Note: These adventures (Like this one) are based off of my own ideas and they happen during the newest Steven Universe episodes starting with Bismuth
Bismuth part 1 (The barn)
It was a beautiful afternoon on the hills outside of beach city, was the barn that belonged to Greg Universe. It had been a few week since the Cluster was bubbled and Malachite being seperated.
Steven and the gems were off somewhere either on a gem mission or having fun during the warm summer.
Lapis and Peridot were currently outside of the barn currently hanging out with each other, though they weren't use to being on earth and not homeworld, they were finally begining to enjoy each other's company.
In fact Lapis was even beginning to use the pool that Peridot had given to her as a gift back before the rubies came to earth.
''Aaah.'' Lapis said as she happily relaxed into her own pool. ''Well, you were right Peridot, this pool is all the moisture that I could ever want.'' Swimming towards Peridot, she decided to have a little fun with her by creating a wave of water and soaking pushing her off of her rubber tube. That caused her to fall into the pool and get wet at the same time.
''Yeah, you said it Lapis, I never knew that you'd change your mind about the water. I thought it wasn't your thing?'' Peridot said when she spat water out from her mouth.
''Well actually, I was on a boat trip with steven and his Dad. Along the way we had troubles.'' Lapis said as she shivers at the thoughts from what happened. ''Troubles? Like what?'' Peridot asked in concern.
''Well theres the usual dangers like, crashing, sinking, being pulled overboard by a giant fish or being attacked by Jasper just so she could form Malachite again.'' After hearing what Lapis had said, Peridot gasped. ''She...JASPER IS STILL IN ONE PIECE?!'' Peridot shrieked so loud in fear that she had managed to scare a few animals away from 4 miles within the barn.
''It's ok, I blasted her back towards the ocean in the blink of an eye just before she could shatter Steven's gem.''
''Oh right.'' Peridot groaned as she sunk to the bottom of the lake. At this Lapis giggled a little but somehow got the feeling that this wasn't the first time that she was attacked.
She remembered back to the day when a strange block shaped gem poofed her without warning from before she was used in a gem powered mirror, she then thought about what would happen if that gem would ever return, would she poof her?, shatter her?, would she put her back in a magic mirror? would she...
At the bottom of the lake, Peridot was plotting to have a little fun with Lapis herself when she thought about it she then looked up at the surface, but when she was about to swim up, she looked up and saw that the blue gem had somehow fainted and was sinking to the bottom. ''LAPIS!'' Peridot screamed in her mind, fearing that Lapis would drown, she swam over to her and grabbed a hold of her whilst swimming her way to the top of the pool.
When she got to the surface, Peridot brought Lapis to the edge of the pool and dragged her onto the ground where she tried to wake up her only friend in desperation. ''Lapis, wake up please, oh please don't poof on me. Please, I can't imagine a homeworld without you.''
Peridot tried her best to get her friend to wake up, little did she know that someone or something was watching her from behind. The mysterious figure disappeared when Peridot turned around after hearing a twig snap from behind her.
Peridot then decided to ignore the snapped twig and brought Lapis into the barn.
5 hours later, Lapis' eyes fluttered open as she saw that she was in the barn and had been placed onto her own bed. Lapis then threw off the covers and went to find Peridot, ''Oh my stars.'' Lapis heard a familiar voice coming from the top of the barn, it was Peridot who had actually seen Lapis get up.
Without hesitation, she quickly climbed down the ladder and ran over to Lapis where she immediantly hugged her. ''Thank Rose Quartz that you're alright.'' Peridot said in concern.
''I'm alright Peri, I just passed out from exhaustion that's all.'' Lapis said calmly, even though she didn't show it, Peridot could see that was still suspicious. Peridot was about to ask another question when she happened to see the sun sinking into the ocean. ''Well, it's getting late, wanna head off to bed?'' Peridot asked after letting a yawn escape her.
At this point, Lapis was not in the mood to do anything else today so she agreed with Peri and went off to bed
That night at the Barn, Lapis and Peridot were both sleeping in the back of the truck that Steven was sleeping in when the crystal gems were building the gem drill. Due to her newfound powers, Peridot lifted the truck up the ladder and onto the platform.
''Peri...are you still awake?'' Lapis asked quietly though she had her back to Peridot, ''Yeah.'' Peridot answered groggily. The two gems then turned to face each other and caused them to make themselves comfortable on the back of the truck.
''Sighs' I can't sleep.'' Lapis finally admitted, ''How come?'' Peridot asked, Lapis didn't say it specifically but she ended up saying that things that weren't relevent to Peridot's question.
But in the end, Peridot guessed that it had something to do with the pool today. So without hesitation, she decided to go ahead and ask Lapis her question.
''By the way, how come you passed out earlier?'' Peridot asked her in worry that something bad might happen to her only homeworld friend.
All the while, Lapis had only begun to realise that she was awake at midnight, the reason for this was all because she was still thinking of what she saw earlier. She had then decided to explain everything to Peridot.
''Well...'' Lapis started as she explained
(Flashback:)
Lapis looked at a huge figure, at first she thought it was Jasper but no. This figure was too familiar to her, a gem she had not seen since...
The menacing figure advanced towards her, Lapis then attempted to swim away from the gem but it was too late, the gem had already grabbed her by the foot and lifted her up to her face.
The gem then threw Lapis in the air, the gem stretched it's arms out towards Lapis whom attempted to fly away and coiled her just like a snake.
Lapis had now found herself face to face with the evil gem how she had feared for 5,300 years. Lapis attempted to get free but the struggling only caused the menacing gem to squeeze Lapis even harder.
She was frozen with fear.
She couldn't move.
She couldn't scream for help.
She could sprout her wings.
She couldn't do anything.
''Well...well...well, looks like we finally meet again after all those years Lazuli.''
Lapis thought that this was a horrible nightmare and attempted to wake up, but she found that it wasn't a dream.
All the while, the mysterious gem was still attempting to poof her but had a bit of a problem doing so as it knew that Peridot was at the bottom of the pool. Lapis thought that Peridot might have seen this but oddly enough...she didn't.
After being squeezed so much and from panicking, Lapis eventually passed out. She felt herself being dropped back into her eternal tomb of water.
''Nighty night. Little Lazuli. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. We are th...y..al...g...s.''
Lapis never got to make out the rest of what the gem was saying as her eyes fluttered close as she sank to the bottom of her lake, the last thing she saw before she passed out was the menacing gem smiling evily at her as it walked away.
(Flashback ends)
''...And that's why I passed out.'' Lapis sadly admitted to Peridot, a lone tear rolled down her cheek. ''From that point on, I never trusted the Crystal gems, in fact it's also the reason why I believed that they didn't try to get me out of the mirror.'' At this point, Lapis started to silently sob her eyes out.
Peridot had also been responsible for things that happened to Lapis in the past. Not only had she interrigated her and brought back to earth but it was also something she had said before they had even come to earth.
(Peri's Flashback:)
''So you knew there were still Crystal Gems on earth and you never TOLD ME!''
''No, Peridot it...it isn't what it...''
''Oh believe me I think I get the whole picture!''
''Please, I di...''
''That's ENOUGH out of you, I'm going to report this to Yellow Diamond and this friendship is over between us, I mean it!''
(Peri's Flashback ends)
Just thinking about those horrible words made Peri feel guilty enough to make her cry alongside Lapis ''L...Lapis...I'm...so...sorry.'' Peridot admitted to Lapis. This made Lapis look up from her own crying and her attention was then drawn to Peridot.
''What?'' Lapis said curiously, Peridot looked as if she had just been through a part of her own precious heart had been restored. Without warning, Peridot furiously hugged Lapis which gave her an instant shock about what she was experiencing. ''I'm sorry for all the horrible things that I said to you and I still wanna resume our friendship!'' Peri finally admitted to Lapis after so many decades of being seperated and angry with each other and now they were finally reunited.
However, outside the barn a misterious figure came out from the bushes and was proceeding towards the strange noises that were coming from the barn itself.
The figure quietly made its way over to the door, however, she tripped over hole in the ground which caused her to hit her head off of a rock. But this caused the figure to get angry and as she got up, she marched her way over to the barn.
Back inside the barn, Lapis and Peridot were having a whale of a time chatting about their previous adventures and their greatest moments with Steven and some of the crystal gems.
In fact, the The two girls' gems were glowing and they were going to do something that they haven't done since...they were just about to combine their own bodies when suddenly...
CREEEEEEAAAAAAK! WOOOOOOOOSH!
That loud creaking noise made Lapis and Peridot jump, they had the shivers that caused them to get scared. ''Oh my stars, I did not see that coming.'' Peridot said after hearing the barn door roughly opening.
Then without further hesitation, Lapis and Peridot just turned around towards the darkness within the barn nervously and looked around. ''Hello?'' Lapis called out towards the presumed to be empty barn.
The two gems then saw something close the barn door roughly and it moved towards the junk pile and managed to knock over a few bits and pieces of junk off of the gem drill. ''Hello, is...is anyone there?'' Lapis asked again.
Peridot then heard something, something that was a strange noise but it sounded like laughter by presumingly another gem. Calming down a little, Lapis and Peridot presumed that the noises were coming from one of the Crystal gems, and somehow they thought it was Amethyst or Steven.
''St...Steven?'' Lapis asked curiously ''Amethyst?'' Peridot asked happily. It was at this point that they started to calm down and speak to the mysterious figure behind the gem drill. ''Please, come on out, whoever you are.'' Peridot started as she looked to the source of the noises, ''Yes, come on don't be shy. There's nothing to be afraid of.'' Lapis continued as the mysterious figure hid behind the cockpit of the Gem drill, it was then looking up at Lapis and Peridot even thought they couldn't see it.
The mysterious figure then proceeded to go for Lapis and Peridot, all the while Peridot and Lapis then looked at this mysterious figure which made them get scared again all of a sudden. ''No..No NO NO NO NOOOOOO! IT CAN'T BE!'' Lapis screamed in terror! Peridot was also frightened at this point, especially when the figure's shadow loomed over them.
''Well lookey what we've got here, a Lazuli and a puny Peridot. Oh you'll come in handy for my super weapon's testing!'' The mysterious figure said before it reached out and grabbed both Peridot and Lapis.
''Aaaaaaaah! Let us go, please!'' Peridot Screamed, The two gems started to scream in terror as the mysterious figure carried them over it's shoulders. The figure then started to walk away from the barn and over to beach city for reasons unknown.
5 miles away from the barn, the mysterious figure had knocked out Peridot and Lapis because it didn't want to attract any attention. Though Peridot and Lapis weren't awake, they both knew that they had gotten themselves into a lot of trouble.
So here we have it. The first chapter of the Adventures of the Gems. More chapters will come soon.
