Hey guys, after the long wait(for the few people who actually read this) Unstable Energies is back with the Seventh Chapter. Okay guys I'm sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out but school hit me like Umbalite hit that freight train in the first chapter(at least i think it was the first chapter). Anyways I think i might wait till i finish writing the rest of the chapters before i post anymore so it might be a while before i post again but who know i might change my mind. Anyways guys I'm sorry for the absurd amount of reading in this chapter but I'm not that good at fight scenes so it takes me a whole lot of words to write them. Anyways hope you enjoy and don't forget to Love/Favorite/Follow this story if you like it and I'll talk to you later.

I DO NOT OWN STEVEN UNIVERSE OR ANY OF IT'S CHARACTERS. ALL RIGHTS GO TO REBECCA SUGAR AND CARTOON NETWORK.

THE ONLY CHARACTERS I OWN ARE MY OWN OCS(AND MY FRIEND HAS ONE IN HERE TOO)

Chapter 7 "Untapped Potential"

"Umbalite, watch out!"

Umbalite attempts to dodge the ball of acidic goo that is thrown at him, only to get hit in the shoulder, covering his entire arm in the green goop. "Hey, watch where you're throwing that stuff, you stupid pile of sludge."

Spessartine and Umbalite are fighting a corrupted gem in the form of a giant monster made from acidic goo.

"Umbalite, you okay?" Spess is running over to check on Umbalite's arm, which is covered in green goo and steaming. As he nears Umbalite, Spess is hit on the side by a small glob of acid, "OUCH!" He quickly scrapes the goo off to avoid further burning, but it leaves a large hole in the side of his shirt.

Umbalite looks up from his goo covered arm just as Spess stops in front of him. "Hey Spess. Ya like the new sleeve?"

"Doesn't that hurt you?"

"Nah. Why, did it hurt you?"

"Yeah. It's literally acid in jello form. How does it not hurt you?"

"Don't know, but this is freaking awesome. I can just swim through the monster and grab it's gem. POOF, it's beaten."

"You're on the right track but not quiet. Your body may not be affected but we don't know if your gem is the same way. You jump in that thing and it could melt your gem for all we know."

"Oh. Wait one flippin second I got it!"

"Got what?"

"Just hold up, I got this." Spess watches on with a look of both worry and interest on his face as Umbalite raises his arm. His arm is instantly enveloped in a bright light before it stretches forward, punches through the monster, grabs the green square gem in it's center, and pulls it back to Umbalite. Without it's gem the monster quickly poofs, leaving no sign of any goo left behind. Umbalite stands holding the gem, a victorious look on his face before turning back to Spess, "See, 'POOF'."

"Heh, nice job. Now lets get back home." Both gems walk to the warp pad while a small side conversation develops. Once they reach the warp pad, they both step on and warp away.

Back at the house Steven and the gems are playing the board game "Kitchen Calamity" while waiting for Spessartine and Umbalite to get back. "Yes, I win again!"

"Yes Steven, you win." Garnet says, giving Steven a loving pat on the head.

"Ha ha. Hey, shouldn't Spessartine and Umbalite be back by now?"

"Steven, you have to give them some time. This is their first mission without us, and we did send them after a particularly strong monster."

"I know Pearl, but they're both so strong and powerful. It shouldn't take them this long to beat a monster."

"They may be very powerful, but they don't have any technique, and you need both in a fight. One cannot win on power alone, like when I beat Sugalite."

"Yeah, and SP. doesn't even know how to summon his weapon yet. Even I knew how to summon my weapon on the first try." Amethyst emphasizes by pulling out her whip.

"But-" Steven is cut off by the warp pad activating as Spessartine and Umbalite walk off. "We're back."

"Yeah, and we got presents." Umbalite says, throwing the green gem at Garnet for her to bubble.

"You two really need to learn to bubble."

"Pearl... we've never tried."

"Well, then this would be the perfect time." Pearl stands up, takes the green gem from Garnet, and hands it to Spessartine.

"K then, guess I can try now." Spess closes his eyes and concentrates on the gem in his hands for several minutes, but nothing happens. When Spess opens his eyes and see the still unbubbled gem laying in his hands he lets out a defeated sigh before tossing the gem to Umbalite. "Well, guess I can at least say I tried. Your turn Umbalite."

Umbalite easily catches the gem before responding in an jokingly cocky voice, "Thank you. Now let the master show you how it's done," Umbalite cups the gem in between both of his hands and bubbles the gem in a bright red bubble. "Boom, bubbled."

Spess stares at the bubbled gem in confusion, while all the gems and Steven congratulates Umbalite, before speaking up: "How did you get that so fast?"

"It was simple. I just made sure it couldn't hurt my friends. Kinda like when I summoned my weapon to block Pearl's spear back then."

"Heh, yeah. These things just come easy to you I guess."

"Don't worry SP., you'll get it eventually. You just gotta relax."

"Thanks Amethyst. Anyways, I'm going for a walk. See you in a little while." Spess turns and walks back onto the warp pad, leaving the others to go about their day.

It's a bright sunny day in the Strawberry Battlefield, when the warp pad lights up, and Spess steps onto the green grass. He looks around before jumping high into the air landing several yards away. Spess continues jumping until he finds a tall cliff overlooking the old battlefield, where he decides to rest. At the top of the cliff, Spess sits overlooking the spanning battlefield. He sits there for what seems like forever before noticing a large creature moving on the field below. Deciding to check it out, Spess stands and jumps from his position on the cliff down towards the creature. As he gets closer, he notices something shining on it's head. "Shoot!" Spess thinks to himself while trying to find a way not to disturb the corrupted gem he is about to land next to. "Great! Good idea Spess. Just jump willy nilly towards the giant corrupted gem monster, leaving no way to sneak away and get the gems. Just great!" and like he had predicted, the monster is alerted to his presence before he even lands, turning to watch as he touches the ground.

As Spess lands, he looks up at the corrupted gem, which had taken a offensive stance a few yards away. "*Sigh*... I wish I didn't have to fight it, but it doesn't look like this thing is gonna let me walk away, and if I speed away, it might follow me back to the other gems," realizing he has to beat the monster here, he takes up a fighting stance: "Well, if I must, I will fight you." Both the monster and Spess stand, watching one another, both waiting for their opponent to attack. Spess took this time to analyze the corrupted gem; the gem had a form similar to that of a bull, with two giant horns on it's head and what looks like a smoky quarts gem on the back of it's head. The monster stood seven feet tall on four legs, and had a brown body with green, grass looking fur on it's back. They stood there, facing each other for about 30 minutes before the corrupted gem seemingly grew impatient. The monster stomps it's back leg before charging at Spess, who electrifies his fist and runs at super speed, meeting the corrupted gem with a punch to it's forehead. A large shock wave erupts from the contact, sending Spess flying backwards away from the monster, who seems mostly unaffected by Spessartine's attack. Spessartine quickly recovers, landing and instantly running back to the monster, and delivering several super speed, electrified punches to the bull monster's head and face. The bull, who seems to only be affected by the electricity on Spess's fist and not by the impact of the punch, swings it's head back towards Spess, hitting him with it's large horns, then bringing the horns up into a uppercut, sending Spess back a few feet. The bull takes advantage of the distance and charges Spess, ramming into him before Spess knows where it is. The bull continues charging with Spess on his head. One of the bull's horns impales Spess's side as it smashes Spess into the side of the cliff Spess had just been sitting on. Spess opens his eyes. Struggling against the tremendous pain in his side, he looks into the eyes of the bull, noticing it had him pinned against the cliff. He quickly grabs the sides of it's head, opens his mouth, and shoots multiple streams of electricity from his mouth into the bull's face, causing the bull to throw Spess and thrash around in pain as the electricity coarses through it's body even after Spess had stopped. As Spess stands up, he looks to the thrashing bull, which is still covered in electricity. He then looks down to his side, which has a deep puncture wound in it. After a few seconds of examining the wound and deciding it wasn't serious and would just sting for a while, Spessartine turns his attention towards the corrupted gem, which has recovered from the electricity and is now preparing for another charge at Spess. "Geez, this sucks. Hitting that thing won't work so I'll have to keep at a distance and blast it." Seeing the bull begin its charge Spessartine speeds ten yards away before raising his hand and blasting the bull with multiple large streams of electricity, hitting the bull directly in the head. But it doesn't stop the bull. Even though the bull is very visibly in extreme pain, it doesn't stop it's charge, in fact it still gains speed, running directly into the electrical blast. "Wait, what!? That thing is running into my electricity but its not stopping! What the heck?" At this point, the bull has closed nine of the ten yards between them. Spess breaks off his stream and jumps over the bull, only for the bull to bite onto Spess's leg, slam him down onto the ground, then continues thrashing about with Spess in his mouth. Once Spess regains his bearings, even while being smashed about, he grabbed the neck of the bull, sending electricity through the monster's body, causing the bull to let go of Spess, tossing him into the air. Spess takes this time and releases more electricity from his outstretched hands into the bull, temporarily paralyzing it. Spess hits the ground and takes a few seconds to stand up. Once he is on his feet, Spess tries to think of a plan while the bull is paralyzed: "Punching it obviously won't work alone, but just zapping it doesn't seem anymore viable. Maybe if I move at higher speeds and-" Spess is cut off as he barley manages to dodge the oncoming charge from the bull, who has recovered from the paralysis while Spess was deep in thought. Landing a few feet away, Spessartine knew he wouldn't have enough time to think of a solution. "Seems I won't have enough time to think. Guess I'll just have to pour everything I have into brute forcing it into submission." Spessartine covers his whole body in electricity and launches towards the bull at unimaginable speeds, delivering hundreds of punches in a matter of seconds. The amount of power in Spess's attack is enough to send the bull flying backwards, but Spess continues battering the monster farther and farther back until Spess uppercuts the monster into the air and continuously pounds it higher and higher into the sky, before bringing his connected hands down on the bull's head, sending the monster shooting down from three hundred feet above the ground. A gigantic cloud of dust erupts as it makes contact with the ground.

Spessartine watches as the bull hits the ground. The battle is won (HUZZA :p). He expects to feel the wind rushing by his face as he falls towards the ground. He closes his eyes to enjoy the long fall, the rushing air, the impact that would poof him. But none if it ever came. He opens his eyes to see that he wasn't falling, but instead, he was just floating there in the sky, high above the ground. He looks down, noticing the electricity streaming out of his body. "Wow," was all Spess could think as he began to move around, trying to test his new ability. After a couple minutes of practice Spess had the basics of flying, and he was enjoying every second of it. "YEAH, WOOHOO! This is amazing. I can't believe I've been able to fly this whole time!" After a few more seconds of flying around, Spess calms himself. "Okay okay, that's enough for now. I have to go get that gem and bring it back." Spess flies down to the top of the cliff where the bull had landed, and the cloud was still dissipating. As he walks into the almost completely gone cloud, he notices a dark figure. As he inches forward, the bull he had previously thought defeated jumps from the cloud, impaling Spess on it's horns once more, enlarging the previous wound it had inflicted and making a brand new one on Spess's left shoulder. It then throws Spess two yards away. "Geez, what does it take to poof you! Well, seems like blunt force won't do it after all. GREAT! I need something to fight him with. Without my gem weapon I won't win this battle." At that moment, Spess notices a grey, single edged sword sticking out from the top of a pile of strawberries. "Perfect!" Spess runs to the weapon, the bull charging after him. As Spess nears the sword, he jumps forward, grabbing the weapon, which turned orange upon contact. He then turns around, slides under the bull's charging head in a blur of color, swinging the sword and chopping off one of the bull's front legs. The bull, only losing it's balance for a moment, kicks Spess with it's hind legs, sending Spess backwards, rolling along the ground as the bull falls due to it's missing leg. Both the bull and Spessartine stand and face each other. Spess now has the upper hand but his injuries are starting to wear on him. Before long the corrupted gem starts charging again. He is slower but still has a lot of power. Spess attempts to dodge as he swings his sword at the monster's side, but instead gets hit when the monster swings it's horns, nailing Spess in the stomach and causing his cut to be much more shallow than intended. Spess recovers faster than the bull, jumps up, cutting the corrupted gem's other front leg off. As the Bull lay on the ground defeated and unable to fight or run because of it's missing legs, Spess walks up to it, raising his sword over his head, then brings it down on the corrupted gem's neck, poofing the monster.

As the dust clears, Spess stares down at the smoky quartz gem that lays at his feet. Before picking it up, he looks out at the destruction their battle had caused. The beautiful landscape had been torn up and crushed. It was a mess, and it pained Spess. Having looked over the landscape before the battle, Spess knew how drastically the landscape had changed, and it was an ugly thought in his head. "I didn't want this," Spess spoke aloud when he thought of all the destruction he had caused, sure no one was hurt other than him, but it still pained Spess all the same. He looks down at the gem before speaking, "This place was beautiful and tranquil, but then we fought. I know it wasn't your fault but I know that I can't let this happen anymore. I need to protect the peace and tranquility of this planet. That includes everything that lives on it, even you." He pauses to take one last look at the scene around him before reaching down and tapping the top of the smoky quartz gem, encasing it in an orange bubble. "Hmm, look at that. Guess I can bubble." Spess begins walking back towards the warp pad.

"Oh man, you win again. How did you get so good at card games, Umbalite? You only started playing today."

Steven and Umbalite were playing Blackjack in Steven's house. While all the other gems were there, they were each doing their own thing. Pearl was going through a few motions with her spear, Amethyst was lying on the counter picking her nose, and Garnet was playing cards with Steven and Umbalite.

"I'dunno. It's just easy. Anyways, I think that's enough for now Steven, we've been playing since Spess left."

"Yeah, I guess. Hey, shouldn't Spessartine be back by now? Should we go look for him?"

"Steven I'm sure Spessartine is fine." Pearl continues practicing her movements while talking.

"But he's been gone for a few hours now. A walk shouldn't take this long."

"Steven... it's only been one hour."

Before Steven can spawn, the warp pad lights up, signaling Spessartine's arrival.

Garnet leans forward onto her knees. "See Steven. Spessartine is fine. We just needed to give him time."

"Spessartine! What on earth happened to you!?" Pearl is the first to notice as she is facing towards the warp pad as the light dies down. She quickly runs over to help Spessartine to the couch, as the others look in Spessartine's direction to see what has Pearl in a knot. Spess is standing on the warp pad, his clothes are torn badly, he has two large holes in his body, one slightly larger and on his side, the other slightly smaller, but still a good size, on his shoulder. The rest of his body is covered in scratches and bruises, and it is obvious that he's having a hard time standing. All the gems have similar reactions to the sight; Garnet stands with a look of concern on her face, Amethyst jumps down from the counter with a look more curious than worried on her face, Steven runs over to clear a place on the couch with an expression of empathy, and Umbalite runs to help Pearl with a severely worried look on his face.

Once they have Spessartine on the couch, Spess speaks, "Thank you. I ran into a little trouble on my walk."

"Oh, really? I did not know that mister 'dying right now'."

Garnet, who was leaning against the wall nonchalantly says, "That's enough Umbalite. Now, what kind of trouble?"

"This kind." Spess raises the bubbled gem, much to the surprise of everyone present in the room, none of which had noticed the bubble when he arrived. "I also found this." Spess holds up the sword, that he used to fight the gem monster, for the others to see.

Pearl gently grabs the sword from Spessartine and quickly examines it. "Hmmm... this is a nandao. And unusually made at that. It is much sturdier then most and slightly longer as well."

"Alright dingus, start talk'in."

"Okay, Okay. I'll tell you the whole story Umbalite, just let me rest for a little bit." So, after a small moment of rest, Spessartine recalls his whole battle with the corrupted Smoky Quartz gem to other gems, Umbalite, and Steven.