Chapter 1/Prologue: Kyle-Bomb!
Last thing I remember was answering some Q and A test. Then... I wake up inside of a beach house. I saw four faces staring down at me. One had a square head, one had long hair, one was very thin, and the last one had poofy hair. The light was still super bright.
"Oohhh..." I grunted. The figures started to speak.
"He's waking up!"
"That's good. I was starting to think he was dead."
"Amethyst, humans don't JUST up and die."
"They can."
"Quiet. He's almost awake." I rubbed my eyes, then yawned.
"W-where am I?" I asked, confused as hell. I saw a tall African-American woman with sunglasses and a square-shaped Afro, a small purple girl with one shoulder strap of her tank top down, a woman dressed like a ballerina with a long nose, and a small, round boy wearing a red shirt with a yellow star, and poofy black hair. The boy brought me a donut.
"There you go. I bought an extra for you at the store. Figured you were hungry." He told me.
"Thanks." I took the donut, and began eating it. The taste was what I needed, but the energy would also be nice.
"We found you lying down on the beach in front of our house." The afro woman said. "We're you headed here for any particular reason?"
"No." I replied. "I was sent here against my will by some annoying prick."
"Oh." The bird-nosed one said. The purple one got close to me.
"What's your name?" She asked. That surprised me. Who doesn't know me?
"Kyle Tennyson. World famous superhero?" I told/asked them. The ladies all laughed.
"HEY!" I yelled. "I fight stuff all the time! You haven't heard of me?"
"Nope." The afro woman told me. Both the purple girl and bird-nosed girl kept laughing uncontrollably. The short kid began to get very annoyed with how the other two were laughing.
"Stop!" He yelled. They listened to him, while the purple girl took one or two extra seconds to stop.
"Sorry." She stated.
The boy said, "Kyle, I'm Steven Universe, and they-"
"WE ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS!" The afro woman proudly exclaimed, as the others got up with her.
"GARNET!" She said.
"AMETHYST!" The purple girl added.
"And... PEARL!" The last girl said. I laughed this time.
"Hey!" Amethyst yelled at me.
"You three made fun of me for being a superhero, when you have your own roll call?! HAHA!" I couldn't stop for a moment.
"Well, at least we can prove our abilities!" Pearl stated, as she summoned a spear. Amethyst summoned a whip, and Garnet summoned two gauntlets.
"Whoa." Okay. Magically summoning weapons. That is indeed something. They all smirked.
Amethyst said, "Top that, bro!" I smirked to them, getting off of their couch.
"Watch and learn, Crystal Girls!"
"Gems." Pearl corrected me.
"That is called a quip. Admittedly, not a good one, but I don't care at the moment." I turned my Ultimatrix on. When I did, the Ultimatrix beeped.
"Uncatalogged DNA detected." It said. It shot a yellow light at Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl all at once, then glowed red.
"DNA scanned and understood. New Gem form inserted into Ultimatrix database." The Ultimatrix put it's faceplate down.
"What did it do?" Steven asked.
"My Ultimatrix stores DNA from all across the galaxy within it's files. It also immediately scans new strands it hasn't run into before. I guess I couldn't become... YOU GUYS ARE ALIENS?" It had just then dawned on me.
Amethyst yelled, "Whoo-yeah we are!"
Garnet added, "We're Gems. Beings very different from humans. We're the only Gems left alive on Earth currently."
Pearl continued to explain, "Gems are much more complex than humans! We have superior abilities... knowledge on events on Earth..."
I interrupted her. "That's all well and good, but I haven't shown my abilities yet." I hit the watch to transform into my new Gem form. My skin turned red as I grew out my hair, and my anatomy shifted into a female anatomy. My breasts became D-cups, my hair grew as long as a gemstone appeared as a barette run, and tape wrapped around my chest, and around my new gauntlets, which were like Tifa's from Final Fantasy 7, and they came out of my boots, which looked like Yang's from RWBY. I wore short shorts, and my Ultimatrix symbol appeared above my cleavage.
"CHALCEDONY!" I yelled. I stared at myself, immediately sighing.
"Great. Another female form. Oh well. Still proves my point." I looked at them.
"All Gems are female." Garnet said. Okay... So that proves I wouldn't have lost out on a male form at least. That's fine, I guess.
"So, now that I proved I am a hero..."
"You can become a Gem, Kyle?!" Steve had suddenly got stars in his eyes. I jumped backwards, becoming human again.
"I can turn into way more forms than just a Gem, Steven." I told him.
"Like what?" he asked. At his request, I had become K-9, Visor, Fullmetal, Goop, and Diamondhead. He especially liked Diamondhead, but it surprised the Crystal Gems that there were other Gem-like life forms.
"Is it that hard to believe?" was all I asked.
Garnet replied, "No, it isn't, I suppose. You're proof that other alien life exists besides humans and Gems." As I changed back to human, I decided to show them one last thing.
"And I'm not just a human. I'm..." I sprouted my hedgehog quills from my head and back. Steven's mouth fell open, and so did Amethyst's. Pearl fell over, and Garnet seemed to look like she blinked behind her shades, then composed herself.
"Half-Mobian!" I yelled triumphantly. I even turned to show them my back quills. This was awesome. A place where no one seemed to know who I was or had any knowledge of my existence prior, and yet... I missed home.
"I'm half-Gem, from my Mom's side!" Steven showed me his Gem, which was on his belly button.
"Ooh, nice!" Garnet showed me her Gems on her hands, Amethyst pulled her top down slightly to show me hers, and Pearl pointed to the gemstone in her forehead. A new world, with a new group of friends who were all aliens like me. Or half, in Steven's case. I could hang here for a while, but... There's still Ali, Gwen, Ben, and Kevin to think about. I sulked.
"Kyle?" Steven looked worried. I spoke.
"Guys... I know this may be asking a lot of you and may be intruding on your hospitality somewhat, but can I stay here until I can find a way home?" The Gems and Steven all looked at each other. They huddled, talking to each other, and as they talked, I keep thinking back to home and how the others were doing without me. They all faced me and Garnet spoke.
"Kyle, we've decided you can stay and help us on missions... But until you prove your worth, you are not yet a Crystal Gem."
"That's fine. Thanks." I told her.
"Yay! Kyle gets to be a hero!" Steven yelled. He jumped at me, and I caught him.
"I'm the one in charge, in case you were wondering." Garnet said.
"Got it, boss lady. I led my own team, but since I'm the newbie here, you guys are in charge."
"Well, that's that." Pearl said. Amethyst walked up to me and asked, "So, are those quills meant for what I think they're used for?" I nodded.
"Show me." She said. We went back out to the beach, and I rolled up into a ball, Spin Dashing my way across the beach, blazing sand paths and hopping as a ball. Steven and Amethyst cheered for me as I rolled along. Garnet and Pearl both clapped when I was done.
"Amazing display of your speed." Pearl said.
"Thanks. Say, Amethyst, why'd you ask me about that?"
"Oh..." Amethyst replied. "I don't know... This!" She rolled up into a ball herself, and did the same things I had done. She smirked at me the moment I looked.
"I can do it as good as you, dude." She told me. I nodded. Amethyst was pretty cool, with that Spin Dash. I also saw some other abilities later that day, like Amethyst's mastery of shapeshifting. She turned into a cat, Pearl, Steven, a bird, a big wrestler with a lot of chest hair, and finally, me.
"Whoa!" I liked Amethyst's shapeshifting. It reminded me of my own abilities with the Ultimatrix. She became herself again.
"Why don't you go Chalcedony and try it?" She asked. I transformed into Chalcedony again, and thought of shapeshifting into my girlfriend, Ali. Once I did, I looked into a mirror to see the accuracy, which, minus the red skin, was perfect.
"Why that form?" Garnet asked me. I looked back, shapeshifting into Kevin, Gwen, and Ben, too.
"These were my friends back home. I really miss them." Pearl nodded, but Steven hugged my leg as I shapeshifted to Chalcedony's normal look.
"You'll see them again someday." He told me. "On the word of Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems, you WILL find a way home!" I picked him up, hugging him myself.
"Thank you, Steven." I said. "I promise, I'll earn my way into you guys' house, one way or another."
To be continued.
A/N: I'll upload Chapter 2 of this pretty soon after. Keep your eyes peeled.