Hello~ This is my first fanfiction X'D
I've written before in smaller RP circles, the sensible fantasy story kinds mind you ^ ^;
This story is kind of a crossover and kind of not. The main premise is that I've turned certain Pokemon into the human-like gem species.
I wont blatantly say who the gems are supposed to be, that can be up to you guys to decide, makes it more fun ^ ^
If I can, the following chapter will have a picture linked to show whoever was introduced last along with the design. I've had more art experience then writing X'''D
Anyway, I hope you enjoy ^ ^;
A prone silhouette lays alone, illuminated against a pulsing yellow screen. It begins to stir, then groans, propping themselves up on their arms and knees. It appears to be a small feminine being, no taller than a child. They squint their eyes as the brightness of the glowing transparent wall assails them. Blinking to clear the stars out of her eyes, the small figure suddenly realise their situation. She was confined in a small cell, the walls, floor and ceiling was made of metallic green plates, all except the previously mentioned force field. She reaches out towards it, only for it to shock her, causing her hand to lose all definition of its form, but shortly returned to normal. She steps back, forlorn riddling her face as the gravity of the predicament settles in.
"No… No! I can't be here! This isn't what was supposed to happen!" She whispers, resting against the wall adjacent the barrier. Letting her legs give out under her, she slides down the wall, sitting down. Her hand reaches to a golden gem engraved into her stomach, grazing it with a thumb, as if for re-assurance. She cradles her head on her knees as she crawls into a ball, feeling the looming despair of what awaits her.
Please, please no… I don't want ta go back…
Fear. Pure, icy, fear filled his entire core. Steven stared, held up by his arms at the place Garnet had been defeated. The horror in her eyes as she had fallen to pieces from Jasper's attack still cloud his mind. Two gemstones now sit in the imprints in the sand of what was Garnet's gauntlets. Steven's shock is broken as the towering figure of Jasper advances towards him.
"I was there you know" her voice cuts through Steven as he looks up to her, cowering under her menacing gaze. "At the first war for this garbage planet." Jasper looms over him, looking down. "I fought against your armies. I respected your tactics. But this-" Steven whimpers as Jasper hoists him up by his collar. "This, is sick!" the warrior gem snarls. Steven kicks and fights against her grasp.
"Unhand him!" Pearl cries as she and Amethyst charge to Steven's aid, weapons primed, all previous terror and caution had been abandoned as their precious child was in peril.
"I don't get what you're planning Rose," Jasper smirks "but look" she points Steven's sight towards the gigantic gem statue that's two faces watch the sea and sky. "Your base is taken" Jasper states as if checking a imaginary list.
"Your armies are ruined" her sneer grows as she watches Amethyst and Pearl charges, disregarding them completely. Steven steals a glance towards the pair, silently pleading for them to move faster, but knowing they wouldn't make it. Jasper returns her attention to the boy in her grasp.
"You," her helmet vanishes as she rears back "have failed!"
It had felt like his head was hit by a rock. A really big, stripy, orange rock. Steven didn't want to move, but he had to get up. He wasn't sure why, when he was so comfortable on the cold hard ground too. Oh, had he rolled out of bed again? Steven blearily opened his eyes, but winces, the right eye wouldn't open fully and his sight was spotty and unfocused. He sat up, head swimming, causing him to fight to keep his balance. Once it cleared, he saw an unfamiliar, green metal plated wall before him. It didn't take him long to realise that he didn't know where he was.
"Amethyst? Pearl?" He called, hoping someone would hear. Steven tried to piece together what happened. He was on the Beach, then Jasper and Peridot had landed, dragging Lapis along with them. Jasper was about to grab him when-
"Garnet!" the boy gasps as he recalls the tall gem being subdued in such a violent way, the horror in her eyes. "Where are they!?" he stands and moves to the only part of the room that wasn't solid, a buzzing yellow force field, cutting off his way to get out. He could see other cells along the wall across from his. They all seemed empty as far as he could tell. There was pipe like tubes stretching across the ceiling of the hall, branching out to each cell. They must be what's providing the power to the barriers. Everything through the force field looked yellow, but he figured that the rest of the place was green.
His sightseeing was cut off as he could hear someone lashing out with a plethora of frustrated or pained noises somewhere nearby. It scared him, worried that something horrible was happening to the gems. The hybrid looks the wall of energy before him, then touches it with his fingertips, quickly retreating. They caused a small ripple where each point connected and he felt a slight prickle, but it didn't hurt. Steven looks at his right hand, extends his index and then covers his eyes with his free hand while pushing the right into the force field. The familiar prickling feeling is felt, along with a weird wavering sort of beeping noise is heard. Opening his eyes, Steven sees his hand causing a sort of block in the wall as if it was a waterfall. Yellow circuit like markings worm up his arm, similar to the ones garnet had on her, but they don't seem to affect him.
"Eww!" he exclaims, less in disgust, more in fascination as he turns his arm over to see the lines move under his skin. His arm up to his elbow is free of the cell, but not for much longer. Steven raises his hands as if he was pushing against an imaginary object, and walks through the barrier. Circuitry lines cover his entire body as the prickling sensation engulfs him.
"W-w-wh-o-o-o-oa-a" the boy's voice reverberates like when he'd talk directly into a fan. Finally stepping free of the cell, he freezes, getting shivers up his spine as he groans in discomfort. He turns to look at his now empty cell.
"I'm out. Woohoo!" the hybrid celebrates, pumping his fists into the air. "Okay, where is everybody?" Steven looks down both ends of the hallway, ultimately choosing to go his left. The hall was indeed as green as inside the cells, not that it mattered much. He begins running along the cells, looking left and right as they pass by
"Gotta find them. Gotta find them. Gotta find th-oh." Steven stops as he now stands before another cell with a barrier erect. Like when he was looking from the outside, the cell was tinted a strong yellow, but looked exactly the same as all the other cells. Inside however, was a small person laying on their side, back facing Steven. They were crawled up into a ball, which was as much as he could tell. "Uhm… Hello? Are you ok?" Steven probes. The figure doesn't budge, but a noise does emerge from them, a loud grating nasally snore. They scrunch up their face as if reacting to Steven's voice, then mumble as they turn over, now facing the boy. Steven's eyes are immediately drawn to the gem sitting on their stomach. It soon resumes snoring.
"She must love sleeping as much as Amethyst…" he observers. Steven probably shouldn't be getting so distracted by an unknown gem… and he knew that Pearl would defiantly not approve of even him being so close to one, even with the wall up. But he couldn't help himself as he pushed through the shield, and knelt beside the gem. They seemed so at ease despite being in a cell. We're they a prisoner? Or did they just like sleeping in small spaces? Steven placed his hands on her arm, and started to softly shake, trying to rouse the gem from slumber. "Hey, c'mon it's time to wake up" Steven whispers, as Pearl would when she'd wake him.
"Mughh… 5 more years…" the gem responds, causing the hybrid to blink.
"5 years of sleeping? Even I would get tired of that… Ha!" Steven chuckles as he realised his accidental pun, then looks about to see the reaction of the gems, only to realise he was alone. "Oh right." He resumes shaking the gem, a bit more firm. "You need to get up now, this isn't a hotel y'know" he half-jokingly says with a mock accent. The gem stirs, this time she cracks an eye open, navy blue meeting black with stars in them. Their gazes are locked for a few moments, before Steven breaks the silence.
"Uh… Hi?"
"BWAGH!" the gem recoils, pushing herself up then on her back, scuttling backwards until she's up against the wall, now fully awake and alert. She keeps her sight trained on the intruder to her cell, questions piling on top of each other as she tries to compose herself. "W-Who're ya!? How did'ya get in my cell!? Don't ya know it's rude to watch someone sleep? I have th' right mind to report ya to th' proper authorities! Er, well, maybe not th' last bit" her motor mouth strings together and her overly animated demeanor somehow changing expressions to match each sentence just as fast and not tripping up in the slightest. Steven just stood there completely shell shocked, he was still trying to recall everything she said but was butchering and jumbling the mess of words.
"Well? Who're ya!?" the gem demands, trying to make herself more dominating, but as Steven observed her, she failed to do so.
The gem stands about the same height as Steven, maybe an inch taller but no noticeable difference. She has milky white skin and big dark navy blue eyes like a curious child. Their mass of golden blond hair is shaped into 3 points, one pointing up and the other two pointing left and right. There are also two large locks framing each side of her face, tied off with mint green hair ties. Each point of her hair somehow has a similar mint green slips of rectangular paper floating around them, as if tethered by invisible strings. There are 2 green painted triangles under her eyes, giving her a sort of clownish look.
Her clothing is remarkably exotic, but doesn't seem very efficient if she was in combat. She's wearing a very eastern-like outfit like Steven had seen in samurai movies. A sleeveless grey top with a similarly sleeveless black undershirt. They both expose her midriff. Just below her shoulders are large sleeves that reach the ground. They were tied off with ribbons at top which were same mint green colour as before. Her small pale hands were barely poking out from under the mass of cloth. She has puffy grey shorts on that are secured by a mint green sash tied around her waist. The ends of the shorts are tied with similar mint green ribbons. Simple black slippers adorn her feet and two, large, flowing yellow ribbons that are connected to her back trail down to the ground. Her gemstone rests on her stomach, similar to Steven's. It's shaped like an eye, golden with a pale yellow slit going down the centre.
"Are ya gonna just stand there or are ya gonna say somethin'?" the gem berates, getting impatient and tired of being in the dark. Steven snaps out of his stupor and stands comically rigid, as if being in the presence of a drill commander.
"S-Steven Universe, ma'am!" he blurts out, stone faced. The gem is taken back slightly at his own comical behaviour, seemingly unaware of how bizarre she was just moments ago. She approaches the hybrid, who is remaining as straight and serious as Serious Steven can get. She circles him once, twice, then stands before him. A foot between the two small beings. Her equally stone faced eyes meeting his. She then raises an open palmed hand into the air above her beside her head, and brings it down. Steven flinches, thinking she was gonna strike him for some reason, but he feels her hand on his shoulder. The sound of laughter breaks the air of tension, prompting Steven to open his eyes, seeing the gem holding on this his shoulder for support as she continues to laugh, her other arm holding her stomach and reaching to one of her sides. Tears form on the edges of her eyes as her howls of laughter are carried down the halls, surely someone would've heard that, surely.
The gem soon calms down, and pats Steven's shoulder that her hand was resting on. "Hahaha! Ahhhh kid ya should'a seen your face! I've never seen someone try so hard to be serious as ya! Hehehe!" she says between giggles, a large grin plastered on her face, both enhancing her clownish appearance.
"Er… thanks?" Steven responds, not very certain what was going on. He thinks he made her laugh, but he hadn't even told a joke. The gem soon composes herself again, wiping her tears away with the back of her sleeve, she then smiles to the boy, and thrusts a hand out.
"Anyone who can make me laugh that hard is alright in my book! Nice ta meet ya Steven, I'm Cymophane." The gem introduces herself. Steven grasps the hand, and they shake, still very confused as to what had just happened, but decided to let it go.
"Aheheh… Y-Yeah it was pretty funny huh?" he smiles awkwardly out of politeness. Cymophane has another giggling fit.
"I'll say!" she regains herself again, before looking about the cell once more. "But now seriously, how did'ya get in here? Th' destabiliser field would destroy our bodies the moment we make contact with it." She explains, moving towards said field. Steven moves to stand beside her, causing Cymophane to watch the boy. He reaches out, inches from touching the pulsing energy. "H-Hey wait! Don't-" she cuts herself off as Steven had let his arm go right through the field. The same yellow circuitry races up and down his arm along with the same prickling feeling. Cymophane stares in utter bewilderment. "Th-That's impossible… No gem can withstand such a concentrated amount of energy… unless…" she trails off before turning to face the hybrid. "You're not a gem?"
"Oh, I'm half gem on my Mom's side" Steven answers as if it wasn't a big deal. "I'm also half human on my Dad's side" he finishes with a smile, retracting his arm. This wasn't a big deal to Steven, but Cymophane's mind was in overdrive, she refused to believe it. A gem had given birth? They courted a human? How? Gems don't possess the proper reproductive organs to house children! This… This kid was a contradiction to gem physiology! To gem culture! To gem history! The steam that had started to trickle out of the gem's ears concerned Steven, as he tried to get her attention.
"Uh… Cymophane? Are you ok?" The gem's thoughts were disrupted as the walking paradox addressed her.
"O-oh y-yeah! Yeah! I'm fine! I mean I just discovered that a massive part of our species is wrong, but otherwise A-Ok!" she prattles on, clearly not A-Ok. And Steven could tell. He fidgeted as she tried to play it off, looking through the force field again, thinking about if he should just go and look for the Gems. A voice soon drifts through the hall, halting both Steven and Cymophane. It sounded… like someone was singing. It was beautiful… Steven felt like he could just listen to it for hours. As it quieted down, Steven looked more concerned than before the song slipped through. Cymophane noticed.
"Steven? What's th' matter?" the gem had managed to put a lid on her exploding mind for now.
The boy looked out into the yellow tinted hallway again, determination glazing his expression.
"I gotta go find my friends…" he looked to Cymophane standing beside him. He looked a bit anxious as he regarded her. "Would you want to come with me?" The gem blinked. Once more. Twice for good measure.
"Huh?" was all she could muster. She did ask how he got through, but she hadn't had thought he would've been willing to help her out. Most gems would just leave without her. Most, but not all.
"I'm asking you to come with me. You seem like a good person, and you're kind of weird, but so is Amethyst. I'm sure the gems would like you" he grins, stars in his eyes again, and Cymophane swore she could hear a soft "ding" noise when he looked at her with those wonder-filled eyes. She was actually touched that he was even considering her when he was in a predicament himself. So very… un-gemlike…
"Steven… I'd love to, but I have friends of my own I need to find. I'm sorry" the gem looks away sadly. Her smile seeming hollower then before. "We we're captured together while trying to get away from Home world. I can't leave without them" she says with defiance. She'll find a way to get them out, she's the only one who can. The hybrid looks sincerely sad for the forlorn gem, glancing at the force field, closing his eyes as if reaffirming himself, then nodding as he opens them, steps into the energy and arches his body forward, creating a small passage under him.
"W-w-w-we can f-f-find our-r-r-r friends t-t-tog-g-g-gether-r-r-r!" his vibrating voice chimes, a goofy grin on his face as his muscles twitch with energy coursing through him. Cymophane is again startled by the way this child she had only just met would go so far to help her. She would've refused him, not wanting to impede his own mission, but looking at the dopey grin somehow told her that he wouldn't let her refuse. Smiling in defeat, she giggles as she realises how silly the boy looks.
"Well, aren't ya th' gentleman?" she chuckles as she ducks under his arm, stepping into the hallway. Steven exits the barrier after her, letting the fall of power to resume. The pair look back at her cell, then to each other, smile, then look forward and begin running together, determined to find their captive comrades.