You're my Strenght

Hey guys (and gals) this is my first SU fanfic, and I'm playing it safe by going with the Stevonnie ship (which I love) but If this works out I'm doing more ships (Stevidot, Lapidot and maybe some Lapiven). PS. Steven is older in this fic (19) for time-skip purposes and although I love the show I'm not very acquainted with the regular state of things, so somethings might me unnacurate to canon.

Good Readings!

Steven's POV

Beach City

There was a loud crashing sound when another Homeworld ship crashed, and I was too busy fending off some rubies to actually react to it, they were small but relentless and I had to keep them from fusing or I'd have some real trouble in my hands.

This had gone on for hours now, fighting more and more Homeworld gems, and I was near exhaustion when I saw Connie slash through all them in one single motion, she had been evacuating Beach City with Sadie and Mayor Dewey, being the only full human of the Cristal Gems, and as the rubies fell on the ground I looked in her eyes. Without saying anything we knew what we had to do, it was a special kind of communication that came from a bond forged by hours of training and countless battles, along with a friendship that had no limits, we always had each other backs.

I approached her and put my hand on hers, and for a split second, I remembered how beautiful she was, even covered in dirt and sweat, she still managed to be incredibly cute, but there was no time for that, not now, and then the pink glow came, and we where one.

Stevonnie's POV

Beach City

I opened my eyes and looked at the destruction, and it was not pretty, everything that moved was fighting and there were hundreds of gems scattered in the battlefield, both friends and foes, after all, the Crystal Gems had grown, after we rescued various kinds of oppressed gems from Homeworld, we offered them positions in the army and most of them joined our ranks, and even though we encouraged them to pursue whatever areas they wished (with some amethysts being schooled in mechanics to be in the machine support unit) most gems stuck with what they already knew, amethysts and rubies were the bulk of our infantry along with a few jaspers leading them, pearls were our supporting units that healed other gems with water from rose's fountain and we had peridots in the artillery units using giant robots and rose's cannons. I hoped that after all of this was done, they would seek out their own tastes and passions, but right now thinking about the future was not an option.

I joined the thick of the fight along with Jasper (the OG jasper) dropping down with my sword in two fused amethysts, poofing them, and bashed my way to her side, knocking down various enemies so she could easily poof them.

"Go away rose, or whatever you call yourself now, I can handle these weak bitches" She still hadn't adapted well to teamwork (though she certainly had adapted to human vocabulary) but she was indeed fine, so I changed my focus to Garnet who was taking on a full battalion of Onyxes all by herself, dealing heavy and powerful blows to every gem in front of her.

I jumped at her back, and she acknowledged me with a small nod, more stoic than ever in her full battle mode, and we continued to fight, combining her punches and my sword and shield technique to poof most of them, and although I had taken some hits and Garnet was almost collapsing from exhaustion, we managed to thin out their infantry. "Stevonnie, go find the commander and poof her, we need to end this" Garnet shouted through the noise, and I ran over to the fallen ship, seeing Sardonyx fighting a giant fused Amethyst and struggling a bit, but I had more important concerns right now.

The inside of the ship was not very different from the battlezone outside of it, our forces had swarmed it and were attacking the guards leaded by an white Agate, high-ranking quartzes that were renowned commanders and warriors, which made this fight even more important as agates had valuable information mostly given to them directly from the diamonds and also meant that this attack was really important to Homeworld, meaning that if we won this battle, there would be peace for some time, enough time to train and rescue more gems.

So I signaled to the amethyst leading the unit near to me, and they charged, taking out any additional resistance between me and the Agate until I sent her flying into an empty room with a shield bash, so I could battle her one on one, "How did you know about the attack?!" she shouted at me, after all, this was supposed to be a surprise attack and their ships were equipped with covert camouflage devices, but our spies in homeworld, Lars and the misfits, gave us that information long ago, and Peridot (who was named leader of the research and development team) built radars and targeting systems able to see them, "Call it an educated guess, now less talk and more ass-kicking"

I lunged at her with a slash, but she was fast and dodged it, hiting me with a kick that sent me backwards and summoning her weapon, a huge white claymore, and immediately attacking me with a blow from the side, which I blocked but the strength of the blow made me flinch, after that she hit me with a series of rapid blows which I barely managed to block, knowing she had the upper hand in brute force, I formed a bubble around myself and popped it immediately, which made her stagger backwards and gave me room to jump back a few meters and formulate a strategy.

I had barely managed to build a plan in my head when she resumed her attack and was able to pierce my defense with a slash in my leg, but I barely felt it in the rush of battle, and jumped back again, this time managing to get a response form the agate "Running isn't going to save you fusion" she said with contempt and proceeded to dodge my sword which I throwed at her and ended up piercing the wall of the ship, before she could react I formed a spike bubble and popped it, which instead of just vanishing, launched the spikes in all directions in the room, a new trick which I usually couldn't use because of the friendly fire to nearby allies, and pierced her leg and arm, before she blocked the rest, and while she winced from the damage I summoned two shields to use as melee weapons, and quickly closed the gap between us, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with her, using all the tecniques Garnet taught me to keep her on the defensive and going backwards, until we reached the limits of the room.

She didn't see it until it was too late and I was already sidestepped her and grabbed the sword, and rammed it through her, and before she disappeared and only her gem remained, she said something barely audible "You can't win, the diamonds have something special for yo-"

The sound of her gem hitting the ground was drowned out by the sounds of the battle still raging outside, and after I picked it and bubbled it, I felt the exhaustion and damage I got finally getting to me and I collapsed on the ground, , my vision slowly fading.