It had been about a two months since Steven had found out about the truth about Pink Diamond and Autumn was in full swing. Steven was spending the weekend at the barn. So Thomas, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl alone, or so they thought.
It was the beginning of the afternoon and the four gems in question were in the temple talking, or at least trying to. "So." Thomas began as he made his tea "How was your night?" He asked the other three gems didn't say anything.
"Well I reorganised swords a little." Pearl said, "I just slept." Amethyst added. "Garnet, what did you do?" Thomas asked. "You can proudly guess." Garnet said back Thomas blushed, before he could answer himself there was a knock on the door.
Thomas opened the door revealing Greg. "Oh hello Greg." Thomas said greeting him "Hey Thomas I just got a call from Steven. He said there was a weird guy at the barn saying it was his." Greg explained.
"Oh it see." Thomas said "Well why aren't you up there?" He asked. "Well I was hoping you guys would come with me." He admitted "Well of course will com with you." Thomas said "Just let me see if the other are ok with it." Thomas the turned around.
"Who is it?" Pearl asked "It's Greg." Thomas said "Apparently there's some weird guy at the barn, and he wants us to come along to check it out." He explained "Well the be better go, to make sure Steven safe." Garnet said.
"Alright then." Thomas said turning around "Were good to go." Thomas said "Great!c Greg said "I'll go start up the van." Greg said heading down the stairs. Thomas turned around to see the gems right behind him.
"Ready to go?" He asked Amethyst and Pearl nodden and Garnet gave a thumbs up "Great." Thomas said heading out the three followed however when when they go to the van Greg had some bad news.
"It broke down." Greg said "How?" Thomas asked "I don't know it just won't start up." Greg answered. "Well what do we do know?" Amethyst asked. Thomas thought, he knows that Greg doesn't like the warp pad, but they needed to get to the barn.
Thomas then remembered something "I know exactly what to do." He said. "What?" Greg asked "I mean to make a phone call." Thomas said pulling out the phone and dilated a number, there was a "Hello." few minutes later.
"Hello Eyeball." Thomas said "Hey Thomas, what do you need?" We need to get to the barn without using the warp pad." Thomas explained "I was wondering how far you are on the track work." He explained.
"Oh." Eyeball said "Well lucky for you we just finished a half hour ago and we need a way back to the barn." she explained "Great!" Thomas said "We'll be there as soon as we can." "alright see you there." Eyeball said hanging up.
"Alright." Thomas said closing the phone we can take the rails." He explained. So what are we gonna do about my van?" Greg ask. "I have an idea." Garnet said.
"Are you sure this will be ok?" Greg asked, his van was tied down to a concept I from of a brake van coupled up the Thomas in train mode. "Of course it well." Thomas said "Ok if you say so Greg said getting in the brake van. After that Thomas sat off.
The group arrived to where Jasper, Bismuth and the rubies were fifteen minutes latter that was a set of points going right. "Hey Big. T." Bismuth said greeting Thomas "Hello Bismuth." Thomas said back "You you guys ready to go?" he asked.
"We just finished packing up." Bismuth said "Good wheres the flatbed?" Thomas asked "At the top of the hill." Bismuth said pointing right, she then walked over to Thomas cab "Ya know you could use so rails on the side of you cab." she said going in With garnet Amethyst and Pearl.
"I'll think about it." Thomas said, he then went up the hill and coupled up the flat bed. Jasper and the rubies got it the brake van with, making him a little uncomfortable. The gripe the prosed to the barn.
"There they are." Steven said as Thomas Stopped at the barn. "Greg got your message, his van Broke down so we went by rail." Pearl explained "is that the human giving you trouble?" Amethyst asked points at the man being hold by Lapis's water hand.
"I told you you could use a guard dog." Garnet said, a pumpkin dog then runs up barking beside Lapis. "I guess that works.". "What're you doin' to that guy up there?" Greg asked,"Just... putting him down." Lapis said Dropping the man.
"Not cool." the man said In a raspy voice, he the notices Greg "Greg?" he said confused "Andy?" Greg said back equally confused. "They know each other?" Pear asked the other gems just shegged.
"This is perfect!" Andy said "Come on, help me chase off these freeloaders. They're usin' some kinda hippie mind tricks." He said. "Umm…" Greg said not sure what to say "Who told you you could move in here and mess this whole place up?" Andy asked the gems.
"I did, Andy." Greg admitted "You did? This is my parents' barn!" Andy shouted. "Um, Dad, who is this?" Steven asked "'Dad'? You mean...? No way." Steven, this is Andy. He's my cousin." Grege said pointing to Andy "Andy, meet Steven. He's my... son." he added pointing back to Steven.
"Wow! It's really nice to meet you!" Steven said "Does that mean you're my... first cousin, once removed?" he asked
"Forget that nonsense!" Andy said pulling Steven into a hug, prompting to tense up "You call me Uncle Andy." He said "I'm an uncle. I can't believe it. Greg, ya little turd, how come you never told me?" he asked.
"How was I supposed to? I haven't seen you in years!" Greg said bac "And who's fault is that?" Andy asked sarcastically ,"You thought you were so much better than us, you just got in your van and drove away."
"That was like two decades ago!" Greg said "Uncle Andy, can I get down now?" Steven asked
"Oh, sorry, Steven." Andy said putting Steven "I ain't used to holdin' nephews."he the looked over to Greg "'Cause I didn't know I had one!"
"So, uh, which one of these girls is the wife? I gotta give her my condolences, right?" he asked before laughing "Hey, come on. What, I gotta guess, here?" he then motions to Garnet "It's gotta be you. I bet this useless lump needs a big girl to keep him in line. You're not big, I'm just saying. You're tall, not, you know."
"Rose is... no longer with us." greg admitted. "Uh, wow. I-I'm sorry. I didn't know." Andy said. "These people are sort of like her family." So I offered to let these guys stay in the barn." He Motions to Peridot, Lapis, Jasper, Bismuth and the rubies.
"Yeah? Ah, well, that was real nice of ya." Andy said "But the barn's for the DeMayo family." He explained. "What's a Demayo?" Steven asked .Andy looked Surprised "Andy Demayo. Greg DeMayo. Steven DeMayo. We're the DeMayos." he explained.
"Actually, we're, um, the Universes, now." Greg admitted "You space walnut!" Andy shouted "You didn't even keep the family name, but you're goin' around, givin' family property out like candy on... some kind of candy-givin'-out holiday?:
"You're telling me Universe isn't a real last name?!"Steven asked "It is a real name. I had it changed." Greg said "Andy, look, they just really needed a place. motioning to the Gems They're alien refugees from space and-"
"They're illegal aliens!" Andy shouted interrupting Greg "Wha...? You couldn't even marry an American?!" he asked "What does that matter?!" Greg asked back. "DeMayo's a much cooler name than plain old Universe." Steven commented "Steven no, Universe I actually your last name." Thomas said.
"You turned your back on your family just so you could get in with a bunch of weirdo, hippie, Martian immigrants." Andy said, he then points at the gems You all, get the heck off my planet, out of my country, and out of my barn!"
"Reactivating attack drones." Peridot said looking at her tablet "Ah! Wait!" Steven stopping, her then he walked over to Andy
"Uncle Andy?" he said, "Yeah?" andy asked "I'm sorry we took over the barn. I didn't even know we had any other family to share it with." Steven explained. "You didn't, huh?" Andy said surprised.
"But this barn. It means a lot to all of us. We spent so much time together here." Steven explained "Well, my family spent a lot of time here, too. Once a year, we'd all meet up here, catch up, eat a big meal, have a good time. Years and years of family tradition."
"Oh, yeah? Well, we can do that, to." Steven said "We've got a farm here with plenty of food. Let's make a big, traditional meal and eat it together. You'll have a good time, and then you'll have to admit their family. And would you kick family out of the family barn?"
Andy chuckeld "Greg, you're lucky you got such a cute kid. I know he didn't get it from you." He said "So, you're letting them… "I'll give your coven a chance and eat your dinner, but only 'cause I lost my sandwich in the Atlantic. Now, excuse me, I gotta go get my junk out of the plane. " With that Andy leaves to the plane.
"You think this'll work?" Steven asked Greg "Maybe. Andy's never been the type to change his mind about something" "And he's really got his long johns in a twist. It's gonna take a lot to calm him down." And with that Greg leaves to.
Steven walked over to Thomas and the gems "I don't like this guy. I don't like some new Greg just showing up out of nowhere." Amethyst said. "Our Greg is clearly the superior one." Pearl said with her eyes closed and arms folded.
"We're not leaving our home." Lapis said, the other gems agreed If that clod thinks he can PUSH US AROUND-" she said being stopped by Garnet "Andy is a part of Steven's family. We should make an effort to get on his good side." she said
"If he's my family, he's yours too." "Gems don't have family" Jasper said she then looks down at Steven and smiles." At least not before we came here. Steven smiles back and Garnet leans down to Steven "So we'll do this for the sake of our family, tell us what to do."
"First we'll probably need to get some stuff from the store." Steven began "I'll take care of that." Thomas said "Me and the rubies will come along to." Eyeball said "Great! Let me make a list." Pearl said pulling out a pen and notebook out of her gem, she then began to white out the list.
Thomas morphed in gem mode walked down to the back of the brake van. "Did you see that!" Andy shouted as Thomas morphed back in train mode and coupled up to the brake van "That train just changed into a man! It's a demon train!"
Thomas just rolled his eyes as the rubies got in to the brake van, when there gong it Thomas puffed away back to beach city.
"Ok so here's what we're going to do." Thomas said as he and the rubies entered the store, they had left the brake van on the sighting at the boardwalk. "Were going to spit up and get what we need."
"Don't touch anything unless it's what we need, got it?" Thomas said , he rubies nodded "Good." Thomas then ripped the paper in half "Army, Leggy and Navy, your be in one group." Thomas said handing one part of the list
"Eyeball, Doc your with me, comon." Thomas the walked into an aisle. Eyeball and Doc followed and Army, Leggy and Navy went into another aisle. "Now lets se." Army said looking at the list. It had milk, eggs and sugar.
"Where would this be." She saying Looking back at the group, Navy and Leggy just shrugged. Amy sighed as she looked around, forcanily they were in the sugar aisle, but there were a lot of options.
Army looked around the aisle and saw all the options and panicked a little bit, it just said sugar but all the options confused her beyond belief "U-U-Uh Army." Leggy as inrupting Army's breakdown.
Amy panicked and grabbed a bag of sugar and ran off. Leggy looked back at Navy who just shrugged, the two then ran after her. They found her at the eggs look just as panicked as she was with the sugar.
"A-A-Are you ok A-A-Army?" Leggy asked, Amy looked backed "Or course i am." she said "I just evaluating the options.". Leggy and Navy looked at ecouter "Well let's have a look." Navy said looked at the eggs carts.
"Let's get this one." she said grabbing a blue one, Army looked at her like she just blew her mind. Leggy then walked over to a reviaror to where the milk was and opened it, she pestered Amy to pick one.
Army looked at her then a Navy then a the milk, she sighed and grabbed a red milk container, closed it and sighed. Leggy and Navy looked a her and smiled, Amy smiled back as the two headed to the front.
"There they are." Doc said as the approved the front desk, Thomas Eyeball and Doc where already there. "What took you so long?" Eyeball asked "W-W-We couldn't decide." Leggy said shortly.
"Well alright them." Thomas said picking up the items and put them on the check out, he then pay for the items and headed back to the pear. Thomas the morphed back in train mode, coupled brake van and puffed back to the barn.
When Thomas and the rubies arrived back at the barn the van was off the flatbed and Pearl, Garnet, Peridot, and Lapis were gong. "Hey uncle Thomas." Steven said coming up to his right side.
"That's not an Uncle, Steven." Andy said "That's a demon." Thomas rolling his eyes aging and morphed in gem mode "Actually I'm his mom's brother, so I am his Uncle." Thomas said walking over to the two.
"Oh. So you are." Andy said "Well then it's nice to meet ya!" He said pull out it is had for a handshake. "The feeling is mutual." Thomas said shaking it back, Eyeball then hands Th9mas the bags and Thomas walks over to the oven cooktop combo.
"So what are you making?" Steven asked following alone. "I'm glad you asked, Steven" Thomas said putting down the ingredients "Were going to be make cookies.". "Cookies!" a voice shouted in the barn, it was Bismuth.
"Your talking about those cookies? Are you Big. T?" she asked come towards the group. "Yes, yes I am." Thomas said causing Bismuth to have star eyes. "What's so special about a bunch of cookies?" Amethyst asked.
"You don't understand." Bismuth said "Big. T's cookies are like the best cookies ever." She explained. "Well it takes all of the steam team to make them." Thomas abbmited "So I'll need everyone's help."
"Ok what do you need us to do?" Steven asked. "Well first, we need a mixing bowl." Thomas began, Jasper came out of the barn with two mixing bowls and spoons. "Thank you." Thomas said taking them and and putting one on the ground.
He then handed the other one and the carton of eggs to Steven "Here, starts cracking the eggs." He said. "Sure, how many?" Steven asked. "All of them." Thomas said pouring the all of the milk, all of a bag a flower and sugar in the other bowl.
"Holy camoly! That's a lot of dough!" Andy shouted. "Of course." Thomas said mixing the ingredients. "This was designed for a entier army." He then looked over to Amethyst "And I have a feeling someone will eat an army's full."
Amethyst looked away abashed. Steven had then finished cracking the egg and handed to Thomas who added it to the mix. "If only Laspis when her." He said "A liquid elementile is just what we need to his this."
Despise the thickness the doe was mixed nicely a few minutes latter. "Ok now we need trays." Thomas said. Everyone except Andy and Greg looked around for trays, Jasper and Amethyst had found five stacks of trays.
"Excellent!" Thomas said "Now need to make balls out of the dough and put them in rows a three." With that everyone began to so until all five trays were full in three rows horizontally.
"What do we with the extra dough?" Amethyst asked
"You can eat it." Thomas said "Consider it a sneak peek." . Amethyst got star eyes and garnet the bowl, but be for she could. Jasper grabbed the bowl from her arm and took a test first, coursing her to have star eyes. Amethyst attempted to get the bowl back, but face causing her to have and Jasper to have a tussle.
"So how long do we put it in oven for." Steven asked "Oh were not backing it." Thomas said messing with the control panel "Were top cooking it.". How are you gonna do that?" Andy asked as a giant flamed appeared on the top the the combo.
"Like this." Thomas said as there was a *WHOOOSH* and a giant flamed appeared and stadelised on the top of the oven cooktop combo. "Bismuth coupled you go to the other side?" Thomas asked.
Bismuth nodded and rand to the other side. Thomas grabbed a tray and faced the flame "Ok Bismuth, i'm going to throw that tray in to the tray." He explained "I need you to catch it. Are you ready?"
"You bet I am." Bismuth said making a catching position. "Ok on the count of three… one … two three!" And on three Thomas threw the tray into an arc into the flames. Bismuth successfully catched the cookies with her arms on the up and the air, when she lower tray the cooked were fully cooked.
"Got it!" Bismuth shouted putting the tray down "Ok Teresa come the next!" Thomas shouted before counting down a repeating the process until all five trays though flame were there sixty cookies.
Then the van pulled up "Your aunts are back." Andy said putting his shoulder on Steven's arm and pointing to the van. "So Andy, we heard you like marriage," Pearl said waking over to and "so we thought, why don't we all marry each other?!"
Peridot then comes up, unveils a wedding cake with multiple bride a groom figurines "Ta-daa!" She said holding to Andy, who as has a look of discomfort "And if that's not human enough for you, we can throw a little being born" Pearl said pointing to Garnet, holding a balloon with 'It's a boy!' titled on it
"and some dying!" Pearl added as Lapis heads over with a headstone, with the title 'RIP Andy' on it. "We're very sorry for your marriage." Lapis said handing Andy the headstone "We tried to cover as many celebrations in the human lifespan as we could." Pearl explained.
"Nice." Amethyst said Steven's nervousness creeps up as they look at Andy and Thomasx hand was deeply in his face. "Oh boy…" Steven said but t9 his surprise and started laughing "Okay, okay. I give up! It's too much!" He said be for taking off his hat "All right. Where am I sitting?"
It was now the evening. Everyone's is sitting at the same table altogether. "What do you say we get right to it, huh?" Andy began "And hey. If we're throwing all tradition out the window anyway, why don't we start with this gorgeous cake!" He then began cut a slice of the cake
"Dessert before dinner!" He laughed but stops himself from digging in "here are my manners?" Andy then passes Steven the plate Steven, pass it to your friend. Steven dose so and hands the plate to Peridot.
Peridot Takes the plate "Oh. Where are my manners?" She said handing it to the plate to Lapis)
Lapis also Takes the plate Oh. Where are my manners? She said handing the plate to Jasper.
And it went on like this still the plat ended up with garnet.
"Andy." She said handing the plate back to him. "What, you guys don't like cake?" He asked "Gems don't really eat. Well, except for Amethyst." Steven explained. "I'm good. I had about three bottles of cooking oil earlier." Amethyst said before she pounds her chest and burps out fire.
"That's uh... all right." Andy said confused. "That's what we forgot, more cooking oil!" Pearl said suddenly. "And the shopping cart! We should've taken it." Peridot added, Lapis agreed "We could've put it in the wall next to the truck."
"That would have been stealing." Pearl said "Cause it's made out of steel?" Steven asked jokingly "Didn't we save the earth?" Peridot asked folding her arms "We should have access to everything on it by right!"
Lapis agreed again "Or at least get a discount." "You guys think you're saving the Earth-"
"Saving the Earth from Homeworld should be its own reward." Thomas said interrupting Andy
"You know what else would be a reward?" Peridot asked standing up "A reward!" She then high fives Lapis
"All right, we don't wanna start another Gem war at the table." "Oooh, don't start it!" Garnet sais as Amethyst giggles in the background and Andy's discomfort begins to show. "What if I just come to this table and started colonizing it cause I'm a Homeworld Gem?! Peridot asked mockingly, Steven and Lapis laugh at this.
Amethyst fake gasps "But you can't! This table has corn on it and it's beautiful and we'll defend it!" She said in a high pitch voice, everyone laughs except Andy "You're right. Now that I've spent time at the table, I can see the value of your corn!" Peridot said and everyone laughs again.
"Why don't you put that corn in a mirror for thousands of years and then see how it feels about the table?!" Lapis asked Peridot laughs with her and Lapis can barely control herself while laughing. Everyone else stares awkwardly "IT WOULD REALLY HATE THE TABLE!"
"You know what? Thank you Steven. Putting this meal together was a great idea." Greg said
"Oh no, I should be thanking Garnet. She gathered up all the vegetables." Steven said
"Lapis and Peridot grew them. Thank you." Garnet added.
"Oh, but it was Pearl who drove us to the 'store.'" Peridot said "Well, I have to thank Steven for cooking the vegetables. And Amethyst, for putting out that grease fire." Pearl said cAnd starting it." Amethyst said "Oh, and thanks to Greg for lending his van, and Thomas for making the cookies."
"Well that the rubies, Jasper, and Bismuth, for helping me get the ingredients and mariales and making it. Greg chuckles "I guess you can say we can thank everyone." He said "Yes! Was everyone thanked?" Pearl asked raising her hand "Raise your hand if you were thanked!" Everyone raises their hand except for Andy.
"Hey, uh. What about Andy?" Steven asked cHmm... thank you, Andy for... showing up!" Peridot said "Because of you, everyone wouldn't have came out here to the barn, and now we're all here for the first time in a while. And it's actually... pretty great! So…" she then takes her plate and holds it up "Cheers!"
Everyone except Andy holds there plate and shouts "Cheers!" they all laugh as Andy looks down at the single groom figurine on his slice of cake. He then stands up "You can have it. The Barn. It's yours." And with with that Andy puts hat back on and storms off.
"Did we do something wrong?" Pearl asked "I thought I said something really sentimental." Peridot added Andy then fly by in his plane again, leaving. "No! Wait, he can't leave!" Steven said, he then turns back to "Lapis?" she nods and Steven gets get on her back and the fly after Andy.
"Uh should I be worried?" Greg asked as the flew off "I don't think so." Thomas said as he waled over to another table "Now who's ready for cookies?" He asked. Everyone else was ecstatic, Garnet Pearl and Bismuth especially as Thomas passed out cookies.
later after all the cooked were eaten Amethyst, Garnet and Jasper were were putting Greg's van back on the flatbed, while Peridot and Lapis are talking to the Pumpkin Dog. "No! Say clod! Cl-od!" Peridot said, Pumpkin Dog barks as Andy's plane flies back to the barn
"Steven!" Pearl said greeting the two, Lapis, Garnet, Amethyst and Peridot joining her side. "Hii!" Steven said as he and Andy walker over ."Andy... it's good to see you again." Pearl said "I'm sorry if-"
"Uh, you guys probably got a lot of leftovers right?" Andy asked interrupting Pearl "I-I just figured I'd come back and help you with that. You know, since you don't eat and all." Pearl Smiled "Yes, of course. We'll get everything in order." And with that the Gems and Lapis leave, but Peridot stays behind for a second
She Turns and waves "Wow, thanks for the barn!" She said before she ran back and catches up with the others. Greg then headed over to Steven and Andy "Hey, Andy? I'm really glad you came back." He said
Andy stays silent for a second then smiles, and takes Greg in for a hug "Ah, come here you goofball!" He said beginning to laugh "You need a haircut, son." They both start laughing and Steven smiles, as Pumpkin Dog arrives.
"Pumpkin!" Steven said, Pumpkin Barack back happily "Hey, you got some leftovers for me too, you little-you little freak of nature there?" Andy asked, Pumpkin coughs up a groom figurine from the wedding cake. Steven, Greg, and Andy to laugh for a bit "That's, uh, that's gross" Andy said while still laughing.
"Heey!" Andy said to Thomas, he was is train mode tuned with the brake van and flatbed in front "Hello" Thomas said back bluntly "I just wanted to said. I'm sorry for calling you d eamon train." And said.
"It's fine." Thomas said before looking away. Andy then his buffers "You know, Steven's told me a lot about." Hen said. "Oh really." "Yeah and yo know we're not so differentyou know, we both went around the world on a quest of sorts.
"I guess up you could say that." Thomas said agreeing. "But you know about al this alien no sense, so you the better uncle." And said. Thomas was shocked at this "No-No-No a finely not not about favorites." And with that to two began taking like old friends, until they had to leave.