I'm sorry if this chapter is meh.

Orange Pearl gritted her teeth as she ducked a blow from Azurite. She charged at him, but instead of attacking at the front, she decided to attack him from the behind. That was her plan until Azurite's fist slammed against her body, knocking her down the ground.

"You have to be faster than that." He said, offering his hand to her, "You're getting better with each lesson but you still have a lot to learn."

"I know." Orange Pearl said with a nod of her, before accepting Azurite's hand, allowing him to lift her up. She turned around to the crate and added, "Spinel didn't came here today."

"She was watching me train you since we began our sessions. I'm certain that she has better things to do." Azurite stated, shrugging his shoulders.

"You're probably right..." Orange Pearl was cut off the middle of the sentence.

"Hey, Azzie! Orange!" The instantly recognized that voice. It was Spinel.

"Speak of the devil." Azurite said, as Spinel approached both of them.

"Hey, guys! Are you done with your daily lesson?" She asked them.

"It depends if Orange is done for today." Azurite answered, glancing over at Orange Pearl.

"What is it?" Orange Pearl asked Spinel.

"I'm trying to find gems for a baseball team." Spinel explained.

"A what now?" Azurite asked her.

"A base what?" Orange Pearl seemed to be confused as much as he was.

"An Earthy game. It is played between two opposing teams who take turns..." Spinel began explaining what a baseball was and when she was done with it a minute, or two later, Azurite and Orange nodded their heads, now understanding what that game is, "So, you're in? We need two more players to start a match." 

"I guess I can try it." Orange Pearl said. She liked trying new things.

"What about you, Azzie?" Spinel asked, turning to Azurite.

"Why not." Azurite said with a shrug of his shoulders. He didn't seem to have anything better to do now.

Spinel cheered, as she grabbed Azurite and Orange Pearl by their hands and lead them to the place where they were going to play this Earthy game.

Upon arriving there, Azurite saw that Jasper and Shi'ra were already there. A Kratai and a gem were chatting with each other with Shi'ra eventually having a laugh or two. There weren't the only ones there. Yellow Pearl, Blue Pearl and Pink Pearl were also present with Yellow and Blue having clothes which were in more sportish style instead of their normal ones. He then saw three more gem chatting with each other. One of those gems was Nephrite he met when he went along with Jasper and Spinel to move his belongings from his ship to his new home, and the other two were also Nephrites.

"Shi'ra! Jassie! I found two more gems to our team!" Spinel said, gesturing towards Azurite and Orange Pearl, as she, Azurite, and Shi'ra walked over to the said kratai and gem.

"Hey, you two." Shi'ra greeted Azurite and Orange Pearl, as she glanced over at Orange Pearl,  "How was your lesson?"

"It was great. Azurite said that I'm getting better with each lesson." Orange Pearl answered, to which Azurite nodded his head in agreement.

"If that's true, then how about we'll spar one day? I would like to test you out." Jasper offered.

"Spar? With you? You'd crush me." Orange Pearl stated. It was pretty obvious that Jasper was more experienced than her, and she'd win the fight easily, "Just like Azurite did with you when he flipped you over on your back."

"He took me of the guard by his sudden movement. If I wasn't certain that he wasn't paying any attention to me then I wouldn't land on my back." Jasper pointed out.

"So, this is your team?" Yellow Pearls voice stopped their conversation, as all five of them turned to her, Blue Pearl, Pink Pearl, and three Nephrites.

"Yup! We're ready to play!" Spinel confirmed with a nod.

"Wait..." Orange Pearl as she silently counted the gems on the opposite team, "There's one more in your team."

"Oh, no. I'm not going to play with you. I just came here to watch, keep track of the scores." Pink Pearl explained, earning a nod from Orange Pearl.

"And there's one more thing. We have three Nephrites here. It will be easier for us to play if they had nicknames during this match." Azurite said, causing everyone to stare at him weirdly, "What?"

"Azurite. The gems who are the same gem type have a nickname to make it easier for us to mistake them." Spinel said with a confused expression on her face. Azurite really didn't knew about that?

"They have?" Azurite asked, confused by what he just heard. He never heard about it.

"Wait, Azurite? You didn't know about that? You've been here longer than me." Even Shi'ra was confused by the fact that he didn't knew about that.

"Oh..." Azurite said in response. Great, now he felt like an idiot, "So, how I should call you?"

"You can call me Centi." Nephrite that he met when he, Spinel and Jasper went to move things from his ship to theor house said.

"What about these two?" Azurite asked, 

"I'm Terra." The one with longer hair that was tied into a ponytail answered, as she held hands with the other one.

"And I'm Cotta." The one with shorter hair added.

Azurite nodded his head to that. At least it would be easier for him to know which one is which.

With that, both teams said their goodlucks to each other and went to their positions.

First up at the plate was Yellow Pearl and Jasper was the pitcher. It was pretty obvios for Spinel's team to pick Jasper for that position, with her being probably the strongest gem in this match. She smirked at Yellow Pearl before throwing the ball at her, the yellow gem attempted to hit it but missed.

Spinel who stood behind them caught it in her mitt, "Strike one!" She shouted. This match started off well for her team.

Jasper repeated her action, once again, and threw another ball at Yellow Pearl, who this time didn't miss it, but the bat broke in the half at the impact of the ball.

"Uh... Pink." Yellow Pearl called over to Pink Pearl.

"Jasper. I think you should lower your strenght for another throw. We may ran out of the bats..." Centi stated.

"If you say so." Jasper answered.

Pink Pearl already knew what her fellow Pearl from Homeworld meant by that. She picked up another bat, before walking over and handing it to Yellow Pearl.

"Come on, Yellow." Blue Pearl cheered for her fellow Pearl in her usual quiet tone.

Yellow Pearl readied herself, this was her last chance to hit the ball. Jasper threw another ball, this time it was weaker than the last two throws. They could tell the difference, because Yellow Pearl hit the ball, just like she did in the last throw, but this time the bat didn't break into two pieces. She ran to the first base as soon as the bat hit the ball, then she ran across the field and eventually made her way over to the base with a home run.

Terra was the next from her team. She readied herself for Jasper's throw, but still missed because she just like Yellow Pearl wasn't prepared for such a fast ball. She tried again, but still failed to touch it, at the third time her bat pitched it but still missed. She grunted as she made her way over to her team. 

"Don't worry, you'll get a chance again." Cotta said to her, patting her on the back, earning a smile from Terra.

Blue Pearl went after Terra. The main problem with her was that she either swung the bat too slow or too fast. She just like Terra went back to her team without hitting a ball.

Similiar thing happened with Cotta.

Centi was the last one from her team to try, and she actually managed to hit the ball on her first try. She just like Yellow Pearl made it to the base with a home run.

Not it was turn for Spinel's team. Jasper switched her places with Centi as she went to the plate position, and readied herself for the first throw from the green gem.

As Azurite watched how her hit the ball with the bat without any problems, he felt someone nudging his side, "Yes, Shi'ra?"

"I bet you haven't ever imagined us playing a game like this." Shi'ra said to him.

"You have me here. I bet you haven't either." Azurite said back.

"You have me here too." Shi'ra chuckled.

"Wish me luck, guys." Orange Pearl said, as she was the second one from her team to 

"So, pal. As you know, recently I and Spinel were trying to get TV into our home, and we succeeded in this, and you wouldn't believe me which movie I got my hands on." Shi'ra said.

"Should I take a guess at it?" Azurite asked her.

"If you want to." Shi'ra responded.

"Shi'ra. You know I hate guessing games." Azurite told her.

"I know." Shi'ra smirked at him before telling him the title of the movie, "It's Footloose."

"Footloose? Ain't that the movie that Quill told us about numerous times?" Azurite wanted to know

"Yes." Shi'ra answered with a nod of her head.

"Which one was it? The one with Kevin Bacon or the one with David Hasselhoff?" Azurite asked another question.

"The first one." Shi'ra responded, "I, Jasper, Spinel and Centi were planning to watch it today, are you in?"

"After hearing Quill talk about how it is the best thing that was ever created, then I sign me in." Azurite answered, "And Centi? Didn't you just met?"

"We've met each other on my second day on this planet. We became good friends as the days passed. She was with me and Jasper when Spinel came asking us if we'll join her team in this baseball thing. Spinel told her that two gems from her crew are going to be playing so she was like "why not give it a try"." Shi'ra explained.

Azurite nodded his head as he heard someone call his name, "Azurite! It's your turn!"

Azurite reacted to his call and stood up from the bench and went over to the plate postition and picked up the bat. He and Centi shared a quick look with each other, before the latter one threw the ball at him. He swung his bat at the ball a little too quickly, missing it.

"Strike one!" Terra shouted.

After Terra threw the ball back to Centi, Azurite readied himself for another blow, but this time, he once again missed, only this time it was because he swung it too late.

"Strike two!" Terra shouted.

"C'mon, Azzie! You can do it!" Spinel cheered for her teammate.

Azurite let out a deep sigh as he prepared himself for the last throw from Centi. She threw him another ball a second after. He clenched his teeth as he swung the bat at it, this time succeeding at trying to hit it.

With that he dropped the bat on the ground, and ran across the field, scoring another home run for his team.

When he made his way over to his team, Orange Pearl extended her hand towards him, waiting for him to bump it. He bumped it after a moment, trying not to make it look awkward.

Spinel smiled at she watched these two bump their fists, before turning her attention towards Shi'ra, who was the last one from her team in the line.

This was going to be a fun game.

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The game went going on for over an hour and it ended with Spinel's team winning by two points. At first Yellow Pearl seemed to be a bit angry that her team lost, but got over it pretty fast. Everyone that played this game seemed to have fun, so they didn't really minded if they won or not.

With the game over, now it was time to clean up after it. Spinel, with her being the who came up with the idea of having a baseball match, decided to take all of the bats and balls to the place where they storing these kind of things in Little Homeworld.

As she went over to them, she quickly realized that she won't be able to take all of them by herself. She didn't had any problems with taking them before because she was with Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl at the time. She turned around and called for someone to help, "Hey Azzie!"

"Yes?" The said gem turned to her.

"Can you help me with those? I can't get all of them by myself." Spinel explained.

"Sure." Azurite said as he went over to her, and picked some of the items.

Spinel did the same as they heard Shi'ra say to them, "We'll see you guys in a few minutes."

"Of course. We have a movie to watch after all." Spinel told them.

Spinel and Azurite made sure that they took everything as they began to walk towards the place where they would leave it. They walked mostly in silence, Spinel was eventually greeting the gems they came across along the sidewalk. When they finally reached the place, they left all of the baseball bats and balls there and headed out towards their house where they would a movie with Shi'ra, Jasper, Orange Pearl and Centi.

"So, are you going to "The Suspects" concert tommorow?" She asked him, trying to start a conversation with him.

"Maybe. We'll see." He responded, hiding the fact that he just found out about this concert thing.

"I hope you'll decide to go. I'd love to see you dance." Spinel said.

Azurite shook his head, "I'm not going to dance if I'll decide to go."

"Why?" Spinel asked him.

"Drax once told me that there are two being in the world. Those who dance and those who not. I'm the latter one." Azurite told her.

"You are no fun." Spinel shook her head.

"I know, but you still talk to me." Azurite stated.

"Because I like talking with you." Spinel told him.

"You like talking with everyone, Spinel." Azurite pointed out.

"...You're right on that one." Spinel said with a nod of her head, "So, if you're not going to dance, then how about you sing?"

"Don't even think about it." Azurite quickly answered with a shook of his head.

"Why not? How about one of the songs that Quill showed you?" Spinel asked him.

"No." Azurite answered as he shook his head again.

"C'mon. You said many times that Quill loves music. There has to be the one that stuck in your mind." Spinel pointed out.

"Well..." Azurite sighed after a moment of thought, "There's one that stuck in my mind."

"Only one, why?" Spinel asked with a raised eyebrow.

Azurite was walking forward himself, behind Yondu Udonta and with Rocket walking closely behind him. Dozen's of lifeless bodies of the Ravagers were failing down just right next to them, but they didn't really paid any attention to that.

He heard that little Groot he saw earlier throw a guy down using his arm, before he jumped down, landing on Azurite's shoulder.

"Remind me not to get on your bad side, little guy." Azurite whispered to Groot, who smiled cutely at him in response.

"It was an interesting event." Azurite told her. Things got even more intense after Yondu murdered all of the people who betrayed him.

"Interesting? Why?" Spinel raised her brow.

"Because it was the day when we destroyed Ego." Azurite explained.

"Oh... c'mon, Azzie. You don't have to sing at the concert, but you can sing me here. No one is going to hear you sing here. I'm not going to tell anyone about this. You know I'm good at keeping secrets." Spinel told him.

"Are you?" Azurite asked.

"I could've tell Shi'ra or Jasper that I teached you how to juggle, but I didn't because I knew you wanted to keep it as a secret." Spinel told him.

"I have no idea how you conviced me to do this." Azurite stated.

"You couldn't resist my charm. Just like you said when we went to Funland." Spinel stated.

"I was just looking for an excuse." Azurite pointed out.

"But you still said it." Spinel said, as Azurite rolled his eyes, "So, are you going to sing or not?"

Azurite sighed, as he looked around for a moment to make sure that no one else except for and was going to listen to it, "Fine. But I'll sing only first four sentences, and I'm completely talentless in this area so prepare yourself." 

Spinel nodded her head as Azurite took one more sigh, as he opened his mouth and started to sing.

''In a little cafe
Just the other side of the border
She was just sitting there givin' me looks
That made my mouth water.''

He said those words as quickly as he could, wanting to get over it as fast as it was possible. He looked down at Spinel, immediately noticing that she wasn't really fond of his singing voice. 

"You were right. You're not the best at it." She stated.

"I did warn you about me being talentless in this area." Azurite pointed out.

"But with a little practice..." Spinel started to say.

"No, no, no. Don't even think about it, Spinel. It was the first and last time you saw me sing." Azurite cut her off and turned back around and was about to return to the others. When he saw who was standing behind them, he froze in place, "Now, let's get back to the others bef... fuck..."

"What happ... oh." Spinel said, turning back around to see what made Azurite froze where he stood. She saw Shi'ra, Jasper, Orange Pearl and Centi. All of them were standing, watching both of them, and Spinel assumed that they heard him sing.

"Guys..." Spinel looked up at Azurite who looked like was going to die of embarassment, "What are you doing here?"

''We were walking to your house, and we heard both of you talking so we stopped by." Orange Pearl explained.

"And then we saw you sing." Shi'ra added, a smirk growing on her face. She was going to annoy the hell out of him with this.

"Good thing it was only four sentences." Jasper said, cringing at how awful Azurite's singing voice was. Good thing Spinel made him sing, instead of her. She'd probably die of embarassment if that happened.

Azurite slowly walked over to them, followed by Spinel and said, "Let's just pretend that never happened, and you saw nothing."

"If you say so, singer. Let's see if this movie is as good as Quill says it is." Shi'ra said, wrapping her arm around Azurite, beginning to drag him to their home so they could watch the movie Quill told them about countless times, "Oh, and we'll have those three Pearls from Homeworld and Nephrites joining us too."

Jasper and Orange Pearl went after them.

Centi was about to follow them, but she noticed that Spinel stood in her place. 

The pink's gem gaze was at Azurite, and there was a slight blush growing on her face, which Centi didn't fail to notice.

"Spinel? Are you alright?" She asked her. 

"Yes. I'm okay. I just lost myself in the thought." Spinel said, as she and Centi followed the rest.

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I'm sorry if I butchered baseball. I don't know much about this sport.

And If you haven't figured out which Nephrites from Centi's crew are Terra and Cotta. They are the two Nephrites that kissed each other in the cheek after Centi uncorrupted into her normal self.

Next up is a late christmas chapter.