Author's note: Time for chapter 2! This one will definitely be a lot longer than the last one and much better.
turn forever you and me: Thanks for the great episode idea, I really think I can work with that! Keep giving suggestions if you have any more.
Present day…
The warp pad glowed as the four activated it, and Steven giggled as they floated through the stream. Meanwhile, the other gems remained serious, Opal being the only smiling.
"Remember gems, our first priority is to find and retrieve the Moon Goddess Statue. Anything else comes second." Ruby and Sapphire nodded at Opal's command, while Steven keeps giggling as he floated.
"Opal, how long will this take anyway? I really don't want to be long here!" Ruby said, arms crossed. Lapis scoffed at this, rolling her eyes. "What? Why'd you scoff?!"
"Nothing…"
After a few minutes the Geode Gems arrive at their destination, Steven about to fall on the ground when Opal catches him by his arms. She then sets him down before stepping off of the warp pad.
"Looks like we're here gems." Steven gasps when he looks at their surroundings. It is a cavern filled with glowing yellow and orange crystals, lighting the way.
"Wow, this place is amazing! If I were a statue, I'd definitely want to be here!"
Opal turns to the group, hands on her hips. "Okay, there are two ways to go, Ruby,you take Steven down left path, while me and Lapis will go down the path to the right. If you find the statue, come back to the warp pad!"
"On it." Steven says, saluting her. He then runs off, followed by Ruby.
"Steven, wait up!"
As Steven and Ruby run out of sight, Lapis turns to Opal, worried. "Opal, are you sure they'll be okay? Steven is so young, and may not know what to do if a monster comes out of nowhere."
"I can't be sure of anything." Opal becomes more serious, hands clenched. "But I think he'll be able to handle himself when the time comes. Just have faith in him."
Steven has stopped running now, walking slowly as he breaths heavily. Ruby runs up next to him, slowing down to match his pace.
"So, Ruby, what's so important about this Moon Statue?"
"Oh, that. I'm not really sure. Lapis says it's important though, going on and on about how it was the key to restoring a water temple that used to belong to Blue Diamond."
Steven stops, looking at Ruby confused. "Who's Blue Diamond? Are they someone important?"
Ruby stops as well, but gasps at what she sees in front of them.
"Hey, I think that's it!" Ruby runs up to a large statue of a thin woman with long wavy hair and a dress, holding a diamond shaped jewel. "Man, this was really easy!"
Steven stands back, looking down on the ground they're standing on, which is made of a yellow stone with holes in it. His face becomes filled with worry, as Ruby tries to pry the statue from the ground.
"Umm, Ruby, I don't think this is a good idea." Ruby manages to rip the statue from it's place, but it immediately crumbles into multiple pieces as the ground begins rumbling. Ruby backs up near Steven, summoning her boxing glove.
"Yeah, yeah maybe you were right Steven."
Suddenly, large, yellow spiders explode from the ground, 7 spiders in total. Steven screams, grabbing a large piece of loose crystal and holding it out defensively. "Giant spiders! Ruby, do something!"
A giant spider tries to attack Steven, who uses the Crystal piece to block it. Ruby grabs a spider by its leg and punches it in its head, causing it to disappear in a puff of smoke.
Steven continues to hit at the monsters with the makeshift weapon, while Ruby kicks and punches them.
"Steven, run!"
"What?! No, I want to help!" Ruby grabs Steven with one arm, lifting him up and making the boy drop the Crystal.
"I said RUN!" Ruby throws Steven far away as he screams, only taking a second to stop hearing him when he goes too far away.
Soon, all the spiders are gone after being defeated and Ruby just stands there out of breath, putting away her weapon. She searches the ground for gems, but find none. A pit grows in Ruby's stomach, searching for the gem of the monster.
Hisssss…
Ruby freezes, eyes turning into pinpoints, as she slowly turns around, coming face to face with a bright yellow anaconda with 5 different tails, with orange crystal eyes and a large orange spot on the back of its head. Ruby doesn't move for a few seconds, standing perfectly still.
The anaconda suddenly attacks, grabbing Ruby's arms with its tail.
Steven lands right on the warp pad on his back. He lies there for a minute, back still aching from hitting the ground so hard.
AGHHH, STAY AWAY!" Steven sits straight right up immediately, eyes darting around frantically.
"Ruby! Where are you?!" Steven begins to stand up, getting himself steady again. He sees something being to emerge in the darkness, squinting to see it. "What the…who is that?"
"STEVEN!" Lapis squeaked, pulling him into a tight hug as she flies straight over to him. "Thank goodness you're okay! This place, it's INFESTED with these disgusting spiders! We need to get out of here NOW!"
Opal runs onto the warp pad, followed by multiple spiders. She summons a whip and a spear from her gems, combining them into a bow and arrows. Pulling the bow back, multiple glowing arrows are summoned.
"Steven,where's Ruby?!" Opal shouted out, glancing behind her to see Ruby is missing.
"She-she's still in there! We need to go back for her!"
Opal releases the arrows, hitting all spiders at once, destroying them. More spiders follows, at least 20 of them. The four armed gem grabs Lapis and Steven, standing on the warp pad.
"We'll come back later, we need to get you somewhere safe!"
The three warp out of the cavern, right before the spiders pounce on it, spraying an orange liquid that disintegrates it within seconds.
3 and a half weeks later…
Steven sits on the steps of the temple, drawing random lines in the sand with a stick, all the while looking sad. Farther down the beach, Opal is wearing a blue police woman outfit, holding a water gun in each of her lower hands and Lapis is just standing there.
"I don't think you're going to do it! It's just a stupid prank!"
"I know, it's perfect!" Opal said, shapeshifting her hair into a Bob cut, summoning a blue police cap to cover her hair and eyes. "Wish me luck!" The four armed gem runs off, grin on her face.
Lapis face palms herself and shakes her head. It is at that point a blonde, wavy haired boy wearing a white short sleeved shirt and cargo shorts walks past her, waving.
"Hello Lapis." Lapis glances up, waving as well.
"Oh, hey PeeDee, Steven's sitting on the steps." PeeDee nods, walking over to where Steven is.
"Hey Steven, sorry I couldn't come over sooner, my dad's having me work at the shop. Can I sit here?"
Steven nods, putting down the stick and scooting over a bit to make room for PeeDee. The blonde sits down next to Steven, looking worried.
"Are…you feeling alright Steven? I know you're probably worried about Ruby, have you heard anything from he-" PeeDee is cut off by Steven throwing his arms around his best friend, crying loudly.
"PEEDEE,IT'S HORRIBLE! She's been gone for almost a month and I miss her so much! And-And we can't even get to her because the warp pad's down, what if she got really injured?!"
PeeDee puts his hands around Steven as well, in an attempt to comfort the other.
"Steven, please don't get sad about this, I'm sure she's okay. I mean, gems can't die right? They just go into their gems." Steven pulls away from PeeDee, wiping the tears off his face.
"Yeah, but what if she hates me for not going back for her?! I can't have her hate me! We live in the same house!"
"What? Listen, I know Ruby cares about you Steven, she won't just hate you for this one thing, especially if she wanted you to be safe. I'm sure she'll turn up soon!" Steven smiles, hugging PeeDee once more.
"Thanks PeeDee…"
As th two stand up, Opal runs up to them, hair long again and now a mess, freaking out.
"Steven, I done messed up bad! Dumb Police went horribly wrong and now I have an angry group of people chasing after me!"
"HEY, WHERE'D SHE GO!"
"GAHHH!" Opal grabs PeeDee and Steven, running up the steps. "PeeDee call your father, you're sleeping over now!"
Opal kicks in the door and runs in, narrowly dodging a high heel thrown at her.
Later that night, the boys are sitting on the couch, PeeDee eating out of a bowl of popcorn and Steven looking through a box of DVDs.
"Okay, let's see what we can watch…OH, I know!" Steven pulls out a colorful DVD case with drawings of fruits that are crying. "The first 3 seasons of 'The Crying Breakfast Friends'!"
"I'm not sure about that Steven, that show is kind of weird to me."
"Aww, come on, I'm sure you'll like it if you give it a chance. I'll get it ready, just give me a minute!" Steven goes up the steps to his tv to put the DVD in. This leaves PeeDee alone, who puts the popcorn down and skims through the DVDs.
Out of the corner of his eye, PeeDee sees a soft glow coming from the warp pad. He turns around and immediately comes face to face with Ruby, who is just standing there, staring at PeeDee.
PeeDee lets out a High pitched scream, falling off the couch and causing the box of DVDs to scatter across the floor.
Ruby continues to stare at PeeDee blankly, even when Steven sees Ruby and runs down the steps smiling widely.
"Oh my gosh,Ruby you're back! I'm so glad!" It is then Ruby looks up at Steven, hands behind her back.
"Hi there Steven,glad to see you too." Ruby says without any emotion, which was…unsettling to Steven. "So, why is…your friend here?"
"Oh, PeeDee? Yeah, he's just sleeping over! We're going to watch 'Crying Breakfast Friends'!"
Ruby smirks, flashing now yellow eyes at the boys. "You know, I think I have something much more fun to do."
Steven grins, stars in his eyes, while PeeDee slowly stands up, apprehensive.
"Really? What is it? You gotta tell us!" Ruby looks around, making sure no other gems were in the room. Then she leans in, still smirking.
"Let's go to the heart of the temple."
Ruby opens the door to the temple, the door glowing a dull red that crawls upward before disentegrating. Ruby then quickly clenches the hand that has her gem, walking inside the temple.
"Come on,this way." Ruby walks into the hallway of the temple, PeeDee and Steven trailing her while staying 3 feet behind.
PeeDee grabs Steven's arm, talking quietly to the other boy: "Steven, does Ruby seem to be acting weird to you?"
"No, why?"
"Her eyes are yellow now, and to me they look like snake eyes!"
Steven shrugs, not worried. "I think it's cool, maybe she just wanted a change to cooler eyes."
"Well what about her gem?! She keeps covering it up and I haven't been able to see her gem clearly at all."
"Maybe it's just a coincidence, I mean she has been missing for almost a month, she could have been stuck in her gem the whole time. " PeeDee glances back to Ruby, who keeps her arms crossed and head forward.
"I don't think so Steven, let's just be careful."
Ruby stops, causing the two boys to halt as well. She looks around, her smirk growing wider.
"Looks like we're here boys." Ruby walks forward as Steven runs off, holding PeeDee's hand tightly (not to mention with the blonde boy blushing).
"Whoa, awesome! I never knew this is where you kept all the bubbled gems!"
Steven looked around with extreme ecstasy and curiosity at all the different gems stored in blue bubbles, pink bubbles, red bubbles, and shimmering purple bubbles. Ruby meanwhile scanned the sea of bubbled gems and artifacts, looking as if she was searching for something.
Then,Ruby's eyes rest on a purple bubble that has an octagon shaped gem in it.
"My gem!" Ruby jumps up and grabs the bubbled gem she saw, laughing almost maniacally. Steven looks at Ruby slightly confused and concerned.
"See Steven! She's acting weird!" Steven steps a few feet forward as Ruby's laughter slowly disappears, becoming low chuckles.
"Ruby…are you okay?" Ruby suddenly stops chuckling, standing up straight and turning to Steven with a very eerie smile on her face.
"Oh, child of Rose Quartz, I'm doing better than fine…" Ruby replied with a deeper tone than usual. She sets the bubble down, walking closer to Steven to where they're only a few inches apart. "In fact, I'm ready to cut off some loose ends of mine right now."
It is then Ruby opens her hand with the gem, which to Steven's horror has dark yellow streaks in it. It glows as she summons her weapon, which is not the usual boxing glove, but instead a red poleax. Ruby in one, swift motion grabs it with both hands and lifts it over her head as Steven is frozen in place, horrified.
"STEVEN GET OUT OF THE WAY!" PeeDee pulls Steven out of the weapon's path just in time for Steven to avoid being split in half, the weapon instead getting lodged in the ground.
As Ruby attempts to dislodge her weapon, PeeDee drags Steven down another hallway, scared for their lives.
"Steven, why is Ruby attacking you?!"
"I don't know! I told you she'd be mad!" The two skid to stop when they come across a stream that doesn't seem to end.
"Come on, let's follow this stream, it must lead somewhere!"
The two run as fast they can as they follow the stream, soon arriving in a large area with large, clear crystals of different sizes, the stream having widened into a river that ends in a waterfall.
PeeDee stops Steven when they see Opal sitting next to the edge of the waterfall, polishing a bronze sword with a leather handle.
"Hey, it's Opal!" Steven says, completely relieved. The two continue running towards Opal,,waving their arms and screaming her name.
Opal turns around, very confused, setting the sword down as she stands up. She stops the two boys from running any further, tilting her head.
"Steven, PeeDee, what are you doing in the temple? How did you get in here?"
"STEVEN GET BACK IN HERE RIGHT NOW!"
"Ahh, no time!" Steven cries, pulling on Opal's hand. "Come on,we need to hide!" Steven pulls Opal behind a rather large piece of clear crystal, and Steven, Opal and PeeDee crouch behind it as Ruby runs in.
Ruby looks different than before, but only slightly. Her yellow eyes are now more snake-slit, and her headband has been taken off. Somehow Ruby got the poleax out of the ground and is holding it out, ready to swing.
"STEVEN, WHERE ARE YOU?! GUESS WHAT?! I WAS JUST JOKING, COME OUT SO I CAN GIVE YOU A HUG!
"She really must hate me a lot!" Steven cried out, a sad look on his face.
"Steven, that's not Ruby." Opal tells Steven, rubbing his back. "Someone has burrowed into her mind and taken over her mind and body."
"Really? Who is it? Why are they doing this?" Asked PeeDee.
"His name is Calcite, he was known by the Crystal Gems as being the perfect spy. He could hypnotize or possess any being, including gems. But he became corrupt, and we had to bubble him to stop him from enslaving the people of this planet. But now it looks like he's learned to control minions and possess others even while far away from his gem!"
Steven becomes less sad and suddenly has a brave face on, standing up. "Then-Then we need to stop him, before we lose Ruby forever!"
"HA, THERE YOU ARE!" Ruby, who is possessed by Calcite, jumps on top of the giant crystal, poleax in hand. Steven and PeeDee scream simultaneously as Calcite lifts the poleax. "Here's a tip, next time don't talk loudly from a hiding place!"
PeeDee and Steven continue to scream as Calcite is about to deliver the death blow, when Opal screams, "MY CHUBBY BABY!" and punches Calcite at least 20 feet away. The two boys stop screaming when Calcite literally flies away, both visibly relieved.
"Wow, that was really easy."
"Yeah, thanks Opal!"
"No problem Steven. Now let's defeat Calcite once and for all!" Opal grabs the Crystal they were hiding behind and lifts it up, throwing it over the waterfall.
Calcite stumbles to his feet, eyes filled with rage. "Oh, you want to fight huh? Fine, I'll give you a battle!" Calcite throws the poleax to the side and summons fire from his hands, throwing a fire ball at Opal.
The four armed woman jumps to the side, grabbing PeeDee and setting him down. "Stay here child."
Opal summons her bow and rushes into battle, while PeeDee glances around, trying to see anything he could use to his advantage.
Steven continues to duck and dodge fireballs as Calcite throws them, making the latter even more angry.
"UGH, KEEP STILL YOU BRAT!"
Opal fires arrows rapidly at Calcite as she runs closer to Steven to protect the boy. The arrows meet their target, but Calcite isn't affected. The energy arrows are immediately burnt upon impact with his skin, and he continues to fire flames. "HA, IS THAT YOU'RE BEST?! CAUSE IT ISN'T EVEN THAT GOOD!"
In response, Opal growls, frustrated. "Steven, get out of the way, something is about to happen!"
"No, I want to help!" It is then that Calcite summons a much larger fireball, releasing it to hit Opal. Opal prepares for impact, but Steven stands in front of her in defense.
"STOP IT!"
Right before the fireball hits, a large pink bubble comes from Steven's gem and surrounds Opal and Steven, causing a small explosion.
When the smoke clears, the bubble is still there, and Steven is in shock, as well as Calcite.
"W-what?! How'd you- Ugh, doesn't matter,the point is I have this!" Calcite takes out the bubbled gem from earlier, grinning widely. "With my gem back and this body, I will get to full power and take over the world. So long, suckers!"
Calcite runs off laughing as Steven looks at the bubble, shocked.
"Wow, did I…make this? This is great!"
"Steven, we need to follow Calcite!"
"Oh, oh right! Come on, let's go!" Steven and Opal run the way Calcite ESCAPED, only to hit a rock and propel down the river towards the waterfall. "No no no no no NOOOO!"
The bubble hits the bottom of the waterfall with a loud splash, followed by a few seconds of silence.
"It's okay, the bubble still held!" PeeDee runs over to the side of the waterfall, glancing at the path Calcite left.
"Don't worry, I'm going to follow her!" Yells PeeDee, right before turning to follow the possessed gem.
"PeeDee, no she'll crush you!"
POP!
Meanwhile, Lapis is sitting by a pool of water, legs in the water. She is sitting on a oval shaped rock, examining a pink bubble that has a diamond shaped gem in it. She caresses the bubble, looking very sad.
"LAPIS, LAPIS!" Lapis immediately hides the bubble in the water before turning around, shocked to see Ruby running towards her, panicked.
"Ruby, you're back! What took you so long to get back here?!"
"I'm not sure, but something followed me here! It latched onto Opal and caused her to go into her gems, and I don't even know where Steven is!"
"Hopefully he's sleeping over at PeeDee's home. We'll have to defeat this monster ourself: just let me get my armor on." Lapis walks over the water to a mannequin wearing a aqua blue set of knight armour, Ruby's panic disappears, a smirk in its place.
Just before Lapis touches the armour, a red hot whip wraps around her arms, causing her the skin to actually sizzle.
"OWWW! What's happening?! Why can't I summon my water?!" The whip is pulled from behind Lapis, causing her to fall on her back as she's dragged back towards Calcite, who is still inside Ruby.
"Ha, this is so much easier than I thought it would be! You know, you may be stupid but you are beautiful, you'll be the first person made into my puppet."
"Ruby, stop, don't do this, we're team mates!"
"There is no Ruby: only Calcite now!" Calcite throws Lapis around by the rope of the whip, the blue gem hitting the wall hard. Calcite then pulls out his gem, popping the bubble that was around it.
That's when PeeDee runs in, gasping at the sight of Calcite.
"Oh no!" PeeDee looks around and grabs a rock throwing it as hard as he can at Calcite. He ends up hitting the possessed gem in the head, knocking Calcite down.
"Sorry, I meant to hit the gem in your hands!"
Calcite's gem skids to a stop next to Lapis, who wriggles one arm out of the restraints and grabs the gem, before hitting it against the Crystal wall, shattering it into 4 different parts.
Calcite gasps screaming as a yellow shadow comes from Ruby's gem,,screaming madly before exploding, covering everything and everyone with a red film, including a soaking wet Opal and Steven who just arrived.
"Eww, the explosion smells like Ruby's breath!" Lapis says, standing up. Steven runs over to Ruby, who is lying on the ground and not moving.
"Ruby, are you okay?!" Ruby's eyes are now back to a dark brown, and she begins to cough furiously.
"Steven, don't…let Opal draw on my face while I'm asleep." Ruby then starts snoring, eyes still open.
"What?! She sleeps with her eyes open?!" Opal grabs Steven, holding him like a baby. "Steven, I think it's time we go to bed."
"*Laughs* Yeah, probably…" Opal walks away from the room, still holding Steven in her arms and holding PeeDee's hand, the blonde's eyes wide from shock.
Lapis, now freed, kicks Ruby's foot, the red gem moaning a little.
"Yeah, I think I'm going to another room now."
Author's note: So, what'd you think? This is based off of the suggestion 'turn forever you and me' gave me, which I mentioned at the beginning of the chapter.
I did try to rewrite the ending, but I eventually gave up and came up with this.
Please review and give more suggestions readers, and have a great day!