Now We're Only Falling Apart/Transcript

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Speaker	Dialogue
Open int. Beach House
Amethyst	Let me get this straight. Rose Quartz, leader of the Crystal Gems, Steven's mom, was actually Pink Diamond?!
Steven	She faked her own shattering, and reformed to be Rose all the time.
Pearl	Pink Diamond's final command to me was that no one could know, but now that Steven does, I can finally tell you all everything!
Amethyst	Phew! I mean, a pink lion, a pink sword, and now Pink Diamond?! Huh, if you told me Rose invented cotton candy, I'd believe it. Right, Garnet? Uh, Garnet?
Garnet	Rose... She... she...
Garnet struggles to stay stable and defuses into Ruby and Sapphire.
Ruby	Sapphire-
Sapphire	She lied to us! She lied about everything! She held our hands, looked at us right in the eyes, and told us to never question who we are as Garnet. We never questioned ourselves, or her!
Ruby	We couldn't have known!
Sapphire	No, you couldn't had known. You never know what's going on. That's what I'm for!
Ruby	Sapphire...
Sapphire	But I never looked into her, I trusted her... I let her make fools of us all!
Ruby	Sapphire, wait!
Steven	Guys!
Steven slips on the ice Sapphire had caused due to her stress.
Ruby	Please...We can just stay calm and talk about this, right? Let's just, talk.
Sapphire	Talk about what? How our relationship is based on a lie? What else is there to say...
Sapphire uses the Warp Pad to warp to Rose's Fountain.
Pearl	Ruby, I am so sorry...
Steven	Come on, Pearl. Help me explain everything to Sapphire.
Pearl	Right.
Steven	Sit tight, Ruby. We'll go and get Sapphire.
Ruby	Okay...
Ruby starts crying due to the fact that Sapphire has fled. Steven and Pearl then warp to Rose's Fountain, where Sapphire is located.
Pearl	Maybe she's here.
Steven	Sapphire!
Sapphire strikes a blast of ice towards Steven and Pearl.
Sapphire	Everything we were running from, she was right there all along...using us for her little war...smiling at us with those knowing eyes... Making me believe in a better future that I couldn't see, because it wasn't real, and now here we are, our friends, shattered, and corrupted...of course she was a Diamond. What a long road she took to torture us all like this...
Steven	It wasn't like that! You know she didn't want anyone to get hurt...
Sapphire	I don't know that! I clearly don't know anything...
Pearl	You deserve to know everything. I was given to Pink Diamond a few thousand years before she was given the Earth. I was supposed to make her happy, I just never could...
The scene shifts to the Moon Base. A hologram lights up, going through various locations on Earth.
Pink Diamond	Could you imagine that running a colony would be this dull?
Pearl	I could imagine it, if you would like me to, my Diamond.
Pink Diamond	Show me the status of the Prime Kindergarten.
Pearl	Yes, my Diamond.
Pearl shows a hologram of the Earth.
Pearl	The first Quartz soldiers are due to emerge soon.
Pink Diamond	Finally, something exciting!
Pearl and Pink Diamond are seen in the lower floor, in the room with the orb.
Pink Diamond	Hurry, we've got to see this! Quickly, turn it on.
Pearl	Yes, my Diamond.
The orb lights up, projecting the Prime Kindergarten in the room.
Pink Diamond	Look at this, Pearl! We're creating life from nothing!
Pink Diamond watches an Amethyst emerge.
Pink Diamond	Welcome to Earth!
The Amethyst walks over to some other Amethysts and starts talking to them.
Pink Diamond	I wish I could just be there...
Pearl	I'll have us warped in the Kindergarten at once, my Diamond.
Pink Diamond	W-What? N-No, no, if I went down to the Kindergarten I would never hear the end of it from Yellow and Blue. Oh, but could you imagine? Me, down there, laughing and playing with the Amethysts?
Pearl	Of course I can, my Diamond.
Pearl projects a hologram of Pink Diamond laughing with several Amethysts.
Pearl	You look so happy.
Pink Diamond	I won't be so happy when Blue and Yellow find out.
Pearl	They won't find out.
Pink Diamond	How's that?
Pearl	Because...you look just like a Quartz.
The hologram Pink turns into a Rose Quartz.
Pearl	You changed your shape for a day!
Pink Diamond	That's brilliant, Pearl!
Pearl	I'm glad I was able to help my Dia-
Pink Diamond shapeshifts into Rose Quartz.
Rose	Hehe, down here.
Rose and Pearl warp to the Prime Kindergarten.
Rose	Pearl, look! This is...incredible! We have to go down there and check it out. Pearl, this is so-
Amethyst 1	Outta my way!
Rose gets pushed over by an Amethyst.
Pearl	Oh no! I'm so sorry, these Amethyst guards can be so rude...
Rose	But Pearl, don't you see what's happening?
Pearl	Huh?
Rose	We're actually here and I fitting right in! None of that dumb salute- Thank you so much for talking me into this. I couldn't have done this on my own.
Pearl	Uh...you're welcome, my Diamond-
Rose	Shhh, Pearl, you're gonna get us in trouble.
Pearl	Sorry, my...Quartz.
Rose giggles and leads Pearl off to a group of Amethysts standing by the canyon wall.
Rose	Hey fellow Amethyst guards, what are we all up to?
Amethyst 2	There's two more from our unit that haven't emerged yet, so we're gonna wait for them. Here comes one of them.
An Amethyst bursts from the wall and lands on the ground. Rose walks up to her.
Rose	Oh, woah, look at you. Welcome to Earth!
Amethyst 3	That is the first and nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
Amethyst 4	What's going on here? Our orders were to move out as you emerged!
Amethyst 5	But 8XM hasn't emerged yet.
Amethyst 4	She can catch up with us later. Go, go, go!
The Amethysts leave, Rose starts to follow them.
Pearl	My Diamond? Please? Let's not draw any more attention to ourselves than we already have.
Rose	You're right. But things were getting really fun.
Pearl	What if we took some time to explore some of Earth's other features?
Rose	Pearl! You're so smart.
The scene shifts back to the fountain.
Steven	So it was all just so she could get out and have some fun?
Pearl	Well, that's how it started.
The scene shifts back to Rose and Pearl on Earth.
Rose	So, this is Earth.
Pearl	And this is just a small portion of the resources available for making Gems on this planet.
Rose	I have to see it all.
Pearl and Rose explore the Earth. The walk through a field of flowers, chase a butterfly, and see a group of humans collecting water from a river.
Pearl	Is everything alright, my Diamond? You seem troubled.
Rose	All this life that's been growing wild here on Earth...none of it will survive my invasion. We're not creating life from nothing. We're taking life, and leaving nothing behind.
Pearl	Forgive me, my Diamond. I shouldn't have brought you to such a place.
Rose	No. I needed to see this.
The scene shifts back to the fountain.
Steven	So she did want to protect Earth. She didn't realize what the colony was doing to the planet.
Sapphire	So what?! She suddenly started to care about Earth? Why did she have to rope us into all this? Why couldn't she just stop the colonization herself?
Pearl	She tried. When she told the other Diamonds she didn't want to go through with the colony, they told her to finish what she started. When she told the other Diamonds she wanted to preserve life on Earth, they created the zoo and threw a handful of humans in. She did everything she could as Pink Diamond. But her status meant nothing to Blue and Yellow. So she decided to make a stand, as someone they couldn't ignore.
A montage is shown of Pink Diamond pleading with Blue and Yellow Diamond only to be shut down. She finally turns into Rose Quartz in anger.
Pearl	She was going to scare every Gem off the planet. But everything changed when she saw your fusion.
Rose and Pearl see the newly-fused Garnet for the first time.
Rose	I still can't believe it. Only on Earth, don't you think? Only on Earth where anything can happen. A fusion of two completely different Gems! Can all Gems do that? How have I never heard of this? I've only ever heard that it's unheard of. Can you imagine what that must feel li-
Pearl suddenly picks up Rose by the feet.
Pearl	Fusion...activate!
Pearl and Rose collapse on the ground.
Pearl	Oh- I thought- if a Ruby and a Sapphire- but you're a Diamond- forgive me! What am I doing? I...I need to be replaced immediately!
Rose	No!
Pearl	(blushing madly) But I've been imagining things. Even when you haven't asked me to, I imagine that I ran away and met you here on Earth, a Rose Quartz. And I'm not yours, but I make you so happy anyway! Isn't that ridiculous? Tell me to stop!
Rose	(grabs Pearl while blushing madly herself) Please don't ever stop!
They suddenly fuse into Rainbow Quartz, but she immediately breaks apart, and Rose and Pearl collapse on the ground.
Pearl	This is very not allowed.
Rose	That fusion! We never should've left her there with Blue, who knows what sort of horrible punishment-
They hear a crash. Pearl searches through the bushes and finds Garnet, having fallen down a hill.
Garnet	Ow. Ah!
Rose walks towards them through the bushes.
Garnet	We didn't mean to fuse! Well- well we did this time. We'll unfuse, we'll...
Rose	No, no, please. I'm glad to see you again.
The scene shifts back to the fountain.
Pearl	Before Garnet, Rose was only fighting for Earth. But Garnet changed everything. Rose wanted to fight for her, she wanted to fight for Gems! And maybe she was foolish, and maybe even...selfish, but she was-
Sapphire	Following us.
Pearl	What?
Sapphire	This whole time, we thought we were following her, but she was following us. How could she not after you swept her off her feet?
Pearl	W-What? Me?
Steven	Are you kidding? You took her on this whirlwind tour of Earth and then she wanted to live here with you forever!
Sapphire	That's just how I felt when I came here with...Ruby! Oh no! We have to get back right away!
They warp back to the temple.
Sapphire	Ruby! I'm so sorry! Where...?
Sapphire sees a note on the floor with "Sapphire" written on it.
Sapphire	Oh no.