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"I cant believe that went so well!" Pearl said happily. "That was kinda great when you hit it with your spear and it went BING BONG BURSH." Amethyst said reenacting what happened. "And the way you were circling around it, almost looked like strategy." Pearl complimented. "Jeez you two shut up" I said from behind them, I turned to Garnet " I don have to listen to this all the way home do I?" I asked her. "Well its better that them arguing all the time" she pointed out. "That's actually a good point" I replied. "By the way where's Steven?" I asked looking around, but as soon as I asked he came out of the bushes. "I'm here guys" he said with sort of a muffled voice. I turned to him and saw his face "what in the blazes happened to you?" I asked loudly. "Sorry I couldn't help much the flowers are ma-ma-ma achoo!" Was all he could say before sneezing on Garnet. "Sorry Garnet" Steven said wiping his nose. "I'll live" she said stoically. I knelt down to Steven's level "Here, you can use this to wipe your nose okay?" I said giving him my other handkerchief. "Thanks Obsi-ah-ah achoo!" he sneezed all over my coat. "Sorry Obsidian" he apologized. "Eh don't worry about it, I'll just change"i said phasing a new outfit, I put on a dark gray hoodie and some light gray jeans. "Steven your supposed to sneeze in to your anti-cubidal-fasa" she said sounding disgusted. "My what?" he asked while we were walking towards the warp pad. "your... this thing" she said pointing at the inside of her elbow. "Chill Pearl he has allergies okay. And why are you even saying anything? You cant even get sick even if you tried" I pointed out in defense of Steven. "well I..." she stopped talking. We were in the warp stream. "Ah ah ah ah!" Steven was going to sneeze again. "Do it at Pearl Steven!" Amethyst said grabbing Pearl. "Steven your fasa!" she yelled at him in fear. Instead he sneezed down-ward and it pushed him up in the stream. He popped his head out of the stream and sat there for a bit. I pulled him back and the snot that came from his nose was now frozen. "Careful its dangerous to stick your head out of the steam!" Pearl exclaimed. "Are you alright Steven? I know its cold out there so it would be easy for you to get hypothermia" I said holding my hand on his forehead. "Nope he's fine" I concluded. "Guys I saw something out there! Something warping!" he shouted. "Steven is your vision blurry from the pollen?" Pearl asked obviously not believing his story. "I can see perfectly... Pearl. I know I saw something out there!" he said trying to convince her.
Later that night I was sitting at the bar reading one of the fantasy books Steven had. "Ugh gotta stay awake" I heard from upstairs. I walked up there and sat on his bed, he had his eyes closed pretending he was asleep. "hmm" I said thinking what to do, I decided to tickle him. "Stop I cant hold it anymore. I'm gonna pee!" he yelled with a smile. I pulled back and put my arms in the air. "Okay you got me." he said yawning. "Steven why are you still awake? Its like midnight! Is it the thing you saw in the stream?" I asked him worrying about his health. "Yeah, I cant shake this feeling that its something we need to investigate" he said looking away. "I tell you what. If your so intent on finding this object I'll convince the others tomorrow to help investigate all of the working warp pads okay?" I said to see if it would let him sleep. "Really? Thanks Obsidian!" he said happy as could be. "But you need a good nights rest before we do that okay?" I told him and he nodded. "If you need anything I'll be outside listening to music" I said while walking down the stairs. I sat out there for a while thinking on how I would convince them to help. Garnet would help without question but the other two propose a problem. "Well I'm not gonna get anything done by just sitting here" I said to myself. I got up and walked in quietly so I wouldn't wake up Steven who was snoring loudly in his bed. I walked over to the temple door and knocked on it. Garnet opened it up "what is it?" she asked. "We need to talk"
I followed Garnet back into her room until we came to a room with bubbled gems floating all over the place. I spotted one that had a bag of chips in it. "So what do you need to talk about" she asked sitting down. "It's about Steven earlier, he really thinks he saw something in the stream" I said showing some concern. "But there are no other warp pads that are connected to earth! I'm telling you he was mistaken" she said stoically. "That's not the point! He feels like you guys don't trust him and you aren't helping" I said pointing at her. "What do you want me to do?" she asked loudly. "Humor him! Let him search for whatever it was that he saw. And he needs you guys there to support him. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense!" I yelled back. Garnet stepped back surprised that I yelled at her. "Now tomorrow we're all going to go and help Steven look for this thing he saw. I'd advise that you tell the others and be sure to tell them to not say anything against it" I said walking away. I walked out the temple door "whew! I thought she was going to be easy!" I said feeling exhausted from the argument. I think I'm going to go relax until tomorrow" I thought to myself as I went back outside to resume listening to music.
The next day I found Steven leaning on the screen door with a water gun in his hands. "What happened now?" I wondered. I stood up to see the gems coming up to him "steeeeven, we've gotta surprise for you" she said whispering it and poking him in the face. I was going to stop her but I was too late. "Whaaa!" Steven yelled as he sprayed Pearl in the face. "Oh, Pearl!" he said as she sat there looking astonished. "Now your not getting any cookies" Garnet said holding out a sheet of some chocolate chip deliciousness. "Oh cookies! I'll take them" Amethyst yelled running across the room. She grabbed the sheet and started just dropping the cookies into her mouth. "Slow down Amethyst!" Garnet said in worry. "I'm sorry Pearl, I guess I didn't-" he was cut off "didn't sleep" I said from outside the door. "It was about the thing you saw in the stream wasn't it? I thought I told you that if you needed something just to come see me?" I asked. "Yeah I guess I just forgot" he said yawning. "Steven there is nothing else on earth that can use the warp pads!" Pearl exclaimed. "but if it will make you feel better we can just go Check. Right guys?" I asked changing my tone and looking at them. "Yes we will" Garnet said fixing her glasses. "R-right" Pearl agreed nervously.
We spent all day warping to tons of different places checking for signs of disturbance. We went to the last one which was where Steven told me that Amethyst and Pearl fused into Opal. Whoa! Now that's something! Steven Jr. has been busy" Amethyst pointed out laughing. "This makes you a grandpa!" she said joking. "Congratulations" Garnet said ruffling his hair. "Who's Steven Jr.?" I asked. "Hey! We're getting off task here!" he said slamming one of his hands into the other. "We've looked all over there's nothing out here to find" she said looking confident. "But your wrong" Steven said now with an annoyed tone. "Excuse me?" Pearl asked in surprise. "I- I mean" Steven said starting to apologize. "Nothing on earth can use these warps but us" Pearl said crossing her arms. "But what about from space?" I shot in. "well I-"she paused realizing I made a good point. "I don't appreciate your tone." we warped to the galaxy warp "these are the warps that once connected us to other planets. If something tried to come from space it would be through here. "But wait" she said in sarcasm "this warp pad is broken, marked inactive by the very depressed cartoon breakfast sticker you placed here yourself " she said pointing at the sticker. "Pearls right like usual, you get used to it" Amethyst said nonchalantly. "We're safe" Garnet said ruffling Steven's hair. "Well I guess so" Steven decided. "Ah man finally that took all day" Amethyst whined. "It was important to make Steven feel secure" Garnet told Amethyst. "Yes Steven feels much better now" Pearl said with certainty. "I'm a little tired of you guys telling me how I feel! I know I saw something outside the stream" Steven said now yelling. "And I know you didn't" Pearl said stubbornly. From there they started to argue for a while. "You just don't know what your talking about" Pearl said without care for her words. "Well I think you don't know what I'm talking about" Steven yelled very loudly. "Okay that's enough!"I yelled splitting them up. "You two quit the arguing your acting like children!"i said to the both of them. I turned to Pearl "Pearl you're arguing with a ten year old kid grow up. I turned to Steven and knelt down to him. Steven that's not how talk to an adult. If it will make you feel more secure I will search with you tomorrow okay?" he nodded in agreement.
Early in the evening I was at the local grocery store. "Some vegetables, some snack fruit, some milk and eggs, some lunch meat, and oh some steak would be great for dinner tonight" I said going through the list I've made. I took awhile to get through shopping for food because of a little girl that was stealing the food I put in my cart for laughs. Despite that I got through without having to punch anyone which was always a plus in my book. I was walking outside feeling confident until I saw a flash of light in the sky coming from the house. "I wasn't told of a mission today" I said to myself as I sprinted to the house. Once I got on the beach I saw Amethyst walking away from the house. "Was there a mission I wasn't told about?" I asked her. "No, not that I know of"she said shrugging. "I just saw the warp pad activate a little bit ago" I said now starting to worry. "Oh no, Steven!" she yelled now realizing the situation. We ran to the house "Go get the others I'll see if I can get him" I said as soon as we got in. she nodded and headed into her room. I stood on the warp pad and warped to random area looking for him. Eventually the gems caught up with me and we searched together. Just before we lost hope I spotted him floating outside the stream. "There he is!" I said pointing outside. I jumped out of the stream and went to catch him. I grabbed him and pulled him back into the stream we came through. He started to breathe heavily "take deep breaths" I said holding him. I grabbed the object he had "so this is what you saw" I said studying it. "I don't care about that!" Steven exclaimed. "But I do"Garnet said from behind Steven. we should of listened to you. you're a crystal gem too" Garnet said wiping her eyes. "Steven! Are you okay?Pearl asked obviously. "Amethyst said the warp pad activated and we looked all over for-" she stopped. "uh what is that?" she asked pointing at the object I was holding. "Its some kind of space robot. There were tons of them and they looked like they were all going to the same place" he explained just before we got to the galaxy warp. The object jumped from my hand and landed on the floor. I watched it limp over to the other ones and start spraying ooze onto the home world warp. "What are they doing to the home world warp?" Pearl asked "I don't know but it cant be good" I replied. I watched in amazement as the warp that was previously broken be repaired in an instant. Then the warp pad suddenly activated "everybody hide!" I yelled. Garnet grabbed up Amethyst, Pearl ,and Steven and grappled onto a pillar while I hid along the edge. When the light stopped I peaked over the edge to see a green gem standing on the warp pad. "Log date 312, this is Peridot performing earth hub maintenance check." she said tapping a screen she made using her other fingers. "Peridot eh? I've seen those before" I said remembering and old incident with another Peridot. Repairing success and all robonoids accounted for. Preparing to locate and manually reactivate kindergar-" She saw the cracked robonoid we had earlier. She glared at it, put it under her foot and smashed it with ooze spraying all over the place. "Now to access the domestic warp" She walked off of the home-world warp but noticed the sticker Pearl had pointed out earlier. "This area may have been compromised" She ran up the stairs and placed a device down before warping away. The device blinked a couple times before going off and disabling the robonoids. "Their coming back! I cant do this! Not again!" Pearl said almost starting to cry "We're dead! We are so dead!" Amethyst exclaimed "No she isn't, we just have to break the warp pad and destroy any robonoids that come" I said calmly. "Garnet smash that warp pad, its time to prepare"
Sorry if this chapter lacked in quality. I've had some school projects and I've been kinda sick. I will be aiming for some Peridot redemption (chosen by you guys!) but that will be later in the story after jail break. I'll be skipping some episodes to speed up the story and so I don't bore you with a ton of stuff you've seen already. The next chapter will be an interesting one just so you know. Oh and one last thing, if you want your oc in my story pm me and I'll get back to you when I can. Remember if you have some advice or some criticism about the story please don't hesitate to comment. Thanks in advance and see ya next time.
-Joe