Chapter 1

Hi. This is a story I have been thinking about writing for a while now. I am going to write this first chapter to see how it goes. Hope you enjoy. Review if you want me to continue this story. I DO NOT OWN STEVEN UNIVERSE OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS ASSOCIATED WITH IT!


This takes place in the episode "Marble Madness."

"Established Gem Projection Link with control room. Plug Robonoid has successfully landed on Planet Earth and entered Prime Kindergarten Control Room in Facet 5. Will proceed to perform status check of Kindergarten." A green triangular head says from the large screen in what can only be the Prime Kindergarten Control Room.

Distracted by whatever she was doing, the triangular gem, known as Peridot, didn't notice the four other gems, well, three gems and a human-gem hybrid, crouched behind the platform her screen was floating above.

The short, long haired purple gem, Amethyst, spoke quietly to her companions, "It's Peridot."

Another gem, this one tall, skinny and pale, Pearl, gasped and whispered, "Is she trying to re-activate the Kindergarten? Doesn't she know it'll destroy all life on Earth?!" The short, chubby, hybrid gem, Steven, interjected with a question, "Why don't we ask her?"

All the gems quickly turned to him, "SHHH!"

The tallest gem with a cube-shaped hair and shades, Garnet, speaks in a low, urgent voice, "Steven, we're facing an enemy we don't know with technology we don't understand. This isn't the time to be asking questions." Steven, pouting, spoke quietly to himself, "Really sounds like it is..."

Garnet spoke again, this time to Pearl and Amethyst, "Ok - here's the plan: We can't let her see us, so we wait for an opening. When she's distracted, we destroy the power source on the far wall. Steven stays here!" The other gems nodded in approval and turned to Steven only to find that he had climbed up to the platform where Peridot's projection was.

"STEVEN!" the three gems whisper shouted.

Peridot, oblivious to what was going on behind her, spoke again to herself, "Now accounting for all operational Injectors. Checking for aberrations in perimeter." The platforms beside her began to glow and two large, green gem hands rose from them. Tapping buttons on the wall the green hands stopped when Peridot gasped.

The hands began swiftly typing over the walls as Peridot spoke with excitement, "There has been an interesting development. The original gem sent to destroy the Kindergarten by Rose Quartz still resides in Sector 4. It seems he is in a coma-like state and is dormant. I am going to-" Peridot was interrupted by a voice behind her saying, "What does dormant mean? And what's Sector 4?"

The large hands stopped abruptly, and Peridot's screen turned to face Steven.

"Hi, I'm Steven!" The boy introduced happily. Peridot adopted an apathetic expression and spoke typing into the computer that appeared to be her hand, "There appears to be an infestation of "Stevens" in the Kindergarten." Steven adopted a playful pose and said, "Daw, I'm not so bad once you get to know me!"

Peridot remained impassive.

"And how many more Stevens are present in this area?" She questioned putting stress on the word 'Stevens'.

"Oh - just me." He replied, scratching the back of his head.

"Nee-hah, that's a relief." She laughed, "So tell me - Have 'Stevens,'" Peridot paused, "replaced humans as the dominant species on earth?" Steven shook his head and said, "Oh no - there's lots of humans, there's my dad, Connie, Lars and Sadie, the mailman, Onion," He paused as if thinking, "I think... lots of people."

"Hmmm." Steven took advantage of Peridot's lack of response. "Now I get to ask a question, what are you doing?" Peridot's screen turns from Steven and as one of the hands floats above him she says, "Hmm, just picking up where we left off." The gem hand formed a fist and Steven froze staring at the hand. The hand begins to fall, and Steven is about to get crushed when Garnet jumps onto the platform, grabs the fist, and tosses it to the side.

Peridot's monitor quickly swiveled around and upon seeing Garnet her eyes widen, "A Gem!" She exclaimed. Then, Pearl and Amethyst jump onto the platform as well. If it was even possible, Peridot's eyes widen even further, and she leans closer to the camera, crying out, "Ah! More? But the Red Eye didn't report the presence of any Gems on this planet!"

Pearl pointed her spear at the screen, shouting, "That's because we destroyed it." Peridot stared at her in confusion.

"You what? But the records say that Gems were wiped out on earth..." Peridot paused, "wait a minute... you're the ones that have been destroying my Plug Robonoids... are you the reason the Homeworld Warp is down again? This is your bizarre icon?" She held up her hand to show them the Crying Breakfast Friends sticker she found on the warp pad. She made a sound of annoyance. "Uh! Why do you keep destroying my THINGS?!

Pearl once again pointed her spear at the Peridot and spoke in a loud voice, "Because we are the Crystal Gems! We're still alive, and we're still the guardians of this planet and all its living creatures!"

Peridot looked bewilderedly at Pearl before saying, "The Crystal Gems?"

As if on cue the Gems all jump and begin to attack the giant hands. Steven just stood and watched while Peridot began ranting, "Stop! How dare you? I'm doing this one way or another. You're just... making it... really... difficult!"

Pearl and Amethyst smashed one of the giant hands after Peridot finished talking and Garnet pushed the other hand to the ground, using it as a springboard to jump into the air.

She then shouted, "Amethyst, now!" To which Amethyst answered by wrapping her whip around the fallen hand and swinging it into the power source shouting, "Destroy!" The crystal generator shattered, and Peridot yelled, "I'm reporting this!" Then the screen disappeared.

Everything was still.

Amethyst looked to her compatriots and asked quietly, "Is it over?" They looked at her with a mix of emotions on their faces but said nothing.

The Gems then walked over to Steven, who had stayed frozen where he was when the fight started and stared at him with matching looks of annoyance. He looked at the floor and spoke quietly, but loud enough for them to hear, "Okay... I might have gone a little too far this time." Garnet glanced away from him and said, "Well, Steven you weren't completely wrong," She smiled, "We learned something new because from your decisions."

Steven smiled a little and said, "Alright." Then Garnet's smile dropped. "But yeah, this was a pretty bad idea." Steven looked to the ground again with a slight frown. "Aw man..."

"There is one thing though..." Garnet said, a look of contemplation on her face. The others looked at her in confusion. "What?" Pearl questioned, confusion clear in her voice.

"Something that Peridot said bothers me." Garnet said slowly. "She said that there's another gem here whose sleeping. Who could Rose have trusted enough to storm the Kindergarten alone?" and a look of wonder and thought appeared on her friend's faces at the thought that there could be another gem living on earth. (Well, another gem that hadn't changed into some monster.)

Amethyst piped up excitement clear in her voice, "Yeah! Peridot said they were in like Sector 4 or something." Pearl, hopping up and down, spoke with eagerness, "Yes! Now all we have to do is find this 'Sector 4' and get the gem to come back with us!"

At this point, Steven spoke up, "What does that door say?"

His finger was pointing at a doorway in the back corner of the room on the opposite wall from which they came from.

Pearl walked up to the door, the others trailing behind her. "It's written in the old language of the gems." She lectured Steven. After briefly explaining the letters, Pearl deciphered the label to read 'To Sector 4.' "It's the place we are looking for!" Steven exclaimed.

Proceeding to the room beyond, the gems beheld a sight that not many had seen for a millennium.

As they walked down the hall, the temperature began to decrease, causing Steven to shiver. Frost patterned the walls becoming thicker the closer they got to their destination. At the end of the hall, the was a door coated in a layer of ice at least a foot thick.

Garnet looked at the ice, placing her hand onto it. "Stand back." She ordered, summoning her gauntlet. Eyes widening, her friends quickly moved back. Pulling her gauntlet back, Garnet threw her fist forward, slamming it into the ice. However, it did not shatter as the gems had predicted. Instead only a small crack showed where Garnet had punched the ice.

Grunting in frustration, Garnet summoned her other gauntlet, and slammed it into the ice again. Once again, the ice did not break, and the crack only widened slightly. Then she proceeded to slam her fists into the ice repeatedly with increasing speed and strength. The ice held at first, but as the crack widened, chunks of ice began to break off and shards flew everywhere. Finally, Garnet pulled back both of her fists, and slammed them into the door simultaneously.

With a groan and a loud snapping sound, the ice shattered, and the door behind it flew off its hinges. Stepping through the rubble, the four heroes looked through the dust kicked up by the door and froze, jaws dropping at what lay before them.

Sector 4 was a massive room at least 100 feet high and twice as long with massive columns supporting the ceiling. A metal walkway stretched across the floor to the other side where there may have been a door at one point but must have collapsed. Most of the floor and walls were covered with ice shards jutting out at random angles and once again the temperature dropped drastically causing Steven to shiver even more. However, the cavern wasn't what had caused their jaws to drop. It was what was standing in the middle.

In the center of the cavern stood a draconic monster made of pure ice. Its head was thrown back almost as if it was roaring silently. Frills covered the head and went all the way down to the base of its thick, long neck making them look like feathers. Large wings firmly planted on the ground were the things arms. At the end of each arm, there were 2 talons each at least as big as Steven. Near the rear of the monster, the back legs were short, but strong, as could be told by the muscle covering them. The tail was almost as long as the rest of the body and it ended with frills that looked like the ones covering the neck, but these ones were much sharper. There was something off though.

The dragon wasn't moving. Not in the slightest. The gems summoned their weapons and moved forward cautiously. As they neared the dragon, Pearl moved Steven behind her protectively. Garnet was the first to reach the dragon and when she did, she tapped the dragon softly. All the gems tensed ready to spring into action if necessary.

Instead of being assaulted by the dragon however, the gems were instead assailed by a melodic sound that echoed around them. Pearl gasped in realization. "It's hollow!" She turned to tell Steven it was safe but found that he was no longer behind her. Instead he was in front of the dragon tapping it in different places and making xylophone-like melodies.

It was quite a cheerful scene up until the ice in front of Steven opened and two arms, as blue as the ice around them, pulled him inside.

"STEVEN!" All three gems shouted.


Cliffhanger. Welp, hope you all enjoyed. Review and tell me if you want me to continue this story. I can't wait to hear what you guys might say. Also if you want to see a visual of the dragon copy and paste this as they look similar.

P.S. This series has gone through a major edit so if you notice anything out of place please let me know and I will fix it ASAP.