(Steven)
It's been a few minutes. They couldn't see any ships following them. They both had a hard time relaxing after that situation. Steven and Turquoise both stood very stiff and looked out the window.
Steven decided they should probably set directions so they aren't flying aimlessly through space.
"Is there a map or something? I don't know if we are heading the right way."
"Um. I'll look.", Turquoise moved around the small circular pod. She pressed a side and a panel appeared on the wall. she pulled it out and saw that inside was an inactive destabilizer and a radio transmitter. Neither of those would help them find earth do she put the panel back.
"I can't find anything but an inactive destabilizer and a transmitter that goes to Yellow.",Turquoise looked disappointed when she said this and let out a sigh.
"Maybe there is something we can do on the control panel?",Steven asked.
"hmm", Turquoise walked over to Steven. It was only three steps. The pod was bigger than Peridots escape pod but it was still small.She scanned all the buttons. Then she pressed a small circle button that was to the side. A screen popped up asking coordinates.
"What is Earth's coordinates?", Turquoise asked Steven.
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know? Isn't Earth where you came from! You'd think you would know that."
"I'm sorry. I never even had to know them until now. I didn't know there was a coordinate system in space!"
"Citrine would know them. She did fly to earth before.", Turquoise looked at Stevens pocket where the gem was contained.
"That's a good idea. we should wait for her."
They waited quite a while. Nothing was happening. Steven showed Turquoise a trick that he can do with his fingers to make them look like little sausages. She laughed at him and the time passed.
Soon the pod was blaring loud sounds from the control panel.
"Ugh! Turquoise! Make it STOP!!",Steven had his ears covered.
She pressed a button and it showed that there has been damage to the door.
"The door is broken. It says it needs to be repaired! We need Citrine soon!"
Steven took her gem out of his pocket. "Citrine! It's been a while. come out please!"
Nothing happened. Steven was scared. What if the door opened? Would they be flown into space like the rubies?
"We should try fixing the door somehow",Steven looked at Turquoise in the eyes. She was worried but she probably knew that if she was stuck in space she wouldn't freeze.
"Okay. I will go out there after we stop the pod. we will have to tie you to the front of the pod so you don't go flying out. We can rip your shirt and tie it for a rope."
"okay I'll start ripping my shirt. It's ugly anyways."
Steven took off his loose yellow shirt. He ripped the hem of it and started ripping from there to go across it horizontally so it could be longer. His hands were hurting when he was done but he felt pretty good about his rope shirt
"Okay. Now Steven, I want you to tie the shirt to the handle over there. Tie it three times as tight as you can. This is your lifeline now."
Steven did as he was told. After he tied it he tested it by pulling on it with all his weight. It stayed strong.
"Okay now tie it around your foot and make sure it's tight."
Once Steven did that he looked up to turquoise."What about you? You will fly out too and it's not like you have a jet pack or anything. I think I'll try ripping the ends of my pants into a rope for you."
"okay."
Steven ripped the bottoms off of his pants. he went halfway above his knees. He made a shorter rope but still as good.
"Thanks Steven."
"No prob"
"well, I'm going to open the door now. Im going to try to push the dent back in. Hold on to something."
Turquoise hit a button and the right lights and the alarm started going again. The door opened halfway and wouldn't go any further. The wind sucking them out was very strong. She had a hard time even punching the door to get it to open. With one last huge punch, she got the door to open. It opened too fast. Turquoise was flung out of the pod.
"Turquoise!", Steven yelled for his friend.
Then he heard a loud bang. The dent in the door went back to normal. The door shut with her rope still attached to Stevens leg.
Steven got up.He pressed the same button Turquoise did when she opened the door. Then he pulled on the rope as hard as he could. He grunted and strained with effort as the rope came closer. After a minute of tugging on the rope. He pulled her into the pod. She slammed her hand down on the button as soon as she was back in.
" We are safe. The door is fixed. Everything is going to be fine.", Said Steven in his head as he tried to catch his breath.
"Thank you, Steven!", Turquoise ran to him and tackled him in a hug.
"oh! I'm sorry. I shouldnt have done that. I-I don't know what's-"
"That was a hug! This is great Turquoise! I love hugs! Your welcome by the way. It was pretty scary out there h-"He was cut off by a orange glow in his pants pocket."Citrine! She's reforming!"
He took her gem out of his pocket and lifted her up. It floated into the air and an orange light momentarily blinded them to reveal Citrine. She was in a crouched position when she was fully formed. Her eyes were furious.
"Citrine it's okay we got away!", Steven quickly blurted this before she accidentally punched something.
She stood back up and said,"You did it? Where are we? This doesn't look like Earth?"
"Yeah we need your help. We don't know how to navigate the pod."
"I can do it!"
"Woooo! that's the spirit Citrine!"