Me, Myself, and Him

Chapter 13: The Prime Kindergarten

Peridot POV

To say that I have never been more frightened in my life as much as this point in time, that I am terrified beyond all repair, is an understatement. And a big one at that. 

I ran as fast as my gravity connectors could carry me, which wasn't as fast as I wanted. Curse my new compact and height restricted form. 

I felt myself get dizzy, the stress of the situation must be getting to my head. I needed to calm myself down.

Let's go over the situation at hand.

Lapis Lazuli, a gem who I've fallen in love with and care about, is sick.

Okay, understood.

Lapis is in extreme pain and the only place that could have a cure is the Prime Kindergarten, which I am going to right now to investigate.

Okay, definitely understood. Primary objective, in fact.

Lapis could die.

No. Nope. Not understood. Whatever the extreme opposite of understood is, that is the very definition of that statement. I refuse to believe that there is a possibility that Lapis Lazuli will die.

I raced towards the warp pad and hopped on.

I'm going to save you Lapis. Or I'll die trying.

--WARP--

I stepped out into the cold baren place that was the Prime Kindergarten. The air around this place always felt heavy and metallic, but now it felt like it was full of dread. It was also quite dark at this point, which was strange considering the fact that I had only awakened a couple of hours ago.

"Stupid planet and it's stupid light cycles" I grumbled.

I turned on the light producer I had grabbed from the barn ("flashlight", I think Steven had called it) and continued deeper into the ominous canyon. I would have used the light my gem can produce, but that requires concentration and energy. And I had a feeling that I would be needing those very soon.

As I ventured deeper and deeper, the more I noticed that the Prime Kindergarten seemed more... chaotic than I remembered. Like the holes that filled the canyons were spreading and becoming more erratic.

Wait...

I shined my light producer on one of the holes that seemed irregular to find that it wasn't one of the holes produced by Homeworld colonization. The hole was bigger, and more sporadic, and there were cracks coming out of the hole.

No, this hole was produced by something that wasn't a gem.

I got closer to the peculiar hole and inspected it further. The inside of the hole definitely resembled any other normal hole produced by Homeworld injectors. It appears that whatever created this hole did their research, chemically speaking.

But who in their right mind would want to imitate Homeworld that wasn't a gem?

I shined my light inside the hole and saw a small yellow paper attached to the wall of the hole. It appeared to have something written on it. I grabbed it off the wall and brought it closer to my face to read it.

Test 225: Gem Recreation Experiment

At the bottom of the note was something scratched out and a single scribbled word:

UNSUCCESSFUL

So someone WAS trying to revive the Prime Kindergarten! And judging by the yellow note, it was a human!