As Peridot slowly awoke from unconsciousness, she found herself with a splitting headache and to see that she was in almost complete darkness, the moon light shining threw the large of the lighthouse windows being the only thing illuminating the room. When Peridot tried to pick herself up she realized that she was completely tide up and bound to a chair, barely able to move. Even her fingers were taped down to the chair. At the realization to this Peridot, oddly enough didn't have any feelings of fear, but rather feelings of annoyance, due to the fact that this would be the second time that she was captured and tide up. When Peridot tried to let out a frustrated breath she noticed that there was a line of duct tape covering her mouth which muffled any sounds she tried to make. "For the love of diamond, could this get any worse?" Peridot asked herself internally, unaware on what was about to happen. Suddenly a bright light flashed in front of her, causing her to flinch back in an attempt to try and shield her eyes from the blinding light.
"Well, well, looks like you finally decided to show yourself." Said a voice that Peridot was not familiar with, causing her to feel even more on edge then she already was. "You know, for an advanced alien race, walking into my base of operation alone and with no weapons, was pretty stupid if you were trying to abduct me." The voice mockingly told Peridot in a intimidating tone. Too Peridot, whoever this was sounded like they had been expecting her for a while.
"Wait what, what are you talking about?" Is what Peridot meant to say rather then the small collection of confusing muffles that came out due to the fact that there was still duct tape covering her mouth.
"Huh, just what was that supposed to mea-Oh wait." The voice said, just now realizing why you can't really interrogate somebody with duct tape covering their mouth. "Here let me get that for you." The voice said, with a slight embarrassed chuckle, realizing their little mistake. Since Peridot was still being bombarded with the bright light shining on her face, she wasn't focusing on the the hand that had suddenly been placed on her face, and without warning quickly ripped off the peace of duct tape that was covering her mouth.
"OUCH!" Peridot shirked as she yelped back in her chair, the pain from having the duct tape removed so quickly and without warning being an unwelcome'd surprise to her.
"Ha-ha, sorry about that." The voice said, shyly apologizing for the little miss hap. "Now where were we, ah yes, what are you doing on earth and why where you sneaking around my fortress!?" The voice said, demanding to know why Peridot was on earth and why she was going threw his stuff.
"Wh-what do you mean, uh I didn't do anything wrong please just let me go." Peridot said, trying to see if she could convince her captor that she was just another human who just walked in on his little hide out on accident.
"Nice try you other worldly home invader, but I know you're one of the gems." The voice said, proving that they already knew Peridot was a gem from outer space and that she was just trying to bluff her way out of her predicament.
"What!? But how could you possibly know that!?" Peridot said, shocked that a human could so easily deduce her outer world origin.
"You do know that everybody can see the green rock on your forehead, right?" The voice asked, curious to know if Peridot thought that people couldn't see the gem that was right in the middle of her forehead. As the realization hit Peridot on how easy it would have been for a human to look at her, see her gem, and alert the crystal gems on her presence, she felt a large blow to her own ego, do to the fact that she saw herself as one of the smartest gems on the home world and yet she still made the most idiotic and reckless mistake someone in her situation could possibly make. With a sigh of defeat, Peridot decided that she might as well just answer whatever questions her captor asked of her, hoping that if she answered all their questions they'd might let her go and she'd still be able to scavenge parts for her ship and go home.
"All right, you got me, what is it that you want?" Peridot said with her head down, sounding defeated.
"I just wanna ask you some questions and recorded them for my blog." The voice said, their enthusiasm rising when they mentioned their only blog.
"Blog?" Peridot asked, unsure on what her captor was talking about.
"YEAH MY BLOG! Once people see that I got a real life alien on my blog, everybody will start to watch it." The voice said, a little more excited then most people would be about a online blog.
"Everybody? Even the crystal gems?" Peridot asked with noticeable fear and worry in voice.
"Maybe, why, what's the problem if they do?" The voice asked, a little curious when they noticed the tone change in Peridot's voice when they mentioned the crystal gems.
"Pl-please, don't let them know I'm here, please I'm begging you!" Peridot frantically said, worried that who ever was holding her captive was going to indirectly hand her over to the crystal gems.
"Wait, but you're a gem too, why on earth would you be worried if they new you were in town?" The voice asked, wondering just what could get the green alien so worked up.
"If they find out I'm here, they'll kill me!" Peridot said, pleading with her captor to not let the crystal gems know that she was on earth.
"What!? Why!?" The voice asked, no doubt confused on why the crystal gems would kill one of their own kind.
"Because that's what they do!" Peridot bluntly replied. "They're traitors from the home world, that's what they do, they're even the reason my ship crashed." Peridot said, explaining on why the crystal gems knowing where she was would be a death sentence.
"Wait what!?" The voice said, with concern in his voice, so much in fact that he turned off the light that was shining in Peridots face to reveal a simple human male with blond curly hair and square glasses looking at Peridot with a worried expression. "Wh-what else did they do? Did they try to do something to the earth?" The human frantically asked, hoping to get answers. With the idea that she could use the human to help her, Peridot suddenly thought of a plan to get her out of her restraints and back on track to getting off of earth.
"Y-yes it's called a "kindergarten" the crystal gems were going to use it to destroy the earth." Peridot lied. "But before they could reactivated it some other gems and I came to earth to make sure they couldn't hurt anyone anymore." She continued switching the roles of good and evil to make her story sound convincing. "We had managed to capture them and throw them on my ship, but they escaped, took it over and crashed it on to earth, probably killed the other gems I was with too." She added, only saying that last part for pity so the human would think the crystal gems were cold blooded monsters. And lucky for her, the human was buying every bit of the fake sob story.
"I-I can't believe it." The human said shamefully as he put his hands to his face in a horrid realization. "This whole time I thought the crystal gems were the good guys, but this...this changes everything." He added.
"I know it might sound hard to believe, but trust me it's all true. Peridot said, trying to assure that the human believed every word.
"But how do we stop them? I mean, there's gotta be a way to beat them right?" The human asked, desperately hoping for a good answer. Peridot was rejoiced at the fact that she was able to fool the human into believing her story, since she fooled him she could easily use him to her advantage.
"I'm sorry to say but there is probably no way you or I could beat them, these gems are too powerful for just one gem to take on let alone one human." peridot explained. "The only hope that we have at stopping them would be if I could repair my space pod and get back to the gem home world, once there I could tell everybody there what is happing and return with reinforcements." She explained. "Those gems may be strong, but they couldn't possibly take out a small army of home world soldiers." She finished.
"So, what your saying is that the crystal gems are actual evil and are bent on destroying the world and the only way to save the earth from the crystal gems is to help you fix your ship so you can go home and get reinforcements?" The human asked, trying to clarify what exactly Peridot was saying.
"Needless to say in layton terms, yes." Peridot replied, for some reason deciding to be snarky with her vocabulary.
"But wait, how do I know I can trust you?" The human said, the doubt in his voice giving the impression that he wasn't a hundred percent sold on Peridot story.
"Well can you trust the crystal gems anymore then you can trust me?" Peridot quickly replied, not actually knowing what terms the human and the crystal gems were on, but noticing how the human seemed so believing and concerned when she told him that they were evil, that she took a shot in the dark, hoping that the human would be on her side.
"My gosh, you're right, I don't trust the crystal gems." The human blatantly said out loud. "I mean yeah they've "saved" the city a few times, but that all could have been a ruse to get everybody to think that they were on our side, it all makes sense." The people that the human race would never expect to be a threat, would be its protectors, and to think, that there was a time where I fell for the old, "we are earth's protectors" nonsense." The human said, sounding as if he had just "stepped into the light". "Well not anymore, from this day on I, "RONALDO FRYMAN" will do everything in my power to stop them from destroying my planet, no matter what the cost!" The human, known as Ronaldo said out loud.
"That's great to hear, but could you please untie me so we could get started on fixing my pod?" Peridot said, happy that she found someone to help her scavenge, but still annoyed that she was still tied up at this point.
"O-oh sorry, forgot about that." Ronaldo said, embarrassed that he was getting a little carried away with himself. "So...uh...what's your name by the way, if you don't mind me asking." Ronaldo asked as he began to undo Peridot's restraints. "Oowww, since this mission will probably be a stealth mission we could use code names, I'll use the code name "blogger", I think it fits me well, what about you?" Ronaldo added as he tried to make small talk.
" uh...my name is "Peridot" and I think I'll just use "Peridot as my code name thank you very much." Peridot said, a little unsure on what the human was talking about.
"Oh...ok that's fine." Ronaldo said, a little embarrassed at himself when he noticed how goofy the question sounded. After a minutes of untying knots and removing duct tape, Ronaldo finally freed Peridot form her restrains. "Whoa, done, so now what do from here?" He asked waiting for the next step in Peridot's plan to stop the crystal gems and save the earth.
"Now we just have to scavenge some parts from the wreckage of my ship, if we're lucky we'll find the parts I need to fix my pod and I can go home and report this within a day or two." Peridot said as she stood up from the chair. "And if we're really lucky the crystal gems haven't all ready clean the streets clean of any useful parts." Peridot, thought to herself, making her confidence go down a little in scale. " Alright Ronaldo, I need you to go into town and grab anything that looks like a piece of debris, then I need you to-" Peridot began to say before getting distracted by the large green light illuminating in the sky like a firework.
"Is that a fire work? Ronaldo asked confused. "Who would be lighting fire works at this time of year?" He asked still unsure on what was going on.
"Oh no." Peridot muttered under neath her breath. "No No No, who could have found my pod!?" She said, frantically and worried, as she ran up to the glass to get a better look at the signal flair, hoping that it was just a coincidence, but sure enough a coincidence wasn't the case here. Before she had much time to react, Peridot felt a pair of hands grab her and pull her down to the floor. "What are you do-" was all Peridot could mutter before she felt Ronaldo's hand cover her mouth.
"Shush!" Was the only thing Ronaldo said, as he used his other hand to point out the window in the direction of three distinct figures in the air. Sure enough when Peridot focused on the three figures she could definitely tell that it was the three crystal gems, most likely on their way to find her pod and destroy it. With the knowledge that the crystal gems were surely going to destroy her only means of getting off earth, Peridot felt an overwhelming sense of dread rush over her. "Hey, sorry about that. I didn't want the gems seeing you through the window, so that's why I had to pull you done without telling you." He explained. "Are you ok?" Ronaldo asked as he reached a hand out to help Peridot on her feet.
"N-no, I'm not, that flair was from my space pod." Peridot said, with saddens in her voice as she took his hand to get up. "It looks like the crystal gems are on their way to destroy it right now, so I'm not ok. She explained. "Without my pod or the parts I need, I'll never get off earth." Peridot said as she fell down to her knees, resting her face in her hands, if you could even call her floating fingers hands, and try'd to cover the tears that were starting to form up in her eyes.
"Hey, maybe you could build a new one." Ronaldo shyly asked, not wanting to make the situation worse.
"To do that I would need a lot of specific parts and I'm pretty sure that they've all ready taken anything worth of value by now." Peridot said with even more saddens and defeat in her voice then before. With hearing that, Ronaldo made his way to the other side of the room and moved a locked chest from underneath a desk and dragged it back to where Peridot was, after grabbing a key from his pocket and unlocking the chest he opened it to reveal different pieces of gem technology salvage from the debris of her ship. Ranging from what looked like chunks of what was once her ships engine to even a few gem stabilizers.
"Would any of these help?" Ronaldo said with a smug grin on his face. Peridot however was shocked to say the least. After wiping a way the very few tears that she was starting to muster up, Peridot finally found the one word she was looking for.
"How?" Peridot said, absolutely flustered.
"When I found out that your ship crashed in town I looked all over the place and scavenged anything that looked really important, then I hurried and locked it away in this chest just in case the crystal gems tried to take anything." Ronaldo said, quickly explaining himself on how he obtained all his little souvenirs. "So, will this work for you?" He asked Peridot, wondering if it was good enough for her.
"Y-yes of course, I mean I might have to resort to using stuff from earth, but yes I can use this, thank you." Peridot said, legitimately thanking Ronaldo for helping her.
"Yes!" Ronaldo yelled. "Don't worry people of earth, you'll be safe soon enough." He said, determined to save his planet from a threat he didn't know existed until tonight.