This the part I say something to you guys and say *I DONT OWN POKEMON OR STEVEN UNIVERSE*

It had been two weeks since Ash had moved into the barn and began working for Greg. During Spring Break the wash was swamped with business, but the next week, the steady stream of customers left, leaving Ash and Greg to do split shifts. Ash had just gotten home from his morning shift to realize he was starving, since he didn't have any money to buy food yet, he had been mooching off Steven's home. As he slowly got out of his makeshift bed he quickly looked into his backpack to see a small tin box. "Oh sweet Arceus thank you Brock!" he shouted as he tore off the box's lid and looked at the chocolatey contents inside. Brock had sent them to him in a care package a few days before he arrived in the Gem's world, and after the whole Lapis fiasco, he really needed Brock's cooking. Before he started eating, he had a thought, "I should probably share these with Steven, a way to say "sorry i've been eating your food".

As he opened the door, he saw Steven standing around with bloodshot eyes holding a water gun. Pearl was on the floor soaking wet, and Garnet was feeding Amethyst a tray of cookies. "Is now a bad time?" he asked.

"No Ash it isn't" Pearl answered standing up trying to dry herself off, "Steven is just paranoid because he says he saw something using the gem warp pad the other day. And is now concerned that it is going to attack the house using the one in the living room"

"I thought only other gems could use the warp pads though?" in the past weeks he had been in this world, he had been introduced to many different concepts of Gem life, the fact they lived essentially forever unless killed, they didn't have to eat or sleep unless they chose to, fusion when he met Opal earlier in the week, when Pearl went crazy and tried to go to space he learned that all Gems, not just Lapis, came from space, how Steven's mother Rose Quartz lead a rebellion against Homeworld, and of course the warp pads only worked on gems.

"That's exactly what we told him, and the corrupted gems can't use them either."

"Ash you have to believe me, there was something using the warp stream!"

"I want to believe you bud, but Pearl said it herself, the only thing that can use these things are you guys. Anyway," he awkwardly said trying to change the situation, "I brought candy!"

"That's very kind of you Ash, but i think it'd be best if Steven took a break from sugar" Pearl said

Still licking her lips from the entire tray of cookies she ate, Amethyst immediately took advantage of the situation "if they're up for grabs i'll take em"

"Not in front of Steven, that'd be to cruel" Ash said, "let's go somewhere else and eat em"

"Oooo a date with Ash", she teased causing him to blush, "Garnet you better call Lapis and warn her i'm stealing her man" this caused Ash to blush even more.

"We'll save you some Steven" he quickly said as he pushed Amethyst out the door.

Once they had reached the barn, he offered Amethyst the first piece which she gladly accepted. Popping it into her mouth, stars instantly appeared in her eyes as she lunged to the box barely giving Ash enough time to keep it out of her reach, which really wasn't that much effort as he was much taller than her.

"Gimmie! Gimmie! gimmie!" she shouted "that was the best thing i've ever eaten!". Ash threw her a handful of the candies to her which she turned her back to him while devouring them, similar to how a dog eats something so nobody takes at away. He knew Brock's cooking could have this effect on people but he wasn't expecting anything like this. They kept five or six candies in the tin for Steven while they finished off the rest of them. After, he decided to take out Glalie, per Amethyst's request, and practice using ice beam.

"Freeze that one!" she excitedly commanded the ice type while pointing at a tree. Glalie obliged giggling with delight as she continued to point at different trees and bushes. Ash had earlier begun to notice each of his pokemon had taken favorites to each of the gems, Glalie and Pikachu preferred Amethyst because of her fun personality, Greninja and Staraptor liked Pearl because of her determination and readiness for battle, and Sceptile and Charizard liked Garnet out of respect. He truly was enjoying his time with Amethyst, as she was much more relatable than Garnet or Pearl, but his happy feelings were interrupted by thinking about how desperate Steven had looked back at the house.

"Do you really think Steven was right about the warp pad? I mean, he was right about Lapis and the mirror"

Amethyst sighed "honestly, I don't know. But if Garnet and Pearl are so sure, then Amethyst is naturally wrong. You ever feel like that before Ash?"

Glalie and Pikachu turned to her and crowded her trying their best to comfort her. Ash could only look to the sky thinking of anything to say.

"Yea i guess so, but you know if you kind of believe him, then you should still defend him. I mean did you see how he looked? He really needs someone on his side".

"I guess so. NOW LET'S FREEZE SOME MORE TREES!" she shouted pointing at a tree she'd been eying

"Alright, GLALIE ICE BEAM!"

After freezing nearly every tree surrounding the barn, Amethyst decided to go home. Leaving Ash with absolutely nothing to do but watch the many VHS tapes in the old box, such lovely items to watch were the entire series of the canadian soap opera Camp Pinning Hearts, the entire 1988 summer olympics, including commercials, and a few tapes with no labels he was scared to watch. He settled with the olympics and was just about to finish the men's 400 meter freestyle when he saw something fly past the window at an incredible speed. He followed it with his eyes thinking it was just a shooting star. That was, until he saw it crash into Steven's house.

"Arceus damn it" he said as he ran to the beach to make sure his little buddy was ok. Throwing open the screen door he saw Steven hysterically screaming at the object like a madman, Ash could tell it had been a long time since he had last slept.

The object that crashed through the roof had a lime green, texture and was globelike. At least it was until it sprouted what he could describe as fingers. The globe began to splurt a creamy goop all over the floor when Steven got too close. The object tackled itself into Steven "I was right! I was right!" he screamed as it landed into the warp pad, taking him with it.

"Steven!" Ash screamed trying to follow him, but it was useless as humans couldn't use the warp pad. The rest of the Gems however, heard the commotion and rushed to the living room.

"Who used the warp pad? Amethyst asked concerned

"Something just crashed into the roof, it tackled Steven into the warp pad and left, he kept screaming "I was right!" over and over!" before he could ask to help, Garnet was already on the pad and teleported away.

"Ash, stay here" Pearl instructed him as she and Amethyst followed leaving him and Pikachu to the empty home. They waited for nearly thirty minutes before the massive flash of light indicated the Gems return. Seeing his little buddy was ok, he rushed over and threw him into a big hug

"Steven what the heck happened?"

"Peridot happened" Garnet answered

"Who?"

"Peridot is apparently some sort of spy Homeworld is using to monitor the warp pads on Earth." Pearl explained "luckily Garnet destroyed the pad before she noticed us. As for whatever she has plans for the pads, we're going to have to wait and see.

"So this Peridot lives on the planet you guys came from? The one Lapis was trying to get to? The one that Steven's mom started a revolution against?

"Yes"

"Well that's awfully disturbing. I better go, Greg needs me for the morning shift" with that, Ash had left.

A full week passed without any updates in between the week, he had just returned to the house for some food just in time to see the Gems return looking rather traumatized. "dare i ask?"

"Peridot knows we're here" Garnet sadly answered "as she escaped she promised she would return. With support"

"I knew i'd be afraid to ask"