It had been a few weeks and Garnet and Pearl had made up . However Peridot hot not been caught yet, but that all was about to change. One night Thomas couldn't sleep no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't seem to it. He decided to go check on Steven.
"What are you doing up here?" asked Pearl as Thomas came up the elevator "I couldn't sleep how about you?" "Well I-I wanted to check on Steven." Pearl said nervously "you were gonna watch him in his sleep wournt you?" "Of course." Thomas just rolled his "I just want to Stevens saf-" Pearl cutted herself. "Pearl what's the matter?" Pearl just pointed a Steven's bed. It was then when Thomas realised something critical. Steven wasn't there.
Both Thomas and Pearl look at each other before shouting "EMERGENCY!" at the top for their "lungs". Garnet came running out of the temple door "What wrong?!" she asked "Steven's missing!" shouted Pearl, Garnet just stood there. "Yo what's with all the noise I'm-" "Steven's missing!" Thomas,Garnet and Pearl shouted Amethyst stand silent.
Thomas then noticed something "Peridot's foot is gong!" Pearl,Garnet and Amethyst looked over to see that yes. Peridot foot was gong. "Warp pad now!" Garnet shouted everyone ran to to warp pad and the warped way.
"There he is!" shouted pearl running over to Steven "Guys!" Steven said before Pearl hugged him "Are you ok did she hurt you?!" "No im fine." "Peridot!" shouted Garnet noticing peridot running way "Why can't you just leave me alone?!" she stouted. Garnet spawned her gauntlets and cracked her knuckles.
"Gems move!" Garnet shouted. Peridot shots four blast of electricity at the Crystal Gems. Peridot turns her left fingers into propellers in a attempt to fly away, but is caught by amethyst' ship "Hah!" Peridot shouted as she shot electricity thought her whip.
"Not this time!" Garnet shouted grabbing Amethyst's whip with her gauntlets stopping the electric flow. Garnet then then whip the jerks whip downwards crashing Peridot to the ground. "WoaaAAAAAAAAAAH!" she cries as she hits the ground,Steven Gasps and appears concerned wondering if she's ok.
"Wait, wait.. you- you need me!" Peridot should not realising that Pearl was sneaking up behind her drawing her spear "I'm.. the only one who knows about the-AHHH" Peridot suddenly screamed in agony as she was shot with something. Steven look back to see Thomas' left arm was now his arm cannon ,witch was smoking.
Peridot was knocked out. She fell backwards into Pearl's arms,her limb enhancers falling off in the process. "What on earth?" Pearl said now holding the shorter, knocked out peridot. "Ugh, sick, there's bits of her all over." Amethyst commented. "Sorry I panicked." Thomas addmetted "Doesn't matter." said Garnet "we got her now we poof her".
"Wait!" Steven shouted the gems looked at him. "She said she know about something." "lies of a fleeing gem!" Pearl said "But she seemed pretty scared." Garnet spoke next. "it was proudly nothing importa-" "We should hear what she has to say." Thomas interrupted. Garnet looked at Thomas to find him putting Peridot's limb enhancers in a blue bubble "It might be something important." He then sent The bubble away.
"Are you insane!" shouted Pearl "She just kidnapped Steven!" "I know but remember what Rose said about the best way to deal with enemies." "Rose isn't here." Amethyst said "And besides there were limits to that saying." Garnet commented.
"Guys come on please!" Steven said garnet looked back at him and them back at Thomas who just nodded. "Very well. We will we what she has to say." "Alright then." Thomas said "Pearl come with, Amethyst you to" "Ok then." "you got it Big T" "Garnet take Steven back make he gets to bed safely. After that join us in the mountain yard." Garnet just nodded.
"Aww I wanna help!" Steven said. Garnet gabbed he "you can't help anyone if you not fully rested." "but-but" he tried to say before he fell asleep in Garnet's arms.
When peridot woke she was scared. How could she not be ? In front of her were the Garnet Amethyst and Pearl. Thomas was right in front of her in train mode. She looked down and realised that she was tied up in Amethyst whip to a chair.
"Hello" Thomas said trying to scare her. "AHHHHHHH!" she screams "No-no-no its ok-its ok. We're not gonna hurt you." "Where am I!? What did you do!? Where are my limb enhancers!?"
.Thomas began again "I'm shere you have a lot more questions. But I need you to answer few before I can-" "Forget it I'm not telling you anything you filthy war machine!"
The gems gasp. Thomas looked hurt "Fine." he said "Let's see if you talk after a few spins?". Thomas them backed up to reveal the Peridot's chair was on a flatbed on the turntable. It then began to spin "What is this some rotation device? How is this going to get me to talk?" she shed suggely. But then it started spinning faster and faster and faster. "AAAAAAAH" she cried as it kept spinning. "What do we do now?" asked Amethyst. "Now." Thomas said before turning into gem from "we wait."
Steven woke up to find no one "Guess there still talking to peridot." .Steven then went to the bathroom. After Steven did his business he decided to make drinks for everyone. He made green tea for Pearl,got a grape soda for Amethyst, made a coffee for garnet, and filled a glass of water for Thomas. Then he went down on the elevator.
"Steven good morning!" said Pearl going to the elevator "Morning everyone. I got drinks." Steven said. "Thank you Steven" Garnet said. "So uh where's Peridot?" Thomas pointed to the fast spinning turntable. "Oh." "yeah." Amethyst said.
"How long has she been spinning?" "Bout 3 hours." Thomas said "Has she said anything?" "Nope." "Can I try talking to her?" the gems looked at him "I don't think that's a good idea" Pearl said. "Maybe she'll talk to me. She's probably to scared of you guy's at least let me try". "Ok Steven. You can try." Garnet said as the turntable stopped.
Peridot eyes were rolling when the turntable stopped. "You clods i'll never… reveal talk." she'd said dazed "Its ok we don't have to talk about that." "We don't?" "No we can do something else" "like what?" "Well how about you as me a question?"
"A question?" Peridot asked caught by surprise "Yeah a question." "Ok where are my limb enhancers?" "Uh I don't know. Where are they uncle Thomas?" "There somewhere safe." He bluntly said. "Ok ask another." "Uh ok where are we?" "Oh where in the yard below the temple."
"Oh." Peridot said not really sure what to say next. "You have any more questions?" asked Steven "Uh no,not really." She admitted "Well then can I ask you a question?" "I don't see why not." "What were you scared about ant the worp hub." it was then where Peridot remembered why she was here in the first place.
"THE CLUSTER!" she yelled everyone looked at her. "That's new." Garnet said. "No it's not. I've heard that before." Thomas said the gems looked at him. "What's the cluster?" asked Steven "The Cluster is a massive, artificial fusion composed of millions of Gem shards. Its at the very center of the planet's core."
The gems gasp "Uh ok. how long has that been there." Steven said nervously "It has laid dormant for thousands of years within this planet's crust. When this Gem activates and takes its form, the result will be catastrophic." "how do we stop it?" Thomas asked.
"We need to build a machine to go the the center of the earth" "A drill." Pearl said "Precisely." "where do we start?" Garnet asked "We can making a blueprint for the modifications." Thomas said "modifications?" Peridot look at the him confused. "For me." Thomas then morphed back to train from.
"Just stick a drill bit on me and I'll get us to the Cluster." "Alright now where are we going to build?" "We?" Garnet asked "Yeah we." Peridot said nervously. The gems looked at ecouter "Come on guys i'm shere Peridot can help us a lot. "Well I am going to be train mode for a most of the process. Perhaps another set of hands would make everything go faster." "Ya!" Steven said. "Now as I was saying before. We're are we going to build this thing?"
"I know just the place." Pearl said. "And what about my limb enhancers?" "You can have them back once we save the world." Thomas said "But-but." Peridot said as the whip trying her down disappeared. "It's okay I'm sure you'll get used to it." Steven said reassuringly. Peridot just grouned as she followed Steven to the elevator then warping away on the warp pad.
"All right. What we have here in the barn should be adequate enough for us to get started." Pearl said "Are you sure these rails can hold me?" Thomas asked. The rails below him were completely rusted. "I'm sure there fine. Now first, I recommend we organize the component types and assemble a rough blueprint based off what we have available."
Pearl looked over to were Steven had drawn Thomas with a drill bit in front of him. "Uh... sorry, Steven, it's a lovely drawing but it won't look like this." Steven frownd. "Hmm. Good, yes, this is adequate. Thank you. You can go now" Peridot said Pearl Thomas and Steven exchange glances "Um, that will be all" Peridot said agin"Oh no." Thomas said he knew exactly where this was going.