It's chapter 2 time! Time for more heroes to be revealed. The war is beginning and paths are going to be crossed. Get ready for a wild ride. *I DO NOT OWN ANY AND ALL CHARACTERS, SETTINGS, SERIES AND PROPERTIES THAT ARE OWNED BY CARTOON NETWORK*

The inside of Rex Salazar's quarters in Providence Headquarters was still as cramped as ever. Normal teenagers shouldn't have to complain about getting their own room, with a flat screen TV, large bookshelves containing just about any book he could ever want to read, and even a couple of seats in case he wanted company, but Rex Salazar was no ordinary kid.

"Something on your mind kid?" his one-eyed, simian roommate Bobo Haha asked from his perch on the other side of the room.

"Nah, just bored" he told him, tossing a red, rubber ball against the wall repeatedly.

The door opened and another individual entered the room. The man was tall and lanky, wearing a green suit jacket and a black tie while also wearing a thick pair of black sunglasses despite them all being inside.

"Stand to salute" Bobo Haha declared as he mocked the man by leaping up and saluting him.

"One more word and the blade goes into your other good eye" he threatened the chimp.

"What's the deal Six?"

"Duty calls Rex. Giant monster off the east coast, possible EVO, White Knight's sending us out immediately. Get ready"

He lead the duo down the corridor to the launch bay, taking them through the prisoner hold on their way. Every cell inside was filled with incurable EVOs that Rex couldn't save, and standing at attention was the chief research officer of Providence Dr. Rebecca Holiday.

"How are our guests treating you today doctor?" Six asked while still walking.

"On and off really" she answered him as she began to walk beside the trio towards the docking bay. "The one in black is still putting up quite the fight and the blue and pink ones are still giving me attitude, but besides that they seem to be adapting quite well to their cells. I still don't get it though, how can six individuals just drop from the sky like this? And that's not the only thing that bothers me. Their nanite levels, all six of them have levels consistently low, as if they've all only recently been exposed. It's unprecedented."

The cell containing the prisoner dressed in all back rumbled from her bashing her fists and hissing loudly against the cell wall.

"Let! Us! Out!" she hissed through the wall

"Those questions can be answered later, now we have to get to the EVO attack before any more damage can be caused" Six ordered them.

"You got it sir" Bobo sarcastically told him once again

After the well built driver finally parked the car, young Ilana stepped out of the passenger side door and began to stretch, all while her two escorts slowly exited the vehicle as well.

"Thank goodness that's over, my legs are killing me" she enthusiastically said

"The quarters I have arranged for us to stay in are to your approval i presume?" the driver asked Ilana and the teenage boy standing beside her.

"It'll do for now" he answered

"Oh Lance, why can't you show even the slightest bit of enthusiasm? I don't like having to go into hiding again either, as does Octus. However, you said it yourself, you have a mission to protect me, and we all must do our part to blend in"

"Agreed" Octus stated "I must admit, I too am not enjoying the sudden change, but the new president is clearly not too fond of alien presences, combined with Solomon's disappearance following the mutraddi attacks in Sherman, San Francisco and Paris, it was for the best that we went into hiding once again." the regret was clearly visible on his normally blank face.

Lance and Ilana both looked at him with empathy, "I know that you miss Kimmy Octus," Lance told his friend, "but you're right about us having to hide. We don't want any unwanted attention"

"Hi there!" they heard an excited voice address them from behind them. The three extraterrestrials turned to see a plump, balding man wearing a white tank top and had a serious sunburn standing behind them with a van parked beside him "you folks the ones moving in?"

"Yes" Ilana enthusiastically told him, Lance awkwardly standing behind her, ready to defend her just in case "I'm Ilana, this is my brother Lance, and this is-"

"Their father" Octus answered for her.

"Well it's nice to meet you folks! Folks call me Greg, you need a hand with your boxes?"

"N-" Lance began to respond, but Ilana was never one to be rude

"That would be wonderful, thank you Mr. Greg"

"So what's your story?" he asked them politely as he began assisting her with a chair

"We're from Sherman"

"The place that giant monster attacked ? Boy you guys lucked out getting outta there when you did"

"Uh, sis can I talk to you in private?" Lance asked her. Before she could give him an answer, he grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her over to the side of their temporary housing.

"Kids huh?" Greg joked

"Yes. They are a handful"

"It's tough being a single dad am I right? I tell yah, my son Steven is the light of my life but if it weren't for his other caretakers I'd have no idea what to do"

As Greg opened up to him, Octus secretly scanned him and began to examine everything about about him. According to his records, he was born Gregory Demayo, later changing his name to Universe, no college degree, no criminal record, always pays his taxes. On paper, he seemed to be trustworthy.

"Lance let go! Stop!"

"What did we just talk about in the car? We have to keep a low profile here. We' only just met this guy and you've basically told him everything! What are you thinking!?"

"I am just trying to be nice. All of us are on edge, Steel could track us and come back with another weapon, or Modula could send another Mutraddi to kill us. But we can still appreciate human kindness"

"Kindness is what got us here! It's what made Octus so sensitive because of Kimmy! It's what-"

"Kids" Octus's voice came from the side of the house as he and Greg walked over to them. Seeing their unexpected guest, they both stopped talking.

"Alright, I can tell this is a family thing, so I'll just make my leave. Nice to meet you guys!" Greg exclaimed as he left

"What are two arguing about?" Octus asked angrily

Both began trying to explain over each other, Lance arguing about how Ilana was jeopardizing their new location while Ilana was yelling how Lance was being far too paranoid. Octus just rolled his artificial eyes.

"Aw gesch," Greg Universe thought at the awkward family scuffle he just witnessed, opening the door to the small cliffside beach house, he saw his fifteen year old son Steven Universe with his three caretakers, the aliens known as the Crystal Gems, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl.

"Hey Dad!" the youngest member of the Crystal Gems welcomed his father

"Hey there Stu-ball, just the new neighbors. And you know they give you guys a run for your money on the oddness scale"

"Seriously?" the less serious Amethyst asked while eating what appeared to be a ham sandwich, inside a burrito, wrapped inside a pizza from the kitchen.

"Yeah, they were whispering together a lot, like they were scared of my presence. Especially the son. Seem to be a single dad, a daughter and a son, both a little older than Steven. They're a little secretive but you know, seem nice.

"Perhaps we could make them feel more at home" Garnet suggested. Suddenly her face went from enthusiastic to worried

"Oh dear, we've seen that face before" the serious and stern Pearl said "what's happening?"

"Gems, outside now!" Garnet dictated.

Amethyst and Pearl began to run outside, Steven began to follow but Garnet held him back "Steven, stay here where it'll be safe"

"But Garnet!"

"Listen to me Steven, trust me!" she pleaded before joining her other teammates outside.

With Steven safely in the house, the three Crystal Gems saw what Garnet's future vision showed her. A gigantic monster, easily more than one hundred meters tall, attacking Beach City.

"Remember Rex, don't be flashy." Agent Six informed the teen sitting next to him on the airship. "We don't want any civilian casualties. Just stick to the procedure, and the-"

"What's the heck's that!?" Rex shouted while pointing down towards the edge of the city. Six, Bobo and the few Providence soldiers on board the ship looked to see a glob of light, and from it emerged an enormous red skinned woman with six arms and large blue hair. The giant woman screeched, blew fire from a second mouth below her chin, and charged towards the first giant monster. "Does the procedure account for two giant monsters?" Rex asked his mentor.

"Nothing changes Rex, we'll cover you, just take them down"

"Well it looks like three's company!" Bobo added, pointing the opposite side of the city. An equally large being appeared. It was humanlike with a transparent, blue body and represented a suit of armor.

"Titian?" Six asked, recognizing the giant robot as the very being that the dishonorably discharged General Steel had spent nearly an entire year campaigning to recognize as a public menace. "Nobody's seen Titian since the attacks in San Francisco, Paris and Sherman. And with the two EVOs on a rampage, we have to be careful, just try to keep them at bay until you can drain them!"

"Got it chief. With a single leap of faith, he jumped from the open door of the ship and began to free fall just above the first creature. "Come get some!" he exclaimed while summoning his dual robotic fists ready to hit their mark. But the creature did something he wasn't accounting for, it quickly swung it's own fist in his direction almost as if it were swatting a fly away. Rex was sent flying directly into a building across town, unconscious.

"Oh my gosh!" Greg exclaimed, not expecting a sixteen year old boy to come flying through the roof.

Steven began to examine Rex's body, seeing a chunk of the wooden framing had lodged itself into the teen's leg. Quickly taking action, he and his father removed the large splinter. "Sorry if this gets weird" he told the unconscious teen. After spitting into his hands, he slapped the large gash in Rex's leg. Almost instantly Steven's healing saliva went to work closing up the injury, and healing Rex's concussion enough to jolt him awake with a sudden gasp.

"Are you ok?" Steven asked him

"Think so," he turned to look through the hole to see the three Titans preparing for battle. "Can't believe the big guy showed up after being missing for so long. But I still gotta stop the other two!" Summoning his , adding more damage to the nearly destroyed beach house in the process, he began to fly back into battle.

"NO!" Steven exclaimed, grabbing Rex by the leg in protest as he began to fly oboogie packut the hole.

"STEVEN!" He heard his father scream in worry

"Let go of me kid!" he said kicking at the pudgy boy's face while shaking back and forth "let me do my job!"

"Alexandrite, the big red lady, she's on our side! She's trying to stop the monster and robot from destroying everything!"

Across town, Alexandrite roared and blew fire from her mouth to challenge her opponents.

"Well forgive me for not noticing the giant, fire breathing monster was actually on our side! Wait, if Titan's on our side, and so's your big friend…"

"Then we've gotta stop them!"

"Great, first we lose our anonymity, now we have to bring out Titan to fight these monsters!" Lance complained as he, Ilana and Octus piloted the giant robot, drawing its battle axe and charging into battle.

"Are you seriously still mad about that?" Ilana angrily confronted him

"We have bigger problems at the moment" Octus informed them, bringing their attention back to the two creatures.

The red skinned woman grabbed the first creature into a headlock and began to strike it in it's stomach. The creature winched after being struck by Alexandrite's fire breath, finally striking back with enough force to push her off it. Alexandrite decided the best way to take it down was at a distance, but before she could summon her bow and arrow, Titan struck her from the back.

"What the?" she asked before being struck again by the mechanical robot. She could feel her three components beginning to separate. "Keep it together" she whispered to herself before she turned back and struck her assailant.

"This thing knows different fighting styles!" Lance concluded after Titan dodged her attack

"What kind of mutraddi even are these?"

"I'm not sure, my scanners do not have any information on either of these two creatures within my mutraddi data bases. Perhaps we should-"

"Shield!" Lance interrupted Octus after Alexandrite launched a massive light arrow at them. Within seconds, Titan was able to summon the mighty shield, but their draw was too delayed and the arrow struck them in the chest, plummeting them to the ground.

Alexandrite turned her attention back to the first attacker, who had been attacking the city while she and Titan were distracted. She arched her bow back and fired another light arrow at the monster, sending it back to the ground. It slowly stood back up and roared at her, then charged as fast as it could given its size for physical battle.

While Alexandrite's back was turned, Titian slowly got back up, all three of it's pilots confused as to why the being had ignored them and turned its full attention to the other monster.

"We were down, why didn't it finish us off?" Lance asked

"Perhaps the other creature is its primary focus" Octus suggested

"It doesn't seem to want to want to hurt the city either, think it might be on our side?"

"Two against one has better odds, if it isn't on our side after that thing is done we'll worry about it later. Let's go!"

Titan stood up, summoning its arm cannon and approached Alexandrite, blasting the weapon next to her at their mutual adversary. Alexandrite turned with surprise, but acknowledged the assistance with a friendly nod and combined the cannon fire with her own light arrows into a massive blast of energy. Their target turned towards the source of light approaching him from behind, only to be completely overpowered by the dual attack.

With their mutual enemy down, the remaining two turned their attention back towards each other. Rex and Steven expected the two to continue fighting, but instead the two nodded at each other in a sign of mutual respect.

Rex and Steven landed nearby and got to work. Quickly scanning the creature, he cured the monstrous EVO, reverting it to a scrawny, young boy who looked no older than Steven and had spiky blonde hair with red colored tips, unconscious in the middle of the street.

Alexandrite quickly separated back into Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl. "STEVEN!" Pearl screamed at him, running up to and wrapped her arms around him. "What are you doing? We told you to stay at the house where it was safe!"

"Hey lady, your kid helped me out." Rex came to Steven's defense. But before he could finish his argument, a loud humming noise came from the sky. Looking up, the Providence ship that brought him to Beach City was now accompanied by four more large ships, each dropping at least twenty uniformed and armed Providence soldiers to the ground. After the small army landed, Six and Bobo joined the squad weapons drawn and aimed in the Gems and Titan's direction. Then to Rex's surprise, the leader of Providence himself White Knight, dropped down from the largest ship, joining them in his anti nanite armor.

"Step away from the EVO aliens" he barked out "you are in direct violation of the President of the United States Alien Registration Act. Surrender to us now or we will retaliate!"

"White, what the heck are you doing? These are the good guys!" Rex protested

"This is getting too intense," Lance concluded "we've got to get out of here"

"And leave the beings who helped us with them? I don't think so" Ilana responded

"Your safety is of top priority Princess"

Titan began to attempt to escape, but White Knight was prepared. "Turn it on" he spoke into a communicator built into his suit's arm.

A much higher pitch began to broadcast from the ships, it was almost deafening to everyone in hearing distance. The screeching noise reached Titan's mainframe, and the next thing everyone knew, Sym Bionic Titan had been disassembled, Octus lost full control over his physical form and was in a pile of wires and his mainframe on the ground, while Lance and Ilana's Manus and Corus tech suits retracted, exposing the teens.

"Step aside Rex, and let us do what must be done" White Knight commanded

Before Rex could respond, Pearl drew her spear from the gem in her forehead, throwing it in White Knight's direction. Rex knew what was about to happen next, and knew things were not about to go well for her. "Wait!" he begged, but he was too late. Six reflected the projectile with his manga blades, dashing across the road and slashing Pearl across the stomach. She lurched backwards, clutching her stomach in pain. Six examined his blades, a bit confused as to why there was no blood on them, but turned to face her as Amethyst and Garnet came to her side.

Bobo grew a cheeky grin at the whole situation "consider yourself lucky toots, this man right here is the sixth most dangerous man on the planet. I advise you cooperate if you don't want a bigger cut on that thin belly of yours. Or to the kid"

"Enough chimp" White Knight scolded "but tell me, are we all going to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

The group realized putting up a fight would be pointless, and all placed their hands over their hands in surrender. Rex rejoined Six, Bobo and White Knight's sides and followed them on board, a look of guilt on his face.

"I'm sure they'll be fine kid" Bobo told his friend, earning him a jab in the side from Rex's elbow.

"What should we do about the kid sir?"

"He's seen too much, take him with us until we can figure out what we can do with him"

The soldiers picked up Octus's mangled parts and placed them inside a case as the Gems and Galalunians boarded the prisoner transport ship. The group all felt a feeling of weightlessness during takeoff to their unknown destination. Then an even worse thought filled Steven's head, if they were capturing aliens, they were going to probably find the other two alien gems Peridot and Lapis Lazuli living in their barn just outside the city. Desperate to protect his friends, he snuck his cell phone out from his back pocket, selected Peridot's name on his contact list, and began typing a text message, reading "government's taken us, hide. Dont worry about us, save yourselves"

"Hey! That kid's got a phone!" one of the soldiers shouted. The soldiers standing guard began to charge towards him, but not before Garnet stood between them.

"Touch him, and I'll do worse to you"

Lance stood up from the bench provided for them and stood by the tall Gem's side, fists clenched, "and I'll match it"

Garnet looked at him and like how Alexandrite acknowledged Titan's help, she smiled at him, earning a small grin back.

During Garnet and Lance's distraction, Steven pressed send on the phone, and worried they'd be able to track his message to his two friends, he tossed the phone out the open window of the airship. He got a sense of how fast they were traveling because they were now over a suburban neighborhood unfamiliar to him, and it was where his phone was falling now.

"They're not EVOs Knight, why are we taking them? What's going to happen to them?" Rex questioned his superior from the upper deck.

"President's orders kid, EVOs aren't attacking much anymore after Van Kleiss's takedown. To keep Providence's doors open we had to make a deal. Hold the aliens the President hates for some reason and we'll keep our funding. I don't like it either, but there's nothing else for us to do except play along with the crazy stuff the new president wants us to do."

Inside the prisoner transport bay of the ship, the kid who was the host to the EVO that attacked Beach City began to wake up.

"Wha, where am I?"

"Welcome to prisoner city kid, population us" Amethyst joked

"Are you alright?" Ilana asked "what's your name?"

"Johnny, Johnny Test. What the heck is going on? Who are you people?"

"You were a giant monster, attacked a city, were taken down by us, then turned to normal and are now being taken to some sort of prison" Garnet summed it all up for him,

"Woah, didn't see that coming"