Finally to the plot! This first chapter will have multiple similarities to Warp Tour because I like to stick to canon as close I can while still having in-character… characters. Anyway, enjoy!

Steven joined the gems onto the warp pad, his eyes swollen and nose running. "So… much… pollen…"

They had only just finished fighting a monster in a field of flowers. The pollen was so thick in the air, Steven had trouble breathing, much less helping the gems.

Steven rubbed her eyes and nose while the warp activated. The familiar feeling of warping took him away from the suffocating air. Unfortunately, it didn't stop him from sneezing.

In the weightlessness of the warp stream, the sneeze blew Steven upwards and outside the stream. Steven blinked when he saw another warp stream beside the one they were in.

As he watched, something dark and round traveled upwards and away to another warp location. Steven suddenly felt a pull on his ankle and he was brought back into the stream.

"Steven!" Peridot scolded. "It's very dangerous outside in warp space for a human like you. There isn't much oxygen out there and it is very cold!"

Steven didn't even realize how deprived of breathable air he was, but he took a deep breath and blurted out "I saw something warping in another stream!" The gems looked at each other.

"Steven, are you sure your eyes weren't just messed up from all that pollen?" Lapis asked. Peridot nodded in agreement. "It must've just been the pollen. Only we possess the ability to use the warp pads. There's nothing out there."

Steven remembered glumly the time when Jasper had said those exact words, and that there had been something out there. Sure, it turned out to be the faithful pet that was Lion, but still, she ended up wrong.

"But…" He felt a need to convince the gems that he was right.

"Steven." The boy looked up at Jasper. "There is nothing on Earth that can use these warps. We are safe."

They appeared back in the Temple. Peridot went in her room to work on whatever robotic device she had at the moment (that would probably blow up anyway) and Lapis went out to do some patrols.

Steven looked at Jasper. In all his 14 years of life, the few things he could say with certainty about Jasper was that she was great at issuing orders, being strong and punching things.

The orange gem calmly walked over to the couch and sat on it. Steven shuffled his feet. The awkward tension in the air was almost suffocating. Finally, Steven started to head to the door. "I'm just going to, uh, take a walk." Jasper only acknowledged him with a nod as the door closed.

Steven sighed, kicking the sand along the beach. "I know I saw something…" He muttered under his breath. He stopped and looked up at the sky. "Tell me I saw something!"

As if on cue, a small dot appeared in the sky. Steven squinted as the dot slowly became bigger.

As it came closer, Steven realized it was an object. It was also on fire, having entered Earth's atmosphere at an alarming speed. Squinting, Steven could see that the foreign object was heading straight toward him.

Registering that thought, Steven jumped to the side and watched the object smash into the sand. The grains flew into the air, only to crystallize into glass spikes.

The glass then exploded. Steven covered his face, but the shards never reached him. He opened an eye to see a white ball, extraordinarily similar to the robonoids Peridot would tinker with.

The top of the ball slid aside to let a thick short pole emerge. The pole suddenly split into five pieces and arranged itself like a helicopter blade. The robonoid lifted into the air. A small black hole in the robot peered around, which Steven assumed was some kind of camera.

"Whoa! Cool!" Steven said, reaching out for the robonoid. It didn't react as he picked it out of the air.

Its helicopter blades stopped spinning, but it rotated itself around to 'look' at Steven with the black hole, which were actually just black lenses.

"Steven?" Jasper walked along the beach toward the boy. "What is that?"

The robot turned itself in Steven's hands and spotted Jasper. The black lenses suddenly turned an alarming red and the helicopter blades spun so violently that Steven let go instantly to avoid getting hit.

The robot suddenly shot a red beam right at the orange gem. Jasper dodged the beam and summoned her helmet. She dodged the next few beams effortlessly. Just as she was about to destroy the robot with her helmet, it flew higher into the air.

The lenses turned blue with white script running across them. Before it could complete whatever it was doing, Jasper jumped into the air and smashed the robot into pieces.

Along with the outer casing, a remarkable amount of greenish goop exploded along the beach. Jasper dismissed her helmet and walked over to Steven.

"Maybe there really was something out there." she said. Jasper put a hand on Steven's shoulder. "We should've trusted you more… Let's go back to the Temple and sort all of this out. Maybe Peridot would know something…"


The green gem took one look at the goop they had collected and threw her hands into the air. "What am I supposed to do with this?!"

Jasper shrugged. "I'unno. Maybe find out what it is and does?"

Peridot sighed. "In order to truly find out, I would need a complete model. Just giving me this sticky stuff won't help with anything." Jasper got up. "Well at least find out what this stuff does. I'm going to go punch some rocks."


Later that night, Steven was only just beginning to doze off when something whizzed right over the house, so close that it almost burned off the roof. If the sound of it so close to the house wasn't enough to make Steven alarmed, the deafening sound of the object smacking against the ocean would've.

Curious, Steven climbed out of bed and was just heading down the steps when his doorframe started to glow red.

The frame burned away and another flying robonoid from earlier entered the house. Its lenses locked onto the warp pad.

"Oh no you don't!" Steven jumped off the second floor and somehow landed right on top of the robonoid. The helicopter blades weren't fast enough to seriously hurt him, so Steven managed to hold on as his weight unbalanced the flying drone. They both tumbled over on the ground.

"Jasper! Peridot! Lapis! There's another robot!" Steven yelled as loud as he could. He looked hopefully toward the temple door, but it remained closed.

The robot squirmed its way out of his grasp and landed on the warp pad, the poles making up its helicopter blades now acting as feet. Just as the warp begins to hum, Steven tackles the robonoid.

However, he wasn't fast enough to stop them from warping. Steven felt himself grow weightless. He fumbled for the robonoid but it easily slipped out of his grasp.

More of the robonoids appeared, entering from the sides of the warp stream. They clustered around him, then pushed Steven outside.

Panicked, Steven tried to get back into the glowing column of light, but the momentum of the push was already bringing him farther away. Steven was slowly spinning in the warp space. As he spun, he caught glimpses of multiple streams heading to the same location.

His breath started to come out of short ragged breaths. He blearily closed his eyes as another warp stream burst into life. This time, a blue figure rocketed through the warp space towards Steven.

Lapis cradled Steven in her arms. In warp space, her wings were next to useless, but her momentum had already brought her far enough. Another stream burst forth right underneath them.

"Lapis! Did you get him?" Peridot asked, coming up to their level. Lapis was still holding the boy close to her chest. She lightly shook his shoulders.

"Steven! Are you alright?" Steven opened his eyes and took in oxygen that wasn't there a few moments ago. "Am I still alive?" He asked.

Lapis just brought him into another hug. "I'm sorry for not believing you." Peridot's metallic arms also wound around both of them, and they hugged all the way to their destination.

Steven suddenly found that he had weight again. Lapis put him down and he stared at the sight in front of him. They had gone to the Galaxy Warp. On the Homeworld Warp bustled at least 20 of the robots.

"Psst! Over here!" Steven turned to see Jasper. They joined the orange gem and watched the robots pour green goop all over the cracks in the warp. The substance solidified to reveal the warp had been fixed.

The gems let in an audible gasp. When the warp started to activate, they pretty much panicked.

Jasper grabbed Steven and jumped up to one of the crumbly pillars. She crouched precariously on top tucking Steven under one arm. Lapis flew up with Peridot on her back. The four gems watched as the warp revealed a slim, white gem.

Her hair was tapered back to a point and she had a pointed nose. She wore a blue spacesuit with a pink diamond in the middle, along space visor that resembled Peridot's. A round, oval-shaped gem was set in her forehead.

Peridot sucked in a breath. "Isn't that a Pearl?" She muttered under her breath.

The gem looked around herself, then cautiously stepped off the warp. "Earth seems to be a fine planet…" She said, then winced noticeably. "I can't be a tourist! I need to complete this quickly or who knows what will happen?"

She composed herself with a deep breath. Her gem glowed and a small round object appeared. She pressed a button on the side. "This is Pearl. Most of the drones seem to accounted for. One failed to make an appearance, but the primitive inhabitants of this world would naturally try to destroy such a technological device. Earth appears to be satisfactory."

The robonoids cast forward a holographic screen, which overlapped each other perfectly. Pearl put her hands into the screen and her eyes seemed to take on the same appearance as the drone during the fight against Jasper. Eventually, she took a step back, breaking the connection. "I need to get back…"

Pearl turned and stepped back onto the warp. She took out rectangular object and placed it down before warping. After the stream had dissipated completely, the rectangular object exploded, effectively destroying the warp and any robonoid unlucky enough to get caught in the blast.

The gems jump down from the pillar as the remaining robonoids waddle toward the edge of the platform, falling into the dark waters of the ocean.

Jasper took in a deep breath. "Well that was interesting."

And interesting it was. Whaddya think of my little twist? The chapter took longer then I thought it would take, so I hope it turned out well!

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