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Marcus Lancaster is this Half Man/Half Gem.....

Marcus' Mother was a Era 1 Sodalite Gem Codenamed "Soda" and his Father is Named John Lancaster that is a wealthy Mechanical Engineer and Inventor in New Orleans, Louisiana........

Marcus, had a Pearl Gem from Era 1 that was sky blue in skin color and dark blue eyes with white hair that went down to her shoulders that was wearing a sky blue dress without shoes or socks........

Marcus however kept hearing these rumors about "Beach City" near Delaware.....

So Marcus Lancaster and Pearl decided to Investigate the Mystery of Beach City........

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Marcus and Pearl were flying in a private jet towards the nearest airport to Beach City....

Marcus looked at his reflection.......

A white haired 19 year old man, sky blue eyes, dark blue claws on his hands that was long enough to eviscerate "Poofers" or as Pearl called them "Corrupted Gems" but short and nimble enough to work on machines without hindrance, a beautiful dark blue gemstone with white stripes in it that was oval in shape that was on his chest over his heart, a bulky and muscular body type like his dad, thick and jagged dark blue markings on his face, arms, and shoulders that looked like strange tattoos but was actually birthmarks, sharp and elvin ears like his dad, and fangs instead of regular canine teeth........

Marcus was wearing his black bomber jacket with white fur on the collar and lapels, a blue T-shirt underneath the jacket, jeans, and brown work boots with steel toes........

Pearl told Marcus that she should get "A ALIAS" that's different than "PEARL"......

Marcus then turned to face his Pearl and calmly told her.......

"MY MOTHER CALLED YOU 'PEARL' BUT I WILL NAME YOU 'KIKI' HENCEFORTH......NOW, LET'S FOCUS ON THE MISSION TO INVESTIGATE THIS BEACH CITY"........

Kiki, The Pearl looked somewhat sad like she knew something that Marcus didn't.......

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KIKI, A HUMBLE PEARL GEM DREADED BEING WRAPPED UP WITH "GEM SOCIETY" AGAIN AFTER CENTURIES OF HIDING FROM HOMEWORLD........

SO SODA, KIKI'S FRIEND AND MARCUS' MOTHER WAS A CRYSTAL GEM THAT MANAGED TO PROTECT HERSELF AND KIKI FROM CORRUPTION BY HIDING IN THE OCEAN AND PUTTING KIKI IN A GEM-POWERED ARTIFACT TEMPORARILY.......

KIKI WAS NOWHERE AS VINDICTIVE OR TERRIFYING AS "THE RENEGADE PEARL" BACK IN THE GEM REBELLION OF LADY ROSE.........

HOWEVER UNLIKE THE PERMA-FUSION GARNET OR THE RENEGADE PEARL, SODA WAS NEVER TRUSTED BY LADY ROSE........

BECAUSE LADY ROSE WAS "DISTRUSTFUL OF HIGH-RANKING GEMS" AND FOR GOOD REASONS SINCE SODA, AS A SODALITE GEM WAS "THE SECOND-IN-COMMAND TO A DIAMOND" IN GEM SOCIETY........

LIKE SODA DIDN'T ACTUALLY "HELP WITH MITIGATING THE TRUST ISSUES" IN LADY ROSE.........

BECAUSE SODA STILL CLUNG TO "THE TOXICITY OF GEM SOCIETY" IN THE HIERARCHY SYSTEM.........

THIS ARROGANCE AND PRIDE ISSUES IN SODA IS WHY LADY ROSE TOLD SODA AFTER SODA EMERGED FROM THE SEA AND FREED KIKI FROM THE GEM-POWERED ARTIFACT.......

"SODALITE, YOU SURVIVED, GOOD BUT NEVER CONTACT ME OR THE SURVIVING GEMS ON EARTH EVER AGAIN........IF YOU DO, I WILL BUBBLE YOU PERMANENTLY"........

NATURALLY THIS ENRAGED SODA, BUT SHE OBEYED HER COMMANDER IN LADY ROSE........

Kiki, The Pearl and her only family left in the form of Marcus landed in the Airport........

After the preparation to get off the private jet, Kiki and Marcus departed from the Airport and entered a taxi to go to Beach City, where the Base of The Crystal Gems was at........

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12PM.....

ON DECEMBER 4TH.......

Marcus Lancaster and Kiki, The Pearl looked around Beach City and saw nothing of significance when they first arrived......

That was until Marcus saw a FULL GEM, MULTIPLE GEMS IN FACT that WASN'T KIKI roaming around......

Marcus was FUCKING STUNNED whenever he saw this strange gem that was clearly A PEARL like Kiki immediately saw Kiki and she immediately started crying in joy as she ran over to Kiki like Kiki was a old friend that she thought was LONG DEAD........

Kiki very uncharacteristically smiled and said to this other Pearl......

"HELLO RENEGADE, I'M KIKI NOWADAYS DUE TO THE FACT THAT I LIVED WITH HUMANS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS NOW.......IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU RENEGADE".......

THIS PEARL SPOKE WITH A EMOTIONAL AND HEARTFELT VOICE TOWARDS KIKI.......

"I THOUGHT YOU WERE SHATTERED BY THE DIAMONDS OR WORSE, CORRUPTED........WHERE'S SODALITE???? DID SHE MAKE IT?"............

Kiki didn't respond to this question.......

Marcus clutched his chest where his gemstone was anchored in his body........

Marcus was fucking irritated whenever he realized that he unintentionally ripped his shirt with his claws on his hand, unintentionally revealing THE SODALITE GEMSTONE on his chest.......

Marcus quickly zipped his bomber jacket up before anyone else saw his Achilles Heel in the form of his gem.....

However it was TOO LATE because this Other Pearl, who just named herself Pearl was STUNNED IN AWESTRUCK WONDER.......

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OH GOD......

SODALITE HAS A GEM HYBRID SON.........

OBVIOUSLY THIS MEANT THAT SODALITE IS DEAD BUT AT LEAST SHE FOUND HAPPINESS IN HUMANITY FINALLY AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS.......

WHY DIDN'T SODALITE TRY TO FIND THE CRYSTAL GEMS?????

ESPECIALLY IF SHE AND KIKI "SURVIVED CORRUPTION".......

LIKE EVEN THOUGH SODALITE WAS "A TAD OBTUSE AND SPOILED" LIKE A WEALTHY WOMAN WHO DIDN'T HAVE "A CONNECTION TO 'THE COMMONWEALTH' OR THE LOWER GEMS IN SOCIETY", SHE WAS A DAMN GOOD GEM.......

GOD THIS PARTICULAR INFORMATION WOULD BREAK BISMUTH'S HEART BECAUSE PRIOR TO THE GEM REBELLION, SODALITE WAS "BISMUTH'S MASTER" AND OBVIOUSLY "THE CRYSTAL SODALITE" WAS A GOOD PERSON TO BISMUTH IF SHE YA KNOW "ALLOWED HER TO BE FREE, INSTEAD OF SHATTERING BISMUTH WHENEVER SHE WANTED TO BE A CRYSTAL GEM".......

SODALITE LEFT BEHIND A SON, A SON WHO DEFINITELY NEEDED TO "MEET STEVEN"........

Pearl then guided Kiki and Sodalite's Son through Little Homeworld........

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SO MARCUS LANCASTER USED HIS TELEPATH POWERS TO READ PEARL'S MIND AND GOD THAT'S TRAGIC.......

HOWEVER WHO THE FUCK IS "STEVEN" AND HOW DID THIS RELATE TO MARCUS' MOM??????

Marcus introduced himself to Pearl and calmly followed Pearl as she was very enthusiastically showing Marcus and Kiki around......

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2PM......

ON DECEMBER 4TH.....

NEWS TRAVELED SO FUCKING QUICKLY IN GEM SOCIETY.......

SO......

"MARCUS LANCASTER, A GEM/HUMAN HYBRID EXISTS".......

STEVEN UNIVERSE WAS SO FUCKING EXCITED TO MEET "SOMEONE 'LIKE HIM' TO TALK TO".........

Steven hurried to Beach City where Marcus was.....

Sure enough, Steven saw this awesome guy about Lars' Age with long white hair that went down to his waist, sky blue eyes, strange fingernails that were dark blue in color that resembled claws, equally strange dark blue tattoo like markings on his face and arms, and incredibly pale skin........

Marcus looked SO UNCOMFORTABLE with a bunch of gems gawking at him.....

Marcus Lancaster was then handed a pamphlet for Little Homeworld and Steven introduced himself to Marcus.......

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6PM.......

ON DECEMBER 4TH........

Marcus Lancaster was SURROUNDED by these gems gawking at him......

One Gem, a Ocean Jasper, a type of Quartz Soldier Gem was clearly one of those Gems that USED TO BE CORRUPTED due to the two horns on her forehead as Corruption Scars.....

The Ocean Jasper was primarily blue with swaths of pink markings and she had white hair that went down to her waist.......

The Ocean Jasper was wearing this blue jumpsuit thing with a yellow Star on her belly and knees as her gemstone was on her chest.......

There was other Gems gawking at Marcus with the exception of ONE........

This Gem was this very dark blue skinned lady, white stripes on her body like a tigress, she had sky blue hair, white claws on her hands, and she was wearing a black robes like "Inuyasha The Character's iconic garb but black instead of red", she had dark blue Diamonds on her knees and her gemstone was IDENTICAL to Marcus' gem but she had her gem on her forehead.......

This Gem was absolutely DISGUSTED with Marcus' existence......

THE MYSTERIOUS GEM SPOKE WITH A DISGUSTED AND STERN VOICE TOWARDS MARCUS.......

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT A SODALITE GEM LIKE YOUR MOTHER WOULD 'STOOP SO LOW' TO PRODUCE 'A DISGUSTING ABOMINATION' THAT'S NOT EVEN 'FULLY COOKED'........THE ILLUMINATING BLUE DIAMOND IS ABSOLUTELY INSISTENT THAT 'ALL GEMS ARE EQUAL NOW' WHICH ABSOLUTELY INFURIATED ME BECAUSE I'M A HIGHLY VALUABLE AND POWERFUL SODALITE GEM........THE ONLY 'EQUALS' TO A SODALITE GEM IS A ANOTHER SODALITE OR A ALEXANDRITE GEM".........

GOD WHAT A FUCKING BITCH........

Marcus was about to leave Little Homeworld but this Sodalite Gem Bitch spoke Sharply towards Marcus......

"DOES NEO PINK DIAMOND KNOW ABOUT 'GEM GLITCHES' OR 'GEM INSTINCTS' OR ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PRETEND THAT NEO PINK DIAMOND IS 'MENTALLY WELL' HMM?".........

Marcus stopped in his tracks and turned to face Sodalite Bitch while saying......

"I'M ASSUMING YOU ARE REFERRING TO STEVEN UNIVERSE......WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF 'A FILTHY ABOMINATION' LIKE ME OR HIM EH????? JUST BECAUSE I'M A GEM HANYO MAN DIDN'T MAKE ME ANY LESS POWERFUL THAN YOU, IN FACT DUE TO MY HUMAN HALF, I HAVE EVEN MORE POWERS THAN A FULL BLOODED SODALITE GEM LIKE YOURSELF".......

The Sodalite Bitch just huffed in a very haughty manner before she clapped her hands as a spider-legged machine that was called A Palanquin crawled towards her as she entered the palanquin to leave........