[as Steven, Greg, and the Crystal Gems try to stealthily file past her] It's a shame, though. This outpost is so remote, I was beginning to think we'd been forgotten. But we haven't! Two diamonds, one day! What an honor! I don't think anything can spoil this for me! [turns and catches the group frozen while boarding the Roaming Eye] What… is… THE MEANING OF THIS?! [the Quartz soldiers appear to watch in the doorway watching behind her] Why are these two outside the containment area?!
SapphireHolly Blue, I can explain…
No need, your Clarity. Not even you could have forseen how incompetent these Amethysts are. Well, if you want something done right... [summons an electrified whip from her gem in the back of her head] you just do it yourself. [to Steven and Greg] You two are coming with me! [swings her electric whip at the, but Sapphire and Ruby fuse into Garnet and catch it, stunning her and the Quartz soldiers]
SGSteven and Greg
Garnet!
Steven, get Greg on board.
[Pearl severs Holly Blue Agate's whip. Amethyst catches it and wraps her up with it to the amusement of the Quartz soldiers]
[approaches Holly Blue Agate, summons her right gauntlet] I've been waiting to do this all day... [hits Holly Blue Agate with her left hand, knocking her down]
[to the Quartz soldiers laughing at her] What are you doing?! They're traitors! Destroy them!
[kisses and waves to the Quartz soldiers] Famethyst for life!
[as the whip fades] I'll report you to the Diamonds! All of you! You'll all be shattered!
You're really going to tell the Diamonds that you allowed a band of traitorous rebels to infiltrate a highly secure facility and escape from right under your careful watch? [inhales sharply] Doesn't sound like a wise thing to do, Holly Blue. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut. That will be all.
[Holly Blue groans in misery while the Quartz soldiers wave their goodbyes to the Crystal Gems as they take off and leave the zoo]
Thanks so much for coming to get me. That has to be, like, the third craziest weekend I've ever had.
Dad, I'm really sorry I got you into all this. This whole thing started 'cause… I wanted answers.
You don't have to be sorry about a thing. I hope you found what you were looking for.
[shaking and slowly gets up] Rose. She... She... [struggles to stay stable and defuses into Ruby and Sapphire]
Sapphire
[betrayed with anger] SHE LIED TO US! She lied about EVERYTHING! [freezes up the floor] She held our hands, looked us right in the eyes and told us to never question who we are as Garnet. We never questioned ourselves, or her!
Sapphire
No! You couldn't have known. You never know what's going on. That's what I'm for!
Sapphire
But I never looked into her, I trusted her. I let her make fools of us all! [storms over to the warp pad]
Please! We can just stay calm and-- and talk about this, right? Let's just talk!
Sapphire
Talk about what? How our relationship is based on a lie? What else is there to say? [warps away to Rose's Fountain]
Sapphire
[grieving with sorrow] Everything we were running from, she was right there all along. Using us for her little war. Smiling at us with those knowing eyes... Making me believe in a better future that I couldn't see, because it wasn't real. And now here we are, our friends, shattered, and corrupted! Of course she was a Diamond. What a long road she took, to torture us like this.
It wasn't like that. You know she didn't want anyone to get hurt.
Sapphire
I don't know that! I clearly don't know anything.
You deserve to know everything. I was given to Pink Diamond just a few thousand years before she was given the Earth. I was supposed to make her happy, I just... never could.
Is everything alright, my Diamond? You seem troubled.
All this life that's been growing wild here on Earth... none of it will survive my invasion. We're not creating life from nothing. We're taking life, and leaving nothing behind.
Forgive me, my Diamond. I shouldn't have brought you to such a place.
No. I needed to see this.
[scene shifts back to the fountain]
So she did want to protect Earth. She didn't realize what the colony was doing to the planet.
Sapphire
So what?! She suddenly started to care about Earth? Why did she have to rope us into all this? Why couldn't she just stop the colonization herself?
She tried. When she told the other Diamonds she didn't want to go through with the colony, they told her to finish what she started. When she told the other Diamonds she wanted to preserve life on Earth, they created the zoo and threw a handful of humans in. She did everything she could as Pink Diamond. But her status meant nothing to Blue and Yellow. So she decided to make a stand, as someone they couldn't ignore. She was going to scare every Gem off the planet. But everything changed when she saw... your fusion.
Before Garnet, Rose was only fighting for Earth. But Garnet changed everything. Rose wanted to fight for her, she wanted to fight for Gems! And maybe she was foolish, and maybe even...selfish, but she was-
Sapphire
Following us.
Sapphire
This whole time, we thought we were following her, but she was following us. How could she not after you swept her off her feet?
Sapphire
[picks up Ruby's letter to her and reads it] "Sapphire, you were right. I need some time to think. So I'm running away. Ruby." This can't be happening! [starts tearing up] Oh, Ruby! I'm so sorry! You left before I could take back all the horrible things I said to you!
Well, Amethyst was with her. Right? Maybe she knows where she went.
[They look up and see Amethyst, laying on Steven's bed and playing a video game]
Amethyst, have you seen Ruby?
Yeah. I've seen her. She asked me for a pen and paper a while ago. Why?
Because she ran away! Did you see where she went?
I don't know. Maybe she'll come back. It's not my job to babysit her.
Sapphire
Ruby! [quickly runs off the porch and approaches her] Ruby, I'm so sorry! I should have never said those awful things to you!
[spits out the wheat grass from her mouth] Pt'ooey! Naw, you were right. [jumps off Horse Amethyst] Someone else told us we were the answer. But… I don't believe that anymore. At least, not 'til I hear it from you. [kneels down] Sapphire… Will you marry me?
So, my Dad will finish playing the music, and then next you'll do the "I do's." And then I'll say… "I now pronounce you Garnet." And then you fuse! Everyone will cheer!
Sapphire
Everyone... who survived.
Sapphire
Oh, it's just… There's so many old friends who won't be able to come. All the Crystal Gems who were corrupted and bubbled in the basement.
Maybe we could bring the bubbles up here?
Sapphire
No, no. It's not safe. We can't risk them getting out.
Hey everyone. Did you guys… "Bis-mith" me?
[Pearl, Sapphire, Ruby and Amethyst drop their sodas simultaneously]
Ha! I win! Also, less importantly, who are you?
I… invited Bismuth! I hope that's cool.
Sapphire
[slowly walks up to her] Bismuth. [hugs her]
PRPearl and Ruby
Bismuth! [tackle her to the floor, and begin nuzzling her]
Sapphire
You wouldn't believe what we've all been through. I'm so sorry! We should've-
Look, I'm right there with you, Steven filled me in.
So, is anyone going to introduce me?
Let's give 'em some space.
Dearly beloved Gems, humans, lions big and small, living gourds, Onion, we are gathered here today to celebrate Ruby and Sapphire, two of my favorite people, who combine into one of my other favorite people! You all probably know her as Garnet. She's their love, given form. Now it's your turn to talk about that.
I know this is all kind of silly, I mean, we've been together for 5,750 years.
Sapphire
And eight months.
I used to feel like I wasn't much good, just one of me on my own. But when we're together, it feels like it's okay to just be me. So I wanna be me, with you, an-and, not even the Diamonds will come between us. And if they try, we'll beat 'em up!
Sapphire
Ruby, my future used to look like one single, obvious stream, unbending 'til the end of time. In an instant, you pulled me from that destiny and opened my eye to an explosion of infinite possible futures, streaking across space and time, altered and obliterated by the smallest force of will. [beat] What I mean is, you changed my life. And then, I changed your life. And now, we changed our lives.
[gently bumps Bismuth] Hey, Bismuth, that's your cue.
[Bismuth, touched and crying by the vows, approaches them with the rings]
Ruby, do you take this Gem to have and to hold, on this and every other planet in the universe!?
Sapphire
Yes.
[whispering] You didn't let me finish.
Sapphire
I'm just very excited.
Then by the power vested in me by the state of Delmarva, I now pronounce you… Garnet!
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