That was how I started living with Steven and the Crystal Gems. Over the course of a few months I was introduced to Beach City citizens. Whenever Connie and Greg came over to the Beach House I would leave the house and climb up to the top of the Cliff. I wasn't allowed on a Gem mission yet but I'm sure they would allow me to soon. Amethyst was alright to be around but her hyper energy made it difficult for me to speak to her. Pearl seemed to avoid me for reasons I wasn't sure of, she didn't seem to trust me and kept looking at my Gem. It was as though she was trying to discover a puzzle. I had once tried to ask her if she knew who my… mother… I guess was but she told me she wasn't sure but guessed my gem was a Serendibite.

Apparently Serendibite were created on Homeworld as an upgrade to the Quartz Warriors, they were sent to Earth to test them on Crystal Gems. They were unique gems and there weren't many of them created. They didn't have much physical abilities. I thanked her and she frowned. Garnet was nice to be around and I enjoyed her energy the most. I asked her about the two gems on her palm and she took off her shades showing three eyes, one purple, one red and one blue, She gave me a wide smile and winked saying "You'll find out soon."

"Garnet…" I wined and pat my head, I gave her a smile. A few days later my birthday came and past. Garnet was able to guess it was my birthday and they gave me a nice and quiet celebration. I gave all of them, even Pearl, a hug and thanked them. It was the first time I ever had a real birthday and I even had presents. Steven, with the help of Connie who I still avoided, had given me adventure books. Amethyst bought pepperoni pizza ad gave me a coupon for ten free pizzas. Garnet agreed to give me fighting lessons and gave me black shades like hers that were gray.

Pearl had given me some new clothes that apparently she made herself, they a variety of clothes that all had stars on them. She awkwardly patted my shoulders and said. "You're officially a Crystal Gem." She gave me a small smile as I blushed and gave her a wide smile. All of them gave me a hug and it was the first time I felt so happy in my entire life. The rest of the day went by and Steven dragged me to meet Connie Maheswaran.

Connie was a pretty girl with dark brown skin and a slim figure. She was slightly taller than Steven and had a prominent nose, black eyes with thick eyebrows, and dark brown puffy hair. Her hair went down to her waist. She was wearing a red sideways with matching red shoes. She wore a light yellow shirt with blueish-gray overalls and carried a bag of that was multiple shades of brown and carried mangent glasses with empty frames. I knew that Steven used his healing powers to fix Connie's eyesight on accident.

Before I met Connie I put on the clothes that Pearl made. I wore a dark red short sleeve shirt with a black star on it and black jeans. All of my shirts and dresses had a hole for my gem. I wore the same black shoes that I came with from the Orphanage. Connie smiled at me and introduced herself happily. It went well and they invited me to go to the beach. I decline politely and took a seat near the umbrella outside the house. Steven and Connie went down and sat down on the sand. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. The ground rumbled lightly but I ignored it. There was a high sound that zoomed by my ears and there was a loud explosion. I opened my eyes as the Gems came outside.

"What was that?!" Amethyst yelled. I ran over to where they were and watched as a around green ball rolled out of the water near Connie and Steven. The ball grew legs and stood up. Garnet jumped down from the balcony and landed where the robot was.

"Amethyst! Pearl!" Garnet yelled as she stood the robot ball from walking over towards Steven and Connie. The two Gems did the same thing as Garnet and aimed their feet on the marble. There was a large exploitation as I ran down to meet up with the rest of the Crystal Gems. Steven had Connie in his bubble shield.

"What was that?!" I yelled.

"One of Peridot's machines." Pearl said as Steven released his shield. "Only we've never seen one this big before."

"Or this gooey." Amethyst said as she walked over covered in cyan liquid.

"Amethyst we need to be careful. We don't know what this stuff is." Pearl said and Amethyst began to laugh and learn towards Pearl. "Oh no. Don't you dare get that stuff on me!"

"Gooey hug!" Pearl ran as Amethyst followed her around.

"Peridot…" Connie said and looked over to Steven. "Is that the Gem you told me about? The one that's trying to come to Earth?"

"Yeah we stopped her before, but I guess she can still shoot stuff from space." Steven said and the two of us walked over to Garnet who was crouching near the broken pieces. "So what do you think it was here to do?"

"We destroyed it." Garnet said, standing up. "That's all that matters." Steven nodded but I frowned. I was going to ask a question but Amethyst ran over and hugged Garnet.

"Gooey hug!" Amethyst said happily. Pearl walked over and Garnet grabbed her and gave her a hug.

"But…" I said quietly as the Gems released each other. Garnet placed a hand on my head and I stopped. Garnet's the boss. I frowned and looked up at her as Connie gave Steven a bunch of books. "Garnet…" She didn't say anything and everyone went back inside.
"It's alright Suha!" Steven said. "Everything will be fine!" I didn't say anything in return and Steven passed me the books I recently received. "Maybe this well help you take your mind off it,"

"Fine…" I said frowning as the two of us took a seat on the couch. The Gems went through the Temple Gate door and I started reading. A few hours passed and Steven was talking to Connie on the phone.

"There's an order?!" Steven said shocked and there was a tremor and the two of us flipped over.

"Again?" I groaned and the Gems reappeared.

"Something entered the atmosphere!" Garnet said.

"It's probably thar robot ball thing again." I said and followed them as they ran outside.

"It landed on Mask Island!" Garnet said and we took the Warp Pad to the Island. The island was large with a giant waterfall, multiple lakes, a beach, and many trees. There were multiple crystal clusters and geodes. The robot was climbing over the place and walked over towards the Warp Pad.
"Is it looking for a Warp?!" Pearl asked.

"We have to stop it!" Garnet yelled and the three of them destroyed it again.

"Geez." Steven said as he released the bubble shield. "What are these things trying to do?"

"We're not sure." Pearl said nervously. "We're really not sure…"

"It's not trying to do anything now." Garnet said. Steven and I gave each other a look. This kept happening throughout the entire week. By the time the fifth ball game I had already read all of the collection Connie had given Steven. The Gems still didn't tell us anything, no matter how many times we asked.

"We'll find it in the dessert!" Garnet said and we hopped up.

"Wait guys!" Steven and I yelled. "Wait for us!" But they had already left so we activated the Warps ourselves. All you had to do was to picture the place you were going, since the Gems knew where most of the Warps were, all we had to do was picture falling into the dessert near the Gems.

"STOP! COMING! HERE! YOU! STUPID! BALLS!" Pearl yelled hitting the bottom of her spear on the ball while she said on top of it. Garnet was holding the front of it with her back, making it unable to move while Amethyst used her whips and wrapped them around it holding it from behind.

"Yeah Pearl!" Amethyst yelled. "Go crazy!"
"Wait guys!" Steven yelled. "Stop!" They did. "How many more of these things are you going to have to fight?!"

"Why don't we just follow the stupid thing and see where it goes!" I yelled angrily. "This is ridiculous! You kill it and another one keeps coming back! Use your heads!"

"Are you nuts?!" Amethyst yelled.

"Who knows what could go wrong?!" Pearl yelled.
"We can't fight these things forever." Garnet said. "Well we can… but I don't want to. Let's do it Suha's way."

"Yeah!" Steven yelled and gave me a high five which I happily returned. Ever since living with the Gens I found myself growing closer to Steven, he was probably one of the only friends I ever had."Let's follow the funky flow!" Even if he was weird.

Amethyst, Steven and I sat on top of the ball as the whips retracted and Garnet jumped on. "Alright big guy! Mush!" The ball wobbled forward and went onto the Warp Pad. Next thing we knew, we were back at the Kindergarten. The Gems gasped.

"The Kindergarten." Garnet whispered.

"Why here?" Pearl asked. "This site has been damaged enough by the Gems that were incubated here 6,000 years ago." She started getting more anxious with each word. "That's it! It's been confirmed! This thing is up to no good-" She started taking out her spear.

"Wait!" Steven yelled waving his hands. "We don't even know what it's doing here! Can't we just… see where it wants to go?!"

Pearl paused. "Garnet?!"

Garnet hemmed for a second. "Steven's way." Pearl groaned and retracted her spear into her Gem. The ball jumped down and landed gracefully on the ground using its legs like a helicopter propeller, reducing the impact of the fall.

"What does it want here?" Pearl asked.

"Maybe it just wants to see where Amethyst was made?" Steven suggested.

"Maybe it should mind its own business…" Amethyst said looking ashamed.

"I don't like this at all…" Pearl said nervously.

"But…"

"I'm kind of with Pearl on this one."

"Aw… come on!"

"Well… we don't have much of a choice." I said angrily. "What else can we do?"

All of a sudden it stopped.

"Why'd you stop little buddy?" Steven asked. Garnet moved her arms to grab everyone but missed me. The ball pushed me up into the air, turned into a.. Swirl and then into an upside down pyramid. and landed onto the ground. I fell down on top of it and just as the Gems went to run over to get me, I felt myself fall. I screamed for a split second until I saw large green pipes running across the walls like veins. I felt the Gems land on the Warp Pad and Steven helped me up. We descended down into the earth until reaching a large, green hexagonal shape. THe back wall had what looked to be a large green gemstone. A green pedestal came up from the ground and it sat in the center of the room. It had a Yellow Diamond on the palm and the edges of the room glowed green.

I felt my curiously get to me and walk forward.
"Wait!" Pearl yelled as I walked closer. The giant ball turned elevator made a tinier ball version of itself that walked up the walls near the pedestal. I followed the tiny ball as it made itself into a hand and landed onto it. The room glowed bright neon yellow, tinted green. The screens in the room turned on and it showed what seemed to be a Gem. She, since all the Gems seemed to go with female pronuns though they didn't have a sex since they were just rocks, had lime green skin and pale charteuse yellow hair styled in a tetrahedron shape. Her eyes seemed to be a shade a green or blue but due to her visor were tinted in a dark yellow color. Her mouth and tongue were bluish gray and she had a pointed upper lip. Her gemstone was on her forehead. From what I saw she wore a sleeveless green V-neck outfit that was mostly medium green.

She looked around and I heard the Gems take Steven and hide.

"Established Gem protection link with Control Room." Mystery Gem said and looked down confused. Her fingers turned into a diamond shaped screen. "A new Gem? I didn't receive an update that a new Gem was created after the war… After-What are you? You seem to be like a Serendibite… but unless there was an update with their output form... " She sighed. "Where is your Gem located?"

Too nervous to speak I turned around and lifted my hair, showing her my Gem. She had a confused look on her face but sighed. "Unknown Gem spotted within the Prime Kindergarten Control Panel. Properties and Appearance are overall similar to Serendipity but the Gem does not match. Plug Robonoids has successfully landed on planet Earth and entered Prime Kindergarten Control Room in Facet 5. We'll see it's perform status' check of Kindergarten." The screen turned around and blurred.

"Steven!" I heard and angry whisper and noticed the Gems hidden. Steven leaped up and walked beside me. The ground glowed a neon cyan color and large hands appeared moving around the room.

"Now accounting for all operational injectors. Checking for abarations in perimeter. This Gem tech is simply archaic." The Gem said.
"I don't know… I think it looks pretty cool." Steven said and I covered his mouth. The Gem's face returned and looked at Steven with the palms facing us.

"Hi. I'm Steven." He introduced.

"There appears to be an infestation of, Stevens, in the Kindergarten." She said.

"I'm not so bad once you get to know me." He said.

"And how many more Stevens are present in this area?"

"Oh, just me."

"Ah, that's a relief. So tell me, have Stevens replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth?"

"Oh no, there's lots of humans." Steven said. "There's my dad, Lars and Sadie, the Mailman, Onion… I think, lots of people! She's a human too, well half-human anyway."

"Steven!" I whispered angrily but he kept on talking.

"I see."

"Now I get to ask a question!" Steven said. "What are you doing?"

She sighed. "Let's pick up where we left off." One large fist came down aiming for Steven. Garnet jumped in front and pushed it away.

"A Gem!" The Gem said in fear. Pearl and Amethyst also landed beside them. "More Gems! But the red eye didn't locate any Gems on this planet?!"

"That's because we destroyed it!" Pearl said angrily.

"You what?! But the records say that the Gems were wiped out on Earth! Wait a minute! You're the ones who've been destroying my Robonoids! You're the reason the homeworld Warp is down again?! Is this your desare icon?!" She showed a crying Pancake, it must be from the Crying Breakfast Friends. "Why do you keep destroying my things?!"

"Because we are the Crystal Gems!"

"Pearl… Not deescalating the tension!" I whispered in fear, looking at the giant fists raised in the air by a Gem that wasn't even here. She ignored me.

"We're still alive and we're still the guardians of this planet and all it's living creatures!" Pearl yelled aiming her spear at the screen.

"The Crystal… Gems?" The Gem asked confused and the trio jumped forward trying to destroy the control room. "How dare you?! I'm doing this one way or another! You're just making it more difficult!"

"Amethyst now!" Garnet yelled and Amethyst twisted her whip around the only remaining giant fist and aimed it at the core.

"I'M REPORTING THIS!" THe gem yelled and it went dark.

"Is it over?" Amethyst asked nervously. All of their eyes went to us and walked over glaring.

"Okay… I might've gone a little too far this time…" Steven said ashamed.

"Well Steven we did learn something new because of this decision." Garnet said, but I knew she wasn't done.

"Alright!"

"But this was a pretty bad idea."

"Aw man…" I felt eyes on me but continued to look to the ground, ashamed. I felt a hand on my head as we walked back.

'I'm very disappointed in you.' I heard Garnet's voice and I felt fears fall down my face. Fear was rushing through my head and I knew that it was done. They'll send me back to the orphanage, I was so stupid. But… it was the first time I felt a connection other than the Gems with my past… 'You do realize I can hear your thoughts.'

I jumped and felt heat raise to my cheeks embarrassed.

'Well we're not kicking you out. I might not understand much about you, but I know that Steven and I realize that curiosity can get the best of even the calmest of us. You're on probation, I'm sure Pearl doesn't feel very comfortable with you coming on missions if you'll act just as reckless as Steven and put yourself in danger. You're not allowed back until you can gain that trust back. Steven has been on many missions and although he does happen to make mistakes, he has shown how important his abilities are. You have not."

"Okay…." I whispered and noticed we were already back on the Warp Pad. I looked over at Peal who was in thought until she saw my eyes. "I'm sorry."

"Me too." Steven said and took my hand and gave me a brave smile.

"I'm just happy neither of you are hurt." Pearl said and we warped back.

"I know I shouldn't ask but… do you know what kind of Gem she was? I just…" I trailed off. The door to Temple Gate opened.

"Peridot. Her name is Peridot."