Italy, 1796
As Steven and his new friends followed the flying Lapis along the riverbank to the fortress. Steven continued to ask questions "So you have special powers?"
"Of course!" said Amethyst.
"If my mother was one of you, do I have special powers, too"
"You would have to, " said Pearl. Steven looked around. He saw carnage, destruction, even people on fire and fleeing in terror as they entered the city,
"What happened here?" Steven said looking around "Is there anybody here?"
They continued to follow Lapis and began to hear noises. They saw soldiers celebrating and in the middle of them, there was a tiny man in a military uniform. Steven recognized him!
"It's Napoleon!" said Steven getting excited before the Gems grabbed and gagged him!
"Hey!" he shouted struggling to get out of their grip "What are you doing?"
"You want them to hear us?" said Pearl
"But it's..." the Gems shushed Steven again!
Lapis looked at the man, "Who is he?"
"That's Napoleon! I read about him in a book!"
Peridot broke in "So you know him?"
"No, I know of him, but I haven't met him face to face! He took over France turned it int an empire, that was after the French Revolution!"
Peridot was curious and interested "What was that?"
"That's when they got rid of the King and Queen and chopped off their heads with this thing called a guillotine. That they made to chop off people's heads and… Hey, where's she going?"
Peridot ran toward Napoleon
"Peridot!" The other Gems shouted, but it was too late.
Steven ran after Peridot, but they caught the attention of Napoleon! Oh no, thought Steven, now he was in trouble!
"Peridot, come back," said Steven. Napoleon saw the small boy and the green woman and it startled him.
"Who are you?" he said
"Uh, General Bonaparte?"
"Please call me Napoleon!"
"Uh...my name's Steven!"
"Who is your lovely green friend?" said Napoleon noticing Peridot.
"That's Peridot!"
Napoleon smiled "Oh...like the beautiful green gem! Did you know it's my birthstone? I gave one to Josephine, uh...she's my wife!"
After convinced that it was safe the other gems made their presence known to the future Emperor!
"These are my..uh other friends, uh...Lapis, Amethyst, Pearl, Garnet, and! They're warriors from a race of gemstones!"
Napoleon's eyes lit up "A race of gemstones who are warriors, you say?" The flabbergasted Gems looked at Steven!
The Frenchman, who was only a little taller than Steven ran up to The Gems and shook their hands.
"You are great warriors, you say?" Napoleon asked. "I'm stuck with this army of incompetent fools! If it wasn't for my brilliant leadership in these last few months. That the Italians and Austrians could have defeated the great French army. Would you like to join my army? Together we could be unstoppable!"
He kissed Peridot's hand "Don't you agree, mon cher ami?", she looked confused.
Later that night...
"I would like to propose a toast!" Napoleon shouted standing at the head of a large table. "To my wonderful new generals who are going to help me conquer Europe."
At the other end of the very long table sat Steven wearing a uniform that looked a lot of like Napoleon's. The Gems dressed in Directoire period gowns applauded with little enthusiasm
Garnet tapped Steven's shoulder and whispered something in his ear. Steven stood up and made an announcement,
"Commandant général Bonaparte!" he said, "Yes!" responded Napoleon, "Can the other Generals and I excuse ourselves for a moment?"
Steven and the Gems walked into another room in the captured fortress. The Gems looked at him and began to explain.
"Do you have any idea of what you're doing?" snapped Pearl! "We can't help that guy conquer the world, you know why he wants us, not for our powers, did you see his fingers?" Steven remembered Napoleon had some rings on his fingers. "Yeah, some guys like jewelry what's wrong with that? He said he might give some to Josephine." "Did you forget what we are?" Garnet asked. Steven became mortified. The feeling was like what a cow would have if it worked as a top executive for a multinational fast food company! Peridot looked and found something in the room and began to stuff her gown with it.
She said to the other Gems "Wow, you didn't tell me this clod was loaded!". Peridot had found some of the treasure that Napoleon and his men had looted from the Italians.
Napoleon overheard this, "What are you talking about?"
The other Gems tried to make something up, Pearl hesitated. "um...nothing General Bonaparte we were talking about what a wonderful leader you are!" A string of pearls fell out of Peridot's gown. Pearl became horrified and fainted! Amethyst ran the pearls across her teeth and then turned to her companions, "It's worse than I thought!"
A confused Napoleon asked "why did the Mademoiselle faint? What are you doing with those pearls, are you stealing them?"
"We can explain everything!" said Steven, we didn't mean to!
Napoleon walked outside to his French soldiers. "Okay, you're hired, again, you know those new generals that I hired? they're traitors! Saisissez-les! Maintenant!"
Steven and the gems started to run, even Pearl who regained consciousness fast enough to join the run.
"We have to find the next portal," Lapis said grabbing the Time staff, which caused the Time Door to open. "Let's make a run for it!" said Amethyst!
Steven and the Gems ran to the time door. That disappeared leaving Napoleon and his men behind and confused!