Lakeside town, a town like a city and a place for people to almost do as they please. Brea and Iwould hang out every now and then with Dean, Bloodstone and Black Diamond would converse on topics I wouldn't understand as they wait for Beryl to fully recover, and then there's a raven. That raven flew across the woods around Lakeside Town in search of food and a person. Who the person being searched for could be is just about anyone's guess. I landed on the branch and looked around. It saw a lime greenish orb, so the raven began to stare at it.

A green person came out of it slowly. She was dressed as a cyborg and her hair shaped like a triangle. On her forehead, there was a green, triangle-shaped gem that glowed until she exited the orb. She began to look around. The raven knew exactly who she was and why she was here. Peridot recently crash landed in the middle of the forest after fighting the Crystal Gems alongside Jasper. She looked around to see if there was anything she could do to get out of there.

"Aah, what am I supposed to do now!?" Peridot shouted, "The ship exploded and now I'm lost...curse the Crystal Gems and that 'Steven'"

As Peridot neared the exit of the forest to Lakeside City, she was grabbed by a gray person's arm and was pulled back deep into the forest. The raven followed. When Peridot tried to break free of the grasp, she saw a grey, rigid dagger across her neck.

"F-Florence!" Peridot shouted.

"Kind of, but not, Megaman, and I'm not here for frightened greetings" The female attacker pressed the blade of her dagger onto Peridot's neck. "You're going to tell me everything I need to know"

"Y-Yes!" Peridot shouted with fear.

The raven flew off and left a feather behind. It flew towards Lakeside quickly. It landed on the roof an empty warehouse where the Gem Knights, Bloodstone and Black Diamond, stay after being kicked out of my house by my Dad. In the warehouse, Bloodstone was sitting down and looking at a video of a documentary by a blogger while wearing her trench coat. The topic was about the appearance of a gigantic green hand in the sky. She was heavily concerned.

"You look concerned" Black Diamond said as she swung her sword in the air as practice.

"You've been to homeworld longer than I have, right?" Bloodstone asked, "You know I only showed up there until I was exiled a few hundred years later"

"Hai" Black Diamond answered as she swung again.

"Did they advance in technology? More so than humans?"

"Hai" Black Diamond answered as she swung again. "If you went back now, it would be like a caveman going forward in time to present day Earth"

"So they have had a gigantic ship in the shape of a hand?" Bloodstone asked as she finally looked up at Black Diamond.

Black Diamond paused in the middle of her swing. She stared at Bloodstone and had several questions. Bloodstone took the phone and placed it into one of the pockets in her trench coat.

"I thought that was still a work in progress before I left homeworld" Black Diamond answered.

"It crashed recently, and it might've been because of Rose's army… or at least the final three of them and a hybrid of a gem and human"

"Then an invasion has begun" Black Diamond said to herself aloud. "And they might win this time"

Black Diamond made her sword disappear as she sat down. She crossed her legs and began to meditate. As she meditated, she could sense a presence of a familiar animal, one that she felt a connection with. She immediately got up from the ground and ran out of the warehouse and looked at the roof. She saw the same raven that she commanded to fly away in the middle of the bombing of japan.

"R-Raven? Is that really you?" Black Diamond asked, "It's been decades!"

The raven flew down to the palm of her hand and sat on her gem. It projected light from Black Diamond's hand and turned it into a hologram of what it saw in the woods. Black Diamond saw the encounter between Peridot and the being who claims to kind of be Florence. She smiled to herself as her raven flew onto her shoulder.

"Florence is back..." B.D said to herself as she entered the warehouse, "...This just got a little more interesting"

Coming in the next few chapters:

New Monsters

The mysterious bearer of the fluorite

A member of the mentioned Star Gang.