AN: Sooo...I just found out Steven Universe is on hiatus until September. Which gives me the perfect opportunity to make this fanfiction. It's AU because it contains fan theories the producers have jossed.
Seriously, Rebecca? You just HAD to have Pearl and Garnet have a falling-out. Not cool!
Anyway, the first chapter's going to tie up the loose ends left after the last Stevenbomb. And then some.
Enjoy! ~ T. Nerdinator
"C'mon, Pearl, eat it! Pleeeeeeeease?" Steven begged, holding out a strawberry-frosted doughnut.
"I'm sorry, Steven, I know it's your birthday, but for me eating is just...unnatural." Pearl shuddered at the thought.
"Wimp," Amethyst commented. "Am I right, guys?"
"I wouldn't say that," Sapphire said. Garnet had unfused for the occasion, and while Sapphire had completely forgiven Pearl for the "Sardonyx incident" two weeks prior, Ruby had not, so the latter sulked in the corner a little.
"You should always try something new," Greg remarked. "Besides, I happen to know that was Rose's favorite kind of doughnut."
Pearl relented. "Fine, I'll eat it." She took the doughnut from Steven's hand and took a bite. She chewed, swallowed nervously, and repeated until the doughnut was gone.
"There. That wasn't so bad," Steven said.
"Eating it was the least of my concerns," Pearl said, slightly nauseated. "I'm more worried about what will happen eighteen hours from now."
Amethyst giggled. "What's so funny?" Steven asked.
"In eighteen hours Pearl's gonna have to-" Amethyst snorted - "take a dump."
She and Steven doubled over laughing.
"You two are so immature," Pearl said bluntly.
"They're young. Let them be kids," Sapphire said. The doorbell rang. "I'll get it." She got up and walked over to the door...and right into a metal pole that was holding up the ceiling, face-first.
CLANK!
Sapphire fell over. There was a puff of smoke from under her bangs, and the corundum groaned in pain, clutching her face.
"Sapphire!" Ruby cried, running over to check on her girlfriend.
"Maybe I should get the door," Greg said quietly.
"Please do," Pearl told him.
Greg opened it. "Oh, hey Connie."
"Hello, Mr. Universe. Is Steven here? I was going to give him this extra ticket to the premiere screening of Dogcopter 4."
"Dogcopter 4 is out?!" Steven raced over. "Thank you so much, Connie!" he exclaimed as he was given the ticket.
"No problem," the Indian girl replied. Then she noticed two small gems she had never seen before, and that Garnet was missing. "Are they Ruby and Sapphire?"
"Yep," Steven said. "Ruby and Sapphire, meet Connie."
"We can't talk now!" Ruby cried. "Sapphire's hurt!"
"I'm fine, Ruby!" Sapphire got up. Her bangs fell away from her face, revealing two brilliant blue eyes, instead of the single eye Steven had seen on her face before.
All the other Gems (Steven included) gasped.
Sapphire was confused as to why they were, well, confused, until she felt her face with her hands. "Oh, great."
"I thought you had one eye!" Pearl exclaimed.
"Sapphires can fuse their eyes together," the blue Gem explained. "Otherwise we can't use our future vision."
"You sure about that?" Amethyst asked. "Because when I was growing up in the Kindergarten, I met some sapphires, and they could use their future vision when they had two eyes. They only did the cyclops thing to increase accuracy."
"That isn't what Blue-" Sapphire froze. "Of course!" she yelled, stomping her foot, ice forming where she had stepped. "That is exactly something Blue Diamond would do. Tell me I was a freak if I didn't do something that would make me a freak! Why have I been so stupid?!"
"You're not stupid," Ruby said. "You were tricked. I believe the humans call that particular type 'trolling'."
Sapphire looked at her lover, uneasy.
"You know, maybe keeping your eyes unfused isn't such a bad idea. We have seen that there are problems with using future vision all the time, you know."
"Yeah," Steven added, "and maybe you can predict things like how you are now. You won't know if you don't try."
Sapphire sighed, took a deep breath, and focused on her future vision. After a few seconds, she said, "I see something. Steven, one of your favorite things will come back." Her eyes widened. "I can do it!" she exclaimed.
"I knew you could," Ruby said, laughing a little. The two small gems embraced. There was a flash of light, and after it dissipated, Garnet stood in their place. Instead of three different-colored eyes, though, she now had two eyes, both purple. From force of habit, Garnet summoned her sunglasses again.
"Thank you, Steven," Garnet said, rumpling the hybrid's hair. "And thank you, Amethyst, for giving me the knowledge I needed. My future vision is much more stable now."
"Eh, it was nothin'," Amethyst replied, shrugging.
"And Pearl?"
Pearl looked at her.
"I forgive you for the Sardonyx incident."
"You...do?" Pearl asked, very nervous.
"Lying to me was wrong," Garnet told her, "but I had no idea your self-esteem issues were that bad. If I had known that you had been mistreated by all those Gems just because you were a pearl who could think for herself, and believed fusion with someone close to you was the only way to make you feel better..."
"How did you learn that?" Pearl asked.
"Rainbow Quartz told me."
"But...she's gone."
Garnet laughed. "Believe me, you know nothing about the mindset of a fusion." Then she did something surprising - she gave Pearl a hug, which the latter had not known she needed, but enjoyed it anyway.
"Bo-ring!" Amethyst called out, killing the mood. "Let's watch some TV, Stevenman."
"It's getting late, though," Pearl said, breaking her embrace with Garnet. "Steven should be getting ready for bed by now."
"There's always time for Crying Breakfast Friends!" Steven said.
"You know, I think I'm finally getting the hang of that show," Greg commented. "Would you like to watch with us, Connie?"
"I have to be getting home soon, but I can stay for a few more minutes," Connie replied.
Everyone gathered around the TV (except Lion, who was outside relieving himself). Steven turned it on, but just as he reached the channel CBF was on, the screen (a shot of a crying waffle and an equally upset pear) abruptly switched to a news bulletin.
"Breaking news," the anchorman said. "The company that makes Lion Lickers was permanently shut down when the treats were found to contain fifty-eight toxic chemicals - all of them known carcinogens."
"What's a carcinogen?" Steven wanted to know.
"It's a chemical that causes cancer," Connie explained.
"What's cancer?"
"Maybe some other time."
The anchorman continued. "This, coinciding with its purchase by Japanese investors, has brought the Cookie Cat ice cream sandwich company back into business. Cookie Cats will return to store shelves next Friday."
Steven turned off the TV and sat there, taking it all in.
"Steven? Are you okay?" Pearl asked.
"THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!" Steven whooped, going starry-eyed. "It must be what Sapphire predicted!"
"It would seem that way," Garnet noted. "My future vision isn't very specific, but at least now I'm only getting one scenario at a time." She froze.
"Uh, G?" Amethyst asked.
Suddenly, Garnet's entire body began to glow reddish-purple. She levitated into the air. Her glasses fell off, revealing that her eyes were glowing, too.
She spoke, in a voice that was a combination of hers, Ruby's, and Sapphire's:
Old foes liberated. Old foes redeemed.
Old allies who are not what they seem.
Old secrets, great power at their beck and call.
And the old carbon crystal who started it all.
Garnet then went back to normal. She picked up her sunglasses, dusted them off, and put them back on.
"What. Was. That?" Greg asked.
"A prophecy," Garnet replied. "I haven't issued one in five thousand Earth years."
"A prophecy?" Pearl asked, suddenly worried. "You mean..."
"Yes. Something big is going to happen. I don't know what exactly, but it will change everything."
Silence.
"Well...I gotta go. Bye guys," Connie said, walking out the front door.
"Amethyst, will you take Steven upstairs?" Pearl asked.
Amethyst complied. As she and Steven went up the steps (while Greg left to return to his van), Steven asked, "So there's more than one of each gem?"
"Yup. We each have a number, too, to specify who is who. Technically, I'm Amethyst #80088," the purple quartz replied.
"And sapphires can fuse their eyes together...what about their noses?"
"They don't have noses."
"WHAT?! But how can they smell things?!"
"I never said they didn't have nostrils."
