The Spectrum
One Prism, many dimensions. Hunter zipped through the tubes alternate dimensions itself. With Steven captured, Hunter KNEW the Crystal Gems would come after him. With both Steven and his own Prism in hand, he had the upper hand.
The Prism may be powerful, but it had limitations. Despite a device used for traveling through parallel Earths, it could not bend time-space itself, unless messed with.
Here's something to explain the Prism's way of dimension traveling: The Earth as we know it is located in the Blue section of the Spectrum, while in the Yellow section, every event that happened, every choice you've mad in life in your world, was the exact opposite.
In the Blue section, it is peaceful. While in the Yellow section, it's total chaos and turmoil.
And that's where Hunter is headed right now.
The Crystal Gems were smart enough to know this, so Pearl threw her spear at Hunter in an attempt to slow him down.
Hunter just turned around and said, "Ha! You missed! What's next, a plush toy?"
"He's headed for the Yellow Section! Get him before he enters the realm!" Garnet exclaimed.
But it took some time. You see, in the fabric of the Multiverse itself, gravity is nonexistent. With a force like jet boots or a rocket ship, you can travel faster.
But the Crystal Gems were just on hand.
"I won't let you do this, Hunter! Hand Steven over!" Pearl shouted through the halls of space.
"Over my dead body!" Hunter said as he entered the Yellow section.
"He entered! No one has DARED to enter the Yellow section!" Amethyst exclaimed.
"What choice do we have?!" Pearl replied and entered the portal, the rest following in haste.
Earth+110413 (Commonly known as Earth+Diamond)
As you can see, unlike the other parallel Earths we have visited, this Earth has a Plus instead of a Minus. This indicates the opposite, as I have said before.
Hunter entered the realm, while Pearl and the Gems are hot on his tail. Thankfully, Steven is waking up. Slowly, but surely.
Amethyst whipped Hunter's leg and pulled it towards her, tripping him in the process.
Steven jolted up from his coma as Hunter dropped him.
"What happened?! Pearl? Guys? Where are you?!" Steven shouted.
"We're right here, Steven!" Amethyst replied in-between wheezes as she tried to pull Hunter in.
Hunter pulled out his CosmiGun and aimed at Amethyst.
"No!" Steven exclaimed.
But because of Steven's reflexes and hysterical speed, Steven blocked the energy bullet with his Rose-Shield, but with a cost.
"Ow!" Steven said as the bullet hit his Shield.
"Steven!" Garnet exclaimed.
Steven fell to the ground, exhausted.
"Are you all right, Steven?" Garnet asked.
"I'm fine, but the impact hit me hard. That is one powerful Cosmic Gun!" Steven replied as he tried to get up.
"Go somewhere safe, Steven. We'll take care of him!" Pearl said in haste. "GO!"
Hunter pulled out his Sword and started battling the Crystal Gems, 3-on-1. It seemed uneven, but you never know.
Steven crawled away from the fight scene, but he KNEW they needed his shield.
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl aimed their weapons at Hunter, but due to his acrobatic and combat skills, he managed to dodge and block them all.
"Where did you learn how fight, guys?" Hunter commented as he dodged his way out of a trap. "They should call you the world's WORST fighters."
"No matter what, we will protect our kind!" Pearl replied.
"And Steven!" Amethyst joined.
"And the humans!" Garnet also joined.
"Really? Is that what you thought 5 to 6000 years ago?!" Hunter hinted.
"He isn't talking about—" Pearl said before she was interrupted.
"Don't think about it too much." Garnet said as she unsuccessfully tried to punch Hunter with her Gauntlets.
'I should help them! They're taking too much!' Steven thought.
"Yeah, I said it!" Hunter said as he threw smoke discs all around.
As the smoke rose up, the vision of all four Gems became corrupt. They couldn't see anything, and that was a bad thing. So they stood their ground… unsuccessfully.
One by one, Gems are being knocked out by Hunter with his fancy weapons and combat tactics, and Steven is next.
'Oh, no. HE'S AFTER ME!' Steven thought and blindly ran for his life.
His mind also was starting to get corrupt. His head ached like someone just dropped a boulder over his head.
"Oh, this isn't just smoke." Hunter said.
But it wasn't just 'normal' voice Hunter; Hunter began shifting places in Steven's vision.
"It's also a chemical. A chemical I can use to scare you, blind you, and mess with your mind." Hunter's voice got deeper and more haunting.
"G-get away from me!" Steven shouted as he brought out his Shield.
"How can you defend yourself…. If you can't even see me?" Hunter's voice was floor-it haunting, as he, unknown to Steven, snuck up to him behind his back and hit him with a near-death taser, knocking him unconscious.
"Sweet Dreams…"
But then suddenly, Hunter was knocked out himself. No one knew who did it, but what we do know is that the one who did it shipped all the unconscious bodies to…
Diamond Ship…
A few hours later, Steven woke up finding himself in a cell. He jolted up to see where he was.
"Garnet? Pearl? Where is everybody?" Steven said.
Just then suddenly, a Gem walked into the room.
"Peridot…" Steven said under his breath.
It IS Peridot. Not the Peridot we had a journey with, but the Peridot of THIS Universe.
"Scanning life-form." Peridot said as she walked up to Steven's Cell.
"HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Steven exclaimed as he pinned himself by the back wall.
"YOU! How did you come back here?!" Peridot interrogated Steven.
"It's not what you think! I'm from a different Dimension! I came here because of a Prism or something like that!" Steven explained.
"Prism? That's impossible. Yellow Diamond ordered EVERY Universe to destroy their Prisms." Peridot said.
"Every Prism except one! This guy is using it to destroy every Crystal Gem in the Multiverse!"
"JUST the Crystal Gems?" Peridot tried to confirm.
"NO! He's coming for every single Gem in the Multiverse, even you and me!" said the specific Steven.
"What is his or her name?" Peridot said.
"H-he calls himself Hunter. He's been on our back ever since an alternate version of you told us he was coming for me!" Steven explained.
"What does he look like? And how can I know you're telling the absolute truth?" Peridot said.
"He has a mask of a skull, a black cape covering his entire body, with steel shoulder pads to come with that. We can't see his face, so I'm not exactly sure who he REALLY is." Steven described.
"Do you mean this man?" Peridot said as she displayed a Cell holding Hunter.
"That's him!"
"Hmm…. Thank you for the information. Yellow Diamond will be pleased. Looks like you were some good after all."
"So where are my friends?!" Steven begged.
Peridot displayed the three Cells holding the Crystal Gems captive and badly damaged.
"Garnet! Amethyst! Pearl!" Steven exclaimed.
"You're not getting out of there. Yellow Diamond has much to discuss with ALL of you when she returns!" Peridot said as she exited the Cell Room.
As Peridot exited the room, Steven sat near the far corner of his cell, brewing in his mind a negative train of thought.
"Don't worry, Steven! We'll get each other out of here!" Pearl called through the fourth wall of her cell.
"Oh, you really think that's gonna happen? I was here before, and I only managed to escape when Yellow Diamond brought me out to execute me." Hunter said.
"You were here before?" Amethyst said.
"Why would you want to know why? It's times like these that I know Gems are inferior." Hunter replied.
"What is your deal anyway? Why are you trying to kill all Gems?!" Steven called as he put his foot down.
"WHY WOULD YOU CARE?!" Hunter shouted as he banged his fists against the wall. "I'M DOING THIS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, STEVEN! THEY TOOK OUR HOME! EVERYTHING WE HAVE KNOWN! JUST IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE! WHY WON'T YOU UNDERSTAND! THEY WERE A DANGER FROM THE BEGINNING!"
Everyone was dead silent. The truth hit the Gems hard. Even Steven was a little blown away.
"How? Why?" Steven asked.
"Steven, don't believe what he says!" Pearl begged.
"Yeah! He's lying! And liars are jerks!" Amethyst said. "You know that right?!"
"Steven, I ask you; don't believe THEM. Do you know what they will do to us?" Hunter pleaded.
"Everyone just stop! I don't know what to even think anymore! Just leave me alone to clear my head!" Steven said as he walked to the back wall of his cell.
"Thank God I wasn't put in the same cell." Steven said.
Minutes passed, and soon, hours. Steven tried to think, but instead fell asleep, leading to another one of his dream sequences.
==Steven's Dream==
Steven was in an empty hall. Nothing was even there. Then he saw a light at the end of a path.
"I'm not sure if I'm dead or this is just another dream…" Steven said to himself as he walked to the light.
"Uh, guys?!"
No answer.
Soon enough, he found himself in a lab. The door in which he entered closed behind him and locked itself.
"No turning back now…" Steven said.
He walked around the dark room, looking for something useful.
"Nothing so far." Steven said as he squinted through the dark, abandoned laboratory.
Steven then saw a file that said 'Gems'. It quickly sparked his interest and certainly got his attention. He opened it to see pictures of both Crystal Gems and Homeworld Gems. As he turned the pages, be started to get more traumatized each page.
Emerald = Eliminated
Topaz = Eliminated
Obsidian = Eliminated
RUBY = Eliminated
SAPPHIRE = Eliminated
Amber = Eliminated
ROSE QUARTZ = Deceased By Choice
Jasper = Eliminated
Lapis Lazuli = Eliminated
Peridot = Eliminated
Sunstone = Eliminated
Moonstone = Eliminated
Diamond = Pending
Spinel = Eliminated
Beryl = Eliminated
Morganite = Eliminated
Jadeite = Pending
Ametrine = Eliminated
Adventurine = Eliminated
Iolite = Eliminated
Labradorite = Pending
Steven couldn't believe what he was reading. He turned the pages more and more and soon found the Crystal Gems.
Pearl = Eliminated
Amethyst = Eliminated
Bloodstone = Eliminated
Melanite = Eliminated
Steven Universe = Eliminated
"No, no no no… This isn't right…" Steven said as a tear dropped from his left eye.
He turned around, and he saw a MOUNTAIN of shattered Gem remains. He backed away, horrified.
"Who did this?" Steven said.
As he flipped throughout the pages of the files, he couldn't find anything about WHO did this and why.
Then he came across the category 'Earths'.
He read it, but it wouldn't make him feel better.
Earth-616 = Eliminated
Earth-061915 = Eliminated
Earth-071715 = Eliminated
Earth-1610 = Eliminated
Earth-022709 = Pending
Earth-199999 = Pending
Earth-0704 = Eliminated
Earth-2319 = Eliminated
Earth-011813 = Pending
"This can't be… Why would they do such a thing?!" Steven exclaimed to himself.
Earth-6115 = Eliminated
Earth-33 = Eliminated
Earth-061115 = Pending
Earth-0110413 = Pending (Next Target)
"Oh no…"
Steven dropped the file on the floor and tried to find an exit in so much haste. He ran around the room, trying to find an open exit, but he couldn't. His only exit was his entrance. Now, it's locked him up so there's no escape.
"HELP! PEARL! AMETHYST! GARNET! THEY'RE COMING FOR OUR WORLD! WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!" Steven called through the empty room.
"No, we don't." Someone in the shadows said.
"Pearl?" Steven said as he turned around in shock.
"This was our plan all along." Pearl said with her spear in hand, followed closely by Amethyst and Garnet, battle-ready.
"But, you're my friends! You wouldn't do that!" Steven exclaimed.
"This was the plan all along, Steven. And you just slowed us down. You're nothing. Which is why we have to eliminate you AND your world." Pearl said as she prepared to impale Steven through the chest.
"No, Pearl! Don't do this!" Steven cried.
"Stop!" Steven shouted as he bolted up from his nightmare.
"Steven? What's wrong? What happened? Are you hurt!?" said the concerned Pearl.
Steven looked around and let out a big sigh of relief. "Oh, Pearl. It was just a dream." Steven said under his breath.
"Steven? Are you all right?" Amethyst asked.
Steven was NOT all right. He was sweating an ocean.
"Give him some rest. By the looks of it, he just had a nightmare." Garnet informed.
Hunter just stood there, watching Steven pant his lungs out and sweat an ocean.
"…One step closer, Steven." Hunter said under his breath as he walked to the back wall of his Cell. "One step closer…"
Steven panted in relief. "Only a dream…" he said.
"Only a dream…"
Only a dream…
Oh boy! Is it or not a dream? Thank you guys again for positive reviews! And to TheJokerMan95, The Earth you were talking about is already eliminated. Find it above!
Things are not going well for Steven, here. He's having nightmares about the Crystal Gems being evil and all other Earths being eliminated. 'What could this mean?', you ask. Hehe, well… I won't spoil anything here. A MAJOR twist is coming. So be ready!
Catch you later…
