"The current date is August fifth, Twenty One Seventy Six," a hooded figure spoke into a tape recorder as she walked down a beach. It was quite foggy out; she could only see about 10-20 feet in front of her. "My name is Lily Smith. I'm currently on my way to a temple that my great great great great grandma told me about. She said that it resides in a place that was once called 'Beach City', although the 'city' part is no longer there, as it got destroyed in the battle that freed all of gem-kind." She pressed a button to stop the recording, then sliding the tape recorder into her pocket. She let out a deep sigh, stopping and pulling out her phone. "I feel... lost," she muttered to herself sorely. "Maybe I should call my dad and-" she trailed off as she noticed the lack of bars at the top of her phone screen "no signal!?" she shouted, then groaning and falling onto her knees.

Just when Lily lost all hope of finding the temple, she noticed something to her right: a sign! She hopped off of her knees, brushing the sand off of them, then ran toward it, looking at it to see what was written. "Welcome to Beach City!" she read aloud, "population: 126." She grinned, pumping her fist, then taking off down the coastline. She noticed some destroyed housing off to her right, just beyond the fog. "This must've been where Beach City was!" she remarked as she ran down the coast. "But if this is the city, then where is the temp-" she stopped as a huge, unnatural-looking hill came into sight. She gasped, "I remember grandma telling me about this!" she said excitedly, then taking off running again. In no time, she reached the other side of the hill: "Just as I thought," she said, looking up at the huge statue of which her grandma referred to as "the Temple Fusion."

"Hm... it looks like there's a house at the base of the temple," Lily remarked as she stared between two of the Temple Fusion's many hands, "I wonder if anyone still lives in it." She slowly made her way over to the house, which, in contrast to all of the other houses within Beach City, was still perfectly intact. She made her way up the wooden steps, each one of them creaking on a varying degree of loudness as she made her way up toward the porch. Surely, if anybody still lived here, her presence would be known by now. When she arrived on the porch, she immediately strided over to one of the windows and looked in. Everything seemed to be kept tidy: the couch was made, the floor was clean, among many other things. Something caught her eye though: the strange, glowing door all the way on the other side of the house that was surrounded by crystals. She would've loved to get a closer look, but it was inside of a home which was obviously still being lived in...

Too bad she didn't care.

"Don't mind if I do," Lily giggled as she let herself inside of the house. The door, conveniently, wasn't locked, so she didn't have to end up breaking a window like she originally planned. She ran toward the mysterious door, stopping on the warp pad before it so that she could admire how beautiful it was. "This must be, like... some ancient gem technology," she mumbled in amazement. She took a few steps toward the door, then running her hand down it, feeling the blue, red, pink, white, and purple gems that were embedded in it. "I wonder how it's activated..." she said. She then turned around and looked at the interior of the house: some stand-out things were a framed picture of two humans seemingly getting married, another framed picture of about twelve humans, all ranging in ages, and a large painting of six gems and two humans that sat just above the door that she entered the home through. The painting caught her attention the most. "I feel like... I recognize them," Lily said, taking slow steps toward the painting. "It must be..." she thought for a moment, the answer striking her very suddenly: "the saviors of earth!" she gasped. "Wait, does that mean that I just broke into the home of..." she went wide-eyed, then turning around and looking at the ancient gem door again. All of a sudden, it all made sense to her: this wasn't just any ordinary person's house; it was the home of-!

The warp pad suddenly chimed, covering every wall with light.

"I need to hide," Lily said to herself. She quickly ran down a hallway and into the bathroom, closing the door gently behind her. She hopped into the bathtub and got as low as possible. The chime of the warp pad stopped just as she got into place, and she then heard the sound of a pair of feet hitting the floor beyond the bathroom door. Suddenly, the foot steps stopped, and Lily felt herself wince.

"Why is..." a mysterious voice started, "why is the front door open?"

Lily started to hyperventilate, but she covered her mouth in fear of this mysterious person hearing her. She then heard the sound of a sword being pulled from a scabbard; a sound she knew all too well considering she was currently being taught how to sword fight by her father.

"Who's there?" the mysterious voice questioned, without a hint of fear in their voice.

Lily suddenly heard footsteps growing closer to the bathroom door, stopping just before it.

"Hello?" the voice called from just beyond the door.

Lily was thinking of a million possible ways that she could get out of the current situation, only for her line of thought to get cut off as the door flung open and light flooded into the room. She felt herself get aggressively pulled up by the back of her sweatshirt, then thrown belly down onto the bathroom floor.

"Didn't your parents ever teach you not to go breaking into people's houses!?" the voice shouted.

"I-I'm sorry miss- er... mister? It won't happen again, I swear!" Lily pleaded.

"That's what they all say," the voice groaned. Lily heard the person pacing back and forth in frustration. "Why are you here, anyways? I don't have anything to steal!" the voice said, scolding Lily. "And get off of the floor and look me in the eyes, kid!"

Lily was quick to scramble back up onto her feet, but she kept her face tilted toward the ground. She felt the person grab her chin, push it up, then pull her hood off of her head.

"Now-" the person started, but they stopped abruptly as their eyes met Lily's.

Lily knew exactly why they stopped talking. She pulled her hood back up and looked downward.

"You're half gem, aren't you?" the person asked.

Lily nodded, feeling her cheeks flush.

"I'd recognize that type of gem anywhere," the person chuckled, "your mother was an aquamarine, right?"

Lily nodded once more, feeling her cheeks flush even more.

"What's your name?" the person asked calmly.

"Lily Aqua Smith, miss... mister?"

The person chuckled, "I knew it. There's only one person I know of who has an aquamarine for a left eye."

The person pushed Lily's chin up again, angling her eye toward their naval. Lily took notice of the pink gem that was embedded atop it.

"You're-!" Lily started.

"Sorry to interrupt, but I just realized that I never introduced myself," the person chuckled. "I'm Stevonnie Universe. I'm your great great great great great grandpa-grandma. I'm neither a miss or a mister, by the way."