Author's Note: To be completely honest, I thought I get here before Sardonyx. Hell, I thought I'd be done before the first Stevenbomb. Oh well...It's been long enough, It's time to have some fun. I hope you like it.

Gamma and his band of friends were flying along a tube of shining light to their nearby destination. During that time Epsilon, Upsilon, and Helen were studying the Codex of spells given to them by their alternate reality double, Theta the Traveler. Rho was anxious, waiting to get to where they were going, leaving his armor off for the trip. Nero, however, was trying to find space in the tube, as it was barely wide enough to fit all of them. He shoved Omega, who drifted to the back, his upper body falling out of the tube.

Rho looked back in alarm as he saw Omega. He reached out and pulled Omega back, luckily still in one piece. On the other hand, Omega was breathing heavily, his eyes still locked onto the place in the wall he fell through.

"Guys," he gasped. "You've got to see whats out there."

They were all tentative at his request, but one by one they all poked their heads out of the tube. They were met by the expansive void, made bright by both a series of similar tubes, and a star, the flares blazing in all directions. The star's immense gravity bent the tubes around it, and quite a few of them went straight through it. Putting their heads back in, they were full of questions.

"Psyche, what's going on?" Gamma asked.

"Scans show that this is not space as we know it. This is more like subspace."

"Stars aren't a natural occurrence in subspace." Nero pointed out. "Something left it here."

"A defense mechanism?" Upsilon wondered.

"I think you're going to have to explain that to us." Epsilon said.

Helen took the mirror from Rho's hand. "Theta brought us here using the mirror as a point of reference. Without it, using only basic coordinates, we might have just flown into that star."

The answer they had only raised more questions. Who would drop a star into subspace? Who even could? Those answers would have to wait as they were coming up to their stop. The tube dropped them off onto a pad inside of a house, the sun shining through the windows. Noticing where they were, Gamma held his hands out, keeping everyone on the pad.

"This is where he left us off at?" he whispered. "We need to get outside."

Nero was about to ask why,but he was cut off as he saw a slumbering pink lion behind them, the low growls as it snored filling the house. The fact that lions weren't normally pink didn't keep him from being scared. "Could you hurry that escape plan up?"

"Grab my hands." Omega said. Once they did, he hopped off of the pad and the passed through the house and the mountain and landed onto the beach below. "Well, at least we didn't crash in on them unannounced."

"I guess they're on a mission." Rho thought, becoming dejected. "Just because we have free time doesn't mean everyone else does."

"Hey Upsilon," Omega said, looking back where they came from. "You said that the Gems gutted out the house for their headquarters right?"

Upsilon turned around to see the house, and the giant statue of a woman behind it. One of its many arms had a clothesline between its fingers, a set of pink shirts drying in the wind. He was angry at his misconception; of course the Gems were here first, they were here before humanity most likely.

"It's like no temple I've ever seen." Helen marveled at its grandeur. "What kind of goddess is this?"

"Not a goddess." Upsilon said. "An alien, but on a scale I've never seen…"

Gamma looked out across the horizon and a glimmer caught his eye. "Upsilon, you couldn't by any chance conjure up some binoculars?"

"Of course." A wave of his hand and the binoculars were in his grasp. Handing them to Gamma, he then ran out over the water, leaving waves in his wake.

Helen watched as he left. "Where's he off to?"

Gamma peered in the binoculars to see the glimmer Upsilon was heading off to. What he found was a small boat that was reflecting the sun's light. From top to bottom it was made out of solid crystal. "Psyche, identify the occupants in that craft."

"Brain waves show one human, three alien. Patterns are a match for the Crystal Gems."

"Don't worry Helen." Gamma lowered the binoculars. "Upsilon is just putting in the good word for us. Rho, Omega, lets do the same." He tossed the binoculars to Epsilon and went out into the ocean.

"Should we go out as well?" Epsilon asked, gesturing to Helen and Nero.

"You just stay here." Omega said. "Just let us say hi, we owe them that much." He and Rho took off as well.

With his head start, Upsilon got to the boat first. As he neared the bow he saw Garnet, Pearl,and Steven inside the boat, a seagull circling overhead. Steven had his ukulele, singing a sea shanty while the others listened. When they heard Upsilon, Garnet and Pearl turned to face him, ready for a fight. Steven had a different reaction.

"Johann!" he cried, delighted at seeing him, nearly tipping the boat as he stood up. "You came back!"

Upsilon stopped in front of them, bowing to them. "It is good that you have not forgotten me, Steven Universe. Hold on…" With a grin, his arms flowed into motion, commanding the water behind him to erupt in a plume. Omega used it as a platform to leap onto the top of the boat startling the seagull away with a squawk. Congratulating himself on the landing, he looked down at them.

"So, it seems that we have a empty crow's nest. Mind if I stay- Ah!" He was assaulted by the returning seagull, their combined flailing causing the to tumble off the sails. Omega floated in the air as he got his hands on the bird.

"I called the top!" the seagull argued.

Omega was confused until he noticed that the seagull he was fighting had purple feathers and a similarly colored stone in it's chest. "A-Amethyst?"

She changed back into her humanoid form, still in Omega's arms. She blew a raspberry at him, only for him to let her fall in the ocean. Gamma and Rho circled by, laughing at them both as Amethyst sputtered, lifting herself over into the boat.

"Hey!" Gamma costed by on the starboard side, waving at the Gems.

"Do you feel that?" Upsilon said, moving out of the way of the boat's path. "Steven has grown since we were last here, in size and power."

"Well, I have gotten a couple of inches taller." Steven bragged.

"Not just him," Rho stopped at the port side. "The Gems seem to have changed as well." Amethyst had switched the colors of her dress: black shirt with purple leggings. Garnet's formerly square shoulder padding now had pointed outward, and the maroon coloring on her clothes had changed to magenta, splitting her lower body in half. Rho was caught staring at her as he passed by, and only when he saw his own reflection in Garnet's shades did he avert his eyes.

"Except Pearl, it seems." Omega said, causing her to become self conscious. She her long pastel blue shirt, tied with a sash, and short yellow stockings.

"Of course she wouldn't." Upsilon hovered closer to Pearl. "You can't improve upon perfection."

"Define perfection." Psyche said.

Pearl was stunned by his praise. "Oh! Um…well…" Amethyst flicked what water was left on her at Pearl, who glared at her. Rolling her eyes at Amethyst, she readdressed Upsilon. "Anyways, what brings you here?"

"We were thinking about taking a vacation," Omega explained, performing the backstroke in the air. "And Rho came up with the idea of coming here! I mean, what place is better than the beach?"

Rho stomach sunk as he knew what brought him here. "We also wanted you to see our friends." he said trying to distract himself.

They came to port some time later, the rest of them meeting them at the pier. "So these are the Crystal Gems." Epsilon said once he had a closer look at them. "I'm Epsilon. I'm sorry I wasn't here before. Thanks for helping out my friends in their darkest hour."

"You don't have to be afraid," Garnet told him, Epsilon in awe at her height and how she exuded authority. "You can tell us what your name really is."

Epsilon was somewhat surprised at her bluntness, but her logic was understandable. "My name is Travis."

"You were the one they were trying to rescue." Pearl realized, recalling the report Upsilon gave Gamma when they first met. "But who are the others?"

"I'm Helen." she bowed to Pearl in the same manner as Upsilon. Pearl had a quizzical expression as she saw her pale skin and white hair. When Helen raised her head, Pearl stared into her red eyes. "It's rare to find another albino, but it's a better disguise then your friend down there."

"Well if that's how your gonna be," Amethyst scoffed, moving over to Nero. "Who are you?"

"Prometheus Nero." he said. "Nero for short."

"Do you two have cool nicknames?" Steven asked.

Nero smiled. "No, we don't- hey…" his shoved Gamma. "We survived your crazy adventures Victor! Now we get our names, right?"

"Of course." Gamma stood in front of him and Helen. "Choose whatever letter in the Greek alphabet you'd like."

Nero scratched his head, looking for a good letter. "Any suggestions?"

"How about Digamma?" Psyche put forward.

Nero shook his head. "I may be a shade, but I am not Victor's copy."

"Hmmm…" Rho thought. "I was thinking Tau."

"Tau…a grand letter for a person like myself." Nero pressed his fingertips to his chest. "I will be Tau, a name fit for a Titan."

Gamma placed an arm on Nero's shoulder. "Tau it is then. What about you Helen?"

She was crouching, using her finger to draw a symbol in the sand. It was a single line with a smaller dash branching off at the middle. "I'll take this one."

"What is that?" Gamma asked. "It's like nothing I've ever seen."

"That's Eta." Pearl answered. "It isn't used anymore."

"If that's what you want Helen, then you will be Eta." Gamma said. "Psyche, update their registry."

Psyche complied. "Registry updated. You know Victor, those two turned out alright."

"Now, what have you've been doing lately Steven?" Upsilon had lowered himself to meet the boy's gaze.

Steven was hesitant to answer, as he didn't want to worry him. So much had happened to him since they've met. "Well, while we were out on the Gem Sloop, we fought a giant urchin!"

"You helped out?"

"Yeah! When those spines came shooting out I kept us all safe!" The gem in his belly flashed pink and a shield appeared onto his arm. He told them about their battle against the urchin, swinging his shield around, showing them how he protected the Gems. One of his swings went wide, and nearly hit Rho, but a well timed activation of his armor kept him safe.

Rho chuckled at the display, noticing the young boy's fear. "Nice shield." He summoned his own shield, a large golden hoplon that he placed at his feet. "Remember that when you hold it, you hold the lives of others in your hands. You have something few people ever get in a lifetime."

Steven stopped to think about what he said, and calmed down. "Well, how about you? What did you do?"

"We went to space." he held a arm out to his friends. "Your looking at seven certified astronauts." There were stars in Steven's eyes as he began to ask them what they saw.

Pearl's curiosity however exploded into full blown shock, which showed clearly on her face. "You went to space?"

"And we saw many things," Gamma explained to her. "But nothing like you." Pearl was still nervous, eyes shifting from each one of them. She hoped that that they didn't know too much.

Amethyst slapped Rho's thigh, a sly smirk as she looked up at him. "So, what can we do for a couple of tourists?"

"I don't speak for all of us," he said. "Any requests, guys?"

Gamma went up to the rest of them and shared a few words. Once their discussion was over Upsilon, Helen, and Epsilon created separate summoning circles.

Helen smiled as the bags she brought forth came into view. "There's a lot we can bring from the Argo." Unzipping the first one she found her swimsuit. "We can't exactly go around in our armor."

"Money is an issue." Upsilon noted, as he held a lock box.

"That's true." Gamma said as he saw it, remembering it as the one where all their funds were kept. "But I have a feeling that this Earth doesn't use our money."

"Well I had a feeling about that," He opened the box and Gamma was left in awe as it was full of gold. Upsilon smiled at the look on his face. "That is why I diversify. I will have it converted immediately."

Epsilon was grabbing racks upon racks of kitchen materials: knives, flour, a mixer, anything he could get his hands on, delighted with himself. The Gems gathered around him, wondering what he was planning with them, Amethyst almost drooling at the possibilities. He held the racks of cutlery and food with his mind as he faced them. "As visitors, we should give something back. Luckily, I happen to be quite the pastry chef." he clapped his hands. "Now, who here likes pie?"

Steven raised his hand, "I do!"

"So do I." Pearl was drawn to the items, seeing them orbit Epsilon. "If I could, I would love to see you cook."

Epsilon nodded his head. "You can help me."

Rho was becoming more and more agitated, catching Gamma attention. He went to him, catching Rho's attention. "Something wrong?"

"Well…I did decide to come here for a different reason." Rho said with guilt, he knew that he would have to repent for his actions, but he would have to do that later. Now, he built up his courage and walked directly up to Garnet, who saw him coming and faced him. He didn't say anything, only covering his right fist with his other hand.

"If-if it isn't to much of a hassle for you," he started to say. "I was wondering if you wouldn't mind sparring with me. O-On your own time, of course."

Garnet didn't speak right away, making Rho even more worried that he said something wrong. Those thoughts were soon abated by her soft smile. "Sure, but after you see the city."

"Really?" Rho beamed with anticipation, but even still he looked back at the ocean, the tide making it's intermittent rushing sound.

"What's out there?" Nero said, concerned.

Rho shrugged once he was sure nothing was out there. "With all the sea monsters out there, and our bad luck, I half expected the Leviathan to show up."

Amethyst heard him and was confused. "Levia-wha?"

"An old legend; the Leviathan is the oldest, biggest, and most dangerous creature to exist on the planet." He raised his arm over the water. "It lies trapped in the deepest parts of the ocean, it has unbreakable mottled green skin, and it's teeth and claws can crush anything they find. Nothing on the Earth will spared from it's hatred once it is freed."

He turned back to see Steven, Pearl, and Amethyst visibly unsettled at his recounting, shooting glances at each other. "You haven't seen it have you?"

Garnet was better at hiding her discomfort. "We have fought many creatures over the years. If your Leviathan is out there, we'll take it down."

Her fellow Gems was bolstered by her projected confidence, the mark of a true leader. "We should be getting inside," Pearl pointed out at the sun dropped lower in the sky. "You've got a lot of things to do."

"And these things are getting heavy." Epsilon complained, still levitating the racks. They all walked back to the temple, Helen pulling Upsilon to the back.

Helen tried to look affronted. "When were you going to tell me that these were the creatures you told me about?"

"I thought it was obvious, you know with the off color skin and the jewels embedded in their 'bodies'."

"Don't do that Johann; you convinced Rho to come here didn't you?"

"No, he always wanted to fight Garnet. He spent many nights looking at the video I gave him of her fighting the Alphae. She…intrigues him."

"He's not the only one." She poked Upsilon, who huffed back at her.

Nero caught up to Gamma and handed him a shard of green stone. "Do you know what this is? I picked it up from the sand right off the pier."

"I had superheated the ground before, perhaps it's just glass." Gamma trusted his friend's intuition and pocketed the shard. He had to admit, it didn't look like normal glass…

"I can't believe you took up Alexander's challenge!" Pearl said to Garnet. "You know better than to use our strength against humans!"

"But they're not average humans are they?" Amethyst rebutted. "And besides, no one tougher than ol' G here, right Steven?"

Steven beamed, looking up at Garnet. "Yeah! You can take him!"

Garnet reached down and ran a hand through his hair. "I'll do my best." She couldn't help but anticipate the chance to fight someone who wasn't trying to kill her for once. It was a good way to take her mind off of Peridot and Malachite.