Peridot looked over her children who were sleeping soundly in her bed. Jasper left without word before Peridot even woke up so naturally the technician assumed she was in search of the Crystal Gems, or whatever they call themselves.
Peridot opened her data log.
"Data log 20-815-8, this is Peridot. Kindergarten experiments have gone as planned so far, minor interferences from rebel gems. The reproduction has been a success: two jaspers and 3 peridots. They're healthy and extremely lively, one of the peridots has even learned to summon her blaster. Jasper has proven to be a compatible sire; this being the first gem clutch in over 2 millenniums. I will be contacting you once Jasper has captured the gem threats. Until then, Peridot out." Peridot closed her data log, looking back at her bed she noticed her clutch were gone.
"Ugh! Where are those little clods?!" Peridot ran through the house looking for them. They were running throughout the house, Beryl and Kinny were dog piling on top of Evee, Ollie was covered in robonoid goo and Pip was underneath the couch watching the drama unfold.
Jasper walked in with a plastic bag in hand.
"Where have you been? You left me with the gemlings!" Peridot pulled Evee from underneath the jaspercubs.
"I needed to scout; I can't scout with them being on the both of us, the sooner they become independent the better." Jasper rummaged through the bag she'd brought.
"Our kids are stupid, look at what they've done! I won't have any more flask robonoids if they keep breaking them!" Beryl and Kinny were scratching at Peridot's legs. "Get your touch stubbs off of me!" Peridot swatted at her children.
Jasper raised a rectangular candy bar, the once rowdy children's gaze turned to their strong mother, turning to see the wonderful smelling treat she had.
"This children, is chocolate. The only thing worth saving on this miserable hunk of rock." Jasper broke a piece off and threw it to her kids. The jaspercubs were quick to fight over the piece of chocolate, the peritots squeaked and growled at their bigger sisters for not sharing.
"Ugh, you're getting your kids started on your addiction?" Peridot pouted.
"If they eat enough of this "sugar" they'll go to sleep." Jasper poured the bags contents onto the ground for the children.
"Where did you get the Earth currency for this?" Peridot raised a torn wrapper to Jasper's face.
"What 'Earth currency'?" Jasper asked walking out the door, Peridot followed. "I just walked in, saw what I wanted told him to fill the bag up and walked out." Jasper said shamelessly.
"So you stole it…" Peridot glared.
Jasper ignored Peridot, reaching underneath the couch she pulled Pip from under it; holding her child in the palm of her hand. Pip was half asleep but angrily opened her black eye to see her mother.
"Wake up, runt." Jasper growled, putting Pip on her chest. "You get special attention." Jasper dug through her hair for a bag of small circle chocolates, handing one to Pip. Pip sulked on the outside of the chocolate before looking at her green mother, raising her tiny hand she attempted to hand her new treasure to her mother.
"Ugh…" Peridot said taking the tiny drooled on chocolate. Pip stared at her mother, waiting for her to eat the treat. Peridot grimaced and put the candy into her mouth.
"Ah~" Pip squealed in delight from Jasper's chest.
"That was the most disgusting thing I've ever had in my life." Peridot made a mental note to purge later.
"Come on brats." Jasper grabbed Peridot and walked out the door, their children following. Jasper got on the ship and put the children in her old room (With the exception of Pip).
Jasper and Peridot walked to the bridge of the ship, Peridot had nearly forgotten her old work station.
"We're leaving? Home-World won't accept another failure, Jasper." Peridot said, holding Pip to her chest.
"Take us to the warp pads. We can repair them and have easier access to Home-World. We haven't failed." Jasper walked out of the room as Peridot sat in her chair, placing her hands in the control panel the ship took off.
*Arriving at the Galaxy Warp*
The gems disembarked the ship, the jaspercubs were holding on to Jasper's legs, she ignored their presence and checked the area for danger. Evee and Olive sat on top of Jasper's shoulders.
Peridot carried Pip as usual. The gemlings saw the new "play area" and ran around on the damaged equipment; even Pip broke free from her mother's grasp and tried to keep up with her sisters.
Jasper turned to look at Peridot, pointing to the broken warp pads.
"Fix them" Jasper demanded, turning to see all the damage that had been inflicted by time, Jasper grimaced at all the hard work. She threw several crushed beacons over the edge. As soon as three of the warp pads were fixed a beam of light shot out from one of them, it was the Crystal Gems.
Jasper's eyes widened in shock; how did they know they were there? Foreign gems would surely kill the gemlings. Jasper performed a spin dash to grab all of her kids. Peridot used her tractor beam to secretly grab the kids when Jasper got close and ran onto the ship with her kids in hand.
"You have a lot of nerve coming here!" Garnet yelled, running at Jasper with her gauntlets. Jasper summoned her crash helmet; their weapons collided throwing both the gems back.
Peridot hid their children on the ship, running to the edge of the ships digit she saw Jasper taking all three of the gems on, The Steven was protecting Garnet whenever Jasper got close with a rose quartz colored shield. A strange feeling engulfed Peridot, was this rage? Was it simple instinct? Or was it fear that her partner, escort, and lover would be hurt? She didn't know, but she jumped from the ship and summoned her blaster, shooting once at the Crystal gems that were shielded by The Steven's bubble, this gave Jasper the chance to spin dash, grab Peridot, get onto the ship and fly away before the gems could attack.
"What were they trying to do?" Pearl asked Garnet, one of Peridot's flask robonoids catching her eye.
"I don't know, and it doesn't matter." Garnet said, expanding her gauntlets she started to destroy every repaired warp pad.
"Um… guys." Steven nervously chimed.
"Garnet what if they're trying to bring more gems to Earth." Pearl asked.
"Guys?" Steven asked again.
"That's not obvious from all the warp pads they activated?" Amethyst rolled her eyes.
"GUYS!" Steven yelled. The gems turned to look at him; he was holding something in his hands.
"Steven are you hurt?" Pearl ran to inspect him.
"I think Peridot left this." Steven opened up his arms, a tiny green gemling with an orange streak in it's hair nuzzled into Steven's embrace.
"Oh no…" Pearl gasped, the other gems gathering to see the little intruder.