A/N: Wow! I'm shocked at all the positive reviews! Thank you! Here is chapter 2!
A static buzz interrupted Peridot's resting state as she blinked her eyes open with a pained groan. Everything around her blurred and glitched before finally focusing.
"Ow. Ugh." Peridot groaned and held her head. Her eyes widened when she felt, or rather didn't feel, the floating appendages on her hand. "M-my fi-fingers!" her voice glitched and she looked around frantically. She had not even taken note of the fact that she was no longer on the forest floor and her panic rose. "Where a-am I?" she got up on her feet and examined her surroundings. She looked at the unfamiliar décor in the room. It seemed to be more of an office rather than a room due to the numerous littered notes all over the floor. She tried to summon up her screen to record her surroundings and try to contact Homeworld but only screamed in frustration. "Wh-ere are m-my fingers!" Peridot screetched angrily. "Why do these Earth beings keep taking my things!"
"3:28 PM. It seems the alien being has awoken from her slumber. She seems distressed and looking for her 'fingers' as she claims. There seems to-" Peridot turned to the source of the voice which seemed to be from under a pile of blankets.
"Wh-who's t-t-there?" She stuttered, her voice still broken.
"Ah! I do apologize. You must not have noticed me due to my awesome stealth." The voice continued. A figure emerged from under the covers to reveal a tall and rather large human. Peridot looked in confusion and with caution.
"You! You're a human! What d-do you w-w-want! Why have you c-c-captured m-me?" Peridot interrogated.
"Woah, woah! What's with these accusations? First of all, I did not 'capture' you. I simply took you to my headquarters after I saw you lying in the forest." He stated.
"That's essentially t-the same t-thing, you fool." Peridot grumbled. "You s-s-stole my f-fingers didn't you! You're keeping them hostage as well!" Peridot immediately accused. He seemed taken aback.
"Fingers? What are you talking about? The only thing I recovered were these strange green cylindrical shapes." He dug into his pockets and took out a handful of Peridot's fingers. Peridot gasped.
"G-give those b-back!" She yelled stomping over to him. She didn't care if he was dangerous or if he had a weapon. She needed to contact Homeworld and she couldn't do anything without her fingers, as pathetic as that sounded. "Those are m-my fingers y-y-you idiot!"
'What? Fingers? What are you talking abou-Ah!" he let out a shocked yelp as the cylinders jumped out of his hands and back to Peridot. They lined up back in their floating position. Peridot gave a relieved sigh as she flexed her newly returned fingers. She turned to scowl at the human again when she saw his back was turned and he was muttering into some device again.
"It seems the being has some odd kind of floating detachable fingers. One can only imagine if the rest of the body is detachable. Perhaps it is for easy storage and handling of the being…." He continued onward. Peridot rolled her eyes and remembered the reason for her needing the fingers back. She quickly formed her screen in front of her and tapped a few icons on it hoping to get a signal and to record her log entries.
"This is Peridot logging in d-day 4 of crash landing on Earth. It s-s-seems I have been t-taken to a human base. The h-human does not show a-any threat to me b-b-besides the fact that he has h-held my fingers hostage for s-s-some time. Will need to p-perform a body scan to ensure n-nothing else has happened since-"
"The alien seems to refer to itself as 'Peridot' and is trying to contact the mothership. This may be in accordance to my diamond authority theory or my-"
"How did you k-know that?" Peridot hissed. The man jumped nearly dropping his electronic device and looked over at the green alien with confusion.
"Um. Know what?" he said dumbly. Peridot's free fingers twisted into a fist.
"About Yellow D-Diamond! And my n-n-name! Who a-are you?" Peridot questioned getting closer to him. He seemed to shrink back at her sudden outburst.
"You said your name earlier." He said slightly shaken under her death stare. "And I have no idea who you're talking about. Who's Yellow Diamond?" he asked. Peridot cursed under her breath.
"I may have revealed too much." Peridot turned back to him and stood up straight with poise. "Well since you know who I am it is time you introduce yourself."
"Uh. Oh yeah. I'm Ronaldo, owner of the blog Keep Beach City Weird!" he proclaimed with pride. Again, Peridot raised her eyebrows with confusion and turned back to her screen.
"It appears t-that I have been h-held in the lair of the 'Ronaldo.'" She logged into her system. Her monitor buzzed and static raked through the screen and Peridot stomped her foot down in annoyance. "What is going on w-w-with my t-tech? Ugh, I ought t-to – " She stopped midway through her sentence when she caught sight of her reflection in the digital monitor. Peridot almost fell back in shock. "N-no! I-i-it can't be!" Peridot closed her screen and returned her fingers to their place and ran over to the nearest window, looking at her reflection again. "N-no! My gem! It can't be c-c-cracked! It can't! There's no way I –" A flash and a click interrupted Peridot's meltdown and she looked back over to the human who was staring down at the small device in his hands.
"The…alien named…Peridot…seems….to show great concern…over the green…gem…on her…head…" Ronaldo said slowly as he typed on his device.
"What are y-you d-doing?" Peridot questioned looking at him wearily.
"Updating my blog with a picture of you. People need to keep informed about all the weird stuff that goes on in Beach City and – "
"Blog? What i-is a blog?" Peridot asked with slight curiosity.
"Ah, you probably don't have blogs on your planet." Ronaldo said randomly. "Blogs are a place for people to post things for everyone to see. In other words- " Realization dawned on Peridot's face.
"Everyone saw that picture of me?" Peridot exclaimed wrestled the man for his device.
"H-hey! What are you doing?" Ronaldo said tussling with the green gem.
"You dense rock! You posted a picture of me for everyone on your planet to see? Do y-you not realize I h-h-have enemies o-on this planet? Do you n-not realize that I was in the woods because I was h-h-hiding?" She screamed. She tried again to grab the phone from his hands. "Erase that photo!" Peridot said with panic. If the Crystal Gems were to see that image, she would surely be dead. The minor crack in her gem wouldn't matter if she was getting pounded to a pulp.
"Hey! Watch the face!" Ronaldo bickered and tried to move her off of him.
"Give me that device or I'll-" a knock echoed from the bottom of the lighthouse.
'No,' Peridot shook with fear. 'Not the Crystal Gems! Not now!'
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