[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!
No! You're wrong!
What do you mean? It's perfect. Look at it!
We are looking at it.
Yeah, this plan stinks!
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—
[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.
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