It was a beautiful day in Beach City. Besides the loads of black metal all over the town, you would have no idea that a major empire conflict had taken place over the last two days.
Steven woke up to the smell of bacon sizzling, he opened his eyes and looked to see Rose in front of the stove. "Good morning sweetie." Rose said when he noticed Steven walking down the stairs.
"Uh… Good morning mom." Steven said a little confused "What are you doing?" "Oh well I thought I would make you breakfast." Rose explained "You know how to cook?" Steven asked.
"Well I picked out some pointers from Pearl." Rose explained before adding "How hard can it be?" Steven looked at her with a concerned look. But he didn't have much time to think about, because Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl then exited their respective rooms.
"Good morning you three!" Rose greeted "Good morning, Rose." Pearl said back, "Mornin." Amethyst added Garnet just waved. The four then sat down at the bar/table, over the years it had been expanded to seat five people as opposed to three.
As soon as the four sat down, out from the elevator came the Steam Team. "Good morning everyone." Thomas said, taking the last seat. "Wait a minute." Henry said "Where are we supposed to sit?"
"Well I would offer the couch." Thomas said "But someone threw it out the window two days ago." He looked over at James, who was by a coffee maker on the counter. James skarowed back as coffee began pouring into his mug saying '#1 red engine'.
The front door then opens, and in came Timothy. "Speak of the devil." Thomas commented "How'd you enjoy your night, Timothy?" He asked "Not bad actually," Timothy said "I wouldn't mind sleeping outside from now on."
Thomas couldn't help but crack a smile at this. Timothy then threw Thomas a tied up roll of paper. Thomas caught it and untied it, revealing it to be a newspaper. "Anything good?" Steven asked after a few minutes of Thomas reading it, it had become tradition for Thomas to read the new to the gems and Steven every morning.
"Not much," "Just some government things, science, oh! Are TV shows have moved the FlixFlix, that will be a few more millions in are bank accounts…" Thomas trailed off when he noticed that Rose and the Steam Team were staring at him.
"We have a TV show?" Percy asked "Yeah," Thonas said "it's based on those books you all were writing during the war." He explained causing a simultaneous "Oh." from the Steam Team.
"Wait, what was that about bank accounts?" James then asked "Oh well I set up bank accounts for all of us and Duck for rolites for toys and the like." Thomas explained before pointing to Timothy and adding "Not you Timothy. I tried to get you in, but they wouldn't budge."
"Aw." Timothy said, disappointed. Thomas then looked at his wrist communicator, which he had re-put on before he went to bed last night. "Oh look at the time." he said "I'd promise I would help start building the gem settlement today." And with that, Thomas got up and walked out the door.
Everyone looked at him as Thomas walked out the beach house. "So…" Rose began again "What's everyone else doing…" She trailed off when she looked and saw the rest of the Steam Team was gone. Leaving only her, Timothy, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven.
"Well I guess it's just us." Timothy said, he then grabbed a handful of coffee beans and stuffed them in his mouth.
Thomas was puffing his to the barn in train mode. The warp pad had broke yesterday when it was being moved, Thomas would have to fix it by the end of the day. But Thomas didn't mind, he always liked to take the scenic route anyway.
Thomas stopped at a set of points, one went straight, while another one went left. He went left leading up a hill and an embankment.
After Thomas left the embankment, he arrived at another set of points. These used to be only one set of points facing in the opposite direction of Thomas. But now there was another set of points in the direction of Thomas, with both points making a Y shape.
Thomas passed through the Y without thinking about it. Instead he was thinking about the condition of the track. 'The rubies really did a good job.' he thought. Soon enough Thomas arrived as the 'barn', and was surprised by the chaos that greeted him.
There were gems everywhere, as far as the eye can see. However there wasn't much chaos beyond that. The gems were talking and joking amongst themselves. Thomas arrived at the ducks temporary off conflat.
"Glad you could make it, Thomas." Duck said "Wouldn't miss this for the world." Thomas commented, he then morphed into gem mode and landed on the conflat "So, what do we do first?"
"Well we already have the basic rails set down." Duck explained. Thomas looked around and sure enough there were a bunch of rails set out as if there were tram rails on a street, only no building.
"Now all we need are the house's." Duck continued "Easier said than done." Thomas said "How do we even start?" Just then there was a squeaking sound, Thomas and Duck turned to set a pump cart attached to a flatbed. One side of the pump cart was being pumped by Bismuth, while the other was being pumped by the entirety of the Ruby squad.
The pump cart then stopped right in front of the conflat, with bismuth's sides down and the Ruby squads side up. Bismuth then turned around to face Thomas and Duck, letting go of her pump.
Navy, Army and Leggy were on the pump in the air, while Eyeball and Doc were on the floor to catch them and throw them up. However, when Bismuth let go it caught Eyeball and Doc by surprise, causing them to fail to catch Navy, Army and Leggy and all five Rubies to fall on their backs.
Thomas, Duck and Bismuth watched then happen a winsted when the Ruby squad fell. "Sorry guys!" Bismuth shouted at the squad. Eyeball gave a thumbs up before shouting "Were ok!".
This was signal enough for the three to return facing each other "I did a little askin." Bismuth explained "A lot of People want a Pink Diamond vans for their house." Well that's a little surprising." Thomas said.
"And it's not exactly helpful." Duck added "Since we don't know exactly how many we need." "Oh right." Bismuth said. Her, Thomas and Duck then put their left arms on their chin and began thinking.
"We need some sort of way to organize everyone, to know how many colors of van we need." Duck said as he continued to think. Thomas then snapped his fingers "I got it." He said "Oh, do tell." Duck said back.
"Well at the shirt shop in Beach city, they sell these rubber bracelets." Thomas explained "Yeah, and." Bismuth nodded "Then come in Pink, Yellow, White and Blue. So if we gave everyone a color matching what color house they want…"
"Then we can see how much of each van we need." Duck fished "Exactly." Thomas said "Now I need to make a phone call." And he jumped off the conflat and pulled out his 90's style flip phone.
After flipping it open and pressing a few buttons he holded it up in front of his non-existent left ear. "Hello?" A voice said "Hey Steven," Thomas said "How far are you into breakfast?" He asked.
"I just finished actually." Steven admitted "Good I need a favor." Thomas said "Ok what is it?" Steven asked "Fift go to the temple door and feel around the doorway." Thomas beyan "There should be a bit of the rock face that feels off."
There was silence for a few minutes, only slight sounds of the phone moving. "Ok I found it." Steven said "Ok, now press down on it and out should come a keypad and card dispenser. Press 2-2-0-3 and out should come a debit card." Thomas continued.
There was another silence for a few minutes and Steven pressed the buttons. Thomas knew that through the sound of four beeps and a beep-boop, meaning that Steven got it right "Alright I got it." He said, confirming it.
"Good, now go down to the t-shirt shop and buy all of the rudder bracelets you can." Thomas said "What colors?" Steven asked "Pink, Blue, Yellow and White." Thomas explained, there was a bit of silence and the sound of writing.
"Alright, got it." Steven said "Good i'll meet you there, bye." "By Uncle Thomas." Steven said before Thomas hanged up, put his phone away and morphed into train mode and puffed back to beach city.
Thomas arrived back at Beach city about ten minutes later. Steven was waiting for him with four shopping bags on his arm, two on each respective arm. "I see you got all the rubber bracelets." He said.
"Yep." Steven said, making his way to Thomas' cab "Do you want to come alone back to the barn with me?". Thonas asked "I could use your help." "You could also use mine." A voice said. Steven and Thomas looked to see Edward puffing from the beach house.
"Oh Edward." Thomas said "I could alway use your help." "You'll definitely need it." Edward said "I saw through my third eye." There then of the sound of meat movie and out came Edward third eye on his forehead.
The eye was much smaller than Edwards regular eyes. It was also more oval shaped like the eye of horus, as opposed to Edward normal, rounder eyes. Steven and Thomas both madeb disgusted faces at this event happening.
"Never do that again." Thomas said. Edward chuckled as his third eye retracted back into his forehead and said "No promises." He sases. Thomas grinned and rolled his eyes and Steven climbed into his cab. The two engines then puffed away.
"Oh good, your back." Duck said as Thomas arrived back at the 'Barn' "And I brought some help." Thomas said as Steven exited his cab. Edward then puffed up and morphed into gem mode.
"Good, we could use the help." Duck continued and he pulled out four bowls. "Put each type in one of the bowls." He instructed. Steven nodded and then began to organise the braseoets, with Thomas and the Ruby squad joining in a helping.
Once they were fished, Duck put his fingers in his mouth, but instead lost a normal, human whistle coming out, out came his engine whistle. Every gem then turned to the conflat "Everyone get in line to grab the color bracket of the house you want!" Duck shouted.
The gems followed Ducks command after and about thirty minutes everyone had a bracelet. "Now, Raise your hand if you have a Pink bracelet." Duck said, a lot of gems raised their hands. Doc counted them on a clipboard. This continued for the other bracelets colors until they were all counted.
"160 Pink 55 Yellow 50 Blue and two White." Doc said looking at the clip board. "Well then," Thomas said "We know what to get." And he morphed into train mode. Steven got into his cab and Thomas puffed away, with Edward following along.
Thomas, Edward and Steven arrived at the Y, instead of going right the three went left tworged the broken bridge. But the bridge was no longerbroken, it was fixed and Pink, with splashes for Blue, Yellow and White.
"So where are we going to exactly?" Steven asked "Oh I never told you!" Thomas realised "There's only one rail yard left from the war." he explained "There's a lot of supplies and colored to the Diamond and we'll get those.
"Ah." Steven nodded before asking "How far away is it?" "Oh, it's pretty far away." Thomas said "But we have a shortcut." The three then appraced a long, black bricked, tunnel. It was going down into the gro6nd,
"Hold on tight, Steven!" Thomas said, increasing speed. Steven said on the set in Thomas' cab and bucked up with the seat belt on the chair. Edward began increasing speed as well and the three entered the tunnel. After about thirty seconds there was a flash of light blue light and silence.
Over the side of a grey mountain, there was a railway line. The line led to a tunnel, where there was silence. But there was suddenly a rukblingband a blue line and out came Thomas, Edward and Steven.
"What was that?" Steven asked as Thomas and Edward began to slow down. "That was a warp tunnel." Thomas said "It has the same technology of warp pad, but it's designed to warp an entire train."
"Ah." Steven said nodding, and the three continued to the yard without further incident. They arrived at it five minutes later "Alright," Thomas began." How about we swap between shutting and delivering the vans."
"Sounds good to me." Edward said and the two began shunting. Thomas and Edward shunting a train of ten trucks, once one was finished then would attach a brake van and head back to the 'barn'.
Once they were at the 'barn' the vans were removed from those chassis by the Quartz gem and placed. Then wooden posts were then hammered down and tape placed around them to make it a yard, and to be later replaced by a fence.
The chassis were then thrown into a big pile and the engine who came left with the brakevan back to the yard, when the other engine would be ready to depart. This continued for most of the day, until every gem had a house.
"Well that's done." Duck said. There were still a lot of empty lots for more houses, about two thirds of the space by the track was empty. "But what about al, that?" Thonas asked "Well we can worry about that another day, this is a good start for today."
"But there are two things that we should figure out today," Edward said "One, what should this place be called." "Well I was going to call it Little Homeworld," Duck said, "But now I'm thinking about something more simple. Gem Town.
Everyone nodded in agreement at that name "Gem Town it is then." Thomas said "What's the second thing, Edward?" He asked "Right second, who should be mayor?" Everyone put their hand on their chins and began thinking, except Thomas.
"I know who should be mayor." Thomas said and he pointed to Duck, catching him by surprise. "M-Me!?" Duck said, confused. "Of course," Thomas said "All of this could not have happened if it wasn't for you."
"Well then I am now mayor." Duck said. "Well now that that's settled, well he hom-" Thomas said, but stopped when he felt something hit the back of his head. He turned around to see a paper airplane.
Thomas picked it and unfolded it, revealing it to be a letter for Bismuth. "This is for you, Bismuth." he said, handing it to Bismuth. Confused Bismuth took the letter and began reading it, when she finished she began laughing.
"What is it?" Steven asked. "Nothin you need to worry about." Bismuth said then whispered something to Thomas, who then smiled. "Did she really?" Thomas asked "Yeah." Bismuth said nodding "Well then guess you're coming with us."
Steven looked at Edward, hoping for an answer. "Do you know what they're talking about?" He asked Edward, began walking towards the warp pad, following Thomas and Bismuth. "I can only predict," Edward said "and I can not predict what's going to happen." Leaving Steven still confused as the four warped way.
Thomas, Bismuth, Edward and Steven arrived at the beachoute a few minutes later. Bismuth then made her way to the evelor "You comin." he asked "Oh I Wouldn't miss this for anything." Thomas said and he joined her and the elevator began moving down, leveling Steven and Edward.
The mountain yard was completely dark, excp for the hole of the beach house. Bismuth ahd Thomas could see a trail of rose petals. Bismuth followed the trail, while Thomas decided to stay on the elevator.
Once Bismuth stopped at the end of the trail, a light went off behind her. She turned around to see Toby, looking very different, his front half wood section was now gold and his lower half metal section was now silver.
He was in a french girl posting laying on a conflat. Bismuth smiled, but not of joy, she was holding back a laugh. "Heeey Bismuth!" Toby said with romantic music playing "Is my big blacksmith reddy for there golden god." the music suddenly stopped, because he heard laughing.
Bismuth couldn't hold it back anyone, she just howled in laughter. Thomas began sneaking as well, causing Toby to blush "What are you wearing?" "W-Well I found out I was rich," Toby explained getting up "so I thought I should get a makeover."
"Oh, Toby." Bismuth said waking up to Toby. She then moved Toby's face to look down at her "I fell in love with you, not some goldstar." Toby looked away, ashamed "Now let's get you back to normal."
"I actually thought about that." Toby said and he began flexing his muscles and off came all the gold and silver revelying his regular wood and steel body. "Do you still wanna make out?" Toby asked.
Bismuth smoked "Of course." She said. But before the two could start doing it, there was a rumbling sound. The two, along with Thomas, ran outside to see a wrecking ball hitting the face of the temple.
The wrecking ball was attached to a crane, but that was the only constructing vehicle. There was a bulldozer as well. "My temple!" called a voice. The three looked up to see Rose Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven. James then exited the crane attached to the wrecking ball. Thomas sighed "Jame, what are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm glad you asked," he then pulled out a blueprint "I'm redesigning the temple." and he rolled out the blueprint, showing the temple design was mostly the same, except the face was replaced with the most smug face James could make.
Before Thomas could say anything, another wrecking ball hitt the face of the Temple again. This caused Rose to make a houldel position and begin swaying back and forward, and saying gibberish.
The two wrecking balls then twisted together, "what is the meaning of this." Another voice said. Everyone turned to see Gordon exiting the other crane, also wearing a hard hat. "I'm getting the temple ready for my redesign." Jame said, holding up his blueprint again.
"Wrong!" Gardon said "You're getting the temple ready for my redesign!" And he pulled out a blueprint, but instead of James making the most smug face he could make, it was Gordon making the most smug face he could make.
This led into an argument between the two. that would have been fine, except the two decided to ram ecouter with their restive bulldozers. "AHHHHHH-" Gordon shouted on his bulldozer James shouted "AHHHHHH-" aswell. The two continued to shout at ecouter as their bulldozers came closer together, at two miles per hour.
Thomas looked up at Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, Pear and the houldeled Rose. Steven nodded at Thomas and he began talkin to Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl, who nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, James and Gordon's bulldozer were now touching each other and both going up "The face is mine!" James shouted "You can have the arms." "Oh please," Gordon said back, "My face is better than yours." The two continued to argue.
Suddenly there was a giant white lite. The two looked to see Obsidian, who roared them. James and Gordon ran away in fear. "I got them!" A voice called, Obsidian turned to see Henry in train mode pulling open wagons with trees in them.
"I found trees for-" Henry stopped when he saw Obsidian. "I'll... come back later." he said, and he began to reverse. "Obsidian!" A voice called, she looked down to see Thomas. Thomas then mode a movement of him scooping up the ground.
Obsidian nodded and scooped up Thomas, "Ah, so you remember." Thomas said as Obsidian position here hands Thomas to her face "I find that surprising, because Rose Isn't in you." He explained pointing down to Rose, how he was still holding Rose.
Obsidian picked her up, put her in front of her face and rowed at her, causing her to get out of her trance. "Oh, Obsidian." Rose said "Nice to finally meet you." . Obsidian didn't say anything, she looked at the temple.
"You know we did never finish the temple." Thomas said "That right," Rise added "after the steam team left it just slipped our mind." The two looked back at Obsidian, who began work.
She has to mess with the mountain to make the hair look more like her cernet self. She then began walking into the ocean and picked up a hand piece, as well as the other arm and handpieces buried in the sand.
She then began to craft a version of her sword out of the maintenance she began then placed it on the middle arms. Obsidian looked at her work and smiled, she then kneeled down and unfused.
Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven okk at the new temple. It now had complet arms but the hair reaches down all the way to the top arms and the sword in the middle arm and of corse the bottom arms around the beach house.
The four continued to look at the new temple, a minute later Rose and Thomas joined the four. It was an eventful day for all involved, but on thung was for sure from this day. Things are changing, and it looks for the better.