Hello, Nerv-um, wrong show. Hello, Kronos employees. Welcome to yet another installment of this official(ha as if) report of the events of the ongoing Fae invasion.

Just to clear some job things up-Sardonyx and Pearl are computer programmers, Peridot is an engineer, Rose and Yellow Diamond are supervisors who hold a lot of power, and Garnet..you'll see:)

Lapis Lazuli looked blankly at herself in the mirror. She touched her dark, blue-black hair that hung by her eyes, brushing it away. What was the point of all this? She lived in a tiny four-room apartment on Kronos Orginazation-owned land. It was just the poorer employees, the younger Pilots, maybe a few family members under government protection...

Block A, Apt. 7B. Second floor. Turn right. Seventh door to the left. Try not to fall onto the parking lot. The outdoor walkway doesn't have rails. The directions she always gave.

Lapis picked up her jacket, pulling it on and stepping out the bedroom door. She strode toward the main door, eternally slightly ajar. She left her home. It was raining, but she didn't mind. Thunder cracked above her, setting off the dogs in the residential district nearby. Barking barely reached her ears.

She pulled out her water-proof phone, calling her coworker. To her surprise, she picked up.

"Yeah, Lazuli?"

"Crystal. I was wondering if Sapphire was in stable condition."

Silence.

"Crystal, did your connection sever?" She could hear Crystal laughing hoarsly.

"Hah! No, I'm just pissed you asked that. I'm going to hang up now."

If you wish to continue your message, speak af-

Lapis ended the call, pocketing her phone once more. She turned her eyes to the towers looming in the distance. She could see the red lights flashing on the top.

"I wonder how Mollusk is doing..."

Peridot flopped down on Pearl's couch. "So, as I was saying, Crystal had, like, a huge argument with Quartz and switched over to our group! Ain't that annoying? If anybody's gonna screw something up, it's gonna be her.

Pearl sipped her tea. "I believe she was subject to human experimentation as an infant. She's probably going to be in charge of general check-ups. I believe she is the answer to the blatant power issue we've been having for the past twenty years." She looked up at the sound of footsteps. "Oh, Ruby! Your sister is going to be in town starting tomorrow. She'll be living down the street a little ways."

Ruby grinned. "Seriously? I haven't seen Garnet in, like, three years! Aw man, this is gonna be great!" Peridot groaned. "Aw, c'mon! You didn't say Ruby'd be here?" Pearl smirked. "She and Sapphire live with me. If you don't like her, you shouldn't come over."

"...My house smells like cat litter..."

"Well, maybe you should clean it more often."

"Maybe you could stop being so snarky."

Ruby snorted amusedly. "Oh, pot and kettle."

All three of them looked up as thunder boomed overhead, a lot louder than usual. The lights flickered before returning to their usual steadiness.

"...Think we should check in on that?"

"That's your best idea in a while, Peridot."

Pearl picked up her phone, tapped twice(she had Headquarters on her homescreen), and lifted it up to her ear.

"Hello? Yes, this is a Kronos official. Mollusk. Programmer. Titans three through five. No. May I speak to the person currently in charge of the city's power supply?" After a moment of Pearl looking exasperated, somebody finally responded."Yes. No. Was that thunder that caused the power to switch off for roughly ten seconds something to worry about?"

A moment of silence.

"...Oh. I understand. Is Ruby needed?"

Ruby and Peridot exchanged a glance.

"Oh, Alright. Thank you, Dewey."

Pearl hung up. "Sky-class Category Y. The coast guard took it out. Three injured and one ship lost. Not too bad."

"Heh, yeah. Man, I'm so glad I don't have to go out there...again...Seriously, what's with the amount of Fae recently?" She waited while Pearl took another sip of her tea. After a few seconds, she answered. "We're not quite sure. Personally, I think that, um-" Her eye twitch as Peridot made an exasperated expression, waving her hand about. "-The Den recently discovered beneath Germany is more active that usual, and as most of the islands in the Atlantic were sunk five hundred years ago, and Eurasia's defenses in general are very low, they manage to reach us very swiftly due to the current..global weather situation."

"...English, please?"

"They're hatching and coming over the Atlantic."

"...Oh."

Peridot placed a gloved finger to her lips. "Hm...That was a pretty good explanation, P. How's about publishing that?" At Pearl's murderous expression, Peridot quickly backtracked. "Uh..in a report. So that you, like, wont get court-martialed."

"...Hm. Theories about scientific matters requiring serious analysis are not my expertise. I'm a computer programmer, Dot."

Ruby snickered. "Dot? Seriously? That's, like, a name for toddlers!" Peridot coughed extremely angrily. "Uh, I'm twenty-five! I'm taking that as a personal offense, twerp!"

Pearl interrupted the dawning argument. "Sorry, but I have to stop you before this become World War XXII."

The other two stared blankly at her.

"Ex Ex Eye Eye?"

"Twenty-two, Peridot. Twenty-two."

"22 is already dawning, P. It would be more accurate to say-"

Ruby's phone ringing interrupted them abruptly. She fumbled around in her pocket for a moment before pulling it out and picking up. "Yeah, Lazuli?" Peridot and Pearl watched Ruby's expression change to blank in a matter of seconds. She remained silent for a few seconds.

"Hah! No, I'm just pissed you asked that. I'm going to hang up now." She removed the phone from her ear and turned it off angrily.

Pearl and Peridot remained silent, watching Ruby go off to her room. Peridot lowered her voice to a whisper. "What's with her?" Pearl bit her lip. "She is taking Sapphire's condition badly." Peridot bit her lip. "Ah."

Lapis kept staring up at the towers looming over the city. Cooling towers, to be precise. It was scary to other people, considering the poor location, but she didn't mind. They were shutting the plant down soon anyway. About a month, she had heard. The ever increasing chance of it being destroyed or having a total meltdown was driving people away, and considering this was one of the few places left in the US that wasn't damaged in some way by space travel, nuclear war, or even just the massive floods of 2050, that was saying a lot. Beach City had been through a bit of shit in the past thousand years, but at least it wasn't Kansas City...

She sighed, pushing her hair out of her eyes. It was a shame that the records from 2016 were fuzzy and unclear. After all, paper and computers don't last very long. There were rumors of alien invasion-shortly before a massive war that flattened certain parts of the US and Asia. For example, it was a popular tourist attraction to take submarine rides into the sunk parts of Japan.

This planet was barely worth living on anymore. Unfortunately, unlike roughly six billion other people, she didn't have the option to bail and go to ther other side of the Milky Way.

She turned her eyes away from the nuclear plant and kept walking down the rainy sidewalk, alongside a busy road filled with headlights and honking, all of them blissfully unaware of the rapidly rising radiation in the air. Of the Fae being attracted to the large Human settlement. Not even of the blatantly obvious amount of enemies they had...

It had been awhile since it had rained like this.

Ugh...So much writer's block. So little giant robot anime I'm in the mood to watch.

Yes, I know everybody's a little out of character. They're humans now(woo) and have had either worse or way better lives. Garnet will make a crushingly awkward appearance in the next chapter.

R&R!