Amethyst and Pearl were fighting, not in the figurative sense though, they were actually trading blows. Amethyst had taken Steven to the 'kindergarten' where she was created and raised; Pearl suspected she might go there and headed there herself to try and intervene. The result was a duel between the two gems who were normally just competitive rivals; Amethyst had Pearl wrapped in her dual whips.

"I'm not gonna let you remind me of everything I hate about myself!" Amethyst screamed.

She slammed down on the whips and two waves of powerful energy traveled through them, eventually reaching Pearl and resulting in a large explosion.

The explosion caused the container behind them began to wobble and tip over, Steven was quick enough to pull up a shield, but it wasn't wide enough to encompass him, Pearl, and Amethyst at the same time. The container toppled over, Pearl and Steven were safe but Amethyst couldn't be found; they began digging through the rubble to find her.

"Amethyst…Amethyst!" Steven cried out, hoping that she was okay.

While they were picking through the rubble Steven found something, a gemstone. He had feared the worst and showed it to Pearl.

"Pearl! Amethyst…she…I think…" He tried to get his thoughts out but he was too stricken with grief.

Pearl took the gem out of Steven's hands and examined it, it was indeed a Crystal Gemstone…but this wasn't Amethyst's gem, this gem was a solid black.

"It's another crystal gem." Pearl said in a low, surprised tone.

Suddenly, the gem began glowing with a bright pale light, in shock Pearl dropped it onto the ground and the light expanded forming a kind of human shape. This shape shifted for a moment of two until finally the light died down and it turned into a fully formed female. This woman was thin and tall, but not overly tall (about 5'7) her skin was a light gray and her hair was jet black with a matching skin tight sleeveless body suit and pants with a white cloth belt to keep it up. The body suit was open around her chest so they could see her black gem which was placed in roughly the same spot as Amethyst's (right above the chest cavity)

While she lay on the ground she looked asleep, but the moment Steven and Pearl got close she shot up with eyes wide open. She looked around at her environment, at the two people standing in front of her, and at her own body; none of it was familiar to her, nothing made sense.

Cautiously Steven stepped forward and gave her a little wave. "Hello… I'm Steven."

The new gem blinked a couple of times, and then mimicked his actions. She tried to speak to them "H-hi…" She said in a weak and hoarse voice.

This alien experience was broken up, however, as the warp pad whirred to life and Garnet appeared out of the coulomb of light.

"Get away from her!" Garnet cried out.

She pounded her fists together and formed her Garnet Gauntlets, she jumped up into the air and prepared to come crashing down on this new gem.

In a state of panic the gem's body moved faster than her mind could process and she quickly rolled out of the way, jumping back onto her feet to fight this new threat.

"Garnet, what are you doing?" Steven shouted, confused.

"She's a bad gem, I have to stop her!"

Garnet rushed to this gem and began throwing punches at her, she was quick enough to dodge a few but this body was till new and her reflexes were dull so Garnet connected quite a few times and sent the gem crashing to the ground.

Pearl and Steven ran up to Garnet, following the fight and trying to stop it.

"Garnet, what do you mean she is bad? She just appeared out of nothingness a few moments ago."

"I saw it in my visions, she's trouble and we have to get rid of her."

While she was distracted the new gem got up and quickly ran deeper inside the canyon to get away from her attacker, but Garnet did not give up easily and jumped high into the air in order to climb in the canyon's walls to catch up.

The gem ran below her as Garnet jumped from wall to wall of the narrow canyon, finally jumping down for another air attack. But this time the gem knew how to counter this attack; she rolled to the side so when Garnet came down her gauntlet got stuck in the rock, and while she was held in place the gem kicked her in the face and knocked her to the ground.

It was…exhilarating! The excitement of battle was coursing through her body and she began to remember all she knew about combat, techniques and tricks that she had used before.

As Garnet got back up again the new gem clutched her fist above her gem, which caused it to glow bright. Then she quickly extended her arm forward, sending out dozens of crystal shards at Garnet; a few of them managed to hit her but she blocked the rest with her gauntlets.

The gem decided to go on the offensive this time, as Garnet rushed towards her she rushed as well, and then when the two met she ducked a punch Garnet was throwing and grabbed her waist, preparing to suplex her into the ground. That was a mistake, Garnet was much stronger than this gem and wouldn't budge; to get out of her hold Garnet slammed her gauntlets down on her opponents back, which caused her immense pain, and then kicked her into a wall.

She was practically helpless at this point, everything hurt and she was afraid to get back up less she become more broken than she already was. Garnet stood over the broken woman menacingly, preparing to end her before Pearl and Steven finally caught up.

"Garnet stop!" Pearl demanded. "I don't care what you saw in your vision, killing a gem is wrong. Please…stop."

Garnet looked at Pearl, and then back down at the gem. She was conflicted, she knew what she had seen and she knew what may happen if she doesn't stop it, would it be worth it?

She walked away from the gem, slowly; Pearl and Steven looked relived that Garnet ended her senseless violence…no such luck.

Garnet quickly turned around and slammed into the ground so hard that it caused a crack in the earth, that crack traveled upwards until it caused the entire rock wall to come down on the gem, crushing her under a ton of dense rock.

"Garnet no!" Steven was now grabbing onto her leg, his eyes filling with tears. "W-why did you do that?"

"I promise I'll explain everything to you once this is over, but right now I just need to check that-"

"Garnet!" Pearl screamed, then she walked up to Garnet and slapped her in the face. She put more force into it than she had thought but even still the slap barely moved the massive gem. "I'm sorry, but I will not stand by and let you kill a gem! Explain yourself right now, or I will take you down."

"Pearl, just let me-" Suddenly Garnet's face had a look of revelation. "No…"

She rushed over to the large pile of rocks and tossed them to the side with ease, when she cleared them away she did not see the gem on the bottom.

"No no no! Where did she go?"

Meanwhile…

It was not easy, crawling out from under two tons of rock never is. The gem barely had enough strength to drag herself out from underneath that pile but she knew that if she didn't she would die. She was lucky, in the sense that her body hadn't given out on her yet and that these ravines were riddled with holes, one of which was big enough for her to crawl through and keep her out of site of the other gems.

After a few minutes of painful crawling across the ground she finally found her salvation: a warp pad. She was just awake enough to use it; she didn't care where it took her she just wanted to stay alive.

She painfully crawled on top of the pad and began to activate it, the light began to glow brighter and brighter until-

"Stop!" She heard someone cry.

She slowly turned her head and saw her assailant coming back for another try, but she was too late. Another half second later and she was beamed up through the pillar of light.

The gem found herself drifting through subspace, she was safe inside the stream but she didn't know what to expect when the journey stopped. Her body relaxed, the pain in all her muscles subsided, and she felt…peaceful.

But, like most things, this did not last. As the gem began to drift off she felt something happening to her body, she looked at her chest and saw the crystal on her gem glowing brighter and starting to cover her whole body in gemstone.

"No…don't do that…" She said to no one.

But she couldn't control it, her body was too badly damaged and now it was trying to protect her by sealing her inside a crystal chrysalis. Soon her whole body was covered and the crystal just kept growing and growing until it became a large crystal sphere and she was at the center.

She couldn't move inside the ball, and she slowly felt herself losing consciousness.

"I can't go to sleep…please…not again…"

Her eyes shut, and with no one to control the ball it began to drift, slowly leaving the stream and getting stuck in subspace. The sphere moved slowly, moving passed brilliant arrays of light and colors through the void of space, traveling for what seemed like an eternity.

Until finally, the sphere sped up and began moving faster and faster until it moved so quickly there was a trail of energy behind it and the gemstone began to heat up. If it got too hot the gem would crack, so the gem embedded in her chest crated a metal shielding around the stone that would absorb heat.

And so the ball continued on its expedient journey until finally it reached a destination: Earth.

On Earth…

The ball was traveling towards the planet, specifically Beach City at an incredible pace, the ball created an eye to try and find somewhere to land but it was moving too fast to change course or slow down. If it didn't do something soon it would end up hitting the planet and doing a massive amount of damage.

Luckily, four brave individuals on the ground below had the tools to stop it and using their combined efforts they aimed a Light Cannon at the incoming ball to destroy it. The cannon unleashed a massive array of energy that destroyed the ball, causing it to break apart into several large but mostly harmless chunks.

These heroes were the crystal gems, and they were admiring their work

"Steven, how did you get the cannon to work?" Pearl asked.

He didn't really know. "I just…said that thing dad always said."

"What, about pork rinds?"

"Hot dogs." Garnet corrected her.

As the debris from the ball fell there was something Steven noticed, there was one piece that was still headed right for them.

"Uh, guys, is there still supposed to be a chunk coming after us?" Steven said, nervous and confused.

The piece flew at them, quicker now that it was in the atmosphere. The rest of the crystal gems took notice of this and quickly got out of its way, Amethyst and Pearl jumped out of its path and Garnet grabbed Steven and Greg and carried them to safety.

Finally it crashed into the ground, making a large crater on the beach. This piece was tougher than the rest of the orb, and because it was at the center it was able to take most of the blast without cracking apart.

The gems slid to the bottom of the crater to examine what had fallen from the skies, the outside was made of a crystal that was such a deep black that you could only just barely see something inside of it.

"What is it?" Steven asked.

"Looks like some kinda crystal." Amethyst said. She smacked her fist on it to try and get it to break, but she only ended up hurting herself. She grabbed her hand in pain.

"Try it like this." Garnet said, matter of factly.

She summoned her crystal gauntlets and smashed into the crystal as hard as she could, causing it to shatter but leaving the center untouched. As the dust cleared from the previous strike all the gems could plainly see that inside of the crystal was a woman, with a gem inside her chest.

"It's another crystal gem." Pearl said, shocked that something like this was happening.

And so begins, what I would like to be, a very loved series. I know you're tired of calling this character "new gem" so next time you get to learn her name (although you should really know it by know) Please leave any criticisms or suggestions for the story, they always help me improve, and I'll see you all on the next exciting chapter.