As Pearl and Connie were battling it out. Steven, Amethyst and Onyx were sitting on one of the row of seats.

"So, Amethyst. How've you been behaving when I was gone?" Onyx asked the purple gem beside him.

Amethyst just rolled her eyes. "Fine I guess."

Onyx let out a tiny grin. "Woah, no need to be hostile."

"Look, Onyx. I'm happy that you're back. But I'm not the same Amethyst you met back in the kindergarten." Amethyst admitted.

Onyx lost his smile. "What do you mean?"

"I learned a lot of stuff. Stuff that are reality changing."

"Aw, come on. You're still scared of spiders." He said as he transformed into a spider, which had one metal limb.

Amethyst just ignored him. Onyx's heart felt numb. He transformed back and his face was clearly depressed.

Steven noticed this. "Onyx, are you alright?"

"Yeah, Steven. I-...I'll be right back." He said to the boy as he went for the warp pad.

Steven looked over to Amethyst. "Why'd you have to be so rude, Amethyst?"

She didn't talk.

Steven just sighed and continued to watch Pearl and Connie train.

Onyx warped back into the temple, he was met by Peridot. "Ah, Onyx. I need some assistance." She ordered.

Onyx looked around to find any problem she wanted him to help with. "With what exactly?"

Peridot turned around and explained. "Well, since you're willing to help me-"

"I didn't say I was gonna help."

"I need you to help me with the drill. And Pearl is busy so she can't help."

Onyx turned towards the temple door and waved. "Alright, have fun with that."

Peridot scowled. "Hey! I'm not done talking to you!" She yelled at the gem as she ran towards Onyx who was heading inside Pearls room.

The door closed on both of them. "Hey, I'm not done talking to you!"

"Get out of here, Peridot. Pearl won't like it if she sees you in her room." He said while walking up to the tallest platform.

Peridot had enough. She quickly jumps on Onyx and wiggled him like a ragdoll. "Hey, what the-"

"I told you to help me! I order you to serve!" Peridot kept yelling.

Unfortunately, Onyx lost balance and fell on a waterslide. The two were screaming. "Onyx, get us out of here!"

"This was your fault!" He then grabbed Peridot like a baby and looked at her eyes. "Look, Peridot. This isn't homeworld anymore. You can't have everything you want. In this planet. You can DO what you want, not tell anyone what to do!"

Peridot was speechless.

Onyx's expression of rage turned into fear as he looked past Peridot to see a waterfall.

Peridot was confused. "What?" She looked back to see the fall. "Ah! No no no!"

The two fell down with the water.

Pearl and Connie were finishing up as they were done with training. Pearl noticed something.

"Hey, where's Onyx?" She asked Steven and Amethyst.

Steven answered. "Well...he kinda' got upset and left."

"What was he upset about." She asked again.

Steven looked at Amethyst, she only looked down, still mad. He didn't know why though.

"I...don't know. He just left." He lied.

Pearl was concerned but didn't really show it. "Hm...I'll go find him. You three can do whatever you want."

She then went down to the warp pad and went back into the temple.

She opened her door and looked around. "Not in here. Where could you be."

She went out of her room and looked at the door. "Hm. He probably went out, maybe with Greg." She guessed as she went back to the warp pad to come back in the arena.

Garnet and Lapis were walking along the beach. They had just finished a mission, which needed Lapis' power.

"Thanks for the help back there, Lapis. You're pretty good out there." Garnet complemented.

Lapis was flattered. "Oh...just trying to help protect the earth."

Garnet then stopped walking and faced Lapis. She was confused. "What is it?" Asked the ocean gem.

"I know what you feel about him." Garnet said monotonously.

"Who...Steven?" Lapis tried to lie.

"No, Onyx."

Lapis bit her lip as she clenched her hand. "Why would you say that?"

Garnet sighed. "Look. I know what it feels like being in love with someone without them knowing." She paused for a moment. "Ruby and Sapphire felt it. And now they are together. And they never wanna be apart again. That's what made me. I was made by love."

Lapis looked down. "But...Pearl loves him too. And I think he loves her more than me."

Garnet took off her shades. "The truth is, he loves both of you equally. Overall, Steven and Amethyst are almost in the same level as the two of you."

"Having that relationship with an Onyx is not that easy. Onyx's are alot more dense than Pearls."

Garnet put her shades back on and continued. "But OUR Onyx is different. He felt love when he met Amethyst, and he felt love when he met Pearl. He was shattered when Rose banished him for awhile."

Lapis just listened. Onyx sounded like a hard but to crack.

"But he pulled through and we all helped him go through his darkest moments, from losing his kind, losing an arm. And it's all because of us, and especially you and Pearl."

"But..." Lapis muttered.

Garnet put a hand on her shoulder. "Onyx is just like me. You might think there's two of him inside. But he is just him."

Lapis smiled. "Thanks, Garnet."

Garnet smiled. "You're a gem too. And you've sacrificed yourself for Steven. You might as well be respected by us."

She said as she kept walking towards the beach house. Lapis followed.

"Uh...where am I?" Onyx said as he sat up. He was wet, and he didn't feel good.

He was glad his arm was waterproof. He sighed and looked around for Peridot. "Peridot!"

He walked around. The place was full of garbage. The room had a purple tint on it.

"Hm...must be Amethyst's room." He continued to walk around to find Peridot.

"Ha! I can't believe I found one! I real leverage optimizer!" Onyx heard as he turned the corner to see Peridot holding a crowbar.

"There you are. Don't steal anything here, this is Amethyst's room." Onyx said to the green gem.

Peridot just held it tight. "I'm gonna...borrow it."

"Okay. But I won't take blame if she notices that something is missing."

Onyx began to walk to try and find the door. Peridot followed. "So, what happened to your...arm?" Peridot asked.

Onyx looked at his metal arm. "Well, I actually don't know why it didn't grow back. It normally did when I was a few thousand years young. But I guess...it decided to not work anymore."

"Hm, you should've just seen a Zircon to check on your arm." Peridot suggested.

"Well, if I step atleast one foot on homeworld. I'll miss every single piece of my body."

"That's not that bad. Your life is already bad on this planet, why not just...you know..."

Onyx sighed. "Well, If I had no reason to be here, I'd be glad to do that." Onyx then tripped on something as Peridot laughed.

"Hah! You're 'funny'." She said while laughing on the floor.

"Ugh." Onyx groaned as he looked back to check what made him trip. It was a cement block. "Why would you have this here Amethyst?" He asked under his breath.

He picked it up as some parts of the block was cracked. The bottom part fell as he turned it around to see that it was a picture.

His heart was numb once more. Since the picture showed all of them, Rose, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and him. But...his face was scratched out.

Peridot stopped laughing and stared at Onyx. "You know what. Stare at that earth rock for how long you want, I'm gonna find things that are actually useful." She said as she looked around Amethyst's room.

Onyx just stared at the picture. He then took out the frame from the cement as he held it. He flipped it around to see that there was a note stuck behind it.

His curiosity came over to him and opened the folded note. It was from Rose.

Dear, Amethyst:

I know that you might not like this, but it's for the best.

I couldn't tell you this face to face, because I can't bare seeing your face while crying.

But I need to tell you that, Onyx is too dangerous.

He might have saved you from the kindergarten and basically raised you. We can't trust him fully.

He came from homeworld with one mission. And that is to fight the Gems who are protecting earth.

I want to trust him, but I just don't want anything bad to happen to the three of you.

I've sent a letter to Pearl about their relationship.

And Garnet about their friendship.

As long as he serves the other diamonds, we can't fully trust him.

I need you to stay away from him even if it hurts him or you.

So that can make him go back to homeworld.

Onyx's are greater than you know. They will destroy anything in their path to complete their mission.

...I just wish I'm wrong about him...

Onyx took in every single sentence to heart. Was his kind really that ruthless?

Was HE bad?

A lot of questions came into mind.

But he couldn't believe that Amethyst and the the other two gave up their love for their leader. He cared about their safety. But love isn't a thing you can control. Especially if you were the one who raised them and loved them.

"Gah!" Peridot screamed as she fell off the mountain of garbage. "Stupid gravity connectors. All wet." She complained.

Onyx crumpled the note and then grabbed Peridot. "Hey, unhand me!"

Onyx gave her a death stare, enough to make her stop talking. Onyx dragged Peridot and tried to find the exit.

"We're getting out of here." Onyx growled. His voice was getting a little demonic. Nyx was taking over. And Onyx had no problem with that.

He finally found the door. The door then started to open. At the other end there was Amethyst, Steven and Connie.

Amethyst was surprised to see Onyx and Peridot in her room. "Hey, ever heard of personal sp-..." She stopped as she saw Onyx holding a note.

She knew what note it was. Her heart started to beat faster as she saw Onyx's face. His eyes were white and his teeth were all sharpened. Nyx took over.

"Onyx..." Amethyst started.

Onyx let go of Peridot and started to cool down. But it wasn't enough. "Is this why you ignored me?" He asked with a deep voice.

"I-..."

"The truth, Amethyst!" He yelled. Making Amethyst and the two humans step back.

Amethyst held back the tears. "Yes! It's the truth."

"I saved you...and it didn't matter to you?!" His face turned into a scowl.

"Wait, no! It mattered to me!" Amethyst said with tears in her eyes.

"Then you gave up that relationship for some leader that didn't want the gem that raised you and loved you?!"

"Don't put Rose into this!" Amethyst replied. Steven trembled hearing his mother's name.

The room was getting hotter. Onyx's body was generating hot air. "I saved you for a reason!"

"Wh-what?" Amethyst let out as she was still crying.

"I saved you because you were special. One of a kind. And I didn't want you to be a slave for the diamonds." Nyx's rage subsided for a moment but quickly came back. "I do that for you and you just brush it off like its nothing?!"

"No, Onyx...I just want-"

"What?!"

Amethyst quickly ran to Onyx and hugged him, even if he was hotter than fire. She just wanted to comfort her friend...her father figure. "Don't put put this on Rose. It was all my fault." She said as she was still crying. "I was young. I thought it was what you would do to protect me! I didn't want to ignore you. I wanted us to be like a real family. Like the stray dogs we lived with for a few years." She cried as she reminisced that exact memory.

She was burning hot, but she didn't care. She felt him cool down.

Suddenly, Onyx hugged her back. She hugged him tight. "I'm sorry for the pain we caused you...I didn't want it to end like this..."

Onyx sighed. "Im sorry as well. I didn't want to blow up like that. But when I saw the note...it tore me to pieces. I knew that you did it because you wanted to be safe... It's what I would do..."

Amethyst looked up at Onyx. Onyx looked back at her. They both smiled.

Onyx carried Amethyst and she just laughed. They then both fell to the ground, laughing. "Who am I kidding. I never changed. I'll never change just because of some dumb earth rule. Rose broke it after you left anyways."

Onyx continued to hug Amethyst like a bear. "It's great to have my cute gem back."

Amethyst blushed. "Thanks pops..."

Steven and Connie then piled up on them. "Group hug!" Steven yelled as they all laughed.

Peridot tried to sneak away but was grabbed by Onyx's metal arm and pulled her into the hug.

She just blushed and went on with it. "Human affection is confusing."

Garnet and Lapis finally made it in the beach house. It seemed like no one was in the living room.

"I wonder what they're doing." Lapis asked.

"They got Peridot with them as well." Garnet said as if it was impossible.

Lapis giggled. "Peridot has been a little...understanding in human terms."

Garnet nodded. "She just need some time to realize why it is so important to protect earth."

"Well...she might not have a choice with you around."

Garnet smirked. "I'll see you later, Lapis. I'm gonna check on the basement. Bye." She said with her usual dull voice.

"Bye!" Lapis replied.

She was left alone in the living room. She hugged her legs as she began to feel comfortable.

The temple door opens. She looked to find Onyx, Amethyst, Peridot, Steven and Connie walking out of Amethyst's room.

Peridot seemed annoyed by the group. But she actually kind of...liked being around them.

Onyx and Amethyst were on the best of terms. They were back to being what they used to be.

Steven and Connie were just happy to see them get together.

Onyx looked at Lapis. "Oh, hey Lapis!"

Her mood was raised by his usual smile. "Hey!"

"You wanna join us? We're gonna visit my dad!" Steven asked Lapis as he held her hands while jumping like a little kid who wanted a toy.

Lapis couldn't say no to the boy. She smiled. "Okay. I'll join you."

They all looked at Peridot and she looked back at them. "What?"

They kept staring. "What?!"

"Do you wanna join us?" Connie asks.

"N-no. I'm gonna finish the drill with Pearl. Where is she anyway?!" She lied.

"Well, she said she went to the barn. Probably doing the drill." Amethyst reminded her.

Peridot looked at Onyx. "Well?!"

"Don't tell me that you want me to carry you there." Onyx whined.

"You have to. I'm mostly important to this project, so you have to obey what I say." Peridot comanded him.

Onyx came close to her face and whispered to her. "Don't push your luck, Peridot." He said with an evil grin.

Peridot was shaken a bit by this. Onyx snatchednher off the ground and put her on his back. "You four can go to Greg. I'm just gonna help Ms. Shorty here."

Peridot slapped the gem she was on. "I'm not short!"

"Yeah, sure." Amethyst said with humor in her tone.

"I'll see you guys in a flash." Onyx said as he disappeared from their sight.

"Well team. Let's go to the car wash!" Steven said as he led Connie, Amethyst and Lapis to the car wash.

As Peridot and Onyx finally made it to the barn. They saw Pearl finishing up the drill. "Hey! I'm gonna finish that!" Peridot yelled at her as she ran to the drill and began to work on it.

Pearl rolled back her eyes and went to Onyx. "So, where did you go earlier?"

"Hm? Oh yeah...uhm. I was just thinking..." Onyx wasn't sure if he wanted to do this.

"Yes?" Pearl knew something was bothering him.

"Uhm...Pearl. Do you still think of Rose?"

Pearl was taken aback by this question. Onyx was waiting patiently for her to answer. He understood how hard it was to comprehend the situation.

"Well...I uh..."

"Honestly, Pearl." Onyx said sternly.

"...I do."

Onyx nodded. "Do you think of her more than you think of me?"

Pearl gave him a heartwarming smile. "Now why would you ask that silly question. Of course I don't. I love you more than I loved Rose."

Onyx held her hand. She leaned on him. Onyx gave her a warm hug as she just blushed. She loves being in his embrace.

They released each other from the embrace as they shared a kiss for a minute. After they separated, Onyx whispered to her. "I'm gonna go hang out with Lapis now. Goodbye!"

He quickly zoomed out of the barn, leaving Pearl fuming. "Onyx!"

She just held her hand on her gem. She smiled. "Are you helping or what?!"

Pearl groaned. "You really know how to kill the mood."

"I'm not killing anything!"

Greg and Amethyst were sitting down on chairs while Steven, Connie and Lapis sat in the back of his van.

"So, Amethyst. Has Onyx ever told you?" Greg asked the purple gem.

Amethyst raised an eyebrow as a sign of confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I guess he hasn't. But the reason why he had met me was because of you."

Amethyst was surprised. She hasn't heard Greg's side of the story before. "Why because of me?"

"Well, he said that since you started hanging out with Pearl, Garnet and Rose. He began to notice you were being dragged away from him."

Amethyst sighed with guilt. "You could say that again."

"He kept walking alone the city and the beach, since he wasn't "needed" in the temple. I felt really bad for him." Greg continued. "Then I saw him. I thought he looked...unique, out of all the other people in this place."

"So...I guess that was a good thing?" Amethyst cut through the problem.

Greg nodded. "Pretty sure it is. But man, you guys were hard on him. He would tell me his problems whenever he hung out. Mostly it was about Pearl. But sometimes it was just you."

"Yeah. I was still young. I didn't know what I could've done." Amethyst blamed herself.

"Oh, its not your fault. We got to hang out when he was gone, remember?" Greg tried to lift the mood up.

"Oh yeah, remember how bad it ended up?" Amethyst looked at Greg with a disappointed look on her face.

Greg grinned innocently. "Sorry about that."

Amethyst just shrugged it off. "Nah, its cool. We're back to being friends again."

Greg nodded as he reclined to his chair.

"Dad! I was meaning to ask you, when are we going back to that motel?" Steven asked his father.

Greg never really thought of that. "Hm...I have no idea kiddo. We can go anytime we want, but only for a few days."

"Let's go now!" Steven requested.

Greg was shocked by his request. "Right now?! Aw geez. I should've watched my mouth." He said to himself.

"Aw...come on dad!" Steven made his infamous star eyed face.

Greg sighed in defeat. "Fine...but we can only bring at least six people. Including me."

Steven frowned at this. He then turned back towards the back of the van. "Hm...well, I know that Connie can't come."

"Sorry, Steven." Connie apologized.

"It's okay. How about you Lapis?"

Lapis didn't exactly know what a "motel" was. But since she couldn't reject Stevens request, she just accepted. "I guess I can join."

Steven jumped with joy. "How about you Amethyst?" He turned to her.

Amethyst thought of it. "Nah, I'm good Steven. I like my room better than any other."

Steven made a sad face. "Okay...I'll go ask Pearl!" He said as he ran towards the beach and to the barn.

But he was cut off by Onyx. "Woah, hey there Steven. Why are you running?"

"Onyx, perfect. Do you want to come with us in the motel?" Steven asked the gem.

"Who's coming with?" Onyx asks.

"Well, there's me, dad, Lapis..." He counted with his fingers. "And you, if you want to."

Onyx scratched the back of his head. "I don't know Steven. Shouldn't we be protecting beach city?"

"Oh come on. Lighten up, we gotta relax sometime!" Steven told Onyx.

"Haven't we been doing that?"

"...nooooo. Anyways, are you coming?" The boy asked once more.

Onyx just sighed. "Fine, I'll come."

"Yes!" Steven whispered in victory. "Now, can you take me to Pearl so I can ask her?"

Onyx's brain stopped functioning for a moment. "Oh no. Lapis and Pearl, on a trip. With me? This is gonna end badly. But I can't just say no to Steven...ugh..."

Onyx shook his head and had his nervous face on. "I don't think she wants to be on a trip with...Greg." Onyx lied.

"Well, we could atleast ask?" Steven said to the gem. He was desparate.

Onyx hesitated for awhile, but finally gave up. "Eh...alright. Hop on."

Steven hopped on Onyx's back as he told him, "Hold on, you might get whiplashed."

Onyx dashed towards the barn. For the second time.

Lapis was just as worried as Onyx. She didn't want to go, because if Steven was gonna ask Pearl to come with them, then there would be some conflicts.

She was just glad the Onyx wasn't coming with her and Pearl on the same trip.

Or that's what she thought.

Pearl and Peridot were finishing up the drill. It was done, but Steven wanted to have a bit more "pizazz" on the drill.

Pearl wasn't really focusing on designing the interior or exterior of the drill. She had something else in mind.

"And I thought you were more than a common Pearl." Peridot shot at Pearl.

Pearl growled at her comment. "I'm not a common Pearl, we've already went through this!"

"Then, why are you just standing there and not helping me "design" this thing." Peridot asked the gem who was now blushing in humility.

"W-well. I was just trying to think of a design!" She excused.

Peridot wasn't buying it. "Uh-huh...just, stop standing there and just help me." She ordered.

Pearl noticed on how calm her commands were. She hasn't been yelling at her that much. "Are you okay, Peridot?"

"Why would you ask that? Of course I am."

"Its just that...you aren't really bossy that much since you came to help me." Pearl said as Peridot stopped what she was doing for a second, then continued.

"I just wanna get out of this planet." She mumbled. Even though it was a lie.

Peridot kept replaying the most hurtful but true thing she had ever heard in her entire life. It was from Onyx.

Back on Homeworld. Almost every gem did what Peridots wanted because of high ranking status.

Peridots needed to be served for they are the technician of Homeworld. They are the reason why they have their ships, weapons, and armor.

But Peridot knew earth was different. They had less advanced technology. And she hated the way humans do what they do.

But that's only because she was learning. Sure she hated it, but this is the place where she got what she thought she didn't need.

Love and friends. She shivered at the thought.

Steven really treated her if she were his sister. The only ones she had to talk with was either Amethyst, Pearl or Lapis.

Garnet and Onyx were a little harder for her to talk to. They were just there for protection. They had a job and one job only.

"Why do you earthlings "feel"." She mumbled under her breath.

Pearl looked at the working gem. "What was that?"

Peridot sighed. "Nothing. I said nothing."

"O-okay?" Pearl knew Peridot was thinking of something. She had been acting weird. But it was probably best to leave her alone. She knew if she kept annoying her, she'd just have one of her temper tantrums again.

A gust of wind suddenly blew from behind the two Gems. They turned around to see Onyx.

Peridot just continued working, she didn't want to face Onyx at the time. Pearl just ran towards Onyx and looked at him directly on the face.

Onyx was uncomfortable. "What?" He asks. Steven hopped off of his back.

"I was just checking..." Pearl said as she pulled back her head.

"Checking...for what?" Onyx asked.

Pearl looked at him. About a few seconds, Onyx got what she was talking about. He blushed. "Naw, I haven't even talked to them yet." He said. Pearl knew he was referring to Lapis as 'them'.

Pearl looked down to see Steven shaking her leg. "Do you want something Steven?"

"Will you come with us on a trip?" Steven asked straightforwardly.

"Hm...It depends on who come with." She said as she gave a sneaky look at Onyx.

Onyx just shook his head. "This is a bad idea." He said to himself.

"Well, there's me, dad, you, Lapis and Onyx!" Steven counted. But he had five only. He looked over to the short green gem and gasped. "And Peridot's coming as well."

This made Peridot drop what she was doing. "What? I'm not going on your little "trip". Why would you even make me go?"

"You ARE part of our family, aren't you?" Steven said.

This made Peridot feel warm inside. Her face was hot. Onyx noticed this. "Peridot, are you...blushing?"

Peridot's eyes widened. "No! Fine, I'll come to your trip."

"Woo hoo!" Steven cheered as he grabbed Peridot and ran back to the car wash. "Steven, wait!" Peridot yelled but the human boy didn't stop.

Pearl and Onyx were alone. Pearl gave him a death stare. Onyx was nervous. "A trip with Lapis huh?"

"Hey, It wasn't my idea! I just agreed since its...Steven!" He defended himself.

He was expecting a punch or a slap. But what he got was a kiss on the lips. It was a quick one. He couldn't even return it.

"I'm pretty sure this trip won't be...good. So I won't promise anything." Pearl said as she walked towards the car wash.

Onyx was left alone.

"I can't keep doing this. This is going to break me."

He then looked at his metal arm. He sighed.

"With those two with me in the same van, will be mostly torture."

"I'll just have fun...for Steven."

Hey there! I told you that was only going to be a shorter one. School is getting really annoying.

But weekends are up next again.

Thank you for the people who support this. I was gonna take this story down fastly, because none are really that interested in this story.

But I guess I should continue till the end. I've got plans for this story. So this'll take alot of time to finish.

Don't Sue me.

Luv Onyx.

PS: Spelling or grammar error are all because of my stupid auto correct. I'm bad XD.