Thanks go to Jak Fortune, Randal435, Guest, Guest, TennisCat, and Howlite.
No, I didn't just thank one of my own characters. Someone made their name Howlite. And that was pretty cool.
Sorry for the couple day late chapter, but I started running low on muse. And remember how I said you wouldn't see the Homeworld Gems for awhile?
I lied.
Disclaimer: I do not own Steven Universe
The weeks went by. The Earth was in peace.
Eventually, The Gems repaired the temple, and on the beach a large, four room apartment was built.
It was almost difficult for them all to adjust to there not being an enemy around every corner. It had been three months since the first Homeworld Gems came to Earth.
Since they were all stranded here.
Since they all went against their home for a new home.
Steven still basked in the glory of there victory over Homeworld, as no one ever told him about Blue Diamond picking up the others or of whatever Yellow Diamond could be plotting.
Matrix sighed, collapsing on his couch after closing the door behind him. The room next to his belonged to Lapis, across from hers was Jasper's, and across from Matrix's room was Peridot's.
He had just helped Garnet hunt down a Gem Monster, and was exhausted.
"Hey Matrix!"
Steven's voice, coupled with the fact that he jumped out from behind the couch, made Matrix jump, falling from the couch and onto the carpet.
"Ugh..." Matrix groaned from the floor, looking at Steven, who hung on the back of the couch. "What is it, kid?"
"Well you know what tomorrow is..." Steven grinned sheepishly.
"It's that 'Birthday' thing of yours, right?" Matrix asked.
"Yup!" Steven said, grinning in excitement.
"Yeah, I'll be at the party, don't worry." Matrix said tiredly. "... How did you get into my house?"
"Well, about that, I had another idea! We're all gonna go to Funland and the beach for the day then we'll come back and have cake! Steven just completely shrugged off Matrix's question.
"That's great..." Matrix said, clearly still exhausted. "I'll be sure to show up."
"Great!" Steven shot from the room, and moments later, Matrix could hear Peridot's yell from her room, and Matrix laughed to himself, falling asleep on the couch in a few moments.
The next day, they all walked towards Funland, Garnet having defused as promised.
All of the Gems had shown up with the inclusion of Greg and Connie, and Steven took them to the arcade first.
"Alright, I have the perfect games picked out for everyone!" Steven said, coming to a game with a large screen and pads with arrows on them in front of it.
Steven told Ruby and Sapphire to stand on the two pads, explaining the dancing game to them.
"So we just have to step on the arrows?" Ruby asked, and Sapphire nodded.
The others went off, stopping again at what looked like Whack A Mole.
"Here." Steven handed Jasper one of the mallets and gave Amethyst the other. "Just don't break it, okay?" Steven laughed nervously.
Jasper smacked a mole down, then grinned. "Now this is a game I can get behind!"
The next game they came to seemed to have a guitar attached, which Steven grabbed, handing to Peridot, who held it awkwardly.
"This is Guitar Hero!" Steven exclaimed before explaining the concept of the game.
"Seems simple enough..." Peridot said, selecting Through the Fire and Flames.
Steven stopped Pearl at a game labeled Wheel of Fortune.
"Ah, a puzzle game!" Pearl said, sounding generally excited as she began.
Steven stopped the remaining four at a game labeled Mario Cart, which had five seats that had wheels in front of them.
"And this is our stop!" Steven sat in one of the chairs, followed by Greg, Connie, Lapis, and Matrix.
Steven picked Mario, Greg picked Donkey Kong, Connie picked baby Peach, Lapis picked Rosalina, and Matrix picked Dry Bowser.
Ruby panted, trying to keep up with Sapphire. It was like she knew when they were coming...
Wait a minute.
"Hey, Sapphire, that's cheating!" Ruby said, clearly angered. "You can't use your Future Vision!"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Sapphire smirked. "I would never do such a thing!"
Meanwhile, Jasper and Amethyst continued to beat down the moles faster than they could come up. Both of their scores were tied somewhere up in the hundreds, and they both had that mischievous grin on their face.
Peridot stood calmly as she hit all of the notes, a crowd forming behind her with gaping mouths. She was on the hardest difficulty.
She turned back to look at the crowd, still hitting all of the notes in the guitar solo.
"Uh... Is there a problem?" She asked, but they all just shook their heads slowly, so she shrugged, going back to the game.
Pearl had solved over twenty puzzles without a single problem, smiling happily as she spun the wheel once again.
Steven was in first place, Lapis right behind him. Greg and Connie were tied for fourth, Matrix barely staying in front of them for third.
Suddenly, ink splashed on all of their screens. Well, all but Connie, who grinned, speeding ahead to first.
Matrix's glare turned to a grin when he recognized the weapon he'd just gotten.
And in an instant, Connie, Steven, and Lapis were engulfed in the Blue Shell's explosion.
Matrix sped to the front, Greg speeding up with him, driving right next to him.
As they approached the finish line, Matrix got an idea.
"Hey kid, consider this a Birthday present." Matrix turned the wheel suddenly, slamming into Greg's car and sending them both of the edge, Steven speeding by and winning the race.
They all laughed at Matrix's act, watching as tickets spat out of each of their machines.
"We've got so many tickets!" Steven exclaimed, scooping up his tickets.
They all met up at the Prize Corner, getting their tickets counted and looking through prizes.
Matrix grabbed a teddy bear holding a guitar, and grinned as he held it up to Peridot. "Hey look, it's you." Matrix grinned, and Peridot glared at him.
"Real funny." Peridot rolled her eyes.
Matrix held his hand over the bears eyes, a green visor identical to Peridot's appeared over it's eyes. He then grinned, holding it up to Peridot again.
"..." Peridot turned to walk away, but stopped on one foot, begrudgingly turning and snatching the bear out of Matrix's hands. Matrix laughed as she stomped away.
Steven got a large blow up alien, Jasper got a dart board, Amethyst got a disco ball, Greg got the guitar that no one ever had enough tickets to get, Connie got a stuffed bear, Ruby and Sapphire got a game of Twister, Matrix got the XBox that again no one ever had enough tickets to get, Lapis got a blue Lava Lamp, and Pearl got a ten thousand piece puzzle.
Next stop was the beach.
They had left all their stuff in a plastic bag under a chair that Peridot sat in, not bothering with swimming.
Greg was grilling something, Garnet and Jasper played Volleyball, Amethyst and Pearl joining them. Pearl was on Garnet's team and Amethyst was on Jasper's team.
Steven, Connie, Lapis, Ruby, and Sapphire all swam, Lapis making a large wave to splash Steven and Connie when they started splashing her.
"You aren't going to swim?" Matrix arched a brow at Peridot, who looked up from the book she was reading.
"I haven't trusted the ocean since that monster tried to drown me." Peridot said, and Matrix remembered their fight with the kraken like creature.
"... Fair point." Matrix shrugged, walking towards the water.
(Two weeks before)
Boots padded on the golden floor, a figure shrouded in black coming to two large golden doors.
The figure opened the doors, the light shinning on him and showing what he wore. His black cloak was tattered, looking ancient. He almost resembled some sort of reaper, the cloak covering his body.
"Ah good, Bloodstone." Yellow Diamond said, staring into the piercing red eyes of the cloaked gem.
Behind him stood a short, pale gem and a taller, grey gem with silver hair.
The shorter gem had white hair and skin, and looked to be quite skittish.
He wore a white cloak, but it was opened in the front, revealing the white tank top he wore with white pants. In fact, the only thing about him that wasn't pure white were the lines of red running across his skin and cloak. It seemed to be paint.
The taller gem next to him had grey skin and silver hair, wearing clothes identical to the white gem, the same red lines running across his clothes and skin.
"Why have you summoned me, Yellow Diamond?" Bloodstone asked, tilting his head to the side, and revealing his chin and mouth, showing pitch black skin with red lines running across it.
"I have found my sister's location." Yellow Diamond began. "She is near Earth. I knew that fool Howlite would lead me right to her..." Yellow Diamond laughed to herself, crossing her legs.
"And you want me and my squad to go kill them?" Bloodstone questioned, and Yellow Diamond nodded.
"Yes. If my... Storming of Earth is to go well, the unexpected variable of my sister needs to be removed."
Bloodstone grinned. "Consider it done, Lady Diamond."
Bloodstone turned, walking towards the door. "Zeolite," The white gem looked up. "Hematite," The grey gem looked up.
"Lets go."
Steven's eyes widened in glee, seeing the assembly in front of his home.
Everyone had shown up, balloons reading 'Happy Birthday' floating from the tables that had been set up. Sour Cream had his DJing equipment set up on the deck.
"I didn't think everyone would show up!" Steven said in shock.
"Why wouldn't we?" Jenny asked, smiling.
"You're a pretty cool dude, Steven." Buck smirked.
"Lets start this party!" Sour Cream called from the deck, starting his music.
(Five days ago)
"What is that?!" Tiger asked, the ship shaking.
"Something hit the ship!" Emerald exclaimed, red lights flashing in the room as he attempted to keep the ship steady.
"Not something, someone." Amazonite corrected, watching as the pods that had hit the ship opened, three figures darting from them and towards the control room.
"Well that's a problem..." Emerald said, just before the door to the room burst open.
Emerald jumped to the side, two blades going through the back of the chair where he'd been sitting moments ago.
"Emerald!" Amazonite ran towards the genius gem, being stopped by two sword blades stabbing in front of her, looking to see a being cloaked in grey standing before her, staring blankly at her.
He held two katanas, his cloak flapping behind him as he spun them, staring at Amazonite silently.
"Hematite?" Amazonite said, slightly shocked.
"And Zeolite!" Emerald added, dodging the two blades that came from Zeolite's wrist, almost like that of Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
"Then that must mean-" Tiger ducked suddenly, a scythe swinging over her head.
She looked up with wide eyes, seeing the reaper-like figure grinning down from its hood at her, glowing red eyes peering into her soul.
"B-Bloodstone!" Tiger exclaimed, Bloodstone's hand shooting down and wrapping around her throat, yanking her into the air.
"Tiger!" Emerald and Amazonite exclaimed in shock, watching as Bloodstone pulled back his scythe and slicing through the Tigers Eye Gem!
Her two pieces fell to the ground, exploding and leaving just her gem.
As Bloodstone rose his foot into the air to crush the gem eye, Amazonite slammed her shoulder into him, throwing him back through the air and into the wall of the room, grinning as he unstuck himself.
Just before Bloodstone and the others could attack, however, a low growl was heard.
Everyone turned, seeing Howlite standing at the entrance of the room.
"Oh, it appears we have some company." Blue Diamond said, stepping from the shadows behind him.
Howlite continued to growl, his hair covering his eyes.
"Go on ahead then, Howlite." Howlite grinned at Blue Diamond's words, shooting off the ground at Zeolite and Hematite.
Howlite flew at Zeolite, who stabbed at him with his Shredder claw.
Howlite opened his mouth, his metal maw appearing as he brought his jaws down on the blades, snapping them in two!
Howlite then jumped over Zeolite, ramming his elbow into his side, spinning and sweeping out his legs before bringing up his knee as he fell, catching him by the chin and throwing him into the air and jumping up, slamming his feet into the smaller Gem's abdomen and throwing him across the room into the wall.
Hematite shot off the ground at Howlite, swinging one sword at him. Howlite caught the sword in his metal maw, snapping it in two!
"You truly are a military dog." Hematite said calmly, keeping a blank expression as he jumped back, Howlite jumping at him.
"And he's on a bit of an instinct high, so watch out." Blue Diamond grinned, watching as Hematite avoided Howlite's jaws, Zeolite jumping at him again only to be caught by the arm and thrown into Hematite.
Bloodstone jumped at Blue Diamond, who looked up just in time to see Amazonite block his scythe with her clubs. Well, only for a moment. Bloodstone's scythe suddenly broke through, slicing through Amazonite!
"Amazonite!" Emerald exclaimed, shooting off the ground at Bloodstone, who jumped at him as well.
As they shot by one another, Emerald's eyes widened. In an instant, his arms fell to the floor, and he too returned to his gem.
Bloodstone grinned, turning to look at Blue Diamond.
"Looks like it's just you and me now."
The party began to clear out as the night went on.
Soon enough, only the Gems remained at Steven's home. Steven was still awake, and the gems continued to humor him as he tried to keep his eyes open.
Ruby and Sapphire refused, everyone clapping after watching them do so.
"Man, fusing is so cool..." Steven yawned, rubbing his eye.
"Alright, I think it's beddy-bye time." Amethyst picked up Steven, holding him over her head as she walked towards his bed.
"Hey- wait!" Steven flailed in Amethyst's grasp. "I have a Birthday Request!"
"What is it?" Matrix asked, arching a brow at Steven.
"Can you turn into Tanzanite again?"
"WHAT?!" Matrix and Peridot exclaimed in unison.
"Who's Tanzanite?" Jasper arched a brow at Pearl.
"The big scary fusion of Matrix and Peridot." Amethyst answered for Pearl, gulping as she remembered her head being crushed by the giant.
"What?!" Jasper arched a brow at Matrix and Peridot. "You two have fused?"
"Only because emergency called for it!" Matrix said, looking to Steven.
"Pleeeeaaaase?" Steven asked with puppy-dog eyes.
"Why do you want us to fuse?" Peridot crossed her arms.
"Well I've never talked to Tanzanite..." Steven scratched the back of his head. "I wanna see what he's like."
"I kind of want to see it too." Lapis said.
"I just want to see Peridot try to dance." Jasper smirked.
"Why does everyone assume I can't dance?!" Peridot asked angrily, and everyone just kind of shrugged.
Before she could continue to yell, a whistling was heard, and Steven pointed to the sky. "Pod!"
A blue pod slammed into the earth before them, throwing dust into the air. It was bigger than the pods on Peridot's ship, looking as though it could carry multiple people.
Matrix pulled his spear from his eye, standing in front of the door of the pod.
Before anyone could do anything, the door of the pod was kicked open, and there Howlite stood, holding an unconscious Blue Diamond on his back.
"Howlite?!" Everyone exclaimed in shock, but Howlite didn't even seem to notice them.
"Hey, kid..." Howlite stumbled past everyone else, setting Blue Diamond before Steven. A crack ran through her gem.
"You have healing powers, right?" Howlite fell to his knees, coughing blood. He pulled a bag from his hip, dropping it and making the gems in it roll out.
"I don't do this often kid, so listen up..." Howlite placed a hand on Steven's shoulder, looking into his eyes.
"... Help us..."
And that's the chapter. I know it seemed kind of rushed and it was short, but I'm running low on muse so... Yeah. Updates might come a little slower.
But I have a lot of this arc planed out, and let me tell you, it's gonna get dark.
Darker than usual.
So get ready for that.
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