Your POV

After an explanation to the Zircons yesterday, Garnet shows them around town today and teach them about Earth.

Steven wakes up in the morning from the buzzing of his Cookie Cat™ alarm clock. He begins his morning routine at the kitchen sink, such as brushing his teeth, washing his face, and cleaning his ears.

He then dunks his head into the sink full of water to wash his head further. At that moment, Amethyst emerges through the Temple Gate and Pumpkin, barking excitedly, runs up to her. I was drinking coffee at the kitchen and resting against the kitchen counter.

Amethyst: Oooh, hey there, girl! *pets Pumpkin* Yo, Steven! This a bad time?

Steven: Of the three things I have to do in the sink now, this is the one I least mind you seeing.

Amethyst: Ugh, Peridot is still depressed all up in your B-room?

Steven: Yeah. She still hasn't gotten over Lapis leaving and taking the Barn with her into space. Y/N already did. I think she just... needs a little more time to herself?

Amethyst: Nope! That's it, we're getting her out.

Y/N: We need to get her to do something, something that would get her mind off some stuff

Steven: Wait, Amethyst! Y/N!

Me, Steven, and Amethyst opens the door to the bathroom.

Steven: Uhh... Peridot?

Somber country music is heard playing from Peridot's tablet on the sink, while Peridot lies hanging from the bathtub onto the floor, with puddles of water everywhere on the floor. Steven and Amethyst exchange worried looks, and Amethyst walks in while I followed her.

Steven: You... feeling any better?

Peridot: Uugghhh...

Y/N: That a no?

Amethyst pauses the music on Peridot's tablet.

Steven: So... Uhh what have you... been up to?

Peridot mumbles something onto the floor.

Steven: *walks over* I uhh... couldn't really hear you there.

Amethyst lifts Peridot's foot from the bathtub and flips her over to the floor, looking absolutely haggard.

Peridot: Nothing...

Y/N: You've been in this bathroom kind of a long time. Maybe you should get some fresh air.

Peridot: *in decrepit* ... What's the point?...

Steven: To feel better?

Amethyst: Come on, Peridot! I can't stand seeing you like this!

Peridot: Like what?...

Amethyst: Dude, let's just get out of the house. We could go check out my old Kindergarten. We met all those other Amethysts up in space, and they all came out of the same rock as me. I've been meaning to get a look at the old neighborhood now that I've met the neighbors.

Y/N: I'm down

Steven: That sounds fun. What do you say, Peridot?

Amethyst: You can make us feel dumb by telling us all the stuff we don't know!

Peridot: I miss that...

Amethyst: Great, it's settled! *picks Peridot up and hoists her over her shoulder* Let's get out of the bathroom.

Peridot: Can I bring my music?...

Amethyst: No.

Peridot: What about my Limb Enhancers?

Y/N: You're gonna have to use your real limbs this time.

Scene change

Me, Steven, Amethyst and Peridot board a train that is passing by the countryside. Steven and Amethyst are gazing out at the scenery, while Peridot is laying in a fetal position inside. I was resting against a hay bale.

Peridot: Ugh. Why exactly are we taking this outdated, clackity ship there? The Prime Kindergarten has a very convenient Warp Pad.

Amethyst: Ehh, we're taking the scenic route.

Steven: Come on, Peridot! Take a look at the beautiful countryside.

Peridot: No. Your efforts to entrance me with Earth's beauty are pointless. My sector of countryside was perfect. Now it's somewhere in space. Just let me know when we get there.

Steven looks at Peridot with deep concerns.

Scene change

The four of us arrived at the Kindergarten and begins walking towards Amethyst's hole.

Amethyst: Good ol' Kindergarten! Just the way I left it! Aww, some things never change. Gah- Actually, everything's different now! Man, I-I used to think this place was full of empty holes, but now it's like, it's empty with holes which were once full! All those Amethysts I met in space, they were all here! While I was right there in the ground. But now, I can finally start putting some faces to holes! Hohohoh, let's see... Hup!

Amethyst proceeds to hop from hole to hole.

Amethyst: This must've been
8X-J! Ooh! 8X-K! 8X-L!

Y/N: I met 8X-J. But the order goes from top to bottom

Peridot: That's 8XJ.

Amethyst: Really?

Peridot: Yes. Curly hair, right?

Amethyst: Yeah! How'd you know?

Peridot: You can tell from the iron deposits in the formation there. And that's 8XL down below.

Amethyst: *hops down and inspect the hole* Whoa, that's pretty amazing, Dot.

Peridot blushes and smiles from the compliment, but comes to a gloomy realization.

Peridot: This used to make sense to me. I thought life was generated in a Kindergarten. Formless, aimless energy channeled into new, useful Gems. But life doesn't start in a Kindergarten. It ends here. I've gotten used to plants everywhere. Bugs and breeze and sunshine... All of that has been sucked out of this place. It's with the Amethysts that were produced here, and now, this place is nothing but a miserable husk. All of the Amethysts are gone.

Amethyst: Hey!

Peridot: Oh, all the well-made Amethysts are gone.

Amethyst: Yo, not better.

Peridot: And nothing will ever grow here again, not even this flower.

Peridot point at a flower growing on the ground, and the four of us realizes that it, a form of biotic life, seems to be able to exist in the Kindergarten despite Peridot's descriptions.

Amethyst: Wait! *jumps down and observes the flower* Oh! I've never seen anything growing here, and I've been hanging around this joint for 5,000 years. Man, it looks healthy, too.

Steven: Wow! That's Earth for you: Always bouncing back.

Peridot: I don't know. I'd have to run some tests to see if this is not an anomaly.

Y/N: This is impossible! The injectors are highly poisonous to Earth and the gems suck out the life out of Earth for them to live.

Steven: You want to try planting stuff here? You know how to farm!

Amethyst: Yeah, that could be fun!

Peridot: It could be an interesting experiment.

Steven: Yeah! Let's re-garden the Kindergarten!

Timeskip

The four of us warp back to the Kindergarten, bringing along gardening tool, some sunflowers and Peridot's tractor, and a montage begins. Rocks are moved to make way for the tractor to plow and cultivate the soil.

I dug hiles in the soil and the sunflowers are planted into them, after fertilizers are added. Steven and Amethyst begins watering the sunflowers by blasting them with water guns. Peridot calls it off, suggesting they sprinkle the water from above instead, using Amethyst as a helicopter. Lastly, I put a plastic flamingo next to the sunflower field, and then we celebrated.

Scene change
The next day

Your POV

Steven wakes up in the morning and gets ready for the day, happily taking a hot shower. As he leaves his bathroom, he sees Peridot speaking to Amethyst in the kitchen. I was drinking coffee while listening to their conversation, to be honest I am curious if life in the Kindergarten has returned.

Peridot: They don't need any more water after yesterday, but according to several tutorials I read, the roots should be starting to take hold.

Amethyst: Oh, yeah?

PeridotSo, that's something we can check for today as soon as- *notices Steven* Steven! What are you doing in that bathing gown?! Get dressed already!

Steven: Oh! Uh, right!

Scene change

The four of us boarded a train again to get to the Kindergarten, and they begin discussing inside a carriage.

Steven: Do you think they grew much overnight?

Y/N: I think the better question is if the Kindergarten managed to maintain the good condition of the sunflowers. If it did, then it could support an entirely new ecosystem.

Amethyst: Yeah, I bet the place looks even better!

Steven: We should plant even more stuff. What do you think we should do next?

Amethyst: What about, hydrangeas?

Steven: Uh, which one's that?

Amethyst: I don't know, but it sounds good, right?

Y/N:What do you think, Peridot?

Peridot: Hey... Thanks for doing this with me.

Amethyst: What? Haha, come on.

Steven: It was fun.

Peridot: I'm just glad I was able to fix something.

Amethyst: Yeah, the Kindergarten looks better than ever!

Scene change

Then as we arrived at the Kindergarten, we witnessed in shock at the dead sunflowers on the ground. Peridot picks one up, and it disintegrates with the wind. Steven and Amethyst look on nervously to see what Peridot does next.

Y/N:  I fu-ound out that it really is impossible to grow some plants here.

Peridot: Well, I don't know why I'm surprised. I should've known not to have hope.

Steven: But maybe if we try again-

Peridot: It's not going to work! It's never going to work, okay?!

AmethystHey, don't be a jerk!

Y/N: We were just trying to cheer you up.

Peridot: And good job with that! I feel just great now that I know that nothing's ever going to get better! Everything is just ruined forever! We can't get any of it back! Not my home! Not Lapis! And not this crummy planet, either! We might as well just throw it all in the garbage and toss ourselves in after, because it's all just hopeless trash!

Y/N: Peridot, watch your mouth!

Steven: Peridot, maybe the sunflowers didn't work, but we know something can grow here.

Steven points at the flower they saw from before, and Peridot walks towards it. How did it even manage to grow here? Unless...

Peridot: This clod's just like us! Too dumb to get with the program!

Peridot stomps on the flower in frustration. Steven and Amethyst whimper, and Peridot immediately feels bad for her actions. Suddenly, the ground starts rumbling. Fuck! I knew it!

Peridot: Uhhh.

Steven: Uh?

Amethyst: Waaaa!

Y/N: Move away from the flower!

The ground around the flower cracks and a Flower Monster pops out of the ground, roaring at the trio loudly.

Peridot: Oh, of course!

The Flower Monster grabs Peridot with its hand-like tongue and consumes her.

Y/N: PERIDOT!!!

I summoned my gauntlets and punched it sending it flying to the wall. I ran towards it and it grabbed me by the legs and threw me upwards.
Steven and Amethyst run toward the Flower Monster, as it burrows underground and appears behind the duo.

Amethyst uses her whip to grasp the Flower Monster's leg, only for the latter to drag her with it underground. Steven attempts to catch up while Amethyst continues to fight it underground.

Amethyst: Want to get this together?

Steven: Let's do it!

Steven and Amethyst hold hands and fuse into Smoky Quartz. They throws the Flower Monster onto the surface and wraps it with their yo-yos, squeezing it tightly until the corrupted Gem poofs back into its gemstone. Peridot lays unimpressed on the ground, while Smoky bubbles the gemstone away.

Peridot: I need to go to the bathroom.

Y/N: WATCH OUT!!!!

I said as I was falling and I hit the ground hard, the dust clears and I was dug deep into the ground. I climbed out of the hole and I looked shit. My hair was messy and I am seeing stars.

Y/N: Ok...that thing got me good this time.

Scene change

The four of us lay down inside the train carriage, disappointed.

Amethyst: Man, you were right. The Kindergarten really is dead forever.

Y/N: Told you so.

Peridot: I was a fool to think we could reinstitute life there.

Steven: *sighs* Tell me about it.

Peridot: All right. I will. I was pretty much using this as a distraction from losing Lapis, losing the barn, and just a general sense of complete hopelessness I tend to deal with on a day-to-day basis. But it really only confirmed to me that once you mess something up, it's ruined for good and nothing will ever be able to grow again.

Amethyst: Yeah, we got the subtext.

Steven:...Oh, wow.

Steven looks outside the train carriage as they pass by a vast field of sunflowers.

Steven: What about all this?

Amethyst: Now that's some plants.

Y/N: Beautiful.

Peridot: Huh. Guess the countryside out here is pretty beautiful. But who cares? I wanted to have this for the Kindergarten!

Steven: Even if there was nothing we can do for that one patch of land, there's still a whole Earth blooming all around us.

Y/N: Peridot, in life we go through a lot of challenges, we gain and we lose things. But don't mind the things you have lost, instead think about what you have gained through life. If it gets harder, you will get better.

Amethyst: Yeah! Why don't we try gardening in literally any other place? It'll be easier than trying to plant in the Kindergarten. That dirt doesn't care how green your thumb is.

Steven: Green thumb! 'Cause you're green! *laughs*

Peridot: I know that!

Amethyst: So, are ya in?

Peridot: Umm...

Steven: Do it, do it, do it, say yes!

Peridot: Ughh. Fine. I've got literally nothing else to do.

Steven: Yay!

Amethyst: Oh, yeah!

Steven and Amethyst hug Peridot and the four of us gaze at the countryside scenery.

Scene change

Peridot was about to enter back to the bathroom but I closed the door.

Peridot: What are you doing?

Y/N: You're not sleeping in there.

Peridot: Then where will I stay?

Y/N: In my room.

My gem glowed and the Temple Door opened revealing a my room. I have an extra room inside.

Y/N: I'm not letting you sleep in the bathroom. And Steven need to clean himself once in a while.

Peridot took her tablet and her Limb Enhancers using her powers. Pumpkin followed her and I already set up a bed for Pumpkin too andsome water in case she wants a drink.

Peridot entered the room and she set down her stuff at the table. She examines the room for a bit while I freshen up and went to bed. A few minutes later I shut my eyes so I could finally sleep.

An hours has passed I still haven't fallen asleep. Then I felt the bed shake a bit and I already knew that Peridot was the cause of it. She lifted the covers and she grabbed my hands and she wrapped them around herself.

I pulled her closer and she gasped a bit in surprise. She smiled and she snuggles herslef and eventually fell asleep and I smiled and I finally fell asleep as well.

And Finished.

This was one long chapter to write. An image was flagged again in this story but Wattpad didn't send any message because I deleted that conversation on my messages. I literally put a fucking Mature Rating in my story and I keep on putting a fucking warning to the Lemons. Good thing I still have the back up images. Maybe in the far future I'll move to AO3. But it's only a thought. I might not move

So I found out that an idiot decided that it was a good idea to tag people on their message board and shows them a link of "Casual Sex".

Be a good person and don't click or open the link, and please someone report this to the Wattpad Creators, or better yet the FBI. What she is doing is fucking illegal!

Stay safe ya'll. This is YoBoyMcFly and I will see you all in the next chapter.

Mcfly signing off.