A/N
STOP before you read any further I had forgotten to add in Lars' scenes into it go back and read those before continuing. My apologizes.
This chapter was hard to write seeing that Laser Light cannon began at sunset while Blue Storm comprised of an entire day. I seeing a trend in my writing so far and I see that I've been focusing heavily on the Kamen Rider Agito aspect more than Steven Universe, that is not a good thing. And I have no idea on how to correct this! If you've struggled with this problem before please give me some advice on how to correct it.
I would like to thank everyone who took the time to review my Story because remember reviews are writer fuel.
Response and Answers Time
To Guest: I'll try to do my own thing but that's easier said then done, however several episodes that I deemed unimportant will be glossed over and skipped
To MediaMan18: The answer to your question is 3 things. 1) Kamen Rider Agito was what got me interested in the Kamen Rider franchise in the the mid 2000s. 2) I've never finished watching OOO or Wizard beyond 2 or 3 episodes. 3) I had written this months ago before abandoning it and then finding it again. Once I decided to continue writing the sunk cost fallacy demanded I continue using Agito though I will admit it is a hard fit. Maybe one day I will write this story again only with a different rider.
Like I said before I would encourage other writers to adapt this story and have their own spin on this.
Edit: 01/23/2017 Added Scenes at ending to flow better. Fixed mistake of Magistra's title -panther not jaguar-
Please Enjoy
Ep 2: Prelude to the Storm
High Chieftain POV
"This is troubling news." The high chieftain pondered soaking in the information given to him by Chamelia Salvia of the Lizard Clan.
It had been confusing when they had first reawaken. Humans still roam the world but none recognized them. They scurry about working on various tasks yet they do not seem to be the slaves that they should be for no chains binds them.
The news received from Salvia confirms his suspicions, the Crystal Gems have been victorious as evident of the presence of stunted quarts, The Pearl, and that infuriating perma-fusion. A part of him was glad that the perma-fusion survived the war, just he can shatter her himself.
"No matter this can still work to our advantage. With the Crystal Gems victorious it also means Diamond Authority have been defeated one less obstacle in our way." The High Chieftain said. Though it would have been preferable that systems the Authority implemented was still in place. "Once we deal with Crystal Gems we will bring the human cattle back to its knees where they belong. You are dismissed Salvia."
The Lizard bowed her head and left the throne room, as she left a Jaguar stepped in.
"What an honor it is to greet you Chief Pantheras Magistra of the Panther Clan" The High Chieftain greeted to Jaguar Queen.
"The honor is mine High Chieftain" She greeted back, "It has come to my attention that an Agito has been spotted. The Diamond Authorities' lapdog had the gall shatter one of my own."
"Truly? That conflicts with the other reports that have received. The Diamond Authority have been defeated by the Crystal Gems why would an Agito still be here on this planet?"
"Perhaps the Diamond Authority have not been as totally defeated as we may have guessed."
"Perhaps. For now, we need more information." The High Chieftain said.
"Have we found where the divine lady slumbers yet?" The queen asked changing the subject.
"Yes we have, the Goddess' tomb is in the possession of some humans. They seem as eager to open it as we are…" He said amused, "I will send someone to speed up the process."
"In the meantime, I shall send Albus and Tristis to gather more ripe seeds and perhaps eliminate the Agito while they're at it"
Sumiko POV
CT Scan machine scanned Makoto as the doctor examines the data. Ronaldo and Sumiko had rushed him to the nearest hospital after the fight with the Gem monster at the loading docks. Sumiko had stayed by Hikawa-kun's side while Ronaldo was instructed to return home. Though he protested he had been forced to reluctantly leave.
"I see nothing wrong." The doctor reported as he got the data from the machine.
"Thank goodness!" Sumiko sighed relieved that the Shock Absorbers did their job and Hikawa-kun was all right.
A moment later when Makoto was redressed and heading back to HQ for debrief alongside Sumiko.
"Ozawa-san isn't it a shock? The G3 weapons were totally useless against that thing." Makoto said as they recalled the beating he received from the Jaguar. The Scorpion's bullets ricochet off its skin, G3 enhanced punches and kicks did nothing against it.
"Well… Are you sure you hit him?" She asked not wanting to doubt the effectiveness of the system she designed. "The G3's weapons should have beaten the Gem monster in one hit. If they didn't work, then…" She trailed off trying to think of a reason.
She was so in deep thought she didn't notice Hikawa-kun had fallen behind when she did notice she saw he was just standing there deep in thought no doubt thinking up a reason as well. "Hikawa-kun?"
"Yes." That snapped him out of his reverie and he trailed up to her.
Third Person POV
The heart monitor beeped steadily as an unconscious Lars lie on the bed next to it.
"How is my son?" Martha asked the doctor as her husband Dante comforted her.
Her son had just been in motorcycle accident some months prior and broke his leg. And here he was again in the hospital only this time she feared for his life.
Last night had been terrible, she had received a phone call that her little boy was in horrific accident again, Oh, her heart can't take it!
"Your son is fine ma'am, better than fine in fact. From my experience, a crash of that magnitude would have killed him, yet he was able to get away unscathed, relatively of course. He is very lucky to be alive, however there is one thing…"
"What is it?" Dante asked.
"His muscle heat and convulsions have become more erratic." The doctor reported.
"What does that mean doctor?"
"It's a sign that the muscular system in Laramie is expanding rapidly. Normally I would suspect steroid abuse however, your son was tested negative for drugs." The doctor explained. "I think it's best that Laramie stay at the hospital until we've figure out this anomaly."
It's very clear something wrong is going on inside Lars' body.
Shouichi POV
Shouichi woke up from his sleeping bag as his phone alarm rang. What a crazy dream he had last night. He yawned and got up to make breakfast, as he got up his body felt sore for some reason. He stretched his sore muscles and made for the office bathroom to prepare for the day ahead of him. Got to correct his sleeping posture from now on he didn't want to wake up sore the next day.
After a quick brush, he went over to the counter and prepared coffee using the coffee maker. Shouichi yawned as the water boiled, why was he so tired this morning he usually slept early. Now that he thinks about when did he sleep last night? How did he even get home? He remembered washing dishes with Pearl then nothing.
A clack broke Shouichi's train of thoughts as the coffee finished. Maybe he's just too tired to remember right now maybe some coffee would help. He poured himself a cup, he blew on it a little and drank some. He grimaced at the bitter taste and added two scoops of sugar and let it cooled.
He massaged is temple, his headache was back again, thankfully it wasn't as bad as yesterday. He still felt that pulling sensation in his chest, maybe he should schedule a visit to the doctor.
He looked at the clock above the office desk, it was 7:30 Boss was still asleep in his van at the moment. Shouichi retrieve a camping stove from his room/supply closet and a frying pan. He grabbed some eggs and bacon from the mini-fridge and started cooking. Nothing like bacons and eggs in the morning.
Makoto POV
"This is the Gem monster that you encountered?" The board asked.
Makoto was being debriefed in the conference room at the BCPD precinct. The board was going over the captured footage of last night's encounter with Jaguar Gem monster.
"The combat operation lasted 21 minutes 41 seconds, but only 12 seconds of footage was recorded. Plus, it's in this poor state." True enough, nothing could be made out in the footage, everything displayed was a mess of misshapen blur. Ronaldo was right that camera was shoddy as hell.
"I don't know… I don't know why it wasn't recording. I'm sure I had the enemy on the G3's camera" It was a weak response, he knew it was, but what else could he say at this point. The situation is bad enough as it is, the G3 system was deployed without authoritative permission and the armor was returned in critical condition.
"And then there's this, you said the Gem monster was defeated by an unidentified combatant, but what was it?" They asked citing the appearance of -what the Gem monster referred to as- Agito written in the Counter Gem Squad report.
"Well… I don't know…" an even weaker response. This debrief was taking a turn from the worse, he knows what he fought, but at the rate this debrief was going he's looking more and more of a liar.
They're face impassive, but he could see the disapproval in their eyes. The board stare back at him not uttering a word. The silence was damning.
He needed to push on, whatever he faced, he doesn't think it was the run of the mill Gem monsters the G3 system were built to fight against. The monster was too human-like in both appearance and intelligence. The way it operated… the way it fought…
"I do not believe I encountered a Gem monster. If it were a Gem monster, then the G3 system weapons should have defeated it! You have proof! The recording of G3's earlier performance against the centipede Gem monster! G3's weapon easily defeated that thing yet against what I fought last night they did nothing!" Makoto retorted.
A few of the board member's faces soured recalling the leaked footage of G3's operation, but they didn't bring it back up, he had already received a tongue lashing the first debrief.
"You're saying we have a whole new enemy even more powerful than Gem monsters?" One of the board member's voice spoke in mock disbelief as if talking to a child.
"Yes sir."
"If what you say is true, then the monster you encountered, should be called Unknowns." Another board member declared laced in sarcasm.
And with that the debrief or rather his castigation was over. He exited the room and out of habit gave a bow to his superiors then closed the door.
He headed for the stair way when he noticed Hojo waiting atop the stairs. Just his luck, the last thing he need was to see this smug bastard's face. Maybe if he looked away and leave quickly Hojo wouldn't notice him.
"Hikawa Makoto" Fuck!
"I thought you were amazing when I heard you were scouted to be in the Counter Gem Squad." Hojo said. That was a shock, he did not expect that coming from Hojo. Maybe he judged Hojo wrong after all maybe they could be friends.
"But that image has been shattered." Maybe not.
"What are you talking about?" Makoto asked.
"The Gem monster that you encountered… is just your made-up story." Hojo concluded, "Am I wrong?"
"Made up story?" Makoto said affronted, he knew what he saw what he fought. "What motive would I have to do that?!"
"You got too greedy. Your squad was underfunded and even after the initial display the board still didn't approve an increase in your budget. You needed to show that the G3 system required more funds for firepower, so you made up that story to increase your budget." Hojo deduced.
"I had heard… Hojo Toru was an elite… but you appear to have too much free time." Were you waiting here just to tell me that?" Makoto retorted before excusing himself and left, leaving Hojo standing there.
Greg POV
To say that it was a slow day at the car wash is an understatement. Not a single customer came today.
Though some good did come out of it. Greg had filed for a business license for Shouichi yesterday when he was running errands, but it will take about three weeks before it was processed. Shouichi's eyes lit up when Greg had told him the good news.
Seeing today's nonexistent customers, Greg had suggested they try building the stand now. After a quick trip to the local hardware store, they spend the entire morning constructing the stand. By the time it was finished it was almost noon.
Greg watch as Shouichi bring out the camp stove to begin making lunch. Greg felt a little bad seeing how a great cook like Shouichi forced to use such a tiny stove for their meals. Greg used to live on diet of instant ramen and TV dinners, but ever since Greg hired the amnesic, Shouichi had cooked every meal.
Suddenly an idea hits him, "Hey Shouichi! You know, a friend of mine has been dying to try some of your cooking ever since I told him about you. Why don't we swing by for visit and give him a taste?"
Actually, Professor Misugi was more of a friend of a friend but that's just semantics. Greg had first met him in passing during a visit to Vidalia some time back.
"Really?"
"Yeah, com'on let's go."
Makoto POV
"Unknown eh?" Ozawa-san said testing the word as she returned with coffee, "Sounds good!"
"Unknown?" Ronaldo asked.
His apprentice had found himself officially roped into the Counter Gem Squad as an unpaid intern. The board had decided that the best damage control to be done was to have the young man closely monitored and if he got out of line again it would be on Makoto's head.
"The same thing happens during war when a country labels and unidentified aircraft. It just means its identity is unknown." Ozawa explained.
"So instead of a UFOs, it's aliens?!" Only Ronaldo would go from unknown aircrafts straight to aliens.
Ozawa swiftly smacks Ronaldo upside the head, "Idiot"
"Ow! Anyway, what about that other guy that showed up? I mean is it really on our side." Ronaldo asked.
"With the Unknown right now, we're lucky to have him." Ozawa replied, she was right without Agito Makoto could have died that night. "For now, we should consider all similar creatures as Unknowns. I suppose we must first identify the enemy.
"Do we even have any clue on where to begin?" Ronaldo asked. That's when Makoto realized he still have the photograph of Sharon's son.
"What is it?" Ozawa asked as Makoto pulled the photo out of his jacket pocket.
"Sharon Peters, who was killed by the unknown… contacted me saying she had something to show me. I arrived at the agreed spot, but she was already dead. But we found this photo in the bag at the scene." Makoto explained.
The photo showed a boy wearing a school uniform standing in front of a lake with mountains in the background.
"Where is this place" Ozawa wondered. "The date says January 20, 2013, it's recent."
"Yes, of the Peters family, Sharon wasn't the only one murdered. Her husband, Peter, and their only son Peter Jr. were also murdered. So, January 20, was the day before Peter Peters Jr. died.
"Hey, wait a sec, this photo! There's something weird about!" Ronaldo interrupted.
"This isn't the time for your crazy theories rookie." Ozawa chided.
"No really! Look, right here." He pointed. And there it was a phantom hand gripping Peter Jr.'s shoulder. Holy… It seems Ronaldo really does have an eagle eye for the weird.
Third Person POV
"This is the place, I think" Greg said parking on the curb in front of a brown two story house. He headed up to the door and rang the doorbell. A young girl a little bit older than Steven answered the door.
"You must be Mana is your uncle Yoshihiko home?" Greg asked recognizing her from a photo the professor showed him.
"Ah, You must be one of uncle's friends, come in." She welcomed.
The house was cozy, the living room was wide and decorated with a few bookshelves line against the wall. In the center was a nice red couch behind an oak desk.
In front was a small TV set being watch by a young boy Steven's age sitting on the carpet way too close to the TV. The boy was too enamored by the TV to notice them come in.
They didn't wait too long for the professor to come greet them. "You're... Greg, right? How's it going."
"I doing fine, anyway this is Shouichi, the one I told you about. You said you wanted to try his cooking someday so I thought why not swing by." Greg explained rubbing the back of head. Maybe he should've called ahead. Oh well, live and learn.
"Pleased to meet you." Shouichi bowed. In his hands is a bag of an assortment of vegetables from his garden.
Yoshihiko looked surprise, he did remember saying that in passing but he never really expected Greg to swing by. Well it was nearing lunch time, and he was pretty hungry right now.
"Mana-chan please, why don't you show Shouichi to the kitchen, while Greg and I catch up." Yoshihiko said.
"Sure uncle, com'on Shouichi" Mana said leading him though an archway to the pantry.
The professor then turned his attention to the boy watching TV. "Taichi, don't you have homework you should be doing?" He asked.
"Uh, right" The boy said bolting for the stairs. He recognized the familiar tone in his father's voice, the same one after his teacher called about his less than stellar grades.
Before Yoshihiko could talk with Greg the doorbell rang. This time he answered, it was a group of his students, it seems the professor had forgotten about his study group session with his students.
"Jonathon, James, Sandy, Vicky come in." He invited.
"I'm sorry Greg, I forgot I had a study session today…" Yoshihiko apologized for not being a gracious host.
"No, it's nothing. I'm the one who came unannounced after all." Greg laughed, "Why don't I keep Shouichi company while you teach. We can catch up when your done. Hey I bet Shouichi would be more than happy to whip up some snacks."
"What's wrong boy?" A jogger asked his dog as it barked up a tree. It was probably a cat, the jogger peered up to see what got his dog all riled up. It was a red plaid scarf stuck in a tree. He tipped on his toes trying to reach it, his fingers could grasp the tail end of the scarf. With a quick pull the scarf was freed, but what the scarf was concealed terrified the man to his core, an arm belonging to dead woman in a tree.
He screamed.
Back in OOOparts laboratory the scientists are busy still trying to decode the puzzle the first lock has already opened and now they were working on the other ones.
"H-2 and H-3 are ready. Let's start in 30 minutes." Mikumo said to a pair of researchers.
"Okay, understood." One of them said and stalked off.
"Please take care of it." She said handing data to another scientist.
"Can I have a second?" Another researcher asked once she was done handing out assignments.
"Yes?"
"Look at this. Should we activate this?" he asked sharing the data with the head researcher.
"Yes, please take care of it."
"Got it." Just then the light went out, a power outage.
Mikumo looked around the once beeping and noisy laboratory was deathly quiet, only the sound of spinning dials could be heard as everyone stopped in their tracks.
"Hey! What's going on?!" She yelled. Footsteps clack around trying get someone to restore the power.
Over at the structure Salvia was examining her goddess' tomb. How magnificent however, it was time to speed up the process. Her eyes glowed, power radiated from her claws and transferred to structure.
The cables and monitoring devices sparked and exploded as they overloaded. Everyone flinched back and shielded themselves from the rogue sparks. After the sparks subsided the power restored itself.
"Mikumo-san! Look at this!" one the researchers beckoned. One of the surviving monitoring devices showed the lock was going through thousands of different combinations at frightening speeds as if the decoder had somehow been overclocked further than it already has! At this rate the entire puzzle would be finished in a matter of days!
The police had already arrived on the scene at the park and were running around to quarantine off the area where body was found.
"The victim was Lisa Vick, 17 years old. She's a high-school student from this area. Last night, she was heading to a friend's house when… this happened" Toru's partner, detective Joe Morrison reviewed.
"Well this proves Hikawa's story is a big lie." Toru said.
"What do you mean?" Joe asked.
"If the monster Hikawa described was as the culprit was defeated, then the same incident wouldn't happen again." Toru explained. "Let's start investigating.
"So, you don't remember anything beyond last year?" Mana asked. They have been talking and getting to know each other better and before long Shouichi became the topic of interest.
"Yeah, pretty much. It's not so bad though, I mean I have a nice job, a great boss, and people who care about me. What more can I guy like me ask for?" Shouichi replied with a warm smile. Greg smiled as well Shouichi has been a great blessing in their lives.
"But aren't you curious? Doesn't make you feel uncomfortable to have amnesia?" She asked.
"Not really, right now, I think it's pretty normal. Anyway, what if I remember that I'm some major criminal?" He said.
"You, a criminal? I can't even imagine that!" Greg said. Ever since he'd known him, Shouichi had been unfailingly nice, too nice for his own good even.
"All I'm saying is that it might be better not to remember, is all." Shouichi said.
The oven dinged before anyone can say anything else. Shouichi pulled out a tray of delicious broccoli casserole, its savory aroma permeated the kitchen make Greg and Mana drool a little. Shouichi carefully plated them on some small dishes. He handed Greg and Mana each a plate which they gratefully accepted.
As help placed the dishes on a serving tray he peered over into the living room only to seem them peer back at him awkwardly.
Makoto POV
Makoto was high up in the mountains scouting the area. Ozawa had matched the background in the photo with the various local mountain areas, she had narrowed the location down to this urban area. He pulled out the photo and compared it the mountains in the distance, a perfect match, good now all he had to do was find the lake.
It's time to call Ozawa, she'd be able to access satellites to get him a map of the area. Taking out his phone from his pocket only to find out he had no reception here. Great. Looks like he's going to need a land line.
Thankfully he spotted a convenience store right around the corner.
"Excuse me, can I use the phone?" He asked the manager"
"Go ahead." The old man said barely giving Makoto a glance before going back to his Sudoku puzzle.
Just as he picked up the phone handle, notice a framed photo on the wall, it was the exact same image of place in the photo Sharon had!
"Umm… what's this?" Makoto asked the manager. The old man perked up from the booklet seeing Makoto gesture at the framed photo on the wall.
"Oh, that's an old photo of this place. You can compare the overlaps. I knew that place well…" He said smiling reminiscing days gone by. "But 10 years ago the land was filled up.
"10 years ago?!" That can't be right the photo had a stamp date of just barely last month ago!
Third Person POV
Apparently, one of professor Yoshihiko's students, James claimed to possess the supernatural power of precognition. So, the professor decided to put James' power to the test. He had brought out deck of playing cards and James was supposed to predict what each card is before it was revealed. If he predicted correctly the professor will accept James' thesis paper on the supernatural if not, then James will just have to find another topic.
And to add to fun the professor invited Shouichi and Greg to play as well, he also invited Mana but she refused.
"Then let's begin," Yoshihiko pulled a card from the top deck and placed it down, "alright."
"7 of Hearts." Was James' prediction.
"9 of Diamond." Was Shouichi's.
"Jack of Spades" Was Greg's.
From the archway to the pantry Mana watched them, and she made a prediction of her own "2 of Clubs"
The Professor flipped it over and it was the 2 of Clubs. All the players were wrong, he pulled out the next card.
James: "5 of Diamonds"
Shouichi: "Ace of Hearts"
Greg: "4 of Clubs"
Once more Mana predicted quietly to herself, "Queen of Spades"
And the card was the Queen of Spades, and all the players got it wrong again.
Mana left the group in the living room to their own devices, she had other things to do like eating that delicious plate of casserole. And bring Taichi a plate too can't forget that.
The game continued for while after she left, the study group plus Shouichi and Greg ate as they play and in the end no player predicted the cards correctly.
"See, I don't think you have any special powers. I think you just experience a lot of coincidences."
"Right" James looked a little glum and embarrassed, but he accepted the results.
"I think it's bout time for Shouichi and I to get out of your hair. It's been great seeing you again" Greg said noticing the time, they had spent nearly four hours here.
"Sorry I wasn't a better host this time around." Yoshihiko apologized by Greg waved it off.
"And Shouichi-san thank you cooking lunch, it was delicious." The professor said to Shouichi.
"It nothing, I love to cook. Next time I'll cook something even better." Shouichi said. "If you would have me."
"I'll look forward to it" He said, "Mana-chan why don't you show our guests the way out."
Mana escorted the pair to the front, then Shouichi remembered to ask her something.
"Hey Mana, you would happen to know what your uncle likes to eat would you?" He asked so next time he could come prepared with proper ingredients.
"I don't really know, Uncle doesn't really speak much, he a very private sort of person." She answered.
"Hmm… what about your father?" Shouichi asked.
"My… Dad?"
"He's the Professor's brother, right? Brothers should have similar tastes, right?" Shouichi elaborated.
"They're brothers, but not by blood." Mana explained
"Is that so?"
"You said it yourself… It might be better to have amnesia, there are many things that one wishes to forget." She said solemnly.
Shouichi realized he touched a heavy subject for Mana and apologized. "I'm Sorry."
Pearl POV
Pearl was enjoying one of her favorite hobbies, laundry. She was currently collecting Steven's shirts that were dry on the clothesline while she hummed a soft tune.
Pearls were created by Homeworld to be completely obedient servants, though Rose had broken her from servitude, she still enjoyed doing simple chores, it kept her hands busy while she remembered the good old days when it was just her and Rose.
Sure, it was in the middle of a war, but it had also been when it was just them against the world. She still remembers what it was like in the beginning the successes… the failures... At the last thought her eyes dimmed a bit.
One of the early failures of the rebellion was trying to free the enslaved humans, unfortunately she had learned, not all humans wanted to be free.
Back then the Crystal Gems had already liberated several labor camps, but soon it was time for them to tackle their first Slave tower. Slave towers were where Homeworld kept its bulk of slaves, or at least so they thought then.
The Crystal Gems at that time consisted of only her, Rose, a Ruby, and a Nephrite.
-Flashback-
"Charge!" Rose commanded. They rushed at an unprepared squadron of Rubies.
Nephrite claimed first strike as she bisected and poofed an enemy ruby with her crude iron axe. A lot of Rubies were poofed in their disorganized panic.
Their Ruby managed to smash a few more with her mallet.
"Stop running you idiots and form up!" Presumably the lead Ruby yelled.
"Don't let them fuse!" Rose called out as she impaled a scrambling Ruby poofing it with her crude sword.
Pearl took a shot at the commanding Ruby with her spear, hot plasma energy shot out of gem weapon poofing the Ruby.
Without their leader, the enemy was easily defeated. It almost made Pearl feel bad on how easy it was, almost.
The tower had three different entrances.
"We'll need to split up Ruby, you take the path on the left; Pearl, the right; I'll take center; Nephrite you take that fighter craft and stop any Gem that comes in after us." Rose ordered pointing to winged triangle shaped ship.
"Remember keep in contact at all times."
Each nodded and went to their assigned tasks.
As Pearl fought her way up the tower she could help notice that so far, she had only encountered Rubies, the most common of Homeworld's foot soldiers. Even the labor camps were guarded by a couple of Quartzes, for such a place with a high concentration of slave why was it garrisoned with such weak defenses?
Just as she thought that she was tackled by an unknown assailant. Pearl landed in a graceful roll and recovered her spear pointed at the newcomer, and to her surprise he assailant was human female!
"Wait Human! I mean you no harm! We are here to rescue you!" Pearl said.
Suddenly the area around her got darker, something was about to fall on her! Pearl scrambled out of the way just in time as a large bipedal lizard landed where she was standing.
"Stay behind me Human!" Pearl ordered, Rose made it perfectly clear that they were supposed to protect humans.
She stared down at her opponent, it was huge about the same size a Quartz Gem, it's movement was slow and sluggish. She could defeat it with speed… Before she could completely formulate her plan of attack was wrapped around by a green tail and tossed to the side.
Another one!? No, she looked back to notice the human was sporting a long lizard tail, humans aren't supposed to have those! Right then before her very eyes the human shapeshifted, her skin became scales and fingers became claws.
"Greetings Crystal Gem…" It spoke, "we have been expecting you… though I admit I had hoped to face Rose Quartz. But I suppose shattering her Pearl will just have to do…"
"What are you?" Pearl asked, these things aren't Gem nor are they Humans, she'd never seen anything like them.
"I suppose I'll humor you, I am Chamelia Salvia and this is Komodus Rex" She gestured the Quartz sized lizard. "We are the humans that you desire to liberate, but as you can see we have no desire to be so. We worship the great holy Diamonds and in return they have blessed us with power! We of the Lizard Clan serve the Great Diamond Authority freely!"
These things were humans? Or at the very least were humans, because she highly doubts they are anymore after whatever Homeworld's have done to them.
"Rex shatter her!" Rex leaped the Pearl bearing it teeth hoping to take a bite of her.
Pearl ducked and stabbed the tip of her spear into the lizards hide, unfortunate the hide was too tough to be pierced.
Rex clawed at her, Pearls was able to lean away and dodge from every swing. Her initial assessment has proven true the Lizard's movements were so sluggish she could dodge its attack with minimum effort.
She jabbed spear at the rampaging Lizard, wearing it down little by little. It seems these things possessed the durability of Quartz as well.
From the corner of her vision she saw Salvia leaping towards. Pearl leaped back narrowly escaping a downward swing of Salvia's Khopesh.
Pearl engaged Salvia in a melee, Pearl thankfully had the advantage of longer range. Pearl blocked an overhead swing with her spear and struck Salvia in the gut with the handle.
Pearl felt herself blown away as the sluggish large lizard sent her flying with a swing of its claw. It hits as hard as a Quartz too.
Pearl slammed into the wall, that strike took the wind out of her. One of these lizards she can handle but two? It was time to make a tactical retreat.
She dashed up the corridor higher into the tower, Salvia was hot on her trail while Rex was falling behind fast. Good if she could isolate one of them she could take them out.
Pearl had eventually reached a long corridor, it was lined with white marble columns and was exposed to the outside. By the time she reached here, she had left Rex far behind leaving only Salvia.
Pearl stopped now she would have plenty of time to defeat Salvia before Rex showed up.
"Finally decided to stop running? Shame I did enjoy playing with my prey." Salvia laughed.
"Let's see if you're still laughing after I defeat you!" Pearl yelled charging in spear first.
"You think you can win now that I'm alone? How naïve."
Right before Pearls eyes her opponent vanished.
She looked around trying to spot Salvia, but then abruptly she was assaulted from all sides and knocked around unable to fight back against her invisible opponent. Pearl found herself being lifted from the neck up, Salvia then slowly reappeared in front her, Salvia's tail wrapped firmly around her neck.
"Peekaboo" Pearl was then tossed into a column.
The floor shook violently then a hole collapse and out jumped Rex covered in dust and debris. That thing climbed straight up through the floor?!
"Ah Rex, there you are. I was beginning to wonder when you'd show up again." Salvia said, "Anyway, I grow tired of playing. Finish her."
Rex stalked up to her and placed his feet at her head and applied pressure. He was going to shatter her.
Just then she was saved by two plasma bolts that slammed in the behemoth of a lizard. She looks towards her savior, it was a single fighter craft, Nephrite.
"Thought you could use some help Pearl" Nephrite said through the coms. She smirked now its two on two and she had a fighter craft on her side.
"Nephrite can you take care of the smaller one?" Pearl asked.
"No problem." Like before Salvia turned invisible only this time she was struck by plasma bolts wherever she might be. Fighter crafts come equipped with state of the art radar and tracking systems.
Now with Salvia occupied that only left the quartz sized lizard to deal with.
Rex leaped at her again and again she ducked but this time she used her spear to toss him over the edge of the tower.
A loud crash was heard as Salvia was struck against some columns, the pillars collapsed on top and bury the lizard ending the fight.
Or it would be had Rex not leaped from the side of tower onto fighter craft and brought it down with him. The ship tumbled down through the air and crash, fire spewed out from the ensuing explosion.
"Nephrite! Nephrite are you there!" Pearl exclaimed. Nothing but static, "no…"
-Flashback End-
Needless to say, that mission was a failure, there was no slave liberation at the tower. Not only had they lost Nephrite on that day but that Ruby as well. Rose had met up with her alone and it was just the two of them once more.
She collected the last of the shirts when she noticed something peculiar in the sky. A second son? No that can't be… this needed to be investigated right away, she hopes that isn't what she thinks it is.
Makoto POV
"What do you mean it was leveled 10 years ago?" Ozawa asked incredulously over the phone. "I thought that was a recent photo."
"It is…" Makoto had no way to explain it either.
"So… if that photo was from 10 years ago…"
"Then Peter Peters Jr would have only been 3 years old."
Something weird is going on here.
Third Person POV
Today was a great day.
Steven had spent the entire day hanging out with Amethyst, they did all sorts of fun stuff.
It was getting late and stores were beginning to close, now they were running towards towards Beach Citywalk Fries hoping to get some fry bits before it closes.
"Hey, Fryman, give me the bits!" Steven yelled just as Mr. Fryman flipped the sign to close.
"Steven! We're closed."
"Aww, what?" Steven whined disappointed, he was too late.
That's Amethyst decided to help Steven out, "Give 'em the bits!" She chanted pounding the counter.
"The bits, the bits…" Even Steven joined in on the chant and banged the counter. "The BITS! The BITS!"
"Okay, okay! Take it easy on the counter, will ya?" Mr. Fryman relented and went to fry up some bits.
"Yes!" Steven and Amethyst cheered as they high-fived each other.
Mr. Fryman came back and handed Steven a bag of fry bits, "I can give you actual fries if you want."
"Just the bits, please. Thanks." Steven thanked. Today was a great day.
"Ah, sunset, my favorite time of day. When the sun goes down, and the second sun gets bigger and bigger in the sky." Steven said soaking in the scenery not noticing what was wrong with that sentence.
Amethyst laughed think that it was a joke.
"Yeah, that big second su-"it really was there! That's no sun! "Oh no, what is that doing here?!"
"What is it?" Steven asked not knowing what was wrong.
Amethyst just picks up Steven over her head and dashes off, causing Steven to drop the bag of fry bits. "Ah, my bits!"
Pearl and Garnet were on the hilltop near the temple. Pearl had materialized a telescope from her gem and set it up, so they can get a better look at the 'second sun' in the sky.
Their worst fears were confirmed, it's a Red Eye.
"This is bad." Garnet stated.
"Look at the size of it, I had no idea these things were so big!" Pearl gasped. She had heard of Red Eyes but she never had the displeasure of seeing one in person, until now.
"Garnet! Pearl!" Amethyst cried out to them, carrying Steven over her head.
"We saw. Some of us are trying to protect humanity. Where were you?!" Pearl asked angrily.
"Eating fry bits." Was her answer, Pearl sighed sighed.
Amethyst let Steven down, he was excited to see what the Gems were talking about. "Oh. Can I see?!"
Pearl allowed Steven to look through the telescope, there was no harm in letting him anyway.
What he saw amazed him, the falling orb opened up revealing a hexagonal pupil. "Whoa. It's a giant eyeball! Awesome!"
"NOT awesome! It's a Red Eye!" Pearl yelled exasperated.
"Red Eye! It's going to infect us all!" Steven panicked. He had heard it make people's eyes all puffy and itchy!
"That's pink eye, Steven." Garnet clarified. Amethyst just laughs at Steven's antics.
"It's going to crash into Beach City and crush us, along with a bunch of oblivious, innocent people! We have to stop it." Pearl said bring the conversation back on track.
"What are we going to do?" Steven asked
"The only thing powerful enough to destroy it is a Light Cannon that belonged to Rose Quartz." Garnet said adjusting her visor.
"My mom?"
"If Rose were here, this would be so easy." Amethyst moans angrily.
"I know, but she's not, and the cannon is missing. We'll have to find another solution." Pearl said solemnly.
"If it belonged to my mom, I bet my dad knows where it is. He can help us save the day!" Steven suggested.
His suggestion was met with silence, "Huh? Eah?!" still nothing.
"Greg is... nice, Steven, but I doubt Rose would entrust someone like him with such a powerful weapon." Pearl said sugarcoating her opinions regarding his father. An opinion that the rest of the Gems also share.
"Your dad is kind of a mess, Steven." Amethyst stated placing a hand on his shoulder, not even bothering to hide her opinion.
"AMEYTHST!" Pearl chastised.
"I'm just sayin', even if she did leave it with him, he probably broke it, or lost it, or dropped it in the ocean by now." Amethyst said.
"True." Garnet conceded to her point.
"No way, I'm sure he's just keeping it somewhere safe. I'll go ask him." Steven said, not willing to lose faith in his dad.
"We can handle this Steven" Garnet said before turning to address Amethyst. "Ready?"
She nods, Garnet then proceeds to pick her up and tosses her at the Red Eye… to no effect… As soon as Amethyst collided with Red eye she was bounced off.
"Ugh, I'm gonna go..." Steven cringed.
"…Okay, good luck…" Pearl said half-heartedly. What are they going to do.
Police Chief POV
The Police chief walking down a hallway when a technician called to him.
"Er, Sir you might want to take a look at this…" A technician waved the Chief.
"What is it?"
The technician showed him live footage of gigantic meteor crashing down towards Beach City!
"Great Googly Moogly! How is it that I'm only being notified of this NOW?!" He yelled at the cowering technician.
"We've… just noticed it now sir…"
"How in the name of Fuck! Did no one notice a meteor the size of HOUSE until now!" The Chief roared.
He picked up a nearby phone and dialed the operator. "GET ME G3 NOW!"
Third Person POV
"Emergency call to the Counter Gem Squad! A meteor has been spotted above Beach City. Deploy G-Fighter immediately! Sending over coordinates now."
"You get that?" Sumiko asked Makoto over the coms.
"Tell me the coordinates and I'll meet you there!"
"Ronaldo! Drive!" Sumiko commanded.
The apprentice nodded, he went over to wheel and activated the sirens.
Following the onboard GPS, it didn't take long to spot Makoto's cars driving up ahead.
Makoto pulled over dashed towards the G-Trailer.
"So what's this G-Fighter anyway?" Ronaldo asked as Makoto suited up.
"Just watch."
Makoto got on the Guard Chaser, but instead of the back opening up, the roof did.
"Guard Chaser shifting gears!" Arms came out from the parts of the walls with various parts and attached them the Guard Chaser. By the time it was done the Guard Chaser was no longer recognizable.
The Guard Chaser now looked like a winged triangle shaped ship.
"Shift Complete. 2-1-2-3, G3 System engaging in a battle operation. Releasing Arwing"
The craft hovered up and out flew out of G-Trailer in amazing speed.
So, that's where the budget went.
Amethyst dropped back down into the ocean after recoiling off the Red Eye again.
Well that was useless.
Thing was getting bad. Nothing they did could even put a dent that thing! They even tried throwing Amethyst a few more times, she was still swimming back after the last attempt.
Suddenly something whooshed overhead. Was that a… Gem Fighter Craft!
Has Homeworld returned? No that can't be right, instead of attacking them the fighter craft was shooting at the Red Eye!
Who is piloting that thing? Pearl was brought out of her musing when Amethyst returned to shore.
"What'd I miss? Wait is that?..."
It was Steven! He returned and he had the Light Cannon with him!
"He really had it!" Pearl couldn't believe Greg had actually kept Rose's Light Cannon.
"We're SAVED! Amethyst exclaimed.
The Red Eye was coming in fast! It's gravity alone was pulling the city apart.
"We have to use it now." Garnet said looking at Pearl, seeing as she was the one closest to Rose.
"I don't know how it works, it was Rose's!" She yelled trying to figure out how the cannon operated.
"Dad how do we use it?" Steven asked his father. Greg gave a shrug, of course he didn't know, he stayed far away from gem matters.
Then Pearl realized a solution. "The gem. You have Rose's gem."
"That's it!" Amethyst exclaimed and picked Steven up and rubs him against the cannon. "Ah, come on!"
"Stop that." Garnet chided.
"It's no use." Pearl said. They're doomed.
"What's that!?" Amethyst pointed at the Gem Fighter Ship
That's right the ship was still up there firing at the Red Eye, however the fighter ship wasn't faring any better than their attempts.
Time was running out!
The gravitational pull of the Red Eye intensified as it came closer. Greg's van was pulled towards it along with the Light Cannon!
"I got this" Greg said and unhooked the cannon from his can only to be pulled by the van. "Ugh, wait, nope, maybe I don't!"
Shouichi came to Greg's rescue and pulled the cord alongside Greg stopping the van in its tracks, though barely.
"Please work, unlock, activate, go, please! Everyone's counting on you, you can't just be useless! I know you can help." Steven begged the cannon. He realized it was an inanimate object but he was desperate, they all were.
"It's okay, Steven. We'll figure out something else, something even better." Greg yelled to his son, the car was moving again as gravitational pull grew stronger.
"R-r-r-right, if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." Steven stutter out saying his dad's motto, just then the cannon glowed and began to activate.
"It's working!" Pearl gasped.
The cannon unlocked and opened up resembling a blooming rose, just as it finished it tilted and fell to the sand.
Steven ran up to it tried to lift the cannon up towards the Red Eye with all of his strength. His muscles ached at the strain, then the burden became lighter as the Crystal Gems lifted it up with him.
Over the roaring winds and hum of the cannon, Steven the only thing he could make out was Garnet warning.
"BRACE YOURSELVES!"
And a bright light shone out of the cannon.
Makoto POV
Plasma bolts did nothing! There wasn't even a dent in the damn meteor. Fine if plasma wasn't going to cut it, let's try missiles.
Makoto launched twin missiles at the meteor and they exploded on contact,
"Target hit!"
The Smoke cleared showing no damage done to the meteor. Oh, come on!
Makoto emptied his entire supply of missiles into the gigantic meteor all having the same result -jack nothing-
"I'm out of missiles!"
"Fall back G3, it's no good. Your orders are to evacuate the G3 System is too valuable to lose." The police chief ordered.
"What about my team?" Makoto asked.
"People can be easily replaced, your suit can't!"
Reluctantly Makoto fell back, but he wasn't heading out of the city, not yet, the least he can do right now is save his team.
Just as he turned around a huge pink beam shot passed him. He watched as the beam shifted to the shape of woman and smash into the meteor.
The meteor exploded into chucks. The force the explosion pushed the Arwing with it but he was fine. Makoto looked down on the surface to see pieces of the meteor destroy the nearest parts of Beach City, but it could have been much worse.
Down on the beach he saw the Crystal Gems with a large rose like cannon. It seems the Crystal Gems have saved the day once more.
G3 breathed a sigh of relief, it seems like it's one of those days.
Third Person POV
"Steven, you just saved most of Beach City!" Amethyst congratulated as the shrapnel stopped raining down.
"Sorry about that!" Steven called out Mr. Fryman who was nearly killed by the shrapnel.
"How did you get it to work?" Pearl asked.
"I just said that thing that Dad always says." Steven replied.
"That thing about pork rinds?" Pearl asked skeptically.
"Hot dogs." Garnet clarified.
While this was going on, Greg stared at the night sky where beam that resembled the image of his late wife shone. Tears stained his eyes in remembrance.
"Rose."
As they stood there they forgot one thing and some one.
With the Red Eye gone the tides returned, along with Shouichi and the van riding the wave.
"Woahhhh!" Shouichi yelled on top of the van griping it for dear life.
"Shouichi!"
Aside with the destruction of the boardwalk and Greg and Steven having to rescue Shouichi and the van, the day ended on relatively happy note.
High Chieftain POV
"And so once again the day is saved thanks to the Crystal Gems…" The High Chieftain said after receiving the latest report.
"It seems Homeworld may not be out of the game after all." He commented about the appearance of the Red Eye. "No matter, all the sweeter victory shall be for our Goddess to topple both the Crystal Gems and Homeworld."
"I feel like it's time for a change of scenery, Salvia I want you to scout out the Lunar Sea Spire. See if it is suitable for our new base of operation." The High Chieftain commanded.
"By you will, High Chieftain."
That's a wrap! And Yes I gave G3 and Arwing deal with it.
What I wanted to do this chapter was to get the Shouichi to realize that he is Agito however with the way Laser Light Cannon shown that is isn't possible right now. So I'll have to push it back next episode and have it so that it is a Reveal episode as well.
One of the problems that I will face writing this is fact that Kamen Rider Agito has far less episodes than Steven Universe. I was suggested to do my own thing and that is very hard to do for me, so I'm asking you readers to suggest ideas and scenarios that you want to read so that I can have a springboard to jump off of.
Also it is very helpful for me to receive constructive criticism, if you see that I've written a character OOC or if you have issues with how I structure the story please feel free to point it out and tell me how to fix it.
Also like mentioned in the previous chapters I do not like writing unedited canon scenes if I don't have to, if I did my story would be slightly longer but that seems like a cop out. So I want to know what you think, do you think it is okay to copy scenes word for word if it means my word count is bigger?