Hot whip!

❝ UP! It’s UP you clod!!! ❞ Anxiety was starting to get to Peridot as she watched the scene unfold in front of her. Her fists by her sides, she impatiently bounced from foot to foot. She felt coiled like a spring, ready to jump into action and save her friend somehow whenever it was immediate that Amethyst was in any danger, which now seemed pretty dangerous, but she was confident that the quartz could handle this. ❝ Break it and be done with it! ❞ Amethyst probably actually had no control over how fast the process of getting this thing turned off was going, so Peridot shouting at her wasn’t going to speed the process up. Probably. Yet, she felt like she had to have at least somewhat control of the situation.

“Gee, that’d be helpful if I knew which way was up right now!!”

Yep, she still had time to be sassy while clinging to a machine for dear life. Well, not like her life was in any danger, probably. She’d been through worse. Heck, she’d accidentally done worse to herself. Still, it was kind of inconvenient and nauseating to be stuck on this thing while she tried to figure out what to do about it.

She hadn’t wanted to break it, in case either Pearl or Peri or both of them decided to yell at her for it. But here was Peri telling her to just destroy it and not even worry about it and Amethsyt was more than ready to go along with it. Gripping onto the surface of the machine with one hand, she pulled another whip from her Gem and, much like she’d done before in the Kindergarten, she swiped out with her whip and disconnected the body of the machine from the drill head.

Giving a grunt as the machine body smashed into the ground, the drill head kept spiraling on out of control.

“.. Well, back to square one, am I right?”

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Peridot pulled back at the smack, not wanting to risk the leash coming back into play. She liked Amethyst well enough, but the other gem would probably find it funny to limit her radius again. Not that Peridot could specifically blame her.

It’d be hilarious if it only happened to anybody but her.

“But how do you keep everyone to the same goals with no one to give the orders? You can’t all three just do what you think needs to be done and actually accomplish anything, right? Someone has to be in charge.”

#su #amethyst #peridot #amedot #aaaaaaaaaa

“I dunno. I guess Garnet’s sort of in charge?? But we’ve all been kinda trying to... contribute, I guess? Ugh, I dunno, we just work together. Steven keeps the peace and we all kick butt.”

Amethyst throw her arms in the air as she flopped onto her back, kicking one leg in the air for dramatic effect. Holding that pose for a few more moments, she’d suddenly scramble back up and over to Peridot, sitting next to her cross-legged as she watched her work. And then got bored of that.

“So you’re just used to listening to orders from people on Homeworld? Wow. Sounds lame.”

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Peridot honestly couldn’t make sense of the chain of command in this place. The Pearl took orders from no one in particular, unless they were given out by the permafusion, but that was hardly any more sensible.

And Amethyst tended to wait around for a command. Peridot didn’t under understand it. “How do you get things done around here?” she asked finally, prodding at Amethyst lightly with a screwdriver to get her attention.

“Uh, what do you mean? We just kinda.. wait until something needs to be done and then, you know, do it.”

Amethyst huffed as she was prodded with the screwdriver, reaching over to smack it away after one or two more prods. She looked at Peridot through a slit eye, lounging against a box set up next to Peridot’s work-area by the barn. The gem was given permission to be back off the leash again as long as someone was watching her and, again, Amethyst had volunteered.

Sure, their new... friendship.. had gotten a little shaky for a bit there, but Amethsyt had forgiven Peri now, and still liked hanging with her.

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Peridot bit her tongue, a small sound of irritation leaving her. ❝ Riiight. A gem warrior. ❞ Despite the fact that Amethyst was basically built for rough-housing, Peridot held herself uncomfortably. She wouldn’t say it, but she’d be really pissed if something happened to the only good gem here. Especially if she could’ve had some hand in preventing it. The technician watched as the other gem jumped to it, her hands came up half-way to her face, as if in preparation to shield her eyes from whatever might go wrong. She would apprehensively chew on her fingers if she wasn’t thinking about it. She was fine up until the point where her new friend was tugged along for a ride with the malicious machine. Her fingers sprung to her face, tugging at her mouth and one of her eyes as she let out a sound of panic. ❝ AH!! You don’t seem like you’ve got it! You’re going to get yourself killed, Amethyst! ❞ This was a bad idea, this was a terrible idea, how could I let her do this?! Now she’s going to die and it’s going to be all my fault!

“AaaAAAaaanopE I’M GOOD!! This is actually kind of fun!!”

Amethyst laughed, a slightly stressed-out sound, but it was genuine enough. Once you got past the imminent threat of being tossed off a giant metal machine or crushed, it was actually pretty great, like riding one of those bull-riding machines they had at Funland once. Or, you know, riding an actual bull, which she had also done.

The only bad thing was now that she was up here she didn’t really have a plan. Letting go of her whip and clinging to the machine, she began just sort of punching at the side of the body. Nope, that wouldn’t work, this thing was built pretty tough. Where was that disconnected panel? Maybe she could just rip it off. Or, you know, she could try to get to the door, but she wasn’t sure which way that was at this moment. She wasn’t even sure which way was UP.

“Peri!! Which was is the door on this thing!?!”

Now the machine had flipped onto its top and was, like before, spinning rapidly around and digging at the ground, tearing up the grass and rocks.

Sigh. ❝ Well, first thing’s first, we need to get it stopped. After that, I guess we’re making another trip to the Kindergarten to get a new one. ❞ Whiiich, was the signal for Amethyst to get to it and stop the thing. The sooner it was stopped, the sooner they could be done with this stupid drill, and the sooner the cluster could be stopped. Peridot hesitated, hand lowering and raising as if she was about to say something else, before she eventually just gave up with another frustrated sigh. ❝ Just be careful, alright? I don’t want to have to save your butt once more. ❞

“You mean thiiiiiis?”

Amethyst laughed a gave a dismissive wave, a 'pssht' sound escaping her mouth along with some spittle.

“Don’t worry, Peri. I got this. I’m a Gem Warrior, after all.”

Amethyst tied her whip around itself to make a lasso, then began swinging it around, watching the drill flail around and kick itself up into the air. After waiting a few more moments, she suddenyl swung out her whip, wrapping it around an extended, broken panel of the drill. Almost as soon as she latched to it, she was yanked off her feet, yelping as the spasming machine bucked and forced her to slap face-first into it. Desperately, she found purchase while the thing continue flopping around the area like a fish out of water.

“Aaaahhh!! Totally got it!!!”

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❝ Hm. ❞ Peridot scratched her chin in thought as she watched the drill rampage. Though it didn’t seem to be any danger to them right now, it should probably be dealt with as soon as possible, before it cut loose once more and caused a replay of the embarrassment that happened last time. ❝ I believe the control panel is shot. Did Pearl just refasten the one Steven tore out? ❞

“Do I look like I know what’s up with that junk? P did something to it and it was fine, but it FREAKED OUT when I knocked it over.”

Amethyst shrugged then threw her hands up in the air. If it was the control panel again, then they just needed to rip it out, right? Which meant she needed to get into the body, right? Kind of hard while it was moving, but if she could just climb onto it and manage to hold on, she could probably force her way inside.

With that thought, Amethsyt drew her whip from her gem with a flourish. She’d wait to hear what Peridot had to say, but then she’d go with Plan B.

❝ Right. My mistake. ❞ Peridot coughed awkwardly, pushing herself up and off the ground. She hoped this little incident didn’t lower her cool factor. ❝ So the drill is still malfunctioning, I presume? ❞

“Yeah, uh, a little bit.”

Amethyst looked over at the drill that was spinning wildly out of control. One of the stablilzers keeping it up had been knocked off (completely on accidenty by Steven and Amethyst’s roughhousing and it could have happened to anyone) and now it was on its side grinding up the ground and flipping wildly around the area on its new body.

They couldn’t even jump in and pull it apart now that it was stuck on. Whoops.

Pearl was gonna be peeved. IF she found out. But she and Peri could handle this, right?

“Any bright ideas, poindexter?”