Hello reader! How's it goin'? I'm so glad that not only do y'all like the story so far, but I'm not getting a million toxic comments about my feelings on Connie...Pink on the other hand, well only someone who is basically on the same moral level of Pink Diamond would say she did nothing wrong, in fact I have a list of things that I hate about her on my Wattpad, made it there a while ago, but I'll put it here with some updates so you peolle that still support her can think on her actions.
Anyway, do you know what sucks about writing a story about your favorite ship or character? Well you can't read any other stories about said ship or character, because then, you'd end up subconsciously taking "inspiration" from said story and it'll just look like you're copying said story. So you know... PRAISE ME FOR MY SACRIFICE!
Only joking, I enjoy making this, and it gives those stories time to get more chapters in for when I do read them.
Anyway, get comfortable, grab some snacks, and let's read.
-=The garden=-
-=Right where we left off=-
-=Steven and his attacker=-
"Who are you?" The Gem that had jumped on him asked.. The hybrid began to squirm and try to escape, leading to his attacker wrap...rubbery pink rope around him?...
Steven knew that he could probably break out with his strength alone, he had been doing much training for the past year after all, but he also knew that would just escalate the situation, and that's the last thing that he needed.
"M-my name is Steven- Steven Universe!" He quickly spat out as he stopped struggling.
"...what are you?" She asked, this sounding a lot more curious than anything.
"I-it's a long story..." He chuckled, trying to get a glimpse of what this Gem looked like, but to no avail.
"I've been sitting in one spot for six thousand years...I have time." She said, her voice dull and annoyed at the thought of him calling anything long. (Time wise you pervs)
"Um-if you say so... well I guess we start off with the most important thing: I'm half human and half Gem." He began.
"Human?...what is that?" She asked, his bonds loosening up and letting him breath properly.
"I think I've just been called "organic creature" quite a few times, but I don't know if that explains what a human is to you." He explained, not sure how to describe what a human was to someone who doesn't even know what a human is in the first place.
"Oh...you're organic...and you have a gem? That's pretty neat." She said, he could feel her hand rub against his gem, as if to inspect it.
"Yeah...anyways, that wasn't really too hard to explain if I didn't really get into who my mom is, I guess." He chuckled slightly.
"Your...'mom', what's that?" She asked, completely letting him go. Steven stretched his arms, but didn't turn over, as she was still sitting on his back.
"It's someone who brings you into the universe, she creates you I guess. My mom gave up her physical form so I could exist...not to say she didn't leave me with a handful of problems, and hurt many people, but I'm working on fixing her mistakes, which is actually why I came here in the first place." He told her.
"Her mistakes? Wait, what does your creator have to do with Pink's garden?" She asked, not exactly finding his story plausible. "...and...speaking of Pink...have you seen her?...Is she...happy?... Does she look like she would have time to...come back?" She asked, now sounding like she was in the verge of tears.
Steven felt his heart sink, he could already tell this Gem really cared about his mother, and even if she abandoned her here for six thousand uninterrupted years, she was still trying to see if she was okay.
"I-..." Steven thought of lying and saying anything to comfort her, but he knew that would only lead to more issues. "Well, I sort of... am Pink Diamond now. She was my mother...you know, the one who gave up her physical form to make me?"
He felt drops of water hit his back and soak through his cloths. He tried to turn around, but he was yanked by his hair as she started to shout. "No, you're lying! She-she can't be gone, she still hasn't even finished our game yet!" She cried.
"Ah-What game?!" Steven asked, trying his best to keep his hair from being ripped out.
"She told me- she told me to stand right here, she told me we were playing a new game- what was I doing wrong, why isn't she here?!" The Gem shouted, Steven could feel that the back of his shirt was now soaked with what he assumed were her tears. (They are tears, stop encouraging R34.)
"I-I'm sure she didn't mean it, she was fighting a war against Homeworld for the planet earth, she faked her shattering and lived with her friends on earth for the past few thousand years!" He tried to explain.
"She...so she really did abandon me?..." she let him fall face first to the ground. "But...why? What did I do wrong?" She sobbed.
"...mom was a bad person...she hurt many people, that's why I came here, so I could help one of the people she hurt." Steven said while rubbing his hurt nose.
He felt the weight leave his back and could hear the soft footsteps backing away slowly. "No...you liar...no, I won't believe it, she wouldn't leave me here. She's going to come back...she's not gone!"
Steven jumped up quickly and turned around. The Gem he had been talking to was in a horrible state. She had plants growing on her, dirt marks on her, and her eyes...they showed pain...betrayal. Her pink and white clothing was tattered as well. "What? No, she's gone, but I'm here to help fix what she did."
He was sticking to the plan, if he was going to help her, he would have to be honest, even if it hurt her emotionally for some time, he would be there for her.
"...no..." her form began to glow, her heart-shaped gem flipped upside down slowly as her for began to change. Once the light was gone, he could see her new look.
The torso of her last form was white, but now it was replaced by a darker, almost black shade of pink, her shoulders now sporting should pads, her shorts now longer, and her shoes now sharper and going higher up her legs.
Her face had changed as well. The tears from before had turn into running mascara streaks, three on each side. Her hair had also changed, now her pigtails were more loose and looked like actual hair, unlike her heart-shaped ones from before.
"It's not your fault! She left everything to go fight her war, I'm sure she didn't specifically mean to leave you behind." He tried to comfort her, but she wasn't having it. Her limbs stretched in a rubber hose animation like way before she sent a fist flying right into his face.
Steven was pushed back pretty far and now had a bloody nose from this attack. "No-stop lying! I was Pink's best friend! She wouldn't just leave me like that! Not for some stupid planet!"
Steven was honestly surprised that she was catching on to the whole 'I'm a Gem that was related to your mother, so now you have to die' role so fast, but what else should he have expected...
He pulled out two shields and waited for another attack. "No, she...she wasn't coming back from earth. I don't know why she couldn't swallow her pride and have the Diamonds help fix stuff, but she wasn't going to do that, she had thousands of years to do it."
"No! She was coming back, I refuse to believe anything you're saying!" She shouted, sending another fist his way, only for him to block the attack with his shield.
Steven could hardly rationalize what she was saying. His mother left her here, abandoned in this run down garden for so long, how could she still want her back...that's when Steven got an idea. He needed her to realize that what his mother did was wrong, he couldn't let her turn out like Pearl was: following a dead master that hurt her.
He didn't want to make the poor Gem feel like she was abandoned, but that was the only way he could think of to help her, the only way that the healing process could begin, he had to tell her of all his mother's misdeeds so she wouldn't put it above her to abandon her.
"Why do you think so highly of her? She was far from perfect, she ruined so many lives!" Steven argued as he blocked another attack.
"NO! Pink was the nicest, most perfect Gem in all of the universe!" She shouted as she began to barrage him with attacks, none quite hitting their target.
"She started a war for a planet and lied to her followers about who she was! She disguised herself as a Rose Quartz, and used the Gems who followed her as steppingstones to get what she wanted, using lies and fake promises of freedom, only for them to be corrupted! She could have gone to the Diamonds to save what is probably hundreds if not thousands of Gems, stuck in their own metal HELL!" Steven informed her, his own feeling on his mother stirring up.
"So what?! That's what Gems are for! They do EVERYTHING in the name of their Diamond, if they end up getting hurt because of it, that's ok too, because it was all for their Diamond!" The pink Gem shouted, not taking a moment to breath as she kept attacking.
"That's not how Homeworld works! The Diamonds are supposed to look out for their Gems, I should know, I've lived there for the past year, I know how Gems are really treated! They aren't manipulated, they aren't just getting shattered left and right, and they don't suffer for the sake of their Diamond! But you know who had to go through all that?! The Gems That PINK manipulated into fighting for her!" Steven ranted.
"You know who else suffered for her actions?! ALL THE ROSE QUARTZ SOLDIERS!! All of them! They're all bubbled in the human zoo that SHE owned! And do you know why she never thought to tell anybody about them?! Because she expected them to be shattered when the zoo closed down, she expected them to DIE for something they had nothing to do with!" He shouted, walking towards her.
Spinel was backing away, still throwing attacks every chance she got. "W-well...that's not her fault! Why are you even berating your creator, that treason at the highest degree!"
"Why am I berating her?! Because all of this is true, because she is BAD! She started a war and got everyone hurt in a way that would make her have to go to HER OWN SISTERS for it to be fixed, but she didn't, she was too prideful, and just left those that she promised would be free to live their lives, in bubbles! They're all corrupted because of her, you have no idea what being some mindless beast who can't even remember what they're supposed to look like, would even do to someone!" He shouted as he started to approach faster.
"To be driven to hurt other because you're scared and confused...actually, no, you know exactly what that part is like, you're living that right now! You're trying to hurt me because you are being thrown into this new reality where Pink is the bad guy...you don't know how to cope so you respond with violence and denial...but I can help you, just let me try." He offered as he stopped fighting, as did the pink Gem.
"...you have no idea how I feel...you could never understand what I'm going through..." she glared as she began to cry again.
"That's where you're wrong...I know exactly what you're going through. All my life, I've been told just how an amazing mom was... 'Rose Quartz would've been able to fix this' 'if Rose was here, she'd be able to handle this.' 'If only Rose was here, she'd know what to do' 'Steven, your mother was an amazing and perfect Gem, I just know you could be like her.' " he reflected on the lies he was told about his mother.
"All my life, I've lived in her shadow, everyone expected me to be just as good if not better than her, and I was always stressing to become better, so I could fill the hole that I created when I was born... I tried so hard every day to to become more like Rose, more of what they expected me to be, not to mention I was left with the weight of having to atone for her 'shattering' Pink Diamond...or as I said, pretending to shatter Pink Diamond because she was Pink Diamond." He explained, tears in his eyes
"It felt good, knowing she wasn't so great, she was a horrible person that ruined many lives...including mine. Then I thought about how I had been told how perfect she was, how I had to live up to this impossible standard, when not even SHE could live up to those standards. I've lived my life, running from an alien race that wants me dead for something that not only I didn't do, but for something my MOM didn't even do. So yeah, I know how it feels, we thought she was this an amazing person who actually cared for us...but in the end, we were wrong. That's why I want to help you, you and everyone she's wronged, because I know how it feels to be wronged by her too. I know that what I've been through can't even began to compare to what you've been through...but... I'm here to help you, not hurt you. I've changed my motives since then. I no longer want to be like my mom, I want to be her opposite, I'll help people, I'll fix her mistakes, and I'll be a better leader than she ever was...and if you'll let me, I'll be a better friend than she was too." He offered, holding his hand out to the Gem that was trying to hold back her tears.
She looked at his hand and slowly took it before enveloping him in a hug, sobbing into his chest. Steven held her close, letting her just be there, he knew she needed it, he knew she needed a friend. "And I'll make sure you'll never be alone again..."
-=End Of Chapter=-
oh, but my naive little friend, you two shall be so much more than friends! I think this is the beginning of something beautiful.
Now I know that this chapter is relatively short, and it only took me like an hour or two to write, and half an hour to edit, but if I let them go back to the Diamonds right now, then I'll be pushing this chapter too far, and I'll be trying to find a quick way to close the chapter, and as I said, I try not to rush the story...even if this feels slightly rushed...
Also, I feel like this is a perfect ending to this chapter, not sure how I would end it if I took them back to Homeworld right now.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and as always, good morning, goodnight, or good afternoon, I'll see you again soon.
