The shadow assassin (steven universe reader-insert)

Chapter 34.

Garnet: Y/N!

You: Sorry!

You and the group enter a room upstairs with only a single mysterious object in the middle of it.

Steven: Hey, what's this room?

Garnet: It's not what we came here for.

Amethyst: Can we hurry it up? This place gives me the creeps.

Everyone ignore the mysterious object and continue up the stairs. They eventually make it to the top of the towering base.

Steven: We really are on the moon.

Peridot: (goes over to a control panel*) Oh my goodness! This looks like it could be brand new! I mean it's a relic by today's standards, but, golly! It's so elegant, so simple, so perfect!

You: Why does it look like ut is made from crystal ice?

Amethyst: So how do you turn it on?

Peridot:.... I have no idea.

The panel then suddenly activates.

Steven: Hey, it's got one of those glowy hand dealies.

Peridot: YOU CAN'T SIT THERE!!

Steven: Why not? It's really cool.
Peridot That chair is only for the most elite Gems, you can't go around sitting where an elite would sit.

Steven: Well they aren't here now, right?

Peridot glances around, sits on the chair next to Steven, and snickers to herself. Steven then pulls out a small, white, octahedral prism from the chair.

Steven: Hey, what's this doodad for?

Peridot: Put that back! Hm, okay, let's see here...

Peridot maneuvers the chair closer to the control panel.

Peridot: There we go. This is a really old system.

Peridot puts on a screen on the control panel, displaying seven files represented by diamond shapes.

Peridot: Gotta find the right file... aha! Cluster, Cluster where are you, Cluster? Aha! There's the insertion point. Looks like the Beta Kindergarten in Facet Nine. It's the smaller of the two, not nearly as impressive as yours, Amethyst.

Amethyst: Uhh... thanks?

Pearl: But where is the Cluster now?

Peridot: Hang on... there it is! It's embedded deep into the mantle, relative to the barn its roughly two thousand five hundred units down. All we need to do is feed this data to the drill and we should be all set.

Pearl: That's it then, mission accomplished!

Steven: Yeah, team!

Amethyst: Great. Let's get the heck out of here. (walks off with Garnet and Pearl*)

Steven: Wait! Hold on, does this thing have any games on it?

Peridot: No no no no, this wasn't used for "games".

You: (chucked*) Steven, they are alien beings who existed for along time. Of course, they will not have games on it

Steven: Aw.

Peridot: It was used for planning a colony. Here you two, look.

Peridot pulls on a map of Earth on the screen, and the Gems pause to look back at it.

Peridot: So here is a map of all structures that were originally built on Earth. All told, this probably only accounts for maybe, five percent of what was originally planned.

Steven: What was the plan?

Peridot: Well, let's take a look.

A hologram of Earth is projected. You and The Crystal Gems watch in horror as the Earth hologram hollows out, forming rings around it and Gem structures all over it.

Peridot: Ta-da! A finished Earth colony. Wow, look at this! Eighty-nine kindergartens, sixty-seven spires, a Galaxy Warp in each facet, efficient use of all available materials. What were you thinking, shutting this operation down? It could've been great!

Garnet: No! You're wrong!

Peridot: What do you mean? It's perfect, look at it.

Pearl: We are looking at it.

Amethyst: Yeah, this plan stinks!

Garnet: Completing this colony would have meant the extinction of all life on Earth!

Peridot: But think of the good it would have done. The Gems that would have been made, our Empire expanded.

Pearl: Rose quartz believed all life was precious, and worth protecting. And Arrow Ackerman, the once leader of humanity. Believed that freedom was everyone's right and proofed that humans aren't weak as we expect.

Peridot: Well if those two wanted to protect it, they did a lousy job! There'd be no Cluster if the Earth had stayed a colony. Now there's no colony, and there's gonna be no Earth, so thank you, Rose Quartz! Arrow what's his name! You two doomed the planet!

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl each look at Peridot furiously.

Steven: (laughs nervously*) ♫ Is there anything that's worth more th-

Garnet grabs and lifts Peridot up by her tunic.

Garnet: You, listen to me, now. (summons her gauntlet*)!You are talking about things that you do not understand.

Steven: Garnet, stop! Please! It's not worth it. We're done here, let's just... go home.

Garnet drops Peridot on the chair and you suddenly smashes the control panel with your fist, dissipating the hologram and the gems, steven and peridot is shocked.

You: If they think that they can just suddenly invade an innocent planet full of living lives and peace then they are dead wrong.

You: (you activated your diamond eyes*) Listen peridot, my gem is a diamond. And the diamond that you homeworld gems once knew is gone. I will take his place whether they like it or not. And after that, I will stop the colonization of planets and end it. I will save homeworld gems for beings slaves and end their terror once and for all, for the universe and to the future of gem kind themselves.

The Gems awed at your speech and you then walk off, irritated, and the gems follows you. Steven sighs in dismay.

Peridot: What did I say? I'm just stating a fact. The Rebellion didn't really save Earth, it just delayed the inevitable.

Steven: That's not the way they see it. They've spent thousand of years trying to protect the Earth. I thought maybe, you finally understood why.

Steven walks down the steps, as Peridot begins looking around in caution.

Steven: Peridot!

Peridot: What? I'm coming. (climbs down the steps*)

Steven glances at Peridot and notices she is holding the prism from the chair behind her back.

Garnet: Let's go, you two.

Steven looks in the direction of Peridot and frowns.