Disclaimer: Characters, settings, names from the cartoon television show 'Steven Universe' are creations and property of Rebecca sugar and Cartoon network. Any Non-steven universe characters, settings, names, Gems, Gem powers, beliefs, mythology are my own creation.
Author's Note: Forgive me Readers and Followers for this terribly late Update. As many of you know, I was busy with another much more Mature Story.
Story Tags: Steven Universe, Lapis Lazuli, OC's, Connie Maheswaran Pearl, Amethyst, Ruby, Sapphire, Bells, Whistles, Citrine, Peridot, Beach City, Gem Powers, Romance, Adventure, Comfort, Destiny.
Music Inspiration: "Hypnotica" By: Two Steps from Hell
Chapter 35: Rise of The Plant Folk
Saturday
August 22, 2016 5:00 [Evening]
Emerald Hills, Beach City
It was a beautiful evening the day after Steven and Carlos returned back to Beach City. Steven took all night yesterday enjoying his ability to fly, creating new magical methods and testing out levels to his super speed. When he had his fill enjoying and appreciating his new hard earned powers, he returned back home at six in the morning to lie down and sleep.
The morning after he had been woken by Lapis who saw it fit to join him in his sleep an hour after he fell asleep. The feel of her arm slumped over him and stirring in her 'sleep' was what woke him. Taking care of his personal businesses inside of his bathroom, Steven only wanted to spend all day today with Lapis. He did not want to think about Connie at all. That was all done. He made his choice a long time ago, and he intended to follow it through to the end.
Sitting down on a red and white checkered picnic cloth. Lapis held a white sun hat down on her head with her left hand, whose front brim flapped upward wildly from the passing winds. Lapis who returned back to wearing her default clothing when Steven was gone for three months. Returned to wearing a white crotchet halter top with tie straps and high waisted denim shorts. She knew, or hoped it would keep Steven's mind and eyes on her.
Steven sat down alongside her with his legs crossed. In front of them were two wooden butlers Steven had created from his power. One wooden butler attended to Steven and the other attended to Lapis. Steven and Lapis had been talking with one another while the butlers prepared them sandwiches. Steven had brushed his fingers through Lapis's hair from the back of her head. Lapis's cheeks blushed in response to Steven's touch. She smiled tenderly and placed her head down on Steven's shoulder. Her eyes closing.
Steven's arm slid around her back and came to a stop on her side. He pulled her in and rested the side of his head on top of hers. He took in a breath of fresh air, exhaled and spoke.
"Lapis. I know it seems and feels like i've forgotten about you. I know it makes you angry and maybe even jealous each time I mention Connie's name. I think I need to share...no. I need to get this off of my chest. What I had with Connie was special. But when the heart knows what it wants, It can't keep lying to itself just so another person won't get hurt. Better to be truthful and honesty to one self, then continue lying. And...speaking of truth and honesty."
Steven, with his right hand reached up and cupped the side of lapis's face. Lapis looked into Steven's eyes and pressed her own hand on the side of his face.
"My dad once told me human and gem relationships were still new. And you know what, I think he was right. But I don't care about that. a normal relationship with another human sounds boring to me."
"You know Steven. Pearl and I have patched up a lot of bad blood between us since I came back. We talk with each other more and share a lot of secrets. And she's told me that...oh, maybe I shouldn't say any more."
"Go ahead Lapis. I'm sure If its something that involves Carlos, then the C-man probably already shared it with me. We've become something like brothers these last few months."
"Well. Pearl has been talking to me about "pulling a rose." I think she wants to become a mother. Just like yours."
"Oh this. Yeah I think I've already known about this. Carlos told me about when we were in Chicomoztoc. I think Pearl would make an excellent mom. Carlos, a great dad. A cool dad."
Steven closed his eyes, pursed his lips and went in for a kiss. Lapis smiled and mirrored Steven. Her eyes closed as her lips and Steven's pressed against each other. The wooden butlers had long finished making the couple some sandwiches, and now waited for the kissing couple to pull away from each other long enough to eat.
Steel Foundry
Located in the far north on the mainland of the state. Pearl and Carlos were on a mission to seal a hole in an abandoned Steel foundry. The surrounding forest had grown inside of the foundry. Brambles had wrapped around the machines including the furnaces and crucibles. The hole itself was only one out of many in the world that had appeared months ago. Cluster gems who escaped their confinements from different kindergartens.
The cluster gems inside of this old steel foundry were everywhere. And inside of every room. Carlos and Pearl paired up together to go on this mission to seal the hole and bubble the poofed cluster gems. Carlos confronted several large eight foot tall giant cluster gems who had legs and torsos, but on top of those torsos were giants hands and disembodied fingers wriggling all wild about.
Pearl danced around hopping disembodied legs and feet which had gathered together and fused to form a giant amalgamation of torso, legs, feet, arms and fists. Carlos grabbed cluster gems which tried to pin him down and blew them away with punches which generated powerful blasts of air. Cluster gems were sent flying in all manner of directions. smashing and crashing into the walls and cob web filled machines. Upon impact, they poofed back into their fused gem shards.
Carlos collected the fused gem shards he had finished beating in his palms, and stuffed them into the pockets of his pants. He wasn't very much into bubbling and collecting gem shards, rather he just preferred to turn them into dust. That was before he met Pearl.
"CARLOOSS!" pearl's panicking voice echoed throughout the foundry.
Carlos was as quick as the wind when he took off and vanished like air. backed into a corner by a gigantic cluster gem. Pearl held dual spears in hand. Her hands shook with fear. She fired beams of energy from the tips of her spears at the cluster amalgamation. Her beams did nothing but singe it's hard light exterior.
Lifting up two large boulder size fists, Pearl lifted her spears up and crossed them above her head to endure the attack about to come down on her. The giant fists came down fast. Pearl lowered her head, shut her eyes tightly and hoped for the best.
"Hey there. Not giving up so soon are we?"
Pearl lifted her head up and lowered her spears. She saw Carlos standing in front of her, his back turned to her. He was covered in his Olive green aura. From his aura four muscular arms and hands had grown out of it. The olive green see through hands grabbed the cluster giant's fist. Pearl smiled, relieved that Carlos had came just in the nick of time. Carlos looked over his shoulder and shot her a wink. He lifted the giant cluster amalgamation up over his head and threw it up into the air. He leaped upward sending a gust of air blowing everywhere from his take off.
Flying up above the cluster amalgamation, Carlos formed four spears with rotating blades which his aura hands used. He came down with all four spears pointed together. The rotating spear blades glowed and fused to make one giant olive green glowing drill. Carlos punctured the spear drill into the cluster when he crashed against it. The cluster let out a loud shriek when the drill penetrated it. Before landing back down on the ground, the cluster amalgamation poofed back into it's basketball sized fused shards.
Carlos undid his aura and the constructs and hovered back down to the ground. Back on good solid earth, Carlos rejoined Pearl who shot several beams of energy around the hole the cluster gems were using to escape from underground. The hole as well as the ground around it began to rumble and crack. She ran back to get away from the ground which collapsed in on the hole.
Pearl brushed her forehead with her left forearm and undid her spears. She looked around and saw Carlos walking over to her. She let out a sigh and took a seat on an old rusted oil drum that was lying around. Pearl flipped it on one of it's end so it wasn't lying down on its side.
"Hey beautiful. Here you go. Do something with that because that was the biggest cluster I have ever seen by far."
Carlos threw the massive fused gem shards over to Pearl. She caught it and bubbled it with her left hand. She looked pleased and happy, but winced from a pain that came over her. Her right hand came down over her belly and caressed the area softly. Carlos noticed this immediately and rushed over to check up on his and pearl's slow growing child.
"Mi Perla! Are you ok. C'mon let's go back right now." he said, worried for pearl and their child.
"Carlos i'm OK, really. I just...had no idea how hard it would be to be carrying something so wonderful."
"Ok. But por favor mi amor. Try not to overexert yourself."
"As long as this stomach of mine is still flat, I can still move and fight. Only when I begin showing like Rose did, will i sit in the sidelines and watch you and everyone else. By the way love, I wanted to ask you about Steven."
"Oh. Ask me then Pearl." Carlos moved in between pearl's legs and pressed his forehead on Pearl's gemstone. He wrapped his hands behind her and leaned forward on her.
"I wanted to ask you, what exactly happened to Steven while he was gone. Other than losing weight, working out his body and being able to fly, I don't really see much of a difference from him."
"not much of a difference? Really? I suppose a full gem would have trouble seeing or feeling the difference. Well if you want as much detail as possible, let me get straight to the point." Carlos told her.
"i took Steven to a place called Chicomoztoc. It's a sacred location of the Aztec people. Inside there are seven pools of different colors. In each of these pools there are different dimensions that reflect the names translated from Nahuatl to Spanish and English.
The first pool, a red pool called 'weight' took Steven to an endless desert with Yardangs everywhere. The gravity here is so heavy, that Steven needed to encase himself with his aura for the first few days to shadow box before he could acclimate fully to the gravity. When he did acclimate to it, the gravity became heavier. Working and exercising inside of the weight dimension burned a lot of calories, transformed Steven's muscles. It enhanced his super strength to a level known as "Titanic strength."
Without holding back, Steven's punches could detonate, yes Detonate hills and even an entire mountain if he wanted. I helped him along with my mother in this dimension.
The green pool was next. the 'insect dimension.' In here Steven walked into a cove where he was swarmed from by an infinite number of biting and stinging insects and bugs. I watched him trying to fight off as many bugs as possible. Let me tell you something, after surviving this dimension. Steven looked like a human grape. This trial by insects was to heighten his healing powers and to heighten his own immune system. Surviving this gauntlet granted him 'contaminant immunity.' this means-"
"That means he's immune to all forms of toxins, bacterias, viruses and diseases. That's amazing." Pearl interjected.
"Right. As for his normal healing abilities, they rose exponentially high into new levels. This may sound a bit gruesome. but if Steven was ever badly burned, or lost a limb in a fight or worse...his new regenerative abilities would see that all forms of damage, even ones life threatening will not kill him.
Next there's the blue pool or, the 'Running dimension.' here Steven had to chase Lion, or an illusion of him. This was meant to break his past speed limits. It was also done to enhance his circulatory and respiratory system. Thus giving him super super speed and endurance.
The fourth pool was orange, which took Steven to the 'Beast Dimension.' it dropped him in the middle of a beautiful lush spring. This was perhaps the most hardest, bloodiest and painful trial I have went through myself so many centuries ago. Steven was surrounded and attacked by all kinds of predatory animals from the land, sea and air. It was difficult to watch and listen to. But this particular trial was meant to heighten his pain tolerance and toughen his skin. Even though this caused a lot of bleeding and tearing, Steven's new regenerative powers saved him many times from certain death. In the end, he gained something known as 'Partial Invulnerability.'
bullets, knives, lethal temperatures, explosions and the vacuum of space won't hurt him much or kill him. Surviving the full day onslaught also granted him Beast Lordship. Each creature that attacked him, he now has a strong psychic connection to now.
The fifth pool was Purple in color. It took Steven to a Cave of utter blackness. The 'Darkness Dimension.' This is a dimension where the person sees and hears personal things. One could see dead loved ones, or learn that they were secretly a bother or burden to people they loved or worked for. In the darkness Steven told me he saw and heard images and sounds which made him cry, angry, depressed and filled him with emotions he kept suppressed from you and everyone else.
But this experience is suppose to help the person by strengthening the mind and making their willpower as hard and callous as Stone. If one can conquer their inner demons, all their hate, insecurities and sins, then the payoff is worth it. 'Mental Manipulation,' and 'Indomitable Will.' someone with Mental Manipulation has opened several doors which allow them to control people, animals or objects with only their mind. Steven can manipulate, modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions, allowing the ability to render others unconscious, suppress their memories, and negate the use of abilities, increase/decrease mental capacity, modify minds to be agreeable, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow mental disorders or break down mental barriers.
An Indomitable will gives the user an unnaturally strong willpower, enabling them to be immune to all forms of temptation including subordination manipulatation, Telepathy, mind control and subliminal seduction. Through their will the user can face great physical pain and psychological trauma and will refuse to surrender no matter how much the odds are stacked against them, possibly up to the point of cheating death and pushing themselves past their own limitations.
The second to last pool is Dark Yellow in color. It takes steven directly to the actual Moon. Here Steven confronted and squared off against a very very fast Orb of Raw magical power which took on hundreds of forms when it fought Steven. Steven had to not only fight against this but defend himself also. When he managed to weaken it enough, he ate the orb of magic power. If steven was formidable before, then he's a force of near unlimited power. The orb of magic he ate was like a small nuclear explosion for all of his elemental, physical, mental and magical abilities.
Someone with the access to Magik, has use of rituals, symbols, actions, gestures and language to exploit supernatural forces to varying degrees, with only their skill, personal power-level, imagination/knowledge, and/or morality to define the borders. Given the flexibility of magik, they have essentially unlimited possibilities for what to do.
And the last pool in Chicomoztoc, was white in color. To make sure steven was successful in this last dimension, i asked him to take a month off to practice and get accustomed with all of his new powers and abilities. When he told me that he was ready, he jumped inside of the pool more confident than i've ever seen him.
The dimension he entered was that of his gemstone. Since i could not help him or assist him in anyway, i only told him who he would be facing. I waited a month for Steven to return. But when he wasn't returning, i though he had died and it was all my fault for letting him go through with this. then he suprised me by stepping out from a portal he created. When i gaze at him, he was in his mastered gem form.
Pearl. If Steven and Soren or even Yellow Diamond go toe to toe, i beleive Soren would only survive because Steven has a gentle heart. As for the other, it would rock the planet with super earthquakes. Every volcanoe on earth would erupt, tsunamis would flood coast cities and life on earth could end as we know it. I'm sorry i spoke so much. But you asked and i shared."
"Wow, you make Steven sound so...so powerful. He's already surpassed Rose in so many ways, I wonder if he even knows it."
"He knows it pearl. He knows it very well. Now, how's our baby coming along. Can I see him?"
Pearl blushed and caressed her stomach softly. Her gemstone glowed and she projected a holo-screen of the inside of her constructed womb. Residing inside of the water filled construct was a very little embryo still in an early developmental stage of it's life. Carlos went down on one knee and hugged Pearl. Seeing his future child growing inside of the gem he fell in love with filled him with joy.
Pearl hugged Carlos back and rested her chin on top of his head.
"If it's a boy? I want you to name it. If it's a girl, I would like to name it."
"Whatever you want Pearl, whatever you want." Carlos told her, a smile on his face.
Palmyra, Maheswaran Residence
7:25 [Evening]
Sitting on her couch watching a sci fi movie with her boyfriend, Thomas Shell, Connie relaxed back sharing a bowl of popcorn with him. Thomas and Connie's hands crossed each other on several different occasions when they reached into the bowl to grab some more popcorn. Thomas, who was a gentleman by every sense of the word, wrapped an arm around Connie's shoulder and pulled her in closer to him.
Connie blushed and reciprocated Thomas's action by resting her head on his shoulder. On the television screen, the sci fi movie the young couple were watching was the 1982 cult classic, Blade Runner. The current scene being played out was of the character "Deckard" and "Rachel" kissing as the "Love theme" soundtrack started to play in response to the romantic scene.
Connie looked up at Thomas who looked like he was enjoying the movie in her company. Thomas blinked and smiled at the romantic scene. She looked over to the television and watched the two actors kissing passionately. Connie has seen this film before and read the book it was adapted from several times. Rachel was a new biorobotic android or, "Replicant." a being who looks and acts just a like a human, except for in the emotions department. Replicants were faster, stronger, smarter than humans.
And Deckard was a retired human police officer known as a "Blade Runner." he was in charge of "retiring" replicants. A human, a regular joe in love with a super powered human bio android. Rachel was a newly constructed Replicant, still naive about how the world work and still new to what she was.
Connie took Thomas's face and turned it to face her. Thomas smiled tenderly at her and leaned in closer to her. His lips brushed past her cheek as he planted a kiss on her temple and on her cheek. Connie giggled a little when she felt thomas's lips tickle her around her ear.
Connie grabbed Thomas's face and pulled him in to kiss him, but just as she almost did.
UUUUURRRRRNNNNNN!
A loud low pitch humming sound blasted from nowhere and quaked throughout the entire world skies. The blast was so loud it shattered every window in the world. The world itself was experiencing a rumbling event so powerful on every continent and in every ocean, that it was the only other time beside the 65 million year extinction event that it had felt something so close.
The World
What had cause the loud low humming sound was a Gargantuan size Green beam of light, that was shot out far from space. The beam of light gathered over the northern hemisphere, collecting and condensing into a giant sphere big enough to be The Sun's little green brother. The sphere of light expanded so wide, so much that it solidified while the loud humming sound died down.
From this green sphere of light, small rays of green light shined down all over the world. The light shining on every continent, industrialized, developing and third world nations, and even the oceans, lakes and rivers were affected. The only areas spared were the north and south poles.
In the United States, the green rays of light transformed and came down and struck every city and town like green lightning. And like regular lightning, they crashed and were accompanied by loud cracks of thunder and bright green light. Land forms were not spared, instead, they were the prime target of the green light which came down around the world.
What the green light did when it shined on the land, was mutate the soil inside the earth and marine algae in the oceans to cause all plant life and vegetation on land and in the sea to grow and become sentient and vicious. The trees grew arms made of coiled tree branches. They uprooted themselves and gathered together in groups and spoke to each other with their newly formed mouths.
Vegetables and fruits like watermelons and pumpkins and yam and cherries grew and expanded in size. Not adhering to the rules of the seasons, vegetables and fruits grew in parts of the world which were could, mountainous and bone dry, and rose up to become monsters. In addition to fruits and vegetables, grass grew and formed soldiers with reinforcements in the form of plant soldiers and green monsters.
News reports started coming in on televisions, computer news sites and on news alerts on peoples phones about "Killer Plant life" come to life. International cities like Tokyo, Moscow, Canberra, Dublin, Accra and multiples cities in the United States were under siege by plant life off all kind and forms. If a house hold had even one potted plant or plants, they too came to life and grew as tall as six feet to seven feet, where they killed every non plant in it's field of sight.
Towns burned as people fought with molotov cocktails and rinky dink flamethrowers. Blood and carnage followed everywhere. All nations big and small, enemy or neutral set up national emergencies for their country. The U.N issued a worldwide state of emergency. To combat this near omnipresent threat, Nations declared total war on the plant enemies plaguing their people and cities within their borders. Government armed forces and civilian led militias combated the monsters wherever they were at and where they were going.
In the united states both armed law abiding civilians, and criminals defended themselves. the national guard and the entire might of the U.S armed forces mobilized to defend the homeland and territories.
Maheswaran Residence
Connie and Thomas watched the television screen go black in front of them. They had been covering their ears the whole time, waiting for the loud humming to end. The blaring sound of emergency servicec vehicles sirens waling all over town alerted Connie and spurred her into action.
"Connie. Did you hear that?" Thomas asked her, his voice whispering.
"Yeah I did. Sounds like a meteor or asteroid blew up in low orbit."
"No not that. I think there's someone upstairs in your room."
Connie raised an eyebrow and thought about that. There was no one upstairs, both her parents were out. Could it be steven? The only things she had in her room were her belongings. But, catching the teens attention was a large six foot tall rose monster. It's body and limbs were made of hard coiled leaves. It's face a blood red color surrounded by maroon pedals. It's eyes were black, souless. And it's 'mouth' filled with sharp thorn teeth.
The Rose flower monster came walking down the steps of the stairs. The monster was looking at both Connie and Thomas. It seemed to be wondering which of them it should kill first. But it appeared to throw choice out the window, and lunged after Thomas. Connie acted quickly and manifested the sword (Zweihander) of Commander Smoky in her hands and brought it down on the rose flower monster. The rose monster was sliced in half with zero difficulty, like slicing paper with a high powered laser.
The rose monster fell down on the floor with a thud. It's blood pooled around the hardwood floor. The color was composed of a light greenish color. And it smelled good. Like a garden of freshly bloomed roses.
"Connie...wow. Is that...the sword you've told me about."
"Oh this? Yep. The sword of Commander Smoky, now my sword. The grip is made from indestructible Obsidian, that's a volcanic glass and igneous rock. The cross guards are made from unbreakable titanium. The pommel is encrusted with a smoky quartz gemstone. It's a little piece of my mentor that he put on so that no one, not even a diamond could ever lay hands on his sacred weapon. It's also what gives this sword it's unique ability to cut through anything.
Whatever it cuts, will never be able to fix itself, regenerate or heal. To the living, it kills and remains dead. To the dead it can bring back up, but only as ordered bound driven undead soldiers. The blade itself made from space diamond. If I wanted to, I cut cut through asteroid and something as big as a planetoid; like Pluto. Hold on a second Thomas, Smoky is communicating with me."
"M'lady, this is event is no mere random coincidence. This is an attack from homeworld. But I can't sense any gems outside the planet, other than the ones we already know that are on this planet. My guess is this the "Biosphere spear." it's an ancient weapon by Homeworld's standard. It mutates the Biosphere of any planet in its sights. The world's plants and foliage are being mutated and used to clear out the dominant species on this planet."
"Humans!" Connie told herself, shocked at this revelation.
Thomas shook with fear and nervousness. He looked down at the floor, the dead body of the rose monster. His attention was pulled to outside the window. He watched people screaming and running around from fear and panic. Connie shook her head and took a knee and placed her hand down the floor of her home.
"Earth Method: Granite Shutters." Connie uttered seriously. Her home and only her home became armored with four inch thick granite slabs of stones which covered not only the outside of her home, but also the inside.
"Thomas, I want you to stay here while I go and deal with this. I didn't become the guardian of palmyra by not doing nothing. I'm going to find my parents and your and i'll bring them back here. Then, these freak plants are finished."
"No! I'm not going to stay here while you go out there all by yourself. Let me help you, please."
Connie thought about his plea to join her. He was serious about this.
"Fine. But if you're going to help, you're going to need protection and a lot of it." Connie approached Thomas and placed a kiss on his lips.
On his chest, back, arms, legs, feet and on every limb and appendage. Thomas watched black stone pieces of armor appear all over his body. To a breast plate, back plate, vambraces and gauntlets. Thomas was completely protected. The last piece was a stone helm that formed around his head. His helm looked like a bell, with horizontal slots for him to see out of.
"Whoa. Is this for real?" Thomas asked, amazed. he lifted his hand up which was inside of a black stone gauntlet. "If this stone armor, why does it feel so light Connie?"
"Magic, Thomas. magic. Ok, Osmium Shield Time!" Connie raised her left arm up and concentrated. A large six foot wide shield of made of Osmium appeared. With the ultimate offensive weapon and the galaxy's ultimate magical defensive shield, Connie was unstoppable.
"Connie, no weapons for me?"
"You don't need any. You posses the strength of five machines in your hands. Punch or tear these plant freaks, I don't care. Just stick close to me. Ok."
"Yes!"
"Then let's do this!" Connie ordered. She pushed opened the wall of rock in front of her door with the wave of her hand. Thomas ran out first with Connie following second. She waved her hand back and closed the stone door.
Connie and Thomas were horrified by how quickly Palmyra had devolved into chaos and panic. Buildings, homes and places of business were already up in smoke. The bodies of residents were already littering the streets, and the bodies of burning sunflower monsters and several tree mutant monster.
In front of them, a gang of tree monsters backed by grape, watermelon and grass minions came for them. As civilians ran away from the mutated plants and trees and fruits, Connie and Thomas charged towards them. Connie was fast, really fast. Thomas registered her take off as only a fuzzy blur. He watched trees and grass monsters sliced in half like butter to a butter knife. He got his chance to help when jumped forward with a fist cocked back. When he punched a tree monster, he punched through it, utterly obliterating the mutated tree.
Not all residents of Palmyra fled. Some, armed with shotguns and Molotov cocktails helped the local police force of only 125 officers and 20 swat officers. Palmyra, like every other American town and city was burning.
Beach City
8:00 [Night]
Hhhhhhhrrrrrrrrnnnnngggggggg!
Beach City's air siren was ringing loudly. But, it slowly stopped blaring when it came to a complete stop. Residents of Beach City who were fighting with the local mutated plants and vegetables that were transformed from their gardens, potted plants and produce inside the supermarket and markets, saw a massive brown see through dome appear over their town. The color was a combined power of Steven and Carlos.
Steven erected the bubble dome over Beach city, with Carlos adding a second green layer over it. In fact, he created a green dome over Steven's which was actually a spinning dome of razor sharp air. A thrid layer of protection was added outside and under the tow. Outside, just a few feet away from the razor spinning wind dome, were Magma golems created by commander Soren who were burning away incoming hordes of plant and tree monster from the surrounding landscape. The golems met stiff resistance, some tree fired large chunks of sharpened spikes from their bodies, destroying some of the golems. But where one fell, another rose to take the fallens place.
Having gathered at the center of Beach City, Steven and the crystal gems along with Soren and Bells were talking to the residents. Commander Soren was the first one to speak.
"People of Beach City, my name is Commander Soren. I came to this planet to seek the boy right next to me. For it was in a dream that I was told by someone very important and revered in my planet that I should seek to help the shield of humanity, protect and fight back against my people. Your world is under attack. Like all of you, i know what's causing your flora to come to life which are killing your kind all over the world. The newly created green sun above the earth is the cause. i determined that the source is somewhere out in space.
I'm going to fly out into space and destroy the green sun. but its destruction will not change what's already been changed back. But it will prevent more monsters from being born, thus saving the fragile biosphere of your world. Steven."
Commander Soren passed the baton to Steven.
"People of Beach City. With the threat inside eliminated earlier. I, Carlos and Soren have erected a triple layer of defense around us. Below the town, located several miles under there is a sea of lava. These plant creatures have no problem digging under the earth, but swimming through lava? I don't think so."
Steven chuckled and the beach city residents laughed and chuckled with him. They were all a little shooken up from earlier fights with the plant and vegetable monsters located in their town, but hearing their heroes and guardians brought them much relief and calm.
"People, People. Me and my friends might have secured Beach City, but there are people in different towns and cities here in our state who still need help. I want everyone here to remain indoors at home. Close your businesses, lock your homes and stay calm. Please, trust me and my friends when we say that we will fix this."
"Steven, Steven, Carlos, Carlos, Soren, Soren!" chanted the entire town together in unison. They chanted the names of their protectors even while they dispersed and returned home or close their shops.
"Steven." Soren spoke.
"Yes Commander."
"I understand you know this is affecting the whole world. What I said was true. Even after the green sun is destroyed, the affects of all of this will take months to disappear. But, there is something you can do to hasten that. After the green sun is dead, I want you to come fly with me where you will heal the earth, continent by continent, ocean by ocean."
"I understand Soren. I'm ready. Team One! Pearl, Sapphire, Ruby and Amethyst will go and protect the town of 'Yellow Seed' located north in the mainland.
Team two is Bells and Citrine, who will head to the western city of 'Oakheart.' Carlos is going to Palmyra to help Connie. Soren is going up into space. As for me, I'm going to Emerald Hills to take off some of the pressure on our defenses. OK! Let's do this friends!"
Steven and Carlos opened a hole in the ceiling of their protective domes to leave. Commander Soren flew out first. Carlos levitated using his air based powers. The crystal gems shape shifted into birds to fly outside. Citrine and Bells levitated up with the aid of Bell's telekinesis. And Steven flew outside using his power of Flight.
Carlos and Pearl shared a short kiss before everyone took off to their given locations.
Next in Chapter 37, 'Death of The Green Sun.'