At the next day, inside Steven's House (9:57 A.M)...
On the next day, All Beach City was covered in snow that fall from yesterday; everyone on Beach City were picking up the fallen snow and began to open once again all the business shops once the snow gets clear out. When Steven turned on the television all he saw it was a bright, loud and weird static. Of course thanks to this loud sound of staticness it woke up the Crystal Gems and Connie from its peaceful slumber.
"Nnrgh... STEVEN!" said Pearl as she was the first one to woke up and saw Steven who already got up. She immediately hugged Steven.
"Oh, heh, heh, heh, Good morning Pearl." said Steven who was surprised to see how Pearl hug him so suddenly. Amethyst along with Lapis and Jasper were the next ones who wake up and proceed to do the same.
"Hey little man! Some pretty, crazy, and wild night of yesterday, huh?" said Amethyst with a little smile on her face.
"AMETHYST!" said an annoyed Pearl not wanting to Steven to remember any of that terrible night. Garnet, Peridot, and Connie finally got up and Connie runned towards Steven hugging him. Of course this make Steven blush.
"Good morning Steven." said Garnet with a smile.
"Heh, heh, heh, Good morning Garnet, Amethyst, Connie, Lapis, Peri, and Jasper. I hope you all had a great sleep." said Steven with a smile. The Crystal Gems and Connie were relieved so much at seeing how Steven finally smiled after that disturbing experience... they even thought that Steven would be scarred for the rest of his life thanks to that traumatizing event. Then Connie noticed the static sound coming from the television.
"Why is does static is coming from the television?" asked Connie. This broked the hug and now all the Crystal Gems concern about it. Peridot only supposed that it could be one of the different effects from the weapon upcoming arrival.
"I don't know. It has been like that ever since I woke up." answered Steven. This make Garent worried about the condition of the television.
"I think I know what could be the reason." said Garnet.
At the Communication Hub...
There were a bunch of pillars who were broken or destroyed lying down on the ground. Howeer, there were some pillars who were still standing and were forming a sort of like tower. Then a loud roar came out of nowhere and a portal appeared. On that portal Lion along with the Crystal Gems who were riding it appeared from it. Lion was shaking its legs and soon enough he fall thanks to the weight of six Crystal Gems riding it. Then Steven along with Connie appeared from the mane and they grabbed air seemnigly like they were holding their breath.
"Lion, are you okay?" asked Steven concerned about Lion who were lying down on the ground. Lion answered with a soft roar seemingly saying, Yeah I'm fine... then Steven patted Lion head. Then all the Crystal Gems got down from Lion and saw that the tower of Communication Hub was still destroyed after Sugilite appeared.
"Well... at least the tower is still down. So that left us with no other clue." said Garnet. Lapis and Jasper were amazed that this tower was still on Earth after thousands and thousands years ago. Peridot didn't know much about Gem old technology, but she could feel that this tower was used for the gems to communicate with other devices and interfere with the signals.
"So... where does that leaves us? I mean... if its not the Communication Hub then what is causing the static?" said a very confused Pearl.
"Maybe its just a problem with the antenna? Or it could be an announcment of the president?" said Connie.
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" said a very confused Peridot.
"Well... in sometimes when a big storm is coming sometimes our antenna gets bugged and it makes our T.V get that kind of static. Also when I meant by the president is that in some countries the presidents makes all the channel recieve that static so they can watch the channel news of the president so they can hear what it has to say to the whole country." explained Connie.
Peridot know that none of them was the real reason. She knows that the weapon is going to come in four days and they have to get prepared for the worst.
"Hmmm... I'm afraid that none of them are the real reason." said Peridot with a sad face.
"Huh? You do, Peri? Thats awesome! Please tell us!" said Steven with a smile. Peridot was very relieved when she saw that Steven was behaving like his old self, glad, sweet, considerate, and very cheerful. But she knew that by telling about the weapon thats coming to Earth will seriously affect Steven especially after having all those horrible nightmares.
"I'll tell everyone when we return back home, but for now you need some beakfast." said Peridot with a little smile.
"Aww..." said Steven a little bit disappointed since he wanted to hear the reason, but...his stomach had something else to say.
"She is not wrong Steven. You need breakfast." said Garnet.
"Yeah... we don't want you to get all mushed up." said Amethyst. Then Connie's stomach began to growl as well meaning that she is hungry too.
"Both... need to eat breakfast." added Garnet. Steven laughed a little bit, while Connie simply blushed from the utter embarrasment.
Inside Steven's House (10:14 A.M)...
Steven and Connie were eating eggs and bacon breakfast togther. The Crystal Gems however were sitting around on the couch at the living room. They weren't talking however, they just sit there looking all worried and with nervous faces.
"Do you think that they are like that because of me?" said very sad Steven. This surprised Connie.
"What do you mean?" said a confused Connie.
"Do you think that they are scared because of I told them about the nightmares I had yesterday? I mean... I was very scare too and would be scare if someone told me that." said Steven with a sad face. Connie saw the suffering of Steven, and she couldn't stand seeing Steven all like this.
"Steven...remember that you told me about the nightmares you had to me, and look! I'm not worried or nervous. Probably the Crystal Gems are very scared because they love you and they hate seeing you like this just like I do." said Connie with a smile.
"...Thanks Connie. I needed that." said Steven with a big smile and he proceed to continue eat his breakfast. Connie was relieved when she saw that Steven smiled.
After Steven and Connie eated breakfast they checked the television was already fixed up or was still bugged. Steven grabbed the T.V remote control and turn it on...unfortunately the television was still not working and was still emiting the distortioned static.
"Oh man... the television is still not working." said Steven.
"Well... at least is not literally broken." added Connie trying to cheer up Steven. Suddenly there was two knocks at the door.
"Who could that be?" said Connie as she watched Steven going downstairs and opening the door. The one who was knocking the door was Mayor Dewey, and he was sweating very nervously with a nervous face.
"Good morning, Young Universe." greeted the Mayor with a smile, but was still sweating.
"Oh. Good Morning, Mayor Dewey. What can I do for you?" said Steven with a smile.
"Ah, well... You see... heh...*clears throat* Have you noticed that yesterday was snow... on the season of Summer?" said Mayor Dewey.
"Yeah, I did." responded Steven.
"Ahh of yourse you did, because you are a really smart kid. Anyways, have you also noticed that the television is not working..." said Mayor Dewey.
"Yeah I did. But don't worry the gems are going to fix it." added Steven.
"Ahhh, I'm very glad that you mentioned your...umm...your guardians and aunts." said Mayor Dewey while fixing his tie.
"My...Aunts?" said a confused Steven, not understanding what the Mayor Dewey just said.
"You know...the blue one, the one who looks like a dorito, the scary one?" said Mayor Dewey.
"Uhmmm..." added an oblivious Steven.
"Look... Alot of weird events had happend on Beach City and its pretty obvious that all of you are the main reason for it. I want to speak with all of them now..." said a nervous Mayor Dewey. Ever since he was elected Mayor for the first time, he had seen all citizens of Beach City, however whenever he saw the Crystal Gems he would get more nervous than he normally is, and now that there are more Crystal Gems he would get more nervous than ever in his life.
"Umm... I think its not the right time." said Steven. Then Connie came downstairs and and was at the side of Steven. Lapis noticed that Steven was talking with a man who was sweating to much. Mayor Dewey then took a peek from the door and noticed that indeed all the gems were worried and nervous about something.
"...All right. But can you please answer me, why is the television not working since yesterday?" asked Mayor Dewey.
"Yesterday?" added a confused Steven.
"Actually today we saw that the television is not working." added Connie. Mayor Dewey didn't know what to do. The only persons who he knows what is the cause of this problem are not in the mood to be questioned by him.
"*sigh* It looks like I don't have any choice then. Steven... if you are not busy, can you help me fix this problem and procure that the city doesn't know about this?" said Mayor Dewey with a defeated sigh. Steven immediately got stars on his eyes and smiled, however Connie was confused about all this.
"Ummm... Mr. Dewey, why don't you want that the city fins out about this?" asked Connie.
"You see... Beach City has one dark story...I want to keep this city under control to prevent any kind of panic and disastreous attacks or outrages." answered Mayor Dewey with a sad face. Steven and Connie were a little bit confused and surprised upon hearing Mayor Dewey answer.
"Look we don't have time... are you going to help?" said Mayor Dewey while checking his watch.
"Sure! I'll gladly help! Oh! Can Connie come too?" said Steven.
"Sure. If its okay for you then she can come along, but I'm not paying both of you." responded Mayor Dewey. Steven got very happy at hearing Mayor Dewey response, of course Connie got happy and excited since it was the first time she get to help someone important for the government.
At the streets of Beach City (10:20 A.M)...
Beach City was covered with snow that fell from yesterday, of course Mayor Dewey was very shocked by seeing how for the first time this strange phenomenom occurred last and Connie were sitting on the van of Mayor Dewey. The van of Mayor Dewey had a rather particular decorations. Everyimte Mayor Dewey turns on his van the words, Ma-yor De-wey will be pronounced from the horn of the van. Connie couldn't ignore that all Beach City was decorated with festival things and on the far end of the street there was a big gangway stage for the contest of the Beach Woman, and on the left side there was a big stage with storage instruments.
"Mayor Dewey, is this festival always a custom here?" asked Connie.
"Well...Yes. Every year there is a big festival on Beach City that is organized by every citizens. The mayor of the city always help organize and also it host the festival. It had been like that since William Dewey the second, arrived." said Mayor Dewey.
"Oh! How inappropiate of me... I forgot to ask you whats your name, little girl." said Mayor Dewey.
"Oh. I'm Connie...Connie Maheswaran." responded Connie.
"Well Connie... I'm Mayor Bill William Dewey the eighth." said Mayor Dewey while presenting himself with a confident smile.
Then the van of Mayor Dewey stopped in the middle of the streets and saw that all the citizens were reunited there including Greg, Lars, Sadie, The Pizza family, and the Fryman family picking up the snow. Mayor Dewey got out of the van and took out some bags containing pins saying, Re-elect Mayor Dewey and some brochures containing information of the Festival of Beach City and finally some invitations to participate the activities of the festival with him. Steven and Connie proceed to get out from the van as well. Mayor Dewey walked towards them.
"Listen here, Steven and Connie. I'm going to give an important announcment to the citizens. I need that both of you give these to all the people okay?" said Mayor Dewey as he give the bags to Steven and Connie. Then Mayor Dewey climbed his van and took out a speaker. Everyone watched Mayor Dewey turning on the speaker.
"Oh great...Now whats deal now?" said Lars with an annoyed tone.
"Greetings, Citizens of Beach City! As you may noticed an awful and annoying static is coming from all televisions. But don't worry, I already had found the cause of this and will immediately fix it. The static will be gone soon enough and you will be able to watch your favorite shows on the TV." said Mayor Dewey while Steven and Connie were giving the bags to everyone. Connie was extremely confused by hearing the statement of Mayor Dewey speech.
"Yeah right... thats what he said last time the electricity go down." said Lars.
"Here you go dad." said Steven while giving a bag to his dad.
"Hey there, Ste-mac. Is the electricity going to be lost again or are you doing some political favors along with Connie?" said Greg with a teasing tone.
"Heh, heh, nope...we are not going to have another lights out night." said Steven with a nervous tone.
"Well... I better get back to the car wash then. Alot of snow fell yesterday and I need to earn the bread. See ya on tomorrow." said Greg while waving at his son.
After the speech of Mayor Dewey ended, Mayor Dewey, Steven, and Connie returned back to the van and they drived away from the current location.
"Soooo...whats the cause?" asked Connie. This confused Mayor Dewey.
"Huh? What cause?" said Mayor Dewey not understanding what Connie asked.
"You know...the cause of the static." said Connie.
"Huh?! I haven't discovered anything or at least a single clue about that weird static." said Mayor Dewey.
"What?! You lied to them!" said Connie.
"Connie... I know that what Mayor Dewey just said its bad, but he has his reasons." added Steven.
"Steven is right... I have my reasons." said Mayor Dewey.
"But what kind of reasons are valiable for you to lie?!" said Connie.
"Listen Connie... I know that lying is bad, but sometimes in extreme cases you have to use it to protect the people and the town... thats how politics work...not just here but also in the whole world. You just can't tell them the truth because deep down you know that will possibly provoke a terrible disaster even if it wasn't your mistake." said Mayor Dewey.
"Thats deep." added Steven.
"Indeed... every citizens here on Beach City always wait for you to make a mistake. When I told Steven about the electricity power affecting Beach City he understand the reasons of my actions that night. Every politic isn't perfect... we are humans like everyone else just because we are from the government and make a single mistake it doesn't make us bad persons or the worst. Also thats why I tend to act so confident and try to act perfect so the people could see that I'm a great mayor and in that way I can prevent any dangerous chaos to Beach City. Thats why I tell Buck to behave property because people will judge his actitude and will think that I'm a bad dad...and I don't want people telling that to me or Buck behind our back." said Mayor Dewey with a depressed tone.
"I haven't thought about that." added Connie.
"But Mayor Dewey, I don't think that of you. Everyone is not perfect...everyone doesn't have no flaws. Thats what make us humans, because we can learn from our errors and mistakes and change. Thats the beauty of the humans." said Steven.
"You are a wise person Steven (You should be our Mayor when you grow up)" said Mayor Dewey with a smile.
"Yes... yes he is." added Connie with a warming smile and a little blush on her face.
At the Beach (10:57 A.M)...
Steven and Connie were walking on the Beach returning back to the house. Steven and Connie noticed that they were three pink cannons covered in a blanket seemingly hiding on the lower outside part of the house. Steven and Connie then heard a discussion between the Crystal Gems. They decided to eavesdrop.
"Its not neccessary! We can just wreck it up!" said Amethyst.
"Amethyst I already told you. Theres nothing we can do to destroy it!" argued Peridot.
"What do you know! Maybe it got busted on its way here!" argued back Amethyst.
"Listen here! We know better than all four of you about Gem modern technology. We can't destroy it if we don't find that strange substance!" said Jasper joining the arguement.
"Maybe if we fuse into Alexandrite, we could be able to destroy it." said Pearl.
"No...not even the strongest fusion will be able to stop it." added Peridot.
"But what we can do then? Isn't the light laser cannons enough?" added Lapis.
"Thats why I suggest that we should upgrade it. I mean...think about it! Cannons with modern gem technology will be our advantage...or at least give us some time." said Peridot.
"Peridot thats clearly a no answer. We are not going to let you hack Rose most powerful weapon." added Pearl.
"Are you serious?! We will be doom if we don't do anything!" argued Jasper.
"Thats enough... just like Peridot said theres nothing we can do." said Garnet with a somewhat defeated tone.
"What are they talking about?" whispered Connie to Steven.
"I don't know... they are talking about something coming here." whispered Steven back to Connie.
"Maybe finding the substance could work?" suggested Lapis.
"No! Thats ridicolous! We haven't find anything like a green-colored, goop substance that can burn anything. We don't even know if it exists! We just need to use all our strength and destroy it!" said Amethyst.
"Ugh! You really are a clod! I told you like 30 times that theres nothing we can use to destroy it!" said Peridot.
"Shut up! What the heck does clod means?!" argued Amethyst.
"Amethyst you should calm down." said Garnet very annoyed by how Amethyst is distracting everyone.
"Don't tell me what to...Oh! Look!" said Amethyst as she began to respond back to Garnet, but noticed that Steven and Connie were in front of her. Lapis, Jasper, and Pearl immediately turned their head back and saw them too.
"Heh, heh, if isn't the funky flow team. Why are you so early here?" said Amethyst with a nervous laugh.
"I live here?" said Steven.
"And me temporally." added Connie.
"Well...Oh! Look at the time!" said Pearl with a smile, but deep enough she new that was a fake smile.
"Its time for lunch! Don't worry Steven and Connie we are going cook you guys a great lunch!" said Lapis with a smile.
"Yeah come on." said Garnet with a smile. Then everyone entered the house and went to the kitchen. They were still arguing, but Steven and Connie couldn't hear them.
"Oh man..." said Steven.
"Do you think they are all right? They looked pretty worried." added Connie.
"Yeah... but I think now is not the right time. We should just eat our lunch and enjoy the rest of the day." said Steven.
"Yeah... you are right." added Connie.
Then Steven and Connie entered the house. After they had eaten lunch they decided to read some books, but they couldn't concentrate thanks to the arguement of the Crystal Gems. Inside the house, Steven and Connie were the only ones in there since after preparing lunch everyone entered the Temple's door and never got out. After alot of hours of pure eerie silence, the sun was beginning to hide and thats when Steven knew that a disaster might occur just from seconds in Beach City. Steven immediately went upstairs and check the television to see if the static is already gone, but sadly no...the static now was alot stronger and were emitting strange and loud noises.
"Connie... would you go with me?" said Steven.
"Huh? Where?" asked Connie.
"To help Mayor Dewey! Right now I bet that everyone is angry at Mayor Dewey and possibly they are trying to turn over the van or something like that." explained Steven.
"Sure! I'll come." said Connie with a confident smile. Steven nodded and both of them runned towards Beach City streets.
At the streets of Beach City (7:20 P.M)...
Steven and Connie were running as fast they could and unfortunately Steven's hunch were right. Everyone excluding Greg who was simply standing there with a concerned and nervous face was yelling at Mayor Dewey and throwing stuff at him while Mayor Dewey simply just protect himself on the security of his van.
"Please! If you could only understand!" said Mayor Dewey while covering his head.
"LIAR! You always lie us! You don't have the answers and possibly don't know the reason behind this strange, but melted snow!" shouted Nanafua.
"Terrible Mayor! Keeping the mysterious and weird things for your precious governmental secret society or the sneople! I'm missing my favorite show because of this static that YOU said you are going to fix." added Ronaldo while throwing rocks at his van.
Steven and Connie runned very fast and manage to catch Mayor Dewey's van.
"EVERYBODY STOP!" shouted Steven. Then everyone stopped throwing things.
"LISTEN! I know that Mayor Dewey lie to all of you once again, but he doesn't mean any kind of ill! He is not perfect! I bet that if anyone were in Mayor Dewey place you'll do the same or do something terrible! He is not a bad Mayor, but not perfect either. He as a politic knows all kind of different outcomes of the choices he makes. Not all outcomes are perfect, but some of them are at least better than other ones. Please understand! He himself told me that lying is bad and he doesn't like it, but he sometimes doesn't have a choice. Besides we don't even need television! We can enjoy our time spending with our family or friends! We don't need to get angry at something like that." said Steven.
Everyone was simply amazed by Steven's speech. They felt bad...no everyone felt terrible!
"(Thats my boy. Oh Rose... How I wish you were here to see our son.)" thought Greg with a smile. Finally Mayor Dewey came out from his van.
"Oh thank goodness! Steven I owe you alot!" said Mayor Dewey while sweating.
"Not a problem Mayor. I'm honored to be your volunteer worker." said Steven.
"Still... if you ever need some political favors you can count with me." said Mayor Dewey.
"Wow Steven... you even befriended a mayor. You sure are a great person." said Connie with a smile.
Everyone started to apologize with Mayor Dewey about the little, yet heated chaos they began. Of course Mayor Dewey knew that he himself was half the reason why this happend anyway, so he also apologized to every citizen for lying.
Inside Steven's House (7:27 P.M)...
Steven and Connie returned back to the house and they saw that the Crystal Gems were sitting down on the couch all worried and Peridot simply was doing some research on her finger touchscreen. Steven and Connie looked at each other and they both nodded and entered the house. Immediately the gems changed their concerned mood to a cheerful mood, but Steven knew that they were only hiding their real feels.
"Hello Steven! How are you doing?" said Pearl with a smile. Steven immediately took a deep breath and let out a sigh.
"Guys...please. I know that something is already coming." said Steven. This shocked everyone.
"Heh, heh, heh, what are you talking about little man? Maybe too much donuts affected your mind." said Amethyst.
"Amethyst please... we know already that something extremely powerful and supposedly indestructable is coming to Earth. Theres really no point in hiding anymore." said Connie with a serious tone. This made everyone very nervous they didn't want to tell Steven, but Garnet simply nodded and let out a sigh.
"Listen...something INDEED is coming. According to Peridot this thing or weapon at least is going to arrive on four days." said Garnet.
"Thats correct, and theres nothing we can do. Unless we have a certain substance we don't have a single chance." said Peridot.
"Whats this substance, Peri?" asked Steven.
"I don't know, but I know how it looks. Its gooey more like some sort type of goop colored green and it can burn down anything that it touches." answered Peridot.
"(Green, gooey, substance? That kinda sounds oddly familiar...but how?)" thought Steven.
"(substance that looks like a goop that can burn anything...I think I know it from somewhere...)" thought Connie.
"We have research all kind of places where that thing might be...sadly we haven't found it." added Lapis.
"I don't think Earth has it anyway." added Amethyst.
"Thats why we are worried. We think that this time we are not going to be able to defeat it." said Garnet.
"But... no way! Come on guys! We are the Crystal Gems! We'll always find our way so we can save the day! I know that if we manage to combine all of our strengths, power, courage, and wisdom we might triumph over that weapon!" said Steven. This make everyone smile since finally they saw that their little Steven was growing up so fast.
"(Oh Steven... you have grown so much. I believe that you are ready to know the history of us. The history of Rose Quartz, the origins of the Crystal Gems, Homeworld, and the Rebellion. You are ready... I can feel it.)" thought Garnet.
At Homeworld main Castle...
There was a huge hallway and the gem Citrine was walking on it going towards the throne who in there was sitting one of the most powerful gems and rulers of Homeworld, Yellow Diamond herself.
"You highness, my reports estimates that our weapon is very close to that miserable, and pathetic excuse of a planet and will arrive on short time." said Citrine while bowing to Yellow Diamond.
"Good... its about time. I was getting a little bit bored after waiting for my little toy to arrive on that stupid planet with useless and pathetic lives." said Yellow Diamond with a wicked smile.
"My lady, I'm sure that you will be happy to see that this weapon will not fail its mission." added Citrine.
"Oh... I'm sure it won't. How I wished that you could put a video device on the weapon so I could enjoy the show." said Yellow Diamond with an arrogance attitude.
"My apologies if I make that mistake. It won't happend next time." added Citrine.
"Don't worry about it... its not like its going to change anything. Soon Rose Quartz...soon you will pay for your actions and my sisters will be glad to be part from it." said Yellow Diamond again with a wicked and sadistic smile.
"Citrine...please send Pearl #219743 to White. I need to tell her something." added Yellow Diamond.
"Understood. I'll send her right away to White Diamond." added Citrine while standing up and doing a weird sign before exiting the hallway.
"Heh, heh, heh, HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! Lets see if your little shield can protect your precious little gems now, Rose! HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" said Yellow Diamond while laughing in a rather sadistic way.
Earth is going to be in a huge trouble...everytime a second passes one terrible device will soon arrive...
Author's Note: Welp guys it looks like we are halfway through the Steven Fanbomb. I apologize if this chapter was a little bit same of Political Power.
On a side note, I'll be writing more fanfictions of Steven Universe. Most of them are going to be AUs, and I'll write more continuations of this fanfiction since we are almost at the end.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!