This is set, in part (the present time stuff), just after the newest episode "Logdate 7 15 2", and will contain spoiler from this, and previous episodes. If you wish to avoid spoilers of these episodes, and future episodes I may take material from, turn back now, you have been sufficiently warned.
"Here Peridot take this back." Steven says as he hands Peridot back her tape recorder.
"Wow…thanks." Peridot responds, her voice monotone.
Garnet raises her hand, and gives Steven a thumbs up, and just as Steven is about to respond in kind, a loud boom echoes through the barn, followed moments later by a loud crash, and the smell of smoke as something outside explodes.
Rushing outside to see just what's going on, the trio stop next to Pearl and Amethyst, both with weapon ready as they stare into a crater at the bottom of the hill the barn sits on. In the smoking crater, seemingly untouched by the impact, is a large crystal shard.
"What is it?" Steven asks, looking up at Garnet as Peridot hides behind the two of them.
"I WISH I HAD MY LIMB ENHANCERS!" She shouts, both terrified and curious.
"I don't know Steven, but it could be dangerous, so stay back." Garnet responds coolly after Peridot finishes her shout.
"Oh Garnet, do you think it's from Homeworld?" Pearl asks, clutching her spear, ready to attack should the crystal move.
"Psssh, I don't think so. Look at how rough it is, everything Peridot brought with her was much rounder then that thing." Amethyst says before jumping down, landing near the shard in the crater.
"AMETHYST! IT COULD BE A…A…A MONSTER, OR AN OLD GEM WEAPON!"
Amethyst wipes the outside of the Crystal, and peers inside, dropping her whip after a second.
"GUYS, I DON'T THINK IT'S DANGEROUS, THERE'S A GUY INSIDE, NOT A GEM."
"Inside?" Pearl whispers to herself as the group jumps down to join Amethyst, Steven and Peridot both sliding down the hill instead of leaping.
As they neared, through the area Amethyst had cleared of what looks like frost, still clinging to the crystal, they could see that she was indeed correct. Inside the crystal was a human man, just a little shorter then Garnet, and covered in tattered armor, a yellow mace clutched in one fist. They could also see, behind him on an opaque part of the shard, was the symbol of Yellow Diamond, and only Yellow Diamond. The man had long black hair, reminiscent of Amethyst's own, and was lightly tanned.
"This thing belongs to Yellow Diamond?" Pearl ponders as Peridot creeps closer and knocks on the thing, and then gasps.
"I…I know what this thing is! It's a stasis crystal, I never thought that any of them had survived! They were built to put damaged gems into stasis so that they could be healed later if no healer was around where they were cracked. It can be modified to put Organic life into the same kind of stasis. They stopped using these over a thousand years ago."
Garnet frowns, and raises her gloved hands, about to smash the thing before a pink bubble appears in front of her.
"Steven! Get out of my way, this thing could be dangerous!"
"No! I won't let you, that's a human in there, not a gem, not a corrupted gem, not even one of those fusion experiments."
"Steven, that pod belonged to Yellow Diamond, and if she put a human into stasis, she must have had good reason, it's too dangerous to keep around."
"We don't know that! You said that humans fought in the Rebellion to, trying to retake Earth. What if he was from the Rebellion?"
Garnet frowns and lowers her hands. "Fine, but we aren't opening it here, let's get this thing in the barn where there'll be less room for him to try and run."
Leaning down, Garnet tugs on the crystal, then frowns again, and tugs harder, pulling the thing out of the ground. While she could hold it, it proved to be heavier then she thought. A few moments later she dropped it on the floor of the barn, and activated the pod. It hissed, and cold air poured out of the inside. For a moment, nothing seemed to happen, then the man's eyes snapped open, blinked, and he fixed them on the gems, focusing mainly on Garnet.
"GEMS!"
Pushing out of the pod, faster than any of them expected, he leaped over them, and landed behind them, more of his armor, apparently made of a yellow crystal, fell to the ground, breaking away from his arm. Mace in his hand ready, and his body tense.
Well that does it for Chapter 1, Chapter 2 will be up tomorrow, and maybe even Chapter 3. Let me know what you think.