Stevn, Spinel and Peridot ran as fast as possible when after leaving the forest in the dark of the night, they saw the smoke from the locomotives in the distance. The pink and green gems made sure to leave Steven in one of the open cars with great speed, while they made sure no one saw them to avoid getting into more trouble. The car was full of hay and fruits, so both Spinel and Steven had given themselves a small banquet "Come on Peridot! Try a little" Steven offered giving an apple to Peridot, the green gem just watched the fruit for a few moments and then she turns her back on Steven and Spinel.

"If you're not going to do it, can I have the apple?" Spinel asked calmly, to which Peridot nodded, only to hear how Spinel's teeth bit almost her entire arm, due to the widened jaw of the pink gem.

"... Stop right now!" Peridot complained quickly after Spinel laughed spitting her fingers while devouring the apple, although her robotic limb or fingers were not particularly dented, Spinel scared the green gem.

"Spinel, don't bother Peridot please," Steven complained sleepily after finishing his meal.

"Come on, Steven, we just had a little fun, not everyone has the same sense of humor, just that" Spinel exclaimed wrapping the human in the hay like a bed, with him by her side, Steven quickly fell asleep, catching Spinel as a pillow.

Peridot was about to speak with annoyance, but Spinel stared at her and signed to Peridot to speak in a low voice "What's wrong with you?" Peridot finally asked in a murmur, still intimidated by Spinel, who raised her shoulders simply.

"What you said about Pink ... I didn't like it, at first I wanted you to lie and that was my reason for hating you, but ... I think you tell the truth, and that just means I hate you more" Spinel sentence with a grinning smile, Peridot just kept cold.

"What did you want me to do? You asked me about Pink Diamond, if you're so sensitive, it's not my problem," the green gem said, but then she noticed Spinel's face in front of her, so Peridot almost fell to the ground, with chills as the pink gem's eyes looked directly at her.

"How would you feel if I told you that Yellow Diamond was killed by her own gems?" Spinel questioned, almost like a mockery, which offended Peridot quickly, the green gem tried to say a threat, but then Spinel's smile had widened, on the one hand Peridot was slow to understand that he had fallen into Spinel's jokes, she (Peridot) tried to see around her, any possible physical threat to herself from the pink gem, like her limbs around her feet or over her head, but there was nothing.

"... Oh" Peridot said quickly, she got annoyed when she noticed that the jester contained a laugh, Peridot for her part kept silent in cold annoyance, until Spinel offered her some nuts that were in the wagon, the green gem looked at her suspiciously.

"Come on, take advantage that I try to be good with you. Just because I have to share a wagon with you" Spinel statement putting the nuts in Peridot's mouth, stretching even more until she seems to force her to accept, for Peridot's discomfort, however she takes some of the walnuts, she is a little interested. The green gem observes the shape and color, finally daring nervously to try to eat one.

That show was silly for Spinel, when Steven had invited her food she did not take long to start eating, it was nothing very strange or in bad taste, they were good leftovers, and in this case, good nuts, so Spinel hit the hand of Peridot and therefore, she put the nut in his own mouth. Peridot seemed about to throw up, until she decided to swallow the nut.

"... I didn't like it" Peridot statement simply, to which Spinel sighs.

"I don't know why I try," Spinel says with annoyance, until she turns to see Steven sleeping, the pink gem then ruffled his hair playfully, trying not to wake him up and play with him "Peridot, if you end up betraying us ... I will fulfill what I said in the forest "Spinel statement looking back at Peridot, who swallows nodding.

"Do you consider me stupid? With my existence at risk, I am as loyal to the objective of stopping the Cluster as Yellow Diamond ... almost" Peridot Sentence with pride, although it makes Spinel roll her eyes "What is your relationship with Steven ? " Peridot asked curiously, watching the human and the pink gem.

"I was alone waiting for my best friend for a long time, in the end, only Steven appeared, and now he is a friend and my playmate. I promised to take him with the Crystal Gems," Spinel explains sincerely, although Peridot was still a bit missed by him. story, confirmed what Steven had said about the promise between them. Peridot then asked about the story between them, and quickly caught up, the green gem liked that Spinel didn't do it singing, as if Steven would.

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Spinel gently shook Steven's head, who was starting to wake up "Come on sleepy, if you don't do it, I'll eat all the food in the car" Spinel sentence while the human woke up.

"Good morning Spinel," Steven said, carving his eyes out of the hay in which he slept, the human observed the surroundings of the car without finding Peridot "Where is Peridot?" The human asked quickly, even worried if his companions fought each other.

"It's in the front of the train" Spinel statement simply getting up and grabbing Steven, she stretches and climbs up to the roof of the car where they were, in the distance Steven sees Peridot sitting in the front of the train, holding as she could thanks to the magnetism of her fingers with her prosthetic forearms "She said she wanted to analyze something, so I had to bring her here" Spinel exclaims with a small smile.

"Peridot!" Steven calls the green gem, calling her repeatedly while he and Spinel sat on the roof of his car, or rather, Spinel sat down and made sure Steven didn't fall into a false movement, due to the situation of the green gem, Spinel stretches her arm and brings it with them "What were you investigating Peridot?" Steven asked curiously.

"Well, looking at the geophraphy and my records, the Kingergarten Beta is relatively close to our next stop in a few hours, as Spinel explained to me, if there is a portal there, maybe we could use it to get to Beach City," Peridot said, she has Spinel's hand like a seatbelt around her waist.

"Wait! Is there more Kindergaten ?!" Steven asked surprised, receiving a look of pride from Peridot, the answer was obvious to her, and she wouldn't deign to answer that silly question.

"Of course, the worlds of Blue, Yellow and White are full of Kindergarten, partly Pink wanted a planet for herself ... that's why ... She wanted a lot, her own territory" Spinel, to which Steven lent extreme attention, however he quickly returned to Peridot, who expected some praise for her plan.

"Yes, but what if I still don't recover my abilities to activate the portal?" Steven wondered pensively, to which Spinel relaxed him by putting pink bubbles in front of his face.

"We still have enough food, maybe your power is already there, maybe we could make you remember it in Kindergarten Beta or we could continue traveling to Beach City normally, you don't have to worry," says Spinel relaxed, to which Steven after a few moments nods determined .

According to Peridot's calculations, there were still a few kilometers to go to the Kindergarten Beta, at which time they returned to their wagon, where Steven and Spinel dedicated themselves to play with each other, while Peridot stood on the edge of the car watching them without much emotion "Hey Steven, think fast!" Spinel exclaims throwing fruit against the human, who returns the fruits that the pink gem throws at him.

"Food war!" Steven said, but then steps begin to be heard towards the car, Steven was about to be alarmed when Spinel grabs him and hides in the hay, while Peridot flew off to the roof of the car. An alarmed reviewer had entered who, hearing the screams, was looking for polisons, but suddenly the reviewer felt the touch of fingers on his shoulder and looked at his back, finding the door open, so he ran again to another car.

What had happened was Spinel using her elongated arm to fool the reviewer, stealing his cap in the process "You look good Steven" Spinel commented when she put the reviewer's cap on Steven's head, covering his eyes.

"Hey," Steven complained about this while Spinel laughed a little at him, since the cap was too big for him.

"We are free?" Peridot asked curiously, to which Steven and Spinel nodded quickly, in a few minutes Peridot ordered his companions down to make a detour to the Kindergarten Beta, which would have been easy if it wasn't because their companions threw themselves on her when she was flying down, instead of using Spinel's elastic powers "That was on purpose!" Peridot exclaims with annoyance while her companions turned on the ground carrying food with them.

"You feel good?" Spinel asked the human, who raised his thumb, he only had a few scratches, mostly muffled by the small bushes of the place.

"Do you feel good?" Steven asked in response, to which Spinel nodded indifferently while Peridot looked at them "Where is the Kindergarten Beta then, Peridot? ... Wow!" Steven asked curiously, but he realized how the landscape was, the flat but dry climate was transformed with the passage of distance an irregular, rocky and arid terrain of orange, yellowish, reddish and brown tones.

"We only have to go a few hundred meters to the southeast and we will arrive at the Kindergarten Beta, unfinished, in Phase 5," Peridot mentions leading the group, followed by the human and the pink gem. Peridot was flying to avoid getting tired, although it was very difficult even for her to do this due to the place where the "propellers" of his robotic limbs were located, on the other hand Spinel carried Steven on her back.

"Don't you feel tired Spinel?" Steven asked with concern, while Spinel's hair covered him from the Sun, the pink gem let out a small mockery.

"Steven, in The Garden it never rained, hold the sunlight on my head for a long time, I assure you this is nothing" Spinel exclaims calmly "Peridot! Does a race until Kindergarten seem like a good idea?" Spinel asked with some emotion, supported by an enthusiastic Steven.

"Do you want to lose against me? So it seems like a good idea" Peridot statement trying to increase her speed on the flight.

"Good luck Peridot!" Steven exclaims as he sees the green gem getting smaller in the distance, not because Peridot will get away from them, but because Spinel rose as high as she could and took a long step to get as fast as possible to the Kindergarten Beta, quickly surpassing the green gem "That was great" the human said to the pink gem, which in turn had already reached the Kingergarten Beta.

"Pfff, and Peridot said it was a good idea to run against my" Spinel statement with sufficiency, for his part Steven gets off and watches the Kindergarten Beta, that place was full of holes, but they were very different from each other, finding each other in irregular shapes, some very small or thin, sideways or diagonally "Hey, look at this one here. White Diamond would have loved such a soldier, it's literally perfect" Spinel statement observing a huge hole in one of the walls, perfectly delimited.

"Wow, it must have been a gem as tall as Garnet, even more," exclaimed a surprised Steven, who went up to hide in the hole, which was even a few meters deep, Steven was about to leave when Spinel held his cheeks.

"I'll go find the portal of this Kindergarten, stay here and protect your beautiful head of the Sun in the meantime" Spinel statement as she walked to find the portal, but the pink gem quickly heard the footsteps behind her "Steven, I told you that you'll stay in the hole "Spinel complains when she notices Steven trying to hide so she doesn't see him.

"But we are a team! I want to search with you" Steven exclaims quickly, to which Spinel sighed, allowing the human to accompany her, although this time Steven walked beside her feeling the heat "When we arrived at Beach City, I would like to introduce you to all my friends, I am sure that you would like Amethyst, although sometimes she goes over with the jokes, there are also other places like the Great Donut, I love their donuts "Steven counted while the pink gem and he investigated, there was no danger apparent in that place, so Spinel paid attention and nodded to Steven's exclamations.

Finally, the duo had found the portal after a few minutes "Come on, try it" Spinel exclaimed with joy as she watched the human run to the portal, about to try to activate it.

"... Let's go to Beach City!" Steven was motivated trying to activate the portal, a bright light came out of his gem and shine along with the white light of the portal. But only for a few moments, before the light goes out, some tears came out of Steven's eyes, but the human lashed out to clean them quickly.

"Don't worry, you tried only once, it sure works for the next one," Spinel exclaimed, approaching to reassure Steven.

"I wanted so much that this will work ..." Steven exclaimed frustrated, kicking a stone near the portal, and to his own surprise sending it flying with great force, but that was not important for the human at that time.

"Me too, so I could take you with the Crystal Gems" Spinel sentence with love, hugging the human.

"Spinel ..." Steven called, drawing the pink gem's eyes to him, literally since Spinel extended her eyes to observe him from several places at once. "Will we still be friends when we get to Beach City?" Asked the human with curiosity, to which Spinel could freeze at that moment.

"Of course! Don't think you're going to get rid of your old friend Spinel so easy," Spinel said, recovering with a smile, filling Steven with tickles to make him laugh. "I trust you Steven, I know you could activate the portal, just wait, for now we just fail together, "Spinel said, clinging to Steven as a child to a stuffed animal, affection that Steven returns.

"We fail together ... I'm sorry we can't find Pink as we will find Beach City," Steven says after a few moments of silence, a nostalgic smile forms in Spinel.

"Me too, but I made a promise, you didn't have to do that for me," Spinel said simply, but Steven clings harder and shakes his head.

"We are friends! I would do that anyway" exclaims the human, to which Spinel gives a little laugh.

"Really Steven, you remind me a lot of Pink Diamond, she was a very kind person, like you ... Now that I realized, before continuing to test the portal, we have to wait for Peridot, so let's eat" Spinel said sitting in the portal along with Steven. The friends, as in The Garden, Watermelon Island or the middle of the ocean, shared a friendly snack.

It would take Peridot a few hours to arrive, to the surprise of Steven and Spinel, it seemed that vultures had attacked her along the way.