Beach, Outside of Steven's House in the Night (2:43 A.M)...
Peridot was working on her new robonoid and was almost done. She didn't want to wake or disturb Steven's sleep so she decide to continue her work outside without any annoyance or interruptions. Also she didn't want to get hit in the face by Jasper for annoying her with the sounds of her working, or getting thrown at the ocean by Lapis since both of them were also sleeping.
"Done!" said Peridot finishing on building the new robonoid. Then she putted down the robonoid to see if it worked.
Just like her first robonoid, it walked only a few inches and then stopped seemingly tired.
"Well... just like Peri jr. you still need some work and updates to do." said Peridot grabbing her robonoid. Then Peridot looked the sky.
It was very amazing, all the sky was fulled up with stars and the space seemed so infinite where she was standing almost suprising her. Peridot smiled.
"The space is sure beautiful. In Homeworld I never felt this sensation, probably because I was very busy at working and thinking on the..." said Peridot, but suddenly she stopped and got very scared remembering her initial goal.
"...The c-c-cluster..." slowly said Peridot. She sitted down and remember that her initial goal, was to check on the Cluster and gather all the shards that were in there and stuck them together.
"...N-n-no, I can't do that." said Peridot with a breaked voice seemingly very scary.
"Oh no!" shouted Peridot. Then Peridot transformed her fingers into her usual laptop like screen and searched something.
"C'mon, c'mon." said Peridot with a stressed tone.
"There!" said Peridot in a relieved tone showing that she found what she was looking. It turns out that she was looking messages that possibly her superior has sended to check if she was done doing her work on planet Earth. Lucky for her, it turns out that she doesn't have any new messages of her superior; but old messages and reports that she made.
"Oh... thanks the gems!" said Peridot with now a more relieved tone. She then with full speed deleted all the messages, all the contacts and everything that has to do with Homeworld.
"Sorry Yellow Diamond. But you will not control me anymore and I will not injure this misera... I mean planet Earth." whispered Peridot to herself. Then Peridot turned back her fingers to normal and lay down on the sand looking back at the night sky with full of beautiful and bright stars.
"*sigh*... Maybe in the morning I should probably tell them. If I want to show them that I trust them then I should do this not just for me, but for Steven." said Peridot now with a sad tone. Everything was silence only the sound of the waves of the Ocean.
"Hey!" said a mysterious figure. Suddenly Peridot jumped out a little bit from the surprise of the mysterious voice. It turns out that this mysterious figure was Steven.
"Steven...please don't scare me like that, okay?" said Peridot relieved that it was only Steven.
"Sorry." apologized Steven.
"What are you doing up this late? You should be at your bed sleeping." said Peridot.
"I woke up to use the bathroom and when I was about to sleep I noticed through my window that you were on the beach all alone." explained Steven.
"Well... I'm not alone, you are here and my new robonoid too. You like it?" said Peridot while showing Steven her new robonoid, leaving Steven all excited and with stars on his eyes.
"I like it! Its very awesome!" said Steven with a happy smile and starry eyes.
"Well... you will like it more once I make some new updates to the robonoid." stated Peridot.
"Oh. Anyways its that the reason you were here? Building that robonoid?" asked Steven.
"That is correct. I didn't want to disturb your sleep so I went here." explained Peridot.
"Oh, thanks Peri! But you should come to the house, its really chilly out here." said Steven.
"Don't worry Steven, you go ahead and I'll catch up." said Peridot.
"Okay then... Good night Peri!" said Steven while hugging her and returned back to the house.
"Yeah...Good night Steven." said Peridot while picking up the robonoid. Then she looked up one final time the night sky and smiled before returning to the house.
The Next day at Steven's House (10:45 A.M)...
Peridot was sitting on the couch all quietyl seemingly to wait something while Jasper was eating some chips on the kitchen. Then the door of Garnet room open up and revealed Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet coming out from it.
"(Good... they are here, now to wait for Steven and Lapis.)" thought Peridot. Then Peridot standed up and went towards Garnet.
"Umm...excuse me I have something to say to all of us." said Peridot with an uneasy, nervous and worried tone.
"What is it?! Did something happend?!" asked a nervous Pearl.
"Pearl calm down." said Garnet with a serious tone that immediately calmed down Pearl.
"What is it Peridot?" asked Garnet in her usual stoic tone.
"Its something very important, but we have to wait until Steven and Lapis comes back." answered Peridot.
"All right." said Garnet.
Everyone went to the living room waiting for Steven and Lapis to return. Just then Steven and Lapis entered the house holding a lot of clothes and Lapis had her wings still summoned.
"Its very easy to carry all these clothes while flying instead of using the Warp Pad." said Steven while smiling to Lapis.
"Yeah. I don't know how to use that, but its really fun carrying you on my back while flying." said Lapis while smiling back to Steven. Then Steven and Lapis noticed all the Crystal Gems reunited in the living room while looking at them.
"Ummm... did something happend?" asked a confused Lapis.
"Peridot has something to say to all of us that its extremely important. Steven, put the clothes down we'll fold them after Peridot tells us what she has to say." said Garnet. Then Steven do what Garnet told him and went to the living while Lapis did the same disappearing her wings.
"What is it, Peri?" said Steven while sitting down in Jasper legs surprising Lapis and Pearl.
"Listen...Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst, ever since I joined the Crystal Gems; have anyone of you ask to themselves what was my main goal on coming to Earth?" said Peridot now with an even more uneasy tone. Garnet, Amethyst and especially Pearl were shocked to hear that.
"Well... you were trying to reactivate kindergarten." said Pearl while giving Peridot a suspecious face.
"Actually no. My main goal was to CHECK on the cluster. I didn't recieve any orders to reactivate the Kindergarten." said Peridot still with her uneasy tone.
"And exactly what is that Cluster?" said Garnet now in her serious tone.
"That is the reason why I have to tell you this. We need to go on the Kindergarten and check the Cluster." said Peridot with a nervous face and uneasy tone. Garnet got angry by not recieving an appropiate answer.
"I ASK you! What is the Cluster?! We are not going anywhere near the Kindergarten until you answer me this." stated Garnet with a more serious and angry tone that startled Pearl, Amethyst, Steven and Lapis.
"Look... I know that all of you don't like that place at all, but if you want all the answers to all your questions then we need to get to the Kindergarten! Its the only way all of you will understand." explained Peridot trying to calm down the things.
"Ha! You must be absolutely mad if you think we would go back to that horrible place!" said Pearl. Garnet simply stood there mustly using her future vision to see if Peridot was trying to betray them or at least escape. She found a lot of possibilities, but she didn't found anything about Peridot betraying them, escape or at least do something suspicious. She only found paths were Peridot guide them to a mysterious place and thats it.
"All right...We'll go back to Kindergarten." stated Garnet, shocking both Pearl and Amethyst.
"GARNET!" shouted Pearl.
"Pearl." said Garnet while putting her left hand on Pearl shoulder.
"Hmmm... now that I think about it, you actually told me that you need to check on the Cluster when we were on the spaceship." said Jasper.
"C'mon Crystal Gems!" said Garnet while going to the Warp Pad. Pearl, Peridot, and Amethyst did the same and went on the warp pad, but Lapis, Jasper, and Steven were still on the living room and Steven began to fold the clothes.
"Hey! You three too!" said Amethyst. Then Steven smiled and went to the Warp pad while Lapis a little bit nervous went too and Jasper simply decided to do it without showing any signs of uneasiness or at least nervousness. Then Garnet activated the warp pad and everyone got teleported.
At the Kindergarten...
Everyone got teleported and made it on Kindergarten. It was still all eerie, with some machines with a design of a bacteriophages that were located either on the floor or on the walls and there were many holes with different shapes on the walls of Kindergarten. The ambient was very...dead like, like if there wasn't any signs of a living thing or at least of some organism. The soil was extremely dried up, not even a single plant could resist for at least 20 minutes after being planted.
"We are here..." said Garnet.
"Ugh! I still remember this place. Many gems were created here to be used on the Rebellion. Now that I see it, its very disgusting the way Yellow Diamond planned this." said Jasper with a disgusted tone. Amethyst got a somewhat sad and hurted face after hearing Jasper said that, but she paid no mind.
"All right... We are here now take us to the Cluster." said Pearl.
"I understand... if its not much of a trouble, follow me." said Peridot as she went to the front guiding the Crystal Gems.
Lapis was scared she knew about a place called Kindergarten, but never actually saw it. She feels some strange and bad feeling being here, but not only she was feeling the same feeling but also everyone even Peridot.
"(This place is horrible... How is possible that not any human have found this?! But its good for them if they stay out of this place.)" thought Lapis. Then Steven noticed how Lapis was scared and decided to wait for her since she was at the end.
"Hey Lapis! Are you okay?" asked Steven.
"I-I-I don't know... I don't feel so good... seeing this place." said Lapis while stuttering. Steven took her trembling hand.
"If you want...I can make you some company so you don't get scared." said Steven holding Lapis hand. Lapis suddenly felt a little bit more relaxed.
"Thanks...I still don't feel good, but now that you are here I feel a little bit calm." said Lapis trying not to tremble.
Lapis and Steven then decide to walk faster to catch up with the others when they suddenly stopped. Peridot crouched and touched the ground and felt something different.
"This is it... We finally arrived." said Peridot. Then Peridot transformed her fingers to her trademark laptop and pressed down a button making the segment of the ground that they were standing to shake a little bit only to reveal that its an elevator. They took the Crystal Gems underground to reveal several green electrical wirrings that were attached to the ground.
"We have been here before but...something feels weird." said Pearl with a worried face and tone. Everyone including Jasper felt the same except that she didn't went on this place before so she felt a little bit scared than the others. Steven noticed this and went to her side along with Lapis that she was still holding Steven hand.
Steven touched Jasper's leg and she noticed this and saw that Steven gave her smile like he was saying, its okay. You are strong and you are brave. Jasper saw this and felt more relaxed and smiled at him. Suddenly the elevator stopped and revealed the place where Peridot meeted for the first time the Crystal Gems and Steven and almost squashed him with a green, giant and robotic hand, but the only difference it was all broken.
"This place is the Cluster?" said a confused Pearl.
"No." said Peridot while going to the front of the broken room. Then still with her laptop on she searched a button and found it and then she press it revealing a small pillar with a shape of a hand. She made her laptop turn back to fingers and put her hand on the pillar revealing more pillars.
"This... is the cluster." said Peridot with a sad face and uneasy tone. Everyone was confused by seeing how worried Peridot was and didn't understand what this pillars are.
"It seems you are still confused. I will now reveal you something extremely dark." said Peridot. Then she went to one pillar that was ubicated on the upper right of the ground and press a button that revealed several shards of gems. Everyone was very shocked at seeing many shards of gems here on Kindergarten, the last place that the Crystal Gems want to stay. Peridot took two shards.
"My main goal was to activate the Cluster. The Cluster is a machine that makes shards of gems stick together and then force them to regenerate and stay in that way in their regenerated form of the shard. Not two shards, but also more than five shards that you can find the rest of them on the other pillars." said Peridot while showing them a blue and green shard.
Everyone was simply...shocked, horrified, and scared by seeing the Cluster or even imaginating if that thing would be activated. Jasper and Lapis got very scared along with Pearl who had also a shocked and worried face and Amethyst was speechless. But Garnet took it deep...she felt betrayed, angry, sad, scared, horrified, and at seeing that this Cluster is machine that makes shards or even gems fuse against their will...it make her sick at seeing how Homeworld is acting and seeing how the Rebellion affected not only the Earth, but also Homeworld and their lives. This not only scare her, but also leaved a scar on her live that will have to weight...forever. She finally break down, took off her shades and cried.
"T-t-t-t-t-hose are CRYSTAL GEMS! THE WHOLE PLAN WAS TO FORCE THEIR SHARDS TO FUSE!" cried Garnet surprsing all the Crystal Gems by seeing for the first time how Garnet cried, even Jasper felt bad for her.
"SO THIS IS WERE SOME OF THE MISSING SHARDS WERE!" shouted and cried Garnet.
Peridot didn't want to say anything, she somewhat felt responsable for making Garnet feel this way, she even feels that she is a traitor of the Crystal Gems and thought that they hated her. Garnet suddenly saw other shards and went to pick them. She had an extremely angry face, but in some moments she changed her face to a sad and depressed face. After picking up all the shards she saw the shards that Peridot still had. She went towards to her with an angry face that scared Peridot. Immediately Peridot put the blue and green shard on the ground scared that Garnet might do something to her.
"I-I-I-I'm sorry if I made you feel like this! If you want me to get out of the team, then I'll do it! I don't blame you if you think I'm a traitor, I don't want to have anything with Kindergarten anymore but if you think I'm still a threat then I'll go far, far, far, away!" shouted Peridot with a very scared tone and tears on her eyes thinking Garnet will do something to her for bringing everyone into the Cluster. But Garnet paid no mind and she just recovered the shards from the ground and gathered every shard and put it on a bubble then she teleport the bubble away. Then she putted back her shades.
"If you have anything to do with forcing shards fuse other shards, then leave and not return. BUT! If you have nothing to do with forcing shards fuse with other shards then you have no reason to leave then..." said Garnet now in her usual stoic tone.
"...What?" said a confused Peridot.
"State your answer! Did you have or not have anything to do with forcing shards fuse?!" asked Garnet in now a serious tone.
"Uhh...NO! I only show you what was my goal, but I didn't do anything to those shards. They have been remained untouched since who-knows how much time!" stated Peridot.
"Yeah... you defy the orders from your superior and decided to trust us by showing us the Cluster and not wanting to use the Warp Pad when you were left alone or had your opportunity ever since you join us to do this attrocity. In fact, you give us an advantage and gathered the shards that we have been looking for thousands of years but we couldn't find. My question is: Why did wanted to leave? You show us how you trust in all of us and how you care for the life of not only Steven, but also millions of life here on Earth and perhaps, the entire planet itself." said and asked Garnet.
"I-I-I was scared. I thought you'll kill me." explained Peridot.
"(Oh... you are not the only one who has been in there.)" thought Steven remembering the time that he hit Garnet and got very angry at him.
Then Garnet hugged Peridot which surprised everyone by seeing the sudden action of Garnet.
"You don't need to be afraid, I wasn't angry with you...not a single time while we were here I was angry with you. So don't be afraid of me nor be afraid at any of the Crystal Gems." said Garnet. Peridot didn't know what to say, so she decided to only hug her back.
After a while Garnet broke the hug and went into her usual personality.
"So what do we do now?" asked Garnet.
"I purpose to destroy this place...for good." said Peridot making every surprised by hearing this.
"WHAT?! Is there a way to destroy the Kindergarten?!" shouted a very confused Pearl.
"Yeah." answered Peridot.
"But what about Yellow Diamond? Don't you think she'll notice this?" asked Jasper.
"Don't worry about that. Yellow Diamond only gave me instructions to check on the Cluster. I ask her if she needed me to reactivate Kindergarten which she replied with a no saying that she only wants me to check on the Cluster. If the Cluster wouldn't work then she gave strict instructions on not even sending her a report about a failed project. Therefore for her, this place is useless." explained Peridot.
"But how do that?" asked Steven.
"Its simply. With the help of Jasper and Garnet, they need to destroy all the pillars including the one I activated through my hand. The technology will think there is a malfunction and it will explode in about 20 seconds as you humans call it." explained Peridot.
"Finally! I get to break stuff! And the best of all it would be modern Gem technology" said Jasper with a smirk while summoning her Crasher Helmet.
Then Garnet and Jasper began to break and destroy every pillar and breaking the computer. Suddenly the computer began to say "MALFUNCTION DETECTED! AUTODESTRUCTION WILL NOW BEGIN...20...19...18..." said the computer as it began the countdown.
"C'mon little man, its time to bail out of here!" said Amethyst while grabbing Steven and running with him.
Everyone began to ran as fast as possible, Lapis summoned her wings to fly, Peridot made her fingers rotate at full speed making her fly too like a helicopter while Garnet run at full speed while Jasper used her special Spin move dashing at full speed while, Amethyst used her whips and use it a vine to swing herself and Steven safetly while, Pearl runned as fast as she can wall jumping with full force. Everyone finally made it to the Warp Pad with little time.
"C'mon! Hurry Up!" shouted Garnet as she was trying to warp everyone as fast as she can. Finally the Warp Pad warped everyone safetly having at least 6 sparing seconds.
"5...4...3...2...1...Time out. EXPLOSIONS BEGINS!" said the computer while blowing up everything. The explosion was extremely big, it was even bigger than the nuclear ones. The explosion was so intense that it left nothing on the Kindergarten...there was not a single trace of the injectors, the Warp Pad, the holes...or the Cluster. It was gone...forever.
At Steven's House (11:02 A.M)...
Everyone fell off from the teleportion of the Warp Pad and by the adrenaline that the self destruction caused.
"Ooof! Huff! That...was...INTENSE!" said Steven that ended at the top of Amethyst.
"Ummmm...Steven. If you don't mind you are kinda crushing me." said Amethyst.
"Ooops! Sorry" said Steven as he jumped off from Amethyst.
"Thanks." said Amethyst.
Peridot landed on top of Lapis which make both of the gems blush madly.
"Ummm...S-s-s-s-orry!" said Peridot with a big, red and madly blush on her face while moving from Lapis.
"D-d-d-don't worry, accidents happend." replied Lapis with a blush on her face.
Pearl landed on top of Garnet much to her embarrasment.
"Hello Pearl." said Garnet without making an expression or sign of embarrasment.
"Sorry!" said Pearl while moving from Garnet. Then Steven didn't saw Jasper at all.
"Hey! Where is Jasper?!" asked a worried Steven.
Suddenly every gem felt something moving at the bottom from where they were sitting. It turns out that Jasper was right at the bottom of them.
"Ouch...Present." muffled Jasper while moving her left hand who was the only part of her body that was free.
"Sorry!" said Steven as every Crystal Gem moved to let Jasper move. Then Jasper standed up indirectly carrying Steven with her muscle of her left arm.
"Wow Jasper! Your muscles are really big." said Steven with stars on his eyes.
"Yeah... One day you could be beefy as me." said Jasper with a cocky smirk.
"Wow! Also PERI! You didn't told me you could fly with your fingers!" said Steven with a big smile and big stars on his eyes.
"I only use them for emergencies, but I could use them if I want to." said Peridot.
Later at the Beach (2:49 P.M)...
Peridot was sitting all by herself looking at the ocean in the Beach. Steven noticed her and decide to talk to her.
"Hey, Peri." greeted Steven.
"Hey Steven. How is it going?" asked Peridot with an uneasy tone.
"Good to me, but are you okay?" asked Steven.
"I think you should ask that to Garnet. She was in a pretty rough shape when she found out about the Cluster." answered Peridot.
"I already talk to her. She is okay, in fact she save my blue sock from being lost to my red sock. She is very happy right now so I think she feels fine." said Steven.
"Good to know." said Peridot still with her uneasy tone.
"But I still think you are not feeling okay. Are you absolutely sure you are okay? You can always talk to me if you are in trouble or don't feel good." said Steven.
Peridot sighed in defeat since she couldn't lie to Steven.
"Well to be honest, I don't feel exactly good. I still think that in a way I'm a traitor to the Crystal Gems since I was part of that abomination. So I'm not exactly very proud of myself in a way." responded Peridot.
Then Steven hugged Peridot trying to heal her emotional pain.
"The past is in the past now. You are an extremely important member not only to me but to the Crystal Gems. I'm sure Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Lapis and Jasper doesn't think bad of you. In fact, I don't think they hate you, but instead they are very proud of you seeing how you trust them. I believe in you as always, and I will always be proud of you Peri." said Steven still hugging Peridot.
Peridot was shocked at hearing Steven's speech, and suddenly she let some tears from her eyes and hugged back.
"*sniff* Thanks Steven. You mean so much to me. I'll do my best to work as team for you and the Crystal Gems." said Peridot still hugging Steven.
Peridot finally saw the evil of Homeworld and the kidness, the warmth, and the love that not only the planet Earth has, but Steven has gave her ever since she got here. Peridot saw that she is not a traitor of the Crystal Gems, but rather a valorable team member for them and to Steven. She finally get rid of a big weight of her life and now she will finally be more relaxed and fresh than before. Being on Earth and be a Crystal Gem had bring her feeling she never experimented back on Homeworld, this feelings make feel good and nice, its make her feel that she now found a...new home in which she would love living in there.
Author's Note: I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter! I'll be uploading a new chapter every Wednesday and Saturday. BUT! They might be some cases that I do not upload a chapter in those days because I will be either busy or still haven't thought on a idea.
However they might some cases that I upload a chapter one day before or in Thursday and Sundays.
Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this Chapter! See you guys in Saturday!
(OH Boy! Its July already?! I'M HYPED FOR SARDONYX!)