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"Hey, Arin!" Suzy came into the room. Arin was busy with playing a game while she invited herself in. He glanced up and smiled at her.
The game was paused so he could give her a small kiss on the cheek. "What's up, babe?"
She giggled before saying, "Ross thinks he found someone in the yard. He asked if I could come get you. He was all excited about it." She couldn't help but shrug. "But you know Ross."
At that, the gem grump got up from his seat and cracked his knuckles, the pink gem in his hand still warm from holding the controller. "Let's see what the fuck is going on..."
The two left the game room and made the small venture outside, where both of their eyes widened at the sight. Ross was struggling to help up a lanky man, his hair fluffier than clouds and outfit right out of a girl's 1980s fantasy. He moaned, and you could see a crater right behind him. How in the world did Arin not hear any of this shit earlier?
Maybe he was yelling at his game too much to notice.
"Uh..." Suzy's brow was furrowed. "He wasn't joking."
"No shit I wasn't joking!" Ross shouted back frantically. "Help me!"
They went over and slowly got the man, who was now obviously known to be a gem by the ruby red one in his stomach, into the house. It was their base of operations, where no one would really bother the gems. It was also near Ross' own house with his wife Holly, so no one could protest. The home wasn't anything spectacular, nor a thing to scoff at.
Arin finally sat the guy down. His head slumped over, and they couldn't really get a good look at his tan face. "Hello?" He cautiously said, leaning forward. "Are you-"
"Where am I?" The man asked as his head raised, causing them to take a few steps back on surprise. His eyes seemed big and panicked, looking from face to face. The two pupils rested on Arin's gem, and he desperately grabbed the hand, much to the other man's shock. "You're a gem?"
Arin freed himself from the mysterious gem's grasp, nodding suspiciously. Ross spoke up, asking, "Who are you? Where did you come from?"
Without knowing what else to do but go with it, the man sighed and pointed upwards. "My identity is Danny Sexbang... and I'm from the outer reaches of space."
He was met with silence before Suzy's face was covered by her hands to try and conceal her influx of giggles. It was followed by Arin and Ross losing their shit exactly in that order. Dan raised an eyebrow, wondering that their problem was. I mean, he chose the most human name Brian had told him... unless...
The bastard probably tricked him again.
"I'm going to assume that name is complete garbage-"
"No, dude!" Ross tried to reassure him. "It's fucking... fucking golden."
Arin nodded, biting his tongue. "Mhm!"
Finally, Suzy gave Dan a warm smile. "Could I make you some tea?" She gave him a good evaluation with her eyes. "You look like you could use a bath, too..."
"But gems don't need things such as tea and-"
"Believe me," Suzy interrupted, knowing what he was going to say. "you'll take a liking to human things soon."
Arin took a seat with Dan, a somewhat knowing smile emerging on his lips. "Hopefully you stay long enough for us to get to know one another. There aren't a lot of well-meaning gems on Earth."
Dan smiled, and felt the same way. Little did he know that he'd stay a long time, and they'd get to know one another, and everyone else including others such as Brian and Barry, much more than a little. This was the start of the expansion of Suzy and Arin's lives and knowledge of gems.