Steven Universe: The Next Generation
By. Shun Benitoite and Jaroberts251
Chapter 10
Which one is real and which one is fake?
(Masked Island)
Shun, Steven, Sunni, Ben and Charlotte are fighting a creature that seems to be a shape-shifter, that has the appearance of black goo with a small light grey shard in its body. They all surrounded the shapeshifter with weapons in hand.
"Alright guys just like we planned. Go!" Shun said giving the signal to try and take it down.
Shun and Charlotte jumped towards the shape-shifter with sword aim straight at it. The shape-shifter turns into a seagull and flies off before it could get hit. Next Steven and Sunni fling their shields at the seagull to stop it from escaping. The shapeshifter then turned into a cat to avoid the shields, and landed on all fours.
The others came running towards the cat to catch before it had a chance to run away. The cat began to turn back to make a run for it but Ben grabbed it with his gloves before it could.
"I caught the shapeshifter just as planned guys." Ben said having a firm grip on the shapeshifter incase it tried to run again.
The other walked up to Ben. "Alright Ben you did it." Sunni congratulated him.
"Yeah little bro, you managed to do something right for a change." Charlotte teased him a bit.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Ben asked a little annoyed by Charlotte's teasing.
"Alright you two that's enough, you can argue after we bubble this thing away." Shun stated trying to get them to stop and get back to the task at hand.
Ben and Charlotte stop arguing and focused once again. Steven then spoke "Alright then let's get this over with."
Shun made his sword disappear and summoned his gloves "Okay Ben make sure to keep a firm grip on it and once you completely hand it over move your hands away so that I can freeze it in place." he instructed.
Ben nodded, understanding what needed to be done. The cat kept tossing and turning but Ben wouldn't let up. Now Ben begins to move his hands towards his father hands to make the exchange. As they are about to make contact the cat quickly inhaled a big breath of air.
When Ben was passing the cat to his father it then exhaled all it's breath, enough to slip out of Ben's grip. Once it hit the floor it transformed once again but this time to a dragonfly and flew away with great speed. Steven, Sunni, and Charlotte were shocked to see how smart it was and managed to find a way to escape.
Ben looked down to the ground in disappointment "Sorry guys, looks likes I screwed in the end." he said in a sad tone.
Shun rubbed his head to make him feel better "Don't beat yourself up about it. I didn't even expect it to be able to come up with something that sneaky last minute." he said trying to cheer Ben up.
"Your dad's right Ben, not even the other gems could have predicted it would do something like that. Well except Garnet maybe." Steven added.
"Yeah that was a very sneaky trick." Sunni said also trying to cheer Ben up.
"If you that beat up about it make sure to catch it next time. And if you want I'll let you have my dessert for dinner tonight." said Charlotte trying her best to cheer Ben up.
"But tonight's when we're having your favorite type of dessert." Ben pointed out. "Will you really let me have it?" he added still having his head facing the ground.
"I...I ugh, yeah I'll let you have it if you stop acting like a baby already." Charlotte replied forgetting it was the night her favorite dessert would be served.
Ben faced up with a smile "Alright deal! I'll cheer up since you're giving me your dessert tonight." he stated.
With that everyone made their weapons disappear and began to walk back towards the warp pad. As the kids walked behind and talking the adults were having a conversation.
"Shun were really gotta find that shape-shifter, so next time let's bring Peridot to scan the area for it and Garnet to stop any of its sneaky tricks." Steven stated.
"I agree and next time I won't let it slip through my fingers that easily." Shun agreed vowing to catch it next time.
"The mission went pretty well today, don't you guys agree?" Sunni asked Ben and Charlotte.
"You're right things went pretty smoothly." Charlotte agreed.
"It was until I screwed it all up in less than five seconds." Ben protested.
"Not this again." Said a ticked off Charlotte.
"Charlotte calm down." Said Sunni trying to calm down Charlotte. "Ben we all agreed it could happen to anyone so don't feel to bad about it." she added.
"Guess your ri….." said Ben but then tripped over something.
"Ben are you alright?" asked Charlotte trying to make sure he's okay.
"Yeah Ben, are you okay?" Sunni added also trying to see if he's okay.
"I'm fine I just tripped over something." Ben said looking back towards where he feel from.
"Guys what's the hold up? It'll be getting dark pretty soon." Steven said trying to remind them of the time.
"We're coming" Sunni said trying to reassure him and started to walk once again.
"Ben get up we gotta go." said Charlotte and also began to walk again.
Ben sees a weird looking silver disk on the ground and picks it up. 'I wonder what this thing is?" he asked himself.
"Ben hurry up or we might leave you behind." Shun said trying to get him to hurry up.
"Alright I'm coming." Ben said quickly putting the disk in his pocket and going towards the others.
They reach the warp pad and head back to the temple to tell the others the bad news that the shape-shifter got away. The shape-shifter got away but it could be closer than they think.
(The Next Day)
Steven, Shun and Amethyst are in the kitchen while the kids are in the living room doing their own thing. Sunni was on her phone playing "Mad Turkeys". Charlotte was waving her sword around practice some tricks Pearl taught her. Ben was just flipping the silver disk in his hand.
He noticed the time and got up his spot "Mom, Dad can I go hang out with Riley? We said we'll meet again around this time." he pleaded a bit.
"Alright, but you have to bring me some donuts later." Amethyst stated.
"Thanks Mom, what about you dad?" Ben asked turning towards Shun now.
"Don't do anything to crazy the first time you guys hung out a building collapsed." he replied.
"To be fair the building was pretty old and we've hung out a few times afterwards and nothing happened." Ben protested.
"I know that, anyways have funny and don't do anything crazy." Shun said wanting him to be safe.
With that Ben puts his silver disk on the coffee table in the living room and walks out of the house. The silver disk began to move off the table and without anyone knowing started to transform.
"Here are your waffles guys." Steven said handing Shun and Amethyst both a plate full of waffles.
They thanked him and began to eat. "So Amethyst, how do you feel about Ben having a little girlfriend." he asked while eating his waffles.
"Glad he's has someone else to hang out with then just Sunni and Charlotte." she replied squirting syrup on her waffles. "They're growing up so fast." she added in a sad tone clenching her left hand that's resting on the table.
Shun place his hand over her fist "Don't worry they may be growing up but they're always going to need us in someway." he said trying to cheer her up.
A figure walked up towards them very slowly. Amethyst caught sight "Yo Ben you're still here I thought you left?" she asked. "Shouldn't keep your girlfriend wai….." she said but before she could finish Ben punched her making her crash into the refrigerator.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and focused on Ben. "Ben you better have a good explanation for hitting your mom." Shun stated cracking his knuckles. "Steven is she alright?" he asked looking back at bit to make sure she's okay.
Steven helped Amethyst up "Amethyst are you alright?" he asked.
Amethyst coughed a bit before answering "I'll live but why did Ben attack me out of nowhere?" she asked.
"Ben I'm still waiting for your explanation." Shun said starting to get angry at Ben for hitting Amethyst.
Ben didn't answer and launched a punch at Shun without hesitation. Shun quickly caught his punch and noticed something was a bit off.
"Ben, why are you attacking mom and dad from out of nowhere?" Charlotte asked wanting to know his reasons.
"You're taking this way too far Ben, whatever is going on we can talk it over." Sunni said trying to stop Ben.
Ben then threw another punch towards Shun. But he catches his second punch just like before.
"Ben even if that's you or not, I want you to know the only one here who can beat me is me." Shun said letting this person know how strong he really his.
With Ben gave him a smirk as he body began to glow bright blue as it started to change appearance in front of Shun. After the blue light dimmed down it took the form of Shun and looked quite identical.
Shun was a bit surprised but still less surprised then everyone else. "So my hunch was correct, you're the shape-shifter after all." he said figuring it out.
The shape-shifter Shun let out a small smirk and head butted Shun to make him let go of his hands. Next a blue aura started to surround the shape-shifter while aim both hands at Steven and Amethyst.
"Steven form a bubble around yourself and Amethyst right now!" Shun ordered.
Steven did as he was told and created a large pink bubble surrounding himself and Amethyst. Shun went in front of them as a blast of ice fired in there direction. When it made contact that whole area of the house was covered with ice and the gems were trapped within it. Steven dropped the bubble and him along with Amethyst started to try and break the ice around them.
The shape-shifter fell to his knee and began to change shape once again. It transformed back into Ben and got up from its spot. Next it turned towards Sunni and Charlotte as it started to walk towards them.
"You two are both a lot less stronger than those gems so this form should be about enough to defeat you." said the fake Ben.
Charlotte summoned her sword while Sunni began to try and summon her shield. "Cuz, we gotta fight him even though he looks a lot like Ben." said Charlotte seeing they have no other choice.
"I know that, Uncle Shun said he was the shape-shifter but I don't know how he even got here." said Sunni readying her shield.
"Yesterday after I got away from you'll the first time, I turned into a silver disk in attempt to hide, but when I thought I was in the clear that when your foolish friend accidently trip over me and decided to bring me home thinking I was just some random object he found on the ground." stated fake Ben.
Charlotte started to swing a few blows with her sword "No one calls my little brother names but mom, me, and sometimes my dad." she said while continuing her strikes.
The shape-shifter dodges all her strikes and is about to deliver a punch to Charlotte's face but Sunni tossed her shield to help Charlotte evade the punch. As the shield bounces off his hand fake Ben grabs it and throws it back at Sunni hitting, her in the stomach. Next, he quickly kneed Charlotte in the stomach and pushed her back.
"You're both pathetic! You can't even land a single blow." said a cocky fake Ben looking down at an injured Sunni and Charlotte.
Charlotte let's out a smirk and tightly grabs the handle to her sword. Fake Ben eyes widen as he sees his leg tangled in a type of whip with blades around it.
"What I thought I froze that short Purple gem." he said confused why a whip is around his leg.
"Dad said you could gain recent memories of the things you turn into but the thing is Ben never knew I could use my weapon as a whip." said Charlotte and then began pull the handle back into the air.
Fake Ben slams into the floor in an instant and the sword whip loosened around his ankle. Next Sunni jumped towards him with her foot father in front the kick him. Fake Ben barely avoided the kick by rolling out of the way. He then summoned Ben's weapon and began to throw punches.
Two to three minutes passed, Sunni and Charlotte are breathing hard as well as have a few bruises and a few scratches. Fake Ben had only scratches and wasn't breathing as hard.
"You little girls had enough yet?" asked a cocky Fake Ben.
"We're...not going down easily." Sunni replied still trying to catch her breath.
"That's right we...we're going to beat you." Charlotte added trying to act tough.
"I might as well end this." stated Fake Ben raising his hands and ready to end the fight.
"Hey you, Ben wanna be, I think you forgot about some people." said a voice in an angry tone.
The girls and fake Ben turn towards the direction of the voice and see the gems free from the ice. Fake Ben was surprised they escaped already, "How did you escape? I was certain you would be trapped for at least another five minute." he said while being a bit confused.
"You may be a copy of me but you can't beat the original." Shun replied ready to fight.
"You hurt my daughter I have no choice but to stop you right here and now." said Steven also with anger in his voice and started to walk forward.
Amethyst held her arm out to stop him "He attacked me first, while looking like my son and hurt my daughter. I'M TAKING HIM OUT!" she shouted with anger.
Amethyst jumped towards fake Ben ready to fight even though he looks like her son. Around the same time fake Ben started to change shape once again. This time he became Amethyst. They collided and began to fight one another with about even strength and land the same blows.
They started to fight so badly a puff of smoke surrounded them as they fought. After they both calmed down they both said "Guys attack the fake me." they said while pointing at one another.
Everyone was unsure who was the real Amethyst. So they huddled up and tried to figure out who is who.
"Alright guys we need to figure out which one is the real Amethyst and beat the fake one." Steven stated.
"You're right Dad but how can we figure out who is the real one?" Sunni asked.
"Dad, you know mom the best so you gotta know who's the real one." said Charlotte to her father.
"I gotta good feeling who's the real one and who's the fake, but let's just ask them questions at first to make sure." Shun replied.
With that they broke the huddle and turned towards the two Amethyst. Steven was the first to speak "Only the real Amethyst would know this, Who tried to kiss Shun about 20 years ago?" he asked.
Shun whispered to him "You really have to bring that up again." He asked a bit mad about it.
Both Amethyst answered with about the same annoyed tone "It was Lapis"
Charlotte tugged on Shun shirt "Dad, did that really happen?" she asked.
"Let's try and find your mom first." he said trying to avoid the question.
"Auntie Amethyst, is it true you and Uncle Shun like to spend a lot a time together in your room?" Sunni asked with the only question that came down to mind.
"Why do you guys only ask questions that involve me?" Shun asked starting to get more upset.
"True" both Amethyst answer with blushed on their face.
'This is embarrassing' thought Amethyst to herself.
'Pretending to be this gem is pretty easy.' thought the fake Amethyst to herself.
"My turn mom, who's your favorite between Ben and Me?" Charlotte asked.
"Your father and I don't have favorites and you know that already dumb dumb." said Both Amethyst in unison.
Charlotte got a little mad not getting an answer. Everyone knew it was up to Shun to ask Amethyst something only she would know.
"Where did you hide it?" Shun asked in a serious voice.
Both of the Amethyst waited a moment before answering "It's buried in the a pile of trash before you enter one of the kids room."
Steven and the girls faces filled with shock "What did she hide?" they asked in unison.
"Something important to me." Shun replied starting to walk towards the two Amethyst. "I know my wife." he added as he walked towards them.
He goes next to one of the Amethyst and puts an arm around her from the side. "Did you really think I wouldn't know which one was the real one?" he asked.
"You had me a little worried there." said Amethyst happy he figured it out.
The other Amethyst got angry and was about to call him out but noticed he had his glove summoned on the hand that wasn't around the other Amethyst.
"Alright imposter I think it's time you get bubbled." said Shun looking at the other Amethyst.
She had a smile on her face "Guess you really know which one is the real one." she stated.
Next, Shun sprung his arm forward with the glove on it and hit the Amethyst right next to him.
She back upped a bit and started coughing "What are you doing?" she asked holding on to the spot he hit.
"Like I said I know my wife, that means you can't fool me." Shun stated.
Everyone started to move in around the fake Amethyst. She had to think quickly so she transformed once again. This time it was a ninja wearing all black.
"Time for my escape once again." Said the ninja throwing a smoke bomb onto the ground.
Everyone started coughing do to the black smoke. While everyone was coughing the front door burst open. After the smoke clear everyone was there but no sign of a doppelganger or a ninja.
"Guess he escaped" said Steven seeing the door open.
"You're right but if he gets into town he'll get away for sure." Shun stated.
"Let go after him." Amethyst added.
"Let us help" said the girls but they could barely move from the bruises.
"You girls should let Steven heal you first then go out to find the shape-shifter." said Shun worried about their current condition.
"We're fine Uncle Shun." said Sunni trying to play it off.
"He's right, let me heal you two while Shun and Amethyst try and find the shape-shifter." said Steven knowing there not okay.
"But we want to help." said Charlotte.
"Just come and help us look after you're done being healed." said Amethyst.
The girls nod in agreement, with that Steven starts to heal them as Shun and Amethyst begin to head into town.
(With Ben and Riley)
The sun shined in the afternoon at the Beach city skate park, Riley is sitting on a bench with her skateboard on her side as she was on her phone playing, 'Angel samurai.'
As she looked like she was in the zone playing her game, she suddenly heard say, "Hey Riley." Once hearing her name, Riley looked up from her phone to see Ben walking toward her. Once seeing him coming, Riley exit out of her game and put her phone in her pocket as she stood up off the bench to greet him.
"Hey Ben, what took you so long and why did you had to come at the exact moment I was just about to beat my high score." She said.
"Well I'm sorry Riley, but I had to tell my family where I was going to be and I live far at the other end of the beach so it takes me a while to get to places." Ben replied.
"Okay whatever let's just have some fun and forget about it." Riley suggested.
"Fine, but what exactly are we going to do here?" Ben asked.
"We're at the skate park so I think we're supposed to skate." Riley replied.
"Alright I get it but there's just one problem, I don't have a skateboard or roller skates, so how am I supposed to skate with you." Ben said.
"Don't worry about it Ben we can just take turns using my skateboard." Riley replied.
"Good that's cool, but I just realized another problem, I never rode a skateboard a day in my twelve year old life." Ben said.
After that was said, Riley placed a hand on her on his shoulder and said, "hey it doesn't matter if you can skate or not, I'll be here to help put you up."
"T-t-thanks R-riley." Ben stuttered as a light purple blush appeared across his face.
"Good so I'll go first to show you the rope, so I'm gonna take it slow so pay attention." Riley said.
"O-o-okay." Ben agreed still blushing.
"Alright here I go." Riley said.
With that Riley picked up her skateboard and placed it at her feet and she stepped one foot on her skateboard and kick her other foot causing the skateboard to start the move. Next, she started to ride along the surface of the skate park until she goes riding on the ramps.
Then Riley started to gain speed as she goes grinding on the reels and returned to Ben as she finished with 360 kickflip and pick up her skateboard up. After she was done Riley handed her board over to Ben as she said, "alright Ben it your turn."
"I don't know Riley, you did a lot of tricks I not sure if I'll be able to keep my balance let alone ride the skateboard the way you did." Ben said.
"Don't worry Ben I'll be here to help you if you want. We'll just take it slow at first and work your way up, okay?" Riley asked.
"Yeah I like it when we get to spend more time together." Ben replied, smiled.
After that was said, a red blush appeared across Riley but she quickly shook off the feeling she felt as she just shoved the skateboard in Ben's chest and said, "here just take the skateboard and just do your best."
"Oh okay." Ben replied, accepting the skateboard.
With that Ben placed the skateboard on the ground and placed his right foot on top of the board and used his left foot to help kick start it. Next, he was riding as he kept a steady pace until he accidently went into pool at that point he thought he was about to fall and hurt he himself, but it the complete opposite than he thought as realized he was skateboarding around the pool with no problem.
'Wow this is actually easy.' Ben thought to himself as he continued to skate.
After a few more minutes of skateboarding Ben stopped and returned to Riley, who was looking really surprised at what she had just saw. When Ben noticed her surprise look on her face he said, "You okay Riley, you look like you've seen a ghost."
"I thought you said, 'you've never roda skateboard a day in your twelve year old life'?" Riley said
"Yeah I never did." Ben replied.
"Then what do you call that?" Riley asked.
"Uh, beginner luck." Ben answered, unsure himself about how he was able to skate all that good on his first try.
"Well that mean you won't be needing training after all." Riley said, a little disappointed.
"Hang on Riley I may not need to learn how to ride a skateboard, but I still need help to master all the skills in order to keep riding a skateboard like this." Ben explained. "And who knows maybe you can teach me how to do some of those trick you can do." He added.
Another blush appeared on Riley as she replied, "oh Ben, you really need to stop sweet talking me, but if that what you want to who am I to deny you. Alright, I'll teach you how to do tricks on a skateboard."
"Yes!" Shouted a happy Ben, then he wrapped his arms around Riley pulling her into a hug.
Riley's eyes were widen until she then slowly closed her arms began to wrap around Ben's waist. As they stood there for a moment or two until they both realized what they were doing and quickly move a few feet away from one another.
"Ugh… I'm sorry Riley I just couldn't control myself." Ben apologized blushed very dark purple.
"No… It's okay you were just excited that all." Riley replied.
"Okay, well I'm going to go get a drink from the soda machine, do you want one?" Ben asked.
"Umm, actually yeah I would like a lemonade please." Riley said.
"Alright, I'll be right back stay put." Ben replied.
With that Ben took off running to the vending machine to get their drinks, but as soon as he past a corner a ninja wearing stuck his head out and began to chuckle.
'Look who I found foolish little boy, who brought me here to this hellhole and that girl seemed to be important to him, well allow me to have some fun here.' the ninja thought to himself.
Next, the ninja was covered in a bright blue light as he started to change forms. Once the light dimmed down there appeared the ninja has changed forms to look exactly like Ben. With that done, fake Ben ran from behind the the corner over to Riley.
"Riley." Fake Ben called out.
Riley looked to see who she thought was Ben coming toward her without any drinks in hand.
"Hey Ben, you're that quick, where are the drinks?" She asked.
"I'm sorry but the machine was completely sold out of drinks." Fake Ben replied.
"Oh that a shame, anyway you want to get back to skateboarding." Riley suggested.
"You know what let forget about skateboarding for the day because I just remember I saw this spot at the top of the hill near the lighthouse where you can see a beautiful sunset and I wanted to see if you would accompany me to see it." Fake Ben said.
"Umm, are you sure Ben because you don't usually like to that kinda stuff." Riley replied.
"Well I there a first time for anything just like you talked me into skateboarding." Fake Ben said.
"Oh okay let's go." Riley agreed.
"Great let go." Fake Ben said, excited.
Next, Fake Ben reached out and took hold on Riley's hand and began leading her to the cliff of the temple. Right after they left the real Ben showed up with two paper cups in his hands; one containing lemonade, while the contained grape soda. He started to look around as he realized that Riley wasn't where she was supposed to be.
'Hey where Riley I was only gone for a few minutes.' Ben thought to himself.
Just as he was about to turn he felt something hit his back hard as he was tackled to the ground. He hit the ground hard as he still felt something lying on top on him which got him angry.
"I think we got him." A familiar voice said, from a distance.
With that the figure on Ben's back got up off of him and next he felt something wrap around prevented him from using his arms. Then Ben rolled over on his back to see Shun, Amethyst, and Charlotte standing over him.
After seeing those three a question mark appeared over Ben's head as he asked, "Mom, Dad, Charlotte, what the heck going on here, why did you'll attack and tied me up?"
"Enough we got you now shapeshifter." Charlotte said.
"Shapeshifter? I'm not a shapeshifter." Ben argued trying to wiggle out of the whip that was around him.
"Nice try, but you won't be able to trick us this time looking like Ben." Shun said.
"And why would be try to trick you'll I don't even know what all this is even about." A confused Ben replied.
"Shun I know we're not supposed to trust by looks, but something in the back of my head is telling me that this Ben is not trying to trick us." Amethyst said.
"I want to believe it too, but remember the shape-shifter is a dangerous creature, who can be anybody or anything at any time, and for all we know he transformed back into Ben to let us off the his trace." Shun explained.
"Come at least give him a chance to prove himself because for all we know this could actually be the real life Ben and not an imposter." Charlotte said.
Shun looked at the Ben, then turned to Amethyst and Charlotte he let a sigh and replied, "oh there a fifty percent that I might regret so go ahead and untie him, but he only gets one chance to prove himself."
With that said, Amethyst removed the whip from around Ben allowing him to stand up on his feet. Once he got to up he looked at them as he asked, "alright what I got to do to I am the real me?"
"Don't worry I got the perfect test for you." Charlotte said.
"Well what are you waiting for let me have it." Ben replied.
"If you instinct." Charlotte said.
Next, Charlotte walked over to him as she made it over to him, she balled her fist up and knocked him in the head as hard as she could. After she hit a big bumped appeared on Ben as he yelled, "Oww! Charlotte that isn't a test that just a pass to hit me."
"Yep this is our Ben after all." Charlotte stated.
"Charlotte how could tell by that?" Shun asked.
"It because back when we faced the shape-shifter at the temple, me and Sunni barely get a scratch on him let alone a bump on his head when he was in his Ben form. So if he was the shape-shifter he wouldn't have obtained that much damage like the real Ben would." Charlotte explained.
"That is a smart observation Charlotte." Shun said.
"Yeah Charlotte that was really good." Amethyst agreed.
"Thanks you." Charlotte replied.
"Okay since you are all happy because I'm the real me, now I would like to ask, what on earth would make you'll think I was a shape-shifter?" Ben asked.
"Oh yeah you didn't know what happen back at temple well it all went like this." Charlotte began.
(One Explanation later)
"And that's why we mistook you for a shape-shifter." Charlotte finished.
After hear the explanation, Ben placed his head down as he said, "so I unknowingly brought the shape-shifter home and he took my form and attacked you'll."
"Yes, but there's no reason to be sad Ben because you didn't know that silver disc was it ." Shun said.
"No I'm not sad." Ben replied.
"You're not?" Amethyst asked.
"No, I'm mad that I wasn't there to help when you needed it and now all I want to do is find that shape-shifter and beat so bad that he won't be able change shapes anymore." Ben said, full of angry.
"Hang on Ben before go trying to start something we got to at least find out who his playing as first." Shun replied, trying calm Ben down. "By the way Ben, where is Riley? I thought you were going to hanging out with her today?" He asked.
"I don't know I told her to stay here while I go get us some drinks and when I came back she was gone." Ben answered.
"Well these could be a problem because for all we know she could be with the shape-shifter at this very moment." Shun stated.
"Oh come on there no way she would fall in the hands into the hands of that thing." Ben argued.
"You're already forgetting Ben the shape-shifter can change into a perfect look alike of anybody it choose that why we had to take you down and Riley not knowing it a shape-shifter she would easily believe that shape-shifter is who she think it is." Shun explained.
"That maybe true but trust me there is absolutely no way Riley would ever fall for whatever the shape-shifter looks like at this moment." Ben said.
Next, Charlotte's phone started ringing and she pulled it out of her pocket and answered it.
"Hey… you serious… okay I'll tell them." Charlotte said to the other end of the phone, then she turned to Ben. "Hey little bro about what you said, do want to bet on that?" she asked.
"Why you say that?" Ben asked looking over to Charlotte.
"Because Sunni just called to tell me that you and Riley were seen heading to the top of the cliff, where the lighthouse is located." Charlotte replied.
"What!" They all (except Charlotte) yelled.
"Yup that means that your friend, Riley, is in serious danger being that she doesn't know that the Ben she's with is actually a shape-shifter." Charlotte stated.
"We then what are we doing just standing around here we need to stop that shape-shifter before he does something unspeakable to Riley." Ben said.
"Now hang on another minute Ben we just can't go up there without a plan." Shun implied.
"We can't think of a plan Dad because it a shape-shifter whatever we do he can just copy it and add it to his arsenal." Ben argued. "If you'll aren't going to help then I'll go by myself." He added, then taking off running to the lighthouse.
After he was gone, Amethyst turned to Shun as she said, "Ben's got a point, even if we come up with a plan he can turn one of our own attacks against us."
"Yeah dad even if we can think of anything we still gotta help because that our jobs as the Crystal gems." Charlotte added.
With that Amethyst and Charlotte took off running after Ben as they did so Shun watched them and said, "Dammit!" then running after all of them.
(Let's go to Riley and Fake Ben)
The two of them had just arrived at the Beach city lighthouse as the sun begins to set ending the day. Riley began to looking around as she was admiring the sights and said, "wow Ben I got to admit that is a wonderful sunset."
"I know Riley, but you could get a closer over by the edge where the fence is you'll also get a perfect view of the ocean." Fake Ben said.
"Umm, oh okay." Riley agreed.
Riley walked over to the edge, where the fence was as she was still admiring the view unknowing to her Fake Ben was standing behind her as he lifted his hands up ready to throw her over, but before he could a familiar voice called out to Riley catching attention.
"Riley!" a voice called out.
When hearing the voice, a confused look appeared across Riley's face, she turned around to look past the Ben she was with to see another Ben coming up the cliff in a hurry.
"Ben?!" She asked confused.
'Damn it he just had to show up.' The Fake Ben thought to himself as he turned to see Ben coming up to them.
"Yeah Riley it's me, Ben, and I'm here to save you because that person with you is a shape-shifter posing as me." Ben replied.
"A shape-shifter?" Riley asked, looking at the Ben she is with.
The Fake Ben turned to face Riley as he said, "Don't believe him Riley because for all we know he could be the shape-shifter and he trying to frame me so you can't trust him."
"Oh don't fall for it Riley he's only messing with you he's the fake." Ben replied.
"Who are you calling a fake you fake." Fake Ben said, calling Ben a lair.
"I'm not the fake, I'm the real deal unlike you." Ben replied.
With that the two collided and began to fight one as they kept repeating, 'I'm the real Ben'. As they fought a puff of smoke surrounded them. Riley watched as this whole thing broke out and she then looked to notice that Ben's family; Shun, Amethyst, and Charlotte were coming up the cliff.
"Alright we're here." Shun said. "Now all we got to do is find those three." he added.
"Yeah it shouldn't be that hard." Amethyst replied.
"Totally." Charlotte agreed.
"Hey Ben's family." Riley said, getting their attention.
They all looked to see Riley coming toward them, once she arrived to them Shun was the first to ask, "Riley, where Ben and the shape-shifter?"
"Umm, about that we're having a serious problem with that." Riley replied.
"Well what's the problem?" Amethyst asked.
Riley then pointed over to her right, when they looked over in the direction Riley pointed out they saw big puff of smoke as they knew that the Bens had gotten in a fight.
"Oh man this can't be good." Charlotte said.
"You're telling me." Amethyst agreed.
"Alright let's put an end to this already." Shun implied, then looking over at the two Ben that were fighting. "Ben!" He added trying to get their attention
When hearing Shun's voice, both Ben calmed down and looked to see Riley standing along with Shun, Amethyst, and Charlotte.
"Oh good Mom, Dad, Charlotte I'm glad y'all are here I got the shapeshifter." Both Ben said.
"Oh shit not this again." Amethyst said as she placed her hands on her head.
"They both look just alike." Riley stated.
"Don't let their appearance fool you one of them is the real Ben and the shape-shifter. It all depends which one do we choose will tell who is the real one and which is the fake." Shun explained. "The only problem is how do we decide which is the real one?" He asked.
"Hey I got an idea, how about I do what I did early to identity the real Ben." Charlotte suggested.
"Charlotte I got to admit that was a pretty good idea earlier, but I don't think it going to work time, so we got to think outside the box this time." Shun replied.
"Yeah we don't want you embarrassing your brother in front of his girlfriend." Amethyst added.
Both Bens blushed as they yelled, "Riley just a friend!"
"Yeah right." Charlotte said in sarcastic voice.
"I'm serious." Both Ben replied.
"Oh really then if that so we'll let her decide on which is the real then." Shun said.
"What?!" A confused Riley yelled.
"You heard me, I am giving the honor of finding our real Ben all to you." Shun replied.
"Well good luck, Riley." Amethyst said.
"I'm 50, 50 if you'll choice the real Ben, but anyway just try your best." Charlotte added.
"Wow that real uplifting Charlotte." Riley rolled her eyes.
With that Riley took a deep breath and walked over to the two Ben and began examining them. She look at Ben dead in their eyes during her examination.
After a few minute of examination, Riley turned around and walked over to the fence as she had her back turned to the Ben.
"Okay after thinking and examining I decided to choose the Ben to the left." She said turning around
"Yes." That Ben said, then up walking over and hugged Riley.
As he hugged Riley, unknowingly to him Riley didn't hug back. Then suddenly Riley moved her hand to removed that Ben from her as she used her strength to toss him over the fence and off the cliff.
After that Riley turned around to see everyone with a surprise/scared look on their face and she asked, "What?"
"What, what do you mean what? You just threw Ben off the cliff." Amethyst said.
"No I didn't. Ben right there." Riley replied, pointing to the Ben that was still on cliff with them.
"Wait me?" Ben asked.
"Yes you, Ben." Riley replied.
"But how did you know I was the real me and why you choose the fake Ben instead." He asked.
"Remember Ben when I first met you I told you I saw this look in your eyes of a little kid, who just want to be the best, but feels like he just going to end being a failure in life, that what I saw again in your eyes and so I knew it was you and second I choose him so I could do that." Riley explained, then walking over to Ben.
"Well I'm glad that you chose me and took care of the shape-shifter for us." Ben replied.
"I'm glad that Riley made the right choice, but the problem isn't over with yet." Amethyst pointed out.
"And why not?" Ben asked.
"Just turn around and you two will see." Charlotte replied.
Ben and Riley turned around to see a giant bird flying over them.
"Oh man didn't see that coming." Riley said.
"You probably should've because it was a shape-shifter, he could've changed himself to anything to save himself." Ben replied.
"Yeah and looks like this time he decided to turn in a giant bird." Shun said punching his palm and summoning him gloves. "Riley get behind us, everyone summon your weapons." he ordered.
With that Riley got behind everyone and the others summoned out their weapons. The bird dove down towards the others with great speed. Everyone braces themselves for impacts. But before the Giant bird could make contact one shield come crash into the bird's head making it stop crash into the ground and a second shield went way off course and went over the cliff.
Everyone faced the direction where the two shields came from and see Steven and Sunni coming towards them. Steven calls out "You guys did we get it?"
"You hit it Uncle Steven but I think Sunni was a little off." Shouted Charlotte as they came closer.
Shun pulled Amethyst for a quick chat. Steven and Sunni finally reached the other. "Are you guys alright?" asked a worried Sunni.
"We're fine" Ben replied.
"Yeah and it was all so amazing." Riley added.
"What I found a amazing is that Riley knew which Ben was the real one." said Charlotte teasing them a little.
"Oh does that mean they really do like one another?" added Sunni.
"It's not what you think." said Ben and Riley with blushes on their face.
"Hate to interrupt your guy's conversation but where are Shun and Amethyst?" Steven asked not seeing them.
Everyone turned around and noticed that they weren't there. The Giant bird started to glow black aura and turned into black slime and began to move from its location.
'Damn if I had any energy left I would destroy each and ever…" said the black slime but stopped because of something in the way.
The black slime looked up and saw a women with long white hair standing in front of it. "You really caused us a lot of trouble." she stated.
The black slime tried to slither away but got completely frozen solid before it could. Next the woman punched the ice, shattering it into pieces.
'You think we shattered it's shard?' She asked herself while looking thru the pieces of ice.
'I'm sure it's intact we only used enough to make sure it poofed and…. There it is.' She thought to herself picking up a black shard.
Next she formed a blue bubble around the black shard and warped it away. "You think we should meet back with the kids?" she said to herself.
"Yeah there probably worried about us." she answered herself. With that she began walk in the direction of the others.
"Guess mom and dad just left us to handle the rest." Ben stated.
"I guess but it's usually not like dad to do this to us." Charlotte protested.
"Charlotte's got a point." Sunni agreed.
"I don't think they would just leave especially if it something this important." Steven stated.
"Guys you knocked down the Giant Bird but is it over?" Riley pointed out.
"Don't worry it's over." replied a female voice.
Everyone looked in the direction that the voice came from. Riley was a little shocked seeing a really talk women with white hair walking towards them.
"Ben, who's that?" Riley asked wanting to know who the women was.
"Why tell you when I can introduce you." said Ben walking Riley to the women. "Hey Citrines let me introduce you to….." said Ben but stopped after being hit in the head by Citrines.
"What was that for?" Ben asked touching the top of his head.
"I could have been the shapeshifter and you would have been in more trouble than this." replied Citrines calming herself down.
"Mom, Dad your back." said an excited Charlotte.
"You guys are fused, does that mean it all over?" asked Steven.
Citrines gave him a nod to tell him it's over. And turn her attention back to Riley "So Riley what do think?" she asked.
"You look really cool." Riley replied.
"You're not shocked we can combine into this?" Citrines asked her.
"I seen a lot today so this doesn't really surprise me." Riley replied.
"Citrines how did you beat the shapeshifter?" asked a curious Sunni.
Citrines unfused and became Shun and Amethyst once again. "Froze it solid and smashed it." Shun replied.
"You guys remember to bubble it right?" asked a worried Steven.
"Yeah we handled everything." Amethyst replied to reassure him.
Riley's phone began to ring and she answered it "Hello... Hey daddy you're on your way here….Alright I'll meet you by the Plaza." Riley said hanging up her phone. "I have to go everyone, thanks for saving me today." she said.
Everyone said it was nothing and she began to walk down the hill. Ben called out to her before she got far "Riley want me to go with you?" he asked.
"I'm fine it's not to far of a walk." she replied giving him a wavy and heading towards the Plaza.
Ben wave back to here and Charlotte put her arm around Ben "Sorry you couldn't walk your girlfriend little bro." she said starting to tease him again.
"I keep telling you she's just a friend." Ben protested while trying to get out of Charlotte's hold.
"But you guys look so great together." said Sunni joining in the teasing.
Ben breaks free from Charlotte's hold "At least I have someone to hang out then just you two." he said running down the hill.
Sunni and Charlotte looked at one another then started to chase Ben "Let's get him for saying we have no friends." said both of the girls in unison.
Steven, Shun and Amethyst just laugh seeing their kids running around and having fun.
Shun break his laughter "Crap I just remembered." he said making an ice path down the hill and sliding down it. Next he began to run towards the temple.
"What was that about?" asked Steven to Amethyst.
"How I'm I sup….." she said but stopped mid-sentence. "I forgot I told him where it was." she said stepping on the ice.
The ice shattered into pieces the moment Amethyst stepped on it. "He knew I'd remember." she said running down the hill.
Steven had a dumbstruck face on "I don't even want to ask." he said to himself. Then he looked out to the town "Looks like the city will be in good hands with them three someday." he said thinking out loud.
With that Steven smiled as he started walking back to the Temple as they end another great day.
Alright everybody that is it for this episode of Steven Universe: The Next Generation and we hoped y'all enjoyed it. Now stay tune for the next episode where Sunni, Ben, and Charlotte has to go through some very serious training as they prepare to go through a very dangerous obstacle course designed by Peridot, Lapis, and Jasper, will they survive or not? Stay tuned to find out, anyway rate and review. Until next time, my name is Jaroberts251 and his is Shun Benitoite, signing out peace. Ps, this Shun Benitoite and I need you readers to do me a favor my friend Jaroberts251 has a story called "A visit to Beach City", please write a review on it saying "I want an answer to the love pentagon" we made a bet and if his story has 6 people leave that review he'll make Steven chose between Lapis, Connie, Mabel, and Peridot and his story's really good check it out if you like both Gravity Falls and Steven Universe. Anyways thanks again and see you next chapter.