300 Special part 1: Peridot vs Baby Steven
"Agh! How exactly is this my fault?!" Peridot growled, struggling to remove herself from Garnet's powerful grip.
"I told you not to touch it!" Pearl snapped. "Neither your or Amethyst seem to be able to follow directions."
Peridot chose not to comment that it had been entirely Amethyst's fault that she had fallen onto the artifact in question that they weren't supposed to touch.
"Whelp, maybe P. if you had said it a little louder, we might of got the message." Amethyst snorted, limp upside down in Garnet's arms with her arms crossed.
"This is no time for back talk." Pearl snapped. "Look what you two did to Steven!"
Peridot wasn't exactly sure what they had done, but by the looks of it, it was probably incredibly bad.
Steven had been reduced to a very tiny, very pink, very wide eyed…smaller version of himself. He now seemed incapable of speech, incapable of controlling his mouth goo and couldn't ambulate anymore. He was now sitting on Pearl's hip, his shirt now wrapped around his middle while he stuck his fist in his mouth.
"Well, he's not hurt." Amethyst grunted as Garnet dropped her and Peridot to the floor. Amethyst landed gracefully on her feet, while Peridot fell flat on her face.
"He may not be hurt, but he certainly isn't normal!" Pearl growled, fiercely hugging him to her chest. "How exactly are we supposed to explain to Greg that we turned his son back into an infant?!"
An infant? Was that what Steven was now? Perhaps it was a species native to Earth? Or a classification of humans, like adult or toddler (something Peridot was often called).
"He is leaking from his mouth." Peridot noted, grabbing her recorder and approaching Pearl cautiously. "Despite obvious degrade of intelligence, he seems to be capable of following me with his sensor orbs."
Steven was indeed following her with his eyes as she circled around Pearl. He would turn his neck this way and that, trying to keep up with her, a smile growing as she continued her observation.
"Wh-anyways. Garnet we need to get some diapers, buy some milk and see if Greg has any supplies left." Pearl ticked off, handing Steven the now infant to Garnet. Steven nuzzled into her check, getting drool all over her. Peridot shivered in disgust, but Garnet didn't seem to mind. Garnet returned the gesture, performing the 'lip touching' with a hum.
"The Steven now infant, who has been leaking from his mouth since the unfortunate deaged transformation, is now smearing the permafusion with said leakage. She is not adverse to this though and I suspect this leakage is a resource of some sort that humans produce to seduce beings who can provide them with resources."
"It's called drool dude." Amethyst snickered, sticking her tongue out to Steven's enjoyment. "Babies produce it like twenty-four seven. Wanna touch it?"
Amethyst grabbed Peridot's hand and dragged the unwillingly gem closer and closer to a dangling line of spittle hanging from Steven's pudgy cheeks.
"AH! NO! NO! NO!" Peridot screeched, wriggling with all her might (and failing) to escape from Amethyst's unbreakable grip. "I don't want to be under his control!"
"Amethyst! Peridot! Stop messing around, this is serious." Pearl scolded, grabbing a blanket and beginning to wrap it around Garnet strategically.
Peridot yanked her hand from Amethyst's with a slight growl and snuck back closer to Garnet to record more notes. "The pearl is now creating a symbiotic cocoon which is strangling the permafusion in an attempt to incubate the Steven infant. Hypothesis: as a hybrid I suspect that his incubation will take a surprisingly shorter period of time than the average Quartz gem."
"Peridot, it's a baby holdering thingy." Amethyst mumbled, thumb up her nose, watching Pearl curiously.
"We donated Steven's old carrier." Pearl grunted. "This is the best we can do for now."
The fluffy blanket had been transformed into a sturdy carrier that comfortably swaddled Steven and left Garnet with use of her hands. Steven seemed very happy with this new arrangement and began to kick his tiny legs.
"The holdering cocoon has produced positive feelings in infant Steven. He now seems capable of moderate fighting skills." Peridot muttered, doing her best to not seem impressed.
"Pearl, she's killin' me!" Amethyst guffawed, laughing so hard she began to wheeze. "Wait, put him on her. Put him on her!"
"Keep the infant Steven away from until I have completed my studies!" Peridot screeched. She dived behind Amethyst with a hiss.
"I will not be putting Steven anywhere except into a National Child Passenger Safety certified carrier seat." Pearl growled, taking Garnet's hand and leading her out the door. "I want this house back to safety regulations!"
"Ah, crap. I hated safety regulation Pearl." Amethyst groaned. "Can't we just swallow him?"
"It's swaddle." Pearl snapped. "And no. He's apparently eight months old. You don't swaddle an eight month old."
"Pretty sure you swaddled him until he was like six months." Amethyst whispered under her breath. "What's the difference?"
"What is this swaddle? Is it a weapon upgrade?" Peridot whispered back.
"We need to go. He'll be wetting his shirt and me in forty minutes." Garnet informed them, pulling Pearl out of the door.
"We'll be back soon. Amethyst keep an eye on Peridot and this house better be baby proof by the time we get bac-augh!"
Garnet wrenched Pearl out of the house with a giant tug and with that Peridot was deprived of her newest research subject. And left with a deviously grinning Amethyst, who seemed to be prowling like a giant cat closer and closer.
"A-Amethyst?"
"Come on Peridot! Let's wrestle."
"I thought the pearl unit informed us to upgrade Steven's dwellings with the baby proof." Peridot stuttered, backing away and bumping into the low wooden component that carried bitter juice.
"Let's do it later!"
"NOOAWGWYG!"
A/N: Whelp, I'm not going to be able to systematically have a week of 300 Special stories like I planned :( But some of the stories are done and Growing Up With Steven just got over 100,000 reads. So I'm gonna post what I have done until all the submitted prompts I have are completed.
I'm gonna do my best cause you people are much too awesome. The title for all the stories suggested will be 300 Special part _. If a story has that title then it doesn't follow the really non-linear AU I'm writing for, but for the prompts people have suggested.
Dream'srealm suggested the prompt "anything with Perdiot".
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