Garnet and I didn't talk during the whole time we warped. When the warp ended we were in Steven's house. It was night time and I saw Steven sound asleep in his bed.
"SHH" Garnet said. She walked over to the temple door and opened her door. She looked over at me gesturing for me to come with her. I looked at my gem then back at her. I am just so worried about this thing. I don't think I want to be around Garnet just yet. I think I need some me time. I turned around and started heading outside. Quietly I heard "I understand why you don't want to be with us right now go take a break". But how did she know! I never told her, but! Now I understand, Sapphire said she had future vision and since Sapphire is a part of Garnet I guess that power went to Garnet too.
Once I walked outside I didn't stop walking. I went up to the cliff with the lighthouse and sat at the edge of the cliff. It was nice to see the ocean and smell that ocean breeze wafting in the air. I came to Earth smelling that smell and everytime I smell it, it makes me feel better. What am I gonna do? I don't want to hurt them. I don't want to hurt the Earth. I don't want to hurt Steven. The rest of the night I spent it up on that cliff curled up into a ball, lying on the ground. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to move. I didn't want to touch anything. When morning hit I was still in the same position. Suddenly I heard a faint call.
"Tabby!" a voice called. It had to be Steven. I can tell by his voice. I poked my head so he could see me. Once he finally saw me he seemed relieved. "Oh there you are Tabby I've been looking for you. Common down!"
"NO THANK YOU" I screamed.
"AW C'MON IT'LL BE GREAT!" Steven yelled. I thought for a second. I can't stay up here forever.
"Fine" I called back.
"Perfect you will love this!" Steven yelled. I got up and went back down the mountain into Steven's house. When I came inside Steven was on his bed. He was smiling and was gesturing for me to come to his bed. When I reached the top I saw he made breakfast.
"What's all this?" I asked.
"It's a breakfast I made up for you and me so we can enjoy it together! I know gems don't need to eat, but we can still enjoy it" Steven replied. I looked down and didn't know what he made. I pointed towards what he made. "Oh that's toast and jam because those two together is so good I thought you would like it and I got us orange juice to go with our toast and jam."
"It looks great Steven!" I said. Suddenly Steven grabbed a square cube and shoved it in my face.
"Here's the remote! I thought you could find something you want to watch on the tv." Steven said. I didn't take the remote, but I just stared at it.
"Is it something electrical?" I questioned.
"Uh yeah" Steven replied.
"GET IT AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed smacking the remote out of Steven's hand. He looked at the remote then back at me. "I'm sorry I just…" I paused for a moment. I didn't really know what to say to him.
"It's ok I'll flip the channel and you can tell me what you want to see" Steven spoke. It was like he knew what was going on, but I didn't tell him. Did the Gems tell him?
"I'll watch whatever you want Steven" I said. We looked at each other and smiled. Steven turned the channel to this show called Crying Breakfast Friends. All it was were these characters making mistakes and crying about it. It was extremely weird. I didn't want to leave though. Steven made me feel better. I don't know why, but when I'm around him I feel normal. I forgot about what was worrying me and enjoyed my time with Steven. He seems to be enjoying my company because he was always smiling. Episodes went by and we were still watching that show. It was still a weird show, but I'm glad I had time to spend it with Steven.
"Hey Steven?" I asked.
"Yeah" he replied turning his body so he can see me.
"What else is electrical?" I asked.
"Well a lot of things like the tv, microwave, the toilet, shower, fridge, and other cool thing like that." Every item he said frightened me even more. I didn't know so much was electrical. I could change it. I don't want that to happen again. I saw the tv and started sliding back on Steven's bed. "What's the matter Tabby?" As I opened my mouth Amethyst came out of her room.
"Yo" Amethyst said.
"Hey Amethyst" Steven said. Amethyst saw me upset and came up next to Steven's bed. She saw what we were watching.
"You're watching that show? You know it's really weird right?" Amethyst asked. I didn't reply to her. I just looked down at my gem. "Hey are you alright?" I guess Garnet didn't tell her.
"She got afraid when I was talking about technology" Steven said.
"Hey I heard about that story from Garnet and it's ok. It's a new power and we'll work out your situation." Amethyst said. Oh I was wrong she did hear. Amethyst started to get up and walk down the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Steven asked.
"I'm gonna check on the drill at the barn and how our tests are going." Amethyst replied.
"Oh cool I'm coming too!" Steven said. He looked at me. "You want to join us?"
"Um I'll catch up with you later." I replied.
"You know where it is?" Amethyst asked.
"I bet I can figure it out." I replied. Truthfully I had no clue where the barn was. I just wanted to relax some more. They should deal with what's more important. I'll just mess things up with my powers. They finally left me home alone. I was still on Steven's bed with the tv off. I wanted so badly to see what the humans find entertaining, but I didn't want to touch the remote. So I sighed and lied on my back. Why do I do this? I keep making myself stress over something stupid. I just need to stop this. Yeah! You know Amethyst keeps telling me eating food makes her feel so much better. That and wrestling, but I still don't know what wrestling is. I went over to the cabinets to check what was in them. Nothing good. I turned and looked at the fridge. Do I? No I don't want to. I saw blenders and the microwave, but I can't touch it. I ran outside as quick as possible. Oh I hope I none of the things I touch were technology. I ran into town not knowing where I was going. Then I stopped in front of the arcade. NO, NO, NO! More technology. I turned again and ran when I stopped I saw the ride Peridot and I were on crumbled into pieces. Everything was destroyed. I didn't see any rides in tact, but I saw one person looking at the mess. He kept screaming WHO DID THIS! He screamed it over and over. I went over to him. I should tell him. It's the right thing to do. He looked at me and I could see him crying up a storm.
"Sir it is a deep thought that when I touched that machine it might have come to life and attacked everyone." I told him.
"Why should I believe you? I don't even know who you are" The man questioned.
"I'm sure you if…"
"No no no I don't want to bother with you please leave me in peace" The man said interrupting me. I started to walk away then I realized something. I turned back facing him. He was bent down on the ground doing nothing.
"My names Tabby by the way" I said. I saw him turn and looked at me. I helped him up off the ground. He didn't seem too happy.
"I'm Mr. Smiley, but you can call me…"
"Nothing. I call you nothing. I just came here to say I'm sorry I was the one who caused this. Ok bye" I said turning around. As I walked away I felt a hand grab me. I turned and looked. Mr. Smiley was tugging me.
"So you're the one who caused this? Then you have to pay" He said.
"I don't have any money!" I cried as I was trying to get his hand away from my arm without hurting him.
"Then you must work to pay it off." He said. I stopped trying to get away and took my punishment. I picked up the metal that was scattered on the ground and put it together in one pile. I was there for a long time. As I was cleaning Steven came by.
"There you are Tabby I was looking for you. What are you doing?" Steven asked.
"I was the one to destroy this place. So I'm cleaning my mess to repay this person for what I have created," I replied. Steven looked at me puzzled. I should tell him the truth sooner or later he's gonna know. So I told him the whole story. About me and Peridot going to Fun Land, the monster, my gem, freakouts, and Garnet. It was kind of hard to explain stuff at times. I hesitated, but sooner or later I told him the whole story.
"Oh so that explains the remote and tv," Steven spoke. He looked over at the mess then looked back at me. "You need any help?"
"I was the one to create this mess so I'll deal with it" I replied.
"This might take you awhile. If I help we can do it together and faster." Steven said. He was right so I agreed with him and we started cleaning together. After awhile I felt tingly like something was coming up on my body. I started to run around the mess, but I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't controlling my body. I was kicking and throwing things everywhere. Steven kept running all over the place avoiding me. "What are you doing?"
"I don't know I'm not doing anything! Help!" I cried back. Then all of a sudden my body leaped into the air. It was a big distance from the ground as I looked down. I was going up for a couple seconds then the ground was getting closer and closer. I was falling! As I fell I could feel my arms again. I started swaying them all over the place, but I knew it didn't help. My body while falling went past the beach. I landed smack in the ocean dug into the sand. I didn't know what to do. I was freaking out and holding my breath. I couldn't hold it for long, but when I took a breath I was fine. I was able to take the water. I looked around to see what could help me get out of the sand, but their was nothing. I tried to dig myself out. Not even that helped. It made it even worse. All I could do was wait. Though I didn't wait too long before fish started to bite me. They were digging their teeth into my skin. I couldn't do anything about it. All I did was sit their. I looked around once more and as I looked up I saw a pink bubble floating downward to the bottom of the sea. As it dug into the sand I saw Steven inside a bubble. He wasn't suffocating from the water, he looked fine. He was trying to say something, but I couldn't hear him. "What?" Steven tried to show me what he meant, but I was getting covered with the fish so it was hard to see. All of a sudden my gem started glowing brighter and brighter till it just stopped. When it was gone I looked around. All of the fish that was attacking me was gone. They must have been afraid of me. I would too. I looked at Steven and I saw him staring at me star eyed. I looked down and saw the impact had revealed a stick. I took the stick and pulled myself out of the sand. Once I was out I went over to Steven who was still in his bubble. "Are you alright Steven?" Steven tried to speak, but I couldn't hear him. I gestured to him to go up.
Once we got out of the water we both layed in the sand. We were both tired.
"Are you ok Tabby?" Steven asked. I looked over at him.
"Yeah I'm fine" I replied. I looked at my gem. Not cracked… good. "Listen Steven I don't know about my gem and their is something that wants to destroy you. Garnet said she'll help me with this situation, but I'm still scared. I'm now scared of me and electrical things I just…"
"...It's fine Tabby" Steven said interrupting me. He looked over at me and smiled. Then we just looked at the sky. It was amazing. I didn't know what was in the sky, but it was pretty. I know I say that a lot of things are pretty, but it's true. I mean every word of it.
"Hey Steven," he looked over at me. "What are those things?" I asked while pointing in the sky.
"Those are stars and somewhere out there is homeworlds star"
"Where I came from"
"Yeah so is Pearl and Garnet" Steven added.
"You know I… no it's" I paused for a second till finally,
"You can tell me I won't laugh" Steven said.
"Well since I've been here all these crazy stuff has happened to me and you guys. I'm afraid and I think I want to take a break of all of this for awhile," I said.
"You're leaving us?" Steven asked.
"No I just want to spend some time away from electronics and people. Bad things are happening and I just don't want to hurt humans" I replied.
"How about we go camping?" Steven suggested.
"Camping?" I questioned.
"Yeah it's when you spend a day or two in the forest with only what you bring and nature. You do fun things like tell stories, hiking, campfires!" Steven replied joyfull. Doesn't seem too bad.
"Sounds like fun Steven, but won't the gems need you?" I asked.
"They're still trying to make sure the drill will drill far enough down into the ground so that will give us some time. I don't think they'll mind," Steven replied.
"Ok then let's get the things we need and go," I said walking towards the house.
"They're the other way!" Steven screamed to me. I turned around and walked in the right direction. Steven ran over to catch up to me. "Do you even know where they are?"
"Not really" I replied stopping. I looked at Steven. "Where are they again?"
"They're at the barn I'll show you" Steven replied. I followed him for a while till we got to another house.
"A house?" I questioned.
"No this is a barn and over here is the drill we've been working on," Steven replied running over to the drill. I looked at it. It was a huge machine that was grey. It had a drill on one side and a green orb thing on the other side. I didn't get too close to the drill because I didn't want to touch it and transform it into a monster drill machine. Once I was done looking at the drill I looked outside to find the gems. They weren't outside. I wonder where they are at?
"Where are they?" I asked.
"Why don't we look inside the barn maybe they're getting supplies" Steven said. He grabbed my hand, looked at me, smiled, and then we went into the barn. Like Steven thought before the gems were in the barn, but they weren't looking for material they were talking to each other. They didn't look too happy. "Hey!" The gems stopped talking and quickly turned to look at us.
"Hello Steven" Pearl said. Steven tried to move forward, but I wasn't budging. I felt frozen like I couldn't move. I kept feeling Steven tug at my arm trying to get me to move, but I couldn't. Steven finally stopped and looked at me.
"Tabby are you ok?" He quietly asked. I finally looked at him.
"Oh uh sorry I'm good," I spoke. We walked towards the gems. They were all here Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Peridot. They were standing in a circle and opened up the circle so Steven and I can join in.
"You ok Tabby?" Amethyst asked.
"Yeah I'm fine. I guess," I replied. I saw Garnet staring at me concerned. "No really it's all good here."
"Well that's good to know" Pearl said gladly.
"Sorry it took so long for me to come back. I found Tabby at the Funland amusement park cleaning up a mess. I tried to help, but all of a sudden she started acting weird and ran around funland then she jumped really high and landed into the ocean. When I finally found her she was being attacked, but adventually she finally got out and is safe." Steven said. As he was telling the story Pearl and Amethyst kept looking at each other and Garnet, but Garnet made no emotion at all. Peridot had this thinking face and kept it that way throughout the story.
"She started acting weird?" Pearl questioned.
"Yeah…"
"Yes I couldn't control my body as I was running around Funland. It was really weird, but when I got flung in the air I got control back," I said interrupting Steven.
"Interesting and your story before with Garnet they seem to connect," Peridot said.
"Yeah so what's your point?" I asked. Peridot came over and examined my gem. She only mumbled, but I couldn't hear what she was saying. Then she looked at me.
"Your gem seems to be normal though I may need some time to figure out what is happening," Peridot said.
"But…"
"But Tabby and I wanted to go camping for a while," Steven commented while interrupting me. Though I didn't mind, but what I did mind was Peridot poking around my gem. She kept touching it. Then she finally looked up when Steven was done talking.
"If she's going with you I'll join so I can observe your gem more. I mean have fun with Steven and Tabby" Peridot said.
"It seems like a good idea, It may get her to see the Earth more. But what about the cluster?" Pearl asked.
"There's still test to do to make sure the drill is working so we'll do that while their gone" Garnet said.
"How long are you gonna be gone for?" Amethyst questioned.
"Um" Steven looked at me.
"I don't really know if you need them sooner they can come back I just want to relax for a while." I replied.
"How about…."
"Take your time Tabby" Garnet said interrupting Pearl. Garnet looked right at me and smiled. I smiled back and nodded my head.
"Thanks Garnet" I said. I knew why she did that. She wanted to help me, but can't if I'm stressing out.
"Here take this" Pearl said handing Peridot several items.
"What is it?" Peridot asked.
"FIREWORKS!" Steven screamed. He tried to take one from Peridot, but Pearl stopped him.
"Oh no Steven. Be careful. We're giving you these three if you need us. Just light it on fire the color you want depending on our color and we will come find you. Depending on the color firework" Pearl said.
"Yeah so don't go far so we can still see the fireworks go off." Amethyst added.
"Thanks Pearl" I said. I turned and looked at Steven. "So Steven how do we camp?"
"We need to gather material first for camping. Leave it to me!" Steven said running into a pile of stuff. I looked back at Peridot.
"Ready to camp Peridot?" I asked.
"I guess. Though I don't know what this CAMPing is" Peridot replied.
"Same here!" I said.
"Don't worry it'll be fun!" Steven screamed from across the barn.
"If you say so Steven" I said happily. He's so nice to show me human ways.
"Whatever" Peridot said. At the side of my eyes I saw her look at my gem. She just wants to look at it more. I knew she came with a reason! I should be mad, but after what has happened to me it seems like the best way to see what's happening. I looked back at Steven and saw him face first into a treasure chest. It made me giggle.
After a bit Steven got all the stuff we needed and we put it in bags. He even brought what he called a cheeseburger backpack with him. As we were about to leave the gems came over to us.
"Be careful" Pearl said.
"Stay safe" Garnet said with a thumbs up smiling at us. Though I think she really meant for it to be directed at me.
"Be careful of any gem monsters trying to get you!" Amethyst said making it sound scary.
"Amethyst!" Pearl cried looking at Amethyst. All Amethyst did was stick out her tongue then ran as Pearl chased her. Even as we were walking down the hill they still were chasing each other. I looked back couple seconds later and they finally noticed us leaving. They stopped and started waving and screaming
"GOODBYE! TAKE CARE!"
