Thanks to Steven. I'm no longer feeling as… crappy as I was before. Seeing as he's got my back, I feel more at ease despite all the info I got from Jasper. While I still feel like crap, I'm not gonna let it revolve around my life. With that said I've also decided to drown myself so to say in my work and fixing up, well… everything.

It's not a perfect plan but it makes progress.

My base is coming along nicely and the place is massive with plenty of room for me to work on projects and as well as come up with contingency plans. Walls are starting to go up to signify what goes where so I allocated those things. Tech and salvageable equipment I got from the ship go in one room for me to work on later as to what I can do with it. Among those salvaged are containers that have items inside them but I won't know what they have until I open them. Until then, I'm focusing more on what I have now. I've already got the forges set up that I stole from The Iron Kings so I can work on various metal works in my free time. I've got ammo presses set up so I can make my own bullets, the replicator locked away right next to it so I can use it to make ammo, as well as workbenches to work and modify on anything I can. Another room is filled with a plethora of my or weapons that I salvaged from the kings that I dubbed the armory. The room next to it is where I've got the idea to work on anything that is possibly broken and to fix them. Some of my personal equipment is in need of repair considering the abuse they went through since I met Steven and the Gems but I also need to tune up the salvaged weapons as well, especially the ones that I took from the Kindergarten.


After sometime of working on everything without much rest, my dreams and possibly my mental capacity really started to take a hit. I had a freaky dream where this guy came by the house and was 'helping' Steven try to summon his shield more. Naturally, when a guy randomly comes by and claims to help Steven summon his mystical shield that raised some red flags and the Gems and I worked to get the guy away. Somehow he started breaking fourth wall stuff and that's when my head started hurting.

I gotta relax more, like Steven and the cool kids kept saying. I guess there is something to that.

Anyway despite my descent into madness, things still progressed somewhat alright for everyone, except Garnet. Turns out someone had an admirer.


"Wait wait wait wait… say that again?" I ask Steven and Connie. They just told me something weird but I couldn't really comprehend it.

"Jaime is in love with Garnet!"

"And we need to figure out a way to let him down easy so he doesn't get hurt!"

Steven and Connie both tell me outright what the situation is. I stare at them for a few seconds trying to come up with a valid response but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me considering the person involved.

"Jaime… the mailman… is in love with Garnet?" I reiterate what they said into a question. They nod. "In love… with Garnet?" They nod again. I stare at them for a bit before looking to the side and back at them. "This Gem right here?" The two of them look as I point my thumb to the purple and red gem standing right next to us.

"Yes!" They confirm my disbelief that I am still trying to figure out what's going on.

Again, I stare at them blankly, my look shifting from the kids, to Garnet, and back again. The idea of it all just seems… wow. "Why?"

*Smack*


First Pearl, now Garnet? Geez I wonder who's going to develop a crush on Amethyst now.

In any case, my head was hurting and I had a headache for a few days after considering she slapped me upside the head with her gauntlet covered hand. My choice of words weren't the best I'll be honest, but c'mon. A person as… detached or cold like Garnet doesn't seem like the type that catches a lot of eyes.

And those poems? Wow.

In the end though, Garnet was able to let him down easy, somewhat, and things returned back to normal. Although it was a pain having to trudge through the water to gather all that mail Jaime threw in the water. And then coming up with a way to dry it all with the least amount of damage done to the contents and coming up with an excuse for any disgruntled customers.

We agreed that we would blame a rain storm that happened in another town over when the letter was in transit.

Now though, things are pretty quiet and as usual I kind of hope for a day where things don't turn upside down for us.

And as usual, I'm wrong on this day.


"Well, that should be enough for today." I comment as I finish setting up the last of my forge. I smile at the idea of making some weapons in the future. I look around the room and smile again as my droids continue to work on making the walls for my place. "Perfect." With fatigue starting to set in, and because I don't feel doing anything more, I decide to let my droids do what they're doing and head over to Gems and see how their fairing.

As I go through the Warp and end up in the beach house, "Hey Steven! Is there any more engine oil? I need it for the sandwich."

"What?" I blanch out at Amethysts request.

"I think that's for cars…" Steven tells her as he walks in.

"Well, is there any more of it?" She asks again as she kicks the fridge door closed and carries an armful of food.

"That's… not… healthy." I say the sentence slowly. However I look at my shoulder for a second before turning back and sighing. "I guess you can afford to be unhealthy when you're an all powerful Gem creature from space." I comment as I walk over to the two.

"Dad's probably got some outside." He tells her as I sit on a stool. "Oh! But uh… you guys gotta take this online quiz!" He tells us enthusiastically as he pulls out his phone and shows us the screen. "Which Crying Breakfast Friend Are You?"

"That's show's really weird."

"Yeah it kind of is." I agree with Amethyst as she places all the food items she got onto the breakfast bar. Seriously a show that's primarily about food that's sad? It's no wonder it makes me depressed.

"Who wants to watch a cartoon about people crying?" She asks.

"I do." He answers with watery eyes and what sounds like a broken voice.

She stares at him before turning to me for an answer. "Hey, just indulge him. It's not like he's asking you to do something strenuous." I point out with a hand wave.

"Okay, okay! Uh, what's the first question?" She caves and asks.

"Do you ever act without thinking?" He asks while reading from his phone.

"Nope. Never."

Her statement is completely contradicted by the fact that she just squeezed a bottle of mustard and it popped and splattered all of its contents on the food she brought… and my face.

"Marcus?"

"Issue here." I reply to Steven's mention of my name and calmly get up before walking over in the general direction of the sink. The mustard covered my entire face and already my eyes are starting to burn. As I feel around, I finally grab the faucet, turn it on and run my face under the cool watery stream. For a little bit that's all I here, just the running water as it breaks away the chunks of mustard and flows down the drain so I'm kind of tuned out from Steven and Amethyst's interview. Once I finish rubbing the condiment off my face, I grab a clean dish towel and dry my face off.

Once I'm done, I look back to see that my friends are gone. "Garnet, wha—" I hear Amethyst pipe up in surprise. Looking past the kitchen, I see them inside Amethyst's room in the temple. "What are you doing in my room?" She asks the fusion.

"I saw a corrupted Gem." She says, raising some red flags in my head immediately. Without a second thought, I grab the SMG I have strapped under the counter and a kitchen knife before shadow moving towards the door just before it closes. I come in right behind them without too much trouble. Amethyst and Steven are staring at Garnet and she doesn't seem to care about my action. "You're getting good at that."

"I try." I comment, which surprises Steven and Amethyst because of my sudden appearance but calm down soon after. "So what's going on?"

"Yeah, where did it come from?" Steven asks.

"It's similar to Pearl's description of the creature she saw slinking through the temple." She calmly explains to us as I take a look around. Besides my mom's memory room thing, this is probably the only time I've actually been inside the temple since the others rooms are kind of code locked or something to Gems gems. Still, Amethyst's room is kind of a large mess, filled a plethora of junk that I'm sure would put a dump or landfill to shame.

"You saw The Slinker!?" Steven says in somewhat a shocked and excited tone.

"The what?" I ask.

"I thought we agreed there was no Slinker, and we weren't going to call it The-Slinker." Amethyst ignores my question and does air quotes over 'The Slinker.'

"Yes we did." Garnet agrees with her as she crosses her arms. "But now it's undeniable the creature exists, and that Steven's name stuck." She tells us as her arms uncross and we begin walking.

"Yes!" Steven pumps his fist in happiness at apparently naming a monster.

"Nooo!" Before we can get far, Amethyst moves in front of Garnet and stops her from moving. "Look, why don't you just let me look for it?" She proposes as she walks behind Garnet.

However the fusion won't have it. "Because you won't." She bluntly tells the purple Gem and walks past her.

"She's not wrong." I agree with Garnet and walk to catch up to the fusion. "Sorry." I momentarily apologize to her and move just behind Garnet with the others moving behind me. With the Mac-10 in my right hand and knife in the left, I adopt the Harries Flashlight technique again so I can be on my toes in case The Slinker decides to attack. With the amount of junk Amethyst has here, there are plenty of places for it to hide then attack. Soon we make it to a large pile of junk on the ground and Garnet lifts it with relative ease, revealing another large tunnel. I crouch next to the tunnel and look down at the large massive hole leading downwards. "Jeez, The Slinker made this?" I question as I run my fingers along the edge of the sheered hole.

"How long's this thing been in here?" Steven asks behind. 'I could ask the same thing.'

"Ah! Ha ha, look, guys!" Amethyst suddenly pipes up and dives for something in another pile. As she comes out, she's wearing a gas mask. "I'm a pachyderm!" Her muffled voice says. Her action causes Steven to have a nice laugh and me to smirk and shake my head. "Oh! And there's a prize inside!"

"Ngh!" I let out a strangled choke as I see the item she pulls out. Letting my gun and knife drop to the ground, I quickly swipe the skull away from her. It bounces a little in my hands but I manage to catch it firmly. I give a nervous laugh and smile for my mysterious action for my friends. "He he he, uhhh. That's great Amethyst. I'll just uhh… be taking this, and this." I grab the mask from her hands as well before bringing both it and the skull of its previous user in my arms.

She looks at me annoyed and is about to protest but a loud hissing is heard somewhere. "Sshhhh, keep quiet." Garnet immediately shuts down any sort of argument that's about to take place between us. Amethyst is annoyed by it but nods nonetheless along with Steven.

As the three of them start walking off, I look at the skull in my hand. "I'm so sorry." I carefully place the skull down near the door before looking at the mask in my hands with a smile. "Hello rebreather." I quietly say and place it next to the skull. Next I quickly bolt forward and grab my weapons before catching up to the others.

Again, we are bathed in silence at the deafness of the area around us as we move further into Amethyst's room and unfortunately, The Slinker is silent once more. As we walk by another pile, Garnet places down the junk pile she was holding and doesn't stop walking. "Oh Garnet, stern but practical, just like Spilled Milk." Steven for some reason pipes up with some form of admiration in his voice.

"Is that from your quiz thing?" I ask him. He nods with a smile. 'Okay good. Because if he was literally talking about spilled milk, I don't know how it would be classified as stern and practical.' I think and look around for anything suspicious.

"You're still not on about that dumb cartoon are you?" Amethyst says, visibly annoyed about it.

"Oh right, the quiz!" Unfortunately he remembers what we were doing earlier before we came into the temple and pulls out his phone again. "Do you get defensive when people ask you questions about the feelings you prefer to keep hidden?" He asks as he walks closer to her. I move with him for his safety.

I don't know what it is but whatever my brother said suddenly has her on the defensive. "DON'T get all psych-o-logical on me, Ste-ven." She almost snarls. 'Woah, what happened there?'

"Uhhh… sorry?" His apology comes out as a question since it looks like he's confused by her hostility.

With the shake of my head, I move around, examining my environment of any sign of The Slinker. Then again I don't have a description of so the only thing I have to go on is its name, Slinker. "Hitting a bit close to home?" I mutter right next to Amethyst as I pass her. I chuckle a little at her angry stare.

*Smack*

"Ow! Okay sorry for screwing with you." I grunt as I look back to Amethyst after she hit me in the back of my head.

"What?" She asks in confusion.

I look at her weirdly. "You hit me. So I assume it was because of what I said. So I'm sorry." I apologize again.

Now she's the one that looks confused. "I didn't hit you."

I stare at her confused and look to Steven for answers. He nods, agreeing with Amethyst. "But if you didn't, then— Raaah!" I yell as I'm suddenly pulled off my feet. I land face first on the ground and my knife leaves my hand. My friends look confused at me but we don't have time to question as I'm suddenly pulled.


"MARCUS!" Steven and Amethyst cry out their friends name as he is suddenly sucked into a pile of junk and out of their sight.

"What's wrong?!" Garnet quickly moves over to them and asks.

"The Slinker got Marcus!" Steven cries out in worry as he grabs his head.

"Oh no! Where did he—" Garnet begins to say but the staccato sound of gunfire interrupts her.

All three of them look in the direction of the shots to see a massive form dashing through the room, dragging another smaller form behind it. The small form lets out a series a repeated gunfire shots at what's dragging it but the thing is jerking him around too much.

"There!" Garnet points to where The Slinker is heading and jumps forward before aiming her arms to the pile of junk. Just as it enter the pile, she fires her gauntlets toward the creature. Her gauntlets rocket through the air and impact the massive pile of junk with devastating force. Bits and pieces of the junks pile goes all over the place and rains down on them. When the explosion dissipates, Garnet runs over the pile, smiling at the thought that The Slinker was destroyed. She frowns however as she doesn't find the creatures Gem. With a grimace, she begins sifting through the pile for something else.

"WHOA MAMA!" Amethey yells in amazement at the explosion her friend caused so easily. "Did ya get it!?" She asks as she looks up at the fusion with excitement in her voice.

"No." Garnet answers while still looking through the pile.

A hand busts through the pile, surprising them all. The arm pushes itself off the top most part of the junk pile and pushes down. "Ngh." Marcus groans as the rest of him is pulled out of the junk pile he was nearly dragged into. His body is covered in several scrapes and bruises from being dragged but their only flesh wounds. "Ow." He grunts from the abuse his body went through and tries to get up. Garnet sends her gauntlets away and extends a hand to the human. He takes it with a smile and is easily pulled p out of the pile. He calms I breathing a little before looking at his friends. "You got something Garnet."

"Sorry." She apologizes to him for almost hitting him. "You okay?"

"Yeah, uhhgh." He groans as he moves his right arm back and forth to make sure nothing is out of place, his hand still clutching the SMG. "A little battered but nothing I can't shake off and get a good night's rest." Steven walks up to him and holds something out. Marcus looks down and sees its his knife that he dropped. With a smile, he grabs it. "Thanks man." He thanks his brother as he pats his heads and walks off the pile.

"Aw man," Amethyst groans as she jumps in and starts rummaging through the pile of junks that was subsequently destroyed. "I think my favorite round thing was in there."

"Oh yeah sure. The round thing is more important than my health." Marcus grumbles as he walks away.


I'm not really angry with Amethyst. We did kind of break a good chunk of her stuff. Right now I just want to find this damn Slinker for dragging me on the ground for several dozen feet or so. That was not a pleasant experience whatsoever.

"Where are you?" I question out loud as I look around the place for any sign of The Slinker.

*Poof*

A sound I am particularly familiar with that I absolutely loathe cuts through the air. I turn tail and head straight back to where my friends are. I jump over a small pile of junk and move over to my friends. To my dismay, Steven is holding a purple Gem.

"Don't worry. She'll be back before you know it." I hear Garnet say, although I'm still a little angry that one of my friends has been nearly destroyed.

"Seriously? That's sort of what you said with Pearl and she took—!" Before I can continue my rant, the gem in Steven's hand starts to glow and suspend into the air. "Ten seconds?" I comment in confusion at the near non-existent time it took for her to start coming back. Similar to when they shapeshift, Amethyst's form starts to take shape before she's back just like how she was before, at least until Steven hugs her.

"Amethyst's back! Amethyst's back!" He happily says and hugs her.

She grunts as she pushes Steven aside from his hug but that's when we see the difference. "Huh?" She groans in confusion as we see the improvement, or problem, depending on how you see it.

She has feet for hands.

"Looks like you... grew a few feet since the last time I saw you, nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!"

"Annnnnd I'm out." I announce at Steven's horrible joke and start walking away, my previous anger completely gone. 'This is gonna be one of those days.'


After finding what looks like a new recently dug hole in the side of her room, I move on ahead away from my friends to be ready in case that thing attacks. Since the tunnel is only a two way, then The Slinker only has two directions it can go to ambush us. I got the front while they have my back.

Plus I'm also ahead of the others to avoid the lashing Garnet is going to give Amethyst. The somewhat disappointed or cautious look she was giving the recently reformed Gem could tell she was not happy with her additions.

*Crash*

"Son of a—" At the loud crash of rubble behind me, I turn back to be met with a small cloud of dirt. It easily dissipates and I see Garnet and Steven looking down a new hole. "Damn." I curse myself as I punch the wall at my lack of information I failed to take into account. 'This thing dug the holes. Of course it would make new ones through the ones it already dug.'

"Amethyst?" Steven says the missing Gems name. Garnet grabs the kid and the three of us jump down. Just as I hit the ground, I roll forward and aim my gun around us while holding the knife close to my chest, ready to strike. The creature is nowhere to be seen. I'll give it credit, it's not like the others we met, and commend it for its hit-and-run tactics.

That doesn't mean though that I'm not going to completely tear through its form with a somewhat satisfying smile on my face.

"Amethyst's gem!" I look over at Steven to see him holding the gem again. "She got 'poofed' again!" He cries out.

"Crap that thing is crafty." I mutter as Amethyst is yet again sent into her gem. Now though, as much as I hate it, I guess I'm getting used to this in the sort thing. Chances are, as long as their gems are okay and they can still come back, I'll be pissed but not go on a rage spree like with Pearl and Garnet.

"This is a good opportunity for her, now she can make a better form."

"We can hope." I agree with Garnet. It was short but I wasn't too privy to the whole four leg thing. "Hopefully she'll take her time and figure something out that's better than and she's coming back." Garnet and I are completely wrong in our assumptions as Amethyst's gem starts glowing and floating into the air again.

"She's coming back!" Steven exclaims happily at the idea that she's coming back so quickly.

"Hmm." Garnet and I however are a little indifferent on the matter. Like before she starts glowing and her form takes shape. This time though, her new form is a bit more… obvious.

"Yeah right, this is much better!"

Now, this seems pretty absurd. She is now trying to copy Pearl's look and everything. Her hair is waaay longer than it needs to be, her shoes are too short and not filled out, and her clothing doesn't match.

"She's doing Pearl!" Steven happily points out but Garnet and I just facepalm and sigh at how ridiculous she's kind of being right now.


"Hey Garnet, what do you think of my new look, Garnet? I'm more like Pearl now! Isn't it wonderful? Ha! I feel... practically perfect!"

"Mm!" I groan in slight annoyance as Amethyst tries to mimic Pearl's elegant twirl move and instead smacks all three of us with her freakishly long hairdo. Even so, we continue to move forward in search of The Slinker.

"We need to focus on listening for the creature." Garnet warns the flamboyant Gem of what our current objective is.

"Oh, but I can't focus, all these rocks are different sizes, we'll have to organize them by shape and color. Didn't anyone tell nature how I want it to look?" Amethyst tries to imitate Pearl. Steven finds it funny though as he giggles.

"Don't encourage her." Garnet tells him.

"Please." I add.

"But I need encouragement, Garnet! I need everyone's constant approval, I need to loquaciously converse so I can show off how smart I am."

"Ugh." With a groan I move forward a little faster to get away from her. While Steven and I are behind us, I walk with Garnet. "What's with her?" I whisper.

"I don't know. I'm not sure what brought this up and frankly it's starting to get a little out of hand."

"Completely entirely!"Amethyst pipes up behind us. We stop and turn back to her and Steven's conversation.

"Oh wow, you're so method. Next time, can you come back as me?"

Garnet lets out a sigh and looks to me, "Can look around a bit while I deal with this?"

With a nod, I bring both my weapons up and scout around for The Slinker. Already I can hear the beginning of their talking starting to turn into arguing, especially with how loud Amethyst is being. Moving to the right, I scout around some more junks piles and instead of going forward away from my friends, I instead decide to circle around and do a sweep around my friends so we don't get jumped.

My hunch is correct.

Several feet in front of me I see a large writhing black mass huddled behind another junk pile. 'Gotcha.' I smile and take aim, ready to unload and tear through it.

"So what, I'm not strong enough?" Amethyst's outburst shifts my focus. To my surprise I'm actually just to their left and they appear to be angry. Something starts moving to—

"Amethyst look out!" I shout at her to warn her but it's too late. The mass of tentacles from The Slinker grabs her and pulls her back.

"Amethyst!" Steven shouts in worry for her.

"Are you saying I'm weak?!" She yells back for some reason just before she is pulled past the junk pile.

"Damn!" I grit my teeth and aim again at the thing. The painful familiar poofing sound happens again and the cloud of smoke covers the creature. I open fire into the smoke to hopefully hit it. I hear sounds of pain come from the creature but as the smoke disappears, so is The Slinker. "Grr." I growl at its escape attempt again before heading to the others. I see Steven laying on the ground with Amethyst's gem laying in his outstretched hands. "You two okay?" I ask them.

"We're fine." Garnet answers.

"Is it weird I'm getting numb to this?" Steven asks looking back to us.

"Mmmm not really. I'm kind of in the same boat as you man." I say with a shoulder shrug. He looks sad at seeing her gone again so I try to comfort him. "Don't worry." I say kneeling down next to him and patting his back. "She'll be back. She has been the last couple of- SLINKER!" I interrupt myself as I see the thing crawling into one of the tunnels. In a flash, I am completely gone from Steven's side and am pursuing our target.

"Marcus!" I hear my friends call out to me but I'm determined to capture this thing.


The Slinker is heading back to Amethyst's room and before I know it, I'm carefully scouting around, being as quiet as I can so I can hear this thing coming. It already got the drop on Amethyst and I several times now and since I'm alone, chances are it will focus on me.

A hissing is heard to my right.

"Gotcha!" I roll forward just as several tentacles lunge at the spot I was just at. I bring mu gun up to bear and spray the origin where they are coming from.

*Hissing*

Some of my rounds manage to hit their mark in the pile, making the creature let out a god-awful screeching hissing noise and recoil its appendages. As I run out of ammo, I drop the magazine and quickly reload a new one but it manages to snare my leg again. "Guh!" I grunt as I am dropped onto my back again with my gun falling out of my hand. This time though, I use my now free hand and punch the ground and dig my fingers into the dirt in a claw like fashion. It tries to pulls me but I remain rooted to my spot. "Not this time!" I yell defiantly and swipe the knife at the tentacle. The Slinker screeches as I cut the appendage several time before it finally lets me go and retracts. More of its tentacles bust out from the same pile of junk into the air and prepares to impale me from above. Planting my hands on the ground, I kick myself off it. I do several front flips forward, grabbing my gun along the way, as the tentacles impact where I last was several times as I move. Once the last one hits, I land and slide back on my feet before firing once again.

Again, The Slinker hisses angrily as I hit its appendages with my bullets. As they retract, everything goes silent.

"Alright, no more games." I reload and look around for it. I fast walk around the various junk piles in hopes of catching this thing before it can properly recover. The amount of damage I did to it may seem somewhat small but it's a lot more than when we first started. My searching however halts as I hear some loud grunting and rustling behind another junk pile. "Gotcha!" I yell and run up the pile before jumping off the top. "Raaaah!" I yell and bring my knife down to stab.

Something grabs me in mid-air but that doesn't stop from aiming my gun directly at— "Marcus!"

"Amethyst?" I say the Gems name in a confusing manner as she somehow manages to grab me with one hand easily. "Your back and… what happened to you?" I ask in confusion at her unique appearance.

"Yeah I'm back!" She happily says and places me down on the ground with her overly large hand. "And I got an upgrade! Whatcha' think?" She asks as she flexes in front of me.

As I stare at the mismatched form she has taken, I can't really see a full proof logical reason why. "An… upgrade? But… why did…?" I trail off.

He happy demeanor turns to one of sadness, then anger. "You don't like it either? What's wrong with you guys?! Garnet said I needed to be stronger and this is what I am!" She yells in my face.

"Stronger?" I ask in confusion at the mismatched symmetry of her body. "Amethyst, you sacrificed strength for balance. Do you not know how stupid that is! Especially since you've been nearly killed by this thing a few times as it is already!" I berate her with my voice slightly increasing in volume. "We don't need some macho bravdo crap!" I shout at her, anger starting to rise at how irresponsible she's being.

"I needed to be stronger in order to beat that thing!" She yells and swipes her giant fist to our side, completely bashing a junk pile away from us. "Now that I am and you goes don't accept that!"

'Grrr! So stubborn and its going to get her and the rest of us kill—' My thoughts are interrupted as I see something to my left.

"Why don't you just tell me what I—!"

"Look out!" Before she can finish, her rant, I push her out of the way of The Slinker's attack. "Argh!" I grunt in pain as the creatures tentacle swipes me directly in my chest, sending me flying back through the air. Before I can right myself in the air, I pass by Steven and Garnet before I impact something hard and everything goes black.


"Gah!" I shout as I sit up.

"Whoa Marcus careful!" I immediately recognize Pearl's voice as she stops me from moving too much.

"Pearl! The others! What happened?" I frantically say as I grab her shoulders.

"Yo." Looking away from her, I look over to see the others sitting at the breakfast bar counter nonchalantly.

"Guys!" I get up and walk halfway to them. "Your okay!" I say happily at seeing them all unharmed. "And your… different Amethyst." I begin to say as I finally take in her new appearance. "Looks good."

"Thanks." She smiles and takes a bit out of a sandwich.

"So what happened, exactly?" I ask to no one in particular.

"The Slinker got away," Amethyst says in an annoyed tone.

"But you an Amethyst are alright," Steven adds.

"And someone learned a valuable lesson." Garnet finishes with a smile directed at the new purple gem, who blushes at the attention.

"Ahhh, okay cool. 'Nough said." I reply with a nod and head over to the fridge before grabbing a soda. As I pull the tab open I remember one other thing. "Wait, what happened to me? I remember blacking out after I saved your butt from The Slinker." I say with a head nod towards Amethyst.

She looks down sheepishly at the memory. "Yeah, sorry about that."

"You hit a wall."

I stare ate Garnet from her answer. "Just… a wall?" She nods. "I hit a wall and that was it?"

"Pretty much." She shrugs her shoulders.

I look over at each person and they all shrug as well. "Alright then." I chug my drink.

Not every chapter ends in a cliffhanger people. Hope you understand.

This is a bit simplified and I had to kind of shorten this from its original form and I apologize for that. As I said before people, expect these long various time frames between chapters while I'm still taking my classes. I'll also be playing games like For Honor (which is awesome by the way) and Halo Wars 2.

However for those of you who are following this story but not me as the author, and if you still want to see more, click on my name on top and you'll see not one but two other stories I'm beginning to write. If your too lazy to see what I'm working with, it's the Transformers: Prime fic, 'The Human Element' and a RWBY fic, 'A Grimm's Handler', with a possible Inuyasha and Ghost in the Shell one in the works.

That's not to say however that I'm putting 'A Tale of A Jade' on hiatus. I'll be working on all my stories as time progresses and work either on several them in one day or focus on one. Steven Universe is kind of getting stale on me and I'm looking for more variety but I will not stop, I will assure you of that.

Whether you guys support this idea or not, well that remains to be seen. I love doing all of this, never get me wrong in that regard, but it just sucks working on other real life stuff. That is my top priority but I'll at least reserve some time for my hobby.

With that said, I'll leave you guys to your daily lives and have fun reading.