Everyone stood in their own room waiting for four. Peridot was in her own room and she could easily tell then which room the new one would be by. Once the clock clicked to four, Peridot watched as the new room popped up. It appeared under Steven's room but above her own.

"STEVEN! BELOW YOUR ROOM!"

Luckily for everyone she had a loud voice for such a small body. Steven made his way out of room to see the dark hallway. It wasnt anything like the other passages to everyone else's room... It looked scary. He swallowed hard and headed into the darkness.

As he got closer he could hear a ticking noise and some beeping. There was a faint bluish glow from down the hall. He crept closer ready to use his shield if something decided to pop out. He came upon a metal door that was covered in neon blue chains. Steven looked closer to see there were neon blue words.

Once you enter the change of time flies by. You become lost and realize that that pain was happiness.

He touched the door and the door disappeared. He saw Garnet standing inside already.

"How did you get here so fast?" Steven asked.

She looked down at him, "I ran."

He looked around seeing the walls were covered in all kinds of clocks.

"What do the clocks have to do with anything? Does the gem like telling time?"

"I think it's the time it spent in different places but some of it has old or strange human language I don't understand."

Steve looked down at the floor his eyes widened in shock.

"Garnet... Why is there a picture of White Diamond on the floor?"

Garnet looked down but the picture was nothing like the mural on the moon. It was the outline of her with the diamond on her head. There were clocks around her with weird symbols. Garnet looked back up to see Steven taking pictures.

"Maybe Peridot can download the pictures and study them until ten. Then we can try again."

Garnet smiled, "That's a good idea."

"FIVE MINUTES!"

"Let's go Steven."

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"These are definitely strange. I know some of this as gem words but it's really old words. I can't even make some of this out. I find it strange it was mostly clocks."

"Could it mean time it spent in different cities at different periods?" Pearl asked.

"It doesn't look right. The pictures Steven has taken has depicted that it started with an old dead human language then into gem language. I would find it too strange that a gem would have human language unless it was dropped off here once it emerged..."

"Why don't we go back in there?" Steven asked.

"We should. Maybe you could retrieve one of the clocks for me?"

"I don't know. It might make the room crumble," Garnet said, "It's one thing taking things in there it's another to pull from the room."

Peridot tapped her chin.

"If you want, I'll do it," Steven asked, "We can take more pictures first."

"That will be fine. I want everyone to be ready for the next time the room shows up. I wonder if maybe it'll change."

"You think we could change our rooms? I never even tried," Pearl said.

"It may be possible. We don't know who or what came in here. We don't know what they wanted Jasper for, if they were after her in the first place or if it was random. There's too many unknowns."

"Could it be a gem wanting to go back home?" Amethyst asked, "Lapis Lazuli didn't like the way it looked and how it was."

"Maybe it crashed it's ship here."

"It's hard to tell. We can just research the room again," Peridot said turning around.

"I guess I'll take a nap," Steven said, "If I have to be up late it's better to sleep now."

Steven left Peridot's room.

"You think... It's something more than a gem? More like Steven?" Amethyst asked.

"Like I said... It's not unheard of. If Rose Quartz could then it's possible. BUT it doesn't explain why they grabbed Jasper."

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"When Peridot says go, go. We have no time to waste. Amethyst and Steven are in charge of taking pictures. Pearl and I will rip one of the clocks off the wall."

Everyone nodded and headed for their rooms in the Temple. The moment it hit ten at night everyone ran looking for the pathway to the clock room. No one wasted time and everyone pretty much reached the room within five minutes.

Amethyst and Steven took more pictures but Steven couldn't help but notice the floor looked more different. White Diamond was there but with a smaller figure stood beside her but it was blank.

"Maybe it's a gem that belonged to White Diamond?" Steven asked.

Steven took a few pictures of the floor. Pearl and Garnet tries pulling one of the older clocks off the wall but it wouldn't come off. Steven watched them try and try again until Amethyst tried helping them but it didn't work. They wasted fifteen minutes trying.

"It just won't come off!" Pearl yelled in frustration.

"We have to try again! We have a little time left!"

"FIVE MINUTES!"

They left the room and watched as the door closed and disappeared. They walked back to Peridot's room slightly defeated.

"Maybe Peridot will figure out something," Steven said giving them a smile.

X

X

Steven was sleeping away when Peridot finally emerged from her room. She cleared her throat and the Crystal Gems stared at her.

"It seems I have some information."

"What did you find out?" Pearl asked.

"Since I have pictures of everything clock in the room... I figured out what language was used."

"Lay it in us Peri!"

"The language is no longer spoken today but it starts off with Anicent Greek. There's some clocks with Latin as well. Then it spans over to more modern Greek until the fourth wall is Modern Greek."

"How old is that language anyways?" Pearl asked, "I know some humans have kept the same language..."

"The gem itself is at least 2,500 years old."

They looked at each other.

"Hm... Maybe a stray gem that abandoned the war and learned human language to blend in?" Garnet asked allowed.

"It seems so. The Diamonds don't keep a record of who belonged to them so it would be hard to tell who this faceless gem was. Being the fact White Diamond largely impacted on that room that gem must've been more important than a mere Pearl."

Pearl made a face.

"No offense. I just wonder... Everyone should've been wiped out."

"This is a big mystery."

"What do we do now?" Amethyst asked, "There's nothing we can do now. We hit a dead end again."

"We can go in the room again..." Pearl said.

Amethyst rolled her eyes, "We already did that. Twice. We aren't getting anywhere!"

"I guess we search the city again."

Amethyst groaned.

It was becoming redundant.