Tristan dropped the mattress on the floor in the basement. Right next to his duffel bags "now I got to move the rest of my shit up to the light house." Said Tristan as he went upstairs. Tristan picked up one of the boxes of workout equipment when someone knocked on the door. "Must be Steven." Muttered Tristan as he opened the door. He was surprised to see Buck, Jenny and Sour Cream at his door.
"Yo." Said Sour Cream.
"Hey." Said Tristan "what are you guys doing here?"
"We're here to help you move some stuff." Said Buck.
"Yeah." Said Jenny "Buck told us how you helped the Mayor and how you just moved in. So we decided to help!"
"Oh, well then come on in I guess." Said Tristan as he let them in.
"Whoa." Said Buck "nice place you got here."
"Thanks?" said Tristan, he wasn't quite sure why they decided to help.
"I could like, totally chill out here." Said Sour Cream as he sat down on the couch.
"Yeah, it's a nice place you got." Said Jenny as she looked at the TV.
"Yeah, it's pretty nice." Said Tristan as he picked up a box. "If you decide to help, be very careful. This stuff is very heavy." With that Tristan began taking boxes up to the top of the light house. After taking up about half the boxes, the others decided to help.
"Jeez." Panted Sour Cream after trying to lift one of the boxes.
"What's in here?" asked Jenny "solid gold?"
"Oh hey." Said Tristan as he stepped down stairs "I left some of the lighter one's for you in cause you wanted to help." Said Tristan as he picked up two boxes, putting them on his shoulder "It should take three of you to lift that."
"Wait what?" said Jenny.
"What're in theses boxes dude?" asked Buck as he opened one up.
"Weights." Said Tristan as he began to climb the stairs again. When Buck opened them, they were all weights. From dumbbells, to barbell weights, they were all there.
"Oh you got to be kidding me." Said Sour Cream as he looked at how heavy these where.
"Oh sorry." Said Tristan as he came back down "I didn't mean to leave that one there." Tristan closed up the box and picked it up with ease. "If you want you can take out the weights and bring them up individually."
"Yeah, we might need to do that." Said Jenny as she picked up a hundred pound dumbbell. "We're definitely gonna need to do that."
"Jeez." Said Buck as he sat at the top of the light house "why do you have such heavy weights, and why so many!"
"It's just standard workout equipment." Said Tristan sipping on a beer "why are you making such a big deal over it?"
"Because you have bodybuilder type workout gear." Said Sour Cream.
"Yeah." Said Jenny as she sipped on her soda "definitely not standard." Tristan just shrugged as he sipped on his beer. "So, you guys staying for when I put this all together?"
"Um, no." Said Buck as everybody chuckled.
"Doing this is a workout in itself." Said Sour Cream.
"I guess." Said Tristan.
"How about we just chill out and watch a movie." Said Jenny.
"Sure." Said Tristan as he and everyone else walked down stairs "what do you want to watch?"
"Something scary." Said Sour Cream "but also chill."
"Uh, that's not possible." Said Tristan.
"How about a comedy?" Said Jenny.
"Yeah, a comedy." Said Buck.
"I don't really care." Said Tristan "just pick something." He gave them the laptop and went to grab a six pack of beer.
"Dude, shouldn't you be wasted by now?" asked Sour Cream as he sat down "you've already had like four."
"I usually am." Said Tristan as he opened the first can and guzzled it down. The rest of the night was them watching a horrible comedy while Tristan tried to get himself drunk.
"That was hilarious." Said Jenny as she walked away from the lighthouse with Buck and Sour Cream.
"Yeah." Said Sour Cream "and chill."
"It was alright." Said Buck "but Tristan wouldn't stop drinking."
"Yeah, what's up with him." Said Sour Cream.
"I couldn't even smell it." Said Jenny "which is weird cause he drank all six of those cans and yet he still didn't look even a little bit tipsy."
"Weird." Said Buck as he and rest of them walked into town.
"We need your help!" Said Pearl as she barged into Tristan's house. She looked around and saw the beer cans scattered all over the place. With Tristan just sitting on the couch staring at the wall. "Is, this a bad time?"
"No." Said Tristan "it's perfect timing." He got up and walked to the door.
"Oh." Said Pearl as she and Tristan began walked to the edge of the cliff "well if you say so." Pearl jumped all the way down to the temple while Tristan landed on the statue's hand. Tristan got ready to jump down to the beach when the warp pad behind him activated.
"You'll just hurt yourself." Said Garnet "get on, it's much safer."
"Again, how do you know these things?" asked Tristan as the warp pad activated. Garnet only grinned as she nudged her glasses.
"Perfect we're all here." Said Pearl as Garnet and Tristan walked off the pad and into the house.
"So what are we doing?" asked Tristan.
"We're gonna kick Peridot's butt." Said Amethyst as she walked out of the temple.
"Yeah." Screamed Steven as he got up from folding laundry. Running over to the warp pad, activating it. Tristan looked around at the kindergarden, it was old, creepy and quiet.
"I should've made my house here." Muttered Tristan as he began exploring the area "much more peace and quiet. With no one to find me."
"Well." Said Pearl as she flashed her gem light around the kindergarden "nothing looks activated." She dragged her finger on one of the injectors "in fact it doesn't look like anything's budged since the last time we were here."
"You're right." Said Garnet "but just because Peridot hasn't been here yet. Doesn't mean she won't come." Steven nodded.
"Isn't that a good thing." Asked Tristan as he kicked one of the fallen injectors.
"Yes it is." Said Garnet "but just in case, let's do a double check of the perimeter. That way we can monitor any future entry."
Steven nodded "sounds good to me." Said Steven as he began to walk off.
"You should go with him Tristan." Said Pearl.
"Fine." Said Tristan as he began to jog towards Steven. "So what was this place?"
"It was were Gems were born." He said with wide arms "they would suck the life out of the earth before emerging!" Tristan paused as he placed his hand over his chest. "Are, you ok?" But before Tristan could reply, they heard a voice echoing throughout the kindergarden. It was sort of muffled until a green looking gem arose from the ground.
"The fusion experiments are developing properly." Said the green Gem "a few have even emerged early." She looked up and gasped when she saw us.
"Is that Peridot?" Whispered Tristan, Steven nodded
Peridot looked at them in fear "are the other ones with you?" Steven began shaking his head before smiling and nodding. "Of course." She face planted "why not." Tristan summoned his Sabre before sprinting right at Peridot. She yelped and began to run away.
"Peridot!" Screamed Garnet.
"There she is." Said Pearl.
"There's nowhere to go." Screamed Amethyst as Peridot began nearing a wall.
"You're cornered." Screamed Pearl, but apparently not. Since she began running up the wall.
"Hey." Whined Steven "I can't do that."
"Move aside." Said Tristan as he began to back up. He sprinted right at the wall and began running up it. Briefly using the holes in the wall as footing to kick up. Tristan reached up to grab her when Pearls spear flew right past him. Tristan gasped as he missed Peridot and stabbed his Sabre into the rock.
"Ha!" Screamed Peridot "missed!" She was right, it did miss her. But it hit an injector instead, causing it to fall.
"Fuck me." Mumbled Tristan as he made his Sabre disappear and kicked back. Soaring high in the air, until he crashed flat on his back. Tristan gasped for air as he faintly heard a crashing sound and the Gems talking.
"Do you think she's hurt?" Asked Steven, but right as he said that Peridot emerged from the rubble.
Amethyst laughed "nope." She lassoed Peridot with her whip. Peridot frowned and touched the whip, causing electric currents to run through it. "Whoa." Said Amethyst as she let go "my whip!"
"You Crystal Clods." Said Peridot as she ran in Tristan's direction "go ahead, wreck this place. See if I care, I already got what I needed."
"Get back here!" Said Pearl, Peridot raised her hand in the air and her fingers began to spin. Making her begin to fly in the air. Tristan grabbed her foot, causing her to shout in surprise.
"Get off me you clod!" She shocked Tristan, causing him to let go and fall again. This time, he made it on his feet. Peridot began to laugh maniacally, but she just sounded like an annoying five year old that finally won a game of Battle Ship.
"I'm gonna bop her good." Screamed Amethyst as she and Pearl gave chase. Tristan just brushed himself off before walking over to where Garnet and Steven were. Tristan opened his mouth but Garnet looked at him.
"No, you cannot leave." Said Garnet "beside we have to find out what Peridot was doing here." She put Steven down "if Peridot's mission was to reactivate the Kindergarden, then the injectors would be on. But look, they're not."
"Oh." Said Steven.
"Let's see what she was actually doing." Said Garnet as she began lifting the broken injector up off the ground "in here."
"I remember this." Said Tristan as he and Steven walked over to the hole in the ground.
"You're brains and brawn." Said Steven "the whole package."
"Thank you." Said Garnet as she gave Steven a high five.
"Is it cause you're a fusion?" asked Steven. Tristan didn't care, he didn't even know what the hell a fusion was.
"I have to keep some of my secrets." Said Garnet as Tristan jumped in the hole "No Tristan, wait!" Again, he didn't care. He didn't even get a lick of sleep last night. So wasn't in the mood to follow orders. Tristan looked around the area, it was nice. Nothing compared to the newer Gem tech, but hey. It was better than human tech.
Tristan began looking around when he heard Steven and Garnet approaching "what's it like to stay fused all the-whoa!" said Steven as he looked at the place.
"I know, right?" Said Tristan as he looked at the panels "it's awesome."
"I don't know how but, this place is even creepier than the last time we were here." Said Steven as Garnet summoned her gauntlets.
"Yes, there's something going on." Said Garnet as she look around.
"The powers not on." Said Steven "what was Peridot doing?"
Garnet looked up "it looks like she pulled these out the wall." She looked at Tristan "something's strange."
"For once." Said Tristan as he summoned his Sabre "I agree." The pillars around them began to shake violently.
"Garnet." Said Steven "is there, something in there?" Suddenly, a hand stuck to a foot fell from the ceiling.
"The hell is that?" asked Tristan as Garnet picked it up. They all looked up to the ceiling, only to see that it was infested with creepy looking body parts fused with other body parts.
"What are they?" asked Steven as Garnet poofed one.
"Don't know." Said Tristan as he began poofing the swarm of fused body parts "don't care." Tristan began cutting and stabbing into as many as he could. But there were too many of them, they got past him and began to crawl towards Steven and Garnet. Tristan heard Garnet growl as she through what looked like two gem shards stuck together. "Guess she doesn't like them either." Mumbled Tristan as he poofed the last one.
"Garnet!" Screamed Steven. Tristan turned around to see Garnet glowing white with one of those gigantic forced fusion on her. Tristan ran up to Steven, quickly poofing the ones by him and looking up at Garnet. "This isn't like you!" Screamed Steven.
"What's happening to her?" asked Tristan.
"I don't know!" said Steven. Garnet Growled as she knocked the forced fusion's hands away. Walking up to it and grabbing it.
"She's back to normal I guess." Said Tristan as he turned around "guess I should start getting rid of these." He heard Garnet talking in the background, but he just tuned them out. He dissipated his Sabre and raised his foot to crush the gem. He felt a shadow fall upon him and heavy footsteps, he turned around and punched whatever was behind him with everything he had. What he expected was another huge forced fusion, not Garnet with a scowl on her face. "Garnet!?" Tristan jumped back.
"Yo." Said Amethyst as she slide in "we're back."
"We lost Peridot, her fingers were too fast for us." Said Pearl "oh Tristan, your hand is badly injured."
"It is?" Tristan looked at his left hand. It was a bloody mess with a couple broken bones "it doesn't look that bad to me." Pearl looked over at the forced fusion crawling onto Amethyst.
"Um." Said Pearl picking it up "what are these things?"
"Put them down!" Screamed Garnet.
"What?" Said Pearl as she threw it on the floor.
"We need to poof and bubble all of them." Said Garnet as she slammed her fist onto the forced fusion "we can't let any escape!"
"Yo Tristan." Said Amethyst "who jacked up your hand so much." Garnet tensed up at the question. Tristan bent over and picked up one of the fused shards.
"One of these." He said tossing it at her "but much, much bigger." Tristan looked over at Garnet as she continued to poof more of the forced fusions. Tristan began to climb up "if you don't mind I'm gonna leave."
"Oh no problem." Said Pearl "just be careful, and you know how to activate the warp pad right?"
"Uh." Said Tristan "no." Pearl sighed.
"Steven, could you go with him?" asked Pearl.
"Yes Pearl." Said Steven as he and Tristan made their way out of the kindergarden and onto the warp pad.
"You know you didn't have to lie." Said Steven.
"Well get used to it." Said Tristan "because I'm gonna do it a lot."
It was dark outside and Tristan just sat at the top of the light house. He finished his twentieth beer when Garnet walked up. "Are you ok?"
"No." Said Tristan as he tossed the empty can to the side "no I'm not ok. I can't get drunk, I can't fall asleep, and I'm coughing up even more blood than usual." Tristan placed his arm over his chest "I think I'm speeding up the process by giving it more energy."
"I meant your hand." Said Garnet.
"Oh who gives two shits about my hand." Said Tristan "just wrap it up and don't fucking use it for a bit."
"I'm sorry." Said Garnet "I should have told you that we could bubble it instead."
"It's fine." Said Tristan "I don't care anymore."
"But why?" asked Garnet "I could've killed you!"
"Just leave." Said Tristan "you being nice to me is making me want to puke."
"I'm sorry." Said Garnet "I'll leave you be." With that, Garnet left. Tristan smiled as he saw her drop down to the beach.
"At least now she won't watch me while I sleep." Said Tristan as he began to unbox his new workout equipment.
