hey guys! Like I promised you here is the next chapter I hope you like it!

I walked out on the porch. Today was a beautiful day, The sun was shining and the ocean was colored a beautiful light blue with sunlight reflecting off the water like it had gemstones embedded in the waves. I looked down on the beach to see Steven sitting with a girl that was wearing a baseball cap and held a bag beside her. I didn't know who she was so I decided to introduce myself. I walked down the steps and started to walk towards them "can I look yet?" Steven asked the girl covering his eyes with his hand. "Okay!" she said holding up a book with a purple cover. Steven gasped "Books!" he shouted in happiness. "Whoa cool cover!" Steven said as he grabbed the book from his friend. "Hey guys what are we doing over here?" I said lowering myself to one knee next to Steven. "Oh hi Obsidian. What are you doing here?" Steven asked. "I came to meet her" I said pointing at the girl. "I don't believe I've met you before. My name is Obsidian, think of me as Steven's really cool uncle" I told her as I stuck out my hand. "Connie" she replied shaking my hand. "Well its nice to meet you Connie, anyway whats this in your hand Steven?" I asked Steven grabbing one of the other books Connie had brought. "Its my favorite series! Its called Unfamiliar Familiar!" she exclaimed barely able to hold back her excitement. "Its about a girl named Lisa and she's a witch, but she doesn't know she's a witch at first, and she has a familiar! She exclaimed. "Which is like a spirit companion that everyone in the world has" she said looking not sure she knew herself. "And her's is a talking falcon named Archmicarus! Anyways she goes on this quest to find her father who was kidnapped by a one eyed mysterious man." she explained "whoa mystery!" Steven said looking very interested. "This book has me intrigued" I said looking at the cover. "Here let me get you started!" she offered. She opened the book and brushed her hair back "Chapter one, the morning thief. Lisa awoke with a start. The echos of her dreams still dancing in her mind. The low rumble of thunder murmured through the quiet house-" a loud boom came from the sky. "Whoa this is a really good book!" Steven said thinking the book had some magical effect. "Ahh... okay" Connie said finding her spot where she left off "the house was deathly still, the only sound Lisa could hear was her own heartbeat pounding in her ears. the hairs on her neck tingled when suddenly..." she stopped because something crashed into the water infront of us spraying water on us like rain. I stood up and pulled out my long sword " Steven grab Connie and get back!" I said pointing with my left hand. "Okay I got it!" he said as he helped Connie pick up her stuff and ran to the stairs. "Alright, so what do we have here?" I asked myself looking in the ocean for whatever that crashed. Just then a giant sea foam blue sphere rolled up on the beach "Peridot" I said identifying the creator. "It cant defend itself so this will be easy" I said now loosening up. Legs popped out the sides and it stood up. It started to walk closer to me and I swiped with my blade "these things are gonna get annoying real fast, I just know it" I said starting to pick up the pieces of the now shattered robonoid with goo spattered all over me. "I wonder what it was here to do? And why was it so large?" I thought as I inspected the pieces. I turned around to look at Steven "are you two okay?" I asked as I walked to them. "I love hanging out at your place" Connie said still in shock of what just occurred. The gems jumped down by us "what was that?" Garnet asked. "I believe it was one of Peridot's robonoids but, this one was way bigger than the one we saw at the galaxy warp" I answered. "It still seems however that they still have no way of defending themselves from attack, which seems to be bad designing if your sending them to hostile planets" I added. Hey look guys I covered in this stuff! Amethyst said while she basically bathed in the left over goo. "Amethyst get out of that! We still don know what it does!" Pearl shouted. "Heh heh" Amethyst held up her arms. "Oh no, don't you dare get that stuff on me!" Pearl said backing away. "Goop hug!" Amethyst shouted before she started to chase Pearl. "Peridot. Is that the gem you told me about? The one that's trying to get to earth?" Connie asked Steven. "Yeah we stopped her before but it looks like she can still shoot stuff here from space" he replied. "So Garnet what do you think it was here to do?" I asked Garnet. "We destroyed it, and that's all that matters"she answered with her normal stoic face. I don't think It'll be that easy but if you say so" I said shrugging my shoulders. "Goop hug!" Amethyst said as she hugged Garnet. Pearl walked over looking disgusted at what was on her and Garnet pulled her in for the hug as well.

The next day I was sitting at the bar again talking to Amethyst about what I could make for dinner "but we have to have vegetables to balance out the meat! We cant just have meat with nothing else!" I argued. "Who cares? It wont affect me at all!" she replied. "But its unhealthy for Steven since he's half human" I explained. "Then why don't you make some vegetables specifically for him?" she asked. "I... that's not actually a bad idea" I said rubbing my chin. "R-really" Amethyst said stuttering and blushing a little. "Yea great idea! I get started with dinner" I said getting up from my stool and starting to get the equipment needed. "So what do you want?" I asked her. "Umm...how about some chili?" she said rubbing her belly. "If you wanted chili then why did we argue about vegetables?" I asked her as i rubbed the bridge of my nose. "Uh... I don't really remember" she said rubbing her head. "It doesn't matter anymore, can you get off the counter please? I need to start prepping" I asked her. "Sure. If you need any help just come get me" she said while hopping off the counter and walking into her room. "Alright time to get started" I said to myself. I prepared all of the components for the chili and out it on the stove to cook. I looked behind me and saw Steven reading the books we saw the day before. "Hey Steven how are those books?" I asked him as I sat next to him on the couch. "They're awesome but a little confusing" he replied. "Oh? How so?" I asked him wondering what he meant. Well it keeps talking about this guy that died, but I don't know anything about him and he seems important. I grabbed the book from him and checked the spine " how many have you read?" I asked. "Just this one" he replied. Steven, this is the last book in the series. There's an order in how these books are read" I said sighing. "What!? There's an order? I just grabbed the one with the coolest cover!" he said now feeling defeated.

Out of now where another boom like the other day came. "Not again, Steven stay right here" I said pointing at the couch. I ran outside to see where this threat would go. I watched I land on what the others called mask island. Actually if I recall correctly Steven told me some story about being trapped there. I ran inside to find the gems in the living room "it landed at mask island. I need you to come with if we have to search for it" I said running over to the warp pad and. I warped to the island and I was amazed at what I saw. It was thick, full of crazy plant and animal life it almost looked beautiful. That is until a giant robonoid came smashing through some trees. "Its the same as the one before. Why does she keep sending them?" I asked myself as it came to the warp pad. I lunged at it and punched my hand through it's glass like exoskeleton and it shattered like the other one. I held up the arm that was covered in goo "Seriously? Now I'm gonna have to change again" I said. I walked back to the portal now a little pissed and warped back. I walked off the pad as the gems were about to go on it "no need. I already killed it" I said holding up my arm. "Was it another one of those things?" Pearl asked. "Yeah but they still don't have any defenses so taking them out will be easy" I explained while phasing on a black hoddie and a gray pair of jeans. "What do you think they're here to do?" Steven asked. "I...don't really know" I replied trying to think if they showed any real purpose. "Its not doing anything now" Garnet stated but it was obvious that Steven wasn't happy with that answer

a few days later I was reading one of the books Steven had finished. "These are pretty good! Connie has some good taste" I thought to myself. Just then another boom came "I knew these thing would get annoying! I so called it!" I shouted. The gems came out "Grrrr! What's with these things? that's like the fifth one this week!" Amethyst whined while rubbing her face. Garnet stood there concentrating with her hands on her temples "we'll find it in the desert!" she said and then they warped away. "Come on Steven let see if we can help" I said standing up. "Okay!" he said and we ran to the pad and warped away. We came to the desert and we saw the gems fighting the robonoid. Amethyst had her whip wrapped around it, Garnet was pushing it, and Pearl... was hitting on top of the head with the bottom of her spear like a child. "Pearl what are you doing?" I asked chuckling. "what does it look like? I'm fighting the robonoid!" she said confidently. "You look like a baby on a tantrum" I said laughing. "Shut up! this is important!" Garnet shouted. "Guys, guys, guys stop!" Steven yelled swinging his hands. We all looked at him "how many more of these thing are you going to have to fight?" he asked. "We don't know! They just keep coming and coming and coming, and we don't even know what they are! We don't know anything!" Pearl shouted. It was now obvious that the stress was affecting them. "That's okay!i don't know things all the time! Its like my life! But I have you guys to tell me about gem stuff and Connie can explain what familiars are and dad tells me weird dad stuff" he said trying to make them feel better. "But nobody know what these things are here to do" Pearl replied. "well...It probably does" Steven said pointing at it. We all became quiet for a moment "what?" Pearl asked. "We could follow it and see where it goes" he said giving a very logical idea. "Are you nuts!?" Amethyst screamed. "I think he's right" I said backing him up. "Who know what could go wrong!" Pearl shouted. "We cant fight these things forever, well we can but I don't want to. Lets do it Steven's way" she said finally. "Yeah! Lets follow the funky flow!" Steven sang. "I don't think that applies here but whatever" I said ruffling his hair. "We're dead" Amethyst said letting go of the robonoid with her whip. We mounted it "alright big guy! Mush!" Steven said slapping his hand on top of the sphere. It was a rickety ride but the robonoid made it to the warp pad and we warped away. We landed at what seemed like a kindergarten, no it was a kindergarten. "That's it! Its confirmed, this thing is up to no good!" Pearl said as she started to pull out her spear. "Wait Pearl" I said grabbing her arm. "We need to get more information on its intentions before we kill it" I pointed out. "Ugh" Pearl said as she let go of her spear, however It stayed on her head and she looked like a unicorn and it made me laugh. "Whats so funny?" she inquired. "I'm so sorry Mrs. Unicorn" I said with my best British accent. She got embarrassed and made her spear go back into her gem. After awhile the robonoid stopped "what's wrong?" Steven asked. "Get off something is happening" I said grabbing Steven and jumping off. We landed and I turned around, the sphere robonoid was now a pyramid shape and was inserting itself into a green hole in the ground. The green light dissipated and it became an inclined hole. "See! I told you we'd find something cool!" Steven said jumping in. "Steven!" I yelled going in after him. We landed on the bottom of the pyramid as it slowly descended deeper in the hole. We finally got to the bottom and as we stopped something began turning on. A trail of light went forward into another room and brought up a pedestal. I heard a noise "what is that?" Steven asked. We looked under the pyramid to see a drop coming off of the point. It fell to the ground and became a small robonoid, then it walked over to the pedestal and jumped on it. It activated a screen which was static for a moment but flashed and showed Peridot's face. "Everyone hide!" I whispered to the others. We ran behind a wall and I began to listen "establishing projection link with control room. Hub robonoid has successfully landed on earth and entered prime kindergarten control room in facet five. We'll proceed to perform a status check of kindergarten" the screen went deeper in the room. "Its Peridot" Amethyst stated now in obvious fear. "Is she trying to reactivate kindergarten? Doesn't she know that it kill a living life on the earth?" Pearl said covering her face with her hands. "Steven we need to be careful. We don't know what powers or skills she has" I said looking at him in the eyes. Hmm... what I go in masquerading as a newly formed gem child? That way I could seem very malleable and I could get information" I offered. "Steven you have to stay..." I turned to where he was "oh come on!" I said face palming. I peeked over to see what was happening.

"Now accounting for all operational injectors" she said as she pulled out two huge green hands. "Checking for aberrations in perimeter" she said as she inserted said hands into the ceiling. "This gem tech is simply archaic" she joked to her self. "I don't know, I think it looks kinda cool" Steven said nonchalantly. The huge screen turned to Steven with peridot's face in surprise "Hi I'm Steven" he said waving. "There appears to be an infestation of "Stevens" in the kindergarten" Peridot said to her log. "I'm not so bad once you get to know me" he insisted. "And how many more "Stevens" are present in this area?" she inquired "Oh just me" he said shrugging his shoulders. "Yeah that's a relief. So tell me have "Stevens" replaced "Humans" as the dominant species on earth?" she asked kind of sounding stupid for asking that question. "Oh no there's lots of humans there's my dad, Connie, Lars and Sadie, the mailman, onion I think, lots of people" he replied with a smile. "Now I get to ask a question. What are you doing?" he asked pointing at the screen. "Just picking up where we left off" she said as she turned away and lifted one of her hands into the air. It came down fast and almost hit Steven before Garnet caught it. The screen turned back "A gem?"then Pearl and Amethyst jumped next to Garnet "more? But the red eye didn't report and gems on this planet!" "That's because we destroyed it." Pearl answered "you what?" Peridot said sounding astonished "But the records say the gems were wiped out on earth!"she said looking at her hand/screen "Wait a minute..."she stopped "you're the ones that have destroying my hub robonoids. Are you the reason the home-world warp is down again?" she asked sounding really pissed off. "Is this your bizarre icon?" she asked holding up a crying waffle sticker. "Why do you keep destroying my things!?" she shouted now on the brink of complete rage. "Come on Steven lets get down" I said pulling him down behind the wall we were hiding at. "Why are you down here and not helping the gems?" because Peridots have access to all information that was ever recorded and I might be recognized by her" I answered peeking back over the wall "Because we are the crystal gems! We're still alive and are still the guardians of this planet and all its living creatures" Pearl answered trying to sound intimidating. "The crystal gems?" Peridot wondered. Then the gems started tot attack the giant hands "Stop! how dare you? I'm doing this one way or another your just making this really difficult!" "Amethyst now!" Garnet shouted Amethyst wrapped her whip around a giant hand "Destroy!" she said as she flung it into the power source. "I'm reporting this!" was the last thing Peridot said before the screen closed and disappeared. We all gathered and we were staring at Steven "Okay I might of gone a little to far this time" he admitted. "Well Steven you weren't completely wrong. We learned something new because of your decisions." Garnet stated. "Alright!" Steven said happily. "But yeah this was a pretty bad idea" she also stated which just shot down Steven's hope. "Well it's time for bed Steven lets go" I said checking my watch. "What? but I wanna still do things!" he exclaimed. "Too bad, think of this as punishment for being reckless" I told him. "Oh man"

oh man im getting close to jail break! I cant wait to write it for you guys! Remember if you have some advice or some criticism about the story please don't hesitate to comment. Thanks in advance and see ya next time.

-joe

-Joe