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Everything turns white and loud. Worse than before.
Pain.
Noise.
Loud.
Pearl has a dream for the first time in a long time, and some old memories come up to the surface.
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“Welcome back, Pearl.”
Pearl looks up, the light is gone. But before her stands White Pearl; graceful, unmoving, and broken. Her buns are as neat and tidy as ever, with no color on her facade. Pearl can’t help but stare at the cracked surface of her left eye. Without blinking, White Pearl’s smile slowly fades to a frown. “Welcome back. Pink Diamond’s. Pearl.”
There’s a searing pain suddenly. Her vision cracks and shatters. Oh stars the pain. Her entire left side feels like it’s been broken off.
Then she’s not looking at White Pearl, she’s looking at … Pink Pearl. The same Pearl, cracked, suffering, unmoving on the ground while pieces of her are scattered before the throne. Pink Diamond is here too, sobbing and wailing at the feet of the throne’s occupant: “Make it stop, White! This was my fault! Pearl had nothing to do with this!” Pearl is standing beside her Diamond; unmoving and unemotional as is her duty. But at the same time she’s fallen to her knees in shock. She knew White Diamond was powerful and capable of potentially shattering a gem with her powers, but… to torture the poor gem… corrupting them like this…
Pink Pearl convulses on the ground and when Pink Diamond turns to look, White Diamond chuckles to herself and raises her hand. Blinding light erupts from her fingertips in beams that strike Pink Pearl in the face once again. Her shriek fills the room and then peters out as her form regresses into the gem, lying among small pieces of fractured material on the ground. The room is dead silent.
“Now I hope you’ve learned a valuable lesson today, Pink.” White Diamond says with her most motherly tone. “We mustn’t toy with things not created for those purposes. Now run along back to your chambers.”
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White Diamond spent a long moment of silence contemplating the damaged gem before her, before standing up and out of the chair.
“My Diamond, please. Allow me to dispose of this unsightly… incident.” Pearl makes a step forward but White Diamond moves a hand.
“No, no. I have a better idea of what we can do with … her.” White Diamond says in a low contemplative tone. As she kneels down to pick up the gem, a softer light comes out of her hands.
Rose could’ve fixed her.
Pearl suddenly comes back to herself. Still in the throne room but now very much aware of her situation, not just passively remembering.
Pink Diamond wanted to heal her.
White Diamond cradles the small gem in her hands, like holding a grain of sand with the utmost care. The soft light continues to glow around the pearl. Pearl wants to move, to rescue her now. From what? What could she possibly do?
White Diamond wouldn’t let her.
The soft glow faded from White Diamond’s palms and she gave a small hum in satisfaction. She sits back in her chair holding the gem and there they wait. Time passes torturously slow and silent and Pearl wants nothing more than to scream in agony for her fellow pearl. Her… sister of sorts. Eventually, a light forms in White Diamond’s palm as the pearl begins to reform. The pearl slowly stands as her formation completes.
White Diamond wouldn’t let her forget her mistake.
In White Diamond’s palm stood Pink Pearl, now monochrome and, from what Pearl could see, with a large scar across the left side of her face. The Pearl curtsied with her salute and White Diamond smiled wide.
“Welcome back, my pearl.”
The white pearl smiled back. “How shall I be of assistance to you, my most gracious Diamond?” Pearl began to feel that pain in her left eye again. That corrupting pain.
White Diamond laughed softly to herself. “Patience, my dear Pearl. I have some changes to make first.” And she looked down at Pearl whose was now both on her knees curling over in pain and standing at attention ready for her diamond’s orders. “Pearl, dear?”
“Yes, my Diamond?” The pain was eating her alive yet her memory kept moving on. “How can I be of service to you?”
“Starting today, you shall now serve as Pearl to Pink Diamond. Effective immediately.”
Pearl, crying and screaming in her pain looked up to the tyrannical light of White Diamond, and the now White Pearl in her hand. At once she saw both that smiling, unchanging face that White Pearl always has, and a crippled, tortured gem on her hands and knees, staring back at Pearl. It’s as if she’s cracked… Pearl has only seen damage like that a few rare times.
“Yes, my Diamond. I’ll see to her at once.”
Now something really uncomfortable happens. Pearl watches herself, monochrome as was her attire, walk out of the room and phase through the wall. She knew what happened next: Pearl went to the chambers of Pink Diamond and eventually changed her color palette slightly to ease the transition for Pink Diamond.