Inspired by Golden Universe by Squish13.

So Squish has been my beta for many chapters of my current series "Vulgaris Adamas". She's also a fantastic writer in her own right (or write, heh) and I have tremendously enjoyed her Golden Universe au. Seriously go read it, you'll realize just how much you wanted greg and yellow to go on a car trip with eachother. So, this came out of that, a chance for our words to collide. It was supposed to come out monday but life got in the way so here it is! Hopefully I'll have the next chapter for you next week. Enjoy!

"Twenty years." Domina muttered, shaking her head. Her pearl glanced over at her then returned to the screen in front of her. "What do you think she's been doing?"

"I'm afraid I have no idea, My Diamond." Pearl said.

"You haven't heard anything from her pearl?" She asked, she didn't know how much the pearls talked but surely if something was wrong...

"I have not." Pearl didn't look at her but Domina knew she was just as uneasy about this whole situation.

"Well nothing like going in blind on a planet we've never been to." Domina paused and amended her statement. "Or at least one that I've never been to before." Pearl didn't respond. She just kept her eyes on the quickly approaching blue planet. Yellow Diamond had gone to this planet twenty years ago, ostensibly to check on a geo-weapon project, one that Domina was trying not to think about. That was a conversation to save for when she talked to Yellow. They would be having a long conversation about this 'Cluster'.

There had been a second team sent maybe a few months after and they had disappeared without a trace. No other attempts had been made. And considering the history of Earth, Domina really couldn't fault Yellow's court for not wanting to risk anymore gems to it. Besides, if Domina went, that meant she got to take a break from running the empire.

"Any thoughts on a landing site pearl?" Domina switched to manual controls and began their descent.

"There's an old dropship landing site in Facet 12, though the second team last reported that they were landing closer to Facet 5." Pearl transferred the map to the Styx's main screen with a flick of her wrist. "Though there is a human settlement close by."

Domina smiled.

"I guess that means we get to see if the cloaking device still works in this thing."

Domina opted for landing outside of town, far away enough from the crash site to hopefully avoid any hostile inhabitants. Though really, would humans even now be hostile? Domina had to admit, she was excited to see how the Earth of her father's stories had changed. Even now as buildings began to appear during their descent, she could see just how they had advanced.

She spotted the crashed handship, and Pearl made a confused sound as their decent revealed... decoration? Signs of human habitation? Why would humans take up residence in a gem ship?

The Styx landed and Domina opened the door, then ran to watch it slowly open, allowing fresh air to waft in.

There was something special about stepping onto a new planet. Especially after such a long time stuck on Homeworld.

Earth smelled of growth, and the soil was soft as Domina stepped out on to it. The air pressure and the gravity were ideal. The entire planet felt full of promise in that brief moment Domina stopped and took it in. She understood completely why it had been chosen for a Diamond's first colony.

Of course the presence of intelligent life severely impacted that assessment.

"My Diamond, the crash is this way." Pearl said impatiently, already a good distance from the Styx. Domina blushed momentarily. Right, they were on a mission. Domina tore her eyes away from the horizon and the ocean.

"Coming." She said, following Pearl. The crash loomed in front of them, getting even stranger as they approached. Domina resisted the urge to draw her sword. She didn't have good experiences with aliens, but humans had had worse experiences with gems she was sure. Pearl walked lighter than normal, apparently this situation didn't make a whole lot of sense to her either.

"Thoughts?" Domina prompted.

"Why is it so far away from the town itself?" Pearl asked. "Humans are social, if one is living here then what's wro-" Pearl stopped mid sentence, both with her words and movement.

"Huh?" Domina paused and looked at her, then followed her gaze back to the ship, specifically, as the crest of one of the fingers that was still attached. "A robonoid?"

"A robonoid." Pearl confirmed with a nod.

"Not human then," Domina said with a slight relief. This situation was complicated enough without adding her meeting humans for the first time. Still, Domina didn't draw her sword, no reason to approach this aggressively. They took another few steps forward, stopping when the robonoid suddenly turned towards them and began to sound an alert. "And now they know we're here." Domina said, the confidence in her voice slipping.

She was White Diamond, she didn't have any reason to fear any common gems. Or rather shouldn't. But something was wrong, and Domina wasn't exactly immune to the things that 'common gems' could deal out.

Before they could react to the alarm, a hatch opened near the robonoid and a triangular head rose out from it. An era 2 peridot, whose annoyance Domina could hear from far enough off.

"There was a peridot on the secondary team." Pearl murmured. Domina nodded, why Homeworld had only decided to send a peridot and a jasper after Yellow Diamond was beyond her. The peridot surveyed them, and froze as her eyes landed on Domina and Pearl. Domina waved.

The peridot disappeared back into the ship with a shriek.

"Well, now they know we're here!" Domina said, her hidden unease was breaking through her easygoing facade. Even if she had thought gems would be here, that wasn't the reaction would have expected.

"Yes they do." Pearl said, sounding similarly concerned. Domina pushed through her fear and doubled her pace. She didn't draw her sword but she made sure she had a good hold on the air currents around her.

"Any ideas?" Domina asked.

"None." Pearl said, her hand ghosting over her gem. "Are we to assume they've gone rogue? Or simply mistook you for a human?"

"Pearl, I've never been mistaken for a human by a gem."

"There's a first time for everything."

"True, I'm going to go up there and... knock on the door. And when everything goes wrong..." Domina looked around for vantage points, already planning an escape route, and most importantly, making sure pearl wasn't going to be completely exposed, there weren't a lot of options. "Maybe you should go back to the sh-"

"Absolutely not." Pearl said, Domina nearly tripped over a rock in surprise. She looked at Pearl, and Pearl looked back at her with an expression that clearly read 'Oh stars, I did not mean to say that out loud.'

"Alright then." Domina said, unable to stop a smile coming to her face, even if she wanted to.

They paused at the door, and Domina hesitated. The peridot had taken her by surprise, Domina was honestly expecting to find them bubbled somewhere on planet, Yellow obviously didn't want to be disturbed, even if she had crash landed on a planet that was practically synonymous with failure to most gems.

But if the secondary team was still corporeal, and yet had not contacted Homeworld in the nearly ten years they had been on earth, then what had happened? What was going on?

"Would you like me to knock, My Diamond?" Pearl asked, shocking Domina out of her thoughts. She could hear the hum of the ship, it was as familiar as her own heart beat. Someone was in there.

"No, I've got it." Domina said rapping three times on the door. Hard. For good measure. There wasn't anything for a moment. But they were being watched, there was a camera on the right hand side of the door, pointed directly at them. Pearl budged her gently and gestured to the left side, which had a matching camera.

"Yellow!" Domina shouted. "Are you in there?" Probably not the most dignified way of going about it. But honestly, neither was hiding out on a planet halfway across the universe for Homeworld.

There was some shuffling on the other side and some slightly hushed voices. Domina leaned forward to try to figure out exactly what kind of gem was on the opposite side, when the door opened, revealing a jasper, the 'Perfect Quartz' if Domina remembered right. Jasper looked down at Domina disdainfully.

"What do you want..." She paused for a moment and looked Domina up and down. "Goshenite?"

Pearl, for her part, kept a straight face. No one ever assumed she was White Diamond when they met her for the first time..

"You're the Jasper from the Earth kindergarten correct? You were sent here on the research mission for Yellow-" Domina was cut off by a gasp from Pearl. She frowned, puzzled, and leaned over to look past the Jasper.

"Pink?" Yellow Diamond's pearl stared back at them, well at Pearl specifically. "Pink, what are you-" Jasper stepped aside to look at both pearls with confusion, thus revealing Domina's presence. Yellow's pearl sputtered. "W-White Diamond? What- How-"

"White Diamond?!" A peridot's nasally voice interjected. "You can't possibly be serious." Domina managed to pick the gem out from one of the upper floors of the askew handship. "But that would mean-" She was cut off by a ferocious look from the jasper.

"Would mean?" Domina asked, looking around the rest of the ship. No sign of Yellow, other than her pearl who looked panicked. Shale, what had happened? "Where is Yellow, er Yellow Diamond?" Yellow's pearl stiffened.

"What are you doing here?" Jasper asked, she looked... unimpressed and Domina couldn't blame her. However, that didn't mean she had to be nice about it.

"That's none of your business, quartz." Domina snapped then turned to Yellow's Pearl again. "Where is Yellow Diamond? I don't care about how long she's been gone but I can't keep on like th-"

"Guys?" A voice said, a human voice that trickled down from the upper areas of the ship. "What's going on?" Domina tracked the source of the voice up to a male, no, boy was the term. He had brown hair that stuck up in odd angles and wore a black shirt with a star on it. And buried in his chest, was a diamond, a yellow diamond.

Next to Domina, Pearl took in a breath, the other gems paused and looked between the two hybrids. One had a puzzled expression that indicated he hadn't quite figured out what the significance of this stranger's appearance was. The other wore a look of shock as all the pieces filtered into place, leaving her room for only one reaction.

"Oh frack me."