Being a fan of Steven Universe, I decided to do the obvious route and write a fanfic based on it. I go around and I have been finding a recurring motif among fans called "Momswapped AU." In this AU, Jasper, Peridot and Lapis Lazuli replace Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl as the Crystal Gems, as opposed to "Redemption AU" where they join the three as Honorary members of the group.

In this case, I owe a thanks to fanfiction-writer Stardonyx for her fanfic "Momswap: The Reversed AU" for giving me the idea to set everything up during "Story for Steven" rather than in "Gem Glow".

Steven Universe owned by Cartoon Network. Not me.

Greg let the final tune of his guitar carry itself across the beach from the speakers, nothing but the clapping of a single audience member to accompany it.

"Thank you for coming everybody. I'm Mr. Universe. If you like what you just heard, go check out our merch-table. My manager Marty can hook you up with CDs and t-shirts- oh wait," Greg regretted saying, seeing his manager missing. "He's not there. I guess I'm going over there now."

The young man put down his guitar and sat himself down at the empty merch table nearby. Up walked the audience member, who inspected an unopened album CD. She was taller than Greg. Thinner too. She wore a dark-yellow sleeveless vest that complimented her sharp-shoulders, a small diamond-shaped yellow jewel in the middle of a larger diamond shaped cut from her clothes on her chest. She wore a brown set of trousers that hugged her legs and waist like a second skin. Her dirty-blonde hair was short, making two pints jutting from her widow's peak. She had glowing yellow-skin, and two, piercing yellow eyes that commanded pride and confidence. She had the air of a prep-school dean or a proud veteran general, her presence commanding an earned respect.

"Space-Train to the Cosmos?"

"Yeah. One-way ticket and I'm ready to ri-e-iede," Greg sang.

"Huh," the woman shrugged, amused. "Well then, Mr. Universe, how do you plan on making it back?"

"Back?"

"Back to Earth?"

"I'm never coming back," said Greg, kicking back in his chair.

"Why would you do that? You are from here. Home is where the heart is, as some would say."

Greg was not sure how to respond to her, unsure if she was teasing or if she was offended by his answer.

"Uh... you want that?" Greg asked, pointing to the album.

"Hm?"

"Cause you can have it, and it comes with a free t-shirt." Greg held up a large t-shirt with his name on it. Looking at the height of the woman standing, plus the width her shoulders added to her, he rethought the offer. "You'll probably need a bigger one. I've got an XXL one in my van. Be right there."

Before he could open the van, the doors jutted out themselves and out-climbed greg's manager Marty and a blonde-haired biker chick.

"Star-child! Meet Vidalia," he gestured to the blonde woman beside him chewing gum.

"Nice van. Really living the high-life," the girl muttered apathetically as she blew a bubble.

"So, how was the show?"

"It was great! One person showed up. Oh! I gotta give her this free t-" and the yellow woman was gone. "-shirt..."

"Greg! You can't just give away stuff for free! What about my 75%? 75% of nothing is nothing. Are you worth nothing?"

"...no."

"That's right. I'm gonna make us both rich." He then motioned to Greg's ear and whispered "and as far as these salt-water saps know, we already are. So let's live it up before we hit the road, alright? Next stop, Empire City!"

"You know, I'll catch up with you," said Greg, letting Marty and Vidalia have their fun.

Greg wandered through the streets of the city. The empty roads and dim lights should make it easy for him to spot her. Her eyes practically glowed bright yellow, after all. As he wandered, he made it to the other side of the city's beach, only to be stopped by a long, metal fence. There stood a metal sign that read "KEEP OFF BEACH" in perfect English, accompanied by a small, wooden sign haphazardly nailed below it, spelling "or else" in very bad handwriting. Greg peered past the fence and saw what could only be described as a giant hand coming from the massive hill, possibly carved from the rock itself.

"Maybe she's over there?"

Greg was answered by a small mewing sound, realizing that there was a small orange tabby cat, decorated with dark-orange stripes and a strange diamond-shaped nose, sitting next to him.

"Hey there," Greg bent down to pet the cat, only to be warned with small growl, the cat slicking its ears back menacingly. "Uh huh-huh," he chuckled nervously, "I guess you wouldn't happened to have seen a tall, mysterious lady with spiked yellow hair, have you?"

To his surprise, the cat answered him, it eyes slitting and almost glowing a bright sunset color.

"So what if I have?" The cat seemed ready to pounce on him any moment.

"W-well... where is she?"

"I don't know what business you have with her human, but turn back now. You can't handle what you are in for if you don't."

The cat slipped through a hole in the fence and ran across the beach on the other side, leaving deep paw-prints in the sand.

"Wuh, hey! Wait!" Greg climbed the fence and fell on his back on the other side. "Hold on a sec!"

While the cat was fast, its paw-prints were easy for him to follow, leading him to the front of what Greg could only describe as a massive Goddess Statue that looked upon the ocean. A true architectural marvel and a real tourist trap should anyone else find it. Greg heard voices in an opening where the statue's abdomen was.

"A human was sneaking by the fence."

"Hold on a second: It spoke to you?"

"He was asking about Yellow Diamond. I think the temple might be compromised."

"Oh please. If it was a human than there shouldn't be anything to be wor..."

The woman abruptly stopped and looked up at Greg in surprise. The woman had a green triangular gemstone on her forehead, a shade of green that the rest of her body seemed to share. She wore a simplistic outfit, her hands fitted with protective gloves and feet with protective shoes. Her hair was a sickly shade of bright yellow in the shape of a large triangle. On the front of her outfit sat a small yellow diamond-shape just like the yellow lady, but lacking gemstone. She had small lines below here eyes and on subtle parts on her angular face, possibly from stress.

"Yo," said Greg, feeling awkward.

"You!"

"Jasper, hold on!"

Suddenly, the cat ran up to him, and before Greg could process it, expanded before his very eyes, taking on the form of a rather large woman. She was huge, sporting a wild mane of white hair that climbed down her back. Her whole body was in different shades of orange, stripes of dark orange painted across her body in contrast like war paint or on a bengal tiger. Instead of a nose there was a small, diamond-shaped gemstone, and piercing yellow eyes similar to the yellow woman, though instead of being calming and attention grabbing, these told him that he should be running. Very fast.

"Who are you? State your purpose!"

"Jasper! Leave it be! You don't know where its been." Suddenly the green woman came over and got between them, feebly holding back this orange gorilla (Jasper she said her name was) from seriously injuring him. "Um, I am very sorry about this uh... you."

A light exploded from the platform in the center of the temple and suddenly there stood a third woman. She was elegant and feminine, as opposed to the masculine Jasper and the angular green lady. Her short hair and dress wafting in the breeze as if she was underwater. Her entire body was completely blue, varying in different shades on her dress, skin and hair. Floating above her hands where two sky-blue bubbles containing what looked like two strange-looking rocks inside them. As soon as she noticed the situation, the two bubbles vanished into thin-air.

"Jasper. Peridot. You're with a human!" The blue woman stepped off the platform, her bare-feet not making a sound, as she got right in Greg's face, attempting to stare the man of the same height down.

"He says he is after Yellow Diamond," Jasper growled.

"It seems he'll needs proper interrogating," Peridot stated apathetically, almost as if he was just a guinea pig in a science experiment. Lapis walked right up to his face, meeting him at nearly the same height with her unblinking eyes.

"It seems my teammates think you are some sort of threat. I think introductions will be needed. Hello, I am Lapis Lazuli. What brings you here?" The blue woman - Lapis Lazuli as he knows her by now - seemed much more inviting than the other two. This was because all of her aggression was internal, as the poor, unsuspecting human was blissfully unaware of a stream of water slowly crawled beyond the rest of the tide, forming an arm reaching out from behind him.

"Um... I was looking a mysterious yellow lady. Really tall, very pointy looking shoulders..."

"Well is sounds like Yellow Diamond," said Peridot.

"That's what I've been saying!" Jasper roared again.

"Hmm..." muttered Lapis, her face closer to his in an intense stare. "Nope, he's fine. Let's just throw him over the fence."

"What?!" Greg sputtered indignantly before finally noticed the giant arm made of water looming over him, ready to grab him. "Hey wait, hold on-"

"Wait!" The water-arm immediatly lost its shape, landing on him. Greg moved his newly soaked hair out of his eyes, seeing Yellow Diamond standing them from a door on the wall. "Mr. Universe?"

"It's you," Greg muttered, ringing the water out of his mane. Yellow Diamond leaped from where she was and landed with great precision on a rock infront of him like a kunoichi. "Are you okay?" She asked, lending a hand to the man. Suddenly Peridot broke their line of sight.

"You know this human?"

"Um well," Yellow Diamond stuttered, "he was playing a music concert on the beach and I was curious."

"No one can ignore the Universe," Greg flaunted, his charm undermined by the salt-water weighing his hair down. "Oh, I brought you this! It's the free t-shirt that came with your free CD.

"Um, why thank you," Yellow Diamond stuttered, her yellow cheeks blushing olive as she accepted the gift.

The other three crowded around her as they observed the Mr. Universe Logo on the front. She whispered "his gimmick is space" to them, causing Lapis and Peridot to snicker while Jasper kept her sneer of suspicion on Greg. Lapis laid against Greg in a somewhat teasing manner.

"Play something Mr. Universe," said Lapis.

"Better make it good," said Jasper, popping her knuckles threateningly.

"I'm working on this awesome new set that's gonna kill at my next show. Next show... ah geeze, what time is it?"

"Night... time?" Peridot answered, confused.

Yeah, Marty's probably looking for me. We're supposed to hit the road, big show in a big city. I didn't drop out of community college for nothing you know."

"...what?" Peridot asked, even more bemused by the stranger

"Well you'd better hurry, don't let us make you miss your 'space-train to the cosmos'," said Yellow Diamond.

"Okay, I'll see you later." He ran the other way before turning back. "I hope the stars align for us to meet again."

"I'm sure they will," answered Yellow Diamond, amused by his enthusiasm.

"Good-bye Mr. Universe!" shouted Lapis.

Greg ran past the gate where his van and his manager was waiting. Yellow Diamond looked down at the shirt fondly. One does not receive gifts that often, especially from a stranger. The yellow Gem had a feeling that there was more to Greg than she initially thought...

"I can sing too, you know," Peridot blurted, trying to dismiss the human's visit. The others started to snicker. Even Jasper's tension broke as she tried to hide her own smirk from the others. The green gem blushed pine green. "What?"

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