With A Snap

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Chapter 12: Broken Universe

They were celebrating on the beach, Greg was strumming his guitar. Things have gotten crazy in the last few months. For the first time in so long they had.

Steven was delighted; his friends and family were there with him on that beach. There had been a moment when he went to Homeworld when he wasn't sure he was going to get back home.

Everything worked out fine, Steven had finally gotten the Diamonds to see things his way, and they went to Earth. Steven wasn't sure he had ever seen Pearl or Garnet so happy as when they healed all the corrupted gems. It was indeed the end, the end of the seemingly endless war that had taken so many of their friends. And somehow they managed to get them back.

The Sun was setting, and Steven sat on the beach at the setting sun. He raised his shirt a little to see the gem in his stomach; he hoped that his mother would like how things turned out. Rose Quartz or Pink Diamond, they weren't exactly how Steven had imagined them, but either way, she gave up her physical form so that he could live. The recent event had confirmed that she was gone, they removed the gem from and found that it wouldn't bring her back; it was just another piece of him.

Connie tried to find an explanation that every that was Rose had been overwritten like a computer hard drive with the new information that made up Steven copied over her information. It didn't change anything for Steven; she gave herself up so that he could live simple as that.

At a distance at the other end of the beach, they heard some people and some music. Sadie and her band would start their concert soon. Lars and the Off Colors would be there soon. Steven was still eager to hear of what adventures they had gotten into while they made their way back to Earth.

Pearl was by the barbeque grill with Amethyst looking over the hot dogs. Garnet was talking to Bismuth as Peridot showed off her skill on her magnetized trash can lid to Lapis.

Connie walked over to Steven, "I think the hot dogs should be done soon. I think we should just be done eating just in time for the concert."

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Homeworld was entering a new age; hopefully, it would be a better one.

The Diamonds stood before there together. Blue worked up a small smile, Pink wasn't there, but for the first time in ages, the three of them were together. Many of the gems they had corrupted had returned home.

Still, not everyone was celebrating.

Before the diamonds stood Emerald, "Your Diamonds, How can we possibly let Lars and the Off Colors just leave?!"

Emerald had been a loyal gem soldier to them and thus was granted an audience with them; they didn't expect her to use it to make a complaint.

Yellow shook her head, "Emerald, our choice has been made. If this is about your ship, we will replace it."

"That's not the point!" Emerald yelled, "Where the Justice?!"

Yellow raised an eyebrow, "Don't forget your place and watch your tone."

The Pink Pearl stood close by, "Yes, I think its best to take a moment to collect yourself; these are our diamonds."

Emerald took a moment to collect herself.

White smiled, "Emerald, we promised Steven that we would do nothing against Lars or the Off Colors, and that is final."

Emerald moved forward to confront them when Pink Pearl stood in her way, holding out a hand to stop her.

"Ah!"

Something happened, none of them took it in right away.

"What?" Emerald asked.

"What's happening?" Pink Pearl let out a yell as her arms began to crumble into dust.

"Is it damaged?" Emerald asked, her gem had shown signs of being damaged.

"My Diamonds!" Pink Let out, "What's happening?"

The gem had been consumed in dust, and now that was all that was left.

"What just happened?" Blue asked, "That wasn't damaged, a gem reshapes itself before it breaks apart. That was-"

Emerald yelled out, "It's happening to me!"

Emerald waved her hands in a panic, and more of her body started to dissolve into dust.

"It's happening," White Spoke up looking out a window, "I feel it; it's happening all over the world gems are vanishing."

Emerald vanished to Yellow's unnerving surprise, "We have to put a stop to this. Whatever-"

"Yellow!" Blue yelled out in a more energetic voice than usual, "It's happening to-"

White Diamond held out her hands as she watched them fall apart into dust.

"White!" Yellow let out, and this couldn't be possible White was the most powerful gem, the most powerful diamond, and nothing could do anything like this.

The thing that surprised both Yellow and Blue was what happened next, White Diamond whimpered. As White Diamond dissolved she cried, she felt her body fading away, and after everything that happened, she was not ready to leave.

She dissolved into dust, leaving the other two diamonds alone in silence and with that silence they heard gems all over homeworld scream in panic.

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Sadie and rest of the band were tuning and getting ready for the concert and had already gotten a small group going. Sadie smiled to herself she saw Lars amongst the group, and the Off Colors were nearby.

Sadie smiled and looked at the rest of the band, "Okay, I think its time to get started."

Sadie picked up the mike and spoke, "Hey So-"

There was feedback as the mike hit the floor. Sadie looked down; she didn't feel the mike slip from her hands. She looked down, and her hands were gone, and pieces of her body were falling off as glumps of dirt.

"Sadie!" She heard Lars yell out as the small crowd of people started to panic.

Saddie looked around, and Jenny was screaming in a panic as Sour Cream and Buck dissolved into dust.

"Captain!" The Off Colors yelled out for Lars he turned to them just in time to see the fusions split into them base gems half of them turn to dust along with random of the Off Colors. The One of Rutile Twins turned into dust leaving her twins stunned and horrified feeling where the gem of their twin use to be.

Lars ran to them to try and help in any way he could; they were his crew; he couldn't just stand there. He pushed past his fear when- "Ow!"

Ronaldo ran into him, "I gotta film this!" The fry haired boy filmed people fading away with his camera.

"Ronaldo this isn't the time!" Lars told him.

"This is important!" Ronaldo yelled, "This needs to be documented-"

"Ronaldo!" Lars tried to stop him.

"Don't try to stop me, I will expose this and-" He dissolved into dust without any more fanfare, Lars wanted to alert him, but he was too stubborn.

Lars looked up just in time to catch the last bits of Sadie blowing away.

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"No! No! No! No! No!" Garnet started shouting in horror.

Bismuth asked, "Ah, what's wrong? Did you burn them? I can't tell I never really got the whole cooking thing."

In a flash of light Garnet unfused and turned into Sapphire and Ruby.

"Sapphy?" Ruby asked, "Please give me a head up when you do that."

"No, please, no," Sapphire begged as a huge tear ran from her eyes.

"Sapphire?"

Bismuth noticed people screaming at the other end of the beach.

"No!" Sapphire scrambled towards Ruby.

"Wh-" Ruby trembled as she felt something was wrong, her body began to fall apart. "Wh- what?"

"Stay with me! Please don't go!" Sapphire grabbed her hand and held it tightly.

"Sapphire?" Ruby look at her as dust overcame her.

Sapphire trembled as dust filtered between her gloved hands.

"What?!" Bismuth yelled, "What was that?"

"Guys!" Peridot yelled out, "Something is happening here!" The green pointed at Lapis who had started to turn.

"What's happening?" Pearl let out as her body started to turn.

"It's happening here too." Connie alerted the others as Greg started to dissolve.

"Dad!" Steven yelled out, "Maybe I can heal you." Steven ran to his father and licked his hand and started to wipe his saliva on him.

It did nothing.

Greg was scared, but he couldn't be that when his son was in a panic. "Steven," Steven listened up, his dad was always serious when he didn't use his real name, "listen, it's going to be okay. It's going to be okay. You have everybody else. I promise you it's going to be okay. I love you." Greg pulled him into a hug.

"Dad," Steven fought back the tears, "Dad- dad, please."

Steven felt the pressure around him let up as soon his surrounded by dust.

"Pearl!" Ammythst screamed as her longtime friend vanished.

Perdito was crying as Lapis turned to dust around her.

Tears flowed freely from Steven's eyes as he saw Bismuth trying to console Sapphire.

"Steven," Connie gasped as she trembled barely able to raise a finger towards Steve's shoulder started to turn.

0000

Padparadscha was shaking, "C-captain?"

Lars looked around people were screaming and running around, and his crew was torn apart, and he didn't understand anything.

"Padparadscha? What do you see?"

Padparadscha saw the past, this resulted in seemingly reacting to things a little late, but it also gave more of scope and let her see things they missed.

"C-captain." Padparadscha she crying and trying to get words out between the sobs. "Something is happening-" she shuddered, "People. Gems. Animals. Everything." She fell to her knees, "The Diamonds. Everywhere, It's going to happen throughout the universe. People are turning to dust- they're gone- they're all gone- trillion on trillions."

Lars stared, what he was saying would haunt him for the rest of his life, but if what she was saying was right, it was happening everywhere. How many people were gone? Where his parents alright? What about everyone else?

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Steven looked at Connie, not sure what to say or do; his body was starting to crumble. His father was gone, and so many of his friends. Steven fell to the ground and wondered about his life about everything he had done.

Also, hadn't he seen this before? He remembered a bunch of Steven's showing up once and dissolving into dust. What was that with that? Was this that?"

"Connie stay-" he tried to mimic the words that Steven gave him, but he ran out of time. His crumbled into dust as the last bits of himself started to dust.

His face was gone, and the last of his tears slipped into the pile of dust.

There was an uneasy silence as the screams in the distance faded away.

A faint pink light beamed out from the dust.

With trillions of lives in the balance, there was one miracle in all the tragedy, a one in a million shot happened.

The glowing bobble rose into the air as a human-like shape formed out of light around it and shifted form. With a Thud, a new figure stood on the sand to the surprise of everyone there.

"Rose?" Bismuth asked.

"Rose." Amethyst couldn't believe it.

"Whose that?!" Peridot asked

A woman in a long stylized white dress and long pink hair looked around confused unsure.

Steven was gone, everything he was had been destroyed and so would have the gem but the healing tears it the last instance. The tears couldn't heal him or anyone who was dusted, but like Lars, it could bring someone back. As the last bit of Steven faded it managed to bring back Rose with the smallest fragment of that was left, a fraction of her memories the gem that had once been her. If the tears didn't hit the gem at that moment, this would have failed to work.

Rose took a step and looked around, "Where am I? I- was-"

"That's Steven's mom?" Connie asked.

"Steven?" Rose's mind was a swirl of things, but that name struck a cord. She reached her stomach where a gem rested. "Steven! How am I here? Where's Steven?"

Bismuth and Amethyst walked up to her, Bismuth speaking up, "Rose."

Her eyes went wide, "Bismuth? You're not supposed to be here!"

"Yeah, about that," The purple gem held out a hand, " Yeah, we know, it's okay now."

Bismuth spoke softly, "Pink Diamond, we know about that too. Rose, we have a lot to talk about."

Author's Notes: I honestly don't care. I know what your comments are about to say and I don't care. I had this idea in my head before the finale for SU and the gem got plucked out. I'm going with it, to justify it everything that was steven was gone, the gem had fragment of Rose still in there that would have been gone in a moment but the tear hit it right as the last bit of steven went tear revive and grew back the whole from there, the snap had already locked on steven and not going after rose. You can assume that the snap hit both halves of steven or like me both halves counted as one whole unlike other fusions where two wholes for a double.

Anyway, business. Please no one use this chapter to leave a review telling me when I'm going to update another story. That always makes me angry. Second, if I don't do the series you suggest its because I usually don't know it or am familiar enough with it to do it justice, There are only so many things I can do with people facing sudden death, something has to stand out to me, either something unique to the character, setting or abilities that would make it interesting to write about.

C, here is some from fringe horror for you guys. Rose was willing to give up her life to give her son a life and she was brought back and her son and Greg are both now dead. Peridot had a hard time when Lapis left and now she was taken and for all she knows won't come back. Sapphire had a vision of Ruby's death and then had to see it happen again. Padparadscha saw a vision of all over, she saw more deaths across the universe than any other person. She got a grand scope of all the deaths and mourning across the universe. The reason she's falling down at the end is because she saw more death than anyone else there and it was too much.

Okay, I'm off. Leave a review telling me what you think.