently for them as a person stood before them with one cracked eye, skin white as milk, and grey hair reminiscent of Princess Leia.

"Greetings Pink Diamond, Your presence is mandatory, and many thanks for bringing the tainted humans to Homeworld. Their execution shall be momentarily, but for now, they shall be imprisoned." It said.

Michael stepped forward "Now, listen here, you. I've-"

"Silence!" The greyscale creature boomed as she put a forcefield around herself and Steven, and a hole appeared underneath the four members of the Light family.

They found themselves in separate prison cells, much like a dungeon. "So this is it?" Robert asked.

"Hell no! I ain't dyin' like this!" Michael shouted as he charged his buster.

"Don't bother" a familiar, old voice called. They looked over to see a broken man sitting in an adjacent cell.

"Aloysius? How did you end up here? And what happened to you?" Robert asked.

"Why'd you abuse us for so long?" Michael asked angrily.

"I-...I'm sorry...I wasn't myself...it was like I was seeing through the eyes of a puppet...being pulled by strings, When I saw your room in the basement, Robert...Lardna, she...She made a black hole out of the stairs...and..." he sobbed. "She sucked the life out of me! I escaped, only to end up in this weird place!"

"That's just like her..." Kalinka replied. Her children turned to her. "She treated you all the way she did because you're men." she explained. Aloysius started to sob.

"She's sexist like that, we knew this," Michael replied. "I knew it wasn't you who was being an ass"

"We're wasting time! How are we gonna get out?" Arya asked impatiently.

"We won't...Didn't you hear her?" Robert asked. "We're gonna get executed in a few days"

"No we won't! We did not go through hell and back just to give up ten steps from the finish line! I am not dying like this!" Michael replied.

"Well, we're gonna have to hatch a bold plan if we wanna get out of here alive..." Robert replied.

TO BE CONTINUED...