For the rest of the day Topaz slept in the closest.
After a while Steven went to bed. He was in a large empty circular room. The ceiling was like a big dome that was painted like the night sky. There was only a closet at the opposite end of the room. He went to check out the closet and heard a voice. The closer he got to the closet, the louder the voice got.
"Negative ten-thousand bottles of beer on the wall," The voice was coming from behind the door.
Steven opened the door and saw the voice belonged to topaz.
"Oh, Steven." Topaz said looking over at him, not looking surprised or shocked at the other male's sudden appearance.
"Yeah, did you set this up?"
"Yeah, kinda.. I was hoping you would actually show up. But, you do seem to have Rose's powers."
Then he stopped and looked down. His face fell and tears formed at the corners of his eyes.
Steven quickly noticed the gem's change in attitude. "Do you want to talk?" The hybrid prompted, sitting down beside the gem. "I find it's easier to talk when dreaming. I picked that up when I learned how to lucid dream. That's when you control your dreams and," He stopped noticing the gem wasn't paying attention.
"Um, Topaz?" Steven said instead, because he wanted to know what topaz wanted to talk about. "What would you like to talk about?"
Topaz looked at him and smiled a warm smile. Steven was taken aback by the gem's mood whiplash.
"Anything really, shoes, ships, sealing-wax, cabbages, kings," The gem trailed off. "that sounds like something from one of Connie's books" Steven said laughing.
"I don't know who this Connie is but she must be a great writer if she includes things similar to Lewis Carroll." The gem commented, misunderstanding what Steven meant.
"No Connie is my friend. She's not a writer, she just likes reading. She shows me these cool books like, uh, the Unfamiliar familiar"
Topaz looked at him with a smile. "I read those ones. They're good. Watch what I can do." Just then Topaz held out his arm and Archimicarus landed on it. "Cool huh?" Topaz asked, looking proud of himself. Steven only smirked. "You think that's cool, check out this!"
Suddenly Dogcopter appeared and put Steven on his back. As Steven rode around on his back, Topaz made a tower of books and out came out creatures from fairy tales.
"IMAGINATION CONTEST!" Steven yelled with a smile.
And so Steven and Topaz had a contest to see who could imagine the most coolest thing. They imagined dungeons and dragons, Steven summoned up a whole group of guys in top hats.
Topaz summoned trains carrying garden gnomes.
Eventually it ended and topaz and Steven looked worn out. "How can I be tired in my sleep?"
asked Steven "Mental exhaustion?" Topaz suggested.
Topaz got off his throne of pure frozen soda, and looked around.
"This was fun. Hey I think I should-" Topaz started. Then suddenly they heard the voice of Pearl. "Steven you slept in! Time to wake up!"
The world started to fade. "I'll tell you late-" Was all Steven heard before waking up.
Pearl looked down at Steven, upset. "Connie is here Steven. Just get dressed quickly ok?" Steven nodded and Pearl went on her way.
Steven got up, and looked at his alarm clock. He thought he set it but it was unplugged.
When he went to plug it in and found a note.
Sorry
-Garnet
Steven wondered why Garnet unplugged his alarm not for long as he was already late for training. He left for training with Connie.
Meanwhile Topaz woke up and came out of the closet he was sleeping in. The first thing he spotted amethyst eating a entire bag of chips.
"Hey purple everything eater" Topaz greeted. "Hey dude" She replied, stuffing more chips in her mouth. "Where is everyone?" Topaz asked.
"Pearl and Steven went training and garnet's doing something in the temple." Amethyst replied.
Topaz went over to the door to the temple, and tried to open the door but stopped
"Uh… I can't get it to open." "Yeah i think pearl said she couldn't get your room reconnected"
Topaz looked sad but then turn around with a spin and walked towards the fridge. He pulled out the milk and turned to Amethyst with another spin.
"Where's the cereal and dishes?"
Amethyst pointed to the grabbed the cereal and the largest bowl they had and dumped the whole box into it.
"Whoa you're hungrier then me!" Amethyst commented, her eyebrow raised.
"this isn't for me" Topaz said, walking to the warp pad. He came back 5 minutes later, covered in branches and leaves and looked tired. "When everyone comes back, I need to talk to them…i think…I i found something cool"
"What is it?" asked Amethyst.
"You'll see." topaz replied.
After a while the crystal gems and Steven came back to the temple.
And topaz looked excited.
"what's this about topaz?" pearl asked
"so during my… uh… vacation let's call it, I found a girl who surprisingly knows a bit about gems. So we decided to go and do some archaeology"
Pearl spoke up.
"Topaz are you sure that's a good idea? Humans can't handle gem technology"
"yet!" Topaz added "they can't handle it yet"
Steven noticed the excitement in Topaz's voice as continued.
"Humans are going to find out about gem technology eventually we can't hide it from them forever."
"He's right pearl.." Garnet added.
"Anyways… we have found a gem temple that i think we should go explore"
Topaz looked at Garnet.
"Yes let's go"
She said.
"Oh uh… I didn't think it was going to work"
Topaz said.
" there is something there we will need"
Garnet replied.
"Oh ok…"
They all got on the warp pad, but Topaz stopped..
"The place where we're going was taken off the warp pad system for some reason, this morning i reconnected it, and don't worry pearl.. Its safe.
and Topaz teleport's them to a strange place.
It was a temple, but there was a camp in front of it.. Complete with a fire, tent and a rv with a trailer.
They then heard a female voice.
"Hey your back!:
"Yeah … i'm back" topaz replied
The girl approached them. She looked straight out of a adventure movie, wearing long pants, a hankerchief on her head,
"Hey who are you guys?"
"Well this is Garnet.. Amethyst. Pearl.. And Steven"
"hi" Amber said.
"So … you guys want to see the temple?"
"That's why we're here!"
Amethyst replied
suddenly a corrupted gem appeared and stared down at are heroes.
"Uh.. i think we should run!" topaz said before being yanked away by garnet
They got into a fighting stance.
It lunged at them but was tackled to the ground by another corrupted gem, this one looked like a blue wolf creature, which made quick work of the corrupted gem.
It then sat down and looked at the crystal gems and tilted his head to the side, assessing them.
Topaz spoke up.
"This is spinel… i know what you're thinking but please… please don't attack her.. She's tame…"
"Are you sure?" asked pearl.. Skeptical of course,
"Why did you tame her? How did you tame her?"
"It's a long story… so you should all sit down…amber said"
years before...
Topaz and spinel were chased down by home world troops.. They escaped and had a second to try to find a way out of the jam that they were in.
"Ok ok.. There is one thing we could do… uh.. Fusion?"
Topaz asked.
"Well … i kinda always did want to.. But…"
"It's ok.. You can trust me, and i don't see another way out of it... "
in the present...
"Then we fused… and i don't quite remember what happened next… i remember.. A song.. Maybe.. But… not really… i think only emerald knows for sure what happened… i think that's what the fusion was called…"
When i woke up you guys were standing over me and the battle had ended a few days ago.. And spinal was gone…
"I found her… on the battlefield.. She was scared.. And it took.. A long time for me to tame her… i don't think she quite remembers either…"
"How do you know it's her?"
Pearl asked
"Her is also cracked.. And it won't heal.. Believe me i tried everything you did… with me"
Topaz looked over at garnet, went silent and resumed talking.
"I'm sorry i didn't tell you about this before… but.. I didn't know how you would react… and i'm sorry.. That that happened because of me and…"
Garnet put her hand on topaz's shoulder
"It's ok topaz you didn't know and it was not your fault"
Topaz replied with
"I wanted to tell you guys this.. Because.. I think.. I might be corrupted"