"Then Ruby and Sapphire are trapped by Malachite at the bottom of the ocean ..." Pearl sentenced sitting in front of the trio made up of Steven, Spinel and Peridot, the look of concern on the face of the gem pierced the hybrid, which shyly agrees quite grieved while still faithfully remembering the oppression of the ocean floor.

"Well ... we are ..." Amethyst sentence containing his insults to insult in front of Steven, but from frustration the purple gem is thrown against the ground and starts screaming in an effort to dampen the badly sounded words and that the hybrid don't hear them. Pearl pats the purple gem.

"Steven, you better go with Greg, or to the barn" Pearl exclaims worried, surprising the hybrid.

"Why?" Steven asks in dismay, but it was obvious to Pearl, that she soon explains to the teenager.

"If Malachite already knows where we are, it is possible that she will come in a short time. In fact I am surprised that she has not arrived right now or before, so she is probably looking for you too. Being here is very dangerous" Pearl explains seriously , she places her hands on the shoulders of the hybrid.

"But I can't! We still haven't saved Ruby and Sapphire," Steven claims, only to be silenced by Pearl.

"So Malachite just stopped chasing you?" Pearl asks in dismay to Spinel, who had been silent most of the time where Peridot and Steven commented on the story. The pink gem took a few moments to respond.

"I wouldn't say that, I honestly stopped paying attention when I was swimming to save Steven and my life ... and Peridot, but most of all Steven and me" The pink gem sentences calmly, offending Peridot and drawing a smile for this, Pearl sighs thoughtfully.

"She is likely to come soon. Steven, I'm serious, go to your father, or go to the barn." Pearl sentence, she tries to lift the decayed Amethyst. For his part Steven clung to his house.

"We're supposed to face each other together, that's why I'm part of the Crystal Gems," Steven grumbles, but he is suddenly surprised when Spinel picks him up and starts walking towards the door. "What are you doing ?!" The hybrid asks surprised, to which Spinel only squeezes him tightly while she spoke to Pearl.

"I'll take him to the barn! Goodbye" Spinel sentences opening the door while she is followed by Peridot from behind, although her arms were malfunctioning. Pearl was surprised, and still doubtful of trusting the pink gem.

"Pearl, wait ..." Amethyst exclaims getting up before Pearl goes to watch the trio "I think we can trust Spinel, she has been with Steven for a long time and nothing bad happened to him ... because of her. We hope they go to the barn, and let's focus on Malachite ... How the hell are we going to be able to defeat her without Garnet ?! " Amethyst screams, at first she was calm and responsible, to the surprise of the tall and thin gem, only to later throw a big nervous scream.

"... I'm not sure. Would you feel more confident ... if we fuse?" Pearl asks, she has doubts for herself, the purple gem then decided to start dancing, so the highest gem accompanied her in the dance. After a blinding light, Opal had re-existed, the subsequent fusion went out to watch the ocean, it was almost night.

*******

Peridot was working on the drill with difficulty, this time she was focusing on the system of buttons and drills of the machine to stop The Cluster, but for a few moments she turns to see her other two companions, Steven was sitting in a haystack , while Spinel was on him "Come on. Don't put that long face on, Pearl is just worrying a lot about you" Spinel exclaims and tries to cheer on the hybrid, hugging Steven.

"I know, I care about her too. But I can't help if I'm here!" Steven exclaims annoyedly, at first he wanted to stay serious, but he couldn't help laughing when Spinel started tickling him.

"What can you do against Malachite, Steven? Don't fill your mouth with more than you can chew, Garnet isn't here, and who knows if Lapis is still there?" Peridot sentences seriously, almost annoyed by Steven's sobs, but the Green gem felt threatened when Spinel looked at her directly and without speaking. Steven, on the other hand, he kept quiet while tearing "Don't look at me like that! You know it's true! He's alone!" Peridot screams, but then she had Spinel's head on top, and the pink gem began to mimic the shape of a bird to peck Peridot "Noooo! Sorry!" Peridot complained while Spinel pecked her.

"But I'm not alone, I have the Crystal Gems, you two, Connie, Lion and Dad" Steven complains in response, Peridot remains silent realizing that Spinel is more fixed in the hybrid, the pink gem approaches, she tries again to calm Steven.

"Yes Steven, you can trust us. Or not, Peridot?" Spinel exclaims with a smile, comforting Steven with calm pats while on the other hand she hissed at Peridot, who also approached something nervous.

"But ... of course" Peridot sentences, suddenly she is also hugged by Spinel, who narrows around the hybrid and the green gem like a constrictor boa.

"Why does Pearl always treat me like a child?" Steven asks a little worried, Spinel thinks a few moments, but Peridot was much faster than the pink gem.

"Pearl must be between 5998 and 6000 years, being a gem of the Era 1. You have... fourteen, right? You are indeed like a child to her" Peridot sentences simply, applying logic, but Spinel was not very convinced with it.

"I don't think that's why, or at least it's not all of her motives, it's that you are very special to her, Steven" Spinel exclaims with a smile clenching Steven's nose, who tries to peel off the fingers of the laughing pink gem, Peridot was also trying to take off, but they were not very successful.

******

It was already one in the morning, in the barn Steven was waiting for something to happen, that Crystal Gems will need him, but for now his hopes had not been fulfilled. Next to him Spinel also expected, more to accompany the hybrid than by duty "What does it say here?" Peridot asks the human with curiosity, which to his surprise showed him some buttons.

"I don't know how to read that alphabet, and if I knew, I probably wouldn't know what to say," Steven says simply after seeing the buttons for a few moments, to the surprise of Spinel and Peridot.

"Why?" The green gem asks surprised.

"Well, they are in another language that I don't understand, I think it could be Russian or some other language that uses that alphabet. I don't know how uncles could have gotten these buttons, maybe from Russia or some machine from there," Steven explains with Some surprise, Peridot then decides to return to work and give her own meaning to the buttons.

"What is Russia?" Peridot question dismayed.

"It's a ... country. Let's say it's like ... the Yellow Diamond territories, there are some parts of the Earth that belong to one group, and other parts to another group. Russia is in the east, the south and the west of the Tunguska Sea. My dad has an atlas with maps, maybe I could show them to you sometime "Steven explains calmly, almost falling asleep, the green gem was very interested in that subject, although she also laughed at how primitive humans could be, who still didn't have a single government on such a small planet.

While Spinel was trying to make Steven finally fall asleep, Lion appears through one of his portals, he catches the trio's attention. The animal pointed towards the beach, but the greatest they could see was a greenish cloud coming out of the ocean accompanied by lights.

******

Opal had been watching the beach for almost three hours, waiting for Malachite to appear at any moment, the fusion was fixed in a huge spot accompanied by lights that were heading towards her position, before this Opal threw the binoculars she was using and generated her arch to aim at Malachite. Lion, who was close to the fusion, escaped into his portal of a roar.

The larger fusion left the ocean, she releases a kind of greenish smoke in the process, surrounded by corrupt gems, Opal shoots quickly against Malachite and her followers. They who interposed with the trajectory the shots of Opal against the great fusion, falling with their physical form, destroyed "Where is Rose Quartz?" Malachite asks quickly approaching Opal, but the other fusion responded by jumping back, placing herself on one of the hands of the statue "I brought a gift" Malachite exclaims with mockery.

Ruby fell from Malachite's hand, she had bruises in her physical form and some wounds from the sudden fall, the most notable however were the fangs protruding from her mouth and the blackish rocks of her left arm. Opal tried to move at high speed to rescue the red gem, but Ruby recomposed himself and tried to attack Malachite "Return me to Sapphire!" Fried Ruby alarmed, while Malachite held her clenched fist in front of her.

"Come look for her" Malachite exclaims when Ruby charges her with her small gauntlet around her hand, however corrupt gems rammed into her, beginning to crush her, on the other hand Sapphire's sobs could be heard, wondering where Ruby was.

Opal tried to help Ruby and Sapphire as quickly as possible, both parts of her being were debated what to do, on the one hand Ruby was closer, so the fusion of Pearl and Amethyst jumped to help the red gem and shoot against the hand of Malachite, while also trying to deal with corrupt gems. Too many things in a very short time, since Ruby seemed to be unleashed by her own side, she jumps over Opal and causes her to miss the shot.

Malachite barely flinched, and with her free hand she caught one of Rubi's legs, throwing her against the cliff of Beach City. Opal tried to take advantage of this moment to use the whip of Amethyst and climb the fingers of the gigantic fusion, but the corrupt gems emitted its powerful light and its strange sound, destroying Opal. Malachite had escaped this by covering her eyes and ears, while that other corrupt gems that did not carry out that attack covered their ears.

The purple gem recovered more quickly, while Pearl was still a little shocked, Amethyst used her whip to catch Pearl and throw her against Malachite's hand, allowing the thin gem to stab Malachite's phalanges. The gigantic fusion was then able to take her hand out of her eyes and try to catch Pearl, who escaped gracefully from her, jumping from corrupt gem to corrupt gem.

On the other hand Amethyst linked corrupt gems with her whip to prevent them from continuing to attack Pearl, who was still struggling to dodge Malachite's attacks and free Sapphire. If the blue gem and the red gem could form Garnet, then the Crystal Gems trio could form Alexandrite and defeat Malachite.

Fortunately for this possibility, Ruby had returned, supporting Amethyst against corrupt gems. The appearance of Ruby, however, kept changing, the rocks of her arm had extended to her abdomen and parts of her face, while in her left arm claws had grown where his fingers used to be "Ruby, are you? ... "Amethyst asks in dismay.

"That doesn't matter! Only Sapphire matters!" Rubí complains annoyedly "Keep attacking!" The red gem sentence, Malachite on the other hand was upset when she saw Ruby and Amethyst attack her small army, so she decided to ignore Pearl and try to trample on the smaller gems, she begins to feel the sand with her fingers.

Pearl rides on Malachite's whitish hair, she climbs to reach the head, suddenly Pearl observed a light that seemed to be inside the head of the fusion, dismaying the fighters. From the light came Lion, creating a portal directly on Malachite's face, destroying two of the eyes of Malachite in the process, Lion landed on the beach in front of the temple, with Steven, Spinel and Peridot on his back.

"We came to help!" Steven exclaims excitedly, while Peridot tried to get into the house to escape, although Spinel forbade her by holding her by his head.

"Rose!" Malachite exclaims with a powerful shout, now she runs against the temple.

"Oh no," Steven sentences, but then Spinel jumps into the temple, heading for the portal. Malachite attacks the cliff, she shakes the earth with her weight, the head of the gigantic fusion goes down to look, she sees how the trio was on the portal, Malachite moves and tries to poke her fingers, destroying the entrance of the house of wood "Just a little more" Steven exclaims while Peridot shouted terrified.

"Now!" Spinel and Steven exclaim at the same time, they activate the portal with Malachite's fingers on it. By that movement, Malachite had lost two fingers.

"Rose! Stop hiding!" Malachite complains in a tantrum, she now did not have some fingers on her right hand but does not realize that now Pearl was in her new blind spot, pointing her spear against Malachite's nose gem, trying to stab this site.

The attack does not pierce the Jasper gem that conformed Malachite, but if it creates a wound that falls from the top of Malachite's "nose", and down the jaw, this draws attention of the gigantic fusion over Pearl, Malachite's rapid movement destroyed one of the arms of the temple statue sending Pearl to fly along with the rock debris. The movement also resulted in that lighthouse on the cliff wobbleing about to fall.

Through Malachite's body, Ruby and Amethyst were climbing, being harassed by the remaining corrupt gems, like a swarm. Lion for his part was tired of the effort involved in creating a portal in a form of physical light, so making a final effort, he creates a portal in Malachite's back, to her surprise, however Lion had not been able to reach the gem of Lapis, and ends up creating a shallow hole just below the gem.

Malachite then complains once again of pain, releasing Lapis' wings, she tries to take a turn to knock Ruby and Amethyst, although in the process she crashed into the last corrupt gems of her swarm, for now they were scattered on the ground waiting to regenerate, although there was still time to encapsulate these gems.

******

Elsewhere, more specifically Kindergarten phase 9, Steven, Spinel and Peridot had arrived, cutting off some Malachite fingers in the process "Alright, now we can come back" The hybrid exclaims quickly, but before that happens the fingers begin to move again, almost in a liquid state.

The fingers became two small versions of Malachite, devoid of gem, they threw themselves on the trio, the trio had to fight before returning to the beach.