Steven woke up with the sun in his face. He sat up, yawned, and walked down the wooden steps of his room to his bathroom to get ready for the day. When he came out of his bathroom, however, things were way different then when he had entered.
For one, the house was filled large black and green bugs that resembled centipedes.
"Steven, duck!" A voice shouted. Steven crouched down just before one of the bugs flew through the air, sailing right where he had been a few moments ago. A blue gem came flying directly after, with water-y wings on her back. The gem, called Lapis, punched the bug and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Steven, are you alright?" She asked. The boy nodded. "What's happening?" He asked, just as a large orange gem jumped into view, fending off several bugs at once. Lapis didn't have time to answer as one of the bugs leaped for her. Steven watched her wrestle with it until the orange gem pulled it off her. "Thanks Jasper," Lapis said before flying back into battle.
"A corrupted gem infestation. We don't know where they came from, but they're clearly hostile." Another voice said almost robotically. Steven turned to see Peridot, with her floating fingers positioned into a blaster.
The green gem then got a shining look in her eyes. "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" She screeched out maniacally as her blaster rapid-fired. Most of the blasts hit their targets, but a few ended up as holes in the wall instead.
Steven became aware of the fact that he was just standing there doing nothing. The last of the bugs spotted him and reared up, spraying acidic goop from its mouth. Before Steven could do anything, a pair of arms lifted him up and away from the acid while Jasper punched bug hard enough to instantly poof it.
"Are you ok, Steven?" Jasper asked as Lapis put him down.
"I'm fine. What were those things?"
"They're Centipeetles, but it seems that they are not actual gems, since they didn't leave any behind." Peridot observed in the background. "There's going to be a mother creature coming soon." The other two gems nodded in agreement.
Steven looked through one of the holes Peridot created. "Uh, guys?"
"Not now, Steven." Peridot reprimanded gently.
"But guys, I think those things are coming back."
"WHAT?!" All three of the gems rushed out to confront the monster. Steven ran after them. "Hey, wait for Steven!" He called after them.
On the beach, Steven saw that the three gems were already fighting the biggest bug Steven had ever seen. Then again, Steven didn't get a lot of chances to see the monsters the gems fight.
Lapis was standing on the ground using giant water hands to wrestle with the Centipeetle Mother while Jasper was on its head and raining blows down. Peridot was busy trying to keep the smaller versions, which were swarming around the Centipeetle Mother, from distracting Lapis, but it clearly wasn't working since she didn't want to accidentally hit Lapis with one of her energy blasts.
One of the smaller Centipeetles suddenly lunged forward, knocking the water gem over and breaking her control over the water. The Centipeetle Mother, now free from Lapis, jerked its head from side to side and threw Jasper off.
Lapis broke free from under the mound of Centipeetles that had gathered on top of her, using her water wings to push them away. She flew for a short moment before getting knocked down by the Mother, landing next to Jasper.
The Centipeetle Mother opened its mouth and a torrent of acid spilled forward. With a small amount of strength remaining, Lapis summoned enough water to create a small shield that dissipated instantly.
Steven saw the Mother open its mouth again and a burning feeling spread through him. He jumped in front of the two exhausted gems just as the next acid wave burst forth.
"No!" Steven screamed and closed his eyes tight.
To his surprise, he was unharmed. Steven opened his eyes to see a large pink shield protecting him, Lapis and Jasper from the acid. The acid rebounded off the shield and landed all over the beach, destroying all of the smaller Centipeetles.
Steven grew excited. "I have a shield!" He yelled and thrust his arms into the air. Like a bullet, the shield suddenly took off and bonked the Centipeetle Mother in the face.
Taking this as an opportunity, Jasper jumped into the air, resummoning her helmet, and headbutted the monster. Having being weakened by Steven's shield, the monster instantly poofed, dropping a round green gem.
Peridot walked up and held the gem, a light green bubble forming around it. She tapped the top and the bubble teleported into the Temple. Four of her fingers formed one of her screens and she mumbled things to herself while logging the gem in.
Jasper walked over and sighed. "Peridot, you know you don't have to log things." In a quieter voice she whispered "You're not a Homeworld Peridot anymore."
Peridot just sighed as her fingers returned to her hand. She turned the attention back to Steven. "Congratulations Steven, you summoned your weapon!" She said, bluntly ignoring Jasper.
"I know right!" Steven yelled in excitement. "Now I can go on missions with you guys and protect people and help save the world! And maybe also use the shield for other things, like I can carry heavy stuff around or use it as an umbrella or a skateboard or-"
At that point, Peridot tuned out.
Well, that's the first chapter and it was a rendition of Gem Glow. The only thing that was actually significant there was that he summoned his shield so…
ANYWAY! The first few chapters are going to be about Steven unlocking his powers and learning more about Gem stuff.
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