In the dark of the night, a van was making its way through certain parts of the Beach City. Mayor Dewey was driving said van, and everyone else was in the back. The seats were pressed against the side of the inside, so the passengers faced each other when they sat down. On one side, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl were sitting, in front of them were Thean and Steven. Mayor Dewey looked at the rearview mirror to check up on everyone else, and it seemed like the tension would have suffocated them all if the silence remained.

"So I suppose, you all want to know where it is we're going." He more or less asked them to ask him. He laughed nervously. It remained silent.
"Are we going to your house?" Steven asked, not wanting the silence to continue.
"Not exactly. You see, I have several homes, but one in particular has the...'atmosphere' for me and Thean to explain to you guys about what all of this is." Bill explained, he chuckled nervously. "So my home, yes." He cleared his throat and got serious for a second. "Look, I know we may not look like much, heck I don't look like much, but trust me when I say that you will need us." He said as he kept his eyes on the road.

It was quiet for another moment, until Pearl gasped as she realized something.
"You got me that white rose!" She said, thinking back to the first time they met Thean, he gave her a pearly white rose from his client.
"Oh yes, I've been meaning to ask you about that, what did you think about it?" Bill asked, hoping for her to say she liked it. He had put a lot of effort into growing out that rose from his garden. Although he was a political figure, he also had other private hobbies, one of which was gardening.
"You gave me a dead plant to keep, what do you think I did with it?" She responded rather hurtful. Pearl didn't like the idea of someone giving her a rose, especially one of her color. It just seemed ironically cruel, considering how she felt about Rose and how Rose felt about her. Bill's smile fell at Pearl's response.
"Well it's mostly the effort one puts into giving something to someone else." He tried to explain.
"So you grew something out to kill it and give it to me." She retorted. This threw off Bill for a second, and caused him to stutter.
"Well, you see, I-" He tried to explain himself until Thean interrupted him.
"Bill, let it go. We're almost there." Thean said. Bill double-checked his surroundings. And sure enough, they were coming in close to what seemed like a small mansion. Mayor Dewey parked just outside.
"Oh, thanks Thean for keepin an eye out." Bill said as he unbuckled his seatbelt as everyone else did too.
"No problem." Thean said, not caring about the eye pun he made just now.

As Mayor Dewey got out from his side, he walked to the back of the van and opened it from behind. Everyone got out, and Bill guided them to the front of the estate.
The front doors were a beautiful, brown-red wooden color with several designs above it, the door knobs were of a silver like metal. However, it wasn't opened the traditional way of grabbing the knob, but instead, Bill talked into his wrist watch.
"Dewey Estate 04: Emergency: Milkhama." He said, almost sounding rehearsed, and the doors to the estate opened. "Please come in." He gestured nicely.
"Woah!" Steven said in astonishment at how big it wasbon the inside. The walls were a spotless white, with several paintings hanging, there was a living room with fine leather couches. Overall, it was very luxurious.
"I see you like the facade of this home, but we have to go in deeper." Bill said as he began to walk down a hallway, allowing everyone to follow him. They got to a heavy metal door, to which Bill opened with a key. "Can't be too careful." He said. Upon opening, there was a dark staircase leading to a room with four giant monitors against the wall a round table behind it. "Please sit." He obliged them.
All the Gems sat down on either sides of the table.

"Ok, we've been patient enough, now tell us what is going on." Garnet demanded.
Thean and Bill sat down on opposite sides facing Steven and the Gems.
"What do you want to know?" Bill asked.
"For starters, who are you? As in who have you been this whole time?" She asked.
"I am Thean's employer for this mission. A majority of the things he needed, I funded for him, although some of his equipment he already had." He answered.
"But who are you?" Garnet repeated, with a much more specific intent. This time, Thean decided it was his turn to explain.
"We are part of an organization called the Samaritans. We are special group of people who take part in multiple world affairs in secret and bring what we personally believe is justice." Thean stood up and moved to one of the monitors and brought up a diagram of the world with red marks throughout it. "We have many operatives throughout every country on earth based on population, corruption, and economy." Thean explained. "We have access to class 5 weapons for all able operatives and those who lack skills in the field," he said mentioning toward Dewey. "are often given positions of organization to both the privacy of the organization and can act as a political facade to the general public." He finished. "Anything else?" He asked.
"How did you know about us?" Amethyst pointed out. "You seemed to have known a lot about us when we first met, and you said that the information came from your employer." She pointed at Bill. Everyone was impressed by Amethyst's questioning and memory. Usually she just stayed quiet. Both Bill and Thean had a look of worry, as if they were hoping that question wouldn't come up. Bill stood up.

"We know just about everything." He said, almost regretfully. It was his turn to use the keyboards in front of the monitors. He typed in something on all of them began to show videos of the battles they had, only, each monitor showed a different perspective.
Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Steven were confused for a few seconds until they realized that it was them talking, and it was their memories of the fights. Then all of them changed to everyone going their separate ways in the temple. All of their rooms were on video.
"How is this possible?" Pearl asked in shock. They all turned to Dewey. He sighed in defeat.
"I...I have been spying on all of you. We've used these little machines we call Spider Bytes." He said as he pulled put a tiny electronic, four legged spider with a lens. "They were designed to cling to and hide in your hair. I have been doing this for the past couple of years now. Actually around the time I was selected to investigate Beach City by my superiors and serve as 'Mayor'. I only started doing this since Steven began live with you guys." He said, but then Pearl stood up and slammed her fist on the table and cracked it.

"What gives you the right to look into our lives?!" She asked, obviously angered at such actions, but to everyone's surprise, Bill didn't back down.
"The right to secure the safety of every citizen in this city! Do you have any idea of the potential danger you all are to humans? You can live forever, regenerate, break stone with your bare hands, teleport, even shape shift! Do not tell me that we don't have the right to be scared and take extreme measures." He paused. Pearl, as far as she thought him to be a nervous wreck, didn't expect him to raise his voice, especially towards her. Bill calmed down. "We couldn't bare to risk you turning against us, and direct confrontation was not an option. So we just had to check what you did on a regular basis and learn from you. We hardly know anything about you. And what we do, is only bad things." He said.

"What do you mean?" Steven asked. Thean decided to speak up this time.
"That is something our Superiors need to explain to you. Just know that our organization is very, very old." He said. There was a pause.
Garnet was looking steadily at the monitor that was in her point of view. She then turned to Bill.
"How much have you seen?" She asked with a menacing tone. Bill gulped, but answered her question nonetheless.
"A lot, including Ruby and Sapphire." He said. Garnets visibly gritted her teeth as she made her way, threateningly, to Bill.
"Garnet! Don't!" Pearl tried to stop her, only to move out of her way, in fear, as soon as she approached her. Amethyst and Steven had worried looks on their faces.

Garnet summoned her left gauntlet as she was nearing Bill. Bill was walking backwards against one of the walls in fear.
Just as she raised her fist, Thean stepped in between both of them, his pistol and sword at the ready. Everyone's heart sank.
"Garnet, stop!" He said urged her. "I know you're angry, but I can't let you hurt him. What he did, he did for a reason. Not with bad intentions." He warned. They both stared each other down, Thean having to look up at the fusion. "Don't do it." He warned a final time.