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Chapter 5: Frybo

After walking out of the house to go to the Big Donut, Isaac walked back to the beach house with a cup of coffee in his hands. He opened the door and said, "Hey, I'm…back?" He stopped when he saw something that really needed answering.

Digging through a pile of laundry was Steven, without any pants. He still had on his shirt and underwear. Just not his pants. "Where are you? Tsk tsk tsk. You're a mess, Steven," he said to himself.

"Steven, where are your pants," Isaac asked, walking over to him.

"I don't know. I had one minute ago, now they're gone," Steven said. The Temple Gate opened, and Pearl came running out of it while carrying a bubble of seven light blue shards suspended in it.

"I know I had eight..." She whispered and looked around the counter of the kitchen. She then turned to the boys. Hey, Steven, Isaac. have you seen a Gem Shard anywhere? It's very important."

"Uh, nope. Haven't seen it," Isaac said, shaking his head.

"No, have you seen my pants," asked Steven. Pearl finally took notice of the lack of pants Steven had on himself. "They're also important."

"What's so important about these Shards things," Isaac asked before taking a sip of his coffee.

"These Shards have a powerful partial consciousness that has been harnessed by Gems throughout history in order to create semi-sentient drone soldiers with the capacity to follow basic orders," Pearl explained while holding up the bubble of shards. Isaac listened carefully, but Steven wasn't paying any attention. More worried about his pants.

"Gems really had a drone army," Isaac asked in amazement. He could only imagine what it would have been like. "That sounds awesome."

"Yes, but Gems found their obedience waned as the shards overdeveloped inside their uniforms and turned on their commanders. You see, any shard imprinted by any sort of container could become a monster. That's why it's very, very important it's kept away from any kind of garment."

Unbeknownst to them, Steven's pants ran on their own near the Temple Gate. Isaac caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eyes, but didn't know what it was. Figuring it was nothing, he turned back to Pearl. "So, what do you need from us?"

"I want the two of you to keep an eye out for the Shard," she told them. Pearl walked over to the door and opened it, before looking back at Isaac and Steven. "If you see it, bring it to me, right away. I'm going to check in town." Without waiting for a reply, she exited the house.

"For my pants," Steven asked, before Isaac lightly smack him in the back of the head.

"Come on, let's get you some pants and find that shard," he told the boy, hearing something taping behind him. Isaac looked over his shoulder and yelped when he saw the living pants hiding behind a corner.

When Steven saw it, he pointed at them. "That's unusual!"

"Get them!" Isaac yelled, before he and Steven started chasing after the pants.

"Come on, we used to be friends! We used to go everywhere together!" Steven ran after the pants, while Isaac attempt to catch by grabbing at them. But every time he did, the pants would dodge and keep running away.

Finally, he grabbed them by top and lifted them up. "What is wrong with these—" Isaac was then getting kicked repeated in the stomach by the pants. Realizing that the Shard most had been in it, Isaac quickly reached into one of the pockets and tried fishing it out while the pants struggled to get free. He succeeded and pulled out the shard, causing the pant legs to pull up before ceasing and going limp.

Isaac threw Steven his pants and he slipped them on. "It's a... thingy," he asked as Isaac had it to him. "Is this Pearl's shard thingy?" The shard glowed, and Steven's shirt was pulled towards it. He quickly held it further away from himself, before grabbing a sock and puts the shard into it. "Ha, now who's smart?"

The sock started repeatedly smacking him in the face.

"Ow, ow, stop!" Steven exclaimed, and Isaac was about to intervene when the sock did as it was told. "Oh... thanks!"

"Come on, kid," said Isaac. "We gotta get that shard to Pearl."

"Right!" Steven nodded and placed the sock into his backpack.

After the rain had come and gone, the dark clouds still remained over Beach City with no signs of them clearing up. As so Isaac and Steven had put on their wetter weather clothing. Steven wore a pink jacket with yellow rain boots that had white ducks on them. Isaac just threw on a yellow rain poncho over himself and had the hood over his head.

Walking onto the beach boardwalk, Isaac put his hands around his mouth and called out loudly. "Pearl! Hey, Pearl!"

"She must still be looking for my pants," Steven said.

"Kid, she was looking for that shard, not your pants," Isaac told him, before someone rushed and bumped him to the ground.

Steven was terrified when he saw it was someone in a giant, creepy looking mascot costume that was in the form of a smiling cup of fries. The person in the costume screamed like a maniac and waved his arms around, whilst being attacked by a flock of seagulls.

When Isaac sat up and saw the costume, he screamed in terror with Steven, while the boy cowered by him. Definitely not the face he ever wanted to see in a dark alley.

The person stopped running around, grabbed the head of the costume and yanked it off. Revealing the person to be a kid who could've been no older than Steven, with a short stature and has blond, wavy hair on the top of his head that resembled steak fries. He was also missing an upper tooth. "I'm not fries!" He yelled angry at the seagulls and swung the head at them, scaring them off.

As the boy wearing the costume panted in frustration, Isaac and Steven sighed in relief with the conflict over. They then heard a door open and saw it was from the Beach Citywalk Fries.

"Gah, where's your face Frybo," asked Mr. Fryman while standing in the open doorway. "Being part of the Fryman family means you gotta sell fries... and be my son, which you are. So, you're already halfway there."

"Dude, you kid was attacked by those rats with wing!" Isaac shouted at Mr. Fryman, while gesturing to some seagulls that were perched on a street lamp.

"Oh, he's tough enough to fight them off," Mr. Fryman said, mimicking what he said by pretending to swing a weapon. "Keep at it, Frybo!"

The kid's clenched his fist and exclaimed, "I'm Pee…" but before he could finish his sentence, his dad closed the door. He sighed. "…dee."

After picking at his ear, Steven waved at the boy. "Hi, Peedee!"

"When I told my dad I wanted to be part of the Fryman family business, I didn't think it meant being stuck in a sweaty old costume," Peedee miserably explained his dilemma to the two, and puts on the head of the costume. "Things used to be different, Steven, nothing to worry about back then, except making myself dizzy on the old seahorse ride at Funland." He helped up Isaac.

Feeling bad for the kid, Isaac assumed that he and Steven were friends. So, he thought up an idea, and turned to Steven. "Why don't you stay here and help him out?" He suggested and started walking away. "I'll go find Pearl and tell her we found the shard."

"Okay," Steven said, waving as his friend.

"Peaaaarl!" Isaac called out as he walked down the city's neighborhood. "Pearl!" But there was no answer. He's been searching for about five minutes and he wasn't able to find her.

Suddenly, Pearl jumped down in front of him. This startled the young man, and he yelped. "Isaac? What are you doing out here," she asked, holding up the bubble with the other shards on her right pointer finger.

After placing a hand on his heart to steady it, he let out a short breath and said, "I was just coming to tell you we found the missing shard."

"Oh, that's great," Pearl said with a pleased look. She then held out her free hand for him to place it in. "Then I'll take it."

"Actually, Steven has it," Isaac told her. "I came here to bring you to him."

Pearl eyes an eyebrow and looked at him questioningly. "You left Steven with a powerful and dangerous shard?"

"Yeah, why—" Let's just say that it didn't take long for him to realize how bad that was. "Uh oh. Don't move! Be right back!" Isaac quickly turned and ran down the street. Pearl sighed exasperatedly.

Isaac ran to the boardwalk, where Funland was located and turned down the street to get to the fry shop. But he ran past Steven and Peedee sitting on a Seahorse and a Jellyfish kiddy ride in front of the Funland Arcade. "Hi, Isaac!" Steven waved at them, while Peedee looked disappointed.

Isaac quickly turned around and ran over to them. "Steven!" Isaac grabbed his shoulder and looked at the boy with a desperate expression. "Where's the shard?! Do you still have it!?"

"Wait, that thing you used for the costume," Peedee asked Steven, a little alarmed.

"He did what?!"

The conversation was then abruptly cut and ended by a distant scream.

"That came from the fry shop!" Peedee told them, before the kids get off their rides, and the three of them run towards the disturbance. As they headed for Beach Citywalk Fries, the situation changed when people came running out of the restaurant, screaming in terror.

Suddenly two yellow tendrils shot out of the open door. Both of them stretched out a long way and one of them grabbed a person. As the first tendril yanked the person back into the shop, the second one grabbed another person by their head, and dragged him in too.

Isaac, Steven, and Peedee could only watch in horror. "We didn't tell him to do that, did we tell him to do that?!" Peedee exclaimed in panic.

"What did you tell him to do?!" Isaac yelled, his gemstone glowing, before a table was suddenly smashed through the window. The three boys ducked before they could be hit by it, shocked by how close they were to getting seriously hurt.

Then noises that could only have come from their nightmares were coming from inside the fry shop. The three humans looked inside, and Isaac was shocked to see the costume moving on its own, with legs made out of fries, and bulging veins and arteries all over its body. Frybo's fry-hair where the yellow tendrils they saw, and the two other fry tendrils were holding two other people, while the other fries waved around.

With both his hands holding a handful of fries and his back turned towards the boys, Frybo dragged one of his captured victims closer to him. The man, with the tendril wrapped around his next, spit out fries that were stuffed into his mouth and begged, "Please, no more fries!"

But Frybo didn't listen, and started shoving fistfuls of fries into his mouth.

If they don't do something, the man was going to choke on those fries and die. But luckily, Steven intervened. "Frybo, stop!" He demanded.

Frybo did stop, but he also turned towards him. The once innocent and uninitiated creepy smile of the costume changed. With its no flailing fry-hair and bulging veins, Frybo's large smile remained the same has it always has been, but looked like something straight out of a horror movie.

Steven and Peedee flinched. "Oh, man! that's fucked up," Isaac said, also flinching.

Frybo then threw one of his victims at the three. They ducked before Lars could hit them. He was slammed against the table that was thrown out of the shop and laid on the ground, before spitting out the fries his mouth. "I don't even like fries!" Lars yelled and ran off.

"Why isn't he listening?!" Peedee exclaimed.

"I don't know!" Steven exclaimed, both boys panicking. Isaac was about to stand up and attack the costume, but he felt something wrap around his ankle.

He screamed when he was yanked hard by the leg by one of Frybo's tendril and was being pulled into the fry shop. Isaac quickly grabbed the counter and held onto it for dear life.

"Isaac!" Steven yelled.

Isaac grunted and growled, trying to continue holding on. But he was being pulled by the surprising strength Frybo was given by the shard. However, Frybo was distracted when the back door opened, and Mr. Fryman walked in. "Peedee, where's all this coming from?!" He asked.

Seeing his chance, Isaac summoned his weapon and cut himself free of the fry tendril. He quickly climbed over the counter and hid under it. With his previous victim escaped. Frybo shot a tendril at him, ensnaring the man and started dragging him slowly towards him.

"Ah, I get it, I pushed you too hard," said Mr. Fryman, struggling to get the fry around his neck off. Peedee peeked over the counter to watch. "I thought you wanted to be as good a Fryman as you could be, you're a tough kid for putting up with it as long as you did! The truth is…you're a valued member of Fryman Brothers Incorporated and all of its affiliates!"

This truly touched Peedee. Mr. Fryman was then lifted off the ground, before having fries stuffed into his mouth.

"Dad!" Peedee cried, breaking into tears. He lunged towards the window to save his father, but Steven tackled him to the ground.

"No! He'll mash your potatoes!" Steven said, before he and Isaac got up, heading for the window.

"What are you going to do?"

While Isaac summoned his weapon and jumped into the fry shop, Steven time his body towards Peedee and stood proudly. "My job!"

Pow!

"AAAHHH!" Isaac screamed as he was thrown out of the window. Slamming into the table, it broke in half on impact, and Isaac laid there, groaning in a great amount of pain. Then Frybo chucked Mr. Fryman, who promptly landed onto the younger boys. This pinned and immobilizing them under the man, as Mr. Fryman was knocked unconscious.

Isaac turned over on his back and sat up, he saw Frybo starting to leave the shop by stepping out of the window.

"Isaac!" exclaimed the voice of Pearl. She ran over and helped him get back on his feet. She was just about to ask him what happened and if he was okay, until she saw the living costume. "Steven! Did you put my missing shard in that fry costume?"

"Yes!" Steven exclaimed, rolling on his stomach while still under Fryman.

"Didn't you hear what I said about the living armor and infantries and many, many deaths?!"

"No!"

"Oh, Steven." Pearl sighed in disappointment and summoned her spear. Twirling it around in her hand, she then leaped onto one half of the broken table with grace, and threw the spear.

It flew through the air and stabbed right into Frybo's eye. He let out an agonizing squeal, but then, his eye burst out ketchup and mustard as if it was blood.

The steam hit Pearl in the face, knocking her back and she dropped the bubble of shards. While it the bubble dropped and popped on the ground, Isaac quickly caught the Gem and saved her. "Pearl, are you okay," he asked, setting her down and laying her against the table. Steven was able to get out from under Mr. Fryman, and ran over to see if she was okay.

"Ugh, the ketchup! It's everywhere, I can't see!" She said with eyes shut, turning her head from left to right.

Isaac turned to Steven. "Stay here with her. I'll deal with Frybo." He then ran out from behind the table and charged at the Frybo.

Frybo had emerged from the shop with the spear still in his eye, and approaches the Fryman father and son. However, he was stopped when Isaac tackled the living costume and stabbed it with his two swords. The force in which Isaac ran and stabbed the monster caused it to be pinned to the wall by the weapons. Fries started pouring out of Frybo's mouth.

Isaac summoned another katana and started hacking and slashing into the costume, making it bleed more ketchup and mustard. However, Frybo grabbed him by the arms and lifted him up.

Suddenly and out of nowhere, a pair of pants jumped at the costume and kicked Frybo, right in the face. This made the monster drop Isaac, and he looked back to see where the pants came from.

Steven stood tall and proud in defiance in just his underwear and a fry in his mouth. Around him stood his socks, shirt, pants, shoes, and jacket that were standing beside him. Isaac knew that he must have put the shards in each of them to make himself a small army. He grinned. The kid knew how to be clever, that's for sure.

"Your move, Frybo," Steven said, eating the fry.

Frybo tried to attack him, but the swords still pinned him to the wall.

"Attack!"

All the garments leaped at Frybo, they grabbed his arms and a few of his tendrils. They held onto them and prevented Frybo from moving them.

Isaac saw his chance and charged. He slashed down the middle of the costume, causing fries, ketchup, and mustard to gush out of it. Isaac made the sword in his hand disappear, and then grabbed and ripped the costume open where he cut. He punched his fist into the mess of food Frybo was made out of and grabbed the shard.

With a firm grip, Isaac placed both his feet on the body of the monster costume, as it struggled, and pulled. It wasn't easy to get, but the blonde ripped the shard right out of Frybo.

He fell onto the ground where Pearl was feeling around on the floor. The body of Frybo went limp, and he stopped moving. Letting all the food in him pour out of the middle cut.

"Steven, are you alright," Pearl asked, still unable to see and started touching Isaac's face.

This made Isaac blush, because the feeling of her hands was soft and smooth. However, not wanting for her to be misled, Isaac licked his thumb and used it to wipe her left eye. Though it was only one eye, Pearl opened her left eye and stared down at him.

The two froze after Pearl saw she was touching the blonde. "Oh! Isaac!" Pearl yelped and quickly took her hands off him. Blushing in embarrassment as Isaac handed her the shard he pulled out.

After Isaac stood up and Pearl wiped her face with the table cloth and bubbled the shard, the two walked over and joined Steven, Peedee, and his dad as they shared at the destroyed and dead Frybo costume. "Good work, Steven," Isaac said, before doing a simple hand wave that made the two katanas stabbing and pinning the costume disappear. Frybo then slide down the wall and fell over on his side. "And ah, sorry about the costume."

"It's fine," said Mr. Fryman. "I'm just glad everyone's okay."

"What are you going to do with it," Steven asked, still only in his underwear.

Later that day, as the sun was starting to set over the horizon, Steven's garments carried the cleaned and destroyed remains of the Frybo onto the beach. They brought it to where Isaac, Steven, Pearl, and the Frymans had set up a makeshift raft to give the costume a Viking's funeral.

After the garments set him in the boat, Mr. Fryman started giving Frybo a sermon. "You were great, Frybo. The kids today just didn't understand. Now, they never will," he said, almost brought to tears.

Pearl stood with her spear next to Steven and Isaac. Steven was still half naked, while Isaac held a torch. "Weren't people scared of it before he attacked them?" She commented, before Steven shushed her.

"Just let him have this moment," whispered Isaac.

"It's time to send him off." The father nodded to Isaac. Getting the sign, Isaac walked to the boat and used the torch to light Frybo on fire, before throwing the torch into the raft. He stepped back, and Pearl used the end of her spear to push it out to sea.

As they watched the costume slowly float away, Fryman sighed. "As greasy in death as he was in life."

"Dad?" Peedee walked over to his father. "Uhm... I'll, are you going to get another costume," he asked, as the two seemed to have a hard time looking at each other.

There was a pause for a moment. "I don't need another Frybo, I got…" Mr. Fryman put his arm around his son's shoulder. "…the fry man." They both smiled at each other.

Steven turned to Isaac and Pearl with a smile as if he won a video game. He posed heroically while still half naked. "Isaac, Pearl, I think our work here is done."

Pearl and Isaac frowned. "Put your clothes on, Steven," the Gem told him.

AN: And there's the fifth part of "Gem of War"

Hey everyone, it's Cowboy Alchemist. I know that I promised to do a second update from "Become ONE," but I've decided to go back and work on this story for a while.

The reason for this is quite interesting. I'm not going to go into the details, but sometime between December 11th to December 14th, I'll be posting on DeviantArt something that I've been working on for a while now.

A fanart profile of Onyx, aka, the Gem of War.

I've been wanting to do a fanart of this character for a while, and let's just say that I've been given an opportunity to do it. And so, I've decided to update this story all the way to the episode "So Many Birthdays" in which I'll finally show Onyx's true form to you all. I'll provide a link to the site if Fanfiction allows it.

That and also Steven Universe: Diamond Days will be coming up soon, so I'm excited for that.

On to the next chapter…