Chapter 2 - Help

Chapter 2 - Help

Pearl and Garnet were walking down to the warp pad after unsuccessfully finding the corrupted gem.

"But Garnet, why do you not trust Peridot? She's been with us for well over a year now. Even if she did betray us, Steven could and would reason with her and get her back." Said Pearl as she tried to change Garnet's mind about making Peridot sleep in the temple with them, with Pearl really not wanting to deal with Peridot being in the temple with Steven and Amethyst. Knowing the trouble they would get into while they were there together.

"Pearl, even though Peridot has been with us for a while now, she is still a Homeworld gem. We don't know if we can trust her. Peridots are intelligent, calculating and emotionless gems." Countered Garnet. "She is going to be sleeping in the temple because we must keep an eye on her. Besides, Peridot is the only one here with enough knowledge of electronics to create anything similar to a surveillance system. Besides, she wouldn't since the only one she trust is Steven."

Pearl and Garnet appeared at the temple on the warp pad.

"Steven what happened with Peridot?" Pearl asked worried.

"Peri, tell them what happened, if you want to I'll tell them." Steven lifted off Peridot as she nodded her head but he still kept his arm on her.

"Pearl, Garnet, Peridot told me how Lapis Lazuli was abusive and terrible to Peridot. She... She beat her and mentally abused her, telling her how she could shatter her if she told anyone how she was treating Peridot. She despises her existence. This is all because she was Peridot's informant over 2 years ago." Steven explained sadly, being ashamed of Lapis Lazuli, knowing what she had done to Peridot.

"Peridot!" Everyone heard a voice from outside. It was Lapis Lazuli.

"Eeeep! Peridot fell off and behind the bed. "She's here, she knows! Now she's gonna hurt and shatter me..." Steven hugged Peridot as Lapis walked in.

"Steven! What's wrong with Peridot?" Asked Lapis, sounding innocent and unknowing of what Peridot was going through.

"Lapis... We know what you did to Peridot..." Said Steven, sounding ashamed.

"Was it Peridot? It was, wasn't it? How much did she tell you?" Questioned Lapis. She was getting angry.

All of the gems were taken aback by what Lapis was saying in front of all of them.

" Hey! What's all the racket?" Amethyst had stormed out of her room, now shocked by what was going on.

Lapis growled. " Doesn't matter! She's lying!" Lapis countered.

"Liar!" Steven yelled.

The gems saw Lapis preparing to attack, seeing a giant water hand coming from behind her. Steven had bubbled himself and Peridot just in time as the water hand came inside and destroyed the front wall of the beach house. This had sent the Gems flying into a wall, and Steven with Peridot in the bubble flying out the window in a bubble.

Steven and Peridot were knocked out so forcefully they hit the side of the cliff and bounced into the sea and sunk to the bottom. Steven was hurt and Peridot was unconscious when they hit the desert floor.

The gems had gotten their bearings and began to give chase after Lapis. She was already at the shore, looking for Peridot when Pearl shot a bolt from her spear and hit lapis on her shoulder. Howling in pain, she summoned the sea and formed 3 very large hands. The gems began battling Lapis.

Meanwhile, at the sea floor in a pink bubble,

"Peridot!" Steven yelled obnoxiously. "Are you okay?" All Peridot did was twitch. She then began to come around.

"Steven?" Peridot asked, still tired after what happened. As she looked around the bubble she began to notice how they were at the bottom of the ocean. " Steven, why are we here at the bottom of the ocean?"

"Ohhh, that's Lazuli's fault. She smashed the front of the beach house with her giant water fist, and we went flying through the back window. Good thing that this bubble is really strong though."Steven explained. "We gotta get back to the beach! We gotta help the gems!"

"No! We should just stay here. We're in Lazuli's home teritory now. Who knows what she could do to us when she's at her most powerful? Besides, she just wants me. It's my fault that Garnet, Pearl, or Amethyst could be shattered. I'm sorry, you should have never befriended me." Peridot said sadly looking ashamed of herself.

Stevens P.O.V.

I really felt bad for it really wasn't Peridot's fault. She was just following orders. But I had to get back to the gems to help them. I just had to keep Peridot safe and away from Lapis.

"Peridot, look, I gotta get back to the gems so I can help them defeat Lapis, okay?" I told her, waiting for a response.

"Okay..." Peridot said unsure.

"Don't worry, I'll keep you in this bubble if she gets near us, and you can hide in the temple, okay?"

"Sure..." Peridot said scared.

"Cmon, don't be scared. You little cute slice of pie." She groaned at me calling her cute and replied, " Let's just swim back to shore.

"Okay."

Back to the Gems

To say the least, things were not going well. Amethyst was poofed (as usual whenever they fight another gem), Pearl was staying back shooting bolts from her spear, and Garnet was trying to fight off the water using her gauntlets until she got an idea. When Lapis had bubbled Garnet in water, she made electricity using her gauntlets and electricity flowed through the water and shocked the water gem.

Lapis fell over and retreated into her gem. Garnet walked over, bubbled Lapis and sent her away deep into the temple.

Just as she sent her away, Garnet saw Steven and Peridot swimming back to shore. "Steven! Are you and Peridot alright?" Garnet asked.

When Steven finally got a chance to get onto the shore, he told her, " Yeah Garnet, we're fine. I just can't believe Lapis would do this for over a year and we didn't know." The gems walked back in silence.