Aquamarine led her crew onto her saucer, looking highly pleased with herself and her plan. She turned around quickly, pointing her wand at her pearl.
"Pearl, send a message to Emerald that we are infiltrating the Obsidian weapon's factory."
The Pearl nodded sheepishly and began opening up a holoscreen. Spinel turned to her, watching as the gem trembled profusely while she attempted to type out the message.
"Are you okay?" She asked, reaching for the gem. The Pearl whimpered softly before finally finishing her message and quickly closing the holoscreen.
"Are you coming?" Aquamarine growled, from the doorway of the saucer, causing the two gems to turned toward her. She had a look of irritation on her face as the two quickly entered the ship.
The pearl headed off to her corner and stood perfectly still, aside from a shiver or two that rippled through her whole body. Spinel hung back by the entrance, made uncomfortable by the gems, and the situation she was in.
On Earth, Steven had finally gotten some amount of information about homeworld, one of the newest gems to beach city had been telling everyone about the odd behavior of the Diamonds, she spoke of conspiracies involving rebellions, and piqued Steven's interest at the mention of Obsidians being rounded up to work somewhere.
"Where were they taking them?" Steven prodded, the earnest in his voice made the gem uncomfortable. She hesitated to answer, glancing around before providing the information.
"I heard they were taking them to Centauri 42, but you didn't hear it from me." Steven leaned toward the gem before exhaling an exasperated sigh.
"I don't know where that is!" He cried, throwing his hands in the air.
"No one does, at least, they didn't, but I heard from Magnetite that all the colonies in the Centauri system have been removed, so if 42 is there, that's where they would be." She gasped, shocked at her own thoughts, "what if they are removing colonies to keep gems from knowing their evil plans? They could be building some sort-of planet destroying-mind controlling weapon, imagine! All the Obsidians working on one massive thing, we'd all be shattered! It's a good think I came here."
Steven nodded slowly, having a hard time believing the gem as she went on and on about her theories, she reminded him of Ronaldo to a disturbing degree. But this was the only information they had going for them. Steven smiled, politely excusing himself before turning around with a worried look on his face. He grabbed Pearl by the arm and lead her out of the gem's home.
"I don't know if she's going to be helpful." He admitted, still holding Pearl's arm. The gem pushed his hand down and slipped it off of her wrist.
"Well, since we can't get a hold of Pink Pearl, this is the best we could do. Besides, the Centauri system isn't too far away." She replied, putting her fingers to her chin in thought. She smacked her hand with her fist as an idea came to her.
"We still have the rubies ship! We can use that to travel while the galaxy warp is disabled." Steven seemed perturbed by the idea, suddenly uneasy at the thought of trying to pilot the ship again.
"I don't know-"
"Nonsense! It will be fine, I know how to get to Centauri, it shouldn't take more than an hour." Pearl excitedly ran off to Peridot, frantically gesturing to her as she asked about the ship, the gem nodded before taking Pearl behind a large shed.
"Steven, look!" Pearl exclaimed, Steven rushed to meet her. The gem stood in front of the tarped red ship, ecstatically pointing at it.
"Are you sure about this?" He said, smiling nervously, Pearl nodded, beaming at the thought of flying the ship again.
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Steven Universe fic
FanfictionSYNOPSIS: Steven Wakes up from a cryptic dream about Spinel who has been with the diamonds for at least a year now, only to find out that she has warped to his house unnanounced and in considerable distress. Now faced with a gem in desperate need of...
