Lost Rose
Chapter 1: Taken
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Steven floated aimlessly, curled up in his bubble shield. He thought about what had transpired recently; even though helped her Eyeball still tried to kill him and he was forced to throw her into space and earlier he learned his mother, who he was told valued all life, killed Pink Diamond. Suddenly he was enveloped in a bright light. He felt something grab his bubble then he felt gravity return.
His shield disappeared; and he looked around, he was on a ship but not like the one the rubies had, and the occupants clearly weren't gems. They had dark rough looking skin, dark eyes that looked slightly sunken, no lips, and frills along their jawline. Then he saw the ruby squad he and the crystal gems had sent into space, they were tied up and gagged with some type of metal cords. "well looks like we have another guest" a jovial voice said, a male alien with a monkey like creature on his shoulder approached Steven. He had a helmet with goggles and a long coat.
He crouched down in front of Steven "tell me, what's a young man doing drifting through space" he asked. "Well, my friends and I were fighting those rubies, we opened a door to send them into space and one of them pulled me with her" Steven said. The alien chuckled "well it's a good thing we found you" he stood up "welcome aboard, I am Hondo Ohnaka, captain of this fine vessel." Steven smiled, he seemed friendly "I'm Steven, thanks for helping me." Eyeball started thrashing and trying to yell through her gag, one of the aliens kicked her "oi settle down" he said.
Steven winced as the kick sent Eyeball on her side, though Eyeball kept trying to yell something. Hondo made a noise of annoyance "rubies, they never know when to be quiet" he approached her and removed her gag "alright what has you all worked up." "That's not Steven, that's Rose Quartz" Eyeball growled. The crew looked at Steven and started laughing "that's the terrible Rose Quartz, I've met some dumb Rubies but this one takes the cake" a female alien said. Eyeball growled louder "it's true, that bag of meat has her gem, how else would it have a bubble shield" she yelled.
Hondo looked to Steven "that's a good point, how did you have a shield" he asked. "Well Rose Quartz was my mother and I got my gem from her" he said, lifting his shirt to show his gem. Honda crouched down to get a better look while his pet jumped from his shoulder and tapped the gem. He stood up and tapped his chin in thought "well this is quite a turn of events, we pass through here just to avoid the Jedi and we find the Gem Empire's most hated enemy" he said to no one in particular. Steven could tell this was going in a bad direction "I'm not Rose" he said fearfully.
Hondo chuckled "perhaps, but the diamonds don't know that" he turned to his crew "good news my friends, we just got one hell of a pay day." The crew cheered while Steven paled "wait; can't you just drop me off back on the moon base, we can just pretend none of this ever happened" he pleaded. Hondo sucked some air through his teeth "no can do young man, when an opportunity this good comes along only a fool would pass it up" he said, wagging his finger at Steven. "What about these rubies boss" one of his men asked. Hondo waved his hand dismissively "toss them out the airlock, they'll just cause us headaches."
The crew chuckled as they dragged the rubies to the airlock and jettisoned them into the cold vacuum. The aliens tied up Steven and Hondo walked towards the bridge "alright, to the nearest Gem outpost" he ordered. soon the bridge crew activated their hyperspace drives and they were off.
A few hours later the Crystal Gems were frantically searching the area around the Earth in the rubies' ship. "Where is he, where is he" Pearl said to no one frantically, tears in her eyes. Amethyst desperately looked out the viewport, thinking about what they would tell everyone back home if they couldn't find him. Garnet tried to use her future vision to locate him, but the horrifying events made it almost impossible. Then they saw the Rubies, they were going to leave them floating in the void as revenge for what they did when they noticed they were tied up.
They brought them on board "WHERE'S STEVEN" Pearl yelled in rage; shaking Doc, though she couldn't answer because of the gag. "Pirates" Eyeball said "the Oknaka gang found us and they planned to turn Rose over for a reward, then they threw us back into space." The Crystal Gems were horrified, pirates were going to give Steven to the Diamonds. Pearl dropped Doc as she fell to her knees hyperventilating, Amethyst clenched her fists with tears flowing down her face, and Garnet was so upset she unfused. "We-we have to go after them" Pearl panted as she tried to calm herself.
Eyeball scoffed "well don't expect us to help you, Rose is going to be brought to justice for murdering Pink Diamond" she said. She then grunted as Pearl drove her foot into the Ruby's stomach "oh yes you are, you are going to take us wherever we want, and we are going to get Steven back" she said coldly. She ground her foot into the small gem's gut, but Eyeball simply glared at her "I'm not scared of some Pearl, a defective amethyst, or a perverted Ruby and Sapphire" she growled defiantly. Pearl snarled and summoned her spear "Pearl calm down" Sapphire said. "We need them to pilot us to where we need to go" she said.
"No, we don't" Amethyst interjected with a scowl aimed at the Rubies "we have Peridot, she'll know how to fly the ship." This lead to an argument, Amethyst and Crystal Gem Ruby insisted on getting Peridot while Pearl thought getting her would waste too much time. Eventually Sapphire ended the argument "ENOUGH" she said, her usually quiet voice boomed in the ship. "I've looked through the odds and no matter what these Rubies won't help us, Peridot is our only option." With that the Crystal Gems returned to Earth as fast as they could.
AN: hey everyone, a new story. I know I should work on the older ones, but I figured something new would help me get back into the swing of things. Anyway, I hope you like this. Leave a review and helpful criticism, but a flame will get you a one way trip into the sun.