In front of the Barn Peridot was talking into her Voice Recorder as Steven and Lapis were standing near her listening. "And then I'll say, Hey, it isn't so bad that we can't go back to Homeworld, am I right? Why don't the 3 of us watch the sun come up and figure out what we're going to do with all this time before Jewel and the others come back together? Peridot, Facet 5." After ending her log she puts the Recorder away.
"Let's begin." She asked the two as Lapis crossed her arms. "This isn't gonna work." This confused both Steven and Peridot who each said. "Huh?" "Wait, what?"
Lapis explained. "After what you tried to do to us back at the Beach House days ago. I...I can't trust you after that experience." After telling them of what Peridot did, back when she was working for the Diamonds Peridot told her. "But that was in the past, back when I was following orders for the Diamonds until Jewel saved me. Please trust me Lapis, I would never do that again." After telling her Steven told her.
"Please Lapis, Peridot isn't the same one that we fought before. Give her a chance."
When Steven asked, his Gf looked at him worriedly and then back at Peridot, who said. "Please? It's not like that anymore. It's different now...I'm different." After finishing her sentence Lapis thought for a moment before taking a deep breath before looking at Steven with a small smile, telling him. "Steven, I don't think this is gonna work." Steven tried to say something.
"But-" Before he finished Lapis patted his back with a smile before flying to the top of the tower near the barn After she flew away onto the tower Steven looks over at Peridot. "Err, sorry. Thought everything was gonna be okay." After telling her she then said. "That was in the past! It's not like that now!"
Steven assures her. "I know." Peridot then explains. "But obviously she doesn't! She's the one who needs to know! I want her to understand I'm not that Peridot anymore!" After telling Steven he then smiled. "Aw Peridot, that's sweet! That's you, you need to show her!" Peridot looked at him confused.
"Follow me."
Minutes later
Inside of the barn, Steven takes out a giant piece of paper and folds it in half. "Cards are a great way to tell someone something if you can't be face to face with them!" He told her before remembering Lapis not looking at Peridot. "Or...If they don't wanna see your face. You gotta give her a taste of the sweet version of Peridot."
"Here, look!" Steven said as he hands Peridot his drawing. "It's you, me and Lapis holding hands!" Peridot looked a bit confused by the drawing. "Where are our noses?" When asked Steven noticed. "Oh, that's kinda part of my style lately." He told her as she noticed the drawing of their hands. "Is not having fingers also your style?"
Steven tells her. "No, I'm-I'm just bad in drawing hands." After telling her he then goes back to the card. "So here's your part, come here!" He gestures for Peridot to sit beside him in which she did as he continues. "Write an apology inside to Lapis so she knows how sorry you are about before, and that everything is okay now." An awkward silence began before Steven realizes the different context of his words. "Just, try to be sincere." He tells Peridot who gives a hum as she begins.
Later
Outside Lapis was on top of the tower, letting out a relaxed sigh as she lies on the roof with her eyes closed peacefully, suddenly from the distance Peridot is heard. "Hey, Lapis! HEY Lapis Lazuli! HEEY!" Hearing this Lapis became eye-wide in frustration as she turns to her side and puts her hands on the sides of her head where her ears would be at, trying to ignore Peridot's shouting.
"Lapis, HEY!" She then looks over at Steven. "Why isn't she responding?" She asked as he told her. "I'm not sure? I thought she was up there..." He then gives it a try. "Lapis, are you up there?" She hears him and softly puts down her arms and looks down before swooping down from the Silo as she asked with a smile. "Yes, Steven?"
He then looks over at Peridot and tells her happily. "Go on!" Peridot hands Lapis the card as she told her. "Steven did the outside, and I did the inside!" She finished proudly as Lapis opens the card with an unimpressed look, reading off Peridot's writing in the card.
"Sorry I nearly neutralized you, Steven and the other Gems. Please forgive me for it is not my fault that happened and it is my Diamonds fault for causing this. Peridot." Lapis doesn't comment further and looks up at Peridot with the same look, as both Steven and Peridot look at her hopefully, the latter grinning in expectancy.
Later
Peridot and Steven were walking back into the barn, Peridots efforts clearly rejected as she began speaking into her recorder. "The noses! One can only conclude that it was the lack of noses! It seems illogical to me that it wouldn't be any of the writing elements! It took me over an hour to compose it, and I was the most sincere as per Steven's instructions!" Steven then suggests.
"It could be she's not much of a reader?" He then has an idea. "How about an apology gift?" This makes Peridot give a grin and say. "Another approach, yes! ...But what?" She asked not knowing a proper apology gift for Lapis as Steven thinks. "Hmm, think of things she likes."
Peridot repeats what he says. "Things she likes." She then recalls. "Lapis Lazuli's are typically partial to water and flying. Hmm...Ah!" She said happily pointing a finger up in the air as Steven gasps in anticipation before Peridot stops for a moment and says. "No..." Steven becomes confused. "No?" Peridot shook her head. "Nuh-uh..." She becomes excited again. "BUT IF!"
"Yeah?"
Peridot scrunches her face up of the idea again. "Nah..." Steven agrees. "Yeah...That'd probably be overdoing it." Steven and Peridot together groan in a mild frustration before Steven looks out the barn thoughtfully as he remembers what Peridot just said about Lapis' preferences. "Hm...water?" He then notices the hole made by the Drill. "I think you have something with that!"
Later
Outside the barn Steven was guiding Lapis by her hand steadily, her eyes covered by her water wings, as while being guided by Steven he looked at her and asked curiously. "You can't see through those, right?" She tells him in honesty.
"Actually, yes." She then smiled. "But it's very blurry." Steven smiles as well. "Good to know." He then gestures his hand. "Well, here we are!" After announcing, Lapis unfolds her wings, her smile soon disappears as she looks up as Peridot interrupted them as she is proudly floating in a rubber water float in a pool where the hole had previously been, commentating Lapis' discovery. "H-2-Oh my GOSH!"
She said, not knowing the earth-term, pool. It's a smaller-than-an-average lake!" Steven then explains. "It's from the hole She, Jewel and Anaya Drilled! Peridot and I sealed it and filled it with water." Lapis looks at Steven, then back at the pool with a disappointed expression.
"It's a gift for you! You know, 'cause water's your thing." Peridot gestured before giving a few chuckles. "Pretty good, right? The barn's out here in the country, but now you can get your moisture fix whenever." She began to wave her fingers wildly. "Do all that water stuff you do!"
Lapis stares at her in disbelief. "Water?" She said while scornfully narrowing her eyes. "Seriously?" Unaware of Lapis' expression, Peridot said with a smile. "Yeah!" Lapis points out. "You do realize that I spent the last few hours at Watermelon Island trapping Jasper under the ocean in that Malachite fusion yesterday, right?" Peridot nods.
"Sure!.. but I thought-"
Lapis cuts her off and begins describing the time event she was in. "It was an endless, crushing darkness. Wet, and bleak, and suffocating. Water was the tomb I lived in for those hours." This caused Peridot to start sinking into the hole of the rubber floater, her pride shot down. "T-Tomb, you say?"
"Yeah. I'm kinda taking a break from the water right now." She then said. "But thanks...For the lake." Steven realizes the mistake as he and Peridot groaned a bit from this before Lapis smiles and reassures Steven. "Don't worry, Steven. It's not your fault." She then spreads her water wings before flying away again, Steven and Peridot staring as Lapis speechlessly till she was back on the tower.
Later
Steven and Peridot were soon back in the barn again, as Peridot was fuming into her recorder while Steven sits on the ground and watches her. "A pool?! What a cloddy idea! Of course, she wouldn't like that! There's nothing, nothing, NOTHING!" She said despairingly as Steven told her.
"There has to be something, something, something...?" He then said to himself thoughtfully. "Maybe, instead of something she likes...Give, her something you like." He told her while spreading his arms in excitement while Peridot looks at him confused. "Umm...Okay? How about, one of my DVD's?"
Steven then asked her. "Which season?" Peridot shrugs telling him. "Five?" He then shrugs. "Trash." Peridot shrugs before agreeing. "I know." She then falls onto the floor groaning in frustration before talking into her Tape Recorder. "Log date...Whatever, Facet...Whatever! Ughh, WHATEVER! Clearly, there's nothing important enough for me to give to Lazuli." She softens her tone. "At least I have you, tape recorder." She soon looks at her Tape Recorder in realization.
Later
Peridot and Steven outside again, as Peridot was presenting a small gift with both hands excitedly to Lapis with Steven beside her. "Ta-dah!" Lapis who's in front of them does not respond but instead stares down angrily at Peridot who gets a bit closer, trying to get a response from Lapis as she points to the gift.
"See, the ribbon is even blue." Peridot excitedly presents the gift to Lapis, who continues to silently and stares at her emotionlessly, making Peridot's grin fade as she glances to Steven, who shrugs in response. "Uh, here, I'll unwrap it for you!" She began to explain while opening the gift. "When I was stuck here, Steven gave me this tape recorder as a gift and I didn't really get it at first, but it made me feel better. Just to talk about the weird stuff that was happening. It'll help you too!"
Steven smiles at Peridot as she holds out the tape recorder to Lapis hopefully, who finally takes the tape recorder by its top side, still making no comment or anything else. "You, umm, press the button to record, an-and then you talk into it!" Peridot nervously instructed her as Steven smiled at Lapis, who gave a small smile before glancing back at Peridot and the Tape Recorder before pressing the red record button.
"I don't want, your garbage." She said angrily at the end before holding the recorder up, easily crushing and dropping it as the tape came out, leaving Steven to stare in horror and shock at the broken Recorder while Peridot stares at it, flinching without blinking as it hits the ground, causing her to become made as she asked in anger.
"What?! were you trapped in a Tape Recorder too?!" This made Lapis looks at her in anger from that comment as Peridot rubs the Gem on her forehead upset. "Look, I get it, you know? You're confused! You can't trust me after that innocent back when I was still working for Homeworld. But you can trust me now, I've changed! We're a part of the Crystal Gems! there's no reason for us to be mad at each other anymore!"
Lapis looks at her with the same expression, not saying anything to her as this made Peridot try to figure out what Lapis wanted that would make her forgive her as she asked. "What you want from me! And whatever that is, I'll do it." She told Lapis who began scowling angrily as she snarls.
"I want you, to leave!" Peridot was visibly hurt by the comment, but regains her determined look and says. "Okay." She then walks away into the hills as Lapis folds her arms, watching as Steven stares after Peridot worriedly as Lapis joins Steven's side with a calm expression.
While watching Steven then asked his Gf worriedly. "Lapis, why are you being so mean to her? She's really trying!" Her expression softens. "Because she nearly killed you, Steven, even me and the others...Why do you still trust her?" As she asked unfolding her arms as Steven explained.
"Because we all know her Lapis, and she didn't even mean to do all that stuff to us, you're not even giving her a chance! You should have at least given her a second chance." Lapis then looks at the broken tape recorder with a tinge of regret, before looking up at Steven again as he continues. "Now it's too late." They both look down at the recorder. "And she's never coming back again."
They then look up in surprise as Peridot's distant cries rise in volume from where she walked away from as they looked in surprised by Peridot running back over the horizon. "Oh, she's coming back again!" Steven said as Peridot runs screaming past them to the barn.
"They're here! AHHHH!" While running to the barn a modern floating green Pod burst out of the clouds above while aiming beams of a lime ray lights at Lapis and Steven, who gasped. "Run!" They then ran inside the barn as well, with Steven panting as he asked. "What is that thing!?"
Peridot who's agitated tells them. "It's a Roaming Eye, a Homeworld tracking vessel!" When she told them, the pod hovers from above the barn and its beam pass in scattered rays through the plank ceiling, making Peridot gasp in fear and covers her mouth quickly before the three relaxed and sigh in relief as the Pod's light disappears and it audibly moves away.
Till the Pod resumes its beam from the partially-repaired broken wall of the shed, making them flee again as Steven pants and Peridot scream as they run out of the barn into the field, making the three cover their heads as it passes over them, the pod focusing its beam on them again.
"No, uh, ah!"
Peridot, who is overcome with fear, makes frightened noises as the pod stares them down, suddenly gaining more visuals as its iris constricting and four similar diamonds surrounding its plumb sides as it moves towards them, making Peridot close her eyes in surrender as she hugs Steven's arm.
"This is it, Steven! They're going to wipe our precious grin off the face of this planet!" Steven then guards her with the arm she was hugging and guards Lapis as well. "Stay behind me! I'll protect you both!" Lapis stops him and says with a small smile. "I got this."
She then moves forward silently and looks back at them, with Peridot looking out from Steven's arm, blinking worriedly before Lapis turns back to the Roaming Eye, its light shades her lime as she draws water up from the pool Steven and Peridot made and shapes it into a hand, flicking the pod and stopping its descent, before palming it into the ground dismissively. Soon the pod forms several diamond patterns around it as she slams into the ground, the three stare at the pod with Lapis looking at it with a mildly triumph stance as the others stare in disbelief with Peridot saying. "Holy smokes." Soon after saying that Pearl is heard from the distance
"Steven!"
They look and see her, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl, Anaya, Yellow Pearl, Onyx, Jewel, Soren, Amethyst, Pink Pearl and Garnet run into the field beside them, noticing the crashed pod. "Holy smokes!" Soren, Amethyst, Pink Pearl said seeing the sight as Pearl asked the three. "Are you alright? We saw the ship and came as fast as we could."
"Yeah, we're okay. Lapis saved us...But, it looks like Homeworld really has it out for us." Steven told them as Peridot quietly starts moving away in a crouched position before Jewel asked. "Peridot are you okay?" Peridot stopped and gave a smile seeing Jewel back as she hugged her before Lapis asked too. "Are you ok?" After asking it made Peridot smile more, as Steven laughs gently standing next to Lapis who gave a smile to him as the other Gems stared curiously.
Suddenly, the pod begins to emit sounds, smoke gushing out as its hatch opens a Peridot emerged from it as she began to stare around towards them, revealing to have a triangularly shaped Peridot Gem for an eye.