“Well, huff, huff….that’s it,” Garnet’s panting voice sounded across the snow. “It’s clear t-to me n-now! That..that I can’t st-stop you, Steven! But, please… if you’re listening, just know that...that I’ll always love you! We’re your family!!!” She called out desperately.      

Spinel’s magenta colored eyes shrunk in shock. She couldn’t be serious! Spinel had even tried to warn her about the half human/Gem hybrid, and how dangerous he was starting to become. Especially now that he was losing control of his Diamond powers, due to all the trauma he’d endured over the years. 

Spinel watched hidden in the trees and saw as Steven gave her a vicious grin, kicking down the Leader of the Crystal Gems with a slippered bare foot, just before producing two knives to which he then stabs into both gems dead center of both her palms, pinning Garnet to the ground. Blue and red shards were sent flying into the air, blowing with the wind of the shearing cold. Garnet gasped in shock, just before her whole form poofed but even before that, she stared directly into Stevens eyes, which were now pink with a white Diamond shaped pupil inside of both of them.Her 3 eyes that he could see through the cracked visor was completely full of pain and regret...and love for the hybrid boy she had helped raise.

“S...St...e...ven….” Steven and Spinel heard her say before her form was disintegrated. Leaving nothing left but a large indentation in the snow from where she fell. 

And her Gem shards.

Steven looked down at the shards fondly and full of memories- before continuing along to Waterfall, not showing even a bit of remorse or regret in his choices. His bare feet and slippers crunched through the snow, the only thing ever telling anyone there had been anyone there in the first place being the footprints that they left behind.     

 As soon as Steven was out of sight, Spinel ran over to the place that Garnet had last been. She scooped her hand into his shards, and then stared at her reflection in the tiny pieces. Tears trailing over the three lines mimicking mascara trailing down. Jasper had appeared shortly behind her, hiding even further in the trees than Spinel was, her muscular arms crossed over her chest as she frowned, glaring down at the pink Gem kneeling over the gem pieces.

“Do you understand now? Do you SEE why we need to fuse again?” Jasper asked, her voice gruff as she carefully watched over Spinel. “If we don’t fuse, he’s only going to kill more and more Gems. And quite possibly the monsters down in this Underground as well. He’s had a taste of shattering, and now he’s not going to stop.”

Spinel said nothing, her eyes slowly shifted upward, looking at the indentation in the snow now. Some of Garnet’s shards had moved to where her head had been, noticing the square shaped hole in the snow. She was thinking back to when she’d rejuvenated them all, and how Garnet had been her friend. Dancing with her, and then even after Garnet had regained her memories, the fusion never showed Spinel any hatred towards her, or animosity. There was only love in her gaze and even when they fought Garnet only did so to defend never to attack.

“Oh, when a difficult day goes by

Keeping it together is hard, but that's why

You've got to try

You've got to try”

Spinel’s eyes began to water even harder now, her hands closing tightly around the gem shards in her hands. “I’m so sorry Garnet...I’m so sorry…” Spinel whispered, holding the shards close against her own gem as she sobbed, thinking back to the lullaby Garnet was singing FOR her. For their friendship.

“And when there's a thundering storm outside

Underneath the covers, you huddle and hide

Open your eyes

Open your eyes”    

Spinel then thought of Jasper's words, and how she’d been trying to convince Spinel to fuse again. Some part of her already knew Jasper was strong, and possibly...as Andesine they could probably slow Steven down. But, after what happened before, she wasn’t sure she could even do it again. And put herself through all that manipulation and seeing Jasper’s memories and also being reminded too that she wasn’t the only one who’d been wronged by Pink Diamond. It felt comforting sure, but it also reminded Spinel too much of what she failed to do and still made Spinel think it had been her fault she’d been abandoned in the Garden.

“It's the true, it's the true

It's the true kinda love

It's the true, it's the true

It's the true kinda love”

Spinel thought about Pearl who’d been shattered in the Ruins with his mother’s sword and then shattered her Gem in his bare hands, and Amethyst back in Little Homeworld. Standing, she looked up. The human was still in sight, but rounded a corner just a second later. Chara could feel her expression harden, the knowledge of what she had to do fully waying in her mind.

“Stuck in the middle of fear and shame

Everybody's looking for someone to blame

Like it's a game

Like it's a game”    

Spinel sucked in a breath. She couldn’t make this about her. Not anymore. She thought of White Diamond, whose Gem Steven also shattered by slamming her face into one of the pillars in her room of the Palace. She thought of Blue and Yellow Diamonds who’d chased Steven back to Earth, and he also shattered after a vicious fight with the two. That was when he fell into Mt. Ebott, Pearl soon following and-

Spinel then turned her attention to Jasper.

“And now I am better than "win-or-lose"

There's a new direction that I'd like to choose

It's called the truth

It's called the truth”

Spinel slowly extended a hand, the other began to bubble Garnet’s gem shards and placed them inside her gem. ‘I’ll make things right… I’ll save him Garnet. I promise.’ Spinel thought to herself more firmly as she pushed her and Jasper's past away and everything else.

“Hey, you, show me that solvable problem

We can get through this,

I'll do the hardest part with you”

“Let’s take that Dirty Diamond Shatterer down...Together.” Spinel spoke up, just as Jasper gave her a toothy grin accepting her hand. Their two beings shone in a brilliant light as the two began to fuse.   

All was quiet. The outside world was exposed through the windows here, but to a much lesser degree. The barrier blocked everything except the sunlight and the birdsong. Golden light of the presumably sinking sun lit the room with a golden glow, birds chirping close by. The golden-brown pillars and floor were bathed dramatically in the golden light and deep shadows.      

Sansdesine had gotten here first, using the elevators and (thanks to Sans help) fused with the Judge of the Underground and used his own shortcuts to get here. Steven had also taken his own sweet time, he was busy hunting down and killing every single  monster and Gem in his path. He’d also gotten quite bigger and more buffier. Looking the same as he did when he accidentally shattered Jasper that one time before his Genocide truly began. Taking out his anger for his mother out on all the innocents here.

Andesine had joined Dr. Alphys, Sans and the other monsters and watched through the cameras in Alphys’ lab as Steven made short work of Undyne. That was when Sans had the idea, after having lived through SO. MANY. Genocide runs and- not really understanding how Gems worked, but since Gems and Monsters SOULs seemed to behave sort of the same way. Gems being the culmination of a Gem’s being the same was as a Monsters SOUL was. Sans offered to lend Andesine some of his own magic and even fuse with the fusion. 

He trusted Spinel after all. They’d only met very briefly, when she missed her coords and instead of landing in Beach City, she’d landed smack center of Mt. Ebott and her Injector literally crashed into the dead center of the skeleton brother’s house. Spinel stayed there for only a day or two to help repair it and he was able to sense the amount of hurt in her gem. 

The two shared the same love for puns and joking around as he did and Toriel and so he knew that perhaps, with their help they may be able to save the Underground.    

 Now, about an hour ago, Andesine had left the lab to go and find the king of the mountain. She had told him to get ready to absorb the six available SOULs as per Alphys instructions, and that he would need the extra boost of stats to take the Gem hybrid down in case she herself fell. All he had done however, was shake his head and mutter something under his breath. Andesine had only caught parts of what Asgore had said: something about how he hated this, something was wrong, and something- or someone- by the name of Toriel, the former Queen. When the fusion had asked him if something was wrong, he just waved his hand, refusing to even look at them.     

 “Everything’s fine,” Asgore had said more confidently. “I’ll… I’ll be ready…”      

‘You better be,’ she had thought as she had walked away, and headed down to the Judgement Hall. She heard the skeleton inside of her say.      

Now, she sat in Judgement Hall, her back against a pillar, Sans SOUL was now glowing fitting rather snuggly as a part of Spinel’s Gem since both were heart shaped. It felt...odd. The fusion could almost feel everything that made Sans who he was, fill her form. She could sense how much the Resets and Genocides he'd lived (and died in) had deeply wounded the short skeleton and it filled Spinel with a rage she’d never known before. Not even when she first came to Earth with the full intent to destroy the planet and Pink’s son for abandoning her.

The magic in her was already roiling out of control and all throughout her form which was now an even mix of pure magic and light but with mass. Soon she could hear light footsteps and humming coming from down the hallway and Sansdesine tensed. The sounds confirming that Steven was here. 

It would only be a few seconds now before Steven would arrive at the Hall. Sansdesine gave a sigh, and then stuffed two of her arms into the pockets of the blue jacket that once belonged to Sans. The two lower more noodly ones crossed themselves over her stomach as she began to reveal herself.    

The shadows were deep, so it seemed that she was quite literally walking out of blackness. She heard Stevens' footsteps stop just a few feet away. Sansdesine gazed at herself, her face reflected off the overly-polished floor. One of her magenta colored eyes had gone completely black, as had the other in the uppoer most part. Now, her lowermost left eye had been replaced with blue, the magic flaring out and making her eye look to be on fire. As did the yellow uppermost right one too. Sansdesine smiled, as she was filled with power, and more magic.

She came to a stop, about halfway between the two shadows. Her hands twitched at the anticipation of having to call upon magic in a few moments. She had never used “magic” to attack before, and could only imagine how Sans was feeling inside her Gem as she was already flexing her stretching abilities with her lowermost set of arms attached at her hips, so she had no idea what her attacks would be like, but something told her that they would be powerful.      

Steven came to a full stop, looking at her warily. He no longer wielded the knives he’d used on Garnet, but now, he had something called a “Breaking Point” attached to his right arm. His grip on the handle loosened just a little, confusion on his face. 

“Spinel?” She could hear Steven say, as he recognized the pink Spinel gem at the center of Andesine’s chest. And then the yellow jasper Gem that made up Andesine’s nose.

Sansdesine slowly raised her head to face him, tears beginning to stream down her rosy cheeks again. 

It was finally time…      

“It's the true, it's the true

It's the true kinda love

It's the true, it's the true

It's the true kinda love”

“Heya, Stevie,” Sansdesine began, “you’ve been busy, huh?” She glanced up, back at the pink diamond shaped irises of the gem hybrid standing in front of her. The black starred T-shirt and pink jacket was covered in Monster dust and gem shards. And the fusion gritted her teeth. “Didja have your little fun, Steven? Cracking a few Gems here, murderin’ some monsta’s there.”

Steven took a step towards the fusion, and Sansdesines grin grew even wider as she tried again, “...You know, when I first heard from that flowa  that ya've also been goin' around dustin' some monsters and shatterin' even more gems...Even White, Yellow and Bluey… I thought, ‘Oh, there’s no WAY that’s Steven Universe! He musta meant some otha human doin’ those things.’ I really thought you could change Steven… But, eh, who am I to judge or blame? I mean, we all slip up once or twice, right?”

Steven took another step, his skin starting to glow pink as he swelled up more, and his hair got even more curly and a few strands sticking out in places.

“Ha..Haha..HAHAHAHAHA!!! Hah...Hey, Steven… So, I gots a lil question for ya, toots.” Sansdesine shut her eyes for a moment, her smile going away as the next time she opened them, she glared at the hybrid in front of her. “Do ya wanna have a bad time? 'Cuz if ya keep listening to that voice in ya head. To Pinky or whateva the hell is even happening to ya and tellin' ya to keep doin' these things… and ya take anotha step forward… Well... Ya are really not gonna like what's comin' next.”

Steven smirked, now he was the size of Pink Diamond and stood a clear entire foot taller than Sansdesine and he was about 10 inches from reaching the ceiling, he took one giant step forward, the Hall way rumbled for a moment as soon as his foot landed. 

Sansdesine sighed.

“Welp, I warned ya.” Sansdesine turned her attention once more to her reflection facing back to her on the golden floor of the great Hall. “Sorry Stevie... but, hey, let’s play a brand new game shall we?”

“Afta all, it’s such a beautiful day outside. Roses are bloomin, kids are playin’. On days like these, Gem hybrids like you… should be puttin’ yer lives on the line!!!! YA  D I R T Y  D I A M O N D  S H A T T E R E R.”

With that, Sansdesine somehow summoned a bone by simply reaching out and grabbing into the air. Right besides her a skull in the shape of a dragon began to form besides her, its mouth open wide as energy began to form, a laser forming. She then felt Steven do a CHECK on her “SOUL.”

* SANSDESINE HP 1 ATK 20 DEF 20

* She's heard this story over and over again, but certainly not THIS story.

* Can't dodge forever, keep attacking

* One hit from the Breaking Point and this fusion will be gone forever.