(Authors note: I am sorry for the long wait, the sports festival always trips me up. And I have a lot of other projects I'm working on.)
Steven is almost tackled by mei the second he sets her down, he braces against her.
"How can you make hard light, it's still theoretical!" she demands. And he forms a shield in his hand. This is hard light, my gem generates it."
"Your gem?" she asks excitedly.
"It's where my belly button should be. A big pink diamond." she makes a grab for his shirt and he easily evades.
"Lemme see," she asks him.
"You're being a little rude," he chided her.
"Am I?" she pauses seeming to think.
"You are," he assures
"Now let's take a look at the top four teams right away! In first place team universe In second place todoroki in third-place Bakugou and in fourth place is team Shinso! Now we will be taking an hour-long break before continuing on with the next part of the festival." Present mic announces and the spectators begin to filter out the students making their way towards the cafeteria.
"I'll answer some of your questions but please don't make another grab for my gem. I have bad memories associated with that." she nods excitedly at the prospect.
"Good job steven," Ururaka tells him, meeting him on the path to the cafeteria.
"Thanks, you did great too," he responds grinning at her and she pumps her fist.
"I can't wait for the next part, I'm gonna try my hardest."
"I'll try my best too," he tells her as they reach the lunch line.
"Oh scary." jiro says coming to stand behind mei who had ripped open one of her boots presing the button and the motor not starting.
"Wow universe you're floating fried my babies." he looks at it seeing the burnt out motor..
"May i?" he asks looking at it and she nods wanting to see what he can do, stevel licks his finger pressing it to the motor, the metal glowing pink and mending back into working condition.
"Can you fix everything like that!?" mei asks, sounding excited.
"Probably? I know i can fix clothes, but i haven't tested very much on non living material."
"You need to come to the shop and help me make babies, I keep blowing stuff up and you can try putting it back together!"
"That sounds amazing." He agrees jiro and uraraka sharing a look of worry about their classmate and wondering if they should save him from what may be a bad influence.
The class regathers after the break in front of midnight standing on a stage.
"And now well draw numbers from this box to decide the brackets for the next part of the sports festival."
"I'd like to withdraw"ojiro calls up to her and she spins with wide eyes.
"Are you sure, This is a big opportunity."iida asks him
"I know it is, But i don't remember anything about the second round, and i don't think i was functioning under my own volition, everyone else is giving it their all and it wouldn't be right of me not to.: he tells her.
"I wish to withdraw also" Nirengeki
"You're so naive, it turns me on!. I'll allow it" everyone questions what she had just said.
"Now let's see, we'll have to move up two students from the fifth pace calvary team so we have enough contestants.
"We were frozen for most of the event, we barely did anything in the cavalry battle." kendo says and the rest of her group agrees.
"You should pick from the team that kept fighting team tetsu tetsu."
"Kendo!"
"I'm not doing you a favor, it's just fair."
"Thank you so much!" tetsutetsu yells and the team starts talking amongst themselves, finally deciding on tetsutetsu and shiozaki, everyone drawing numbers being placed into their brackets. Izuku taking I Can't stop Twinkling's place and steven going up against Shinso in the first round.
"Universe that's you right." Shinso asks from behind him Steven is going to respond when a tail covers his mouth.
"Not so fast." he tells Shinso who chuckles walking off.
"Steven you need to keep from talking with him, his quirk has something to do with his voice. I'm not sure what it is though.
Steven enjoyed the minigames but the time had come for the main event, and now he stood across from the tired blue haired boy. Unable to do what he was best at, talk with an enemy.
"Five"
"Life must be so easy with a quirk like yours, I doubt you've faced any hardship."
"Four" mic announces and steven tries to drown him out.
"Did you get it from your parents? You're father?"
"Three."
"Two."
"No? you're mother then, I bet you're just like her huh?"
""One!"
"Shut up." steven yells and shinso grins, his quirk taking hold and both of their bodys going slack, collapsing to the ground.
"W..WHAT!" Mic yells as shinsos body starts to move.
"W What happened?" he asks and then he sees his body laying on the ground and he understands. He had possessed the other boy. His body starts to shift and he decides to end this quickly to try and fix this before the next round turning and walking right out of the ring.
"In an unexpected turn of events Shinso walks out of the ring! Steven universe moves onto the next round." he watches as the medics rush into the ring checking on his body and he walks back into the ring.
"Uh hello, can you call mr aizawa down, i think we'll need his help to wake him up
"Did you do this with your quirk kid, Can you undo it?'' they ask him.
"Uh, maybe you can please call mr aizawa. I think we switched bodies and i think it was my power and his quirk that did it? I was hoping mr aizawa could cancel it." the man whistles.
As they move Steven's body onto the stretcher picking him up.
"Follow us to the infirmary, well call him to meet us there."
"Great." he says following them as they leave the arena making their way down the halls back towards Recoverygirls arena office walking in and recovery girl walking over, the Arena being broadcast on her television.
"Shinso Whas this you're quirk." she asks.
"Actually recovery girl i'm steven"
"How did that happen?" aizawa asks walking in the doorframe"
"I don't know, usually i have to be asleep to possess people."
"After this you and I are going to sit down and you're going to tell me everything you know about your quirk. Now hold still." he says looking into his eyes, his hair starting to rise and his eyes glowing as steven and Shinso snap back into place like a rubberband pulled tight and dropped. Steven sitting up in his body and shinso collapsing to the floor.
"Oh I'm back. So who won? Does it change things that we were in different bodies?"
"It's your win problem child. Now recovery Girls going to check you over and you can run along to prepare for your next fight." aizawa says before walking out of the room to go back to announcing.
"Ok, tell shinso im sorry when he wakes up ok?" he asks, sitting on the end of a bed letting Recovery girl look him over.
"I will,'' she says, shining a light in his eyes.
"How are you feeling."
"I feel fine, my healing powers are constantly working on me so whenever I'm hurt I'm automatically healed."
"How did you figure that out."
"I got an xray and wherever I've been hit really hard there were signs of bone mending."
"How many times where you hit hard steven?" Recoverygirl asks him.
"I don't know, from 13 to 15 their seemed to just be one fight after another, peridot jasper
The rubies Blue yellow and white. And then after that there was spinel and a few weeks ago Bluebird showed up" Recoverygirl looks worried.
"Steven, are things ok back home?" she asks him and he looks confused.
"I hope so. I haven't been back for a while now. I'm sure the gems are fine without me, better even!" his skull glows pink, expanding before shrinking back to normal teven taking a deep breath.
"Steven what was that."
"Im fine, dr mahashwaren says my body responds to mental stress like i'm being attacked. I'll be ok."
"That's not ok, i don't think you should continue to participate steven."
"Ah come on i can still compete, please don't take me out?"
"Ok, i'll let you compete today, but once you're back from your internship ii want to have you talk with someone ok?"
"I don't need to, but if it makes you feel better i will." she has to resist from facepalming at him missing the point of why he needs help.
"You can run along now steven, But if i see something like that happening again ill have to stop the fight."
"You won't." he assures her leaving the room and making his way back to the arena seeing Midoriya pick up Alien queen and throwing her out of bounds.
"Welcome back steven, It's good to see you back on your feet." iida greets him.
"Yea, what happened? Your opponent just walked out of bounds." uraraka asks.
"Oh, me and shinso actually switched bodies and i walked him "
"Really, what can't you do?" kaminari asks, leaning over the back of his seat.
"I cant make ice cream treats in the right shape, It just sort of melts." he tells him, sitting down to watch the next fight.
Steven walks towards the ring when a flaming bag of shit steps in front of him.
"I've watched you throughout this tournament and you may be the strongest participant, You'll make a good stepping stone for my shoto."
"Oh you're Todoroki's dad?"
"I am, He's my perfect creation. I made him to become number one and I'm sure you can push him past the limits of his ice.'' Steven stairs at him with the words perfect creation and I made him ringing through his head and steven grows into his quartz form a foot taller than endeavor.
"What gives you the right to tell someone why they exist," he asks wishing the man was a gem so he could punch him.
"I made him, he only exists To surpass all might." steven loses control for a second, pink waves of energy launching Endeavor down the hall and steven turns knowing he needed to leave this conversation and walks out into the arena.
"And steven Universe steps into the ring already powered up! He's taking this next battle very seriously."
"Am i that much of a threat to you?" todoroki asks.
"Your dad's really rude." he answers seeing todoroki's face darken.
"What did he say to you? Did he offer you money?"
"No, he just said a lot about destiny and Ice. I had to walk away before I started yelling."
"I'd have paid to see you yell at him." todoroki deadpans.
"My yelling would have brought down the arena." the tone goes off and an iceberg forms from todorokis foot steven pulling back a fist and punching it shattering it and launching himself at todoroki forming a shield a geometric shield bracing himself against the second iceberg todoroki's eyes widening when he realizes he can't move him he stops and pulls his arm back finding his iceberg lifted steven holding it above his head and tossing it out of the ring. Todoroki Throwing up an ice wall between them digging it into the ring under it to try and buy himself a second to strategize when steven's shield punches a doorway through steven stepping through and todoroki throwing up another iceberg Larger than any he had made before trying to immobilize universe going that if he can't move he can't use his strength.
"D,,did he immobilize him?! Can steven universe overcome?" Mic asks noticing the pink glow from inside vanish the ice exploding out and steven laughing, enjoying this todoroki being replaced with a terrified jasper for a moment and steven Tripling in size and falling to his knees gritting his teeth as he forces it back down an iceberg hitting him while he's distracted sending him back and trapping him todoroki panting his arm and side covered in frost.
"Universe can you move?" Midnight asks and steven grits his teeth forming his bubble splitting the iceberg landing in a crunch back to his normal self.
"I can keep going," he tells her standing and forming bubbles around his hands.
"Are you ok todoroki? Can you heat yourself back up?" he asks, worried about him.
"I won't use my fire, no matter what ill win without his quirk."
"Did you know that all my powers come from my mother? But their mine now just like your powers yours. We are not our parents todoroki you need to stop letting him hold you back!'' Steven yells the last part, having struggled with his identity for years. Ans shoto remembers, remembers his mother telling him it was ok. That his power doesn't make him like his father that it was ok.
Steven sees flames start to form on todoroki, the flames melting the frost from his other arm.
"You asked for this, It's not my fault what happens next!" he yells and steven forms his rose shield large enough to cover his entire body, his skin turning pink as he turns into his pink steven from launching himself forward todoroki flames hitting the shield and steven starting to sweat from the heat feeling the force of the flames and slamming his shield into Todoroki's hand knocking it away before grabbing him by the collar and throwing him out of the ring.
"And steven universe moves on to the semi-final round!"
Steven sees ibara across from him.
"I like your hair.'' Steven tells her and she smiles.
"Thank you and I like yours too, I am sorry in advance if my hair cuts you."
"Oh thats fine, i Hugged a cactus a few months ago so dont feel bad." she looks worried for him as the bell rings steven jumping into the air to dodge her vines breaking through the arena floor feeling them catch his ankle his blood dripping onto them ibara yelping as they start to move on their own growths in the shape of steven starting to grow out of it.
"Never going home."
"So alone"
"Murder!"
"Monster!"
"DIAMOND!" the voices Scream and steven shifts into his diamond form.
"SHUT UP!" HE SCREAMS waves of energy flying in every direction hitting the wall is thrown up quickly by cementos shattering them. Steven forming his shield the end razor-sharp as he throws it cutting through the vines, ibara stepping back her vines close to her head as the ones cut from her wither and die steven landing on the stage cracking it his diamond shaped eyes resting on her.
"I.. I forfeit!" she yells to midnight.
"This round goes to steven universe, he moves on to the calls out to him and steven vanishes leaving a line of pink as he runs to one of the empty rooms in the back slamming the door and locking it as the words the vines had spoken echo through his head as his body grows large enough for his back to hit the roof cracking it the table flying across the room. He closes his eyes tight trying to force away the images of jasper looking at him Fear in her eyes overtaking pride and then in the aftermath of their battle finding her gem in the crater in the ground shattered. DEAD. And when he had managed to save her To fix his mistake she had bowed to him calling him her diamond. He hears knocking at the door and is glad it's locked.
"One minute." he says, trying to force himself back into shape, surprised when the door is broken down and the room is filled with a purple mist steven passing out, Midnight catching him before he can hit the ground
(Authors note:im so so sad I got rid of Mineta, i could have put steven in a cheerleader's outfit I'm sorry that I've failed you all.)
