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{The facility itself was several hours out from Beach City-- Some sort of Government compound. It was far more technologically advanced than the human devices littering their home, but it was still some years behind anything the Earth-bound Gems had at their disposal; different, sure, but still inferior.

The Crystal Gems had caught wind of a particular piece of scientific inquiry the facility had on lock down-- a Homeworld Gem that they had been searching for just as fervently as their quest for Malachite. 

The buildings were large and unmarked. There were many of them and, honestly, the best plan of action had been to split up, distract, and get inside. Doing so was easy, with the help of Amethyst’s shape-shifting and Garnet’s Gauntlets, and soon the fusion found herself wandering the various hallways and preparing for confrontation. 

It was starting to feel as though every hallway lead to a dead end. Doorways provided little more than the illusion of progress, only to disappoint in being Offices, Laboratories, or Storage Closets. It was monotonous and irritating, failure after failure-- until the hallways took on an aesthetic change. Everything here looked more sterile. Cleaner, Cold.

The doors here were far   more   promising. It only took three empty rooms before the fusion found a door that wouldn’t open on its own. Powerful fingers drove themselves through the sheet metal of the blockade, rending the doorknob clear off and letting it swing submissively open.

Inside was exactly what she had come here for, though she hadn’t been expecting anything quite like what she saw.}

      “ Peridot.         What... have they done to you?”