Aaron's ship was hurdling through the depths of space. In the distance he could see Earth. Images of the oceans, the creatures inside, and the expansive masses of land rushed through his mind. His focus was lost while all of the old memories of Earth resurfaced in his mind while at the same time his ship was getting closer to Earth with no intent on slowing down.

At the same time…

Steven along with his fellow Crystal Gems and Connie were laying on the beach looking at the stars together. "Aren't they pretty?" Steven asked.

"Beautiful." Connie said.

"Agreed." Garnet said adjusting her visor to show her top eye.

"Booring." Amethyst emphasized.

"They're just balls of heated gas in the recess of space." Pearl explained. "But I do see how you find the sparkling lights to be… pretty."

"Look, a shooting star! Everyone make a wish!" Connie shouted excitedly pointing to the sky and then closing her eyes.

"Steven closed his eyes and smiled excitedly."

Amethyst just shrugged and did the same.

"Done." Garnet said with no expression on her face.

"Oh, Earth traditions." Pearl said smiling. "Oh what the heck." She closed her eyes and made a wish.

"I wished for pizza. What did you guys wish for?" Amethyst asked excitedly.

"Amethyst, you're not supposed to say your wish." Connie explained smiling at her.

"So, no pizza?" She frowned.

"We can have pizza later." Garnet said putting her hands behind her head. "My wish already came true."

"What is it?" Steven asked running over to her.

"To have all of my friends here, together." Garnet said pulling all of them in to a hug.

"Garnet." Steven moaned as she broke the hug.

…

What they thought was a shooting star was actually Aaron's ship entering the atmosphere. He snapped out of his trance when he heard alarms blaring and red lights flashing. He quickly took over the controls and started pulling the ship up trying to stabilize it while also trying to slow it down. He forced the ship up long enough to slow it down as it plowed through the earth eventually coming to a stop leaving a trail of smoke and destruction behind it. Aaron forced the hatch open and exited the ship to survey his surroundings. His ship had created a large crater that concealed part of it from people far away. He climbed the hill and stood atop it; he saw a town, some woods, and a large rock formation with a sandy beach beneath it and what looked like a house. He heard his stomach growl. "Need food." He mumbled as he walked towards the town.

He walked through the town clad in his armor until he saw a supermarket; it was closed. Aaron was in no mood to wait as he punched the door open with his fist. He heard an alarm go off and punched the control panel until it shut off. "I need something to eat." He thought to himself as he walked down the aisles. He remembered something called a sandwich as he walked down the aisles collecting the necessary ingredients to create the food item. He took a loaf of bread, some mustard, roast beef, Swiss cheese, lettuce, and tomato and combined them to what he remembered. He had eaten three sandwiches before he was satisfied. Then another feeling came to him, thirst. He walked to a cooler and pulled out a blue can with a cartoon picture of a cherry on it; it read cherry cola. Aaron opened the can as the bottom slit in his helmet opened revealing his mouth. One sip and a wave of pure joy washed over him. All of his thoughts of pain and suffering on Homeworld seemed to disappear as he drank the rest of the soda. "That was amazing." Aaron thought to himself as he drank another can faster than the last time. "I need more of that." He ripped the cooler from the wall and carried it towards the exit of the store with him. He saw a rack on the wall labeled seeds, and memories of helping someone garden seemed to come back to him. He grabbed several packets of the seeds before exiting the store with the cooler in his hands. When he got back to his ship, he wired the cooler to the ship's power core and then proceeded to plant the seeds in the ground and water them with an empty can that he had filled from a nearby river. He climbed in to the captain's chair of his ship and reclined as he fell asleep.

He woke up the next morning to an excited shrieking noise. He quickly exited the ship to see what it was. Standing there was a spectacled boy with blonde hair and a rather large figure. "Greetings extraterrestrial. My name is Ro-nal-do." He said slowly as he began taking pictures of Aaron with some rectangular device that kept emitting a bright light. Aaron walked over and took the device from him. "That's my phone. I use it to keep track of all the weird stuff in Beach City, and I put it on my blog, Keep Beach City Weird. Would you mind saying a few words for me."

Aaron crushed the phone in his hand and threw it to the ground. "Leave, now!" Ronaldo picked up the shattered remains of his phone and ran off fearing what he just saw.

Steven was just sitting down for his morning breakfast of waffles when he heard banging on the door. "Steven! Steven! Steeeevenn!" Ronaldo shouted banging on the door until Steven went to answer it.

"What is it, Ronaldo?" Steven asked shooting a glance over at his breakfast. "Amethyst, that's mine." He glared at her while she just shrugged and ate it anyway. "I guess I can just get a donut later." He sighed.

"Steven, did you notice anything in the sky last night?" Ronaldo asked nervously.

"Well I did see a shooting star." He said recalling the events of last night.

"It wasn't a shooting star. It…was…a…spaceship!" Ronaldo said shaking the small boy.

"Are you sure?" Steven asked nervously. "It could be a Homeworld Gem. I better go get the others."

"There's no time. Come on, before he drains our natural resources!" Ronaldo grabbed Steven's arm and began running with him, but not before they stopped at the Big Donut where Steven got his breakfast.

They were still walking through the town when they saw the mayor giving a speech in front of the supermarket. "Now the break-in to the supermarket was done by some sort of criminal mastermind, but I assure you that we are launching a full investigation in to what happened. If anyone has any information as to what happened, they are asked to contact the police. And remember, vote for Mayor Dewey."

"It was an alien!" Ronaldo shouted.

"That's enough." Mayor Dewey said walking off.

"Don't worry, I believe you Ronaldo." Steven said smiling at him.

"Let me go show you where he is." Ronaldo began walking with Steven to the crater he had discovered earlier that morning.

"It kind of looks like a Gem ship, but not like any of the ones I've seen." Steven said looking at it. "Stay back Ronaldo. I got this." Steven jumped down in to the crater and approached the ship.

The hatch opened as Aaron walked out. "I thought I told you to leave." He glared behind his visor at Ronaldo.

"What are you doing here?" Steven asked glaring at Aaron and noticing the Gem visible through his chest plate.

"It's none of your business, human. Now, leave." Aaron said making a fist.

"I'm a Crystal Gem, and it is my business." Steven said forming his shield.

"The hybrid!" Aaron said in shock. "You are the reason I'm here, the reason I exist. I'm going to destroy you!" Aaron formed his spear and ran at Steven knocking him on to his side.

"The reason that you exist, what's that supposed to mean?" Steven asked standing up and rushing Aaron who was pushed back slightly by the attack.

"The Diamonds made me to crush you." Aaron fired several beams from his staff that Steven blocked with his shield.

"Steven!" Pearl shouted as she, Garnet, and Amethyst ran over to him. "Amethyst said that Ronaldo dragged you off and we came here as fast as we could to see what it was." She then looked over at Aaron. "An Indigolite! What is your business here?" Pearl asked eyeing the gem visible in his armor.

"To take out the hybrid. Where is your master, Pearl?" Aaron glared at her.

"I serve myself!" Pearl shouted wielding her spear while Garnet readied her fists and Amethyst pulled out her whip.

"What a ragtag bunch. A Pearl with no master, a perma-fusion, and a defective Quartz, pathetic and disgraceful." Aaron said rushing at them with his spear.

"You're the pathetic one!" Garnet shouted as she swung at him and knocked him back.

"His armor is protecting him!" Pearl said glaring at Aaron who brushed off the attack. She and him locked spears both showing strong technique and no clear advantage.

"Allow me to help with that." Amethyst's whip wrapped around Aaron and dragged him through the dirt. He formed his spear and hurled it at her causing her to lose her grip on the whip.

"Why can't Homeworld just leave us…alone!?" Garnet shouted as she landed a powerful uppercut on Aaron who was thrown back by the force.

"I didn't want to be here. It's…his…fault." Aaron mumbled weakly pointing at Steven before passing out.

"What do we do with him?" Pearl asked.

"I do. We take him back to the temple and find out what he knows." Garnet said picking Aaron up and swinging him over her shoulder.

"Hey Pearl." Steven asked running up beside her. "What's an Indigolite?"

"Indigolites are very powerful Gems. They possess cold, calculating, tactical minds along with impressive fighting skills; their emotions rarely surface. They serve as assassins for Homeworld and truly are a model of strategy and power…" Pearl explained.

"But they're flawed." Garnet chimed in. "They only think about themselves and rarely take orders from others. So few of them exist on Homeworld because most of them flee the planet. They find comfort in being by themselves which is why they take on the role of assassins, not soldiers, and they usually only take orders directly from their Diamond."

"So you think the Diamonds wanted me?" Steven asked nervously.

"Yes, but we won't let them." Garnet said as they continued walking to the temple. Steven smiled and nodded his head.

A little while later…

Aaron's eyes opened. He tried moving his arms, but something was holding him back. "Where am I?" He asked trying to get a better look at his surroundings only to see Steven staring at him directly.

"You're in my house." Steven said smiling.

"Now, let's see who you really are." Garnet said walking over and grabbing the helmet. She pulled it off and let it fall to the floor out of shock. "Y-y-you're a hu-human?"

"Whaaaaat?" Pearl asked jumping back.

"Well this just got interesting." Amethyst said walking over.

"This is so cool!" Steven ran up to Aaron while Pearl held him back.

"Steven! Don't go near him. We still don't know what he is." Pearl said nervously.

Aaron looked around and broke the ropes and then stood up. He hit the stone on his wrist activating the line to the Diamonds. A Pearl answered. "Yellow Diamond's hybrid reporting in. I need her immediately." The Pearl nodded its head as Yellow Diamond appeared on the screen.

"Have you destroyed the other one yet?" She asked.

"No, I have failed my mission and have been captured." Aaron said turning the screen to the Gems who grew nervous.

"You bring shame to Homeworld and will be shattered when you return." She said making a fist.

Steven ran over and ripped the stone from Aaron's gauntlet. "He's not going back to Homeworld. He's staying on Earth where he belongs!"

"Neither you nor him have any say in this matter." Yellow Diamond said.

"Well you don't have any say about me doing this!" Steven ran outside with the Gems and Aaron following closely behind him. Aaron watched in horror as Steven threw the stone in to the ocean.

Aaron grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. "You idiot, now how will I get home?"

Garnet picked up Aaron who dropped Steven. "You are home. Homeworld is not your home. It was your prison."

Aaron looked at her and saw several things flash in his mind. Garnet dropped him on to the sand. "No, no, no, it…can't…be. Homeworld gave me this power. I serve the Diamonds. Earth left me with nothing."

"What's going on with him?" Steven asked watching Aaron start to cry.

"He's coming back to his senses." Garnet crossed her arms. "Come on. let's give him some time to process all of this." She grabbed Steven while she and the others all went back inside. Aaron was on the beach, crying and punching the ground in a violent manner that left a few craters due to the enhanced strength of his gauntlets.

Steven watched from a window and sighed. "Hopefully I can help him."