(Steven)
They had been traveling for a while now. air turns out that Connie has space travel sickness. She puked into a plastic bag that Greg had brought twice. Not much but it was still enough to gross out Turquoise.
"Can't we throw that out the door? It smells horrid.", Said Turquoise while she clamped her nose shut.
"Yeah, we can do that. I don't think it's a good idea for us to leave it in the pod.",Steven walked up to Citrine. She was staring off into the streaked starry skyline as it zipped by. Her eyebrows were furrowed.
"What's wrong Citrine?"
"It's nothing"
"Tell me, it's okay"
"...It's just that... I didn't even get to explore the Earth. It's the reason why I left. And now I'm risking everything again and going back to the place I just escaped from. They will be on high guard you know. We can't just waltz in there like we did the first time you got there. I can change the appearance of the pod though. I'll make it look like regular quartz ship. We will make it. Right?"
Steven didn't think she was even talking to him at the end. She needed reassurance if she was to keep going.
"Well make it out fine. We will just act like we are bringing me back. You can just pretend to have another human for the zoo.or maybe you didn't know that the zoo wasn't on homeworld! It will be great. We will get my other friends and we will all live happy on Earth for as long as we want to."
Steven tried to reassure her but he was hard of words himself. He was having doubts.
"okay. We are almost there. Get ready everybody. The plan now is, You humans are all tributes to pink diamonds zoo. Turquoise was just lost and she came here for directions. I will pretend to shut down the ship and watch it while I sneak out to find your other friends. What do they look like?"
"I think someone should just go with you to find the gems. Dad, is that okay if you go with Citrine? I can help Connie get through this easier."
His father nodded in approval. They all readied themselves for their next mission.
Citrine landed the pod into the ports after she changed the pod into a quartz ship. Apparently ships could shape shift too.
It looked like a yellow thumb. It was almost funny enough to laugh at when Steven got out of the ship. But he stopped himself. His father and Citrine were watching from the ship. Turquoise and Connie were at his sides.
"You!", A green haired quartz soldier pointed to them. Steven panicked he hid behind Turquoise and Connie followed his example, not knowing what to do. "Why do you have those, things here? What were your orders?"
"Umm, I was ordered by a noble court gem to grab some humans and bring them to the old zoo but I'm not sure where it is so I just went here. I do t suppose you could just tell me where it is?"
"well, I'm not supposed to give directions unless I can verify the order. Who specifically ordered you to get those, humans?"
"Umm, It was an agate. It was Yellows favorite agate. Her number is D7-1. I'm sure you wouldn't question her. You know what I mean? she can be kind of... cranky."
"Your order is not on file for her. I'm going to have to put you and your humans in a waiting cell until I can get an explanation for this. It will probably take a while. Sorry"
She clapped her hands three times and two larger quartz soldiers came out from another room and walked up to the green haired quartz.
"Take them to the waiting room. Be nice"
"Yes, Prase"
The two quartz soldiers were both green like their leader. They must've all been...Prase gems. They walked up to Turquoise and beckoned her to follow with their hands. Turquoise obliged. She looked nervously back towards Steven and Connie. Steven beckoned silently for Connie to stay and follow them. Steven, however silently ducked behind a pillar.
He was planning on following them in case they needed to be busted out. They probably would need to be, assuming Turquoise's story.
After following silently behind the three gems and Connie for a while, they stopped.
The two homeworld gems pointed into a larger room to the left. It had a padded bench and a desk.
Turquoise walked in looking very nervous. This was the moment that the soldiers would notice if he was gone. They watched Connie follow Turquoise into the room then they pressed on the pad by the outside of the door. A light emitted from the wall then the door space became filled with yellow light that Steven was all too familiar with. They didn't notice his absence. He stayed absolutely still behind the pillar. The soldiers walked back towards the way they came. Steven remembered where they went.
After they were out of ear shot Steven walked over to the door. Turquoise and Connie were already waiting for him by the door.
"Guys,my guess is that Citrine and Dad haven't found the gems yet so we should probably keep still for now. I don't know where else we would go. Ideas?" Steven whispered this as quietly as he could. It was very still in the hall.
"I think your right. We should probably stay for about... an hour. I think that will be plenty of time. Does your dad have his phone on him? we can text each other what is going on."
"That's a good idea, Connie. Can you text him that we are in the waiting room just" waiting" for them to find the gems. Tell him we can escape any time we want. I don't want him freaking out or anything."
"Rodger that, Steven!",said Connie through an elevated whisper.
They texted Greg.He didn't reply after thirty minutes. Steven started to worry. What if they got caught? What would they do to them? They wouldn't kill them, would they?
Steven was watching the hallway from behind his pillar. He was just sitting down staring at Connie from behind the waiting room door. They might as well call it a cell. It just has pads on the bench. That's all that made it nice. The desk doesn't even have anything in it.
He wanted to just go home and sleep in his bed. He was tired of sleeping on cold, hard stone. He fell asleep while waiting for his father to answer their texts.