Developing Chalcedony
Chapter 2
"Let's go check if Steven's gem is all right," said Garnet.
They went to check on Steven in his room. He was watching TV.
They looked at Steven's gem and it was all right.
"Hey Steven, could you project your shield for us?" asked Garnet.
"Yeah," said Steven, and he pulled up his shield.
"Let's try if Connie can do anything new," said Amethyst.
When they looked, Connie was trying out her new golden wings.
"Hey Connie, I never knew you could fly!" said Steven.
"I'm still trying to get the hang of it," said Connie. "Give me a few minutes."
Pearl woke up and looked over the situation. "This could be a disaster," she said. "This has never happened before!"
"Half-human, half-gems never happened before Steven," said Garnet.
"If you say so," said Pearl doubtfully.
They heard a noise on the roof.
"My future vision says we'll find Peridot out there," said Garnet.
"Let's fuse and try to catch her," said Connie.
"Yeah," said Steven.
"Don't risk it," said Pearl. "Your powers are new and unstable."
But Steven and Connie were already swinging around in their fusion dance.
Stevonnie rushed outside and saw Peridot on the roof.
"Oh shlub!" said Peridot. "Who are you?"
"Stevonnie!"
"Not another Steven. I thought there was only one of you," said Peridot. "I'm getting out of here."
Peridot made her fingers into a helicopter and started to fly away.
"I'll start our wings," said the Connie part of Stevonnie.
The golden wings appeared and they started to chase Peridot in the air.
"Oh no! You can fly, too?" asked Peridot.
Peridot aimed her other hand to blast them.
"I'll get the shield up," said the Steven part of Stevonnie.
The bubble shield came up and bounced off the blast.
Then something strange happened. The wings touched the bubble and the two things snapped together into a new form.
They couldn't fly any more and Stevonnie fell to the beach. They landed on their feet without getting hurt.
"It's good we had all that sword training," said Stevonnie.
"Hah hah, you clods!" called Peridot. She flew further away.
Stevonnie picked up the new combined thing, a weapon that looked like a crossbow. The body part was pink like the shield and the bow part was made of the golden wings.
"Can we shoot this at Peridot?" asked the Connie part of Stevonnie. "I don't see any arrows."
"I think so," said the Steven part. "It's kind of like Opal's bow. Maybe it shoots energy."
They concentrated and a ball of air appeared in the crossbow. They aimed and shot it. It hit Peridot and knocked her out of the air. She fell to the beach.
The other Crystal Gems came running out and they grabbed Peridot.
Peridot said, "You'd better not hurt me. I'm the only one who can stop the device I put on your base."
"What?" said Garnet.
"When it goes off it will take out this whole human village," said Peridot.
Garnet pulled off one of Peridot's hands. "First we disable you so you cannot fly away."
Garnet carried Peridot up to the roof and set her down right next to the bomd.
Peridot said, "If you give me my hand back afterwards, I will stop it."
Steveonnie, crossing her fingers behind her back, said "Okay."
Peridot pushed a sequence of buttons on the bomb and it stopped.
Then they took her inside and Steveonnie made a cloud jail in Rose's room and put Peridot into it.
They gave her her hand and foot back, because Steveonnie decided not to break her promise after all.
"I will join you, if you let me out of this prison," said Peridot. "It's too pink for me."
"Cross your gem?" asked Steveonnie?
"Okay," said Peridot.