I Don't Have Time For This!

So far as stupid plans went, this one hadn't been going so great, so far. Portalocity had bounced Peridot and Rufus on a round trip across the multiverse, where they'd faced off against a dragon made of spaghetti, had stared in the eyes of a fifty-foot hamster and had survived to tell the tale, and, perhaps the most harrowing of all, had spent almost an entire day in a Portalocity terminal in a reality where everything made of wood went 'ping' every thirty seconds, without fail.

Peridot had argued a pretty solid case for Homeworld shunning all things organic based on their time spent in that world alone.

But finally, finally, their portal decided to spit them out in their intended destination, in an alleyway behind a rhodochrosite spire, within sight of a nearly-spent Kindergarten that Peridot had earned her Kindergartener certification in centuries before.

She squinted, and then stomped her foot on the ground a few times. Looked around. Picked up a stone from the ground and licked it.

"We're here."

[OOC: NFB! For one for great just-noodling-around SP.]

It had all started with the Crystal Gems taking a break. A break! In building the drill! To save the planet! The work was so tantalizingly close to being done that Peridot had complained to Steven, vehemently. It had involved waving a little power drill in the air for emphasis. Which had, as most things around here seemed to do, inspired Steven to sing.

The difference is, this time, Peridot made an effort to understand why. And the whole thing had culminated in all four Crystal Gems sitting with their backs to the barn as Peridot showed off her take on the 'singing' that Steven had introduced her to.

"I guess we're already here,
I guess we already know.
We've all got something to fear,
We've all got nowhere to go.
I think you're all INSANE!
But I guess I am too...
Anybody would be
If they were stuck on Earth with you."

That one got a little grin from the trio of gems who were watching, and a cheer of triumph from Steven. None of them really noticed the portal that opened up nearby while Peridot was singing.

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[OOC: MORE CANON... more or less. Getting into the It Could Have Been Great chunks of canon, and will be pushing all the way through to Gem Drill as we go. Preplayed with the fantabulous sith_happened, studyingfear, intotheout, and kenselvren, and there is plenty more to come, which will get dumped into the comments as I code it or liveplayed in here. After work. La.]