"Ugh. P, how long do we have to stand guard while Garnet does all the fun stuff!" Amethyst groaned. The two gems had been standing outside a temple for about half an hour and Pearl was getting more irritable by the second, as Amethyst proceeded to drone on about how it was unfair that they had to stay outside.
"Amethyst. That's the third time you have asked. Don't you think that if I knew I would have told you twenty minutes ago?" Pearl said, with more than a slight tone of irritability in her voice.
The gems began to quarrel, and before they could finish, Garnet walked out of the temple with a bubbled gem in hand.
"Gems, stop quarreling. We need to get back to the temple. Steven should be waiting for us." Garnet lectured, acting more like a mother than a leader.
The trio warped back to the temple where, surely enough, Steven was sitting on the couch, waiting for their return.
"Hey guys! Guess what?" Steven jumped up and shuffled through his backpack, pulling out a silver fragment. Pearl lunged over to him, knocking the mysterious fragment out of his hand.
"You don't know where that's been!" Pearl almost screeched. Steven looked as if he wanted to say something, and as he opened his mouth his words were drowned out by a deafening crash, the house shook, and after everyone gathered their wits they immediately investigated the source of the crash. Everyone ran outside and were surprised to see a small green pile, embedded in the sand.
The gems walked over to the steaming airship, and immediately readied their weapons once the ship started twitching, as if something was inside.
"Show yourself! We are not going to hurt you!" Garnet shouted, gauntlets ready to pound something in.
The spacecraft continued to shake, and then a hatch opened from the side. And a figure stepped out, covered in soot, with a glow coming from its hands. Suddenly, a beam of light shot at the group, and without warning, dozens more shot out of the figures hand as well. The figure was clearly disoriented, and their aim was off target, allowing the gems to overpower it easily.
Garner got a hold of the figure, and it wasn't until she got a firm hold of the gem, that she realized who it was: another Peridot.
