On the Run- STEVEN UNIVERSE AND MOTHER! (yay…)
Ness led the small hybrid to a forlorn place. It had the feel of….a factory. It's a vast canyon. She squinted. What is this place? Was the only thing that went through her head as she stepped on a twig, watching as it crumbled into dust. "Here we are!" He chuckled and adjusted his hat. "The Kindergarden." It was pretty devoid of life. "Whadda think?" He turned to her companion with a smile. Hiding her apprehension, she gave her best smile and said "Pretty great!"
"Sure is!" He grabbed her arm and led her down the canyon. Once at the bottom, she couldn't hold her questions. "What is this place, Ness?" The Melody shrugged his shoulders. "It's kinda where I'm from.." His smile never left. She remembered the conversation from this morning. "I-i thought PSI Users are from Space."
"Ness and Cyrus were, but I'm from here. Like you!" His voice rose a few octaves before he gasped. His eyes lit up. "CHECK IT OUT!" He ran ahead. Smiling at his brightness, Pollyanna pushed her hair aside and ran his hand over a rock. "Oh man!" He laughed. "I've missed this guy! It's my climbing rock!"
"Uh..Hi!" She squeaked at it. Ness pointed at a smaller rock "That..that's my sittin' rock!" He pointed at some pebbles. "That WAS a rock that i kicked into little rocks!" Pollyanna looked up at the older one, who began to climb up the rock and asked. "How long did you live here?" He looked up and smiled. "For a while, I guess. At least Until I met your mom and the others." He closed his eyes and basked in the nostalgia.
Then, he leaned backwards and jumped off the rock, running in different direction. Pollyanna's smile falters as she looked at a abandoned giant piece of technology. "What is that?!" Ness went off his course and put his hand on it. Pollyanna made her way over as he explained. "Eh. Just some ol' gem junk. Probably busted by now." Growing stressed and scared, she mimicked his action as he continued towards his route. "Yo, Polly!" She gave the Melody her attention. "Look!" He was standing next to a small hole, about his size. 'It's the hole I came out of!" She ran over and raised an eyebrow. "W-what?"
"It's my hole!" He said, pulling the "L". He let himself slid inside. "Look! It's me sized!" She pulled at her hair and looked inside it. "Ah." Ness sighed. "Still gots that good hole smell." Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "SO..you came out...of this hole." She spoke carefully. He looked at her with a dumb look. "This is where I was made, dude. One day- POP!- out of this hole." He popped his mouth and flicked his hands. She took a step back and stared at all the holes. It's not true…."So...what about all these other holes?"
The familiar sound of a warp pad filled the child's ears. She didn't even notice the pad surrounded by purple crystals. "There you are!" Ninten was the one standing on top of it. He looked around, seemingly scared. He jumped down anyways. Ness climbed out of his hole and grumbled. "Here comes the fun police."
Pollyanna began to run to the taller PSI user as he said. "Cyrus said you'd be here. But i didn't want to believe it." He stopped at her side and motioned to the youngest. "WHAT were you thinking bringing Pollyanna to….Kindergarten." He seethed it through his teeth. He didn't meet the tallers eyes as he kicked a rock. "We were in the neighborhood." Ninten was met with a small poke. He looked at their young charge. "Was Ness really made here?" Instead of answering her, he turned to the shorter Melody. "How much did you teach her?!" He raised his voice. Ness spoke quietly. "What? You mean about the bad thing?" He feigned secretive fright. "How this bad place is where bad PSI User came to grow more PSI Users? Is that what you're talking about?!" He stared at the Melody. "They grew other PSI Users here!?" Pollyanna's hair got in her face as she threw her head up. "Ness! She isn't ready!" He scolded. Ness ignored him as he walked around him. "Oh Don't worry, Pollyanna! Everything's just fine!" Ninten glared at his back "Ness!"
"It all worked out!" He advanced towards the frightened child. "We won!"
" Ness, stop!."
"Then We shut this place down." She took a step back, flinching slightly as he got into her face. "So the Earth would be safe from parasites like ME!" He smiled creepily in her face. A hand blocked her view. "NESS! THAT'S ENOUGH!" Ninten yelled as he put himself in front of the child, arms spread. She grabbed his arm and looked up at him, "Ninten?" Her voice rose a few octaves. Ninten kneeled next to her and placed his hand on her face. "Pollyanna, I am so sorry. I never wanted you to see this horrible place." Ness's head was ducked so the bill of his hat was in his face. "Then why don't you just leave!?" He yelled. He summoned his whip and slammed it at Ninten. Pollyanna screamed in unison with him as he was thrown into the old gem junk. He fell onto his hands and knees. He looked up, angrily. "Admit it! I'm just an embarrassment to you!" He swung his whip again, but he dodged out of the way, slicing the leg of the old machine. Ninten rolled until he was adjacent to the two smallest Melodies. Pollyanna grabbed Ness by the shoulder, teary-eyed, and plead "Ness, please, wait!" Ness grabbed her by the shirt and tossed her recklessly aside. The young girl screamed as she tumbled to the grainy summoned his spear and yelled. "I don't want to fight you!" Ness only replied with. "I wouldn't wanna fight me neither!" He curled up into a Spin Dash and sent himself towards the Melody. He rolled out of the way and on his knees, shot ranged shots from the tip of his spear at him. Ness's Dash ended at the point that he was in the air, he brought his whip down. Ninten simply stepped out of the way and stepped on the whips end, slicing it in two.
Pollyanna got to her feet and ran towards the two. "GUYS STOP!" She cried. "STAY OUTTA THIS!" Ness screamed at her as he sent the broken whip at her. "Ah!" She screamed as her legs were taken out from underneath her. He rolled out of the way as Ninten jumped over to him. He attempted to get his legs but he dodged each hit. He kicked the younger in the face, sending him backwards. He looked up,on his hands and knees. Twirling his spear, Ninten declared. "Ness, stop this! You can't beat me!"
"I DON'T CARE!" He screamed as he summoned two whips and sent them to wrap around his spear. "I'm not gonna let you stand there and remind me about everything I HATE about myself!" He cracked his whip like reigns, sending waves of energy at Ninten. Pollyanna got the whip out from her legs and got up, running towards the two. Ninten was thrown backwards into the gem tech and fell onto his side. He attempted to get back up as Ness came over to him. "I never asked for it to be this way." He was crying now. Hot tears rolled down his face, dripping off his chin. "I never asked to be made!"
"Ness…" Orange and blue hair obstructed his view. "Ness, please! I can't stand to see you hurt each other! I get that you're upset but please stop!" Her face was scraped up but she could care less. The sliced leg of the gem junk began to collaspe. The trio turned their heads to look at it. They gasped and Pollyanna summoned her bubble….which Ness was on the outside off. "NESS!" Her shriek echoed off the bubble, hurting Ninten's heart and ears. "NESS! NESS!" She banged her hand on the blue bubble as Ness ran in one direction. The path cleared, leaving Ninten having his mouth covered in shock and Pollyanna crying. She dispelled the bubble and ran forwards "Ness!?" She cried. "W-where are you?!" She ran over to his hole and moved a rock aside. "Ness."
His back was too her. "Go away. I'm bad and you shouldn't be around me."
"W-what? That's ridiculous! I don't know what this all is but-"
"Exactly. You don't. 'Cause if you did. You wouldn't be talking to me…" He hid his head into his knees. Pollyanna stepped out of the hole and looked at Ninten, who had came over. "Ninten, you need to get in here."
"W-"
She pointed at him ."You got to talk to him." Ninten crouched into his knees and crawled into the small hole. "Ness." He thought his words carefully. "I had no idea you've been upset about this.." But not carefully enough. "What?!" His voice cracked. He looked up. "You had no idea?!" New tears made their way onto Ness's face. He gestured to the hole. " This is, like, my entire existence! You want to pretend that none of this ever happened!" He slid his hands underneath his hat and held his hair"You think I'm just a big mistake!"
Ninten gasped with realization, "No,no. Ness…" He said in a almost maternal tone, something he earned from raising Pollyanna. "You aren't the mistake. You're just the...byproduct of a ...big mistake." He was earned with an angry glare. He backtracked. " No, that's not- I... I just never thought of this as you. None of this is your fault. You didn't build this place." Ness was floored at his little rant about his birthplace. "I-I'm sorry,Ness. I hope you can forgive me. You're the one good thing that came out of this mess." He blushed and looked at the younger with a small, but genuine, smile. " I always thought you were proud of that." He held out his hand to the smaller. He looked up at it in surprise. He took it and Pollyanna moved over. Once out. Ness straighten his hat, only for it to fall off as he wrapped his arms around Ninten's waist. He immediately returned it. Hand in hand, they teleported home, Pollyanna stated that she wanted to sleep in a bed...
THIS EPISODE KILLED ME. OoOoO I'm a ghost! Yeah, The Gem Kindergarten would be a Core Kindergarten. PSI Users can be created from another core power. at the Kindergarten.