Greg drove towards the beach. He was gonna tell the Gems something important.
He was excited to see their reactions to what he was gonna say to them.
Plus, he wanted them to do him a favor.
He finally made it to his destination. He got out of the van and ran up the hill, towards the stairs. Stepping in front of the door, he knocked on it thrice. Waiting until someone opened it, he tapped his foot impatiently.
The door opened slightly. It was Lapis who opened it. "Uhm...hey." Greg greeted.
Lapis waved her hand and replied, "Hello...are you here for Steven?" The ocean gem asked.
"Well...yes, I guess." He answered awkwardly. He still had a hard time being comfortable with her with Steven. Because she stole the ocean, almost drowned Steven, broke his leg, and wrecked the van.
Lapis opened the door widely, so Greg can enter. The first thing he noticed was that the place was a mess, but that didn't surprise him. But what did surprise him was everyone looked so beat up.
"What happened to you guys?" He asked the Gems.
Steven removed an ice-pack from his head and replied to his father, "Well, we kinda' got carried away by a bet we made."
Greg was lost. "What was the bet?"
Amethyst answered for the boy. "The bet was, if we beat Onyx in a duel, we get to know how he makes his soup so perfect."
Onyx sighed heavily. "I told you guys, you could've just asked. But nope, you decided to be lethal."
"But what's the fun in asking?" Amethyst said with a bored expression.
Pearl scoffed. "Well first off is that getting hurt isn't 'fun'. And secondly, we all know that we want to know how he does it...but you've got to commit."
Steven sighed. "I am committed." He sadly slumped his shoulders.
Greg decided to join in the conversation. "Well, I can teach you a thing or two about that souo, Steven."
Steven's face lit up with hope. "Really? But wait...when Onyx wasn't here, why didn't any of you tell me about the soup?"
"It's because he wasn't in our minds before he came back." She nervously looked at said gem.
Onyx just looked back at her and winked. Pearl's face flushed as she shyly looked down.
Greg noticed that everyone was finally silent. He took it as his cue. "Alright, I came here to tell you guys good news?"
"Did you get a new van?" Pearl guessed hopefully.
"Uh, no-"
"Did your hair finally fall off?" Amethyst joked.
"That's obviously a no, Amethyst." Greg replied, not laughing at her joke.
"Is there a new mayor?" Steven asks.
"No..." Greg grumbled as he face palmed.
"Did you finally get a new job?" Garnet asks with her usual stoic voice.
Greg raised his arms. "Yes! I can't believe you actually guessed the-...oh, future vision."
Garnet smirked and fixed her shades, in a sign of victory.
"Oh did you now? What is it?" Onyx asks his friend.
Greg just stood in silence with a big smile on his face, keeping the suspense in mild. He finally let it out. "I was given a job to be a plumber!"
The Gems were silent. Onyx and Amethyst held their laughter, while Steven's eyes were filled with excitement. "That's awesome dad! I didn't know you could fix toilets!"
Amethyst snorted a laugh. "Yeah, Greg. I can't believe you got a job that is way lower than your last one."
Greg groaned. "Well someone's got to make a living in this family."
"Greg, we don't even need money. But I guess Steven does..." Pearl looked at the boy. He looked really excited for his father.
Steven suddenly changed his expression. "But dad, aren't we gonna go to Beach-a-Palooza tonight?"
"Beach-a-pawhata?" Peridot said in a tongue tied manner.
"It's Beach-a-Palooza. It's when you and your family or friends get to hang out on a beach with performances on a stage!" Steven explained to her.
"Uh, don't we do that all the time?" Peridot asks the human/gem hybrid.
"I guess...but without the stage and performances."
Peridot put one hand on her chin. "Hm...is singing a performance?"
Steven nodded slowly, confused to where she was going with this conversation. "...yeah?"
Peridot's eyes lit up. "Then yes, we do that everyday."
Steven was just confused. "I don't think we have a performers, Peridot."
"Yes we have." Peridot points one finger towards Pearl. The pale gem flinched at the attention. "Pearl sings on the beach almost everyday!" Peridot said in a rather confused state. "So is that called beach-a-palooka?"
"I do not!" Pearl argued.
Peridot just laughed. "Yes you do. You do it while crying too."
Pearl growled. She stood up from the couch, and faced her to let her know that she wasn't having any of it. "Listen here you little loudmouth-"
"Stop." Pearl and Peridot looked at Garnet. "This isn't about you two. This is about Greg." Garnet said to the two technicians.
Pearl sighed and sat back down beside Garnet. Peridot scooted beside Steven to keep herself calm. After she saw the two calm down, Garnet gave Greg a nod, letting him know that he could continue on.
Greg nodded in reply. "Okay, yes, I'm a plumber now. Do I know how to fix toilets?" He rubbed his naped and hissed in embarrassment. "Well...that's why I came here."
Onyx caught up to what he was gonna say next. "Oh no, there's no way that I'm fixing toilets for people." He said bitterly.
"Come on, Onyx. It won't be that bad." Greg tried to convince him. But that wasn't enough.
"There is no way. Sorry Greg, but I'm backing out on this one." Onyx walked to the kitchenette, and washed some dirty dishes.
Greg groaned. Amethyst came up with a question. "Wait a minute. If you didn't know how to fix toilets and stuff, why did you take the job?"
Greg's eyes widened. He quickly scrambled words inside his mind to find the right answer. "Well, you see..."
The Gems were listening. No one broke his moment. And it made him even more nervous. "Uh...I just wanted a job with a higher pay raise, you know?"
Amethyst shrugged. "I've never had a job, so no, I don't know."
Garnet decided to ask one more time. "Again, what did you come here for?"
Greg didn't hesitate anymore. "You see, you guys can do almost anything. I was hoping you can be my...plumbers?"
Garnet didn't know what to make of this decision. She looked at Onyx, who looked back at her. Onyx just nodded slowly. Garnet sighed.
The fusion stood up and walked toward Greg. She put a hand on his shoulder and smirked. "We'll do it."
Greg smiled. "Really?"
Steven jumped in joy. "Yeah! We're plumbers!"
Amethyst groaned, while Pearl just sat there looking confused. She was confused on why Garnet would accept to work for Greg. Sure he was part of their family. But it wasn't that easy to make Garnet decide. And she was confused because she didn't properly know what a plumber is.
Onyx walked up to his fellow gems. "Alright, you guys go do that, while I go on a mission."
Steven groaned in disappointment. "Aw...aren't you coming with us?"
Onyx picked up his top hat from the table and put it on his head. "Sorry Steven. But this is pretty important."
Steven looked down in sadness. Onyx knelt down and ruffled his hair. "Don't worry, Steven. I'll be back tomorrow evening."
Steven lifted his head. "What? But you'll miss Beach-a-Palooza."
Garnet huffed. "Trust me, he won't."
Steven just looked confused. "But he said he'll be back tomorrow."
Garnet just gave him a smirk. But he still didn't understand.
Onyx clapped his hands. "Okay. So, I'll be leaving for awhile...you guys have fun, and don't cause too much trouble." He turned around and walked away from them, heading to the warp pad. He double checked his stuff before he warped away.
Pearl looked at Lapis, she looked back at her. They knew what to do.
Pearl stood up from the couch and went to Onyx. While Lapis sneaked away from the others conversation, she went towards Onyx as well.
The two Gems walked up behind Onyx. "Of you two are gonna ask if you can come, that's a no." He turned around to face them. "It's pretty hard to get to where I'm going."
Pearl subtly shook her head. "No, we were just gonna say goodbye." She said with a worried smile.
Onyx saw through it, but it wasn't time to have a long talk. He just gave them both a smile of reassurance. "Don't worry you two. I'll be home tomorrow. It's not like I'll be gone forever."
Lapis gripped her hand on her other arm. "I hope not." She mumbled under her breath.
Pearl gave Onyx a warm, deep kiss. Lapis felt awfully awkward, so she just looked away.
Onyx ended the kiss and smiled at Pearl. "You're so nice all of a sudden." He teased.
Pearl just rolled her eyes back and scoffed at him. "I just want to remind you that you need to come back in one piece."
"Oh that maybe a problem. I can't keep promises right now." The dark gem smiled proudly.
Pearl smiled back and walked back to the others. The Onyx she knew never went away. And she wanted him to stay like that.
Onyx waved at her, then looked at an awkward looking Lapis. "Sorry about that." He apologized.
Lapis just nodded. "It's not a big deal." She slowly raised her arms and rested them on his shoulders.
Onyx gave her a smile that made her spine tingle. Lapis looked down in embarrassment.
Onyx tilted her head to make her face him. Her eyes kept looking down. He sighed. "You don't need to act so shy around me you know. I won't stop loving you even if you show your true personality."
That was it. Lapis lunged at him and began sobbing on his shoulders.
Onyx embraced her. "What's wrong? I'm only gonna be gone for a day."
Lapis lifted herself up and rested her arms and body on his chest.
Onyx hugged her again. "What's wrong?" He asked her softly, stroking her cheek affectionately.
Lapis gazed at his eyes, looking crestfallen. "I don't want you to go. What if you don't come back?" She said, panic in her voice.
"Don't worry Lapis. I'll be okay throughout my mission. I swear." Onyx said in reassurance. He gives her a kiss on the lips, she kissed back. He tightens the hug and released her after. "You make sure that you and Pearl have fun. I don't need to be here so you two can be happy and have fun. You have Steven."
Lapis sniffled as she nodded. Onyx gave her one last warm smile and jumped on the warp pad.
He gave the ocean gem a gentle bow and warped away from the temple.
Lapis walked back to the others. She had a content smile on her face.
Onyx hopped off of the warp pad, and began scanning the area for any kind of threat.
He stood below a 25,000 feet mountain. Garnet had told him that there has been something wrong going on on this very mountain.
It wasn't a mountain that looked like it was earth made. It had some floating rock islands on the side of it. And it looked very snowy on the top of the mountain.
He inhaled deeply, then exhaled heavily. "Well, here goes...everything." He started climbing with his feet, and his hands.
He just relied on his skills and instinct.
Greg waited for the Gems to get out of the house with their new 'uniforms'. Since they agreed to work with him, they needed to follow what the rulebook said. And one was; "Always wear the uniform while on the job."
Greg finally heard Stevens voice coming towards his direction. "Dad! What do you think?" Steven called out for his father.
Greg turned around to see Steven with the gems, wearing the button up shirt he had given to them.
Steven fitted his very well. But the others decided to wear in a...'unique' way. Garnet had a normal way of wearing the uniform, it was as small as the jacket she wore last year, which was owned by Greg.
Amethyst and Pearl had theirs on the longer size. Amethyst's had hers almost to her feet. Pearl's was long enough to reach her knees. But she needed to fold the arm part, since it was a little long for her.
Lapis fit hers like she wanted to. Her shirt was short enough to end on her hips.
Peridot had the biggest problem out of all the Gems. The sleeves covered her arms and hands, and the bottom part was an inch away from the ground. She dragged the exceeded sleeves on the ground, as she tried not to trip on the shirt she was wearing.
Greg looked at how uncoordinated his 'team' was. He could see it by looking at how they wore their uniforms. He just shrugs it off and walked to his van. "Alright. We're gonna go to my new office first. Then we can wait for people who want us to fix their toilets or pipes."
Pearl examined her uniform and grumbled on how much it didn't fit her right. "Greg, are you sure that we need to wear these the whole time?"
"That's what the rulebook says." Greg laughed nervously.
"Aw...come on P. This shirt isn't that bad." Amethyst said to the pale gem.
Pearl groaned. "Easy for you to say, you like what you are wearing."
"Don't be jealous of my system. I wear anything that looks good on me." The purple gem said as she put her hand on her waist and flipped her hair backwards.
Pearl just growled in her throat. This wasn't the time to argue, but sometimes Amethyst goes a little too far with her jokes.
"I think you look awesome, Pearl." Pearl softly looked at Steven and gave him a warm smile. "Oh, thank you Steven. That's very nice of you."
Steven gave her a wide smile, then face his dad. "Can we go and check out your office now? I'll go get Lion." Steven ran back to the house to find his feline friend.
Greg started the van. "Alright, you guys can come in...and sit where you'd like.
Amethyst ran fast and took the front seat. "Shotgun!"
Garnet simply jumped on the van and sat on top of it.
Pearl sighed. "Why do I have to be in the back every time." She muttered as she opened the back door, with Lapis behind her.
Steven got out of the house on Lion. Greg looked at his son from his van. "Are you ready, Steven?"
Steven nodded while Peridot climbed up on Lion, nearly slipping off because of her shirt. "We're ready!"
Greg nods and steps on the pedal, heading toward the new office.
Onyx was having a hard time climbing. His left hand which had gloves on, had cuts and bruises. His metal hand had slight scrapes on it. There were multiple times of him slipping and losing his grip, and almost falling. But he was glad he had his metal hand, but he was afraid that it would be damaged.
Some time, he made it to a resting point. He sat on the ledge, with his legs hanging off. He laid his back down, taking a breather. "Phew...this is a little more difficult than I thought it would've been."
A sudden quake began. He slowly looked up to see rocks sliding down towards him. "Oh darn..." He stood up and dodged the incoming rock slide. Some pebbles and small rocks hit him in the middle of his escape.
After a few seconds, the rock slide had subsided and Onyx continued his climbing.
He heavily sighed. "If I make it out alive, I'm blaming it on you Garnet..." He said to himself as he climbed upwards. He held onto a branch, but it snapped.
Making sure he wouldn't fall and die, he dug his metal hand three inches into the rocky surface he was climbing on. His left hand still had the branch, he figured he'd strap it on his back, just in case it was useful for something.
Panting in nervousness, he looked at the sun and saw that it was almost afternoon. He was wasting time.
Greg unlocked the door to his new workstation. It was bigger than his car wash office, it was cleaner and much more refreshing than the last office.
He saw that there were only a table, a chair, and a telephone in the room. There was another room which looked like the restroom. But Greg felt different. He felt kind of homesick.
Not understanding why, since his home was his van, not the car-wash. He just wanted to be more professional for his son.
Greg turned around to the Gems. "Alright, you guys can hang around in the van outside. The telephone will ring if they need us. But it looks like it's a slow day, so don't expect too much." He said to the Gems.
The Gems walked outside and hung around the van, except for Steven. He looked disturbed. Same did Greg.
"Hey, dad. What will happen to the car wash?" Steven asks.
Greg swallowed a large lump in his throat. "Well...you see, I kinda shut it down."
Steven looked down, but he lifted his head up with a smile. "Alright. I'm just happy you got what you wanted." Steven walked out of the office and went to the van, hoping to find something to distract him for awhile.
Greg watched his son walk away from him. His mind was still not accustomed to his new job. Trying to be a better father was a little hard for him. From rockstar to a boring plumbing business.
Now he didn't know what was better. Steven seeing him slouching around his van on a car wash, or fix peoples toilets.
He suddenly heard the door open. He looked to see Garnet.
"Oh, hey Garnet. You all doing okay out there?"
Garnet just gave him a slight nod. But she looked like she wanted to talk about something.
Greg was scared that might know what he was doing. "You want to talk about something, Garnet?"
"I want to talk about you, Greg. I kknowthat you're doing this for Steven." The fusion left him frozen in the spot. She completely dug the truth out of him.
"How come you know?"
Garnet huffs proudly. "I know because of your obvious behavior."
Greg's face flushed red. "Oh boy. Is it really that obvious?"
Garnet nodded. "Don't worry, no one else knows but me and..."
"And who?"
"Nevermind. You'll figure it out soon." She leans on the wall and watched Greg look down sorrowfully.
"It's just that I want to be a better person for my son, Garnet. It's what Rose would want me to do." Greg covered his face with his hands.
Garnet chuckled lightly at this. "I don't think Rose would want that, Greg."
The man lifted his face away from his hands. "What do you mean?"
Garnet took a second before she replied.
"Well, Rose fell in love with Mr. Universe, that was the Greg we knew. And we don't want to lose him." Garnet said with a smile, making Greg feel a little comfortable at the empty space in the room. "We're slowly losing that Greg who once used to be a rockstar and lived in his van, and had a job in a car wash."
Greg started to feel a little guilty about his decision on leaving the car wash. He just really wanted to be the best dad he could be for his son's sake.
"But I'm still that Greg!" He yelled, but not loudly. It was more of a reasoning tone.
"Then don't let yourself slip away." Garnet walked away from the office, leaving Greg stressed and thinking deeply.
"What was she talking about?"
Onyx, who was almost at the very top of the mountain, decided to rest for a little while. His hands were going numb from all the climbing. Plus, with the freezing temperature up on the mountain getting to him, he knew that it would be cold down the mountain as well.
His body was shaking. This wasn't normal for a the climate to adjust itself. There must've been gem technology doing this. So no one can ever climb this place.
And that just made Onyx more curious. "This thing Garnet is talking about must be something valuable. I better go get it now before something wrong happens."
He leaned on the rocky slanted ground and breathed in and out.
Suddenly, he fell on his back, phasing through the wall he was leaning on.
He slowly got up and looked around him. Obviously it was dark, so he had to improvise.
He ripped a piece of cloth from his robe, grabbed the branch he picked up earlier, then wrapped the cloth around the branch. He set it on the ground then summoned his sword. Directing his metal arm on the stick, he struck his arm with his sword, making a little spark come out of it, but it did not light up the cloth.
"Come on." Onyx muttered in frustration.
He struck his metal arm once more, making a bunch of sparks, and it finally lit the stick.
Sighing in success, he looked at his metal arm, seeing that it had a bunch of dents on it. This made him feel mad about it. "You should've came prepared, Onyx. And now this happened." He said to himself, pointing to his metal arm.
He picked up the torch with his left hand, and held his sword with his right.
Finally, he continued walking into the cave he was now in.
Everything looked so gloomy and...creepy. But by the way the floor was making a metallic sound, he figured this was once a gem territory.
Or it still is.
Greg's eyes shot wide open after hearing a ringing telephone. He panicked and looked behind him to see Pearl and Steven standing with their backs facing him.
Greg fell asleep while he was waiting for someone to call them. And he had already failed that.
Pearl put the phone down and looked at Steven. "Well, Steven. It looks like we're getting our first... Customer for the day." She said to the excited looking boy.
Greg cleared his throat, making the two turn around and face him. "Oh, Dad! We got our first call!" Steven said with excitement."
Greg just forced a small smile. "Well, I guess we should go find the problem. Where is the place?"
"The man said that they were in a...'suburbs' place. Is that even a word?" Pearl said with a confused voice. "Anyways, he said they were having a yard sale."
Greg nodded. "Alright, let's go then!" He ran outside, followed by Steven and Pearl.
He was just glad that it was just sometime in the afternoon.
As they arrived at their destination, Greg saw that a man was standing in front of the door, probably waiting for them.
He walked towards the man and introduced himself. "Hey, my name's Greg. Were you the one that needed assistance with plumbing?"
The man nodded. "Yes. My wife's ring got stuck inside the sink and we don't know how to get it out. And plus, my sons toilet always clogs every time we try and flush it."
The last one made Greg shiver. The man apparently saw his reaction. "Don't worry. It's clean. It just won't flush that's all."
Greg felt his back rest a little. "Okay, we'll do the job. You just...sit and stay calm."
"By the way, the name's Larry. And I hope you and your crew do a faster job than the last one I hired." Larry said with slight annoyance.
Greg swallowed a small lump in his throat. "How long did the others take?"
"Oh I don't know...about two hours or less?"
This made Greg a little nervous. Not only did he not know how to fix toilets, but it seemed like it usually took a few hour or less to finish. "We-we'll do our best!" His voice cracked.
Larry went inside and went straight to the kitchen. Greg looked behind him to see the Gems waiting for his orders. "Uh...Pearl, Amethyst, you two come with me. Steven and the others should go to sink."
Steven looked at his father. "But Dad. I wanted to know what fixing a toilet felt like!"
"I agree with Steven. We should switch and not work on the toilet." Pearl added.
Greg groaned. "Fine then, same teams, switch jobs."
Steven nodded and ran inside the house with Garnet, Lapis, and Peridot.
Greg walked in as well, with Pearl and Amethyst. The three went straight into the kitchen, finding Larry looking inside the sink. He turned to the three. "Oh, there you are. The ring must be inside the pipe, because I don't see it anywhere in the sinkhole."
Greg puts down his tooldbox that he has been holding for the rest of the talk.
Pearl and Amethyst watched the ex-rockstar struggling to find what he needed for the pipes. Amethyst came close to Pearl's ear and whispered, "Have you noticed that Greg has become so boring now?"
Pearl nudged her with her elbow. "Amethyst, you have to respect a man's decisions." Pearl thought of it for a moment. "Although, he does seem a bit more uninteresting than before." She whispered back.
They just watched Greg unwrench the pipe, while Larry walked to the living room.
Steven kept plunging the toilet, hoping that it would get fixed by itself.
He wiped sweat away from his eyebrows and exhaled. "I never knew that this would be hard." He looked above the toilet to see Peridot. "Okay, Dot. Flush it again."
Peridot stepped on the trip lever and the toilet flushed. The water Rose and it began over flowing.
Steven and Peridot panicked. "Ah! Steven, why is this contraption crying?!"
"Maybe we did something wrong!" Steven panicked and turned around for Lapis and Garnet's help. "Guys, help!"
Garnet sighed and started helping the two. Lapis took a step forward, but she was pulled back by someone.
She looked behind her to see a human boy, just as tall as her. He wore some tacky clothes and an irritating colored scarf. He looked at Lapis with some sort of want in his eyes. "I never knew that such a hot chick like you could be a plumber."
Lapis never understood human language. Well, she did. But not slang.
"Can you please let go of me?" She asked nicely.
The teenage boy just tightened his grip on her arm. "And why would I do that? I might lose you forever."
Lapis felt her eye twitch on how dramatic his voice sounded. It was the horrible kind of dramatic. "I need to help my friends. If you can just-" She was stopped by the boy pulling her closer.
Their bodies almost made contact. And Lapis didn't like what she was smelling. It smelled like a thousand of flowers with gasoline.
She pushed herself, but she couldn't do anything. She felt weird. She didn't know that she was being assaulted by an unwanted person. "Who needs friends when you have Kevin."
Lapis felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned around to see Garnet. Lapis felt safe. "Lapis, is this man bothering you?" Garnet asks with a stoic tone.
Lapis nodded slowly. Garnet looked dead into the teenage boys eyes. Kevin just scoffed. "What're you gonna do, punch me?"
Garnet summoned her fists and smiled. "I won't mind that if you'd let me."
Kevin's pupils shrank and let go of Lapis. "Alright then." He said bitterly, walking out of his room.
Garnet unsummoned her gloves and huffed in victory. Lapis looked at the fusion and looked down shyly. "T-Thank you, Garnet."
"Don't worry about it. Now we need to help Steven with all of this mess." Garnet said as she pointed at the leakage.
Lapis smiled as she saw Steven and Peridot panicking. She stepped in the bathroom and concentrated.
She lifted the water, and pushed it all back in the toilet. Steven and Peridot panted.
Steven pushed the trip lever once more, testing if it was all good. It flushed normally.
Steven sighed and gave Lapis a smile. "Thanks Lapis. That was a nightmare."
Lapis patted the boy's head and gave him back a warm smile.
"Okay, now that we're done. Let's see what your dad and the others are doing." Garnet said, walking to the kitchen.
Steven, Lapis, and Peridot followed. Steven felt like he was gonna catch a cold. Or the air just felt chilly.
Amethyst tapped Greg's shoulder, he looked at her. "What is it Amethyst I'm busy." He said while he worked on the pipe.
"You do know that you are tightening it right?" Amethyst said, making Greg facepalm.
"Ugh...I don't know what to do anymore." He gave up. He massaged his eyes since they were starting to hurt.
But Amethyst kept on poking him. He lifted his hands from his face and looked at the purple gem. "What?"
Amethyst showed him a ring. He couldn't believe it. "How did you-"
"I shapeshifted while you were busy working on the pipe. It was Pearl's idea." Amethyst pointed at her friend.
Greg groaned and grabbed the ring. "Thanks guys. Couldn't have done this without you...really."
"Oh don't mention it, Greg. It's our pleasure." Pearl said with an understanding voice.
Greg walked to Larry and gave him the ring. "Here you go. We've done it."
"Woah, now that is fast. Just an hour?" Larry said in disbelief.
"Yeah, I guess so." Greg rubbed his nape and chuckled.
"But what about the toilet?" Larry asks.
Greg opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off by his son. "We're done!"
"Your team is awesome. It only took you all thirty minutes to fix a toilet and get a ring from the pipes." Larry gave them a round of applause.
Greg gave him an awkward smile and walked towards the door. "Well, we gotta get going!"
"Wait!" Larry pulled out his wallet and gave him some paper money. "Here's for the best plumbers I've ever seen."
Greg looked at the money, then he looked at Steven. He pushed Larry's hand and shook his head. "No need. You keep it." Greg said with a polite smile.
Larry couldn't believe in how generous this guy was. "A-alright."
Greg and the Gems walked out of the house, and got on their rides.
The sun was already setting. Steven was excited for Beach-a-palooza, but he didn't know if his dad would be there with him.
He just hoped.
Back to Onyx. He found alot of ancient gem tech doors inside the mountain. It was like a maze.
Every time he would go inside a door, he would leave some sort of reminder to let himself know that has been there.
He came to a long hallway. He groaned and walked back to the door. It suddenly shut.
"Oh this is not good." He said as he looekd around, waiting for what was about to happen.
The ground shook beneath him as he saw that the walls were closing in. "Oh come on." He began panicking.
He saw that the door on the other end was opened. He quickly dashed to the end, the walls getting faster than ever.
Onyx decided to drop the torch, diving into the doorway. The hallway completely closed. And he was glad he wasn't in it.
He stood up and noticed there were lights in the room. He looked around and saw that there was an object on a stone table in the middle of the room.
He walked up to it and looked at it.
It was a black case. "I never knew Gems wanted their valuable stuff in a human case." He pondered if he'd open it or not.
He decided not to. He quickly took the case and put it in his robe.
As soon as he took the case, the mountain began to crumble. Rocks started falling from the ceiling, walls were breaking.
He quickly took action and took the stone table.
He broke through the mountain wall and used the table as a sled down. He was hit multiple times by different sizes of rocks. But all he wanted was to get out of there.
Seeing the warp pad, he quickly jumped to it, hoping he would land on it perfectly. Gladly, he did.
He never noticed the three robonoids had been watching him the whole time.
He warped away before getting crushed by the rocks, which crushed the warp pad, making the warp stream cut off.
Onyx felt cold as he floated around in space. He began pushing himself to another warp stream. He didn't care where it went, he just didn't wanna be stuck in empty space.
He made it into a warp stream and waited to see where it was going.
Finally, he warped. The first thing he knew is that he wasn't in earth. Because he saw that earth was far away from him, which means he was on the moon.
The last time he remembered being in the moon was in the war. "But what warped through?" He asked himself.
A small robonoid came to his feet. He kicked it away and sighs. "Peridots never give up huh?" He warped away from the moon and into the galaxy warp.
He ran straight to the temple warp and warped back home.
Steven rested on his bed with Peridot.
Steven had himself wrapped around with a comforter, since it was very cold.
Normally, it wouldn't be this cold. It had never been this cold.
He sighed and felt his warm breath, making him feel a bit better.
But he noticed that Peridot was shaking. She was probably freezing too.
He smiled and scooted closer to her. Peridot felt Steven wrap his comforter around her, making her face and body warm, but mostly her face.
"T-Thank...you..." She stuttered.
Steven smiled. "You're welcome."
Garnet suddenly came out of the temple door and stuck a piece if paper on the refrigerator. She then looked at Steven and Peridot. "Are you two okay?"
"We're alright. Where are the others?" replied Steven.
"They're already outside, making sure nothing goes wrong while they set up Beach-a-palooza." Garnet answered.
Steven just nodded as he understood. "Alright, we'll be there when it starts."
Garnet nodded back, then walked out of the house.
The boy then began thinking of his father again. He seemed odd throughout the whole day.
And he wanted him to be in the Beach-a-palooza with him. It wasn't just as fun as it would be without Greg.
The warp pad suddenly went off. Steven gave Peridot the comforter and looked down to see a messed up looking Onyx.
"Onyx!" He ran to him. "Are you okay?!" Steven asked worryingly.
Onyx nodded. "Told you I would make it." He dusted himself with a proud smile.
Steven smiled as well. Fireworks started going off from the outside. "Oh man, Beach-a-palooza is starting. Come on Peridot!" Steven called out for Peridot, who scoffed and followed the boy outside.
Onyx just looked at the kid in disbelief. "That kid does what he wants huh?" He smirked and chuckled."
He figured that the Gems were already outside.
But he had one more thing to do.
He quickly took a piece of paper from the refrigerator and got out of the house.
Greg sat in his office. There was nobody there except for him, which was a little sad.
He sighed and sank on his chair. "What are you doing?"
Greg quickly turned around to see Onyx leaning on the wall. "Onyx? How did you know where this place was? And how did you get in?" Greg asks.
"Well, I have my sources." The dark gem smile slyly. "And the back window was open."
"Oh..." He sank once again in his chair. "What do I do man?"
"Well, it's obvious that you don't like this job. And I know you're doing it for Steven." Onyx completed the puzzle without even being here the while time.
"W-what? How did you know all of this without even being with us?"
Onyx stood up properly. "Greg, I've noticed your actions. Even Garnet. She and I knew it since we asked you the 'why did you took the job, but you didn't even know what to do' question."
Greg sighed heavily. "I just wanted to be a better dad for my son. Not some old, lazy, loser like me."
"So you thought that changing your career could make that better."
Greg nodded.
"But you were already great from the start, Greg."
Greg looked at Onyx. "Steven knew it too. He knew that you were and still are the best dad in the world. Even though you are what you are. And not some kind of plumber."
Greg was just silent. "You can do anything, Greg. And that's why Steven thinks you're the best dad ever. Some dads are stuck with a no end job. But you are different. You're Mr. Universe for stars sake."
Greg pulled a smile and chuckled. "You're right, what was I thinking?"
Onyx gave him a wide smile and offered his hand. "Now how about we blow this Beach-a-palooza sky high. What do you say?"
Greg grabbed his hand. Accepting his request.
Steven and the Gems watched some great performances on stage. Magic, dancing, singing, and Ronaldo's theories.
The funland amusement park owner, Mr. Smiley, got back on stage, announcing the next performers.
"Next up, is a returning legend. He's an ex-rockstar, but I guess he isn't tonight! Now let's all give it up for, Mr. Universe!"
The crowd cheered, and so did the Gems. Steven couldn't believe it. He never saw his father perform on a stage. "Dad?!"
Greg stood on stage as he held his guitar, while behind him, Onyx set down a keyboard. The dark gem gave him a nod, Greg nodded back at him.
As the crowd went silent, Onyx played a beat. Soon enough, Greg began singing.
Everybody said, you better stay in school,
Get a real job, boy, don't be a fool,
Burn that guitar, you can never be a star,
I can, I can, I can, so
A thousand disbelievers couldn't keep me on the ground,
I've invented a momentum that'll never slow me down,
I believe it 'cause I feel it, and I shout it out loud,
I can, I can, I can, so
Everybody said, boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, forget that, I can do anything,
Never push the limit, and don't play with fire,
Uh uh, forget that, I can do anything,
Na na na Na na na na Na na na na na na
Wear my heart on my fist take you by surprise fighter,
Uh uh, forget that, I can do anything
Be a movie star or rock a main stage,
An expert wrestler, or an astronaut in space,
If they tell you that you can't,
You can shove it in their face,
I can, I can, I can, so
A hundred thousand disbelievers couldn't keep me on the ground,
I've invented a momentum that'll never slow me down,
I believe it 'cause I feel it, and I shout it out loud,
I can, I can, I can, so
Everybody said, boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, forget that, I can do anything,
Never push the limit, and don't play with fire,
Uh uh, forget that, I can do anything,
Na na na Na na na na Na na na na na na
Wear my heart on my fist take you by surprise fighter,
Uh uh, forget that, I can do anything.
People cheered, some wanted more. Greg and Onyx waved at their family, they clapped, cheered and wooed.
"Yeah, you guys, that was awesome!" yelled Steven.
Onyx came closer to Greg. "I told you it would work."
Steven felt unbelievably happy. He's grateful to have an awesome father like Greg.
He wouldn't change him for any dad.
Hey ya'll. Make sure you put those Christmas trees uo, because Christmas is coming.
If you're reading this and you don't celebrate Christmas, then I'm so sorry for that.
But anyways, thus chapter just came out of my boredom state. It's so plain on my part.
Most of you probably won't like this one, since I don't see many Greg fans out there.
My finger hand and arms hurt since I use a stupid phone to write a 6k word chapter.
That's about it I guess. It wouldn't hurt to leave a review, fav, and follow. To those who did, you're the best! ;)
No one really reads my stories, but I'm grateful for the ones who do.
You all have a pleasant day/night (whatever your timezone is.)
Luv u peeps.
-Onyx
P.S. To the people who have a Ps4 can add me. Just ask me via Pm. You guys/gals are awesome.
And I don't own the song.