Sour Cream had just finished setting up the stage for his beachside concert when he got a text from Steven.
'Hey, do you still need me to pass out flyers today?' Sour cream unlocked his phone and quickly typed out a reply.
'Yeah, that would be gr8, thx steven'. He put away his phone, when he noticed a small green puff of hair hiding behind one of his speakers. He went to investigate, and was met by Peridot. "Oh hey, you're the new crystal gem right?"
Peridot grabbed her phone and spoke into it "My cover has been blown, I repeat my cover has been blown." Lapis' voice spoke back.
"Do you need me to come pick you up?"
"Not right now, I'll keep you posted on the status of the mission. Over and out".
Sour Cream look at Peridot who was avoiding his eye contact. "Umm, what are you doing." Peridot was ignoring him, so Sour Cream lightly tapped on her shoulder.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that, it's top secret information". Peridot began tapping at her phone impatiently. "Why won't Steven text me back…" she grumbled to herself.
"Steven is passing out flyers for my concert. But seriously what are you up too?" Peridot turned off her phone and looked at sour cream.
"Ugh, Fine. Lapis and I decided that since the crystal gems are the protectors of beach CITY, we would be protectors of the literal beach. Lapis saw you setting up this, weird, contraption here during her morning surveillance flight, and I was sent to investigate". Sour Cream was confused by all of the information that Peridot had just spewed out.
"Who's Lapis?" Peridot let out an exasperated groan.
"It doesn't matter. So what are you doing anyways".
"I'm setting up a beachside glow concert, it starts when it gets dark out." Peridot looked at the stage Sour Cream had set up.
"Well if you are trying to make a stage, you're not doing a very good job." Peridot started to move and rearrange things with her metal powers. At first Sour Cream tried to object, but then he noticed that Peridot was actually improving the stage.
"Huh. Who knew." He grabbed a soda out of the cooler and watched Peridot work. She was grumbling to herself the whole time, talking about how this piece should've gone here, and how any smart carbon based entity should know that.
The sun was dipping below the horizon, and Sour Cream was expecting people to show up soon. "Hey green girl! Come here!" Peridot finished moving the last piece and walked over to Sour Cream. "You know, I don't think I caught your name."
"It's Peridot. What's your name?"
"Sour Cream" Peridot snorted with laughter.
"Sour Cream? Isn't that like a food?" Sour Cream wasn't fazed by her laughter, many people had made fun of his name.
"Yeah, it's a type of cream that tends to be sour. Anyways, do you want to help me set up the glow sticks?" Sour cream pulled out a giant bag filled with packages of glow sticks.
"What are those?" Peridot picked up a package and opened it.
"Snap it and shake it" Sour Cream told her. She took a stick out of the package and snapped it. It began to emit a soft colorful light.
"Woah. This is so cool!" Peridot began to snap every glow stick she could grab until one snapped just a little too much, and broke in her hand. The glowing liquid stained her hands, and Peridot was shocked. "Look look, the stick made ME glow." She began to snap all the already glowing sticks in half, rubbing the glowing liquid all over her arms and legs. People were starting to show up, and Sour Cream had already started playing music. Jenny tapped Peridot's shoulder.
"Hey, you know that stuff is toxic right?" Peridot laughed as she cracked more glowsticks.
"I'm a gem, I don't think I can be poisoned." Peridot ran onto the stage and started dancing, she was like a crazy glowing disco ball. "I AM THE QUEEN OF LIGHT!" The crowd cheered for her. She jumped into the crowd and crowd-surfed around, and everyone who touched her got a bit of glow on their hands. Pretty soon the whole crowd was glowing, some had even followed Peridots idea and rubbed the glow sticks all over themselves.
Steven arrived at the concert about 45 minutes after it started, only to find a Peridot leading a glowing crowd in the newest viral internet dance. Peridot noticed Steven in the crowd and waved at him. Steven walked onto the stage, laughing.
"Wow Peridot, this is pretty cool." She shoved a ton of glow sticks into Steven's arms.
"Glow sticks Steven, they're AMAZING" Peridot motioned for Sour Cream to turn up the music, and she danced with the crowd until midnight.