"Nooooooo!"

A familiar high-pitched voiced echoed across the sleepy town of Beach City, causing most residents to shake their head in amusement with an image of a chubby boy in their minds while unconsciously wondering what caused his wail of distress.

The source was named Steven Universe, a special boy who wore a pink shirt and blue shorts, and he was currently bothering one of the two employees of the Big Donut, screaming how unfair and how it was not right for his favorite treat to be out of stock. Lars, the employee currently being bothered, looked irritated and annoyed while the other employee, Sadie, looked a tiny bit amused.

"I'm sorry, Steven. I guess they stopped making them." Sadie said, looking sympathetic with the little boy.

"What!" Steven exclaimed "Why would they stop making cookie-cat?! They're the most-" and as the twelve year old boy rambled on, the doorbell rang, and a tall girl came in.

Lar's immediately froze and stared at the newcomer, mouth gaping open as his eyes followed her form. Sadie caught him and sighed, before looking at the new customer and smiling "yes? What can I help you?"

"Hmmm," the girl hummed, her voice was sweet and smooth. She eyed the counters.

Steven, finished with his rant, look at the girl and did not found her familiar. He eyed the girl curiously and asked "Do you know her, Lars?"

"-a box of these donuts and-"

Lars gave a dreamy sigh as he stared at the platinum haired girl "No, just that she's new girl who just moved in Beach City a month ago."

"-oh, and ten packets of Lion Lickers please,"

Steven scowled "Cookie Cat's are the best!" He exclaimed, causing Lars to drop out from his dreamy state, and catching both Sadie's and the girl's attention "Cookie Cat is more scrumdiliumcious ice-cream sandwich ever made!"

The girl only blinked, before Lar's snorted "tough bits, kid. Nobody likes them anymore. They can't compete with-"

"They don't even look like real lions! Kid's these days! I'll tell you what."

"Well if you miss your wimpy ice cream so much, why don't you make some with your magic rock-"

The girl coughed "I believe that is enough, Lars- if I am correct?" The guy in question nodded, stunned that the girl was talking to him, and completely focused on her "you don't have to make this little guy cry over a ice cream-"

"It's not just any ice cream- it's Cookie Cat!" Lars groaned and Sadie smiled as Steven sung-

"Oh, he's a frozen treat with an all new taste

Cause he came to this planet from outer space

A refugee of an interstellar war

But now he's at your local grocery store"

The girl's lips quirked into a smile.

"Cookie Cat

He's a pet for your tummy

Cookie Cat

He's super duper yummy

Cookie Cat

He left his family behind

Cookie Caaat!"

The girl let out a chuckle as she took her box of donuts and the paper bag of lion lickers from Sadie "ok-ayyyy, they aren't just, ice creams. They are Cookie Cats." Steven nodded, proud and happy "but," the girl walked to Steven, and crouched to his height with a teasing smirk "Lion Lickers are better."

"No they aren't!"

"Uh, yes they are,"

"They don't even look like lions!"

"Says who?"

"Me!"

"Lion Lickers are much more better."

"Cookie Cats are better!"

"Lion Lickers!"

"Cookie Cats!"

And the two glared at each other, causing both two employees of Big Donut to sweat, before the girl bursted into giggles, causing Steven and the other two to look at her in confusion.

She placed her hand on his head and ruffled his hair "heyyy!" She smiled at him, her icy blue eyes twinkling at him "I was just messing with you, mister Cookie. So, can I have the pleasure in knowing my rival's name?"

Steven, who was a bit upset at the fact there were no more of his favorite treats in the store and the fact Lion Lickers replaced them, couldn't help but feel a little bit better by the girl and he grinned.

"My name is Steven Universe!" He exclaimed "and don't you forget it!" And he held his hand to her which she took it, and shook it.

She smiled at him, and Steven couldn't help but notice how her eyes were soft and a little bit sad,

"It's nice to meet you, Steven." And she looks at him, but at the same time, not at him "My name is Patricia Archer, but you can call me Pink."

Steven, who was a little bit curious, asked "why 'Pink'? Why not 'Patty' or 'Tricia'?"

Lars couldn't help but snicker "heh-" he shut his mouth when the Sadie glared at him.

The girl- no, Pink, looked at him with a strange smile.

"It's my name, silly."

~

Hidden by branches of leaves and from a mile away, Pink watched on a branch as the Crystal Gems and Steven scrambled around to defeat a corrupted gem.

Her legs swinging, she hummed "-the first Fusion, a Pearl and..." her eyes scrutinised the purple figure, her eyes dilating and eyes changed to the color of pink with a black diamond in the center, and then her vision became clearer and sharper "a little... Amethyst? Is she one of mine? I thought Homeworld took all of them..." her eyes soft and her smile was fond as her gaze turned to the little boy burying- its probably the ice cream packet- something in the ground.

"Well Rosy," she stood up on the branch "your son is in good hands. And I won't interfere, never had any plans for it. Unless they are in grave danger- then I'll help as much as I can-"

She lifted her shirt, and revealed a cracked and incomplete pink diamond.

She smiled weakly "well... As much as an incomplete Diamond can..."