Behold the newly repurposed Lapis and Stevonnie, now part of the brand new Beach City Playset! Now pride of place in Yellow Diamond's personal collection, they're sure to be loved and valued for eons to come, as the ball-headed dolls they are.

UPDATE: Story provided by  Gojiro7!

In the courtroom of the Gem Homeworld, White, Yellow, and Blue Diamond hold a meeting to plan the dismantling of their military force when one of their Generals returns with an offering found before the word was given to stop conquest, The General stood before their rulers, clearly she was a fusion of several gems and did not leave a good impression with their rulers as the General was asked to leave the room just as she presented a container, once she was gone they lifted the container and was greeted with the sight of a ever shifting cube, but as the Diamonds leaned in closer to see it, the cube released three beams of light into them and drew the Diamonds closer tword each other until they began to glow and fuse together.

What the General didn't have time to tell the Diamonds, was that they found a device created by deep space gem rebels that allowed for permanent perfect fusion with gems of any size or cut, and ontop of that, it magnifies the power of each as they become one, as the glowing finally settles, what now stands is a being large enough to burst through the ceiling of the palace and stand taller then any cluster warship they had, as "Pale Green Diamond" literally stood before the entirety of her planet as everyone looked up at her in awe, but when she looked down with a dull tired expression and a faint smile on her lips, she didn't see gem followers looking up at her like a god, she saw building materials for her new hobby.

With a snap of her finger, millions of gems floated up into the atmosphere and began fusing against their will until they all become one massive flat rectangular box, the entire population of the gem homeworld had just been fused into one being named "Cluster Box" but unlike the earth cluster made up thousands of shattered gems, Cluster Box fused everyone's mind and personality into one, a duty bound ship for their master as Pale Green Diamond enters the massive floating gem box, and it departs the now empty gem homeworld and makes its way tword Earth.

Back at home, Stevonnie and Lapis are on the beach listening to the ocean when the waves begin to recede as something massive breaks through the atmosphere several miles outside of Beach City, Stevonnie and Lapis look on with concern as a massive gem box hovers ominously over the ocean and out steps a massive figure, the largest gem either of them had ever seen as a voice suddenly pierced through their minds in a somber relaxed tone proclaiming "I am Pale Green Diamond, and everything I see and desire belongs to me and my collection, starting with my Beach City Playset" .

Suddenly a glass semi transparent wall formed around the entire the entire town, entrapping it like a ant farm as everything and everyone in it was effortlessly picked up and floated into the ship as Pale Green Diamond entered as well. The Beach city box was placed on a shelf like pedestal, off in the distance Stevonnie could see other pedestals left empty while Lapis freaks out fearing she'll be trapped again like she was in the mirror; Stevonnie grabs Lapis by the shoulders and calms her down telling her "Were the Crystal gems, we'll fix everything!!" but as Lapis gives a tearful smile, both her and Stevonnie suddenly recoil back and stare stiffly forward at each other.

Pale Green Diamond stuck her finger into the wall of the Beach City box and as it passed through it triggered a transformation onto everyone within the box as both Stevonnie and Lapis were frozen in place, forced to watch each other as their hair and faces became round, their skin turned to shiny plastic and their clothing became painted on, their limbs became segmented which tipped off Stevonnie that they were turning into posable dolls, but before she could tell Lapis what they were becoming, both their faces began to fade away until there was nothing left but a pair of smooth emotionless orb heads. Despite not having any eyes, both could still see each other, they couldn't speak through sound but they could communicate and hear with their minds, as Stevonnie could now tell Lapis they as well as everyone else in the entire city had been turned into dolls.

Pleased with herself, Pale Green Diamond left her brand new Diorama and began looking for more towns to add to it, meanwhile Stevonnie and Lapis struggled with their new plastic bodies, everyone has very limited movement in their joints and they cant move more then one joint at a time, leading to them moving very robotically, thankfully something about the diorama keeps at least one of their feet planted at all times so nobody can fall over, but this is still a massive adjustment to make.

Every human in town and Gem in little Kindergarten and little Homeworld was now a plastic doll with no face as everyone struggled to make sense of it all, with Garnets help they figured out what had happened to the diamonds to make them into the all powerful being that did this to them, but as Garnet tried using her future vision to see a possibility of fixing all this, her powers began to fail as everyone's powers began to diminish until they were gone completely, leaving all the gems as equally helpless as the humans as everyone was trapped together as this god-like beings literal playthings.

Time became irrelevant, but regardless people tried to go on with their regular lives, adjusting to their plastic lives while the gems struggled to think of a way to fix all this, but gradually as time went on, it was getting harder and harder to focus on the task as their memories started getting hazy, they had to keep repeating to each other that they needed to turn everyone back to normal, but their memories continued to get hazy and shift until eventually everyone in the diagram forget they ever were human or a gem, Everyone now doesn't question the possibility that they were ever anything but Plastic dolls as everyone now goes about their lives with altered memories to keep them blissfully within their role.

The Crystal Gems now have always been action figures that protect the peace despite there being nothing to fight within the Diorama, any action that anyone tries to do that potentially breaks the illusion of their existence just alters their memories to keep everyone happy and moving like clockwork, that is, until Pale Green Diamond decides to have a little bit of roleplay. Through the influence of their Diamond owner watching directly over them, Stevonnie and Lapis went from just friends as part of the Crystal gem team to instantly being lovers with a complicated backstory and lots of plastic faces and other body parts rubbing and clacking together as part of their limited ability to have romance together, the same goes for everyone else in town as Peridot and Pearl randomly become an item, as does Saddie getting in a love triangle with Jasper and Kiki. Every pairing is justified by Pale Green Diamonds narrative as she controls them and when she's finished theirs and everyone else's memories change to suit the new story the town lives by.

As time goes on, Pale Green Diamond collects more chunks of the earth and adds them to her collection, some are added to Beach City while others go on their own pedestals, dividing their owners attention, leaving the denizens of the Beach City Diorama to live their lives out on a loop, unaware they've long since lost any sense of freedom to think and act on their own, they just go about acting out the story that has been written into their minds by their owner, doing the same tasks and loving who they are told to love until she see's fit once more change everything, such is life when you're the plaything of a higher being. the end.

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