The next day, everyone awakens. They get on the Warp Pads in their "home locations" to Brussels in Belgium. In the Crystal Gem temple, Garnet sees the others leave, and gains suspicions to where they went.
In Brussels, the Crystal Gems and their post-baseball game members arrive via Warp Pads, along with Albite and Orthoclase. They walked through the NATO HQ and found a meeting room in front of them. Several leaders from different nations, one of the leaders being Manson, were meeting in the room to discuss some stuff but noticed the gems there.
"WHAT THE?!" leader Manuel Valls of the Sixth French Republic shouts, "Manson, these people came in here, and I'm unsure of their thoughts on our future plans."
"Don't worry," Manson says, "they can partake in the meeting with us."
"I hope so," Queen Victoria of Sweden begins, "aside from the Swedes and my government recovering their findings in the strawberry battlefield."
"WHAT?!" Pearl shouts in disbelief.
"Not now, Pearl," Spanish leader Felipe VI informs her, "we only did that for good reasons, not to mention that those locations you traveled to were controlled by us, the governments, and then protected by us years after your previous visits."
"Of course we let our people visit these areas as tourist attractions," Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish president/prime minister adds, "and our soldiers were there to deal with the monsters, and they were lucky that the monsters were defeated. We'll explain more in the meeting, which starts now."
With that, everyone quiets down, including the Crystal Gems.
"Alright," British prime minister David Cameron announces, "we all have some plans to discuss, and some announcements to make."
With that, Manson begins, "A number of humans that know their way around modern technology have just reported satellite recordings that NATO's satellites picked up when they were flung into orbit around "Homeworld". The recordings showed two gems. One of them had ambitions to join the Crystal Gems and leave the planet, after seeing the Diamonds for who they really are. Her name is Ice. Here is her image."
The hologram in the middle if the room, projected from the NATO compass logo on the floor, turns on, showing an image of the "Ice" gem Manson is talking about. She is cyan, with straight white hair, similar to Pearl. Her outfit is a quartz/ruby uniform, with the "Blue Diamond" symbol on the waist, her top being light blue, her boots being the same color as the symbol on her waist, and her pants being a blackish-bluish color. Her eyes are like Pearl's, except they're blue, except her gemstone is on her chest, like Amethyst and Orthoclase.
Manson continues, "She stole a roaming eye and landed safely in Beach City, but unfortunately, a tsunami destroyed the ship and caused Ice to poof. Luckily, Beach City and the temple were safe, thanks to Lapis Lazuli using her water powers to stop the tsunami. Later on, when no one was paying attention, Ice reformed, and now dons a Crystal-Esque outfit."
The image then blurs into Ice's current form. Her boots are no longer like the Blue Diamond symbol, and her a darker cyan color than her skin. Her outfit is now the same color as her previous pants, except there are no other colors than that on the outfit and no symbols. Wrapped around her neck is a cape, which is supposed to look like the Crystal Gem symbol.
"It is unknown what would happen if she DOES join the Crystal Gems as a member, or what GARNET thinks of her," Manson continues, "speaking of which, there is a possibility that she's starting to get suspicions on what's going on with Steven and NATO. If she ever finds out, who knows what'll happen. We only have our future-vision room to find out. But as for the other gem, she was a Homeworld soldier who once served Pink Diamond, then moved to Yellow Diamond when Rose shattered the Diamond. HER name is Coral."
The hologram then blurs one again, but this time, showing the Coral that Manson is informing everyone about. She has short curly blonde hair with orange highlights and wears a visor shaped like the one Sardonyx wears. She also wears a red sleeveless shirt with arm straps below her shoulders, and red leggings on her legs. The Yellow Diamond symbol is on her shirt's belly, and her gem is on her chest, shaped like Lapis Lazuli's gem.
"She fused in secret with gems like Jasper to fight the Crystal military, violating the Diamonds' policies," Manson continues, "She was always secretive with her fusions, until that one fateful day, when someone caught her fusing and notified Yellow Diamond about it. The latter discussed Coral's penalty with Blue and White Diamond and made an agreement, to send Coral into the corruption chamber. She disagreed, and escaped Homeworld on a Roaming Eye. Now, she's a refugee on Earth, suffering something that I think is a redemption."
"I don't know..." Orthoclase begins, "is it really a good idea to fully include them into the group?"
"Don't worry, Orthoclase," Manson tells her, "these people might have good in them. You recall hearing of Rose Quartz. She saw the beauty in all things. Albite would agree."
Albite places her hand on Orthoclase's shoulder and smiles at her, showing her agreement.
"What about the technological advances?" Valls asks.
"Technological advances?" Amethyst asks.
"Don't take this the wrong way," Manson begins, "but during our visits to gem locations, we've been recovering remnants of gem technology and used them to create new and powerful machines for our people to improve their daily lives, and weapons for our militaries to use against all enemies of freedom and peace."
"You WHAT?!" Lapis asks in shock.
"Those advances were for good reasons," Manson tells her, "we feared that the Crystal Gems might not be there to help us too much, and decided to harness the technology to help our own emergencies without you."
"That makes sense," Peridot says, "and it also means that you created something out of my limb enhancers, which I chose metal powers over."
"We did," Manson says, "we made robots for war. I'll show you them later. But for now, THOSE WERE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS EVERYONE."
Everyone leaves the conference room to return to their normal duties, aside from Manson taking the gems with him to somewhere, to show them the technological advances NATO was performing.
The next chapter will include the technological advances that are shown in chapter one of this story. Ice is created by and property of GemCrust and Coral is created by and property of Adam iuliano004 and ludexkoo.