[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.
[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.
[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.
[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!
[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.
[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!
[Steven watches Greg being dragged over to Blue Diamond by her Pearl while hiding in the bushes]
Blue DiamondHow curious. I'm impressed by humanity's ability to survive in the wild. What a strange planet. Where else would a being as fragile as a human live, while a being as powerful as a Diamond, perish? This is where it happened, where she was broken.
Blue Diamond
Very.
I-I'm awfully sorry. I know how hard it is to move on when you've lost someone.
Blue Diamond
[turns to him, revealing her face for the first time] You do?
I lost someone very important to me, too. I miss her every single day and I think about her all the time. But she's never coming back. That feeling can be so hard to be okay with.
Blue Diamond
I'm surprised that a human being is capable of understanding how I feel. It's a shame. [stands up] There's a geo-weapon incubating in your planet that will destroy everything shortly. But you don't deserve that, do you?
Blue Diamond
You know, I really shouldn't be here. But I'm glad I came back one last time. I can save one last piece of her legacy.
Please tell me you're joking. You only just left, and you're already back?
Blue Diamond
Yellow. Wh-what are you doing here?
I'm here to bring you back to reality, Blue.
Blue Diamond
I'm fine. Just leave me alone.
It's been thousands of years, Blue, and you still bring yourself to destroy these Gems? She was shattered by a Rose Quartz! The entire cut of Gem deserves the same fate!
Blue Diamond
But they were hers.
They should be wiped out of existence, not kept safe in bubbles!
Blue Diamond
Yellow, she made them. This is all we have left of her. These Gems, this place, and the Earth.
I thought we agreed we need to put that planet and this whole debacle behind us.
Blue Diamond
Why can't you just let me grieve?
You can't keep coming here forever!
Blue Diamond
Why not?!
[sighs; to her Pearl] Pearl, do something. Sing for her. Make her feel better.
Yes, my Diamond. Ahem. [turns to Blue Pearl] Ahem!
My Diamond. My gracious, wondrous, luminous, lustrous Diamond…sss? [gasps in surprise as she notices Yellow Diamond] Oh, my! It's truly an honor to bask in your radiance…ses.
[clears throat] Yes, of course. My deepest apologies. You'll be pleased to know that your Sapphire has completed your special delivery.
Blue Diamond
What special delivery?
Um, the special delivery you requested from Earth, of course.
Blue Diamond
I never asked any Sapphire to go to Earth.
I… Um… [nervously starts freezing up]
[whispering] Oh, no! She's freezing up!
My…future vision foresaw you, my Diamond, desiring more…humans for the zoo. So I…acted accordingly.
Blue Diamond
It's true. The window preserving Earth's specimens is closing.
[Steven sighs in relief]
Is that what you want? Sapphire, has the Cluster emerged yet?
Then there's still time. That will be all. [claps twice]
PZProsecuting Zircon
Defending a rebel? Isn't that… treason? [chuckles]
[Blue and Yellow Pearl warp in]
All rise for the luminous Yellow Diamond! [poses]
And the lustrous Blue Diamond. [bows]
[Blue and Yellow Diamond warp in behind them and stare down at Steven]
Blue Diamond
[looking around] Where is the accused?
[looks down at Steven] Is that Rose Quartz? Look at this hideous she's taken. Forget the trial, we should shatter just for looking like that.
Blue Diamond
No. I want to hear her make her case. I want to know what she thinks we're going to do with her. Because I want to do something worse.
[Steven gulps nervously]
[warps in their throne chairs] Fine. Let's just get on with it, shall we?
Before I start my very... uh, thought-out defense, I'd like to remind the court that Rose Quartz did turn herself in.
The court remembers, and the court does not care.
Uh, of course! Uh, in-innocent! Uh, the word innocent can mean, oh- many different things.
Blue Diamond
No! I want to hear what she has to say.
[muffled] Get us out of here, Steven!
[Steven is elevated up to the Diamonds' height]
State your name for the record, please.
I, um… I am Rose Quartz… and I'm guilty.
Wait! No, don't say that!
Everything you guys said I did, I did. And I did it by myself. I'm sorry. I'll accept any punishment you want to give me. [points down to Lars] Just let him go! And leave the Earth alone.
Ha! Sounds like a solid confession to me.
Blue Diamond
How? How did you do it? How did you shatter Pink Diamond?
[nervously] Um, well…I did it on Earth in front of Pink Diamond's palanquin. I was probably like "Stop!" And she was all like, "No!" So we fought -- I think. And she probably did some cool moves. I probably did some cool stuff, too, some jump-kicks and stuff. But I was most likely deeply conflicted about deciding to shatter her. Definitely crying. I probably had to use the Breaking Point to do it.
Blue Diamond
It was a sword! [covers her eyes, crying and a blue light fills the room, making everyone except Lars tear up] You… shattered her…with a sword! [starts sobbing]
[walks up and comforts Blue; coldly to Steven] That's quite enough testimony from you! We shall take a short recess.
[Back in the Waiting Room…]
What are you saying in there?! "Maybe" this, "probably" that! Oh, what do you mean, probably?!
Look I just... I don't actually know how it happened, okay?
[grabs Steven by the shirt collar and picks him up] Don't tumble my rocks! Both our gems are on the line! Did you do this or not?!
It was me, alright! [Defense Zircon let's go of his shirt and drops him] Rose Quartz did it, and I've got her gem, so I'm the one who's got to pay for this.
You don't know how it happened. [Steven shakes his head] I get it. There's a reason they want you to explain how you did it.
It's because it doesn't make sense!
Blue Diamond, for the purpose of this argument, may I present your palanquin?
Blue Diamond
Isn't it? Please, proceed. [waves up her hand, warping in her palanquin]
Now, as the records show, Pink Diamond was shattered just outside a palanquin, much like this. Witnesses said, Pink had stepped out and had only taken a few steps forward when Rose attacked her from the front. The question no one seems to be asking is… How?
Blue Diamond
I've been asking that question.
Blue Diamond
But this is what you wanted.
[wakes up and gasps; turns to see Lapis is missing] Lapis? [faces forward and sees the silhouettes of Pink, Blue, and Yellow Diamond]
Blue Diamond
You begged us for a colony of your own, and now all you want to do is be rid of it. First there were too many organics. Then their cities were too difficult to dismantle, and-and now these Crystal Gems? We're tired of your excuses, Pink.
Blue Diamond
This Rose Quartz can't hurt you. You can't be swayed by a few unruly Gems. [holds her hand up in front of Pink Diamond's face, halting her as she's about to speak] Enough! You must understand, you are a Diamond. Everyone on this planet is looking to you. You don't even have to do anything. Just smile and wave. Show everyone you're unfazed by this little uprising. Your Gems will fall into line, and these Crystal Gems will be no more. As long as you are there to rule, this colony will be completed.
[While the Cluster and Yellow Diamond's ship engage in an arm wrestling, Blue Diamond emerges from her ship as it faces Steven and the others in front of the temple]
Guess it's time to work the old Universe charm.
Alright, I'll just... be in here. [goes inside the house]
Blue Diamond
Rose Quartz. So you escaped Homeworld and crawled back here. [raises her head, angrily crying with tears of grief] This is Pink's world! How dare you use it as your hiding place?! COME! Answer for what you've done!
This is bad! This is bad! This is bad! This is bad!
Come on, you rocks! Let's put her in a bubble!
PAPearl, Amethyst & Garnet
Right!
Wait, there's no reason to fight. Let me talk to her. [approaches Blue Diamond to try and reason with her] Blue Diamond, please listen to me! I didn't shatter Pink Diamond. Pink Diamond's right here. It's pretty interesting when you think about it--
Blue Diamond
ENOUGH! [hurls an energy blast at Steven, knocking him back, only for Alexandrite to catch him]
Blue Diamond
You cannot fathom how much I've mourned, what thousands of years of grief has done to me! [unleashes her aura, de-fusing Alexandrite, making everyone fall on their knees and tear up, except Connie]
Blue Diamond
I know this sword. This is the sword THAT SHATTERED HER! [destroys the sword as Steven gasps, which made Connie fall down only to be caught by Lion] You deserve this-- all of you!
I don't know. She won't listen, she just wants to fight!
Blue Diamond
Who are you supposed to be?
I am the will of two Gems to care for each other, to protect each other from any threat, no matter how vast or how cruel. You couldn't stop me 5,750 years ago, and you can't stop me now!
Blue Diamond
It's you, that Ruby and Sapphire that disrupted my court.
This is supposed to be MY day!
Blue Diamond
You hope to defeat me by clinging to my feet?
I just needed to keep you from taking three steps to the right.
Blue Diamond
[freeing herself from the wreckage of the barn Lapis dropped on her] Lapis Lazuli. Does every Gem that comes in contact with this planet turn traitor?! [unleashes her aura again, making everyone (including Connie) fall to their knees and tear up] What?
[wipes off a single tear from her eye] I've felt worse. [uses her hydrokinesis powers to chain Blue Diamond's hands with water shackles] Knock her off this beach!
Now's our chance! With all our strength together, we can take her down!
That's right! This is our home, our planet, our friends and family! We are the Crystal Gems!
Blue Diamond
[breaks free from the water shackles] Pathetic! You are NOTHING!
[through her thoughts] How miserable. I knew Pink couldn't handle her own colony. But, I gave in. And now, I'm to blame for her fate.
Ah, her thoughts are too strong!
Blue Diamond
[through her thoughts] What good will any of this do? The more I make these Gems suffer, the more I long to see you again, Pink.
We can't just hand Steven over to Blue Diamond, she's a shatterer!
She's not gonna hurt him, look at her. She really thinks he's one of them.
[sobbing loudly] Somebody make Blue Diamond stop!
It's just… [sniffles] Blue Diamond's power. She's obviously relieved that Pink Diamond wasn't shattered after all.
[Yellow Diamond tries to reactive her ship but fails]
Hmm. How could you do this to us, Pink? Why did you let us think you were shattered? Why the strange disguise? Why are you doing a voice? Why didn't you say something at the trial?! And Blue, could you please stop crying? I can't see. [wipes her tears, splashing the Gems]
Blue Diamond
Sorry. [sets Steven down]
My mom kept it secret from everyone.
What are you talking about?
Well, apparently, Mom… Oh, geez. You don't know what a mom is. Okay, Pink Diamond took the form of Rose Quartz permanently after faking her shattering. Then, Rose Quartz gave up that form to create a new life with my dad-- me. Rose passed her gemstone and some of her powers onto me, but that's all. I-I don't have any of Pink or Rose's memories. I'm sorry.
Hmm. I'm sure your memories are in there somewhere, Pink.
Actually, I go by "Steven."
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