Peridot had finally crash landed back to earth after her first real encounter with the home world traitors who called themselves the "crystal gems".
"Curses!" Peridot yelled in her escape pod, still bound and tied up in the spiked whip that belonged to the gem traitor known simply as amethyst. "I knew I should've brought more muscle power than that orange meathead and that disobedient mirror gem." She cursed to herself as she struggled to undo the tight bonding that still had her restrained.
What was supposed to be a simple mission to rebuild the home world warp pad and then take back control of earth had not only completely failed but also backfired in Peridot's face. Not only did she fail in her mission: she lost her bodyguard, let all the traitors escape, lost her ship, and worst of all she was stuck on a planet she was not familiar with.
"Grrr...errr...Damn it!"Peridot grunted as she struggled to break free from her bindings but to no avail. Finally, after what felt like hours, Peridot finally wiggled her way out of her restraints. "Finally, now to contact the home world and tell them to send in reinforcements." Peridot said out loud as her fingers began to float in mid-air in front of her creating a hexagon like hologram showing various characters and numbers, some unknown to the human race.
"This is Peridot, requesting reinforcements the mission was...a failure." Peridot spoke, the last words said through gridded teeth. Unfortunately for Peridot, it didn't seem as any of her messages to the home world were going through. "OH COME ON!" Peridot screamed, her yells echoing in her damaged space pod, "My signal must have been interfered with somehow when those clogs tried to take control of the ship." Peridot thought to herself. "Maybe if I connect to the pod it could give me a large enough signal boost so I can get off this insect filled planet" she said to herself hoping that she could find away to get off earth and go home.
"Computer boost my transmitter so I can reach the home world." Peridot commanded the broken space pod. Sadly for Peridot, it seemed as luck was not on her side today. "ERROR!,ERROR!, Central computer damaged, immediate repairs are mandatory to carry out such a command." The pod's computer said. "Oh you've got to be kidding me, computer what is the probability that you can repair yourself and carry out the command?" Peridot asked the computer. "ERROR!, damaged to the central computer is beyond repair, requesting immediate replacement." Said the computer "Oh perfect, just perfect, the only place that could possibly have a reliable replacement was on the ship, which if I'm correct has been taken over by the traitors, WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING!" Peridot yelled, starting to let her temper get the better of her.
"Alright, calm down, maybe this planet isn't as worthless as they say, maybe the humans have become more advanced in the last millennia ." Peridot told herself trying to see the positive side of her situation, but to no avail. "Oh who am I trying too fool, I'm stuck on this miserable excuse of a planet." Peridot told herself in a defeated tone. But before Peridot could wallow in anymore self pity she heard a large crashing boom coming from above her. "What in the, Computer open the pod now!" Peridot commanded the computer. After climbing out of the crashed space pod and making her way out of the large crater it had created she started to take notice of her surroundings.
"Hmm, it seems like I've landed in some sort of crop field, how ironic." Peridot said out loud, annoyed by the irony of the situation. "Now, what could have made that odd crashing sound, hmm I suppose the stress of this mission is really starting to get to me." Peridot said, trying to calm herself down. "I should probably make my way to the nearest gem base, perhaps they'll still have some useful tech I could use to-WHAT THE!?" Peridot yelled as her train of thought was cut off by a large dark shadow that zoomed by overhead, casting the land around her in brief darkness.
After focusing on the object in the sky that was casting the shadow, Peridot was appalled when she realized the object crashing towards earth was none other than the ship she had lost not even moments ago. After watching what was once her ship crash land then with seconds of its rough landing explode in a fiery blaze from miles away Peridot found herself absolutely speechless and dumbstruck. After watching the smoke arise from what was left from her ship in the distance for what felt like hours Peridot said out loud in a spiteful tone. "I knew those clogs didn't know what they were doing."
"All right Peridot let's review what just happen." Peridot told herself. "You lost your ship, you crash landed on earth with no way off, then you see the ship you had just lost crashed land only seconds later after you, and then you watched it explode." Peridot said, listing off all the events that had just occurred. "Maybe I could use that last one to my advantage." She thought to herself. "I theorize that the explosion wouldn't have destroyed their gems but could have easily destroyed their bodies or at least damage them enough to where they would need to retreat into their gem, which in turn would give me just enough time to scavenge any parts I'd need to fix the pod or if needed make a new one." Peridot told herself, planning on how she could approach the situation.
After sitting down and thinking out her plan for a few minutes Peridot was able to make a final decision. "All right, I will make my way to the crash site and scavenge all the parts I need before those crystal traitors reemerge from their gems, and then I can get off this un forsaken planet, hopefully there will be no distractions." Peridot exclaimed as she proudly stood back up, convinced that her plan was full proof. "Alright first step of the objective, make it to the crash site...on...foot." Peridot told herself, slowly realizing the very first problem with her plan of escape, physical transportation. Peridot being the type of gem she was, she wasn't very efficient when it came to physical strength and labor. The only reason she could be on par with other gems like Jasper and Lapis was because of her use of robots and of high tech gem technology.
"Oh great, I forgot to factor in the physical labor!" Peridot said annoyed. "Forget it, I'll figure that problem out after I get the parts I need." She told herself, simply tired of being reminded of her constant stream of bad luck. After slowly walking away from the crater where her pod had made impact Peridot made her way out of the large crop field she had originally landed in and found her self on the side of a large highway. Heavily sighing in frustration Peridot reluctantly started to make her way towards beach city like an annoyed rebellious teenager who was just told to take out the trash.
After walking for a good thirty minutes Peridot felt as if she had made little to no progress on getting any closer to the crash sight. Occasionally a car would speed by, most likely one of beach city's residents trying to make their way back home. This did not go unnoticed by Peridot who took note of all the different types of humans that were all using primitive machines as a transportation method. "Such outdated machinery" Peridot scoffed, amused that humans were still using such ancient methods of transportation. But even though Peridot thought all the vehicles passing her by were just some outdated human toys compared to her standard gem tech and the thought of her being forced to use human technology to complete her mission bothered Peridot greatly, she'd be lying if she said having one right then and there wouldn't be useful. Then if on cue, a large red pickup truck that was driving by started to slow down and pull over next to Peridot causing her heart to skip a beat.
"Oh no, does this human know information about me!?""How could it!?" "Could it be one of the crystal gems's human soldiers!?" These were all thoughts that raced threw Peridots head as the driver of the pickup truck came to a complete stop. As the window of the truck rolled down it revealed to peridot it's driver, a large bald male with a handlebar mustache and a blue collared shirt with circles and triangles.
"Hello Miss, do you need a lift back to town?" The man in the pickup truck asked, with kindness in his voice.
"Uh, no I would like to stay on the ground please." Peridot said, unsure on what the human she was talking to meant.
"You must be from out of town." The man said, with a slight chuckle. "Is it your first time visiting beach city?" The man asked Peridot.
"Do you mean the city in that direction?" Peridot asked the man while pointing down the road, unsure if the human was able to tell if she wasn't one of them.
"Well that is the only city in that direction, so yeah." The man said, a little confused on whether on not the apparent teenager he was talking too even knew where she was going.
"Then yes." Peridot said, still unsure on what she should tell the man.
"Well, it's just that I saw you walking and if you want to save a few hours of time I could give you a ride, if you want." The man said, offering to give her a ride to town. As Peridot quickly thought on the pros and cons she came to the conclusion that it be best to take the offer, for one she didn't want to blow her cover and be found out and two she didn't feel like walking the whole way.
"Alright, I'll accept your offer...um..uhh...human?" Peridot told the man realizing she didn't know the human's name.
"Oh, my name is Harold but people call me Mr. smiley." Mr. Smiley said. "May I ask what your name is?" Mr. Smiley asked Peridot.
"Oh, my name...it's...ugh...err." Peridot stuttered, the question catching her off gard.
"Uh, it's ok, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to miss, I know how you kids these days are." Mr. Smiley said, probably thinking that Peridot was just being a shy teen.
"Ok, so how do I get in, do I just-" Peridot started before she was cut off by Smiley who said.
"Oh you can just climb in the back, don't worry I'll drive smooth, I'd let you in the passenger side but there's no room." Mr. Smiley explained.
"Really now, why is that?" Peridot asked as she struggled to make her way onto the bed of the truck.
"Well you see, the whole town had to evacuate because of some hand that was in the sky or something so I just brought all my personal things just incase things didn't go so great and I wouldn't be able to go back for them." Mr. Smiley explained. "Speaking of which, did you see the giant hand in the sky by any chance?" Mr. Smiley asked Peridot, as he started his truck and began to drive back to beach city.
"Uh n-no, I must have missed it." Peridot said, sweat starting to form on her forehead. After driving for a while without saying a word Mr. Smiley tried to make some small talk to make the drive less awkward.
"So miss, are you moving or visiting?" Mr. Smiley asked Peridot, wondering what someone like Peridot was doing in beach city.
"Just visiting, hopefully not for very long." Peridot said, with the last words being whispered so Mr. Smiley wouldn't hear and get suspicious.
"Who are ya visting"? Mr. Smiley asked.
"No one." Peridot responded.
"Hmm, just sight seeing then?" Smiley asked, feeling as his attempt to make small talk had been a bad idea.
"I suppose you could put it that way." Peridot said, starting to get annoyed by all of Mr. Smiley's questions. After an hour or so of non stop driving Mr. Smiley finally made his way back to beach city and after seeing all the broken windows and debris scattered around the city, he couldn't help but worry how bad the damage would affect everybody's business, especially with his fun land. Peridot however did not feel any bit of sympathy or guilt towards the people of beach city.
"Hmm, if those clogs hadn't crash my ship this human town wouldn't have been damaged."She thought to herself.
After navigating around beach city, trying his best to avoid pieces of glass and chunks of Peridot's ship in the street Mr. Smiley finally arrived to the peer, right next to the entrance of Fun land. "Well, there we are, hope you'll enjoy your visit miss." Mr. Smiley said as Peridot began to climb off the bed of the truck.
"I'll try." Peridot said under her breath.
"If you decide to stay in town awhile make sure you come and check out fun land, speaking of which I should make sure nothings broken, anyways have a nice day miss."Mr. Smiley exclaimed as he started to drive off again, most likely to park and check on any damages to his park. As he left Peridot started to question why this human stopped and offered to help her, back on the home world gems didn't offer help to other gems when it came to such simple tasks, it would have been a sign of weakness for both parties. But then there was this human, who didn't even know anything about her not even her name, and he helped her. Peridot quickly just shrugged it off as the human thinking she was one of them and that he wouldn't have helped her otherwise, especially if he knew what she had planned to do to their planet. After a few seconds of looking around Peridot was able to see the smoke coming from the crash site, even with the smoke being almost completely receded from her view, there was just enough for to see where the main chunks of her ship had landed.
"Alright, time to finally get of this planet and back. "Peridot said to herself as she made her way to crash site. Unknown to Peridot she would soon see yet another unforeseen hole in her plan, being that only reason she wouldn't even dare come near beach city would be because she thought the "crystal gems" were out of commission and she could easily walk in and take back whatever she needed. That however was not the case, and Peridot was soon going to find that out.