Amethyst laughed, Garnet just stared her usual emotionless stare, Pearl looked confused, shocked even,and the target was smiling hugely. How odd, she thought, the earthling is so trustworthy. I can use that against him.

She saw Amethyst move towards her still laughing hysterically. When she was finally able to control her laughter she said in a snarky voice. "You have to be kidding! You're from homeworld! People there are too cruel to even see us and not try and kill us! Let alone join us!"Amethyst continued on laughing her hair flying in her mouth only to be pushed away by her big hand.

Garnet stepped in front of the laughing Amethyst. She took off her ridiculous glasses, revealing three eyes. Ruby and Sapphire, she thought devilishly. If I can just somehow get them apart, then I'll be able to destroy the strongest of the Crystal Gems.

"Why should we believe you?" Garnet said with a hint of disgust in her voice. The boy practically bounced over to Garnet and said almost ready to burst of excitement, "Garnet! We totally could use another crystal gem! We could use her to help find peridot! She could help!"

Garnet shook her head at the earthling but he seemed not to notice, he kept on ranting on and on about how she could help them. Pearl looked up at Emerald then back at the boy.

"Steven, we can't trust Homeworld! You can't just go around trusting everyone you see!" She scolded 'Steven'.

Oh great, another pearl ruining my plans. Emerald thought angrily. No, she wasn't going to let this happen again. She stood up thinking a good backstory for herself. Oh and when she got up she had a perfect one.

" I am nothing like the gems on Homeworld!" She yelled at them, the Crystal gems jumped. She paused making sure that all eyes were on her, and then continued. "My life had been hell in HomeWorld! Everyone that I cared about has been killed by Yellow Diamond. My sister was chased down by soldiers, and then burned alive. My mother was skinned by an unknown assassin. My friend Rose Quartz ," Emerald's words caught in her throat, Rose had been a friend. Her only friend, the only gem who didn't hate her guts. "was killed in battle. And now just for trying to stand up for a Pearl, I'm a wanted criminal." Out of the corner of her eyes she saw Pearl's eyes widen. So it was the right choice adding the Pearl part in there.

"I only thought that for once I could actually be accepted." Emerald choked out and then put her head in her green hands, and hopefully looked like she was crying. She looked up slightly, and to her delight saw Garnet's jaw open,Amethyst's also open, Steven didn't seem to have any words Pearl actually looked a little teary.

After a while Pearl spoke but it was hardly audible. "You knew Rose?" Emerald looked at her confused, the way Pearl said Rose's name was so affectionate, almost as if Pearl knew Rose as a friend.Emerald looked at Pearl, her grey eyes letting loose of one tear. Emerald nodded.

Pearl whispered something in Garnet's ear and Garnet nodded. Amethyst joined the whispering and surprisingly Steven just kept watching her with big brown eyes. Garnet walked up to her and held out a hand. Surprised Emerald took her hand and got off of the hot sand. The Crystal Gem's lead her back to their tower in silence. The tower looked like it was about to fall down any second, there was a gray woman that looked like a gem. She wasn't sure who it was though. Moss was growing up the statue forming pictures that disappear when you look away.

There was a tiny yellow house that they seemed to be leading her to. The sun was getting the best of her. There was nothing like that on Homeworld, it was covered with high tech shield that made sure it was never over 60 degrees.

Once they got into the house the gems seemed to remember that she was still a potential threat. Pearl pulled a spear out of her gem out of her head. She pointed it at Emerald threateningly forcing her to sit down on. She sighed longingly if only she could have her screens! Without them she had no Idea what any of this earth stuff was. Well except what she was sitting on, she thought it was a....couch. Yes that's what it was a couch.

"Were all those things you told us true?" Asked Pearl. She seemed to have gained her confidence back. Emerald just nodded in response.

"Why do you think that the Crystal gems would just go around willy-nilly trusting people!?" Pearl snarled. Garnet pushed her away from Emerald , then looked at her skeptically.

Garnet looked as if she was going to say something mean again so before Garnet could say anything Emerald spoke. "Aren't the Crystal gems supposed to help people. When someone comes to you for help do you usually push them away?"

This seemed to do a number on them. Garnet at least looked like her eyes were widening. Amethyst glared and snorted at her but she did look a little guilty.Garnet and Pearl went to go whisper with amethyst while Steven came up to Emerald.

Emerald shifted uncomfortably. She always got uncomfortable when the target came up to her. This one Peridot chick once tried to hit on her, it was extremely awkward. Had to kill her on the spot. Oh and this other time there was a diamond who invited her out on a date and well.... things escalated from there and Emerald had to kill her once she had tried to kiss her. Emerald had a lot of targets try and hit on her. According to Yellow Diamond Emerald was slightly 'pretty'.Emerald had always disagreed.

Emerald tried to pretend not to notice the boy by looking at the house. There was a small room probably steven's and then a door with all the gem's gems on it.

Weird. Emerald had only counted three gems but on the door there was six. The extra two was Garnet's but what about the other one? But when she looked closer she saw the gem belonged to a Rose Quartz. She gasped. No No No. There was only one Rose she knew that went to earth. No wonder the gems were so surprised that she knew a Rose quartz. But surely it couldn't be the same Rose? could it? Maybe they were talking about a different Rose or-

Her thought were interrupted by Steven, he said something that Emerald would never forget. "You knew my mother?"