Chapter 3
Kim awoke some time later, locked in a holding cell, guarded by a single energy barrier. She tried to stand, but her whole body and head ached. She felt a huge bump on her forehead. What had happened beforehand was a blur. She was still on the Nemesis, she knew that much.
On the bridge, Steven received a transmission from Grindor.
Grindor: The girl is up.
Steven: Excellent. Have Swindle interrogate her for any information on her background. Then we'll decide if she's worth killing or not.
Grindor: As you command.
A Decepticon with red car designs and a single eye walked up to Kim's cell.
Swindle: Rise and shine, sleeping beauty. I got a few questions to ask you.
Swindle entered the cell, shutting the door behind him. He sat in front of Kim.
Swindle: What's your name?
Kim: Jean Gossamer.
Swindle: Alright.
He formed a taser from his hands, and zapped Kim with it. She cringed in pain, as Swindle turned it off.
Swindle: Tell me your real name.
Kim: Kimberly Ann Possible.
Swindle: Hah. Kim Possible. Funny name. Now...
A knocking was heard on the door.
Steven: I got this, Swindle.
Swindle exited the cell and Steven entered.
Kim: You're not going to get anything other than my name.
Steven: I knew you'd say that.
Steven grabbed Kim's forehead, copying all the information in her mind to his mind. When he was finished, he knew everything.
Steven: Impressive résumé. You've saved the Earth on 12 occasions. You can't do much from here, so you'll stay up here.
Kim: As soon as my friends find out I'm here...
Steven: They'll share the same fate as those you brought up here.
Kim: Not if I can help it!
Kim leapt up and attacked Steven. She struck forward with two punches that Steven dodged. She then swung a roundhouse kick towards the side of his face. He flicked away her kick, and she spun in midair from the force of the flick, hitting the floor hard.
Steven: Pathetic. You're enemies must be truly weak if you manage to defeat them.
On Earth, at the Possible house, a knocking was heard at the door. Kim's father, James Possible, answered. Ron Stoppable, Kim's partner/best friend, was waiting.
James: Oh, hey Ron. What brings you here?
Ron: Uh, have any of you seen Kim? I've been calling her all day, and she won't pick up.
James: Ann and I thought she was with you.
Ron: No. Why would she?
James: She went on a mission, I assumed she'd take you.
Ron: No she didn't.
Ron pulled out a Kimmunicator, given to him by Kim as a gift. He contacted Wade.
Wade: Hey Ron. What's up?
Ron: I'll tell you what's up. Did you send Kim on a mission without me?
Wade: I wanted her to go with you, but she insisted on just taking a squad of men, and herself. Why?
Ron: She disappeared, and nobody can find her. Where did you send her?
Wade: Ron. I know what you're thinking. But the guy that has her, or kid that has her, doesn't mess around. Just look at what he did to Drakken and Shego.
Ron: Look, Mr. Possible. I have to go.
Ron left before James could say a word.
Wade played the footage of Steven's fight with Drakken and Shego, showing the incredible ease Steven defeated them.
Ron: Woah.
Wade: Yeah. You can't just go up there. Especially with the kind of heat he's packing.
Ron: Which would be?
Wade: Well, I've actually been trying to find out about him, and I found he packs three different alien species.
Wade split the screen, to show a database on each species. He first showed images of the necromorphs.
Wade: From what I've gathered, these "Necromorphs" as they're called, use a lot of hunting and brutality to beat and tear their victims into the ground. Once that's over, the dead become more necromorphs. Be careful for some of the more lethal types. Steven uses them as his main way of hitting population centers. It helps expand his army.
Wade switched the footage to images of the xenomorphs.
Wade: These "Xenomorphs" are much more intelligent and lethal than necromorphs. They know how to cut power to certain areas, and use raptor-like tactics to kill their opponents. They use face huggers that ingest babies into humans, which burst from the chests of the hosts. Its what comes out of the chest that's terrifying.
Wade switched the footage to images of Decepticons.
Wade: Finally "Decepticons" are the intelligence and military force of his army. All of them have specific tools and roles to fulfill, and are at least 30-40 feet tall.
Ron: Well then! What do I do? Kim's trapped up there, probably being tortured, and I've got nothing to fight what he's got. And I don't know what to do.
Wade: I do. I got coordinates to where his nemeses live.
Ron: Who would those guys happen to be?
Wade: Women. Just get to this location, and you'll have the help you'll need.
Hours later, Ron was on a helicopter. He was flying over a town known as Beach City.
Ron: Sure this is the place, Wade? Looks kinda...dead.
Wade: I told you. The whole town was slaughtered by the kid who has Kim. They're in that mountain.
The chopper landed in front of a beach house on a mountain. Ron walked up to the house, knocked on the door. The door cracked open, and an eye shown through.
Voice: Yes?
Ron: Uh. Do you happen to know someone by the name Steven Universe?
Multiple gasps were heard. The door suddenly flew open. Three women were seen. One was a tall, muscular woman, with dark pinkish-brown skin and curly black hair styled into a cubed afro. She had futuristic triangular shades, and two red gems in her hands. She wore a black and red bodysuit with cube shoulder pads and a pink star with a magenta outline on the chest, and long black gloves covering her middle fingers.
Another one of them had a thin, bird-like body and pale white skin with a bluish-green tint. Her short hair was pastel orange/strawberry-blonde styled to a point like a pixie cut. She had large light blue eyes and a cone shaped nose. She had a white gemstone embedded in her forehead. She wore a light blue-green tunic with a yellow star and a large turquoise sash tied around her waist. She had pale orange short leggings, pink socks and turquoise shoes, and was just a few inches shorter than the red lady.
Another woman was dark purple and had long very pale, light-purple hair covering her left eye. She had plump lips and lilac-purple skin, and a heavier build than the other two. She had a purple gem in her chest. She was slightly taller than Steven, but shorter than the other two. She wore a dark purple, off-shoulder tunic with a black tank top underneath, black leggings with a star shape cut on the knees, and a small rip on the left leg, and white boots.
Ron: Hi there. Ron Stoppable.
Red Lady: We are the Crystal Gems! I am Garnet.
Purple Lady: My name's Amethyst.
White lady: You can call me Pearl.
Garnet: What's Steven done this time?
Ron: This time?
Amethyst: Come inside. Let's explain.
They walked inside the house and sat down. Pearl projected a hologram screen from her Pearl.
Pearl: Long ago, Steven was a member of the Crystal Gems. We fought to protect humanity from evil threats.
Garnet: We never imagined that he would be one of those evil threats. He came into contact with a massive artifact, called the Marker. It's what creates dangerous human-spawned monsters called...
Ron: Necromorphs.
Pearl: Yeah.
Garnet: Touching the artifact. It changed him. The Marker was destroyed, but he was warped in body and mind.
Amethyst: Now he's crazy. And smart, and cunning, and ruthless, and every other word used to describe smart and evil.
Ron: Well, I need your help. He has my friend and...
Pearl: Stop. We can't do that.
Garnet: Going after her is just what he'd want.
Ron: Wait. How did you know she was a she?
Garnet: I have the ability to foresee all possible futures, and I can't see many futures where we come out of getting your friend back.
Ron: But you have to help me. I can't go up there alone!
Amethyst: We go up there, we all die.
Ron: At least we have to try! Do you guys want to look back on this knowing we didn't even attempt to rescue her?
The Gems looked at each other momentarily.
Garnet: Alright. We'll help you.
Ron: So, how do we get up there without being spotted and blasted?
Amethyst: I got it!
Everyone looked at Amethyst.
Amethyst picked up some bright green orbs, stepping on a crystal pad.
Garnet: I hope you know what you're doing.
Amethyst: I got this.
Amethyst activated the pad. A massive wave of light surrounded them, and they were suddenly transported to another area of the world. They arrived in an area with many large warp pads.
Pearl: The...Galaxy Warp? Amethyst, why are we at the Galaxy warp?!
Amethyst: Hear me out. We use these robonoid things to repair one of the pads, then use them to warp through space, and we catch Steven's ship in one of the warp streams. He'll never see it coming. We'll take him totally by surprise!
Pearl: Oh no! Absolutely not. We are not giving the Homeworld Gems a chance to get to Earth.
Ron: If I could interject, why don't we just blow the pad behind us? Our way back to Earth would be the ship.
Garnet: My gauntlets can double as timed explosives.
Amethyst: So it's settled!
Amethyst cracked one of the robonoids, and began spraying white goo on one of the pads. The pad suddenly repaired itself, glowing to activate. Garnet summoned a gauntlet from the gem in her right hand. She slammed it into the ground near the warp pad. Then, the four walked onto the pad.
Garnet: Let me see...
Garnet concentrated for a moment.
Garnet: Found him.
Garnet activated the pad, and the beam shot into space. As the beam exited from the Galaxy Warp, the pad exploded from the gauntlet bomb. The warp beam continued through space. Soon, the beam was about to phase through the Nemesis.
Garnet: Alright. Here we go. Ready. Set. Now!
All four of them burst out of the warp stream, landing in an empty part of the ship.
Ron: Woah. Look at this place. I could see why Steven would make this his home/battleship.
Amethyst: Focus. We gotta save your friend.
Ron: How will I know where she is?
Garnet walked up and kissed Ron on the forehead. Images flooded his mind.
Ron: Woah. I...know where Kim is. How did you do that?
Garnet: I passed my future vision on to you for a moment.
Ron: I see where she is.
Garnet: We'll find Steven and take him out.
Ron: I'll get Kim.
The four split up. Ron ran to a prison part of the ship while the Gems made their way to the bridge.
The Gems arrived at the bridge, finding Steven's curly hair sticking out from behind a chair.
Garnet: Steven! We know what you've been doing here. We're here to put a stop to it. Because we are the Crystal Gems. And we are going to defend the Earth from you.
Steven appeared after turning the chair.
Steven: So, this was all I warranted? A defective pearl? An overcooked runt? And this shameless display? I expected more. No matter. I've been training ever since you defeated me. This will be easy.
Steven blasted the entire group with an energy blast, created a field of smoke.
Ron arrived at Kim's cell. He knocked on the door.
Kim: Ron? Is that you?
Ron: Kim! You're alive!
Kim: Ron. You have to get out of here. Steven...
Ron: Is fighting my back-up, the Crystal Gems. They're trying to commandeer the ship so we can get to Earth.
Kim: Thanks for coming for me.
Ron: Why'd you go alone? We could've faced him together.
Kim: Yeah. I knew it'd be dangerous, so I had to go alone.
Ron: Well, let's get to the bridge. The Gems have probably beat Steven to the ground at this point.
The Gems had recovered from the smoke blast. They activated their gems and summoned weapons from them. Garnet drew a pair of gauntlets that covered her whole hand and her wrist in a bulky dark red and light red cover; the underside of the bases were a solid orange color. The fingers were red with black at the tips. Both gauntlets had knuckles embedded with light red garnets, and were adorned with a yellow star at the back hand area.
Pearl drew a magic spear that consisted of a glowing pearlescent blade with a similarly colored pommel and a white grip. The blade is wrapped around the grip, only opening when she grabbed it. The lower spiral of her blade did not appear to be sharp, as she held that section of the blade when in wand form.
Amethyst bore a magic, multi-tailed violet whip with three tails. The whip had a cross-guard in the form of a white star. The lash was dark purple and was divided into three different segments with gems on the ends. Multiple shards of amethyst were embedded on the main lash, for inflicting additional damage and further restraining the target. Her whip had a purple amethyst as the pommel and the handle itself was purplish grey.
All three of them attacked. Garnet swung both of her gauntlets down on him, and he grabbed the coming strikes with both hands. Pearl swung downward with her spear from another direction, and Steven blocked it with his foot.
Pearl: Amethyst, now!
Amethyst tucked into a ball, spun in place to build up speed, then fired her way toward Steven. He released his blocking foot, causing Pearl to fall over. He then kicked Pearl in the way of Amethyst's spin dash, causing the two to fly into a wall, all while holding back Garnet's punches. He then kicked Garnet into the other gems. He then formed a massive fist from dark energy, preparing to crush the gems.
Ron: Hey!
Garnet: Oh, no.
Kim: Leave them alone!
Steven: Come to get humiliated twice? Fine.
Ron: I got this, KP!
Ron ran towards Steven.
Steven: Good.
Steven blocked Ron's punch with a single head butt, sending him sliding back. He then sparked his hands with electricity.
Kim: Ron, stop!
Ron ran forward again to attack. Steven jabbed his hands into Ron's stomach, causing a massive shockwave to surround his body suddenly. When it was finished, the spots where Steven jabbed his hands started expanding glowing shapes and lines across his body. It spread over until his entire body was covered in bright green lines, causing his body to start falling apart. His arms fell off as he fell back, looking towards Kim.
Ron: K-Kim. R-r-r...
Ron suddenly exploded into a cloud of smoke.
Kim: Ron! NO!
Steven: Human destabilization technique. It works better than what I thought.
Kim: What did you do to him?
Steven: This technique allows me to cause a human's cells to pull themselves apart.
Kim ran forward, but Steven grabbed her by the head. She was kneeling to the ground looking at Steven in anger.
Steven: Still don't get it do you? Your friend is dead, as the cloud of smoke around us. Your allies have been defeated, and you coming alone has caused it all. YOU...HAVE...FAILED!
The last thing Kim saw was Steven's head coming towards her before blacking out.