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We... are the Crystal Gems!
We'll always save the day!
And if you think we can't,
We'll always find a way!
That's why the people of this world believe in
Garnet, Amethyst, Rose, and Pearl.
"Hey! What about me?"
STEVEN GET DOWN FROM THERE! (Steven faceplants the ground. Cut to black.)
Episode 0: Space Hands are Weird.
Today was an odd day. I woke up. Got dressed. Talked to Pearl who definitely has the hots for my mom.
Things happened.
And now I'm currently on a ship that's crashing down onto my town from space, trying my best to not lose control of my emotions while also trying to get everyone to calm down so we don't all die. Now I just need to convince the pilot to slow the ship and steer it so it doesn't crash into my hometown...
Better start talking Steven.
"My new friend is cowering in a cell with some type of energy forcefield. I had a mini panic attack because I just saw my mom's maid vaporize her. She is now on a murderous rampage against your boss. My moms… Daughter, so I guess adopted sister? Aunt? Whatever Purple is holding back the maid from trying to destroy Rose and I have you tied up like a stuffed pig because I want OFF this falling death trap in the sky. Any questions?"
She just kept struggling against the rope I had tied around her small body. She didn't hear a word I just said.
"You Clod! Release me! Nyaaahhh"
Is she biting the rope? Wow, she is.
Okay, new plan intimidation.
"Yes, you have mentioned that term before. Clod. This means a lump of clay, dirt or an idiot. Seeing as I am neither a piece of dirt, clay, or an idiot you are wrong in all regards." I held up my pink fist to her forehead where her gem rested. "Now you are either going to help me or we all die." I raised the quivering short alien rock female thing up to my face and glared down at her.
She seemed to have a sort of second wind and even with her obvious nervousness, her voice betrayed none of her fear.
"You underestimate gem-kind you dumb clod we don't 'Die' we simply retreat to our gems!"
"Gems may not die but you're... what was it… a peridot? I'm sure with enough force right… here. You shatter like glass." I taped her forehead with my finger and resisted the urge to actually put enough force to crack it.
The green female gasped with wide eyes. "You wouldn't dare!"
"I'm the son of that Barbaric Rose Quartz you were trying to bring in for the death of a Diamond… I've done worse before." I grinned a little in remembrance of all the crystal shrimp I crushed beneath my ball. "Who's to say I won't shatter your useless... Defenseless... little… gem right here and now for irritating me." Turning my attention back to the bound Gem. I narrowed my Fuchsia(not pink) eyes at her.
She started shaking before her high pitch voice shouted out, "Fine I'll help you! I'll help you! Please, don't hurt me!"
And now time to drive the point home. I chuckled and dropped the quivering form of Peridot to the ground.
"You better. One dumb move and I'll crush you to dust even Yellow-face couldn't piece you back together into a cluster."
The poor girl gasped as she nodded her small green head. I grabbed her neck as I loosened her restraints, sparing a quick glance through the held open doors to see the lithe form of Pearl pole vaulting over the much shorter purple-skinned girl only to be thrown back over her when a whip wrapped around her waist.
Yeah, if I wasn't trying to intimidate this green bean I would have sighed.
Once I finished loosening the restraints I felt a quick kick to my side.
The nerve of- I tightened my hand and the short girl stopped struggling long enough for me to drag her over to the counsel of this flying space hand.
Seriously though a flying space hand. What is with these Aliens.
I threw the girl into the hard pilot's seat with enough force to force a squeak from her and stop her struggling for a moment. I got in her face and yelled, "The ship is going down too fast! So fix it or ready an escape pod for us all!"
She groaned and rubbed the back of her head, "You clo…" her voice hitched in her throat when she looked me in the face. She averted her eyes
Yeah, that's right, apologize.
"I'm sorry." With the tone that I kicked her puppy, I nodded and backed off, letting her open various screens on the console in front of her.
I kept my gaze on her while she worked, daring her to attempt an escape. I noticed her eyes shift to me a few times before she gulped and continued working.
I don't like to be the bad guy, but my life is at stake here… And so is my entire city if this thing keeps dropping to them.
A few moments passed by as the lime girl flipped through menus and warnings popped up which she closed at lightning-fast speeds, then… she froze and slowly looked to me then snapped her face forward and waited.
I'm not going to like this, but... "... Why isn't the ship slowing down?"
She took a moment to breathe, probably thinking I was going to shatter her the second she said any bad news.
Seriously just out with it.
"There are anomalies detected in the multi adaptive transmitter so it is failing. I would need to readjust the mnemonic subspace amplifiers. The Directional memory log is destroyed so I would need to reroute the MK-33 collar with the interphasic subspace matrix. The MK-12 structure is failing so-"
Blaaaah~ Yeah no. I'm lost. You know with all the whining she has been giving me the past few hours I almost forgot she was part of some hyper-advanced alien force. Rose and all her friends are part of this race as well aren't they.
Whatever, with all their homeworld gems vs earth gems talk. I haven't noticed a difference between them.
Both groups are bitter and angry at the other and they put me and my city at risk.
She was still chattering along about things that I had no knowledge of while waving her hand across screens.
I can't even understand the writing you Dorito!
"-Trim the plasma battle section. So… uh…" She quickly flipped through some menus and closed down alerts. I can tell she was getting more and more distressed as she kept delivering bad news. I kept my face blank as she continued her meltdown. "If they would STOP destroying the ship I could MAYBE slow us down."
Oh wow, good news.
I motioned for her to continue and she clicked a button. Suddenly all around the cockpit on all the screens, a closeup of her face flashed everywhere, "STOP FIGHTING YOU CLO-" The screens all shattered and the ship shook as I all heard the echo of some loud explosion.
The lime girl closed all the menus and dropped her head in her hands.
I'll give her a moment… okay moment over.
"How about an escape pod?" I was hopeful, cause if we can't save the city from here if we drop faster then- "The last one just got crushed by that disgusting two-faced giant you call a Garnet."
She didn't bother removing her head from her hands and just sat there, waiting for her death I assume.
Damn. Moving on, "Can you release Lapis from here? She has her water wings; she might be able to glide us down."
"That would... maybe work, but… No, the release is over by the cell bay..."
"Then we send the others. That saves us. Now can you make this crash into the water? Away from the city." Without waiting for a reply I turned to the wrestling duet, "Purple get Lapis out!" Purple slams Pearl onto her back and kicks the spear away. "Nah Dude I'm a bit busy!"
I am so not in the mood for this.
"Purple do as I say and get Lapis out!" I am totally not banking on the fact that my mom is the leader of her group to order her around, not at all.
"Can't you see I'm preoccupied with keeping Pearl from shattering your mom!" Pearl took her momentary distraction to kick out her legs onto Purple and roll to her discarded spear.
Here they are fighting each other for no reason while we are all going to die...
That does it, "S̴͙̽̆̿t̷͔͂o̷̠̅̕͝p̶̩̙͇͂̑̕ ̸̢͌͛̉f̸̡͔̈́̑í̷̺g̵̡̻͎͌ĥ̵̘͘ť̵̪͆́i̴̢͔̎̀n̷̛̙̤̓g̷͙͎̮͛̊̒!̸͍͚̂ I don't give a shit if Pearl dusts mom and throws her to the damn wind! Get Lapis out of her cell or we all will be shattered by this ship crashing! The two Giant bozos are destroying the only thing keeping us alive right now!" As soon as I started shouting Pearl collapsed to the ground rubbing her head. Purple or Amethyst as everyone else called her eyed Pearl warily before scanning the room.
While Pearl was reeling, she quickly scooped up Rose's gem off the floor and threw it to me before bolting away.
Hopefully to release Lapis and maybe prevent the two giant morons from destroying the ship.
I debated letting the cold dead heart of my mom hit the floor for a moment before reaching out and bubbling the damn thing.
I stared at the infuriating thing for a few moments.
I debated passing it to Pearl for its fate...
"You earthlings are strange to have no loyalty to your leader." Lime girl interjected.
I give a glare to her and she shuts right up again.
A loud war cry interrupted me and I snapped my head to see Pearl charging at me with her spear raised, the amount of pure rage in her eyes made me flinch. A hastily made wall of pink formed in front of her and the door. Her spear flew through the opening just before it finished forming.
Huh. So this is what it felt like to have a spear in your arm.
Breathe. Breathe. You'll be fine.
I shifted my arm and with a clang ignored the spear on the ground and focused on the Pearl who threw the spear.
I noticed instantly she was unmoving head bowed lightly with her hands shaking in some form of salute. No Idea what she was doing but, I remember Peridot doing that to her boss.
I'll deal with that spear throw later.
Maybe.
Least she calmed down.
I turn back to the Dorrito head.
"Loyalty is earned. You best remember that." She just kept working, if she heard me she didn't show it.
After a few moments of work I spared a glance at Pearl who seemed to have started muttering, rubbing her hands on the wall. I can swear her eyes are twitching…
I focused on the wall making it thicker. Deal with that much later.
Earth was growing larger in the windows. The trajectory window was still showing us land right on Beach City Hall though…
"You call her Mom. What is a Mom?"
Oh Limey wants to learn.
"You gems spring up from the dirt fully formed."
It wasn't a question, but she seemed to take that as a sign to explain to me that, "Gems are preprogrammed non-organic lifeforms. While organics are birthed from another organic. Gems are formed in Kindergartens from a precise Diamond Serum formulated to bring new life from the earth when it combines with the precious minerals of an area."
How very clinical of her.
"Right and I'm what happens when an Organic lifeform injects his precious organic material into the 'Body' of a gem which mixes together to create the non-programmed lifeform you see before you. We called it 'fluid bonding' there is also a nine-month gestation period and babies either come out of the body or are cut out like a tumor." I was being half sarcastic, I have no idea how any of this works, by all logic I shouldn't have been born unless Rose died… Which she didn't.
The green female didn't pick up on that though and pulled on her face in horror, "You willingly cut open your bodies!?"
"Yea never did find out if I was a tumor baby or not. Dad always did say one-minute mom was pregnant and then poof I was here…. At this point, I'm thinking maybe he meant that literally."
That's some food for thought.
"You know seeing as I have you as a captive audience. This ship is going to crash despite your best efforts, and we will all be shattered on impact if you can't slow us dow-"
There was an explosion in the distance.
Yeah... we are doomed if Purple doesn't get to Lapis in time.
"Why don't I tell you how I found out my mom was an alien rebel leader and I never knew… You see it all started a few months back..."
New AN: Mark the Mark: What? Only at chapter three and you're re-posting everything already? Yeah. With some of the notes we have, some of the writing in this chapter and the next chapter doesn't make sense with the direction of the story. I also changed most of Steven's internal dialogue to better use of the first-person perspective… Hopefully, the overall quality is better now and people will enjoy the story better :)
New AN: Artemis_HNR: What he said.
Old ANs:
AN: Mark the Mark:
Why are you starting a new story when you haven't updated your other one? I hear you ask.
Well Plot bunnies and I just felt like it. I should have more time to write with all this lockdown crap we are in currently.
Stay safe and happy reading folks.
AN: Artemis_HNR : Yes I know as my brother has stated we are starting something without finishing our previous stuff but Plot bunnies were abound with the ending of SU and we just couldn't help ourselves. As with our previous works we are going for a more serious Universe. Hope you like it ^_^