The rain on Spinel and Steven abates after a couple of hours under that bus stop, the duo had spent that time chatting, hugging and holding hands, finally both came out to splash excited over puddles of water, which Pearl, Amethyst and Connie look tender, but they have to keep moving when they see Steven and Spinel heading for the barn. For its part, the human girl goes home while the pair of gems is ahead of the pink gem and the hybrid taking another path.

As they walked a question came Steven "Hey Spinel ... What are we now?" The hybrid asks with curiosity, for his part Spinel sees him somewhat dismayed.

"What are we? You're my best friend Steven!" The pink gem exclaims with a smile, but for his part Steven understood that the gem did not know what he meant.

"Spinel, best friends don't usually kiss or date. There's more than best friends," The hybrid explains, for an excited look at Spinel.

"Super best friends?" The pink gem shyly asks with a smile, Steven blushes and he can't help but laugh a little "So what is it?" Spinel questions getting tangled around the hybrid while she keeps asking the hybrid.

"This is a bit embarrassing" The blushing Steven replies, however the hybrid manages to ask nervously "Would you like to be my girlfriend?" Steven asks the pink gem, who looks at Steven innocently, meanwhile Spinel places a kiss on the forehead of the hybrid, which gets even more flushed and embarrassed.

"Does that mean we could go on more dates ?!" The pink gem exclaims excitedly, to which she cheers when Steven nods excitedly "Yes ... I like the idea" Spinel smiles sweetly, the hybrid returns the touching gesture, the duo then continues walking "And as a couple, what do we do? " The curious pink gem asks again after a few moments, to which Steven for his part raises his shoulders.

"We can find out with time" The hybrid thinks reassuringly while he clings to Spinel's hand, she on the other hand rests her head on Steven's shoulder until they finally reach the barn, before finally opening Steven Steven fixes his jacket and open the barn "Hello!" The duo greets excitedly.

"Steven, you little champion!" Amethyst greets by jumping on the hybrid while she begins to stir the spongy hair of Steven, who laughs next to the purple gem, while on the other hand Peridot and Sapphire jump on Spinel, dragging the surprised pink gem while Lapis and Pearl watched this with a smile.

"You have to tell us how it was!" The blue and green gem emphasizes taking Spinel to the other side of the barn, while Amethyst, Lapis and suddenly Ruby appeared to hear from the hybrid in person how everything had turned out. Particularly the red gem seemed the most interested, and barked excitedly with almost anything Steven said, he meanwhile spoiled the corrupt gem.

******

Time after both had finished, after the congratulations of the gems, each one returns to his own, it was already quite night, and Peridot, Spinel and Steven were watching Camp Pining Hearts on the second floor of the barn, the hybrid was sleeping next to the pink gem "Good evening" Steven exclaims smiling at Spinel about to fall asleep, she shares the cheerful gesture. But then Pearl appeared to lift the hybrid.

"What are you doing, Pearl?" The pink gem and Steven ask in dismay while the white gem puts the hybrid across the room, dragging Spinel, who held her leg in a pleading way.

"You are not supposed to sleep so together, if you are a couple. For now that is ... indecent" Pearl sentences simply, to the dismay of the pink gem and the hybrid, trying to convince the gem not to separate the two. What was wrong with sleeping in the same haystack? Spinel and Steven didn't know ...

"And what about Greg and you?" Amethyst questions hanging on the floor of the second floor while looking at Pearl in a picaresque way, meanwhile the white gem although she blushes a little does not show hesitation.

"Greg and I are adults Amethyst, Steven is 14 years old" Pearl sentences simply, and before the purple gem makes another comment, the white gem gives her a little push and Amethyst falls between pieces of scrap metal "You heard Spinel "Pearl exclaims while taking a sad pink gem and separating it from the hybrid, also sad.

For its part, the white gem calls Peridot, who went down to continue with the device to take care of The Cluster, would soon be finished. Meanwhile, separated by just a few meters, Steven and Spinel could communicate with small, simple hand signs, the pink gem greets the hybrid, but Spinel was ashamed when Steven responded by forming a heart. Soon the hybrid fell asleep, so the pink gem was also resigned to sleep in another haystack.

The next day Spinel wakes up due to Lapis, who touches the nose of the pink gem "How are you?" Spinel greets curiously at the gesture of the blue gem, which flew a few decimeters from the ground, meanwhile Lapis told him to come with her and the blue gem approached Steven to lift this "Steven!" The pink gem jumps over the hybrid, waking it up abruptly.

"What happens?!" Steven exclaims surprised, just to notice Spinel hugging him tightly, at this the hybrid still responded surprised "What happened?" Steven asks curiously, noting the presence of Lapis, the hybrid also greeted her kindly.

"Peridot wants us to go outside, he has a mission for all three" The blue gem explains simply, she leaves the barn by the window, an excited Spinel follows her example by jumping down. Steven for his part preferred to go down the stairs, now he could float and stop his fall, but he preferred to continue using stairs when he could.

The hybrid realized that Ruby was sleeping next to the door below, but he also realizes that the rejuvenating ray that Perla and Peridot built was gone, in fact, apart from Ruby, there were no other gems in the barn, but Steven watches them outside with the device almost ready "Hello girls!" The hybrid greets seeing Peridot, Pearl, Sapphire and Amethyst.

"Steven, the new rejuvenator is almost ready!" Peridot reports with great emotion, to which some excited Pearl and Sapphire nod "We only need to polish a few details, but first we also need to know the current position of the Cluster" The green gem exclaims taking out a radio for the trio, which would communicate with a transmitter that Peridot had.

"I keep saying it's too dangerous for Steven to go there" The white gem declares to her green partner, she just sticks her tongue innocently, generating a small laugh from Amethyst and Sapphire that Pearl responds only by rolling her eyes without giving her much importance.

"Wouldn't it be better to watch the news? I'm sure there's still a signal or satellites," Steven mentions curiously, but then Amethyst pulls out a small television connected to a generator and an antenna out of the junk, to Spinel's surprise and Steven, it seems that in a few hours the situation had already changed a bit. When the purple gem turned on the television, but there was simply no signal.

"It is possible that The Cluster will devour the systems that kept Beach City connected, perhaps the entire east coast is without electricity or signal, or perhaps resources will be redirected elsewhere" Pearl and Peridot theorize seriously "But we are too close in the ray construction, withwith the skills of you three, you three could escape more easily in case problems arise "The white gem adds, she supports the trio.

With the mission received, Steven, Spinel and Lapis headed to the temple "Are you sure you are ready for a Crystal Gems mission?" The hybrid question worried the blue gem, she didn't seem to be too worried.

"It's just flying over in search of The Cluster, I don't have much trouble with it" Lapis exclaims calmly in response, Steven didn't have much to say about that, so he nods as they follow the road to the old house, where there were still builders working , the trio step quickly to access the portal and go to the Kindergarten Beta.

Lapis observes for the first time half of The Cluster, she is surprised while on the other hand Spinel and Steven contemplated the huge holes that had left the geo-weapon released, or what was left of it, the Grand Canyon was small in that area, kilometers and kilometers of land, minerals and rocks devoured, somewhere that huge larva must remain "Do you think if I go in one direction and you in another?" Lapis asks curiously approaching the hybrid and the pink gem.

"I think it's better not to separate" Steven says with concern, meanwhile the blue gem just shut up and spread the wings.

"If you'll excuse me, you're going to take me" Spinel exclaims with a smile taking the hand of the hybrid and climbing on his back waiting for Steven to float "Horse Ride!" The pink gem shouts animated, meanwhile the cheerful Steven begins to fly, following Lapis closely although at a much slower rate.

******

For almost an hour the reconnaissance group had found absolutely nothing, just the great extent of the damage generated by The Cluster, it was simply catastrophic to see how it extended from the orange land near the Kindergarten Beta, to the green pastures as it moved more towards the East. For her part Spinel to take advantage of her abilities she extends her eye like a kind of spyglass "Hey, there is something out there!" The pink gem exclaims watching a strange formation towards the northeast.

Steven and Lapis change course according to Spinel's explanations, finding a kind of circular structures that were actually tents, there was a small group of soldiers accompanying many humans in lab coats, that group spoke a multitude of languages, from English to Russian, Chinese, French, Indian, Korean, Urdu, and many others.

"What are they doing here?" Lapis whispers as the trio hides from the group of humans, who had drones with cameras and other devices going down to the huge holes next to their camps.

"I'll go to see" Spinel exclaims simply, Steven clings a little to the pink gem before it goes down, contracting her body Spinel falls with its miniature size using gravity, when the pink gem is about to touch the ground, she puts her hands together and stretches them to make a parachute.

Down there the human instruments had not yet arrived, and just a few rays of the Sun could reach, so Spinel makes her gem shine to illuminate, there she watches directly The Cluster, the gigantic larva was gnawing the rock and ancient human structures like if it will be a baby with his pacifier. Spinel recoils immediately when due to the pink light, the multiple eyes of that geo-weapon were fixed on the pink gem.

"H-Hey! How are you doing? We haven't seen each other for a long time, you don't look good indeed my little friend" Spinel greets nervously at the start, but finally she lets out her much more cheerful nature, The Cluster doesn't know move, it is not as if the geo-weapon could not communicate with Spinel.

The pink gem does not take in realizing that now The Cluster seems to have no mobility, its limbs stuck to its body, in fact now its body seemed covered by a series of fine threads that came out of its various gems, covering it in a blanket little by little, it was only growing.

"You know, I think we don't show up well. I'm Spinel. What are you doing here so alone?" The pink gem continues to speak, Spinel locks a little and bites her tongue avoiding the nervousness that the geo-weapon still gave her when she was so close. Finally the human instruments went down, drones faced to see Spinel, who waved "Hello!" The pink gem exclaims.

"I think I'll leave you here with our common friend, this is something wrong with the" Spinel sentence, she suddenly turns her legs into springs and jumps up just to stretch and start climbing at high speed, the team of scientists and soldiers was preparing to run at the sight of the pink gem.

******

Some soldiers by mistake and fear fire their weapons, Steven quickly leaves the hiding place to let the group of humans take his tent "Lapis ?!" The hybrid question worried about the blue gem, which had suddenly stopped due to shouting and shooting.

Steven watches as Lapis falls almost knocked to the ground, hurrying to take the blue gem from there, Spinel does not take long to leave and take her teammates with her hands while running away in the opposite direction to that of humans, who took some vehicles not far from there "What happened to Lapis ?!" The pink gem asks surprised and scared.

"I don't know! I'm going to call Peridot, we'll inform him of The Cluster in the barn" The hybrid sentence taking the communicator and marking with concern.