I'm sorry if this chapter is a little meh, it was supposed to set what is going to happen in the next chapter.

After he and Steven shared a meal together, Azurite decided to pay little a visit to Little Homeworld. He told him that he was wanted to get to know some of the gems, but his real reason behind it was because he wanted to get closer to one of the Pearls.

As for his opinion about his meal was that was nice, it wasn't the best thing he ever had, but he enjoyed every piece of it, and he actually found it quite hilarious that the gem who made his pizza forgot to cook the fish before putting it on his meal.

As for now, It's been two hours since he came to this Little Homeworld thing, and there was one thing that caught his attention when he started to spent time with the gems that lived in this town. That thing was that they all so happy all the time. There was only one time when he was truly happy in his life, but it was really short lived when you compare it to how long he lives.

His happiness was taken away from him, when the people who made him feel like he found something he's been looking for his entire life were taken away from him, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

But he didn't hate his fellow gems who didn't know he was one of them, only because they were happy, and were enjoying their life. He's already been through that phase in his life. There was a long period of time in his life back when he was spending all of his time in his ship when he wanted to make all of them feel what he felt for his entire life, but now, he felt nothing towards them. They were just another spieces of many spieces of the universe, who would, sooner or later see that they aren't as safe as they thought they are.

"Yondu..." A voice which belonged to Bismuth called over to him, but he didn't respond, "Yondu! Yondu!"

"...What?" He asked with a shake of his head, "Oh, sorry. I just l lost myself in my thoughts." He explained as he was now spending time with Bismuth, Peridot, Lapis, Amethyst and Pearl. Garnet wasn't with them at this moment. Why? He didn't know. He didn't care. If something would go wrong, and he'd have to fight with them in order to his contract done, it would be one opponent less, "What were you saying?"

"I asked you if I can check the machete you've carrying on your back." Bismuth repeated what she was saying. For which time? Azurite had no idea.

"Sure." Azurite said as he took his machete off his back and handed it Bismuth, "Just be careful with it."

"I will. Don't worry." Bismuth assured as she began to examine his machete. A moment after she handed it back to him, and said, "It's nice. I can tell that you're taking care of it, and making sure that it's in a good shape."

"Thank you. It belonged to someone who was important to me. I wouldn't forgive myself if something would happen to it." Azurite explained.

"May I ask who was this person?" Pearl asked, still having the strange feeling inside of her that was telling her and she knew him from somewhere, but was doing good job at hiding it.

"Let's just say it was one of the reasons that made me believe that there aren't any good things in this world, but as you may remember the Guardians of the Galaxy made me believe, once again that there are good things in this world." Azurite said, the last part confused the gems.

"The Guardians of the Galaxy?" Lapis asked with raised brow.

"Oh, right. Quill's crew. That's how they are calling them." Azurite explained.

"Why are they calling them like that?" Lapis asked another question.

"You may take a guess on this." Azurite replied, finding that the answer was quite obvvious.

"The Guardians of the Galaxy? I'm certain that they would get along with The Avengers if they met one day." Peridot stated, which confused Azurite.

"The Avengers?" Azurite asked, wanting to be sure if he didn't misheard it. Now it was his turn to be confused.

"They're known as Earth's Mightiest Heroes." Bismuth explained.

"They are adored by many humans, including Steven." Peridot added, "But they had a fight, over a year ago, and they split, but it doesn't change the fact that he adores them."

"The Earth's Mightiest Heroes? They're like Kevin Bacon?" Azurite asked, saying the first thing that came into his mind.

"No. He's an actor. Steven once showed us a movie with him." Lapis corrected him, as she rubbed her head, trying to remember what movie it was, "I think it was...."

"Footloose." Peridot finished for her, raising her index finger, "It was Footloose."

"Oh, yeah. That was it. Thanks Peri." Lapis thanked Peridot for reminding her, to which the short green gem smiled.

"How do you even know about him?" Amethyst wanted to know.

"I heard Quill mention him a few times." Azurite answered, "He also told me that he used to imagine that some guy named David Hasselhoff was his dad." 

"He used to imagine that he was his dad? Is Quill an orphan?" Pearl wondered.

Azurite rubbed his chin, "It's really complicated when it comes to his family. Let's don't talk about his dad." he then thought to himself, "But not as complicated as with Gamora's and Nebula's.'' 

"Why?" Pearl wondered.

"He wasn't a pleasant person." Azurite answer and short and quick. He didn't want to talk about Ego and about what was he doing to his own children. Sometimes, he still couldn't believe that he made out of there alive, "As I said, let's don't talk about him. How about I tell you how they met?"

The gems shared a quick look at each other, as Peridot said, "Why not." with a shrug of her shoulders.

"They started traveling together after they escaped a prison on Xandar known as Kyln, and not too long after that they saved the entire galaxy from a Kree fanatic known as Ronan The Accuser. That's when they started calling them "The Guardians of the Galaxy"." Azurite explained.

"They seem to make a pretty good team." Amethyst stated. The other gems had to agree with her on that part, depise the fact that they started to work together because they wanted to escape from prison.

"They are. They actually offered me to join them, but I declined their offer." Azurite explained. 

"Why?" Amethyst asked another question.

"I'm not a fan of the crowds. I have some bad experiences with it." Azurite's answer to her question was short and quick.

"You know, for a person that young, you seem to have a lot about experiences." Pearl stated, then quickly added, "But, I'm not saying it's bad thing. We all have gone through something in our lives."

"I'm much older than I look. My spiece ages very slowly." Azurite said. 

"Then how old are you?" Pearl asked what was on everyone's mind.

"A few hundred years." Azurite answered, then asked her, even though he already knew the answer but it would make his disguise more believable, "You?"

"A few thousand." Pearl replied.

"Oh, that's nice." Azurite said, trying to act suprised, as he looked around them, "... If you were living for that long, then how you must've been on this planet for a long time... Were there any other visits of other spieces, except for us and me? That question just popped into my mind." 

"Except for us and you. There was a certain visit." Bismuth explained, but the tone of her voice changed into a more bittersweet one with the last few words.

"But we wouldn't call it a good visit." Lapis added.

"We wouldn't? That's a gentle way to put it." Peridot said as Lapis couldn't help but agree with her.

"Why?" Azurite wanted to know, now feeling curious about it, as he suddenly felt Amethyst grab his hand.

"There are tons of videos on TubeTube from that day. I'll show you." She said, as she ran into one of the houses, making Azurite run behind her.

Once, they reached one of the houses, she walked over to a thing that looked a like a computer, and loaded a site called "TubeTube", then she typed on the screen.

"Avengers New York Invasion 2012"

Dozens of video appeared on the screen before them, and then she clicked the first video, and once it loaded, it began with an inscription that said.

"This video shows the events of what happened in the New York. It shows how the Avengers fought off Loki Odinson and his troops.''

Then, the video cut into a man who was dressed in a blue costume as threw his shield into one of the invaders. The next person was a man in a Iron Suit, flying above the town, as he was taking down every invader that appeared in his view, then the screen showed them a red-headed woman with two pistols in her hands as she was shooting down every invader that came into her view. A man with a bow was by her side, and the most interesting part about this man was the fact that he didn't seem to miss any of his shots. Then suddenly, a large green person came charging next to them into a alley where he crashed one of the invaders into a wall, while the other began to run away from him in panic. Azurite wouldn't want to be on his bad side. And finally, the last person that this video showed was a man with long blond-hair, and a hammer in one of his hands, fighting off dozens of the invaders.

He could easily say that he was impressed by what was happening on this screen.

But his mood has suddenly changed when he recognized who these aliens were. He felt cold shiver go through his back.

"Chitauri..." He whispered to himself in realization as some unpleasant imagines from his past began to fly through his head.

"The Great Titan thanks for your sacrifice!"

"Uncle Az!"

"Now go in peace and meet your maker!"

They should considered themselves lucky that they sent this "Loki" guy instead of the Black Order because the invasion of this planet would be like walk in the park for them.

"Dude? Are you okay?" Amethyst asked, noticing that something was off about him.

"Yes." Azurite quickly answered, taking himself off his thoughts, "I just focused on watching the battle. It's really impressive that the group of six people stopped an entire invasion."

"You're telling me. I remember to this day when I walked into the temple, and saw Steven watching something on the TV. How excited he was when they showed the video of Captain America, or Iron Man fighting off these invaders." Amethyst explained.

"How did you felt about them?" Azurite asked.

"I found it really cool, Pearl found it really meh, because we were doing literally the same thing for a much longer period of time, and we unlike them weren't getting any credit for it, as for Garnet. She just said it was nice." Amethyst explained.

Azurite just gave a chuckle in response, but it a more of a forced one. Amethyst didn't saw that because he did a good job on hiding it.

"Now. Let's get back to the others." Amethyst said, as they made their way back to the other gems.

The first thing that Azurite noticed when they arrived there was that Garnet was back with them. It seemed like she was done with whatever she was doing. 

Great...

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In the meantine.

A warp which was not too far from Beach City, shined, and moment after someone was standing on it. It was a gem, and her name was Spinel. The last two months of her life, she spent in Homeworld, recovering from the recent events that happened in this town, and the Diamonds seeing how good she was turning out allowed her to make a choice, if she wanted to stay with them, or go to Earth. She decided to come to Earth, because she wanted to try life on Earth on this planet.

Most of her trip towards Beach City, and Little Homeworld where she would met up with Steve looked pretty normal,but then, she walked into something, which confused her a lot, because there was nothing in front of her. To see what was in front of her, she decided to wrap one her arms and around it, and a moment later, she came to a realization that it a was a ship. 

She wrapped her other hand around it, curious about the fact that there was an invisible ship in the forest, and touched it, until she felt something that felt like a button. She decided to press it, and much to her suprise, a ship appeared right in front of her, and the entrance to it slowly opened itself, but it raised even more questions.

Who came here in this ship? It couldn't be a gem because the Homeworld never used a ship like this before.

Why would this person hide his ship?

She decided to walk into the ship, even though she knew that she was invading someone's privacy without a permission. Inside of this ship, she passed  a wall that had  "Memorial Wall" written above a few pictures. She took the first off the wall, and flipped it to the other side.

"I wish I could have gotten to know you better." She read what was written there. She immediately came to a realization what happened to this man, and it must've hurt the person that came into this ship.

"My first friend." The picture after this said. His first friend? He didn't had any friends before meeting this man?

"Thank you so much for everything.'' The next picture said. This person must've done something to the person that came in this ship. She formed a theory in her head what was that the moment she saw what was standing behind that man. It was ship which she recognized immediately. Was this the exact same ship?

"My closest friend." She didn't had much to think about this picture. It just showed a person who this person considered to be their closest friend.

"My family." With that picture, a theory that one of those people was the one that came here in this ship formed in her head, but it made her confused. Why wouldn't he be with them at this moment? Something happened between them? And this picture seemed to be younger than the previous ones. Was this person abandoned by his real family?

"My friends" Now, this picture, had a lot of interesting people in it. At first, there a man. She was certain that the he was a human, next to him, there was a green-skinned woman with a long hair. Next to her, stood a large grey man which lots of tattoo on all over his body. There was also a girl with two antennas on her head. And the last two people on the picture were a raccoon, and small tree. She didn't focused her attention that an animal was standing next to them, like a regular person. She focused her attention on the small creature that was on his shoulder. It looked like a tree or something like that. Spinel had to admit it herself. The small tree was probably one of the cutest creatures she has ever seen.

And with that, she carefully put the picture on the wall, to make it look like she nobody touched it, before she began to explore to ship again. When she reached a computer, she was at least dozen of folders, and one of them said "Contracts". She touched the screen of his computer, and a folder which was filled with various files has opened. She didn't want to check each one of them, instead she decided to check the most recent one, because it could be the reason why this person came to the Earth in the first place.

A Contract

The Task: Bring a Pearl to The Collector

The Person That Ordered it: The Collector

Payment: 1 000 000 Units

The Collector... Who was this man? And more importantly what did he wanted to do with a Pearl, and who did he sent here to do this job?

These questions had to wait. The person that agreed to do this contract was somewhere in the city and was probably waiting for the right moment to kidnap a Pearl from Little Homeworld!

"I need to tell the others..." She said to herself, before sprinting out of his ship in the direction of Little Homeworld.

She had to warn them about the person that came in this ship and his true intentions.

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Here we are with the third chapter. I hope it wasn't that bad. I'm really excited towards writing the next two chapters, because as you may already assume, along with Spinel's arrival, it'll lead the others to finding out about Azurite's true identify.

And I finally saw the Joker! It is such a great movie.