After a lot of laughing and water manipulation, Peridot was hovering inside a small hollow sphere, the outsides made of water.
"So.." she said.
Peridot huffed. "Yes, Lazuli?"
"Are you a robot or not?"
"No," the technician replied, puffing out her cheeks. "I am not a robot."
"You sort of look like a robot without your boots or arm cannons."
"..Arm cannons?" Peridot repeated. "Arm cannons. The only arm cannons I posses are my large muscles."
Lapis wasn't sure if she should feel amused or horrified at what Peridot just said, so she ignored it altogether. "So what are your arm thingies for? So that your fingers don't fall off?" she asked.
The technician flushed a deeper green, murmuring something under her breath.
"What?" Lapis asked, knitting her brows.
"They're to make me look cool." Peridot repeated, louder than necessary.
Lapis stared at Peridot, waiting for her to say something like 'Just kidding' or 'Got you', but it didn't come, so the water gem did the only thing that made any sort of sense. She burst into loud laughter. "That is just priceless! To make you look cool. ..Peridot!"
"Ha ha ha." the green gem said flatly, her flush deepening. "Can we get back to talking about important things, like before you splashed me with water?"
"Okay, okay," Lapis said, taking deep breaths and putting a serious expression on her face. "Um."
"Gems can't die, so why'd you say the gem you were split off from was dead?"
Lapis winced. "Um, eliminated. Sorry, we used different words before you were... created? Not ones that made us sound like machines."
"What gem were you split off from?" the green gem said, ignoring Lapis's last few words.
"Going right for the deep stuff, aren't you Peridot?" Lapis said, glaring slightly at the technician, who shrugged in response.
"Blue Diamond." Lapis said, hesitantly.
"What the-," Peridot. "What? So was that like, not important enough for you to tell Jasper or me or something?"
"Why bother? You guys don't even really know who she is."
"So, maybe Jasper would've treated you with a little more respect." Peridot said, cringing slightly.
"You didn't seem to care about that before," Lapis breezed. "You just stood there, so obviously you were okay with it."
"I was following orders," the triangular gem retorted sharply. "I'm sure having my gem shattered would not help you at all."
Lapis bit her lip. It was true. Jasper's behaviour would most likely not change a bit if Peridot's gem was shattered. She sighed with acceptance, smoothing out the front of her dress.
"What are you going to do?" the blue gem asked finally.
"Me? I guess I'm going to look for Jasper." Peridot said, thoughtfully.
"And after that?"
Peridot thought for a while. What would she do after that? Yellow Diamond would not be happy at all that the Earth mission had been completed with so much trouble, and now that she had taken more time to reflect on it, no reinforcements would be sent if the Crystal Gems were in fact recognized by her as a threat. There was nothing Peridot could do. Gem tech was limited here, and she had none of the tools or technology needed to repair the ship, so even if they did check on the cluster, there was no current way to return back to Homeworld.
"I don't know."
"If you want you can come with me," Lapis suggested. "I'm just here, far away from everything."
Peridot was silent. "Far away from everything." she repeated.
"I guess." Lapis said, staring at the sky. It had been a few hours, most of the time having been spent manipulating the water off of Peridot which had been hard to do between laughing so hard.
"Sure," Peridot answered after a long pause. "But can we be here not on the water?"
Lapis couldn't help but start laughing again. "oF cOURSE." she said, poorly imitating Peridot's distorted voice.
"Stop laughing at me," Peridot rolled her eyes. "Clod."