#isnt that just swell ~ [ alt spinel rps ]

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The cocoon of thorns completely encased the fusion, making the cocoon starting to form the shape of any egg. The sound of sobbing muffled through the vines, before the plants were thick enough to mask the sound completely. The sound of thunder boomed in the distance but it didn't bother the fusion inside the egg like cocoon.

Inside the mindscape, Human Steven was sobbing distraught. Gem Steven focused on the other trying his best to comfort his mourning brother. "Steven... I'm sorry about all of this... I I should never have made that stupid message to the galaxy if if I had just taken up the mantle of Pink Diamond like I was supposed to, we would have never been in this mess." Gem Steven replied rubbing the others back. Human Steven turned to the other, his sad expression morphing into one of anger, "Steven, would you stop blaming yourself for once in your life! I was so excited for you to get him... I'm happy I managed to get everyone's memories back but... it's not your fault... it's her fault" Gem Steven looked at his brother confused. "I gave her all my time, all my energy, I did my best to help her feel better about standing in the garden for 6000 years. I was so patient with her. I tried my best trying to be fair, to be nice... you were right... not everyone deserves that kindness." Human Steven's voice got darker, "she took away Connie's future... so now all she's going to do is live in a hell of her own creation."

The cracks between the vines of the egg shaped cocoon glowed with a vibrant bright pink glow. The egg had grown bigger and bigger before bursting into an explosion of roses, thorns and shredded vines. The gem on the fusion was no longer looked like the normal rotation of a round gem, the gem was rotated now showing the full size of the diamond gem embedded in their body. The large fusion stood up on his two feet, the clothes he was wearing stretched and torn to accommodate his bigger size only covering the upper part of their chest while a new pair of arms was coming out of the sides of their abdomen and they were unhindered by clothing.

Instead of standing at the height of an average Quartz solider the fusion stood the same height of Pink Diamond, dwarfing Spinel as now he was twice as tall as she was. The fusion sported pink skin, their hair no longer dual tone, now it was one solid light pink and the very tip of their large mane of light pink hair stopped at the knees. His eyes were fixed on Spinel, his breathing heavy. His mouth dripping with salvia due to not being about to properly close their jaw. Gem Steven looked over, "Alright, I gotta say I'm not sure how I feel about the energy but how do you suppose we do that?" "Just follow my lead." Human Steven replied, his arms lifting up. Gem Steven following the others lead. The two of them stared at each other, the pink eyes of the fusion's pupils changed now both of them a deep crimson red. The fusion's face soften and they extended both pairs of arms for the other as an apology? Spinel dropping her weapon to the side went in close for the hug. Perhaps she had been seen that she had gone to far and was accepting the hug as a truce? Or perhaps she thought that Pink had finally returned to her by mentally breaking her sons and now they could finally be together. "Steven, why are we giving her a hug?" "We're not hugging her... we're just getting her close enough to do this."

The fusion in one big swift movement, opened their dropping wet maw, revealing their two sets of teeth. Spinel looking up, realizing the trap she had just walked into, "oh fuu--" The fusion took a large chomp out of Spinel's form ripping her stretchy body to shreds causing her physical form to finally poof, the gemstone now in their maw and the massive fusion proceeded the chew on the gemstone in their mouth until it was practically a powder that turned into a thick paste, before they gave a thick gulp.

The fusion was brought back to the moment at hand by the thundering and lightening happening around them. Their eyes went back to the balanced form of normal. Black diamond pupil and white star pupil. The fusion had scooped up Connie's lifeless halves into the second pair of arms, carefully packing her organs into the cheeseburger backpack being extra careful that the majority of her corpse was in their trusty backpack. She deserved a proper burial even if it was going to be on Homeworld.

"Garnet!... Amethyst!... Pearl!!" He called out as he continued walking with picking up Connie's sword as well as the family's sword and bubbled them putting them into their gemstone. In the mindscape. "Ok, we gotta find Lion and Dad and get out of here, we can explain what happened with Connie and Spinel once we get to homeworld." Gem Steven replied, "... Steven?" "Connie..." He muttered, as he was holding a swarm of butterflies taking Connie's shape in his arms. "Alright, I guess I'll go find Dad and Lion and comfort you when we get to Homeworld when we're safe and sound." Gem Steven replied seeing how his brother was withdrawing in the fusion after what had happened to Connie, he didn't blame him, if he had seen Sadie like that he would be devastated. His breath hitched as he had realized that Sadie was at Beach-a-Palooza but he never got to see her play, not as himself anyway. He shook his head, "Focus Universe you got Lion and Dad to find."

"Must've warped." Mega Steven continued trying to look for Lion since he wouldn't leave them behind, nor would he be able to use the warp pad without them, seeing Lion in the distance as they ran closer hopping another gap while the lower arms had held on to Connie making sure she didn't fall out of the backpack, clinging for dear life. As Mega Steven landed gracefully against the ground, he heard the familiar sounds of his father. "Dad!!" He called out looking around for the source of Greg's struggling noises.

#whats my mission ~ [ gem steven rps ] #cheeseburger backpack ~ [ human steven rps ] #dear old dad ~ [ alt greg rps ] #isnt that just swell ~ [ alt spinel rps ] #trusty pink floof ~ [ alt lion rps ] #erisdiamas

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The butterflies continued their swarming around them, unseen by the memories in the moment, who continued their conversation. "Connie, you can't be serious." His pupils white reflecting the worry in his human half. "This is stupidly dangerous, how the fuck are you expecting to pull that move off with a gem that's made of fucking taffy?" The pupils switching to black to represent the doubt in the gem half, the movement in their stance caused a severe pain to wave through their body, the gemstone nearly half away out of his form. He groaned in pain, doubled over, but fighting through the pain through his breathing techniques. "Squared..." She held his face squishing his cheeks, having them both focus on her, reflected in their balanced black diamond and white star pupils. "I'm dead serious about this. The world is actively dying, you know we can't waste time with an argument over my sake... just let me do this for you, Steven. I promise you we can make it out of this mess together " She gave the other that same warm smile that just beamed with energy to calm them down and helped them not worry as much. Squared looked deep into her eyes, not a hint of doubt on her end. Every word of it was true, so they had to take the chance. He gave in, Connie had a plan, and he put all his trust into her. He nodded, summoning a shield. "Ready when you are." Spinel was cackling off to the side as she peeled herself off the ground, took a deep breath and blew into her thumb and inflated herself back to normal with an audible pop. She was on her feet ready for another round of fun, seeing the other two put their plan into action. The fusion flung the shield directly at Spinel, who yawned as a taunt, the same old moves as before, they must be running out of material, however she turned confused, watching it fly past her. The fusion taking the chance, and throwing a second shield as Connie charged at Spinel as well, then took a leap off the second shield as Spinel turned around, shouting at the fusion, "Ya missed!" Spinel noticed sparkles from a freshly dissipated shield, then saw a shadow getting bigger as Connie had her sword above her head ready to slice the gem straight down the middle. "But I won't." Spinel replied with a twisted smile, pulling a ball of light out of her gemstone, as Connie grew closer. The light formed into a pair of garden sheers, a pink diamond shaped gem embedded at the hinges, and before the human or the fusion had known what would happen. Spinel opened the sheers, thrusting forward into Connie's midriff. Connie gasped in pain. Steven Squared tried to speed up as he had done before, but the pain from his dislocated gemstone brought them to their knees. Then with one large clang of the handles as they rammed into each other so the blades would cut. There was a light cling of the sword, the thump of Connie's lower half followed by a second thump of Connie's upper half as she had lost momentum and fell to the ground. She was in shock, her body pouring out more and more blood onto the grey dead grass of their small chunk of Earth they called their battle field. "Eegh, you humans don't exactly poof, do you?" Spinel replied with disgust as she rung herself out like a sponge to get the excess blood off herself. The sound of the butterflies flying over head, surrounding them in the moment. The beating of their collective wings sounding like the thunderstorm echoing throughout the memory. The fusion's legs gave out from under them, they fell to their knees, with a sobbing shout. "CONNIE!" His voice full of deep regret, and sorrow. His eyes burning up as big globs of tears beaded up under his sad eyes. (1/?)

#a delicate balancing act ~ [ fused steven rps ] #strawberry knight ~ [ alt connie rps ] #isnt that just swell ~ [ alt spinel rps ] #erisdiamas #tw character death #tw blood #tw death

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Raspberry Tart watched as Steven went outside with Spinel, the gems had fully put their trust him to fix things. The sound of heavy metal music had gained his attention.

Steven and Spinel had passed the van that was rocking back and forth, there was loud heavy metal music playing and through the door that was swaying with the music, long pink curls were moving in large waves as Rose was head banging appreciating the music as a human would. Steven was smiling as he walked with Spinel to the injector, Peridot, and Bismuth confused as to why she was ok to be free now that she remembered who she was, but decided if she wasn't harming Steven in that moment it was best not to call it out, in fact, Bismuth had noticed that Pearl and the others hadn't come out quite yet and went to go see if there was a plan for if this all went up in smoke. Then it was just Steven and Spinel, no other bystander's insight. Spinel looked back at Steven, with a deep breath, "Here we are... Steven, you said that I could have a second chance on Earth right?" "Yea, of course. I know the gems didn't give you the warmest reception, but you do have to remember they need sometime to process you're changing for the better too." He smiled. "Right... but what about after I stop the injector... and you get what you want... how do I know you're not going to reset me again..." She asked. "Well, I did that out of self defense before, and I believe you can change... I know you can turn this around Spinel... and..." He replied, paused calling for Lion again, Spinel stepping back knowing how the Lion would tackle Steven with nothing but love like she had seen him do before. Steven went out to take the rejuvinator out of Lion's mane, the sight of the device in his hands made her tense, she watched him like a hawk assuming that he was going to reset her once this was all over, she went to open her mouth, but Steven continued, "As a show of my faith in you." He extended the device and slammed the rejuvinator over his knee and broke the rejuvinator in two pieces they crackled with energy before fizzling out on the ground. "I'm not going to reset you... you deserve to have a second chance with all your memories to know how much you've grown and changed as a person." He smiled. Spinel stared at him, she almost couldn't believed what she saw, he really wasn't like his mother, he really meant what he had sung up in the garden and that wasn't just some catchy tune to convince her. Rose had finally grown tired from all the headbanging in the van, turning the music off, going to see how Steven was doing after his meal since she was still heavily worried about him from before. She looked over to the gems inside unsure of what they were talking about but seeing Steven was absent from the table, and turned to look out near the injector. her eyes set sights on Spinel, she looked more menacing than the little heart clad form she had been sporting for most of the day. Rose like the gems before had assumed that Spinel had reverted to her old personality, and she wasn't about to let Spinel hurt Steven, she summoned the family sword, Greg unable to stop his reset son from charging out of the van at a fast pace.

#why now ~ [ raspberry tart rps ] #cheeseburger backpack ~ [ human steven rps ] #isnt that just swell ~ [ alt spinel rps ] #welcome to earth ~ [ alt rose rps ] #dear old dad ~ [ alt greg rps ] #erisdiamas #sorry for the wait

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@erisdiamas | Continued

Raspberry Tart looked over toward to the younger one with a simple nod. She wanted to see everything, so everything she'll get, he only hopes that she'd wake up thinking it was because she ate so soon before bed, or it was due to the heat of sleeping on the couch, instead of in a room with A.C.

Human Steven was right by Spinel's side. "Alright, you've got this." "You say that so easily, how do you know everyone's so willing to forgive and forget." "Well, usually the first step to solving a problem is admitting you had a problem in the first place." Human Steven encouraged. Meanwhile, Greg had taken the rejuvenated Gem Steven in the form of Rose, wearing Gem Steven's trademark clothing, which a similar outfit he changed into earlier in the day, toward the carwash to listen to music away from the rest of the bunch so Steven could focus on Spinel. However, Rose was getting increasingly worried about him, "Greg, I've had a wonderful time listening to music with you, but I'm worried about Steven... he seems stressed out and I wanna do my best to alleviate that stress." Rose mentioned. Before Greg could convince her other wise, she sped off home leaving pink molten footprints in the pavement as she headed toward the temple. Rose had slowed to a halt seeing Steven talking to Spinel but not being able to make a word out of what they were saying, but the fact she looked like she was covered in spikes put her on the offensive seeing her shift her fingers into a giant horn. Rose swiftly summoned her shield and sword, and sliced Spinel without hesitation, causing Spinel to poof and retreat into her gem. Before Rose was able to check if Steven was ok. The once calm Steven to turn bright pink growing to match her size in height. "What in the actual FUCK were you thinking?" Human Steven asked but putting a finger to Rose's mouth before she could let out a word, "No, shut up. That was a rhetorical question. I already know what you're thinking, it's what everyone's always thinking about me for years now, 'Oh, I hope Steven's ok, after all he's only a fragile little human, he couldn't hope to defend himself'" He exhaled through his nose continuing, "From the moment you all got rejuvenated, I was working my ASS off to try and fix this mess, that YOU caused. I've spent my entire childhood cleaning up after all of the shit YOU left behind... my brother solely wanted to shield me from it all..." He started tearing up, remembering when Gem Steven had unfused them and throwing him off the ship into the water with everyone else. "But you can't just tossing me out the ship like garbage every single time you think it's too dangerous for me." The tears in his eyes dripping down his cheeks, "I'm not this frail sick child any more... I can handle myself. Now I've gotta apologize to Spinel for you just attacking without any reason." He replied turning to Spinel's gem on the ground. Rose paused, "Steven, I..." "Just go... I can handle myself." His words cold, his tone stinging with a familiar anger. Rose was quiet before turning to head toward the house in quiet, slowly making her way back to the temple, in hopes of maybe trying to understand how to help Steven feel better after all this was over.

#why now ~ [ raspberry tart rps ] #cheeseburger backpack ~ [ human steven rps ] #isnt that just swell ~ [ alt spinel rps ] #dear old dad ~ [ alt greg rps ] #welcome to earth ~ [ alt rose rps ]

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Raspberry Tart huffed as he knew there was another song from the pink gem. If Gem Steven were witness to this memory, he wondered if this would lessen the rage toward Spinel, or further reinforce it.

"Wh-what about this place do you remember, Spinel?" He asked holding her shoulder to show he was right by her side... hoping that she'd understand that he was doing his best to show his care and support to the gem that reset his family back to square one, after all she's upset, and he wants to know what caused it. "This was a special place, just for Pink and I." She replied, happily reminiscing, "She used to come here to spend time with me, talk about her day... over time when she got her colony she visited less and less often." Spinel replied, looking down. "... ok... i'm right here if you need a shoulder to cry on, or a hug." He offered. Spinel took a breath shaking her head, she needed to get it out of her head, her gem glowing showing the hologram of her memories much like Pearl. "Here in the garden, let’s play a game, I’ll show you how it’s done." The hologram of Pink, while the hologram of Spinel replied, "this’ll be so much fun!" Spinel now talking to Steven in her sing song voice, "And then she smiled, that’s what I’m after, the smile in her eyes, the sound of her laughter, happy to listen, happy to play, happily watching her... drift away" She sighed the hologram showing a calendar flipping through pages and pages "Happily waiting, all on my own, under the endless sky, counting the seconds standing alone as thousands of years go by..." The garden in the hologram aging while Spinel, just stood there in the same position for years on end, the garden unkempt, roots keeping her in the place she hadn't moved in years, her heart shaped buns drooping sadly, the little cute fasteners dropped from her hair and on to the floor, yet she still had a smile on her face. "Happily wondering, night after night, is this how this works? Am I doing it right? Happy to listen, happy to stay, happily watching her ... drift away." Steven frowned watching the other walk away from him the hologram before them fizzing out, he made sure to follow the other as she sang her somber song. "You keep on turning pages, for people who don’t care, people who don’t care about you." Spinel giving Steven a withered flower, as she continued her song. "And still it takes you ages, to see that no one’s there, see that no one’s there, see that no one’s there, everyone’s gone on without you." Steven muttering under his breath, "we are in a dome out in space... where did that gust of wind come from??" He paused, shaking his head, looking over to Spinel as she continued. "Finally something, finally news, about how the story ends..." The communicator that sat on the pedestal, fizzled back to life playing the message from before announcing Gem Steven's stepping down as Pink Diamond and a little promo for little homeschool. "She doesn’t exist now survived by her son and all of her brand new friends... Isn’t that lovely? Isn’t that cool? And isn’t that cruel?! And aren’t I a fool to have, happily listened, happy to stay, happily watching her" Spinel's gem glowed, the heart flipping upside down as she continued singing, "driiiift, driiiift, driiiiiiiiift, away." She huffed her form, her hair unfurled into their more wild pigtails, her round puffed sleeves turned into longer spiked ones, the little hearts on her gloves popped up into spikes... her outfit growing darker to match her more upset and bitter look on life. "Oh Spinel.... I can't believe mom would do that to you... ehh, actually I can... she was really stupid and didn't really think things all the way through.... I'm sorry that this happened to you." Spinel turned to him, sniffling, "Well, now you got me here.... I suppose you want to keep me here like your mother would have wanted... use your plant powers to keep me chained up here." (1/?)

#why now ~ [ raspberry tart rps ] #cheeseburger backpack ~ [ human steven rps ] #your new bestfriend ~ [ alt baby spinel rps ] #isnt that just swell ~ [ alt spinel rps ] #erisdiamas