Well shoot, no spoilers but I jumped the gun. Oh well, guess I'll make do when/if I come to that. It's nice to have Steven Universe back. It's also nice to have gotten out of my awful lease in my horrible living conditions I had this semester. This past semester was awful and I'm just glad its over. Knowing what's going on in the world right now, I figured I might as well continue the story now that I've got free time since I lost my job and my school closed and I'm in quarantine. Hope you're all safe. *POKEMON AND STEVEN UNIVERSE ARE NOT OWNED BY ME*

Ash wiped a few more tears off his face from Blue's outburst of joyous tears as she cradled Steven in her arms. With Blue distracted, he pulled Lapis's gem from his pocket and held it longingly. "Don't worry." he whispered to it "You're safe now."

"Oh Pink!" she exclaimed in happiness as she nuzzled him against her cheek "I can't believe it! You've been here all along!"

"Garnet, calm down!" Misty ordered as Brock and May had to both restrain the Gem.

Garnet wiped a tear away herself as she squirmed in the trainer's grip "I can't just hand Steven over to Blue Diamond. She's a shatterer!"

Bismuth put her hand on her shoulder "She's not gonna hurt him." She said through a sniffle "Just look at her. She really thinks he's one of them"

Amethyst pounded her fist down in frustration "Somebody make Blue Diamond stop!"

"Are you guys alright?" Connie asked with concern.

Pearl wiped her tears away gracefully "It's just Blue Diamond's power. She's obviously relieved that Pink Diamond wasn't shattered."

Just as promised, Blue was laughing happily as she cuddled Steven, who looked even more uncomfortable than Ash felt at that moment.

Across the wreckage of the house and the remains of the two ships, Yellow attempted to salvage her own ship. Her ship did levitate slightly, but ultimately fell to the ground. Annoyed, she turned her attention back to the others.

"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 anything during the trial? Whose gem did we give Giovanni?" as she joined Blue's side, she too began to tear up. "And Blue, can you please stop crying? I can't see." she wiped her eyes, splashing the gems with her enormous tear.

"Sorry." Blue sheepishly addressed her equal as she gently released Steven.

"My mom kept it secret from everyone." Steven answered.

Pearl cleared her throat attentively in resentment to that statement.

"Almost everyone."

"What are you talking about?" Yellow asked.

"Well, apparently Mom, oh geez you don't know what a mom is." Steven began to stammer, not knowing what to say.

Ash placed his hand on his shoulder in support, a way to say "I've got your back."

Steven looked up at him and smiled, his confidence renewed. "Okay! Pink Diamond took the form of Rose Quartz permanently and faked 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 don't have any of Pink or Rose's memories. I'm sorry."

"Oh," Ash spoke up "Somewhere between then she also met Arceus and foresaw all of this. That's where I fit in here I guess."

Yellow knelt down to look Steven in the eye with curiosity "I'm sure your memories are in there somewhere Pink."

"I actually go by Steven."

"But why are you guys even here?" Ash asked them "You got Xerneas and Yveltal. Why did you return for the Cluster in the first place? Where's Giovanni?"

Yellow scoffed "The pokemon are not in our possession. Giovanni gave them to Jasper. As for him, with his new power, he attempted to stage a coup and betray us. We put an end to that and captured him."

"The madman slaughtered his own troops." Blue spoke up "He was ready to do the same to us. We stopped it."

"And where's Jasper?"

"Jasper still believes Giovanni is Pink Diamond and blinded by loyalty. We don't know where she is, but tracking her is our top priority."

The news, though it angered him, relieved Ash knowing that for now his home world was safe.

Blue Diamond suddenly gasped in realization. "Oh stars! How did you even survive? We blasted the planet and obliterated every Gem on its surface."

Steven looked at them awkwardly. "They weren't exactly, obliterated."

The group led the two onto the warp pad, thankfully the giant hole in the house gave the giant women easy access to it. Warping, Ash was greeted to the familiar sight of the forest where the Centipeetles lived.

Steven opened the door and lured one of them outside with some Chaaaps chips. Ash looked up to see the Diamonds cringe at the uncomfortable sight as she slithered out and munched happily on her favorite snack.

"What am I looking at?" Yellow asked. "No one should've survived our attack."

"Centipeetle's mind is broken." Steven explained petting her "I've tried to heal her, but it didn't stick."

"Heal her?"

"Don't you remember?" Ash asked confused "When May and Dawn retrieved Jasper she was just like this. Clemont was able to heal her back to her current form."

"Uh," Clemont said stepping forward. "Homeworld's technology wasn't powerful enough to counter the corruption effect. I had to reconstitute nearly ten full restores with the robinoid's reperation goo. And that was just for one gem, we'd have to use millions to fix all of the corrupted gems."

Ash smacked his palm to his face "Of course it'll take that much."

Yellow rubbed her hands together "Very well, I can try. But I can make no promises." she said placing her massive palm on Centipeetle. The corrupted gem glowed and changed her form. As the light faded, standing before them, was a nearly completely healed Nephrite, with the exception of some more feathers. "There, good as new."

Nephrite turned to the others and hissed before dropping to the ground and flailing around as if she were still in her corrupted form.

Yellow looked down confused "She may be too far gone."

"Gently Yello." Blue said joining her in the attempt. She placed her hand onto Centipeetle. "There we are." she stated pleased with the outcome.

Centipeetle lowered her head, as tears began to flow down her gem in a full panic. "No! Please no! No! No! We're all gonna be-"

"Centi?"

"No, please!" she screamed in panic.

"Centi! It's okay! It's okay." Steven tried calming her before licking his hand and smacked her onto the back.

Centipeetle immediately perked her head up with consciousness. At the sight of the Diamonds, she saluted them with a determined and proud look on her face. "Nephrite! Faucet-413 Cabochon-12!" she exclaimed sending everyone into shock with the sudden awareness.

"W-w-w-what?" Amethyst asked.

"That's insane." Misty said through her shock.

Centipeedle saluted Yellow and Blue in her now conscious state "I'm sorry for my failure to heed my Hessonite's evacuation orders. My team and I tried our best to make it back before the attack, but…" she looked up to them finally with an excited expression. "...you're here and the attack must've worked! You finally avenged Pink Diamond! You destroyed Rose Quartz!"

The sudden change in her demeanor surprised them all, causing Steven and the Diamonds to pull away. The absence of their power resulted in Centipeedle returning to their corrupted form. Screeching in agony and fear, she huddled down as Steven and James both tried to comfort her.

"Um, Pink?" Yellow asked, still uncomfortable at the entire situation "How many perfectly adequate gems did you have us ruin?"

Blue put her finger up to shush her "Shh Yellow. Pink's been punished enough. She's been trapped in this awful planet with these, creatures." She gestured towards the corrupted gem as well as the pokemon trainers, resulting in an offended look from Misty, Dawn and Iris.

"Do it again! It was working!" Steven ordered them, too distracted to be offended.

"How long do you expect us to hold her together?"

"I don't know. Forever! You did this! So you have to do something!" Steven pleaded as Centi slipped from James's grip and retreated back into the ship taking the bag of chips with her.

"We can only do so much." Yellow shrugged "If it were the four of us."

Blue winced in fear "Oh no! We can't let her see this!"

"Who?" Ash asked confused "Who do we need?"

Yellow pinched her face in annoyance and frustration "Oh dear Chosen One-"

"His name is Ash, Yellow." Blue corrected her.

Yellow sighed "Fine, Ash, I cannot believe you, as the Chosen One haven't heard of White!"

Pearl winced in worry "W-White Diamond!"

"Oh come on," Misty cried out "There's another one?" she turned angrily at Clemont, May and Dawn. "You guys worked for them, when were you gonna tell us?"

"Cool it Misty." Brock urged.

Misty pouted in unhappy contempt.

"White Diamond isn't like us." Pearl explained "She isn't even like them. You have no idea what she's capable of."

"We can at least try to talk to her." Ash recommended.

Blue looked down at him unconvinced "I don't think you'd have that much luck with that. White hasn't left Homeworld in eons."

Steven stepped forward "Then we're going to Homeworld!"

"In what?" Yellow asked, still annoyed, "you and your friends destroyed our ships."

"And the warp pad to Homeworld is dismantled." Clemont added "It could take me weeks to reestablish the connection."

Blue thought for a second "Unless, you don't still have yours do you?"

With the group being too large for the warp pad, Ash, Steven, Pikachu, Garnet, Pearl, Bismuth, Yellow and Blue went first, with Amethyst staying behind with the others to keep the warp pad running. Ash thanked his lucky stars he was wearing a hat as the sweltering heat and blinding sun surrounded him as they appeared at the pile of old things Rose Quartz had left behind in the desert.

"This place is filled with Mom's junk, so there's a good chance it's buried around here!" Steven explained as he opened the gate and began scanning the area. "We can split up the area like a grid and divide the search. It's just past these pink pyramids."

Yellow and Blue both looked at him confused. Ash knew he wasn't the brightest trainer, but the look the Diamonds gave him and the color of the pyramids had him begin putting two and two together.

Steven, still not getting it, leaned his hand against the "pyramid". His touch illuminated the touch pad. "We've got a lot of deserts to cover. It may take a while, and be super really hot. But if we don't give up, I know we can find it!"

"Uh, Steven." Bismuth interrupted him, pointing at the pad.

He turned around with a gasp as the ground began to rumble. The pink, leg shaped spacecraft arose from the sand and floated in place.

"Oh." Steven said followed by an embarrassed chuckle.

With the ship secured, the group returned to the Temple to retrieve the necessary supplies for the intergalactic voyage before them.

As the others were inside the remains of the house, Ash looked up at the Diamonds as they waited.

"Thank you." he finally said to break the tension.

"For what?" Yellow asked, still looking at him the same way Misty would look at a bug type, disgusted.

"For finally, you know, listening. Hearing us out you know? Doing what's right."

Yellow scoffed "Giovanni was expected to betray us. We only did it in our best interests."

"Well, yah," Ash awkwardly said "you can't trust that guy as far as you can throw him. And I'll bet you both could throw him pretty far."

Blue giggled with a blush as Yellow looked on with her distrusting scowl. "Be that as it may, Ash, we do this for Pink. Not you."

He looked to his feet in embarrassment for a second before turning his attention to Blue, noticing she was still staring at him. "You battled well."

Blue's blush deeped "Oh, thank you. But that was nothing. You should see Yellow battle."

"Blue!"

"You've got pokemon too?" he asked with a cheeky smile growing.

"Oh yes." Blue said, still smiling, "Her Eelektross and Galvantula are quite the opponents in battle."

It was now Yellow's turn to blush in embarrassment.

As he relished in the embarrassment of Yellow, Ash turned to see his former companions not packing provisions, rather they all just stood there waiting. He excused himself from the Diamond's presence and approached the group of trainers.

"You guys aren't coming?"

"You know me," Misty explained "I've never been one for politics."

"Yeah, and as someone who was mentally and physically torchered on Homeworld, I'm not too keen on returning." Clemont explained, May, Dawn, Cynthia and Gary nodding in agreement.

He turned to the others. "What about you guys?"

Brock shook his head "This place needs to rebuild. Everyone's confused and scared. Beach City's gonna need our help in damage control."

"Absolutely," Cilan agreed "Besides, I'm excited to meeting the pizza conoshuire Mr. Kofi Brock and Lapis had told me about."

Serena gave him a supportive hug. "We've got your back here. End this peacefully."

Ash happily returned her hug as everyone else joined in.

"Go get em twerp!" Meowth exclaimed, giving Pikachu a paw to the back.

He nodded in acknowledgement as Amethyst exited the house, throwing Steven's hot dog duffel bag over her shoulder in excitement. "I can't believe I'm finally going to Homeworld! There might be more Famethysts!"

As he chucked at her enthusiasm, Mr and Mrs Mahesawan approached him from the opposite side of the beach.

"Oh, hey Doug, Mrs. Mah-"

Connie's mother waved him off "Priyanka is fine, Ash. It's nice to see you and not have your friend holding me hostage." she said, giving an angry stare to Gary, who awkwardly snuck back into the house in response. "Just make sure you're safe."

"Aw thanks. I'll make sure Connie is safe."

"Oh, we're not worried about you keeping her safe." she responded in a joking manner. "We just wanna make sure you don't get into a crazy situation she has to save you from. Too much stress for her."

Ash chuckled. "I'll make sure to stay safe."

After they hugged him goodbye, he turned to see Bismuth staring off at the ship. "You ready?"

"I-I'm not gonna join a Diamond entourage, Ash." she answered him, swallowing her pride. "I know what you're doing, I get why you gotta do it, but I'm not gonna lay my gem on their anvil."

"Anvil?" Steven asked, joining them.

She placed her hand on his shoulder and knelt on one knee "Let me put it in Earth terms for you:You're about to enter the lion's den. Luckily, you're a lion too. You gotta roar at them in their language; you're the one that has to do it."

"Right."

"Besides, you're gonna need me at home base. Someone's gotta keep an eye on them while you're gone." she said opening her palm, revealing Peridot's gem.

Ash reached into his jacket pocket and pulled Lapis's gem out, he kissed the stone and gently placed it in Bismuth's hand next to Peridot's.

"Promise me you'll keep her safe."

"She'll be waiting for you by the time you get back."

"Alright gems!" Steven announced "Let's go to Homeworld!"

The inside of the ship was the most pink thing Ash had ever seen. He turned to Pikachu. "You ready for this buddy?"

"Pika!"

Steven approached the podium and a pink aura surrounded him.

"Wow Steven, that's a good look for you." Amethyst joked.

"Oh, it's been so long since we've been together in Pink's ship!" Blue exclaimed, leaking tears of joy. The sudden emotional impact affected everyone, and joyful tears fell from Ash's face.

"Please, Blue. If we could continue?" Yellow asked, wiping tears away.

Blue sniffled "Yes, of course." she said calming down.

Pearl approached Steven, acting as his driving instructor. "For launching, just get a running start."

Steven began to sprint forward, jerking everyone in the process. "Hold on! I'm taking off!" he said as the ship finally jumped in the air and took off. "Huh, I bet when Mom took off, it was pretty graceful."

Pearl chuckled "Not really."

Pikachu curled up on Ash's shoulder to try and sleep off the travel sickness as he took Steven's side, trying to ignore Blue's glances as the minutes turned to hours.

"Should I have brought a gift for White Diamond?" Steven finally asked "We are dropping in unexpectedly, and I want to make a good first impression. Her help would mean everything for the corrupted gems and finally putting an end to Jasper and Team Rocket."

Yellow grunted "Good impression? We'll be lucky if she ever speaks to us again after this."

"The thing is," Blue added "White can be difficult."

"When we show up in this ship, with him on board" she gestured to Ash " it will be irrefutable that the last six thousand years are now the biggest galactic embarrassment that's ever happened. And we're the ones to blame. If you don't want to be in a bubble for the next few millennia, I suggest you let me do the talking."

Ash could see the worry and fear on Blue's face, and more concerningly on Yellow's.

Sensing the harsh atmosphere, Amethyst nudged him with a smile "Hey Ash. Since this is the tallest, roomiest part of the legs, you know where we are?"

"No."

She snickered "The butt!" she fell to the floor laughing as the Diamonds looked on disapprovingly.

The ship surged in place.

"We're here" Pearl announced.

"Everyone, wait here." Yellow ordered "Blue and I will return for you. Once White's temper has cooled."

"Which might take awhile."

As the hanger door opened to the ship, Amethyst still snickering how they were coming out of a butt, they stood before a massive crowd of homeworld gems in the form of the diamond ensignia, cheering at their arrival.

"Wow." was all Ash could say at the welcome party.

"Maybe things won't be so bad." Steven exclaimed optimistically.

A mechanical, whirring noise came from behind them, and the creepiest thing Ash had ever seen approached them. A ghost white Pearl with a naval gem and a pupiless eye with a series of cracks cascading across her face with her arms arched, not moving a single muscle, rather gliding towards them.

"It's White's Pearl."

"Pink Diamond, Chosen One." her voice boomed out in an automated monotone "your presence is necessary."

Yellow gestured to Blue "Come, Blue."

"Only Pink Diamond and the Chosen One's presence is necessary." she responded, gliding towards the two. A white sphere encased the three, Ash felt a weightlessness as they floated upwards.

"Woah, wait a sec-" he began to say as the dome crashed to the floor as quickly as it had incased them.

"Pink! There you are." an older voice boomed down to them in an optimistic tone. Both looked up to see a giant amongst giants, with a blinding, white complexion smiling down at them with the same arm position as White Pearl. "Hello starlight. You certainly gave everyone a scare. They're all just thrilled to see you safe and sound. And this must be the Chosen One I've heard so much about. Your cooperation will certainly be appreciated. As for this little game of yours, thank the stars it's over! Did you have fun? Did you get everything out of your system?"

"Uh"

"Good, good." she answered completely ignoring them "Everyone is so relieved. Welcome home Pink."

Another dome covered the two.

"Wait! Hold on!" Steven began to argue, but they had already landed away, leaving them both alone in a pink room, White Diamond's ship staring down at them across the window.