Steven-tron drops a brick on Peridot's head.
'Thanks,' Peridot says, 'now listen, all of you! I don't belong here. This is all a horrible mistake - we've got to do something!'
'Oh I know we should go into town!'
'no-'
A two-headed Connie materialises behind Peridot. 'did someone say town?' Both the heads speak at once, and they harmonise with each other. It's haunting.
'Hi, Con-tron!' Steven-tron waves politely.
'-Just listen to me.' Perditod growls, 'I'm not supposed to be here. I've got to get home to my own time periodt. I got to go!'
Steven-tron shrugs, 'well why didn't you just ask? Time machine is down the hall, to the left.'
Petridot runs into the door but all it does is open a can.
'oh yeah, that's the can opener. Try the one on the right.'
Perifdot hisses and opens the door on the right. She stumbles into a small, square room with banana yellow wall-paper stuck to every surface. The only object in the room is a slot machine that says "past" and "future".
'Well, I wouldn't have chosen this interior.' She mutters. 'Oh, what's this?' She approaches the gambling apparatus. 'Well, if SpongeBob exists in the future, I'd better go to the past.' Sound logic.
Purditot turns the key and cranks the lever on "past". A siren screeches as the time machine implodes into a wormhole, taking Peridot with it.
After a brief moment, the time machine re-enters reality in a primitive look-alike Beach City. Peridot tentatively looks out and sees a prehistoric mammal lumber by.
'Wow, primitive.' She remarks, 'Has sort of an old-world charm.'
The mammal pushes Peridot over, out of spite. 'Oof! Fucking clod.' She sits up and brushes herself off. 'Well, at least there's no sign of Steven. Maybe now I can finally be alone with my music.' She took the cassette out of her gem.
There's a rustle in the bush behind her. Peridot turns and a shadow quickly hides. She slowly turns back to her cassette.
A branch snaps and Peridot checks again, but a different shadow hides. 'huh?' [eridot narrows her eyes.
A short, dark figure swings from tree to tree.
'What?'
A shadow figure hides behind a tree, 'Huh?' the other shadow figure hides behind a ledge.
Peridtot gets up and starts walking towards them. She notices a prehistoric steven on the ground.
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Can You Spare a Gem? ( STEVEN UNIVERSE FUTURE / SPINEL FANFIC )
FanfictionSteven is 16 and he is the emotional support for all the traumatised gems in New Homeworld, but it's really starting to wear him down. He thought after he stopped Spinel from destroying the Earth, things would settle down. He was very wrong. Spinel...
