A/N: Wanted to make a proper Lapis Lazuli chapter, although it turned out that Rose didn't have that much to do with it after all. I guess they can't all be winners. Hope you enjoy it!

Amethyst's eyes widened when the Crystal Gems find themselves at the Galaxy Warp, formerly a hub for all instant intergalactic transportation. Now it sits in the middle of the ocean, protruding out of the sea floor like a massive mountain, desolate and inactive for what could've been millennia by now.

"Wow, how come you guys have never brought me here before?" she gasped as she scrambled off the terrestrial Warp Pad they arrived on and began to explore the place with desperately curious eyes.

"Because we really never had any use for it," Rose said softly as she dragged Amethyst away from the edge of the Galaxy Warp, where she certainly could've plummeted off into the ocean. "We've dedicated our lives to keeping humanity safe from the mistakes we made and I don't like to think of the things that could happen if we ever left."

"But if this place worked, where could we have gone?" Amethyst asked, darting from the Warp Pad to Warp Pad, jumping on each of them activate them to no avail. Yet her gleeful smile never left her face.

"Well, anywhere that could've been a Gem colony," Pearl reminisced. "There were many places I remembered before I became free. They overflowed with Gem culture and architecture, far more than what we have on Earth since this place wasn't even a fraction complete before we intervened. But they were certainly beautiful—"

"And were even more beautiful before our kind invaded it and stripped away all life from all its former inhabitants," Rose interrupted, a suddenly stern look in her eyes. She never wanted visualize another Gem colony in her mind ever again, not even if it was from Pearl.

The white Gem blushed before apologizing. "I-I'm sorry, Rose! I didn't mean to be so insensitive!"

"I know you didn't mean to," Rose replied, looking down towards the floor. "But now I can't stop thinking that the Homeworld Empire is still flourishing without us to stop them, and that there a million more planets like Earth getting their life drained away for such a toxic group of leaders."

"We can't do everything, no matter how hard we try," Garnet said wistfully, placing a hand on Rose's shoulder for comfort. "We kept one planet safe and that's already the biggest achievement against the Diamonds. That's all we can do for now."

Suffocating silence overtook them for a moment until Amethyst's voice broke through.

"Can we look for cool stuff?" she asked cheerfully, oblivious to all the tragedy in the air.

"That's not what we came here for, Amethyst," Pearl scolded. "We need to test the Warp Pads in case one of them has become active over the years."

"I don't think we need to worry about that for a long time," Rose said, her gaze flicking around their surroundings. Every Warp Pad she looked at was damaged somehow, by the fleeing Homeworld Gems to make sure that the Crystal Gems wouldn't escape Earth and spread their rebellion elsewhere, to make sure they would all be trapped on Earth as a punishment for destroying Pink Diamond.

"Come on, Pearl!" Amethyst squealed in glee, dragging the white Gem by the arm and immediately began her search for treasure. At first Pearl appears to be irritated but her face softens when she sees just how much her younger comrade is delighted by everything she sees. Plus, it gives her a chance to educate her about Gem culture.

"She really does care about her," Rose sighed with a smile on her face. She remembered how startled and apprehensive Pearl was about Amethyst at first but now they have grown accustomed to living with each other.

"They wouldn't be if you weren't here," Garnet replied, an unreadable expression on her face. "Without you, they wouldn't know how to function."

"Don't say it like that," Rose scolded, a little wounded at such an accusation. "I can trust all of you to take care of yourselves if I ever left."

All Garnet did in reply was hum.

"I think I actually found something," Pearl's voice suddenly snapped through the idyllic peace of the surrounding sea, surprised.

"Oh cool, it's a pretty mirror!" Amethyst cried, snatching it out of Pearl's hands and holding it up to her face, almost peering inside, only to get a startling close-up of her eye.

"Amethyst, if this thing has found itself here then it's certainly not a regular mirror," Pearl cried, taking it back.

Rose took a closer inspection of the mirror in Pearl's hands. It was silver in color and was intricately decorated with soft swirls. The glass reflected an almost blurry image of Rose herself.

But like Pearl said, it certainly wasn't ordinary. She could feel something when she looked at the mirror. A strange presence, like a flickering image that's barely tangible; it was screaming, shouting in anger. At what, Rose didn't know.

She tried to focus her attention at the mirror. She could certainly detect a voice in the air, desperately trying to make contact with the outside world. It's almost like the telephones humans use but only Rose was able to hear it. The rest of the Crystal Gems were completely unaware of what was happening.

Slowly, shakily, the voice made itself loud and clear.

It's you.

Why are you here?

What kind of protectors are you, leaving a Gem stranded here?

Do you even know who I am? Do you even care?

I don't even know why you're still intact. The Diamonds should've taken care of you.

It's your fault that I'm here. It's your fault I'm not home with everyone else.

You were the ones who started the war. You were the ones who pushed things too far. You were the ones who recruited HER into your group and let her attack me. I saw her attack multiple others as well. I bet they would agree with me when I say that that friend of yours is a monster.

But you're an even worst monster. Attacking your own kind for a million insignificant creatures that can't even live as long as us. All the things the Earth could've provided for us, you wasted it all for the sake of such meaningless lives.

Let me out of here. Let me out of here so I can go home, so I won't ever have to look at your treacherous faces ever again.

"Rose, are you okay?" Pearl shrieked, snapping Rose out of her thoughts. She opened her eyes to realize that she had collapsed onto the floor of the Galaxy Warp, her comrades surrounding her in worry.

"Yes, yes, I'm fine," Rose said shakily as she got back up on her knees. All the anger and spite radiating from the mirror must've been too powerful for Rose to handle. The Gem within there was deeply dangerous.

"What are we going to do with this?" Pearl asked, turning the mirror over and over in her hands. She peered at the teardrop-shaped gemstone embedded in the back of the glass. "I can't tell if she's inactive or not," she muttered, sending Rose a wave of relief.

She was certainly active, but she was dangerous. Rose could already imagine the possibilities of what could happen if they release her. She might try and summon the rest of Homeworld's armies, revealing to them that the Crystal Gems were still alive. She might try and attack them for what Bismuth did. She could shatter them for all Rose knew.

She glanced at Garnet, who was just as in deep thought. The look in the fusion's eyes notified Rose that all those things could happen and more. Pearl and Amethyst remained quite unaware of what was really happening.

"Pearl, in case we may need this one day," Rose ordered her, placing the mirror in her dainty hands. "Keep it in your gemstone for safekeeping. I hope I can trust you with that task."

"Of course you can!" the white Gem replied eagerly and in a flash of light, the adversary vanished from sight, away from the Crystal Gems and away from the outside world.

Rose could hear a faint voice echo in her gemstone before the Crystal Gems left the Galaxy Warp.

I should've expected that from a Gem like you.