The Crystal Temps gasped in surprise as the bulky Homeworld Jasper looked out at them with curiosity.

"She… looks like you." Connie whispered to Jasper.

The Temps' Jasper gave a growl and grabbed Connie, running her out of the sight of the others.

The Jasper hopped out, her gem on her right hand.

Another Jasper, with her gem on her forehead, stuck her head out, and jumped to ground, smelling the fresh air. "Home sweet home!" She smirked.

One more big Jasper, gem on her back like Lapis, followed her out and looked happy at her surroundings. She turned to the ship and sighed. "Come on, kid."

Finally, a skinny and a bit shorter Jasper popped her head out and was helped out of the ship by a bigger one.

They didn't see the young hybrid looking out at them. "Whoa… There's tons of them."

Amethyst peeked out of the barn and gave a small frown.

"Oh no… Rose sent them after us! Me especially!" Pearl moaned, sliding to the ground. She glanced at Amethyst. "They may let you live, but they'll shatter me for certain!"

"Calm down." Amethyst said softly. "They won't shatter anyone, they'll just bring them to Homeworld,-"

"To be shattered by Rose herself!" Pearl cried. "What a horrifying honor!"

"Everyone shut up." Jasper hissed.

Lapis peeked out a bit more. "Do you think they'll believe we're humans?"

"No, we may look dumb, but we're not blind." Amethyst replied, seeming offended.

"Yeah." Jasper agreed. "I'm smart, Lapis, you know that."

"I-"

"Lazuli! Shh!" Peridot squealed. "I can't hear what they're saying! All we have to do is keep Connie here until-"

"Hey there, little guy, what are you called?"

They turned to see Connie was gone and they all nearly froze in fear seeing one of the Jasper, the one with a gem on her head, had pinned Connie to the ground, and the girl was crying out, kicking.

"CONNIE!" They all cried. All ran out to save her, Pearl and Amethyst froze when seeing the other Jasper glance up and Pearl ran back to the barn in fear, pulling Amethyst away with her.

"GET AWAY FROM MY-" Jasper stopped when she heard Connie's giggles.

"Ha, ha, ha! Hey! That tickles!" Connie laughed, clutching her belly.

"It's ticklish! That means it's a human, right?" The Jasper asked another. They all weren't as wide as Jasper, and lacked a few inches in height. The runt of them reached their forearm.

"Um… Are we missing something?" The Temps' Jasper asked, helping Connie up.

The group of Quartz looked up and gasped.

"Whoa! Look at you!" The defective one gasped. "You're perfect! That's pretty cool."

"Kid, quiet." One Jasper growled. She glanced back to the Temps. "Why are you three here, with that human?"

"How could you not recognize us right away?" Lapis suddenly said in a snooty voice. "Did you not hear that Pink Diamond sent us out to find this meddlesome child?" Connie flinched when Lapis gripped her shoulder hard as if trying to restrain her. "After those Crystal Gems failed, she sent us, I'm supervising so these fools don't mess it up, understood?"

"Yes, your clarity!" The entire group said. Lapis smirked and pushed Connie to Jasper.

"Hold it, it disgusts me." Lapis gagged. Connie frowned and Lapis winked.

Jasper quickly changed the subject. "So… why are you guys here?"

"Oh, we're actually here for the Crystal," The Temps' gems glowed and waited to see if they should attack. "Gems."

"Wait, the Crystal... Gems?" Lapis asked confused.

"Y-Yeah…" One with her gem on her chest muttered, a tiny blush appearing seeing Lapis. "Um, they're Lady Rose Quartz's lackies. You should know that."

Pearl and Amethyst from inside the barn cringed at the word 'lackies'. Amethyst grabbed a tennis racket to go out and tell them off, but Pearl held her back. Lapis noticed from the yard.

"They ran off a while ago and Rose wants us to find them."

Connie frowned nervously and quickly put her shirt over her gem, they hadn't seen it yet… She tried to look afraid, as Jasper held her. "Please, don't take me away! I have a father, and a barn!"

"Huh. Well, in that case, we're gonna search your barn, kiddo."

Two large Jaspers moved them all aside and were about to search and find the Temps' friends, when Lapis suddenly grabbed one of their arms.

"Wait! Uh…" The Jaspers looked down at her with confusion. "You can't!"

"What is it, your clarity?"

"I have found interest… in a human tradion, soilder." Lapis was searching for something, anything. She then thought of the tennis racket. "It is Tennis!"

"What?" The Temps' Jasper grunted. "I did not see that coming. Lapis, I'm finishing this." She tried to run at the group and poof them all in one blow, and the group were ready for it.

"Yes! Battle!" Skinny cried.

"STOP!" Lapis boomed, scaring them all. "I order you all to compete with us, if you win, you search the barn, if you lose you leave this planet, forever!"

"That sounds fair!" The skinny one cried.

Later, Connie, Lapis, Jasper, and Peridot were all dressed in baseball attire.

"We are the… Earth team!" Connie announced.

They all posed, saying their names.

"Connie!" The girl announced.

"Jasper!"

"Peridot!"

"And Lapis!"

The group watched with surprise, the four of them stepping forward as well.

"And, uh, we are the Homeworld team!" A Jasper announced.

"Jasper!"

"Jasper."

"Uh, Jasper?"

"And Jasper!"

They soon started to play.

"Each player has a maximum of one bounce after it has been hit by their opponent to return the ball over the net and within the boundaries of the court."

Connie hit the ball over, she was a expert at Tennis. A Jasper gasped and fumbled with the ball, bouncing it between her hands until it hit the dirt.

The Temps gave a cheer.

"Once a player fails to do any of these three things, her opponents wins a point."

Skinny, however, seemed to also have a knack for Tennis, and quickly picked up on it. She scored a point for her team, leaving the Temps more then enough worried. "The aim is to win enough points to win a game and enough games to win a set and enough sets to win a match. And whoever wins this one match, well, wins!"

Lapis soon was ready to hit that ball back. She glanced at her team with a reassured smile.

"You got this, Lazuli!" Peridot cheered nearby.

"Lazuli?"

Peridot looked over to see the other team staring with utter shock.

"I know, not the best name, huh." Lapis smirked, blowing a bang out of her face. She waited and then frowned. "Is something wrong?"

"Your Clarity, it's just, ah, we assumed you would reprimand the Peridot harshly, seeing as you are so high above her and she called you by your gem name, and in such a casual manner too." The skinny one whispered.

"I… um…."

"So, can we keep playing? I'm gonna serve the ball now!" A Jasper suddenly called, she hit it before Lapis could react. They had scored.

Connie bit her lip and huddled her team. "We can't be nice right now, just act like your Homeworld counterpart would."

Lapis nodded. "Sorry… I wish they would stop treating me like some goddess, it's freaking me out."

"You'll get through it, Laz. And once this is over, we're gonna celebrate!" Jasper smiled.

Lapis gave a tiny grin back and Peridot clapped to break the talk.

They tried their best to maintain score, but whenever the other team congratulated Lapis everytime she played, she got distracted. Even when she lost the point they congratulated her!

Connie was getting nervous. The Homeworld gems were winning! And also, they had broke one of her tennis rackets… She ran to the barn to get more when Amethyst and Pearl pulled her aside.

"Well? Are you winning?" Pearl asked timidly.

Amethyst smirked and ruffled the girl's hair. "She's gotta be, Connie's a pro…."

Connie bowed her head in shame. "They keep unwittingly throwing Lapis off, they keep showing her rank, and she hates it."

"Hm. I know how that feels…" Amethyst whispered. Pearl nervously fiddled her thumbs. "Hey, after this next match, call a break and get you and Lapis over here."

Soon, that match was over, and the two Temps walked into the barn.

"You wanted to talk to… me?" Lapis asked, eyebrows raised.

"Don't get me wrong, I still don't care for you or your sissy group, excluding Connie, I'm saving my own skin, got it?"

"Right…"

"My advice to handling dealing with your rank is just accepting it. If they treat you like the best, you act the best, that's what Homeworld's would do. As for me, I ignore it, you have it way better." Amethyst muttered angrily, crossing her arms.

"And once we win this," Connie smiled at Lapis.

"We'll celebrate." Lapis smirked, repeating Jasper's words.

They were all soon on the beach again, ready to play. This was it. Thanks to Connie, they managed to get tied with the Homeworld group, this was the final point needed, the fate of their friends and themselves as well.

"This is it." Jasper whispered through gritted teeth. "We've got this, Temps… We always got this."

Peridot firmly nodded.

Lapis gave a grunt in determination.

"Don't listen to them, Lapis, just listen to us. We love you for your real self, and that's what's going to win this game…" Connie said softly.

Lapis smiled slightly.

"Here it comes, Your Clarity!" A Jasper served finally, and the ball came whirring at her.

Lapis readied herself, gripping the racket hard. She gave a yell when it hit, and nearly the entire ocean behind her went up in her moment of triumph as it soared to the other side and hit the ground. They had won!

Jasper gave a "Woo-hoo!" while laughing happily.

"Yeah! We did it!" Connie squealed, running into a hug from Lapis.

Peridot ran up as well and smirked. "Well done."

Both Peri and Jasper had their hands on Lapis, and in their combined joy and relief, they started fusing.

Connie stumbled away and gasped, as did the Homeworld group.

The fusion hugged herself with a beam of a smile plastered on her face. "I won! I did it!" She then froze and saw them all watching. She poofed back to three and a Jasper gave a growl.

"Your kinds aren't allowed to fuse… You aren't allowed to mix, you should know that, who are you?"

Lapis gave a tiny cough. "W-We were just so-"

"Wait… the three of you would never be able to make that stable of a fusion, …." The skinny Jasper glared at them with fury. "unless you did it before. Who is your leader, and where are our gems?!"

Connie ran to her friends, readying for a fight.

"Attack!" A Jasper screeched. All of the quartzs ran at the Temps, weapons now out and ready…

"STOP!" A clear and loud voice yelled. Pearl leaped in front of the Temps and put out her hand in defiance.

There was a moment of shocked silence when it was shatter by Amethyst leaping beside her, panting.

"Pearl, the next time, tell me when you're going to leap in front of a small army?" Amethyst panted to her, whip ready.

"Wait, 8XM?" A Jasper asked dropping her club.

"Yeah, yeah, hey. Missed me?" Amethyst sighed sounding bored.

"This is where you've been hiding? With the Pearl?" Skinny gasped.

"Oh, no, I've only been here for a few hours."

Amethyst shrugged. "But, we won't let you hurt these gems, so back off sis."

"But Rose is looking for you, she wants you two back to her." A diffrent bulky gem said.

"Yes, well… we're not coming…." Pearl answered her shakily.

Skinny stepped forward with a frown. "Not coming? But Rose will punish us if we don't bring you back."

"I just want to stay here, on Earth, home, a little longer guys…" Amethyst whispered, she then walked forward. She then gave a sigh. "I… I'm sick and tired of getting made fun of for being wrong! Gems here don't view me like that! I don't want to be afraid that I'm going to be shattered when I'm not with you anymore! Just… please… let me stay here!"

A Jasper frowned. "We wish we could, runt, but if we don't bring you, Rose will punish us…"

"Unless you say that you couldn't find us, but found Garnet instead." Pearl suggested. Everyone looked at her with surprise. "I mean, Garnet is much more valuable than us, and Rose will get answers from her, right?"

"I guess…" One said, pondering the idea.

Pearl then cringed slightly from what she was about to say now, she hated lying to them, but she had to to save herself and Amethyst. "Garnet's, uh, on Neptune, at the moment… Just go find her, and Rose will dispatch a diffrent team to get us later. That will give us enough time to say goodbye. And since their team won, you have to leave anyway, so there."

The Jaspers stared at her.

"Get outta here!" Amethyst yelled, making them flinch as she cracked her whip.

The group started to walk back to their ship, but the skinny one stayed back to smile at Jasper, who was confused by the gesture.

Skinny walked up and smirked. "Thanks, big sis. … Are you sure you don't want to come back with us? Pink Diamond would probally love a perfect Jasper like you guarding the-."

"Heh, no." Jasper answered bluntly. She narrowed her eyes. "I'm fine where I am, thanks."

"Okay, well, I'm sure you'd be great." Skinny replied. She spun around and walked back to the ship.

They soon took off, finally leaving Earth through a black portal.

"That was exhausting, they tried to fight you, Jasper." Connie moaned, nearly falling into Lapis.

Jasper smirked. "Yep. It was pretty cool."