Sorry for long update had to watch the week of steven :D, steven bombs everywhere. I will be using "Esteven" and "Nsteven" again.
(NOTICE: This chapter uses alot of breaks. These breaks indicate a different time/area. Hope it will not be hard to follow.)
Chapter 4: I need a favor
3 days Have passed since steven retreated into his gem.
"Steven~... Steven~... WAKE UP ALREADY!". A hand had slapped Steven awake. "WAHHHH" He awoke breathing heavily. " He looked around noticing it was dark just like in his dream. The only difference was that an enormous transparent black quartz gem that acted as a ceiling. Past the quartz gem. He tried to make out what he saw. It was white with orange hair and appeared to have a lump on its head. "Pearl? Steven said squinting his eyes. "Pearl! Pearl! Can you hear me?!"
{Steven, I hope you're alright.} Pearl thought sitting next to his gem.
On the other side of the black quartz gem sat Garnet who was s cross legged with a gaze to the floor, unresponsive to the outside world. Amethyst was in the shape a cat who was curled up and temple was mostly quiet except for Steven's phone that would ring occasionally, and every time the gems looked at the number it was "Connie."
"PEARL!" he Yelled once more, Steven stopped yelling as he knew It would be no use if she couldn't hear him. He looked around saw a black square. {That must be Garnet} he thought to himself. "Steven..." A feminine voice called out to him.
"Steven's eyes widened as he heard that voice. He couldn't believe it. He had to see it in order to believe it. "Is it really you" he said slowly turning. He saw a white dress with a patterns of roses on vines. He looked to see someone he thought he would never meet. "Mom..." He said as tears began to fall under his eyes. "I always wanted to see my little boy." Rose said as she knelt down with her arms open. Stevem Ran into his mothers arms and hugged her. A tear had fallen from Roses eye. "Steven, I wanted to see you for so long." Rose pulled away to take another look at her son. She looked down to see his shirt. "Steven can I see your gem?" Rose asked. Steven lifted his shirt revealing his mother's gem that she had passed on. "Just like mine she whispered" She said. Her smile shrunk as she spotted something odd above his gem. She lifted his shirt higer to inspect it and was shocked. "Steven! why do you have a hole in your chest?!" She said. Steven looked confused and scared. He looked down to see that there was a hole in his chest. "What! Why, How!" He said freaking out.
"Really, you don't remember? I assumed you were watching everything." A voice echoed in. "What? Who- who are you!" Steven yelled, still shocked."Who am I? I am you" the voice replied "You're me?" Steven replied dumbfounded. "Exactly and this must be our mother." The voice said again, but this time a dark figure had risen near Rose and Steven. "Aren't you going to give your son a hug?" ESteven said with his wicked smile.
"I don't know who you are, but You are not my son" Rose said with confidence and intimidation in her voice. ESteven smile vanished "Well, if I'm not your son then you're nothing to me." ESteven charged at NSteven materializing his broadsword. He swung his sword at NSteven, only to be blocked by a shield. "I'm not going to let you hurt my son!" Rose said. ESteven looked at her with rage. Rose was unaffected by his glare as she had anger in her eyes as well. "Then I guess I'll kill you fi-" his sentence was cut short as a pink shield had pounded into ESteven face sending him flying away. "Well that was rude and uncalled for. Now, I'm going to have to rip you limb by limb." he said dusting himself off. Rose did not reply. NSteven distanced himself from the fight that was about to take place. "Are you ready to die?" He shouted at Rose. She did not reply
"Grrr, Answer me!" ESteven yelled charging at her. "You're no match for me." Rose said in a low voice as she flung her shield towards him. The shield zipped across the floor spinning incredibly, leaving a trench as it arched its way towards ESteven. He flinched at the high piteched sound, his body losing its shape. "Gahhh!" ESteven yelled, falling onto his knees covering his ears as his body moved and changed. The shield closed in on him, slicing his body in half and returned to Rose. The shield had a bright purple rim when it returned to Rose. As the shield cooled down it faded back to it's light blue trim.
"So, what are we gonna do when Steven comes back...?" Amethyst asked. Still in a cat form. No one answered, Pearl sat with her head resting on her knees. Garnet was still unresponsive in the same position. A frown grew on Amethysts face, She turned back into her usual form and walked out of the into someone she said " Hey watch where you're-" she froze as she made eye contact with Greg. "Oh, hey Amethyst do you know where Steven is? I haven't seenn in for a long time."
Pearls ears perked up as she recognized the voice. She lifted her head trying to figure out what to say to Greg but she saw Garnet already walking to the door. The door creaked as it opened. "Oh Garnet good, do you know where Steven is I tried asking Amethyst but she looks like she seen a ghost." Garnet didn't say anything she only motioned her hand at Greg to come inside. A confused Greg followed Garnet into the temple.
Garnet stopped infront of a gem that laid on a pillow besides Pearl who had her head down."What's with the black gem?" Greg said. "That's… Steven…" Pearl said in a sad voice. Greg walked to the gem and fell to his knees. Picking up the black gem, tears shed from his eyes and fell towards his beard.
The light illuminating the dark room from above dimmed down. confused Rose looked up seeing Greg. "Greg…" rose whispered and his face started to distance itself from her. "So, that's Greg. Steven's father... now I'm glad you're not my mother. He looks like a poor excuse for a father." ESteven said reconstructing himself. Rose clenched her fist, "aww, Did I hit a nerver?" He said mockingly. Rose lunged at him with her shield bashing his entire body with the force a truck.
Greg's eyes shined from the light that came from the quartz gem. Garnet took off her shades making sure her eyes weren't playing tricks, the gem was really glowing. Pearl peeked over her shoulder to see the shining gem. A few seconds later the gem's light faded away and died. Greg's heart started to beat fast he placed the gem back on the pillow and raced out of the temple to try and calm down. Greg rushed past Amethyst knocking her over. Garnet and Pearl stared at the gem hoping for it's light to come back, but their wish was not granting. Garnet put her shades back on and sat on the couch besides the gem. Steven's phone starting to ring. Garnet looked at his phone the caller id was "Connie" Garnet took her gaze away from the phone and let it ring.
A cloud of smoke rested in the middle of the room. "MOM" NSteven yelled as he ran towards the cloud of smoke. Out of it emerged Rose with the bottom of her dress torn and burnt.
Rose lowered herself to her knees with her arms wide open for a hug. Steven ran into his mother's open arms and gave her a heartwarming hug. "Mom, are you okay?", " Don't worry about me Steven I want to know, are you okay" she tapped his nose playfully. Steven laughed embracing another hug from his mother. "Steven, I watched you grow from when you were baby to now. You faced many challenges, some of them seemed impossible for you but you proved to be stronger than that." She said still hugging him. "That's so touching... to bad Im gonna have to interrupt!" ESteven yelled as he leaped out of the smoke. Rose tossing her son away from danger while summoning her bubble as a giant hand slammed down on the it. ESteven landed on the ground lifting his hand. Rose's bubble was scattered in the center of the hand print that was imprinted on the floor. She got up and glared at ESteven. "What's wrong you seem mad." Esteven said in a annoying voice. "That's it" she said summoning light cannon. She spoke..."If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs.". "That has to be the stupidest… thing.." ESteven stopped short as the cannon charged. "Let's see you come back from this!" the cannon fired shooting an energy blast the looked like Rose at the tip, the cannon beam engulfed ESteven and engulfed him.
The Quartz gem started to glow again but this time the intensity was far greater than before and erupted a shockwave that pushed Pearl and Garnet off the couch. " What was that!" Pearl said . "I don't know" Garnet replied. Both gems apprroached the quartz gem that had calmed down. Garnet noticed something different. she saw two small dots both which were pink. Pearl watched as a tear fell from her shades and onto the gem. Garnet lifted her shades wiped them, putting them back on after. "He's going to be okay" Garnet said in a low yet cheerful voice. She walked out the temple to go fetch Amethyst. {What did Garnet see?} Pearl thought focusing on the quartz gem.
Rose's cannon disappeared and turned her attention back to her son. Rose froze, her whole body and mind in shock. ESteven had NSteven as a hostage. "How did you-"Rose was cut off. "Were are in here, not out there. As long as we're in here me and you can't die. Although those rules don't apply to this met sack." ESteven said tightening his grip on NSteven. Rose charged at ESteven, but He formed his broadsword and pointed it at NStevens neck. "You better stop where you are. Unless you want to lose your only son."Rose instantly stopped and stood looking at the two Stevens. "That's right now you are going let me out of this prison, so I can get my revenge on the those 3 wretched gems that forced me to retreat her." NSteven realised the 3 gems ESteven was talking about was Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst. NStevens tried pushing ESteven away thrashing around violently"Hey what are you- AHHHHH!".ESteven shouted. NSteven quartz gem glowed, and without even knowing. He had absorbed ESteven, his gem started to dim down as a black outline had formed on his quartz gem and the whole in his chest had begun to fill. Steven felt weak in his knees and fell, Rose rushed to her son and held him in her arms. "Steven please listen you are going back to Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst and I want you to do something for me when you return to them…"
Amethyst rushed through the door when she heard the news about Steven's gem. Garnet came in behind Amethyst through the door. The 3 gems towered over the quartz gem waiting for something to happen and it something was happening. The dark color that filled the Quartz gem had retreated to the edge leaving it with a black lining. Pearl gasped as she stepped away from the gem. It started to glow and levitate from the pillow. From the Quartz gem a pink figure had started to form first was a large figure that resembled Rose and shrunk down to Steven's size. It started to materialize as the gems could see Steven clearly now. He levitated in the air for a few seconds before falling to the ground. The 3 gems waited to see if it was the Steven that they knew and loved. Tears formed in pearls eyes as she clenched her fists waiting for an answer.
Steven sat up straight with his head low. He looked at them with his blurry vision. He gave a friendly smile as he seen his friends were okay. Pearl rushed to Steven first and embraced him in a hug as she sobbed. Garnet and Amethyst. followed behind Pearl and all gathered in for a group hug. Steven's gem started to glow, the gems looked at his gem. All 4 gems felt a presence comfort them They looked up to see a energy figure that resembled Rose had wrapped its arms around the group. "Mom" Steven said softly as the other gems stared in amazement. He let out a yawn as he fell asleep in the warmth of all the gems. The 3 gems stared at him as he slept. Garnet looked up again to see the rose figure had disappeared, she gave a smile and gave Steven a kiss on his head and said "Good Night Steven."
Chapter 5 Will be added soon. Thanks for reading. Share your thoughts about the new steven universe episodes I had no words to describe both the return and jail break.
This chapter has been double checked for Sentence cuts.
