*me a day before writing this chapter:* wonder how this story's doing. *29 followers* Me: WHAT!

Yeah, this story's been up less than a week and it's already crushed every other fanfic I made in terms of popularity, VLL, Old news, Damona in the details, second banana! Seriously, it's like the SU fandom is the last decent fandom so everybody's being nice to me and my new au. But regardless, I'm returning some of the love, yall can send me suggestions for stories you guys wanna see in this fic, like how my characters interact with humans, or the how they react to corrupted monsters or what not, and I'll pick my favorites and flesh them out, now first some ground rules, nothing involving my characters meeting any of the crystal gems or diamonds, I have plans to have them meet, but it will not happen yet, also, they have to be realistic in terms of their probability to happen. Apart from that go nuts, enjoy!

Chapter 2: Bring your diamond to work day

Era 3: Year Fourteen, Day 62

A panel of a dark room in the diamond base opened revealing peridot, her back to the light of the hallway. She walked into the room, her metal boots clanking as she entered. Dim blue lights began to turn on revealing a fully decked out laboratory. The room had a large monitor, a chamber full of gems suspended in green bubbles which had a pipe connecting to a much larger chamber, inside of which were two giant mechanised hands in resting positions, visible cracked from previous uses.

Peridot activated her screen hand, "Log activate, Corruption Cure experiment 652. this is Peridot, so far the test subjects have been completely unresponsive, don't worry my fallen comrades, I'll put you back together."

She pressed a button and the pipe opened allowing a single bubble to fall into the larger chamber. Another button and the hands activated with a cyan energy, floating a few feet off the ground.

For a moment Peridot starred at the bubble, inside was a Honey Agate. A diplomatic gem in a management position, or at least she would have been. Peridot took a breath, then held her gaze as on of the robotic hands moved to pop the bubble. The green sphere burst at the mech's touch and the yellow gem fell to the ground. It began glowing white, as a silhouette of a tall broad shouldered woman began to sprout from it, the gem being on the figures thigh.

After a few seconds the figure began to glitch and distort, eventually growing to become more akin to a cross between a spider and a wasp. A few seconds later, it solidified into a monstrous three eyed insect, venom dripping from its spider-like jaw.

"Cure prototype X39, ingage," Peridot said turning a knob causing one of the hand's fingers to turn into a giant syringe, filled with a bright pink liquid, "preparing to insert."

The free hand grabbed a hold of the spider-wasp(yes I'm calling it that), The corrupted gem began to squirm in its grip, spitting venom in the hope of escape. The syringe hand floated closer toward the gem, ready to inject the cure.

But before Peridot had the chance to begin the curing process, she heard a knock at the door pulling her from her concentration. Pearl had security access to the lab so it couldn't be her, Blake had no reason to enter so it must have been…. Spinel.

Peridot sighed as she put the mecha hands on standby mode. Why that nonsense gem of a ruby-gone wrong had been brought on this mission was beyond her understanding, Spinel had been a last minute decision to bring to earth around three months before Blue diamond was due for child birth. Peridot had been aware that a third gem was going to be assigned to Blake's care, but out of the nineteen gems that were aware of what was happening at the time she just wished that Blue Diamond had picked someone more qualified, perhaps Emerald, or one of the sapphires, she would have even settled for one of those amethysts!

Peridot opened the door and yelled, "What do you want, Sp-" but she immediately realised she was looking at Blake. She stumbled a little but regained composure and said, "My Diamond, my apologies, I thought Spinel, was at the door."

"No, actually, I wanted to see what you were up to!" her diamond said with a grin, though soon something behind her caught his attention.

"It's very important but very dangerous, Why don't you return t-" "what's that thing?" Peridot looked down to see Blake starring at the spider-wasp from under her arm.

"Ugh, that? It's n-nothing you should be concerning yourself with!" Peridot lied.

Blake raised an eyebrow while folding his arms, something he had seen her do last time Spinel got her head stuck in an air vent, "Peridot."

"B-believe me, my diamond, it's not something you want to see!" Peridot stuttered.

"Peridot, as your diamond, I order you to tell me what it is," Blake said with a tiny bit of internal regret, he didn't really like having to pull that card but it did come in handy from time to time, had he not pulled it on another occasion her would never have learned of the gem war.

"Fine, I guess if this works you'd might as well understand it," Peridot begrudgingly said, turning around gesturing him to follow. When they entered the lab she first grabbed a gem destabilizer from the rack of similar weapons. She handed it to him which made the young hybrid give her a quizzical look, "isn't there safety glass?"

"That glass has been replaced four times," Peridot said bluntly before bring her screen back up, "you are familiar with the definition of insanity, correct?"

"Yeah, it's when humans can think straight and become a danger to themselves and the things around them," Blake answered.

"Well for gems it's similar, but different," Peridot said, "at the end of the great gem war, the diamonds launch a final assault on the earth that was meant to wipe out the entirety of the crystal gem army, a warning was set off before hand but not all of homeworld's forces were able to escape in time, we assumed them shattered."

"I take it we were wrong?" Blake thought aloud.

"Correct," Peridot sighed, "during one of her visits, your mother was attack by one of these creatures, after poofing it she discovered that the aftermath of her attack had not destroyed the gems on earth, it did something much worse. We call it corruption, a gems mind is warped, altered, they become nothing more than an animal… and their body follows suite."

"Why… is this one here than?" Blake said horrified at what he'd just heard.

"Simple, I've been trying to undo it. Blue said it wasn't a priority, I felt we should at least try to fix the damage… that's why we've been doing any of this really, fixing things gems did," Peridot said, and Blake swore he saw a tear in her eyes. In a minute she regained her determined look, "I'm going to inject the serum, stand back, my diamond."

Blake obliged as the syringe hand closed in on the spider-wasp, the needle pierce its body and it let out a high pitched cry has it began to turn back into light, for a moment it began to shrink into a more humanoid shape, giving Peridot a hopeful expression, but in an instant it reverted back into the monster it had become.

The gem and a half frowned at this failure but in a couple seconds they were pulled out of their thoughts by the spider-wasp squirming out of mecha hands grip. Blake gasped as Peridot took immediate action, she attempted to use the hands to smash the corrupted monster's body but it was too quick, it jumped from side to side until the hand smashed through the glass freeing it.

"Oh No!" Blake and Peridot said at the same time as the beast began to charge them. Peridot jumped to Blake pushing him out of the way as the former gem rammed into the door breaking it down. It started scurrying down the hall. Blake and peridot looked at each other, "OH NO!"

A little later in the main room of the base, Spinel was watching the latest episode of the reimagined Lil Butler while Pearl tended to the hibiscus flowers in the center of the room. At some point both of them heard the sound of rapid banging getting steadily closer.

"You hear that too, P?" Spinel said right before the Spider-wasp broke through one of the access panels, Blake and Peridot running after it with destabilizers.

In a moment of panic, Pearl summoned her gem weapon, a Baby blue chinese fan with a circle shaped hole in the middle and sharp, royal blue diamonds lining the end making it like a blade. She made a swift cut to two of the monster's legs. It screeched in pain and ran towards Spinel.

The gem in question put her thumb in her mouth and blew her fist up like a balloon to the size of a watermelon, she then wound up her arm launching a punch straight into the monster's middle eye. The Spider-Wasp's wings began to vibrate as it to flew up in an attempt to escape.

"Oh no, you don't!" Peridot yelled activating a tractor beam suspending the corrupted monster in green energy. She slammed the creature down as Blake ran in stabbing it with his distablizer into its midsection, he pressed a button causing the twin spikes of his weapon to electrify. The Spider-wasp began to screech as its body glowed blue and began to fall apart, finally exploding into a puff of smoke, its gem falling to the ground.

Peridot sighed as she went over to the gem bubbling it. Pearl ran over to blake in a fit of hysteria freaking out over whether or not the monster had hurt him. Spinel hopped over to peridot and said, "one of your pets got loose, eh, Tin Legs?"

"She used to be a gem, Spinel, you can at least treat her with a little respect," Peridot sighed.

Spinel rolled her eyes, "Yeah, I don't tend to give things respect when they try to kill me."

At that moment Pearl turned around in rage, "WHY WAS HE EVEN NEAR THAT THING?!" this came as a surprise as Pearl was normally quite calm, "you know what these monsters are capable of!"

Blake ran in front of Peridot and said, "Pearl, calm down! I caught peridot doing something with it and made her show me, she didn't want to!"

After a few seconds Pearl breathed a sigh of relief, "thank goodness, Please my diamond, leave these… things to us, they are very dangerous."

Blake nodded. Pearl returned the gesture and began to clean the damage asking spinel to join her. He walked to peridot and asked, "Now what?"

"Back to the drawing board for me," Peridot frowned. Before she could get too into her thoughts, Blake gave her a hug saying, "I'm sure you'll get it eventually, and I wanna be here when you do!"

The older gem could help but grin, "I do too my diamond. I do too."