"Could you take a look at my neck?" Lily questioned her friend. Mel nodded and looked at the back. She gasped. "What? What is it?" Lily questioned.

"You have a bloodstone lodged in. Let me see if I can get it out." Mel said. She began to try to dig her nails under the stone in her friend's neck.

It hurt like crazy to Lily. "Ow, ow, OW OW OW OW OW!" Lily started to cry.

"I'm sorry Lily, it's stuck in there real good." Mel said as she took her hands off the Gem.

"Let me see your neck." Lily said through drying tears. Mel lifted her hair and sure enough there was another Gem. Albite, and it swirled to look like a Yin symbol. "You've got one too."

"Are you going to try to get it out?" Mel asked, not wanting the thing to stay there.

"No, I don't want to hurt you." Lily explained.

A high pitched cry soon came from where the monster was. A gleaming cluster of Gems near the lower part of its "abdomen."

"It couldn't possibly be." Lily whispered.

"What Lily?" Mel asked.

"Mel, we've got to run. NOW!" Lily yelled through gritted teeth. More creatures came and began to chase after Lily and Mel.

"Why are they chasing us? What are those things?" Mel cried out, hoping Lily would have an answer.

"They're fusion experiments! They've got no mind of their own, and all they know is to kill!" Lily said as she grabbed Mel's wrist and ran faster.

"What do we do?"

"We need to find a Warp Pad!"

"You mean that?" Mel pointed up and Lily saw the nearly flat, blue gem like thing poking out of the ground. However, a steep slope made it impossible to get up there unless you could jump high or fly. Lily looked back and saw that they were surrounded by the monsters. "Lily? What do we do?"

"I-I don't know." Lily choked out, afraid for her life. Suddenly the Warp Pad activated above them.

"I've never seen so many in one place." A somewhat dainty voice said.

"The more to poof." Another voice, more gravilier than the other.

"And bubble." A british voice of authority cut in.

Soon 7 figures jumped down and began to poof all the Fusion experiments. One using water coming from a teardrop Gem. Lapis, Lily thought. 2 figure that were working together ended up fusing and using a sword and shield. Stevonnie, Lily identified. She began to identify them all. Pearl's spear. Garnet's gauntlets. Amethyst's spin dash. Though one Gem was using electricity and Lily didn't recognize her.

The Gems, after bubbling the experiments and Stevonnie unfusing, walked over to Lily and Mel. Steven reached out for a handshake. "Hi there."

"Hello." Mel said shakily. These people had just killed a bunch of monsters, and now they act as if they haven't even done anything except just meet? Lily took it up, a large grin on her face.

"Hi, I'm Lily, and this is Mel." Lily monologued.

A green skinned girl removed her hood from off her head. Peridot, Lily realized. Her hair was more in a pixie cut with the bangs swept to show the Gem. She was no longer tiny, around Pearl's shoulder height, and she no longer had her protective visor on. "Lily and Mel?" She questioned. "But you're a Bloodstone," she said motioning her hand to Lily, "and she's an Albite. And from the looks of your bodies it seems that you've been just born."

"Peridot." Garnet warned. It was hard to keep Peridot in check whenever her instincts of Homeworld separation kicked in.

"Right, sorry." Peri said bluntly.