With some old rope left in the kindergarten Peridot wrapped the Steven up and finally was able to put him down and rest her arms. It wasn't like she had used her own physical strength to lift the boy, it was she had no way to charge them and she relied on their self-charging system to keep them going. If she drained the whole battery life before it could, she could kiss them goodbye for a long time.
"Peridot… What do you need me for?" Steven complained. The boy had no fear just annoyance in his voice. Angered by the lack of fear in him she blasted a single laser beam close by his head causing him to jump out of his skin. "GAH! What was that for!?" He shrieked.
"You're not taking me very serious are you?" Peridot sneered aiming the laser at him again.
"NO! YES I AM!" He frantically hollered.
"Alright good then. Now what's fixing to happen is your clod friends are going to come looking for you, when they do I need you to act REAL scared for me, okay?" Peridot requested. Steven was scared and he nodded quickly. "Good. Now be quiet." Peridot said glaring at him.
As Peridot thought, she was not wrong. It took them no time to find her hideout.
"PERIDOT" The largest gem said. Such anger over a little weird human-hybrid thing.
"Oh hello, clods. Now that I have your attention…" Peridot trailed off making sure she was between the Steven and the angry crystal gems, with her laser pointed at Steven's head the gems were still. "I need some favors from you, then I'll give you your precious Steven." Peridot finished. This resulted in a groan of annoyance from the Pearl.
"What do you want?" Pearl sighed. She was anxious to have Steven in her arms and away from the green technician.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ADRESSING ME?" Peridot shrieked. "I don't do business with Pearls." Peridot finished. She thought for a moment. "Amethyst is it?" She asked.
"Yeah… what the hell do you want?" Amethyst said clearly pissed.
"I'm going to have my commands carried out through you, the only actual other gem here." She explained. Garnet was on edge and her own anger was growing. There was a point in which Sapphire's patience could not over power Ruby's temper and Garnet would begin lashing out.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT ALREADY?" Garnet demanded. The laser being held so close to Steven's little head was nerve racking and she wanted this to be over with.
"Patience, yelling won't help anybody." Peridot said with a snicker. Standing up she picked up Steven in one arm and turned the screen in front of her on.
"This gem… Do you know where she is?" Peri asked a little bit of hurt and embarrassment in her voice. The Pearl looked to the permanent fusion and back to the monitor.
"Do we have her in temple maybe?" Pearl asked her maroon companion.
"It's possible, Rose had plenty of gems captured that we didn't know about. Just like Lapis." Garnet confirmed. Amethyst sighed.
"We might have her… if we do we'll bring her here." Amethyst said in a monotone voice.
"Alright, you two find the Peridot… I'm going to stay here with Steven." Pearl said.
"No you're not" Peridot corrected. The crystal gems and the Steven all sighed.
A threat was made to Peri about hurting the Steven and the three left. Peridot laughed to herself, she wanted so badly to meet the gem from the logs.
"Who is she to you?" Steven quietly asked. Peridot gave a confused look.
"What do you mean?" Peridot asked.
"Is she your sister? Your friend? Your love?" Steven clarified with a smirk. Peridot for a moment. Who would this gem even be to her if she was released? Who's to say this gem would want to befriend her, she would most likely just want to go home like she did. Peridot grinned at Steven with a tiny bit of home.
"I don't know yet." She said.
Thinking for a moment she looked on at the tiny gem-human-thing next to her foot. He had never been mean like his companions. Maybe it was because he was naïve and innocent or because he was care free… Regardless of what it was it was endearing to the lonely green gem.
"What's it like…?" Peridot slowly asked. Steven looked at her confused but with sincere concern. That was the look. She'd seen it on his face before. She could never hurt this boy.
"What's, what like?" He asked with a tilt of his head. His brown eyes were wide.
"Having gems who care about you, who value you?" Peridot said sadly.
"I've never thought about it." Steven said with cold honesty.
"I've- I've always wanted that. That's why I hope your friends have her. She's the only one who could ever understand a gem like me on this whole planet. I hope she likes me." Peridot finished.
"Well if she's not the friend you want… I could always be your friend." Steven offered with a smile. The creature at her feet astonished her. She'd kidnapped and pointed a laser to his head and he was still sweet to her. She had only gotten annoyance from him. There couldn't be a single mean bone in his body for him to be so kind like this. It was refreshing. There was nothing like it at home.
"If I untie you… Will you stay with me?" Peridot asked. Steven beamed another bright smile at her. Knowing the answer she did as she offered.
"Why are you on Earth?" Steven asked. "What do you want with my home?" There was such an innocence in his question it made Peridot sick thinking of what was to become of his home.
"I came to check on a project home world left on earth." Peridot said shielding the Earths fate from the child. Such an odd concept, a child. Human's reproductive method was an odd thing. And a child was such a unique thing to experience. There was a wonder to the idea of taking care of a similar creature at a fragile state. What she said wasn't a lie though it left out the part about the earth being destroyed if the progress was successful. Maybe with the help of the Peridot who planted the monster in Earth she had a chance to destroy it.
