Chapter 1: Preparation

A pearl walked to Emerald's room. She knocked on his door.

"Wake up."

Emerald groaned as he slowly rolled sideways in his bed, rubbing his eyes.

"What is it?' He replied groggily.

"Yellow Diamond said she wants you on a rescue mission in the Milky Way Galaxy."

"What? is it another Kindergarten cluster breakout on Mars?"

"Nope. It's the big one."

Emerald immediately perked up and gasped. Could it be? was he finally going? He only managed to say one word.

"Earth?"

"Yeah," She replied. "Hurry, get your rescue team together. Yellow Diamond wants you at the debriefing station by noon."

Emerald quickly jumped out of bed and opened his door. He walked to his team's training room, ecstatic as he went. Could it actually be? Earth? He was so excited that he almost didn't notice his training team's area, room #4. Emerald decided to psych himself up and look ecstatic as possible, even though he was already extremely excited. He liked to make his team feel pumped up so they could preform better. Emerald opened the door to his team. It was a small team, but it was big enough to take down a class 5 fusion. The team consisted of 1 Jasper, 1 Peridot, and 3 rubies. The 3 rubies were identified as Ruby #1, Ruby #2, and Ruby #3. His team stopped their training and looked at him, all except for Ruby #1 and #2, who were busy punching each other.

"Alright Guys, we got a BIG mission today!" Emerald said, more ecstatic than usual.

"Lemme guess: another kindergarten cluster breakout on Mars." Peridot replied.

"I know, right? we've had like 5 of those this past month!" Jasper said.

"No, it's much, MUCH bigger. We're going to..." Emerald's voice trailed off, impatiently glaring Ruby #1 straddle punch Ruby #2.

"Ahem." Both rubies looked up.

"You done?" Emerald asked?

"Wait," Ruby #1 said, giving one more punch to Ruby #2. "Ok, now we're done."

"As I was saying," Emerald continued, "We got a huge mission," Emerald looked around for dramatic effect. "Can anyone guess what it is?"

"Ooh, ooh, me!" Ruby #3 raised her hand.

"Yeah?"

"Is it another kindergarten cluster breakout on Mars?"

"Exactly what I said," Peridot interjected.

"How many times to I have to say it? WE'RE NOT FIGHTING A CLUSTER!" Emerald said, clearly annoyed.

"Well, what else are we gonna fight?" Ruby #2 said. "It's not like they're going to let us fight the rebels on Earth or something."

"Actually," Emerald said, smiling, "That's exactly what we're going to do."

Immediately after him saying that, his whole team erupted with cheering.

"Really? This isn't a prank?" Ruby #2 asked.

"Of course not," Emerald replied. "We're going to the debriefing station right now."

"Yeah!" They all cheered. Emerald led them across the hall.

Of course this wasn't a prank.

...

Right?

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