Before you say it, yes, I've skipped quite a few episodes of the show to get to this point. But the thing is, not only would not much change with this being the Momswap-verse, I'm not sure a lot of it would even happen. Pearl wouldn't question Peridot's building ability with their roles in the story reversed, and Peridot would actually help raise Pearl up instead. Lapis isn't defective, nor even from the Earth Kindergarten, Jasper isn't a fusion, so basically none of the Birthday bomb even happens. What does happen though, is a certain fusion fight..


When the gems felt the shockwaves in the ground, they thought at first that it was the Cluster starting to emerge. When Steven woke however, he told them that his powers had activated in his sleep, and he'd seen her, Sugilite, appearing on Mask Island. She wasn't free yet, still struggling against Amethyst's chains, but she would be soon, and nothing good would come of it if she did.

The gems instructed Steven to stay with Pearl by the drill they had been building to get to the Cluster, and headed off to the nearest warp pad. Steven managed to say still for all of ten seconds before getting up and following them. Not alone of course, Connie had been staying with them to help work on the drill, and fight just in case they were attacked by corrupteds or amalgam gems. She picked up the blaster Peridot had taught her to use and ran to the warp pad with Steven.

When they got to Mask island, Jasper, Peridot, and Lapis were dancing together, fusing. The sight of the three gem fusion was incredible. She stood even taller than Malachite, her coloration a mix of dull blues and greens with splotches of orange across her body. She stood on four legs, holding her up almost like a standing lamp. She had four arms on her body as well, and long spiked hair. She looked out of four eyes, glaring at Sugilite as she finally broke free of the chains.

"Heliotrope." Steven said softly, "The gems told me about her once before, but I've never seen her in person.." He said to Connie. Both of them were enthralled by the sight as the two fusions moved closer to each other. "We don't have to fight," Heliotrope called to Sugilite, "Just unfuse and we can end this." Sugilite laughed, "What's wrong? I thought a fair fight was what you wanted, three on three!"

Sugilite summoned her wrecking ball, swinging it at Heliotrope. The Crystal Gem fusion was knocked back by the strike, but only barely. Lapis's wings and Jasper's helmet appeared on her, then with a glow, Peridot's metal powers connected. The armor that Moldavite had used appeared, but was liquid metal like Aventurine's wings. The liquid metal also formed Malachite's horned helmet, which now had four sharp horns instead of two. "We warned you." Heliotrope said, pulling the wrecking ball's cord and causing Sugilite to come flying at her.

Sugilite curled into a ball, spinning when her collided with Heliotrope, who blocked with the liquid metal armor on her arms. She slammed Sugilite into the ground, lifting her foot, with solidified into an iron boot before she stomped down hard. Sugilite groaned in pain, but grabbed Heliotrope's legs, one hand grabbing all four legs and throwing her into the air. Sugilite stood and swung her wrecking ball.

Heliotrope managed to stop herself from falling with her rings, but couldn't react fast enough to avoid the wrecking ball, and was brought down to the ground hard, the force of her landing destroying the warp pad. Sugilite moved forward to pursue Heliotrope, and Steven and Connie turned to each other, nodding as they both knew what they needed to do.

Heliotrope got up, just barely countering a two handed uppercut from Sugilite and having her own two punches blocked by Sugilite. Sugilite's hands began to heat up, catching purple fire and boiling the metal. Heliotrope grit her teeth in pain, attempting to force Sugilite back anyway. She managed to push her back, forcing the liquid metal to spread over her arms and swinging Sugilite across the island. She spread her wings and jumped into the air, spinning down at where Sugilite landed.

Two of Sugilite's arms wrapped around each other, spinning as they punched Heliotrope, handing her flying back into a Cliffside. The impact caused boulders to rain down over her. By itself it didn't do much, but it did distract her while Sugilite wound up. She let out two wrecking balls, letting purple fire cover both of them completely before spin balling with both of them, turning herself into a massive burning cannon ball and launching at Heliotrope.

The crash broke Heliotrope through the cliff, letting Sugilite pin her with her both wrecking balls prepared to strike and finish her off. "Nice try, but there's only room enough for one fusion on this garbage planet." She said. She swung her wrecking balls, only for a blast of energy to shatter the both of them mid-swing. She looked over in confusion, getting a flying shield directly to the eyes.

Sugilite stumbled back, growling in anger as she reached to summon another wrecking ball, her arm pushed back by another blast from Stevonnie's blaster. Peridot had done good work making it for Connie, and as Stevonnie, the higher power settings could be activated. Sugilite started walking towards where Stevonnie was standing on the cliff, the blast not doing much now that she was expecting it.

But with her attention on Stevonnie, she didn't notice Heliotrope until she'd been grabbed, the liquid metal spreading over her body like a straight jacket. Heliotrope threw her into the water, chains of water and ice holding Sugilite in place as Heliotrope flew into the air, curling into a spin ball covered in metal spikes. She crashed so hard into Sugilite the impact was probably even felt by Pearl back at the barn.

Sugilite was poofed, reduced back to Garnet and Amethyst. Heliotrope caught them both and returned to the shore, unfusing almost instantly with a groan of pain. Staying in such a powerful fusion for so long had overworked their bodies. Lapis couldn't even summon her wings. But they were all still in one piece, and they'd finally gotten Amethyst back from fusion she'd trapped herself in for them.

Stevonnie went over to them, but before they could even start celebrating, the ground began to shake again. "What's happening?" Stevonnie questioned, as the ground cracked. Jasper managed to just barely grab Amethyst before she fell with Garnet into the crack splintering across the ground. "We weren't feeling Sugilite's struggling before," Peridot said, "We were feeling the Cluster this whole time!"

"What do we do?" Stevonnie question, looking at Jasper in confusion. Jasper had bubbled Stevonnie. "The warp pad was destroyed in the battle, you have to get back to the drill." She said, "Use the warp pad in the temple to get back to Pearl and the drill. Save the earth, we'll be fine." Stevonnie's eyes had started welling up, but with Connie's logical mind tempering Steven's emotion, Stevonnie understood that Jasper was right. "We love you." Jasper said before tapping the top of the bubble and sending it away.


Who else thought Alexandrite would have been even more amazing if we hadn't seen her in Fusion Cuisine?