Steven rolls sweaty on the floor, it was very hot in that place so much that he jumps off the ground "Burn, burn, burn!" The hybrid exclaims hurriedly as he could barely set foot on the ground, his sandals seemed about to melt "Wait ... The ruins?" Steven wonders when he can finally tell where he was. They were the floating ruins, however they looked different, they were red and they were not in such bad shape.

But what stood out most was a small figure following a perimeter around the center, taking care of what looked like a blue rock and a purple teddy "Ruby!" Steven calls animated, he runs against the red figure, almost ramming her into a hug but then the gem hits the hybrid hard.

"Who are you?! You can't get close here! Are you a member of the rebel scum ?!" Ruby rushes authoritatively, she takes Steven by the neck but only tears and a smile can be seen on the face of the hybrid, which clings to the gem "What the hell are you doing ?!" The gem asks alarmed.

"I missed you so much Ruby, you can't imagine how much happened! In fact, what are you doing here?" Steven exclaims cheerfully, he confuses Ruby even more, the red gem is then dismayed and turns to see what she was supposed to be defending.

"I have to keep an eye on ... These things?" Ruby exclaims simply, she sees that there was a small blue rock and a stuffed animal that clearly reminded Amethyst "Wait! I would not have to be talking about this" The red gem sentences simply to give the hybrid a header, but then Steven notices and activates his shield, separating from Ruby.

"Ruby, it's me, Steven. I know you! Don't you remember me ?!" The hybrid exclaims, he declares to the red gem, which continues to attack him, this time she does it with her little gauntlet, Steven defended himself but it was difficult to move because of how the platform burned where they were, the hybrid ended up giving circles to the place while the gem was chasing him.

"Why would I meet you?! Me and ... and ... I don't know, I have a mission!" Ruby exclaims for sure, the hybrid tries to reason how to talk to the gem, and then he realizes the words she said.

"Yes! You were sent to Earth with your Ruby team to protect Sapphire. Don't you remember her? You should protect her from Pearl and Rose Quartz!" Steven tells Ruby seriously, he screams loudly, then the gem stopped dead, the feet of the hybrid made small leaps but Steven was excited to see if his words took effect.

"My team and I ... protect Sapphire. The rebellion, everything should end here" The red gem sentence, then waterfalls of tears begin to go down her eyes, a smiling and excited hybrid then approaches Ruby disappearing his shield " Stay away!" The red gem screams furiously. Then the platform starts to break at the edges.

"Ruby!" Steven calls once more trying to get close to Ruby, but she simply attacks him again, sending the hybrid against the rock and the stuffed animal "Why is this here?" Steven asks strangely, noticing those objects although he quickly noticed that Ruby was going to attack him again before he could take out his shield "No!" The hybrid screams, he covers himself with his arms before receiving the blow.

But the blow never comes, almost a half of the entire platform crumbled under the feet of Steven and Ruby, who began to fall into the empty "Ruby!" Steven exclaims worried, while Ruby on her part tends herself tearful for the Amethyst-shaped stuffed animal "What are you doing ?!" The hybrid question worried, while floating towards the red gem, which suddenly began to burn.

"I need it! Steve? Steven?! I don't know who you are, but I just need it!" Ruby responds, so she gives the stuffed toy to the confused Steven, the red gem began to fall apart.

"What's going on Ruby ?!" The hybrid exclaims worried, he tries to hold on to Ruby, but it just disappears. For his part Steven continues to fall, now the reddish sky illuminated everything while the teenager tries to slow down his fall, but even with his powers to float this was impossible.

Then Steven crashes into a kind of giant white bed, a curious Ruby "Steven!" Approaches him. She exclaims excitedly raising and giving the hybrid a big hug.

"Ruby!" Steven shouted in surprise as he corresponded and cried "What is this?! Where are we ?!" The hybrid question altered trying to know what was happening there.

"... I have no idea" The red gem sentences quickly "But that doesn't matter! Good thing you're here, look at all this" Ruby exclaims excitedly, starting to jump on the bed and bouncing a few meters, Steven looked up and he notices that it was not a bed, but a kind of statue, much like Rose Quartz, both were on his mother's dress "And there is food!" The red gem sentence excited, attracting once again the look of the hybrid.

"That's ... Pearl?" Steven exclaims surprised, a small doll very similar to Pearl brought a silver tray with food, although the doll had the appearance of the white gem, was dressed like a nutcracker. At the question Ruby just fixed her gaze for a few moments, and nodded simply "Ruby, I have to talk to you. Seriously things have changed since you are not" The hybrid starts worried walking towards the gem.

"What are you talking about? I'm here," Ruby says with a smile taking some of the food from the Pearl doll. "Do you want some of this cake? I really like it." The gem sentences very cheerful eating a blue cake, while sitting in the padded dress.

"No, that is ... yes, you are here. But this cannot be real, you got corrupted during the fight with Malachite" Steven explains, he gets a doubtful look at the red gem "Yes, I know it sounds weird. Actually we still don't know why it could happen for sure "The hybrid exclaims with concern, to which Rubí puts a piece of cake in his mouth without warning.

"Relax, everything is fine" The red gem sentence patting the back of the hybrid "Tell me everything" Ruby continues.

"... Now Peridot, Lapis and Spinel are part of the team. Well, not officially but they live with us and help us, so you can say they are part of the team." Steven starts to calm down.

"Who is Spinel?" The red gem asks confusing.

"It's a gem that I met while you weren't, it's really very nice" The hybrid explains blushing "We had a date recently, she is now my girlfriend" The hybrid exclaims embarrassed, suddenly a cheerful Ruby hugs him and hits him in the shoulder.

"Who is Spinel?" The red gem asks confusing.

"It's a gem that I met while you weren't, she is really very nice" The hybrid explains blushing "We had a date recently, she is now my girlfriend" The hybrid exclaims embarrassed, which suddenly a cheerful Ruby hugs him and gives him a blow on the shoulder.

"What?! My little one got a girlfriend and I missed it?! It can't be!" The red gem exclaims amazed and animated "You have to tell me how the whole date was. If she treated you badly I will beat her up" The excited gem rushes.

"That is more recent, first of all ... Dad and Pearl love each other" The hybrid continues to explain, to which Ruby is with a calm expression.

"It's good to know that now they get along" The red gem mentions, but Steven for his part explains the situation more closely.

"No, it's on plan ... Not as friends, they love each other as they both loved mom" The hybrid says, to which Ruby puts bulging eyes and even seems about to expel fire through her mouth.

"What?! I don't believe you! Now I'm sure you're lying, Steven you know that's wrong" The reddish gem complains something annoying, putting her knuckle against the head of the hybrid, who says it's true, though Ruby would still not believe Steven.

"We also now have to fight against a gigantic ... forced fusion, hundreds of thousands of gems" The hybrid mentions a little terrified, Ruby is surprised by this, and disgusted in several ways "We were now creating a rejuvenator to make it come back to his gem shape, after only a few minor things have happened, like dad being a millionaire, Jasper went to Korea for a trick from my dad and so on "Steven ends with a small smile as he scratches his neck.

"Wow ... but it still makes no sense. If you say I got corrupted, why am I here?" Ruby asks in dismay, even offended by what the hybrid said.

"... I don't know, but I assure you it's true, Pearl misses you, Amethyst misses you, Sapphire misses you, I miss you" Steven exclaims sad, again he starts to tear out of control, to which the red gem It does not take long to clean the tears of the hybrid, but she also begins to cry.

"Sapphire?" The red gem asks sad, suddenly alarmed, she didn't know where the blue gem was "What did Malachite do to you ?!" The red gem exclaims worried directly to the hybrid, but then images of what had happened in the ocean invaded her "No!" Ruby suddenly shouts before Steven could speak, sending the hybrid to fly against the Pearl doll, they both fell to the ground while the red gem was falling apart again.

"Ruby, stop!" The worried Steven screams also taking the Pearl doll and trying to float towards the gem, but this was stopped by the statue of Rose Quartz, which moves giving a blow to the hybrid, which flew away in another direction while the statue also began to burn and disappear with Ruby "... I'm sorry" Steven says sorry, holding on to the two toys he brought, however then he feels like something grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, something hairy stopped his fall.

The surprised hybrid opens his eyes "Lion!" Steven exclaims seeing his pet also in that place, to which the hybrid clings to Lion's mane, the hybrid is excited only to let go of the animal's hair almost instantly "Are you real ?!" Steven asks the pink animal touching his face, to which Lion rolls his eyes without saying much "Blink if you love me" The hybrid exclaims curiously, to which his pet blinks "Lion!" Steven exclaims again, squeezing Lion, who put his leg on the hybrid's head.

Lion after that hug begins to walk a little, which Steven continues to find that they were now in the barn, which they entered finding that there were two Rubies in their corrupt forms, tied by a kind of blue collar. One, on the left, was trying to attack two figures that looked like Pearl and Amethyst, their part of the necklace was almost broken, while on the other hand the Ruby on the right looked at a mirror crashing her forehead delicately against it.

"Ruby?" The confused hybrid asks, the Ruby on the left looked at him, reacting she rushes to bite Steven who pulls out his shield but it was Lion who responds by also attacking that Ruby, whose collar is about to break "Wait Lion, that is Ruby! Don't attack her! " Steven implores worriedly jumping between those two beings. Now the pink animal had to contain himself but he still had to prevent the claws of the gem from touching the hybrid and damaging it.

Both Lion and that corrupt Ruby roar, Steven feels helpless, once again he cries "Stop!" The hybrid orders annoying, turning suddenly pink and using his hands to stop the fight, the claws of the corrupt gem almost break when she attacks the hybrid "Ruby, this is not you" The hybrid sentence embracing the corrupt gem, who follows fighting Steven, but he starts walking towards the Ruby on the right, she still concentrates on the mirror.

For his part, the surprised pink animal follows its owner, sitting next to the Ruby on the right, Steven places the two Rubies next to each other, finally the gem on the right is fixed on her counterpart, there is only silence, the gem on the left had stopped fighting and was beginning to fade, but it was not like the previous Rubies, but simply seemed to fade into the air, like a kind of mirage.

Now there was only one Ruby, she looks with her tongue out at the hybrid "... Do you remember me?" Steven asks curiously, sitting next to that corrupt gem, which was inclined to lick his face "Hey no, hehe" The hybrid laughs "Look what I brought" The hybrid mentions showing the two beings that accompanied the stuffed animal Amethyst and Pearl doll, sitting them with the Ruby.

Ruby on the other hand only throws a kind of howl of joy, also starting to lick Lion and the toys brought by the hybrid, the corrupt gem then lies down on the floor, Steven for his part caresses her head "Do you feel alone here? " Steven asks the red gem, looking around "There is no Sapphire" The hybrid says a little, but suddenly the necklace of the corrupt gem begins to peel off, taking the form of a small Sapphire.

The little statue is taken by a curious Ruby, who places it next to the Pearl doll and the Amethyst stuffed animal, then Ruby contemplated everyone who was there, not only the toys, but Steven and Lion himself, the corrupt gem start crying "Please come back, even if you're corrupt, just come back" Steven sentence hugging Ruby, Steven's gem began to shine, covering the place of pink.

******

Ahhhh!" Steven screams waking up, it was still night, he is with Spinel, Lapis and Ruby, and to his surprise Lion is also there now waking happily along with the corrupt gem. But there was not much time for the hybrid to deviate, its gem had disappeared and Pink Steven had left, who was running to the barn, where Sapphire was screaming.

"...What was that?" Lapis asks when she sees the exact copy of the hybrid, which was now in a weak state on the ground. Meanwhile, the pink gem took Steven, Spinel runs chasing Pink Steven, while the rest also chased Spinel.