Hey guys, a new chapter has come, and now that I'm out of school I can focus more on the story! I think I'm going to be a lot happier now that I am no longer at that terrible place, the idiots there even misspelled my name on my diploma, and should be able to get more work done on Ash's Universe! *POKEMON AND STEVEN UNIVERSE ARE NOT OWNED BY ME*
"DAD!" Steven shouted to Greg from the small lake in the rain forest like habitat.
"Steven! Ash! It's really you!" The plump man exclaimed as he ran to his boys and embraced them in a hug
"When Blue Diamond took you I was so scared! And then the Gems told us you were in this horrible human zoo, chained to a wall doing tricks for peanuts!" Steven shouted as he cried
"Hey it's ok Su-ball your old man's alright. Wait, how did you two even get here anyhow?"
"We used a gem ship," Ash explained "but we got separated from the rest of the Gems"
"we've got to find them and bust you out of here!" Steven proclaimed as he began to try to escape from the hatch in the water he and Ash came out of
"Well we're not getting out that way, I already tried" Greg said
"Besides Steven, Holly Blue said that Blue Diamond delivered two humans here before us, Greg, was another human with you when you got dropped off?" Ash asked Greg.
"No it was just me, I've only been here for like two days I haven't really got the chance to remember absolutely everyone here yet"
"Ga-reg!" They heard someone shout from the shore, they turned around to see the two humans that were braiding Greg's hair when they arrived, one male and another female, were now talking to them
"Who is that with you?" The male asked
"Are these new friends Ga-reg?" The female asked
"Wy-six, Jay-10" he addressed his friends "these are-"
"LEAVE MY DAD ALONE!" Steven demanded
"Woah easy Steven, these people have treated me really well since I got here" he reassured his son
The two boys watched as twenty or so humans came out of the trees, all wearing the same outfit with the weird, purple ear piercings.
"Everyone, this is Steven and Ash, Steven's my son and Ash is my almost son!" He introduced them to the clan
"Uh, hi" Ash awkwardly said waving at the group
"Hi" the entire group addressed them
"Guys, these people are the descendants of humans brought here by Gems thousands of years ago, they've never seen the earth, can you believe how wild that is?"
"Ste-van, Ash, Ga-reg has told us many stories about you, "Pee-ca-chu, I choose you!" The male told them doing a bad impression of Ash, "that is you, correct Ash?"
"Pee-ca-chu! I choose you!" The other humans began chanting together
"Come on say it!" Someone asked him
The boys gave them a creeped out look as they returned to the mission at hand "alright, there is a door that lets us leave the zoo, but we couldn't open it from the outside, let's find it and get out of here"
"A door? Alright, let's do it tonight, Ash said there was another human trapped here and we should probably rescue him to, Wy-six, have any other humans came here before me?" Greg asked the male
"Yes, Bunny came here a little bit before Ga-reg did, but she doesn't like to be around us"
The female Greg was with then spoke up "she is what the Gems call "defective" as water leaks from her eyes a lot, she doesn't like to eat or play with us and hides most of the time in the cave by the wall. Wy-six and I know where she likes to hide, we can help you find her after the routine!"
As soon as she said this, a female voice came from the piercings on everyone's ears
"Greetings everyone, it is time to begin the routine, please enjoy your meal during this designated eating period" the voice said
"Who was that?" Ash asked
"Ste-van and Ash don't know what a little voice is!" Wy-six laughed "just like Ga-reg when he first arrived!" Causing everyone to laugh
"Our little voices guide us through life here" the female Jay-10 explained as they all followed the voice's instructions
"This is the creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life" Ash remarked
"We can escape later, for now we should try to find this "Bunny" human and get her out of here with us, me and Steven will keep the others occupied while Ash looks" Greg suggested
"Good idea, I'll start with that cave your friend told me she likes to hide in and go off from there, stay safe guys" Ash told the Universes as he began making his way through the artificial jungle.
He spent a few good hours searching for her before he finally reached the border wall. The entire time the voice from the piercings told him when it was time to eat, play and bathe, but he ignored it and continued on. Following Wy-six's directions, he followed the wall until he reached a small cave hidden in a rock formation.
"Bunny?" He asked knowing that it probably wasn't her real name, "I'm from Earth, I'm here to rescue you" he said into the cave, after he waited a few moments and getting no response, he began to journey further into the cave. Eventually he reached the end of it, seeing that there was a large lake and pipes running along the walls into the ground, he realized this must be where the water is filtered. He looked around until he saw a familiar, blonde haired, little girl wearing the same attire as him lying on the ground with her back facing him.
"Bonnie?" He asked
The girl slowly turned around upon recognizing his voice, Jay-ten was correct that she had definitely been crying as her eyes were red and puffy. It also appeared she had smashed her piercings with a rock, as all that remained of them were the broken ends still attached to her earlobes.
"ASH!" She screamed as she ran towards him and hugged him
"What are you doing here? Where's Clemont?"
Bonnie began tearing up again "we were looking for you after we were told you had disappeared, Clemont fracked you to the Pokémon center in Viridian City and found some radiation that convinced him that you were in another dimension, so he rebuilt his interdimensional transporter. But since it is Clemont, something went wrong, and we were sent to the place with all these scary rock women with no way home! Then this giant, yellow lady took him! And the giant blue lady put me in here with his Pokémon and I haven't seen him since!" She cried into him.
"Yellow Diamond has Clemont?" He thought as he tried his best to console her "it's ok Bonnie, me and my friends are gonna get you out of here" he said leading her out of the cave
"But what about Clemont?"
"We'll look for him once we get out of this place, I have friends inside here and outside trying their best to get us out"
Once they exited, he saw that the sun had set and continued down the wall until they reached the door that lead to the outside. Greg, Steven, Wy-six and Jay-ten were all waiting for them.
"Is this Bunny?" Greg asked
"Yes this is Bonnie, she's actually a friend of mine from my world and she her older brother Clement accidentally came to Homeworld looking for me and get separated. Bonnie, meet Steven and his dad Greg"
"Hi" she shyly said
Ash then turned his attention to the two zoo inhabitants with them "are they coming with us?" He asked
"Where are we going?" Jay-ten asked with pure innocence
"I'll take that as a no, you got the door open yet Steven?"
"What is a door?" Wy-six asked
"It's like this part of the wall but open!" Steven explained
"Silly Ste-van, walls do not open" he said
"There is a story of an opening wall" Jay-ten recalled "a long time ago, a gem walked through an opening wall to help someone who was hurt"
"What do you mean, "hurt"?" Her companion asked
"I don't know, I do not know what "hurt" is"
"I know what hurt is!" Steven said loudly raising his hand
"You do?" They both asked "what is it?"
"It's like when you feel bad"
"Bad?"
Steven groaned "yes it's like the opposite of good, and if that's the only way out, then dad, slug me in the face!"
"What? I'm not gonna hit you"
"Dad it's our only ticket out of here, one of us has to get hurt!"
"Then let it be me"
"Greg are you sure?"
"Yea, I'll take one for the team. Steven, hit me!"
Steven balled his fist and lightly tapped his father in his face.
"Come on bud, I know you don't want to hurt your dad, but you've got to really hit him" Ash told him
"It's alright Steven"
Steven once again balled his fist and threw a punch at Greg's stomach, this time it really was a good hit, as he winced in pain and flew straight into a tree
"Cannonball!" Wy-six shouted thinking it was still a game
Steven, Ash and Bonnie ran to his aid
"Anyone coming?" He asked out of breath
They waited a few minutes to see nobody was coming
"Should we try again Mr. Greg?" Bonnie asked
"If we did there wouldn't be anything left to rescue" he joked
"What do we do now?" Ash asked as all their ear piercings glowed
"Whatever she says"
"It is time to begin the Choosening, please gather around the circle of choosening" the voice dictated
"Ste-van, Ga-reg, Ash, Bunny, it is time for the choosening!" Jay-ten said with excitement
"Come with us! It is finally time!" Why-six said helping Greg up and leading them to a large, blue glowing circle that the other adult humans had gathered around.
"Ga-reg! Ash! Please step into the circle with us!" Jay-ten said leading the two men to the line
Wy-six turned to Steven and Bonnie "Ste-van, Bunny, please stay here until the Choosening is complete" he said joining the others in the circle
"Think it's someone's birthday?" Greg asked
"I don't know Greg, Peridot's made me watch enough movies to know this is the part the were they eat someone" Ash remarked
"The Choosening is a very special event to us" Jay-ten whispered to them
"We're glad to have you both here with us at such a wonderful time" Wy-six said with a smile
"Well, we're glad to be here" Greg answered for both boys
"Let the choosening begin!" The voice announced it paused for a moment before announcing the name "U-twelve, step into the center of the circle, F-three, please step into the center of the circle, you have been choosened for each other"
The two humans entered the circle and took each other by the hands and began kissing, Ash instantly knew what was going on and he and Greg looked at Steven and Bonnie for help.
"WAIT!" He screamed into the earpiece "I've already been "choosened" for someone!"
"Jay-ten, please step into the center of the circle"
"Don't worry Ash!" Steven said from the outside, "you and dad are new here so maybe you won't be choosened"
"Ga-reg, please step into the center of the circle. You have been choosened for each other"
"Hold on, there's been some kind of mistake" Greg begged the voice
"Ga-reg, Jay-ten is waiting for you! Wait, I see what is going on here" Wy-six told his friend
"You do?"
"YOU ARE JUST SHY! Do not worry about it!" He gleefully said pushing Greg into the circle "now touch hands"
"HOLD ON! THIS ISNT HOW IT WORKS ON EARTH!" He screamed causing everyone to now look at him "I don't want to be told who to be choosened with"
"Ga-reg, this makes no sense, why wouldn't you want to be choosened?"
"Look, back on earth there was no little voice telling you who you were to be with, it was your own decision!"
"Like me and Lapis!" Ash exclaimed backing up to Steven and Bonnie in case things got ugly, "we spent time together and fell in love, we knew that we wanted to be together, not because someone told us to"
"I see, if that's how it's done on earth then, I CHOSE GA-REG!" Wy-six exclaimed as he took Greg by the hands, completely misunderstanding Ash's point
"I also choose Ga-reg!" Jay-ten said
The other humans all began to surround Greg saying "I choose Ga-Reg!"
"WAIT! I get a say in this to! You're all very nice, and I'm flattered, maybe a little curious, and yes you can choose who you want, but I also have the right to chose, well, none of you"
The humans all looked at them with disbelief, before they all started crying
"Greg, I think we should go" Ash said as he slowly began pushing the younger members of their group to the bushes
"I don't feel good, I feel bad?" Jay-ten cried
"Could this be? Is this, hurt!?" Wy-six cried
"Why would Ga-reg hurt us? Take this hurt away!"
"I choose, TAKE MY DAD AND RUN AWAY!" Steven exclaimed lifting Greg up and running
"IT WAS NICE MEETING ALL OF YOU, BYE!" Ash screamed as they all ran away to the door with the devastated humans chasing after them.
They ducked into some bushes for cover before they saw the door open, and an army of Amethysts began rounding up the humans, consoling them and trying their best to keep them under control. They saw that the door was left open and began to run before an Amethyst stopped them
"Oh no you don't!" She exclaimed as she grabbed them "you three are in big trouble!" She said dropping Bonnie and leaving her in the zoo as she took Ash, Steven and Greg out and began to make her way down the bright corridor, eventually taking them to a room and throwing them to the floor. "Are these the ones?" She asked
Ash looked up to see that they were now completely surrounded by Amethysts, all laughing down at them as they mocked them
"Guys!" Their Amethyst screamed in her normal form, being held by another Amethyst "they found me out! You wouldn't believe what I've been through, these other Amethysts, they're really, really. GREAT!" Her scared face turned into a smug smile as the other Amethysts laughed with joy
"What?"
"You were right! That was priceless!" The Amethyst holding her laughed as she let her go
"The look on your faces!"
"I'm sorry, but I had to! What are you guys wearing? This is a good look on you actually Greg" she said embracing them in a hug
"Am what's going on?"
"These Amethysts, they're all from Earth! They're from the Prime Kindergarten! Wait, 8XL!"
"Yeah?" Another Amethyst asked
"You guys I'm an 8! Tell em!"
"The Amethyst under me never popped out, we were all waiting and, nothing"
"I'm 8XM Facet 5, cut 8XM! That's me! This is 8XG, and that's 8XH"
"I'm J" the Amethyst corrected her
"Oh sorry I'm worse than Holly Blue!"
"Aren't we all?" She asked causing the Amethysts to all laugh
"Prime, prime, prime you Amethysts are so cliquey" a skinny, familiar looking orange gem told her
"Skinny here is"
"A Jasper" Ash interrupted her with a tone of anger in his voice
"Hey man, I'm nothing like the Jasper that gave you and your little "Lappy Wappy" trouble, I'm chill" Skinny reassured him
"You told them about me and Lapis?" He said turning to his Amethyst
"ASH AND LAPIS SITTING IN A TREE K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" The entire group teased him
"Ah we're just joking with you" a short, red gem approached him, slapping him on the butt.
"Look, we have another friend that got left behind at the zoo, we need to get her back right now!" Ash insisted
"Alright, I'm down," Skinny said "Carnelian let's go!" She dictated the red gem
"You're not Holly Blue, you can't tell me what to do Skinny!" She said
"Just go!" The larger Amethyst told her
"You coming for your friend hot shot?" Skinny asked Ash as she and Carnelian lead him back the way he came from the zoo
"I'll make sure Steven and Greg are alright, you get your friend" Amethyst told him.
He cautiously followed the two Gems back to the Zoo entrance gate, Carnelian opened the door and Skinny lead them inside. By this time the Amethysts had wrangled up the humans and put them under but they still could be sure. They walked back to the nearby cave, and sure enough Bonnie was hiding there.
"ASH!" She said hugging him
"I take it this is your friend?" Skinny asked
"That's sweet and all, but we've got to get out of here before Holly Blue catches us!" Carnelian declared as they began running back the way they came.
"TAKE MY HURT AWAY ASH!" Wy-six suddenly screamed as he charged at Ash from behind. Ash wiggled free from the human's grip and punched him straight in the gut sending him to the ground in pain
"Sorry Wy-six!" He shouted to him as they ran out into the hallway, but two more Amethysts blocked their way
"Holly Blue's on the warpath! We sent the other two into the empty throne room!"
Skinny and Carnelian lead Ash and Bonnie to a larger door and pushed it open.
"Good luck guys" Carnelian wished them
"Thank you" Ash told them "I guess some Jasper's aren't that bad after all"
"Only the cool ones" Skinny said slamming the door shut.
"Ash! Bonnie!" Steven said reuniting the four humans looked around the large throne room, only lit by thousands of pink bubbles carrying Rose Quartz Gems.
"What's going on?" Bonnie asked
Before Ash could answer, Steven began to cry Blue Diamond's tears again. "WE NEED TO HIDE!"
The four humans were able to hide behind one of the pillars before Blue Diamond entered
"Pearl close the door" she commanded, but before she could, Yellow Diamond stepped inside with her Pearl walking next to her. Ash saw that Yellow Pearl carried a chain attached to a collar around another human, Bonnie's older brother Clemont. Ash had to cover Bonnie's mouth with his hand and restrain her from running to him and give away their hiding place. Clemont looked awful, in fact he worse than he did when Ash saw him in his vision back on the Roaming Eye. He took his place standing between Blue and Yellow Pearl and looked up slightly making eye contact with him for a brief moment before looking back to the floor.
"Please tell me you're joking" Yellow Diamond said "you only just left and you're already back?"
"Yellow, what are you doing here?" Blue asked
"I'm here to bring you back to reality Blue. It's been thousands of years, and yet you still can not bring yourself to destroy these Gems? She was shattered by a Rose Quartz and the entire cut of gem deserves the same fate. They should be wiped out of existence, not kept in bubbles!"
"Yellow, she made them. This place, the earth, these Gems, they are all we have left of her memory. Why can't you just let me grieve?"
Yellow Diamond groaned "Pearl, do something. You and the pet sing to her, make her feel better"
"Yes my Diamond" Yellow Pearl obliged clearing her throat before yanking on Clemont's leash and getting Blue Pearl's attention to sing with them. The two Pearls sung in harmony while Clemont's pitch was completely flat and empty, but he harmonized anyway as Yellow Diamond herself began singing
"Why would you want to be here? What do you ever see here that doesn't make you feel worse than you do? And tell me, what's the use of feeling, Blue?
Why would you want to employ her subjects that destroyed her? Why keep up her silly zoo? Oh, tell me! What's the use of feeling, Blue? An army has a use. They can go and fight a war. A Sapphire has a use. She can tell you what it's for. An Agate terrifies. A Lapis terraforms. Where's their Diamond when they need her, Blue? You've got to be a leader, Blue! Yes, of course, we still love her, and we're always thinking of her. But now, there's nothing we can do, so tell me!
What's the use of feeling? What's the use of feeling? What's the use of feeling, Blue? Ohh!"
At this point in her melancholy, she reached her hand out for the Pearls to stand on. Once Yellow Pearl dropped the chain around his neck, Clemont saw his chance and took a small canister out from his sock while the Diamonds and Pearls were distracted and kicked it over Ash, Bonnie, Steven and Greg's hiding spot, which Ash caught and picked up as Yellow Diamond continued her haunting, emotional melody
"How can you stand to be here with it all?
Drowning in all this regret? Wouldn't you rather forget her? Ohh!
Won't it be grand to get rid of it all?
Let's make a plan of attack! Start looking forward and stop looking back!
Oh, yes, of course, we still love her, and we're always thinking of her. Don't you know I miss her, too? But tell me. What's the use of feeling? What's the use of feeling? What's the use of feeling?"
Ash took one last look at his friend, knowing there was nothing they could do to help him at the moment and took their opportunity to escape the throne room, but the door opened before they could run and Holly Blue stepped inside, followed by Sapphire and Ruby
"My Diamond, my gracious, wondrous, luminous, lustrous, Diamond…. sss? Oh my! It is truly an honor to bask in your radiances"
"Get to the point Agate" Yellow Diamond commanded
"Yes, of course. My deepest apologies. You'll be pleased to know that your Sapphire has completed your special deliveries" she said presenting Sapphire to them
"What special deliveries?" Blue Diamond asked
"Um, the special deliveries you requested from Earth, of course."
"I never asked a Sapphire to go to earth" Blue Diamond spoke down to them in an intimidating tone with an annoyed look on her face.
They all watched as the floor around Sapphire began to freeze, as she began losing her cool and began to panic. Ruby quickly took action and took her hand behind her back, allowing Sapphire to improvise her reasons for being there.
"My, future vision foresaw you, requesting more humans for the zoo, so I acted accordingly and retrieved the perfect subjects you would request in the future" she spoke nervously
"Oh, she did" Holly Blue began speaking "why she picked up the most perfect human specimen I've ever seen, why he was almost as perfect as the Jasper from the Berta Kindergarten was-"
"Enough Agate" Blue Diamond demanded with her angry scowl, but her look of anger turned to one of grief again "it's true, the window for preserving Earth's specimens is closing"
"Is that what you want?" Yellow Diamond asked "Sapphire, has the Cluster emerged yet?"
"No my Diamond"
"Then there's still time, thank you Sapphire, that will be all"
Holly Blue escorted Ruby and Sapphire out the door, while she turned back to Blue Diamond
"You see Blue? The Cluster hasn't emerged yet, we can still retrieve organically for both the Zoo and for the Clemont to work with, isn't that right Clemont?"
"Yes, yes my Diamond" he choked out
"Excellent" she said as she returned to trying to convince Blue Diamond to leave.
Ash saw his chance and the group began moving towards the door, he took one last look at Clemont who looked at him and Bonnie with a look of hopelessness and fear before turning back to look at the ground. Once they escaped the Diamonds, they saw they had another challenge ahead of them, as they were now right behind Holly Blue.
"I never expected to see Yellow Diamond in person. What a commanding presence. You can just feel strength and confidence radiating from her. Don't misunderstand me, of course. I'll always be in Blue's confidence, but if I had been made for Yellow, you wouldn't see me complaining." She ranted as Amethyst returned to her stretched form and hid the humans behind her
"I do hope they appreciate all my hard work to preserve the Pink Diamond legacy." She continued "It would really make it worth being stationed here with these sorry excuses for Gems. Oh! It's a shame though. This outpost is so remote, I was beginning to think we'd been forgotten. But we haven't! Two Diamonds - one day! What an honor. I don't think anything could spoil this for me." She spoke before turning to finally see them all attempting to sneak back into the Roaming Eye.
"Uh, hi?" Ash said with a nervous laugh
"What. Is. The. MEANING OF THIS!?" Holly Blue screamed causing most of the Quartzs to enter the doorway and watch "why are these four outside the human containment area!?"
"Holly Blue I can explain" Sapphire began
"No need your charity, not even you could've foreseen how incompetent these Amethysts are" she spoke as she summoned an electric whip from her gem "if you want something done right you'll have to do it yourself! You four are coming with me!" She exclaimed as she lashed at them.
Sapphire and Ruby quickly grasped each other and fused back into Garnet, grabbing the whip mid lash "Get on the ship!" She demanded the humans as Pearl slashed the whip and Amethyst knocked her off balance and wrapped her up with her own whip. "I've been wanting to do this all day" Garnet said as she punched Holly Blue to the ground, all while the Quartzs cheered them on
"What are you doing? They're traitors! Destroy them!" She commanded her soldiers, but they completely ignored her and began wishing the Gems a safe journey home
Amethyst blew them a kiss "famethyst for life!"
Ash nodded to Steven, who bubbled Holly Blue to keep her from hearing his message to the "famethyst"
"Listen everyone, Yellow Diamond has a human with her called Clemont, he's got yellow hair and glasses, but most importantly he's with her against his will, if any of you get the chance, please help him"
Skinny approached him with an understanding smile "we'll do our best to keep your friend safe Ash."
Carnelian also ran up to him "now go! Go back to Earth and make sweet, sweet love to that Lapis of yours!" She said with a smile
"ASH AND LAPIS SITTING IN A TREE! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" The Famethyst teased him again as Steven popped Holly Blue's bubble
"I'll report you to the Diamonds! All of you! You'll all be shattered!" She threatened
Pearl squatted down to stand at Holly Blue's height "you're really going to tell the Diamonds that you allowed a band of traitorous rebels to infiltrate a highly secrete base, steal whatever they wanted, and escape all under your careful watch? Doesn't sound like a good idea Holly Blue. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut! That will be all" she said smugly causing the Famethyst to all laugh and wave goodbye as the Roaming Eye warped out of the zoo.
"Thanks for coming to get me, this has to be like the third craziest weekend I've ever had" Greg said
Ash sat down with Bonnie, who was sitting in one of the Ruby sized chairs looking at her feet sadly "we're coming back for Clemont, with reinforcements. The Diamonds are gonna wish they never messed with my friends"
He took out the canister Clemont kicked to him during Yellow Diamond's song and opened it. It held a torn piece of Clemont's jumpsuit with a message written on it in some kind of red ink.
"If you are reading this, it means that the Diamonds almost have what they want from me and I will be of no longer any use to them. I can only ask for forgiveness for what they are making me do.. Please save my little sister Bonnie. She is trapped in a human zoo that once belonged to Pink Diamond. Please save Bonnie, please forgive me for what I've allowed the Diamonds to do"
Ash refused to read the message out loud to Bonnie, before showing the message to Garnet
"Sounds like your friend is being forced to build some kind of weapon" Garnet suggested as she handed him back Clemont's message. Ash sat down with Bonnie for the entire way back, after two or so hours, Pearl announced they had landed back outside the barn.
As Ash took his first step off the ship, he saw Lapis's familiar dress run up and hug him, but as he leaned in to kiss her, he saw that it was not Lapis wearing the dress.
"JAMES WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!?" He screamed pushing the former Team Rocket member in Lapis drag off of him. He also saw Brock, Serena and Connie exit the barn, Connie was wearing Steven's shirt, Brock's hair was shaped like Peridot's, and Serena creepily enough was wearing an exact replica of Ash's usual outfit.
"Do I even wanna ask?" He asked