The dissemdroid searched the forest for a few minutes, until it stumbled upon a hard platform, covered by leaves. It brushed them aside, which revealed a blue rock capable of warping it to many locations.
"WARP PAD LOCATED. ACTIVATE." The dissemdroid stretched out two of its metal arms to activate the pad, but it failed to work, despite it carrying two lifeforms from Earth. "..." The dissemdroid thought about a solution to its problem, and after a few moments, forumulated a plan. The two lifeforms most likely needed to become a part of it, for the warp pad to allow it to use it. The yellow diamond upon the robot's spherical face opened in its center, revealing a gruesome mouth. The robot then shoved the grizzly bear and Chloe into its mouth. "LIFEFORMS ARE NOW CONTAINED WITHIN. ACTIVATING PAD." The robot stretched out its arms once more, and this time, the pad activated with a glow of blue light, lifting up the dissemdroid to its preprogrammed location.
"Hey, have you seen Grizz and Chloe?" Panda asked Ice Bear as he began to eat the ramen his younger brother prepared for him. "Their food's getting kinda cold..."
"Ice Bear has not seen them. Ice Bear will look outside. Will not tolerate wasted food." Ice deadpanned, as he exited their gave and gazed the front yard. Instead of discovering a girl and a bear frolicing with a frisbee, he found the torn up remains of their front yard. Along with several slashes to the ground, there were holes in the ground that resembled a small human and a large animal, causing Ice Bear's eyes to widen. He quickly run back to the cave's kitchen and said, "Ice Bear thinks Panda should see this."
"Hm? What is it, bro?" Panda ask as he got out of his chair. Instead of explaining, Ice Bear simply montioned for his brother to follow him. Growing slightly concerned by Ice Bear's urgentcy, Panda obeyed his command and went after him. When Panda left the cave, he immediately gasped in surprise. He hadn't expected to find their yard in this condition.
"W-what happened here? Why is the ground so torn up? ...Wait, weren't Grizz and Chloe playing out here? Geez, did they create all this mess? I didn't know they could be so rough..." Panda attempted to smoothen out the roughed up dirt, in an attempt to make it appear nicer. "They should play at the park next time, its gonna take forever to clean this up... and even longer for the grass to grow back..." Ice Bear, realizing that Panda hadn't notice the thing that concerned him, tapped his brother shoulder and pointed at the hole in the ground that resembled their brother.
"Hm... yeah, I know, that's gonna take forever as - wait, that looks like.. Grizz!? Why is there such a big hole in the ground shaped like him!?" Panda ran over to the hole and looked inside, put found nothing. He also spotted a hole in the shape of Chloe. "There's no way something like this hapened during some silly game! They must've been attacked by something! ...Ah, what if it took them too!?" Panda began to frantically walk in circles and began shouting for his brother and friend, hoping for a reply, but nothing came. "...They're not responding! ...Are they... no... but what if... they could've been atrack by the pack of wolves, or a bunch of bees, or-" Ice Bear picked his brother off the ground to stop his rambling and turned him towards some tracks that looked like they were made by scrapping metal.
"Ice Bear believes those are the attacker's tracks."
"Oh, you're right! We need to follow them, then! Whoever attacked and most likey stole them might still be here. Come on!" Panda grabbed onto his brother's paw and started to drag him down the torn up path.
"Wait, Ice Bear needs to get weapons." The polar bear swiftly ran to the cave and exited in a manner of seconds, carrying ninja stars and his axe. "Ice Bear will give Panda ninja stars." He handed over half of his stars to Panda.
"Oh, good idea. Whoever took them might try to attack us too." 'I have no idea how to use these... but I'm sure he can use an axe pretty well. It'll be fine... besides I have no time to worry about that. We have to find Grizz...' Panda thought to himself as he took the stars from his brother.
"Anyways, we should start following this path, before they get away." Ice Bear nodded in agreement and followed his black-and-white brother down the path, hoping that it would let to their older brother and their human friend.
Steven and Peridot were left alone at The Barn, as the Crystal Gems were currently out on a mission to take out Gem Mutants. (Peridot lacked a functional weapon, so she couldn't go on missions, while Steven didn't want to leave Peridot alone by herself.) Steven decided to take her the Temple once the gems left for the mission, as he wanted to show her his favorite television show, Crying Breakfast Friends.
"Why are those energy suppliers secreating water?" Peridot asked, confused by the animation playing out before her.
"Oh, it's because Pear accidently broke Knife's favorite sharpener. It made her sad." Steven looked over at Peridot, who had a small frown on her face.
"Oh yes, that must be crying, then. I could hardly tell, this animation is so crudely done. It's not nearly as good as Camp Pining Hearts." Peridot eyes grew a bit wider, as she remembered the show. "Steven. Do you happen to have any more... episodes, was it? ...of Camping Pining Hearts?"
"Yeah, I think my dad has a few back at the Barn. Do you wanna watch those instead? I can just record the rest of this for later."
"Yes, I would like that." Peridot began to get up as she spoke. Steven acknowledged her response by nodding and hit the record button on the televison. "It's too bad you didn't like the show. Garnet (and Amethyst, sometimes) is the only one who watches it with me. But we can still watch Camp Pining Hearts together, so it's all good." Steven got off of the ground and began to walk out of the loft. Peridot followed shortly after. Just as they were leaving, they were interrupted by the activiation of the warp pad.
"Oh, the gems are back!" Steven cheered as the light illuminated the room. Steven's prediction of the pad's user was incorrect however, as when the light disappeared, it left a giant metal centipede-like monster in its place.
"That's not the gems!" Steven flinched as he came to this sudden realization.
"I-it's a dissemdroid!" Peridot identified it as one of the many robots used by peridots to take apart complex technology. "What it is doing here?"
"You know what it is? Is it going to hurt us?" Steven had already pulled out his shield, ready to protect him and Peridot in case it began to attack them.
"No, it shouldn't. It's a robot from Homeworld. It's only job is to break things down to their simpliest forms." Peridot explained to Steven.
"Oh, that's a relief then." Steven let down his shield. "But... why is it here, then?" Steven was still confused, as it was unusually for anything to use the warp pads besides the gems.
"OBJECTIVE: LOCATE TRAITOR PERIDOT." The robot suddenly began to turn its head around the room, until it landed onto Peridot. "TARGET AQUIRED. CAPTURE MODE ACTIVIATED."
"What!? It's trying to capture me!? A dissemdroid isn't suppose to be able to that!" Peridot was shocked by the current situation, but had little time to dwell on it, as the monster suddenly swept her off her feet. "Ack, let go me, you.. big fat clod!" Peridot hit the robot several times, but it didn't even leave a dent.
Steven, also stunned by the suprise, was unable to move. However, once he realized that Peridot was about to get hurt, he snapped out of it. "Ah, Peridot! I'll save you!" Steven resummoned his shield and threw it at the robot. It caught the robot off guard, resulting in it dropping Peridot.
"Quick, Peridot, catch!" Steven picked up a discarded nail gun and tossed it at Peridot.
"What am I suppose to do with this!?" Peridot had only used it a couple of times, and only knew that it could hold pieces of wood and metal together.
"Shoot it at the robot! If we damage it enough, it might stop working!" Steven explained his idea. Peridot, with no better ideas, followed his commands and shot at the robots. Steven assisted her by throwing his shield and other items he could find nearby. Multiple shots to the robot's arms resulted in four of the falling off. Steven's hardback copy of Dogcopter: The Book, along with mutliple hits by his shield, caused its 'stomach' to split open. Two figures fell out, but Steven and Peridot didn't notice. As this happened however, the robot began to screech, "ABORT. LIFEFORMS COMPROMISED." It jumped over the two gems and exited the beach house using the front door. (It was too big however, resulting in a gapping hole being formed.)
"...The dissemdroid is gone, now. We're safe." Peridot sighed as she sat on the ground, exhausted by the ordeal.
"Why was that robot trying to attack you? Do you think-"
"Yes, Yellow Diamond probably sent it here to capture me, so I wouldn't stop the Cluster. Fortunately, it failed, but it will likely return on a later date..." Peridot looked up at the roof. "...What have I gotten myself in to...?"
As Peridot sighed once more, a grunt, sounding like it came from a wild animal, sounded through the room.
"Uh oh." Steven thought as he and Peridot turned around, laying their eyes onto an awakening grizzly bear.
Author's Note: I accidently uploaded an incorrectly formated version of this chapter, but it should be fixed now. Please let me know if it isn't fixed though, I'm new at this, haha. :)