Garnet[knocking on the bathroom door] Open the door, Peridot! If this "Cluster" is putting us in danger, you need to tell us what it is so we can (find it and) stop it!
No! I hate you! I'm not telling you anything about the Cluster!
Oh, come on. Is it like a big, hunk of granola?
I'm sure it's not granola. Now, Peridot, I'm sure we can reach some sort of agreement. Perhaps a trade is in order?
Oh, sure. Why don't you just give me back my leg enhancements and my arm attachments with my screen and my log and all my information? Oh, wait, YOU DESTROYED THEM! So, no, I don't think we can reach some sort of agreement!
[The Crystal Gems groan in annoyance]
[flushing the toilet] Okay, Peridot, you can turn around now. [exits the bathroom; clears throat] Sorry for interrupting your interrogation.
Garnet
Don't worry about it, Steven.
I swear, Peridot is gonna crack any second now.
I'll never crack for the likes of you, you… Crystal Clods! [laughs]
[angrily] Ooh, I got your clods right here, you little…!
Garnet
[puts her hand on her shoulder] Hold on, Pearl. If she's not gonna be of any help, let's investigate this thing on our own.
Garnet
Sorry, Steven. We're gonna need you to stay here and keep an eye on our…guest.
Yeah. Make sure she doesn't try anything.
Don't worry. She's harmless without her limb enhancers.
[speaking with the Cluster puppet] It's the Cluster.
It does not look like that. But it is real, and it can activate at any moment!
Garnet
That abomination must be stopped.
But how? We'll need to build some sort of machine to take us to the center of the Earth, it'll have to-
[swats at Pearl, interrupting her] Hey! I wasn't finished speaking! What we need is to build some sort of machine to take us to the center of the Earth.
[talking into a tape recorder] Log date 7-1-1-2. It's the third rotation of the Earth since commencements of a... collaborative approach to stopping the Cluster.
I've finished drawing up the blueprints for the drill head. Peridot, if you could come take a look at this?
Remind me again why I should listen to you? Oh, right. [plays recorder; thru recorder] The Pearl here has developed an aptitude for engineering that I begrudgingly respect. But that doesn't explain the spontaneous singing... crying... singing while crying.
[to Steven; annoyed] Why did you give her that?
Well, we did destroy all her stuff. I thought it might help make her feel a little better.
[thru recorder] Clod! [fast-forwards] Mighty clod! [fast-forwards] Running out of ways to say clod.
Garnet
All right. I chased away those cows. Now let's get to work.
[to Garnet; clears throat] Before we begin, would you mind unfusing? It's making me incredibly uncomfortable.
[beat as Steven, Amethyst and Pearl nervously look to Garnet. The scene then cuts to Garnet leashing Peridot to a fence.]
[as Garnet walks away] What?! What'd I say?!
Did we really have to do that?
Garnet
Her having free reign of the place made me incredibly uncomfortable.
Garnet
[narrating] Sapphire had been called to Earth by Blue Diamond, specifically to share her vision of the future.
[enters her Diamond's palanquin] My Diamond, I have arrived.
Garnet
[narrating] Blue Diamond spoke…
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
Sapphire, tell me what will happen here.
I foresee the rebels attacking the Cloud Arena. Before they are cornered, they will destroy the physical forms of seven gems, including two of my Ruby guards, and myself. Immediately after my form is destroyed, the rebels will be captured. The rebellion ends here.
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
Thank you, Sapphire.
Garnet
[narrating] Blue Diamond said, relieved.
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
That's all I needed to know.
I look forward to speaking with you again once I reform back on Homeworld.
[off-screen] Blue Diamond, leave this planet! This colony will not be completed!
RGRuby Guard
It's the rebels!
VGVarious Gems
Who are you?! Show yourselves!
[floating from above Pearl] We…
RPRose & Pearl
…are the Crystal Gems!
Garnet
[narrating] The attack was right on schedule.
Thank you, Ruby. You did your best.
Garnet
[narrating] Ruby suddenly realized what Sapphire meant. She'd known that Ruby would fail. Sapphire had accepted it. But Ruby… Ruby could not.
NO!! [charges at Sapphire, pushing her out of the way of Pearl's attack, causing them to spin into the air and accidentally fuse into Garnet for the first time]
Garnet
[narrating] The furious crowd closed in around Ruby and Sapphire. They'd never seen fusion of two different types of gems.
VGVarious Gems (Garnet)
Unbelievable! Disgusting! This is unheard of!
Garnet
[narrating] Blue Diamond's voice cut through the crowd.
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
The rebels have fled. Sapphire, this is not the scenario you described.
This is… not what I saw! I don't know what happened, I…
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
Clearly.
Garnet
[narrating] Said Blue Diamond.
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
How dare you fuse with a member of my court?
BDBlue Diamond (Garnet)
You will be broken for this!
Garnet
[narrating] I was back. I was someone and I didn't know who. But I felt I was getting the hang of my strange new form. [beat] And then I fell.
PGPast Garnet
Ahh! [tumbling down a hill and crashes in bushes] Ouch... [a sword is pointed to her face] Aahh! Don't hurt her! Don't hurt... me?
[Pan up to see Pearl as the sword bearer]
PGPast Garnet
We didn't mean to fuse! Well... well, we did this time. We'll unfuse! We-we'll... w-we'll... [Rose Quartz comes by]
No, no, please. I'm glad to see you again.
Garnet
And there they were - Rose Quartz, the leader of the rebellion and her terrifying renegade Pearl.
PGPast Garnet
I don't... upset you?
Who cares about how I feel? How you feel is bound to be much more interesting.
PGPast Garnet
How I feel? I-I feel... uh, lost... and scared... a-and happy. W-Why am I so sure that I'd rather be this than everything I was supposed to be, and that I'd rather do this than everything I was supposed to do? [Rose chuckles and smiles]
PGPast Garnet
C-Can you tell me?! How was Ruby able to alter fate? Or, why was Sapphire willing to give up everything? W-What am I?!
No more questions. Don't ever question this. You already are the answer.
[Flashback story ends as Garnet concludes]
So…what was it? The answer?
Garnet
[whispers] Love.
Garnet
So did I.
[holds up crying Baby Steven in front of everyone] We were just talking, then all of a sudden…
He turned back into a baby?!
Dude, I told you. Stretching your body out for that long is not good for you. [Baby Steven talks in baby language in response; holds him up to Pearl] Here you go, Pearl.
Oh, no, no, don't give him to me!
Garnet
Hand him over, Amethyst.
Here you go. [gives her Baby Steven]
This is so incredible! Only the most elite can enter these sanctums. We are literally walking in the footsteps of the Diamonds.
They must really like stairs. [They enter an upstairs room with only a single mysterious object in the middle] Hey, what's this room?
Garnet
[continues walking] It's not what we came for.
Can we hurry it up? This place gives me the creeps.
[as they reach the top of the moon base] We really are on the moon.
[Peridot brings up a hologram of Earth, which starts eroding to a hollowed-out version with a ring system as Steven and the Gems awe in shock]
Ta-da! A finished Earth colony. Wow, look at this! Eighty-nine Kindergartens, sixty-seven spires, a Galaxy Warp in each facet, efficient use of all available materials. What were you thinking shutting this operation down?! It could've been great!
Garnet
No! You're wrong!
What do you mean? It's perfect. Look at it!
Garnet
Completing this colony would have meant the extinction of all life on Earth!
But think of the good it would've done! The Gems that would've been made, our empire expanded!
Rose Quartz believed all life was precious and worth protecting.
Well, if she wanted to protect it, she did a lousy job! There'd be no Cluster if the Earth had stayed a colony! Now there's no colony, and there's gonna be no Earth! So thank you, Rose Quartz, you doomed the planet!
[Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst stare angrily at Peridot for a beat]
Ohh-hoh-hoh! [nervously] Is there anything that's worth more than—
Garnet
[picks up Peridot by the tunic, sharply] You, listen to me, now. [summons gauntlet] You are talking about things that you do not understand.
Garnet! Stop, please! It's not worth it. We're done here. Let's just go home.
[Garnet drops Peridot on the seat and smashes the control panel with her gauntlet and the hologram dissipates; the Gems start leaving soon after. Steven sighs]
What'd I say? I'm just stating a fact. The rebellion didn't really save Earth, it just delayed the inevitable.
[sighs] That's not the way they see it. They've spent thousands of years trying to protect the Earth. I thought maybe you finally understood why.
[Steven and the Gems hide behind the Peribot as Peridot activates the Communicator, contacting Yellow Diamond]
This is the Yellow Diamond control room.
PPearl
Not all Pearls know each other, Steven.
Who authorized you to make this call?
No one. But it's an emergency!
That's no excuse to use the direct Diamond communication channel!
Why is there someone on the diamond line?
I don't know! I was just about to tell her that…
I'll take it from here. [brings the screen up to her eye level, revealing herself]
[Steven and the Gems gasp in shock]
Garnet
Diamond.
Log Date 7-1-5-2. I can't believe I just did that! I disobeyed my orders and went against Yellow Diamond's wishes! I'm a traitorous clod! I never want to think about what I've done again! [stops recording, rewinds and plays the recording; laughs madly] And I called Yellow Diamond a clod, right to her face! [falls to her knees] I called Yellow Diamond a clod, right to her face.
Uh, Peridot? Are you going to be okay?
[enthusiastically with a deranged smile] No!
It's all going to work out. You're with us now.
You don't understand! I'm protecting a planet I was once trying to destroy! I used to follow every order, every rule. Now I'm a traitor. [cringes] A rebel! [eyes turn to stars] A CRYSTAL GEMMMMMMMMMMMM.... [snickers]
Well, that tape recorder seems to be helping.
NO IT'S NOT! [throws it at Garnet, who had just entered] It's a chronicle of my descent into madness!!!
Garnet
[holding out the recorder to Peridot] You dropped this.
Get it away from me! Give it to Steven. Return madness to its source!
Garnet
Peridot, I'm proud of you.
Garnet
Because you've made an effort to understand me.
But I still don't understand you! Why are you fused all the time?!
Garnet
I'm Percy and Pierre.
[Steven fast-forwards the tape recorder]
[through recorder] Okay, go.
Garnet
[through recorder] Log Date 7-14-2.
[through recorder] No, you say it "7-1-4-2." [groans] Log Date 7-1-4-2. I have attempted a fusion with the fusion Garnet. I had hoped to gain a better understanding of fusion. Instead, I gained a better understanding of Garnet.
Garnet
[through recorder] Wait, keep it on a moment. Steven, you probably shouldn't have listened to Peridot's logs, but I know your curiosity comes from a place of caring. You should give the recorder back to her now. She's going to want to keep it.
[through recorder] Wait, what?
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