At Space...
"LOCATED PLANET EARTH! NOW SEARCHING FOR THE TECHNICIAN GEM KNOWN AS PERIDOT AND WARRIOR GEM FROM YELLOW DIAMOND'S ARMY KNOWN AS JASPER... *beep* type* *beep*LOCATED THE TWO GEMS! NOW ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE OF PLAENT EARTH AND BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR THE GEMS!" said the weapon as it stopped and floated above planet Earth.
Then the weapon began to fly towards Earth. It looks like the weapon has finally arrived on planet Earth to complete its mission.
At the streets of Beach City (2:25 P.M)...
Steven, Connie, and Greg were enjoying their time singing some songs, and playing instruments together. Steven was playing the ukelele, Connie the violin, and Greg his old guitar. Since the Crystal Gems were on the Beach with a telescope it would be bettter to leave them doing their things since.
"So...the gems finally told you everything about their history?" said Greg while playing his guitar.
"Yeah, those diamonds...they look pretty cool. I kinda wish that they haven't gone bad, but mom knew that one day they will change." said Steven.
"What about you Connie? When are your parents going to return?" asked Greg.
"My mom call me today. She said that they are going to return to pick me up in one week." answered Connie while tuning her violin.
"Well...did you have fun with Steven, huh? Connie?" said Greg with a teasing tone. Connie blushed from Greg's teasing comment, but Steven oblivous to the teasing he simply smiled.
"Yeah! We had alot of fun, right Connie? We spend alot of time with gems and especially Lapis with her farting noises that she makes." said Steven with a big smile.
"Glad to hear that, buddy." said Greg while rubbing Steven's hair. Then the ground began to shake very furiously with a loud buzzing sound perturbing everyone ears.
All the windows of the shops, and business exploded with that loud sound and not only that but some part of the shops were destroyed in the process. Everyone panicked and immediately fled from the destruction of the shops. The festival things also fell down and some of them were destroyed as well. Steven, Connie and Greg fell down and the ground was still shaking. After three minutes of that immense earthquake, some of the streets cracked, but luckily none of the citizens got harmed in the earthquake.
"What the heck just happend?!" said Greg as he standed up from all the commotion. Then Steven standed up and help Connie stand up as well. Then Steven looked at the sky and far away he saw a big circle thingy descending towards Beach City.
"Look!" said Steven as he pointed at the sky. Greg and Connie looked up and were very shocked to see that weird thing.
"What the hey is that?!" said Greg. Steven and Connie were confused at first, but then they remember that about something coming today.
"It looks like...a circle? It must be that thing." said Steven with a worried tone.
"You mean that thing that is apparentely invincible and is coming to Beach City?" said Greg. Steven just simply nodded and this shocked Greg.
"Its happening..." added Connie with slightly scared tone.
"We need to get to the Crystal Gems!" said Steven as he began to run towards the beach. Greg and Connie chase Steven and began to run as well.
At the beach...
The Crystal Gems were abolutely terrified when they felt that big earthquake, but what most scare them its that they saw that the weapon was coming to Beach City every. Every second it pass...it means that its getting closer.
"I hope that the light cannons are ready for this..." said Pearl with a worried tone.
"Its the least we can do to prevent the weapon from coming (although I don't think its going to work)." added Peridot.
"GUYS! Did you see that?!" shouted Steven while running. Finally Steven along with Greg and Connie manage to catch the gems and saw that everyone was scared or worry.
"Its the weapon. I already confirm it." said Peridot.
"We must assume that it must already located us if its mission is to find Peridot and me." added Jasper.
"Oh no..." said a worried Greg.
"I want to see." said Steven as he walked towards the telescope.
"Me too." added Connie doing the same thing.
When Steven and Connie saw the weapon through the telescope they were atonished, it looked pretty gigantic when they saw it from the telescope, but from a normal view it look big!
"Steven! You know what to do..." said Garnet as she pointed four light cannons. Steven simply nodded.
"Are the light cannons ready?" said Jasper. Then Lapis and Amethyst checked the four cannons and saw that they don't have any problems.
"Ready!" shouted Lapis.
"Steven!" said Garnet. Steven nodded understanding what needed to do next.
"If every porkchop were perfect...we wouldn't have hotdogs." said Steven. Then all four light cannons acitvated and shooted a pink light beam with a silhoutte of Rose. Then in the middle of the shooting... the light beam suddenly turned bigger and lighting bolts sprouted from the light and became more sparkling.
The four, big, light beam manage to hit the weapon but it didn't do anything to the weapon...not even a little scratch.
"I HAVE LOCATED THE TWO GEMS ALONG WITH FOUR UNKNOWN GEMS AND NO SIGNS OF ROSE QUARTZ... COMPLETE MY MISSION AT ALL COST! COMPLETE MY MISSION AT ALL COST!" said the weapon while emitting another eeire and loud sound that shook the ground of Beach City.
"Of course..." said Peridot seeing that nothing happend to the weapon with that big and powerful attack. But of course she wasn't amused since that weapon is invincible.
"Its no use. We need to evacuate the whole city again." said Garnet.
"I already got it covered. I'm calling Mayor Dewey." said Steven as he began to dial the phone of Mayor Dewey. Then Greg turn his attention towards the gems who looked very terrified.
"Hey...I know its the worst time to ask you these, but... are you guys going to fight that thing?" asked a worried Greg.
"...We need to fight Greg. We made a promise to this planet that we are going to protect it and we are going to keep it." answered Garnet.
"What about Steven and Connie?" added Greg.
"They need to evacuate too...last time we were very, VERY lucky that nothing bad happen to Steven, but I'm not sure if this time we are going to be that lucky. We also made a promise with you and Rose to protect him and we are going to keep that promise intact too no matter what!" said Garnet. Greg nodded.
"All right...I'm going to take them far away." said Greg.
"I know... You are going to make the right choice." said Garnet with a little smile as she put her left hand on Greg left shoulder. Greg simply smiled
Outside the office of Mayor Dewey...
Mayor Dewey was sweating all nervously and horrified at seeing how his office is nearly destroyed. Then his phone began to ring and of course it spook him, but calmed down when he noticed that it was Steven calling him.
"Mayor Dewey? Its me...Steven Universe." said Steven through the phone.
"UNIVERSE! Look...Alot of things had been happening on Beach City such as strange snow, this strange static, and weird things from the sky! Please tell me that its nothing bad!" said Mayor Dewey.
"I'm sorry Mayor Dewey, but we are being attacked once again! You need to evacuate the whole city and this time... don't return to Beach City until its safe!" said Steven.
"And how long will be that?" added a scared Mayor Dewey.
"I don't know...probably Beach City will get destroyed. I'm sorry..." said Steven with a depressed tone.
"Oh my goodness...Well, I'll do my best." said Mayor Dewey regaining his confidence but deep down he is still scared.
"Thanks Mayor Dewey. You are the best." said Steven ending the call. With that, Mayor Dewey immediately got to his van and turn it on. He put a tape on the recorder of his van and immediately drived towards Beach City with his van saying, Eva-cuate...Eva-cuate...
At the streets of Beach City (2:39 P.M)...
The van of Mayor Dewey manage to reach the streets . The streets of Beach City was filled with utter chaos, destruction, and terror. Not only that but all the place including the beach was filled with a weird and eeire yellow color that surrounded everything. Everyone started to panick and began to pack their things into the car. Ronaldo was very terrified at seeing that thing, but he still took photos from his iphone. Whats worse is that the weapon was very close to land on the beach.
"RONALDO! Help me with your brother this instant!" said the worried Fryman dad as he begged for Ronaldo to help Peedee get off the counter.
"NOOO! I DON'T WANT TO GO! THIS IS MY HOME!" cried Peedee with tears on his eyes.
"Right now...Beach City is in great danger! We need to evacuate!" said the worried dad of Peedee.
Mayor Dewey got out of the car and climbed his van and took out a speaker and proceed to tell evey citizen to evacuate and not return until the he confirms that its safe to return. Steven and Connie simply stood there along with Greg and Lion who were watching all the comottion and chaos of the city. Then all the Crystal Gems runned towards Steven and Garnet walked in fornt of him.
"Steven..." said Garnet in a concern tone.
"What is it?" asked Steven.
"You along with Connie and Greg need to evacuate Beach City like the rest of the people." said Garnet.
"What?! But... but..." said Steven but was interrupted by Garnet.
"Listen...I know that you also want to fight along with us, but this is very dangerous! We made a promise for your mother and father; so therefore we don't want you to participate on this fight." said Garnet. Steven was very shocked, he didn't want to leave his home. He want to protect his home along with his family. Garnet simply hug him and everyone else did the same too.
"We love you Steven...Please understand that this is the best for you." said Garnet while letting out a little tear from her left eye.
Then the Crystal Gems broke the hug and immediately dashed towards the beach leaving Steven, Connie, Greg, and Lion.
"WAIT!" said Steven chasing them, but was stopped by his father.
"No Steven! This is too much!" said Greg trying to calm down his worried son.
"Dad please! You have to let me go! If I don't go with them, they are going to suffer a horrible beatdown! I have better control of my powers! I can protect them from all danger! They need me just like I need them." said Steven. Then Steven with all his strength manage to let go of Greg grip and run as fast as he can to the beach.
"I'm sorry!" said Steven while running. Greg got ready to go after him, but was stopped by Lion and Connie.
"What are you doing, Connie?" asked Greg.
"Listen Mr. Universe... I know that I'm no position to tell you this, but I'm going to say it anyway. Steven is doing what its right... he is a Crystal Gem too! The Crystal Gems promised to protect everyone and that includes his family and loved ones. I'm going to help him too! Please understand that we are not going to do this alone, but together! Besides I didn't train just to abandon him in the battlefield." said Connie as she immediately runned after Steven, but Greg stop her.
"Wait! Before you go...promise me that nothing bad will happend to him." said Greg with a smile. Connie was surprised at hearing Greg's response, but she smiled.
"Don't worry...I promise that nothing bad is going to happend to all of us." responded Connie with a smile and a thumbs up.
"Now go!" added Connie. Greg understood and he got in the van and drive away from the danger zone.
"(Rose...please protect our son.)" thought Greg with a concerned face.
At the Beach (2:41 P.M)...
Steven finally saw the Crystal Gems, but rather than seeing the six gems...he only saw Alexandrite with a big and chained mace as a weapon and Lapis, Peridot, and Jasper.
"STEVEN!" shouted Connie as she finally catched Steven.
"Connie!" responded Steven. Then Connie saw the big, six-armed gem with a big mace on the Beach.
"Whoa! Is that Alexandrite again?" said a surprised Connie.
"Yeah, but right now we need to get there." said Steven as he climbed Lion and helped Connie climb Lion too. Lion immediately dashed were the gems were.
Alexandrite was swinging the mace and then with all her strength she swing the mace towards the weapon at full speed...but nothing happend. The weapon was still descending towards the beach without any scratchs or damage.
"You got to be kidding me! Even after that powerful swing...that thing took no damage?!" said Jasper with an angry and desperate tone.
"At least Steven is far away from here...safetly." added Lapis.
"GUYS!" shouted Steven. This shocked all the gems. Steven and Connie climbed down from Lion and runned towards Lapis, Peridot, Jasper, and Alexandrite. When Alexandrite saw Steven and Connie immediately the big and powerful fusion began diffuse and four silhouttes appeared, but then two silhouttes fused and now there was three silhouttes. Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet separeted from Alexandrite.
"STEVEN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" said a worried Pearl full of fear.
"I won't you leave guys alone! All of you are my family!" said Steven.
"You brought Connie too?! ARE YOU NUTS?!" added Amethyst.
"Lapis! Take both Steven and Connie and take them far away from here!" commanded Peridot. Lapis nodded, but before she could summon her wings another earthquake strike. The weapon has finally descended and was floating just a few inches above the ocean. Only if its in is circle form it looked pretty huge. Even more huge that Opal. Lion's forehead began to glow and Connie took out the sword of Rose seemingly ready to battle.
"Its too late...Steven! Connie! Whatever happends don't interfere. Its extemely dangerous!" said Garnet as she summoned her gauntlets. Pearl, Amethyst, and Jasper also summoned their weapon, while Peridot formed an energy orb made of lighting from its fingers, while Lapis took a fighting stance.
The weapon then change it forms and revealed the true form. It was very, VERY, VERY, huge! It was four times bigger than Alexandrite size. Everyone was very shocked to see how huge it was, and the arms were extremely large and with spiky ends. On the chest of the weapon, there was three diamonds painted on it. On the forehead there was a blue diamond design, on the lower part of the chest, there was a yellow diamond design, and on the left shoulder part there was a white diamond design. The weapon began its scanning.
"(It looks like a...robot...)" thought Steven.
"TECHNICIAN GEM KNOWN AS PERIDOT IS LOCATED! WARRIOR GEM FROM YELLOW DIAMOND'S ARMY KNWON AS JASPER IS LOCATED. SCANNING FOR ANY OTHER SIGNS OF GEMS...*beep* *beep* *beep* FOUR UNKNOWN GEMS LOCATED...NO SIGNS DETECTED OF ROSE QUARTZ" said the weapon as it ended it scanning.
"My...mom?" said a confused Steven upon hearing the mention of Rose Quartz.
"Why did it say Rose Quartz?!" said a very confused Pearl. Then everyone turn their look at Peridot and Jasper.
"Look! I don't know either...maybe Yellow Diamond decide to use this chance to search if Rose is still alive." said Peridot.
"TECHNICIAN GEM PERIDOT...COME WITH ME THIS INSTANT. THE SAME APPLIES WITH THE WARRIOR GEM JASPER." said the weapon while looking at Peridot and Jasper.
"Huh?! Look here creepy, and defective piece of junk! We are not leaving this place!" said Jasper with an angry stare.
"We are not going back to Homeworld! They do horrible things and all of us have seen it. Over my shattered gem I'll return back to Homeworld just to get punished and possibly have my gem shattered! I'm staying on earth as a Crystal Gem!" said Peridot losing all her fear.
"Thats right! Homeworld is a place where I used to call home, but now...its just a place were they see you useless and a prisoner! I'll defend planet Earth! The only place where I can call it home!" said Lapis.
"ANALYZING...ANALYZING... THE TECHNICIAN GEM PERIDOT AND WARRIOR GEM JASPER ARE OPPOSING MY ORDERS! PLEASE DESIST THIS INSTANT!" said the weapon.
"Didn't you hear them, you piece of trash?! They are not going anywhere!" said Amethyst as she charged at the weapon with her spin dash attack.
"AMETHYST!" shouted Pearl trying to stop Amethyst to attack, but it fell on deaf ears. Suddenly Jasper, along with Lapis began their attack as well. Peridot began shooting energy orbs at the weapon, Garnet make bigger her gauntlets and shoot them towards the weapon, while Pearl finally attacked too by launching energy attacks from her spear.
"Steven!" said Connie. Steven look at her and nodded. Then Connie walked infront of Steven and then he summon his bubble shield that pushed Connie with full force sending her towards the weapon. Then Connie quickly took out Rose's sword from its scabbard and made a powerful and great thrust towards the weapon. After she landed her attack she began to fall, but was catched by Lapis.
Everyone finish their attack, and Lapis landed safetly with Connie. They looked pretty exhausted, but to their horror the weapon stood there without flinching or any scratch...seemingly that it didn't recieve any kind of attack.
"No... it can't be..." said Garnet with a scared tone. Now... the weapon began to scan the beach and the gems once again.
"NOT CONCORDING! NOT CONCORDING! THE POWER OF ROSE QUARTZ ACTIVATED FOR ONE SECOND AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE...NOT CONCORDING...IT APPEARS THAT THE TECHNICIAN GEM PERIDOT AND WARRIOR GEM JASPER ARE RESISTING...THE CORRECT PUNISHMENT FOR THIS IS...CAPTURE THEM AND BRING THEM TO YELLOW, BLUE, AND WHITE DIAMOND SO THEY CAN HAVE THEIR GEMS SHATTERED...THAT INCLUDES THE FOUR UNKNOWN GEMS TOO!" said the weapon. Then the weapon began charging a big, and powerful energy attack from one of its arms.
The Crystal Gems were mortified by hearing what the weapon just said. Garnet suddenly turn her look towards Steven and Connie.
"STEVEN AND CONNIE! GET OUT OF HERE!" said Garnet with a serious tone.
"NO!" responded Steven.
"STEVEN...THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ARGUEING! GET OUT OF HERE... ITS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!" said Garnet with tears on her three eyes. Nobody could see the tears, but they could feel that she was on the blink to cry.
"NO! I ALREADY TOLD YOU! I'm not going to abandon you guys...all of you are my family and I will protect it!" said Steven as his gem began to glow.
Then Steven dashed infront of them and summon his shield on his left arm. Then Steven expanded his shield and was almost the size of Opal, but he was not done yet since his shield began to expand more until he finally got his shield size was the big enough to cover all the temple. The weapon then fired a great, huge, and powerful laser beam towards the shield of Steven. Just a few seconds, the laser beam began to get bigger and bigger every second it passes. Steven was at the blink of giving up, but he continue to fight.
"STEVEN! DON'T DO IT! THE LASER BEAM OF THIS WEAPON IS FOURTY TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN THE LASER FROM MY SPACESHIP!" said Peridot who was very concerned about Steven's safetly, but Steven continue to protect the Crystal Gems and Connie with his huge shield.
"NO! I...will...not...GIVE UP!" shouted Steven nearly with all his stamina over. His shield began to crack, but he won't give up so easily. With the aid of his right arm... he now use both of his hands to aid him with the shield. His shield began to expand even more and got bigger each second it passes.
Steven's shield was now big enough to cover the whole Beach City and possibly more territory, but the laser beam also got bigger until it finally stop getting bigger. Steven was using all of his strength on his biggest shield that he ever create it.
"CALCULATING...CALCULATING...ROSE QUARTZ SHIELD IS TOO MUCH! IS TOO MUCH!" said the weapon.
Steven was using all his strength he almost felt that he would fell any moment, but won't submit to so easily to the defeat. Suddenly, Steven's gigantic shield began to crack every second and the laser beam still was pushing Steven's gigantic shield. Then Steven's gigantic shield finally break and a huge explosion occured. Connie and the Crystal Gems manage to survive the huge impact thanks to Steven efforts, but the weapon still remained intact. Steven got knocked towards his house because of the great explosion and his house got destroyed when he crashed into it. Luckily he manage to survive the impact, but got severly and heavly injuries. He was bleeding from its face and body since he got cut when his shield broke.
"STEVEN!" screamed Connie as she climbed Lion and both went to Steven's aid. Lapis quickly summon her wings but was stopped by Jasper.
"Wait!" said Jasper as she grabbed Lapis leg preventing her to fly.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?! I NEED TO HELP STEVEN!" said Lapis with tears on her eyes at seeing how Steven crashed into the house and she was worried about him.
"Listen! Fuse with me!" said Jasper. This shocked Lapis.
"WHAT?!" said Lapis.
"We need to find a way to defeat that thing or at least buy us some time! With your powers over the ocean and my incredible strength combined maybe we can achieve something! Steven will be fine...his little friend and Lion will help him." said Jasper.
"She is right! Amethyst! Pearl! We need to fuse again!" added Garnet. Lapis was uneasy fusing with Jasper, but she understand that they must do it. Lapis nodded and offered her hand. Jasper understood the message and she immediately took her hand.
"Peridot! Stay here! We are gonna need your knowledge when that weapon is going to make its attack." ordered Garnet.
"I understand! Now fuse! This is your chance right now since the weapon is charging its next attack." responded Peridot. Then Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet gemstones began to glow and they began to dance. Lapis and Jasper gemstone began to glow as well and they proceed to dance as well.
The trio of the Crystal Gems were close to each other and the three of them jumped at each other and a bright and multi-colored light appeared. Jasper and Lapis were finishing their dance as well and Lapis did one final twirl in which Jasper catch her and Jasper gave a confident smirk before a green light surrounded both gems.
Meanwhile on the destroyed Steven's House...
Steven was laying there in his own ruined house. He was still alive, but with all the pain in the world that he never felt before.
"(Green...goey...substance...that...can...burn...anything...even...that...thing...Centip...)" thought Steven, but every second it pass he began to lose consciousness until he finally got unconscious and everything went dark.
Author's Note: I hope you guys enjoy reading this two-part chapter special!
Continuation: Chapter 27: The Showdown. Read it now!