Peridot was walking down the street when she saw the Crystal Gems and Lady Cregga coming her way. And she recognized Ruby and Sapphire instantly!

She ran up to the group. "Stop right there!" she shouted. "I'd know these clods anywhere. They're Crystal Gems, friends of Rose Quartz!"

The two Amethyst guards who were escorting the group looked at each other. "Is that so?" one of them asked.

Horrified, Sapphire tried to cover the situation. "Of course not. This Gem is out of her mind. I've never seen her in my life." But her voice didn't sound too convincing.

"She's lying!" said Peridot. "Her and that Ruby over there tried to stop me from reactivating the Kindergarten on Earth. I've never seen the other two before, but they must be Crystal Gems too. They're probably trying to free Rose!"

The guards didn't know who to believe. "They told us that they were here to deliver this creature from the planet Granavenoo to the prison," one said.

"There is no planet called Granavenoo, you clods!" Peridot cried. "That's an Earth creature called a stripedog!"

When Cregga heard Peridot use the racial slur for her species, she lost control of herself. She broke away from Amethyst and Ruby and charged at Peridot, knocking her to the ground. "I'M NOT A STRIPEDOG, I'M A BADGER! EULALIA!"

The two Homeworld Amethysts carried whips, just like the one Crystal Gem Amethyst had. Now, they leapt forward and lassoed Cregga with them, binding her in place. One of the whips wrapped itself around Cregga's neck, choking her. The Badger Lady clawed at the air as she struggled to breathe.

Sapphire and Ruby looked at each other and sighed. "No help for it," said Ruby. "We'll have to blow our cover." She and Sapphire joined hands and fused back into Garnet. Garnet then punched away the guards restraining Cregga. They fell to the ground, and Cregga tore the whips away from her body, freeing herself.

Peridot sat up and pointed at Garnet. "See, I told you they were enemies!"

Attracted by the commotion, more Amethyst soldiers appeared, running at the Crystal Gems. "Looks like we're in trouble," said Amethyst. She got out her whip, and Pearl drew her sword. Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Cregga got into a circle and stood back to back, ready to fend off the foe.

Cregga's eyes were blazing with Bloodwrath. As the Homeworld soldiers came at her, she struck out at them with her paws, sending them flying through the air, and when they hit the ground, they were bubbled. Garnet smacked more soldiers with her huge fists, Pearl hit some with her sword, and Amethyst hit some with her whip. Despite being outnumbered, the four heroes were holding their own pretty well...

Until something strange happened. All of a sudden, the Crystal Gems stopped fighting and started crying loudly. The shocking sound jolted Cregga out of her Bloodwrath trance. She turned around to look at her friends and saw tears pouring from their eyes. "What's wrong?" she asked. They didn't answer. They only cried harder.

Then Cregga remembered Garnet had told her that Blue Diamond had the power to make other Gems start crying for no reason. She turned back around and saw two giant Gems approaching her, one blue, one yellow. She knew these must be the Diamonds.

She wasn't scared of them at all. "Come to join the party, have you?" she said sarcastically. "I was told there were three of you. Where's your other friend, White Diamond?"

"Who are you and what are you doing on our planet?" Blue Diamond demanded.

"I am Lady Cregga, ruler of Salamandastron. Your powers may work on my friends, but they won't work on me!"

With these words, she leapt into the air and hurled herself at Blue Diamond like a furry cannonball. Despite Blue Diamond being more than twice her size, Cregga hit her so hard that she fell over. Cregga jumped on top of Blue Diamond and started punching her face. This caused Blue to lose the hold she had on the Crystal Gems, and they all stopped crying.

But now Yellow Diamond was mad at Cregga, and her powers did work on organic lifeforms. She raised her hands and fired a bolt of electricity at the badger, shocking her. Cregga emitted a roar of rage and pain. She raised up her head to look at Yellow Diamond, and that's when Yellow Diamond hit her with another blast. This one hit Cregga right in the eyes.

Cregga fell back, rolling off of Blue Diamond. The pain was worse than anything she'd felt in her life. Worse off, she couldn't see a thing. Yellow Diamond's attack had permanently blinded her!

Just then, a ship appeared in the sky above the city. It was the Martian ship, with Tammo and the others aboard! They had come to the rescue!

Yellow Diamond pointed up at the ship. "What's that? What is it? It's not a Homeworld ship!"

A beam of light shot down from the ship and sucked up Cregga, just as Jasper's ship had sucked up Tammo. Then, the ship flew over to the three Crystal Gems and beamed them aboard too. With that, it flew off, leaving the Diamonds shaking their fists up at the sky in anger.

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Aboard the ship, Joshy Stag Hare had magicked up a bed for Cregga to lie on. Pasque Valerian was standing over her, examining her carefully. "She'll live," Pasque declared, "but she'll never be able to see again. Her eyes have completely burned away."

Pearl nodded sadly. "I was afraid of that. She took quite a battering from Yellow."

"This is all my fault," said Tammo. "If Pasque and I had made it back sooner, you chaps wouldn't have had to enter the city at all, and we all could've escaped safe and sound."

"Don't beat yourself up," said Amethyst. "The important thing is that you and Pasque got away from the evil Diamonds."

"Yeah, and you found all these new friends!" said Garnet. She walked over to Rhodonite. "So you're a fusion of a Ruby and a Pearl, eh? I'd like to hear the story of how you got together sometime. It's probably a lot like my story." She turned to Fluorite. "And you... you're just, uh, beautiful." Fluorite blushed.

Padparadscha suddenly spoke. "We will rescue the Crystal Gems and Lady Cregga from the Diamonds. But Cregga will lose her eyes."

"Yes, that already happened, didn't it, wot?" said Major Perigord.

"Padparadscha is like a Sapphire," Tammo explained, "except instead of the future, she sees the past."

"Well, here's a prediction from me," said Joshy. "With this superfast ship, we'll be back home on Earth in no time!"