Chapter 1

A voice of darkness spoke.

The tesseract has awakened. It will unite the worlds together. My agent. He will lead my armies. Who will stand in his way?

It was a warm summer day. The old RV known as the Rustbucket was cruising along the countryside, through a desert. Children Ben and Gwen Tennyson were inside, while their Grandpa Max drove. Ben was holding a glowing blue cube.

Ben: "Any idea what this is, Grandpa? Ever since it almost crushed us, it hasn't done anything."

Grandpa Max: "Don't touch that, Ben. Until I can analyze it correctly and know what it is, I don't want anyone to touch it."

The cube activated, glowing and shining.

I see you...

Gwen: "What the..."

The cube exploded into a flash of light, blinding everyone.

Max woke several hours later, finding himself face down in the sand.

Max: "Must be in the middle of the desert still."

A wave of water washed up in front of him. He looked up and saw a grand ocean in front of him.

Max: "Or not."

He stood up, and looked around. Behind him was a massive mountain overlooking the water. Engraved into the mountain was a statue with eight arms, two of which were holding a beach house built into the mountain.

Max: "What happened? How did I end up here?"

He stood up, deciding to question the locals on his location. He came up to a car wash with a van parked in front of it. It had a shooting star designed on both sides.

Max: "Hello? Anyone home?"

The van's back doors opened, and a middle aged man with long hair on the back of his head, but none on top of his head, walked out.

Max: "Hey there sir."

Man: "Oh hi! Can I help you?"

Max: "Just need to know where I am."

The two walked towards each other.

Man: "You got a name?"

Max: "Max Tennyson."

Man: "Greg Universe. Welcome to Beach City. What can I do for you?"

Some time later they were sitting in Greg's van, drinking coffee Greg made for them. Max had just finished telling what exactly happened.

Greg: "You know, I am friends with people who may be able to help you with this magic stuff. If you saw the beach house, you probably don't know that that's where they live."

A flash of blue light flashed from the beach house. Max and Greg noticed this flash.

Max: "That's the same flash that came up when I was blinded and appeared here. We should go check it out."

Max walked up to the beach house with Greg. Greg knocked on the door.

Greg: "Gems? Are you home?"

Three woman were inside. One was red and pink with red shoulder pads, and a black cubed afro. The other wore a bright blue and white ballerina suit with a triangular hair piece. The last one was a short purple woman with white hair and a black tank top. They turned to Greg as he let himself in.

Greg: "What's going on? I saw the flash from the car wash."

Purple girl: "Who's the other old guy?"

Bright blue girl: "Amethyst!"

Max: "My name's Max Tennyson."

Greg: "Where's Steven?"

The three were silent.

Greg: "Where is Steven?"

Amethyst: "Pearl. Tell him what happened."

Pearl: "He's gone. He disappeared. This bright blue cube dropped in from the roof. When Steven touched it flashed and he disappeared."

Greg: "What?! Garnet, can't you find where he went?"

Garnet: "I can't see where he went. I usually can see futures for everyone, but it's like he was zapped out of our reality into another with that cube."

Greg: "No. No. No!"

Max: "Calm down, Greg. We will find him. Wherever he is."

The glowing crystal pad in the back of the room started flashing wildly.

Pearl: "That's never happened before."

Garnet: "The cube is affecting the warp pad. Where it sent Steven, it might be able to send us. Let's go."

The gems got on board the pad.

Max: "Wait. I'm coming with you. My grandkids are lost in some reality elsewhere too. This might lead us to them."

Greg: "I'm coming too. He's my son."

Greg and Max boarded the warp pad.

Max: "So how does this..."

The pad activated, and a beam of light shot up around them, and they disappeared.

The five were cruising through the streams of light, which was sporadically dissipating and reappearing. Suddenly the path split into two. Pearl and Amethyst went one way and Garnet, Max and Greg were sent another direction.

Garnet: "Pearl! Amethyst!"

The warp suddenly exploded into light and sent them out of their reality.

The three landed in the middle of a grassy field. They looked around and got their bearings.

Garnet: "Where are we?"

Max: "How about we ask the people who live in that tree-house?"

A giant tree had a house built into it in front of them.

They walked up to the house and knocked on the lower door.

Deep voice: "Who is it?"

Max: "Just some people who need help."

Young voice: "I'll get the door."

Deep voice: "I'm coming with."

The door opened soon after. Behind it was a young boy wearing a white bear cap, blue shirt and shorts, and a green backpack with a sword in it. Next to him was a small orange bull-dog standing on two legs.

Young boy: "What do y'all need help with?"

Garnet: "Let's start with names. I am Garnet. This is Greg and that's Max."

Young boy: "My name is Finn. This is Jake."

Jake: "Where are you guys from?"

Max: "And the dog is talking. I don't entirely know where we are and what's even happening. Something is tearing rifts through our realities. Our friends may have ended up here in one of those rifts, because we followed it here."

Finn: "I know someone who might be able to help find them. Jake can take us there."

Jake: "Let's go."

Jake walked out and stretched his body out, making him enormous. Everyone was visibly shocked.

Garnet: "He has morphing powers like us Gems."

Jake sat down, allowing everyone to climb on board. He stretched his legs and walked onward.