Discord may not have seemed much like it, but he was actually rather nervous about his entire situation. He had literally no memory besides that of his name and title, and he was in a very strange place inhabited by strange creatures that he also didn’t recognize. Of course, it’s not as if his own body was all that normal either, but it was still unusual.
He liked unusual.
Though he still had to ask himself if having a shiny rock planted in the middle of your chest was normal in this world. Even still, he had to act unafraid of anything and confident, should any of these creatures be hostile or meat eaters. It was all he could think of at this point.
Outside of just generally having fun and making the best of this whole thing of course.
Not even five minutes after they had left the Big Donut, Amethyst had already evicted Discord out of her hair because he had sneezed a little, which somehow caused her hair to temporarily catch fire. The problem was easily solved by dunking her head in the nearby beach water, but still. It shouldn’t have happened.
So Discord was now just sitting on Steven’s shoulder, snickering at Amethyst’s singed hair.
“Awwww come on Amethyst, he said he was sorry! It was an accident!” Steven whined a little bit.
“Nice of you to stick up for him Steven, but you’re not the one with the singed hair.” Amethyst said crossing her arms and giving Discord a sour look. “I’m watching you, you little punk.”
“You have nothing to worry about Amethyst. I’ll be a good boy I swear~” Discord assured her, giving her a look that neither Steven nor Amethyst could label as genuine or not.
That was one thing that was starting to really grind Amethyst’s gears. Discord was, for the lack of a better word “A huge smartass”, which when given her nature to do the same thing, was NOT going to work when she already filled that position. Even though Discord didn’t seem to be really all that malicious, he was still really starting getting under her skin.
“You know, when I hear “God of Chaos” I don’t really think of someone this, I don’t know…small and squeaky.” Amethyst said with a bit of a scowl of annoyance.
Upon seeing the look on Amethyst’s face, Discord jumped off of Steven’s shoulder and wriggled his way into his shirt, poking his head out of it. “Steven, protect me, she’s going to wring my little innocent neck!” Discord shouted in a voice that seemed to be trying overly hard to sound distressed.
Steven gently patted Discord on his head. Where Amethyst seemed to be getting a little annoyed with Discord, Steven had been very understanding about the whole situation. Even though Discord may look a little weird (even by the standards of what Steven was used to seeing with the Crystal Gems) he still liked him. He seemed overall pretty funny.
Though if it was one thing about Discord that bothered Steven a little bit, it was that he seemed to act almost TOO funny. If someone was in the same situation as Discord right now, he figured they’d probably be a little more freaked out. After all, not knowing who you are or why you’re somewhere you don’t understand could probably make anyone scared to death. But Discord didn’t seem like it. Why not? Is this sense of humor of his some kind of act?
If one thing was for certain to Steven, it was that Discord was an enigma.
Eventually the group had finally made it across the beach and approached a structure that from Discord’s perspective, looked pretty out of place compared to the rest of the town. It was what looked to be a temple of some kind that was in the shape of some kind of giant woman with eight pairs of arms and a second face on her forehead. The strangest thing surprisingly wasn’t this enormous temple in the middle of the beach. That honor went to the very out of place house at the base of the huge structure.
“…Very…interesting living arrangements I see...” Discord said looking up at the enormous stone woman of the temple.
“Well duh, what’d you expect when we were saying we lived in a temple?” Amethyst asked, raising an eyebrow.
“I don’t know, I don’t get how this place works. I mean, is this a normal place to live for the species of this dimension?”
Amethyst only snickered a little. “When it comes to this planet, we’re about as far from normal as you can get.”
Discord looked back up at the temple with slight signs of a smile coming on his face. “I’m happy to hear that. Normal suuuuuucks and it’s booooriiiiing.” Discord lifted his head back a bit and drawing out his words longer than usual.
Steven laughed a little and carried Discord into the house at the base of the temple, only to see nothing but a typical-looking household. Living room, kitchen, nothing all that out of the ordinary…
Except for maybe the weird-looking crystal panel off to the side along with a door with several other gems planted on it. Now THAT was going under the list of weird and cool things Discord had seen today.
Just as Discord was considering what purpose they served though, one of the gems on the door glowed brightly before the entire door split in two and opened up, allowing two figures to walk through, both of which were obviously much taller than either Steven or Amethyst. One was a woman with a pointed nose wearing a blue leotard with a gold star on the front with a hairdo that was also pointing out but to the back. Much like Amethyst who had a gem somewhere on her body, this one also had one; a pearl on her forehead. The other was another woman with a visor covering her eyes, a cube-shaped afro, and a deep orchid and cerise colored jumpsuit; by far this one looked to be the most muscular of the group and had garnets as her signature gems on her palms.
In the pointy-nosed woman’s hands was a long, two handed sword that she seemed to be carrying with very little effort. She then looked down at Amethyst and gave her a sort of deadpanned, accusatory look. “Care to explain why I found my sword in your room under a pile of decade-old pizza boxes Amethyst?”
Amethyst only rolled her eyes. “Does it annoy you?”
“Greatly. Getting the moldy cheese off the hilt was infuriatingly difficult.”
“Then that’s why it was in my room. Come on Pearl, you know me by now~” Amethyst said, snickering a little.
The woman identified as “Pearl” groaned a little. “Don’t mess with my swords again Amethyst; it wasn’t funny the first hundred times you did it, it’s certainly not funny n-“ Pearl stopped midsentence when she got an eye-full of the small mass of fur, scales, and feathers currently sticking its head out of Steven’s shirt.
After seeing this unusual creature, she promptly dropped her sword in shock. “….Garnet, you see that thing too don’t you?”
The very tall woman now known as “Garnet” looked down at Steven and Discord and stared silently for a few moments before speaking. “…Oh I see it alright.”
“Oh right, look we found this poor little guy in a dumpster at the Big Donut! Isn’t he cool?!~” Steven asked as he pulled Discord out of his shirt and held him up for Garnet and Pearl to see.
Discord was not happy about being held like a baby. It was degrading as all hell; so he only crossed his arms and pouted.
Pearl said nothing and only stared at Discord for a few moments with widened eyes. She curiously circled around him, taking in his unusual body structure and scratched her chin as she observed him. “…Well…he’s something…but I just don’t know WHAT. He has no gem so he’s not a corrupted gem-creature. But his body parts are so…inconsistent!” Pearl said, still looking Discord over.
As one could imagine, Discord was not enjoying the fact that Pearl was getting uncomfortably close just to stare at his otherworldly anatomy, so he snapped his fingers. Without any warning a brick wall appeared in between the two of them with the words “Personal space. Respect it” spray-painted on it.
Of course, this caught both Pearl and Garnet incredibly off guard, making them back away a little in shock. “W-What in the…H-Hoooow?!” Pearl asked in a startled voice, eyes even wider than they were before.
Garnet however, while just as startled, didn’t bother to ask questions. Her palms glowed a bright purple color before the light enveloped her hands completely and seemed to grow. Once the light cleared, her hands were covered by oversized crystal gauntlets. She then used said gauntlets by punching through the wall with all her might, completely obliterating it. Now standing before the rubble of the brick wall, Garnet looked intimidatingly down at Discord.
If it was any time for Discord to be legitimately freaked out, it would be when a seven foot tall creature with giant crystal fists is towering over him, considering who-knows-what. Just looking at the gigantic woman from where he was standing nearly made Discord pee himself in fear.
“...How did you do that? What kind of power do you have where you can just create solid matter out of nothing?” She asked calmly.
Discord, still very much afraid quickly shook his head and snapped his fingers. “GAH LEAVE ME ALONE!” He yelled.
At the snap of his fingers, Garnet had disappeared from the floor and reappeared on the ceiling, standing upside down and looking down (or from her perspective, up) at her teammates. “…Steven…Amethyst…explain your little friend please.” She asked, again rather calmly.
Pearl looked up at Garnet, and was visibly losing it, hence the face that she was holding onto her head. “THIS IS NOT HOW PHYSICS ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK!” Pearl screamed, obviously mortified by the whole display of nonsense.