"Hey! He's back!" Steven said.
Hakael got his conscious back. He looks at his hand, the synth-gem is still embedded on.
'How are you feeling now?' Phobos asked.
"Terribly bad."
Hakael tries to sit on the couch, he sees a tea on the table.
"Tell us about what your secret now." Garnet directed.
"What if Gems aren't who came first?" Hakael said. Everyone in the temple shock by this. He makes little grin after saying.
"Who came first? What do you mean?" Pearl asked confusedly like everyone felt now.
"Calm down, I will tell a story about that after I finish this cup of tea."
He begins to sip a tea, tries to hold the time as much as possible. Then, he finishes.
"It began with...
'Can I tell them about this story?'
"No!"
"Ehhhhhh Hakael, Why you keep talking to yourself?" Amethyst asked.
"Wait a minute. Can't you all hear her?"
"What are you talking about."
'Don't worry Hakael, just place your hand on the table.' Phobos said.
After Hakael did what Phobos commanded, The synth-gem projecting a hologram of a mini woman, mini blurry woman.
"Let me introduce myself, I am Phobos, The consciousness of this synthetic gem. Our race was called Isu, or Who came first, or first civilization, something like that."
"Are you... Gods?" Steven questioned.
"No, Not a God. We just came before. I think the words explained itself already."
"And how Gems didn't know this."
"Well." Phobos sat on Hakael hand.
"Short story, We created humans to be labor but Adam and Eve who we created stole the Apple which can control all of humanity, and they start to rebel against us. While then, 3 people of our race try to stop impending solar flare but failed. The solar flare kills a lot of humans and a lot more of us. We stopped a fight and built civilization together. After the solar flare, humans growing more and more, but, we die more and more, nearly extinct. Humans start to forget about our entity. Then we saw another problem, an invader. That made me and my friends start a project to stop impending invaders and the extinction. But, We are too late, The gems came to Earth, We decided to make a vault before the Rose Quartz's Rebellion begin. By observation, We used our final chance to stole Gems' technology and make a synth-gem to extend our lives, but these gems need a host to work, without host we're like sleeping. So, We make the test to make sure we can live long and still fine. Finally, We upload ourselves to the gems and wait for the worthy to use us."
"How about you, Hakael? Who are you?" Garnet said.
"I am Hakael, The member of the Brotherhood. I'm on the mission to recover Gems of Eden. I mean this synthetic gems."
"Can you explain us more about The Brotherhood?" Pearl asked.
"For short, We fight with Templar, because they want to use Pieces of Eden, like this synthetic gems to control humanity, but we won't let them succeed. So, we had the conflict before the gems came to Earth, and this war never end."
"But you got this synth-gem already. What are you going to do now?" Amethyst asked.
"I don't know yet, but I must report and talk about this with my crew." Hakael said, "Can I stay here?"
"You can," Phobos said.
"You don't have authority," Pearl said.
"I just said what Garnet going to say."
"Look like we have something in common," Garnet said.
"Yes, we have." Phobos grinned.
Phobos fade away before Hakael sits on the chair at front of beach house and report.
"Hi. It's me, Night Stalker. I have a little trouble now. First, I got exposed from targets. Second, you need to come here and visit me ASAP."
"Tomorrow? I mean yeah you can. Night stalker out."
"This gonna be bad." Hakael sighed.
Hakael looks through the window, He saw everyone have some serious argument. Hakael decided to wait and get in later.
# Next day.
Hakael prepared meeting by bought some sodas and fries.
"Where is Steven?" Hakael asked.
"He said he is going to help someone by being a roadie," Pearl said.
"That's great."
"When will they come?" Pearl asked.
Suddenly, The knocking sound comes from the door.
"Here we go." Hakael opened the door, before handshake with Blacksmith, This man has a curly black shoulder-long ponytail, triangular face, thick built, little taller than Garnet.
"Hello, Billy," Hakael said.
"Hi Hakael, Are they the Crystal gems that you were said before?" Blacksmith pointed at the Gem.
"Yes they are, What is the thing you bring here?" Hakael looked at the box which carries by Billy.
"Let's talk about Phobos first."
Hakael and Billy begin the conversation. Both of them sit on the couch.
"So, Are you going to say Gems of Eden and you become one person and she gave you some power?."
"Probably yes, What are we going to do next?"
"We need to make sure about your power first. Did you know all of this gem's power?"
"Of course not." Phobos appeared.
"Are you Phobos?" Billy asked.
"Yes, I am."
"What do you mean? I think that's enough for knowledge of who came first and power of who came second, isn't it?" Hakael asked.
"No, If you think this is bottom of the well, I would say you just scratched the surface."
"Do you mean I can better than this?"
"Yes, you could. If you use this synth-gem more often, you'll get more power and because we just synchronized, that will make we have a lot of time to be better."
"Billy."
"What's wrong, Hakael?"
"Kill me."
"Why?"
"That's too dangerous, I didn't want these power anyways. If you won't, I can rent a boat, before sail to the sea and suicide myself."
"I won't let you do that, that's why I came with this box"
Billy gave the box to Hakael.
"If it not good enough, I promised I will... Hakael opened the box and see a mobile case, belt buckle, belt strap, pen, carbon-fiber blade, and Document.
After he read the document he said. "Are we going to do this? In Empire city? Isn't that too risky to this piece?"
"This isn't for the piece, this is for you." Billy hugged Hakael.
"See you again at the meeting point." Hakael breaks free.
"Bye." Billy walked out of the house.
"What are y'all going to do at Empire city?" Amethyst asked.
Hakael doesn't say anything and begins to prepare his gears.