Greg Universe gets his gift ready, holding a nice Champagne bottle he got for the Graysons.
"Son, are you ready to go?" Greg called for his son, wearing nice clothes for his dinner.
"Ready dad, what's with the Champagne?" Steven asked, seeing his dad with wine, never seen his father drink before.
"Just a little something for Debbie, always bring something when you get invited somewhere" Greg advises him, showing the champagne with a ribbon on it, giving it as a gift.
"Ok, surprised you accepted anyway" Steven said, getting the wrist watch to teleport to the nearest Wrap pad.
"Nothing wrong with making new friends and going to dinner, free of charge" Greg said with a smile, going out to meet new friends and free foods, count him in.
It's been a week since the real funeral of the Guardians, the Gems went home to Beach city, Greg got a message from Debbie to a dinner invite.
Greg, seeing nothing wrong accepted it and asked the gems, they declined saying they have more things to do, Steven seeing it's his friend's Mark's house thought why not and joined.
"Looking sharp Greg" Garnet walks into the room, seeing Greg and Steven getting ready to leave for dinner.
"Thanks Garnet, my collar is straight?" Greg asked; straighten his top with Garnet flattening his collar.
"Perfect Greg, enjoy your night" Garnet nods, turning to Steven.
"I don't know why you are not coming, Garnet, thought you wanted to talk with Omni-man?" Steven asked the Gem, she shook her head.
"I would love to Steven, but the new Guardians are moving into their mountain base" Garnet said, she got her hands whole training the new Guardians, knowing they need a lot of work before they can match the current threats.
The Crystal Gems are working overtime picking up the slack from the rest; with the public funeral of the Guardians of the Globe many villains will take advantage of the world's strongest superhero team death.
Peal leads Amethyst, Jasper and Lapis against the Order, a group of Super villains trying to take over America by holding the national banks hostage. Pearl's leadership, Amethyst's speed, Jasper strength and Lapis control over water overwhelmed the villain group.
All while Peridot helps the GDA monitor any world threats, giving her tech and magnet abilities proves too useful.
"Why aren't they at the base now?" Greg asked, believing the new Guardians should have been there already.
"It's where the Guardians last fought" Was all Garnet could say, making the Universes realise what she meant.
"That's ... .awful," Greg said, finding out the Guardians were killing their own base.
"Wait, is it even safe for the new Guardians to stay there?" Steven asked, worried what happened to the original Guardians could happen to the new ones.
"Not with me there, GDA cleaned up and upgraded the security of the place" Garnet states, the GDA pulled off the stops against any new attacks, Garnet smiles holding Steven's shoulder.
"Don't worry about this Steven, just enjoy a night out, have fun with your new friends" Garnet said, not wanting Steven to worry, he nods.
"Ok but warn me if anything bad happens, I'm a hero for a reason you know" Steven stands proud of himself, making Greg slap his shoulder.
"Don't hurt yourself over this Steven" Greg said to his son, as he started to rub his arms, seeing his breath.
"Ohh…it's cold in here" Greg said, shivering a little, with Steven seeing his breath.
"Didn't the weatherman say it was sunny?" Steven said, feeling the cold around him, Garnet shrugs.
"Weatherman isn't always accurate around here, best head off, and you're going to be late" Garnet said, seeing the time which got Greg going.
"Oh god, come on Steven, go to your warp pad thing" Greg said, running to the wrap pad with Steven following.
"Coming Dad, see you Garnet, tell me if you need Rosé" Steven calls out, Garnet follows them, seeing both Greg and Steven on the warp pad as she waves goodbye to Steven, smiling at the two warp away.
Garnet smiled then turned into a frown.
"You know how I feel about you being here Darkblood" Garnet calls out, turning to see Damien Darkblood looking around while writing on his notepad.
"My apologies Garnet, currently lacking key information" Darkblood said, reading his notepad as he looked around the place.
"You have a nice home, a lovely view of the beach" Darkblood commented, seeing the lovely home with a nice beach side view.
"Envious, Darkblood?" Garnet asked, walking through the door with Darkblood behind.
"Not really, but I can appreciate the view" Darkblood said, Garnet watches the demon, she walks to take a seat on the couch.
"You were close to the Guardians, close enough to be offered a membership" Darkblood said, flipping a few pages on his notepad.
"Of course," Garnet nods, leaning back as Darkblood sits in front of her.
"Yet you were not called when the murder happened, wrap pad destroyed before Guardians showed up" Darkblood figures, seeing Garnet didn't get the distress beacon like the other Guardians, a beacon to a trap.
"What's your point?" Garnet said, leaning back, her eyes narrowing behind her glasses.
"Did your future sight trigger before or after the Guardians died?" Darkblood accused, seeing if her future sight stopped her from coming to a trap.
"My future sight is constantly changing, many paths I see" Garnet started with a neutral tone.
"Future sight you control, or you help control to make it happen" Darkblood accused, seeing her closer, Garnet frowns at the demon.
"You think I have anything to do with my friends' death?!" Garnet frowns in anger at what his demon is accusing her of.
"Met many people who saw the future, many seeing one path for their own gains, centuries of people controlling others in order to make their future come to present" Darkblood stated, he lived a long time, meeting future tellers killing people in order for a future only they can see happen.
"In a world of black and white, cut and dry where good triumphs over evil" Darkblood states, Garnet frowns looking at the demon.
"You have no idea how I see the world Darkblood" Garnet said to him, shaking her head while Darkblood narrowed his eyes.
"Don't I, when a fortune teller is smug, the victims lose, when they sign, they lose. But when a fortune teller is afraid, everyone's loses, what are you so afraid of?" Darkblood said, is old enough to know that those that see the future can't connect with the present, Garnet tightens her fist.
"I'm afraid of many things demon, you only see the world as black and white, humans see both and the grey, but I see all the colours of the universe, and it mostly red" Garnet cries out, pulling off her glass to glare at Darkblood with her three eyes.
"You have no idea the amount of butterflies I had to step on for us, so the world doesn't end" Garnet said sharply at the demon.
"How many futures the world is destroyed by one thing or another, helping someone today lets a bomb blow-up in the east, stopping a monster leaves a killer to hide in survivors, every actions has consequences both good and bad, I see the outcomes of all my actions" Garnet lectures him on her constant struggle on all her actions, always seeing a bad outcome in whatever she does.
"Hate me , damn me to hell, I don't care, Darkblood, but know that what I do I do for the best for my boy Steven, this planet is his home, no one will hurt him! not while I'm around" Garnet slams her fist on the table, breaking it, Darkblood watch is all while taking notes, grunting in response.
"But you know who killed the guardians? Don't you want the killer brought to justice?" Darkblood asked, Garnet only glares at him
"Get out" Garnet commands ready for her weapon as Darkblood nods, pocketing his notebook.
"You're a good person Garnet, evil only happens when good people do nothing, you know this better than anyone" Darkblood walks out the door, but stops to turn to her.
"Take care of that boy, even a demon can see he has a bright future ahead of him" Darkblood said, tipping his hat to goodbye as he disappeared.
Garnet signs as she wipes her eyes, looking to see tears on her hands.
"Am I doing the right thing" Garnet thinks as she wipes her tears, unsure about the future she wants to protect.
Only wanting to protect Steven.
LINE
Debbie turns the salsa in the pot as she cooks the food for dinner, guest coming tonight, Debbie turns to the pasta boiling as she rotates that one as well see the pasta is now soft.
Wind comes in as her husband Nolan comes back with a bag in hand with his flight and speed.
"Ok, I got the cherry tomatoes, fresh chilli peppers, pork cheek and, this pecorino cheese, I think it's called, straight from Italy" Nolan said, taking out the food his wife asked for from Rome, Debbie nod.
"Thanks Nolan, help me open them up and cut up the tomatoes" Debbie said, grabbing the pork cheek, putting it into the salsa and mixing it in.
"You got it, that salsa smells good" Nolan said, smelling the food cooking as he chops up the tomatoes.
"Thank you, it's been a while since we had guests coming" Debbie said, taking the chilli pepper and cutting them up.
"No, what, didn't we have your friend come over one time…what's her name? Sandy" Nolan asked, remembering having a guest in the house one time.
"Cindy, she was a client, that was 3 months ago" Debbie states making Nolan nod.
"oh, yes it has been a while since we had guests," Nolan said, cutting up all the tomatoes, showing his wife.
"Great, put it in here" Debbie said, letting Nolan put the tomatoes in as she mixed it together, lifting the spoon up to taste it.
"mhhh does it need more spice?" Debbie thinks, tastes the salsa again, getting a little on her mouth.
"Let me try," Nolan said, turning his wife to lick the salsa on her mouth.
"Nolan" Debbie smiles at Nolan kissing her.
"It tastes perfect to me," Nolan said, kissing his wife again while tasting the food.
They hear the door open as Mark comes in.
"I'm home, oh come on" Mark complains seeing his parents kiss, covering his eyes.
"Hey Mark, we're having L'Amatriciana tonight, Italian" Nolan greets, helping Debbie stir the pasta as Debbie giggles.
"Italian? What occasion?" Mark asked, seeing the bit more food than before.
"The Universe is coming over, Steven Universe" Debbie mentions, as Mark smacks his head.
"Oh right, been a week already, luckily" Mark said,
"Luckily what?" Debbie asked, getting Nolan's attention.
"Nothing has plans tomorrow so we should be good" Mark said in relief, he didn't mess up his date plan.
"Oh, got a date tomorrow?" Nolan asked, looking at Mark who turned away.
"I'll get ready" Mark said, quickly heading up stairs as both Nolan and Debbie smiled.
"You see that, a date" Nolan said with a smirk as did Debbie.
"A date, woooo" Debbie chuckles as she puts the pasta up, Nolan goes to her.
"Let me" Nolan said, helping his wife in emptying the water, putting the pasta on the plates.
"Nice, think they'll be here soon" Debbie asked, waiting for their guests.
DING DONG
"I'll get it" Nolan flies to the door with his speed, opening the door to see Greg holding a Champagne and Steven holding a cake.
"Nolan, wow you're floating" Greg looks down at Nolan feet hovering off the ground.
"That's cool, are you standing on something invisible?" Steven asked, kicking his legs under floating viltrumite feet, Nolan smirked at their reactions.
"No Steven, it's me floating on air" Nolan said seeing them, Greg shows the champagne.
"I brought fine wine, didn't know what you want so" Greg said, Nolan took it.
"Thank you Greg, come in" Nolan welcomes them in, Greg and Steven enter the house.
"You have a lovely home" Greg comments, seeing the nice house Steven nodding, Greg sees Debbie with a smile.
"Debbie, so good to see you" Greg greets with a hug, Debbie hugs back.
"Happy to see you too Greg" Debbie greets back, seeing Steven with a cake.
"We brought cake and wine" Steven presents cake to Debbie, Nolan brought in the wine.
"How thoughtful of you two, come make yourself at home, dinner almost ready" Debbie said, taking the cake for later.
As the Universes got comfortable as Greg smells the food.
"That smells great Debbie" Greg said, the food still steaming.
"It's Italian," Debbie notes, putting the salsa on the plates.
"Italian, we have spicy meatballs" Steven spoke in an Italian accent, getting a chuckle from Nolan.
"Close, it L'Amatriciana" Debbie said, Greg nods as Nolan helps seat up the table.
"Let me help you out Nolan" Greg said, Nolan nods as both Greg and Steven help put the plates on the table.
"MARK dinner's ready" Debbie calls out to her son, everyone takes their seats with Mark coming down stairs, seeing the Universes, Greg smiles at him and Steven holds his hand out for a high five.
"Hey Steven, Mr Universe" Mark greets, shaking Greg's hand and giving Steven a high five.
"Call me Greg, Mark," Greg said, taking their seats as Nolan passes the pasta around.
"Enjoy" Debbie said, as everyone started to dig in.
"mhmhm this is good Debbie, wonderfully food" Greg complements, with Steven nodding.
"Thanks Greg, saw this made in Italy once, thought I would give it a try" Debbie said, tasting her food, as Nolan poured wine for his wife.
"Well it's better than Italy, wine?" Nolan said, offer wine to Greg.
"Thanks' Nolan, must be fun flying everywhere, same money on plane rides" Greg mentions, holding his glass for the wine.
"It has its benefits, saving money is useful" Nolan states, agreeing about saving money on travel.
"Does that mean you don't have a driver's licence, Mr Grayson, because you can fly anywhere?" Steven asked, seeing if Nolan had a driver licence.
"Call me Nolan, and yes I do, I can't fly all the time, it takes energy, you don't walk everywhere" Nolan said, needing a licence for his ID and learning how to drive.
"Was it hard for you to learn how to drive, cause you know…..you're a" Greg tries to mention Nolan was from another planet without being offended.
"An Alien?" Nolan raised an eyebrow at why Greg is nervous.
"Yeah, sorry didn't want to offend you or anything" Greg said, hoping he didn't insult Omni-man.
"Nothing to offend me with Greg, and my first time driving didn't go so well" Nolan said, drinking his wine.
"What do you do?" Mark asked, hasn't heard his story.
"He crashes the car into our neighbor's house" Debbie said, narrowing her eyes at him, Nolan holds his hands up.
"In my defenses, I didn't know what a gear shift was," Nolan said, and was still new to earth technology.
"No one was hurt right?" Steven asked, hoping no one got hurt.
"The house is empty, insurance covers the damage and I'm unharmed" Nolan waved it off, eating his food.
"At least you don't have to worry about your son being a hero, Indestructible?" Greg said, trying to remember Mark's hero name.
"Invincible" Mark corrected.
"Right sorry, good name, straight to the point" Greg nods at the name, making Mark smile, always getting criticized about his name.
"Why Rosé? Another word for pink?" Nolan asked, curious about Steven's name.
"My powers are harder to name, healing spit, making shields, energy bubbles, superhuman stuff, shapeshifting, couldn't find the name to connect them all, then I thought keep it simple too" Steven explains, finding it hard to come up with a hero name with his abilities.
"That is a theme" Mark nodded, seeing Steven name matches his theme.
"Shapeshifting?" Debbie asked, never seen Steven shapeshift before.
"Yeah, my Gem connected to my body, I use the energy to change myself" Steven explains, putting a finger out, pink energy turns his finger into a meowing cat.
"Holy shit" Mark said, looking closer to see Steven finger turn into a cat.
"Cool right" Steven using his cat finger to everyone.
"Wow" Debbie said, impressed with the abilities.
"That's a new one" Nolan mentions having a calculated look on his face.
"Oh please don't do that again" Greg closed his eyes, making Steven put his cat finger back to normal.
"Sorry dad, I got it under control now" Steven said with a little shame.
"Under control?" Nolan asked, seeing Greg drink some wine.
"It was a nightmare to see cat heads all over Steven's body, lucky I washed him down which seemed to work" Greg explains, making Grayson look at Steven who rubs his head.
"My powers are tied to my emotions and state of mind, I wasn't feeling the best that day" Steven tries to best explain it.
"So you have all the powers of the gems?" Nolan asked, looking at Steven's stomach Gem under his shirt, Steven nodded.
"Yeah, my Mum's gem, she gave her life so I could be born, giving me her gifts' ' Steven said, showing his pink gem on his belly button.
"I'm sure your mother would be proud of you" Debbie said, seeing the down look on Steven.
"Thank you, it is not all bad, I got my dad, the gems and my friends" Steven smiles at his dad and Mark who nods back.
"I got your back Steven, half-breed's stick together" Mark said, holding his fist out as Steven fist bumps it.
"Half-Breeds for life" Steven said, Steven and Mark laughing, getting a chuckle from Debbie and Greg, Nolan frowns at this.
RING RING
A ring is heard as Steven pulls his watch out, presses a hologram of Peridot's head to appear out.
"Steven scans show a corrupted Gem near the city" Peridot calls out, with Steven nodding, seeing the location on his wrist watch.
"Right Peridot I'm on it" Steven said, closing the wrist watch as he got up.
"Sorry about dinner Miss Grayson, but duty calls" Steven said, getting ready as did Mark.
"I'm coming with you," Mark said, getting the parents' attention.
"You sure Mark?" Debbie asked, seeing Mark nod.
"Yes, this is what we do mum, come on Steven" Mark said, Steven looking at Mark's parents.
"Can he go?" Steven asks, Debbie nods but Nolan looks conflicted.
"I'm…sure best he learns how to fight corrupted gems ... .Steven keeps an eye on Mark" Nolan said, looking at Steven, Mark looked confused.
"Keep an eye? Dad, I know what I'm doing" Mark said Nolan looks at his son before turning to Steven.
"Like I said keep an eye on him, it's his first time against gems" Nolan said, a little worried look in his eyes, as Steven nodded.
"No worries, Omni-man, Rosé and Invincible will be unbeatable" Steven cheered, Mark signs as he flies up.
"Let me get my costume," Mark said, but Steven was already out the door.
"No time, come on" Steven rushed out as Mark grunted flying to his room to get his costume.
"There they go," Greg said, watching the two teen heroes fly out, Debbie looking at Nolan.
"Why the hesitations Nolan?" Debbie asked, noticing her husband's reactions.
"Nothing…just wanted him to be careful ... there are some threats that can hurt him you know" Nolan explains, both Debbie and Greg nod.
"True, but I trust my boy to keep you alive and well, good to have a tank and a healer, like those video games the kids play." Greg said, remembering the video games of a healer and a tank.
"That's good, Steven healing abilities it a life saver" Debbie said, thankful Mark is with a healer out there, while she doesn't like him getting hurt, it better to see he won't be out there alone.
"You have no idea, Steven spits worth a lot to everyone" Greg mentions as he takes another sip of wine.
"Healing is very useful," Nolan admits, watching the boys leave as he talks to Greg about his relationship with Rose Quartz.
LINE
Mark quickly gets his costume on as he flies out his window to where Steven is running.
"Where are you going?" Invincible asked, flying to match Rosé's speed as he looked at his watch.
"The Corrupted gem is moving very fast, I think it is flying" Rosé said, seeing the hologram of a gem on the map a distance away, Rosé looked at Invincible.
"Invincible carry me" Rosé calls out to Invincible's shock.
"What? But that…auuu" Invincible didn't know what to say about carrying a superhero.
"Theirs is a flying corrupted Gem flying around scaring everyone, we need to stop it before it hurts someone" Rosé shouted, Invincible wince as he flies to Rosé, lifting him up by his arms.
"Ok ok, where do we go?" Invincible said, Rosé looks at his hologram map and points forward.
"Fly straight" Rosé orders, Invincible flying straight ahead following the directions, both feeling the wind blowing in their faces.
"How are you doing with Amberr?" Rosé calls out, the wind blowing his face but Invincible hears him.
"Great, she plans a date tomorrow actually" Invincible calls out, Rosé points in another direction.
"That's great, we should have a double date, Connie, me, you and Amberrrr" Rosé suggested, thinking it would be fun.
"Not a bad idea" Invincible said, turning in the air as they made it to the city.
"Explain corrupted gems to me again, where normal gems turn bad or something?" Invincible asked, aware of corrupted gems but not why they came to be.
"We're not sure what happened to them, we do know there are battle-damaged Gems, but something's really wrong with them. They're become horrible monsters" Rosé explains, going into details.
"We have to poof their bodies away, and then keep their Gems inside of bubbles, so they can't form again and hurt anybody. Maybe someday I'll be able to heal what's wrong with them, but I'm not sure how. Mom couldn't fix them either. For now, we're keeping them safe inside the Temple" Rosé said what they do to them after defeating them.
"Not sure what happened?" Invincible asked, flying around the buildings, hearing screams in one direction, heading to them.
"The gems don't remember, only images of them fighting something really bad, so they created a machine but something happened to it, they have no memories only that they lost one of their leaders" Rosé said, looking further at where the screams are coming from.
"Leaders?" Invincible asked, but Rosé points forward.
"There it is" Rosé shouted. Invincible looks ahead to see a beautiful blue wyvern-like dragon with a white mane and sodalite gems all over it.
(Corrupted Sodalite Dragon)
"A sodalite dragon" Rosé said, seeing the gems on the dragon's back. The dragon flies down breathing blue fire around, scaring all the people.
"Cool, let's take it down," Invincible said, but Rosé stopped him.
"Wait, we need to get it away from the people" Rosé said, seeing the dragon will hurt everyone if they fight it in the city.
"So what do we do?" Invincible asked, seeing the dragon about to hurt people, Rosé summons his Shield.
"Just fly by, I'll get it attention" Rosé said, ready to throw his shield as Invincible nods, flying over the corrupted gem dragon, Rosé wheel his shield back, throwing the shield at the corrupted gem.
The Dragon roars at the people, until the shield hits the back of its head, the corrupted gem growls from the hit. The corrupted gem looks up to see two heroes over it.
"Now we have its attention, what's step 3?" Invincible said, seeing the dragon flap its wings to catch them.
"Fly away from it, lead it away from the city" Rosé shouted, throwing another shield to keep it on them while Invincible turns to fly away from the city.
"Fly faster!" Rosé said, throwing his shield again to see the dragon flying faster.
"Why? Holy shit!" Invincible shouted seeing the dragon right on top of him, the corrupted dragon breathing blue fire at them, and Rosé created a pink bubble around them.
"Keep flying away from the city" Rosé calls out, blocking the powerful flames, Invincible feels the heat.
"That dragon's really fast" Invincible said, seeing the corrupted dragon through the flames at how fast the dragon is.
"Fly down" Rosé shouted, seeing the dragon head really close, Invincible turned to see the dragon's mouth.
"AHHHHHH" Rosé and Invincible shouted in fear as the dragon bites down the bubble, flying down on the ground while Rosé and invincible try to keep it up.
"Hold it Rosé '' Invincible said, using his strength to keep the bubble from being crushed by the dragon's jaws.
Noticing cracks
"I'm trying! We're going down" Rosé shouted, seeing them about to hit the ground.
"Oh shittttt" Invincible shouted, the corrupted gem dragon slammed them into the ground in a field away from the city, breaking the bubble as Invincible and Rosé fell out of its mouth.
Both Invincible and Rosé got up, the corrupted gem dragon roared, blowing fire everywhere, Rosé blocked it with his bubble while Invincible blocked it with his arms.
"AHhhhh" Invincible cries in pain at the fire burning his arms.
"Invincible!" Rosé calls out, throwing the shield to knock his side of the dragon, Rosé jumps with his bubble shield slamming into his head.
Knocking the gem dragon head to the side as Rosé goes to Invincible's side.
"You ok?" Rosé asked, Mark looked down to see his arms all red and blistered from the fire.
"That hurts? Really hurts" Invincible said, feeling the burn in his arms, his arms blistering from the heat, Rosé spits in his arms. Invincible signs in relief as his burns heal.
"Calm down, you're ok, let's do this" Rosé said, turning back to face the corrupted gem dragon glare at them with a growl.
"Ok you take the heat and I'll go on top" Invincible said, seeing Rosé shields can block the fires, Rosé nods, running forward with his shield.
The corrupted sodalite gem dragon roars as it blows fire at Rosé, bracing his shield and bubble Rosé is covered in blue flames, Invincible flies over the corrupted gem.
"Hey Drogon, Daenery said no burning people '' Invincible calls out, slamming himself down on the dragon's back, stopping the fire, the dragon turns its head but Rosé bubbles it, stopping it from biting Invincible.
"Keep hitting the gem, it is a weak point" Rosé shouted, holding the bubble around the dragon head as it thrashes around trying to shake the heroes off.
Invincible keeps punching the corrupted sodalite gem, the dragon thrash around from each hit but Rosé keeps holding it until Invincible grabs the sodalite gem, the dragon screeches in the bubble as Invincible pulls the gem out.
The corrupted sodalite dragon explodes in smoke as Invincible holds the sodalite gem.
"Good job Invincible, your first corrupted gem" Rosé congratulates him, as Invincible looks at the gem, looking at it.
"Yeah, wow, so this gem used to be a person?" Invincible asked, handing the gem over to Rosé, putting it in a bubble.
"She still is, her mind broken, the gems are trying to fix them, but nothing is working yet, we have to take care of them. It's the best we can do for them" Rosé explains, the sodalite gem in the bubble disappears.
"You alright?" Rosé asked, seeing Invincible's costume ruin around the arms.
"Fine, the uniform burn, I'll get it fixed" Invincible said, rubbing his hands from the burns.
"Come on, let's head back, hope dinner is still warm" Rosé said, getting a nod from Invincible as he carried Rosé back to his house.
LINE
Meanwhile back at the Grayson house, Greg is drinking wine with Nolan and Debbie on the couch, laughing with Greg.
"How did a baby climb up a fairest wheel?" Nolan asked, laughing at the story of Greg and Rose Quartz babysitting.
"I have no idea; I went to the toilet for one minute while they left the beach. Rose said she just watched him wander around, not stopping him from climbing the fester wheel" Greg mentions with a laugh, Debbie looks concerned.
"The baby wasn't hurt was he?" Debbie asked the concerned mother, Greg shakes his head.
"Of course not, the baby was cool as a cucumber, I was wetting my pants being so high up trying to get him down" Greg mentioned, making Nolan chuckle.
"Amaze Steven still alive" Nolan said, making Debbie frown at him but Greg waved him off.
"The Gems help a lot and I had a friend willing to support, even Cecil chipped in" Greg said, knowing raising his son is one of the hardest things, but one of his proudest moments.
"Really why?" Nolan asked him, as Greg took a sip of wine.
"He help Steven get into school, I wasn't sure if I should cause he wasn't a normal boy but Steven was so eager to learn" Greg said, not mentioning Cecil would have thrown in him jail for child neglect and endangerment, Garnet make a deal with Cecil to help Greg out if Steven gets a human educations.
"That's good, kids need to go to school" Debbie said, seeing that all children need an education.
"Yeah I know, but I wanted Steven to experience freedom of life, explore all its options first" Greg said, wanting Steven to be free.
"Learn from experience, I can respect that" Nolan nods, seeing the benefit to how Greg raises his kid, Debbie grunts to him.
"What I just saw Greg teaching his boy the harsh lesson of life, teaching the boy to be independent" Nolan defends, but Debbie shakes her head.
"You both fail to see the point of an education, the boys can't make any choices without knowing how everyone works first" Debbie points out, seeing kids need to go to school to teach them the basics of life.
"Yeah I know, seeing how much Steven grows since he went to school" Greg admits, seeing his boy mature to a fine young man, Greg is proud of him.
"So how did you and Rose conceive Steven?" Nolan asked, seeing it been a while, Debbie looked annoyed but Greg smiled.
"You are not the only one to ask me that, everyone who knows about me asks me how I did it" Greg said, his question was asked to him many times.
"You don't have to answer" Debbie frowns at Nolan but Greg waves it off.
"No it's fine, Rose wants to know everything about humans, she wasn't aware babies are young humans that grow up, gems burst out of the ground already knowing what they are, Rose wanted that" Greg explains, recalling Rose looking at a baby in wonder.
"Wanted a child?" Nolan asked, Greg nodded.
"Rose had to learn how humans are made, let me tell you that talk wasn't easy" Greg said, rubbing his head, giving the birds and bees talk to a giant alien woman wasn't on his bucket list.
"You could make a good teacher in interspecies relationship" Nolan comments, Debbie smiled at him.
"Maybe you both could teach it, you already master it" Debbie said, making Nolan smirk, turning to the door to see Mark and Steven opening the door.
"We got the corrupted gem" Steven calls out, both boys look to see their parents on the couch drinking and eating cake.
"Finished already?" Mark asked, seeing the dinner all over.
"There are some leftovers in the fridge" Debbie stands up as Greg looks at his watch.
"Oh look at the time, we best get going Steven" Greg said, see it late night, the adults get up.
"Let me pack some left over for you Greg" Debbie said, wanting to give leftovers to Greg.
"I won't say no to your delicious cooking" Greg said, happy with the dinner and giving leftovers.
"Better than burgers and fries at least," Nolan said, making Greg chuckle.
"Not all of us can fly to fancy restaurants, got to make a living somehow" Greg said, both men shaking hands at Debbie giving a plastic container.
"I'll give it back to you next time, or I'll invite you over" Greg said, giving Debbie a hug in thanks.
"See you at school Mark" Steven asked, Mark smirked.
"No, I'll see you out there in the field Rosé" Mark holding his fist out, Steven bumps knuckles.
"Yeah, you too Invincible" Steven said, both teenagers said good-bye, the Grayson wave the Universe off.
"That was fun," Debbie said, putting another plate out for Mark.
"It was, Greg's a funny guy" Nolan said, enjoying his time with Greg turning to his son.
"So how was your first corrupted gem?" Nolan asked, seeing Mark rub his wrist on his burned costume.
"It was intense, but I took down a dragon, soooo…..that pretty badass" Mark said to himself.
"Really?" Nolan smirk, turning on the TV, showing the news of Invincible and Rosé flying away with a dragon behind them.
"We had to get it out of the city" Mark said, seeing the retreat with a gem dragon flying behind them.
"That good, less damage to the city, you didn't get hurt did you?" Nolan asked, seeing Mark's costume damage.
"Nothing just burns from the dragon, Steven healed me so no problem" Mark waves it off, showing his healed arms.
"Sure, but be careful, just cause you're invincible, doesn't mean you can't be killed" Nolan warns, seeing the Gem shooting fire at both Mark and Steven, as Steven blocks the flame with his shield.
"It's fine dad, I'm not stupid" Mark complains, seeing his dad lecture him again.
"Listen to your father Mark, he got into flights and came out worse for wear" Debbie said, time she saw Nolan hurt or worse, having to nurse him back to health.
"Even Viltrumite can be killed" Nolan mentions, as Mark nods, eating the leaf over while watching news of him and Steven fighting a dragon.
"First time I heard you admit that" Debbie said, hearing about Viltrumite more and more since Mark got his powers.
"We aren't the only aliens in the galaxy, many are more nefarious then they let on" Nolan said, watching the news as he narrows his eyes at the Crystal Gems fighting the super villain group the Order.
LINE
The Guardians of the Globe base, Garnet watches as the new Guardians get familiar with their new base.
Garnet watches the Guardians look in awe at the place, until Cecil points out that one blood spot on the wall, a reminder to them about the last Guardians. Garnet signs as she sees Robot taking Rex's blood inside his body.
Garnet isn't sure why but she knows it will be better to let him be, seeing a worse future if Robot doesn't get the blood.
"Alright Guardians, welcome to your first day" Garnet calls out, getting their attention.
"How long have you been standing up there?" Rex asked, seeing Garnet up the place.
"Long enough" Garnet jumps down in the middle.
"This isn't a game anymore, you will face threats strong enough to destroy the world, you have to take action straight away to minimise casualties and damages" Garnet said looking at each of them.
"Please we know what to do, we're not amateur" Dupli-kate said with her arms crossed.
"But you're not professional either, few of you understand the states you play, once you do, you can clean the blood spot on that wall" Garnet said, looking at the blood on the wall before turning to the Guardians.
"Now follow me, to your first training season" Garnet said, walking with Robot, Black Samson, and Shrinking Rae.
"What! right now, but Robot's training isn't till 5.30" Rex called out annoyedly, Dupli-kate crossing her arms with Monster girl as well.
"Threats and crises don't take holidays, whether your sleeping, eating or fucking you always be ready for a threat, for every second you take, more people die" Garnet crossed her arms looking at Rex-plode.
"This is only training right, cause I have" "I know you have issues but you need to work it out, lives are always on the line" Garnet stops Monster girl, knowing her curse about getting younger but time will never be on their side when disaster happens.
"Any more complaints about disasters and threats being unfair?" Garnet asked them with a hard voice, seeing no response.
"Good follow me" Garnet said with a sign, knowing this will take a long time to get them even close to the original Guardians level.
