Spells and Louds
Chapter 314: Back to Beach City.
(Spellman Estate.)
Lincoln is in the backyard with his shredder blaster split into his shredder blasters and then into his claws. He takes a deep breath and listens to the environment. He then waits, and waits and waits and wait and then …. He dashes forward, towards some training droids, straight from Hollow and his Empire.
He lunges with his claws set to kyber saber mode and shreds through five droids, then he throws them towards five droids and does a force push onto six more. He then uses the force and calls his claws back which shreds through six droids, he catches them and then switches them into fire claws.
He unleashes its flames onto ten droids and then leaps into the air and lands onto a droid and impales it with his fire claws, he then jumps off, catches his claws and switches them into ice claws and dodges the droids blasts and tosses his ice claws and they impale a droid, and force pushes five more droids.
He runs and ducks underneath a droid and force pulls his claws, catches them and switches them back to kyber claws and starts shredding through all the remaining droids as well as using the force to double the damage and unleash hell on them. Afterwards he stands tall and pants as he looks to all the droids he wiped out, he then deactivates his mask. "So, how'd I do?" asked Lincoln. Luna, Linka and Leni clap.
"Bro that was awesome!" said Linka. "And also kinda scary, but awesome!"
"You're really improving with your training in the force" said Leni. "If we ever get called into action, a lot of bad guys aren't gonna survive you and also Jordan."
Luna goes over and she fist bumps with her little brother. "Gotta admit Lincoln, Hollow's training really did help ya, I could use some training later too."
Lincoln chuckles. "Thanks Lunes, and I gotta admit that using the force is quite thrilling. We might not be Jedi or Sith, but we'll put it to some good use when it comes to the fate of the realms and all of its inhabitants."
They all clap at his speech. "Now you're starting to sound like Gyro bro" teased Linka.
"Are you gonna start taking magic lessons from Gyro next Linky?" chuckled Leni.
Lincoln chuckles. "Nope, a guardian is one thing I can never be, it's very difficult and complicated and it's also a big responsibility. I'd rather stick with the role and training I was given."
"Good for you bro" replied Luna. "Stick with what works and goes well, rather than go for a new role that could be made way too difficult. Kinda like picking a car."
Just then they hear an alarm go off. "What the heck? Does that mean there's trouble?" asked Leni.
Lincoln activates his mask. "To the Royal Fortress, now!" They all run to the Great Gate and bring their Pokemon, Absol, Loudred, Arcanine and Roserade with them. Lincoln brings with him his Vulture Bike and they pass through the portal.
(Royal Fortress, Near the Galapagos.)
Lincoln, Luna, Linka and Leni arrive and see all of the troops, navy and aircraft getting ready for combat, they then see Martin and Victor and approach them. "Guys! What the heck is going on?" asked Linka.
Martin then shows them on the tablet. "Beach City, is under attack guys. Troops report its Steven!"
They are all confused by this. "What?" what they don't know the rest of the team are also there and they heard this. "What?!"
"It's true, it appears Steven might be undergoing some chaotic problems with his emotions and a few life choice and change from all the problems he's been facing ever since and now it's turning him into …. Well for the first time, he's now corrupted and turned into a giant freaking …. Pink Stevenzilla" replied Victor. They all remain silent and confused. Victor then shows them the image. "See for yourself."
They look at the footage from the TIE Fighter, they see a giant pink Godzilla trying to fend off Alexandrite, Lapis Lazuli, Bismuth and Peridot and they are failing.
"So, that thing is Steven Universe?" asked Dana.
"Yeah, it is and Hollow is on his Super Star Destroyer as we speak and is ready to fire a focused beam strike to take him down" replied Martin. "Chances it might kill Steven."
"What?!" they all say in shock.
"I know, I'm just as surprised as you guys are" replied Martin. "But we have to get there and try and control the situation before it gets out of hand. We can be able to neutralize Steven without harming him with the use of our onboard artillery and the Nano swarm hive to create a nano barrier."
"If we can do this, then perhaps we can be able to get him to turn back into regular Steven before he does some serious damage" replied Victor. "We sent Penny and Jack Cyber there to assist in taking the pink Godzilla down, Tadashi is not here he's back at San Fransokyo training Fred in combat tactics."
"We got some of our forces there holding him off, and chances they could get caught in the crossfire" said Martin. "We're gonna need some medical crews in case something bad happens. Also, the Guardian is inbound to that world."
Lincoln sigh. "Alright guys, we know mom and dad aren't here, they're too busy with their anniversary and won't be back until tomorrow, so we go in ourselves. Full attack and we stop Steven until we find out how to change him back!" They all nod in agreement.
Lincoln looks to Martin. "Get us to beach city, now!"
"On it!" Marti sets the coordinates on the tablet and a massive portal is made in front of them. "General Railgun! Get this thing moving!"
The entire Royal Fortress starts to move towards the portal, all the jest take off and head through the portal first as well as some medivac Dropships.
They all look to the portal they're going through and they get their weapons and superpowers locked and loaded. "Alright Royal Defenders!" yelled Lincoln. "Show time!" They pass through the portal.
(Beach City.)
The Stevenzilla roars in agony and rage as it knocks Alexandrite into the cliff side therefore turning her back into Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl. Then Bismuth being levitated by Peridot dashes by and hits him in the head.
"That got his attention" said Bismuth as she flies around with the help of Peridot
"Sorry Steven!" yelled Peridot as she rides on Bismuth and uses her magnetic powers.
Stevenzilla then leaps forward and is about to crush Bismuth and Peridot, but then water chains come out and they ensnare Steven. He then emerges and tries to break free. "I … I got him! But I can't hold him forever" said Lapis as she struggles to hold him with her water powers.
Then the water chains are solidified into ice, and they see Lincoln on his vulture bike, and with him are Luna and Dana. "We got your back dude!" They then land on the beach.
"We came as soon as we got the message about … Well this" Lincoln looks to the really angry Stevenzilla. "We also brought in some backup." They all see the Royal Fortress at the distance and the rest of the team on it getting ready to unleash a barrage from the onboard artillery cannons.
"We were told why he's like this and it does not look pretty at all" replied Dana.
"Does anyone have any idea on how to stop him?" asked Luna. She then uses her ice powers to summon some ice chains.
"Well, we can't just leave him like this!" said Pearl with worry.
"We need to get in there, we need him to reach into his humanity" replied Garnet.
"Ugh, you know who would be great at that?" said Amethyst in annoyance.
They all look towards Amethyst and ask. "Who?!"
"Steven!" yelled Amethyst in anger. They all groan, she was right. Steven is capable of helping other's with emotional problems and can show them what it's like to truly be human.
Martin arrives in his Tech Sector suit. "Well, he won't be much help now that he's a giant pink Godzilla monster trying to destroy everything he sees moving around. Anybody here got a plan B?"
Lincoln has an idea. "We hold him off and wait for the arrival of the Guardian, he must have an answer to all of this. In the meantime, keep him down and don't let him escape!" Lincoln drives forward and uses his blaster to freeze the legs, and then aims for his tail.
"Good plan, not a great plan but good plan" Martin takes off and he heads back to the Royal Fortress. "I hope you guys heard that, because we're gonna need some Rocket Angels, Terror Drones and that Nano Swarm locked and loaded!"
"We got this too!" Penny flies by and unleashes her new weapon, an energy stasis beam. "I got this idea from the Rocket Angel and it is very effective." Stevenzilla feels neutralized, but tries to fight it. "Okay, we're gonna need more than one stasis beam."
Jack Cyber comes down from the air and transforms into a Protoss Phoenix fighter and he uses his gravity beam to hold him down. "I've got you covered, but he seems too strong and is resisting!"
"WE have to neutralize him in order to keep the civilians of beach city safe!" said Lincoln. "All on board weapons, open fire!" He then looks to the pink Godzilla. "Sorry Steven!" Then Lincoln, Luna and Dana move out of the way to avoid the blasts.
On the Royal Fortress, they all get the guns locked, loaded and ready and bombard the pink Godzilla. "Continue pounding him!" yelled Leon. All the guns on board, the Grand Cannons, Ukraine Artillery and Wave-Force Tri-Guns open fire and unleash their might, while at the same time avoided hitting anyone else.
"Do not stop! Keep at it!" yelled Linka. She then tries to use her sniper rifle with sleeping darts.
"Give him everything you got!" said Victor. He sends out a massive Tesla blast onto Stevenzilla.
The gems could only watch as Stevenzilla is taking a beating. "Is all of this necessary?" asked Peridot.
Martin flies by them and also blasts Stevenzilla. "We're not trying to kill him, the blasts are trying to knock him out. Now where the hell is Gyro?!"
"Guys, we got an incoming transmission coming from Hollow in his Super Star Destroyer!" said Sunset.
"Put him on the comm link, now!" replied Lincoln.
They then hear Hollow's voice through the comm link. "I know I'm not supposed to strike the monster down, and it is very entertaining to watch this from my Super Star Destroyer, but I also must inform you of an incoming half bodied ship. It passed by my fleet and is coming to you guys. So …. Heads up I guess."
"Half-bodied ship?" asked Leni. They all were confused by what the Sith Lord meant.
All of a sudden, it hit them and they realize what he means. "The diamonds?!"
"Yoo-hoo!" They all hear Spinel's voice, they look up and they spot a very familiar half-bodied human shape ship. The Diamond's Ship. This is not good. "Steven?"
They then hear blue diamond's voice. "Is this a bad time?" The large ship then lands onto the beach in front of the gem temple and next to the gems and the three heroes.
"You gotta be kidding me" said Amethyst in annoyance.
"This is bad" said Sergei. The others just look at the large Gem homeworld Diamond ship.
The side of the ship opens and Spinel comes out holding Steven's missing slipper. "Steven, you forgot about you're … slipper?" She looks at the pink giant monster. "Whoa! What the heck is that?!"
Then the rest of the diamond's come out. "What is going on here?" asked Yellow Diamond.
Then they see the giant pink monster. "Why is this always happening when we come over for a visit?" asked White Diamond with confusion.
Blue Diamond looks closely to the monster. "What is that thing?"
They all answered one name to them. "Steven."
"It's true, that thing is Steven and we are not having a good time keeping him down" said Martin he flies out of the way to avoid Stevenzilla's claw. "Wow that was too close!"
The diamonds and Spinel are shocked to hear this. "Not possible!" said White Diamond.
"Is he …. Corrupted?" asked Blue Diamond.
"But how?!" asked Yellow Diamond.
"Never mind that, we have to change him back" replied Garnet.
"Which will be hard since Gyro isn't here" replied Lincoln, he then sends some ice artillery rounds onto the giant pink monster.
"Perhaps we can be of assistance, we have been able to change our powers into something more useful than harmful" said Yellow Diamond. Spinel lands onto her shoulder.
Lincoln and the Royal Defenders didn't know about this. "Well, it's worth a shot" said Lincoln. "Go for it!"
"All weapons, cease fire!" yelled Luna. The Royal Fortress stops its guns and they all watch to see what happens next.
"Let's hope they can fix this" said Linka, the others were also hoping.
Yellow Diamond sends a blast of energy from her hand and onto Stevenzilla's head, she tries to reshape him back into normal sized, but he resists it. Yellow Diamond is shocked that it didn't work. "With my new power I should able to alter his physical form!"
"He's resisting" said Blue Diamond. "Maybe he needs to feel better first" she then makes a cloud. "I can handle that." She then blows it towards Stevenzilla, but Stevenzilla roars the cloud away and it goes back to Blue diamond.
"Look out!" Yellow Diamond pushes Blue diamond out of the way and she starts laughing from the effects of the cloud, and Spinel was with her so she got affected. "Wow, you're new power didn't work either!"
Then White Diamond intervenes. "Enough, I know exactly how to help. If I can connect through him and he speaks with me, maybe we'll understand what he's going through." She is now standing in front of Stevenzilla. "Now, do you hear me Steven?" She changes the color of her gem and the environment also changes color. "Just relax and let me in." But Stevenzilla is trying to resist still.
Everyone else also sees the color from everywhere changing color. "What the heck is this?" asked Becky.
"This is no time for Care Bears colors people!" yelled Sergei in frustration and confusion.
"Some of these colors do not match me or some of the environment, also I'm super confused by this right now" said Leni looking to the background changing colors.
"What the heck is she even trying to do? Make a rainbow?" asked Lori as she looks at all the colors.
"What?" Then white diamond screams and falls down, but is caught by Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond.
"White?"
"What happened?"
White Diamond looks to Steven in fear. "That's not Steven anymore!" The pink monster roars and tries to resist the water chains.
"I …. I can't hold him much longer!" Lapis struggles to hold Steven in place.
"Okay, we all tried the gem way, now we do it our way!" said Lincoln. "Open fire!" The Royal Fortress proceeds to bombard once again, and Rocket Angels emerge from the hangars and use their stasis beams, the waters are now prowling with Terror Drones and they use their tesla stun blasts.
"The Guardian had better get here soon!" said Luna as she freezes the water underneath Stevenzilla, then she tries to cast some ice blasts to his head to cool him down. "This guy's too strong!"
Then they see Stevenzilla's eyes and spikes start to glow. "Guys, what is he doing?" asked Sunset.
"This is bad!" said Jack Cyber as he slowly hovers away with Penny. "Really bad!"
"Everybody brace for impact!" said Lincoln, he then tries to take cover and so do the others.
Then Stevenzilla unleashes a mighty roar and the shockwave knocks everyone away, Garnet holds her ground, and the Diamond's skip falls over.
The Royal Fortress rocks back and forth from the shockwave and everyone on board holds on.
Garnet gets up, but she defuses back into Ruby and Sapphire. Stevenzilla walks across the water, but he awakens something from underneath the earth as the clouds start to make things dark.
Luna goes over to Lincoln who has fallen over his bike. "Are you okay bro?"
"Yeah. I'm fine" replied Lincoln as he gets up. They then see a giant glowing hand appear. "Is that what I think it is?!" And it was, the multi-gem forged monstrosity emerges from the cracks underneath the sea and it creates a giant arm and then grabs a hold of Stevenzilla, everyone else gets up and sees this.
"What in the name of Stark? Is that the Cluster?!" said Martin.
"The Cluster is trying to hold Steven back" said Amethyst. But they notice it's resisting the hold.
"I can't believe it, he's even stronger than the Cluster!" said Peridot in shock
"Don't let your guard down, he could break out at any moment" said Bismuth cautiously.
"We can't open fire with the Cluster trying to help out, but we can be able to focus our stasis beams to provide assistance" said Penny, she then sends a stasis beam onto Stevenzilla.
They all just watch as Stevenzilla tries to break free from all of their neutralizing attacks. "Keep at it and do not stop!" said Jack Cyber. The Rocket Angels and Terror Drones are also trying their best. They are then joined by Lori who summons lava to hold his feet down, Luna and Dana also join in.
Pearl looks in shock at what was happening to the once great boy/gem she once knew and tried to raise. "Deep inside this … Monster, Steven must be in there, so angry."
"I knew something was going on!" said Amethyst in frustration. "Why didn't I do something?!"
Then Sapphire starts to cry. "If we don't get through to him, he'll stay like this forever!" Ruby also joins her in tears. Luna stops her attacks and looks around. 'What the heck?'
"Sunset! You think you can get on him and see what's wrong inside his thoughts?" asked Carol.
"You guys saw what happened to White Diamond! If she can't get into his head I don't think I can either! He's way too powerful, even for Equestrian Magic!" said Sunset.
"The force can manipulate minds but judging by his size, I don't think it's possible" said Jordan.
"What about Hollow? He can use his powers of the force and the Infinity Gauntlet!" said Boomer.
They then hear Hollow's voice. "As great of an idea that sounds, no. He seems far superior if I use the force, and chances I'll get a major migraine if I do so and the Infinity Gauntlet's are used for critical realm conflict and this is not a critical realm conflict. It's a Gem based Steven Universe Conflict!"
Greg backs up seeing this. "Dude! You should get out of here before you get hurt!" said Amethyst.
Greg looks around and sees the heroes trying to hold him off, and the Cluster trying to stop him, but Steven is still resisting and trying to fight back. "No! Whenever Gem or dangerous stuff like this happens, I run the other way! This is my son, and he's right to be angry because I didn't protect him."
"You didn't protect him from us" cried Blue Diamond. "He's like this because of us!"
"We're the source of Steven's suffering" cried Yellow Diamond.
"Guys, everyone here is falling apart and it is not looking good" said Lincoln on the comm link.
"It's looking pretty sad actually and also in a way really, really awkward" replied Dana.
Spinel gets off of Yellow Diamond and looks to the gargantuan pink atrocity trying to break free. "Steven … Steven, this …. This is my fault! I wanted … Wanted him to die on a barren w-world when I came and tried …. Tried to take everything away from him! This is all on me! I hurt him …. Because I was so, so angry at Pink Diamond!" Spinel goes onto her hands and knees and cries, Pearl goes over to comfort her.
Then White Diamond starts to cry. "The only reason why you did that was because you were angry that Pink hurt you, because I hurt pink, just like how I hurt Blue and Yellow and everyone in the universe! This is all my fault!"
"Yes it is!" they all turn around and see Connie with Steven's pink Lion and "Gyro?!" They're all confused by the sudden arrival of these three.
"What the hell man?!" yelled Sergei.
"Were you with Connie and Lion the whole time?!" asked Victor.
"Yes I was, this is the answer" said Gyro. "From someone who knows and fully understands the boy, someone who knows what it truly feels to be human."
Connie rides Lion and gets down to the beach. "Yes, it's true this is all of your faults. You Diamonds did hurt him, but this isn't the time to make this all about you. That is not helping! Maybe Steven would care how sad you are, because he always puts everyone's feelings first. But he can't do that for you right now because he needs us this time! We all had help from Steven when we needed him, but the only who never got help from Steven is Steven. He's always been there for us, so... How can we be there for him now?"
Ruby and Sapphire fuse back into Garnet and she puts her shades back on. "I know how!" The ground starts to shake and they see Stevenzilla has defeated the giant Cluster arm. The Cluster arm disappears and Stevenzilla is charging towards Beach City.
Lincoln arms his Shredder blaster to full power and tries to slow him down. "Here he comes!" Luna and Dana also join in with their ice powers.
Lori summons more lava hands to hold him off, then Leni gets off the Royal Fortress and she summons some sea plants to ensnare him, Sunset flies into the air and uses her red energy coils. But he's still trying to charge forward!
"Guys, tell me the Nano Swarm is ready?" asked Martin, he then uses his blasts onto Steven's legs.
Victor then sees the meter is full. "Ready to launch!" He hits the button, and Stevenzilla is surrounded by a Nano tech barrier, and he tries to punch through it and roars.
"Wow! It's working, for now" said Martin. "We got two minutes till it depletes!"
Gyro looks to the Garnet, he knows what they might do. "So Garnet, what's the plan?"
Garnet looks to the still angry Stevenzilla. "Okay, no time to waste!" She looks to Yellow Diamond. "Yellow, make me as big as him!"
"Right" replied Yellow Diamond.
"Blue, lift everyone up" said Garnet.
"Of course" replied Blue Diamond.
Garnet then looks to the other gems. "Everyone else, get in line."
"Right!" they all reply and get ready.
"Time to show Steven, some love" said Garnet.
"So, what do we do?" asked Lincoln, along with Dana and Lori.
Gyro comes down. "On Garnet's signal drop the Nano barrier! This is a gem problem, so we have to let them handle it. They're way!"
Garnet then waits for it, and "Now!" Victor shuts down the Nano Swarm Hive and the barrier goes down. Stevenzilla sees this and begins to charge once more.
"Well, I hope they know what they're doing" said Linka.
"I think Gyro knows what their dong" said Carol.
Lapis then flies around Stevenzilla. "Sorry buddy, but I'm gonna need you to stay still!" She makes a large wave which knocks him back, he then sees that the Gems are now charging at him calling out his name!
Garnet leaps into the air. "Steven!" She hugs Steven back, but he struggles to resist. "Steven, you were there when we fell apart, now we wanna be there for you. I'm here Steven, I'm here."
It was then Stevenzilla was suddenly calming down, but still remaining a bit feral. The others see this and are stunned. It's working! It's really working!
"Is it working?" asked Lapis. "Do you hear us?! Steven!" She flies towards Steven and also hugs him.
Then the Blue Diamond, then Yellow Diamond, White Diamond, Bismuth, Peridot, Amethyst, Pearl, Greg and Spinel wraps them all into one big hug. They all start telling them that they feel how he feels and that they're all there for him, then a hand from the Cluster holds his and finally, Connie on Lion joins in. They were all there for him, his friends and his family. All of them are there for him.
Lincoln and Luna both can see what was happening and understand. "He ….. He needed …. He needed them to be ….. There for him" Lincoln drops his blaster. "Just as I needed Luna."
Luna comes up from behind and hugs her little brother and they both start to shed some tears.
Everyone else sees this touching moment, and shed a few tears. "This is what he needed the most" said Gyro. "To let out his emotions and let those who care about him, let them be there for him and tell them how he feels. A stage in a teenager's life, where nobody understands them."
They all understand now, they all decide to leave them be and let them deal with this themselves. The Royal Defenders did their part, and it is done.
Lincoln hops onto his Vulture Bike after he breaks the hug with Luna and they head back to the Royal Fortress along with Dana, Leni, Lori, Sunset, Martin, Jack Cyber, Penny and Gyro.
From the Super Star Destroyer Hollow sees this. "Well, this looks emotional. But I do not define my emotions unless I'm with my girlfriend. So, let's get the hell out of here. Now!"
They all take their leave and let Steven have this emotion of sadness and distress as he is comforted by those who love him.
To be continued …..
A/N: And they did their part to help and it seems like all of the problems Steven had, are now solved. They'll probably come by to say goodbye to him when he leaves Beach City, after a few months that is. I thought this was a good idea, since I thought the near final episode of Steven Universe seems to take place somewhere in the early summer before he actually leaves, believe me the very final episode was very emotional for me and I cried, like a lot. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 5/10/20 – 5/11/20.