Steven Universe: Everything Ends
Chapter 1: Rose and Steven
Steven's lying on the ground, hurt, lost and confused. He was on a desert field. He was wondering what's going on and how has it come to this. He was on a dessert field, smoke everywhere. He barely saw anything.
„PEARL! AMETHYST! GARNET!"- Steven shouted.
„LAPIS! PERIDOT!"- He shouted again.
He continued wandering around the field, thinking to himself.
„I shouldn't have trusted her. I shouldn't!- He was thinking. He was about to cry because he felt betrayed, and at the same time he expirienced a feeling he didn't feel often.
Anger.
The smoke began to clear. He saw something on the ground. Something awful. Something he thought he would never see in his life. He began to scream and cry. Everything became dark and Steven couldn't see anything.
„You should have listened to me Rose!"- A familiar voice came to his head.
Steven wakes up, heavily breathing. He looked around only to see he is safe in his room. He looked at his alarm clock and sees that it's only 8:00am. He falls back to his bed exhasuted. He was watching out for Pearl. Pearl like watching Steven sleep from time to time. He then storms out of the bed and runs into the temple. He opens the door to his mom's room and wishes to come to the temple's heart. There he walks around and runs into a bubbled gem with a rainbow color.
„I'm sorry Bismuth."- He says quietly, looking into the ground. He wanted to see if Bismuth was still in her bubble. Ever since the incident, he wanted to free her, tell her he's sorry and that he never wanted to hurt her. Maybe then she would change and they could be friends again. All those thoughts troubled Steven, and yet somehow gave him comfort.
He came back to his room and found Amethyst lying upside down the stairs as she usually did.
„O hey dude!"- Said Amethyst with her usual laidback attitude. She stands up to see Steven near the temple door. „What were you doing in the temple?"- She asked with a suprisingly worried tone.
„Nothing much, just checking on an old friend."- Said Steven casually- „Where were you yesterday? Dad was here wanting to watch „Little Butler" with you.".
„I was uh... checking on an old friend."- Said Amethyst, she then went outside.
Steven, at first, didn't know what she was talking about. After some thinking, he kind of figured it out. Garnet and Pearl were on a scouting mission, so Steven was alone in the house with Lion. He then turned on his console and started playing a video game. He was enjoying himself. He played a game about a boy who has fantastic adventures. After couple of hours playing, he finally made it to the final boss.
„Alright, time to save the world!"- Said Steven, eager to finish the game. „OK, just have to avoid his attacks and when he's distracted, I'll attack with my arrows. Hmm, maybe I should make a Let's play of this on my TubeTube channel?". After 45 rough minutes of fighting, Steven finally defeats his rival. „YES! HAHA!". Steven's joy is interupted by the in-game voice.
"Kill him!"- The voice said. "Kill him so you can save the kingdom!".
"No!"- Steven said to himself, he didn't know why, but he felt that the character from the game is talking directly to him. His hands were sweating. Kill or Spare, that was the choice. What can he do, he doesn't want the kingdom to suffer, but he doesn't want to kill the dark lord. Suddenly memories start flashing before him.
"I saw the leader of the Crystal Gems, Rose Quartz…"- A familiar voice said: "…SHATTER PINK DIAMOND!"
"She had to Steven…"- said another voice: "… the Earth belonged to Pink Diamond. Destroying her was the only way to save it."
"No, no, NOOOOOOOO!"- Yelled Steven angrily. In the heat of the moment, he shot his shield into the TV and broke it. He then started crying. "WHY DID YOU DO IT!? I BELIEVED YOU WERE A GOOD PERSON… I BUBBLED BISMUTH BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOU SHATTERED A GEM YOURSELF! WHAT THE HECK AM I SUPPOSE TO THINK OF YOU NOW!?"- Steven stopped yelling, realizing Lion was looking at him strangely. They stared at each other for a long time. Steven then pushed Lion aside, but Lion started lying on Steven's face. Steven ended up in Lion's pocket dimension.
"Oh great!"- Agitated, Steven thought to himself: "Am I going to find another heart-breaking revelation about mom?". He was wandering around the pink tree. He then found something he never wanted to touch or just didn't feel like touching. A chest! He felt compelled to touch it, but stopped.
"No, after all that's happened, she still thinks I trust her. I DON'T!"- Thought Steven in a fit of rage and left the chest.
Steven returned to his room to find Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst looking at the TV. They were shocked by the mess he made. They remembered when he summoned his shield for the first time and how he broke the TV by accident, but this time it seamed intentional.
"Steven!"- Said Pearl: "Is everything alright?". She asked in a worried tone.
"Everything's fine."- Said Steven in a grumpy mood.
"Doesn't seem like it."- Responded Amethyst.
"Well it is!"- Yelled Steven, shocking the Gems.
"Steven did you break the TV?"- Asked Garnet with a calm voice.
"Yea, so what!?"- Responded Steven, angrier this time.
This behavior was new to the Gems. Why would a sweet, happy-go-lucky kid like Steven behave this way? Pearl began to think he is acting like Amethyst.
"You shouldn't break things…"- Said Garnet: "It's very irresponsible."
"And shattering Gems is responsible!?"- Responded Steven, even angrier, shocking the Gems, mostly Pearl. What is with Steven?
"That's different!"- Said Garnet, rising her voice.
"Yea, and worse than what I did!"- Said Steven: "You always told me that mom was a good, loving person, but everybody else disagrees! She shattered Pink Diamond, bubbled Bismuth, because she was against shattering, which is really hypocritical, and didn't even tell you about it! I mean, she did bad things, even worse than Jasper!".
"IT WAS WAR STEVEN!"- Yelled Garnet, which was really unfitting for her. "GEMS WERE SHATTERED, PEOPLE DIED! HOMEWORLD WAS NO BETTER! BEEING A LEADER IS NO EASY TASK! YOU HAD TO MAKE DIFFICULT DECISIONS! IMAGINE IF YOU WERE ROSE, AND THAT'S WHO YOU ARE NOW!
Steven then froze. Instead of seeing Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl, he saw Eyeball, Jasper and Bismuth. He kept hearing them say: "ROSE, ROSE, ROSE, ROSE, ROSE…"
"STOP CALLING ME ROSE!"- Yelled Steven, silencing the Gems. Steven realized the Gems he loved, or at least he thought he loved, are in front of him instead of the other ones. He then runs out of the house, crying.
"Way to go G."- Said Amethyst sarcastically.
Steven, cried on the beach, throwing rocks into the ocean.
"STUPID PINK DIAMOND, STUPID BISMUTH, STUPID JASPER, STUPID EYEBALL. AND STUPID MOM!"- Yelled Steven as he was throwing the rocks. When he was about too throw another one, his arm was stopped by a hand. Garnet's hand. They just stared at each other.
"What do you want?"- Asked Steven angrily. Garnet said nothing, she just hugged him and started crying.
"I'm sorry!"- Said Garnet: "I should have never called you Rose. You are not Rose, you are Steven. You are you!"
"STEVEEEEEEEEEEN!"- A voice was heard in the distance. Pearl was running and crying and Amethyst was right behind her. They hugged Steven so hard, they almost squished him.
"Why didn't you ever tell us that you didn't like being compared to Rose?"- Asked Pearl.
"Because…"- Said Steven: "I feel like it's my fault she's gone. That maybe if she was still here instead of me, she could have solved this problem. I thought I could solve it, but I just made things worse. And because of mom, I couldn't reach out to Bismuth, Eyeball and Jasper…"
"They were lost causes anyway!"- Garnet interrupted him: "There wasn't anything you could do to help them. But they are not the only ones you should care about. There's your dad, Connie, your other human friends, Lapis, Peridot…"
"And us!"- Interrupted Amethyst.
"And us."- Repeated Garnet: "And who knows, maybe you'll find a way to help them. Maybe you'll do things even better than Rose did. So don't feel like you are nothing compared to her, you are everything! And you can still trust Rose, because it was her choice for you to exist."
"Hehehe…"- Steven started laughing: "And I thought I was the only one who cheered others up.". Steven then preceded to hug them.
"And Garnet."- Said Amethyst: "That was the most cliché speech ever made!". Everyone started laughing and they entered the house.
Steven knew he could always trust the Gems. But could he trust his mother again? And what was inside that chest?
Sorry if this chapter was short and cringe worthy, but I'll improve(this is my first ever fanfic). Chapter 2 might take a while and I wrote this chapter in only one day! If you enjoyed this chapter, then I'll be happy, because enjoyment of the story is my main goal. See you soon. All reviews appreciated.