Chapter 1 An Experiment Gone Wrong
It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining the birds were chirping, and the people did the things they enjoyed the most. All in all, it was a normal day in Beach City.
But that's not where our story begins, now is it? No, it's not, our story begins in the country-side of Beach City. Out there stood a red barn, bleached, over the years, by sunlight, that sat on top of a flat-topped hill. Now this barn was in no way a regular barn, it was the home of the two Gems, Lapis Lazuli and Peridot. The two were refuges from their home world, who were now living here on earth in Beach City on a farm, at which they made some explicit changes to the barn.
The barn's red paint had lost its shining color over the years, and in the front of the barn was the backside of a truck, sticking out of the top window just above the barn's door. Speaking of the barn's door, it had been replaced with a curtain, and on the right side of the barn stood a silo that was sticking out of the right side of the barn.
On the left side of the barn, there was a brown tent with a flag on top of it. The flag showed a green maple leaf on a white line, with two green lines on the side of it. And speaking of the flag, a raven landed right on the top of the flag, staring at the cornfield. The raven didn't know, that it had gotten the attention of a certain short, green skinned Gem with triangle shape hair, Peridot, who was about to pounce on her newfound mortal enemy.
"Darn bird, get off my turf," she shouted as she threw a screwdriver at the raven, scaring it enough as to make it fly away. She ran over to the tent and looked up at the raven, shaking her fist at the flying sack of feathers. "Darn bird coming near my turf; next time I will be ready for you. You'll see, you clod," she shouted at the raven, as it flew out of sight.
After her outburst, Peridot looked to the side, to see Steven and Connie, the Crystal Gems, coming to the barn. Her angered face was replaced with a smile as she saw her friends. "Lapis, get down here, Steven and the others are here!" she shouted at the blue skinned Gem, sitting on top of the barn, enjoying her day.
Lapis sat up at her spot on the barn, and turned with a smile on her face at the mention of Steven's name. Steven was one of the first friends she made whilst being on earth, and she was always happy when he came to visit them. Steven ran towards the barn with a smile on his face, and greeted Lapis with a hug, shortly after she landed on the ground. She hugged him strongly back in response. "Lapis, Peridot, it's so good to see you two again." Steven sighed while hugging Lapis. "It's good to see you too Steven," she said as she released Steven from the hug.
Connie and the other Crystal Gems finally got up to where Steven stood, all of them having smiles on their faces after seeing Steven being so happy to see his friends again. "All right Peridot, we're all here, now will you tell us why you wanted us all to come?" Pearl asked, stepping over to Peridot.
"Yeah, I mean, I had like a whole day of doing nothing planned." Amethyst said with both her hands lazily behind her head.
Peridot looked at all of them, a smirk on her face. "Well, I am glad you asked that," she said, still smirking, "come with me and I will show it to all of you." Just like that she started to run towards the backside of the barn, Steven, Connie and the rest of the Gems quickly following after her.
As they caught up, they saw that she had set up some chairs for them to sit on. "Come on everybody, take a set, so I can get this started." Peridot was now standing in front of something being covered by a white sheet.
There were two rows of chairs to sit on, each row having tree seats. Steven decided to sit in the middle char in the first row. Connie and Lapis decided to sit next to Steven in the first row, Connie siting on the left, and Lapis on the right. The rest of the Gems sat on the second row of chairs, with Garnet in the middle, Pearl on the left and Amethyst on the right. With everyone seated, Peridot cleared her throat and began to speak. "Friends, fellow Gems, Connie," she said as she was waving her hand at Connie.
"Hey!" Connie shouted, annoyed at how Peridot said her name.
"Now I know you are all wondering, why I called you today," Peridot said matter of factly, while walking back and forth, ignoring Connie's complaint. "Well I'm sure you all know too well, that all of the Galaxy Warp Pads are broken right now."
Everyone nodded, as she continued. "Well I was thinking, 'what if I could make a new, but better Galaxy Warp Pad?'" Peridot said, as she stopped her pacing. "It took a lot of hard work, but here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for, the thing that will take us across the stars and beyond," she exclaims, as she pulled the sheet off of the thing that she wanted to show them all.
It looked like a small, round table, made out of iron, with other, strange looking machine parts on the side of it. "Behold, the Galaxy Warp Pad 2.0. This version was built to work just like a regular Galaxy Warp Pad, only better," Peridot said as she stepped onto the warp pad.
"This new warp pad, that I made, will be able to teleport us anywhere, as long as there's another warp pad at the destination," she said, picking up a small device and showing it to them. "And when you want to return to Earth, all you got to do is press this button, and you will be sent back here in an instant," she said with a triumphant smile on her face.
"Does it work?" Garnet asked, starting to get interested in the machine. "That's a very good question Garnet. That's why I called all of you here, so you could all watch me test it, to see if it works." Peridot explain to them as she pointed at all of them. "But first I will need a volunteer," she said, looking at her audience.
At that moment Steven raise his hand, waving it back and forth, a big smile on his face. "Oh, oh me, me, I volunteer," Steven said, strong excitement in his voice. "Well then Steven, get on up here you," Peridot said waving him to come to her. And without a second thought, Steven got up from his set and ran, to join Peridot on the warp pad.
"Now for the moment you been waiting for, I will warp me and Steven to a warp pad on the moon, and use this remote to bring us back here," she exclaimed to all of them as everyone watched with different emotions on their face.
Connie and Amethyst watched them with excitement, while Lapis and Pearl were a bit worried for Steven, and as for Garnet, she had the same look as always on her face, and her expression was hard for anyone to read.
Silence filled the air, as Peridot stood next to Steven, her eyes closed, trying to focus on her destination. "Take us to the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!" she shouted, lifting both her arms up into the air, as a dramatic effect.
There was a silent pause… nothing happened. Steven looked around in confusion as he sees Peridot, who still had her eyes closed. "Peridot, nothing happened," Steven said, letting her now what all but her already knew. Peridot opened one of her eyes, hearing what he said, to see that, indeed, nothing happened.
"Oh, don't worry it must just some technical difficulty, let me try that again," Peridot said, starting to get worried that her invention would not work. "To the moon!" she shouted again, trying to get Steven and herself to the moon, but once again, nothing happened.
Peridot started to get aggravated at this. "TO THE MOON, TO THE MOON, TO THE MOON, YOU PICE OF JUNK!" she screamed as she jumped up and down on it, frustratedly trying to get it to work. "It's okay Peridot, maybe it needs a bit more work, but I bet it will work next time," Steven said, trying to calm her down. It definitely wasn't working, since she kept jumping on the warp pad in anger.
"Why won't this thing work? I spent two weeks making this thing and when I finally finish it, it doesn't even work. Thanks for nothing, you useless piece of metal," Peridot exclaimed, as she stopped her jumping and threw the remote at the power core.
At that moment the warp pad started to glow. Peridot smiled at this, as it looked like the warp pad was finally starting to work. "Finally, it's working!" she said, raising her arms up into the air. "Now take us to the moon!" she shouted, as the warp pad glowed brighter. But instead of bringing them to the moon, it gave out a shockwave, that sent both, Steven and Peridot, flying into the arms of Connie and Lapis.
After the shockwave, the warp pad begun to absorb everything around, sending anything, that got caught in the light, to an unknown location.
As Connie and Lapis set Steven and Peridot back down, Garnet got up from her seat, a worried look on her face. "Everyone, get in the barn! We don't now where that warp pad would send us to, if we were to get caught in it," she yelled, everyone following the command instantly running back to the front of the barn.
Steven though, was unfortunate, as he tripped on one of the chairs, that fell over in the prior commotion, causing him to fall flat on his face. "STEVEN!" Connie screamed, as she ran over to him, to get him back up on his feet. But as she did that, the vacuum like pull got stronger, starting to pull both, Steven and Connie, in.
As soon as noticed this, she grabbed Steven's hand and pulled out her sword from her back and stabbed it into the ground, and held on to both, it and Steven, determine not to let him go. Lapis saw this and tried to help them, through summoning her wings and trying to fly towards them. She ended up getting caught in the pull before reaching them, and nearly got sucked into the light. Amethyst reacted fast and summoned her weapon, a whip from her gem, using it to catch Lapis in the last second.
As this was happening, Peridot was pulled off her feet and towards the warp pad by it's ever-growing pull. Amethyst acted quickly and summoned another whip, using it to catch her other friend as well. However, the force of the broken pad had begun to pull on her as well, and with the other two hanging at the end of her whips, she was losing her grip on the ground.
Pearl grabbed hold of Amethyst's legs to hold her back, but it was in vain, as she was being lifted of the ground as well. Before Pearl got too far away, Garnet grabbed a hold of one of her legs, and held on to a tree trunk.
The warp pad's gravitational field got stronger and stronger, as everyone held on for dear life. Garnet could feel the strain on her arms, as she held on to all the Gems with one and the trunk with the other arm. But she was determined to not let her team down, so she held strong.
Sadly, she failed to take note of one of Peridot's tools, coming her way. Peridot saw this, and tried to warn the one who kept them all from falling into the teleporter. "Garnet look out behind you," she yelled, but Garnet could not react in time and got hit in the head by the tool.
Her grip on the trunk weakened, and she lost her hold on it, leaving herself, Pearl, Amethyst, Peridot and Lapis to vanish as soon as they touched the warp pad.
Steven and Connie were the last ones, still holding on, for dear life. Connie held on to both, Steven and the sword, but though her grip was strong, the sword had slowly begun to pull out of the ground.
Connie looked back at Steven, as he looked back at her. They looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds. "Please don't let go of me Connie," Steven said, holding on to Connie's hand tightly. "I won't Steven!" Connie responded, holding on to Steven's hand, just as tightly.
The sword had come out of the ground, and the gravitational pull send the two children towards the warp pad. As they were about to be teleported, Steven pulled Connie near him and hugged her tightly with both arms, she returned that hug, as they disappeared out of sight.
After they were pulled in, the warp pad all of a sudden made a rattling sound and shut down, sending the two humans and the Gems to a place they could have never imagined.
There you all go the first chapter of this story, i hop you will all like it me and my New editer work hard on this just for all of you. so please give a big think you to Sherry_A_H for his/her hard work and we will have a new chapter next week so please leave a comment and a like, and i will see you all next week.