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Steven slowly got up and backed away. The Replica sneered at him and threw another punch in his direction. Steven jumped back, dodging the punch.

Steven's gem then started to glow as he summoned his shield. "So, even though I'm my human side, I still have my gem side's abilities." Steven thought. The Replica just raised an eyebrow at Steven.

"Steven, you know you can't defeat me all by yourself. You can only summon three shields a day, that's about your limit, while I can summon my shield all the time." As he was saying this, The Replica got out his own shield.

"Look, it doesn't have to be this way! You can just stop and we can BOTH have the same body!" Steven negotiated eagerly, not wanting a fight.

"I don't think so, Steven. You'll just hold me back from my true power if I agree to your terms. Besides, I always hated the fact that you show mercy and forgiveness to everyone! You're too weak for me to share the same body with!" The Replica snapped, charging at Steven.

Steven threw his shield at the Replica, only for it to be deflected by the Replica's own shield.

Thinking quickly, Steven side-stepped the Replica, making him charge into the wrong direction. The Replica stumbled on his feet before fully realizing what had happened.

The Replica looked at Steven with an angry glare. "You think you're smart huh? Well think again!" In a sudden flash, the Replica was behind Steven, and before he could react, the Replica elbowed him in the back, sending Steven to the ground with a loud thud.

"Ugh!" Steven grunted in pain as he struggled to get up again. The Replica saw this and soon kicked Steven right in the stomach as he was on the ground.

He kicked Steven so hard that a bit of blood started coming out of his mouth. Steven clutched his stomach and pain and began to cough erratically.

The Replica soon grabbed Steven's hair and pulled him up. The copy than started punching him in the back with no mercy at all.

"P-please STOP!" Steven pleaded to his Replica. The Copy just stayed quiet as he kept punching him in the back.

Steven's gem started glowing as he got angrier.

"Stop!" Steven yelled once again. He was now coughing up blood as he kept getting hit in the back. It felt as if his body was getting numb.

Steven closed his eyes, than opened them once again.

"I SAID STOP!" And with that, Steven slipped out of the Replica's grip and punched him right in the face. The Replica's eyes widened as he hit the ground, hard.

The Replica just lied their, shocked at what his human side just did. Steven just looked at his Replica, realizing what he had done.

The Replica got up, a blank expression across his face.

"I'm trying to give you the easy way out, but you seem determined to make me have to control you. And don't say you'll stop me because so far you've only managed to land a single blow, which by the way you will pay for. Why don't you just give up? You will never have the power to stop me." The Replica sneered as he glared at Steven.

"I don't care if you're stronger than me, I will protect my friends!" Steven confidentially disagreed. The Replica chuckled at that.

"So be it." Suddenly, The Replica's gem started to glow brightly. Soon, a pink energy beam with a lightning aura around it came out of his gem and was headed towards Steven.

Steven, who was completely oblivious to what was going on, was hit by the beam and sent to the ground again. Sparks of pink electricity stung Steven as he lay their.

Steven tried to move, but found that he was paralyzed.

The Replica just laughed. "That beam that came out of my gem is called the "Quartz paralyzation beam". It renders an opponent defenseless as pink electricity zaps their body after the attack. It's one of Rose's most favorite techniques."

Steven could feel his body aching from the electricity.

"Though, it's not enough to kill you..." As he said this, The Replica walked over towards Steven. He than began kicking Steven in the side as the electricity did more work.

Steven could feel himself losing consciousness, but he couldn't give up. He had to fight. He had to fight for his friends. For all his friends.


On The Outside...

Pearl, Garnet, Amethyst, and Connie looked at a sleeping Steven in bed.

"So, what do we do now?" Connie asked.

"We wait." Garnet answered simply.

"Wait?! So while Steven fights his Gem side to the death, we just wait!?" Amethyst exclaimed with a yell.

"Calm down Amethyst. We're going to help Steven, but not the way you think we are-" Garnet was interrupted by Steven constantly tossing and turning in his bed while grunting. Garnet noted that.

"Alright, it's time." Garnet stated as she went up to Steven. Pearl, Anethyst, and Connie looked at each other in confusion.

"Uh, time for what?" Connie questioned once again, raising an eyebrow.

"Listen, I think I've found away to help Steven. By synchronizing my gems with his, I should be able to enter his mind and see what's going on within him." Garnet explained, not taking her eyes off of Steven.

"What? How is that possible?!" Pearl asked, surprised.

"It's tricky. I've been studying this technique for about two hundred years. Around this time is when I finally perfected it. It's kind of like fusion, only harder. You have to synch you're gem with someone else's. It doesn't involve dancing like fusion does though. I have to concentrate to the point where both of our gems are glowing." Garnet said.

"I see. Well, let's do it!" Pearl exclaimed.

"No, it can only be me. You guys don't know how it works like I do. So I'm the only one who can help Steven. Besides, you two need to stay out here with Connie. If Steven wakes up and his gem side is in control, and you guys aren't there, Connie could get hurt, or worse. So I'm trusting you two to protect her." Garnet stated. Both of them nodded.

"Alright, I'm off." As she said this, she concentrated her energy into her gems so that they would glow. Now the tricky part: she had to get Steven's gem to low as well.

She concentrated really hard into getting Steven's gem to synchronize with her's.

Five minutes past, and Pearl, Amethyst, and Connie thought it hadn't worked, but soon, they saw Steven's gem glow for a split second. Garnet saw this as well, and continued concentrating.

It took a few more minutes but soon, Steven's gem began to glow as well. Everyone started smiling in happiness, except for Garnet, who was still concentrating.

Soon, Garnet's body was engulfed with light as if she were fusing with someone. Her body was than sucked into Steven's gem, making it a success.

All three of them just stayed quiet. Amethyst headed over to the couch. Pearl looked at her with guilt.

"Amethyst, I'm sorry..." Pearl apologized, only to be ignored by Amethyst who was now watching TV on the couch. Pearl looked hurt, while Connie looked confused.

"Uh, what exactly did Pearl do to make Amethyst so upset?" Connie thought.

Outside of the house stood Cassiterite, looking inside the house through Steven's window, and she literally saw everything.

"Great, just great. Why must these idiots always get in the way of my plans..." Cassiterite complained within a whisper.

Suddenly, Cassiterite's communicator tarted ringing. And it was loud.

Pearl, Amethyst, and Connie heard this and looked towards Steven's window.

Cassiterite cursed under her breath as she quickly took out the communicator and ignored the call, not caring who it was.

Pearl was now walking up to the window slowly to see where the sound came from.

Cassiterite realized this and saw that she was in a BIG predicament.


What a cliffhanger, lol. Sorry for taking so long, btw. I was pretty much ignoring Steven Universe related stuff and going into other fandoms. Anyways, hoped you all enjoyed!