Author's Note: Welcome to this story (or whatever). Anyways, this story takes place in an AU in which everything is normal up until the Episode "Jailbreak". Instead of going back to Earth, the seven gems find themselves stranded on an island, unable to escape. Going to try to balance action, emotion, and humor. Let's begin, shall we? Starting off on the green hand ship thing yo.
Steven: I can barely breathe. My lungs gasp for air. I run down the neon green corridors alongside Pearl and Amethyst. Garnet is battling Jasper. If she loses… no. She won't. I'm sure of it. We run down hallway after hallway, looking for the control room. We have to get back to Earth. I look through an open doorway and find Peridot at the control hub. "Guys, over here!" I whisper. They look back at me and nod. We sprint into the room. Peridot gasps, and grabs a golden, sparking rod – Jasper had called it a gem destabilizer – and thrust it at me. I caught it with my bare hands. Since I was half human, they didn't work on me. That's how I'd escaped, too. A look of panic spread across her face. I pushed her back, and she fell onto the control panel. The ship quickly spun around. I couldn't tell what direction we were in any more. Warning lights blared. We were crashing. I glanced out of the window, and saw us quickly speeding towards Earth. Using this as a distraction, Peridot activated an escape pod and flew down to that planet ahead of us. I looked at Amethyst and Pearl. They looked as scared as I was. "Garnet?" I quietly asked. Pearl shook her head. "There isn't any time. I'm sorry, Steven. We just have to hope for the best." She said. I hugged the two gems and hid us in a bubble. I felt a huge crash, felt the floor shatter. I heard the rushing of water, but we were safe in my bubble.
I opened my eyes. We were underwater. Rubble surrounded us. I released the bubble. We swam upwards. The gems may not need oxygen, but I did. I wasn't going to make it. I started to close my eyes. I was sinking. I could make out the silhouettes of the two gems on the surface. At least they would survive. I suddenly felt the water push me upwards. I broke the surface, gasping for air. I kneeled down on the sandy beach, spluttering. "Steven! Are you okay?" I hear Pearl call to me. "Yeah. What happened?" I ask. "Lapis saved you." Pearl replied, pulling me into a hug. I looked around for Lapis. I saw her on the beach, about twenty feet away, her arm trapped in Jasper's hand.
"Lapis!" I cry. Amethyst has to hold me back. "Listen Lazuli, fuse with me." Jasper yells. Lapis wearily looks up at her, shocked. "What?" she asks. She's badly hurt already. She didn't have my bubble when the ship crashed. "Together, we can beat them!" Jasper yelled, pulling Lapis closer. Lapis flinched. Jasper dropped her onto the sandy beach. "N… No." Lapis stutters. "What?" Jasper demands. "You heard me. I won't do it!" Lapis yells, weakly standing up. Jasper grabs her by the arm, and slams her onto the ground. Lapis cries out in pain. "Listen up Lazuli. I didn't pose that as a question." Jasper yells, putting a foot on Lapis' back. "I won't do it!" Lapis yells back. Jasper glowers at her. "So be it." She says. She presses her foot down, and an audible crack rings throughout the beach. Lapis screams. "Her gem." I whisper. Jasper relieves the pressure a bit, although not enough for it to be comfortable. "So, what do you say? Even if you don't care about yourself, and I can't say I wouldn't blame you, I'll just do the same to the others until they're all shattered. So will you fuse with me?" Jasper asks, malice layered in her grin. "I'll do it." Lapis whispers. Jasper crudely yanks her up. Lapis' crack isn't that deep, but if I couldn't heal it, it'd become fatal. Jasper twirled Lapis around, carefully guiding her through the steps. I noticed tears dripping down Lapis' face. Would she be okay? They started to glow…
A large green gem appeared before us. "Malachite." Pearl whispers. The green gem is clearly struggling to stay together. "Stay down, runt." "No! I can do this! I will do this!" Jasper and Lapis were battling for dominance. Large water hands started to rise from the ocean. They grabbed Malachite's wrists, shackling her. They tried to pull her into the sea, but Malachite was too strong for that. "You think you can beat me?" "No, but I can try!" I heard a rustling in the bushes. I saw the glint of a dark pink gauntlet. It must be Garnet. I make eye contact with her. She darts out from the undergrowth, and sprints straight for Malachite. She punches her in the jaw, sending her flying into the ocean. The chains do the rest of the work. Malachite disappears into the sea.
I rush over to the edge of the beach. "Garnet?" I ask, apprehensive. She smiles back at me. "It's okay Steven. We're safe now." She says. Amethyst and Pearl run over. "Garnet! You're okay!" Pearl exclaims. She smiles. "Yeah. But things could've gone a lot better." We're silent for a moment. "So… where are we?" Amethyst asks. "Let's walk around for a bit. We start to walk down the beach.
This place is like nowhere I've ever been. It's a small island, about two miles wide. It's shaped like an "H", but if the upper left-hand side was bent to the left. The beach runs along the entire perimeter of the island, except for where the ship crash landed. The blast must've blown away that part of the island, and so now it was an inlet with cliffs surrounding it. It was quite beautiful, really. Except we were trapped here. After making a full loop around the island, we decide to stay in the upper right hand part of the "H". Up there, it's partially plains, and we found wild foods there. I'm going to need to eat at some point, so I'll start a farm there if worst comes to worst. We find the highest point of the plains, and set up camp. What that means is that we all lay down in a circle and try to sleep. Not that it helps.
Garnet looks off into the distance. "Hey, Garnet. What's up?" I ask, giving a small smile. "I'm going to travel tonight to see how far away land is. I'll try to bring a boat back for you, Steven." She says. I nod, and she walks off into the sea. Maybe I'll see my friends again tomorrow.
No such luck. In the middle of the night, Garnet comes back to camp soaking wet. "Garnet! Did you find land?" I hear Pearl whisper. They think I'm happily sleeping. How could I? "No… I went in one direction for miles, but I just ended up back on this island." Garnet says. I hear Pearl gasp. "So… what does that mean again?" Amethyst asks. "It means that we're not on Earth. We're all alone on this planet with no way of ever getting back." Garnet says.