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Warning: Language, Explicit Sexual Themes

Ch.31: We are in the future

Two days has passed since the Broadway musical was a smashing success. At the beach house Steven took a well deserved nap that wasn't cause by overexhaustion this time. That was until a loud gong instantly got him up.

"WHA SHIT! Haah haah okay that's definetely not my alarm. Huh, where's my bed?...And where's the beach house?"

Steven was sitting on top of pink clouds, everything else around him was pink as well. Why was he back in his soul? Hold up, he lifted up his shirt to see his gem still there yet no mom. If he was in his own soul he would've noticed. So that means he must be dreaming pretty vividly since this felt real for some reason?

"Hello?"

The echoes that vibrated from Steven's voice gave him the indication that he was the only one here...that and no response.

"(Ah!)"

Though Steven may not be able to see anyone he sensed someone here with him. He couldn't pinpoint the location, giving him little choice but to look around him blindly.

"Who's there? No use hiding since I can sense your energy."

With a little more concentration Steven was able to feel that this presence was literally all around him as if it was a dome of some sort. That began to change when this invisible presence shifted Steven's senses to feel something a few steps in front of him. Whatever it was became visible.

"Connie?...No, not Connie."

Steven kept his guard up, he instantly recognised the mural colors in her eyes from his dream before. This was not his dream but a whole different person. The fact that he can sense their power within his dream was evident of that...and they were just as strong, maybe even stronger than Chaos Emerald.

"Observant, just how I expect the Diamond of your stature to be."

"What do you want? Doesn't seem like you came here for idle chatter. Actually before you even answer that what are you anyway and why do you look like Connie?"

"It's your dream and this is the form you manifest the most. As for why I'm here? I'm here to give you a message."

"A message?"

The fake dream Connie smirked as she stuck out her index and middle fingers and then touched the tips with one another, forming a vertical rhombus.

"The Nexus are coming for you, just you wait...my Diamond."

"The Nexus? Who are Nex- woahoahh shit my head."

Suddenly Steven felt very dizzy, quickly losing his balance. The last thing he saw before he blacked out (which is weird since he is in a dream) was a blurry mixed colored rhombus...it had 4 colors.


"Gasp haah haah wow haah what a dream that was?"

He made no mistake this time, someone was invading his dreams. Just what did that fake Connie mean by The Nexus? He's never heard that in his life...Hmmm maybe the gems would know something about this Nexus business or whatever. Afterall, they have been around for a couple thousand decades or so.

There were more important matters to attend to. Steven made sure to keep a note of it on his phone so he wouldn't forget.

"(That's right, I need to know what Spinel wanted from me? Good thing she got a phone custom made thanks to Peridot as a gift a few months ago.)"

Swiping through his contacts Steven found Spinel and tapped on the green phone icon. A couple seconds of ringing later it stopped.

"...Hey, Spinel...Doing good you?...Heheheh can't complain myself...Did you forget? You wanted my help remember?"

While the conversation was still going on Steven put on his clothes one by one and took a trip to the bathroom. He came out immediately showing off his multitasking skills by brushing his teeth with the phone still in his hand.

"Uhmh huum...hoph on *gargle gargle* *spit* ahh, sorry about that, you were saying?"

"Damnit Steven! What did I say about using the kitchen sink?!"

Pearl rushed into the kitchen and in a overlydramatic fashion turned on the faucet and scrubbed the entirety of the sink like a mad OCD person.

"Sorry Spinel, Pearl is chewing me out again hold on a moment?...Thanks. Sorry Pearl I was talking to Spinel, meeting her later at Fish Stew's."

"For what occasion?"

Steven made sure to put his tooth brush back before he put on his sandals.

"After the battle with Green, Spinel told me that she needed my help. So I'm going to hear her out."

Breathing a huge sigh of relief Pearl left the kitchen sink sparkling. Goes to show the dedication she has to being the overlyprotective mother of the group.

"Well whatever it is, be careful got it? We got our training regiment later at 2 in the afternoon."

"(Whoopee) It's a date. Seeya."

And like that Steven closed the front door behind him. Pearl couldn't help but smile that everything was back to normal...at least until something else happens.

"Oh gosh, I almost forgot the Q-tips. Garnet! Can you handle the vacuuming?"

Right on cue Garnet came out of the bathroom in a bath robe.

"Wha...Wasn't Steven just in there a couple of seconds ago?"

"Trust me, I was a little surprised he didn't notice me in the tub. And yes I can handle it."

"Thanks Garnet."

Pearl neatly put down the sponge and her gloves as she ran out the front door, leaving Garnet to do her thing. In no time flat she found the vacuum cleaner in the closet. But when she was about to touch it a vision appeared before her. That vision was the same exact one that appeared from the beginning of the Floral Miasma appearance. The same one with Steven at the center of Town Square, crying while being devoured by the darkness.

"No...That's impossible. I thought we stopped Green Pearl in which shatters that fate to pieces...Was..was Green Pearl not the reason that the vision was happening? If that's the case then what?"


Meanwhile at Fish Stew's Pizzeria.

"And here's your large pie with pepperoni and sardines."

Sitting across from eachother Steven and Spinel scooted their chairs back a bit so there would be room for their order to settle on top of the table. Spinel was pretty gitty since she never had real food that's not cotton candy or a vast list of all the different kinds of chocolate she has tried before.

"Appreciate it Kiki."

"No problem Steven and if there's anything else, just holler."

"You guys are the best."

"C'mon Universe, we both know that flattery will get you everywhere."

"Even the discou-"

"Eh no."

"(Damn.)"

As Kiki walked away both Steven and Spinel scooted back in. Spinel looked a whole lot more excited for just a slice of pizza than Steven. Although he did notice that the Pizzas have been using more higher quality ingredients lately. Business has obviously been booming lately despite the whole Emerald situation.

Spinel could barely contain herself as she tried to reach over but Steven stopped her advance. Now being the little gentleman he is he glided his knife through each of the slices so the sticky residue wouldn't just stay stuck together. He then passed a slice to her empty plate in front of her and finally one to himself.

"Holy crap, there's no cheese on the knife at all."

"Yeah well heheheh I've made improvements to myself."

"That's true...though you don't seem to have your rhombus pupils anymore."

"No kidding?"

Steven picked up the spoon to use its metallic reflection to see his tiny face. She was right, his pupils were back to their original color.

"Huh, must've been a temporary thing or something."

"Yeah...Let's eat!"

"Pfft what was I doing making us wait like this? Let's do that."

Steven and Spinel picked up their slices and touched tips with them (Heheheh gay jokes).

"To Earth!"

"To Earth."

After taking a bite from the two knuckleheads in unison they moaned out their satisfaction. It was until Steven remembered why they were here in the first place?

"Oh Spinel, I almost forgot. What did you want to talk about?"

"Mmmmm~ what?

Spinel was too indulged in the overwhelming stimuli from the packed flavors exploding in her mouth *wink wink*.

"You said you needed my help with something?"

"Shit that's right, I did say that! Give me a sec."

Spinel pinched the front of her pants and without any warning stretched them out while with her other hand stuck it down inside. Upon seeing this Steven turned beet red.

"Spinel?! What are you doing?! There are people around."

"Oh relax would you, the only people here are us and the Pizza family."

Speaking of, the Pizza family were all behind the counter with all their jaws dropped, standing there like statues with a shocked expression on their faces.

"Spinel!"

"Oh relax Steve, I'll get it in a jiffy. *poot* Whoops heehee forgot that the toot whistle was in their. Hmmm where is it?"

"Don't you have any pockets?!"

"Wait, I got it."

Spinel took out the object that was literally inside her pants and not the pocket kind. It was a glassy spherical object with a dark ominuous presence coming from within.

"Here, take a hold of th- Hey! Why did you let it hit the table like that?"

"...I want to be clear that I'm not touching anything that you grabbed from out of your pants. Haah anyway what is it?"

A moment ago Spinel was her usual happy self. But now for some reason she looked kind of scared and worried at the same time. She looked to her left and to her right as if she didn't want anyone to hear a possible secret she was going to tell him.

"I...I-I think I saw something I wasn't suppossed to."

Steven raised a brow.

"What do you mean? Does it have to do with this...whatever it is?"

"2 months before coming here the Diamonds showed me a room underneath the citadel where they collected a whole bunch of ancient items that don't work anymore. One in particular was this that I'm showing you right, they called it the Eye of the Beyonder."

"Interesting name. So what did it do?"

"They said that this was an extremely old map made by beings called the Celestials."

"A map to what?"

"The entire universe."

Steven was surprised by this, a spherical map of the universe. But something was off.

"Wait, didn't you just say that these ancient artifacts didn't work anymore?"

"That's what I said to myself when they left me to look around til I was bored. After spending a couple of minutes trying to see if any of the artifacts still had any juice in them I finally touched the sphere...and it worked. It reminded me of one of those uhh *snap snap* that map thing on your phone."

"Google maps?"

"That one!"

"...What a weird coincidence that this one worked while the others didn't."

"Right?"

"But the problem is how is this working if it's completely black?"

"..."

Why did Spinel got silent? From the looks of her squirming body language she was kind of uncomfortable with speaking about this.

"When it worked I played around with it too much and...well that's the result."

"I don't follow."

"Umm let's see uh how should I explain this?...When you use your fingers to expand outward and junk I went too far out..."

"Spinel? Spinel talk to me, what did you see?"

Out of fear Spinel pointed directly at the sphere that was still dark. Steven took that as a sign to look a little more closely at the orb. However, nothing changed. It was still showing nothing but darkness.

"...I don't see anything."

"What?"

Spinel snatched the orb from the table and rotated it.

"It's not there!"

"Huh?"

"The smile, th-th-there was this big creepy smile along with two red eyes staring back at me in the darkness. It was like somehow it knew I was there, it was so creepy."

"Uhhh are you sure you didn't just imagine it happening?"

"NO STEVEN!"

Spinel slammed her hand against the table. Clearly she was mad at Steven's statement just now? It basically insinuated that she was hallucinating from what she thought was in the darkness by imagining what creepy creep was in it.

"Do you know how much I was risking, lying to the Diamonds? It wrecked me with guilt man!"

"Okay okay just calm down Spinel, I didn't mean that."

"Damn right you didn't...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lose my temper. It's just...ever since I saw that thing I was being filled with anxiety and paranoia that I didn't know what to do about it. I was so afraid to tell the Diamonds about what happened cause I thought they might yell at me. The only other person I can turn to to help me was you."

"Alright, I understand. Let me take a look at it again."

Spinel handed the sphere back to Steven so he could try again to at least see something that could put her mind at ease. There must be something in this darkness that he missed, something. As he squinted he started to make out a shadowy object within, it looked rectangular.

"Hey...Hey I think I see something?"

"Really?"

"Yeah if only I could just make it-"

Suddenly a light that seemed to have came from a spotlight appeared out of nowhere and illuminated the object, startling Steven in the process.

"Woah shit! Oof!"

Steven fell out of his chair, causing him to throw the sphere into the air. Luckily Spinel had stretchy arms so she could catch it with ease. A sigh of relief washed over her.

"You okay Steven?"

"Oww ssss just a bump. Alright let me see that orb once more."

"Sure will."

Stretching even more the orb went right back onto the table. Now that Steven can see the object somehow with no explanation he made out what it was and that is-

"A wooden sign?"

"Run that by me again, a wooden sign?"

"Yeah take a look."

Spinel got behind Steven in case something scary was about to happen but nothing like that happened. Instead what they are seeing was a circular light illuminating a pretty old looking wooden sign that was hanging on the wall (?) by four nails, painted white all over, and there were words scribbled nearly on the front by what looks like magic marker.

"'Temporarily unvailable.' it says."

Both Steven and Spinel had looks of disappointment.

"Wow...I got freaked out over that? Pfft hahahahahaha whoooo what was I thinking? Hahaaaaa wasting your time like that?"

Spinel got up from the table and tucked away the sphere. The smile she was displaying was unnatural and Steven noticed how her eyes were completely black. Something was very very wrong here.

"Spinel hold o-"

"Say you know what? Since I'm going back to Homeworld with the Diamonds, I think I'll chill and watch the sunset later at the lighthouse. It reminds me of the fiiiiirst time we met, when I tried to kill you, whoopsee. Anyway I'm just going to leave, thanks for hearing me out Steven. Ahah, aahahah, ahahahahahahahaha!"

"SPINEL!"

Too late to stop her since she already left before Steven could even reach out to her. Odd, the moment Spinel looked at the sign along with him her personality made a complete flip flop. What the hell did that weird dark do to her?...Something in Steven's gut told him to immediately go to the lighthouse. But first he had to pay for the unfinished pizza which he will take with him in a box.

Meanwhile after going a couple of miles away from Steven, Spinel suddenly stopped her walking. She looked around her in a confused manner.

"...What just happened? Wasn't I at the pizza joint?"


At the Lighthouse Steven's gut seems to have led him to the right direction as he approached it. Someome was already there, staring up at the sky.

"Sheena?"

Sheena didnt seem to have heard Steven since she didn't respond to his call and just continued looking up at the sky. Out of curiousity Steven stood next to her and looked up at the sky as well.

"So umm...what are you looking at?"

"...Don't you think it's unique that humans can see the moon though there the morning light shines above?"

"Huh?"

That was a random, strange question to ask. Of course that happens on a clear day like this that there are times when the moon is still visible mamy miles away from the sun, depending on where you are. But the way Sheena said "humans" was a suspicious red flag to something being off.

"Like how there are those that see objects from the realm of darkness though the light overwhelms? Just like how Spinel looked into the darkness?"

(!) Wait, how did Sheena know about that? It's not like she was there. In fact during the whole ordeal with Emerald (later turned Chaos Emerald) after rescuing Connie he never saw her again until now.

"Wait, when did yo-"

"She was so scared when she witnessed it, the being in the dark. Just when I was singing a lullaby to myself."

"Ah Sheena what are you saying? I can't hear you."

Steven could see Sheena's lips flap yet no sound came out from them. Understandable since he isn't aware of me yet.

"You're not strong enough...not even close. Not by someone who still has fog over their eyes to the truth."

"No seriously, I can't hear you."

"I was just saying how you won't see me again."

Odd, Steven was able to hear that but not the others. What the hell was going on? Huh? Where did Sheena go, she was right next to him!...Oh that's right Sheena's not here, she's at California on vacation. Wonder why Steven thought she was with them in the first place? Pearl told him this like a week ago, so silly of him.

"Hmmm I should go visit Connie to see if she needs help with anything. A true first step to stepping up my game in responsibili-"


"Haah mmmm Steven. Please don't stop, more."

A few minutes after Steven arrived at the hospital Connie was finished helping her mom with some of her duties. After that she wanted his "help" with "cleaning" the nearest bathroom. The next thing he knew he was teasing Connie's pussy through her panties with his finger while they were both sitting on the toilet seat.

"(What's with my luck today? I found a twenty dollar bill on the ground and now this? Awesome!) Turn around, I want to see your face."

Shifting her body around Connie faced Steven. He then stuck one of his hand down her shirt and under her bra, gently caressing her breast. Meanwhile Connie hastily untied the string to her purple laced panties, leaving them hanging around the base of her foot and then unzipped Steven's jeans whilst biting her bottom lip.

"We better hurry Steven or my mom will us. Doesn't that turn you on?...Steven, what's up?"

Steven's gace just now had a look of terror that was recognisable to Connie. He wasnt even looking at her, but the doorway of the bathroom. At that moment she knew what was happening.

"(Ah shit.) Mom?"

Connie's worst fear was realised when she turned her head to see her mom standing by the door, her face was neutral yet her eyes couldn't be seen. That is mostly a deadly sign to Connie that her mom was pissed.

"Mrs.Maheswaren? Mrs.Maheswaren calm down. If we talk about this like reasonable adults, then maybe we can reach a place where violence won't be needed at this po-"

"Steven it's no use, she has the paddle, run."

"Waaayyyyy ahead of you. AHHHHHH!!"

A manhunt was initiated by the demon doctor. Her target to disembowel, Steven.


Steven was able to outrun the mad woman and hid at New Homeworld. Maybe he'll stay for a couple of weeks until the target on his back died down. At least she was a good mother...hopefully she isn't chewing Connie out too bad.

In all seriousness, after all the chaos and Green Pearl being accepted and adopted into the acting troupe Steven felt like he has accomplished a whole lot more than saving the world...again. This time from the entire day Steven has learned something greater about himself and his mom...


Meanwhile at the belt of the Milky Way a black, crystallized space ship materialized from crossing the hyperspeed grid. A being was looking through a telescope that could see far away planets despite its small size.

"Oooooo yeah I can see our destination from here!"

"Thank fuck. I thought we were going to have a little trouble thanks to that meteor shower we were in the middle of."

"Hmmmm I wanted to destroy the rockies."

"Hey dumbass you want us to get shattered?!"

"Vessle?"

The second voice Vessle cleared their throat after hearing the third voice.

"...Sorry."

"No thou is correct. But as you witnessed, we have survived without any hindrance. No need to yell at Ego."

Ego snickered while speaking in a childish sing song tone.

"Heeheeheehee you got in trouble again."

"WANNA EAT THIS KNUCKLE SANDWICH?!!"

"How could you? You won't be able touch me anyway."

"Enough!"

Ego and Vessel went silent. The third voice cleared their voice this time.

"Earth...Thy place where the "Pacifist of the Universe" resides in. How long will it take to reach it Ego?"

"At this speed...ehhhhhhhhhh a week of so."

"Heh, that's plenty of time for us to loosen up."

"For once we agree on something my muscly friend."

"For once."

"Indeed...Steven Universe. I want to see if thou really is Pink Diamond and not an imposter."

Two purple eyes stared out towards the planet of their destination.

"Glory to the Nexus."

To be continued...


Again, to whoever has taken the time to read part 1 of the Steven Universe series I thank you and remember, don't forget to tell your friends.