*Note: I am only promising to try and get the character right in terms of speech and personality. No promises. Also I have no idea what I am doing, I'm just tossing myself into the flow of this :P.
The town of Beach City. A normally quiet, peaceful town, but that all changed when the Gems arrived. Now large monsters come, nearly world ending situations, and not to mention thousands of dollars worth of property damage from planks to buildings to even whole clean up crews, such as stones from the monster called 'Red Eye' or even scorch remnants from the Gem turned monster, otherwise categorized as the Centipeetle Mother. Other then that life has been semi-normal for the residents of this town. What didn't make sense though was how was it called a city with such a low population?
All these questions did not matter to The Archivist as he appeared on one of his personal platforms, platforms that are the only way to get access to the Archive itself. As he materialized out of it, he found himself in a empty dockhouse as he recognized it from one of the records "Dock 15. Location of the underground wrestling match, frequented by the gem Amethyst" he said reading off of one of the record gems he has. He makes it vanish as he folds his arms behind his back as he strolled out of the dock and to the open air. As he stood there, he could feel how this planet varied from the one that the Archive was on. For one this place had a sun and plant life as his was just a cold, barren world. The Archivist shakes his head as he looked around before pulling out a marquis shaped green gem, much like his own "Archive, where do the Gems and this 'Steven' inhabit?" he asked into the gem.
The gem lite up as it with a map of Beach City before responding "Coordinates. Axis of abscissas is eighty degrees, axis of ordinates is seventy degrees" it said as two lines came up and crossed at one point. The map viewed in on the point before showing a 3-D image of the place, a beachhouse in the side of a Gem statue that had, overtime, turned into a large cliff with a lighthouse on top. The Archivist closes the projection as he vanishes in a form of black and green static.
At the beachhouse, Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl were all just watching the sun set behind the ocean. The real reason the Gems were doing is mainly because Steven convinced them to relax and take a day off from the usual 'save the world and preserve Gem history' since the Gem Portal was offline. Plus the Gems saw the video, since Steven showed them, and tried to see what Rose saw of the world. So far no such luck, but they are slowly learning, like of why Rose gave up her form to make Steven. As they watch the sunset, Amethyst smiles "You know, I think we needed this. I mean come on we've gone on numerous missions, no reports of other problems, no weird monsters coming up. I think we deserve a break" she said as she laid back on the blanket.
Next to her, Steven does the same thing as he looks at Pearl and Garnet "Come on you guys, just relax. We all need it... well you guys do" he said, referring to the times he hasn't really helped all that much. Still, he smiled as they all rested
"I will admit that this feels... different. But you shouldn't beat yourself up over this Steven. I remember when I had trouble on missions. Through training, any gems can become great" Pearl said as she smiled at Steven. All Garnet did was nod as she relaxed alongside her teammates.
As the team relaxed, a faint pop is heard as Garnet sits up. She looks over at the beach "Steven. Inside. Now" she said as if ordering him. As the others follow her gaze, they can see the male Gem standing on the beach as he looked up at them.
Steven starts to slink back slowly, remembering the time he saw Peridot "Garnet... who is that?" he asks nervously, unsure if he was friendly or foe.
Pearl just stands up and pulls out her spear from her gem "Steven. Inside. Now. We'll handle this" she said as she hopped off and landed on the beach house terrace. Amethyst and Garnet follow after her as they pull out their own weapons and glare at him.
He simply looks at them as he speaks in the same monotone like voice "Amethyst. Pearl. Garnet. Pleasant surprise to see you three still alive and active... unlike your other Gem companions who changed. Tell me, are you three still angry?" he asked as he sees them hop up and start to come down at him in unison. In the blink of a eye, he vanished from sight as all they hit is sand. A slow clapping is heard as they looked at the terrace to see him standing there "Have you forgotten already? Where I am a mere novice in terms of dexterity and strength when compared to you three, I am superior to you in terms of speed and agility" he said. As he reached up to his gem, his hand entered his gem as he pulled out a gold and black hilt with the image of a butterfly as a base before the blade itself showed up. The blade itself was a good twenty-four inches long and two inches thick, a broadsword like weapon. In the middle of the blade are a row of black rhombus shaped icons with a pale green outline on every one of the rhombus icons.
As he holds it in one hand and lets it rest on his shoulder he looks at them "It seems we are back to square one" he said. As he aims the sword at them "This will not end well. Archive prepare record gem F-0B3S. Description. Archivist against Crystal Gems. Record every aspect of this" he said to the gem. The three gems glared at him as they got ready to fight, but Steven watched from the window.
Who was this male gem? What was his connection to the gems? Either way, Steven still felt he needed to help somehow... only problem was he doesn't know how to activate his gem.