A vengeful Rose Quartz and an Amethyst appear on the warp pad's surface near the old barn now used as a hideout for Homeworld refugees including what's left of the Crystal Gems. I step off the warp pad and I motion Rose to follow me.
Luckily, no one is outside right now. Steven follows suit with me as I lead him towards the hidden settlement of Ruby and Sapphire down by the woods. I look around and I notice a Ruby standing by, facing the opposite direction.
Steven keeps his eyes on me as we make our way over towards the cabin. I can see it just up ahead. Now I gotta think of a way to get Ruby and Sapphire on my side. It's not going to be easy, but I'll think of something.
I step onto the porch with him right alongside me. "They live here? In a small wooden house?" I roll my eyes as I knock on the door. After a minute of no response, I press my finger against a button which is generally assumed to have been the doorbell.
Within a few moments, the door opens, revealing Sapphire. "Amethyst, we-!" She covers her mouth as she stares at Steven. She rushes up to him and she embraces him. "Steven!" Steven doesn't smile. "Sapphire, I'm not Steven." She immediately lets go of him.
"What?! But you are Steven!"
"No! I'm not, Sapphire! Don't you remember me?! I'm Rose!" Sapphire turns to me, putting her hands on her hips. She leans towards me and she whispers. "Amethyst, what did you do to him?"
I whisper back. "I didn't do anything to him. I just knocked his head into the bubble and...do you think I gave him some sort of concussion? Like some strange form of amnesia?"
"I think you did. Listen, we need to talk. Meet me upstairs."
I nod to her. "But Steven wanted to see you and Ruby."
"Well, that's going to have to wait. Come with me." She motions me inside. Steven closes the door behind us once we're all inside. Steven folds his arms.
"Alright. Sapphire, bring Ruby down. We need to talk." Sapphire turns to face Steven. "I can't. Wait in the living room for right now. We'll talk later." Steven huffs as he heads into the living room.
I follow Sapphire up the stairs. She stops at Ruby's locked bedroom door and she turns to face me. "What is this, Amethyst?"
"What is what?"
"Why is this door locked?"
"Uh..." I grit my teeth, looking away.
"You know someone's in here, right?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Amethyst!" She puts her hand out. "The key." I glare at her as I dig a hand into my pocket. I pull out the key and I drop it into her hand.
She grips the key. "Why did you do that? This room doesn't belong to you." I smirk, folding my arms. "Yeah, it's not mine. It's Ruby's."
"Yes, it is. Listen, I helped you get this room to save you. I never did this out of malicious intentions."
She inserts the key into the lock. "Now you're going to tell me why you locked this door or she's going to answer that for me."
"Fine!" I huff. "I locked that door because we had an argument."
Sapphire facepalms. "You've gotta be joking." I shake my head. "I needed to get away from her for a while. So I locked her inside."
"That's not the relationship I'd like to be a part of. Don't you see what you're doing?"
I look away from her. "You are starting what is known to be an abusive relationship. You two are becoming something that has the potential to be something far worse than Malachite."
"How's that?"
"Because the monster inside of you is ten times worse than you two could be alone." I turn back to her. "I wouldn't have even met her had it not been for Eloc and that shattering."
"And if you haven't had met Eloc, none of this would be happening right now and Pearl would still be alive."
My face scrunches up with tension. "If I didn't have the heart to spare you, you would've been shattered by now." Sapphire scoffs as I cover my mouth. "If Garnet didn't have the slightest bit of mercy to spare you, you would've been the one to be shattered, not me!"
I grit my teeth and I squint my eyes for a moment. I open them back up and I facepalm, groaning. "Look, I need your help and I need you two to cooperate with me." Sapphire folds her arms. "Oh yeah? Why's that?"
"To protect the barn. I have a bad feeling Rose's concious has taken over Steven's body and he's threaten to shatter every Homeworld Gem he sees." Sapphire looks back at the locked door. "This door is going to save her existence. So it needs to stay locked in order for it to do just that."
Sapphire grits her teeth as she pulls the key from the lock before she hands it back to me. "Okay." I lose the tension as I take a breath. I put the key back into my pocket and I turn to Sapphire's bedroom door. "Let's go find Ruby and let's put on a show."
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