Ezra in Beach City (Book 2)

Keeping it Together

At the Beach House, Garnet opened up a serious talk.

"We need to track down Peridot." Garnet reminded. "We found her pod.  know she's out there somewhere. She came to Earth with a job to do and odds are, she's still gonna try to do it. That's why I've gathered you here."

Steven, Ezra, Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst were then folding Steven's t-shirts together.

"I thought it was so you can help me fold all this laund-a-ry!" Steven said.

"That too." Garnet replied. "The chore wheel idea you had fell apart fast."

"Wasn't me." Amethyst stated.

The Crystal Gems turned to look at the chore wheel pasted on the refrigerator, where everyone's names were crossed out and replaced with Pearl's name, written in her handwriting. Pearl and Garnet exchanged looks.

"I just really enjoy doing all of those things." Pearl explained.

"It's better if we do them together." Garnet said.

"Buddy, why do you have so many shirts with the same logo?" Ezra asked.

"Humans should just stop wearing clothes, be a lot funnier." Amethyst commented.

"Hey! I'm a civil-i-fied part human, thank you very much. Clothing is a must." Steven replied, before he looked at the laundry pile. "Hmm... This is a lot. I bet this folding would go faster if Ruby and Sapphire were here!"

"I'm sure they'd be glad to see you Steven." Garnet said. "But I am not unfusing for laundry."

"Aww." Steven slumped.

"Garnet, you don't think Peridot would come looking for us, do you?" Pearl asked.

"We weren't her priority." Garnet replied. "She was sent here to do something in the Kindergarten."

"Do you think she's still going to try to reactivate it?" Pearl asked again.

"Mmm... If she gets it back up and running, the Injectors will turn back on." Garnet said.

"In-jec-tors?" Steven repeated in confusion. "What're those?"

"You've already seen them. Well, you've seen them disabled." Pearl explained, as she projected a hologram from her gem.

"Those machines." Ezra said as he recognized the machine.

"Yes. If Peridot reactivates them, they'll pick up right where they left off, planting Gems in the crust of the Earth, where they'll incubate and suck the life right out of the ground, we can't let Peridot restart Gem production here, if we do, the entire planet will become..." Pearl continued.

"...Janked." Garnet finished.

"Garnet!" Amethyst chuckled. "That mouth!"

"Don't worry, we'll stop her. C'mon, Crystal Gems." Garnet declared, as she approached the Warp Pad.

"Coming!" Pearl said, as she followed Garnet.

"As long as we don't have to fold anything." Amethyst commented, as she summoned her whip and followed with Ezra.

Steven continued to fold his t-shirts.

"Steven, come on." Ezra called out.

"Yeah, that means you too, right?" Amethyst asked.

Steven quickly got up and rushed excitedly onto the warp pad with the Gems.

"You're a civilified part-gem too after all." Garnet said, before she ruffled Steven's hair.