Steven didn't mention the pocket dimension to the gems since he thinks it isn't that big of a deal. I think it's a very big deal what with Rose's stuff inside it and all, but it's his decision and I'll respect it.
Plus he's the only one that can access the dimension. I know I tried. I spent the better part of a minute trying to concentrate and open the portal but all that earned me was Lion almost biting my head off. Not wanting to invoke his wrath, I let it be.
Anyway, it's been pretty quiet since that revelation Steven and I found out, both for him and his mom, and me with Pearl basically. At least now that she's agreed to stop with the spying on Steven, and in turn me as well, I'm sleeping a lot better than I thought possible. No longer do I have slight deep seated anxiety plaguing me when I go to sleep and compared to how I've been sleeping before, I sleep like a baby now.
I've been looking into what type of construction company's I could use for my home's construction but when I specify the blueprints and the type of location the place is on, either most of them turn down the offer or I do, because some don't feel comfortable making something on the precarious cliff-side I have planned, their vehicles can't get to the place properly and can't spare the man power to lug their equipment to and from it, and I turn them down because of the sheer amount of money they would ask for to build the place. I know I have a ton of money with me right now that I could make it happen but I need to ration it for possibly emergency's that could take place. I can't be dropping that type of cash willy-nilly like that or else some people might get suspicious and try to investigate this suspicious money laundering.
While the issue with my home is something that's really annoying the hell out of me, right now we just finished something I feel like going home.
"I can't believe that went so well!" Pearl exclaims happily about the success of the fight.
"That was kinda great when you hit it with your spear and it went, like, 'bing-bong!'" Amethyst says and proceeds to make explosion sounds to emphasize what happened. Usually the two are at each other's throats so I'm happy to see them complimenting each other.
Pearl blushes cutely at the compliment from her teammate. "And the way you were circling around it? Almost looked like strategy." And there's the subtle insult right there.
"Haha, well, you know, I can do that stuff, too." Amethyst blushes the same way as Pearl and misses the possibly unintentional insult by her.
"Maybe so you two." I say from right next to them as I spin the bubbled gem in my hand like a basketball. "But remember it was a team effort on our part… and a big gun on mine to go along with it." I say with a smile as I tap the bubble back to the temple with the hand holding the Striker shotgun.
"Still making use of your firearms I see." Pearl tells me with a smile.
"Hey," I say and start walking backwards to the warp pad. "If it ain't broke, don't change it." I say with arms stretched out. I hold the shotgun onto my shoulder and step onto the pad, the others joining me. "And I am not changing it any time soon."
"Wait up!" Before either of us could continue, Steven's voice is clearly heard as both he and Garnet emerge from the field of flowers. He doesn't look good at all what with his runny nose and red eyes. "Sorry I couldn't help much, I think the flowers are making me- Ah-choo!" He sneezes on Garnet's hip. "Sorry, Garnet."
"I'll live." She tells him simply.
"Oh, Steven, you're supposed to sneeze into your antecubital fossa." Pearl informs him.
"My what?" He asks in confusion as he and Garnet walk onto the warp pad.
"Your elbow Steven." I point to my own elbow to emphasize it.
He looks down curiously at his elbow as they activate the pad. He gasps out lightly at the sudden change in scenery but as we travel through the bright tunnel, Steven's allergy's act up. "Ah-ahh!" He starts to sneeze.
"Do it at Pearl!" Amethyst immediately ousts Pearl to Steven as she points at her.
"Steven, your fossa!" Pearl cries out.
"Pearl! You know he doesn't get the technical terms of things!" I scold her a little. I know she's more into the smart more real terms of things but when it comes to Steven, they kind of go over his head.
"Ah-CHOO!" He sneezes loudly, thankfully not hitting any of us but it does present another problem to us.
"Oh!" Pearl gasps as Steven is propelled up and away from us and I see his head passing the tunnels barrier.
"Steven!" I cry out the kids name. 'Crap! The gems told me it's a form of space out there so if he's sucked out…' I look at Pearl. "Grab my ankles." I tell her as I sling my shotgun on my back.
"Huh?" She asks in confusion but I ignore and look at Amethyst.
"Sorry about this." I apologize to her in advance.
"Huh? Ouh!" She grunts out as I plant my foot on her face and push off, propelling me towards the kid.
Just before I go too far, I feel something grab my pants lega at the end as I grab Steven's legs. "Alright, pull!"
"Ngh!" Pearl and Garnet grunt out as they pull me back, bringing both Steven and I towards the gems.
"Steven!" I call out the kids name as I bring him close to me and check him for anything wrong. "You alright bro?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." He tells me but shivers slightly as well. I also notice that the snot under his nose is frozen completely. 'Wow, they weren't kidding about the cold.'
"You have to be careful! It's dangerous to stick your head out of the stream!" Pearl warns him.
"There's not much air, and it's very cold." Garnet further explains as she flicks frozen snot off Steven's nose.
'Alright, well it looks he's all-'
"You guys, I saw something out there!"
"What?" Pearl asks curiously at his statement.
"Huh?" I mutter in confusion as well.
"Something warping!"
"What?!" I ask in surprise. The only people or things I know that could warp using the pads all involve gems or gems tech. If there is something warping, then an unknown player in the field has the potential to appear right in the middle of our home.
"Steven, that's not possible. Is your vision blurry from the pollen?" Pearl asks him, most likely not believing the kid.
"I can see perfectly, Pearl." He replies to her while squinting his eyes. 'Way to contradict her statement man.' I think sarcastically. "I know there's something out there!" He firmly tells us.
"You sure?" I question. He nods yes. "Oh man, this could be bad." I mutter warily.
"There's nothing out there, Steven. There hasn't been anything else for a long, long time." Garnet tells him.
"Ah-hem." I get their attention. "If I remember correctly, wasn't I something you guys never seen before and bam! Dropped right into your lives?" I remind them and it's true. We didn't know about each other for the longest time and all of sudden we find out about each other one fateful day. I don't know what else we could find but if its anything like me… I need be ready for hostilities.
The gems look at each other, making me smile at the seed of doubt I planted amongst them.
"Amethyst, why do you have shoe print on your face?" Steven asks the purple gem.
She shifts her attention to me and I can feel the glare she's giving me.
"*Whistles innocently*" I whistle innocently as I slowly turn my body away from them.
After we got back home, the gems congregated to the temple to possibly speak about what it is that Steven could have seen but from their expressions and the tones in their voices, I don't think they're going to talk about it and instead chalk it up to the kids imagination or his allergy's making him see things. I was annoyed that they blatantly disregard his accusations but at that point Steven and I were tired and went to sleep. To be sure, I went ahead and checked my most ready to use weapons in case something happens. I went ahead and checked my FNX Tactical with all the mods I had on it when I escaped the Iron Kings compound that was under the cushion of the couch near the front door to make sure it was working properly. I also took my Anaconda revolver from my truck for more variety and power, and I keep my jacket within reach as well. I have the Anaconda in its holster nearby as well for me to quickly strap it on when I need it.
"Aah! Aghh!"
"Gah!"
"Oh god! Pah! Oof!"
The sleep was nice but getting rudely awakened by a splash of water to the face tends to freak a person out and send their senses into complete overdrive when they were quiet and asleep, to completely awake and alert. It also sometimes sends a person rolling off their make-shift bed and face down on the floor. "Ugh!" I groan as I look up with blurry eyes to see the others by the door.
"See what you did? Now you're not getting any cookies." I hear Garnet tell presumably Steven.
"What?" I ask on confusion as I stand up.
"Cookies?! I'll take 'em!"
"Aah!" I cry out as Amethyst barrels past me, pushing me back onto the couch. As I look back up, I hear Garnet whistling to the purple gem like a dog with a treat. She happily grabs the tray and proceeds to scarf down the cookies.
"Slow down, Amethyst." Garnet tells her but she ignores it and continues to eat ravenously.
"Guys," I say as I stand up and walk over to them. "What's going on?" I also wipe the bits of water that was on my face with an annoyed expression and ask them.
"I'm sorry, Pearl and Marcus. I just, I guess I didn't…" He tries to say but yawns.
"Didn't sleep." Garnet figures out as she has a finger on her chin pensively.
The kid lets out another yawn. "Maybe." He mutters.
"Oh, Steven!" Pearl says as she wipes some water out of her eye. I'd question why Steven decided to use a water gun as his go to weapon in case something did attack… but I think I'd only question that because I don't use water guns, I use powdered firearms that could kill a man, or gem, from a mile away using very precise highly combustible projectiles. "This isn't about the thing you think you saw outside the warp stream yesterday, is it?"
*Clang*
Pearl tenses as Amethyst chucks the empty tray of cookies away, making a loud sound in the process. I glare at her because of her disregard for the sound or item.
"But it was real! Something was warping somewhere in the warp!" Steven almost yells to them at their disregard for his claims.
"Listen." Pearl places her hands on his cheeks, making him look at her. "Nothing on Earth can use the warps but us. Do you understand?" She asks him. Steven doesn't believe her, making him look away. "Steven, nod in agreement if you understand. Nod in agreement-"
" Pearl, Pearl, Pearl." I say her name multiple times to get her attention off the kid. "Lay off the kid. He believes what he believes… and he can't nod if you're holding his head like that." I also proceed to pull her off him as well.
"I'm confident Pearl is right thought." Both of them look at Garnet. "But if it'll make you feel better, we can just go check." Garnet tells the paranoid kid. I walk over to my weapons as Steven smiles gratefully at the tall gem. "Good. Let's go."
"Right behind you."
*Cha-chik*
With an intimidating action, I rack the receiver on my Vector and step onto the warp pad. "Is that really necessary?" Pearl asks me as she and the others step onto the pad.
"Hey, better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it." I tell her simply.
She has no retort for my statement but Garnet does. "Smart."
"Thank you." With that, we are sent off.
We warp back to the meadow and I do a quick glance for anything suspicious.
"Clear." I find nothing so I give the all-clear for them.
"Mm-hmm. Nothing unusual." Garnet tells Steven.
"Ah-ahh - Ahh-choo!" Steven responds by sneezing.
"Bless you." Garnet and I tell him and we take off.
Our next destination sends us to the giant geode rock that has the freaky storm inside it.
"Nothing here, either. And the geode is holding nicely." Pearl points out.
"I still say I want to take an acetylene torch to the crack. Or maybe an arc welder." I think pensively but before I can add anymore to the subject, we warp out.
Next we find ourselves back at the Sky Spire.
"Whoa! Now that's something!"
"What are you-?... Oh." I start to question Amethyst at her outburst but I soon see what it is that's surprised her, and me. "That is something."
A little ways away, Steven Jr. the goat is not really a Jr. but more so a daughter because right now 'she' is laying on the ground with a couple other goat kids prancing around.
"Heh. Steven Jr.'s been busy." Amethyst says to the kid with a laugh. "This makes you a grandpa!"
"Congratulations." Garnet congratulates the kid with a head rub.
"Hey!" He shoos her off. "We're getting off task here!" He reminds them of our original task: Finding out what was warping that wasn't us.
"We've looked all over! There's nothing out here to find!" Pearl says in a slightly frustrated tone. 'Yes I know Pearl. This is frustrating and may be pointless in the end but you never know and I'd rather not know of what could happen if we leave it alone.'
"But you're wrong."
"Excuse me?!"
"Oh boy." I place a hand on the side of my head at what's probably going to happen. Steven only mumbles his words but it was enough for us to hear him, and slightly irk Pearl.
"I-I mean-" He tries to save himself from a scolding but fails.
"Nothing on Earth can use these warps but us!" She reminds us loudly. 'Yes, we know Pearl. You won't stop emphasizing about it.' I think, slightly irked in my own way at the back and forth everyone is on the whole matter. I don't care either way. Paranoia is the name of the game for me practically 24/7 and if it only takes me a few hours of my life to ensure I get days rest without paranoia, I'll take it.
"Well, what if it came from space?"
At Steven's suggestion, I can't help but look up to the sky. "That is a possibly." I mutter.
"Oh, don't be ridiculous Marcus." Pearl immediately dismisses me.
"Then how did gems originally come to earth?" I contradict her dismissal of my idea. Yes, the warp pads to off-world are broken but at one point the planet didn't have any gem technology on it at all. They came from space and planted the gem equipment here to begin with. 'I see no reason for more to come through space now to find out what's going on. Probably much easier now considering how much time has passed and the advance in technology.'
"I-... don't appreciate your tone." Pearl replies, probably to both Steven and I's suggestions.
Before anymore could be said, we are warped again and this time it's to the Galaxy Warp.
"These are the warps that once connected us to other planets." Pearl begins to explain to us about the absurdity of our suggestions as she walks towards the Homeworld warp. "If something tried to come from space, it would be through here. But wait!" She says in mock surprise. "This warp pad is broken, marked inactive by the very depressed cartoon breakfast sticker you placed here yourself after Marcus confirmed its inactivity!" She reminds us.
Their eyes shift to me, making me sigh as I remember. "It's true." I sadly say as I look down.
"Look," Amethyst walks over to Steven, "Pearl's right, like usual." She grumbles before groaning. "Ugh! You get used to it."
Garnet then walks up to the kid and places her hand on top of his head. He grabs her hand and looks up to her. "We're safe." She tells him.
He still looks uneasy about the idea as he looks to me for an answer as well. With nothing more to go one, I shrug my shoulders. 'I got nothing. I didn't see what you saw but if it was enough to freak you out, I'm willing to help. But if we don't find anything…?'
"Well, I guess so." He submits to the gems claim that he was just seeing things. With sad and unhappiness looming over him, he walks over to the Homeworld warp pad and places his hand beside the Crying Breakfast Friends sticker he placed on it. I holster my SMG and walk up to the kid. I place a hand on his shoulder, giving him some small amount of comfort. He looks at me with a glum look and I return it with a smile. I see the hint of a smile adorn his features at the comfort.
"Ahhhh!" I can't help but feel a little irked at the sigh of relief the gems all let out behind us.
"Oh, man! Finally! That took all day." Amethyst says annoyed.
"It was important to make Steven feel secure." At Garnets statement, I see out of my peripheral at the slowly building anger coming over my fellow hybrid.
"Yes, Steven feels much better now."
"Guys!" With the last straw by Pearl, I say loudly to get them to stop. "What the hell?! He's right here! You don't go patronizing a person behind their back when their a foot away from you!" I slightly yell at them for their actions.
"And I'm tired of you guys telling me how I feel!" Steven says with anger laced in his voice as well. "I know I saw something outside the stream!"
"And I know you didn't!" Pearl outright denies him.
At this point, Steven gets upset at their deniability and the two of them proceed to argue. Their accusations and suggestions go back and forth with each other with heated debate. I pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration while both Amethyst and Garnet both look at each before turning back to the argument in front of us.
"Uh, this is new." Amethyst says as I unsling my Vector. "I kind of like it." She adds as I screw the silencer off of my gun.
"Steven, you just don't know what you're talking about." Pearl tells him with an eye roll.
"It sounds like, maybe, you don't know what I'm talking about!" He retorts.
"Ugh!"
*BANG*
"ENOUGH!" I yell loudly, stopping the argument in its track and getting all eyes on me. "This is going on long enough! This is getting us nowhere so you three!" I point to the gems. "Get back to the temple. I need to talk to Steven. Alone." I accentuate the last part.
"But-"
"Let it go, Pearl." Garnet halts the pale gems argument before it begins with her words and a shoulder pat. "He's got this." She looks unsure of the idea at first but resigns to it. With a nod, she walks onto the pad along with Amethyst, followed by Garnet. "We'll see you guys in a bit." With that final say, they warp out.
Now that the deniers are gone, I turn to the kid as I reattach my silencer. "Hey, Steven-"
"You believe me, right?" He asks me. I look down at the almost pleading look on his face.
"Look, Steven," I begin to say as I crouch down to his height and lay my gun on the ground. "I didn't see what you saw. None of us did. You were the only one to have his head out of the warp stream and were the only one in the position to have seen anything." I tell him the truth about the situation. What I said is the truth and as much as how rude it sounds, it's the truth and I'm not going to try to sugarcoat it. He looks down in sadness at the truth of my words. I place a hand on his shoulder, making him look up to me again. "I'm going to ask you a question. You look me in the eyes and tell me your honest answer."
I place both of my hands on his shoulders and look him in the eyes. "Did you see something in the warp streams?"
He doesn't shift his eyes from me. He keeps to what I asked and I can see the small conflict spiraling in his mind through his eyes. Silence rains between us as he tries to come up with an answer.
"Yes." He says firmly.
I continue to stare at him for a few seconds, checking to see if there's anything about him that indicates he's lying.
I don't see any.
"Alright." I say and grab my gun before standing up. "If you saw something, I'll be cautious from now on. Oh!"
"Thank you!" He cries out happily as he barrels into my waist and hugs me. I chuckle a little and pat his back in reassurance. Yes, Steven's a kid, he's young and chances are he could have been seeing things… but there is always the chance that the naïve kid is telling the truth and this kid before me has not steered me wrong. We continue to share our moment together.
"You're not going to sleep tonight, are you?" I ask him with a smirk.
"Nope!" He says with a hint of happiness or without a care. I chuckle at his go-lucky attitude and break the hug.
"Alright then, how about this? We go home and chill out for a bit. When the gems go into the temple, you can do whatever you want on the homefront and me? If you want, I can keep an eye on things here. Pearl wasn't wrong." I say as I wave a hand to the warp pads around us. "These pads do lead into space and there is the chance that if anything were to come to the planet, here is an option as well. Deal?" I ask him as extend my hand for fist bump.
"Deal." He punches my fist with determination and a smile.
"Atta boy." I tell him as I ruffle his hair, making him laugh in the process. "Now c'mon. Let's go eat. I'm hungry." I inform him and walk over to the warp pad.
"Yeah, I can go for a bite to eat." He agrees with me on the idea of eating and walks with me.
"Anything in particular?" I ask as I step onto the pad.
"Not macaroni."
"Why?" I ask him curiously as he stands next to me.
"Amethyst ate all the cheese."
"Seriously?" I ask incredulously as we warp out.
Hours pass and it's already hit night time. Steven was still determined to stay up and guard the temples warp pad in case if anything comes through and potentially attacks our home. Right now, I'm sitting on the steps to the Galaxy warp pad to Homeworld and inspecting my weapons. As I sit here, inspecting my Colt Anaconda and my Vector, I start to think about the situation.
'Man, company from space? That's crazy. It was crazy as it was when Pearl, Steven and I tried to leave the planet but this a chance for something to actually come tour planet. Something that the gems are possibly worried about if it's Homeworld involved. Regardless of the object involved, whether it is of Homeworld origin or not, I still need to be prepared for this unknown party and see if their friendly or not.' With that thought in mind, I reload my revolver and spin the cylinder. As I look at my revolver in hand, I sigh and place it down on the floor before grabbing my head in frustration. 'I know it would make you feel bad Steven… but I hope your wron-'
I grab my Vector and train my sights on the warp pad as it activates. I keep hoping that it's my friends coming to check up on me. As the travelers appear, I think, 'Steven… you were right.'
To my dismay, I see something I've never seen before. A dozen or so light green spherical glass balls of sort stand on suspended light green cylinders with two black dots on each of them. I keep my sights trained on them for any sort of retaliation they might inflict. When they start to walk towards me, I slip my finger onto the trigger and am ready to fire on a moment's notice. 'They aren't attacking outright but they could be just getting into position. Be ready. Wait for any sudden moves. Let them make the first move so I'll be in the right if they do anything-' My thoughts are cut off as they completely ignore me and part around me like the red sea and head behind me. Once all of them pass me, I turn back to see where they are going. They all stop on the Homeworld warp pad and open up compartments on their fronts before they start spraying some sort of viscous liquid on the pad. "What the-"
Before I can question any further, I hear the sound of a warp pad activating and turn back to see more of these things spawning. Like before, another dozen or so of them start to walk towards the warp pad and join the others in spraying the pad. "What are they doing?" I ask myself as I walk over to the stairs to get a closer look at their work. So far there's nothing outstanding happening, the gunk is slowly growing and coating the entire pad itself, filling in any nooks and crannies that were adorning the broken teleporter. The warp pad activates again but I don't bother to turn around as I continue to remain wary of the robots.
"Marcus!"
The loud voice shifts me from the robots work to who called my name. I look back to the pad to see everyone else there. "Guys!"
"What's going on?" Garnet asks me while holding onto one of the legs of one of the robots, a cracked one at that. It detaches its leg being held by Garnet and walks over to its brothers.
"What are they doing to the Homeworld warp?!" Pearl asks in surprise.
"I have no idea. They started coming by in droves and completely ignored me. They moved around me and went straight to that pad." I explain as I point to the gathered robots.
"There's a million of them!" Amethyst says in surprise at the amount of them. Obviously it's not a million but they are almost completely covering the whole Homeworld warp by themselves alone. Before anyone can retort, the robots back off as the Homeworld warp shines as good as new. 'Holy…' "They fixed it?!" Amethyst asks the question on all our minds.
"How did they…?" I start to question.
"What does that mean?" Steven asks out loud. I have no idea what it means but Pearl is a little on edge what with her pushing herself in between Garnet and Amethyst.
"I… don't know!" She says unsure. From the looks on the others, besides Steven, they are completely stumped as well.
Before we can contemplate anymore, the Homeworld warp now fixed activates. "Contact. Hide!" I loudly whisper to them as I dash to and roll behind a large column of stone. As I place myself against the flat part of the rock, I see Garnet grab the others and jumps onto another tall column of rock nearby where she hangs off it with her gauntlet dug deep into the stone.
I continue to hide behind it the pillar of stone as I clutch my Vector. As I peek out so I can assess the warp traveler, I freeze and my eyes widen as I spot my revolver on the ground next to the stairs, right under the breakfast sticker of Steven's. 'Damn.' Before I can even think to go back, the warp pad dissipates, revealing the person who used it. Looking at the tall person, I instantly see that the person is immensely green and a feminine figure to it. As the person looks around and taps their foot on the pad, I look back to the others away from me. They peek out and look fearful and worried at me, whether it's because of my close proximity to the figure, or the figure itself. I place a finger to my lips to indicate for the others to keep quiet, then I wave my hand downwards to signal for them to keep their heads down.
"Hmm." At her tone, I now know its female and when I look back, I see an interesting sight. The light green floating digits I thought were her fingers floats in a hexagonal shape and what looks like a screen appears. She uses the last digit she has on the same hand to start manipulating buttons and sliders on the screen. I can't make out what it is that's on the screen but I think I also spot wavelengths appear on it as well. "Log date: 312. This is Peridot performing earth hub maintenance check." She says as one of the little robots crawls on her shoulder.
I lean back against the rock and quietly check my gun to make sure it's working. 'Peridot… that's a gem. No doubt about it.' I peek back out and take a good hard look at her facial features and the gem adorning her forehead. 'She's a Homeworld gem.'
"Warp repair a success. All 79 flask robonoids deployed and accounted for. Preparing to locate and manually reactivate Kindgar—" She lightly gasps out at something. Looking down, I see the robonoid that Garnet was holding earlier that was cracked trying to crawl up her leg but fails. Peridot looks down at the thing annoyed and steps on it. When I think it can't get any worse, she pushes on it until it pops in a mess of that same goo they shot out to repair the warp pad. 'What the hell are these things made out of? I don't see any sort of mechanics in that mess.' I start to think.
"Now to access the domestic warp." She states and walks down the stairs. I purse my lips in thought, 'Domestic… oh god! Is she talking about the—' "Huh?" Before I can continue to freak out in my mind about the idea of this person heading home right to where we live, her question stops me. Peeking back out, I tense up as she takes a look at Steven's Crying Breakfast Friends sticker. "Huh." She says as she peels the sticker off. She looks at it for a second before looking down and spots my revolver. My breath hitches as she bends down and picks up my gun by the barrel and looks at it curiously. "Hmmm." She says in contemplation as she examines my weapon from all angles.
'Oh god, please tell me she's isn't a little kid and shoots herself in the face.' I practically beg in my mind.
"This site may have been compromised." She states out loud as she looks around, thankfully not in my direction. She walks back onto the Homeworld warp with both items in hand before she places a greend disc thing on the pad as she warps out. The device starts to beep, sending up red flags in my head.
'Beeping isn't good!' Quickly, I chuck my SMG away and run out from behind the pillar before I jump onto the warp pad in a single bound and grab the beeping disc. "Heya!" With a grunt of effort, I toss the device away as hard as I can. By the time it leaves my hand, the beeping is going a lot more rapidly and as soon as it leaves the arena-like area I am standing in, it explodes. I bring my arms up to shield myself but interestingly enough, it isn't a combustible explosive that goes off but something else. As I look down, I see all the robonoids around me still standing and looking around curiously but a couple of them closest to the explosion lie almost dead on the ground. 'Hm, EMP maybe?'
"They're coming back!" I look down at the others as they come out of hiding, Pearl looking freaked out and fearful all to hell. "I can't do this! Not again!" She says as she covers her face with her hands.
"We're dead! We are so dead!" Amethyst cries out hysterically and this time, it seems legitimate, not playing around like other times.
'Wow, they're really freaked out about this.' I think as I jump off the Homeworld warp and walk over to them.
"Was that another gem? Where did she come from? What was she trying to do?" Steven starts to barrage the gems with questions of what's going and I'm curious as well.
"Yeah guys. What's going on? We could really use… some…" My question peters off as Garnet moves past me and starts to walk up towards the Homeworld warp. "Garnet?"
"Huh?" Steven and I question.
"It doesn't matter." She tells us firmly and before I can protest, she summons her gauntlets but these are different than the ones from before because they are several times bigger.
"Whoah…" Steven, Amethyst and I are in awe at the sheer size of Garnet's weapon.
Unfortunately, I'm too awestruck at her power to stop her from bringing her gauntlets up and then down onto the Homeworld warp, shattering it to oblivion. "She's not coming back!" She tells us all with a commanding firm voice, telling us that if there's any room for arguing, there is none. 'Geez, what the hell? That was my only link to Homeworld… unless…' My eyes shift to the robonoids gathered nearby after they cleared out so they wouldn't be crushed by Garnet. 'If I can control them, then maybe…' I think with a smile. This is the closest I am to modern gem technology. I can't lose these things, especially not with that repairing goo they spit out.
It also means that I'm really worried when Garnet shifts her attention to the robonoids. She brings her arms up. "Hold it!" I jump in front of the robots with my arms extended out.
"Out of the way Marcus." She tells me with gauntlets high in the air, ready to strike.
"I can't let you do this Garnet. I can't let you destroy them." I refuse to move from my spot.
"Why?" Pearl asks me as the others walk up to us.
"Don't you see? These things are robots. Devices and gizmos to be tinkered with to be set to a person's preference. If I can take control of them—"
"No."
"Then I can use these things for who knows what type of ways." I continue to say, completely ignoring Garnets comment.
"No."
"I'm not asking for your permission Garnet." I glare at her. "Homeworld was the best place I can go to find out everything I can about my mother and you just destroyed the only path I have to it. I'm not going to repair the warp pad if that's what you're thinking but this is the closest I have access to modernized gem technology and with the enemies we face… or going to face if how freaked out you guys are about that gem, then we're going to need all the help we can get." I point to the robonoids. "Help I can make using these little guys."
Her face doesn't change through my explanation, staying the same neutral firm look about it and it doesn't look like she's going to change.
The others look back and forth between us with nervous clearly plastered about them, worried about the potential argument or fight that the two of us could get into.
I continue to stand in front of the robonoids, my body acting as their defense as I remain firmly in place, my face not betraying me in the slightest as we stare each other down.
"Crap." I suddenly say as I remember something.
"What's wrong?" Stevens asks.
"She took my gun." I say sadly.
A small cliffhanger, but nothing too major. I kind of liked how this turned out and it was exciting have Marcus catch his first glimpse of the ever interesting Peridot. Seriously, rewatching the episode and seeing how she was when we first saw her to how she is now is crazy and awesome, you know.
There isn't much more for me to say at this point so I'll go ahead and wish you guys good health, luck, and have fun reading.
