The Protagonist
By. Jaroberts251
Chapter four: And Then There Were Four
Hey everybody it's your boy, Jaroberts251, and I'm here to bring y'all the latest chapter of my trilogy, 'The Protagonist', and in this chapter here is when the four main Protagonist boys come together. Now if y'all don't mind let's move on to the story...
(With Steven and Dipper)
Steven and Dipper were now standing around as they trying to take in their surroundings.
"Dipper I don't know where exactly we are, but I think it had something to do with that black mist that appeared in the warp stream." Steven stated trying to take in his surroundings.
"You might be right about that Steven. We should try and find the warp pad to get out of here or try to figure out what this place is suggested." Dipper suggested.
"Why not do both, what can possibly go wrong." Steven replied.
"I guess that does gives us more options." Dipper said, looking for a way to go. "Looking at the way these trees are laid out I think that we should go that way." He added pointing towards a path they can take.
"Okay I'm right behind you, and besides if anything goes wrong I can always use my powers to protect us because I so happen to pick up a few new tricks a while after y'all left or maybe if it get really bad we can fuse into Deven." Steven replied ready for anything.
"Good thinking Steven, now let's get going." Dipper stated taking the lead with Steven following closely behind him.
With that, they took off walking down the path through the forest as they looked for a way out.
(To the Antagonist Alliance)
In an undisclosed location, Bill Cipher, Yellow Diamond, The Beast, and the Lich king, were looking at a monitor that was showing a image of Dipper and Steven walking across screen.
"They're walking through the forest just you planned Cipher, now what do we do?" The Beast asked.
"Well Beast since you asked I think it time for us to make our to make our first move to attack and I suggest we should use some of Yellow diamond's troops to do it." Bill replied.
"My troopies, which troops of mine do you have in mind?" Yellow Diamond asked, curious.
"As I can remember you did sent a platoon of rubies to earth on a mission to retrieve a Jasper that belong to a Pink diamond." Bill answered.
"Those five I highly reconsider that you choice some other troops of mine because those idiots were incompetent of completing that simple mission, so I highly doubt that they can take care of these two without messing it up." Yellow Diamond replied.
"Yellow Diamond, your rubies aren't idiots they only act that way because they needed the proper guidance that all and Orgalord and I can guild them." Bill said.
Yellow Diamond frowned in disappointment as she replied, "find you can use them, but if they screw your attack plan up don't forget I told you so."
"Yeah whatever you say Y-Diamond." Bill rolled his eye.
Bill snapped his fingers then five portals appeared facing the ground as one ruby fell out of each of them. The first ruby had a square hairstyle wear yellow shades, black overalls, and her gem was located on her chest. The second ruby had a buttoned down red shirt except her the last buttons at the bottom were open relieving her gem on her belly button. The third ruby had her gem on her left shoulder with a unibrow and a personality of a brute, the fourth ruby had her gem located on her left eyes and she looked like she had cold-hearted personality. And the fifth ruby had a gem located on her left calf and she looks like she didn't know where she was at the moment.
"Where are we?" The first ruby asked.
"I don't know but this is way better than being lost floating through space." The fourth ruby said, with the third ruby nodding her head in agreement.
"Well I thought it was quiet a beautiful experience floating through space." The second ruby implied.
"What?" The fifth ruby asked, confused.
"Attention you five." Yellow Diamond said, calling out to them.
The five of them turned their attention to see Yellow Diamond and the other. Seeing Yellow Diamond, all the rubies immediately took a knee as they showed their respect to her.
"Yellow Diamond it's an honor that you've rescue us from great vast of space." The first ruby thanked.
"At ease you, five." Yellow Diamond said.
"Yes ma'am." All the rubies said, standing.
"With due respect Yellow Diamond I have a question to ask." The first ruby said.
"What is it?" Yellow Diamond said.
"We would like to know who are those three creatures with you?" The first ruby asked.
"These three are my associate I've gather these three evil entity from not only our universe but from across the multiverse and we team up to eliminate some thorns in our sides and they were the reason why I rescue you from space, so you'll can do a mission for us." Yellow Diamond explained.
"Okay understand, but what the mission do y'all have in stored for us?" The first ruby asked.
"Do y'all see those two boys on the monitor behind me?" Yellow Diamond asked.
The rubies looked to monitor, where they saw an image of Dipper and Steven walking across the screen.
"Yes ma'am we see them and hey that kid that got us lost in space." The first ruby said, looking at Steven.
"Good and since y'all are quite familiar with him me and my associates are giving y'all a mission to eliminate them, you think your squad can handle that?" Yellow Diamond asked.
"Of course we can handle that, isn't that right guys?" The first ruby asked, looking backing at his crew.
"Yes I believe we can do it." The second ruby said.
"Yep." The third ruby agreed.
"Hmm." The fourth ruby groaned.
"What?" The fifth ruby asked still confused.
"You see Yellow Diamond my platoon and I are perfectly capable of eliminating the targets for you and your associates." The first ruby said, looking back at Yellow Diamond.
"I can see, but be for you go my associates, Bill and the Lich want to give y'all a little boost to increase your platoon chances of completing your mission." Yellow Diamond stated.
"Oh yes ma'am." The first ruby replied, a little nervous.
With that Bill cipher and The Lich moved in front of the rubies as they began to use their magic. The Lich use his power to take control over all five of the rubies minds turning each of their red eyes into completely black with green pupils, while Bill use his power to increase their fighting spirits and their power.
"Now y'all may can continue on your mission." Yellow Diamond said.
"Yes ma'am." The five rubies said, then walking off.
The rubies were gone, Bill floated over to Yellow Diamond and said, "now we can watch and see how the new improved Ruby platoon handles the boys."
Yellow Diamond just rolled her eyes as she was still doubtful about this part of the plan.
(Back with the boys)
Steven and Dipper continued to look throughout the forest as they looked for a warp pad or a way out of the forest.
"Hey Steven, how long have we've been walking?" Dipper asked.
"I don't know let me check my phone." Steven replied, pulling out his phone and checking time. "Uhh... Dipper we're in trouble." He added.
"What is it Steven?" Dipper asked.
"Well it appears that wherever we are it doesn't have a sense of time which mean we can be walking for years and not a single minute will past." Steven stated.
"Oh no this is really serious we need to find a way out of this place fast." Dipper said.
"Yeah or els-." Steven started to before being interrupted by a hearing a noise.
"Did you hear that Dipper?"Steven asked.
"Yeah what do you think it is?" Dipper asked.
"I don't know but let's check it out." Steven said.
The two of them began looking around to find out where the noise came from, but their search came to an end when they heard the noise coming from some rustling in the bushes around them.
"Steven do you think it's a coincidence that just five mysterious sounds would be coming from different directions surrounding us?" Dipper asked not buying the act.
"I get what you mean." Steven summoning out his shield. "We know this isn't by chance so step out and reveal yourselves." He called out.
After Steven called out five red figures came out from their separate bushes. When coming into clear view they showed themselves to be the five Ruby soldiers with blackish red afros, and yellow diamond symbols located on their armor.
"Rubies?" Asked a confused Dipper.
'Oh no it them.' Steven thought.
"Steven, you know them?" Dipper asked.
"Unfortunately I do, you see these five are Yellow Diamond's rubies, they were sent from homeworld to retrieve Jasper, but instead we got them into trapped in space, but I don't know what they're doing got here." Steven said.
"Well whatever they doing I don't think it's friendly." Dipper replied.
With that the rubies launched themselves at the boys and Steven did the first thing that came to mind and grabbed Dipper, then jump into the air avoiding the rubies attack.
Dipper soon looked to notice that him and Steven were floating in the air and question marks appeared over his head as he asked, "Steven, you can fly?"
"Actually it's not flying it more like hovering." Steven replied.
"Okay is this one of those new tricks you told me about?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah, what do you think?" Steven replied.
"What do I think? I think it awesome and this will be very handy in situation like this." Dipper said.
"Thanks Dipper." Steven said, happily.
Steven landed on the ground letting go of Dipper to see the rubies getting off the ground and turning their attention back to them. After seeing Dipper and Steven, the rubies pile up on top of the one another as all their gem started to glow as they began to fuse.
They all were covered in a red light and the five figure became one enormous figures. When the light dimmed down there stood on enormous ruby with five gems located on different parts of her body.
"Hey Dipper I got an idea." Steven said.
"Okay what is it?" Dipper asked.
"Alright just follow my lead." Steven said.
"Okay I will." Dipper agreed.
"Good now RUN!" Steven yelled.
With that the two boys turned around as they began running down the path as fast as they can. Seeing running away, the enormous Ruby got frustrated as it began chasing them down the path.
(Let's go to Finn)
Finn was walking through the forest as he was looking for his a way through out.
"Man I think I'm going around in circles." Finn complained as he continued walking throughout the forest.
As he walked he heard the a few noise here and there but nothing to serious until he reached a certain point where he hear what seems to be a cry for help.
"Looks like somebody need my help, I better help them and if I'm lucky they'll probably know the way out of this place." Finn said to himself.
Finn then, took off running towards the sounds of the screaming.
(Back with Steven and Dipper)
Both boys were still running down the path as they still had a giant ruby following behind them. As they ran they soon found themselves caught in a dead end.
"Oh no a dead end not now." Steven complained.
"Steven hear they come." Dipper said.
Steven turned around to see the giant Ruby walking over them towards them with each step causing the ground near them to shake. The Ruby stopped in front of the boys as she looked at her enemies ready to attack. It started to strike as soon as it did Steven placed a hand on Dipper's shoulder and his gem started to glow causing a bubble to form around the two of them.
All Ruby's attacks were blocked by the bubble surrounding them which made Dipper smiled and said, "Pff, we're going to be okay."
"Don't get comfortable yet Dipper because that Ruby fusion will break through the bubble at any moment she just taking her time." Steven implied.
"Are you sure about that?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah I'm sure because my gem power can't handle the durability of five gems at once especially a fusion of five." Steven answered.
With that each strike from the Ruby fusion started to either create or expands a crack in the bubble making it weak as she strikes. Next, the Ruby fusion sent one final strike causing the bubble shattering into multiple pieces releasing Steven and Dipper from inside. Both Steven and Dipper were both lying on the ground as they took a little damage from that last strike.
"Uhh Steven were they these strong the last time you face them?" Dipper sighed in pain.
"No they were the exact opposite because they had major flaws in each one of them, but I don't know how they got this strong and powerful." Steven replied, also in pain.
The Ruby lifted her fist up for one more in hopes of finishing the boys off as she went for the attack the boys closed their eyes as prepared themselves for impact. After a few seconds of waiting relieve that the fusion hadn't destroyed them yet making them curious.
Next, they open their eyes to see a boy in a white bear hat, blue t-shirt, and shorts with black shoes wearing a lime green backpack standing in front of them with a white sword with a blue sphere that was cracked and what appears to be a grass sword defending off the fuse Ruby's attack.
The boy soon use his strength to push the Ruby back a few inches away from the three of them. Next, the boy went charging at the Ruby at full speed. Seeing him coming the Ruby soon launched a punch at him to take him out, but the boy their dodge attacks as he used his grass sword to chop off her right arm.
Ruby scream in pain as she grabbed hold of what use to be her right arm and it got her even madder in the progress. She then, started to send multiple strikes with her left hand which the boy was able to dodge all of them.
The boy saw that Ruby was tiring out and decided to take extreme action to end it. Next, the boy vanished as he began to super speed around Ruby as he landed multiple strikes with his swords. Then the boy appeared at few feet behind Ruby as she looked like it didn't take any damage. She sooned turned to looked at the boy for one final time before she fell apart and dissolve back into the ruby gems that.
After seeing that it was over, the boy placed his two swords away as he walked over to Steven and Dipper. Once he made it to them he asked, "are you two okay?"
Steven and Dipper found a way to make it back to their feet and Steven was the first one to speak.
"Yeah I'm okay a little hurt but okay." He said.
"I'm okay too, but if you hadn't shown up those rubies would've punched us in to powered or dust." Dipper added.
"Well I'm just glad I made it here in time." The boy smiled.
"Thanks you... uhh what is your name?" Steven asked, curious.
"Oh sorry throughout all the commotion I almost forgot to introduce myself, well allow me to introduce my name is Finn Mertens, but you can call me Finn." The boy said.
"Okay nice to meet you Finn my name is Steven Quartz Universe but you can call me Steven and this my friend, Dipper Pines." Steven replied.
"Hey." Dipper added.
"Nice to meet you two, now I just got one question why was that giant red creature chasing after y'all, you two didn't steal anything from it did you?" Finn asked.
"No we would never do that and beside that thing was sent to destroy us." Steven said.
"Okay good to know now I'll be on my way." Finn said. "By the way do the two know the way out of here because I'm kinda lost here?" He asked.
"I wish we could help to return the favor save our skins Finn, but the truth be told that we're lost out here ourselves." Dipper replied.
"Oh well then okay, I'll see you two around I guess bye." Finn said.
"Bye." Dipper and Steven replied.
With that Finn smiled, then around as he began walking away. As they watched Finn walk away an idea suddenly popped into Dipper's head and he lean over to Steven and said, "hey Steven I got an idea."
"Alright what is it Dipper?" Steven asked, curious.
"Okay listen up but what if we..." He started as he whispered the rest of his idea into Steven's ear.
He finished, and Steven smiled as he replied, "that a good idea Dipper, but do you think he'll accept."
All Dipper gave was a shrug of his shoulder for his responses.
"Well here goes nothing." Steven said. "Hey Finn!" He yelled to get Finn attention.
Hearing his name, Finn stop walking as he turned to face Steven as he asked, "yeah?"
"Since we can't tell you where the way out of this place is and we don't know a way out ourselves, we were wondering if you would like to join us so we can look for a way out together." Steven suggested.
"Hmm I don't know, can y'all defend yourselves?" Finn asked.
"Yeah we can defend ourselves if we couldn't that monster could've been destroyed us way before you got here." Steven replied.
"Nice, but anyway what kind of creatures are you two?" Finn asked.
"Creatures? We're humans." Steven replied.
"Wait y'all are humans?" Finn asked.
"Umm yeah aren't you?" Steven asked, confused.
"Well yeah I am, but where I'm from I'm the only human in the entire land." Finn replied.
"That odd." Dipper stated.
"I know right, but anyway about your offer to join y'all, I would say I accept." Finn said.
"You do?" Steven asked, getting excited.
"I sure do not just because y'all are humans it because just like you said Steven 'if I'm going to be lost out of here in this place it'll be better I had somebody to talk with so I don't go completely insane'. " Finn replied.
"Wait a minute Steven didn't say that." Dipper stated.
"Maybe not, but that what I got out of his suggestion, but anyway you can add Finn Mertens to your team." Finn replied.
"Well it good to have you on board Finn, now let's go." Steven said.
"Go? Go where?" Finn asked.
"You see Finn before that thing started to chase us we were going down a pathway we found in hopes of leading a way out of here and I we should continued down the path." Dipper stated.
"Okay it's good that we've at least got a way to go, after y'all." Finn replied.
The three of them begin walking down the path as they were heading back to path Steven and Dipper were previously heading down.
(Let's go back to the Antagonist alliance)
The four powerful being stood as they just watched Steven and Dipper destroyed the Yellow Diamond's Rubies with the help of Finn.
"Darn it we almost had them." Bill said, argue.
All Yellow Diamond do was frowned as she said, "like I told y'all those five were completely incapable of completing that mission."
"Oh shut it Yellow, those five could've definitely finished destroyed those the two miserable brat, but were interrupted by an uninvited guest and now only that, but they decided to team up which making them more of a threat which put a little dent our plans." Bill replied.
"What are we to do now Cipher?" The Beast asked.
"Yeah what do we do?" The Lich also asked.
"Now, now Beast, Orgalord calm down it just our first setback, but I got another idea could help us get back on track." Bill said.
"Oh really and what does it involve this time more of my failed soldiers?" Yellow Diamond asked.
"Actually, Yellow Diamond this plan doesn't involve anything of yours this time, so you don't have to worry and for this plan I'm going to need some to create another fog and I was thinking the Beast could handle this." Bill stated.
"Alright then, but why exactly do you need the Beast to make another fog for?" Yellow Diamond asked.
"Yeah I also curious." The Beast added.
Bill made his hand smack his forehead and he said, "don't y'all get it, if we made another strong fog it would cause an major pandemonium among the boys and possibly separating them so we can strike again do y'all understand."
"Yes I think we do." Yellow Diamond said
"Yeah I think so too." The Beast agreed.
"Good now, Beast do your part." Bill said.
"Yes Cipher." The Beast replied.
With that the Beast's eyes started to glow brighter as he power started to active as he did back with the three boys, they notice as a big fog began to form around them and Finn started to get suspicious about it. Finn stopped and started to look around nervous which caught Steven's attention.
"Finn is there something wrong?" Steven asked, worried.
"Yeah are you okay?" Dipper added.
Finn shock off his nerves as he said, "Oh I'm fine it just this fog looks just like the ones I went into before I trapped got into this world."
"Okay I see you're afraid that we might end up in a new place because of this fog?" Steven asked.
"No I'm afraid that something like that giant beast that was chasing y'all earlier will jump out and attack us, but this time we'll have no idea where it's coming from." Finn said.
"Oh come on Finn the way you handle that monster back there you out of the three of should be the last person who should be scared." Steven replied.
"I know, but just like y'all there are something out there that even I can't handle and that doesn't make any difference a regular human because we all have our limitation." Finn said.
"Okay Finn I see what you mean and I can understand you're a little worried about this fog, but this could possibly be our only way out of this place so we got to keep going." Steven replied.
"Hey Finn there is no danger coming after us in this forest and I'll show you by going on a head." Dipper said.
Dipper turned around and started to walking deep into the fog leaving Steven and Finn behind as he go. When he was gone, both Finn and Steven stood there as they waited for Dipper to come, while they were waiting they soon hear two screams of pain and they immediately knew one of them.
"Dipper!" They yelled, running into the depth of the fog.
They soon arrive through the fog, where they found Dipper sitting on the ground with his hands on his head.
"Dipper are you okay? What happened?" They both asked, arriving to him.
"Well I was walking through fog trying to show Finn that was no dangers ahead and everything was going fine until something hit me." Dipper said, rubbing his forehead.
"Bumped into someone?" Steven and Finn asked looking curious.
Next, the two of them turned their attention from one another as they looked ahead of Dipper, where they saw a tall unconscious boy wearing to be a gnome costume and a button up white long sleeves shirt with long gray pants and black shoes.
Seeing him started to wake up, Finn summoned his grass sword and place it up in defense appeared for anything the boy might. Next the boy regained consciousness as looked to see Steven, Dipper, and Finn standing over him, and he notice that Finn was pointing a sword at him.
"Hmm, who are guys?" He asked moaning in pain.
"Who are we? Who is you and what gives you right to attack my friend?" Finn asked pointing his sword closer to the boy's face.
Feeling uncomfortable with a pointy sword close to his face, the boy moved the sword away as he explained, "ugh I don't know what you're talking about I didn't attack anybody, all that happened was just walking through the forest when this fog just appeared out of nowhere, so I started running as I ran when bump into your friend and fell back hitting my head making me go unconsciousness for a few minutes."
"Oh well my bad." Finn said, withdrawing his sword and extending his hand out to the boy.
The boy accepted Finn's hand as he was helped back to feet, once he was back on his feet the boy let go of Finn's hand as he began to dusting himself off.
"Again sorry for the misunderstanding." Finn repeated.
"It okay you were defending your friend I get it." The boy replied.
"Alright and in the spirit of forgiveness I like to introduce myself my name is Finn Mertens." Finn said, then looking over to Steven and Dipper. "These are my friends, the boy standing up in pink is Steven universe, and the boy you bumped into is Dipper Pines." He added.
"Nice too me y'all my name's Wirt and I like asked are you guys from around the Unknown I mean?" The boy replied.
"I'm afraid not you see the three of us are trying to find our way out of here and I just met them and they offered me a place to join them on their search for the exit so at first I wasn't sure about it, but I can tell that the two of them are pretty trustworthy so I decide to tag along." Finn explained.
"Really that cool, anyway if y'all need help I think I know a way to a town that could at least get y'all out of the woods." Wirt suggested.
"Seriously you know the way out of here?" Finn asked getting excited.
Wirt looked around as he was taking in his location as he was getting the feeling that there was something different time he visit the once mysterious place called, 'The Unknown'.
"I think so, but to be honest I not sure because things have changed." Wirt replied.
"You live around here?" Finn asked
"No I just visit this place once before, but it been a while though." Wirt said.
"Alright if so I'm going to tell the others and you can start leading us there, okay Wirt?" Finn asked.
"Okay Finn." Wirt replied.
With that Finn walked back over to Steven and Dipper started to tell them all about the things that Wirt and him had just talked about. After Finn was done explaining everything to Dipper and Steven, then the three of them walked back over to Wirt.
"So you think you know away out of here?" Dipper asked, with disbelief.
"Well it a slim shot, but if this is the exact same forest I traveled through before, then yeah I can seriously help y'all out of here." Wirt replied.
"Hmm, so you're say if we follow you there a possible way we'll make it out of here, I don't know about that." Dipper said, still not believing the story.
"Oh come on Dipper at least he is willing to help us and beside what we got to lose and beside there are three of us and one of him we can obviously take him if he tries something funny." Steven replied.
"Steven sometimes you need to stop being truthing of other people because you could easily get stabbed in the back, but you do usually make the right choice so I can't object." Dipper said, then looking back at Wirt. "You're lucky my friend stuck his neck for you so don't blow it." He added.
"I'll try my best, but by the looks of things we should find a place to set up camp and we can get a fresh start in the morning because I don't think I'll be able to navigate through dark so well." Wirt replied.
"Alright." Dipper agreed.
"Yep." Finn added.
"Then it settled we'll get a camp set up and then we can head off in the morning." Steven said.
"Yeah." The other agreed.
"Okay now let's go because I know a great spot where we can set up camp." Wirt suggested.
"After you, Wirt." Steven insisted.
With that Wirt began walking down a path as the fog started to clear with Steven, Finn, and Dipper following behind him as they headed to his spot.
End of Chapter four
Alright everybody this was chapter three of my trilogy, 'The Protagonist and I'm sorry if this chapter was not what y'all expected, but I was having and trouble as I wrote this chapter and I was kinda busy writing another story that I'm co-writing at the moment. Anyway if anyone has an idea they would like to share with me feel free to P.M. me or leave a comment, so until next time my name Jaroberts251 signing out. Peace and stay tuned.