Steven Universe Homeworld War AU
Chapter: 1
War. It's been around me since the day I was born. My dad Greg Universe sometimes tells me stories about what earth, this planet I've seen so many people fight and die for used to be like. How there used to be wide open fields, full of grass, plants, and flowers. He sometimes cries when he's telling the stories. He tries to hide it but I can tell. I think it's because it reminds him of my mom. He says she loved plants and especially flowers, to watch life come to them and see them bloom. He said it always made her sad knowing it would never last. He always compares it the peace earth had. that is until the homeworld gems came to earth.
He says they came from nowhere with machines and abilities they just couldn't do anything against. That they brought large red crystal like drill machines and used them in certain areas to make more gems. He told me the areas were called kindergartens. Everyone tells me that earth would have been doomed if it wasn't for my mom. My dad says that she is the one that started the rebellion and got other gems to join. No one really knows where she came from, all they knew was that she was brave enough to stand against the leaders of her home world. The Diamonds. Yellow Diamond, the head general of most of home worlds armies. Blue Diamond, she is the one my mom fought the most on the front lines for Earth. She is in charge of military tactics of the home worlds armies but isn't afraid to fight herself.
Then there was White Diamond, she ruled homeworld while the other diamonds sought out other planets to turn into kindergartens until they were lifeless. That's what they would have done to Earth if it wasn't for my mom and her five generals. My dad was one of them, even though he was just a regular human. The others are called the Crystal Gems and are my guardians while my dad is away on missions. Which is a lot now a days with him leading his army division behind enemy lines. My mom's other four generals or three depending on how you look at it were. Pearl, who was my mom's second in command and our best taction. She doesn't really like my dad that much. She's always telling me about all of the battles her and my mom were in and all the interesting things about my gem culture and past when she watches me. She's kinda tall(around the same height as my dad) and has pale white skin and blue eyes. Her gem is in the center of her head and her main weapon of choice is a spear like sword.
But she has A bunch of different ones she stores at our HQ in a remote town called Beach City. It appears as a plain small wooden house on the side of a hill but is actually surrounded by an old Crystal Gem temple my mom and the other gems made a long time ago. The temple itself is surrounded by some camouflage machine Pearl made. I live in the wooden part of the house and each gem has their own room in the temple they can all get to through the same door using their gems as keys. I inherited my mom's gem in the spot where my belly button should be. I used to not be able to use it let alone get in to my moms old room. But now I can do almost all the stuff my mom could do. Whenever I want to do some special training or I just be alone I go into her room.
My other three or two guardians are named Amethyst and Garnet. Amethyst leads a lot of the army that's fights on the front line against the home world gems. She's really short for A gem. She's around my height. She has long white hair and purple skin. Her gem is in the center of her chest and she likes to use crystal lined whips. She is super fun to be around most of the time. But sometimes I wish she took things more serious though sometimes. Plus she and Pearl don't really get along so they hardly ever watch me together or are away from the war for too long at the same time.
Finally there's Garnet, she is by far the strongest Crystal Gem physically speaking. She's really tall and has dark skin. She also has a really big box afro and unlike most gems she has two gems, both of which are on the palms of her hands. Her main weapons are two stone gauntlets that she can make appear on her hands. She also has this really cool ability that she hides by wearing big sunglasses that she can make appear out of nowhere like her gauntlets. She has a third eye that can see possible futures. Besides my dad and me no one outside the Crystal Gems knows that Garnet is actually a being called a fusion.
A fusion is what two or more gems are called after they merge into one. From what i've been told almost all gems can fuse, but not all fusions are good and there is at least one big rule. When two gems fuse it has to be of there own will and it can never be forced. Also if the two gems that fuse aren't evenly balanced together the fusion can be really bad and get out of control. Fusions usually share the physical features and abilities of the gems that form them. But Garnet is the exception, she is the fusion of two gems named Ruby and Sapphire. Ruby has amazing strength and Sapphire has the future vision.
Pearl's told me that most gems after they fuse even if they are a good match still consider themselves separate beings so it takes all they have to maintain their fusion and that if they do maintain their fusion for too long they lose all sense of themselves. But Ruby and Sapphire are so well matched that Pearl's told me even she doesn't know how they can stay fused for so long. I didn't find out Garnet was a fusion until my last birthday, apparently Ruby and Sapphire have only come unfused a few times in the last few hundred years when they've had to because of damage they've taken. Yet every time they refuse they know exactly who they are every time. Pearl says she considers Garnet more than just some fusion of Ruby and Sapphire's physical forms and abilities, she says she's more of a conversation between the two with the best of everything from each both of them.
I'm told my mom passed away after giving birth to me and I think Pearl kind of resents me some for it. I know she loves me like the others and she doesn't really show it but I can tell by how she looks at me some time. I inherited a lot from my mom. My dad says we have the same gem and spirit. I also have her ability to heal but I can only use it through my saliva. Plus I can control plants to. I also inherited two weapons from my mom, a shield with her insignia on it that I can summon like how the others summon their weapons. And a sword that Pearl says my mom fought with on the front lines. I carry the sword around with me everywhere I go but during my training I prefer to use my shield.
I have A lot of different teachers. Both human and gem one, When I'm at our HQ it's usually my dad or one of the Crystal Gems. But sometimes the gems take me with them, but only when they're all together and only for a few weeks at a time if i'm lucky. I really like it when I do go out though because I always get to meet cool new instructors. One of my favorite human instructors is a human major named Sadie. She teaches me a lot on hand to hand combat. People never expect her to be good at it because she's pretty short like me and Amethyst but she's actually super fast and strong. We get along really well and have fun together.
She tells me stories some times of her mom and how when she was younger she would always make her packed lunches with little notes inside that said things like "Have a super day" and "Love you pumpkin." She told me that she lost her mom a few years back during a home world gem attack on her home town. She always regrets how she never got to say goodbye to her and wasn't able to save her. A year ago my dad found A old video my mom made before she died in his old van. I watched it with Sadie a few weeks later. It showed my mom just hanging out with the Gems and my dad while she was pregnant with me. She told me she would always be apart of me and that I should watch out for everyone. After the video was over I started crying and asked Sadie was this how it felt after she lost her mom. She was crying to and said that it even more. Then she gave me a hug and we just sat there looking at the TV screen. The I put the video in a secret hiding spot at our HQ.
I think my favorite non Crystal Gem would have to be an old white haired gem named Galena. She's kind of old but gets really mad when anyone brings it up. She's a squad captain for a back up unit near the front lines of the war. Her skin is super tough and is pitch black. Most of her squads skin is to. When a squad on the front line needs help they go in with the cover of night and help provide surprise support. It's a tactic that's helped save a lot of people. Her weapon is a long black serrated scythe that looks amazing. She was the first non Crystal Gem gems that I remember meeting. She trains me in long range hand weapons when we meet.
The war with the home world has been going on for a very long time. A lot of people or gems don't remember what peace was like. The home world choose to start this war but my mom choose to stand against it. To stand up for what she thought was right and gather people who agreed to fight with her. To make a stand for Earth, to stand against her own home planet for one that needed help. My mom's name was Rose Quartz and all she ever dreamed of was for there to one day be peace between gems and humans. I am her son and I am part human and part gem and want that same thing. And I swear one day I'm going to make my mom's dream come true or my name isn't Steven Quartz Universe!
To Be Continued...