The Crystal Gems, Steven, and Fallout were all in the Beach House, the gems were teaching Steven on how to dance and at the same time trying to teach Fallout on how fusion works as well.
"A 5-6-7-8!" Pearl said snapping her fingers as Garnet walked up to Pearl.
Steven and Amethyst were trying to dance but ended up both falling to the floor with laughter when Amethyst tried to lift Steven above her head.
"Be serious," Pearl said with an irritated tone.
Steven and Amethyst continued dancing while Pearl snapped her fingers in rhythm, Amethyst then successfully lifts Steven, but then the both of them start to laugh again making Pearl stop snapping and frown in annoyance. She then takes over and starts to demonstrate with Garnet as her dancing partner.
"Pay attention now Steven," Pearl said as her and Garnet start to perform a ballroom dance, with Garnet twirling and lifting Pearl around. Garnet then pins Pearl against a wall with both of her hands on either side of Pearl's head making Pearl blush. "See?" Pearl said turning to Steven only to realize Steven's eyes were covered by a blushing Fallout shaking his head slowly at her, making her blush deepen even more in embarrassment.
Steven then tries to copy the moves Garnet had made with Pearl with Garnet helping him on some of the poses that he is too short for, leaving out the pose he wasn't able to see because of Fallout.
Steven and Amethyst then start to now dance next to each other, doing a dance that seemed similar to the Macarena. Steven then tries dancing with Garnet next copying her movements, but wasn't able to keep up to Garnets speed. Steven tries to dance with Pearl doing a ballet duet with her, Pearl then accidentally hits him in the face with her leg causing him to fall on the ground, She then looks at Steven with an apologetic expression.
The Gems then moved to dancing in unison with Steven, first starting off by snapping their fingers in rhythm, Steven being a bit off beat. The Gems then each put one foot forward, Steven puts forward his hand. The Gems then start to run left to right with Steven lagging behind them trying to catch up. The Gems then finally slide, leap up, and pose in midair together, Steven then tries to replicate the same movements as well but quickly falls to the ground.
Some time had passed as the Gems and even Fallout tried to help Steven learn to dance.
"I don't get it, I thought I almost had it," Steven said as he walked around the kitchen with a towel around his neck.
"Well Steven it took me a while to not fall on my face when I was first trying to dance," Fallout said as he sat down at the kitchen table.
"Nobody expects you to be able to perform fusion right away Steven," Pearl said as she sat on the kitchen counter.
"Wait I thought this was about teaching him how to dance?" Fallout said as he looked at Pearl with a questioning expression.
"Well dancing is a big part of fusing as well," Pearl said.
"Yeah, fusing can be really hard, even for us," Amethyst said as she jumped on top of the kitchen counter standing on it.
"Not for me," Garnet said leaning against the cabinets.
"We'll keep working on the dance for now, and who knows, in a few years…" Pearl then stops mid sentence and starts to ponder. "I wonder if Steven is even capable of fusion, Fusion merges the physical forms of gems, but Steven is half-human, He's organic."
"Wait what does him being "organic" have to do with him possibly not being able to fuse? An "organic" form is a physical form as well you know," Fallout said.
"Fallout," Garnet said interrupting Fallout's train of thought. "Our physical forms are made up of light, making us take on different forms. That's why we were able to poof or how most gems are able to Shapeshift like you see Amethyst do a lot," Garnet said gesturing toward Amethyst.
"I see," Fallout said putting his finger to his chin is a heavy thinking manner. "Well there is that possibility that Steven might have half a gem body?" Fallout said in a questioning tone toward the gems.
"Well either way, I think Steven can do it," Garnet said looking toward Steven as he gave a worried expression back.
Steven and Connie are sitting in the sand facing each other, with their shoes, Connie's glasses, and a sleeping Fallout laying on a beach chair only a short distance away.
"Can you get them to write out the steps?" Connie asked Steven.
"No... I don't think it's just about dancing. When they fuse they glow and kind of... phase into each other," Steven then tries to give an example by crossing his fingers together. "But I don't even know if I can even do that."
"Well, I think it's amazing you were able to dance with them at all, I could never do that," Connie said.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Steven asked.
Connie looked down as she grabbed her left arm. "I've never danced in front of anyone before."
"Really?" Steven said surprised.
"Yeah, there was this dance at my school, and I was really excited about it...But, I just couldn't bring myself to go. I just couldn't stop thinking about everyone staring at me," Connie said closing her eyes.
"Well... no one's staring right now?" Steven said making Connie look back up at him quickly only to find him staring right at her.
"Um... You are," Connie said, making Steven look away blushing.
"Oh...yeah. Oh, one sec," Steven reaches into his pocket pulling out his smartphone, he taps on it a few times and sticks it into the sand as it starts to play music. Steven then gets up and walks back a few steps as he covered his eyes with one hand and held out the other. "So, what I was trying to say was...Come dance with me."
Connie hesitates, then reaches for Steven's hand, Steven then lifts his arm off his eyes and smiles at Connie. He then pulls Connie towards him and they begin to dance. Steven twirls Connie around and starts to do a little dancing on his own. Connie also does the same thing with dancing solo as well. Steven and Connie then run around carefree when they then bump into each other making Steven start to fall, Connie then quickly catches him before he could hit the ground. They both stare at each other making them both start to blush. Connie leans closer and starts to laugh along with Steven, Steven's gem all of the sudden begins to glow enveloping the both of them with a pink light.
A mysterious person slowly wakes up on the beach, revealing rosy-brown legs, in front of Steven's flip-flops and Connie's flats and glasses.
"Whoa, Why am I-" The person then reaches down to pick up Stevens flip flop. "Why is... your sandal too small for my- your feet?" The person said in confusion as they then run their hand along their legs, hips and stomach. "Steven?" The person then grabs their hair in shock. "Connie! I- I did it! You did it?" The person then struggles to get up on their feet. "Wait. Ugh, this- no. This is gr-great! Oh my gosh, look at you now!" They then are able to finally stand up. "I'm a fusion," The person then throws their hands up in the air and begins to run around the beach giggling all the while. They then trip and fall behind a rock, but then quickly get back up. "I have to show the Gems," The person then glances over to where Fallout was still laying down on the chair sleeping away. "I need to show Fallout, wait why do you need to show Fallout?" The person asked themself as they ran around the rock heading straight for the still snoozing Fallout. "Because he has never seen any of the Gems fuse before," The person said as they slid to a halt in front of Fallout. "Fallout!" The person screamed waking up Fallout instantly.
"Hey!" Fallout screamed as they jolted awake. "What is it, a monster?" Fallout said rubbing his left eye trying to get his vision into full view.
"Nope it's something more awesome," The person as they leaned toward Fallout with stars in their eyes.
Fallout's vision had fully come into view only to see an unfamiliar face making him jump back and fall to the ground. "WHOA WHAT THE? WHO ARE YOU?" Fallout screamed as he quickly got up dusting the sand off of him.
"Calm down Fallout it's only me Steven… And Connie, we fused! We actually fused!" The fusion of both Connie and Steven said as they jumped up in the air and started to dance a little while Fallout still looked on in confusion.
"I-" Was all Fallout could say before the fusion quickly grabbed their hand.
"Come on Fallout we have to show the gems," They then without warning Fallout, start to run as fast as they can toward the Beach House almost making Fallout fall face first onto the sand.
At the Beach House The Gems gaze in shock and surprise, as the fusion between Steven and Connie stood confidently in front of them with Fallout standing next to them scratching his head in a thinking manner.
"Pretty cool, right?" The fusion spoke breaking the silence.
"He fused? With his friend Connie?" Pearl said as Amethyst chuckled as she slowly leaned toward Peal.
"Pearl, look at Garnet." Amethyst said making Pearl look over to where garnet was standing.
Garnet had her hands clasped together and sporting a huge grin on her face.
Pearl then looks back at the fusion of Steven and Connie and starts to approach them. "This is unprecedented," Pearl then starts to examine all around the body of the fusion. "A Gem fusing with a human being? It's impossible!" Pearl then looks away cupping her face with her hand. "Or at the very least inappropriate."
"Wow! You two look great together! How does it feel Steven? Connie? ...Stevonnie?" Amethyst said as she approached the fusion.
"It feels great! And I like that name, Stevonnie," the fusion said.
"Yes, Well, I'm glad you're enjoying yourselves, but you two should unfuse this instant," Pearl said with an uncomfortable tone.
Stevonnie was about to say something before Fallout cut them off. "Wait, wait, wait, Pearl you were the one that was so worried Steven wasn't going to be able to fuse and now that he has you're telling him to unfuse? Aren't you like, glad that he was able to actually fuse?" Fallout said getting a bit frustrated with Pearl.
Pearl stepped back after Fallout had finished his sentence. "Of... course I am! I-" she then stops mid sentence and turns to Garnet in a worrying expression. "Garnet, help me out here."
"Stevonnie," Garnet says as she walks up to Stevonnie placing one hand on her shoulder and the other on her cheek. "Listen to me, You are not two people, And you are not one person. You... are an experience! Make sure you're a good experience, Now... Go!... Have!... Fun! Garnet finishes giving Stevonie a wide grin.
With that said Stevonnie got stars in her eyes along with a big grin as they ran out of the house giggling all the while.
"Fallout I want you to go along with them, not only to keep them safe but to also see how a fusion acts" Garnet said turning to a somewhat confused Fallout.
"I was with you until the second part but whatever," Fallout said as he opened the door quickly rushing out so he could catch up with Stevonnie.
Stevonnie is sprinting, grinning widely, and performs a string of cartwheels towards the edge of a high cliff. Stevonnie peeks over the edge of the cliff, and then jumps off of it into the ocean screaming excitedly. They float back to the beach shore on their back, alternating between Steven and Connie's laughter. All the while there doing that Fallout had walked up to the giggling fusion.
"Having fun you too?" Fallout said grabbing Stevonnie's attention.
Stevonnie looks up to see Fallout looking down at them with a stretched out hand and a grin on their face. "I'm having a blast!" Stevonnie says as she gabs Fallout's offered hand.
Fallout helps up Stevonnie off the ground, when Stevonnie stood up straight Fallout could see that She was about the same height as him. "Wow, you're as tall as me," Fallout said stepping back to get a better look at Stevonnie. All of the sudden Stevonnie's stomach started to grumble grabbing the attention of both of them. "Sounds like you too are hungry, the big donut is just over there, here," Fallout says as he points over to the Big Donut that just a few feet away and handing them some money. "Get me some Donuts to," Fallout said as he went to go sit at the benches outside of the Big Donut.
In the Big Donut both Sadie and Lars are in the middle of a conversation behind the counter when the shop door chimes and a drenched Stevonnie walks into the shop, both Sadie and Lars stare at Stevonnie with wide eyes, as Stevonnie walks up to the counter.
"Ha- ha- how can I- help... me?" Lars said stammering and blushing lightly.
Stevonnie flicks their hair that was covering her eyes. "Four donuts please."
Lars and Sadie are both still staring at Stevonnie in utter awe when Lars finally reaches into the donut case and grabs four donuts placing them into a bag then placing it on the counter.
Stevonnie then looks down to their hand that was holding the money Fallout gave them. "Awesome, how much do I owe you?" Stevonnie asked looking back up at Lars.
Lars started stuttering even more before Sadie interrupted by slamming her hands on the counter. "Oh nothing! It's on the house," Sadie said as her blush deepened.
"Really? Stevonnie said making both Sadie and Lars nod their head in unison. "Okay," Stevonnie says shrugging and grabbing the bag of donuts from the counter heading toward the exit before pausing. "But just so you know that isn't a very sound business practice," Stevonnie said looking back at both Lars and Sadie before walking out of the Big Donut.
Stevonnie walked out of the Big Donut and saw where Fallout was sitting, she started to walk over there taking out two donuts and handing the rest to Fallout before sitting down. "Sweet, two doughnuts! One for me and one... for... me," Stevonnie looked down at the pair of donuts in their hands, holding them side by side.
Fallout eating one of his donut's looks over to see Stevonnie talking to themself. "You two ok? We can head back to the Beach House if you two aren't fe-" Fallout was quickly cut off by Stevonnie.
"NO! No, were- I'm fine Fallout, It's just that this stuff is new for both Steven and Connie and they don't really know how to fully feel about it," Stevonnie said as she started to eat one of her two donuts.
"So wait am I talking to Steven or Connie right now?" Fallout asked cocking his head to the side.
"Neither, just Stevonnie," she said looking back at a confused Fallout. "Look at it like this, when gems fuse they basically have a third person with them, that's the fusion. It's like driving a car for instance, Steven, Connie, or even I can be the driver." Stevonnie said trying to clear thing up for Fallout.
"Ok… I'm slowly starting to get it…Maybe?" Fallout said as he finished his last donut.
Both Fallout and Stevonnie looked up in the night sky in silence before Sour Cream interrupted the two stargazers.
"Oh hey, Sour- ...faced stranger, uhhh wow, cool pants!" Stevonnie said.
"Cool, uh there's a rave tonight," Sour Cream then handed Stevonnie a flyer.
"Like, a dance?" Stevonnie asked as she took the flyer.
Yeah, at the warehouse. I'm DJ-ing, and a bunch of my friends from the internet are gonna be there. There's gonna be free... glow sticks?
"Yes! we'll definitely be there! Thanks!" Stevonnie then gets up and walks off waving Fallout to follow her.
Both Stevonnie and Fallout walk up to the warehouse, Fallout stops to take a moment and scope the rave at the partially collapsed wall. Several people were dancing to the music that Sour Cream was playing up on a stage. Fallout looks over to see Ronaldo free-styling and sees another person he doesn't know leaning against a wall looking bored.
Stevonnie walks past Fallout and puts on a brave face stepping into the warehouse. Everyone quickly pauses and turns to look at Stevonnie as Stevonnie passes by. Stevonnie walks up next to Jenny and Buck and begins to dance. Jenny and Buck stop dancing too and back away, letting Stevonnie be as they do their dance solo.
Stevonnie does graceful dance solo by twirling, knee-sliding, and flipping their hair. They end their dance by launching themselves and twisting in the air, and land with a satisfied sigh. They then stand up and notice everybody in the room staring at them. "I thought this was a dance party," Stevonnie says looking around and laughing nervously. "Why isn't anyone else dancing?" She looks around again to find everyone still remaining speechless and staring at Stevonnie making her start to panic. "This is what being cool at a cool dance is, right? This is how it's supposed to be... Why isn't it like it's supposed to be?" Stevonnie starts to hyperventilate and closes their eyes.
Stevonnie starts to hallucinate, as the people around them transform into huge looming shadows, and tall shards of glass rise out of the floor. A disco ball then appears and encases Stevonnie inside like Steven's bubble shield. Stevonnie looks around in disorientation as light circles around them inside the disco ball. They then see Fallout phasing through the wall of the disco ball stepping inside.
"Hey are you ok?" Fallout said looking at Stevonnie with a concerned expression.
The hallucination ends, the crowd already returned to chatting among themselves in the background. "Y-yeah I'm fine let's, lets just go," Stevonnie said holding their left arm and lowering their head.
Fallout understanding, he helps Stevonnie out of the building. They both didn't notice the unknown guy that was leaning up against the wall before was now slowly walking toward where both Fallout and Stevonnie were heading to.
"I don't understand what's wrong. You have fun dancing but this dance isn't fun. You're supposed to like this. Why- don't we like this?" Stevonnie said to herself, Fallout could only guess it was Connie speaking. "I wish you were here," She then crosses her arms. "If we were together, it would be okay," Stevonnie responded back to themself, Fallout thought Steven was talking this time. "But we are together, and it's not." Stevonnie said to themselves once again, Fallout thought Connie this time… Maybe Steven? "I'm alone," Stevonnie said, breaking Fallout out of his confusing thoughts.
"Hey what am I chopped liver over here?" Fallout said giving Stevonnie a warming smile, making her return it back. "Hey if you too are this stressed we can head back to the Beach Hou-" Fallout was cut off by an unknown man approaching the two of them.
"Hey baby, why'd you leave me on the dance floor?" The man said smirking.
"I don't-" Stevonnie tried to talk but was cut off by Fallout.
"She doesn't want to dance anymore, now leave," Fallout said, giving the man an angry glare.
"What are you talking about? You the best thing that's ever happened to this place," The man then brushes his bangs. "Come back out with me."
"I know damn well you heard me, now leave," Fallout said now getting in between the unknown man and Stevonnie.
"I'm not here asking for your response, I'm here for her's," The man said giving Fallout an angry glare back.
"Oh I'll back hand the piss out of you in response boy," Fallout said as he started to reel his right hand behind his left shoulder, ready to stick the unknown man before Stevonnie stopped him.
"You wanna dance? Let's go then," Stevonnie said grabbing the man's arm and dragging him onto the dance floor, Fallout quickly following after them . Stevonnie starts dancing aggressively, kicking and punching the air while grunting forcefully, everyone then turns to look at Stevonnie again.
"Okay,okay, bring it back, girl," the man said as he started to back away from the aggressively dancing Stevonnie.
Stevonnie ignores the man and starts jumping up and down wildly. Their gem begins to glow and Stevonnie disappears, separating back into Steven and Connie lying on the ground. The whole crowd gasp at the sudden dissolution of Stevonnie.
"It's two kids! I'm out," the man said, taken back before he hastily left.
"We're back," Steven said, slowly sitting up.
Connie starts laughing nervously, and then hysterically. Steven stares for a moment, then starts laughing while his eyes start to well up with tears.
Steven and Connie, lost in their wild dancing, continue laughing and dance in the rain of glow sticks being thrown down by Sour Cream, ignoring the stunned crowd staring at them.
"That was fun," Steven said, carrying a hand full of glow sticks.
"Yeah, I liked that we put that random guy in his place," Connie said, also carrying a hand full of glow sticks as well.
"I still would have preferred smacking him," Fallout said, his hands in his pockets.
After Fallout had said that the air went silent before Steven broke it.
"Hey Fallout, why did you act like that? Getting hostile toward him so quickly?" Steven asked.
"That? Eh, I guess you can say my "fatherly instincts" kicked in," Fallout said looking at both Steven and Connie with a smile.
"Fatherly instincts?" Connie questioned.
"Yeah, I have a few kids that have gone through some… Messed up stuff. So when I see a kid in an uncomfortable situation, or worse, that instinct just kind of kicks in on its own," Fallout said, trying to give the best explanation he could.
"So you see us as your own kids?" Steven asked, cocking his head to the side in confusion.
"I guess you can say that, you two have sort of grown on me after all," Fallout said giving both Steven and Connie a warm smile, the two kids returning the smile back as they continued back to Stevens House. Before any of them could react the ground shook, making both Steven and Connie drop their glow sticks.
"Oh what's going on now?" Fallout said frustrated.
The 3 of them turn around the corner to find the Crystal Gems fighting off what looked like another corrupted gem.
"Oh how lovely another one, you too get into the house, I'll help the Gems," Fallout said, he was about to bolt off toward where the Gems were fighting before being stopped.
"No! I want to help," Steven said, summoning his shield.
"So do I… In some way," Connie said, as she stood right next to Steven.
"Okay I know you too want to act brave and all right now but that gem's a big one, and I don't want you to getting hurt-" Fallout was cut off by the gem monster swinging one of it's limbs, hitting Fallout and making him crash into the rocky mountain side.
"FALLOUT!" both Connie and Steven screamed as they rushed toward where Fallout had crashed.
"Fallout are you ok?" Connie asked.
"Yeah I'm fine," Fallout said trying to get up, he reached out with his left hand to grab something to pull himself up with before noticing his arm bent at a very strange angle. "Oh god," was all Fallout could say before the pain suddenly hit him.
"Oh my stars! Fallout hold still, let me heal you," Steven said, he licked his hand and quickly placed it on Fallout's broken arm.
Pain hit Fallout even worse with the added pressure from Steven before it started to fade. Fallout quickly picked himself up before a sharp pain still stung from his left arm. "Ach, what the? I thought?" Fallout quickly looked at the mechanical device that was on his right arm. "Huh, my arm still has a fracture, looks like I'm using my right arm," Fallout said, He quickly grabbed what looked like a sling from his bag and put it on, placing his still injured left arm in it.
"It didn't heal? I thought my healing powers…" Steven trailed off, looking toward Fallout.
"Look, Steven, obviously your healing powers are going to have limitations in some areas," Fallout said, he looked toward Steven as he started to pull what looked like a sword from his bag. "And you too need to get inside the house," Fallout then looked back at the gem monster that still had the three crystal gems attacking it, and ran towards it.
Connie looked down at Steven who was just staring into his hands, Connie was about to say something before Steven clenched his hands into fists and gave Connie a determined look. Connie, without Steven needing to utter a word, understood what he wanted to do, so they started to dance, and they fused once again.
"Garnet! Go for the eyes! Amethyst! Wrap your whip around it's mouth! I'll try to find it's gem!" Pearl screamed to her teammates. Before she could carry out her role in the plan she saw Fallout running toward them wearing what looked like a sling. "FALLOUT LOOK OUT!"
Fallout didn't have time to react, time slowed, he saw what looked like a tail slowly come down on him. All he could do was brace for the impact, but it never came. Fallout looked up to find not Connie nor Steven but. "Stevonnie?!"
Stevonnie looked back giving Fallout a quick smile before she went back to keeping the shield up. The monster had lifted its tail to take care of other matters that were going on, with that Stevonnie released the shield, she went over to help up Fallout who was on the ground. "Need a hand?"
"You know," Fallout takes Stevonnie's offered hand, getting up off the ground. "This determination that both of you have is going to get you killed," Fallout looked at Stevonnie. "Have this so we can hopefully prevent that situation," Fallout then takes the sword that was embedded into the ground after being dropped and handed it to Stevonnie.
"B-but we, I don't know how to use it," Stevonnie stammered cautiously grabbing the held out sword.
"Keep a good balance, keep your stance straight, stay alert, strike when it's the perfect time, and most importantly keep your eyes on the prize… Monster, thing," Fallout quickly said. He then pulled out another identical sword. "Just follow my lead ok?" Fallout said. Stevonnie nodded in response with a determined look, Stevonnie summoned Stevens shield in their left hand and held the sword in their right as they followed Fallout.
It felt like hours trying to take down the behemoth of the corrupted gem, but with a final strike from Stevonnie and the added help of Fallout, they were able to defeat the gem.
"Alright, now that over with-" Fallout was then cut off by Pearl.
"WHAT WERE YOU TWO THINKING!" Pearl screamed. "Both Steven and Connie could have gotten hurt!" Pearl said walking toward Fallout.
"What was I supposed to do, they kept on insisting helping out," Fallout said.
"You then drag them to the house and make sure they stay there," Pearl said crossing her arms at Fallout.
"Pearl, you all needed the help, and frankly if it wasn't for them… I don't think we would have won the battle," Fallout said gesturing toward his left arm that still hung in a cloth sling.
Pearl sighed, finally accepting the facts. "Your right, I'm sorry."
"It's alright pearl, I'm surprised myself that I was able to help out as much as I did," Stevonnie said. "But I couldn't have done it without the help from Fallout, He was able to quickly teach me some tricks," Stevonnie said. She then looks at Fallout giving him a warm smile, Fallout returning it back with a smile of his own.
Authors Notes:
Thanks for reading another chapter!
This story is based off the episode "Alone Together."
-As of typing this I still would like some suggestions for the Title of this story (Unless people actually like it then idk what to say then).