"Here we are Jasper's origin." Peridot said gesturing to a sandy landscape. "The beta Kindergarten." Peridot said with slight disapproval.

"Am I underwhelmed? It's pretty bright out here." Steven said, making Peridot side eye him. "It's red." Amethyst commented. "No kidding." Peridot smirked, before walking off the warp pad.

"Red sand stone!" Peridot laughs as the others follow her off the warp pad. "This is what I'm talking about! We're lucky this place hasn't blown away! Beta am I right?" Peridot says, making Steven laugh. "That's a math joke, right?" Steven asked Amethyst, his laughter seizing.

"Come on." Peridot chuckles. "It gets worse." Peridot leads the way "I mean this place has got the right growing conditions in a pinch." Peridot stops and picks up a red sand stone.

"I guess." Peridot licks the stone with no reaction. "But It's too small!" Peridot says, dropping the rock and continued to walk.

"It was obviously a total rush job." Peridot says. "A rush job?" Steven said, confused. "Halfway through the rebellion, homeworld scrambled to generate extra soldiers out the ground." Peridot explained before stopping once more.

"Look at this! The holes don't even line up!" Peridot said gesturing to a messed up wall the holes in the walls, like Peridot had said, didn't match up. there was one too high and another too low, over all a total mess.

Peridot laughed. "It's like they just threw injectors down where ever!" Peridot laughed, before catching her eye on another hole.

"And that one! This Carnelian came out sideways! How could she not? The walls are curved!" Peridot laughed moving on.

"What a joke." Peridot commented walking along the sand. "Man. I-I had no idea..." Amethyst spoke up.

"I tell you, it really makes you appreciate the Prime kindergarten, Amethyst." Peridot said, her eyes closed as she walked.

"Your kindergarten was so thought through! Sure you might have spent extra time in the ground, but everything else is stacked in your favor!" Peridot said, looking around the kindergarten once more, while she spoke.

"Great location, great holes, even spacing, consistent depth! A real kindergartener gets it right!" Peridot listed, looking back to Amethyst and Steven behind her and Labradorite.

The four continued their trek not even stopping when Steven stopped a few seconds later, staring at an injector.

"What happened to this injector..?" Steven asked quietly before Peridot spoke up again. "What you want to see is a vertical alignment." Peridot said to the two gems next next her, reminding Steven what he came here for and raced after them, catching up to the three gems once they stopped.

"with a clean, strong, silhouette." Peridot informed before turning to the side, looking st the holes before speaking.

"None of these holes come close!" Peridot laughed as Amethyst and Steven looked at each other. "Peri?" Peridot hummed at the sound of her name from Labradorite.

"What about that one?" Amethyst asked, pointing to a holes behind Peridot. Peridot hummed and turned, looking at the large, and seemingly perfect, hole.

"Jasper..." Peridot muttered, wide eyed, clearly in shock or, fear. "this is Jasper's hole?" Steven asked. "It's huge..." Amethyst commented, making Peridot roll her eyes.

"Oh come on, we already know she's tall." Peridot remarked. "Let's take a closer look." Peridot spoke, walking up to the giant hole.

"A kindergartener can tell a lot-" Peridot struggled to get up into the hole. "About a gems make up and ugh! Flaws by their exit marks." Peridot stopped struggling and turned to Labradorite, whom was waiting patiently.

"Labby..." Labradorite chuckled and lifted Peridot up into the hole. Peridot thanked Labradorite and climbed into the hole.

"You see the problem here-...." Peridot stopped short seeing nothing but perfection on the walls. "-now this part-!" Peridot stopped again, looking at the perfect soil before getting up, backing up to the back of the hole.

"There's this thing where if you count the steps of the back I can-" Peridot came back back the front of the hole, completely stumped.

Peridot hopped out of the hole and returned to the group. "What is it?" Amethyst asked as Peridot walked over to them.

Peridot gave Amethyst a side eye before explaining. "She's even got fictional rock melt...it's glass all the way to the back..." Peridot revealed touching her face.

"Actually I uh... I've never seen an exit hole this perfect..." Peridot said, her eyes fixated on the ground as Amethyst sighed. "So it is true." Amethyst said, glaring at the ground once more.

"Amethyst, that doesn't matter. Who you are isn't about where you came from, it's who you want to be!" Steven said.

"it's what you worked hard for, it's who you care about! That's what really matters." Steven said. Amethyst raised her head.

"Yeah... yeah! You're right!" Amethyst smiled, earning a 'yeah!' From the three and a half gems infront of her.

"It's about who I wanna be!" Amethyst smiled, a determined glint in her eyes, earning an even louder 'yeah!' From the three and a half gems.

"And I wanna be the gem that beats Jasper into the dirt!" Amethyst smiled sadisticly, earning a 'Yeah!' From Peridot and Labradorite and a 'huh?' From Steven, he really thought he inspired Amethyst to not fight Jasper.

"Wait no!" Peridot said once she realized what Amethyst had said. "Don't fight her! Are you not seeing this?! She's the ultimate quartz!" Peridot reminded the very determined Amethyst.

"I'm doing it, yeah. And not just for me, for all the weird holes out there!" Amethyst declared. "Like this guy! And skinny up there! And this mess!" Amethyst pointed to a few different holes.

"Amethyst thats..." Peridot was about to say before Amethyst interrupted her. "Yeah!" Amethyst laughed.

"I bet she was great!" Amethyst said before Peridot, Steven and Labradorite walked up to Amethyst.

"No, no, no, no, hold on, somethings really wrong here." Peridot says, scanning the exit marks before running her hand along the marks.

"These marks are new... this holes been dug out. Recently." Peridot said, worried. "Maybe it was a prairie dog?" Steven suggested, earning a small glare from Peridot.

"A really big one..?" Steven corrected before Peridot ignored him, humming before running away, Labradorite quickly behind. "There's more!?" Peridot shrieked as Steven and Amethyst followed to two. "These aren't exit hole anymore." Peridot muttered, her glare turning cold at the sight before her.

Countless holes had been dug around, most of them being shut with metal bars like a cage or a prison cell.

Obviously someone had been there and are keeping somethings here. Steven walked up to a cage. "Then what are they?" He asked, raising a hand to touch the bar.

Only to lurch back as a clawed paw reached out to grab him. The three gems called his name as they all raced over and dragged him away.

The commotion seemed to wake the others, glowing eyes could be seen as growling increased in volume.

"Corrupted Gems... in cages." Steven whimpered as the four started to back away from the cages. "Why!? Who would do this?!" Peridot yelped as Labradorite hugged Peridot, fear seeping into her form.

Amethyst gasped and locked her eyed onto something or someone. "That's who." Amethyst growled as Jasper turned to look at the four. "Jasper." Steven said, quickly and fearfully. Like Jasper's name was taboo. Amethyst glared hard and summoned her whip.

To be continued...

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