Author's Notes: Well here comes another multi part Chapter... chapters… Don't judge me! Why are you still reading this? read what is below! :3


Chapter 22: There's No Place Like Home (part 1)

Steven woke up in his bed. The sheets were sticking to his body like a fly trap. He unstuck the sheets from his body and jumped to the kitchen and grabbed a bottled water from the refrigerator. He walked to the window and lifted the shades. He spat water all over the window from the sight. The ocean was gone. A desert plain was left in the ocean absence. Every citizen from beach city was crowded in front of the temple. He noticed Amber, Mica, and Granite were down there with the crowd.


Mayor Dewey was screaming into his megaphone at the the brothers. "Why has our ocean disappeared? No one wants to come to desert city! I demand you to go and fix th-" He was interrupted by Amber who smacked the megaphone away. "Just go home and by the end of the day we will have this sorted out. Mayor Dewey held his breath, Amber had a pretty threatening face on him. He turned around and told everyone to go home and wait until the end of today. The crowd left with a fuss and so did Dewey. The brother returned back to the temple. "Ah, you're awake. I guess we don't need to tell you that the ocean is gone." Mica said talking to a still shocked Steven. "D-did Lapis do this?" he asked. "Yes, and we plan on stopping her." Garnet said walking out of her chamber with Pearl and Amethyst following from behind. "Well if you guys are going, I'm going too. It's because of me the ocean is gone, So I have to help too." Steven said snapping out of his state of shock. "I don't see why not you've helped us before and I'm sure you'll do it again. "Road Trip!" Amethyst and Mica screamed. The door burst opened and Greg screamed "Have you seen this!? The ocean is-"

"We know." Granite stated. "Oh well, umm…" Greg stood there not knowing what to say. "Actually Greg can we borrow your van?" Amber asked. "Umm sure?" he answered.


"There that should do. The new suspension should hold now, plus I cleared the back so there is more room now." Greg said wiping sweat from his forehead. The van bounced to the ground as something landed on top. "Lion!" Steven called out. Lion jumped from the van next to Steven. "You wanna come too? *he responded by making a quick growl* I'll take that as a yes."

Everyone gathered in the truck besides Steven who would ride on Lion. "Okay we are all ready. Le-" Steven turned around to a familiar voice it was Connie. "Connie what are you doing here? I thought you were grounded." he said. "I am but when I heard the ocean had disappeared I couldn't help but come here…", "But why?" He asked. Her faced turned red "Are you heading out to find why the ocean disappeared?" She asked. "Yeah, the gems and I are going to find Lapis, She can control water and we are going to figure out why she took the ocean." he answered. "Well promise me one thing... Come back, okay?". He nodded his head before heading out with the gems into the new desert, where the ocean once was.


Minutes passed and those minutes turned into hours as they headed towards the center of the issue. Amethyst and Mica slept back to back snoring, everyone else didn't know what to say or have a plan once they reached Lapis. Pearl steered the van around trenches and rocks avoiding any collisions. " I… I can't believe Lapis would do this… Gems Shouldn't fight each other…" Steven spoke breaking the silence. Pearl listen and couldn't help but have a face of guilt. "Actually… we're always fighting each other. All gems aren't necessarily good. All those 'monsters' we fought used to be just like us, but they've become corrupted and broken. We have to take care of them, subdue them, contain them... It's the best we can do for them for now. If we don't then.."

A blue light rose from a distance and an enormous pillar of water stretched into the sky father than than the eye can see. "Woah" Steven couldn't help but be amazing at this enormous aquarium. All kinds of fish swam inside the aquarium. Everyone left the van and gathered by the tower. "Lapis Lazuli is here, only problem is she's at the top." Garnet said. "Well how can we get up there without alerting her?" Amber said. The ground shook violently then calmed. "She sensed us" Garnet yelled. Out of the water tower came a large water orb that resembled Lapis. "Go away, before I make you." she said angrily. "B-but we're are friends. Aren't we?" he questioned. "You're one of them... One of the Crystal Gems…." she responded. "What do you mean? We're all gems right? just let us help you." he said. Her face of anger turned to one of sadness. "You don't understand, just leave me alone." she said as she retreated back into the tower. Steven walked up to tower and placed his hand on the surface of the water. "We're not leaving until you give us back our ocean." Suddenly a hand reached out and raised Steven by his shirt. "I said leave me alone!" she screamed.

A clone of Steven made of water emerged from the water and threw him. He was then caught by Garnet. A strange noise came from the tower and 5 more clones came out each copying released Steven from her grip "Get behind us." she said. he did as he was told. Everyone lined up next to each other. The Gems summoned their weapons and the clones copied their weapons.

"uh-oh" Amethyst commented, "Stay together don't let them separate u-UGH" Garnet was attack while she spoke. Her clone sent her send flying far digging into the earth. When she finally stopped she rose from the earth and there was her clone waiting for her. Garnet crack her neck and lunged towards the clone, and The clone did the same. their fists collided and send a shock wave creating a small crater beneath them. When their feet touched the ground they threw punches at each trading blow after blow. Garnet swayed under one and shattered the clones head. She smiled in victory, but that smile was temporary. The clones head reformed and it launched Garnet off her feet and chased her.


Granite wasted not even a second after Garnet was sent flying. He summoned his Maul and raised it over his head. Amber's eye widened, and he jumped as quickly as he could. Granites Maul crashing down like a meteor but didn't connect. It was stopped by his own clone. The clone had stopped the maul with one hand and punched him in the stomach. Granite grabbed the clone by it's neck and slammed it into the ground right beneath his feet. Granite and his clone disappeared into a cave below them.

Amber was greeted by his clone as they clashed kunais in the air. Staring each other down. Amber has stuck a kunai into his clone and pushed it away. The replica blew up and water droplets fell to the ground, But in seconds. New Amber clones morphed from those droplets.

Mica and his clone ran around like two little kids in a sugar rush. both of their chains snapping at each other trying to land the first blow while trying to dodge their opponents attacks.

Pearl Stood her ground against hers. They both fought with grace and flexibility but Pearls skills were unmatched. She sliced her clone in two. The sliced clone formed two more Pearls when they split. "I hate fighting me!" She said summoning another spear, dual wielding.

Amethyst was using her whip to gather and throw rocks at her replica. But it shifted and moved dodging the rocks. "Come on!" she yelled in anger. Suddenly a water whip wrapped around her leg and threw her into the ground. "Well as long as we're playing fair." She leaped out of the dust of cloud as purple puma and crashed into the clone using her knees.

Steven hid by his father's van hiding. He heard footsteps near him. He turned around to meet face to face his clone. "Lapis, I don't want to fight." He said. His clone picked him up and threw him. Steven rolled on the floor until he came to a stop. "Here, let me help you…". The water Steven formed a water ball in it's hand and threw it at Steven. He raised his hand swiped it away. He stared at the clone with anger. His pupils changed their color much to the color of his gem. " I don't want to fight, but i guess I have no choice...".


Author's Notes: Okay so there will be a 6 different fights going on so in the next chapter I will be going into detail with their respective fights. I will make a sign where to skip if you just want to skip the in detail fights. Anyways look forward to thursdays chapter.