A/N- This chapter is now complete! If you find any errors like spelling, grammar or punctuation, please PM me so I can sort them out.

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The Kindergarten- 15:12 Local Time

"STEVEN!" Screeched a feminine voice that cut through the air like a lance.

A tall, thin silhouette could be seen clawing and searching through the dust in a hunt for the boy before Neil. This was a very conflicting moment, what if the only reason the children listened to him was because he is an adult and it was probably better than the alternative? Gem mutants? What if they just didn't know any better and now he could be on the wrong end of animal control; after all, this world was definitely not a familiar place to him.

"STEVEN! WHERE ARE YOU?" She called again.

"I'M OVER HERE PEARL!" Called Steven. Neil didn't think he really had to shout as loudly as he did but he had just been exposed to a combat situation with ear protection that varied from his hands to his ears to no protection at all so it felt warranted at the least.

The woman 'Pearl' sounded like a normal enough adult, in that he too would probably be screeching if he could just hit notes that high. It had occurred to Neil that Steven said his mother was called 'Rose', when he was stalking behind them earlier. Neil tried to think of a better way of wording what he did so that he didn't sound like a total creep and settled on 'neutral reconnaissance' as it at least sounded professional, like something Sam might do.

The dust began to settle and clear away, revealing the woman as she ran, flat out sprinting towards Steven as she made her way over the mounds of debris. There was some possibility that Pearl was an aunt or maybe even an older sister; unlikely but not impossible. She neared and Neil could pick out key parts of her appearance.

Pearl was a very pale character, with coral hair that flowed into a sort of point at the back of her head. She had a large… Well, a large Pearl in her forehead, her hair was parted slightly around it.

Pearl was a very thin person, with spindly arms and legs. She wore what appeared to be a ballerina's outfit, in a well matched colour to her hair and skin; being a pale aqua blue and having orange short leggings and orange ballerina shoes. She had a tormented expression on her face.

"Steven, what are-"

Then she saw Neil, standing behind the kids as they stood forward to receive Pearl.

She wasn't particularly pleasant to him. The first thing she did was get the two small ones behind her and she reached for her Pearl and it began to glow. A shaft grew and protruded from her Pearl and she grasped it with her right hand. She pulled straight outward from it and brandished the spear in Neil's direction.

Neil was surprised to say the least. He fell back, onto the floor and let himself sit there. At this distance, even if he knew how to dodge a spear, he wouldn't have the time to pull out his handgun and let any bullets go. He had no choice but to sit and listen. And hope.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Pearl said. She spoke with a commanding authority, the character Neil had assumed she was, the one that ran with tears welling up in her eyes, dashing through the rubble was not standing before him. She commanded a response and if she didn't like it, it would be game over for Neil.

"I-I am Neil, an-and I don't know what I am doing here. I could tell you how I think I got here but you wouldn't believe me."

"Well that's just not-"

"Stop Pearl!" cried Steven, now huddled around her legs with Peridot standing awkwardly to the side. "He didn't do anything wrong!"

"He didn't- I'm assuming it wasn't you or Peridot that destroyed half of the Kindergarten! If this human poses any threat to you, then I can't let him continue to do that."

Neil saw his opportunity to swing the argument in his favour. "Please, I don't mean any harm. I was only trying to protect these two from…" His train of thought hit a wall and he looked to little Steven for an answer. "What did you call them?"

"Gem mutants."

"Yes, thank you." he said, pointing a finger-gun at the boy.

Neil was about to continue to push his point of being a protector of the innocent but he didn't get a chance to. Steven felt a responsibility to push this point for him.

"You should've seen it! He was standing over there-" He said pointing to a patch of rubble. "- and he used this thing that sounded like *BREKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE* and then it stopped working so he dropped it and then he took a smaller one and it was like *PAH, PAH, PAH, PAH* and he told us to get back and he blew up the whole cliff like *KABWOOOSH* and crushed all of the gem mutants! He saved us!"

Peridot stepped in to add her two cents. "I can confirm this is an accurate recollection of the events that just transpired."

Pearl stood and eventually put her spear to her side, where it began to disappear into light. A brief moment later there was no spear at all and her empty hand moved forward to help Neil up from the ground. She had an almost apologetic face, possibly even slightly embarrassed for her aggressive inquisition.

"Well I still have to ask what it is you are doing here." She said, this time more quietly interested and less aggressively assaulting. Neil took her hand and found her to be surprisingly strong and steady.

He met her eyes, a light aqua like her dress and he continued up to be about a foot and a half taller than her. Neil spoke. "I would tell you everything, you don't know how much I could do with a friend right now but I am not authorised to give you that information. I know it sounds bad but trust me on this, once my CO wakes up-" Then it hit Neil.

He left his whole squad up on the platform. They were up there and while he thought he hid them relatively well, it was more than possible that they had been murdered in their slumber and where now nothing more than a scattered pile of mushy human flesh and torn uniforms.

He took off and just ran, dancing over and around rubble and up to the small cliff and climbed up, scampering as he struggled with his footing on the steep angle and the equipment he still carried. The characters below had managed to catch up to him and see him clawing is way up the last part of the cliff and crawling over the lip to the warp pad.

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"Oh thank God!" He could be heard exclaiming over the edge. Pearl did a small super jump up to the platform, carrying Steven and Peridot under either arm. They were all surprised to see another three humans, all similarly dressed and equipped to Neil. All of the humans looked completely terrified of their surroundings but Neil appeared to be merry and glad that his comrades had returned to the land of the living.

"Vickers! What is going on! Where are we?" Said the man wearing a combat helmet and full balaclava before he turned his gaze unto the three gems and held up his weapon to them. "HALT!" He called. The other two humans, less armoured but similarly dressed then held their respective machines to them, having torn their attention from their surroundings.

Neil interrupted them and tried to diffuse the situation.

"Sargent Connors!-" Neil said, putting his hand on the barrel of the weapon. "- These people are not of any significant threat. I think they may be locals. I mean look at the kids." Franklin looked to the two shortest ones present and thought about how strange this situation was.

Then the Peridot decided to speak up.

"Hey! You can stop calling me a kid, you overdressed meat-sack clod! I'll have you know I may not have size but I have more years of service than all of you combat sponges put together!"

The other two humans, less dressed than the first two lowered their weapons in confusion, looking each other in the eyes, so as if to check that they both heard the same thing.

Kyle kneeled down to Peridot, trying to meet her height but still staying a few inches above her, a snicker trying to form on his face.

"That's real cute. How about you take a step aside and let the adults talk about boring stuff."

"I will have you know that I will bring about your demise if you continue to talk to me in this way. If you were under my command, I would have you shattered for this transgression!"

"That's nice sweetie." He said, standing up and turning to Sam. He mouthed a few belittling words and pointed to the small and angry green creature.

Kyle didn't seem particularly phased by his surroundings, largely because he hadn't noticed anything more than a small cliff and the rocks around him. At this point he had effectively shut off his perception to anything too far away or too far out for his liking or comprehension. One thing at a time.

Sam and Franklin had seen a bit more and, while there was a potentially dangerous situation at hand, with strangely dressed locals; their surroundings felt like the sort of scene you might find in Limbo, which was a growing concern in Franklin's mind in particular.

He couldn't tolerate the continuation of deafening screeching from the little green thing, much less the growing cackle of the taller woman talking down to her, only seeming to fan the flames of rage and as his own men began to laugh and slip from professionalism in the wake of such strangeness, he couldn't take it much longer and he snapped.

Pulling his revolver out he fired a shot into the air; the unsuppressed crack of thunder it gave off was more than enough to get everyone's attention. "ALRIGHT!" he exclaimed.

"I want to know where I am, what brought me here and how do we get back to command to get the message across not to nuke possibly the only way out of here so we can all go home and forget this ever happened."

The tall pale woman spoke at the same time as the two short ones. "You're in the Kindergarten."

A moment and they all looked at each other in minor confusion. Then the taller woman spoke, holding a hand to the other's to prevent any further confusion. "This place is typically only accessible via warp pad." The men all looked confused. "- The large crystal platform behind you."

They all looked to the platform and gave a collective "Ooh" of understanding before questioning what that meant. "What's a warp pad?" asked the one the others, wrapped up in what could be mistaken as too much scarf. "It's our means of traversing the planet most efficiently. You haven't seen a warp pad before?"

They collectively shook their heads in disconfirmation. "Well then, I guess you are up for quite a ride. Tell me where you want to go and I'll see if there is a warp pad local to it." Pearl said. She sounded like she just wanted this chapter of her life to end so she could focus on forgetting it too. She was done working with incompetent humans.

Steven, however wasn't.

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Upon agreeing to trust the ballerina lady, Delta squad stepped onto the large platform, along with the three strangers.

It was a little cramped.

The tall ballerina, called Pearl had told them it wasn't very safe to use a cramped warp pad but Delta wouldn't accept being split up on a planet they didn't know.

Or rather they did know, but not in this way.

Franklin stood and asked Pearl for a location

"Is there a United States of America?"

"Yes, you're in them."

This was unexpected.

"Is there a Washington State?"

"There is, I don't know about any warp pads there but we shall see."

Franklin was silent, the squad contemplated the more wild possibilities of what reality there where in.

"What year is it?"

"Oh, the date is May 14th 2015 C.E."

That eliminates that possibility, they hadn't travelled in time, not by much anyway; they were only a few days out of sync.

"I don't think this is the right world for us, boys."

Franklin had the idea before most but they all caught on. They were hoping that maybe this was their world and they could just 'warp in' and hand over their report and the mission would be over with that. Things weren't looking to be so simple.

Steven felt bad for them. He didn't have any idea what it was that made this group of humans think this wasn't Earth. Or maybe it was that it wasn't their Earth.

Steven whispered to Pearl about their probable situation and she assumed that it would not be the case.

She lowered her arms from the standard warp travelling position, outstretched to her sides and spoke to them.

"I don't suppose you know where you are going do you?"

Then the leader began to ask a few rather odd questions.

"Is the United States at war with any nation or group?"

"No, there haven't been any wars for many centuries. Not since we put our foot in on the human politics side of things."

The soldiers mumbled between each other and then the leader said something that perplexed Pearl greatly.

"We are not from this world."

"How do you mean? You're not gems are you?" She replied. She knew it was a very stupid thing but if what they said was true, then it was one of the only real ideas that could have made any sense; at least to pearl.

"What? Gems? No, we are humans… I don't think this is our Earth."

"Well… In what way? What makes you think this could possibly be the case." Pearl wanted to be right and just keep things simple, as she spoke in a defensive tone. It would be hard to maintain control if the people before her are from an alternate world and the prospects of this; the implications. They could be disastrous.

The soldiers talked among themselves a little.

Then Neil stepped forward.

"I have something to show you, I hope you have a laptop around somewhere."

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As luck would have it, Steven did have a laptop in his home. At first Pearl was against the idea of having four humans, yet alone, four complete strangers in her home. But she relented under the weight of Steven pressuring her for compassion and care.

The warp pad ignited and they were all surrounded in light. They all made the connection at their own points of the journey; that this was the stream of light they saw when they first entered the void.

The weightlessness was enough to keep Kyle and Sam occupied, as they both tried to maintain some composure and to keep down their, now slightly more digested MREs. Franklin just looked around in wonder at the lights and began to converse with Pearl and Peridot about what exactly a warp pad was, where they came from and how it worked. Neil had other ideas however.

Neil had no significant problems with the lack of gravity and he went to the wall of the stream, putting his hand to the wall, where he felt his hand just phase out of it and then his palm grew cold.

Steven saw this and joined him on that side of the stream. "Hey, what are you doing?"

"I need to check something out." He replied, before sticking his head out of the stream to get a look around. Steven followed him to meet him outside the aura that protected them from the cold and unforgiving void that was the warp.

"Hey, you know I had the same idea once but there isn't much air or warmth out here so we should stay in-" Then Steven was caught out by Neil grabbing him and diving him back into the stream.

The squad's Jeep from before crossed their stream and almost hit the group, passing just above them as they zipped past its intersection point. None of the warp travellers noticed except Neil and Steven as it flew past them, back into the void without a sound.

"What was that?" whispered Steven, trying not to panic Pearl.

"That was our Jeep… We drove that Jeep."

"What do you mean, 'you drove that Jeep'?" Steven replied, a sense on uncertainty in his voice that would normally be heard when someone saw something very big and dangerous right behind you.

"I'll show you, you just got to get us a computer."

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The Beach House- 16:54 Local Time

The warp pad made its characteristic chime sound and the blinding light it usually made when active came and went.

Peridot would have taken this time to describe the problem of the Cluster to the Gems but this was certainly a very special circumstance, even she wanted to know what was going on and looked forward to the answers that she could gain from their explanation.

"The others are still out looking for you two but they should be back shortly" Said Pearl as she carelessly stepped off of the warp pad and into the living area of the beach house, followed by Steven and Peridot.

The soldiers were a little different in their departure from the warp pad.

Firstly, only Neil and Franklin managed not to land in a pile or a few feet in the air and even so, Franklin was still uneasy in his landing, being just a few inches off of the pad. Neil had an almost disastrous landing for his first warp,although technically it wasn't his, or anyone's first warp. They all warped when they landed in the Kindergarten but only Neil had conscious experience in the ways of the warp.

Upon noticing their surroundings, they all had different thoughts; from what kind of world this was, to where was the bathroom to how much would a place like this cost? It was roomy and open with a glorious beach view. The living area was a wide area with a sofa and chairs around a coffee table. There was also a Kitchen-diner and an upper loft area with a bed and television.

Behind them, was the crystal gem's temple. The entire back end of the house being directly connected to the rocky face, where the warp pad and a large door with a star shape on it was present.

Everything seemed shiny.

"Here we are. Steven, show them to your… Stuff." Said Pearl, sounding a little disappointed at relying on human technology for an explanation to something she felt she could probably explain herself.

Steven excitedly ran up the small staircase and into the loft where he failed to find his laptop. He searched around for it, growing increasingly concerned as he continued to tip and turn a wide variety of things in his room.

The squad, having now gotten used to their position in the room and calming themselves down made for the sofa and began to set down some of the heavier equipment, including their helmets, hats, headsets and backpacks. Their weapons were left on the coffee table, although their sidearms where left in their holsters.

Kyle didn't drop by to sit on the sofa, rather he just dropped his heavier (and more volatile) equipment, much to everyone's initial panic; and ran for the only door that probably didn't lead outside to find the bathroom. He made a few disturbing noises and breathed for a bit before he regained a bit of composure and cleaned himself up. He came to the living area and set on an armchair opposite the staircase. He continued to breathe and Sam stated matter-of-factly to the group "that's one." the smugness of it strong to start but fading quickly.

Then an awkward silence enveloped between Pearl, sat next to the stairwell, the four marines sat around the coffee table and between Peridot, who just stood in the open space, waiting on something to happen so that she could have her words regarding the cluster. Sam broke the silence.

"You know, Kyle." He said, looking him in the eye. The entire squad got up enough to also look Sam in the eyes before following his gaze to Kyle. "-I… You know what, never mind."

And then the silence, supplemented by the sounds of crashing waves and Steven still frantically searching for his laptop returned to fill the air.

"Got it!" Steven said, dropping right onto the sofa and sliding between Sam and Neil, from above.

He held his laptop, which looked remarkably normal for a modern laptop of back home to the marines. Neil took the laptop from Steven and checked it for a U.S.B. port. His luck held, it had such a port and he was able to carry out his explanation.

Neil turned to Franklin "Sir, permission to show battle recordings to the civilians?"

Franklin replied. "You know, you can drop the 'Sir' bullsh-wwift with us. That is only for hardasses and the needy." He glanced up to Steven to check that he hadn't heard him curse. Franklin had a son and a wife back home and he knew what kind of things to say and not say in the presence of children, although being on duty was enough to disengage his more common senses for a moment.

"Oh good. So can I have your permission to show them the battle recording to show our peculiar situation?"

"Sure go ahead, just do it."

With this, Neil took a small wire cable from his helmet and plugged the U.S.B. into the laptop. He quickly typed a combination of keys and the screen changed and a video tab opened up. It began playing back the events from the moment the battle cameras were first activated on board the transport plane over the desert, the soldiers already up and moving out of their seats.

Pearl had a few things to say, as did Peridot but they were shushed into silence by Steven, enjoying the video presentation.

It played out like an action movie for the first few minutes, driving a somewhat familiar Jeep out of a plane and into a desert. It skipped forward across the dunes to a cave, where they ate, drank and slept. And next the video was skipped forward a few hours until it was night time and they drove off again into the desert. Before long they climbed a dune and saw a truck stop that looked old and broken down.

Neil took the time to explain the reality of their mission to Pearl, Peridot and Steven during the quiet drive. It had occurred to them that the Facility staff could be using this as an extremely elaborate form of interrogation, but at this point, they had already told the people hosting them that they came from the US and at this point he wasn't certain of anything anymore. In the clip, they pulled up, got out and the gun came up into shot, they marched out into the building and down the tunnel. The squad noticed now, in the corners where a few small air vents that must've filled the chamber with noxious gas. They went to the door and, much to the gem's surprise, they began to fall and collapse.

"Why are you falling over? What kind of soldiers are you people?" Complained Peridot, unaware of the effects of a noxious gas on a human's consciousness. Pearl went to explain the reason in her somewhat belittling tone while Steven wanted to continue watching the movie before him. This part was something that the squad wasn't awake for and so, they continued to watch with intrigue, learning what happened to them in their time of inaction.

Then the helmets were taken off of the soldiers, attempts where made to extract data from them, to no avail. After an hour of technicians failing to crack the hardware's safety measures and the software's defences, having fried a dozen computers attempting to crack into them; not that they would ever find anything particularly revealing in doing this. Eventually the technician conceded and put them with the Jeep and their other stuff on the surface, while their unconscious bodies were dragged into the facility and secured for more traditional information extraction. The Jeep's point of view was not a fluid as a person's moving of their head but it still presented an interesting insight into the facility.

The Jeep was taken underground on a platform that was revealed by a trap-door-style mechanism. From there it was just moved around for a while until the camera came to see them, all stood with the Scientist, the Interrogator and the 8 man guard squad.

It had occurred to them that they had only been out for an hour at best, which had to be a good thing as it meant that they had a greater chance of making it back in time to call off the air-strike, provided they would ever get back.

Now that the camera had adjusted to the lighting and the soldiers were not still groggy from the drugging, they could clearly see their captors. The Interrogator, being the most distinguished of the group. He wore a military officer's uniform with a pride that swore of experience but no array of medals that would make a seasoned commander green with envy. He had no hair at all, no hat and no facial hair, the only distinguishing factors of his face being his beaten nose, his disappointed eyes and a perpetual scowl that reminded Neil of how eager he was to start peeling him. A shudder went down his spine.

The scientist was scrawny by comparison, being shorter and Chinese, his skin being, somehow more pale than the Russian's. He wore a lab coat with a selection of pens, pencils and a small camera in his top pocket, likely recording everything he did. He also held a clipboard in his hands that had a wide array of scribbles and drawings on it. He had short, combed black hair and had no other distinguishing features about him.

The soldiers that held them and watched them where all dressed the same with black balaclavas covering their whole faces and combat helmets that closely resembled Franklin's, along with the standard ballistic vest and their armaments, AEK-971s… Brutally accurate but absurdly rapid assault rifles.

They all mounted the platform, the scientist shouted some words, the platform moved and Steven sat there on the sofa, reaching for some snacks he had stashed at arm's reach.

Then things got interesting.

For one, the warp pad in the room, chimed and lit up, revealing Garnet and Amethyst. Who immediately noticed the extra company. They were fairly calm about this, drawing from Pearl's, Steven's and Peridot's source of attention that they should just join them and watch. It was starting to get cramped around the living area.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the laptop screen watching a movie of sorts, the unknown humans in the room hadn't paid any attention to the two more gems that walked up and joined them in watching the laptop intently.

Now they were in the chamber, the scientist had walked off, as had the interrogator and the guards.

The scientist was translated by Pearl as saying "Project Void Gate, Access: 8922143875" before the chamber opened. Apparently she was fluent in many languages.

They watched at the colossal device in the underground facility. It began to make massive amounts of noise and the soldiers made pained expressions and then the helmet was moved onto Neil's head, he checked his equipment and then the void gate opened.

The soldiers saw their ultimate demise, seeing their faces back to themselves was additionally painful for themselves as they were reminded of the wholly unpleasant experience. As the footage began to loose resolution under the thunderous roar of the machine, details began to fuzz out but the larger picture remained.

"What is this?" Garnet said over the continued noise of the void gate, dimmed in intensity by small tinny speakers. Then she saw the warp behind its perimeter and she had an answer.

Neil replied. "It's how we got here."

They flowed into the warp and most of them began to pass out, the biometric readings on the helmets where showing red warnings for low oxygen and low body temperature to all of them. Then the light behind them ceased as the Facility portal dissipated into the warp.

Now things looked familiar to the Crystal Gems, they knew the warp, even if only in a historical fashion.

They pushed off of the Jeep and made for the light stream, Neil banding his brothers together and then they were in the warp stream.

Neil's vital signs where improving, though he still suffered slightly from minor hypothermia and oxygen deprivation, unlike the slightly worse condition of his team being wholly unconscious.

Then before they knew it, the warp was over and Neil just breathed air, the helmet cam moving slightly with each breath. The camera looked into the sky of the Kindergarten and Neil got up. His camera looked to the edge of the cliff to find Steven and Peridot at the bottom.

"And that's how we got here, I have no idea what any of this is beyond us going into the void." spoke up Neil, he paused the video as he didn't feel like a live feedback of his stalking. No. Neutral reconnaissance, was a great introduction to anything. He would rather they just found him helpful and didn't think much more of it.

"It's called the warp." Spoke Garnet. Now the squad noticed the newcomers, Garnet and Amethyst. "-And you typically don't go into the warp without using a warp funnel."

Pearl wanted to be the first one to make the connection and reach the verdict that the humans had also reached and drew a breath to begin her explanation, but Peridot triumphantly made the point first.

"It appears that the humans of your world managed to make a device from a crude array of parts to make a warp interceptor, or at least a machine that is crudely able to break into the Earth warp here."

"But these humans from a different world are intercepting our warp." Pearl interrupted, trying to retake the explanation from Peridot. "-I recall Franklin told me there are no Gems where they come from. Maybe they don't even have a gem Homeworld in their universe and that could explain why our visitors have weapons such as these. A world with far greater volumes of conflict and war would stimulate weapons development into producing far more advanced equipment and munitions."

They had their conclusion on where the humans where from, who they where, (although they still needed to be properly acquainted with the gems present) as the gems understood a world without gems but the soldiers didn't understand what a gem was; further explanation would have to be done.

They trusted the fact that they hadn't tried to kill anyone yet and seemed friendly enough that despite their otherworldly nature and their job involving combat and danger as they exercised that they were peace keepers on their world; the design was flawed but it had good intentions at its root.

Then Peridot made herself known. For a moment, the entire building of gems forgot that she was constantly trying to get away from them and she saw this ceasefire as her chance to tell them about the cluster.

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She stood between the coffee table and the kitchen-diner and tried to speak down to the Crystal gems and the soldiers, still holding a minor grudge from earlier towards Kyle for his condescending tone.

"Ahem. I also have something of great importance to tell you all and while I would normally be apprehensive towards working with-" She shuddered slightly and grit her teeth. "-The Crystal Gems, I am afraid that this is something I cannot affix, even with the aid of Steven."

Everyone gave her the atmosphere of the room to do with as she saw fit. She attempted to make a scene that would be dramatic and influential as this could well be her only chance at convincing her captors to give her reign over their actions.

This was very hard.

"I am sure you have all witnessed the danger and volatility of the experimental forced gem fusions."

Garnet grit her teeth in anger, an emotion she did not frequently use unless the subject matter was particularly close to her heart.

"And it may be a cause for concern to you all to know what I am about to reveal to you."

Peridot took a deep breath and looked to Steven, giving an encouraging smile and a thumbs up.

"There is a colossal super gem shard fusion at the Earth's core, compromised of millions of gem shards. We called it the Cluster."

The Crystal Gems took a collective gasp, with the exception of Steven. The Marines seemed to be a little lost as they looked at the others sat around them to gauge the appropriate reaction for this revelation. Neil already knew about this, being as he eavesdropped on Steven and Peridot during her first explanation.

Pearl spoke for the Crystal Gems, a pinch of panic in her voice; she already had enough stress with the idea of interdimensional humans breaking into their warp and so the possibility of a gem mutant this size being right beneath her feet was additionally disturbing. "So are you suggesting that we should help you?"

"-To help me help you. It would be a mutually beneficial action, unless it is possible that you could provide interstellar transport; in which case we can dump this stupid rock and go back to Homeworld."

Talking about 'this stupid rock' like that somewhat offended the majority of the room's occupants, all being fighters for their respective Earths stability and safety. The marines where lacking in their response as they had heard something similar to this before, being used to stories of patrols in the deserts and towns receiving verbal abuse from the occasional local that stood against their presence.

It had slipped past the minds of the squad that this world could well belong to aliens that had previously invaded and only Franklin had even the slightest inkling that there where even other humans on this planet; from his conversation with Pearl and Peridot in the warp stream. Either way, they where still against the idea of leaving Earth, even if it wasn't their Earth for problem of 'it was too hard'.

Garnet unclenched the fists she didn't realise she had clenched. "Well then." She sounded cool and in control, which made Franklin feel almost jealous for her ability to control and manipulate the atmosphere around them. "-We'd better get to work."

Amethyst had already become bored of the presentation and would probably have no idea what she was doing until someone would tell her to her face, as she moved past Peridot toward the fridge for snacks. But this was not relevant to Peridot, who had now decided that this was the time to end the presentation and begin disassembling everything around her.

Pearl took the time to translate the effect the Cluster would have on the planet, being total annihilation of the very heavenly body itself.

This was the time to prioritise, as Peridot stated that they wouldn't have long until the Cluster began it's eruption onto the interplanetary stage but would it be before the squad could get home and prevent the air strike that would surely strand them in this otherworldly place they knew so little about?

If the Cluster hatches, they could all die.

If the air strike comes, it could be World War III and the marines would have failed their duty. Their families could die.

But what do they do? And how do they get Peridot to stop breaking all of Steven's stuff?

Okay, there is the setup. What will happen to out courageous group of heroes? Also the Marines...
What are they going to do?
How can they help?
Will they help a world that isn't theirs for the sake of others or will they try to go at it alone?

Also where is the cat? I needed to feed it like an hour ago...