The Crystal Temple, Beach City, Delmarva, May 21, 2016
Things are going well as Steven and Connie are with Pearl and Lapis doing battle training moments. Peridot is with Garnet and Amethyst creating new kinds of abilities and weapons for the gems. Several Holo-Pearls and water Pearls are being created for Steven and Connie to fight. The two beings made it out of the fight in the end, all entities taken care of. After a hard days work, and with the sunset happening, they all decided to turn in for the night.
Everyone is asleep in their beds during the night, but something is keeping Steven, Connie, Lapis and Peridot awake.
"Guys," Steven whispered, "do you think something is keeping us up?"
"I don't know," Lapis began, "but I wish to find out."
"But we can't leave without waking the others up," Connie said.
"We'll have to sneak out," Peridot began saying, "luckily, I'm good at this. Just follow my lead."
With that said, the four beings sneaked out without waking up the others. They returned to the barn, where they were sensing what was keeping them awake. When they got to the barn, they noticed a drill, and several shards being collected from it by some weird beings.
"Peridot?" Steven asked.
"Yeah, Steven?" she asked back.
"Do you think those gems are of the Cluster and it's prototypes?"
"Apparently. But what would someone want with them?"
"Something to do with experiments maybe?" Connie asked.
"I'm going in," Lapis began, "to stop them."
With that said, she ran in, alerting the beings that the four were there. The beings caught the four gems and told them to come with them to know the reason for the gathering of the shards. An agreement was reached, and a few hours later, everyone was in Westchester County, New York. After spending minutes of searching, they found a mansion that the Cluster gatherers were familiar with, and entered it. When the gems got in with the beings, they were surprised and overwhelmed about the features of the building.
"Glad you four could make it," they heard a Scottish male voice say. They turned to see a tall Caucasian man with long black hair that was short, but stretched to his neck, save for his ears, which weren't covered. He wore black pants, a black collar button shirt over a white dress shirt, the whole thing covered by a grey unbuttoned sweater.
"My name's Charles Xavier," the man said, "and I'm here to show you guys something. My friend, Erik Lehnsheer will be with us."
With that said, they walked into a room where they met a man that Charles knew as Erik, who at that moment, was using powers to bend metals. Erik noticed the newbies and introduced himself.
"My name is Erik Lehnsheer," he began, "master of telekinesis and metal-bending. I already know who you guys are. Charles and I used telepathy and technology to spy on you and your friends."
At that last statement, the four became shocked.
"We only did it for the right reasons," Charles began, "you guys have talents and gifts just like we do."
"Are you gems?!" Steven asked in awe.
"No," Erik began, "we are not gems."
"Then what are you?" Connie asked.
"We're mutants," Charles answered.