"Landing in five, four, three," Pink Diamond counted down with excitement as the giant pair of pink legs approached the alien planet.
"Don't forget to bend your knees, My Diamond." Pearl offered some advice, but Pink was too excited to care.
"One!" she yelled as she stomped hard on the ground, making some of the lighter ships on the parking lot jump and start beeping.
"Colony, colony, colony!" Pink chanted with her hands in the air as she walked away from the ship with her fateful Pearl following behind.
"I'll make a giant Juggling Gem production center there, some Mime Gems over there, a ballroom/palace and," Pink's excited bouncing and pointing was cut off by Pearl, who was scanning the note with a hole in it.
"MY Diamond, here it says that the prize planet will not be the site of the competition, this planet was picked for its modern stadium and due to being a tourist hot spot." She said.
"Those organizers are really suspicious. Offering a planet and not letting me visit it or get a picture of it. " Pink Diamond's eyes darted left and righ as they were exiting the parking lot. "Maybe we're onto some kind of galactic scam and have to uncover their scheming."
Pink Diamond crouched low and hid behind a corner of a building, looking more suspicious than the pedestrians that she was considering suspicious.
Pearl sighed. And then she smiled. Same old Pink.
"My diamond. There is a wealth of merchendise related to the planet. And I checked everything while we were flying here. All the proper paperwork is in order."
Pearl watched as Pink Diamond looked around and became awed at the amount of stuff being sold. The merchendise had the image of what she hoped to be her future colony on them.
"Gimme!" she ran off. Pearl was left alone. Without instructions to do so she went over to the line of people that were signing up for the competition. She really did spoil Pink too much sometimes. Hearing her laugh in the distance, Pearl smiled.
How could she not.
Some time passed while the line thinned and Pearl reached the stand where the sign-ups were taking place. The orange alien looked her over with its eye. "Aren't you a little scrawny and unequipped to be fighing here?"
"Oh, not me." she put her hands up and then looked around. It was not hard to locate Pink. She pointed at her.
Pink was looked like a full on tourist. Wearing a shirt that depicted what appeared to be a crude image of a face. With the planet and the lunar body that accompanied it being the eyes and the other planets of the star system being a smile. The patter of the shirt was reminiscent of a star.
She had also dyed her hair in the colors of the planet, meaning it was now blue and green.
She had some shopping bags with the planet's logo on them and a few stickers of the planet on her face, one of which was shaped in the crude form of the biological organ - heart, which was the universal way to depict love.
Pearl blushed. The alien snorted. It gave her a ticket and called for the next one in line.
"My diamond, I have obtained the ticket that shall grant you entry into this barbaric tournament." Pearl presented the ticket elegantly, hoping to gain her diamond's favor. But Pink Diamond ignored her perfectly elegant maneuver and took the ticket with excitement.
"Alright, where do I exchange this ticket for my new planet." she said, brashly with a smile, making everyone in the vicinty pay attention to her. She looked around at the ones staring and said "All in good humor, of course. Let the best one win." the crowd seemed content with this and with a murmur they went back to what they were doing before.
But uh oh, her excellency wasn't finished. Oh how Pearl wished her diamond would be more conservative, like Blue.
"Losers." Pink muttered playfully under her breath. The aliens around them became annoyed again and started hurling objects at Pink as she escaped while laughing.
Pearl started walking in her direction, but stopped upon seeing her Diamond bump into somebody and that somebody not immediately falling due to her size and weight.
The alien male she bumped into, along with his two buddies, was a good meter shorter than Pink. His build appeared to be strudy. His green skin was covered in orange circles, from some of which hair grew, mostly on his face, where he had shaped it into a sharp beard. He had only a jacket and pants on him, with the jacked being partially unzipped to show off the short tentacles on his chest.
"Sorry for bumping into you." Pink smiled sincerely. "It's just that this place is so fun, I kinda got lost in the moment."
"Cut it out." the person said, obviously annoyed at Pink's behavior. He looked at her accessoaries with a judgemental gaze. "You won't even pass the preliminary round with all of that jumk weighing you down, don't look look down on others who are seriously serious about this."
He bumped Pink with his shoulder as he passed her and walked forward.
Pink didn't say anything but her smile was gone. She shot one look at the man and headed for the waiting area. Pearl followed her.
"Everybody, get ready! The tournament to determine the fate of a whole world is about to begin." the announcer alien lady in the colorful and extravagant suit called throungh the sound teleportation device in her hand.
"Due to the large number of contestants, we'll be having a preliminary round." her voice suddenly became gruff and serious. "Only the toughest of the tough, the most cunning of the cunning, the boldest of the bold, will get through here and earn the right to compete in our tournament."
The crowd cheered.
In the middle of the arena the contestants were gathered. They were stuffed shoulder to shoulder, face to armpit.
"Someone needs to clean this place from all the filth.", Barr, the green alien tough guy with orange spots on his green skin said.
"Speaking of filth, where's that pink piece of cotton you scared off?" one of his grunts asked.
"I saw she was eager to come so I had a friend give her directions." Barr chuckled. He wasn't paying attention to the announcements so he didn't really understand why the floor disappeared from under him.
No biggie though.
He angled his body, so that he fell towards the edge of this new crater. As soon as he caught the wall after a few minutes of falling, it was two leaps up with his enhanced strength.
He jumped out of the hole and onto land.
"Wow, a second contestant has passed the challenge!" the announcer and the crowd cheered.
"Second?" Barr looked around. Who could possibly beat him here.
"Hey there, nice to meet you again." the pink piece of cotton waved at him, she was slightly out of breath but she gave him a competetive smile. "Jerk."