"Now," Manson begins, "I said earlier that four nations, which I meant five, were forming the Anglosphere Legion with India, the Philippines, 1/3 of Africa, among others. That was a ruse. We drop those plans a while ago and used our political ideas to create the Oceanic Division of NATO, which stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Now come with me, I'm going to take you to a theater room where videos will be shown via YouTube describing NATO's history. I have projectors and holoscreens involved. Now come on."
Everyone follows Manson to a theater room that looks lie a cinema, of the luxury class. It serves cinema refreshments just lie at normal cinemas. Popcorn, hot dogs, ice cream, candies, nachos, and of course other treats. For beverages, it served juices, sodas, waters, coffee, and other liquids. Steven got some for himself and Connie, and they along with the gems sat next to each other in adjacent rows to each other. The representatives of the NATO nations, as well as the new Oceanic splinter faction, were sitting in the back row. People in the camera room hook a laptop up to the projector so that it could display a YouTube playlist among other individual videos on YouTube. Then, the screens begin playing.
The screens showed a timeline surrounding the formation of NATO in 1949, the Korean War, new nations like Turkey, Greece, Germany and Spain joining, the Cold War, the Berlin Wall years, the 9/11 attacks, which the gems were shocked about, the first invocation of Article 5 of the treaty, and all that has happened with NATO up to 2016. Newer videos then showed the story of how NATO went to war with Al-Qaeda and ISIS setting aside their differences and uniting each other and the Middle Eastern nations, against their own will for a number of them, to reform the old caliphate. They showed Turkey, Spain, Gibraltar, Andorra, and Portugal, a founding member, being taken by the Caliphate. NATO invoked Article 5, but France was conquered a few days later. By then, Italy, the Balkans, and the rest of Europe were next.
In late 2018, the NATO-Caliphate war had begun. The NATO nations, along with resistance forces in Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar, France, and other conquered nations would go to war with the Caliphate, until all capitals would be destroyed with nuclear missiles. But before the war had begun, NATO built underground fallout shelters to protect themselves and their people. During the construction, they learned about the existence of the Crystal Gems and their birth planet. During the nuclear strikes of early 2019, everyone went into safety, staying in the shelters until the radiations levels dropped to negative numbers.
Luckily, after a few months, they did, and everyone left to rebuilt their once great nations during NATO's glory years. The organization was reborn, with nations like Austria, Morroco, Western Sahara, Sweden, Mexico, the Carribean nations, Finland, Ukraine, Ireland, and Belarus joining the faction. The organization formed a division in Oceania with Australia and New Zealand. Switzerland, as always, decided to stay neutral. The organization started investigations on various gem locations and begin recovering all the technology of those areas. When they did, they snuck in on the missions of the Crystal Gems and began gaining traces of their powers, then replicated those powers over and over again to create new and powerful weapons of war against the Diamonds.
After the videos are done, Steven and his friends exchange glances with each other and follow Manson to a room that they entered once before, but Pearl and Moonstone haven't.
"This room is where I showed Steven, Connie, Amethyst, Peridot and Lapis something," Manson begins, "where I helped them see the truth about their enemies. I think Pearl and Moonstone might want to hear and see this as well."
Moonstone then shakes her head before splitting into two beings. An Albite and an Orthoclase. They introduced themselves to everyone before taking their seats with Pearl in 3 desks. Three helmets with goggles attached to them lower onto their heads and become activated, showing the three gems what they showed Steven and his friends the other day. They show the same expressions, and after the screening is done, the helmets get off their heads and retreat back into the ceiling. Albite, Pearl, and Orthoclase recollect themselves from what just happened and walk with Manson, Steven, and the latter's friends to a mapping room, where Manson points them two locations.
"This is where we are," Manson begins, pointing to a location in England, before continuing on by moving his finger to where Brussels would be in Belgium, "and this city is Brussels, Belgium, where the actual meeting house for NATO summits is. We will be meeting there with the NATO member states' government leaders from now on. There will still be training done in the Floating Arena since the Sky Arena is going to become history. Is everyone clear."
The gems nod their heads and walk with Manson to a secret room. He shows them that it's a room where new weapons are being produced, and research is being done. They all gasp in awe of this. Manson reinforms them that NATO started dealing with space threats since the nuclear aftermath of the NATO-Caliphate War and that the organization would do anything to form an alliance with the Crystal Gems to help the Earth against the Diamonds. He then takes everyone with him to the Warp Pad and says that he'll see them on November 9, 2021, that Garnet is going to somehow find out about what's going on with them, and that there is something secret that he needs to show them. The gems agree with him and bid their farewells to Manson for the moment before warping back to Beach City and the barn, Albite and Orthoclase ending up in the latter. They turn in for the night, waiting for the next day.
The next chapter might include Garnet gaining suspicions about what Steven is doing, and will definitely include Manson showing Steven Universe and co, now with KJD's Moonstone, a room of screens created out of the harnessing of future vision abilities to construct psychic prophecy technology so that the NATO governments can now more futures than Garnet and/or Sapphire ever could. Keep in mind that it's an alternate universe and that there might be a possibility of NATO getting an interest in space threats, if that possibility ever happens. See ya in the next chapter.