The sun shining over the valley, only a small wind to ease the scorching heat. Monkey screeches occasionally broke the silence, in the middle of a small clearing surrounded by tall grass was a pure white stone pad. There was a troop of baboons sitting around it, one of the little ones was bashing a small rock against it, suddenly the pad lit up and all the baboons instantly made a run for it towards the nearest trees. Out of the pillar of light came out four figures.
The first was a large woman with giant curled pink hair, she was wearing a white dress, next to her were two smaller figures. A pale woman with a sharp nose wearing what appeared to be a ballerina outfit and a gem in the middle of her forehead, a tan stoic woman wearing dark shades, black and red outfit and her afro was in perfect square figure. Behind the tanned woman was a small excited, round purple girl.
The large woman looked at the grassland with a sad look on her face "This place used to be filled with life, a shame it fell down to this."
She quickly gathered her focus and said "We need to start looking for the temple."
The group got off the pad and started walking on a small barely visible dirt road, when suddenly a bullet sound echoed thorough the grassland, a bullet hole was a few inches away from the pale woman, they immediately summoned their weapons, there was an uneasy silence. There were sound of shuffling grass moving towards them. Out of the tall grassland a single man emerged in front of them. He was a short man barely reaching the pale woman's shoulders.
He wore desert camouflage military grab with sand color boots, beige Kevlar vest, balaclava and black tactical goggles.
"Identify yourself." he demanded as he pointed his rifle towards them "Now!"
"Just who do you think you are." the pale woman said outraged.
"Pearl let me handle this." the woman with pink hair said "As you wish Rose." Pear said as she glared at the man.
"We are the Crystal Gems." Rose said as she put her weapon away "Who are you human?"
"Wait a sec." the man said as he took out a device that had a small antenna on it "Base camp this is Nico, we have identified the unauthorized personnel at the pad." the man spoke to the device "They call themselves the Crystal Gems. How should I proceed?".
"Rose we can't, wait around." Pearl whisper to Rose "We have to see if this temple is hospitable again."
'If you want I can hit him." Garnet said pointing at the man that was still waiting for an answer from his superiors.
"If that is all we must proceed." Rose said as she walked forward "We are on a very important mission."
Nico immediately pointed his rifle at her "Ma'am, I need you to stand down or I will shoot."
The gems had enough, Rose drew her weapon, even she has her limits. She stopped, because she saw a laser on Pearls head "Walk away and this won't end violently." Nico spoke still pointing his gun "That laser belongs only to one of my snipers, the others already lined up their shots."
The gems stand on their guard, this changes thing. They know they can take out a human with an ease, but now they have an unknown number of soldiers ready to attack.
Before Rose could answer there was a voice heard from the device Nico was talking to "Bravo team, you are to return to HQ asap." it was a female voice "Take the gems with you, doctor Chakwas wants to speak to them."
Nico lowered his weapon and grabbed the device "Tony you heard the boss stand down.", "Well it appears that the boss wants to see you." he said.
"I don't trust them." Pearl whispered to the others, " If they are lying we can always beat them up." Garnet said as she watched the man move ahead of them.
"You guys coming or are you gonna stand there all day." Nico said as he walked on the road, the gems followed the man Garnet still with her metal gauntlets.
They followed the small road that soon turned into a rocky path that leads up the mountain.
Nico raised his hand to signal the group to stop, "Why are we stopping?" Rose asked.
"We are waiting for my partner." Nico said as he lit a cigar
"There never were more than just the two of you." Garnet said easing up a bit, Nico only chuckled, soon enough a man came out. He looked like he was wearing a bush to the gems. Nico took out his map and started having an argument with the man in foreign language. "Why are you here?" Rose asked "Is there a war going on?".
"We had some trouble with the local thugs, so I wouldn't call it a war." Nico said, "We are archeologists." the unknown man said through laughter, soon after another voice was heard over the radio in foreign language and the group continued on.
After a few hours of walking the group reached a small clearing with a few large tents with armed men walking around, they were wore identical clothes as Nico. The man that was with them went back down the road, "Lets go." Nico said as he walked towards the camp "People here don't have a nice past with gems, so don't fall behind.", as they walked through the camp many soldiers gave them looks and whispered behind them in foreign languages. Nico lead them into the largest tent: inside were many maps, communication gear and other devices. Nico took a seat on some large crates next to an old man carrying an oxygen canister and a cane, he stared at the gems with awe.
After taking a breath from the canister he finally spoke "Hello, my name is Theodore Chernobog." the old man said in a weak voice "Leader of the organization called the Mason Order, I also fund our expeditions to any major gem sites. You already met private Nikola Vujatovic, we just call him Nico." before the small man could continue someone burst into the tent. "What is the meaning of this!" she spoke outraged, a tallish woman with pony tailed blonde hair, "I did not authorize you to lead them hear private!", Nico immediately got of the and saluted trying to mumble something out. Luckily the Theodore intervened "My sincere apologies commander Shasa, but I thought it would be very beneficial to have the Crystal Gems themselves to help us on this mission." The commander took a deep breath "Sir, you placed me in charge of your security and the people who are on this expedition" she continued with a much more calm tone "They are gems how can we even trust them?"
Amethyst got close to Garnet and whispered "Someone has anger issues.", Rose turned to the commander and spoke with a soft tone "We mean you no harm human. We just..." she was interrupted by the commander "Please reconsider this decision, I will not allow them to endanger this mission and the people on it.". Pearl had enough "Now listen here, we have dealing with these things for thousands of years! We fought a war for you and we are the only reason your planet isn't a pile of rubble.". The debate was silenced by the old mans severe cough, it was so bad that his hands were shaking and he needed Nico"s hep to place and turn on the canister. After a few deep breaths he stood up "That is enough commander, I am funding this mission and I decide who goes or doesn't go." this time his voice was much more commanding "The Pearl is right, if they didn't rose up to fight the Homeworld we would have been destroyed, along with the planet.." he took another breath "Now go get your team prepared, that is an order.".
The commander left grumbling something beneath her breath, "I must apologize about our commander, she is a good person really, she just worries too much." Nico helped the man back to his chair before also leaving the tent.
"How do you know so much about us?" Rose asked, she never met a human that knew about the Homeworld, the man took out a bottle of water and drank before speaking "I spent my entire life researching gems, just like my father and his father before him." he said as he too out an old small picture of him and his father "He used to tell me all about his gem finding, how you rose to defend us." there was a tear in his eyes as he keept looking at the picture "Now it is my duty to continue to our preparation for the final confrontation."
The gems looked at him a bit confused "What confrontation?" Amethyst asked, "Between Homeworld and Earth." the man spoke with a serious tone "They will come for a rematch, but this time they won't be met by savages with sticks and rocks." he took another breath "They will be meet by a disciplined army equipped with combined gem and earth technology, this time humanity won't idly stand by as they destroy everything we hold dear." .
Rose could see the fire in his eyes, she did not say a word, because she saw a bit of herself in his eyes. "Now Crystal Gems will you help us defend our planet."
"That is a noble cause.' Rose spoke "Are you sure your soldiers are ready for this?", the man quickly replied "They are all veterans, the man that lead you hear Nico, he was a soldier during Yugoslav Civil war and saw more death and destruction then anyone else here." the man took another breath "He also unfortunately also saw and sufferd the horrors that the Homeworld left behind, but that is a story is not to be told by me only by him if he wishes."
"Rose, we can't seriously consider this." Pearl whispered to her "They have no idea what they are getting into, their weapons wont even work on gems.", "I think we should at least give them a chance." Garnet said " They will do this whether we join them or not, might as well try and see how they work.", "I think it would be fun working for the old bags over there, maybe not so much with the miss Hulk." Amethyst said as she was messing with one of the devices in the tent.
"Alright, doctor." Rose spoke, "please call me Theodore." the man said through a weak smile, "We will corporate with you for this one mission, if your troops are good as you say they are we will see about getting into a long term alliance." Rose spoke, the man stood up with a big smile across his face "Thank you, for giving us this chance." he said as he went towards the exit "Come, the team is already assembling in front of the entrance as we speak.". The gems followed him to a mine shaft entrance where a group of ten soldiers were gathering and getting ready to enter with commander at the front. Her smile immediately dropped when she saw the doctor and the gems heading their way "He just replaced me with a rock.".
"Listen, the gems will now lead this team." Theodore spoke, there was even a man keeping an umbrella over his head, "They know more about this temple then us so listen to them carefully."
The soldier saluted and did their final check up letting the gems to take the lead, "Alright boys and girls lets go hunting!" commander said,
The gems looked back at the team before heading in "Lets see what these humans are made of." Rose whispered to herself.
AN:
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I plan to make a few chapters in Rose days, but it will also move on to the shows episodes.
Please review and tell me what you think. STEVEN UNIVERSE DOES NOT BELONG TO ME, the OC's are mine.
Have a nice evening/day/morning. I'm very bad at giving author notes.